The art of staying new
At The Mark Hotel, timelessness is not a look. It is a discipline: the ability to remain unmistakably itself while allowing the world to keep moving through it. On the Upper East Side, where New York can still feel composed, The Mark has never confused permanence with stillness. Its identity is built on continuity, but […]
Open Doors
After living across countries and cultures, it was on Harbour Island, in the Bahamas, that India Hicks came to understand the difference between inhabiting a beautiful place and truly feeling at home. The daughter of designer David Hicks, she grew up in a world where interiors, porcelain, textiles, books and rituals around the table were […]
Climates of desire
An orange tree in northern Europe was once a demonstration of power. Owning it was not enough. It had to survive winter, travel in a large wooden box, and inhabit a building capable of preserving the climate it had left behind. Before glass took command of the view, architecture began by trying to save a […]
Il Senso di Casa
Before Valentina De Santis learned how to run a hotel, she learned how to disappear inside one. As a child, she moved through the corridors of the Grand Hotel Tremezzo, slipped into its kitchens and back rooms and watched guests being welcomed as old friends, because the family business was also the place where she […]
Objects of Desire
There was a time when a table could reveal almost everything about the evening ahead. The placement of the silverware, the porcelain selected for dinner, the glasses waiting to be filled, even the distance between one setting and the next belonged to a language understood by host and guest alike. Long before anyone sat down, […]
A Hand in the Room
I first understood de Gournay through sensation rather than technique. While working on a story about Le Bristol Paris, I entered one of the hotel’s suites and found my attention drifting beyond the furniture, silks and precisely composed grandeur of the room toward the landscape covering its walls. It seemed to respond to that particular […]
In her own name
In Ilkyaz Özel’s memories, the Turkish Mediterranean comes back in intense sunlight, the scent of jasmine, tobacco, and sunscreen, cicadas in the background, and figs and olives on the table. Around her were women with striking personalities and an unmistakable femininity. One of the earliest was her grandmother, almost regal in presence, who combined dresses, […]
Luxury, lived in
Walking into Laura Gonzalez’s gallery on Franklin Street feels less like entering a conventional showroom than arriving at the home of someone with an unusually cultivated eye. Natural light moves across enameled surfaces, patterned fabrics, wood, ceramic, bronze, and glass. A sculptural lamp sits beside a generous armchair; furniture and art coexist without the rigid […]
The Craft of Looking
Will Strafford, Deputy Chairman and Senior International Specialist in Christie’s European Furniture and Decorative Arts department, spends part of his working life lying on warehouse floors, looking beneath furniture, pulling out drawers, and taking apart ornaments to understand how a piece was made. Far from the auctioneer’s rostrum and the crowded saleroom, this is where […]
Architecture of Restraint
The most difficult problem in a renovation may be ensuring that nobody thinks first about the renovation. At the Frick Collection, where paintings, furniture, and sculpture remain surrounded by the atmosphere of a residence, any conspicuous gesture risked altering the museum’s rarest quality: intimacy. When the institution reopened on Fifth Avenue in April 2025, much […]
The pearl exchange
Some invitations vanish once the party is over; others enter the private archive of a life. I still have the one Cartier sent me in 2016, its embossed illustration of the Fifth Avenue Mansion recalling an evening that marked my early years in New York. After a tour of the restored house, the unmistakable Cartier […]
FALLING for brown
Antonio Marras mixes masculine suiting with feminine bustier and corset details, a contrast Selena Gindi sees as one of the collection’s most compelling ideas. It comes through clearly in the silk-wool bustier dress and returns in masculine high-waisted trousers with large cuffs, paired with short, boxy blazers. Her selection also reflects the richness of the […]
The “pitacos” of Gero Fasano
A collection of Gero Fasano’s 55 observations on gastronomy, hospitality, and its surrounding culture
Carved Narratives
There are decorative arts that survive centuries unchanged in their ability to mesmerize. Boiserie is one of them. Born in seventeenth century France, when Versailles dictated not only taste but the very grammar of beauty, it began as a solution to cold and irregular palace walls. Yet the carved wood panels soon evolved into a […]
Crafted Union
There are unions in the world of design that seem destined long before they materialize. The meeting between Trousseau and Casa Costa emerged precisely this way, as two names shaped by affection, ritual, sensoriality and a shared belief that a home is not merely a backdrop but a living extension of the people who inhabit […]
Luce Pietra Forma
Bottega Veneta’s newly renovated boutique at JK Iguatemi does not simply reopen; it reintroduces a philosophy. The house has always favored silence over spectacle, letting materials speak with a confidence that needs no logo. In São Paulo, this sensibility unfolds in a space where Italian craftsmanship and contemporary architecture meet with precision, recalling the discreet […]
Earned Respect
Before there was a crest, before there were racetracks, icons or global mythology, Ferdinand Porsche was already one of the most influential automotive engineers in Europe. His career passed through the heart of early twentieth century industrial innovation, including work for Daimler Mercedes, and later through his own engineering office in Stuttgart. His thinking was […]
Light House
The rebirth of Fondation Cartier transforms Paris into a stage where architecture, art and audacity illuminate a new cultural era. There are buildings that reopen, and there are buildings that resurrect Paris. The renewed Fondation Cartier belongs to the second category. Rising once again on Boulevard Raspail with its unmistakable transparency, Jean Nouvel’s mythical structure […]
Chic, Warm, Bold
There is a particular kind of glamour that only New York knows how to hold, and lately it has lived behind the doors of Fasano. The internationally acclaimed hospitality group, born in São Paulo in 1902 and shaped by more than a century of Italian heritage, has become one of the city’s most coveted dining […]
The quiet power of Panthère C
The Panthère C feels like one of those pieces that Cartier designs quietly, almost whispering, and suddenly becomes a defining object of the season. Introduced in 2021, the bag carries all the Maison’s signatures but with a modern sharpness that makes it feel almost architectural. The clasp alone, a sculptural C ending in a panther’s […]