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Alessandro Catenacci

The driving force behind many of Stockholm’s top hotels, restaurants, and nightclubs isn’t Swedish at all. It’s Italian-born Alessandro Catenacci.

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The Secret to Gardens by Kit Kemp

Wherever we have outdoor spaces in our projects we make them into a celebration. A room with a view can be relaxing for the eye; a room with French windows flung wide open into a garden is perfection.

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Circe Sher & Paolo Petrone

The name of Circe Sher and Paolo Petrone’s Piazza Hospitality group sums up what the pair dreams to create: a piazza-like hub of inclusivity, community, and culture in Healdsburg, California.

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Saulius Mikštas

A native son and ongoing champion of Vilnius, this visionary architect layers his work with the Lithuanian capital’s rich, colorful history.

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Mirkku Kullberg

How a creative visionary is challenging the way a hotel is made.

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From a disused winery, a head-turning hotel

Opening this May, Dexamenes Seaside Hotel offers an architectural slice of Greek trading history on the mainland’s western Peloponnese coast.

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Georg Rosentreter

One man is helping transform an off-the-beaten-track town in Lower Saxony from an intellectual hotspot to a design-lover’s dream.

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Toru Iwasa

From the flurry of Tokyo to the peaceful respite of rural Japan, Toru Iwasa’s journey has been a step-by-step commitment to the goodness of an organic lifestyle.

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7 Questions for Dutch Beat-Maker Shinedoe

Chinedum Nwosu, a.k.a. Shinedoe, began her DJ career when she was still a teenager, with her Inmotion parties (now called Intacto Nights) becoming a hot fixture of Amsterdam’s clubbing calendar around the turn of the millennium.

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Nicolas Gontard

A fiercely independent spirit brought him great success in the business world, but a giving nature and a desire to leave the world a better place has brought him true joy.

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How Marrakesh Got Its Own TED Conference

The seventh TEDxMarrakesh, an extension of the popular TED Talk series, will kick off on March 2 under the theme, “We are the World—Identifying Identity.

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Moonassi Takes Us Behind the Illustrations

To correspond with the publication of Directions 2019, we recently spoke to Daehyun Kim, a.k.a. Moonassi, a South Korean visual artist pictured at work in his studio in this silent short film, about the beautiful dreamlike ink drawings he created for The Science of Sleep.

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The Science of Sleep: An Unscientific Study

When I could not sleep as a child, I would press my head into the pillow, count sheep, and, if that failed, crawl into my parents’ bed. As a grown man, the solutions for insomnia are not so simple, and recently I have started sleeping in an electronic headband that uses “bone conduction speakers” to play sounds through my forehead and directly into my inner eardrum.

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Vittorio Curatella

Though he had more experience building hotels than running them, this small-town Italian brings big-city expertise and sophistication to his singular hospitality projects.