In this issue, we hit the road in search of the best new design hotels. We check into Patricia Urquiola's tour de force of balance and restraint in white, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Barcelona. Then we take the plunge at Joseph Smolenicky's carefully nuanced, neoclassical spa in Switzerland. We hop onto the latest designer bikes, stop for a drink at a contemporary post-colonial bar in Mumbai, and visit a flamboyantly futuristic orthodontist in Tokyo - all in the name of interior inspiration.