Skindelle Stories

Jaipur: Haveli Courtyards and 42-Degree Silk

The Hawa Mahal at 7am The Hawa Mahal glows in the colour of the canteria it is made from: Jaipur sandstone, the specific pink-terracotta tone that gives the city its epithet. The Palace of Winds w...

Cartagena: Walled City Rooftops and Tropical Colonial Stone

Colombia's walled city on the Caribbean. Bougainvillea over iron balconies, Celele in Getsemani, and the particular problem of looking right in 85 percent humidity.

Lisbon: Rooftop Bars, Alfama Nights, and Bairro Alto

Lisbon is the European capital that survived an earthquake, a tsunami, and a fire on the same morning, the first of November 1755, and rebuilt itself within three years under the direction of one m...

Menorca: The Balearic Island That Does Not Perform

Menorca is the Balearic island for people who have been to Ibiza and survived it. Ibiza is organised around performance: the night, the music, the spectacle of people who want to be seen being pres...

Berlin: Summer Rooftop Parties, Lake Clubs and Gallery Openings

Berlin is the European city that has refused the most consistently to be legible. Paris has a dress code. Milan has a dress code. Vienna has a dress code. Berlin has a position: that effort which a...

Hydra: No Cars, No Roads, Just Donkeys and Design

Hydra is the Greek island you go to after you have exhausted the other arguments. After Mykonos, about the night and the performance of it. After Santorini, about the view and the documentation of ...