Interviews
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Mirko Febbrile: The Inner Geography of a Puglian Chef
Mirko Febbrile, a visionary chef from Puglia, is redefining the culinary landscape by seamlessly integrating food, design, fashion, hospitality, and entrepreneurship. At Somma in Singapore, he crafts an immersive dining experience that engages all the senses, challenging traditional notions of a chef’s discipline.
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Huus Quell, Gonten: Inside Jan Schoch’s Vision of Hospitality
An hour east of Zurich, in the Appenzell village of Gonten, Huus Quell does not appear as an object placed within the landscape. It seems to have grown from it. The timber, the proportions, the quietness of the rooms and the surrounding mountains all point towards the same intention: creating a hotel that could not…
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Antonio Romano and Francesca Ricci: The Art of Making Guests Feel at Home
At Nove, the restaurant of Villa della Pergola in Alassio, the first impression does not come only from the plate. It comes also from the place. A historic villa above the Ligurian coast, gardens that seem to hold the memory of several seasons and places at once, the sea in the distance, and a dining…
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Victoria Boller: the first woman to lead the kitchen at Paris’s iconic Relais Plaza
At Le Relais Plaza, history is not something kept behind glass. It is in the room itself, in the Art Deco lines that have remained almost intact for generations, in the regulars who still arrive with a precise idea of what they would like to eat, and in the particular energy of a Parisian brasserie…