Take off with wallpaper* June 2024: The travel theme

For our annual travel issue, we've embraced the industry's “return to normality” with some gusto, putting together a series of trips that, while mindful of the implications of achieving that sense of freedom, provide good reasons why What we should do is never give up the urge for adventure.

So this year's edition takes us to Ho Chi Minh City, where a turbulent history has given way to a metropolitan area that is growing at incredible speed, under the protective gaze of insightful and powerful local voices that reflect its newfound energy. A similar story is told in Adam Štěch's tour of Caracas' surprising source of modernist buildings – a vernacular that survives the vicissitudes of the Venezuelan capital's recent past. Marrakesh provides the timeless backdrop to our fashion history. Its Moorish architecture blends seamlessly into this season's most striking silhouettes.

Elsewhere, we visit Shiro Kuramata's Comblé Bar in Shizuoka, southwest of Tokyo – a city with no shortage of top-notch landmark boîtes – and tour the brand new suites-only Emory hotel in London's Knightsbridge with its architects RSHP and check in at the Chenot Palace in Switzerland and look for hot packs and cold showers—a necessary balm for a life of constant motion.

And for those who crave the lure of a home away from home, we offer a range of secluded properties that uniquely complement their surroundings, be it the canopy of a tropical rainforest or an archipelago in northwestern Canada.