Inaugural Issue — WORLD TRAVELER MAGAZINE (Copy)

MB&F
Maximilian Büsser built MB&F on a radical belief: creativity begins where correction ends. The founder reflects on fear, failure, mechanical art, and the uncompromising imagination behind one of horology’s most original maisons. — **MB&F**
Maximilian Büsser built MB&F on a radical belief: creativity begins where correction ends. The founder reflects on fear, failure, mechanical art, and the uncompromising imagination behind one of horology’s most original maisons.

Cory Richards
Cory Richards became known for the places most people never reach: Everest, the Karakoram, the death zone, the edge of survival. But in this candid World Traveler Magazine interview, the National Geographic photographer and alpinist — **Cory Richards**
Cory Richards became known for the places most people never reach: Everest, the Karakoram, the death zone, the edge of survival. But in this candid World Traveler Magazine interview, the National Geographic photographer and alpinist turns toward a more difficult landscape: identity, recovery, and the meaning of enough.

Meryanne Loum-Martin
Meryanne Loum-Martin did not set out to reproduce an expected image of Marrakech. She created another way of entering it. At Jnane Tamsna, the pioneer of Marrakech boutique hospitality reflects on the nearly six hundred palms — **Meryanne Loum-Martin**
Meryanne Loum-Martin did not set out to reproduce an expected image of Marrakech. She created another way of entering it. At Jnane Tamsna, the pioneer of Marrakech boutique hospitality reflects on the nearly six hundred palms that shaped the estate, the family history behind it, and a deeply personal vision of place.

Vincent Van Duysen
Vincent Van Duysen does not believe in empty rooms. In this World Traveler Magazine interview, the renowned Belgian architect and designer pushes past the language of minimalism to speak about silence, soul, and the quiet power — **Vincent Van Duysen**
Vincent Van Duysen does not believe in empty rooms. In this World Traveler Magazine interview, the renowned Belgian architect and designer pushes past the language of minimalism to speak about silence, soul, and the quiet power of spaces that change how we live inside them.

Winch Design
Jim Dixon on the craftsmanship and “relentless creativity” behind Winch Design’s extraordinary yachts, aircraft, and residences. — **Winch Design**
Jim Dixon on the craftsmanship and “relentless creativity” behind Winch Design’s extraordinary yachts, aircraft, and residences.

Jaume Plensa
Through Crown Fountain, Water’s Soul, and public works across the world, Jaume Plensa gives silence a face, turning language, water, and memory into quiet invitations to pause, look, and listen. — **Jaume Plensa**
Through Crown Fountain, Water’s Soul, and public works across the world, Jaume Plensa gives silence a face, turning language, water, and memory into quiet invitations to pause, look, and listen.

Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance Designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance traces a path from Paris to Lisbon, where burned cork, black ceramics, Steinway pianos, and Portuguese coastlines become a search for reconnection. — **Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance**
Designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance traces a path from Paris to Lisbon, where burned cork, black ceramics, Steinway pianos, and Portuguese coastlines become a search for reconnection.

Federico Veronesi
In Federico Veronesi’s Africa, the wild is not captured, but felt. Through silence, shadow, and extraordinary light, he reveals a world at once fleeting, immense, and profoundly alive. — **Federico Veronesi**
In Federico Veronesi’s Africa, the wild is not captured, but felt. Through silence, shadow, and extraordinary light, he reveals a world at once fleeting, immense, and profoundly alive.

Louis Benech
For Louis Benech, the celebrated French designer behind Versailles’s Bosquet du Théâtre d’Eau, a garden begins with something deceptively simple: the plant must be happy. In a candid World Traveler Magazine interview, he speaks of Le — **Louis Benech**
For Louis Benech, the celebrated French designer behind Versailles’s Bosquet du Théâtre d’Eau, a garden begins with something deceptively simple: the plant must be happy. In a candid World Traveler Magazine interview, he speaks of Le Nôtre, Louis XIV, private commissions, difficult clients, and why he prefers to be called a gardener.

