Wallpaper* City Guide Hong Kong
The Fast-Track Guide for the Smart Traveller
Wallpaper*
Editions:
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 2018
SPECIFICATIONS:
Format: Paperback
Size: 160 x 108 mm (6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in)
Pages: 128 pp
Illustrations: 100 illustrations
ISBN: 9780714876535
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)
"For fashionistas, hipsters, architects and anyone who wouldn't be caught dead where the tourists go."—Alicia Miller, Sunday Times Travel
"Ultra-stylish."—Time Magazine
"Sophisticated."—The New York Times
"Attractive and well-researched."—USA Today
"Packed with insider info on the world's coolest hotels, restaurants and attractions."—Vogue
"This pocket-sized guide doesn't sacrifice substance for style."—The Independent
"For discerning jet-setters... The small but perfectly formed guides have become iconic."—1843 (The Economist lifestyle magazine)
From the introduction:
"The struggle to determine the quasi-independent city's identity has intensified in the two decades since it was returned to a resurgent China. As ever, Hong Kong has a lot going for it. Its concentration of affluence and a sophisticated consumer set make it a powerful magnet for restaurateurs, artists, designers and others seeking to blaze a path in an ascending Asia. Big-ticket projects point to a new determination to become the region's creative core. And, of course, Hong Kong's time-honoured charms - its dramatic skyline, deep-water bays, striking peaks and pulsating streets - remain. The sense that it may be operating on borrowed time has only heightened the air of restless dynamism."
"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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