category Shanghai
Shanghai: Almost French
Shanghai has a reputation as a city that is demolishing its links to the past as fast as it is spewing out products and pollution, but a short stay in the atmospheric French concession proves the opposite.
By Clare Press
Categories China, Shanghai
A Posh Pad in Shanghai
We do not travel, of course, to experience the familiar. That said, there is something comforting about bunking down in a thoroughly modern pied a terre when visiting a city as crazily confusing, polluted and exasperating as Shanghai can be. The Philippe Starck designed JIA Shanghai hotel, housed in a converted downtown art deco building, is just that.
By Clare Press
Categories China, Shanghai
