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The inaugural issue of Getting Around, my weekly travel letter, is out! Here's a bit about what I'm trying to do each week to help readers actually enjoy their travels
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I’ve written before about finding Milan hard to pin down, so this portion of Cathy Horyn’s interview w/ Demna (creative director of Gucci) really stood out to me gettingaround.substack.com/p…
Milan is being forced into something by tourists and fashion lovers that at its core it isn’t gettingaround.substack.com/p…
And the frustration w Milan (including my own) is funny bc it’s just being itself, which is what we often talk about wanting (authenticity) but we don’t actually want that gettingaround.substack.com/p…
Airbnb’s big announcement last week was about more than cracking down on egregious hosts. It represented the true end of it being about staying at somebody’s home. gettingaround.substack.com/p…
The new Lucas Museum is a hot mess. Building is very cool, but the collection is the latest salvo in what feels like a war on traditional curation and the didactic responsibilities of a museum gettingaround.substack.com/p…
Went to a part of France last week that gave me that sense of awe I once had as a teen! gettingaround.substack.com/p…
I wrote about the new Geffen Galleries at LACMA. While walking around its (intentionally confusing) halls, all I kept thinking about was Aretha Franklin’s “Great gowns. Beautiful gowns” line gettingaround.substack.com/p…
One of the most underrated—and cheaped out on—aspects of good hotel design is hallway design gettingaround.substack.com/p…
Also pretty remarkable? In an age of luxury brand dilution, Four Seasons has managed to still represent luxury to all gettingaround.substack.com/p…
William O'Connor retweeted
.@williamoconnor5 recently wrote it's “remarkable how little has changed" in response to a 1998 airline lounge photo I shared.
Has lounge design stalled? I've mulled it for months and came to the conclusion: yes, and no.
Welcome to lounge world: byerussell.substack.com/p/we…
I visited the much-maligned Obama Presidential Center this weekend. I’d written a pretty critical review when the tower was nearly complete a couple months ago, so was eager to see in person gettingaround.substack.com/p…
And as for point 3, as I write in the piece: “No matter how joyful the people walking its halls were, I cannot escape the icky feeling of a man building an Ozymandian tower devoted, essentially, to himself. Not to mention tickets cost $30 for adults and $23 for children 3 to 11.”
I say all this and note, however, that if you love it and think I’m nuts—that’s okay! For instance, William Pereira’s now-iconic Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco was ripped to shreds by critics when it was unveiled. gettingaround.substack.com/p…
I loved ‘Hacks’ and it did so much…but it didn’t make me want to visit Vegas gettingaround.substack.com/p…
Penn Station’s redesign is … fine … the architectural equivalent of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s “defining deviancy down.” open.substack.com/pub/gettin…
