Lifestyle
When I was a kid, the only royal in a barbershop was the proverbial 'right royal fu ... '. Barbers were butchers with scissors instead of knifes. Then all these hipster barbershops started cropping up, harking back to the golden era with their...
Hotels
Inhabiting the shell of the neglected 1970s icon Hotel Jardín Amazonas, Mexico City's Hotel Carlota retains a gritty edge, taking its indoors-outdoors motel vibe from its former life; Ignacio Cadena's Cadena + Asoc. and Javier Sánchez's JSª...
Hotels
Polanco is one of Mexico City (and Latin America)’s wealthiest, glitziest neighbourhoods — home to high-end fashion boutiques, fine-dining restaurants, and high-rise big-name hotels like JW Marriot and Hyatt Regency. Mercifully laid...
Hotels
Mexico City is an easy place to loose your purity: endless traffic, noise, cheap beer, mezcal, and a taco stand on every corner ... you may end up yearning for someway to wash away your sins. A trip to pretty, laid-back Puebla, two hours to the...
Hotels
There is a seamless link between the past and the present at the Casa Fayette hotel in Guadalajara; Mexican architect Vanessa López deftly integrated a soaring new-build contemporary tower with a characterful early 20th Century building to achieve...
Hotels
The historical walled city of Tulum on Mexico's Yucutan peninsula is a popular destination for adventurers on the trail of Mayan artefacts, but it's certainly not somewhere one might expect to encounter a sculpture by contemporary artist...
Shopping
Not wishing to be rude, but some of you lot look like you could do with losing a few kilos. A change in diet might be just what the doctor ordered — perhaps more seeds, nuts, and pulses, that sort of thing. Over in Mexico City, Germina has a huge...
Eating Out
Choosing bones as the main decorative feature of a restaurant is a bold move - there's a danger that the experience might be so macabre as to put diners off their food - but Hueso in Gualdalajara, Mexico, manages to pull off the concept with aplomb...
Eating Out
Next stop, Mexico City, and to the restaurant Romita Comedor, in the La Roma neighbourhood. Romita describes itself as being modelled on a train station having both a vintage and a modern look, and nowhere is that more evident that in the external...
Eating Out
Everyone loves a good story, and like a classic urban legend, this one from Mexico City is a mysterious blend of fiction and fact. Our heroine is Malamén, a young girl who loves nothing more than cooking and dreams of opening her own restaurant....
Hotels
We're away to Mexico now, which you may have figured out yourselves from the unsettling outburst of cactii in the picture below. Puerto Escondido in Oaxaca, more specifically, on the Pacific coast to the south of the country. Design Hotels,...
Lifestyle
At We Heart we are used to companies taking odd detours from their regular business - but even so, a perfume company doing hotels did raise a few eyebrows. On paper it sounds like a bit of blue sky thinking-outside-the-box strategy meeting...
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...
Dispatches
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....
Dispatches
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,...