California
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We Care Spa, Desert Hot Springs, CA
For people looking to get serious about detox and gut health, We Care Spa offers a nutritionally supported fast and cleanse in a peaceful and private desert setting.
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Retreat Report: A Week at Esalen
Set on the cliffs of Big Sur, CA, Esalen—the storied crucible of the human potential movement—functions less like a retreat center and more like a threshold for change. Tracy Georgiou jumps into the deep end.
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San Ysidro Ranch, Montecito, CA
Overlooking the Pacific Ocean with the Santa Ynez Mountains as a backdrop, this beloved property with the most beautiful gardens has been attracting the glamorous set—from Audrey Hepburn to Winston Churchill to the Kennedys on their honeymoon—since it opened in the late 19th century.
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City & Country: Los Angeles
LA contains multitudes, but it’s also a city that practically begs you to get in the car and keep on driving. In our latest City & Country edition, we asked our LA friends—photographers, architects, designers, writers and winemakers—to share their favorite local go-tos and the nearby escapes they love most.
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Korakia Pensione, Palm Springs, CA
This charming Moroccan-meets-Mediterranean retreat is an outlier in Mid-Mod Palm Springs, with whitewashed villas, bougainvillea-draped archways, antiques-filled rooms and other romantic details, just steps from downtown.
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Dispatch from the Cali Coast: Laguna, Arcata & San Francisco
Milan-based illustrator, writer, and vintage collector Jenny Walton set off on a meandering three-week trip to visit her sister in California—and found inspiration at every turn.
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The Sea Ranch Lodge, Sonoma Coast
The Sea Ranch is a living monument to 1960s utopian ideals—where modernist architecture meets wild Pacific landscapes, and the guiding principle is to live lightly on the land.
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Family Road Trip: LA to Mendocino County
Restaurateur Brooks Reitz set off with his wife and young son on a road trip that stretched from the palm trees of LA to the apple orchards of Philo, winding through Ojai, Carmel, Inverness, and beyond.
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La Playa Hotel, Carmel-by-the-Sea
La Playa is a grand hotel (operating for over 100 years) perched proudly among the smaller cottages and hillside homes of Carmel.