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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A new design-led hotel is set to open in 2018 on the edge of Surry Hills and the city. When completed, Paramount House Hotel will be a new kind of neighbourhood hotel for Sydney; one offering a unique take on Australian hospitality. Located on Commonwealth Street, Paramount House Hotel is the first accommodation offering by Russell Beard, Ping Jin Ng and Mark Dundon, the team collectively behind Reuben Hills, Paramount Coffee Project, Seven Seeds and Bondi Hall.
Accor Hotels have opened the doors this month to the brand new Sofitel Kuala Lumpur Damansara, their first Sofitel in Malaysia. In the heart of Damansara Heights, the luxurious 312-room Sofitel Kuala Lumpur Damansara is part of an 8.5-acre integrated development by GuocoLand, comprising of two luxury condominium blocks, two corporate office towers, the hotel and a lifestyle mall.
The capital of India’s majestic Rajasthan region, Jaipur is a chaotic mix of old and new, abundant with historical gems and arresting visual beauty. From centuries-old fortresses to dusty pink palaces oozing fairy-tale grandeur, Jaipur evokes a whimsical, old-world charm. Read on to discover the top five architectural highlights of the ‘pink city’. Ros Brennan shares her favourite palaces and local hotels to match.
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.
