Urban Manual

An Eleven Experience adventure lodge on the Taylor River in the Colorado Rockies — fly fishing as the marquee, but a full-property private rental for skiing, hunting and the kind of seclusion the Aspen corridor stopped offering decades ago.

Stays · Almont, United States

Europe's first combined museum and luxury hotel, housed in a restored 18th-century Lisbon palace and contemporary extension that displays Armando Martins' private art collection throughout—a property where the art programme is genuinely inseparable from the hospitality experience.

Stays · Lisbon, Portugal

Shinichiro Ogata's tea and confectionery program inside Tadao Ando's The Shinmonzen ryokan — Higashiyama's most architecturally serious modern Japanese hospitality, with a tea house that operates at chanoyu standards.

Shopping · Kyoto, Japan

A perfect-rated inn on Goshen Road in Hensonville at the foot of the Catskills, The Henson pairs intimate lodging with the cooking of Restaurant Matilda — a rare upstate address that treats the hotel and the kitchen with equal seriousness.

Stays · Hensonville, United States

The West Hollywood sibling of the Canal Street concept store, Fugazi on Holloway Drive applies the same discerning eye to emerging streetwear and independent labels for an audience that wears its fashion knowledge as lightly as possible.

Shopping · Los-angeles, United States

A New York flower shop known for its design-aware, unconventional approach to floral arrangements — a florist that treats flowers as a medium for spatial and aesthetic thinking rather than conventional decoration. A destination for those who want their flowers with a genuine design point of view and an eye for the structural and the unexpected.

Shopping · New-york, United States

AZUMA FARM is a farm stay on the Koiwai estate in Shizukuishi—a vast private farm in the shadow of Mount Iwate that has produced dairy, wool, and vegetables for over a century. Staying here offers access to a working Japanese agricultural landscape of scale and beauty that is almost entirely unknown to international visitors.

Stays · Shizukuishi, Japan

KARIMOKU RESEARCH CENTER is the design and research arm of Japan's most respected furniture manufacturer—a Minami-Aoyama space where collaborations with international designers including Norm Architects and Keiji Ashizawa are presented alongside ongoing research into material, joinery, and the future of Japanese furniture craft. Simultaneously a gallery, workshop, and expression of a singular design philosophy.

Other · Tokyo, Japan