Wallpaper* City Guides
The Wallpaper* city guides are every discerning traveller's essential companion

With four million copies sold worldwide, covering more than 50 destinations, Wallpaper* City Guides provide the savvy traveller with a need-to-know checklist of the best a location has to offer, whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days. Produced by the Wallpaper* team, and on-the-ground correspondents, each guide is rigorously researched and edited to highlight the most enticing design and architecture, cultural sites, and sophisticated hotels, restaurants, bars and boutiques.
Previously published by Phaidon, the guides are currently on hiatus.
In the meantime, check out the following:
London
Paris
Milan
- Best Milan hotels
- Best Milan bars
- Best Milan restaurants
- Best pizza restaurants in Milan
- Salone del Mobile guide
New York
- Best New York hotels
- Classic New York restaurants
- New York exhibitions to see now
- Best bars in New York
Los Angeles
- Los Angeles' best hotels
- Best bars Los Angeles
- Best fine dining restaurants Los Angeles
- New LA restaurants to book now
- Must-see LA museums
- Best LA art galleries
- Culver City guide
- Melrose Hill guide
- A local's guide to LA
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Melina Keays is the entertaining director of Wallpaper*. She has been part of the brand since the magazine’s launch in 1996, and is responsible for entertaining content across the print and digital platforms, and for Wallpaper’s creative agency Bespoke. A native Londoner, Melina takes inspiration from the whole spectrum of art and design – including film, literature, and fashion. Her work for the brand involves curating content, writing, and creative direction – conceiving luxury interior landscapes with a focus on food, drinks, and entertaining in all its forms
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