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10 Restaurants With Arts and Smarts

Tired of eating in the chains? Checking Yelp? Chasing down the Michelins? Here are ten restaurants and cafés in some of the most interesting, creative and unexpected spaces and places from New York to London, D.C. to Miami. Venues range from high-end cafeteria to two Michelin star affairs, all drawing inspiration from their unique settings. Get ready to feed your […]

A Night at The Wellesley London

“Anticipate every need. Exceed every expectation.” In a major metropolitan center like London, connections to others make an enormous difference in the quality of any stay. At an intimate 36 rooms and suites, The Wellesley welcomes and – just as importantly – welcomes back clients by name and personal preferences. Attentive staff are the difference between great and outstanding service, […]

The Most Amazing London House Tours

Futuristic. Modern. Classic. Palatial. Cosy. Thanks to London’s expansive history and appreciation of the importance of preservation, there are myriad opportunities to explore a wide variety of private and public homes. Goodbye Pinterest, hello five wildly inspirational London house tours.

The 10 Best Plays of London’s Theatre Season

The launch of London’s theatre season for 2016/2017 is a portal into the universe of star-studded entertainment, Shakespeare and the collective history of English theatre, and thought-provoking productions of exquisite beauty. It marks the beginning of London’s winter social season, a time for dressing up, eating in and going out. Here is a curated selection of London’s […]

The Surprising Legacy of New York’s Studio 54

For a place open just 33 months and closed for half a lifetime, New York’s Studio 54 should be nothing more than a footnote in popular culture. But the memory of the nightclub remains fluid, the gold standard by which the success of any other is measured. It was wild. It was sexy. And it was packed with 2,000 of the world’s […]

Museums of Sex and Erotica

There are so many nooks, crannies and mysteries that lie unexplored in the streets of the neighborhoods we pass through as travellers and locals. They can be tucked away or in plain sight and somehow we don’t see them until we have cause to go looking or otherwise stumble across their path. While under the auspices of sex […]

Tying One On: Corsetry

The corset is probably the most controversial garment in the entire history of fashion, according to Valerie Steele, author of The Corset: A Cultural History. It has been promoted by popular culture as a coercive instrument of women’s oppression that crushed ribs and internal organs, caused diseases, and reduced them to ridiculous slaves of fashion with their attempts at the […]

The Craft, Luxury and Obsession of a $50,000 Coat

From the book: The Coat Route – Craft, Luxury & Obsession on the Trail of a $50,000 Coat by Meg Lukens Noonan Why would someone pay that kind of money for a cloth coat that bore no luxury designer label?… Where was the fun in owning something that was so under the radar that no […]

The Luxury of Book-Buying Gift Services

It may be an obvious statement that books – particularly those that are unique or rare – make excellent gifts. However, shopping for just the right ones can be both time-intensive and challenging. These three purveyors of new, old and antiquarian books offer exceptional personal service to create a buying experience that is enjoyable, enlightening and a fit […]

Lit Crawl 2016 – The World’s Largest Literary Pub Crawl

Books. Food. Drinks. You can rearrange those three words in whatever priority is most important to you, but the outcome is the same: the holy triumvirate of an interesting social experience known as Lit Crawl. It was the brainchild of San Francisco’s Litquake Literary Festival in 2004 and additional venues have launched in Manhattan, Austin, […]

London by the Book

If you are a book lover, you will require no incentive to lose yourself inside the world of new and used bookstores wherever you travel. For the merely curious, however, London’s bookshops and extraordinary libraries can offer a respite from the often grey and rainy weather and an opportunity to broaden one’s understanding of the city. Each shop is […]

Ten Magellan Hotels and the Luxury House Cars We Love

Yes, you could walk. Yes, you could take a taxi. But if you’re staying at one of our luxury hotels it’s an oversight not to take advantage of their fine chauffeured cars and SUVs. They are usually available on a first-come, first-served basis so consult with your concierge to arrange transportation that dovetails with your […]

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