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With every season of herein, we delight in being both home and away, and attempt to shine a light on ways to enrich readers’ lives. In this, our third issue, we hop around the globe in cities and places across Marriott International’s diverse portfolio of luxury branded residential communities. We head to Belize to learn more about the cornucopia of tropical flavors that come alive in their cuisine, discover the (not so) secret speakeasy bars of New York City, and pop into the newest W-branded residence in Aspen, a cozy modern chalet with jaw-dropping mountain views. We also travel to Egypt to get the scoop on a new state of the art entertainment plaza in the Red Sea resort town of Gouna, talk to Canada’s premier high-end light fixture and custom furniture maker, and take in the impressive 56-acre Water Street Tampa neighborhood—a downtown within downtown, and one of the most ambitious developments of the last few decades in the United States. We hope you enjoy this issue as much as we loved putting together these stories for you.

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The Zenteno House in Las Águilas, an upscale neighborhood on the southwest side of Mexico City. Design by architects Sebastian Mariscal Studio + Alfonso Frade.

Image by Rafael Gamo

HEARTBEAT OF EL GOUNA

A monumental cultural project rises on the Red Sea.

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Tampa Bay WATER STREET WONDERLAND

A neighborhood within a neighborhood.

28 Global

A GOOD WINE, NATURALLY

Skip the additives. Go natural.

40 Mexico City

ART OF THE MATTER

Mexico City is a cosmopolitan capital and cultural mecca.

56 Aspen

MODERN DAY CHALET

The Sky Residences at W Aspen evoke the bold spirit that characterized the town's multiple heydays.

68 Global TIME IS MONEY

Luxury watches have become an asset class of their own.

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New York City SIPPING IN SECRET

Speakeasy-style bars are back (again).

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Global FIELD GUIDE

After two decades of staging al fresco dining adventures, Jim Denevan has no plans to come inside.

98 Belize A CULINARY CORNUCOPIA IN THE TROPICS

Belizean cuisine defies easy definition.

108 Canada

LET THERE BE LIGHT

Montreal-based Gabriel Scott founder Scott Richler on the company's past, present and future.

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Estero Bay / London / Miami / Honolulu

LES NOUVEAUX

Discover the newest Marriott International branded residences.

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Portugal / Mexico / South Korea / Greece

WELL AND GOOD

Explore some of the world’s most iconic destinations for coastal living.

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Rye / Dubai / Los Cabos AROUND THE BLOCK

How Owners can enjoy their new neighborhood.

 each story in herein shares a location with one or more of these residences

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gouna El Gouna Festival Plaza | 12 image courtesy of studio seilern architects

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The Heartbeat of El Guona

Ask anyone who dreams of visiting Egypt about the sights at the top of their wish list, and chances are the responses will cover the unequivocally sublime, ancient wonders in places like Cairo, Luxor, Alexandria and Aswan (along with a requisite float down the Nile, of course).

But some 276 miles south of Cairo along the country’s Red Sea coast, the forward-thinking resort community of El Gouna, near Hurghada, is aiming to lure culturally-minded travelers its way with a landmark architectural project that rose from the sands here in October 2019.

Often referred to as Gouna Festival Plaza, the Gouna Conference and Cultural Centre rises like a monument from the surrounding desert.

Its first phase, completed in 2021, is composed of 147 elegant pre-cast concrete columns that widen like tulips as they

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the gouna conference and cultural centre ' s first phase is composed of 147 elegant pre - cast concrete columns that widen like tulips as they stretch upward

stretch upward, as if on tippy toes and awaiting a kiss from the perpetually baby blue Egyptian sky.

The result is a monumental colonnade that leads through shaded pedestrian bridges where locals stroll, roller skate and pause to admire the columns’ interior fluting that casts a warm sandstone-hued glow as shadows play all around in the relentless Red Sea sun.

“It’s become a sort of public garden that belongs to the city of El Gouna,” says Alberto Favaro, a senior associate (and the GCCC project leader) for Studio Seilern Architects. The London-based firm designed the project at the request of Egyptian billionaire Samih Sawiris, who first began developing the resort community back in 1989.

Surrounding the structure and weaving through the colonnade, a lagoon (El Gouna means “the lagoon” in Egyptian Arabic) with a 30,000-square-meter footprint is fed by natural wells in the desert that return the water to the sea via canals. It’s a surprisingly sustainable feature of the building that, together with the shade provided by staggered columns, lends a natural cooling effect.

People gather to sit at the lagoon’s edges— cantilevered to keep the salty water from corroding the building’s terrazzo tiling and concrete—to chat, listen to music and, of course, pose for the perfect Instagram photo of their own image and that of the columns’ reflecting in the lagoon.

the structure ' s 30,000- square meter footprint is fed by natural wells in the desert that return the water to the sea via canals

Laid out in three Tetris-like parts, the colonnade—the tallest structure in all of El Gouna, at 20 meters high—shelters three plaza islands within its walls, where future project expansions for the GCCC will be built. The result is a sort of celebratory plaza unified within a central area.

The northern plaza will be left open, designed to be configured as a festival ground with a platform that serves as a base for the traditional canvas tents often used to host outdoor events in this part of the world.

The other two plazas will eventually house a 600-seat concert hall and a conference center that can welcome 2,000 attendees, with the entire GCCC project slated to be finished by late 2024.

There are also plans to build a cafe within the northern plaza to lure residents to enjoy the area even when there isn’t an event being staged onsite (the entire grounds are open 24/7 to the public).

The GCCC’s sustainable design and community-minded focus tracks with the city of El Gouna itself. Committed to sustainability since its inception, it became the first town in the Africa and Arab region to receive a Global Green Town award from the United Nations in 2014 and is now on its way to becoming a new hub in the region for those who champion the arts.

Sawiris, who is said to have been inspired to bring a venue for classical music and orchestra to El Gouna after time spent in Berlin, also hired Studio Seilern Architects to design the Andermatt Concert Hall he funded in the eponymous

Swiss resort town. The project later lured the Swiss Orchestra to take up residence within its walls.

The town of El Gouna, which spreads across 20 islands and is located about 30 minutes north of the popular scuba diving destination of Hurghada, has grown from a desert outpost to a community boasting luxury hotels and golf courses as well as amenities that attract its roughly 24,000 year-round residents, including a hospital, university and library. The town has one of the largest electric bicycle sharing programs in the Middle East. And with the addition of the GCCC, there is hope that the area will grow in importance for the arts, too, attracting performances, exhibitions, events and more.

The only way to achieve that for El Gouna is to create a proper cultural venue, says Favaro, adding that the firm, which has already put in a proposal for the concert hall, takes into account the public’s reaction to each new space as it debuts to help shape what comes next.

In 2021, the El Gouna Film Festival—on the region’s radar for fashion as much as film and founded by Naguib Sawiris (Samih’s brother)—held its fifth edition at the GCCC. The 2022 event was recently postponed and will be held here in 2023.

Events staged in the plaza in 2022 included the PSA International Squash Open. And for its inaugural event this fall, 2022 Forbes Middle East Under 30 Summit selected the GCCC for its venue, with the gathering of the brightest young minds from the region scheduled to take place from November 24-26, 2022.

What strikes visitors most when they stroll or roller skate along the Mugla white Egyptian marble tiles through the colonnade might be the sheer scale of the project. The scenic breadth of the colonnade and the lagoon buffering gives a feeling of walking through something that’s rooted in Egyptian history, even though the GCCC is brand new and built in a community that’s just a recent grain in the sands of time in a country with such storied history.

Favaro says the architects looked to ancient Egyptian monuments, uniformly enormous in scale, as well as El Gouna’s surrounding Nubian villages and other influences, like traditional Islamic arches and Moorish architecture, to create the project’s “monumental” sense of place and link it to the country’s heritage.

“The flower-shaped columns reference modern interpretations of Egyptian columns,” he says. “But it’s the scale of the columns that really links the project to traditional Egyptian architecture.”

The work of erecting the enormous columns was, of course, much more efficient in modern times, says Favaro. All were fabricated on site and positioned into place in just 16 weeks in late 2019 in order to ensure the plaza would be ready for a private event the client had planned. The finishing touches, including the interior fluting effects, were completed in 2021.

What’s been most interesting and rewarding to watch so far from an architect’s perspective, says Favaro, is the way in which the city of El Gouna has embraced the GCCC as its own.

“The building was on the outskirts of El Gouna when we started the project,” he says, but now the city is growing around it and almost outward from it, too.

“It’s as if this building has become the beating heart of El Gouna.”

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A Good Wine Naturally

California has long been known as America's wine country, with its agreeable climate, varied geography and long history of grape growing. But as wine has become a commercial product, it's also become mass produced, engineered with modern farming methods to meet demand.

Over the last few decades, some winemakers have been operating on the fringes of that norm, making wine through minimal intervention, now more commonly known as natural wine. While there's no official definition or certification, natural wine is generally understood to be wine made with organically or biodynamically farmed grapes, grown without synthetic pesticides, fungicides or fertilizers. Once harvested, those grapes ferment only with the native yeast that already exists on the skins, and without any commercial additives to help control or propel the process, aside from occasionally a small amount of added sulfur dioxide to stabilize and preserve the wine.

While it can be more difficult, and riskier, to make wine this way, the goal is to produce a true expression of the natural environment where the grape was grown, or the region's terroir, rather than one that reflects a chemically engineered flavor profile.

James Jelks, the producer behind Florèz Wines in Santa Cruz, Calif., says generally wines become diminished "because people are trying to do things to them; They're trying to get them to be a way." As a natural winemaker and wine drinker, he says, "I want as authentic, as honest a product as possible."