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CORY RICHARDS

In this exclusive feature, World Traveler Magazine sits down with acclaimed explorer, alpinist, photographer, and storyteller Cory Richards for a rare and revealing conversation. Known for pushing into some of the most remote and unforgiving landscapes on Earth, Richards became the only American to summit an 8,000-meter peak in winter and has spent much of his life operating where risk is constant and certainty is rare. Yet the story behind those expeditions is far more personal than the public image of adventure suggests.

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PETER PICHLER ARCHITECTURE

Can a building truly disappear? Deep in the apple orchards of Bolzano, Milanese architect Peter Pichler reimagines modern luxury through stillness, reflection, and restraint, creating spaces that do not simply sit in nature, but seem to vanish into it.

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A curated collection of conversations with artists, designers, architects,
chefs, makers, and visionaries shaping the way we experience the world.

Peter Pichler Architecture

Marinelli Pontifical Bell Foundry

In the remote hills of Agnone, Italy, the Marinelli Pontifical Bell Foundry has spent over a thousand years crafting the world’s most resonant voices. As one of the oldest family-led artisan workshops on earth, this legendary forge preserves the exact lost-wax techniques used since the Middle Ages. Journey inside a timeless legacy where history, heritage, and flawless artistry are cast into eternity.
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Jay Sae Jung Oh

What if the objects we throw away still held stories worth telling? Designer Jay Sae Jung Oh transforms discarded plastics, toys, and instruments into extraordinary furniture—layered, wrapped, and reborn as works of art.
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Impressions of Time: Inside Adelphi Paper Hangings’ Revival of Historic Craftsmanship

Hidden in an upstate New York workshop, centuries-old wallpaper printing techniques endure. At Adelphi Paper Hangings, historic patterns emerge slowly through a patient process that transforms pigment, paper, and time into living design.
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Fernando Laposse

Fernando Laposse does not just create beautiful objects—he designs systemic repair. By merging indigenous wisdom with material innovation, his radical practice turns local agricultural waste into a powerful catalyst for social and ecological restoration.
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Ettore Marinelli

Malta’s Michelin-starred chefs Victor Borg, Chris Cali, and Noni Brincat are shaping a new culinary language for the island, one rooted in heritage, restraint, and the sea. Through three distinct visions, they reveal how Malta’s cuisine is moving beyond tradition into something more personal, precise, and quietly world-class.
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James Dimech

James Dimech transforms paper into something architectural, tactile, and deeply expressive, revealing how a fragile material can hold structure, shadow, and emotion.
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Federico Veronesi

From the vast silence of the African plains, the wild reveals itself not as something to be consumed, but as presence—fleeting, expansive, and profoundly alive. In this feature, wildlife photographer Federico Veronesi reflects on a life shaped by Africa, where light and shadow become a way of translating experience into image. It is not simply about capturing the wild, but about carrying its feeling beyond the moment in which it is lived.
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Fernando Martos

In Madrid, celebrated landscape designer Fernando Martos shares how memory, texture, and Mediterranean light inform his garden compositions. Known for creating romantic, atmospheric spaces that feel both timeless and intimate, Martos blends classical structure with wild beauty—where every path, plant, and breeze is choreographed to evoke emotion and a sense of place.
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T.T.TRUNKS

In Paris, Julien Trossat of T.T. Trunks is bringing the travel trunk back into the realm of desire. Crafted for watches, champagne, and private collections, each piece transcends storage to focus on anticipation: what is hidden, what is revealed, and the life one imagines inside.
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Chefs Victor Borg, Chris Cali, and Jonathan “Noni” Brincat

Mariana Barbosa

Aerospace engineer Mariana Barbosa reveals how Brazil’s satellites are transforming the way a nation sees itself, from the precision of space technology to the urgent work of understanding and protecting its own vast landscape.
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