Europe

St Martins Lane, London

Located in Covent Garden, St Martins Lane is a dramatic and daring reinvention of the fantasy hotel. Smart, witty and sophisticated, Philippe Starck’s design is a brilliant collision of influences – from the modern to the baroque – that suffuses the hotel with energy, vitality and magic. Entered through improbably tall, luminescent yellow-glass …

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Changa, Istanbul

Changa is an internationally acclaimed restaurant in Istanbul. Opened in 1999, Changa is a renovation and transformation project of an 1903 Art Nouveau building into a contemporary restaurant with four floors of dining and bar designed by Gokhan Avcioglu. The new restaurant, which has received much critical acclaim for its design and food, retains …

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Sanderson, London, UK

Located in the heart of London ‘West End,  Sanderson offers a dream, a world of fantasy. The landmarked 50s building has been transformed by Philippe Starck into a surreal Cocteau-like dream world,  that is smart, pared down, and tempered with a healthy dose of wit and irony. With the absence of “normal” walls …

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MAK, Vienna

Founded in 1864 as the Imperial and Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, the MAK has pursued a continued commitment to combining practice and theory, art and industry, production and reproduction. The School of Applied Arts, originally an outgrowth of the Museum, was later developed into an independent institution, …

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Roka, London

Roka is the younger sibling of Zuma, the Japanese restaurant.  The menu consist of  modern Japanese and mainly robota grill, which forms the centerpiece of the beautifully decorated dining room. The dishes include sushi ans sashimi platters beautifully presented over crushed ice with freshly grated wasabi,  lobster & black cod dumplings, while the robata …

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