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"View Slideshow\n\nOne of my favorite things about being a designer and having an antiques store is that my job allows me to share stories from my travels. Every object in my shop, whether a Directoire console or a Tuscan cabinet, has an interesting past, and I can always remember where I found it, who sold it to me, and even what I had for lunch that day.\n\nMy wanderlust far predates my profession. I was lucky to grow up in a household that valued curiosity, with an adventurous mother who never thought twice about pulling my brothers and me out of school to take a trip. As a child I kept a tin globe on my desk that I would refer to for inspiration\u2014spinning it and seeing where my finger would land. These days that globe sits out of reach on a bookshelf, but I still fantasize about new places, often sparked by friends' advice and tips on the best destinations.\n\nSo where are they headed now? Art consultant Will Kopelman will take his annual sojourn to his family's house on Nantucket (AD, July 2012), joined by his wife, actress Drew Barrymore, and their daughter, Olive. \"Our place is a short walk to town, so I always hit up a few spots on foot,\" says Kopelman, who likes to browse the 19th-century American furniture at Sylvia Antiques before swinging by the restaurant Corazo\u0301n del Mar for a corn-and-mushroom quesadilla. \"Close by is the Children's Beach, where I played as a kid. I can't wait to take Olive there for the first time.\"\n\nCome August, designer Muriel Brandolini can be found on another magical island: St. Barts. The offseason, she tells me, \"is heaven. I've been coming for 33 years and always rent a house.\" According to her, the real-estate company Sibarth manages the best properties, among them the ELA and BOW villas.\n\nWhatever the itinerary, be it past or future, everyone I talked to had a favorite hotel. Andy Cohen of Bravo's Watch What Happens Live had just come back from Trancoso, the stylishly laid-back Brazilian beach town, where he booked one of the tropical-modern cottages at the Uxua resort. A frequent visitor to Porto Ercole, on Italy's Tuscan coast, textile guru Lulu deKwiatkowski recommends the iconic Il Pellicano hotel. \"They just get everything right there,\" she says. Mario Buatta, meanwhile, will be staying at Stockholm's Grand Ho\u0302tel when he goes back to Drottningholm Palace, which he calls a \"faux-finisher's dream.\" And fellow decorator Nicky Haslam will head to Istanbul\u2014his \"new favorite city\"\u2014for a stint on the M/Y Halas 71, a boat turned seasonal inn moored on the European shore of the Bosporus. Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg (whose Twitter feed alone feels like a trip around the world) needn't arrange accommodations for her upcoming journey. She'll be sailing on the Eos, her and husband Barry Diller's yacht. \"I'm looking forward to going to Croatia,\" she says. \"It feels like Italy in the 1960s. The water is so beautiful\u2014I swim for hours.\" Between dips she'll dine at the Kod Marka, a restaurant on the island of S\u030Cipan that serves \"the best fish in the Mediterranean.\"\n\nSince getting married in Cartagena, Colombia, five years ago, Lauren Santo Domingo (cofounder of fashion website Moda Operandi) has become the hot spot's unofficial tour guide, and I wouldn't dare go without consulting her first. The best restaurant there, she tells me, is La Vitrola, known for its ropa vieja. For furnishings she swears by Casa Chiqui. Run by Chiqui de Echavarria\u2014\"Cartagena's top hostess,\" according to Lauren\u2014the shop is filled with treasures ranging from Mexican pottery to Thai Buddha sculptures.\n\nJamie Creel, co-owner of the New York boutique Creel and Gow, will return to the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he has a house in the Casbah. He recommends a drink at the rooftop bar of the Nord-Pinus Tanger hotel\u2014with \"breathtaking views of the Strait of Gibraltar\"\u2014and dinner at El Morocco Club, which was designed by Yves Taralon, a creative director for Herme\u0300s. \"The sardines, caught fresh daily, are simply amazing,\" Creel says.\n\nAs for my travel plans, I'll be taking a road trip from Piedmont, Italy, to the South of France. It is going to be an epic adventure and is just one of several in the works. I'll be chronicling them all and sharing more of my friends' tips on my AD blog. Stay tuned!\n\nClick here to see a slideshow of where the most stylish jetsetters will spend their summer vacations."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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