Jun 25, 2026 · 54 min · 11 segments
Highlights from the new Summer issue: an exploration of seasonal scents, why turquoise is a mainstay colour during the warmer months and a look inside a new pavilion at the Venice Biennale with Ayan…
Ayan FarahGuest
Sophie CecilGuest
Gillian TobiasPanelist
Brenda TueiMarcela PalekPanelist
Well, I do feel very spoiled because I do have a chance to go very frequently to the Med, Mallorca specifically.
And, um, because, uh, we have a place there, you really get to sort of delve deeply and, and discover new places.
It's very different from the hotels in Palma because it's in an area that, well, once wealthy families would build villas on the, on the hills because it was fresher air.
In the '50s and in the '70s, it would be frequented by the likes of Marlene Dietrich and, and Alain Delon.
And then with the wave of tourism in the '60s and '70s and '80s and '90s, when everyone wanted these big hotels with pools and all in, this area became forgotten.
But, and sadly it became forgotten and then became full of graffiti and run-down and very shabby.
And you'd pass by in the bus, and you'd see little vestiges of gorgeous villas, but covered in barbed wire or graffiti.
But as is the way the pendulum swings, and now it is a place where artists are coming back and opening studios.
But there's a new hotel called the Terreno Barrier, and it's very much an ode to the neighborhood a little bit.
Their open-next spaces that were always private and forbidden for locals, so locals can pass through and get to the sea.
It's gonna be very much part of the environment to welcome the community in, whether they be the artists, designers or the shopkeepers and the, and the fruit sellers, but very much a community spirit.
But it is a hotel for, for the, a design-led hotel with these extraordinary architects, OLAB, who are friends of Monocle.
They really, because they're M-Mallorcan-based, they work very closely with artisans, with craftspeople, with fabricant.
Well, I do feel very spoiled because I do have a chance to go very frequently to the Med, Mallorca specifically.
And, um, because, uh, we have a place there, you really get to sort of delve deeply and, and discover new places.
It's very different from the hotels in Palma because it's in an area that, well, once wealthy families would build villas on the, on the hills because it was fresher air.
In the '50s and in the '70s, it would be frequented by the likes of Marlene Dietrich and, and Alain Delon.
And then with the wave of tourism in the '60s and '70s and '80s and '90s, when everyone wanted these big hotels with pools and all in, this area became forgotten.
But, and sadly it became forgotten and then became full of graffiti and run-down and very shabby.
And you'd pass by in the bus, and you'd see little vestiges of gorgeous villas, but covered in barbed wire or graffiti.
But as is the way the pendulum swings, and now it is a place where artists are coming back and opening studios.
But there's a new hotel called the Terreno Barrier, and it's very much an ode to the neighborhood a little bit.
Their open-next spaces that were always private and forbidden for locals, so locals can pass through and get to the sea.
It's gonna be very much part of the environment to welcome the community in, whether they be the artists, designers or the shopkeepers and the, and the fruit sellers, but very much a community spirit.
But it is a hotel for, for the, a design-led hotel with these extraordinary architects, OLAB, who are friends of Monocle.
They really, because they're M-Mallorcan-based, they work very closely with artisans, with craftspeople, with fabricant.
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