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New York Times
08-05-2025
- New York Times
A Paris Restaurant With Live Jazz and Soaring Ceilings
Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Each week, we share things we're eating, wearing, listening to or coveting now. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every Wednesday, along with monthly travel and beauty guides, and the latest stories from our print issues. And you can always reach us at tmagazine@ Stay Here A New Rosewood Hotel on Mexico's Pacific Coast By John Wogan The expansion of Riviera Nayarit — a roughly 200-mile stretch along Mexico's Pacific coast, about an hour drive north of Puerto Vallarta — continues this week with the opening of Rosewood Mandarina. The 134-room hotel occupies a verdant, densely forested 53 acres interspersed with farmland, and has views of both the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountain Range and the ocean. The environment was central to the interior design, says Caroline Meersseman, a principal at the New York-based studio Bando x Seidel Meersseman. 'Ninety-five percent of the rooms face the ocean,' she says. 'We used as many windows and mirrors as possible to bring the exterior inside.' Aside from the natural beauty, Meersseman and her team found inspiration in the region's Indigenous Huichol and Cora cultures. Mexican contemporary artists were commissioned to create the decorative pieces and furniture found in every guest room, such as the sculptural ceramic lights by Salvador Nuñez that resembles the native peyote cactus, each one painted to reference Huichol art and craft; and a series of abstract murals based on traditional Huichol fairy tales by the Guadalajara painter Maryan Vare. The hotel's primary restaurant, La Cocina, will be another nod to the region, with seafood (ceviche with jackfruit, lobster tacos, spiced prawns) caught from the Pacific, a few steps away. Rosewood Mandarina opens May 8; from $1,000 a night; In Season The Crunchy Red Berry That's a Celebration of Autumn in Chile By Tanya Bush Autumn in Chile signals the arrival of murta season, when ancient wild berries — known variously as murtilla, Chilean guava or strawberry myrtle — flood the country's southern landscapes. Fragrant and floral, with a texture somewhere between a crisp blueberry and firm apple, murta has long been treasured across Chile for both its distinct flavor and nutritional value. At Amaia in Maipú, a suburb of Santiago, the chef Iván Zambra, a champion of Indigenous Chilean foodways, favors murta berries for their crunchy texture and natural acidity. From March through May, Zambra showcases fresh red murta in vibrant herb salads and a tartare. To preserve the season's bounty, he steeps the berries to make syrups and jams, capturing their essence for year-round dishes like murta panna cotta with yogurt semifreddo and lawen, a traditional herbal infusion intended to soothe colds and ease stress. At Boragó in Santiago's Vitacura neighborhood, the chef Rodolfo Guzmán sources murta — including a rare white variety he serves fresh as a condiment or predessert — through an expansive network of southern foragers. He resists preserving the berries whenever possible. 'When you preserve them, you lose the soul,' he says. Though his team occasionally ferment or dehydrate murta to layer flavor into broths, they most often present the fruit at its aromatic peak. This season, Guzmán is debuting a dessert that pairs murta with tangy Patagonian rhubarb and rich sheep's milk ice cream. 'It's about honoring the momentum of the land,' he says. Murta has found its way into gardens and farms in Italy, New Zealand and parts of Britain (at Crocadon, an organic farm and restaurant in Cornwall, the chef Dan Cox serves strawberry myrtle with sorrel sorbet, anise hyssop oil and fresh sorrel leaves), but Guzmán notes that the Chilean variety retains a unique flavor. 'You want to grab that personality and allow it to accent all the other ingredients,' he says. 'When it's fresh, it's just pure magic.' Gift This Embroidered Bed and Table Linens Created in Collaboration With Laila Gohar By Roxanne Fequiere The New York-based artist Laila Gohar and Véronique Taittinger, the owner and artistic director of the bespoke linen company Vis-a-Vis Paris, are launching their first collaboration, a 13-piece collection of hand-embroidered bed and table linens that draw on traditional techniques. A pleated duvet cover took nearly 500 hours to complete, while the intricate point de noeud style of embroidery on the collection's top sheet was once used by 15th-century French nuns. Gohar's penchant for whimsy emerges in the form of a scalloped tablecloth embroidered to look as if a handful of multicolored beans had been scattered onto its Belgian linen surface. For those worried about the practicality of using such delicate pieces on a regular basis, Taittinger says that upkeep is surprisingly simple: 'Avoid the dryer, but they can be machine washed. The more you use them, the better they get.' From $55, Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
