World’s best stays, says Traveller
Editors of Condé Nast Traveller UK have released their picks for the best hotels of 2013, choosing properties across categories such as best beach, wilderness, design, city and country hotels. From cocktail bars that hang dramatically over the edge of a Balinese cliff, to a Kenyan wilderness lodge embedded high within African conservation lands, and a quintessentially French countryside inn carved out of village rock and set in the heart of Provence, CN Traveller’s list of 25 best hotels for 2013 strays from the usual suspects of opulent, five-star locales in favor of roads less traveled. Meanwhile, readers of Travel + Leisure helped the magazine curate their own list of […]
FASHION HOUSES TO MAINTAIN ITALY’S BEAUTY
Fendi will finance a renovation of Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain, becoming the latest luxury group to fund repairs to priceless heritage in times of austerity. The 2.12 million euro ($2.85 million) repairs on the nearly 300-year-old fountain will be finished by 2015, Rome’s city hall and Fendi said in a note. Fendi’s artistic director Karl Lagerfeld, who is also a celebrated photographer, said he would be publishing a book on the fountains of Rome that will feature some of his daguerreotypes — an antique type of photograph. The “Fendi for Fountains” project will also include funding to restore Quattro Fontane, late Renaissance fountains gracing each corner of a busy intersection […]