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This eighteenth-century honey-colored mansion on a hillside is great surrounded by the lavender and cypress trees of its seven-acre garden. It’s nearby to the Cours Mirabeau. The Cours Mirabeau is a wide thoroughfare, planted with double rows of plane-trees, bordered by fine houses and decorated by fountains. It follows the line of the old city wall and divides the town into two sections. The new town extends to the south and west; the old town, with its wide but irregular streets and its old mansions…Continue Reading “Hotel Villa Gallici / Aix-en-Provence / France” →

House & Hotel Magazine loves the Golden Flower Hotel which is a beautiful location with a lot of hospitality, a feeling like coming home. Start with the history lesson. People’s Republic of China has a population of over 1.5 billion. Covering 10 million square kilometres, the East Asian state is the world’s second-largest country by land area and the third largest in total area, China’s landscape is vast and you feel always a bit lost. So, the Golden Flower is a five star hotel offering…Continue Reading “Hotel Golden Flower / Xian / China” →

House & Hotel Magazine features the Met, we spend some lovely days in the north of Greece. As always it was great to be on the mainland, besides the perfect greek islands. We spend the night in a great 5 star design hotel – The Met. It was hot and just fabolous, our room was spacious, the air con worked well, it was 30 degrees. We loved it to be in the MET and felt just good. There was a nice swimming pool on the…Continue Reading “The Met Hotel / Thessaloniki / Greece” →

NY City by Jens Hoffmann. House & Hotel Magazine met the Kemps in NY, they are already the darlings of the hotel world and have crossed the pond: the Crosby Street Hotel marks the first American venture of their celebrated Firmdale hotel group. The impressive 11-story construction was built from scratch on the site of a former parking lot in downtown New York, right in the heart of SoHo, famed epicentre of Manhattan chic. The interior look is classic Kit Kemp – elegant and quirky…Continue Reading “Big Apple – Hotel Crospy Street / New York / USA” →

House & Hotel Magazine features Switzerland an the great The Dolder Grand in Zurich. It is the perfect location for people who are looking for exclusivity and relaxation: 173 luxurious rooms and suites, exquisite cuisine and a perfect spa. The original “Curhaus” dating from 1899 presents itself anew as the luxury-class City Resort. The hotel’s elevated location, between the pulsating life of the city and a refreshingly natural green zone, provides a magnificent view of the city of Zurich, the lake and the Alps. The…Continue Reading “Swiss de luxe – Hotel Dolder Grand / Zurich / Switzerland” →

St. Petersburg by F. Jobard. It was cold in Russia. -30 degrees, but at least fun. We checked in at the Hotel Softel So romanced by St Petersburg’s elegant traditions, lets say luxury meets cutting edge cool in Russia’s historical capital of glamour, fashion, and music Conceptualized by award-winning architects and designers, Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel and Partners. Saint Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May 27 1703. From 1713 to 1728 and from 1732 to 1918, Saint Petersburg was the Imperial…Continue Reading “Venice of the North – St. Petersburg” →