Hotels
The Hoxton arrives on Mediterranean shores with the latest in their rapidly expanding portfolio, the brand's 11th hotel housed in Barcelona's El Poblenou, a neighbourhood sandwiched between the sea and city, packed full of creativity and brimming...
Lifestyle
Conceived and designed by and for today’s women, Juno House provides business, wellness and motherhood services to Barcelona's female entrepreneurs and creatives. A first for the city, the members club has been designed as a catalyst for...
Eating Out
The most ingenious ideas are always the simplest; the solutions to a problem that others simply don’t see. For Pablo Pardo, an Argentinian living in Barcelona for the last two decades, seeing one of the city’s traditional old ‘quioscos’ for...
Shopping
Fashion designer Djaba Diassamidze opens a new lifestyle store in Barcelona's Dreta de l'Eixample neighbourhood, the multidisciplinary space located on the ground floor of the extravagant Casa Tomàs Roger; a drop-dead gorgeous consortium of goods...
Eating Out
Located within Barcelona's exceedingly slick new design hotel, Sir Victor, steps away from the city's classiest street, Passeig de Gràcia, THE ENTOURAGE GROUP's MR PORTER steakhouse brings a level of dining one may find more akin to ritzy Manhattan...
Hotels
"The name was chosen because of the contradiction behind its meaning," I'm told as I stand in the hotel's library. "Like Victor, Barcelona is a city of contrasts. The sea and the mountains, the Catalan and Spanish language, Gaudí's architecture and...
Hotels
It might be located only 20 kilometres south of the Catalan capital, but at times Little Beach House Barcelona can feel a million miles from its famous namesake. Or more like several thousand miles and over half a century. A nostalgic haven...
Hotels
You’re in a dark, seductive basement somewhere in Barcelona’s old city. A dwarf urges you to swallow ‘the blue pearl’. You do. And nothing's quite the same for the next few hours. It’s a swirling, contorting, perplexing trip—the sort...
Hotels
Barcelona-based interior designers, Miriam Barrio Studio, have recently completed work on a rental apartment in the city's Eixample neighbourhood, a stones throw from Gaudí's iconic Casa Batlló and the brilliant Fundació Antoni Tàpies cultural...
Hotels
“The difference between technology and slavery,” writes Lebanese–American essayist, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, “is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.” Debt, social expectations, and the façade of democracy may have...
Eating Out
Aureli Mora and Omar Ornaque of architecture practice AMOO have transformed an old bar in Barcelona's slow-paced Gràcia, transforming an elongated tube-shaped space—typical of buildings in neighbourhood—into a bright and contemporary locale...
Guides
“The installation on the roof of Fundació Antoni Tàpies, an evocative tangle of metal on top of a beautiful modernist building that represents Barcelona’s classic and bourgeois beauty, is emblematic of the city’s creativity.” Nuria Canal,...
City Notes
Chefs Karina Mejía and Israel Montero combine the tradition of Provençal cuisine with the soul and passion of Mexico in Saint Jacques Bistrot, their new gastronomic spot in the capital city's affluent Polanco neighbourhood. Allowing diners to...
City Notes
Located next door to Hotel Wilmina, which is housed in a former Berlin-Charlottenburg women's prison, Lotta Tagesbar has opened its doors, the café cum deli and bar designed by the same team behind Wilmina and serving an exquisite menu of healthy...
City Notes
With an enviable seafront location close to Barcelona and its airport, and having undergone a recent refurbishment, AC Hotel Gavà Mar is a 69-room hotel that is ideal for the business traveller, but also a surprising destination for the discerning...
City Notes
With interiors inspired by the Art Deco of Palm Beach County in Miami, and serving delicious ice cream on a newly pedestrianised street just off Barcelona's renowned Passeig de Gràcia, Amiko is not simply a 'heladería', rather it's a sensory...
Dispatches
Minimalism and elegance, too, are gaining fast as popular choices for serene, sophisticated interiors. Simplicity, clean lines, and curative approaches to decor are all that these two styles are made of, bringing home really calm and clarity within...
Dispatches
Finding the best Botox experts in Toronto can feel overwhelming, given the many options available. To focus your search, consider professionals with extensive experience and positive client reviews. A key step in identifying top specialists is...
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Wellness Trends for 2025: A series of posts designed to uncover the most progressive concepts in wellness for the year ahead. Number Eight: Restorative Home Design. In the pursuit of wellness, many people are turning their attention homeward....
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Austin’s housing market has seen a significant boom in recent years, with many homeowners looking to boost their property’s value through home improvement projects. In a city where home prices continue to rise, updating key areas of a property,...