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Ottmanngut hotel in Merano: terracotta roof and palm against the mountains, from Great Escapes Italy
Travel & Adventures
A Grand Tour, of Grand Stays
Angelika Taschen — Great Escapes Italy: The Hotel Book
Reclaimed monasteries, baroque palazzi, and whitewashed cliffside inns — a collection of Italy’s most ethereal hotels and escapes.
Sep 29, 2026
Racing crew in red gripping the rail as a spinnaker billows, from Sailing America by Onne van der Wal
Travel & Adventures
Setting Off With Stiff Breezes
Onne van der Wal — Sailing America
A colossal, photographic exhibition through twelve American waters — Nantucket fog, Montana sweetwater, Florida brine, and Morro Bay sunsets.
Sep 26, 2026
Cosy cottage sitting room with a striped sofa, wood stove and blue-and-white tiles, from COCOON by Ali Heath
Design & Style
Your Home, Your Sanctuary
Ali Heath — COCOON: Creating Homes with Heart
Part manual, part study — a book about shaping a home that nurtures your inspirations, with spotlights on the people who made theirs.
Sep 22, 2026
Black-and-white portrait of Steve McQueen, shirtless and pensive, from Unforgettable Steve McQueen
Icons
Cool, at Full Throttle
Henri Suzeau — Unforgettable Steve McQueen
On set, on the track, and at home — a portrait of an icon who lived as hard, and as honestly, as he acted.
Sep 18, 2026
Hiroshi Nagai painting of a swimming pool facing a still blue sea, from The Journey Begins
The Arts
California, Crystalline
Hiroshi Nagai — The Journey Begins
The City Pop painter’s sunlit California — azure skies, cerulean pools, dappled palms — in a slim, sapphire, wordless collection.
Sep 15, 2026
Cliffside path above a boat-dotted bay on Capri, from Il Dolce Far Niente by Lucy Laucht
Travel & Adventures
Sun, Salt, and Nowhere to Be
Lucy Laucht — Il Dolce Far Niente
A southern-Italian summer distilled to its essence — lapping water, long lunches, and the radical idea that nothing might be the whole point.
Sep 08, 2026
Spread of a patterned bedroom and a sunny sitting room, from The World of Peter Dunham
Design & Style
Charm, Layered Like Lacquer
The World of Peter Dunham
The designer’s first monograph, written in his own voice — an interiors book that reads like a memoir of texture, warmth, and hard-won charm.
Sep 05, 2026
Woman with a clear umbrella on a neon-lit Tokyo street, from TO:KY:OO by Liam Wong
The Arts
The Tokyo Of Your Dreams
Liam Wong — TO:KY:OO
Neon, rain, and steam — Tokyo at night, shot so cinematically you forget these are photographs and not stills from a sci-fi film.
Sep 02, 2026
Cyclist with a loaded touring bike on a salt flat under a cloud-streaked sky, from Two Years on a Bike
Travel & Adventures
A Hemisphere, One Pedal at a Time
Martijn Doolaard — Two Years on a Bike
From Vancouver to Patagonia by bicycle — 400 pages of landscape, solitude, and a genuinely vulnerable journey of self.
Aug 28, 2026
Facade covered in patterned azulejo tiles with terracotta window trims, from Patterns of Portugal by Christine Chitnis
Design & Style
The Undulating Palette of a Country
Christine Chitnis — Patterns of Portugal
Portugal seen through its palettes — azul tiles, terracotta, and verde gardens — and the centuries of craft that hold it all together.
Aug 22, 2026