Stay In Good Company

“I would suggest getting lost. I would suggest getting lost on the small inland roads to discover the breathtaking views, the old abandoned villages, the endless fields of lavender, just to wander around.  And I would actually do the same with the boat. So I would also get lost in the multitude bays, and go to the local fisherman’s restaurant because he will do his best to give you the best fresh...

“If you go to buy a beautiful men's suit from a famous brand, you can go to Tokyo, New York, London or in Rome, and it would be the same because it's a brand, okay? So why do you travel? But in Florence, you go to a great tailor who will do a beautiful suit. You decide the textile, you decide the buttons and all the details that you love. And this is a unique piece just for you. And this i...

“ Every time I'm really surprised that on arrival, people after one night say, ‘Oh, it was so quiet. I slept until 10 o'clock in the morning. There was nothing around.’ And it is nature all around. Even if you open the window, you can listen only to the birds, and that is it.” We’re in great company with Stéphanie Gombert, the soul of Château de la Treyne, a luxurious Relais & Châteaux...

“  We’re very lucky that we've inherited this wonderful backdrop, but everything that we do is based around socializing and how we can use these spaces with our friends and our family. Yes, we like to party, the Irish love to party. So, that extends not just within the interiors, but into the grounds.” We’re in great company with James Fennell, the proud steward of Burtown House and Gardens in...

“  If you love Dirty Dancing and you've never been to Mountain Lake Lodge, you do get that sense that you have arrived at Kellerman's. The big stone iconic lodge from the movie, it's timeless. Right? There's no way to improve the lodge, it is a forever kind of place. But what you see is the place refreshed.”  We’re in great company with Heidi Stone , the President and CEO of Mounta...

“  I want the guests to feel that the hosting at this place is very personal. And as for the restaurant, that it's cozy, that it's a good atmosphere, that it’s popular and unfussy. Of course, the food and the drinks should be good. I want guests to feel that they still are coming to a home and a house where it's good to just be.”  We’re in great company with Monica Gjesdahl, the creati...

“  It's like a fairy tale. We can be so proud that we grew up in Liechtenstein and be happy that we can stay here and live here with this beautiful landscape, this strong government and strong principality behind it, that we feel like we’re in heaven.”  We’re in great company with Hubertus Real, the Executive Chef and proud Owner of Park Hotel Sonnenhof, where he and his family have stewarded thei...

“ And I felt that it was silly that the birthplace of American Liberty didn't have an inn, because inns and taverns were so fundamental and so important to the beginning of the Revolution. Inns and taverns were crossroads where people would come together. They would exchange ideas. They would share the news.” We’re in great company with Trisha Pérez Kennealy, the proud steward of the Inn at Hastin...

“Because that's also something that's quite important is that you have time. You don't go to Nusfjord to stay one night. You need at least a couple of nights to actually understand where you are and get a feel of where you are. And I've been in quite a lot of different hotels which have a high level of luxury with marble and gold. But being here, actually just feeling the ambience and getting that...

“And I got so addicted to my creativity. The more I create, the more praises I get. I'm doing a movie, but I'm also doing three restaurants where everybody's eating in those restaurants, and then I'm also doing the wine list for those restaurants. So it was really rich and amazing and beautiful, but I didn't know that I was depleting myself to a point of exhaustion. And then I had this spiritual a...

“If you walk up and down Main Street and go into an art gallery, or a retail shop, or a restaurant that's been here for years, you're gonna get a, ‘Welcome y'all. How's it going?’ And you're going to get a sense of who that person is and what that place really is. There are ways to be luxurious and boutique without being stuffy and pretentious, because the Hill Country is simply not any of those t...

“And I would say for me, there's only a very small number of times where I really felt convicted that this is the path for me in life. This is the thing I'm supposed to do. And this was one of those moments where it just felt really clear. Getting to buy The Swag, it wasn't like it was a dream come true, because I don't think I had bold enough or big enough dreams to dream that. It was beyond a dr...

