Upcoming.
A small number of thematic journeys each year, timed to the weeks when México and Italy matter most — the art weeks, the design weeks, the seasons worth traveling for.
These journeys are our seasonal highlights — they were never the whole practice. We design fully private itineraries across México and Italy every month of the year: your dates, your pace, your cast of characters. Write to us whenever you’re ready.
México
Thematic ProgramsThe inaugural edition of México’s first international art biennale, which means you get to say “I was there for the first one in Mérida” forever. Fifteen weeks of winter, a city we have been composing journeys in since 2017, and a state that rewards going slowly — light at the bottom of a cenote, sculpture deep in the jungle, textile work that will later hang on your wall. Everyone else books the beach. We go inland instead.
The Art
- Árbol de Luz — James Turrell’s light installation, staged in a cenote amphitheater inside a 17th-century hacienda.
- Plantel Matilde — Javier Marín’s ten-metre colonnades around a black pool in the jungle, followed by a homemade meal cooked by Maya women.
- The Biennale itself — curator-led exhibits, artist studios, and a former schoolhouse turned residency: sleep where the artists work.
The Yucatán
- Three private cenotes — cavern, cathedral, mirror — reached by horse-drawn cart along the old henequén rail tracks.
- Uxmal without the crowds, then a swim at Mucuyché, the cenote once kept by Empress Carlota.
- Three haciendas in a day — Yaxcopoil frozen mid-decline, Temozón in its pomp, Sotuta still spinning sisal — with lunch and fine wines.
The Details
Your dates, chosen anywhere inside the Biennale’s run. Two experiences a day, moving unhurried — the true Yuca way. Premium accommodations, private transport between city, hacienda and cenote, and a table with the Maya communities who make the food and the crafts.
México City is currently the cultural global hotspot, and San Miguel de Allende just got named the best city in the world — again. Ten nights between the two with your family is, in our professional opinion, the best way to end 2026. They remain our #1 and #2 destinations for a reason, and December is when both are at their most generous.
México City
- Casa de los Leones — Clase Azul Tequila’s new tasting room in Polanco, opened privately for our guests (grown-ups only).
- The season in the city — the landmark museums privately, the posadas, and the best tables booked before you land.
San Miguel de Allende
- Ranching culture — polo clinics, horse therapy and long days on the haciendas outside town.
- Christmas in the centro — the Parroquia lit, the plazas full, rooftops kept for the last light.
The Details
- Ten nights split between the two, with a private driver for the road between them.
- Built for the whole family — pacing and days that work for children and adults alike.
- December books out first — reserve now.
For one week each February, the art world tilts toward México City. Eight days inside it, with one small group — the fairs, the studios, the collectors’ homes, the landmark museums, and throughout, the best tables in the city.
The Fairs
Zona Maco, Material, Salón ACME and Alcova’s México City edition — two guided with all the introductions, two at your own pace.
The Access
Private studio hours with Perla Krauze and Chavis Mármol, confirmed — with more to be announced. Pedro Reyes and Carla Fernández at home in Coyoacán; Casa Pedregal by Luis Barragán; the Museo Nacional de Antropología, privately.
The marquee evening: dinner in a collector’s penthouse, hung like a museum and set, for one night, for us.
The Details
One small group, based in Roma Norte. Private transport, perfectly-located accommodations, five lunches and five dinners included.
Before Zona Maco was Latin America’s most important art fair, it was an answer to being told México had no market for one. Its founders have since turned the same instinct toward Baja California Sur, where a young, largely unrepresented scene has gathered around the pandemic-era artists who never left. ABC Art Baja is the result: a festival that moves, deliberately, across three towns over three weeks, because no single stage could hold it.
Three Cities, Three Characters
- San José del Cabo · March 10–14 — opens with Plataforma ABC, the fair itself: 29 rooms of the Drift Hotel handed to galleries and independent artists, so you’re in a bedroom with the work and the artist, not across a booth.
- Todos Santos · March 18–21 — up the coast: outdoor installations take over the gardens at Jazamango, a backdrop that has nothing to do with a convention center.
- La Paz · March 25–28 — on the Sea of Cortez: a closing week of exhibitions, sound, and the gallery-hop that only works in a town this size.
Why Now
This is Baja’s art scene where México City’s was twenty years ago — before the market caught up. The artists showing here are largely unrepresented outside the region; the collectors who find them early will be the ones asked about it later.
What We Build
- The routing — which town to anchor in, which nights to move, which openings are worth rearranging dinner for.
- Private transfers between the three cities.
- Access to rooms and studios that never make a public schedule.
- The meals and encounters — chefs, architects, collectors — that come from twenty years of knowing this region, not researching it.
It’s a bold statement and we stand by it: Valle de Guadalupe has the best food in all of México. Ninety minutes from San Diego, three hours from Los Angeles, and still somehow a secret. A women-only salon of ten, to make new friends around beautiful food, fine wines, nature, and meaningful exchange. Veya Banyan Tree will be our home.
The Valley
- Massive sculptures in a vineyard that never opens to the public.
- Tastings in cellars that don’t take walk-ins.
- A chef-driven dinner under a 200-year-old oak.
- A morning sailing the bay with fresh oysters and sparkling rosé.
The Salon
- Ten seats, women only — one shared table for the week, hosted throughout.
- Come on your own — the point is the company you leave with.
The Details
- Veya Banyan Tree as home, in the heart of the valley.
