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Napa Wineries Are Now Aging Bottles for You—and This One Is Leading the Charge
Baldacci Family Vineyards provides expert insights on the perfect drinking window for coming-of-age vinos. Baldacci Family Vineyards provides expert insights on the perfect drinking window for coming-of-age vinos.
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Why Golfers Are Making a Pilgrimage to This Las Vegas Desert Course
A short drive from the famed Las Vegas Strip, your undisturbed golf oasis awaits.

In recent years, there’s been much talk about the beauty and playability of America’s native-owned golf courses, often designed by the sport’s leading architects. There are now over 70 courses built on land owned and operated by Native American tribes, the idea being that they generate jobs and revenue without devastating the land – for invariably, the land they’re built on is stunning, rugged, and untouched.
This is certainly the case at the Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort, an oasis in the Nevada desert, just 25 minutes from Sin City’s infamous Strip. It is owned by the Las Vegas tribe of Paiute Indians and was built by World Golf Hall of Fame Inductee Pete Dye, the visionary architect behind seminal courses such as Kiawah Island, Whistling Straits, and The Honors Course.
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©Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort Inspired by landscape, Dye built three golf courses here (the only ones with his imprint in the whole of Nevada), beginning in 1995 with Snow Mountain, followed by Sun Mountain and the signature – noticeably trickier – Wolf course, which at 7,600 yards, is the longest of its kind in the state. The ‘Vegas Trifecta,’ as they’re sometimes known, marked the first multi-course resort to be built on Native land.
The Paiute experience is as much about the contrasting landscapes as it is Dye’s risk-and-reward challenges. Beautiful fresh fairways and bright zippy greens feel alive against the arid backdrop, and in the distance, the snow-capped Spring Mountains at Charleston Peak only add to the drama. This might be as close to playing a round on Mars as you’re likely to come. The sense of remoteness is accentuated by the fact that, apart from the award-winning clubhouse which serves food daily, there’s not another building for as far as the eye can see.

©Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort The highlight of the resort is the 15th hole on the Wolf course, a replica of Dye’s masterpiece, the legendary Island Hole at TPC Sawgrass – arguably the most memorable hole in all of professional golf.
“The interesting aspect of the Paiute courses is that you could separate them from each other, take them onto a piece of land 100 miles away from each other, and you’d never know they were designed by the same person,” Dye once said. “No two holes are alike over the course of all 54 holes, and none of the holes really resemble anything I’ve done anywhere else in the world. As far as challenges, the land wasn’t necessarily spectacular in any way, shape or form, but the long-range views of the surrounding hills and mountains were. So the challenge was to create holes with challenging shot values for different types of golfers.” Safe to say, he managed that and some.
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Meet Björn Frantzén, the World’s Only Chef With 3 Michelin 3-Star Restaurants
The Swedish cook has acclaimed establishments in Stockholm, Dubai, and Singapore—and he’s not done yet. The Swedish cook has acclaimed establishments in Stockholm, Dubai, and Singapore—and he’s not done yet.
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The New Longevity Retreat That Wants to Go Home With You
At Tulah Clinical Wellness, founder Faizal Kottikollon takes a holistic approach to health and wellness, and he wants to help you turn it into a lasting way of life. At Tulah Clinical Wellness, founder Faizal Kottikollon takes a holistic approach to health and wellness, and he wants to help you turn it into a lasting way of life.
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How a U.K. Shop Reimagined the World’s Most Beautiful Car
Automotive Artisans reinterprets the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale and the results are nothing short of remarkable. Automotive Artisans reinterprets the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale and the results are nothing short of remarkable.
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I Designed Superyachts for Years – Now I Organize Luxury Homes
Elle Webster Ryan adopts yacht-style protocols to organize luxury homes.

