Europe

St Martins Lane, London

Located in Covent Garden, St Martins Lane is a dramatic and daring reinvention of the fantasy hotel. Smart, witty and sophisticated, Philippe Starck’s design is a brilliant collision of influences – from the modern to the baroque – that suffuses the hotel with energy, vitality and magic. Entered through improbably tall, luminescent yellow-glass …

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Changa, Istanbul

Changa is an internationally acclaimed restaurant in Istanbul. Opened in 1999, Changa is a renovation and transformation project of an 1903 Art Nouveau building into a contemporary restaurant with four floors of dining and bar designed by Gokhan Avcioglu. The new restaurant, which has received much critical acclaim for its design and food, retains …

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Sanderson, London, UK

Located in the heart of London ‘West End,  Sanderson offers a dream, a world of fantasy. The landmarked 50s building has been transformed by Philippe Starck into a surreal Cocteau-like dream world,  that is smart, pared down, and tempered with a healthy dose of wit and irony. With the absence of “normal” walls …

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MAK, Vienna

Founded in 1864 as the Imperial and Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, the MAK has pursued a continued commitment to combining practice and theory, art and industry, production and reproduction. The School of Applied Arts, originally an outgrowth of the Museum, was later developed into an independent institution, …

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Baccarat Boutique, Paris

Baccarat boutique is  situated at 11, place des Etats-Unis in Paris. The former muse of this unique private mansion, Marie-Laure de Noailles (1902-1971) gave magical parties there and metamorphosed this magnificent place of pomp and tradition into a home dedicated to painters, writers and musicians. Time and again she would …

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Bulgari, Milan

The first Bulgari hotel opened in 2004 and since then become the star of the Milan furniture fair and fashion weeks. Being in the center of Milan, in beautiful Brera district  you can see everybody, who is somebody either for lunch in the garden or at its lavish bar during evening. The …

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Roka, London

Roka is the younger sibling of Zuma, the Japanese restaurant.  The menu consist of  modern Japanese and mainly robota grill, which forms the centerpiece of the beautifully decorated dining room. The dishes include sushi ans sashimi platters beautifully presented over crushed ice with freshly grated wasabi,  lobster & black cod dumplings, while the robata …

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