Snapshot: white

When it comes to making a cool, calm impression, other palettes pale into insignificance

10 March 2015

This feature first appeared in Condé Nast Traveller March 2015

A pale palette is given an industrial edge at The White Room studio apartment in Melbourne’s Fitzroy neighbourhood.
The menu at concept store Portrait Haarlem, in the Netherlands, is written on the porcelain tiles that cover its coffee-shop space.
The Greek Islands have no shortage of sugarcube-like houses – at Cavo Tagoo on Mykonos, the pure-white hotel lobby is shot with gold.
The interior of Room 1 at the Room National hotel is as cool as its Antwerp location.

Design firm Cadena+Asociados collected 10,000 bones – along with anatomical line drawings and chalky painted kitchen utensils – to decorate the interiors of Hueso restaurant (which means ‘bone’ in Spanish) in the Mexican city of Guadalajara.
Design firm Cadena+Asociados collected 10,000 bones – along with anatomical line drawings and chalky painted kitchen utensils – to decorate the interiors of Hueso restaurant (which means ‘bone’ in Spanish) in the Mexican city of Guadalajara.
A soaring, wrought-iron lattice atrium casts intricate shadows on waiting spa-goers at the Royal Mansour in Marrakech.
At Amsterdam boutique Sukha the eco-minded products are reflected in the natural, white-on-wood interiors.

Enjoy a trim among birch trees at the woodland-inspired Onico Hair & Nail in Osaka.
Artist, director and photographer Violaine Carrère was inspired to open her minimalist concept store/gallery in Paris, Le White, after decorating her all-alabaster apartment.
Whitewashed furniture and creamy linen curtains at Paris restaurant Neige d’Eté.