Design Destinations Magazine Winter 2019

Winter 2019

CARNAVAL DE BARRANQUILLA Pageantry, Color and Dance

OIA SANTORINI

The Classic Island in the Greek Archipelago

MACHU PICHU

History, Tradition and Beauty

SCOTTY GRAHAM A Selection of His Best Images

INTERCONTINENTAL PHUKET Raising the Bar on Luxury in Phuket

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OIA SANTORINI

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MACHU PICHU

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WHAT’S INSIDE

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THE ART OF SCOTTY GRAHAM

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR As we close out 2018 and begin a new year, we’d like to take a moment to reflect on the year that just ended. Each year we celebrate new beginnings with the hopes and dreams that this year will be even better than any before. 2019 is no exception! We at Buchhalter International Group are excited about the direction of Design Destinations Magazine, and welcome our new contributors that make this magazine what it is.. We also welcome Scotty Graham who has shared with us so many fantastic images in past issues, and in this first issue of the year, we feature a collection of his best images along with his insight into to the selection.

We also welcome Gianluca Fazio, a new contributor to our magazine. An amazing Italian photographer shares in this issue his stunning images of Santorini. We also welcome back John Salazar, who shares his images of the Baranquilla, Colombia’s spectacular carnival in the article Pageantry, Color and Dance. Photojournalist, Arthur Seixas, whose images of Paraty graced our Fall Issue returns with his images of magnificent Machu Pichu.

We proudly introduce a new resort in Thailand that will redefine luxury in Phuket. The InterContinental Phuket scheduled to open this year.

In our American Legends section we feature Jessica Lange whose memorable movies and portrayals have activated many generations and continue to earn admirers with young fans who follow her on American Horror Story.

We hope you begin this new year with health, happiness and love and we hope that our magazine will contributes a little to your travels goals.

Design Destinations Magazine Franz E Buchhalter

Editor In Chief

Cynthia P. Howland

Managing Editor

Werner Buchhalter

Brand Communications

Francisco Ruano

Staff Writer

Buchhalter International Group

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Scotty Graham

CONTRIBUTORS Scotty Graham is an American photographer based in Jakarta. Before becoming a professional photographer, he worked as a Helicopter Pilot, a SCUBA Instructor and a mathematics teacher. Teaching is one of his passions and currently Scotty also works as a full time High School photography teacher at Jakarta Intercultural School, but also works as a freelance photographer, most recently for the Olympic Committee Asia capturing the Asian Games.

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Arthur Seixas is a Brazilian travel photographer and journalist based in Rio de Janeiro. Living in one of the world’s richest natural countries gives him the opportunity to capture images of the rainforest, beaches, small villages and hidden waterfalls. @arthurseixas / www.arthurseixas.com Machu Picchu Page 58-69

Gianluca Fazio (TheRerumNatura) is an Italian photographer and content creator, specializing in travel and lifestyle photography. He began to share his personal travel pictures on Instagram in 2013 and soon became one of the most recognizable travelers in his country, always visiting new places and ready to share his particular point of view with his followers. www.thererumnatura.it https://www.instagram.com/TheRerumNatura

John Salazar John is a Graphic Designer and Photographer born in Bucaramanga, Colombia and currently living in the beautiful city of Medellin for more than ten years. John has loved photography since he can remember. In college, he made many personal projects and exhibits as an amateur photographer, and it was here that photography became his passion. “Having a camera in my hands makes my ideas flow” John says.

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Jeremy Mason McGraw Jeremy is an international photographer known, for creating enticing and evocative images for some of the world’s finest hotels and travel destinations. Drawing on his experience as a theatrical set and lighting designer, Jeremy's work is noted for its story-telling quality and its striking, warm and inviting light.

A Day At Sea In Sardinia Page 18-29

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OIA SANTORINI PHOTOS BY GIANLUCA FAZIO TEXT BY FRANCISCO RUANO

Oia, previously known as Apano Meria, meaning “upper side", is sometimes referred to by locals as Pano Meria. The Ancient Greek Oia was one of the two harbors of ancient Thera and was located in the southeast of the island, where Kamari is now. Oia reached the peak of prosperity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its economic prosperity was based on its merchant fleet, which plied trade in the Eastern Mediterranean, especially from Alexandria to Russia. The twostory captains' houses built on the highest part of the village are a reminder of the village's former affluence.

