WE FEATURED THE Grand Hotel Villa Feltrinelli in the summer of 2015, but the hotel has since redesigned their website and new photos have emerged. Situated on the picturesque Lake Garda in Italy, the neo-Gothic villa was built in 1892 as a summer home for the famous Italian publisher Feltrinelli family. Today, it is a luxury hotel with 20 suites. Read more about this romantic get-away here, and scroll through for a glimpse into its beautiful old-world rooms and corridors...
The historic luxury hotel, located at the foot of the Champs-Élysées, opened in 1909 in a building that dates back to 1758. The Crillon is one of two identical stone palaces on the Place de la Concorde and has been listed since 1900 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture. Today it is a grand space with 78 guest rooms and 46 suites, along with three restaurants, a bar, outdoor terrace, gym and health club.
Beaverbrook Hotel is a late-nineteenth-century mansion set in the Surrey Hills, the quintessential British Country Estate. Decorator Susie Atkinson was tasked with designing something essentially British and romantic, "current but not trendy, comfortable and completely individual" (House & Garden). It is something she achieved brilliantly with tufted velvet and (Bowood) florals, dusky pink walls, cane chairs and Louise Bourgeois gallery walls...
When thinking of the South I always picture sunny landscapes, pink hours by the beach, dîners en plein air on the terrace. Last August I spent only a few days in the south and I didn’t get a chance to visit all the places I wanted to see so much.
The other day while searching for a place to have tea, we stumbled upon a beautiful hotel situated a few steps away from the beautiful Opera de Paris, the Palais Garnier: l’InterContinental Paris le Grand.
Also called l’hôtel des voyageurs, l’InterContinental Paris le Grand was originally built for the Exposition Universelle of 1867. The building has long welcomed intellectuals and travelers from around the world, which famously include Victor Hugo, Emile Zola and Oscar Wilde.
TIME AGAIN for another instalment of 10 Things We Love this Week, and this week, there are the most astonishing sugar flowers atop beautiful cakes, feathery and fantastical couture creations, No. 01 on the list: these stunning Instagram shots, above, by Australian photographer Rhiannon Taylor of the Sujan Rajmahal Palace and Taj Lake Palace, Udaipur, India and much more...
1898 The Post is a new luxury hotel by the Zannier Group, in the Belgian city of Ghent. Housed in what used to be a grand Post Office, the hotel has its own 54-metre clock tower. The Neo-Gothic building with its with statues and escutcheons, was constructed in 1898 by the architect Louis Cloquet.
THIS INSTALLMENT OF 10 IMAGES features the Instagram photos of Richard Lee Massey, the PR director at the Town Hall Hotel in London. The first image we came across was one of El Fenn (next slide), a hotel in Marrakech, and were immediately taken with his way of sharing his travels and the city he lives in. Scroll through for a glimpse of his adventures, from Marrakech to the Cotswolds to sipping champagne on the Belmond British Pullman to the utterly charming Soho Farmhouse (above) …
Today in France is La Rentrée: the back-to-work & school routine after the summer and a month away in August. Earlier this morning, you could’ve seen quite a beautiful fashion show on the streets: men and women super stylé in their impeccable tailleur, children hurrying with their big cartables on the way to school.
When This Is Glamorous Interiors Editor Louise arrived to visit us here in Spain, we knew that the best place for her to stay would be The Westin Valencia. Not only is it centrally located and just across the riverbed from our neighbourhood, but we knew that it would have everything she needed for her stay …