Independent hospitality culture
Behr has named "Grounded"—a warm, mossy olive with brown undertones—as its 2027 Colour of the Year and chose Montage Healdsburg in Sonoma as the hospitality exemplar for the palette. The announcement, timed with Behr’s tenth…
Six years after leaving Martin Brudnizki Design Studio, Stephanie Barba Mendoza has established a small but internationally active hospitality practice that balances exuberant colour with quiet, textural restraint. In an interview for SPACE | International…
Thorpe Park Hotel and Spa in Leeds has launched FYR Grill, a new open‑flame restaurant created through a £500,000 investment. The scheme centres on a bespoke central grill and open kitchen, designed to foreground live…
SOA architekti’s fit‑out for The Kimchi, a compact Korean street‑food counter beside Prague’s Masaryk Station, translates Seoul’s kinetic visual language into a tightly choreographed dining experience. Through a restrained material palette, a recurring wave motif…
Noisy Beast has been appointed by eeger, the Australian tourism, hospitality and travel jobs platform managed by Accommodation Australia, to lead its marketing activity. The newly announced partnership launches with a campaign called “An Un‑Automated…
Charley SIGNATURE’s recent profile in LUXUO underlines Miami’s accelerating role as a stage for high-end brand building. The agency’s expanding footprint in the city illuminates how specialist luxury creative houses are translating coastal glamour into…
Luxury hotels have long set the tone for residential taste; recent reporting on “Inside the home design trends inspired by luxury hospitality” highlights how hospitality’s move toward quieter, more lived-in luxury is translating into domestic…
Radit Mahindro’s Paras reframes Bali’s built environment as the product of a century-long negotiation between local material traditions, colonial and post‑colonial modernism, and the commercial logics of global tourism. What begins as a chronological survey…
Take a look behind the scenes at a new immersive restaurant tucked inside a Leeds hotel and spa — a concept that foregrounds spectacle as much as sustenance. The venue, revealed in local coverage, situates…
Toast Journal looks beyond what is merely new. We document the ideas, identities and experiences giving hospitality its cultural charge.
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