Brad Japhe

Recent Articles

Powder Mountain

In late 2023, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings purchased a majority stake in Powder Mountain for a cool $100 million. With one of the country’s largest resorts under his purview—featuring 8,000 skiable acres—all talk at the...

By Brad Japhe

Port Ellen

In the scotch industry, a ghost distillery is the preserved site of former whisky production that has long since shuttered. Until last year, there wasn’t an example more revered than Port Ellen, which developed a...

By Brad Japhe

Fontainebleau

A 67-story tower nearly two decades in the making, Fontainebleau Las Vegas finally opened last December at the northern end of the Strip. The $3.7 billion dollar hotel, casino, and convention center ups the ante...

By Brad Japhe

Raffles London at the OWO

In a city well familiar with five-star hotels, the new Raffles London at The OWO layers on a new level of luxury. The palatial 120-room property was meticulously refurbished—over eight years and to the tune...

By Brad Japhe

Mt Cook Lakeside Retreat

Perched atop a high mountain plateau in the sparse terrain of New Zealand’s South Island, the Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve is among the best places on the planet to gaze up at the...

By Brad Japhe
More from TIME
More From TIME