The Covet FeatureIssue 14

The Last Great Terrace on the Amalfi Coast

Fifty metres above the water, one hotel has spent four decades perfecting the art of doing very little. The definitive account of the coast's most coveted address.

By Isabelle Marchetti12 min readHotels

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Photograph by Covet Studio

The Dispatch

New this week

Hotels

The Royal Suite at The Oberoi, Marrakech

7 min

Hotels

Grikos Bay, and the Island That Keeps Its Distance

7 min

Hotels

The Treetops Above Atami, One Hour From Tokyo

7 min

The Coveted Index

The places readers are planning around.

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Aegean

Amalfi Coast

Atami

Burgundy

Chianti

Courchevel

Kyoto

Lake Como

01 — The Properties

Hotels

The definitive guide to the world's most coveted stays

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The Royal Suite at The Oberoi, Marrakech

Behind olive groves older than the hotel itself, a walled suite with its own pool looks out to the Atlas Mountains and asks almost nothing of you.

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Grikos Bay, and the Island That Keeps Its Distance

On an island with no airport and no hurry, a new Luxury Collection resort sits almost at the waterline and lets the Aegean do the talking.

Hotels7 min readSubscriber

The Treetops Above Atami, One Hour From Tokyo

Hotels6 min read

Rome, Handed Over at the Suite Door

From the Editor

“Luxury is not the marble in the lobby. It is the hour you are given back, and the person who quietly knew you needed it.”

Isabelle Marchetti — Editor in Chief

02 — The Escapes

Destinations

The places worth planning a season around

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Destinations11 min readSubscriber

St Tropez, Without the Season

The most photographed village on the Riviera is a different place in May, and a better one. The definitive guide to arriving before everyone else.

Destinations9 min read

Kyoto, Off Season

November has emptied. In a machiya with exactly one room, the old capital becomes a private city.

Destinations8 min readSubscriber

Tokyo, After Midnight

Destinations10 min read

Where the Desert Meets the Sea

04 — The Intelligence

The Insider

What those in the know already booked

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The Water Cure, Reinvented

The bathing rituals quietly replacing the spa menu, from Alpine springs to the Aegean, and what they actually do.

03 — The Table

Food & Wine

The table, considered

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Food & Wine9 min read

The Cellar Dinner That Lasts Four Hours

In Burgundy, a chef who refuses to write a menu and a cellar that predates him by a century.

Food & Wine8 min read

The Estate Table in Chianti

A working vineyard, an open kitchen and the long lunch that Italians have never needed to be taught.

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The Weekend Holdall

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Silk twill scarf, Roman print

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Hand-Blown Carafe

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