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Style Moment | Art Gallery, Budapest
“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Belorussian-French artist
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COOL HOTELS | Budapest | Hotel Palazzo Zichy
I have learned that a hotel can set the whole mood for the experience in a foreign city. Hotel Palazzo Zichy, in Budapest, is a perfect example of a “great experience” hotel. The 19th century building was the former home of Hungarian noble, Count Nándor Zichy. In the brief biography on the hotel’s website was…
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Style Moment | Caribbean beach
“It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand.” Hugh Newell Jacobsen (Born, 1929) American architect
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COOL HOTELS | Domincan Republic | Eden Roc Cap Cana
Two words. Paradise found. The Eden Roc Cap Cana, in the Dominican Republic, is the best beach vacation I’ve ever had. To make clear just how blissful it really was, this is our private pool. And this is our very own villa. I don’t usually write about beach vacations, but this is definitely an exception…a…
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Style Moment | London bookstore
“A book can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007) American author
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COOL HOTELS | London | Number Sixteen
I love this hotel. I want to live in this hotel. I won’t go to London unless I can stay in this hotel. At 16 Sumner Place, in the South Kensington neighborhood of London, in a row of white houses that all look the same, is Hotel Number Sixteen. There’s no “hotel” sign out front,…
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Style Moment | Casa de Madrid
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” Bill Bryson (Born 1951) American author
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COOL HOTELS | Madrid | Casa de Madrid
It’s like staying in the home of a well-traveled, aristocratic aunt. Casa de Madrid is located in a landmark 18th century building across from Madrid’s Royal Opera House. Massive ornate doors lead to a diminutive elevator, and up to the apartment of Marta Medina: art historian, architect, curator, designer, and world traveler. Doña Medina restored…
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Style Moment | Lake Como
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, Rejoice, for your soul is alive.” Eleanora Duse (1858-1924) Italian actress
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COOL HOTELS | Como | Castadiva Resort
Castadiva is a magnificent stone villa on the shore of Lake Como. Need I say more? Okay, twist my arm, I’ll tell you more.
