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travel edits terrariums, jewellery and Old Clare Hotel Global Q&A pottery. The café serves Sydney Tina sandwiches, coffee from The founder of the Unlisted Edmundson roaster Petra, Kusmi Teas Collection of hotels, Loh Lik Global officer and a must-try vanilla soda Peng, is renowned for repurp- of luxury and called Bubbly. — mab osing heritage-listed buildings lifestyle brands, muz.se in unloved locations. The list Marriott includes the Waterhouse in International Three nearby diversions: Shanghai and Singapore’s Washington Hotel 1929. The latest is Personal KontraPlak the Old Clare Hotel, a once Hotel chains don’t come Okan Aydin was market- derelict heritage-listed pub much bigger than Marriott touch ing director of music venue and offices turned 62-room International, which has Babylon before he opened hotel with three restaurants, more than 4,200 premises Global KontraPlak three years ago. a rooftop pool and day spa. worldwide and turned over Expect vinyl records, both The gritty suburb of $14bn (€12.5bn) last year. Preface new and secondhand. Chippendale was not an As the company’s high- From a socially minded kontrarecords.com obvious choice of location end roster expands (50 floating Dutch hotel and a Muz Botanik ve Kahve but that’s just the way Loh more AC brand hotels will family-run French château Istanbul Nilufer Karaca likes it. “It will appeal to some- open in the Americas by opening its doors to guestsTt 50 Istanbul’s first botanical café in Asymmetric womenswear one who wants to be where 2019), we caught up with for the first time to an Cukurcuma looks onto the rear pieces (think Comme des real Sydneysiders hang out the woman leading the elegantly green-fingered café wall of the verdant Galatasaray Garçons meets Yohji rather than those just taking charge in the already busy in Istanbul, join us as we visit Lycée garden. Owner Gulriz Yamamoto) are cut to fit the photos of the Opera House,” high-end marketplace. the best autumn openings in Sansoy ( pictured ) has same day by an in-shop tailor. he says. — gks which to shop or stay. a background in film-set Yeni Carsi Caddesi, theoldclarehotel.com.au Q Who are your core design. “I wanted to bring Lux Apartman 9-1/B customers? plants and decor together,” Domaine des Etangs A Eighteen- to 50-year- she says. “Adding a café was Munferit Charente Limousine, France olds. We are very a good way to make the plant Cocktails (try the margaritas), When Didier Primat died in 2008, his daughter focused on ensuring shop less intimidating and Turkish mezzes and a signa- Garance decided to celebrate his memory by that we’re providing the to meet our customers.” The ture black squid couscous finishing his work on the family’s 11th-century right experiences, the shop’s high-ceilinged and light in slick Autoban-designed estate in the Charente Limousine region. right products and interior is home to succulents, surroundings. Recently the family home reopened as a tasteful the right services. cacti and bonsai as well as Yeni Carsi Caddesi 19 retreat for vacationers. Garance restored the property and grounds where she spent her Q Where are you seeing Pensão Agrícola holidays as a child and in doing so struck a the most growth? Tavira, Portugal balance between modernity and antiquity. A In the US right now Located in an early 20th-century farmhouse that The château features seven suites, seven our focus is on our was abandoned in the 1970s, Pensão Agrícola is cottages, a 40-seat restaurant and its own spa own brands like AC and in one of the most secluded areas of the eastern housed in a mill. There are also thermal baths, a Moxy [which will open Algarve. A stellar renovation by Atelier Rua has spiral-shaped kitchen garden and more than 850 10 US hotels next year] and our Autograph brought a spare, contemporary feel to the rustic hectares of rolling hills, forests, and lakes. — dhz Collection hotels in the surrounds. Opened in July, the quiet B&B has domainedesetangs.com US and Europe. In Asia six rooms with patios; half of them are in the our luxury brands such old house, the rest in newer extensions. You’ll as Edition, Ritz-Carlton find yourself surrounded by orchards (and the and JW Marriott odd rabbit) with the deserted beach of Lacém continue to be strong. e Balieira a walk away. “Guests are encour- aged to walk around the property,” says Rui Q How has the market Sousa, one of the two owners. “It’s perfect for changed? forgetting everyday life.” — jsv A People are unwilling to pensaoagricola.com accept poorly designed spaces and technology Good Hotel Old No 77 Hotel Chicago Athletic is not about being Amsterdam & Chandlery Association tech-savvy but about Good Hotel, found on New Orleans Chicago how society is tech- a floating platform by the Opened in June in New After a two-year renovation, dependent. The bar waterfront, is a social Orleans’ Warehouse Arts the Chicago Athletic Associa- has been lifted in so enterprise staffed by once- District – three blocks from tion – founded in 1890 – has many ways.