Luxury today is no longer defined by accumulation alone. Instead, it’s measured in time saved, decisions avoided, and environments that are effortless. In a post-pandemic world increasingly shaped by wellbeing and optimization, things have turned inward, into the home itself.
For a growing number of high-net-worth individuals, this means moving beyond impressive interiors towards something more exacting: deep organization. It’s here that Elle Webster Ryan, founder of Maison by Elle, has found her niche – translating a decade spent inside the ultra-precise world of superyachts into homes designed to function optimally.
Elle’s career began on the water. “I started [working] in 2015 on yachts,” she tells Elite Traveler. “I was in the industry for 10 years, working across four different vessels.” Rising quickly through the ranks to chief stewardess and interior manager, she became responsible not only for how yachts looked, but how they worked, from liaising with design studios during new builds to managing crew, logistics and daily life onboard. “At sea, there’s nowhere to hide a flaw,” she says. “Everything has to work.”

©Elle by Maison Even when guests weren’t onboard, systems never stopped. “My smallest crew was 17… they all needed their laundry doing, they all needed food.” Stocking alone was a military-grade operation. “Everything has to be filled to the top – cereals, biscuits, toiletries. When you’re traveling somewhere like the Maldives, the journey takes 21 days. You need to make sure you’ve got enough of everything from milk to toilet roll.” Every detail was anticipated, so that life onboard for guests ran as smoothly as possible. That same principle now underpins her work in private homes.
Leaving life at sea coincided with major personal shifts: marriage, motherhood, and a desire for permanence. Back on land, Webster Ryan realized that even some of the most beautiful homes often lacked what the yachts she worked on never did: structure.
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“I always had this idea of doing home organizing,” she says. “I thought, I can’t be the only person who has had a baby but still wants to have that show home.” The struggle when she welcomed her first child wasn’t mess, it was mental load. What she was seeing mirrored her own experience: capable, successful people overwhelmed not by chaos, but by unfinished systems.
“People fully appreciate the benefit of having that tidy home, tidy mind,” she says. “But when you walk into chaos every day, where do you find the energy to fix it?”
Her answer was Maison by Elle, a luxury home organizing service designed not around tidying, but around cognitive offloading. Pre-move planning, wardrobe management, household operating systems, even training nannies and housekeepers using yacht-style protocols. The same thinking that once kept vessels running flawlessly now keeps homes functioning in the background.
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Webster Ryan’s clients tend to understand this instinctively. Many are busy professionals or families with multiple homes; people whose lives are already optimized elsewhere. “They’re not going to spend eight hours on a Saturday organizing a wardrobe,” she says. “That just doesn’t happen.” Instead, they invest in flow.
She’s seen the impact firsthand. One UHNW client, downsizing after a major lifestyle change, was paralyzed by the thought of sorting her clothes. “She said, half my wardrobe doesn’t fit me… the thought of doing it myself… I get distracted.” Together, they edited the space in a day.
Webster Ryan’s approach aligns with a broader shift in elite living: spaces that reduce decision fatigue, preserve energy. and restore calm are increasingly prized by executives, creatives, and global travelers alike.
Her work has even extended back into hospitality, training teams at luxury Cotswolds retreats on the subtleties of guest experience, from how a dressing gown is folded to what a guest notices first when entering a room.
After years of living out of suitcases, home for Webster Ryan now represents something else entirely. “It’s definitely a place of calm,” she says. “It’s stable… something that’s yours.” She adds: “I guess my own little superyacht.”
In an age where luxury is increasingly defined by how little effort life requires, that may be the most telling aspiration of all.
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‘Golden Girls’ Star Estelle Getty’s Former Los Angeles Home Lists for $7.7 Million
The late actress and comedian resided at the charming Hollywood Hills abode from 1994 to 2001. The late actress and comedian resided at the charming Hollywood Hills abode from 1994 to 2001.
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Some Buyers Are Melting Down Vintage Watches Amid Soaring Gold Prices
Experts are seeing more people melt or trade in timepieces strictly due to the metal’s value. Experts are seeing more people melt or trade in timepieces strictly due to the metal’s value.