Oia has been the location of many films including the 1982 film Summer Lovers. and movies The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. This picturesque village was also featured in the opening sequences of the film Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, starring Angelina Jolie.

Visitors enjoy the narrow streets and the white painted homes with blue doors and railing, however, there are other interesting findings that visitors should not miss such as Sigalas, the award winning winery and restaurant or the unique Mnemossyne Gallery that features a variety of fine art photography and jewelry, all astonishingly handmade by local artists. The gallery has a very harmonic atmosphere in an elegant cave house located only a few steps before the Castle and the famous sunset spot in Oia.

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Oia is a scenic village on the northwest edge of the Santorini Island. It extends for almost 1.2 miles along the northern edge of the caldera that forms the island of Santorini, at a height of between 230 and 330 feet above sea level.

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INTRODUCING INTERCONTINENTAL PHUKET THAILAND

In an elegant blend of rich and earthy tones, InterContinental Phuket Resort’s collection of 223 rooms, suites and villas feature Ocean, Lagoon, or views. Live the ‘InterContinental Life’ in all its glamour in these meticulously designed escapes. Located on Kamla Beach known as Phuket’s Millionaires Mile.

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A DAY AT SEA IN SARDINIA PHOTOS BY JEREMY MASON MCCRAW

“This land resembles no other place. Sardinia is something else.

Enchanting spaces and distances to travel-nothing finished, nothing definitive. It is like freedom itself�.

David Herbert Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia, 1921

PAGEANTRY, COL

CARNAVAL DE

OR AND DANCE

BARRANQUILLA

Photos by John Salazar

Text by Francisco Ruano

Barranquilla's Carnival is one of Colombia's most important folkloric celebrations, and one of the biggest carnivals in the world. The carnival has traditions that date back to the 19th century. Four days before Easter, Barranquilla decks itself out to receive national and foreign tourists and joins together with locals to enjoy four days of intense festivities.

During the carnival, Barranquilla's normal activities are paralyzed giving way to street dances, musical and masquerade parades.

Many styles of Colombian music are performed during the days of the festival including Colombia’s most prominent dance, the “cumbia”. The Carnival of Barranquilla was proclaimed a Cultural Masterpiece of the Nation by Colombia's National Congress in 2002. Also the UNESCO, in Paris on November 7, 2003, declared it one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

The Carnival starts on the Saturday before Ash Wednesday with the highlight of the Carnival, the battle of the flowers, followed by The Great Parade on Sunday. On Monday music takes over with many bands playing. Tuesday signals the end of the carnival, announced by the burial of Joselito Carnaval, a folk character who represents and symbolizes the merrymaking, the disorder, the collective joy, and any element of subversion of the rules associated with King Momo: "Son of the dream and of the night that presided over the feasts of the crazy, celebrated in towns, villages and cities”. The burial of Joselito ends the carnival and all the festivities of the last day are set around the funeral.

The Barranquilla Carnival has been claimed to be the second largest carnival in the world, surpassed only by Rio de Janeiro.

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SCOTTY GRAHAM Scotty Graham is an American photographer living in Indonesia with his wife and daughters. Scotty has been a contributor to Design Destinations Magazine since the beginning and images of his beautiful photography have graced the covers of our magazine.

His images are captivating, beautiful and transport the viewer. We reached out to Scotty and asked him to provide us with ten of his favorite images for this article and his response was “I have over a hundred thousand photos from all over the world. How in the world does one choose their favorite ten shots?? I am sure I left out so many good shots, but I wanted to give you a variety of shots....I couldn't narrow these down to just 10”.

Like Scotty, we found that choosing ten images was very difficult, so we went with a selection that stood out from the many that we saw and we hope that you enjoy them.

Photos and Descriptions by Scotty Graham

Myanmar. “These young monks were watching their friends play a quick game of cricket outside of their dormitory in the monastery. I like the robe draping out of the window”.

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Myanmar. “How can you get a bad shot with light like that?”.

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Flatiron Building, New York: “This is my favorite building in NYC. The clouds that afternoon really complete the shot”.

Bodie: A ghost town in Northern California. � I love old abandoned buildings. The stormy clouds behind this old ghost town house is icing on the cake�.