— mka unemployed Amsterdammers. the city’s cultural hub, the reopened in the city’s Loop marriott.com With views over IJ bay, each of French Quarter – the Old No district as a 241-room hotel. the not-for-profit pop-up’s 144 77 Hotel & Chandlery sits Modern furniture and warm rooms is a study in modern in a converted factory that The Laslett lighting selected by interior Dutch design, assembled by was built in 1854 as a port- London design firm Roman and Remko Verhaagen and Sikko side coffee warehouse and Named after one of the pioneers of Notting Williams complement original Valk. The lobby has spaces to became a chandlery (where Hill’s popular annual carnival, The Laslett millwork carved in a mix of Tune in to The Voyager work, relax with a drink or wax and candles were made). spans five pristine stucco-fronted Victorian gothic and Venetian styles. wednesday 09.30 (tokyo) enjoy chef Wim Derksen’s The latest restoration of townhouses joined to form a 51-room hotel In keeping with the spirit avocado cheesecake. the 167-room hotel makes in west London. Like the downstairs area – a of the original social club, Join Monocle 24’s travel- Come next June the floating the most of the building’s hard- public space with a bijou dining room, library the landmark building bustles hotel will set sail for its new wood floors and exposed brick and bar – all rooms boast a hotchpotch of with activity and its full-sized themed radio show, home in Niteroi Bay in Rio de walls. The redesigned lobby antique, modern and custom-made furniture. basketball courts (the hotel’s where our editors and Janeiro for the opening of the also houses a gallery space Trinidadian steel-drum aficionado and name was your first clue), correspondents take you Olympics. Later this year the with a changing display of carnival founder Russell Henderson gives his oversized games room and beyond the tourist traps to Dutch capital will see the W contemporary art, the program- name to the hotel’s bar. Henderson’s connec- rooftop bar overlook Lake provide an insider’s view and a new Soho House join the ming of which comes courtesy tion to the place is strong: he contributed a Michigan. Refuelling is under- of hospitality, culture, Hoxton Hotel, which opened of the New Orleans Center for rum-based cocktail recipe to the bar and his taken at the Cherry Circle business and design here in July. — mco Creative Arts. — je son cooks at the small restaurant. — chr Room restaurant. — mdb around the world.

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260 — issue 87 issue 87 — 261 travel edits terrariums, jewellery and Old Clare Hotel Global Q&A pottery. The café serves Sydney Tina sandwiches, coffee from The founder of the Unlisted Edmundson roaster Petra, Kusmi Teas Collection of hotels, Loh Lik Global officer and a must-try vanilla soda Peng, is renowned for repurp- of luxury and called Bubbly. — mab osing heritage-listed buildings lifestyle brands, muz.se in unloved locations. The list Marriott includes the Waterhouse in International Three nearby diversions: Shanghai and Singapore’s Washington Hotel 1929. The latest is Personal KontraPlak the Old Clare Hotel, a once Hotel chains don’t come Okan Aydin was market- derelict heritage-listed pub much bigger than Marriott touch ing director of music venue and offices turned 62-room International, which has Babylon before he opened hotel with three restaurants, more than 4,200 premises Global KontraPlak three years ago. a rooftop pool and day spa. worldwide and turned over Expect vinyl records, both The gritty suburb of $14bn (€12.5bn) last year. Preface new and secondhand. Chippendale was not an As the company’s high- From a socially minded kontrarecords.com obvious choice of location end roster expands (50 floating Dutch hotel and a Muz Botanik ve Kahve but that’s just the way Loh more AC brand hotels will family-run French château Istanbul Nilufer Karaca likes it. “It will appeal to some- open in the Americas by opening its doors to guestsTt 50 Istanbul’s first botanical café in Asymmetric womenswear one who wants to be where 2019), we caught up with for the first time to an Cukurcuma looks onto the rear pieces (think Comme des real Sydneysiders hang out the woman leading the elegantly green-fingered café wall of the verdant Galatasaray Garçons meets Yohji rather than those just taking charge in the already busy in Istanbul, join us as we visit Lycée garden. Owner Gulriz Yamamoto) are cut to fit the photos of the Opera House,” high-end marketplace. the best autumn openings in Sansoy ( pictured ) has same day by an in-shop tailor. he says. — gks which to shop or stay. a background in film-set Yeni Carsi Caddesi, theoldclarehotel.com.au Q Who are your core design. “I wanted to bring Lux Apartman 9-1/B customers? plants and decor together,” Domaine des Etangs A Eighteen- to 50-year- she says. “Adding a café was Munferit Charente Limousine, France olds. We are very a good way to make the plant Cocktails (try the margaritas), When Didier Primat died in 2008, his daughter focused on