The Luxury 50 List 2014

The most quietly confident city in Asia, where design, food, and culture move faster than anywhere — a dispatch from the future’s favourite capital

From Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Center to a 12th-century walled city and the Flame Towers — why Baku is the most exciting architectural capital you can fly to.

Early July in Provence, when the lavender reaches its peak and the whole landscape hums.

Where Baku, Jeju, the Saudi Red Sea, the Albanian coast, northern Argentina and Bhutan now sit on the consideration set — and the one place still forming.

Everyone’s chasing the World Cup. Sixteen cities are packed for the tournament. Folegandros has a table, the Aeolians have ferry seats, Lisbon will give you Belcanto. Move while it lasts.

On three weeks in Malaysia, a summer in Dubai, and what you learn about a place when you stop being a tourist in it

Frida at Tate Modern, a Mexican pavilion in Kensington Gardens, the T20 World Cup at Lord’s, Wimbledon next door, and daylight holding till half past nine.