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Noticed

What I notice when I travel, kept in series. Each is a way of looking, and most of these places are ones I'd send you to.

INoticed

Look up

Someone spent years on a ceiling most people walk under. I look up in every room.

Gallery of Maps, Vatican Museums · October 2026
Old Sacristy, San Lorenzo · October 2026
Palazzo Medici Riccardi · October 2026
Santa Maria in Trastevere · October 2026
Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey · March 2026
Laurentian Library · October 2026
The Pantheon · October 2026
Santa Maria Novella · October 2026
St Paul's Cathedral · February 2026
IINoticed

Thresholds

A door tells you how a place wants to be entered. I stop at most of them.

A door in ivy, Rome · October 2026
Santa Maria del Popolo · October 2026
A red door, Rome · October 2026
A lion's-head knocker, Rome · October 2026
Palazzo Doria Pamphilj · October 2026
San Lorenzo · October 2026
Santa Maria Novella · October 2026
The Colosseum · October 2026
Palazzo Medici Riccardi · October 2026
IIINoticed

Underfoot

The floor is where a place keeps its oldest patterns. Usually my shoes end up in the picture.

Santa Maria in Trastevere · October 2026
Palazzo Doria Pamphilj · October 2026
Palazzo Pitti · October 2026
Vatican Museums · October 2026
San Lorenzo · October 2026
Palazzo Medici Riccardi · October 2026
Vatican Museums · October 2026
St Paul's Cathedral · February 2026
A café floor, New York · August 2022
IVNoticed

Pattern and color

Stripes on an awning, damask on a wall, a stairwell turning on itself. The rhythm that makes a room feel looked after.

The yellow salon, Hotel de la Ville · October 2026
A corridor, Hotel de la Ville · October 2026
Pietra dura, Hotel de la Ville · October 2026
The stairwell, Hotel Lungarno · October 2026
Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, Pimlico Road · February 2026
Leighton House · March 2026
Palazzo Doria Pamphilj · October 2026
Gilt carving, Palazzo Doria Pamphilj · October 2026
Gammarelli, Rome · October 2026
VNoticed

The table

What I ate and drank, before anyone styled it. A meal is often the part of a trip people remember longest.

Croissants, Birley Bakery, Chelsea · March 2026
Espresso at Paszkowski, Florence · October 2026
Lunch at the River Café · March 2026
Two spritzes, Bar Pisellino, New York · August 2022
Strawberry cake, Al Moro, Rome · October 2026
The Lawns at the Roundhouse, Cape Town
Amatriciana, La Matriciana dal 1870 · October 2026
Scallops at The Devonshire, Soho · March 2026
A spritz in Trastevere · October 2026
Tea and carrot cake, Petersham Nurseries · February 2026
Breakfast, Sparrows Lodge · September 2026
Tortellini in brodo, Trattoria Cammillo · October 2026
VINoticed

Shopkeepers

Bakers, butchers, grocers, stationers. The people who keep a place stocked, and the first door I go through in a new city.

Birley Bakery, Chelsea · March 2026
The salumeria at Roscioli, Rome · October 2026
Asparagus, Andreas of Chelsea Green · March 2026
Pouring Istine, Bottega Sant'Agostino · October 2026
A cheesemonger, Borough Market · February 2026
Playing cards, a Roman stationer · October 2026
Daylesford, London · February 2026
Studioteca Emporio, Florence · October 2026
Carrots in a gilded frame, Andreas of Chelsea Green · March 2026
'Ino, Florence · October 2026
A flower stall, London · February 2026
The wine wall, Roscioli · October 2026
Tea and preserves, Farm Shop, Mayfair · March 2026
Peaches at the market, Newport Beach · May 2026
Mercado, Costa Mesa · August 2026
VIINoticed

Outdoor rooms

Courtyards, cloisters, glasshouses and a rooftop under striped awnings. The places I'd sit for an hour with nowhere to be.

The courtyard garden, Hotel de Russie · October 2026
The rooftop, Hotel de la Ville · October 2026
Lemon trees, Palazzo Medici Riccardi · October 2026
The cloister, Santa Croce · October 2026
Crocuses at Ham House · February 2026
The Palm House, Kew · February 2026
Chelsea Physic Garden · March 2026
Petersham Nurseries · February 2026
A hedge arch, Kenwood · March 2026
The colonnade, Los Poblanos · September 2026
The pool, Sparrows Lodge · September 2026
A garden room, Santa Barbara · August 2025
A bougainvillea lane, Santa Barbara · September 2025
Wisteria at the Big Sur Inn · May 2018
Magnolia and camellia, Chelsea · March 2026

Where would you like to go?

Tell me what you'd like to notice next, and I'll find the place for it.

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