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"Travel : Insider Secrets of the AD100\nObservations, obsessions, and savvy advice from excursions around the globe\n\"I am completely fixated on the graphic parquet floors in Russian palaces\u2014and I want to design a rug collection based on them.\"\n\nEmpress Maria Feodorovna's library at Pavlovsk Palace, near St. Petersburg, Russia. Photo: Bildarchiv Manheim/Arcaid Images\n\"Cuba has a lilting, dusty feeling that's just gorgeous, despite the sad history. You can look at beautiful architecture that hasn't been ruined by developers.\"\n\nThe Gran Teatro de la Habana. Photo: Aleksandar Todorovic/Shutterstock.com\n\"When I arrive at a destination, I seek out every building I've heard or read about. I suspect this is typical of many architects. My first wife figured it out early on and made me go to Rome a week ahead of her so I could get it out of my system. My second wife, happily, has not been so discriminating, which, I suppose, is why she's my second wife.\"\n\nThe Arch of Constantine, left, and the Colosseum. Photo: Honza Hruby/Shutterstock.com\n\"In San Francisco I always book room 503 at the Huntington Hotel, because it faces a cathedral and a park. So many hotels want to give you a dazzling view of the city skyline, but that's really the last thing I want. I'm very comfortable being on a low floor, looking at green trees and watching people do their Tai Chi exercises.\"\n\nPhoto courtesy of the Huntington Hotel\n\"I go to London for eccentricity, Los Angeles for clarity, and Paris for Paris.\"\n\nALAN WAZENBERG\n\n ARCHITECT\n\n\"One weekend in Paris can give you visual stimulation that it would take weeks to get anywhere else.\"\n\nThe Louvre and Tuileries gardens. Photo: Veronika Vasilyuk/Shutterstock.com\n\"Once home to the man who wrote An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration, Museo Mario Praz in Rome is a paradise of Empire furniture.\"\n\nPhoto: Giovanni Rinaldi, Courtesy of Museo Mario Praz\n\"The Thunderbird Hotel in Marfa, Texas, is simple yet chic. Even the stationery reflects its minimalist design.\"\n\nPhoto: Fran\u00E7ois Halard\n\"Since I am a hotel designer, I like staying at different hotels, naturally. That way I can see who's doing what better than I am!\"\n\nMARC APPLETON\n\n ARCHITECT\n\n\"The right hotel room is critical. If you don't like what you've been assigned, ask to see others until you find one you like.\"\n\nA suite at the Bellagio hotel, designed by Roger Thomas. Photo courtesy of MGM Mirage\n\"The perfect weekend getaway is my little shack in Joshua Tree, California, where I have a propane stove, no electricity, and complete silence. It's not about the architecture, it's about the landscape.\"\n\nPhoto courtesy of Ron Radziner\n\"When flying, I'm absolutely a window-seat\u2013and-Ambien person. I have Us Weekly on my iPad, socks in my bag, and a Brookstone charger for my laptop and cell phone.\"\n\"When I travel, I carry an Herm\u00E8s notebook for sketching. The drawings are terrible, but I use them to develop designs that I file under \u2018inspiration.'\"\n\nPhoto courtesy of David Collins Studio\n\"I adore the wonderfully minimalist lounges architect John Pawson created for Cathay Pacific at Hong Kong International Airport\u2014and the spicy noodles served there!\"\n\nPhoto: Dennis Gilbert/View Pictures Ltd./Alamy\n\"Some of the best meals I've ever had were at the restaurant Bagutta in Milan.\"\n\nPhoto courtesy of Bagutta\n\"Even for people without any interest in weaponry or hunting, Paris's Mus\u00E9e de la Chasse et de la Nature is remarkable for its ingenious curation and mildly macabre scenographic qualities. Think Jeunet and Caro's movie Delicatessen.\"\n\nROBERTO PEREGALLI\n\n INTERIOR DESIGNER\n\n\"You must see the archaeological museum in Ruvo di Puglia, Italy, a tiny, well-preserved place with a mesmerizing collection of antiquities.\"\n\nWildlife on display at\u00A0Mus\u00E9e de la Chasse et de la Nature. Photo courtesy of\u00A0Mus\u00E9e de la Chasse et de la Nature\n\"A visit to Vienna in the winter reaffirms our romantic view of design and architecture. We especially like taking a late-night walk in the snow by the Schmetterlinghaus, an extraordinary Jugendstil greenhouse that acts as a lantern.