This means natural wines can vary in color—from soft and golden yellows, to orange and salmon pinks, light reds and deep, dark purples—and suggested serving temperatures (chilled reds are popular in hotter months). Some can have a very traditional palate, while others are often described as "funky," to note a kombucha-like taste, or "effervescent,"

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to express a hint of fizz. Depending on the winemaker's filtration methods, they can appear clear or slightly cloudy, with harmless leftover sediment occasionally dusting the bottom of the bottle.

The Los Angeles-based natural winemaker Rachel DeAscentiis, who runs the label Say When with her husband Michel, has current and upcoming releases within that diverse spectrum. On the less conventional end, she has a piquette, which is a light and refreshing wine-like beverage made by rehydrating grape skins that have already been pressed. The drink is becoming more popular in the natural wine world because it's another way to utilize discarded grape skins, seeds and stems.

On the more refined side, DeAscentiis, 33, is also about to release a syrah sourced from 50-year-old vines in Los Olivos, Calif., which she believes could be one of the "most pure, elegant tasting wines I've ever made."

"Even if you don't like orange wines or don't like wines that kind of taste like kombucha," she says, "there are very serious, elegant red wines that are made naturally that I think just aren't what people associate with natural wine."

For some consumers, the range of natural wine's characteristics is redefining what wine can be, how it can taste and its impact on the environment, all of which are contributing to natural wine's recent surge in popularity. Across the country— but especially in the coastal hubs of New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles—there are wine bars, restaurants, bottle shops and even zines dedicated to natural wine.

But despite its rise in trendiness, natural wine isn't new. The recent movement is instead revitalizing traditional methods that winemakers around the world have

been practicing and handing down for centuries, long before modern farming and production practices made their way into our stemware.

Both Jelks, 31, of Florèz Wines, and Martha Stoumen, 38, are graduates of UC Davis's Viticulture and Enology program, but they also spent time working in vineyards to learn low-intervention techniques first-hand. For Stoumen, who spent eight years learning from winemakers across Europe and in New Zealand, the cultural preservation of their methods was part of what inspired her to return to California and make her own wine.

Stoumen now runs her own label from her hometown of Sebastopol, Calif., in Sonoma County. She sources organic grapes from longtime California growers, and also leases vineyard land where her grapes are dry farmed, a method that relies only on natural rainwater, rather than irrigation. These farming parameters lead Stoumen to seek out the freshest and most expressive varietals in a given year, instead of pursuing a specific grape. Her approach is more about assessing "what are the grapes telling us to make?"

"We're not going to adjust the flavors," she says. "We're not going to add a bunch of things once we get back to the winery. We're not going to add tannin and acid. You can basically buy bags of wine flavoring if you want to, but we're not going to do any of that."

For Jelks, being forced to be resourceful, both in the vineyard and in the winery, is a challenge that's paid off. At one point, he was fermenting picpoul, a white grape that was picked slightly early and emitting what he called an "intense kind of fruitiness." At the same time, he had a portion of pinot noir that he felt was "too jammy" to release on its own. To salvage them, he tried blending the two

fermentations together, creating Florèz's Poilu's Pinard.

"Together they complemented each other perfectly, and that wine was probably one of the most popular wines on that release," Jelks says. "I don't know if I want to call it a mistake, but it didn't go according to plan."

The approachability of the natural wine movement is also attracting people outside of the traditional food and beverage world. In 2015, James Murphy, of the band LCD Soundsystem, opened the Four Horseman in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which New York Magazine has called "perhaps the premiere New York destination for natural wine." And consumers have been enamored with Las Jaras Wines, a label of low-intervention offerings from the comedian Eric Warheim and the winemaker Joel Burt.

left , stoumen oversees her haul . this page , rachel deascentis and husband michel of say when .

right , eric bach and david bourke of good boy wine .

Before coming together to create Good Boy Wine in Los Angeles, Eric Bach, 38, and David Bourke, 36, had no formal winemaking knowledge. Instead, they did their own research and reached out to natural wine producers within two hours of L.A. who offered guidance and encouraged them to continue.

Bach then spent time training with winemakers in France and, by harnessing French old-world techniques, he says he aims to make wine "for the California palette, where it's always hot, and you're having a good time, and you're maybe drinking a little bit more quickly than you should."

Good Boy's grenache, called Warm Breeze, he deems a perfect representation of that. On the label's website, tasting notes include: "Campari spiked strawberry Koolaid" and "summer vacation in Mallorca."

Good Boy Wine is also dedicated to fostering collaboration among like-minded producers and consumers, an attempt, Bach says, to "pay it forward" after being welcomed into the natural wine community as newcomers.

"We're always supporting each other. Inviting each other to our different events. Doing collaborative wines, whatever it may be," Bach said. "It feels like we're in it together."

Recently, Bach and Bourke hosted Good Boy & Friends, a tasting event at a local bar that brought together representatives from 12 natural wineries and wine shops around Southern California. As a DJ spun disco records and a spray-paint artist created custom T-shirts, the gathering was stylishly unfussy, celebrating collaboration, rather than competition— without the pretension or snobbishness that's plagued the wine world in the past.

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Ihave been making pilgrimages to Mexico City for as long as I can remember. As a young child, my Mexican mother would plan out summer-break trips to expose me to her motherland. I visited the glorious gold Angel of I ndependence on Reforma Avenue in Mexico City long before I saw the golden angel at the Bastille in Paris. As a teenager, I was mystified by the grandeur of the pyramids of Teotihuacan, and as a young adult spending time in Frida Kahlo’s blue house felt like a right of passage.

I learned from a young age to value Mexico City as a cosmopolitan capital and cultural mecca. It’s a city I continue to find inspiration from in every stage of life. I evangelize the merits and magic of one of, with its 22 million inhabitants, the biggest cities in the world. It is a place I urge my creative friends to visit and invest time in.

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In recent years the profound beauty and complexity of the city has been discovered and with the ease of the internet, apps like Uber and Airbnb have made it easier for more people to jet to the historic city. I am both elated by this development and protective of keeping it from changing too much too fast. Part of its allure are the surprises you find by walking the streets and happening across something special like the Templo Mayor at the heart of the Zocalo that was built by the Mexican people in 1325, finding a Diego Rivera mural, or walking into one of the 150 museums that call the city home.

The Mexican-American author and journalist Daniel Hernandez wrote about the sensations and experiences he had in Mexico City in a book titled Down & Delirious in Mexico City . In the collection of essays and experiences with youth subcultures, he documents the astounding manifestations of desire, humor, and beauty he encountered and the surreal landscape he explored in the off hours. “Each journey to a new place lit a new connection in my brain, and I built up from there,” he wrote.

For me, to capture Mexico City you must first develop a willingness inside yourself to get lost, have no agenda, and let a circular energy carry you. Once you avail yourself to those types of experiences, the intoxicating and electrifying energy Hernandez wrote about comes through first hand. I come to each trip with a fierce desire to connect some part of my Mexican identity with the city. But it’s not just about identity and representation for me, it’s about the freedom that one feels as a creative, as an artist and a writer, as you traverse and explore the spectacle of such a populated and dense space.

You are at once singular and part of a mass of humanity.

It brings to mind the work of Belgian born artist Francic Alys, who left behind his architecture practice and relocated to Mexico City in the early 1980s. One of his video works titled “Looking Up” (2001) films pedestrians crossing a public square as a performance. It is a perfect example of the power of suggestion, how one’s own investment in making a moment, can actually become a work of art. Mexico City is a land of self-exploration, a city that you can come back to and find yourself over and over again. Each trip avails itself to a new layer of experimentation and unearthing new parts of yourself.

When you climb the Pyramid of the Sun for the first time, you never forget the heat of said sun, the steepness of the stairs. You reach the top and all of a sudden you gain a perspective you hadn’t seen. You see history below, you understand what veneration is.

The blue house of Frida Kahlo in Coyoacan is one of the truest expressions of creative identity. The building houses all the mystical objects Kahlo collected and used on a daily basis. As a woman ahead of her time, each object tells a story about her radical existence. To visit the house and museum is to step into a personal collection of belongings of the artist, to see first-hand what inspired her: the pottery, the paintings, the traditional Mexican artisans. The experience bridges eras of creation between indigenous artisans and the practice of Modernism. Mexico City is full of destinations and inspiration, streets full of things and encounters to create physical mood boards. There are scents, textures, and visuals there I want people to experience: tasting tacos de canasta out of a basket, smelling beeswax candles from the mercado, or walking through a cloud of myrrh from a spiritual cleansing or limpia at the Zocalo.

It’s the colors fuchsia and blue you see painted on buildings but also the blooming violet jacaranda trees in the Spring.

My favorite thing to do is to match friends with experiences, catering to their passions. For architecture aficionados there is the gorgeous pink Luis Barragan horse stables outside of town. For foodies, I like to match them with a healthy mix of new and traditional standards like Contramar for grilled fish at lunch and traditional enchiladas at Café De Tacuba for dinner. For friends who want to learn about Mexican art, I try to get them opportunities to meet living artists, photographers, or gallerists, especially those doing interesting things like Ciclo, a Mexican organization that conducts artistic interventions in urban public spaces.