ensuring shop less intimidating and Turkish mezzes and a signa- Garance decided to celebrate his memory by that we’re providing the to meet our customers.” The ture black squid couscous finishing his work on the family’s 11th-century right experiences, the shop’s high-ceilinged and light in slick Autoban-designed estate in the Charente Limousine region. right products and interior is home to succulents, surroundings. Recently the family home reopened as a tasteful the right services. cacti and bonsai as well as Yeni Carsi Caddesi 19 retreat for vacationers. Garance restored the property and grounds where she spent her Q Where are you seeing Pensão Agrícola holidays as a child and in doing so struck a the most growth? Tavira, Portugal balance between modernity and antiquity. A In the US right now Located in an early 20th-century farmhouse that The château features seven suites, seven our focus is on our was abandoned in the 1970s, Pensão Agrícola is cottages, a 40-seat restaurant and its own spa own brands like AC and in one of the most secluded areas of the eastern housed in a mill. There are also thermal baths, a Moxy [which will open Algarve. A stellar renovation by Atelier Rua has spiral-shaped kitchen garden and more than 850 10 US hotels next year] and our Autograph brought a spare, contemporary feel to the rustic hectares of rolling hills, forests, and lakes. — dhz Collection hotels in the surrounds. Opened in July, the quiet B&B has domainedesetangs.com US and Europe. In Asia six rooms with patios; half of them are in the our luxury brands such old house, the rest in newer extensions. You’ll as Edition, Ritz-Carlton find yourself surrounded by orchards (and the and JW Marriott odd rabbit) with the deserted beach of Lacém continue to be strong. e Balieira a walk away. “Guests are encour- aged to walk around the property,” says Rui Q How has the market Sousa, one of the two owners. “It’s perfect for changed? forgetting everyday life.” — jsv A People are unwilling to pensaoagricola.com accept poorly designed spaces and technology Good Hotel Old No 77 Hotel Chicago Athletic is not about being Amsterdam & Chandlery Association tech-savvy but about Good Hotel, found on New Orleans Chicago how society is tech- a floating platform by the Opened in June in New After a two-year renovation, dependent. The bar waterfront, is a social Orleans’ Warehouse Arts the Chicago Athletic Associa- has been lifted in so enterprise staffed by once- District – three blocks from tion – founded in 1890 – has many ways.— mka unemployed Amsterdammers. the city’s cultural hub, the reopened in the city’s Loop marriott.com With views over IJ bay, each of French Quarter – the Old No district as a 241-room hotel. the not-for-profit pop-up’s 144 77 Hotel & Chandlery sits Modern furniture and warm rooms is a study in modern in a converted factory that The Laslett lighting selected by interior Dutch design, assembled by was built in 1854 as a port- London design firm Roman and Remko Verhaagen and Sikko side coffee warehouse and Named after one of the pioneers of Notting Williams complement original Valk. The lobby has spaces to became a chandlery (where Hill’s popular annual carnival, The Laslett millwork carved in a mix of Tune in to The Voyager work, relax with a drink or wax and candles were made). spans five pristine stucco-fronted Victorian gothic and Venetian styles. wednesday 09.30 (tokyo) enjoy chef Wim Derksen’s The latest restoration of townhouses joined to form a 51-room hotel In keeping with the spirit avocado cheesecake. the 167-room hotel makes in west London. Like the downstairs area – a of the original social club, Join Monocle 24’s travel- Come next June the floating the most of the building’s hard- public space with a bijou dining room, library the landmark building bustles hotel will set sail for its new wood floors and exposed brick and bar – all rooms boast a hotchpotch of with activity and its full-sized themed radio show, home in Niteroi Bay in Rio de walls. The redesigned lobby antique, modern and custom-made furniture. basketball courts (the hotel’s where our editors and Janeiro for the opening of the also houses a gallery space Trinidadian steel-drum aficionado and name was your first clue), correspondents take you Olympics. Later this year the with a changing display of carnival founder Russell Henderson gives his oversized games room and beyond the tourist traps to Dutch capital will see the W contemporary art, the program- name to the hotel’s bar. Henderson’s connec- rooftop bar overlook Lake provide an insider’s view and a new Soho House join the ming of which comes courtesy tion to the place is strong: he contributed a Michigan. Refuelling is under- of hospitality, culture, Hoxton Hotel, which opened of the New Orleans Center for rum-based cocktail recipe to the bar and his taken at the Cherry Circle business and design here in July. — mco Creative Arts. — je son cooks at the small restaurant. — chr Room restaurant. — mdb around the world.

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