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Corner hotel room with large glass windows looking at water
Delano Dubai in Galerie Magazine

Duba­­i is a city of superlatives. It holds hundreds of Guinness Book of World Records for things ranging from the world’s largest mall (12.1 million square feet) to the tallest fountain (with sprays over 344 feet), tallest building (2,716 feet), and tallest hotel (75 floors, 1,168 feet). The Delano Dubai, in comparison, boasts a relatively diminutive 251 guest rooms, including 84 suites. Its penthouse is on the seventh floor, with all-encompassing water and city views that include the aforementioned buildings. In a very over-the-top, more-is-more locale, it is a purposeful and incredibly stylish outlier. Take a tour here. ...

A grey single story structure with no windows, but one glass door that is glowing.
Elmgreen & Dragset’s latest land art/Forbes.com

Elmgreen & Dragset, the Berlin-based conceptual artists behind Prada Marfa, will inaugurate their latest site-specific installation this weekend in the Khao-Yai Art Forest in Thailand. Called K-BAR, it was inspired by and meant as an homage to the German artist Martin Kippenberger.  The catch? It's open one day each month for just six hours. And has only six seats. There's more, of course. Read it here. ...

Faye Toogood’s Friedman Benda show/Forbes.com

“This collection is very special to me,” revealed Faye Toogood as she toured a group through her latest exhibition at Friedman Benda gallery in New York City. “It's quite a quiet collection and a reflective collection. As I'm getting to the ripe old age of 50 I think the significance of my work is changing. I’m finding a way to connect more to nature.” Assemblage 7: Lost and Found II is her fourth solo exhibition with the Chelsea gallery, which also represents Daniel Arsham, Ini Archibong and Najla El Zein. Most of what’s currently on view is being shown in New York for the first time after exhibitions in Los...

Uruguay Destination story/ELLE

Story about how Jose Ignacio and Garzon became destinations for art lovers. Get all the details here. ...

Florida apartment in Mansion/The Wall Street Journal

As a 25-year-old Christy Peck probably never dreamed she would one day own a luxurious apartment on the Florida coast with expansive water views. She was living in Norman, Okla., working as a bank teller and raising a daughter by herself. Flash forward and the now 55-year-old is an emergency medicine doctor with, as the song goes, “a deluxe apartment in the sky” in Clearwater, Fla., with views of the harbor, Clearwater Beach Island and the Gulf of Mexico. To read more of this inspirational story, go here (paywall). ...

Dubai Design Week/Galerie

The Middle East’s first design event celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, drawing over 300 designers and brands from over 40 countries to the so-called “City of Gold.” The fair took place in the Waterfront Terrace of the city’s Design District—an enviable spot perched on the Persian Gulf with picture-perfect views of the growing skyline.  Said views were best enjoyed from the Veuve Cliquot Sun Club Lounge, a sprawling waterfront pop-up created by the legendary champagne house in collaboration with Studio Marcel Poulain, proffering their signature bubbles. This year also brought the debut of Editions, a fair-in-the-fair dedicated to limited-edition art and contemporary design, no doubt a nod to the growing interest in the...

Mnemba Island resort/Galerie magazine

“Barefoot luxury” is a term that gets thrown around a lot in the hospitality world, but Mnemba Island, a small resort in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Zanzibar, is a true embodiment of that phrase and all it implies. There are just 12 free-standing rooms (called “bandas”) and it’s just out of the way enough to ensure a level of discretion and privacy that has made it an ideal destination for those who value such things. Or those who simply choose to end their African safari adventures with a few nights in paradise, as Mnemba is part of the andBeyond...

Private Label London/Further Magazine

The Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711 is one of the watch world’s most sought-after models. Discontinued in 2021, the classic design fetches six-figure sums on the secondary market. So if you’re lucky enough to own one, why mess with it? Why have it completely encrusted — the dial, the bezel, the bracelet band — with 21 carats of green sapphires? “I’ve got everything I want. Now I want something no one else has,” is how Alys McMahon, commercial director of watch customizer Private Label London, describes the company’s wealthy clients’ impulses. In addition to creating the gorgeous, glistening-green specimen that is the aforementioned...