A night view of Taipei, featuring Taipei 101
A day view of Taipei, featuring Taipei 101
Kaohsiung High Speed Rail station
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
Mu Tsuen Spring, Tainan
Tianlai Spring Resort, Taipei
Bailan Village, Hsinchu
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An hour from Taipei, Longdong (Dragon’s Cave) is northern Taiwan’s premier technical climbing destination.
The Holy Ridge is a trail that skirts thousand-metre drops for 15km between Taiwan’s second highest peak, Snow Mountain (3,886m), and Dabajian Mountain (3,490m).
North Nanao River offers extreme, class 4-5 white-water rafting through the intensely rugged canyons of southern Yilan County on Taiwan’s east coast.
Locally designed Taiwanese products photographed inside Villa 32 Hotel and Spa, Taipei
Artist Rahic Talif, Dulan Sugar Factory, Dulan
Poet Tong Yali (above left) and sound artist Wang Yujun (above right), Treasure Hill Artists Village, Taipei
Boutique Owner Joy Hong, The Red House, Taipei
Product Designer Tseng Yung-Ling, Stock 20, Taichung
Architect JM Lin, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei
Artist Liang Jen-hung, Pier-2, Kaohsiung
Toyo Ito's Metropolitan Opera House, Taichung
Film Director Wei Te-Sheng
Film Director Tsai Ming-liang
Film Director Leon Dai
Melina Keays is the entertaining director of Wallpaper*. She has been part of the brand since the magazine’s launch in 1996, and is responsible for entertaining content across the print and digital platforms, and for Wallpaper’s creative agency Bespoke. A native Londoner, Melina takes inspiration from the whole spectrum of art and design – including film, literature, and fashion. Her work for the brand involves curating content, writing, and creative direction – conceiving luxury interior landscapes with a focus on food, drinks, and entertaining in all its forms
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