- Fly into San Diego or Los Angeles — private transfers across the border and back.
- September is harvest — the valley at its fullest.
For all its new hotels and upscale restaurants, Oaxaca has never lost its character, or its deep indigenous culture. Any evening a calenda can sweep down the street — brass band, dancers, giant puppets — because someone got married or baptized. Artisan communities and master weavers, the mineral pools of Hierve el Agua, mezcal palenques the public has never accessed. And dining inside the kitchen at landmark restaurants — long lunches with people we’ve known for years.
The Valleys
- Weavers at the loom in their own villages — natural dyes, patterns held in the family for generations.
- Potters and carvers at home — the workshop, not the market stall.
- Hierve el Agua — the mineral pools and petrified falls, early, with the valley to yourself.
The Table
- Palenques — mezcal tasted at the still, with the family that makes it.
- The kitchen table at the city’s landmark restaurants, and the markets at dawn before them.
When to Go
- Día de Muertos · October 31 – November 2 — the calendas nightly, the cemeteries lit until morning.
- The Virgin of Guadalupe · December 12 — the city honors her for days.
- Night of the Radishes · December 23 — artisans carve giant radishes into sculpture.
Italy
Thematic ProgramsEach fall, Piedmont holds two seasons at once: Artissima — Italy’s leading contemporary art fair, in Turin — and white truffle season in the Langhe Hills.
Contemporary art by day, hunting for white truffles led by a pack of dogs by dusk — the kind of pairing that sounds made up until you’re standing in a cellar in the Langhe holding both a dog leash and a glass of Barolo. Artissima is one of those lesser-known fairs the contemporary art world quietly regards as one of Europe’s best. For serious art lovers and collectors, Turin is a priority.
The Fair
Artissima, October 30 – November 1 — Europe’s most respected platform for discovery, set in Turin, the intellectual heart of Piedmont. Days extend beyond the fairgrounds into the museums, foundations and private collections that make the city one of Italy’s contemporary art capitals.
The Season
From October through late December, white truffle season transforms the Langhe Hills — truffle hunting, the festival in Alba, Barolo cellars, and tables set with some of the country’s most celebrated cooking, Michelin-starred and otherwise.
The Details
Not a fixed program — a private journey, designed around each client. Artissima holds a single weekend, October 30 – November 1; the truffle season runs the full stretch, October through December. If the fair dates don’t suit, we build around the truffles and add a day in Turin, or a three-night extension in Milan.
The edition worth flying for: Euroluce returns, Salone Raritas curates the collectible, and OMA masterplans the fair. We sequence the week by district so the city works in your favor — appointments instead of queues, introductions by name, days that hold.
The Week
The fair, surgically — Euroluce, Salone Raritas, SaloneSatellite on a mapped route. Brera showrooms, Nilufar Depot, Dimoregallery, Rossana Orlandi. Architecture mornings, foundation studios and Alcova’s venue of the year.
The Method
The week is ours to curate — art, design and architecture, openings and private access, cultural exhibits, the right tables and hotels. Arrive with a wish list — architects and designers often do — and we confirm every appointment under your name before you board the plane, woven into each day’s route.
The Details
Fully private — no group to follow, no schedule that isn’t yours. Built around your practice or your curiosities; final program locked February–March 2027, as exhibitions and venues are announced.
The entire lagoon turns into the best night you’ve never heard of — thousands of boats, nonstop fireworks, a lovely kind of chaos best experienced from a boat with a glass of something cold. Once Venice has made you sweat through your linen, we head up into the Alps or the Dolomites to actually cool off — mountain air, cold lakes, dinners that don’t require a fan.
Venice
- The night itself · Saturday, July 17 — a private boat in the Bacino di San Marco, dinner on board, fireworks after midnight.
- The morning after — across the votive bridge to the Redentore on the Giudecca, before the city wakes.
- The Architecture Biennale — Giardini and Arsenale at opening hour, with the introductions.
Then the Mountains
- The Dolomites — Alta Badia and Cortina: rifugio lunches, a swim in Lago di Braies, walks pitched to your legs.
- Or the Alps — Courmayeur under Mont Blanc: the same cold lakes, a different accent.
- The hotel — chosen for its terrace and its kitchen, not its star count.
The Details
- Seven to ten nights — three in Venice, the rest in the mountains.
- Water taxis in, a private driver north, and a boat for the night that is spoken for by spring — book early.
Two years of living here, which means we now know this city and this lake the way you know a place you actually live in, not the way a guidebook knows it. Whenever you’re passing through — spring, summer, the very good light in autumn — we make sure it doesn’t feel like everyone else’s trip.
Milan
- The design city — showrooms and ateliers that open by appointment, in any month, not only in April.
- Villa Necchi, Fondazione Prada, the Brera — early, before the groups.
- The tables we book for ourselves, and the aperitivo where the Milanese actually go.
The Lake
- A private boat for the day — the villas seen from the water, lunch on a terrace at the water’s edge.
- The quieter shore — the villages the ferries skip, and Como itself for the silk.
- Torno — hiking the medieval trails around one of the many small towns on the lake we personally know inside out.
The Details
- From a single day to a full week — as a base of its own, or added to any Italy itinerary.
- Private car and boat throughout; Milan is the gateway, so it fits before or after almost anything.
México & Italy,
365 days a year.
The calendar is where we gather — it was never the limit. For a journey entirely your own, in either country, in any season: write directly and we’ll begin.
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