Amancipate Yourself – Aman Resorts, Sri Lanka

Amancipate Yourself – Aman Resorts, Sri Lanka

Amanresorts, one of the world's most stylish hotel groups, has two sumptuous resorts on Sri Lanka's south coast. Complete access to all articles on this website for €12 / year...
Sri Lanka 2002 – Anyone for Tennis?

Sri Lanka 2002 – Anyone for Tennis?

It took my grandfather’s ocean liner a month to get to British Ceylon. He was going to see his sister who’d married a tea planter. The year was 1938 and his fellow passengers were prosperous Jewish refugees bound for Sydney and a new, safer life down under. As he...

The Dutch House, Galle, Sri Lanka

Photographs by James Fennell. The island of Sri Lanka ranks high amongst the most beautiful regions in the world. Rimmed by several thousand miles of glorious sandy beaches, the interior offers an incredible landscape of contrasts from inpenetratable jungles to stark...

La Maison des Artes, Mount Lavinia

Photographs by James Fennell. Tucked down a secluded side-street in the up-market Colombo suburb of Mount Lavinia, a faded turquoise wooden doorway opens the way into the charming home of the Belgian film director Samy Pavel and his Sri Lankan born wife Rishan. Built...

The Lighthouse Hotel, Galle, Sri Lanka

Photos: James Fennell A deep, yawning cavern on the southside of the main Galle – Matara road forms the principal ground floor entrance to the Lighthouse Hotel, one of Geoffrey Bawa’s last great architectural triumphs. The hotel was commissioned in 1995 by Herbert...