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Cottage Chic

Designer Meg Braff channels old-school Palm Beach elegance, using her signature bold colors and playful patterns to transform her friend’s waterside cottage into a comfortable sanctuary

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Spring 2026

Coastal Living

ESPANTO WAVE

Some beach drinks take you there, and some beach drinks really take you there. How can you not picture yourself in an open-air bungalow, gazing at the Caribbean while sipping the official cocktail of Cayo Espanto—a tiny private island resort just off the coast of Belize?

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Spring 2026

Coastal Living

NICARAGUA'S GREAT ESCAPE

Some vacations feel like the adventure is built right in. That’s certainly the case with Rancho Santana, a sprawling, 2,700-acre resort with five separate beaches on Nicaragua’s Emerald Coast, the country’s southwestern shore on the Pacific Ocean.

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Spring 2026

Coastal Living

SHRIMP SCHOOL

OUR FAVORITE PEEL ’N’ EAT SEAFOOD IS SUCH A CHAMELEON—IT WORKS WITH ANY FLAVOR PROFILE, FROM MEDITERRANEAN TO CARIBBEAN. TRY THESE CLASSIC SPINS THAT SPAN THE GLOBE

6 min |

Spring 2026

Coastal Living

PALMAÏA'S WAY TO WELLNESS

“I’m here for two weeks.” I can’t believe that this vibrant, 40-something woman rolling up her mat next to me has told me this.

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Spring 2026

Coastal Living

Saving Grace

A 79-year-old beach cottage in North Carolina gets a brilliant revival from a team committed to honoring its past while reimagining the future

5 min |

Spring 2026

Coastal Living

The Eternal Magic of the Lowcountry

Celebrated worldwide for its Southern charms, the soul of Charleston is more than historic architecture and high-profile dining. It’s a place formed and nourished by the rich, restless waters of the Lowcountry. Local author STEPHANIE HUNT takes a seabird’s-eye view of her remarkable coastal home

6 min |

Spring 2026

Coastal Living

NATURAL BEAUTY

A New York couple traded heels and dress shoes for year-round flip-flops when they moved to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, enlisting a local designer to fashion their forever home

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Spring 2026

Coastal Living

YELLOW + RATTAN

Our friends at JAMES Showroom pair natural textures with shades of yellow, saffron, and marigold for a surefire way to warm up any room

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Spring 2026

Coastal Living

Best Places to Live on the Coast 2026

Meet your next forever home. These 10 towns offer dreamy blends of great beaches, engaging local life, climate resilience, and straight-up beauty, from East Coast to West, the Great Lakes to the Gulf

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Spring 2026

Coastal Living

JUNGLE BIRD

Barman Jeffrey Ong Swee Teik was a visionary. In the early 1970s, he set out to invent a drink for the Aviary Bar at the newly opened Hilton Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that honored his country’s equatorial climate, the bar’s ornithological vibe, and the decade’s disco mood that favored sweet drinks with flair. One might have expected a hyper-tropical cocktail, but that’s where Ong showed his genius. He introduced Campari—the bitter Italian aperitif most associated with a Negroni—into a shaken conversation with dark rum, pineapple and lime juices, and simple syrup. Served in a ceramic bird-shaped vessel, the aptly named Jungle Bird skirted kitsch with its grown-up notes of Campari; it wasn’t long before the drink entered, via widely published cocktail guides, the rotation of American bartenders. As the 1990s tiki revival kicked into gear, the Jungle Bird was taken up anew, with variations leaning even more into Ong’s secret weapon, Campari, and reaching for richer flavor with molasses-heavy blackstrap rum. More than a half-century on, the Jungle Bird is considered a cocktail classic, so whether you use blackstrap or dark rum, be sure to toast this Malaysian creator’s very cool bird. It rules the roost.

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