I think it’s important to make memories and meaning, not just play the tourist. To try and not just take from a city but to look for ways to create something, a piece of knowledge and history to pass on to others. But also with a focus on leaving things the way we found them. Because I uphold this city as one of the most intoxicating and powerful places in the world, I like to champion it, and think of myself as its steward. Frequently, and for a long time now, I invite friends to join me on trips of creative exploration. Together we experience museums, public squares, and together we catch meaning in wonderous new sightings. I like to think of my time with friends in Mexico City as creating circular time, giving back to the energy that you receive.

the angel of independence on mexico city ' s reforma avenue

Water Street Wonderland

It’s bigger than the land that holds the U.S. Capitol or Grand Central Station. It'll include a million square feet of both office and retail space. By the time it’s completely finished, there’ll be 3,500 residences, along with 692 new and 727 renovated hotel rooms. In short, it’s a city within a city.

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It’s called Water Street Tampa, and it’s the largest single development to land in Tampa Bay—and one of the largest developments being built in any city in recent years. But figuring out what it is exactly, and how someone visiting for the first time can navigate this massive downtown-within-adowntown, is another thing entirely. Here’s what to know, from its initial concept to what’s coming tomorrow.

In July 2022, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor climbed into the cab of a massive backhoe. Pulling levers, she directed the canaryyellow robotic arm down and took a symbolic swing commencing the destruction of the Ardent Mills flour mill. Built in 1938, the mill had sat on three acres of land in what was once an industrial port neighborhood.

Four years prior, Jeffrey Vinik and partners and Cascade Investment—the firm funded by Bill Gates—bought the mill and surrounding land for $13 million. Vinik is the owner of the NHL’s World Champion Tampa Bay Lighting (which calls Water Street’s Amalie Arena home) and former manager of the Fidelity Magellan Fund. At first, Vinik envisioned the property as the new site for the Tampa Bay Rays. But he soon began imagining it as something bigger, grander, an upscale downtown of its own right in the center of the city, bringing in real estate developer Strategic Property Partners (SPP) to help execute the idea.

Lee Schaffler, chief portfolio officer for SPP, says the overall vision was to create

water street tampa is built over 56 walkable acres .

a neighborhood designed with a high quality of life. “Water Street Tampa is built on the idea that the city of the future can be designed in a more comprehensive, cohesive, and people-centric way,” Schaffler claims. “Our goal was to bring together all the essential elements of a thriving community—from homes to offices to parks to retail—together in one place, connected by lively streetscapes and pedestrian-friendly walkways.”

The end result, Schaffler says, is to create a “15-minute city experience” that allows residents and visitors to be within a quick walk or drive from everything they need, and to be close to long-established neighborhoods nearby.

“We collaborated with some of the brightest minds in design to create this once-in-a-lifetime project, and we are proud to say that we have made that vision a reality,” Schaffler humble-brags, adding, “Tampa is a city with so much to offer, so it’s no surprise that it’s been growing over the last few years and getting a lot of national attention. A neighborhood like Water Street Tampa represents the future of development.”

To make such an endeavor possible, from

the beginning its partners imagined residences and hotels as its anchor. Giving the neighborhood an influx of tourists and locals would inject it with new life.

The project’s first phase, slated for completion at the end of 2022, will include three Marriott properties. The Tampa EDITION would become the fifth U.S. property for EDITION Hotels, with 172 rooms and suites and six spots for food and beverage. At the top will be a rooftop bar and terrace, and the building will also feature a 204-square-meter penthouse, expansive spa, and a fitness center.

Architecture firms Morris Adjmi and Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Associates teamed up to create a gleaming building with wide, modern windows and wraparound balconies.

Nearby is the 519-room JW Marriott Water Street. The new property features sixth-floor resort-style pools with private cabanas, 100,000 square feet of event space, and a Spa by JW. Six dining outlets include the aptly named Six, on the sixth floor of the property.

In the heart of the development, Tampa Marriott Water Street recently underwent an extensive 18-month renovation. Completed in 2019, the renovation included enhancements to 727 guest rooms and 40,000 square feet of meeting space. A new Great Room was designed by Johnson Studio at Cooper Carry, which created a modern meeting space with views of Tampa Bay.

“The Marriott brand aligns perfectly with Water Street Tampa’s mission to create a new standard of well-rounded, thoughtful living,” Schaffler says.

The neighborhood also adds both rentals and condominiums, totaling 3,500 residences. Atop the Tampa EDITION, an exclusive condo building features just

37 units that started at $2 million before selling out. Cora offers 388 new homes, ranging from studios to three-bedroom dwellings. Leasing is expected to begin in 2023 at 1050 Water Street, and the first apartment tower to open, Heron, recently added a Publix Greenwise Market to the ground floor.

With a million square feet of new office space, Water Street Tampa rivals many small cities with its corporate offerings. But its planners didn’t want to just create new places to work. From the beginning, the idea was to develop a better place for people to go to the office.

During its planning, Water Street Tampa

sought and became the world’s first Precertified WELL community, a recognition of the development’s commitment to the well-being of residents and workers. The team achieved this by adding new common spaces designed to improve wellness, along with access to the city’s existing parks and infrastructure, like the 2.4-mile walkable and bike-able Tampa Riverwalk that runs alongside the property.

Anchoring the office space is Thousand & One, the city's first Well Core and Shellcertified office building. When it opened in 2022, it became Tampa's first trophy office tower in three decades. The building's design uses natural light, terraces, and water features to promote happiness and

increase productivity. Already leasing space is wealth management firm Northern Trust, plus construction giant Suffolk Construction, global accounting firm RSM, and real estate investment trust Sila Realty Trust Inc.

It’s not just the buildings that were designed to increase wellness, Schaffler points out. The six acres of new streetscapes that run alongside Water Street’s 12 buildings were all designed to promote better walking and biking, giving residents and workers the ability to get to and from destinations in a healthier way.

The development’s second phase, coming soon, will continue that prioritization of “the pedestrian experience,” Schaffler says, with a new collection of residential, office, retail, and hospitality space. Schaffler adds, “We are creating a 24-hour downtown experience for Tampa, and we couldn’t be more excited for those living in, working in and visiting the city to enjoy it.”

With over a million square feet of retail space, Water Street Tampa aims to become a new regional destination for visitors and locals. The development's entertainment hub is Sparkman Wharf, a renovation of the old Channelside Plaza featuring chefdriven concepts, a covered biergarten, swing sets, an outdoor stage, and a lawn with games.

Restaurants that have already arrived include LightHaus Beer Garden, Gallito Taqueria, JoToro, and Murph's Barbeque. There are also new entertainment draws including Splitsville, a bowling alley with cocktails and upscale bar food.

Among the nation's fastest-growing burger concepts, BurgerFi opened one of its fast-casual concepts across from the Amalie Arena. Nadia Cronk, senior vice president of marketing for BurgerFi, had

been monitoring the project’s progress. “With all of the new development the area is seeing as the Water Street neighborhood continues to grow, there was a timely opportunity for BurgerFi to capitalize on the waterfront community’s popularity,” Cronk says. She also notes that the development is indicative of Tampa’s upward mobility in recent years and improvements the city has been making. “Water Street, and the entire downtown area, perfectly embodies its impressive growth these past few years and dictates where the city is headed. More and more, we see people from all over the country moving to the area which I believe will further establish Tampa as a world-class destination.”

Beyond traditional retail, Water Street has also become home to Embarc Collective, a nonprofit startup hub that helps local companies scale up with coaching and support. USF Health has also opened The Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida on Channelside Drive.

New retail tenants seem to be announced daily, with Orangetheory Fitness, Chill Bros. Scoop Shop, and Shortwave Coffee among them.

Vinik, who initially envisioned Water Street Tampa, recently told the Tampa Bay Business Journal that he’s thrilled to see his idea become a reality, saying, “It's so exciting. This was just on paper eight, nine, 10 years ago. It's just a wonderful time to see all this work come to fruition.”

Like any seed worth being sewn, you just need to add Water.

This Modern-Day Ski Chalet Brings Aspen Art Slopeside

Rising from the base of Aspen Mountain, The Sky Residences at W Aspen’s peaked roofs evoke the classic silhouette and style of a European ski chalet but with an upto-the-minute interpretation, constructed with environmentally sustainable materials and contemporary finishes.

The new property comprises a series of firsts: the first W Hotels ski escape in the United States, the first new hotel to open in Aspen in 25 years, and currently the town’s only public mountainside après-ski venue. Combined, these

elements are bound to enliven the local scene. The property includes 88 hotel rooms, 11 shared ownership residences and a variety of public spaces that will attract an energetic clientele.

According to Marriott Global Design Director Martin Ablaza, creative collaborators contemplated historical, physical and social contexts as they determined the storytelling approach that drove design decisions behind The Sky Residences at W Aspen.

“Storytelling allows us to tap into unique insights in the location and bring them to life through unexpected elements, infused with wit and a dash of whimsy,” he said.

History with a Twist

Colorado-based architecture firm

Rowland+Broughton envisioned the property in the ski chalet style that is characteristic of the town, incorporating sloped ceilings and level changes throughout the interior, giving each space a cozy, individual style.“There are three basic elements to a ski chalet,” Ablaza explained. “There’s a sloping roof with overhanging eaves, rustic and compact wooden architecture, and iconic elements of fire and warmth.”

Rowland+Broughton Principal, John Rowland, expands on that idea. “By design, the architectural concept of a modern ski chalet links Aspen’s past, present and future,” says Rowland.

colorado - based architecture firm rowland + broughton envisioned the property in the ski chalet style that is characteristic of the town

“W Aspen contributes to the base of the mountain location with its sloping roofs and natural, high-quality materials. Plus, it’s infused with modern-day detailing that weaves into the fabric and history of town.”

