The Ferry Building is getting a luxe neighbor on Wednesday: an eco-friendly waterfront hotel with a splashy farm-to-table restaurant. The new hotel, 1 Hotel San Francisco, is the first in the Bay Area from international luxury hotel chain SH Hotels & Resorts. It takes over the former Hotel Vitale on […]
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The first time Valentina De Santis set foot on the premises of Villa Passalacqua, she assumed it would also be her last. It was October 2018: the three-storey, 18th-century villa in the tiny Lake Como town of Moltrasio was being sold at auction, and De Santis and her father – the only bidders to […]
Bassano del Grappa, small medieval town in the Alps mountains, Veneto region, Italy getty The eight regions of northern Italy—which include the Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and Trentino-Alto Adige—are each unique in terms of their history, topography, and culture. So it shouldn’t be surprising that […]
A number of new luxury hotels have recently opened in central Italy. getty In the coming months, many pandemic-weary travelers will be planning visits to Italy. After a number of closures over the past two years, a spate of new luxury hotels have recently opened their doors or will be […]
The more things change, the more they stay the same. An old landmark hotel in the conservative and co-op-coated Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side is set to become (gasp!) condos. But never fear, the building is attracting the same old well-heeled characters it always did. Dating back […]
Shedir Collection, a new luxury hotel group cofounded by entrepreneur Eduardo Safdie of J.K. Place acclaim, is wasting no time making buzzy inroads in Rome. With two achingly chic boutique properties—Hotel Vilòn and Maalot Roma—already earning rave reviews, the company is poised to unveil two more singular hotels— Umiltà 36 […]