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Spend your next summer break a flip-flop shuffle from the sand and sea

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The most stirring settings around the world for ‘putting a ring on it’ in style

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Will a warm welcome at this architecturally arresting address tempt journalist Cassia Geller to embed herself in the Catalan capital for good?

Casa Sagnier: a Modernist marvel
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With Frieze set to land in the City of Angels we sought some tried and tested design-shop recommendations from our in-the-know friends

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Add a certain je ne sais quoi to the school holidays at our pick of the region’s child-friendly stays

The most luxurious family-friendly hotels in the South of France
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Author Rosa Rankin Gee and her newly betrothed Mrs Smith are swept off their feet by this soaring New York stay

ModernHaus SoHo: a higher love
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Our writer bags a passenger seat on a pioneering journey – and checks in to Como the Treasury in Perth for a full recharge afterwards

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Step away from the supermarket flowers. Our his and hers gift guide includes classic pyjamas, affordable art, and wheely good luggage

The Valentine’s Day Gift Guide
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Branch out and live your wildest childhood dreams by taking to the trees for your next adventure

Seven spectacular treehouse hotels
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The roaming writer and photographer on the sartorial allure of spy novels, the sentimentality of negronis, and the aphorisms of Kate Hudson

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Dive into one of these less-obvious destinations and take a (city) break from the predictable

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