“It's not really the place that you're going, it's the stories that reveal themselves in the place that you're going. You're fascinated by the lives and the experiences that people had before you, because you're finding this connective tissue emotionally to another generation, another decade, another era.” We’re in great company with Tereasa Surratt, the Founder and Owner of Camp Wandawega, who wa...

“I'm an extreme version, but the water is my life. It's where I live. It's what I do to work out. It's where I go to think. So it solves pretty much all aspects of my life of what keeps me motivated, keeps me fit, keeps me well minded. And I think naturally, most people would say the water has some special power of connecting and making someone feel good.” We’re in great company with Brian Meyer,...

“We want people to take away a new perception of ‘off-grid living’ and what that means. So when you first think of off-grid, especially when I did it, I was like, ‘Okay, off grid. You're roughing it. Is there going to be hot water? You don't know. Is there a toilet? You don't know.’ And so we wanted to make it have zero compromises in terms of what you're experiencing.” We’re in great company with...

“So it's a very special experience because you're suddenly connecting to a species which you feel you know. The gorilla looks at you and you look at them and there's a very strong rapport. A kind of connection saying, ‘Haven't we seen each other before?’” We’re in great company with Praveen Moman, the pioneer in Great Ape tourism, celebrating the 25th Anniversary of his conservation and ecotourism...

“They have to find their own path. So maybe they go back home and then they start to be a bit more conscious about where they live. Maybe they realize that, ‘Oh, there's an amazing foundation in my village or in my town,’ and they start to support that foundation. And that's perfect. You know, our seeds of love make them a bit more human.” We’re in great company with Petit Miribel, the Founder and...

“Fanø and Esbjerg are my home, but you need to get inspiration abroad as well. And when we lived in Copenhagen, we came once a month here to slow down, to set a different pace than we do in our daily lives. Now we live here, we visit Copenhagen, we visit Hamburg, we travel the world, because we still need that energy.” We’re in great company with Mette Hyttel, the Creative Co-Owner of not one, but...

“It would have been cheaper, by far, to tear this building down and stick up a metal structure. However, there's no character in that. And the people from Deary who've been here, they highly appreciated the saving of this building. We have a group of older men who meet for coffee there every morning and they can remember, when they were kids riding their bikes through the shop, and there used to b...

“Under Canvas had been a very light footprint, very ecologically sound, sustainable business.  But we realized there was another step - we could also build a regenerative company. And that's what we're trying to do now with our newest company, Few and Far, which is create an extraordinary five star experience, but at the same time, invest in the land, restore the land, regenerate the area in which...

“The whole experience isn't really supposed to be programmed. It's actually meant to get lost. And that has multiple meanings. It means to get lost in time. Like what era is it? Am I in the twenties, the thirties? This building has gone through a hundred years of history and we pick up on different decades at different parts in time in the property. We don't have clocks in the room, so...

“It's sort of the same thing that happened with electric cars. Early on, the electric cars were seen as slower and less sophisticated. And now, the most beautiful Porsches, BMWs, Audis and Teslas, they're all electric. And so we're trying to do something similar for hotels to show that  you can offer hospitality for the planet and actually offer better comfort and experience for your g...

“There's something we've always told people we aspire to, which was we wanted it to be a microcosm of the best of this region, right? So we travel a ton to this day and the food in the Pacific Northwest is unmatched. The coffee is unmatched. And we did the design ourselves, the architecture was there, the energy efficiency is unmatched. And so I do think that the things that our region is...

“But then we realized that the best way to show this wine and the best place to show this wine was really in front of a vineyard. And my father lived his life traveling all over the world, bringing Prosecco to people, but in Venice, there's people who take planes from all over the world to come to visit Venice.” We’re in great company with Matteo Bisol of the famed Prosecco family, who have be...

“And really the ethos of the company has been about placemaking, has been about bringing people together doing projects in areas that have been underserved. And it was really a little bit less about what types of projects they were doing, but it was more about how they were doing it and what they were offering to the community.” We’re in great company with Adam Larkey, COO of family-owned Zeppelin...