Apartment Therapy: travel

Subdued Color at Beijing's Opposite House

With a name like Opposite House, you might expect this Beijing hotel to have a lot of high-contrast color, but the decor is much more subtle and minimal than you'd think. In fact, its design offers ...

Blue and White Decor
Homeric Poems Hotel in Santorini

Some places have their own, instantly identifiable color combinations, like the deep blue and sun-bleached white that's found on the Greek Isle of Santorini......

3 Amazing Apartments in Valencia, Spain

Valencia is known for both ancient and modern architecture, so it makes sense that homes there would run the gamut from classical to ultra-mod. We found three lovely examples of local apartments. Th...

Anthropolgie Screening of Man Shops Globe

Last night we attended the Chicago launch of Sundance channel's new Man Shops Globe, a documentary-style show profiling Anthropolgie's buyer-at-large/world shopper, Keith Johnson, on his sojourns ab...

Best Sites for Finding a Boutique Hotel

Luxury is a bad word right now, and the boutique hotel industry (like the rest of the lodging world) is scrambling to attract customers. The upside is that you can sometimes find good deals at desig...

Inside a Murano Glass Workshop
Murano, Italy

We recently had the chance to visit one of the many glass workshops on the small Venetian island of Murano, where we saw a maestro blowing glass. A Bob Dylan album played in the background, while a ...

Look! Our Layover in Rome

On the way to Bologna, Italy, I had an unexpected Sunday afternoon layover in Rome, just enough time to run into the city, grab a pistachio gelato, and snap some pictures......

Apartment Therapy in Italy

I'm getting ready to fly to Italy soon to visit (and blog about) Bologna's Cersaie exhibition, the Venice Biennale, and the cities themselves. In the past, Apartment Therapy has found some amazing i...

Budget Decorating Ideas from a Barcelona Apartment

This vacation rental apartment from Barcelona is simple and spare, but we love the way it combines IKEA with Panton chairs, a neutral palette, and a few pops of color......

The Story Hotel in Stockholm

Friends of mine just returned from a trip to Sweden, and this lodging spot comes on serious recommendation. The photos (our friends' and those on the hotel website) have us daydreaming of an art-fil...

Country House Style: Best of the Midwest

This Labor Day weekend, we hope you have some time off, but in case you're not able to get away, we've rounded up some peeks into beautiful country homes from the Midwestern states. To enjoy the lak...

Eye Candy from Montreal
MontrealStays.com

We've written before about our hobby of looking up international apartments, just to see the options in far-flung places like Barcelona. We recently found this site, a little closer to home, in Mont...

Look! Nature-Inspired Decor at a 1950s Lakehouse

On Sunday we headed out of the city for what was likely our last summer hoorah...a visit to a friend's lakehouse in Bass Lake, IN. Like most lake homes/cottages, this one continues to enjoy a simple...

End-of-Summer Getaway Ideas for Design Lovers

Still searching for a good way to spend your Labor Day weekend, or your last remaining vacation days, before summer ends? If you read this site, your idea of a great vacation might mean going to a f...

Moroccan Inspiration: Le Palais Rhoul

Travel Month has come and gone, but the Moroccan home decor movement is alive and well. If you like the look, take heed from the luxury tent rooms at Marrakech's Le Palais Rhoul......

Design Inspiration: Tis Pandoras Restaurant in Santorini

This is our final post covering design inspiration in Greece, so it's fitting that this gem of a spot was on our trip's last day. Above, you'll see our view walking down to a small fishing port in San...

The Most Famous Hotel Room in the World?

We recently heard about what may be one of the most famous hotel rooms in the world - at least to lovers of modernism. Located in the "first designer hotel" it is......

Roundup: Escaping to Your Local Botanic Gardens

We've visited many other cities' botanic gardens, but somehow had skipped the Chicago one altogether...until last week. My family finally made the trip north to Glencoe to tour these free gardens (pa...

Design Ideas from Around the World

As we wrap up Escapes month, we thought we'd take a short virtual trip around the globe, in search of good ideas for our own homes. Looking at homes in other countries always helps to expand your ho...

Design Inspiration: Hawksmoor House, South Africa

Spotted in a recent Travel + Leisure issue (May '09), we were first struck by the budget price (doubles starting from $95), then by the room styles, heavy on refined patterns, blues, browns, clean lin...

Cheap Escapes: Neighborhood Tours

One of the things we love about our hometown of Chicago is its neighborhoods—there are so many that you feel you've never seen the whole city, no matter how many streets you've visited. The same i...

Amish Town for a Day

One popular day trip we often hear about is a drive to a nearby Amish town. An Amish town day trip can be an escape to simpler ways, homemade foods, and open countryside. Here are just a few inspiri...

Inspiration: Loft Accommodation in Oia, Santorini

My last stop in Greece last month was on the island of Santorini. After a few days of touring the island and hiking to ancient Thera (where homes' walls, ovens, drainage systems, wall paintings, alte...

A Converted Pasta Factory in Marseille, France
Loft Life

We'd take over this home in a second. This amazing pasta factory-turned-home in Marseille, France keeps its rustic appeal with not a lot of fuss, but lots of steel, wood, and rich, natural colors. Cli...

London's Architectural Association Summer Pavilion

For those escaping to London (even virtually), the current summer pavilion outside the AA's Bedford Square home was revealed July 3. The annual student competition focused this year on designing a str...

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