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HOTEL
These Boutique Hotels Act Like IRL Social Networks

Three European brands bring intimacy, idiosyncrasy, and connection to the luxury hotel...

Travel
The Ancient Thai City Rebranding Itself With Contemporary Design

Ayutthaya’s landscape of Buddhist temples and archaeological ruins is being reshaped by stylish...

DESIGN
The Best-Designed Stores of 2017

These 15 retail destinations around the world prove that shopping can be about far more than simply

Store
Gallery? Showroom? London’s House of Toogood Defies Classification

Faye and Erica Toogood’s boutique and exhibition space is a warren of covetable homewares and...

Destination
Destination: Shanghai

China’s most vibrant city is undergoing a glamorous transformation that’s putting it on a par...

Design
The Best Restaurant and Bar Design of 2017

These 15 venues, from San Francisco to St. Moritz, New York to Athens, set a new bar for what a...

Restaurant
Tom Dixon Revives Paris’s Original Midcentury Drugstore

French master chef Éric Fréchon will lead the culinary vision for the Champs-Élysées brasserie.

Design
A Restaurant at Dubai Opera With Down Under Vibes

Chef Sean Connolly’s antipodean seafood aerie transports patrons to his adopted home of Australia.

TRAVEL
The Best Designed Hotels of 2017

We look back at the year of openings to isolate the most standout new properties around the world,...

Travel
The New Hotels to Book This Winter

The latest crop of arrivals offer disparate design schemes and locations, from a one-room hideaway...

Hotel
Switzerland’s Historic Bürgenstock Resort is Reborn

The largest resort in Western Europe is an architectural petri dish, with modern additions and...

THE LIST
Our Go-To Gift Guide for Design Lovers

From a spaceship-shaped console to an unforgettable sushi dinner, Surface’s editors select

How Contemporary Art Transformed the World’s Best Chef

Bold gestures, the principles of minimalism, and a Picasso painting powered Daniel Humm to the...

Hotel
In Australia, a Wine Hotel That Tells a Story

A filmmaker infuses the principles of alchemy into the conceptual Jackalope.

Destination
Destination: Moscow

Russia’s capital is shedding the weight of its Soviet history and transforming into a cultural...