New York Times
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
This Mother's Day, Consider a Pair of Boxer Shorts
Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. This week, in addition to our usual suggestions, we're offering a Mother's Day gift guide, with recommendations on what we're coveting for ourselves and considering for our maternal figures. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every Wednesday, along with monthly travel and beauty guides, and the latest stories from our print issues. And you can always reach us at tmagazine@ Lounge Act Airy Boxers Fit for a Sunday Stroll By Laura Regensdorf If there's an underlying theme to the usual clothing gifts for mothers, it's comfort. Robes, slippers, monogrammed pajamas: These are the sartorial equivalents to a well-deserved breakfast in bed. But what if such soft styling were a little less domesticated? A new wave of ladylike boxers suggests an indoor-outdoor ease, with refined detailing and elongated cuts. The cotton poplin Stave shorts by the French Danish brand Baserange have a breezy fit and sun-faded disposition that would be at home on a Mediterranean ferry. Vaquera's knee-grazing pink-and-white boxers offer a subversive edge — especially when paired with tall leather boots, as seen on the label's spring 2025 runway in Paris. On the side of whimsical restraint, the Garment's Cyprus shorts are trimmed in a series of micropleats with a scalloped hem; they come in crisp white or black, in keeping with the Copenhagen line's monochromatic palette. For fans of smooth-on-skin silk, Comme Si's La Boxer Bermuda marries an athletic silhouette with a delicate floral by Liberty. The garden print recalls the boxer Muhammad Ali's self-described winning technique, which also sums up a mother's protective instincts: 'Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.' Aegean Treat Made-in-Greece Pantry Goods By Luke Fortney In ancient Greece, Rhea, the mother of gods, was honored each spring with cakes, flowers and fine wines in an early iteration of Mother's Day. Draw from that history with a range of Greek imports that are now available in the United States. Damian Primis, a bassoonist with the New York Philharmonic, started Primis Imports during the pandemic, when performance halls were closed. After selling out of olive oil, he expanded into pantry staples, like sea salt flakes and seeded sesame brittle. 'They're some of the most addicting little treats you can have,' he says. The Athens-based company Daphnis and Chloe specializes in organic seasonings and teas, including one variety made for wine lovers. The tea's notes of sage and chamomile — meant to be restorative after a night out — were developed with the Barcelona-based Natural Wine Company. In Thessaloniki in northern Greece, Yiayia and Friends produces its yellow fruit vinegar with local grapes, orange, lemon and mandarin. Each 200-milliliter bottle features custom artwork from the Greek studio Beetroot Design. Psyche Organic is based in Copenhagen, but its small-batch olive oils come from single-estate Greek farms. Its founder, Theophilos Constantinou, ships his oils in one-liter pouches, inspired by budget wine, that seal in precious aromas and flavors. Growth Potential An English Estate's Take on Japanese Gardening Gear By Aemilia Madden Even the most experienced gardener is bound to face some failure. That's why Niwaki, a company that specializes in Japanese tools, and the Newt, a country estate and hotel in Somerset, England, turned to the Japanese proverb 'nana korobi ya oki' as inspiration for their four-piece collection of horticultural accessories, launching May 2. The saying, which translates to 'fall down seven times, stand up eight,' evokes the patience and persistence required in tending beds of tulips or patches of strawberries. To accompany gardeners on that journey, Niwaki and the Newt have created a Samue work jacket with deep pockets and a kimono collar, a Hori Hori knife for digging and weeding, carbon steel Higurashi secateurs for pruning and a hedge green canvas tool bag, all designed with a quaint English garden in mind. But the stylishly austere, durable designs make them a utilitarian choice for all those exercising a green thumb, no matter where their patch of dirt may be. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
New York Times
17-04-2025
- New York Times
Magnolias Are in Bloom. It's Time to Eat Them.
Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Each week, we share things we're eating, wearing, listening to or coveting now. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every Wednesday, along with monthly travel and beauty guides, and the latest stories from our print issues. And you can always reach us at tmagazine@ Stay Here A Tranquil Hotel at the Edge of Joshua Tree National Park By Jessie Schiewe Just 15 minutes from Joshua Tree National Park, an arrow-shaped sign beckons drivers off historic Route 62 and down brush-lined roads to the Mojave Desert's newest accommodations, Hotel Wren. Initially built in the 1940s as a motor lodge, the 12-room hotel in Twentynine Palms, Calif., that opened in March offers kitchenettes and private patios that open onto the desert, along with access to a saltwater pool, hot tub and native plant garden. A two-and-a-half hour drive from Los Angeles and three-and-a-half hours from Las Vegas, the adults-only property was remodeled with an emphasis on tranquillity. The rooms, which feature pitched ceilings, vintage décor and furniture made in Joshua Tree, are absent of TVs. Though the original midcentury carport remains, the bones of the buildings were softened with hand-troweled plaster, corners were rounded and the floors were replaced with flagstones and tiles embedded with fossilized plant material and animal tracks. The on-site bodega, Windsong, is stocked with wine and provisions, including organic Italian pasta and tinned fish. There is also a community pantry with free herbs and seasonings, and the complimentary breakfast includes eggs and locally made bagels. The less-visited north entrance to Joshua Tree National Park is close by, but guests can just as easily take in the area's rugged beauty from their rooms. Rates from about $330 a night, Smell This Marin Montagut's First Fragrance Channels Summer in Sicily By Camille Freestone The Parisian illustrator and designer Marin Montagut is known for his fanciful objects and romantic aesthetic. His work, whether it's a porcelain jug or a hand-drawn postcard, prioritizes craftsmanship and often references the past. Now he's releasing his first eau de parfum, L'Eau Douce. Four years ago, he began attempting to encapsulate his fond memories of Sicilian summers in a fragrance. Collaborating with the nose Maïa Lernout, who has worked with Dior, Kenzo and Burberry, among other fashion brands, Montagut began with the scent of orange blossoms. He then added white musk to evoke the smell of freshly washed linen strung out to dry in the sun. Notes of mint, lemon, fig and bergamot round out the perfume. For its packaging, Montagut used marbled paper, a signature of his brand, to create an illustrated box. Each bottle is decorated with a gold medallion featuring two hands that can be removed and worn as a necklace. 'I wanted to give a gift in a gift,' he says. Montagut's name, Marin, has Latin roots pertaining to the sea, and L'Eau Douce, fittingly, translates to 'freshwater.' From about $190, In Season The New York Chefs Making Magnolia Blossoms Last By Ella Riley-Adams On a drizzly April afternoon in Brooklyn, the New Jersey-based forager Tama Matsuoka Wong pulled up to the Prospect Heights restaurant Cafe Mado with a bounty in the back of her van. One of her produce bins was filled with plastic clamshells that held dozens of pointy pink saucer magnolia buds. Her chef clients 'are always wanting flowers,' she says. And in the northeast, saucer magnolia is 'one of the earliest blooming,' a herald of spring that typically emerges in March and lasts about a month. The petals have a gingery taste and a texture similar to a squash blossom. Wong foraged the buds in Pennsylvania and Maryland at the start of the season, before making her way north to New Jersey. Cafe Mado's chef, Nico Russell, is preserving the flowers in sour honey. He plans to serve them in a dessert with buttermilk and local strawberries when the latter is in season around June. The restaurant's bar team is working on a nonalcoholic cocktail that combines amazake, a Japanese fermented rice drink, with magnolia tea. Wong also provides the buds to Flynn McGarry, the chef at Gem Home in NoLIta and the forthcoming Hudson Square restaurant Cove (scheduled to open this fall). He's been soaking the petals in vinegar and plans to serve them 'like pickled ginger,' he says, with crudo at Cove. The Brooklyn-based chef Hannah Musante collected her own flowers from a friend's backyard, then stuffed them with sourdough toast ice cream. She covered other buds in sugar to create a syrup, and used the leftover macerated flowers to fill a tart shell that she topped with crème fraîche and dried thyme flowers. 'The first products of spring are always so exciting,' she says. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
New York Times
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
A Honolulu Bakery That Folds In Tropical Flavors
Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Each week, we share things we're eating, wearing, listening to or coveting now. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every Wednesday, along with monthly travel and beauty guides, and the latest stories from our print issues. And you can always reach us at tmagazine@ Eat Here Pastries and Desserts Made With Classic Hawaiian Ingredients By Martha Cheng The chef Robynne Maii and the pastry chef Katherine Yang first met 26 years ago while working at the now-shuttered Union Pacific restaurant in New York's Flatiron district. Since then, Maii opened Fête, a restaurant in Honolulu, with her husband, Chuck Bussler, while Yang founded her own dessert catering business. Now, the pair have come together again with Mille Fête, a bakery that opened in February in Honolulu's Chinatown. The shop offers pastries and desserts that nod to the tropical city, like a chocolate rum raisin cake made with 'ulu (breadfruit) flour and a version of a New York black-and-white cookie but with fresh passion fruit pulp. To update and add texture to their space, previously a long-running Chinese restaurant, they exposed one of the building's original brick walls and installed bench seating, as well as counter stools facing the windows. The goal at Mille Fête isn't to come up with 'wild and crazy combinations,' Yang says, but to serve 'classic' flavors — classic, that is, to locals. Offerings include a Spam and cheese baked bao; a passion fruit, orange and guava layer cake, an interpretation of the ubiquitous POG drink; and Rocky Road ice cream with candied macadamia nuts. Stay Here In Majorca, a Vacation Home With Swedish Sensibilities By Gisela Williams For more than two decades, Lena Werner has spent family holidays in Majorca's mountainous village of Sóller. In 2019, Werner — who is based in Stockholm, where she runs the co-working and membership club Ivar — and her husband bought a grand but decaying 16th-century townhouse that's a two-minute walk from the town's main square. After four years of renovation ('In historic areas of Majorca you have to do archaeological excavations before you even start,' says Werner) and design, this month she officially opened the six-bedroom house, named Ingeborg, as a vacation rental. She created the interiors with help from the Swedish designer Susanne Josephson and the Sóller-based creative directors David Mallon and Karin Oender. The décor is eclectic and colorful, with a dose of Scandinavian coziness: The open kitchen is stocked with handmade ceramic dishes and glasses from Sweden; the dining room is centered around a Piet Hein Eek table; and the living room features a Gaetano Pesce Big Mama armchair and a large work by the British photographer Kirsty Mitchell. All the beds and mattresses are from the Swedish company Dux. A stay includes gear for hiking, yoga and tennis (guests get access to the Sóller Tennis Club), as well as breakfast — often cooked by Werner, who prides herself on her homemade muesli. She can also arrange access to a private chef: Grace Berrow, formerly of the local restaurant Patiki Beach. From about $5,075 a night, Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
New York Times
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Who Wants to Smell Like ‘American Psycho'?
Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Each week, we share things we're eating, wearing, listening to or coveting now. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every Wednesday, along with monthly travel and beauty guides, and the latest stories from our print issues. And you can always reach us at tmagazine@ Beaded Necklaces That Go On and On In the 1920s, as women's freedoms grew, so did the length of their necklaces, known as sautoirs. Now, a century later, collars and chokers are once again giving way to longer silhouettes. The Levant Shop's refurbished antique tasbih prayer beads (a handful of which come adorned with coins and tassels dating back to the late Ottoman period) and the Tribeca jeweler Ted Muehling's one-of-a-kind creations, which are made with semiprecious stones and finished with 18-karat gold toggle clasps, both fall below the décolletage, while Elsa Peretti for Tiffany & Co.'s adjustable jade sphere-strung silk cord — currently on offer alongside the late designer's reissued bone cuffs and snake lariats — extends even farther, to 40 inches. Necklaces that go to such great lengths are 'incredibly chic and not obvious,' says Sophie Buhai, who founded her namesake jewelry line in 2015. Her nearly four-foot-long variegated Constellation Necklace — available in carnelian, jade and onyx — can be draped across the shoulder, wound around the waist or wrist, looped and layered à la Coco Chanel, or positioned in reverse to accentuate an exposed back. A Hidden Berlin Wine Bar With Red Walls While Pluto, the new wine bar from the Berlin-based restaurateur Sören Zuppke and chef Vadim Otto Ursus, does not require a galactic adventure to get to, it does ask for a bit of effort. The main bar is in the last room of a long, railroad apartment-style space that's hidden behind a storefront. 'We liked that from the outside it's hard to immediately identify as a bar,' says Zuppke. Inspired by Parisian caves à manger and pintxos bars in San Sebastián, Spain, the duo (who are also behind the casual fine-dining restaurant Otto) wanted to create a place for people to drop by spontaneously. The wine list is a mix of favorite classics (a 2010 blend from the Provençal vintner Domaine de Trévallon, for one) and natural wines from Germany (like a 2022 riesling from Glow Glow in the Nahe region), as well as experimental bottles like a Mythopia Finito orange from 2018. The bar menu includes crostini served with a spread made from local pike perch, and chopped veal liver that comes with rye crackers. Artworks on the walls are from Otto regulars, including photographs by Jonas Lindström and a tiny sculpture of a chess pawn by the Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Gregor