As skiers schuss down from Aspen Mountain toward the ski-in portion of the property, the second-floor Living Room welcomes them with its outdoor mezzanine and dramatic fire pit. “It serves as a beacon,” Ablaza said, “drawing guests in for the afternoon après-ski ritual.”

The design team also turned a keen eye toward Aspen’s colorful history as they developed the property’s public spaces. In fact, part of The Sky Residences at W Aspen’s story tracks back to 1879, when miners established the town and soon discovered a 30-mile-long vein of silver ore. The underground riches drew thousands to seek their fortunes at 8,000 feet of altitude.

The prize treasure, the largest silver nugget ever found, emerged from deep in the Smuggler Mine in 1894. It weighed over 2,000 pounds and consisted of 93 percent pure silver.

Today, the DJ booth in W Aspen, created by New York interior design firm nemaworkshop, evokes this legendary nugget.

Residents and guests with youthful joie de vivre are also bound to linger on the 8,000-square-foot WET Deck, an allweather rooftop gathering space with panoramic mountain views, banquette seating, a DJ booth, a hot tub, a heated

swimming pool and a bar whose overhang is like a whimsical upsidedown model of the mountains’ relief.

Owners of Sky Residences have the privilege of their own balconies and decks and will also have access to a private rooftop lounge, which includes hot tubs, outdoor dining space and grilling areas, according to Ablaza.

Local Art Invigorates Design

The designers behind The Sky Residences at W Aspen also took care to incorporate inspiration from local artists. The graphic artist Thomas W. Benton moved to Aspen in the 1960s, and his art, including posters he created for Hunter S. Thompson’s wacky 1970 candidacy for Pitkin County Sheriff, evoke the style and spirit of the era.

These posters, with their muted color gradation patterns, influenced the palette of the bathrooms on the living room level.

Celebrating “hidden gems of Aspen,” Forte Aspen designed the pillow artwork to highlight the unique history and location of W Aspen in what was historically the “red-light district” during the turn of the century.

Local designer Jenna Holcomb says she was inspired by both Benton, as well as another iconic Aspen artist, Herbert Bayer, when creating the W Aspen bed pillow graphics. “It’s meant to be part of a process of discovery,” says Holcomb. “The back of the pillows show a hand-illustrated trail map of Aspen Mountain which suggests a sketch on a napkin, a modern-day treasure map for adventurous visitors and locals.”

Ablaza also explains how the Rocky Mountains inspired the Hudson River School of landscape painters in the 1800s — in particular, the majestic works of Albert Bierstadt.

“We wanted to see if there were artists out there who could impart their own vision on what Aspen is today through the lens of these historical paintings,” Ablaza said.

The team invited the artist Gaia, originally a street muralist, to create work for W Aspen, and he came up with works that incorporated elements from Bierstadt paintings, as seen, for example, through the camera of a smartphone. Gaia “interprets the local voice through the veil of historical painting … with a youthful and modern take on local culture,” Ablaza said.

Ablaza said designers also embraced the kitschier elements of Rocky Mountain art.

The Bob Ross technique of paint-bynumbers influenced the signage in the corridors, and the location’s former status as a red-light district during the mining era set the mood for 39 Degrees, the destination bar within the complex, “recalling a Victorian bordello palette with crushed velvets and a lot of reds … and the pit seating that’s synonymous with the ’70s.”

Referring to Aspen’s location on the 39th parallel, the 39 Degrees moniker and logo design are also infused with meaning.

Aspen is known for luxury and recreation, and The Sky Residences at W Aspen evoke the bold spirit that characterized the town’s multiple heydays—and just might foster a new prime.

Time is Money

At the beginning of September, Jon Carter learned that Grönefeld, a small, well-respected watchmaker in the Netherlands, would be releasing its first sports watch. He knew Bart and Tim Grönefeld—known affectionately in the industry as the “Horological Brothers”— would probably only be selling a few

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dozen a year. The small team at Grönefeld make each one by hand, and many collectors fervently seek them out. Carter, a lawyer based in New York City, signed up to purchase one. Within a week, he received an email asking for a 30 percent deposit and informing him that his new 1969 Deltaworks—which retails at around $50,000—would not be available until the second half of 2026. At the earliest.

“This for a brand that the average person has not heard of,” Carter says. “That was nowhere near the case when I first started collecting.”

As Carter’s anecdote serves to illustrate, interest in collecting high-end, luxury watches has skyrocketed over the past decade—what many collectors and industry insiders contribute to the advent of the internet, especially Instagram. “Things that were not available outside of Los Angeles or Chicago or New York, now they are much more known and much more visible,” Carter says. “Because of that, I think they’re gaining traction in what you might call these secondary and tertiary markets.”

“That’s one of the things that has really fascinated me is how much this hobby and passion extends beyond major metropolitan areas,” he continues. “I travel a fair amount for work, and I have people stop to comment on a piece I’m wearing, or vice versa, and I’ll see something unique in a place that I would never expect to see it. I’m talking about watches I know for a fact wouldn’t be sold in that particular city or even state.”

Carter’s observation is backed up by data. Swiss watch exports have hit record highs in recent years, and many experts have attributed the phenomenon to consumers spending their stimulus checks and freshly obtained crypto wealth on vintage watches they might be looking at as long-term

investments. Retail prices have naturally soared, as have prices in the secondary market, which can sometimes fetch up to five times the retail value. Perhaps the most coveted watch in the world, a Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711 has been reported to be for sale for more than 1,300 percent above its retail price.

Of course, it takes eye-popping amounts of money to fetch these watches at retail too, especially when talking about limited edition rarities like Carter’s Grönefeld.

The Audemars Piguet platinum and titanium Royal Oak with turquoise dial, for instance, can run over a million dollars. Patek Phillipe’s Grand Complications in 18K rose gold and black index dial is over 30-percent more expensive than that. Both can resell for even higher.

“It would not be an overstatement to say that at least three-quarters of the people who I know think about market and resale value when buying new watches,” Carter says, explaining he’s only sold watches when he (rarely) grew tired of them or wanted to fund another acquisition.

“They really have turned into an asset class in a very material way. Again, it’s not hyperbole to say that there are certain watches, if you can get them at retail price, you are instantly going to turn a large profit if you were to sell it the next day.”

However, with the so-called “crypto collapse” crippling would-be buyers in mid-May 2022, some industry observers have noted that the frenzy is certain to cool soon, as supply might finally be starting to outstrip demand. Others, like Kathleen McGivney, who co-founded a social group called RedBar for watch collectors and enthusiasts across the globe, have long suspected that would be the case—and emphasizes there’s “a big difference between who the industry thinks it’s selling to and who is actually buying.”

“The vast majority of collectors I interact with are not thinking of collecting in that way,” says McGivney, who estimates she currently has about 40 watches in her collection. “They are thinking about it as an asset, in the sense that they insure their watches, but not as, like, their retirement fund or anything. They’re looking at them as items of value that they will protect just as they would their house or their car.”

Carter, who has been obsessed with watches since childhood, now tries to have pieces that “are all interesting and unique in their own way, whether that’s the story behind them or how they were designed.” At the moment, he has a little more than 20 watches total in his collection. “I try not to have a lot of stuff that looks the

same either,” he says. “I see them, too, as accessories for an outfit—something that can accentuate what I’m wearing or blend in with it.”

“A lot of people might seem to think that expensive watches are expensive just because they can be,” he continues. “They don’t necessarily connect the cost with anything other than the prestige or status, and they fail to recognize how much work and engineering and precision goes into these things.”

Both McGivney and Carter stress, while news stories tend to paint collecting as a kind of investing bonanza, that framing is often antithetical to a lot of watch collectors who—no doubt aware of the resale value—are typically more concerned with their own idiosyncratic philosophies. This approach, in turn, has created a varied and diverse community, McGivney says, as the captivation around collecting has only continued to grow. A niche, hobbyist pursuit has become relatively mainstream. Two prominent musicians, Ed Sheeran and John Mayer, have extensive watch collections, and even they speak about watches less as luxury items than as objects with which they’ve developed personal relationships.

“What keeps me really glued to the whole thing is the community—the people who come together and end up becoming great friends over this shared passion for these, quite frankly, obsolete objects. Those connections are priceless,” McGivney says.

“Everyone has their own approach,” she adds. “I have one friend who mostly just collects highly complicated watches, and others who only collect vintage or dive watches. Learning why—and hearing their stories—that’s so much more interesting to me than, like, showing up somewhere and saying, ‘Look at my shiny, gold thing.’ For me, that’s what makes collecting fascinating.”

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eat & drink

A nourishing pastime

by yoko baumberger

Sipping in Secret

“ W hat's the password?" a voice asks through the intercom.

You have no idea. Stepping back from the doorbell, you scramble for your phone, frantically scrolling to find your booking confirmation—you made a reservation, you swear!—as Times Square-bound tourists throng the sidewalk behind you. The voice on the other end of the intercom either senses your panic or is able to see you because, after what feels like hours but is probably closer to 15 seconds, it offers advice.

“Password’s right on our website, just click the button labeled ‘access’ on the homepage,” the voice says. Done. You’re buzzed in and made to descend a fauxgraffitied staircase to The Woo Woo, a subterranean bar with thumping music, ample seating, and an odd but earnest 1980s theme. You order the $16 Purple Rain cocktail, a combination of gin, lemongrass, and other aromatics with an oversized blue ice cube seemingly designed for Instagram.

The Woo Woo is one of several new, speakeasy-themed bars that have opened in New York City in the last year. Nothing Really Matters occupies an unmarked alcove near the turnstiles of a midtown subway station, while Paper Planes and PS are within a Lower East Side restaurant and Hudson Square gourmet shop, respectively. On the Upper East Side, Keys & Heels lies behind a mock hardware storefront. All serve top-tier drinks in highly stylized spaces that are deliberately concealed.

