Lufthansa

Living is easy

Art & Culture / Travel

When gallery owner Mariane Ibrahim was looking for a new center of life, Chicago was the obvious choice. For her, the city stands for America like no other …

Konfekt

Home free

Interior Design / Travel

Maddalena Scarzella and her partner found refuge from city life in the woods of Liguria, where Scarzella’s grandmother, architect Luisa Castiglioni, built a series of homes in the 1960s. Now open to guests, Boccamonte offers a vision of true escape …

Konfekt

Village Champion

Fashion / Food / Travel

Having decamped from Paris to a restored house in the country, art director Charlotte Huguet rustles up inventive recipes to entertain her many guests. In the process she has become an advocate of rural living – so much so, she wrote a book on it …

Konfekt

Shore footed

Fashion / Travel

When designer Christina Martini moved from Paris to an idyllic part of Corfu, everything changed for her. But she hasn’t settled into a secluded island life. She founded a shoe brand and now lives on an olive farm, enjoying the best of both worlds. 

Konfekt

Best of both worlds

Travel

Ticino is Switzerland’s most southerly canton, a verdant region heavily influenced by its neighbour, Italy, and gifted with valleys, lakes and the ever-present Alps. From modernist architecture to entrepreneurs whipping up specialist gins, it offers a sophisticated and surprising short break. Let us show you around.

 

The Weekender

In wonderland

Art & Culture / Travel

In the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, spectacular contemporary art and a huge tropical garden paradise merge to create a wholly exceptional place. Photographer Jewgeni Roppel captured Instituto Inhotim during a kaleidoscopic tour.

Walter Knoll

Airy Elegance

Art & Culture / Interior Design / Travel

Two blues. The neon signage of the Norton Museum of Art shines in Yves Klein blue against the deep blue sky of West Palm Beach. With a strong sense of aesthetics, the architects at Foster + Partners have carefully redesigned the house and turned it into a magnet for lovers of art and architecture …

KTCHNrebel

The restaurant at the end of the universe

Food / Travel

The World’s Best Restaurant of 2019 is about as far away from glamorous metropolitan life as you can get… but here, in the South African fishing village of Paternoster, De Wolfgat creates dimensions of flavor that big-city foodies can only dream of …

Lamborghini Magazin

Carlo’s brave new world

Food / Travel

The kitchen of Milanese chef Carlo Cracco is a melting pot of northern Italian traditions and the latest experimental techniques, forging an unmistakable culinary signature. Now, the Italian chef has opened a very personal and luxurious stage for his culinary creations …

KTCHNrebel

Squaring the circle

Food / Travel

Just a few months after opening, a San Francisco burger joint has already achieved cult status. Their secret? Gourmet quality plus restaurant robotics …

Lufthansa Online

Travel Guide San Francisco

Travel

What would San Francisco be without the Bay? Likely only half as amazing. Every visitor to the northern Californian metropolis should cross the Bay at least once by boat. From the water, the view of the high-rise downtown skyline, Signal Hill and the Golden Gate Bridge is simply spectacular …

Lufthansa Magazine

Golden Promise

Art & Culture / Travel

Speeding across a bridge over the Enz, one of the three rivers that wend their way through Pforzheim, a Porsche Boxster is struck by a ray of evening light and momentarily gleams almost as brightly as the setting sun. …

KTCHNrebel

Countdown to zero

Food / Travel

For a long time, the Silo in Brighton was the lonely pioneer on the zero-waste restaurant scene. Now, a paradigm shift is finally on the horizon.

 

KTCHNrebel

The high-tech playground

Food / Travel

A new workspace has just opened its doors in San Francisco: an experimental playground for fans of high-tech cooking.

J'N'C

Cool Cities Dubai

Fashion / Retail / Travel

A twelve-lane highway, Sheikh Zayed Road, cuts through the city. This is the main traffic artery where sports cars whizz past the high-rise apartment buildings glittering in the dazzling sunshine. …

 

 

 

 

J’N’C

Cool Cities – São Paulo

Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Retail / Travel

While Rio de Janeiro is immediately associated with beaches and samba, its big sister São Paulo has a Blade Runner-style image with a criminal background: wild and potentially dangerous – and anything but sexy. …

J’N’C

Cool Cities – San Francisco

Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Interview / Retail / Travel

From the West Coast to the rest of the world: San Francisco is deemed the birthplace of the five-pocket jeans, the most important fashion statement of the past 140 years.

J’N’C

Cool Cities – Los Angeles

Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Interview / Retail / Travel

Flashing camera bulbs and famous faces. Endless sunshine and bling-bling fashion. An obsession with physical perfection and Lamborghinis. There is hardly another city that manages to capture our imaginations like Los Angeles does. And the funny thing about it: the clichés are substantiated at every turn!

J’N’C

Cool Cities – New York

Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Retail / Travel

It’s the peculiar geography of New York that makes it what it is: a sardine can filled with eight million people, basically piled up on top of one other, living and working. In contrast to most other metropolises the Big Apple has no way of giving itself over to middle-age spread: two rivers, the Hudson and the East River, hinder a geographic city sprawl. So, at least on Manhattan Island, growth can only go one way: upwards.

J’N’C

Cool Cities – Montreal

Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Retail / Travel

The spectacularly located Montreal, which lies on the left bank of the St. Lawrence River, is considered by many as the Canadian ‘Petit Paris’. And it’s not just the picturesque streets in the world’s second largest French city that are indeed reminiscent of the Seine metropolis: when it comes to guts and stylistic individualism, the people of Montreal can certainly hold their own against their erstwhile conquerors.

J’N’C

Cool Cities – Bangkok

Fashion / Retail / Travel

Taking a look at the local street fashion worn by the young generation in Bangkok, the most influential economic centre in South-East Asia, you can see how westernised they are. Rockstar haircuts, skinny jeans and designer sneakers are a given for any trendy basic wardrobe, just as much as in European climes. …

Port Magazine

The Rose Revolution

Travel

In the 1970s, in a climate that was difficult both politically and literally, Iran’s Lalehzar valley became the birthplace of a new crop – and a different way of life. …