Lo Sereno hotel combines “clean lines and barefoot luxury” in Mexican landscape

May 5, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
Lo Sereno Casa de Playa in Troncones Mexico by Nicolas Sainz and Jorge González Parcero

This 10-bedroom hotel forms a secluded retreat in a little-known Mexican fishing village between the Pacific Ocean and the Sierra Madre mountains. Lo Sereno, Casa de Playa, is a design-focused hotel in Troncones village. Located off the coast from Acapulco, Mexico’s largest seaside resort, it is intended as a refuge to ”disport life on the

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Ménard Dworkind embrace Chinatown kitsch for Miss Wong brasserie in Montreal

April 27, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
Miss Wong Restaurant in Quebec Canada by Menard Dworkind

Architecture firm Ménard Dworkind has created a microcosm of Chinatown at this a colossal pan-Asian restaurant and bar in Montreal’s Laval suburb. When local designer Guillaume Ménard was approached to convert the former Moomba mega-club into a Chinese beer garden, he tapped architect David Dworkind to partner on the project. The collaboration spurred the founding

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Habitas members’ clubhouse opens in old New York fire station

April 21, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
Habitas New York City members clubhouse by Style Mood

Creative agency StyleMood has transformed a 19th-century firehouse in New York City into this cosy members’ club. The six-storey Habitas clubhouse occupies a fire station, which was built in 1985 near Penn Station – the busiest transit hub in the United States. Locally based StyleMood overhauled the six-storey building on 240 West 30th Street for

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Yabu Pushelberg’s Las Alcobas Napa Valley hotel features “spa-like” bathrooms and homey dining

April 14, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
Las Alcobas hotel in Napa Valley by Yabu Pushelberg

Design firm Yabu Pushelberg has transformed a 20th-century house in California’s Napa Valley into this luxury hotel, which features bedrooms lined with dark wood, spacious bathrooms and a rustic restaurant. The New York and Toronto interiors firm followed up on the success of the first Las Alcobas in Mexico City by designing the interiors for sister property in

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Timber Cove Resort occupies mid-century A-frame building on Sonoma’s coast

April 6, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
Timber Cove Resort by The Novogratz and Gensler

This modernist resort in Northern California, which formed an enclave for artists in the 1960s, has been overhauled by Los Angeles design studio The Novogratz. Timber Cover Resort occupies an A-frame structure completed by San Francisco architect Richard Clements in 1963. Located north of San Francisco, within a sandstone outcropping on the craggy Sonoma County

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Specht Architects transforms former union hall into Carpenter Hotel in Austin

March 30, 2019 Paul Jebara 0

American studio Specht Architects has renovated and expanded a “mid-century-utilitarian” carpenters’ union hall building to create this hotel near downtown Austin. The brick and concrete Carpenter Hotel is situated within a pecan grove in one of the last enclaves of Old Austin, near the Barton Springs swimming hole. The compound is anchored by a 1940s landmark

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Markzeff channels desert modernism at Mountain Shadows resort

March 23, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
Mountain Shadows by MARKZEFF

New York City designer Mark Zeff has looked to 1960s desert-modern trends for the interiors of the rebuilt Mountain Shadows resort in Arizona. The boutique hotel is located in Paradise Valley – a desirable alternative to Las Vegas for the 1950s Hollywood elite, which is still home to copious luxury resorts, spas and golf destinations.

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WANT Les Essentiels founders revamp Matachica resort as “redefined Belizean beach experience”

March 16, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
Matachica Hotel by Byron and Dexter Peart

Canadian twins Byron and Dexter Peart, who founded leather brand WANT Les Essentiels, have turned away from fashion to redesign a resort and spa in Belize. The Matachica resort is the first venture from the brothers’ “purpose-led” design studio Byron and Dexter Design – established to follow on from WANT Les Essentiels, which they left

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The Hoxton hotel arrives in Portland as brand’s first West Coast outpost

March 2, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
The Hoxton Portland

London-based hotelier Ennismore has opened a branch of its chain The Hoxton within a historic building in Portland, Oregon, with refreshed modernist-influenced interiors. The Hoxton Portland is located just beyond the entrance gates to Old Town Chinatown in the abandoned Grove Hotel, built in 1906. Ennismore’s in-house design studio was inspired by the northwest modernist

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NoMad hotel’s third outpost redefines opulence on the Las Vegas Strip

February 24, 2019 Paul Jebara 0
NoMad Las Vegas hotel

French architect Jacques Garcia’s third project for the NoMad hotel chain, located in the newly opened Park MGM in Las Vegas, aims to transport the elegance of a European home to the flamboyant Strip. Following the brands New York City flagship and Los Angeles outpost, the NoMad Las Vegas occupies the top four floors of

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