• Finding Your Sweet Escape,Alyson Pitarre

    Finding Your Sweet Escape

    Summer is officially here – and that means abundant sunshine, new adventures and sweet escapes for many of you.For this month’s Curated newsletter, I wanted to call your attention to a few of our most inspiring escapes that have “summer” written all over them. There’s an artful (and art-filled) $60

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  • UAE Introduces its Own Classification for ‘Five Star-Plus’ Hotels,Alyson Pitarre

    UAE Introduces its Own Classification for ‘Five Star-Plus’ Hotels

    Leave it to the United Arab Emirates to come up with a hotel class distinction that is even more luxurious than five-star. Known as “five-star-plus” hotels, the distinction was created for Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Palace.Photo courtesy of Emirates Palace/ Mandarin Oriental Hotel GroupAs the Department o

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  • Luminous Laurel Canyon Home By A Pioneering Black Architect, $2.85M,Philip Ferrato

    Luminous Laurel Canyon Home By A Pioneering Black Architect, $2.85M

    Robert Kennard AIA [1920-1995] was one of LA’s pioneering– and underappreciated– black professionals. A Los Angeles native and USC graduate, as a talented young architect he worked for both Richard Neutra and Paul Revere Williams, going on to build dozens of handsome Modern homes on his own before m

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