How Good Design Changes the Way You Travel

Enjoying beautiful things isn’t indulgent. Flowers and sunsets draw us in naturally. Travel gives us more space to notice.

How Good Design Changes the Way You Travel
Dune House, Turks and Caicos

There’s a shift that happens when you enter a considered space. You slow down without trying. Your body settles.

Not because it’s flashy. Because the design is beautiful. Because someone cared about how it looks and how it feels.

The kind of place that makes you notice details. That makes you want to go home and rethink your own space. The kind of location you save or screenshot without overthinking it.

That reaction is shaping Autre & Part.

For a long time, many of us were taught to downplay wanting beautiful things. To be more practical. More modest. Less indulgent. We don’t agree with that.

This feels like the perfect season to stop negotiating with yourself. To enjoy spaces that inspire you, that feel special, simply because they do. No justification needed.

And the best part is that you don’t have to experience it alone. These are the kinds of places that feel even better with people you love. Friends. Family. The ones you keep saying you need to spend more time with.

Dune House - beach front, Turks and Caicos

If you’re starting to think about a milestone birthday, or you’ve been talking about getting the crew back together, these are good places to begin:

Group Trips Worth Planning | Three villas that work especially well for shared trips.

Why a Villa Is the 40th Birthday You Deserve | A different way to think about celebrating with your people

We’re building something slowly and intentionally. If this way of thinking about travel, beauty, and being together feels aligned, we’d love for you to come along.

More soon,

BG


P.S.

We’re getting close to sharing a new way to plan time together. Something simple that helps groups move from “we should do this” to actually being in the same place, without the back-and-forth. More soon.