Sorido Sunset: Raja Ampat - West Papua Indonesia ”I don’t know how many hours I have sat in a bean bag chair looking at this scene.

Every day and night it looks different. This was one of my favorite sunsets”.

Flower Market: Guatemala. “I just loved the atmosphere, colors and people in this market�.

Ladakh: “One of the most spectacular long treks I have done. On most days, we experienced the four seasons in one day. This shot was coming down from a 5000 meter pass�.

Jakarta: “I like this shot because it is so typically Jakarta (where I live). The textures, bird cages, and the guy eating his Mie Goreng make the photo�.

Pulau Padar in Komodo, Indonesia. “From the water, it looks like just a small hill...nothing special...but when you climb the trail to the top, the view is like no other view in the world. The guy in the photo was about to step down from the rock, but I yelled down to him to stay as it gave the photo more scale�.

Bogor, Indonesia. “I just really like this shot�.

MACHU PICCHU Photos by Arthur Seixas

Text By Francisco Ruano

Most archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was constructed as an estate for the Inca Emperor Pachacuti (1438– 1472). Often mistakenly referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas" (a title more accurately applied to Vilcabamba), it is the most familiar icon of Inca civilization.

The Incas built the estate around 1450 but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was not known to the Spanish during the colonial period and remained unknown to the outside world until American historian Hiram Bingham brought it to international attention in 1911.

Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls.

Its three primary structures are the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun, and the Room of the Three Windows. Most of the outlying buildings have been reconstructed in order to give tourists a better idea of how they originally appeared. By 1976, thirty percent of Machu Picchu had been restored and restoration continues today.

Machu Picchu was declared a Peruvian Historic Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. In 2007, Machu Picchu was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in a worldwide Internet poll.

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Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel, located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru, on a mountain ridge 7,970 feet above sea level. It is located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, Machu Picchu District in Peru, above the Sacred Valley, which is 50 miles northwest of Cuzco and through which the Urubamba River flows, which cuts through the Cordillera and originates a canyon with tropical mountain climate.

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“In the variety of its charms and the power of its spell, I know of no other place in the weld which can compare with it.”

-Hiram Bingham, ‘Discoverer’ of Machu

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CASA CAIMAN -PENINSULA PAPAGAYO COSTA RICA

Nestled in the lush hillside of Peninsula Papagayo, Costa Rica, Casa Caiman features more than 11,000 square feet of luxurious living space including five suites with terraces and ocean views. The master suite has an attached office and a spacious en-suite bathroom which includes an indoor/outdoor shower and soaking tub.

The living room has a 27 feet high ceiling, marble floors, and accented sandstone walls. The open kitchen is filled with state of the art appliances and features a breakfast bar with amazing views. The villa offers a separate entertainment lounge with games and a large television screen.

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AN AMERICAN LEGEND

JESSICA LANGE

Jessica Lange was born in 1949 in Cloquet, Minnesota, where her father worked as a traveling salesman. Jessica’s artistic talent earned her a scholarship to study art at the University of Minnesota, but she instead went to Paris to study drama. After her studies in France, she returned to New York, and began a career as a model. Famous producer and director Dino De Laurentiis discovered her and cast her as the female lead in the 1976 version of King Kong. The film received unfavorable reviews and Ms. Lange retreated for almost three years until her return in a small art in Bob Fosse’s 1979 film All That Jazz. In 1981, she gave a memorable performance in Bob Rafelson’s film The Postman Always Rings Twice where she portrayed an adulterous waitress. The following year, she won rave reviews for her exceptional portrayal of actress Frances Farmer in Frances (1982) and on the same year, she earned a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her work in Sydney Pollack's Tootsie (1982) along side Dustin Hoffman playing a beautiful soapopera actress. She was also outstanding as country singer Patsy Cline in Karel Reisz's Sweet Dreams (1985) and as a lawyer who defends her father and discovers his past in Music Box (1989). Other important films include Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991) (as a frightened housewife) and Tony Richardson's Blue Sky (1994), for which she won a Best Actress Academy Award as the mentally unbalanced wife of a military officer. She made her Broadway debut in 1992, playing "Blanche" in Tennessee Williams "A Streetcar Named Desire”.

Today, Jessica is a favorite actor of a new generation of fans due to her performance in the acclaimed television series American Horror Stories where she has played the leading role in all except one season.

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