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.  

A celebration of Antwerp through art, gastronomy and architecture. This was the motto adopted by Space Copenhagen studio in order to breathe life into the recently inaugurated Le Pristine.

Located on a hill in Bali, Indonesia, Villa Rumah Fajar leads vernacular architecture into a contemporary world, in an exercise that proves that luxury can also be simple. 

On our way back from Furnas, still under the spell of the exotic gardens of the Terra Nostra botanical park, we headed to the south of São Miguel, following the winding roads of the island coast.

There are no established rooms, here one lives according to the flavour of each moment and the urge felt at each instant.

Unusual as a whole and reflecting the local geomorphological profile, ‘Casa na Costa do Castelo’ extends and unfolds as we climb upwards.

Centuries-old stories belonging to several generations are inscribed on the walls of this house. The cumulative patina conceals experiences from past times and the complexity of the home's architectural composition evoke its rich past.