Wallpaper* City Guide Cape Town
The fast-track guide for the smart traveller
Wallpaper*
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Price: €12.95
Your passport to global style, Wallpaper* City Guides present an insider's checklist of all you need to know about the world's most intoxicating cities. Under slick Pantone covers, these pocket-sized travel bibles unearth the hippest nightlife, the buzziest hotels, the coolest retail, the most influential art galleries and cultural spaces, the best in local design and the contemporary architecture that defines a city.
Perfectly sized for travel, discreet and easy to use, so you don't feel like a tourist, these books are ideal for either extended breaks or business trips. They are rigorously researched, and curated by an extensive network of experts, from in-house editors to in-the-know local correspondents. The series now covers more than 100 dynamic destinations.
Published November 2019
SPECIFICATIONS:
Format: Paperback
Size: 160 x 108 mm (6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in)
Pages: 128 pp
Illustrations: 100 illustrations
ISBN: 9780714879048
Wallpaper* City Guides are compiled by the magazine’s travel experts, both by in-house editors, and correspondents who actually live in the highlighted cities, providing up-to-the-minute information.
"Like asking an unnervingly handsome, impossibly intelligent local where they hang out."—Mr Hyde (Shortlist)
"The small but perfectly formed guides have become iconic."—1843 (The Economist lifestyle magazine)
From the introduction:
"Due to its jaw-dropping setting just below Table Mountain, miles of unspoilt coastline and winelands for suburbs, you could easily fall for Cape Town on looks alone. But it is also known for exceptional fine dining, peerless domestic architecture and a robust streak of can-do energy that drives local creativity and has turned it into a vibrant destination for contemporary art and design..."
"Like asking an unnervingly handsome, impossibly intelligent local where they hang out."—Mr Hyde (Shortlist)
"The small but perfectly formed guides have become iconic."—1843 (The Economist lifestyle magazine)
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