If it seems like we’ve been down this road before, it’s because we have—sort of.

Nearly 20 years ago, a wave of speakeasystyle bars opened across New York City. Inspired by Prohibition, the movement revived classic cocktails like the Negroni and Manhattan, and revolutionized local and global drinks culture.

Next-generation speakeasies build upon that legacy, but are distinctly modern outposts in a very different New York. They’ve traded hushed reverence for raucous hospitality, and happily accept

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advance reservations whether or not you happen to know someone who works there. And, regardless of whether you enjoy drinking beneath a disco ball in a 1980s-themed space, these bars are absolutely, unapologetically focused on fun.

The History

It used to be hard to get a good drink in this town.

“If you went into a hotel bar in Manhattan in 2002 and asked for a Negroni, they maybe knew how to make it,” says John deBary, author and former bartender at PDT, an East Village speakeasy that opened in 2007. “Now, you can go anywhere in any mid-sized city, and get a [quality] cocktail. You can go to a restaurant in Stanford, Connecticut and get a Corpse Reviver No. 2.”

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Before trailblazing bars like PDT, Death & Co., Employees Only, and Milk & Honey (now Attaboy) opened in the aughts and early 2010s, New York City had plenty of places to drink but very few devoted to quality cocktails.

The speakeasies that opened in the aughts and early 2010s changed all that. Gone were the sloppily made vodka sodas and sour apple martinis of the 1990s; in their place, drinks were as carefully composed as the dishes served at a Michelinstarred restaurant. This approach altered expectations about what cocktails were and could be, and transformed cultural narratives about the seriousness of mixed drinks and the people who made them.

“The rise of speakeasy culture in the 2000's helped change the idea of a bartender as just someone slinging beers and shots, to an actual craft to be respected," bartender Marissa Mazzotta told Food & Wine in 2020.

The aesthetic was enormously influential, too. Edison light bulbs, exposed brick, and other signifiers of a real or imagined New York City was a hallmark of the aughts speakeasies, and became a shorthand for cool at bars from Brooklyn to Berlin to Beijing.

Nothing is perfect, however, and one

common complaint about these aughts speakeasies was just how hard it was to get into them. Artfully hidden entrances prohibited passersby from casually dropping by, and it was difficult to secure one of precious few barstools without hours-long waits or a personal connection.

“When I was working at PDT, there’d be so many people who were like, ‘F that place, I can never get a reservation,’” deBary says while noting that intentions weren’t necessarily exclusivity. “A lot of the really ‘inhospitable’ things were done in service to the people there. Inside, it was cool, it was quiet, you could actually have a conversation. It’s hard to learn about pisco with the bartender when someone’s standing behind you screaming in your ear.”

The New Wave

The new wave of 2022 speakeasies is considerably noisier, in part because most New Yorkers don’t need a quiet environment to learn about craft spirits and classic cocktails anymore—they already know.

“The software of good drinks has been installed more broadly now,” says deBary. As a result, these modern speakeasies serve quality drinks as a matter of course, and their focus seems to be more about entertainment than education.

Massimo Lusardi, who opened Keys & Heels in March 2022, admires the aughts speakeasies, but says that, “Keys & Heels is more about being playful, and not too serious.”

He wants the bar to be both a neighborhood spot and special-occasion drinks destination. “We make it a point to be very egalitarian. It’s consciously not a velvet rope kind of place. We take reservations on Resy, and if you don’t have a reservation, it’s first come first serve.”

Lindsay Weiss, co-owner of the gourmet shop Pine & Polk and its hidden bar, PS, which opened in May 2022, happily sees a continuum between previous and modern speakeasies. “To even be in the same category as some of our favorites is humbling and wild, we love bars like PDT and Attaboy. We’d like to think we have amazing cocktails in common!” Still, Weiss says, PS eschews Prohibition styling and other hallmarks of the earlier wave. “We think the atmosphere we’ve created is definitely unique and very much our own. We’re completely female-owned and female-run—our bar director, executive chef, and GM are all women—and while the bar is still meant to have an edgy feel, there are definitely touches that make it more feminine.”

PS has only 39 seats, but it accepts online reservations and makes no secret about which wall of Pine & Polk functions as the door to the bar (pro-tip: it’s the one with the chocolate bars). Inside, Weiss says, they aim to create a convivial, dinner party atmosphere.

A similar spirit imbues Paper Planes, a speakeasy-style bar within the restaurant Tzarevna. Bar seats can be reserved on OpenTable, and the menu contains several vodka cocktails. The latter is thematically appropriate, given Tzarevna’s Russian- and Georgian-inspired kitchen, but it also represents a notable departure from some of the vodka-hating speakeasies of yesteryear.

“Some craft cocktail-focused bars don’t even serve vodka … having deemed it ‘a flavorless spirit’ that lacks substance,” Alisa Scerrato wrote on Alcohol Professor.

And yet, vodka is the most popular liquor in the U.S. By giving the spirit its due, Paper Planes honors its own identity and brings more palates and preferences to the table.

Can’t Stop Won’t Stop

While America’s earliest speakeasies were responses to Prohibition, alcohol consumption has been legal in the United States since 1933. Why, then, in 2022, do speakeasies endure?

“Human nature loves a secret,” says Lusardi. “It’s seductive to know something that others don’t.”

Plus, whether you’re pulling open a quasisecret door or reciting a password into an intercom on the sidewalk, speakeasies set the stage for an eventual, irresistible reveal.

“The element of surprise is always fun for guests—and every time we watch someone walk in and react, it’s exactly what we hoped for when we built the two spaces,” says Weiss. Lusardi agrees. “There’s this moment that happens when people spread open the velvet curtain ... The bar winks at you from the moment you walk in.”

In 2022, New Yorkers have a lot of options for great cocktails. Speakeasies endure because they’ve transformed to attract new audiences while still tapping into an elemental, arguably eternal human desire to uncover the unexpected.

“Why do you wrap a present?” says deBary. “Expectation and how you prime someone for an experience is so important. There’s something really special about discovery and secrets and surprises.”

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Field Guide

Twenty years ago, Jim Denevan had a simple idea. A burnt-out restaurant chef from northern California, Denevan wondered if there might not be a better way to deliver food to people than through the pressure-filled aperture of a restaurant. “I had just read Tony Bourdain’s ‘Kitchen Confidential,’” he tells me, “and I was fed up with the idea of chefs as swashbuckling, drug-taking a–holes.” What he wanted was more joy, more space, more connection. His solution was a roving dinner party composed of (mostly) strangers in exquisite locations (often fields) called Outstanding in the Field. (One of his first events was for a hundred diners in a sea-side cave in Half Moon Bay, CA.) Each dinner was a virtuosic feat of logistical bravado and culinary bravura. Twenty years on, both are on display, though the field has gotten much larger.

“It’s become a little bit more stable,” Denevan says. Instead of three or four events a year, this season consists of hundreds, and most

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unfurl not upon topologically suspect perches but in actual farmer’s fields. They stretch literally around the globe from the rolling hills of Blue Moon Community Farm in Stoughton, WI, to the small organic farm Tenuta San Carlo in Grosseto, Tuscany to a field kitchen in Accra, Ghana. “We have a schedule of 25,000 tickets,” Denevan says proudly. Most sell out.

A typical Outstanding in the Field evening finds an extremely long, impressively long, Dr. Seussian-long table, fully set with wine glasses that gleam in the sunlight and plates in precise order atop a hemp and linen tablecloth. Sometimes the table is in a straight line, as it was in a sunflower field in Plato, MN. Sometimes it snakes to mimic the contours of the landscape, as it did at a secret sea cove in San Mateo, CA. (Denevan, apart from running Outstanding in the Field, is a land artist in the vein of Andrew Goldsworthy or Maya Lin.) Guests arrive—events usually max out at 160 people and cost around $385 per person—in the afternoon, glowing with anticipation, exuding good health. Women wear flowing floral dresses and wide hats. Men wear various pastel shades and light slacks. There are shoes but rarely socks. It’s a vibe. “I want the guests to be overwhelmed by the magic and beauty of the circumstance and put their phone down and concentrate on the menu, the surroundings and the story telling,” says Denevan of the guests, “they can’t help but soak it up. “

In the early years, it was Denevan himself lugging tables into the field. Now, although he still attends about 60 percent of the events, he says there’s a team of close to 100 people who help. His mission remains undimmed. “The table is both a driver of culture and a portrait of contemporary

culture,” he says, “It feels good that finally the cultural moment is recognizing what we’ve been doing since 1999.” And that moment has in turn allowed Outstanding in the Field to increase its breadth and scope in terms of both chefs and locations. This season features chefs like Fatmata Binta from Ghana’s Fulani Test kitchen cooking in a field kitchen in Accra on November 11.

But what has given Outstanding in the Field longevity isn’t simply Denevan’s penchant for location selection. The caliber of chefs and farmers on whom he is able to draw include some of the best in the world. In past seasons, for instance, chefs included Francis Ang, of San Francisco’s Filipino restaurant Abacawho, who cooked at the 50,000 acre Richardson Ranch; and Julien Hawkins of Austin’s live-fire hotspot Hestia. Both restaurants recently won spots on Esquire’s “Best New Restaurants” list. Denevan’s own background as a chef, as well as his close partnership with the farmers in whose fields his events unfold, helps in recruiting the talent. What attracts the chef willing, as he puts it, “to endure all the hassles” of lugging equipment around into a makeshift kitchen is a feeling of bonhomie. “There are two things chefs want,” Denevan says, “ they want to cook at the James Beard House and Outstanding in the Field. The James Beard House is a temple among chefs. But Outstanding in the Field is a sense that, now, I’m among my people.”

