Maria Shollenbarger

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May 9, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Truly memorable hotels are somehow greater than the sum of their parts. In some ineffable alchemy of design, service, landscape, amenities and often a personality or two (an owner, manager or cult bartender), the greats are great because they are more than mere locations.

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Apr 25, 2025 – 4.45am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Hotel awards. Let’s talk about them; I have thoughts. Specifically, let’s talk about two recent entrants to this lucrative fray: The World’s 50 Best Hotels, which launched in 2023, followed last year by the Michelin Guide, with its Keys.

3 weeks ago | ft.com | Maria Shollenbarger

La vita all’Aquazzura at Rome’s Hotel de RussieIs there a sexier name in stilettos than Aquazzura?

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Art, history and Andalusian style New to the Seville scene, just in time for Andalusia’s semana santa festivals, is Casa del Limonero, a...

1 month ago | ft.com | Maria Shollenbarger

As I sit in a vintage Mies van der Rohe chair in Emiliano Salci’s flat in Milan, looking around at the fruits of a two-year renovation,...