Asian fine dining, luxury hospitality, and the restaurants reshaping how the world understands taste.
A considered map of the fairs, festivals, rituals, and cultural weeks worth organizing a journey around.
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Tokushima, Japan
Kerry Hill’s forest pavilion resort under Hidari Daimonji is the retreat half of a Kyoto week: Living Pavilion mornings, hinoki baths, and a taxi back to temple crowds only when you choose.
Prestige skincare is taking the money that used to buy entry-level leather: top of a category you can afford, not the bottom of one you cannot.
On Lok Ku Road, Vicky Lau’s new Tate spends most of its square metres on kitchen, cellar, and ceramics so twenty seats can carry the odes.
Luxury towers now sell restaurants, wellness floors, guest suites, and concierge programming as a private world. The useful question is which amenities improve Tuesday, and which mainly sell the brochure.
After Art Basel’s Chubb Life lounge, Wit Pimkanchanapong’s fourth Infinite Maze is a free walk-in at PROJCT on Queen’s Road West.