Thoughtful design makes travel better, shaping everything from fashion and luggage to hotel rooms and city skylines. Now we want to know what inspires you.
The 2013 Design Awards winners, representing 12 categories, will be chosen by a panel of outstanding experts in their fields. Jury members include architect Deborah Berke; chef and restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson; designer Reed Krakoff; Deyan Sudjic, director of London’s Design Museum; Stephen Burks, design director for Readymade Projects; interior designer Alexandra Champalimaud; and author and style maven Amy Fine Collins.
If you’re excited about something that we should consider for the 2013 awards, please drop us an email at designawards@aexp.com or fill out an application here. The deadline for nominations is Monday, October 1.
The winning entries will be published in our March 2013 issue.
Rooftop herb gardens are so last year: now hotels are keeping their own chickens. The henhouse at Quebec City’s Fairmont Le Château Frontenac has a copper roof to match the property’s. Atop New York’s Crosby Street Hotel, four Araucana chickens lay blue-shelled eggs. And the rare birds that André Balazs raises upstate appear at the restaurant at his Standard New York. Very plucky, indeed.
Food and wine festivals are becoming a ubiquitous fixture in every self-respecting dining destination, but until recently, the City of Angels had little to call its own.
Enter the first-annual Los Angeles Food & Wine (LAFW), presented by American Express Publishing (T+L's parent company): a four-day (October 13-16) festival that features more than 50 culinary events across four neighborhoods. From a California clambake in Santa Monica with chef Tom Colicchio, to a red carpet VIP event and pork and pinot noir party hosted by chef Todd English, to a musical performance by Train, the festival promises to levy L.A.’s megawatt star power while showcasing its considerable dining chops. We got the scoop from LAFW’s co-founder, David Bernahl.
Q:How did the LAFW come about? A: There are all these rock star younger chefs that are really leading the culinary world right now, and we knew from experience that this is the best way to get people interested in food and wine. We set out two years ago to start creating something that was deserving of the city.
Design impacts travel in ways small and large—shaping everything from fashion and luggage to hotel rooms and city skylines. Now we want to know what inspires you.
Travel + Leisure’s 2012 Design Awards are a tribute to both the practical and the
beautiful. The 2012 winners, representing 12 categories, will be chosen by a panel of outstanding experts in their fields. Jury members include: architect Billie Tsien; chef and restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson; fashion designer Derek Lam; Paul Priestman, director of Priestmangoode; Robert Hammond, co-founder and executive director of Friends of the High Line; Michael Bruno, founder of 1stdibs.com; designer Muriel Brandolini; and artist Michele Oka Doner.
Last year’s winners (see video, above) included the futuristic Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi (Best Large Hotel); the renovation of the United Kingdom’s oldest public museum, the Ashmolean, in Oxford (Best Museum); and
Priestmangoode’s innovative staterooms, designed for Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Epicship (Best Transportation).
If you’re excited about something that we should consider for the 2012 awards, please drop us an email at designawards@aexp.com or fill out an application here. The deadline for nominations is Monday, October 3.
The winning entries will be published in our March 2012 issue.
Last month saw the opening of Rogue 24, a new restaurant by James Beard Award-winning chef RJ Cooper, in Washington D.C. Chef Cooper, previously the chef de cuisine at D.C.’s acclaimed Vidalia, was inspired to create his own restaurant concept after “going rogue” at his former post—creating a new, 24-course tasting menu for Vidalia diners.
“Too few people understand a really good sandwich,” lamented the consummate foodie, James Beard, in a quote that appears on The Big New York Sandwich Book, by Sara Reistad-Long and Jean Tang (Running Press).
The new cookbook attempts to remedy this quandary with 99 creations from some of the best chefs in the Big Apple—a city that understands a thing or two about sandwiches.
While the recipes make it a worthwhile edition to your cookbook collection, the tone and selections make it fun—no matter what you’re in the mood for.
Here are a five of our favorites. Which one are you?
Period piece fanatics (myself included) are lining up for director
Cary Joji Fukunaga’s critically acclaimed “Jane Eyre” movie, starring Mia
Wasikowska as the indomitable Jane and Michael Fassbender as her changeable Mr.
Rochester.
Though the brooding, Gothic romance will undoubtedly set
hearts aflutter (The ball gowns! The carriages! The Fassbender!), the third
member of this much-adapted love triangle will yet again take a back seat to drama
onscreen: Northern England’s rolling, wind-swept moors—an indelible inspiration
behind Charlotte Brontë’s original Jane Eyre, published
in 1847, and her sister Emily’s Wuthering
Heights. If you’re looking to get a better view of the moors than the
sweeping camera pan will give you, Wayfarers’s Brontë Trail is just the thing.
Washington D.C.’s new, one-off Yola yogurt parfait bar near Dupont Circle is a great way to start
the day. First, there’s the general feeling of well-being derived from the warm, polished wood floors, the exposed-brick walls, and the contemporary tables and chairs, made from recycled
aluminum and bamboo (Yola is a certified green restaurant, after all, powered in part by carbon offsets and locally generated wind power).
For many of us, the words, “tour bus” call to mind certain iconic images: sticky, screaming children, headache-inducing camera flashes, a colorfully dressed man on a unnecessary megaphone and, yes, even a fanny pack or two. Banish those images from memory—that was your grandmother’s tour bus.
Meet "The Ride" (above): a revolutionary, $1.3 million take on the classic tour bus, which was on display in Time Square, Manhattan this morning as a prelude to its maiden voyage in September. Suped up with 49 stadium seats, an IMAX theater-worth of audio equipment and 40 video screens, The Ride certainly has the wattage to separate itself from the competition. But it’s what’s going on off the bus that’s really grabbed our attention.
If Mad Men Sunday nights don’t roll around fast enough, perhaps it’s time to hop a plane for Southern England. August 13-15 will mark the first annual Vintage at Goodwood festival— celebration of “Creative British cool” from the 1940’s through the 1980’s at the Goodwood Estate in West Sussex, England.
Vintage will feature the best in retro music, fashion, art, design, film and food from around the U.K., translated by a select group of modern artists inspired by the last century. These artistes will disburse their wares at specially constructed centers around the grounds, including five, decade-focused music venues (The Tanqueray Torch Club, for example, features a 1940’s nightclub vibe and a stylish restaurant; by day there’ll be lessons in period dance steps followed by a tea dance—and by night, a burlesque show).