\"\n\nPhoto: \u00A9 mediacolor's/Alamy\n\"Ngorongoro Crater Lodge in Tanzania is outrageous, as if a tribal elder had worked with Philippe Starck. Even better, it is owned by the conservation group &amp;amp;Beyond Africa, so part of your fee goes to wildlife preservation. Staying there is a win-win situation.\"\n\nPhoto courtesy of Ngorongoro Crater Lodge\n\"Everyone should visit India. Beauty and squalor are all mixed together there, and your senses get jumbled by it. You come away with a new view of the world.\"\n\nAgra Fort Palace in India. Photo: Claudine Van Massenhove /Shutterstock.com\n\"I always take a sketchbook on vacations or when I am working on projects around the world. And when I get back to New York City, I start creating collages, which comprise colorful scraps taken from newspapers, magazines, and almost anything found on my journeys.\"\n\nA collage by Meier. Photo courtesy of Richard Meier &amp;amp; Partners\n\"Located in a 16th-century building, the Hotel Monasterio in Cuzco, Peru, is decorated in Spanish Baroque style, with enormous portraits of grandees hanging on every wall. Because of the high altitude\u2014the city is more than 10,000 feet above sea level\u2014oxygen can actually be piped into your room if you need it.\"\n\nPhoto courtesy of Hotel Monasterio\n\"On all our trips, my business partner, architect Laura Sartori Rimini, and I always bring a small camera, about the size of a pack of cigarettes. It's a lesson the photographer Mario Testino taught us. We use it like a cahier des voyages, for shooting details. It's essential for memories, reveries, and souvenirs\u2014all things that are very important to our work.\"\n\nROBERT A.M. STERN\n\n ARCHITECT\n\n\"When I was a young architect, I never took a camera traveling because I thought I would look like a tourist. Then I had a realization: I was a tourist. So I began by taking slides, and for the past decade or so, digital photos. When I look at buildings, I take as many photos as possible\u2014it actually helps me to see. Back at the office, they're organized in a system that makes it possible to call the images up at any given moment. When we start a new project, we always begin by looking at \u2018Bob's favorites.'\"\n\nAn architectural detail in the Medina of Marrakech photographed by Studio Peregalli. Photo courtesy of Studio Peregalli\n\"I love visiting house museums because you get to step into somebody else's world. One of my favorites is the incredibly gorgeous Mus\u00E9e Nissim de Camondo in Paris, which inspired the architecture and decoration of a house I recently completed.\"\n\nPhoto: Massimo Listri/Corbis\n\"The Mona Bismarck American Center for Art &amp;amp; Culture in Paris is a hidden jewel of a museum\u2014and the former home of one of the world's most elegant women. I find the architectural details are just as fascinating as the center's rotating exhibits.\"\n\nA portrait of Mona Bismarck by Horst P. Horst. Photo: Horst P. Horst/Cond\u00E9 Nast Archive\n\"Lisbon is an astonishing, less-traveled city, with a tradition of amazing arts and crafts that persists to this day, from glasswork to linens to metal.\"\n\nPraca do Comercio (Commerce Square). Photo: Emi Cristea/Shutterstock.com\n\"I am on the board of the Fellows of the Garden Conservancy and recently went to Normandy to see the gardens of the Ch\u00E2teau de Br\u00E9cy, which belongs to Barbara and Didier Wirth. That place has such incredible style.\"\n\"Carlo Scarpa's Brion-Vega Cemetery, near Treviso, Italy, is astounding in how it merges architecture and landscape. It's raw yet precise, like a beautiful ruin that's being engulfed by the earth.\"\n\nPhoto: Klaus Frahm/Artur\n\"I love the H\u00F4tel Costes in Paris. It's Jacques Garcia's fantasy of Napol\u00E9on III opulence. But I confess I really stay there for the decadent mashed potatoes.\"\n\nPhoto courtesy of\u00A0H\u00F4tel Costes\n\"When I was in Amsterdam on business in April, I bicycled to the Van Gogh Museum, which was planning to close for a renovation. I wasn't expecting to be bowled over, because I thought of it as too touristy, and I'm not really interested in Van Gogh. But some of his pictures are fantastic. One little painting, about nine inches tall by seven inches wide, of an almond branch in full flower placed in a glass of water, is absolutely breathtaking.\"\n\nPhoto courtesy of Van Gogh Museum"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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