As I See It Armed only with a Japanese brush pen and fine Italian paper, Australian illustrator Matthew Martin takes on the world.
Lights, Camera, Action, Ralph! In his spring collection the talented Mr. Lauren shows that million-dollar companies may be built on fashion’s latest trends, but billion-dollar empires are about much more.
Notting Hill by the Sea It’s bucolic and charming, and everyone interesting seems to live there. Almost. Dorset native Sophy Roberts reports on the heat and the hyperbole in Britain’s newest fashionable seaside spot.
Starck Beauty The story of how a design world iconoclast and his beautiful daughter transformed a hotel called Le Meurice.
Viva Luxe Vegas A cadre of ambitious developers is attempting to reinvent The Strip as the world’s newest and most over-the-top luxury destination. Stephanie Mansfield antes up in the City of Sin.
Culture Watch
Fragments of Imagination A self-described nerd with a contrarian streak, painter Amy Sillman hits her stride on the hard road to abstraction.
Golden Eye With her assured albeit idiosyncratic taste, dealer Jill Quasha built a collection that spans the history of photography—69 images, one per artist.
“How’s That, Sir?” Hisham Oumlil gives classic tailoring an international twist.
A Simpler Time When it comes to complicated modern timepieces, sometimes it seems that less is definitely more.
How Chic It Is! A Brazilian designer discovers the formula for the world’s most flattering bikini.
The Eccentric A little Auntie Mame, a bit Marchesa Casati, she believes one bangle is never enough
What I Saw at the Couture Crocodile gowns and cocktail rings. Oh my! Patty Hambrecht reports on the gems of Ralph Rucci’s latest collection.
Why I Wear What I Wear: Alberto Tatti In matters of style, the maître d’ at Amaranth—the bustling, very international boîte on Manhattan’s Upper East Side—stays loyal to his Italian roots.
Food
A Vintage Affair Peter Hellman’s initial encounter with Château Palmer’s mythic 1961 vintage was love at first sip. A quarter century later he finally meets his elusive suitor again.
Very Gingerly Pickled or sugared, sliced or infused, ginger is the ingredient of the moment—with benefits as great as the dishes it flavors.
Scents and Sensibilities A friend in Rome loves New Zealand peonies. Cousins in Amsterdam adore Ecuadoran roses. From Tokyo to Palm Beach, a global roster of florists that can deliver.
The Lights Fantastic Rich, colorful glazes and handcrafted detail have made Christopher Spitzmiller’s lamps fixtures in all the right places.
Come Fly With Me! Since the early days of air travel, flight attendants have provided service, safety, and a dash of glamour. Mark Ellwood meets six who’ve worked the friendly skies long enough to see it all.
Worldly Goods
Cloth Encounters With a well-traveled sensibility and thoroughly modern style, Carolina Irving and Lisa Fine offer up a world of exquisite handmade fabrics.
Porcelain Droll After nearly two decades of designing for distinguished firms, Peter Ting turns to creating clever, fantastical art objects.
Puzzling Investments How an entrepreneur’s beguiling jigsaw creations won a cult following.
The Philanthropist
Saving the Elephants While writing Travels on My Elephant, intrepid Englishman Mark Shand fell in love with his five-ton amber-eyed companion, Tara. Now he’s made it his mission to save her species.
Jungle Lab Paris correspondent Elisabeth Franck-Dumas speaks with Chanel’s beauty anthropologist, Xavier Ormancey, who travels to remote locales in search of rare, potent botanicals.
Mastering the Art of Gumbo On a recent trip to the Crescent City, Reggie Nadelson is saddened by Katrina’s lingering effects but finds comfort in good friends and great gumbo.
Shanghai Express This city moves so quickly that every time I leave for a few weeks, I come back to find a whole new world of restaurants. And because my friends always tell all their friends to ask my advice about where to eat in Shanghai, I have to keep up. These are my new favorites.
Stockholm Style Our intrepid couple heads north to investigate what’s so cool about the trippy Nordic Light and Nordic Sea hotels.
What’s in Store? As malls bloom and the economy quivers, one can’t help but ask, Where’s the “real” retail reality.
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