Where to set up camp in the city from Barcelona to Buenos Aires
Past meets present on Singapore’s Clarke Quay Singapore is – finally – a place where between the eye-wateringly-expensive five-star names and the more affordable, conventional business offerings, there sits an actual category of design-driven and good-value properties. The latest is 21 Carpenter, which neatly merges the Lion City’s past and present.
Besides Alessandro Gallo’s The Venice Venice, where fashion, arte povera and retail dynamically meet on the Canal Grande, there’s sweet Cima Rosa in Santa Croce, Il Palazzo Experimental, the haute “hostel” right on the Zattere in Dorsoduro, and the much adored Hotel Flora, recently refreshed but still intact with all its historic charms. The newest of these, Violino d’Oro, which opened in November, sits in a mint situation on the rio di San Moise, a few hundred metres from St Mark’s Square.