In 1982 Klaus Schleusener, a professor at IIT Madras, built himself a winter house with the Swiss architect Karl Damschen on a bare hill near the village of Pulinkudi, about ten kilometres from Trivandrum. It was octagonal. Friends kept coming to stay, so, as Kalpana Sunder told the story in India Currents, he bought more … Read more
Alistair Shearer, a British writer on India, tells the story in a few lines on his own website: he and “a couple of friends” bought twelve acres of coconut-palm grove on what he calls the isolated coast of Malabar, and the result is Neeleshwar Hermitage. He describes himself as its co-founder and gives evening lectures … Read more
The Swiss longevity clinic’s first resort outside Montreux: 29 rooms in seven villas beside a lake in the bamboo hills of Anji, Zhejiang.
An Ayurvedic destination spa opened in 2000 on a Maharaja’s estate in the Himalayan foothills above Rishikesh.
A wellness retreat in a sal forest outside Dehradun, in the Himalayan foothills of Uttarakhand, where the stay itself is the programme.
Forty pool villas in the forest of a private island in the Gulf of Thailand, off Cambodia’s Ream National Park.
A 26-room Aman resort set in a 32-hectare forest estate in the north of Kyoto, within walking distance of Kinkaku-ji.
Sri Lanka’s first purpose-built luxury wellness resort: 22 open pavilions on a former tea estate in the hills near Kandy.
The Upper House occupies floors 38 to 49 of a tower above Pacific Place, Swire Properties’ complex of offices, hotels and shops in Admiralty. It has 117 rooms and opened in October 2009. Three other hotels share the same development, the JW Marriott in the same tower and the Conrad and Island Shangri-La across the … Read more
Aman made its name with resorts set apart from everything around them. In Tokyo it opened, in December 2014, at the top of Otemachi Tower, an office building in the business district between Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace. The idea of retreat had to be built vertically. The hotel holds two MICHELIN Keys. The … Read more