For the better part of its nearly 80-year history, Palm Springs has been a fashionable desert resort: a retreat and a refuge, as acclaimed for its relaxed lifestyle as for its natural beauty. An oasis of modernist architecture, Palm Springs … Read More
For those Game of Thrones fans who glimpse Caernarfon for the first time, “Winter is coming” might be the first words from their mouths. Perhaps the most famous of Wales’s 641 castles, Caernarfon was built in 1283 within the confines of … Read More
A country house from the early 18th century, Erddig in Wrexham offers an “Upstairs, Downstairs” experience to visitors who wander the 1,200-acre estate of a gentry family named Yorke who remained in residence for over 250 years. Alas, by the … Read More
With gleaming steam engines and summer coaches from the 1920s, as well as kitchen carriages and a restored 1894 carriage, the Welsh Highland Railway is the longest heritage rail line in Britain. From the castle at Caernarfon, the railway traverses … Read More
Arriving in the Sonoran Desert in 1928, Wisconsin-born architect Frank Lloyd Wright contended that there was “nothing more inspiring to an architect…than pure Arizona desert.” … Read More
For millennia, wine has been stored in oak barrels: to vary the color and concentrate the flavor, to augment the texture. More intensely flavored than French oak, American oak imparts sweeter notes of vanilla and caramel alongside smoke and spice. … Read More
In the summer of 2013, this sleek and stylish seafood establishment located in the heart of Georgian Dublin hosted all three females of the First Family of the United States. Named for its sibling restaurant, a well-loved gastro pub in … Read More
As a young boy in art class, Nabil Hayari was told by his teacher to draw whatever he wanted. As Hayari explains, “My friend drew trucks – and I drew gowns,” a harbinger of his career as a French couturier. Hayari’s grandmother … Read More
