Ace Hotel Kyoto: A Field Review of the Kengo Kuma Conversion
213 rooms in a 1926 telephone-exchange building reworked by Kengo Kuma, on Karasuma. Three nights testing the most ambitious design hotel in central Kyoto.
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Il Palazzo Experimental
8.7 / 10 The Curb Score
Where: Venice
32 Meilichzon-designed rooms in a Dorsoduro palazzo on the Zattere. I paid for two nights to see whether a Parisian cocktail group can do Venice right.
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