HOTELS

Perchance to dream

Mondo Baltimore

"He points us to the shops along this stretch, places like Parisian Flea, crammed with essentials from antique jewellery and caps saying 'What the fuck are you looking at?'"

Hey see Fantaisie | Martin Brudnizki’s jardin-in-Paris hotel

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"This is peak Brudnizki: Pale pink velour barstools, and red roses on green and pink stripes on the walls and ceilings"

The grandest dame | Why I love the time warp of The Peninsula Hong Kong and probably always will

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"The most special thing about the hotel in Hong Kong is, for me anyway, the time warp of Felix, the restaurant that Philippe Starck designed in 1994"

In full Bloomsday

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"Approaching Dublin with Ulysses in mind, if not in hand, is like wearing a set of bifocals that fractures the city into complementary parallels: so much has changed a century later, and so much seems unchanged"