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Travel and restaurants

Under cover

Our latest guidebook reveals Spain's finest boutique hotels, from a colonial palace in Lanzarote's former capital to an artist's retreat on Cataluña's dramatic coast.

  • Issue #161
  • 6 min read
Outdoor terrace at Hotel Palacio Ico with wicker furniture, palm trees, and white colonial architecture
Business

Healthy balance

When we heard that the Swiss pharmaceuticals company Novartis was making plans to open its sparkling, prestige-architect-designed Basel campus to the public, we were keen to take a look.

  • Issue #137
  • 9 min read
Healthy balance
Food & Drink

Eero Aarnio

Over a beer and steak in an 18th-century coffee house, the celebrated Finnish chairdesigner takes a seat to talk sunsets, saunas and smoking his own salmon.

  • Issue #124
  • 5 min read
Eero Aarnio
Entrepreneurialism

Start it up

From family to crowdfunding, five small-business owners explain how they funded their ideas without having to ask the bank.

  • Issue #106
  • 12 min read
Start it up
Culture

Tracking changes

Occupying former railway warehouses, Luma Arles is a gallery going full steam ahead with big ambitions and big ideas.

  • Issue #106
  • 9 min read
Tracking changes
Design

Arty party

Everybody who is anybody in the world of architecture goes to the Venice Biennale. So why were there so few good ideas this time?

  • Issue #18
  • 4 min read
Arty party
Culture

Arts cool

Bard College in Upstate New York, with its stunning Frank Gehry-designed performing arts centre and star-studded visiting talent, is this summer’s hottest arts ticket in the US.

  • Issue #5
  • 8 min read
Arts cool
Culture

Basque in the glory

Thanks to its world-famous museum, Bilbao has become a cultural mecca. But has the Guggenheim improved the lives of locals or just entertained tourists? We make an in-depth audit of its impact.

  • Issue #5
  • 7 min read
Basque in the glory

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