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hotel visit: endemico resguardo silvestre

Incredibly beautiful is this hotel along the sloping terrain of Valle de Guadalupe in Mexico. It’s actually a group or cluster of hotel rooms. Each room is detached from one another, supported and held only by steel stilts.

The hotel concept and design is by Gracia Studio, a San Diego-based design house. Each vista has a panoramic view of the valley, a personal entry door, patio and fireplace.

an unobstructed view of the winery

each unit has its own patio and fireplace

minimalist interior

well-lit at night

at dusk

pool area for the guests

images via of gracia studio

what’s not to love about Paris.

November 3, 2011 in hotel visit

Nothing, really. I love everything about it. Lately, I’ve been reading about Paris and the French. I guess this is to familiarize myself with the place and the people before I even set foot there. It’s amazing how this French capital is blessed with so many lovely and beautiful things. The French got it all. The climate, the food, the art, the flirtation, the history. So many movies have been made in and about Paris over the past decades but it still excites me when I see or hear about a new movie and the setting is in Paris.

I have a life plan and part of that is to visit France. The plan says that I’d get to visit Paris in three years’ time. So it’s one down and two more to go. I do hope so. MG would be 10 by then. Lucky kid if ever this plan pushes through. She gets to visit Paris early in life while I get to visit it at 42 or 43. But that’s alright. Some people won’t even get to see and experience it even before their death.

And this is where I would most likely stay…La Maison Champs Elysees. It’s the first hotel decorated by Martin Margiela.