Wallpaper* city guides
As someone who thinks more about traveling than actually gets to do it [damn, it should really be the other way around], it was good to come across the latest batch of Wallpaper* city guides the other day. Living vicariously through the pages of the Berlin edition at least made my next choice of holiday destination that much easier. As one would expect from anything Wallpaper* puts its name to, the books are beautifully designed and are very photo heavy, which is a nice point of difference from the plethora of other travel books on the market. New cities in the series include Athens, Basel, Beijing, Berlin, Bilbao, Cape Town, Dubai, Havana, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Marrakech, Miami, Mumbai, Prague, San Francisco, São Paulo, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Toronto and Vienna. Now that’s some serious airtime.
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jay elle said | 28 August, 2007
very pretty pics, i just wish they had more info in them like luxe… would make my lugging them around actually worth it :p