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An Eleven Experience adventure lodge on the Taylor River in the Colorado Rockies — fly fishing as the marquee, but a full-property private rental for skiing, hunting and the kind of seclusion the Aspen corridor stopped offering decades ago.

Stays · Almont, United States

Europe's first combined museum and luxury hotel, housed in a restored 18th-century Lisbon palace and contemporary extension that displays Armando Martins' private art collection throughout—a property where the art programme is genuinely inseparable from the hospitality experience.

Stays · Lisbon, Portugal

Shinichiro Ogata's tea and confectionery program inside Tadao Ando's The Shinmonzen ryokan — Higashiyama's most architecturally serious modern Japanese hospitality, with a tea house that operates at chanoyu standards.

Shopping · Kyoto, Japan

A perfect-rated inn on Goshen Road in Hensonville at the foot of the Catskills, The Henson pairs intimate lodging with the cooking of Restaurant Matilda — a rare upstate address that treats the hotel and the kitchen with equal seriousness.

Stays · Hensonville, United States

A New York flower shop known for its design-aware, unconventional approach to floral arrangements — a florist that treats flowers as a medium for spatial and aesthetic thinking rather than conventional decoration. A destination for those who want their flowers with a genuine design point of view and an eye for the structural and the unexpected.

Shopping · New-york, United States

AZUMA FARM is a farm stay on the Koiwai estate in Shizukuishi—a vast private farm in the shadow of Mount Iwate that has produced dairy, wool, and vegetables for over a century. Staying here offers access to a working Japanese agricultural landscape of scale and beauty that is almost entirely unknown to international visitors.

Stays · Shizukuishi, Japan

KARIMOKU RESEARCH CENTER is the design and research arm of Japan's most respected furniture manufacturer—a Minami-Aoyama space where collaborations with international designers including Norm Architects and Keiji Ashizawa are presented alongside ongoing research into material, joinery, and the future of Japanese furniture craft. Simultaneously a gallery, workshop, and expression of a singular design philosophy.

Other · Tokyo, Japan

Abraham & Wolff is a Paris gallery and cultural space at the intersection of contemporary art and design—a program of exhibitions and events that reflects a curatorial sensibility invested in the relationship between object, image, and environment. A discreet reference for the city's creative community.

Culture · Paris, France