Somewhere past the village of Carmel Valley the marine layer thins and the light turns the color of clarified butter. A late-summer stay at Bernardus Lodge, where the valley finally slows down.
Ten miles inland from the fog, on five hundred sun-warmed acres, Carmel Valley Ranch offers a rustic kind of luxury — a Pete Dye golf course and hilltop vineyard beside beehives, saltwater pools, and picnics with a pair of Sicilian mini donkeys. A high-summer Peninsula hideaway where the land, not the lobby, is the luxury.
The Grande Dame of Carmel: how a 1905 stone mansion built by painter Chris Jorgensen for chocolate heiress Angela Ghirardelli became La Playa, the historic hotel recently reborn through a restrained restoration by Post Company.
An 1850s dairy, a wartime officers’ club, and very nearly a condominium development — Mission Ranch survives as Carmel’s living room: thirty-one rooms, a piano bar where locals still sing, and sheep in the meadow against Point Lobos.
Twelve hundred feet above the Pacific, Mickey Muennig’s masterwork was designed from its first sketch to vanish into the ridge — sod roofs, treehouses on stilts, and the oldest luxury on this coast: the coast itself.
The Situation Unfolding Deep in the heart of the scenic landscape of Carmel, California, an unexpected melodrama unfolds, revealing the complexities that often accompany change in beloved communities. At the
A Historic Icon Reimagined: La Playa Hotel Nestled in the quaint and romantic coastal town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, La Playa Hotel stands as an iconic landmark with a keen blend
A Beautiful Scenic View of Carmel Valley Ranch in California There exists a little slice of paradise nestled in the golden hillsides of sunny California and it goes by the