Design Travel explores the interplay between design and travel. It might be a new hotel for business travellers, an airline collaborating with a world-renowned architect or a product designed specifically to enhance the travel experience. Our brief is to make you want to be there and inspire you to seek out incredible design examples when you travel, or in your own city.
Stephanie Williams, is an interior designer, writer and travel communicator. Stephanie was the first editor of Qantas epiQure and her work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, television and online. She also has a love of fashion design, borne while working for Comme des Garcons.
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All in Hotels
Built green from the ground-up, Element Hotels incorporates sustainable design and eco-friendly practices from the beginning. We spoke to Ashley Yeo, FF&E* designer at ACID and artist Claudia Bueno to get the lowdown on the art, design and neighbourhood the hotel is playing with.
90 minutes north of San Francisco, in heavenly Sonoma County, lies SingleThread, a farm-driven restaurant and inn, being described as the ‘most talked about foodie opening in the USA’.
This little copper clad lodge perches on rocks above the high water mark on its own private island on the Freycinet Peninsula, one of the most stunning parts of Tasmania, a curious island at the bottom of the world
Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas has just thrown open its door to their first property in Europe, Anantara Vilamoura Algarve Resort – on southern Portugal’s picturesque Algarve coast.
Set amidst towering redwoods 90 minutes north of San Francisco on a hip, epicurean enclave of the Russian River, AutoCamp has opened its second boutique camping property in California.
Australia has a brand new hotel brand, TRIBE Hotel Group (TRIBE), focused on giving guests everything they need and nothing they don't, in a space that’s intelligent and sophisticated with high-end design.
One of our favourite hotels, the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London, is undergoing one of the most extensive renovations in its 115-year history and recently revealed the first part of the comprehensive multi million-dollar restoration with a new reception and lobby lounge.