Soho House: The Feeling of Being at Home, Everywhere

There are places you visit, and there are places that stay with you.
Places that don’t just host you, but receive you.
Places that quietly adapt to your rhythm, your silences, your conversations.

For me, Soho House belongs entirely to that second category.

It is not simply a members’ club, nor a hotel, nor a beautifully curated environment. It is something more subtle and far more precious: a sense of continuity. A familiar emotional landscape in a life shaped by movement, cities, and transitions. Wherever I am in the world, Soho House offers me the same rare sensation — the feeling of being at home without being static.

Living Between Cities Changes How You See Spaces

When you live a nomadic life, your relationship to places shifts. You stop chasing novelty for novelty’s sake. You stop being impressed by excess. Instead, you become deeply sensitive to atmosphere, scale, materials, light, and human energy.

You look for places that allow you to land softly.

Soho House understands this instinctively. Its strength is not in spectacle but in coherence. Each House feels rooted in its city, yet emotionally familiar. You never feel lost when you enter one — your body recognizes the space before your mind does.

This recognition doesn’t come from branding. It comes from intention.

The lighting is always right — never aggressive, never theatrical. The furniture invites use, not admiration. The rooms are designed for living, not passing through. You can sit for hours without feeling observed. You can work without being boxed into a “work” posture. You can be alone without being isolated.

That balance is incredibly difficult to achieve, and it is precisely why Soho House resonates so deeply with people who live between worlds.

A Quiet, Intelligent Vision of Luxury

Soho House embodies a vision of luxury that feels deeply contemporary to me: discreet, embodied, and lived-in. It is not about status or visibility. It is about ease.

True luxury, in my eyes, is not needing to prove anything. It is the ability to arrive as you are — tired, inspired, focused, social, silent — and feel immediately comfortable.

Architecturally, this vision translates into fluid spaces, generous volumes, and an absence of rigid hierarchies. Socially, it translates into encounters that feel organic rather than orchestrated. You meet people not because you’re meant to network, but because you happen to share an elevator, a table, a moment.

Over the years, Soho House has become an emotional anchor for me. Among all the Houses I’ve experienced, five stand out as places that reflect different facets of this philosophy — and of my own way of living.

My Top 5 Soho Houses Around the World

1. Soho House Mexico City

This is, without hesitation, my absolute favorite.

What I love most about Soho House Mexico City is its soul as an old ancestral home. The scale is extraordinary — vast rooms, high ceilings, expansive patios. It doesn’t feel like a club inserted into a building; it feels like a historic private residence that has naturally evolved to host contemporary life.

There is a sense of permanence here. The walls have weight. The spaces breathe. You slow down without realizing it. Conversations stretch. Time loosens its grip.

It’s not about decoration — it’s about presence. This House invites you to inhabit it, not consume it. For me, it perfectly captures the generosity and cultural depth of Mexico City while offering a deeply grounding, almost domestic feeling. You don’t pass through this place — you settle into it.

2. Soho House São Paulo

São Paulo shares a similar DNA. It is also housed in a patrimonial residence, and that is precisely what makes it so powerful.

What impresses me most here is the balance: the House feels completely in tune with the present without ever diluting its heritage. Nothing is erased, nothing is over-stylized. The past is respected, but never frozen.

This House feels alive, current, urban — yet anchored. It reflects São Paulo’s creative intensity and confidence while offering a sense of protection from the city’s scale. It’s a place where ambition meets elegance, where history supports modern life instead of competing with it.

For me, this dialogue between legacy and contemporaneity is the essence of great architecture — and great hospitality.

3. Soho House Rome

Rome expresses, in many ways, what Soho House should be at its most architectural.

Verticality plays a central role here. You move through floors, layers, perspectives. Each level reveals a new relationship to the city. And then it culminates in that spectacular rooftop — intensely urban, almost cinematic in its energy.

What I love most about Soho House Rome is how connections happen. You meet people in the elevator. You exchange a glance, a word, a few sentences — and suddenly a link is created. Nothing forced, nothing programmed.

It’s a House that understands density and movement. Social, but never loud. Urban, but never cold. It reflects Rome not as a museum, but as a living city — layered, vertical, alive.

4. Soho House Miami Beach

Miami is deeply sentimental for me. It was my very first Soho House, and it will always hold that place in my personal story.

It is also, quite simply, the Soho House by the beach — in its purest form. Palm trees, light, fluid transitions between inside and outside. Life unfolds barefoot here.

This House represents pleasure without excess, comfort without pretension. And I have a very specific recommendation that says everything about its spirit: the mac & cheese in room service. Perfectly comforting, enjoyed casually, with the sound of the ocean nearby.

That, to me, is luxury. Not ceremony — but care.

5. Soho House Barcelona

Barcelona is my anchor city, and Soho House Barcelona has become an extension of my everyday life.

Architecturally, it feels like an urban vertical house, deeply rooted in the city. The rooftop is magnificent, suspended between sky and sea, offering one of the most beautiful perspectives on Barcelona.

But my favorite place is more intimate: the Pool House, and especially the bar. It’s warm, discreet, almost confidential. I love spending time there with friends, talking quietly, feeling slightly removed from the city while still being in its heart.

It’s a place for closeness, not performance. And that intimacy is what makes it so precious.

More Than a Place: A Way of Living

My attachment to Soho House is not accidental. It reflects a way of living that values movement without fragmentation, ambition without burnout, aesthetics without superficiality.

In a world increasingly dominated by standardized experiences, Soho House manages something rare: creating a global home without erasing local identity. Each House feels singular, yet emotionally familiar. That balance is incredibly difficult to achieve — and deeply meaningful to those of us who live between cities, cultures, and roles.

Ultimately, Soho House offers more than beautifully designed spaces. It offers continuity. A sense of belonging that travels with you.

And for someone who lives in motion, that feeling is everything.