Travel

London tour: from architectural gardens to nose-to-tail dining, the best of the city right now

Take the Wallpaper* London tour – the latest in our design-led weekly travel round-up

By Martha Elliott • Published 31 October 22

Ten Zurich hotels offer unique, artist-designed rooms this winter

Zurich’s Pop-Up HOTEL NOËL – The Christmas Paradox project sees Swiss artists including huber.huber take over hotel rooms across the city with installations inspired by its wintry moods

By Simon Mills • Published 24 October 22

Kyoto's Maana Kiyomizu boutique hotel is the epitome of modern craftsmanship

Maana Homes’ latest boutique hotel with a twist opens in Kyoto, including suites, a café, and a shop specialising in modern Japanese craftsmanship

By Danielle Demetriou • Published 12 September 22

Kai Yufuin by Kengo Kuma revisits Japanese farmhouse architecture

Hoshino Resorts has launched Kai Yufuin, a hot spring ryokan hotel by Kengo Kuma on the island of Kyushu in the Ōita Prefecture

By Feride Yalav-Heckeroth • Published 27 August 22

W Costa Navarino is a global destination with a local approach

Tombazis & Associates Architects designs W Costa Navarino, the latest addition to the luxury Peloponnese hospitality destination

By Ellie Stathaki • Published 17 August 22

Vladislav Doronin on Aman New York, and the brand’s future

Aman New York opens in Manhattan, offering hospitality and branded apartments designed by architecture studio Denniston. Owner Vladislav Doronin talks about his ‘hardest and most expensive project’ yet, Aman’s new urban roll-out, and how he’s diversifying the world’s most coveted hotel brand

By Wallpaper* • Published 12 August 22

Flack Studio designs Ace Hotel Sydney in historical Tyne Building

Flack Studio designed interiors for the new Ace Hotel Sydney, opening in the historical Tyne Building, in the city's Surry Hills neighbourhood

By Pei-Ru Keh • Published 28 July 22

A lavish new villa from the One & Only Palmilla contributes to the Los Cabos hotel boom

By Chadner Navarro • Published 22 July 22

Paris tour: must-sees in the French capital this summer

Our ‘Postcard from Paris’ details a Paris tour for the design-savvy traveller, including sophisticated showrooms, pop-up dining, a verdant hotel, chic chocolates and more

By Amy Serafin • Published 20 July 22

Design and lifestyle meet at Munich’s WunderLocke

WunderLocke aparthotel by Holloway Li opens in Munich in the trendy neighbourhood of Sendling

By Ellie Stathaki • Published 14 July 22

Frank Gehry and Tara Bernerd’s Conrad Los Angeles hotel opens it doors

The Conrad Los Angeles hotel is now open, occupying a sculptural building by Frank Gehry with interiors by Tara Bernerd

By Ellie Stathaki • Published 13 July 22

New Georgian restaurant in Milan serves up bold design and great food

Gheama is a new Georgian restaurant in Milan with interiors designed by celebrated Tbilisi-based design practice Rooms Studio

By Mary Cleary • Published 24 June 22

BIG’s Hôtel des Horlogers for Audemars Piguet offers Swiss bliss in Le Brassus

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has designed a striking new hotel for Audemars Piguet, now open in Switzerland’s watchmaking heartland

By Bill Prince • Published 18 June 22

Noūs Santorini hotel is a haven of minimalism in the Greek islands

The minimalist haven that is Noūs Santorini, designed by Divercity Architects in collaboration with MPlusM, opens on the Greek Aegean island 

By Ellie Stathaki • Published 11 June 22

West Kowloon wonders to discover now

Cultural and culinary adventures, extraordinary spaces and outstanding experiences in West Kowloon, Hong Kong

By Simon Mills • Published 10 June 22

Nikkei restaurant Chotto Matte opens a new London outpost

Chotto Matte, the Nikkei restaurant famed for is buzzy atmosphere and Japanese-Peruvian cuisine, has opened in London's Marylebone

By Mary Cleary • Published 25 May 22

This Milan restaurant is a secret garden among the city’s rooftops

Horto is a new Milan restaurant that promises to be one of the city’s most interesting culinary destinations

By Mary Cleary • Published 18 May 22

Amanruya connects with land and history in the Bodrum coast

Cool, calm and collected, Bodrum’s Amanruya is a truly idyllic resort on the Aegean coast

By Léa Teuscher • Published 18 May 22

The Madrid Edition hotel throws open its doors

The Madrid Edition hotel opens in the Spanish capital to a design by Ian Schrager's long-term collaborator John Pawson and François Champsaur

By Daven Wu • Published 29 April 22

Teruhiro Yanagihara creates terroir-inspired interiors for new restaurant Sower in Japan

Sower, the new Japanese restaurant on Lake Biwa, features a minimalist design and a material palette inspired by its surroundings

By Danielle Demetriou • Published 18 April 22

New Belle Plage hotel brings modern design codes to the French Riviera

The Belle Plage hotel in Le Suquet, Cannes, is the brainchild of La Clé Group

By Hannah Silver • Published 15 April 22

Plan Do See and Tadao Ando reimagine former Nintendo HQ as Kyoto hotel

Plan Do See and Tadao Ando balance past and future as they transform Nintendo’s former HQ in Kyoto into a boutique hotel, Marufukuro

By Danielle Demetriou • Published 1 April 22

New Washington DC hotel marries local design codes with artwork from BIPOC creators

Interior design firm Mason Studio put the focus on local artists in the new Kimpton Banneker hotel in Washington, DC

By Hannah Silver • Published 26 February 22

David Chipperfield Architects and Aim Architecture design ceramic-inspired hotel in China’s porcelain capital

David Chipperfield Architects and Aim Architecture unite for the Taoxichuan Hotel project in Jingdezhen

By Hannah Silver • Published 3 February 22