East meets West London
Tucked away behind London’s Bayswater station, La Suite West hotel is housed in one of those buildings conjured up in the mind of Americans when they imagine our fair city. On a quiet street of enormous tow...
Mi Casa (blanca) est su Casa (blanca)
“Of all the gin joints on all the world” I ended up at Ric’s Bar Americain in Casablanca in readiness for the city's annual fashion week and started my love affair with Morocco's most business-minded popul...
Luxury without gloss
Although it has a small population – equivalent, at 5.4m, to the city of Philadelphia – Finland’s design culture, integrated into daily life, has touched the lives of a great many people. This year, while c...
French fancy
There are restaurants that are big and buzzy, giants built in or on the ethos of the ‘90s. Clattering pans, steaming plates and red-faced chefs bringing the business of show to the restaurant trade. There a...