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Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts announce new opening on Koh Samui

December 10, 2014

Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts have announced the opening of their third beach resort, located on Koh Samui Island’s most idyllic location, which is famed for its magnificent sunset vantage points and located j...

Swire Hotels open The Continental restaurant in Hong Kong

Amanda Bernstein

November 4, 2014

Asia, Dining, Hong Kong, News, Travel

Swire Hotels has just announced the opening of its new restaurant, The Continental, the second stand-alone restaurant owned and managed by the group. The Continental, located in the freestanding building on ...

Bulgari Hotel to open in Beijing in 2017

Livia Feltham

October 22, 2014

Asia, Beijing, Culture, Design, Fashion, Feature, Glass Design, News, Travel

Entering any one of the three Bulgari Hotel’s dotted around the world for just a moment is the one-stop way to immerse yourself in luxury from the first floor up. Whether that may be in London, Milan or Bal...

A rose is a rose

Amanda Bernstein

September 15, 2014

Asia, Beijing, Feature, Travel

Rosewood Hotels and Resorts’ first property in China will open in Beijing in October 2014. Coinciding with this exciting announcement, the Rosewood Hotel in London has just won the acclaimed Hotel...

Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts open new hotel in Tianjin, China

Amanda Bernstein

August 15, 2014

Asia, Avant Art, China, News, Travel

Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has opened its 85th hotel in China’s largest northern port city, Tianjin. The 302-room Shangri-La sits on the bank of the Haihe River in the new Hedong District. Tianjin is a bustl...

LUX* Resorts and Hotels expand into China

Amanda Bernstein

July 30, 2014

Asia, China, Culture, Feature, News, Travel

LUX* Resorts & Hotels (“LUX*”) announced the LUX* Tea Horse Road (LUX* Chamadao) as the foundation for its planned expansion into China. On account of its largely undiscovered yet spectacular natural beauty...

Shadows of rebellion

Samantha Kuok Leese

July 25, 2014

Archive, Art, China, Culture, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Talents, Travel

In a series of rare interviews, Glass speaks to four of China’s greatest poets to discover the underground movement that inspired a nation. I’m a poet, I’m the shadow of rebellion. Let it be t...

A message for you …

Glass Archive

July 11, 2014

Archive, Asia, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Nepal, Travel

If you’re reading this then you are the recipient of the first ever successful international flight by paper aeroplane. It is made from no ordinary paper. It is actually a special kind of paper, f...

First Rosewood Hotel to open in China – Rosewood Beijing

Amanda Bernstein

June 30, 2014

Asia, Beijing, News, Travel

The first property in China for Rosewood Hotels and Resorts is scheduled to open Summer 2014. The 283 room ultra–luxurious Rosewood Beijing is located in the central business centre of Beijing, Chaoyang Distric...

Get carried away with the Chloé Package at the Mandarin Oriental HK

Livia Feltham

June 23, 2014

Asia, Culture, Dining, Hong Kong, Travel

Fancy something fashionably fashionable by way of Mandarin Oriental this summer? Hong Kong’s Mandarin Oriental, which placed among the top 11 hotels in the world soon after opening its doors in 1963, is glad t...

The art of travel

Nico Kos Earle

June 19, 2014

Asia, Avant Art, Books, Culture, Europe, Feature, France, Italy, Travel, Vietnam

Following from the success of their Carnets de Voyage, in which four contemporary artists were invited to illustrate cities they visited for the first time, Louis Vuitton will be launching two new travel titl...

Waldorf Astoria opens in Beijing

Amanda Bernstein

March 1, 2014

Asia, Beijing, Culture, Design, Feature, Glass Design, News, Travel

Hilton Worldwide and Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts have announced the opening of Waldorf Astoria Beijing, the second Waldorf Astoria hotel in China. The hotel offers 176 luxuriously appointed guest room...

New Pullman hotel opens in Vietnam

Amanda Bernstein

February 22, 2014

Asia, Culture, News, Travel, Vietnam

Pullman, Accor’s upscale international brand, has announced the opening of its third hotel in Vietnam, the Pullman Saigon Centre, which is strategically located in the heart Ho Chi Minh City. The hotel boasts m...

New Pullman hotel opens in Shanghai

Amanda Bernstein

February 10, 2014

Asia, China, Dining, News, Travel

The Accor group has announced the opening of Pullman Shanghai South, the second Pullman hotel in Shanghai and its 15th in China. Perfectly located, the hotel caters to every need of today’s sophist...

Love is in the air at Langham Place

Georgia Leefe

February 4, 2014

Asia, Culture, Dining, Hong Kong, News, Travel

At the heart of downtown Hong Kong, multicultural Mongkok is labelled the busiest district in the world. Among the bustle and prominence of countless skyscrapers, the presence of one skyscraper stands alone. ...

Christmas in the Cameron Highlands

Samantha Kuok Leese

December 17, 2013

Asia, Feature, Malaysia, Rest of Asia

It's a cool November evening in the Cameron Highlands and Christmas has come early. We are gathered around the piano in the festive warmth of the Jim Thompson Tea Room, at the luxury Cameron Highlands Resor...

Hanoi joy

Samantha Kuok Leese

April 14, 2013

Asia, Feature, Travel, Vietnam

It’s a warm night in Hanoi and we’re eating coconut ice-cream on the steps of the opera house, watching people stream through the old building’s gates after a performance by the Vietnam National Symphony Or...

Still got it: Japan

Ruthie Holloway

December 6, 2012

Asia, Culture, Feature, Japan, Travel

C’mon, admit it. Japanese creativity bleeds heavily to all corners of art, fashion, design and architecture on a global scale, and more so than many other countries that are credited with a trendsetting nat...