Villa Vidi Vici
Shana Ting Lipton reports from the sun-drenched terrace of a new online platform offering select luxury villas…
Author Shana Ting Lipton
A Privy Arno-Side Perch
The Villa La Massa hotel in Candeli sits on a bucolic Tuscan property which oozes…
Taking Time in Lausanne
As night falls, an anachronistic beacon looms over the city from a perch at Notre-Dame…
The Porch House
Shana Ting Lipton cosies into the quintessential village’s latest boutique B&B, in a new turn for what may be England’s oldest inn…
St Pancras Renaissance Hotel
“Railway termini and hotels are to the 19th century what monasteries and cathedrals were to the 13th century.” Shana Ting Lipton takes a saintly tour of one of the most iconic buildings of the Victorian age…
Gallivanting in Rye
“What could bring such A-listers from the likes of manicured Malibu beaches to East Sussex’s humble Camber Sands?” The demur Shana Ting Lipton discovers the boorish side of the Sussex coast…
Shades of Alentejo
Shana Ting Lipton discovers converted convents and cork hotels in Portugal’s little-known Alentejo region…
Dutch Stijl: Design Trekking Through Holland’s Cultural Aesthetics
“Dutch style has influenced consumers the world-over via products by Droog and Philips, architecture by Rem Koolhaas, and the work of branding agencies like Strawberry Frog, to name a few.”
Bailiffscourt Hotel, West Sussex
“Stay away from the mushrooms with gills or skirts on their stems.” Such words to the wise sound like they belong in the ominous section of a fairytale, just before the wolf or Mad Hatter makes his appearance…
The Cape Town Muse
Cape Town is having its moment. And as locals and international design aficionados collectively hold their breath and count down to 2014, this soon-to-be World Design Capital is emitting megawatts of creative energy…
Brecon Beacons: Salt of the Earth
An approachable gourmand sensibility is undoubtedly what’s prompting travelling foodies to make the culinary pilgrimage to the beatific Brecon Beacons and its surrounding counties…
The Bloomsbury Art Fair
A dejected-looking burnt orange-hued figure subtly lords over a courtyard at Goodenough College, the location…