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As much a social center as a hotel, this Lisbon renegade brings creative locals to the forefront, connecting the visitor to the pulse of the city and the neighborhood. Inspired by the colors, playfulness, and lightness of Portugal, the existing structure’s transformation is one forged by the notion of togetherness.
Embedded in one of the city’s most lively neighborhoods—amid botanical gardens, tranquil squares, and a vibrant social scene—Memmo Príncipe Real is grounded in its surrounding community. For his third hotel, Rodgrigo Machaz tapped deeply into the local energy and talent; reflected throughout the property in the materials, art, craft, and spirit.
Tucked away on a narrow street, Memmo Alfama is one of Lisbon’s hidden treasures. The hotel blends seamlessly into the surrounding buildings in harmony with the neighborhood’s history. Architect Samuel Torres de Carvalho led the restoration of this 19th-century structure, which features panoramic views over the red rooftops of Lisbon.
A holistic approach to well-being, a focus on slow-paced living, and a verdant outside world blending harmoniously within, all define this new take luxury at Cretan Malia Park. Set on the clear blue Aegean Sea and framed by rugged mountains, this flora-filled retreat’s key to its approach is a commitment to sustainability—a crucial philosophy that informs all aspects of the design and operations. Here, an organic garden and spa along with an open-air yoga and meditation program center well-being at every touchpoint.
Gently nestled into the Cretan coastline, Minos Art Beach Hotel’s assembly of seaside abodes and lush gardens foster an experience rooted in artistic connection. A landscape of sand, rocks, greenery, and trees is peppered with whitewashed bungalows, villas, and terraces that look to the Aegean Sea. When founder Gina Mamidakis’ vision for the hotel came to life, so too did the arts program G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation. In unison, the foundation and hotel are conduits for Greek art, literature, traditions, music, language, wine, and food.
Tucked away near an oasis in the picturesque Agafay Desert, a short 30-kilometer ride away from Marrakech, La Pause is a family-run luxury eco-lodge that offers a contemporary take on Morocco’s traditional cultures and places visitors in the midst of the country’s beautiful desert landscape. La Pause was established 18 years ago, when founder Frédéric Alaime was riding on horseback through the vast expanse and spotted a small tree in the distance. Coming nearer, the eucalyptus tree gave way to water, olive trees, cacti, turtles, frogs, and many other signs of life. As the region developed, so too did La Pause’s ability to foster exchange and create dialogues between the desert and the city. In 2018, Frédéric’s daughter Roxane took such an exchange to the next level by founding an artist residency at La Pause. Each year, emerging international and regional artists are invited to live amongst the earthen structures and Berber tents, where they replace their typical routines with local connections, exploration, and discovery.
Promoting both eco-friendly tourism and social projects, Pikala Bikes rents bicycles as alternatives to cars, busses, and scooters as well as employs and trains local youth. In Morocco, almost 30 percent of people aged 15–24 are jobless, so, using recycled bikes brought to Marrakech from Holland, Pikala Bikes trains unemployed young adults to be professional bicycle tour guides, providing them with a source of income. Pikala Bikes also offers programs for local youth to become bike mechanics, trained by experts, along with traffic safety lessons and cycling lessons. In February 2020, Pikala Bikes collaborated with Further and La Pause Residency to host an exhibition, featuring works made by the four artists-in-residence, in a section of their warehouse.
Set in a former laundromat just off Marfa’s main street, The Basic is a new hospitality concept inspired by the Japanese philosophy of Ma—consciousness of space, structure, and balance. Created by the team behind The Drifter in New Orleans, Boro Hotel in Long Island City, and the Thunderbird Hotel in Marfa, The Basic transcends multiple platforms, with varied styles of accommodation, all defined by tasteful simplicity.
High on a hilltop in Rio de Janeiro’s lush Santa Teresa neighborhood between the city center and the sandy beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema, Chez Georges is a showcase of transcontinental modernism housed in an impressive work of Brazilian Brutalism by the renowned architect Wladimir Alves de Souza. The property comprises a private, seven-suite villa and a separate two-bedroom studio, with views to Sugarloaf Mountain, Guanabara Bay, Santa Teresa, and the bay beyond. Set on the edge of a protected forest and featuring a state-of-the-art music production room, Chez Georges was an ideal setting for Further Rio de Janeiro: Song of the Amazon, co-curated by Atrium Creative Retreats, the music collective behind the experiential music and arts festival, FORM Arcosanti. An intimate writing camp brought together the indigenous musician Matsipaya Waura Txucarramãe with a group of celebrated artists, including experimental cellist Kelsey Lu, drummer Zach Tretcault of Hundred Waters, Canadian electro-pop duo Purity Ring, LA-based electronic auteur Empress Of, and folk singer Julie Byrne.
