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The Blue Pages are curated by The Aficionados, our travel & lifestyle inspired journal full of insightful blog posts from the realms of hotels, architecture, design, artisans, culture and products all highlighting our taste of the good life made simple.
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Despite being lovingly steeped in heritage, culture and a deep-rooted sense of the traditional, South Tyrol (Alto Adige/Südtirol) is far static when it comes to architecture and design, particularly when the topic is hotel concepts. Meet the Architects.
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Food is high on this region's agenda, also known as the Garden of the Alps - the cuisine is a menagerie of hearty Laden Alpine dishes, Italian classics and lightness from the Mediterranean. It is not Italian nor Austrian; it is an epicurean marriage that occasionally dips into Hungary.
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Thun simultaneously designs and innovates within the medium of interiors, product design and architecture with an aesthetic that stays within the parameters of simplicity, durability and lightness.
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Well known for its alternative way of approaching a design project, Stylt Trampoli, a hospitality design studio based in Gothenburg is helmed by maverick thinker and Norwegian Erik Nissen Johansen.
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Tinos is no stranger to good food, with several of the island's eateries being some of the best in Greece including the Moonrise Restaurant by Chef Giannis Bratsolias.
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Homeland culture is at the heart of this South Tyrolean fashion label, who creatively rethink statement pieces of traditional alpine garments - like the iconic 'Blue Apron'.
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Albin Widmann is Chef at the Seehotel Ambach, the cult lakeside refuge on Caldaro Lake's shores in South Tyrol. Dramatic nature, funky interiors, and an architectural landmark are also a famed bolthole for good food connoisseurs.
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A slow-food philosophy that Chef Massimo Geromel describes as 'keeping things simple, pure and rooted', he presides over the culinary realms of the MIRAMONTI, a style hotel and spa destination in Avelengo/Hafling, South Tyrol/Alto Adige.
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Conceiving of noa* as an ever-changing network of architects, interior designers, graphic talent to even psychologists and much more, noa* is able to incorporate a multitude of ideas and styles into its hotel projects.
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Professor, architect and designer with an intense love of concrete and the alps, architect Othmar Barth (1927-2010) was considered futuristic, often misunderstood and a bit of a silent hero of the rural monumental.
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Dating back to the 13th century, Merano’s botanical gardens at Trauttmansdorff Castle explore the Mediterranean and Alpine garden, including a Sun Garden with olive groves (including a 700-year-old Sardinian specimen), fig trees, citrus trees and a semi-desert cacti garden.
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The extraordinary scenes of cult film, Ex Machina were filmed at this design hotel in Norway's wilderness. This architectural gem is like no other hotel. Find out where.
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