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Other Nomadic Dining Clubs

Although Outstanding in the Field is one of the first of its kind, now that fine dining has been liberated from the four walls of restaurants, other companies have popped up curating once-in-a-lifetime experiences around the world. Here are three of our favorites:

Secret Supper

A smaller outfit founded in 2015, Secret Supper adds to the surprise by keeping the location of the supper… secret until just 24 hours before the event. (It is within two hours drive from the listed city.) Events are on the smaller side, about 50 to 60 people, and cost $249 per person. A recent supper, in partnership with Peroni, offered at “Taste of Italy” over five courses from chefs Mia Castro, Ashley Rodriguez, and Jodi Moreno in Miami, Los Angeles, and New York, respectively.

Dining Impossible

The brainchild of culinary ambassador Kristian Brask Thomsen, Dining Impossible started as an exclusive dinner party and has since morphed into DI:JET, a four day global tour aboard a private jet to some of the world’s best restaurants. Price is available upon request.

Last Supper Society

Sacramento-based Last Supper Society was founded by Byron Hughes and Ryan Royster and celebrates the intersection of art and food in various locales in northern California like an intimate artist dinner at Casino Mine Ranch, a vineyard in Plymouth, CA.

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A Culinary Cornucopia in the Tropics

Mention cuisine to a Belizean and you’ll soon be talking about culture. “My family comes from the ethnic group called the Garifuna,” says Jeremy Enriquez, who grew up in the southern coastal town of Punta Gorda, “but as a child, in the 1960s, I had the best mix of foods from all ethnicities in Belize. Each dish would have a story, and I was part of preparing them— for example, grinding the corn in the hand mill to make tortillas in the hearth.”

For Enriquez, a nonprofit consultant who now lives farther north in Belmopan, his earliest food memories are linked to his paternal grandmother. Jane Enriquez spent nearly 40 years moving around the country with her husband, Andrés, a pioneering educator who worked in various rural communities. “Wherever they lived, she interacted with the women and learned to cook their traditional meals.” Her experiences provided her grandson with a remarkable view of Belize’s multicultural tapestry.

A former British colony and the only Central American nation where English is the official language, Belize is an ethnographer's paradise. In a country not much bigger than New Jersey or

Wales, the population includes direct descendants of the Maya, the area’s first known inhabitants; Mestizos, whose Mayan and Spanish ancestors migrated from Mexico; Creoles, the progeny of European slave-owners and the slaves they brought over from West and Central Africa to harvest mahogany; and the Garifuna, a free people of West and Central African, Arawak, and Carib origins.

While these are the largest groups, Belize is also home to smaller communities— of East Indians, who came as British indentured servants after slavery was abolished in the U.K.; immigrants from China, Taiwan, the Middle East, plus the nation’s Central American neighbors; and Mennonite farmers, who produce most of the country’s poultry and dairy foods.

This complex history shows up on the plate. “We're kind of like the Caribbean meets Central America, and you see that as you travel around,” says Lyra Spang, Ph.D., a culinary anthropologist from the southern Toledo District who runs Taste Belize, which offers culinary tours and cooking classes. “You'll be hearing reggae while you're sitting on top of a Maya pyramid.”

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For chef Jennie Staines, it’s her mother’s Maya-Mestizo heritage that is woven through the menu at Elvi’s Kitchen in San Pedro on Ambergris Caye, Belize’s largest island. Originally established as a burger joint by Staines’ mother, Elvi’s evolved into a Caribbean restaurant known for fresh local seafood and a weekly Mayan buffet. “What I'm really proud about is when they say you have sazón [flavor],” she says. “I feel that Belizeans inherited that … because of the different cultures that were mixed together.”

Corn, a Mayan staple, appears throughout Staines’ menu, in her esquites, tacos, and tortilla soup, and she also serves pibil, a classic of the Yucatec Maya—citrusmarinated pork that’s slow-cooked overnight. The meat is seasoned with red recado, a fragrant spice paste that includes annatto, cumin, oregano, and garlic. Recado is used in many Belizean dishes and also comes in white and black varieties. The latter, made with charred tortillas, imparts its intense flavor and color to chimole, a dark-hued chicken soup of Mestizo origin.

But Staines’ father was Creole, and her menu also features the most emblematic Creole dish of all: stewed chicken with rice and beans, served with potato salad and coleslaw. Locally referred to as “Sunday dinna,” it can be found at most restaurants and takeout windows, regardless of the chef’s background.

The dish is a favorite of Sarah Jane Forman, a Belizean Creole who grew up on a farm just outside of a Kekchi Maya village. “The chicken has an aromatic spice profile and typically contains red recado. It’s usually browned and then stewed.” An education lawyer who now lives in Washington D.C., Forman travels back often to visit her family, and usually returns to the U.S. with a fresh stash of the

seasoning blend in her suitcase. “The recados you buy [in Belize] are so much better. It almost has the consistency of a molding clay, though you wouldn’t want to touch it as it will make your hands bright red.”

When it comes to the other half of the dish, there are two distinct but similarsounding preparations. When you order “rice and beans” the two ingredients will be cooked together in coconut milk, but if you’re having “beans and rice,” they will be stewed separately. In either case, the final composed dish is not spicy, but most locals will boost it. Referring to the creator of the country’s famed hot-sauce brand, Forman says, “[Marie Sharp] basically took to scale a very traditional recipe of sliced habanero peppers and onions in vinegar that everyone has on their kitchen table—like in an old Nestlé instant-coffee jar—and added carrots, to sweeten it. Belizeans put hot sauce on everything.”

Enriquez’s culinary lodestar is different. “If I go to visit my mom right now, she will prepare hudut,” he says. “That reconnects me with my roots.” Probably the most widely known Garifuna dish, hudut is made from green plantains that are pounded with a mortar and pestle, boiled to a soft texture, and blended with ripe plantains to achieve the desired level of sweetness. Traditionally, hudut is paired with a coconut-milk fish soup, although the latter can also be served with ereba, a brittle cracker-like bread made from grated cassava that’s dipped in the savory broth.

When discussing their food, Belizeans describe seemingly endless takes on certain main ingredients. Enriquez tells me about bundiga, which is made with green bananas that are grated, seasoned, rolled into a kind of dumpling, boiled in coconut milk, and served with fish. Forman describes dukunu, green sweet

the mango is a staple in belizean cuisine above , a fried whole red snapper from bow ' s taste of belize in houston , texas

left , a cook at bow ' s taste of belize prepares pork tamales wrapped in banana leaf right , lobster and chicken on a grill in san pedro , belize

corn that’s been grated and blended with coconut milk, poured into a corn husk like a tamale, and boiled. “A lot of recipes involve using a grater,” she says, “and there are tamales everywhere in Belize,” but they vary in their ingredients, textures, and wrapping materials, which include banana leaves and corn husks. “Creole tamales are often wrapped in tinfoil,” she adds. “It’s bizarre, but that’s how my aunties cooked them.”

While African and South American/ Carib foodways are visible in the use of cassava, plantain, banana, coconut, coconut oil, and coconut milk, geography is another important element. Southern Belize receives three times as much rainfall as the north, which is why cacao production is concentrated there, where it is cultivated by the country’s largest Maya population. “They don't have cacao up north because they can't,” says Spang, and the food culture there is tied much more closely to the Mexican Yucatan. Not surprisingly, Belize’s islands and coastal towns are nirvana for seafood lovers, regardless of ethnic heritage, their restaurant menus loaded with conch, shrimp, and lobster dishes.

But there is yet another reason for the culinary differences. Until Belize finally attained independence in 1981, the colonizers maintained their control of the population through a “divide and conquer” strategy. The British created a pecking order, explains Spang, with the Creole at the top: “Especially after slavery was abolished, they wanted these people to not rebel” so that they would continue working in the timber industry. The Creole were told that they were better than the Garifuna and the Maya, and even that the others were cannibals and devil worshippers, encouraging the groups to remain separate.

As Spang sees it, that’s the reason Creole dishes bear the mantle of Belizean food, while the recipes of other ethnicities usually get tagged as Mayan, Garifuna, or Mestizo. Changing demographics, however, seem to be knocking down the silos. “There’s a lot of intermarriage [these days],” she says, “and multiculturalism in the household is affecting the cuisine, because home cooking is the backbone of its development.” In a country of just 400,000, even the smallest changes can ripple out quickly.

And that’s a good thing, because some of Belize’s traditional dishes are in danger of disappearing, which is why its most highprofile celebrity chef, Sean Kuylen, spends his time traveling around the country, interviewing people and documenting their recipes on his popular social media feeds. Says Stang, “I think most people genuinely see our diversity as an asset, but they don’t realize how much there actually is, because they don't get out of their own little group.” Her mission is to ensure that Belize is recognized as a premier culinary destination. “We don’t have to limit ourselves to rice and beans.”

For Forman, what stands out most about her country’s cuisine is its emphasis on seasonality. “Mango season is in June, and people have buckets of them in the market,” she says. “You eat mangoes until you can’t eat mangoes anymore, and then you’re good until next year.” While she admits to romanticizing the slowness of Belizean life, especially relative to her current home in the U.S., there’s also a lovely truth in the sentiment. “You don’t need to have everything all the time. When you’re tied to the season, it just feels like you’re in sync with your surroundings and the environment. You’re looking up at the mango in the tree and wondering, ‘Is it time yet?’”

