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Pearl Jewelry That’s Meant for Everyday Wear
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| Left: Amane, a new line designed by the Swedish sisters Ebba Engstrand and Sophia Watanabe, includes baroque pearl pieces. Right: a pair of Amane’s pearl earrings. Andreas Engstrand |
The Swedish sisters Ebba Engstrand and Sophia Watanabe started their new jewelry brand, Amane, with the goal of bridging their two cities: Stockholm and Tokyo. The line is centered on pearls, often upcycled from vintage jewelry, which Watanabe sources from online auctions and Tokyo’s jewelry district in Japan, where she’s lived since 2014. She also creates embroidered accessories under the name Sophia 203, and she previously worked for the French jewelry designer Marie-Hélène de Taillac. Engstrand, who’s based in Stockholm, has a background in TV and film commercial production. The first collection from Amane — which is named for Japan’s female Ama divers, who gather seafood and pearls without oxygen tanks — couples Japanese tradition with Scandinavian minimalism, with pieces like earrings and iridescent necklaces with baroque (irregular) pearls and dyed-pearl bracelets in tutti-frutti colors. They hope to bring some informality and effortlessness to the jewelry genre. “The whole point was to make a less ‘clutching your pearls’ kind of a collection,” says Watanabe. “We want people to stack them or pair them with other pieces — to wear pearls in a more playful way.” From $42 for a ring, amaneatelier.com.
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A New Wave of Floating Saunas
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| Left: Fjord, a sauna on the San Francisco Bay in Sausalito, Calif. Right: Sea Sauna, anchored in a river in Kennebunkport, Maine. Left: Alex Farnum. Right: Ary Supan |
Floating saunas, once a Nordic specialty, have lately been opening across the United States. This fall, Kos, a wood-fired sauna in a cedar-shingled building, named for the Norwegian word for coziness, is planned to launch on Saratoga Lake in New York. In Sausalito, Calif., a sauna called Fjord opened at the end of a harbor dock in June. Its wide windows have views of the San Francisco Bay, and guests can sunbathe on its roof deck or plunge into the harbor from a redwood patio when they’re not working up a sweat. “We have a lot of tail winds,” says Alex Yenni, a Fjord co-founder, of the floating sauna surge, pointing to a global push to increase access to public waters (see: recent swims in the Chicago River and the Seine) and a growing interest in the benefits of contrast therapy, as hot-to-cold submersion is called. Farther south, off Paradise Cove in Malibu, the Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike is experimenting with a “saunamaran” — an aluminum-hulled, spruce-lined vessel he hopes to anchor permanently near Point Dume this month as a free public sauna, accessible only by boat or an ambitious swim. Seattle now has three saunas on its waters, including Wild Haus, which began offering chartered trips across Lake Union last December. The earliest adopters were in Minnesota, where Cedar and Stone Nordic Sauna, on Lake Superior in Duluth, and Sisu and Löyly, on Devil Track Lake outside of Grand Marais, both debuted in 2023. Back on the East Coast, in Kennebunkport, Maine, Sea Sauna opened at the mouth of the Kennebunk River this past May. In the Scandinavian tradition, these structures suggest that winter can be recast as a season to savor, not just endure.
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California Cooking in Paris’s 2nd Arrondissement
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| Left: the American chef Carrie Solomon, who specializes in plant-based dishes, has opened Chez Carrie, her first restaurant, in Paris. Right: the dining room décor includes vintage floor tiles and a painting of a picnic by the Marseille-based artist Joanna Solal. Joann Pai |
In Paris’s Second Arrondissement, near Les Halles, the American chef Carrie Solomon has opened her first restaurant, Chez Carrie. She’s lived in Paris for 23 years, first as an au pair to a French family and then as a cook, cookbook author, caterer, food stylist and chef, most recently at Aube, a modern bistro in the 11th Arrondissement. Solomon describes her cooking as “California-influenced Mediterranean,” and she’s locally well known for making vegetables more popular among the once doggedly carnivorous French, through both her frequently plant-based catering and the recipes she published biweekly in the magazine Elle à Table and created as a consultant for French public schools. At Chez Carrie, dishes will include fried polenta with tzatziki made with lacto-fermented vegetables; the chef’s version of cioppino (the seafood stew originally from San Francisco), made with langoustines and fermented tomatoes; and pancakes served with housemade syrups infused with fig leaves or elderflowers. There will also be coffee from the local roastery Ten Belles and rotating restaurant-brewed kombucha. The interior’s brightly colored chairs and wood surfaces — designed by Polonsky & Friends, a New York-based consultancy with French roots — aim to convey warmth on even the grayest Paris days. chezcarrie.com.
