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The Stay

Hotels, resorts, design, service, and what makes a place memorable once the photograph is over.

  1. The Stay · Essay · 29 September 2026Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo: A Grand Stay in the Heart of Monte-CarloMy stay: 22-27 September 2026. A sea-view suite on Casino Square, during yacht-show week, and a hotel that became part of the week rather than a place to sleep it off.
  2. The Stay · Essay · 21 February 2026What a hotel is forMarble is not hospitality. A reading of the sequence that actually makes a stay memorable: arrival, water, morning, and the reason you came.
  3. The Stay · Essay · 4 December 2024Royal Mansour Marrakech: The Stay That Still Sets the BarMy stay: 2024. A riad unlike anywhere I had stayed, a spa I still think about, and a welcome that felt personal from the airport to the last morning.
  4. The Stay · Design note · 14 August 2024Reading the Copacabana PalaceOpened in 1923, the Belmond Copacabana Palace is less a hotel on the beach than the beach’s formal room. A design note from the building’s public life.
  5. The Stay · Design note · 16 May 2023Fasano and the art of arrivalPhilippe Starck’s Fasano Rio, opened in 2007, treats arrival as a designed act. Notes on a hotel that taught Ipanema to look up.
  6. The Stay · Guide · 3 November 2022Above Santa TeresaA researched guide to staying above the beach - the hills, the tram that sometimes runs, and the houses that face the city instead of the sand.
  7. The Stay · Design note · 3 April 2018The ryokan morningWhat a ryokan is sequencing: shoes, bath, the meal, the futon, the morning. A design note on a kind of hotel that is also a set of manners.