Legendary Waterfront Living Has Arrived in Naples

Inspired by the endless beauty and rhythm of the sea, a new address comes to the shores of Naples. Captivating modern design rises alongside a marina-front lagoon, overlooking dazzling sunsets, and the endless sparkling horizon of the Gulf. This is a world where enjoyment lives without limits with curated amenities and unique experiences designed to enrich and elevate all of life’s moments. Around every turn, a gracious smile and attentive service anticipates your every need, all while granting you the exclusive privacy you desire.

The time has come to make The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Naples your own.

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A catalyst for departure

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Let There Be Light

Montreal-based furniture and lighting brand Gabriel Scott has made a name for itself over the last decade, creating dynamic, modular and highly customizable opulent pieces that merge flexibility with standardization in a very luxurious, bespoke way. Their lighting has adorned such top shelf locations as Milan’s Bar

company founder scott richler , pictured right , has done a little bit of everything

text by sean mccaughan

images courtesy of gabriel scott

montreal - based gabriel scott creates délicieux digs with its modular , luxuriously bespoke lighting and furniture

Basso, Hotel Lopesan Costa Meloneras Resort & Spa in Spain’s Gran Canaria, and a custom version of their Kelly Chandelier in brass was designed in a horseshoe shape to wrap around the bar area of the Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac, an iconic historic hotel in Montreal.

That storied city is where the company was founded, in 2012, by Scott Richler, a culmination, of sorts, to the design experience he developed over many years working in architecture, fashion and bespoke furniture.

In fact, it was his work as an architect that first tipped him to this new-ish

phase of his storied career. It was then that he was often tasked with specing high-end custom furniture for clients. He realized there was a market for bespoke, contemporary and customizable furniture and lighting fixtures crafted using a holistic approach that could be tailored to designers and architects who need control over every detail of a building’s design.

Now ten years on, Gabriel Scott continues to prosper and grow. Its first flagship showroom opened in 2014 in New York

City’s Brewster Carriage House on Broome Street—once home to the most prominent carriage maker of the 19th century. “It was the Rolls-Royce of carriages,” Richler says. “They made presidential carriages and sold all the accessories like bridles and crops.” A second flagship showroom in London followed.

Here, we check in with Richter on how he got his start, what he’s learned over the years, and what he sees in Gabriel Scott’s future. (Hint: it’s bright.)

On the early days of Gabriel Scott:

“When we designed the first line in 2012, it wasn’t as complex as the pieces are now. But the first pieces were modular—that is if you were to deconstruct all the furniture we made in our first collection, the series itself is a component-based system. All of the tables and stools that were made for that first collection, they’re all systematic in their composition. We tried to take that bespoke aesthetic and then apply a modular system to it.”

On doing “a lot of things” before finding your true passion:

“I originally studied architecture, and when I finished, I practiced with a couple of different firms. At the same time, I developed with my then-girlfriend, nowwife, a line of jewelry as a hobby. We were visiting a fashion trade show in New York, and some people commented on it. That became a project on its own. We had a showroom in New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. The jewelry turned into more accessories for women, dabbling in things related to my education [including] designing furniture in a more bespoke way in 2004. We sold the furniture next door to our studio in Canada. That was the precursor to Gabriel Scott.”

On how everything you know is everything you are:

“I opened a metal shop at one point. I was doing large pieces—everything from massive dining tables to crypt doors. When I launched Gabriel Scott in 2012 the idea was to mesh those two experiences—what I learned from creating furniture and my takeaways from jewelry and fashion.”

On staying power:

“Ten years on we’re still focused on the same level of quality, on the same bespoke nature, and also we’ve been able to build a manufacturing facility and a design studio that’s able to scale that even further. As time went on we started to incorporate more challenging lighting pieces that involved more technical elements like LED technology and also much much more difficult techniques: mouth-blown glass, very very precisely machined parts, very highend finishes.”

On the future:

“I see in the future of Gabriel Scott as a continuation of the same design principles that we’ve applied throughout, the same approach to bespoke furniture making, the same exploration of materials, and exploration of artisanship and craftsmanship. I’d like to be able, with the team that we have and the experience that we have, to scale so that Gabriel Scott eventually becomes a household brand that people all over the world equate with luxury furniture and luxury design.”

Welcome Home

Explore Marriott International’s collection of branded residences

Les Nouveaux

Nestled between Sanibel Island and Naples, Florida, The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Estero Bay will overlook one of Southwest Florida’s last available stretches of waterfront, beside the state’s first aquatic preserve. Offering 224 condominium homes in two towers that will rise 22 stories. Imagined by design firm Arquitectonica, rounded cascading façades are inspired by the undulation of the waterfront setting, integrating harmoniously into the surrounding topography. Residences have unobstructed sunset views of the bay, and spacious balconies that enhance outdoor livability. Warm millwork, rare stones and luxury fabrics are chosen by interior design firm Meyer Davis, while bespoke amenities include a high-touch concierge, fitness, yoga and Pilates studio, on-site pet grooming, beauty salon, whiskey and wine room, and three pools.

The Lucan , the first standalone Autograph Collection Residences , includes 31 contemporary, stylish homes in an historic redeveloped property located within London’s storied Chelsea neighborhood. Walkable to Harrods, the Saatchi Art Gallery, and Royal Court Theatre, residences will include one- to three-bedroom units, and a signature penthouse, and offer housekeeping, personal trainer, pet care, floristry and concierge services.

With unobstructed views of Biscayne Bay, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Miami Beach

skyline, the EDITION Residences Miami

Edgewater are the luxury brand’s firstever standalone residences. The 55-story glass waterfront tower will include 185 homes, designed by architect Bernardo Fort-Brescia, founder of Arquitectonica, with Studio Munge handling the warm and tranquil interiors of the one- to fourbedroom residences, starting at $1.7 million. Three tri-level penthouses with rooftop pools and gardens are also planned. Over 45,000 square feet of amenities, like two resort-style pools, private cabanas, fitness and spa facilities, and lush gardens will make the property feel like a tropical oasis. Owners with visitors can book six guest suites. Owners will also gain access to exclusive privileges at EDITION hotels, as well as VIP status and preferred hotel rates at all hotels within Marriott International’s luxury portfolio.

At the Renaissance Residences

Honolulu , Native Hawaiian mo‘olelo, or stories, establish an alluring sense of place. Artwork was created by Hawai‘i Island designer and cultural practitioner, Sig Zane, and was inspired from the ko‘a, or the traditional fishing grounds of a Hawaiian family. Located on the top floors of the Renaissance Honolulu Hotel & Spa, the project features 112 studios, one, and two bedroom residences. Amenities include peaceful green spaces, fitness center, saltwater pool, two hot tubs, a 25-meter lap pool, Japanese Ofuro soaking baths, and Himalayan salt saunas.

the ritz - carlton residences , estero bay

LIST OF RESIDENCES

United States & Canada

alabama

The Residences at The Westin Huntsville

arizona

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Dove Mountain

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Paradise Valley (coming in 2022)

british columbia

The Residences at The Westin Resort & Spa, Whistler

* california

EDITION Residences West Hollywood

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, San Francisco

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, LA Live

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Lake Tahoe

The Residences at The St. Regis San Francisco

W Residences Hollywood

The Residences at The Westin Monache, Mammoth Lakes

The Hotel Condominium Residences at the Westin Verasa

Napa Resort

 colorado

Beaver Creek Lodge, Autograph Collection

The Residential Suites at The Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Vail

The Sky Residences at W Aspen

The Residences at The Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa, Avon, Vail Valley

district of columbia

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Georgetown

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Washington, D.C.

 florida

Waterline Villas & Marina Residences, Autograph Collection Residences

EDITION Residences Miami Beach

EDITION Residences Tampa

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Fort Lauderdale

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Key Biscayne

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Coconut Grove

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Bal Harbour

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Singer Island

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Miami Beach

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Sunny Isles Beach

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Sarasota

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Orlando, Grande Lakes

The Residences at The St. Regis Bal Harbour

W Residences Fort Lauderdale

W Residences South Beach

georgia

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Atlanta Buckhead

The Residences at The St. Regis Atlanta

W Residences Atlanta – Downtown

hawai ‘ i

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Kapalua

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Waikīkī

illinois

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Chicago

The Residences at The St. Regis Chicago

maryland

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Baltimore

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Chevy Chase

massachusetts

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Boston Commons

The St. Regis Residences, Boston (coming in 2022)

W Residences Boston

michigan

The Residences at The Westin Book Cadillac, Detroit

minnesota

The Residences at The Westin Edina Galleria Hotel Ivy Residences, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Minneapolis

 new york

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Central Park

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, New York, NoMad (coming in 2022)

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Long Island, North Hills

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Westchester

The St. Regis Residences, Rye

The Residences at The St. Regis New York

W Residences Hoboken W Residences New York – Downtown

ontario

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Toronto

The Residences at The St. Regis Toronto

The Residences at The Westin Trillium House, Blue Mountain

pennsylvania

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Philadelphia

* quebec

The Residences at Le Westin Resort & Spa, Tremblant

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Montreal

texas

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Dallas

W Residences Austin

W Residences Dallas – Victory

The Residences at The Westin Houston Memorial City

utah

The Residences at The St. Regis Deer Valley

virginia

The Residences at The Westin Virginia Beach Town Center

coming soon

New locations coming in 2023 and beyond

california

Los Angeles

Santa Ana

florida

Clearwater Beach

Estero Bay

Fort Lauderdale

Longboat Key

Miami

Tampa

West Palm Beach

georgia

Buckhead

hawai ‘ i

Honolulu

illinois

Chicago

ohio

Cleveland

oregon

Portland

tennessee

Nashville

utah

St. George

virginia

Reston

LIST OF RESIDENCES

International

 belize

Alaia Residences, Autograph Collection Residences

Banyan Bay Residences, Autograph Collection Residences (coming in 2022)

bermuda

The Residences at The St. Regis Bermuda

british virgin islands

Scrub Island, Autograph Collection Residences

cayman islands

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Grand Cayman

china

Bulgari Residences Beijing

Bulgari Residences Shanghai

The Residences at The Westin Tianjin

W Residences Guangzhou

costa rica

El Mangroove Residences, Autograph Collection Residences (coming in 2022)

