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A travel mook about people, art and culture
A travel mook about people, art and culture
ART & CULTURE
We want to use the magazine as a prism to discuss the experience of hospitality and reference it in a wider context of our shared contemporary culture.
Our debut issue includes:
• A review of Paul Cézanne’s Marseille holiday home, which is now a 3-room hôtel. We explore how the paintings that he made there led directly to the birth of Cubism, changing the way we see the world through art.
• A feature on Albert Scopin, who lived at the world’s most famous hotel in the 1970s: The Hotel Chelsea. Through his documentary photography, he tells the story of life in the bohemian epicentre of America’s counterculture alongside Candy Darling, Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith.
• We uncover an archived stash of David Bowie’s hotel room keys and have a conversation with the creators of Martin Parr’s pop-up hotel in Nuremburg.
FOOD & DRINK
Food culture is a huge part of hospitality and we feature interviews, reviews and stories including:
• A Czech chef researching and adapting 16th century Bohemian dishes in a hotel built on top of a monastery.
• The restaurateur/chef who made us the best pizza we’ve ever eaten (it was in Melbourne).
• An up-and-down cocktail experience inside the world’s smallest (and moving) bar.
• A deep dive into Montréal’s dining culture from Leonard Cohen’s bagels to birdbath martinis.
• A discussion at London’s Peninsula noodle bar with the chef about the balance between local taste sensibilities and keeping dishes true to their origin.
PEOPLE
We have met many amazing people while making our first two issues, including:
• A host of first-time hoteliers in Sweden, France, Thailand and Canada, through whom we discovered our editorial motto: “the smaller the hotel, the bigger the story”.
• The resident gardener at Crafted in Sussex, growing the ingredients for their garden-to-table dinner parties.
• The owner and designers of Irada, a new vineyard retreat in India.
• The drag artist serving up Toronto’s loudest hotel brunch at The Drake.
• The housekeeping Aunties of Bangkok.
Where Do You Stay When You’re Not At Home?
As this is a travel mook from an art book publisher, you can expect to find the best art and culture content: from artists-in-residence, art history stories and photo portfolios to our own commissioned roster of photographers and illustrators.
Each issue features stories, reviews and people from six continents.
Our stories are about the cultural life and experiences of being a good tourist, a good guest as well as a good host.
Our reviews are less about facilities, less about the rooms and more about the service, culture and the people we meet including owners, General Managers, chefs and bartenders, housekeeping, artists, designers and also fellow guests.
We don’t just cover hotels; we’ll also feature homestays and guesthouses, hostels and country pubs, RVs and trains.
We are not interested in solely covering luxury or boutique places because we believe in finding excellence at every price point, so our first issue features amazing places to stay from £60 to over £600 a night. We loved staying in a student hostel in Edinburgh as well as a five-storey villa in Shanghai: every place has a story to tell.
Acknowledging that the star rating of hotels is a very limited and superficial metric, we know the real stars are the people you meet who help you feel at home when you aren’t.