THINK DESIGN TIPS

Making room reservations at the Four Seasons Hotel in Maui is fairly easy, reserving a pool side cabana however, is another story.

Unable to score a coveted poolside cabana during high summer season, my husband convinced us that we were better off lounging under a sunbrella stuck on the Wailea sand and call it a day. I may have been deprived of a cabana that humid day in July but that didn’t stop me from wanting one. Cabana, which means a hut in Spanish, has always been associated with Hollywood glam. Despite its lightweight structure surrounded with cloth panels, having a cabana or a pool house or a guest house at your residential property is really about having the luxury of an extra outdoor room…

By April Nieuwsma

Before his mysterious death in 1940, Walter Benjamin- a progressive German philosopher, began a massive volume on a single architectural phenomena: a magnum-opus of aesthetics called the Arcades Project. The book, which I have attempted to finish on several occasions, takes up the fascinating sociological, political, and philosophical themes suggested by the Parisian [...]

By: Steve Miller
As its’ name so aptly states, the Hotel De La Paix epitomizes peace and tranquility. The owners however were probably thinking more about the word peace in a diplomatic context since Cambodia emerged from very bloody conflicts with the Khmer Rouge and warring political factions less than a decade ago. 

About the hotel. If [...]