Hildebrandt. And in a nod to the dwarf planet that gives the place its name, the walls are painted a deep clay red. Kim Yun Shin's Energetic Sculptures and Paintings, on View in New York The South Korean artist Kim Yun Shin, 90, has had a six-decade career in which she studied art in Seoul, trained as a lithographer in Paris, taught at multiple universities and founded a Korean immigrant art museum in Argentina. But she didn't have commercial gallery representation until last year, when she joined Lehmann Maupin. Now, buoyed by a recent surge of interest in her work, Kim will have her first major solo exhibition in New York, featuring paintings and sculptures the artist produced from the 1980s to the present. Kim's sculptures are mostly made of sturdy natural materials such as stone and wood, inspired, she says, by a university professor who used to tell her: 'Any great sculpture that you make, when you roll it down the mountain it should never break.' For 'Add Two Add One Divide Two Divide One 1984-11' (1984), Kim used a chain saw to carve Argentine algarrobo wood, resulting in shapes that look like flourishing plants or human torsos. 'Every time I use [the chain saw] there is a sense of anxiousness because I'm scared I'll get hurt, but also there's that immense force that I put in,' she says. 'My wish is that people can feel that energy.' 'Divide Two Divide One' will be on view from April 3 through May 31 at Lehmann Maupin, New York, A New Book Preserves a Floral Designer's Wild Arrangements Impermanence is built into every element of the New York-based floral designer Emily Thompson's work — from the limited life span of the dramatic organic sculptures she creates for clients like Ferrari and the fashion label Ulla Johnson to the way she conveys ideas to her team of creative collaborators. 'I instruct them on what the goals are in quite florid language, I've been told, but none of it's written down,' Thompson says. 'It's kind of lost, the way a lot of our flower pieces are if they aren't recorded.' With 'Emily Thompson Flowers,' a new book that covers the designer's 15-year career, Thompson now has a more permanent testament to her fantastical arrangements that swoop, drape and spill across tables and floors. The book features nearly 200 images of installations alongside close-ups of her materials, including weeds, pine needles and moss. In addition to a foreword by the British royal family florist Shane Connolly and an introduction from the T writer at large Nancy Hass, Thompson's own writing accompanies each themed section of the book, which correspond to six of her recurring inspirations, including thickets, cascades and heaps. $65, An Italian Perfumer Bottles the Scent of 'American Psycho' Ever wonder what Patrick Bateman, the fictional king of vanity rituals, smells like? A stack of crisp business cards mixed with cleaning products? Or 1980s office carpet and cocaine? Johan Bergelin, the founder of the Milan-based perfumer 19-69, which specializes in conceptual fragrances that reference counterculture (like Purple Haze and Female Christ), wanted to find an answer. He traveled to Los Angeles to present a litany of scents to Bret Easton Ellis, the author of 'American Psycho' (1991). Ellis, in his 20s when he wrote the novel, wore Ralph Lauren Polo Green back then. After hours sniffing his way through Bergelin's curated array, Ellis was intrigued by notes from natural sources like florals, combined with some of synthetic origin, like aqua accord, and how they 'moved me into different places of that decade and that era,' he says. Bergelin ended up making a fragrance with notes of bergamot, sage, aqua accord (it smells clean and polished) and jasmine. The final American Psycho scent isn't anchored in blood or darkness but fine sparkling water, icy sorbet and the bright yet subtle aroma of a freshly laundered power suit. The perfume is the first in a forthcoming series of fragrances inspired by Ellis's books. $203, A Dolce & Gabbana Cashmere Collection Found Only on Madison Avenue The Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana often draws inspiration from midcentury Italian films and the designer Domenico Dolce's Sicilian roots, resulting in pieces that range from lacy negligees to traditionally tailored shirts and suits. The brand has operated stores in New York since 1997, in a sense continuing the long tradition of New York businesses with roots in Sicily (Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood was largely established by families with ties to the island, as well as what are now the southern Italian regions of Campania and Puglia). This month, to celebrate the opening of a new five-story flagship store on Madison Avenue, Dolce & Gabbana is releasing a collection of cashmere knitwear and outerwear that will be exclusively sold at the boutique. Classic two-button men's topcoats with peaked lapels that look straight out of a Federico Fellini or Luchino Visconti film are offered in classic neutral shades like ivory and a butterscotch tan. For women, single- and double-breasted coats come in a springy palette of periwinkle, turquoise and dusty rose. There are also pullover sweaters, and crew-neck cardigans that have buttons emblazoned with a gold DG logo. Each piece in the capsule features a special label that reads 'Madison Avenue New York,' reminding wearers of its provenance. From $1,195, (917) 525-5200. The Hand-Embellished Countryside Homes That Helped Define Scandinavian Style
