The NYT went on a veritable shopping spree of travel coverage this weekend, with a T Style Magazine issue devoted to tasteful globetrotting, in addition to their regular Sunday section. The T cover went to a feature tied to Sofia Coppola’s upcoming Marie Antoinette biopic, with the director’s musts for shopping in the couture capital. Other articles sized up showplace architecture in second cities as a lure for tourists, focusing on the American Midwest, and Fukuoka in Japan. Also on offer: a feature on design in Bangkok, a style survival guide to LA for New Yorkers, and a review of design darling Ron Arad’s new hotel in Rimini (verdict: not really worth the wait, or the $13 million price tag.)
The other American papers took a decidedly less cosmopolitan stance, with lots of stories about quintessentially American travel, e.g. exploring the Great Basin, luxe camping in the Sierras, the Texas State Fair, and special section on New Mexico from the SF Chronicle.
Posted on Sep 25, 2006 03:14 PM by kristin
