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Places // Landmarks

The Quoin Hotel: A Renaissance in Delaware

Karine Monié November 3, 2022
In the heart of Wilmington—Delaware’s largest city—The Quoin Hotel is a one-of-a-kind hotel that takes visitors on a journey through time while remaining firmly rooted in the present.

Urban Oasis at 1 Hotel San Francisco

Karine Monié October 19, 2022
Originally launched in 2015, 1 Hotels comprises properties in Miami, New York, Los Angeles, China and Toronto. Last June, San Francisco joined the list. More than just a new series of stylish hotels, 1 Hotels is a nature-inspired lifestyle brand that takes sustainability seriously.

Still Bend: Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin

Jenn Thornton September 21, 2022
The architect’s 1938 “Dream House” design for Life Magazine, this now-rentable construction is a striking example of Frank Lloyd Wright’s democratic Usonian vision—if not its ideal.

A Mexico Immersion: Paradero Todo Santos

Jenn Thornton June 29, 2022
Located on the historic, 5-acre La Mesa farming fields, flanked by cacti forests and backdropped by the Sierra Laguna Mountains, Paradero Todos Santos is an 80 percent landscape project, with a vast, 100,000-square-foot botanical garden by Mexico-based practice POLEN at its heart.

Heart of Terranea

Constance Dunn June 15, 2022
Rolling green fields, sea-sculpted bluffs and the white-tipped waves of the Pacific Ocean—the sight that greets you when turning off Palos Verdes Drive is always as invigorating as it was the first time you arrived.

California Renaissance: Downtown LA Proper Hotel

Karine Monié March 9, 2022
Characterized by their residential feel and filled with natural light, the 148 rooms and suites of Downtown LA Proper Hotel feature vintage and custom-made pieces of furniture and hand-applied plaster detailing in an atmosphere where a warm palette of charcoals and mauves prevails.

Sea Ranch Lodge: An Honest Renaissance

Karine Monié December 8, 2021
Spread across 10 miles of the Northern California coastline and located 100 miles north of San Francisco, The Sea Ranch comprises 2,224 private homes built on 7,000 acres surrounded by the typical vegetation and landscape of the area: cypress hedgerows, meadows, rolling hills, redwood, and Douglas fir forests, with, of course, sublime ocean views.

Tara Bernerd Discusses Designing Thompson Hollywood

Karine Monié October 28, 2021
Located on Wilcox Avenue north of Sunset Boulevard, Thompson Hollywood—which was five years in the making—is a first, at least in two regards: This is the first California property of the Thompson Hotels brand and the first California project designed by British studio Tara Bernerd & Partners.

Raffles Hotel: A World-Class Restoration

Jenn Thornton October 22, 2021
With the world increasingly reopening its doors, one property is making a grander entrance than most—Raffles Singapore. As it would, naturally, given the 19th-century heritage hotel’s rich history, its luminary-filled guest list, its verdant views, and its mannered, immersive ways.

Mar Monte Hotel: Beleco Reviving a Santa Barbara Icon

Karine Monié September 29, 2021
Los Angeles-based interior design firm Beleco recently revealed the result of an ambitious task consisting of remodeling a Spanish revival beachfront hotel, which opened its doors along the coast in 1931.