New Sanctuaries
Founded in 2011 by Joshua Abram, Alan Murray, and James O'Reilly, NeueHouse is a cultural and collaborative space for creatives, artists, and entrepreneurs located in New York City and Los Angeles. Devised as a home for new ideas, people, conversations, and experiences, NeueHouse offers coworking spaces to small businesses and individual entrepreneurs operating in the film, fashion, design, publishing and arts sectors, as well as cultural programming, from talks and parties to artistic performances. One of the first Further events took place at NeueHouse New York in 2017, while NeueHouse Los Angeles was the site of Further Los Angeles: New Sanctuaries in the beginning of 2019.
Perched 1,800 meters above sea level amid a spectacular terrain of alpine meadows and forests, gorges, ridges, and snow-covered slopes, RoomsHotel Kazbegi is a singular retreat set among the Caucasus Mountains. Once a Soviet-era workers’ resort, the Brutalist glass-and-wood structure is located in the village of Stepantsminda, where traditional Georgian life goes on as it has for centuries, along the old Georgian Military Road, a historic routes tretching from Tbilisi to Vladikavkaz, Russia. Designed by Adjara Arch, who worked with two Tbilisi-based architects, Nata Janberidze and Keti Toloraia, the meticulously restored Rooms Hotel features an open-plan lobby was recast with raw timber, antique Georgian rugs, iron chandeliers, and deep leather armchairs, offset by vintage Soviet posters and teeming bookshelves—all dwarfed by the jaw-dropping view through floor-to-ceiling windows: Mount Kazbek and the towering peaks of the Caucasus Mountains.
Built around a contemporary interpretation of the ancient Greek agora, Scorpios is a gathering place meant to galvanize the artistic, spiritual, and social life of its community. Its diverse creative community includes healers, movement and meditation teachers, visuals artists, as well as renowned DJs and experimental musicians. Situated on a sun-drenched southern tip of Mykonos, a whitewashed stone house leads to custom-built stages for daily sunset rituals and ample open-air terraces spilling onto the Cycladic coastline. A few dozen wooden cabanas and sunbeds, elegant in their simplicity, blend discreetly with their natural surroundings, while horizons of blue mix with yellows, golds, and pinks at one of the very rare beach locations on Mykonos offering uninterrupted views across the open sea.
Set along a raw stretch of Sonoma Coastline, Timber Cove is a 1960s-era meditation lodge and artist colony reborn as a unique contemporary retreat for today’s West Coast creatives. Architect Richard Clements Jr. took inspiration from the organic designs of Frank Lloyd Wright in designing the towering A-frame structure, optimizing it for views of the Pacific Ocean and using materials, like dark wood, natural stone, and glass, that help integrate it with the stunning natural surroundings. Born of the utopian spirit of the time, it became an incubator and retreat for the growing creative scene that coalesced in California on the heels of the sexual revolution and anti-war movement. After its heyday, Timber Cove fell into decline—until 2015, when developers Michael Barry and Jens von Gierke bought the property and hired design firm Gensler and LA duo The Novogratz to rework it, removing outdated 60s décor and adding expansive landscaping. Timber Cove reopened in late 2016 with 46 rooms and suites and the Coast Kitchen restaurant, serving locally-sourced California cuisine.
Situated on 45 secluded acres in the bucolic hamlet of Amenia, New York, Troutbeck is a reactivated country estate and boutique accommodation in the Hudson River Valley that once served as an important creative retreat and literary salon, welcoming Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau, among others. The property was originally settled in the mid-18th century by the Benton family, whose cadre of friends included numerous prominent poets, naturalists, and artists of the era. In the early 20th century, it was purchased by Joel Spingarn, an influential publisher and activist considered one of the architects of the NAACP, and his wife, Amy. The Spingarns welcomed major civil rights leaders and members of the Harlem Renaissance to the estate, from W. E. B. Du Bois to Langston Hughes. In 2016, Troutbeck was bought by Anthony Champalimaud, a Montreal-born artist and developer, and his wife, Charlie, who set out to revive the property’s pioneering spirit, transforming it into a modern-day country retreat for today’s New York creatives.
Situated on 45 secluded acres in the bucolic hamlet of Amenia, New York, Troutbeck is a reactivated country estate and boutique accommodation in the Hudson River Valley that once served as an important creative retreat and literary salon, welcoming Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau, among others. The property was originally settled in the mid-18th century by the Benton family, whose cadre of friends included numerous prominent poets, naturalists, and artists of the era. In the early 20th century, it was purchased by Joel Spingarn, an influential publisher and activist considered one of the architects of the NAACP, and his wife, Amy. The Spingarns welcomed major civil rights leaders and members of the Harlem Renaissance to the estate, from W. E. B. Du Bois to Langston Hughes. In 2016, Troutbeck was bought by Anthony Champalimaud, a Montreal-born artist and developer, and his wife, Charlie, who set out to revive the property’s pioneering spirit, transforming it into a modern-day country retreat for today’s New York creatives.
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