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Mandarin Oriental
10 minutes from the city centre, Mandarin Oriental offers an luxury oriental journey through its five-star luxury service of 54 luxurious villas, 9 spacious suites, world class Spa, poolside meals, restaurants and bars.
The Silo Hotel
The Silo Hotel is an extraordinary five-star hotel owned by The Royal Portfolio of Liz and Phil BIDEN. Located in the historic grain silo at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, in Cape Town, South Africa, The Silo hotel shares with the…
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (ZEITZ MOCAA)
Located in the historic grain silo at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, in Cape Town, South Africa, Zeitz MOCAA is the largest art museum in Africa.
It is Jochen Zeitz in partnership with the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, who…
ASK THE EXPERT With Omon Anenih – Mordi (Is Nigeria ready for open plan interior design?)
Is Nigeria ready for open plan interior design?
Want to bring more light, space and sociability to your interiors? Here are five very good reasons to consider going “open plan”.
Light, space, freedom – open plan interior design is all…
House of Splendour
House of Splendor Boutique Hotel & Spa is owned by SD Interiors Ltd, a firm of Interior Designers and Decorators headed by Sarah O Daniel. The vision of House of Splendor boutique hotel has expression in Deloitte & Touche definition…
A City in Transition: Hans Wilschut’s Urban Studies Of Lagos
Equipped with his large-format camera in tow, Hans Wilschut traverses the world as a global nomad. While based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the photographer could be found in any major city at any given time, from Lagos and Shanghai to…
Interview With Professor Godwin
List 100 of Nigeria's historical Buildings and monuments
There is a legacy map which gives you all historical monuments that we know of. There are a whole lot more than in the map. There is the Chief Odo Nwokol's palace in Enugu State,…
At Home With Alan Davies
What drew you to working in Nigeria?
Actually, I came to Nigeria by chance. I had worked as an architect in the UK for five years and then I did a master’s degree in Town Planning. After the degree, I worked as an architect planner for…
Yellow Sun: The New Contemporaries
Vanessa Power, the editor of Avenir and Avenir Africa talks exclusively to Essential Traveller about her latest exhibition in Nigeria: Yellow Sun: The New Contemporaries.
Tell us a bit about how Yellow Sun came about.
To…
The Rebelle Flower Guide to Styling Stunning Faux Botanicals
Faux flowers have come an incredibly long way in recent years. The stigma once attached to the traditional old-fashioned versions of decades gone by are slowly fading. Today, technological advancements in the industry have seen modern…