AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatar17 hours agoBold Tiles in 64 Different Shadesverified_publisherThe New York Times - Gisela WilliamsPlus: a Venetian retreat, hand-knotted rugs and more recommendations from T Magazine. Covet This Rugs That Conjure an Ancient Garden in Kabul By Gisela Williams If Indiana Jones took a turn toward the elegant and developed an obsession with textiles, he might be a bit like Louis Barthélemy, the French …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatar6 days agoHow to Host a Lunch Like a Parisian Galleristverified_publisherThe New York Times - Alice CavanaghThe artist Bianca Lee Vasquez, a co-founder of the art space Sainte Anne Gallery, regularly gathers friends for laid-back meals at her apartment, just a few blocks away. A typical gathering — day or night — at Bianca Lee Vasquez’s home in Paris’s Second Arrondissement ends with dancing, usually to …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatar21 hours agoThe 25 Most Defining Pieces of Furniture From the Last 100 Yearsverified_publisherThe New York Times - Nick HaramisHow do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in October of last year, when, in a conference room on the 15th floor of The New York Times building, six experts — the architects and interior designers Rafael de Cárdenas and Daniel Romualdez; the …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatar21 hours agoT’s 25 Most Defining Pieces of Furniture From the Last 100 Years: Everything We Consideredverified_publisherThe New York Times - Nick HaramisFrom a Marcel Breuer chair to Metro shelving, all the nominated objects. Before sitting down to debate the 25 most defining pieces of furniture from the past 100 years, all six panelists — the curator Paola Antonelli; T’s design and interiors director, Tom Delavan; the actress and furniture …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatar4 days agoThere’s New Energy in Rome’s Esquilino Neighborhood. Here’s Where to Go.verified_publisherThe New York TimesThe Roman Revival Set between the Colosseum and the tracks leading to Termini station, Rome’s Esquilino neighborhood occupies the Esquiline Hill, one of the city’s seven ancient mounds. In the Roman era, it served as a paupers’ cemetery. In the late 19th century, much of the neighborhood was razed …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatar6 days agoFashion for a Moment in the Sunverified_publisherThe New York Times - Vincent van de WijngaardModel: Marte Mei van Haaster at DNA Model Management. Hair by Laurence Walker. Casting by Alexandra Antonova. Production: OOO. Local production: 1001 Productions. Photo assistant: Henrik Meng. Stylist’s assistant: Aroua Ammari
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatar6 days agoIs 2,000 Bags Too Many?verified_publisherThe New York Times - Kate GuadagninoThe visual artist Pipilotti Rist’s collection is what happens, she says, “when a 60-something-year-old Central European woman doesn’t throw anything away.” The Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist has long been fascinated with bags and keeps a vast collection of them in her Zurich studio. Known for her …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatar6 days agoHow Do You Build a Jungle?verified_publisherThe New York Times - Michael SnyderTHE ARCHITECTS MARCIO Kogan and Renata Furlanetto of the Brazilian firm Studio MK27 had just broken ground on a new house in São Paulo in 2010 when the landscape designer Isabel Duprat informed them that they’d have to raise the entire 10,225-square-foot project, known as Casa Rampa, by almost 20 …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatarBritain’s ‘Pie King’ Comes to Parisverified_publisherThe New York Times - Kate MaxwellPlus: a colorful hotel in Finland, hand-painted folding screens and more recommendations from T Magazine. Covet This Folding Screens Inspired by Pompeii and Elsa Schiaparelli By Kate Maxwell “They’re movable pieces of art,” says Budapest-born, London-based decorator Gergei Erdei of his new collection …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatarA Designer Inspired by Club DJs, Fishing Apparel and Ceremonial Masksverified_publisherThe New York Times - Laura May ToddFor most of his 23-year career, Simone Bellotti, 45, the creative director of Bally, worked behind the scenes. In fact, that was the plan when, in October 2022, he became the Swiss brand’s design director under Rhuigi Villaseñor, the then-30-year-old founder of the Los Angeles-based streetwear line …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatarWhy ‘Uncle Vanya’ Is the Play for Our Anxious Eraverified_publisherThe New York Times - Jon Robin BaitzIN WATCHING MIXED-BREED dogs play, I’ve often thought that mutts are more dog than the purest purebred. They’re the essence of caninity, all mud, turf and wet fur. So, too, with dramatic works: Some are purebred — think of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” (1611) or Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatarA French Castle Filled With a Collector’s Treasuresverified_publisherThe New York Times - Aimee FarrellThe art and antiques dealer Yves Gastou was passionate about objects and their stories. His home in Biarritz overflowed with both. When the French gallerist Yves Gastou bought the Ermitage de Douce-amie — or refuge of a sweet friend — a follylike crenelated castle on the outskirts of Biarritz in …