Stop me if you’ve heard this one… a super hip art gallery from NYC walks into a chic hotel in to south beach during Art Basel and says… OK so that’s not a joke at all, and yeah we’ve mentioned Morrison Hotel Gallery a few times in the past (e.g. exhibits with Lynn Goldsmith, Jim […]

The ultra urbane crew over at Monocle assemble their Travel Top 50, a 12-minute video highlighting their best of 2012. With insights from the Tyler Brûlé and Andrew Tuck helmed magazine, the video handpicks the best hotels, planes, guides, cameras, airports, yachts, restaurants, international lounges and concepts of this past year. While bordering on the […]

Let’s face it: unless you’re camping, pass the age of twenty-two the old two strap, schoolboy backpack is downright unacceptable. Once you’ve graduated it’s time to upgrade. Pendleton has released a 21.5 -inch leather plaid weekender duffle bag to replace that shabby sack you keep laying around for quick trips to the coast — it […]

It was announced, and highly circulated around the internet, that Coachella and Goldenvoice have put together a steller little concert that’ll take place on a cruise ship (yes, like Holy Ship!), called the S.S. Coachella. The music cruise will be taking place this winter, venturing to the Bahamas December 16-19 and Jamaica December 19-23. The […]

As we previewed a couple weeks back, LIAS correspondent Freddi C braves the wilds of Sonar Festival in Barcelona, and lives to tell the tale… Well, I’ve finally recovered from Sonar and already the weekend here is madness again. It sounds like I’m in the middle of a war zone — loud, and I mean […]

Whenever I visit a new city for the first time I’m always armed with my trusty Lonely Planet travel book. Come the second visit, having gotten all the classic sightseeing locations stricken off my must-see-in-my-lifetime list, I dump the guide books and make sure to Facebook people residing in that same city and get the […]

We’d be lying if we said pitching a tent was a easy task: the poles are pesky and non complacent, you have to step all over the tent to secure it to said poles, and by the time it’s up (an hour later) you despise the whole thing. To cure these ills, Heimplanet has created […]

This black deerskin travel bag from Simon Spurr features two handles, golden zips and hardware, a padlock, internal laptop/document sleeve, extra zipped internal pocket space and a Simon Spurr embossed logo. Produced from soft quality leather, the supple bag is said to age and improve, like a fine spirit, with time’s delicate touch. Book that flight, […]