Delano Miami Beach: The Art Deco Icon Reborn on Collins Avenue
The Delano Miami Beach, reimagined by Italian artist Andrea Ferolla. © Andrea Ferolla, courtesy of Delano Miami Beach
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Vigne di Fagnano: Hospitality, Design, and Lavender in the Heart of the Langhe
In Santo Stefano Belbo, in the heart of the Langhe, Vigne di Fagnano is a former noble estate that has been transformed into an intimate boutique hotel with just seven suites. Amid lavender fields, elegant design, memories of Cesare Pavese, and personalized hospitality, it embodies a vision of understated luxury deeply rooted in the local area.
Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco Returns to the Top: It’s the Best Resort in Europe
Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco was named the No. 1 resort in Europe and No. 1 in Italy at the 2026 Travel + Leisure World's Best Awards. Nestled in the heart of the Val d'Orcia, this medieval village-turned-resort blends hospitality, architecture, landscape, and local culture, reaffirming its status as one of the most iconic destinations in Italian luxury.
SHEBARA: The Vanishing Luxury
Contemporary hospitality is no longer measured solely by comfort or exclusivity. At Shebara, on the Saudi Red Sea coast, luxury takes shape through design: a balance of architecture, innovation, landscape, and environmental responsibility that redefines the guest experience.
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Field Notes from the Principality: hotels that resemble private residences, spas overlooking the Mediterranean, signature cocktail bars, and beach clubs designed by leading fashion houses. This is how Monte Carlo reinterprets contemporary luxury today.
Venice becomes home again
Orient Express Venice restores new life to Palazzo Donà Giovannelli, transforming a 15th-century Gothic mansion into a project that combines restoration, design and cultural hospitality in the heart of Cannaregio.
Fashion takes up residence
With the Thebe Magugu Suite and the new Magugu House, Cape Town's Mount Nelson interprets one of the most interesting trends in contemporary hospitality: the transformation of hotels into cultural platforms capable of telling the story of the area through design, art and creativity.
“Il Falconiere” cultivates luxury
In Cortona, the Baracchi family has transformed a historic estate into a hospitality ecosystem where wine, wellness and sustainability coexist in an authentic tale of contemporary Tuscany.
Anna Nash, the new oceanic luxury
Anna Nash, at the helm of Explora Journeys, tells MLE how the brand is redefining the codes of luxury travel, transforming ocean travel into a new and refined form of living.
Castle Badia: new alpine icon
From the top of its hill, Castel Badia has observed the valley for more than a thousand years. Today the ancient monastic complex opens to a new season, transforming history, landscape and hospitality into an experience that celebrates the rarest value of contemporary luxury: time.
Africa, the new frontier of sustainable luxury
A land of private conservancies, great migration and sustainable safaris, where the new African luxury comes from the balance between humans, wildlife and landscape.
The new grammar of Alpine luxury
Hôtel Saint-Georges interprets a new idea of mountain luxury: more emotional than spectacular, more narrative than decorative. Through the project signed by Luke Edward Hall, the mountain is transformed into a sensory experience made of light, matter, memory and rarefied atmospheres. A contemporary retreat where design, landscape and quiet coexist in perfect balance.
Luke Edward Hall “Today the real luxury is to enter a place that tells a story.”
A British artist, illustrator and interior designer, Hall has transformed the historic Alpine address into a narrative universe of color, folklore, memory and imagination. Far from the dominant minimalism, the project celebrates a more emotional, cultured and theatrical mountain, where design becomes immersive storytelling and the guest naturally enters the scene.
EXPLORA III and future fleet ships: design, gastronomy and wellness redefine hospitality at sea
Not a cruise, but a new idea of inhabiting travel. With Explora Journeys, the horizon enters the architecture and the sea becomes an integral part of the hospitality experience.
