by Raci | Places to Stay
HOSHINOYA Bali and the sublime pleasure of ‘forest bathing’ As I stretch out in my ‘gilded’ birdcage like a preening Papageno, high up in the tree canopy of a pristine forest, above a holy river, at Hoshinoya Bali resort, I bathe luxuriously in the forest, its sights,...
by Raci | Architecture
Salento Moderno – It’s a Question of Taste Salento Moderno – From ‘Horror Show’ to Mainstream Culture Salento Moderno – an inventory of the utterly unique post-war private houses of south Puglia is the subject of a new photographic book....
by Raci | Garden
Les Jardins d’Etretat And the Curious Ideology of Gardens There are places, far from cities, that have always attracted and inspired creative minds. The sleepy fishing village of Étretat on Normandy’s beautiful Alabaster Coast is certainly one of those places....
by Raci | Places to Stay
Masseria Torre Coccaro Masseria Torre Coccaro –experience an authentic sense of place in the Slow lane From the moment you pass through the miles of ancient olive groves and enter through the lime-washed arch, with a tall fortification tower accessed via a dramatic...
by Raci | Books
Turquerie a tale of turbans tents and tassels A Fantastical European Love Affair with the Turk Turquerie is the story of the migration and evolution of emotions; of how fear turned first into fascination and then into fantasy. But the truth is that fear always...
by Raci | Places to Stay
Blakes Hotel – Icon of Hotel Design Blakes Hotel – The One and Only There are many firsts when it comes to Anouska Hempel, and creating the first boutique hotel is one of them. And so it was with London’s Blakes Hotel, now a well established icon of hotel design...
by Raci | Architecture, Books
Geoffrey Bawa – Explore the Best of Sri Lankan Architecture There is only one modern architect who has indelibly stamped his mark and authority on Sri Lankan architecture, and who remains a benchmark of quality against which all succeeding architects are...
by Raci | Interview
Rupert Dixon – Time Traveller to a Whole Different World Rupert Dixon – a Grand Love Affair with the Room Rupert Dixon’s remarkable body of work appears to occupy the liminal space between our own times and both past and future times, between the...
by Raci | Architecture, Books
100 of the World’s Most Important Buildings 100 YEARS 100 BUILDINGS 100 Years 100 Buildings is the first of its kind: a global survey of the most important buildings year by year from 1916 to 2015. Among the criteria for selection – each structure must...
by Raci | Exhibition
Dead Space and Ruins A season on utopian public space and the quest for new national identities across the post-Soviet world The abandoned and decaying infrastructure of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc is the intriguing subject of a new exhibition that opens...
by Raci | Interview
Montabonel – Art Collecting and the Future of Culture Sebastien Montabonel gives us some invaluable pointers on the ins and outs of serious contemporary art collecting in the 21st century It hasn’t of course escaped our attention that art is now big...
by Raci | Features
Can Culture Save Us? The European Crisis of Confidence Can the tastes and activities of powerful tastemakers of the 17th and 18th centuries tell us anything about how we got to where we are today, with Europe in crisis and possibly at breaking point, and more...
by Raci | Books, Spotlight
Guillermo Srodek-Hart’s Stories on a Road Less Travelled ‘Stories’ is the result of ten years of off grid roaming by Guillermo Srodek-Hart in the remote backwaters of Argentina. This collection of photographs is an intriguing and evocative record of...
by Raci | Exhibition
Ai Weiwei The Medium of Politics Long before we get to art criticism, we have to acknowledge that Ai Weiwei is without doubt the most prominent face of opposition to one of the most powerful governments of the world today. This towering personality and instantly...
by Raci | Places to Stay
Four Seasons Bali at Sayan – A Rare Descent into Paradise Four Seasons Bali at Sayan may be 20 years old now, but it still has the power to knock your socks off. And this is in the face of stiff competition as the density of five star resorts on Bali exceeds...
