Monocle releases their Travel Top 50. Instead of using obvious topics for selecting the best in travel, they’ve stepped off the beaten path and present something slightly different. Compiled by the editors’ top experiences, you’ll find their suggestions dig deeper into the realm of travel. For instance, instead of best hotel, they present the best hotel gym, most complete concierge, bed-linen to look forward to and best high-altitude retreat.

We were happy to see Haneda Airport (also known as Tokyo International Airport) named as the most efficient transit hub. Watching their efficiency is art in motion. Handling 65.3 million passengers in 2006 with the majority of its services dedicated to domestic travel is quite an impressive feat.

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Miami Beach’s Base Annex on Lincoln Road (a popular stretch of shops and outdoor eats) offers a delectable experience in the art of shopping. Tucked off in a corner down a small walkway, the store’s Alice in Wonderland ambience is felt as soon as you step across its threshold. Items from furniture, pillows and jewelry to clothes, lamps and bags are presented in small color themed rooms. Curated by the stores owner Steven Giles, every room offers a full bodied experience of seating, lighting and accessories built around a shared color, red, green, black, you name it.

Each item within the rooms has an elegant handmade artsy feel that inspires shoppers to purchase it, and artists to go home and make it. Imagine painting your grandmother’s antique Louis XVI chair lavender, reupholstering it with silk purple and gold Indian Sari fabric, placing your favorite purple fuzzy slippers underneath it and sipping mint tea from your periwinkle tea glass bought in Morocco – you get the idea.

wejetset recommends Base Annex
Location: 927 Lincoln Road, Suite 118 (next to Design Within Reach)

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