Design Hotel Find: The Hoxton Amsterdam
Like most people besotted with this charming city, one of my favourite features of Amsterdam is it’s crooked canal houses. Their mis-matched frames, those unnervingly narrow doorways, and the way they lean over, almost as if to peer down and say ”˜hello’, as you cycle by. So, when an animated buzz outside the archetypal canal […]
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Boutique Hotel Find: Sir Albert Amsterdam
The name Sir Albert suggests that it’s not a conventional hotel. There’s something personal attached to its formal signature that implies you’ll be treated as an intimate guest rather than a passing tourist. The rooms are situated in a sort of silenced enclave away from the bustling bar scene below and feature large windows and […]
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Flower Market Find: Bloemenmarkt of Utrecht
It’s sacrilege to go to a Dutch city and miss out on treating your eyes to a flower market. Each Saturday in the quaint city of Utrecht between 8am and 5pm, Janskerkhof Plaza transforms into a vibrant, colorful market filled with rows of flowers, potted plants, small trees and a variety of seedlings. The perfect […]
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Design Hotel Find: Hotel The Exchange Amsterdam
This article by Jenny Nguyen first appeared in ForbesLife Hotel The Exchange Amsterdam is an eccentric hotel concept that brings sartorial style to the hotel business in a way that only the idiosyncratic Dutch can do ”“ rather unexpectedly and with a good dose of irony. Each of the 61 rooms at Hotel The Exchange […]
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Maastricht Fashion Find: Ellen:truijen Flagship
When in Maastricht, the cultural town on the southern tip of The Netherlands, minimalist design enthusiasts should pay a visit to Dutch designer Ellen:truijen’s first flagship boutique where she also resides and works. The store’s restrained; even muted interior speaks to the brand’s design philosophy of timelessness, sobriety and simplicity and so too do the […]
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Amsterdam Bar Find: Wynand Fockink
If only the walls of Wynand Fockink, Amsterdam’s oldest jenever tasting room and distillery (dating back to 1679!) could talk. They would have over three centuries worth of drinking stories from the likes of Churchill, Chagall and history’s most remarkable. After you make your way down the narrow side-alley to Wynand Fockink’s snug bar room, […]
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Amsterdam Fashion Find: Tenue De Nimes
Tenue de Nimes is known by denim-world insiders as one of the best denim lifestyle stores in the world. You won’t be surprised either when you head into their newest flagship store on bustling Haarlemmerstraat and see their impressive collection of denim, men’s & ladies clothing, magazines, accessories and general things to covet. The denim […]
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Amsterdam Shopping Find: Property Of…
1 / 1 ( 1 vote ) You know that urban guy, the one whose style could be described as refined ruggedness? He’s picky and conscious of style and he likes the finer things in life like top shelf liquors and a handcrafted shaving kit. Well he’s probably the same kind of guy who’ll like […]
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Design Hotel Find: Hotel Droog Amsterdam
Droog Design, the iconic Dutch design force best known for its unique brand of dry, ironic design has created an almost unimaginable design and hospitality emporium. Hotel Droog as they call it is in fact a hotel offering one hotel room, but what makes its so interesting is its reverse design hotel concept where everything […]
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Interior Design Find: Frozen Fountain Amsterdam
Frozen Fountain is the place where design-lovers unite in Amsterdam. This must-see interiors store has made a name for itself in the city for offering design purists an inspiring and eclectic collection of furniture, fabrics, home wares and art from Dutch design heroes like Piet Hein Eek, Marcel Wanders and Studio Job while still keeping […]
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