Retreats of Luxury
A quest for wellness
Embark on a global wellness odyssey with Verve's curated selection of the world’s most luxurious retreats.
The festive spirit of Christmas is drawing near, and with it comes the chance to set your tables and deck your halls.
Christmas on the beach is the perfect opportunity to get back to nature and keep things on the simple side – leaving you to enjoy the surrounds and the opportunity to really connect with family and friends.
An innovative solid-wood house in an architect’s Cape Town hillside garden was designed as much as a guest cottage as an experiment in a new kind of fast, sustainable building.
It’s been nearly 200 years since wandering shepherds first experienced the warm embrace of what was then a farmstead at Wharekauhau – te reo for ‘place of knowledge’ – cradled between the Remutaka Ranges and the churning surf of Palliser Bay in the southern reaches of North Island.