Category — Travel

After a few disputes with various bureaucrats, the Whitepod Camp has finally found a home in Les Giettes, Switzerland!

The resort provides an alternative means to explore the Swiss Alps. With the use of the pods (dome shaped tents), pitched on wooden platforms, Whitepod offers low impact accommodation in an untouched and pristine alpine environment. Isolated from all urban pollution, the mountain region lends itself beautifully to such an eco-tourism development.

Member of « The Luxury Camps & Lodges of the World » and rewarded with the World Prize for Sustainable Tourism in 2005, the Whitepod Resort aims to be a model for sustainable tourism by using a number of measures to limit its impact on nature…

Definitely not your regular camping experience!
Check out their website or follow them on facebook

Isn’t it nice to find a blog that really has a purpose every now and then: Jumping in Art Museums

That the Wallpaper* City Guides are now available for the iPhone might just be another reason for all travel rats not to switch to Nexus One…

Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider’s checklist of all you need to know about the world’s most intoxicating cities.

Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or a vacation, we’ve done the hard work for you, from finding the best restaurants, bars and hotels (including which rooms to request) to the most extraordinary stores and sites, and the most enticing architecture and design. Wallpaper* City Guides enable you to come away from your trip, however brief, with a real taste of the city’s landscape and the satisfaction you’ve seen all that you should.

In short, these guides act as a passport to the best the world has to offer.

Wallpaper* City Guides are compiled by the magazine’s travel experts, both by in-house editors, and correspondents who actually live in the highlighted cities, providing up-to-the-minute information.

Download ten of the best selling Wallpaper* City Guides available now on the iPhone App Store.

via Phaidon

Dunton Hot Springs is a small and exclusive resort nestled deep in the San Juan Mountains of the Colorado Rockies.

This perfectly restored ghost town thrives on contradictions; hand-hewn log cabins exquisitely furnished, a life-worn saloon serving food of startling quality, lung torturing trails followed by pampering massages, sensuous hot springs beneath shimmering snow banks. Free of cell phones, this romantic old mining town still provides high speed wireless internet access and video conferencing to the comforting sound of a tumbling waterfall.

OK… OK… you can also just rent one of the cabins… but how cool would it be to rent the entire town for you and your entourage?

If you’re in the Basel area and need to replenish your culture stock after the holidays…

1. Check out the Campana exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum.
2. Check out Jenny Holzer at the Fondation Beyeler.

And live happily ever after…

This is what happens when you send a Belgian to Bordeaux and commission him to pimp your Suite!
Martin Margiela designed the Suite Ile aux Oiseaux at the Les Sources de Caudalie near Bordeaux. So next time you’re in the region to stack up on some red… don’t ask where to stay!

via T Magazine

Next time in Paris… you’ll be street smart and know who’s the behind that very talented street art… C’est Monsieur Qui!

These caribbean curves deserve a wow… and/or a skateboard…

Architect Joaquin Torres of Spanish architecture firm A-cero created this idyllic Caribbean house design in the Dominican Republic as a year-round holiday hotspot where sun, sand and surf beckon. This 7,000m2, single-storey beachfront bungalow consists of two curvilinear volumes; a pair of sand-colored structures stretching upwards into the sunny sky. Arching walls of this curved roof house create architectural interest from the outside, while inside all focus in on the views. Outdoor living rooms offer endless views of the beach, where the sea breeze can be enjoyed under the shelter of the rolling rooflines. Floor-to-ceiling windows bring the outdoors in, but getting in isn’t as easy as you might think, with the front entrance hidden behind a series of sculptural walls, offering privacy to this peaceful Caribbean vacation house.

via trendir

A must visit when in NYC is Haus Interiors! Find them at 250 Elizabeth Street… or at least visit online. They are doing a wonderful job there!

Surrounded by vineyards… but much more to offer than a convenient location for wine lovers… lays Les Sources de Cadaulie… and shouts loudly: Weekend Escape!