It's one of the most overused words today, but Ben Weprin is truly disrupting the hospitality business with Graduate Hotels, a collection of boutique hotels in college towns, including Berkeley, California and Lincoln, Nebraska. Read all about him here....
One of my favorite Mexican towns gets a new hotel courtesy of Liz Lambert. Get the scoop here....
A Swiss town that's historically attracted bold-faced names now has a sort of hipster-y boutique hotel targeting the next generation of luxe traveler. More here....
The home, which belongs to the owners of Caudalie Vinotherapie, was designed by Studio Mapos. See more of it here....
With these guys - the actor Terry Crews, singer Tift Merritt, and Jerry Helling, president and creative director of Bernhardt Design, who convinced those two to create collections for him, and me to moderate a panel during ICFF. This was not my first go at the moderating rodeo, but one of the more interesting, because it addressed the whole "celebrities in design" elephant in the room. Like, why would you ask an ex-NFL-player-turned actor to do furniture, as well as a singer AND one of the founders of Air BnB, unless you're selling out/going the influencer route? Seriously one of...
You know how you have those friends with really nice apartments, and you kind of want to hate them for having this awesome apartment 100x bigger than yours, but they're your friend, so you remain quietly jealous and try to feel happy for them? That's my friend Luis, whose apartment I wrote about for the May issue of New York Cottages and Gardens. Bonus: it made the cover....
Turns out a lot of cool things are designed by people who are either from Canada or currently live there. DSquared? Canadians! Erdem? Ditto. Want Les Essentiels? Oui! See products from all of them and a bunch more in the NY Post Alexa edition today. Even got a shout out from Pat Kiernan/NY1 during "in the papers" - which, you know, is the ultimate validation (he's Canadian)....
Luxe products for a home office....
Your holiday wrapping dilemmas - solved! Read about it here....
Ones to watch - Beirut design team David/Nicolas, as profiled in the current issue of DuJour....