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Coreen Simpson’s Multifaceted Approach to Art Making
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| Coreen Simpson’s “Hip-Hop Convention at the 369th Regiment Armory” (1981), from the new book “Coreen Simpson: A Monograph.” © Coreen Simpson, courtesy of the artist |
In 1976, at the start of Coreen Simpson’s photography career in New York, she took portraits of the heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali. He recommended she get a mink coat to more easily bypass the gatekeepers who so often barred Black people from the world of the rich and famous. Simpson went on to photograph icons such as Toni Morrison, Oprah and Diana Ross, while also capturing Brooklyn B-boys, Harlem church ladies, drag queens and club kids, putting them on equal footing with celebrities. “Coreen Simpson: A Monograph,” out this month from Aperture, is a study of her innovative career. Through archival images and essays from writers including Doreen St. Felix and the historian Sarah Lewis, the book examines Simpson’s creative impact and affinity for entrepreneurship. The 83-year-old photographer is also a jewelry designer — her Black cameo pieces have been worn by Rosa Parks and Rihanna. As Jonathan Michael Square writes, Simpson has “transform[ed] fleeting memories into enduring works of art that continue to shape the conversation around Black fashion, identity and representation.” “Coreen Simpson: A Monograph” will be published Oct. 14, $65, aperture.org.
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A Fantastical Garden of Works by Les Lalanne and René Magritte, on View in Manhattan
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| Left: René Magritte’s “Colombe” (1961-62). Right: Claude Lalanne’s “Choupatte” (2014/17). Left: © 2025 C. Herscovici, Brussels/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Right: © Claude Lalanne/ADAGP, Paris |
Few artists have made nature stranger, or more exuberant, than François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne. The couple, known collectively as Les Lalanne, first achieved recognition in the 1960s for their surreal approach to sculpture and design. Their work fused animal and plant life with the human body in dreamlike ways: chicken legs sprouting from a head of cabbage, smirking lips cast onto a bronze apple, a blue bathtub in the form of a hippopotamus. “Magritte and Les Lalanne: In the Mind’s Garden,” opening on Oct. 8 at the Upper East Side, Manhattan, gallery Di Donna, stages a conversation between the couple’s sculptures and the canvases of the Belgian Surrealist René Magritte. Organized in conjunction with the London gallery Ben Brown Fine Arts, the exhibition locates a common thread in these artists’ treatment of nature as a key site of transformation and potential. All three “depict not what is but what could be,” says the gallery’s director, Emmanuel Di Donna. Across the works on display in the show, organic life emerges as a whimsical, and at times unsettling, source of creation. Claude’s collared rabbit and François-Xavier’s brass horse inhabit a gallery arranged as a garden with ivy and trellises, while Magritte’s works adorn the walls with their trademark blue skies. “Magritte and Les Lalanne: In the Mind’s Garden” will be on view from Oct. 8 through Dec. 13, didonna.com.
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A Look Back at the Making of Erdem
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| “Erdem,” published by Rizzoli, contains archival photos from the label taken since its founding 20 years ago. Erdem’s spring 2024 collection, shown in progress above, incorporated antique textile remnants, including curtains, from Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England. Emma Harries |
Twenty years ago, the Canadian-born designer Erdem Moralioglu founded his British fashion house, Erdem, in East London. Against a backdrop of muted, post-9/11 clothes, Moralioglu’s collections — often characterized by cinched waists, diaphanous fabrics and saturated colors — suggested high romance with a hint of costume drama. Moralioglu’s first book, “Erdem,” published with Rizzoli, is a medley of the label’s archival images from the past two decades, spliced with essays from friends and collaborators like Nicholas Cullinan, the director of the British Museum, and Andrew Bolton, a prominent fashion curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There are snapshots of Moralioglu’s parents and twin sister alongside his early sketches, and portraits of the muses who have inspired him (including the dancer Adele Astaire, sister of Fred Astaire, who left Broadway to marry a lord and live in an Irish castle, and Fanny and Stella, a pair of Victorian-era drag performers). The book also contains surprising tributes, like a recipe for strawberry sorbet by Ruth Rogers, a founder of London’s River Café, who likens the dessert to a pink Erdem dress from 2017, and a gossipy scene from a play by Polly Stenham. “The book moves through fragments,” says Moralioglu in his introduction, “moments, voices and images that together build a larger picture. It is my story, yes, but also the story of everyone who has helped shape this journey with me.” “Erdem” will be published on Oct. 7, $125, rizzoliusa.com.
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A 300-Year-Old Manor That Epitomizes British Maximalism
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In an 18th-century manor house in the hills of the Cotswolds, the British accessories designer Lulu Guinness has indulged her maximalist, magpie tendencies. Click here to see more of her home and follow us on Instagram.
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