Kelly Wearstler travels the way she designs: with curiosity, precision, and an eye for what most people walk past.
Travel is central to her work, serving as both an essential practice and the jumping off point for much of her creative inspiration. It provides a continuous influx of fresh perspectives, textures, and architectural ideas that directly inform her design language.
Kelly has been a Chase Sapphire Reserve cardmember long enough to know that the right card changes the architecture of a trip; which rooms become possible, which tables open up, how much of a city you actually get to see.
Across Chase Travel and Sapphire Reserve, the work has taken two forms: city guides built from the places Kelly returns to, and films made on location, where you watch her looking. Both give cardmembers something more useful than a recommendation; access to the places, perspectives, and discoveries that built one of the world's most influential creative practices.
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Portugal
Where to find Lisbon's most storied tile, and where to see craft still made by hand. Then south to Melides, for the stay and the stretch of sand worth the drive.
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Copenhagen
The tables worth reserving, the streets worth wandering and an evening at Tivoli worth planning around.
Milan
A guide to Milan's most considered addresses, from the boutiques worth the walk to the archive worth the appointment.
Travel, for me, is always research. Every trip feeds back into the work.
