Tag: Boutique Hotels

Beaverbrook hotel restaurant

Beaverbrook hotel restaurant

Beaverbrook Hotel in the Surrey Hills was recently designed by Susie Atkinson. She is the designer behind the fabulous interiors of the Soho House group, and she has really raised the bar for hotels all over the world. Beaverbrook hotel, named after a close friend of Winston Churchill, is located in a late-nineteenth-century mansion in the Surrey Hills. Lord Beaverbrook apparently threw many wild parties, and each room is now named after one of those guests. There is a Churchill suite as well.  Susie’s goal was to design something essentially British and romantic. ‘I knew it had to be gentle, floral, and quirky with a touch of madness,’ H&G.

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proper hotel, Kelly Wearstler, lobby 3

proper hotel, Kelly Wearstler, lobby entrance

Proper Hotel in San Francisco is housed in a Historic 1909 flatiron landmark building that has been re-designed and updated by none other than Kelly Wearstler.  You can see her signature style of Modernism mixed with Cubism all around the hotel.  It may surprise you to find a few chintz wallpapers and bullion trim here and there, coming from a modernist as Wearstler.  However, it makes perfect sense since those are design details that further enhance the retro look of the hotel.  I particularly love the restaurant, Villon, a sophisticated restaurant and bar with blue paneling walls and a very sexy color combo.  The overall style of the Proper hotel displays a great balance between feminine and masculine style.

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quinta da comporta villa

We got back from the south last Friday, and you may think that while heading north temperatures would get more chill, but the opposite was true.  Temperatures across the US are scorching hot, and although many still decide to not believe in Global Warming, it’s something to think about, to say the least.  In the ideal world, the government would believe science, and we would all be in this fight together.  On the other side of the world; however, there are still places that do everything with sustainability in mind and all without sacrificing style.  Case in point Quinta Da Comporta: Wellness Boutique Resort is a sustainable signature project envisioned and designed by renowned Portuguese architect, Miguel Câncio Martins.

quinta da comporta villa

One of the villas with the characteristic thatched roof.

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la bastide de gordes, view of the medival town

I miss the flexibility that living in Europe provides.  The ease of traveling throughout the vicinity countries and getting to experience first-hand the beauty of its cities.  The tiniest unknown of towns will impress you with its own beauty and authenticity.  La Bastide de Gordes is located in its namesake town, in the Luberon region of the South of France.  la bastide de gordes, outdoor terraces, swiming pool

Gordes is one of Provence’s prettiest hilltop villages, one of those magical villages that can immediately take you back in time.  Dominated by its magnificent medieval castle and the Saint-Firmin church, characterized by its peasant past as well as the splendors of sixteenth-century nobility, it’s easy to lose yourself in the cobbled alleyways that wind between the towering houses made from dry stone.

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La Posta Vecchia Hotel is conveniently located 40-minutes outside of Rome.  I’ve seen many beautiful images of the hotel on Instagram lately, and they are making me want to go to Rome faster than a speeding ticket.  The five-star hotel is built on the site of an ancient villa and 17th-century castle in the coastal town of Ladispoli, a few miles from Rome.  The location is ideal just to relax while enjoying the beautiful facilities or you can borrow a bike from the hotel and visit the Etruscan sites nearby.  The hotel also has a small museum with archeological findings beneath the structure.  Guests can take the train from Rome and be picked up at the local station.

la posta vecchia hotel, aerial view

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Windsor, vero beach, florida

I feel like I’m cheating by posting about Windsor, a luxury residential club in Vero Beach, Florida as a commercial space of the week.  For many reasons, first because although it offers many commercial spaces, it’s also a community.  Windsor is a village by the sea in Vero Beach, Florida where every detail was perfectly planned and designed to give their residents the ultimate luxury living experience.  Every one of their amenities is set in perfect-looking settings.

Windsor vero beach florida

The private residential club offers a full-scale Equestrian Centre consisting of 18 stables and 14 paddocks with 4.6 miles of riding trails surrounding the community, a 400-yard-long polo field, the tennis courts designed by Wimbledon champion Stan Smith are lined with jasmine, a championship golf course and much more.  Windsor was founded in 1989 by Canadian businessman W. Galen Weston and his philanthropist wife, Hilary Weston, the former lieutenant governor of Ontario.  The now luxury residential community started as a private summer residence for the Weston family, later they enlisted Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk to design the New Urbanism style of living.

Windsor vero beach florida

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