HOTELS WORTH UNDERSTANDING

Where you stay
changes the trip.

16PLACES.
DISTINCT PERSPECTIVES.

CAPE TOWN / SOUTH AFRICA

THE ADAPTIVE REUSE FILE

A grain silo.
A museum.
A hotel upstairs.

Inside The Silo ↗

02 / AMANGIRI ↗

IN THIS EDITION

Start with
the setting.

An atoll villa and an urban resort solve different problems. We look at what each hotel actually is — and what makes the address distinctive.

Open the complete index ↗

PICK A STARTING POINT01I want the landscape.Desert, coast & river ↗02I came for the building.Architecture & reuse ↗03I want a city address.Neighbourhood & context ↗

Four addresses.
Four different worlds.

All 16 hotel files ↗

Tetiaroa / French Polynesia

The Brando

A village of private villas on a Pacific atoll.

Island villas35 villas + residence

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Bangkok / Thailand

Capella Bangkok

A low-rise address that turns toward the working river.

Riverside hotelRooms, suites & villas

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Nairobi / Kenya

Giraffe Manor

A Nairobi manor whose surroundings are part of daily life.

Manor houseIndividually named rooms

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Ravello / Italy

Caruso, A Belmond Hotel

A palace above the Amalfi Coast, not on its beach.

Historic palaceRooms & suites

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EDITOR’S NOTE / 001

“Luxury” is a broad label. A private villa, a converted industrial building and a grand hotel deserve more specific descriptions.

What goes into a hotel file ↗

Where you staychanges the trip.

A grain silo.A museum.A hotel upstairs.

Start withthe setting.

Four addresses.Four different worlds.