W Residences Costa Rica - Reserva Conchal (coming in 2022)

cyprus

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Limassol (coming in 2022)

greece

The Residences at The Westin Resort, Costa Navarino

india

Three Sixty West, Mumbai (coming in 2022)

indonesia

Bulgari Residences Bali

W Residences Bali – Seminyak

The Residences at The St. Regis Jakarta (coming in 2022)

israel

The Residences at The Jaffa, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Tel Aviv

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Herzliya

jordan

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Amman

The Residences at The St. Regis Amman

kazakhstan

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Almaty, Esentai Tower

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Astana

malaysia

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Kuala Lumpur

The Residences at The St. Regis Kuala Lumpur

 mexico

CLEVIA Residences, Autograph Collection Residences, San Miguel de Allende

The Residences at Solaz, a Luxury Collection Resort, Los Cabos

The Enclaves, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve Residence

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Mexico City (coming in 2022)

Zadun, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve Residence

The Residences at Sheraton Vitoria

The Residences at The St. Regis Kanai, Mexico City

The Residences at The St. Regis Los Cabos

The Residences at The Westin Puebla

nigeria

The Residences at The Westin Abuja (coming in 2022)

panama

JW Marriott Residences Panama

Pearl Island, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve Residence (coming in 2022)

portugal

JW Marriott Residences Algarve

The Residences at Pine Cliffs Ocean Suites, a Luxury Collection Resort

The Residences at Sheraton Cascais Resort

W Residences Algarve

puerto rico

Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve Residence (West Beach and East Beach)

The Residences at The St. Regis Bahia Beach Resort

qatar

The Residences at The St. Regis Marsa Arabia Island, The Pearl Qatar (coming in 2022)

saint kitts and nevis

Marriott Residences St. Kitts

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, St. Kitts

serbia

The Residences at The St. Regis Belgrade (coming in 2022)

singapore

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Singapore

The Residences, at The St. Regis Singapore

The Residences at W Singapore Sentosa Cove

* south korea

JW Marriott Residences Jeju (coming in 2022)

Marriott Residences Daegu

spain

W Residences Marbella

thailand

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Bangkok

The Residences at The St. Regis Bangkok

turkey

Le Meridien Residences, Bodrum

The Residences at Caresse, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa, Bodrum

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Bodrum

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Istanbul (coming in 2022)

The Residences at Sheraton Istanbul Esenyurt (coming in 2022)

turks & caicos

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Turks and Caicos, Grace Bay

The Residences at The St. Regis Turks and Caicos (Grace Bay)

united arab emirates

The St. Regis Residences, Dubai

W Residences Dubai – The Palm

united kingdom

Bulgari Residences Knightsbridge

W Residences London - Leicester Square

The Residences at The Westin London City

No. 1 Palace Street, The St. Regis Residences London (coming in 2022)

coming soon

New locations coming in 2023 and beyond

argentina

Buenos Aires

bahamas

Eleuthera

belize

San Pedro

bermuda

St. George

brazil

Gramado

Sao Paulo

china

Lijiang

costa rica

Guanacaste

cyprus

Limassol

dominica

Roseau

dominican republic

Cap Cana

* egypt

Cairo

guyana

Georgetown

indonesia

Jakarta

jamaica

St. Thomas

kazakhstan

Astana

malaysia

Penang

mexico

Cancun

Costa Mujures

Los Cabos

Puerto Vallarta

Riviera Maya

Riviera Nayarit

San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato

montenegro

San Pedro

morocco

Marrakech

oman

Muscat

philippines

Cebu

Manila

portugal

Lagos

puerto rico

San Juan russia

Moscow

saudi arabia

Red Sea

serbia

Belgrade

sri lanka

Colombo

thailand

Phuket turkey

Istanbul

turks and caicos islands

Providenciales

united arab emirates

Dubai

* united kingdom

London

vietnam

Danang

Hanoi

Ho Chi Minh City

Learn more at marriottresidences.com

Well and Good

The power of serenity isn’t just good for the senses, but can be a major draw for where you choose to live. Marriott Residences offers Owners the opportunity to enjoy coastal living in some of the world’s most iconic destinations, including Portugal, Mexico, Korea and Greece.

W Residences Algarve , situated near one of the most coveted coastlines of Albufeira, Portugal, feature 83 one- to four-bedroom residences with playful nods to the area’s calming scenery and culture. The adjoining W Algarve hotel offers its signature AWAY Spa, numerous dining and entertainment options, like a resident DJ at the pool bar. Sunseekers can enjoy sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean from their homes or infinity pool. Restaurants include Paper Moon, the Mediterranean sister to the Milanese eatery, while Sea Sky is a breathtaking rooftop overlooking Armação de Pera bay.

The Residences at The St. Regis Los Cabos are a collection of 74 intelligently designed homes set on a secluded whitesand beach within the vibrant Quivira Los Cabos community at the Southern tip of the Baja Peninsula. SB Architects and Hirsch Bedner Associates San Francisco embraced the area’s dramatic setting for the mix of oceanfront condominiums, penthouses and townhomes, with fully furnished five- and six-bedroom villas, the only five-star branded beachfront homes available in all of Los Cabos. Owners have

access to the bespoke services of The St. Regis, and award-winning Jack Nicklaus Golf Course and Quivira Golf Club, as well as concierge services, seven resort pools, three distinctive dining experiences, and a state-of-the-art fitness center and spa.

JW Marriott Residences Jeju are located in a UNESCO Natural Heritage Site, with design that echoes the Korean island’s traditional volcanic stone and slate architecture, using lava rock to embody a design narrative that represents the island’s Choga architecture. With 78 residences overlooking the ocean, Owners have access to the best of the co-located hotel, including the ability to indulge in the area’s natural hot springs and enjoy an infinity pool overlooking Jeju’s stunning coastline.

Costa Navarino, located in the Greek region of Messinia in the southwest Peloponnese, has become popular among golfers with its four 18-hole courses that boast unobstructed sea views. The Residences at the Westin Resort Costa Navarino offer local touches like stone walls and archways, and environmentally friendly features integrated into 2,50012,000 square-foot homes with three to seven bedrooms, private swimming pools and large patios. Amenities include restaurants, gyms, concierge, tennis center, kids club and watersports center.

ocean view from the terrace at w residences algarve

Around the Block

Flanked by a white-sand beach, preserved natural beauty and protected parkland, The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Naples are a jewel on Southwest Florida's Paradise Coast.

The resort has long been an exceptional choice for family vacations, offering an assortment of activities for children, as well as luxurious amenities, championship golf, world-class dining and spa treatments for adults. But with its new collection of upscale residences, The Ritz-Carlton Naples can now also be called home.

With a population of around 20,000 residents, Naples never feels overwhelming. It’s an idyllic coastal community with a tropical island vibe and enough outdoor activities to please anyone’s interests.

Dubbed “The Golf Capital of the World,” Naples fits the description with the most holes of any city in Florida. It has around 60 18-hole golf courses; 30 are open to the public. Those include Old Corkscrew, by Jack Nicklaus; Old Collier, Olde Florida; Calusa Pines; and the Gold and Black courses at Tiburon Golf Club, both by Greg Norman, which host PGA and LPGA Tour events.

While a full trip to the nearby Everglades might be too ambitious for one day, you can connect with 1,000 species of flora and fauna at the Naples Botanical Garden.

Sunseekers will find plenty of coastline to explore; the area’s city limits boast some of Florida’s best beaches, including Clam Pass Beach Park, Lowdermilk Beach and Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park.

Start with the hotel's network of beachfront boardwalks that take you along three miles of pristine beach, mangrove and palm trees.

Make sure to visit the historic Naples Pier, built in 1888, that stretches 1,000 feet into the Gulf’s aqua blue waters, a perfect spot to catch the sunset.

There are plenty of chic shops, boutiques and art galleries in historic downtown Naples, especially on Fifth Avenue South, Third Street South and Tin City, including Marissa Collections and Maus & Hoffman.

Vibrant bars and restaurants with inviting outdoor patios elevate sea-to-table dining and will satiate vegans to carnivores alike. Local favorites include Sea Salt and Bha! Bha! Persian Bistro. Menus around town are big on Italian fare, like the sautéed Florida Snapper Piccata at Campiello Ristorante & Bar. For sweet tooths, there’s Kilwin’s for ice cream, and MonKey Bread Factory, offering unique fillings from coconut to Florida orange. Tony’s Off Third has a nice crustless Key Lime pie tarte.

Kunjani Craft Coffee & Gallery brews beans from Florida roasters, including Naples’ own Black Tulip Coffee and Miami’s Per’La Specialty Roasters.

Back at the hotel, sunsets over the Gulf are fiery and long-lingering, and pair well with a cocktail at the outdoor bar at Gumbo Limbo.

take in scenic sunsets from the naples pier