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Remuera house designed by Danielle Bates Design featuring RH furniture, lighting and accessories It’s official: A new partnership is set to give you unprecedented access to this globally coveted home furnishing brand Interior designer Danielle Bates has built a reputation for her high-end residential and hospitality fit outs. Effortlessly employing sumptuous details and clever layering, Bates keeps her contemporary spaces feeling warm and inviting, and it’s largely down to her ability to source and curate unique furnishings, both from here and abroad.  One of the places that Bates has lo...

There’s a certain magic to arriving at Little Dix Bay for the first time, by night. After the long haul via Antigua to Tortola, the hotel’s catamaran whisked me over the moonlit waves for the final 25-minute hop to Virgin Gorda, the rum punch and sea breeze on the top deck blowing away any residual cobwebs.  I arrived in a broad bay surrounded by forested hills, to be greeted on the pier by my butler, and was delivered – somewhat punch-drunk – by buggy to my room. The swishing of the surf told me I was not far from the water’s edge, but in the discreet exterior lig...