It is in the scenic landscape of Finger Lakes, a cluster of eleven lakes, in the New York State, that we discover the hotel called The Lake House on Canandaigua.  

It’s in the pre-existing identity, in perfect synthesis with the present century, that the owners of this small palace found a space to live. 

It’s near the Estrela gardens, in this charming Lisbon neighbourhood, that we discover the city’s latest club, a discreet and welcoming space that invites us to apply the brakes to our daily rhythm, transporting us to warm summer days. 

Away from the hectic pace of Manhattan, in the centre of historic Hudson in New York State, we find a place that is evocative of home, distant times and different geographies. 

Design, product and furniture design, interior design and architecture. Everything is a process. This is the active method that the Mexican designer Héctor Esrawe applies to his work and to his team of about 50 professionals that includes architects, graphic and industrial designers, engineers and administrative staff. Based in Latin America, the Esrawe studio has been building its projects in different corners of the world. 

From its base to its interior composition, José Luís Barbosa has designed a house that could provide a city refuge for artists, designers, poets and philosophers. 

It’s with the sound of traditional Portuguese mosaic paving underfoot that we arrive at this “meeting-point for different realities”. 

It was in 1934 that a distinctive villa started to be built in Hangzhou, China. This place was to be, at different points, the home of an American embassy and a Chinese bank. 

“Questa casa non è un albergo” (This house is not a hotel). This statement, which also doubles as an installation occupying one of the walls of Palazzo Daniele, reminds us that this boutique hotel located in Gagliano del Capo, in southern Italy, was designed to provide an experience. Ludovica and Roberto Palomba (Palomba Serafini Associati), the architects responsible for transforming this 19th century aristocratic building, emphasise the idea, acknowledging that “it was paramount to design the experience above all”. 

A residence where amazement provides the epigraph to a mise-en-scène of arts and contrasts, and where monotony has been banished.

They communicate who they are through the space they have created as their home. The exacting details, the ethereal elegance and the restrained use of colour confirm this. 

Arriving on the most mountainous island in the Azores archipelago, we are taken aback by the stunning colours of nature, a flora that rises from the volcanic ashes and moves us at every glance.