Slow Summers, Issue One

Forty-six terraces, and a yacht club

Pendry Residences Barbados is a limited collection of 46 fully furnished homes of two to five bedrooms, from US$2.725 million, with interiors by RH and views over the marina or the sea.

The residences sit alongside the hotel with their own lounge and access to the resort's amenities. Select ground-floor homes get private gardens and infinity-edge pools; the marina will house Pendry Yacht Club, the brand's first. Residences and berths are being sold now, ahead of the 2027 opening.

The terraces are the point. Two to five bedrooms indoors, and an outdoor room of the same order — deep shade, stone floors, furniture that has to hold up to salt air on the Platinum Coast. That is the specification conversation happening across the whole island right now.

The club that sets the table

Friday of Car Week belongs to The Quail. This year Luxury Rally Club handed its platinum lawn to BRABUS for two premieres.

Trevor Johnson founded Luxury Rally Club in 2018 and built it on rallies that put access ahead of scale: the Pre-War Motoring Classic, a Countach anniversary run, the Bentley 100 Years rally. It also runs the Santa Lucia Preserve Concours & Cocktails, eighth edition this year, the night before The Quail. In July it agreed to join the duPont REGISTRY Group, alongside Canossa and Cavallino.

The car carries a founder’s name. Bodo Buschmann started BRABUS in Bottrop in 1977; his son Constantin built the grand tourer his father kept describing. Pre-preg carbon body, hand-built 5.2-litre V12 biturbo, 1,000 PS. On the Cabriolet, a “77” motif is woven into the jacquard roof rather than printed on it.

Look past the cars and the lawn was an outdoor room built for a single day: a black pavilion, market umbrellas, clipped trees in planters, low seating on grass. The brand putting its name on two islands dressed a field in Carmel Valley in the same register. Disclosure: the lounge furniture was ours.

The Riot House, fourteen floors up

It opened in 1963 as Gene Autry’s Hotel Continental, the first high-rise on the Sunset Strip. By the seventies it was the Continental Hyatt House, and the touring bands who stayed there gave it another name.

Hyatt reopened the tower in January 2009 as Andaz West Hollywood, the brand’s first in North America, with architecture and interiors by Janson Goldstein. The rooftop pool sits on the fourteenth floor: the city and the Strip on one side, the Hollywood Hills on the other.

A rooftop has to be the reason guests come up. The view does half the work; the furniture has to do the rest, seat a full deck on a Saturday and look the same after a summer of sun and cleaning. The plan runs zone by zone: a long line of chaises at the pool edge, a teak sectional inside every cabana, and rope and teak lounge seating along the glass for the hours after the pool closes.

The yacht with no engine room

Zero is the first sailing yacht of her size designed to run entirely on energy she harvests herself: 250 kW of hydrogeneration under sail, solar on deck, and 5.2 megawatt-hours of batteries weighing 28 tonnes. Seven years, and no combustion engine.

The idea formed in 2019 and took more than 60,000 hours of research before construction began in 2023. The aluminium hull was built at Jacht- en Scheepswerf Gouwerok, barged to Vitters in Zwartsluis for outfitting, rolled out of the construction hall on 6 July 2026 and floated at Harlingen days later, where her Panamax-height masts by Carbo-Link were stepped. Sea trials and system commissioning are under way now.

What interests us is the surface, not the sermon. The overhangs are long, the superstructure sits low, the bow is a spoon, and the deck is Tesumo rather than teak — a material decision taken for reasons beyond appearance and detailed to read as though it always belonged. Deck hardware is matte. The transom is metal, hand-painted to look like wood.

Schematics, software and test data are being published through the non-profit Foundation° platform.