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Since opening in 2019, the Newt in Somerset, a 2,500-acre working farm, hotel and members-only garden, has drawn travelers and London day-trippers to its corner of southwest England. Now its owners, the couple Karen Roos and Koos Bekker, have finished restoring Yarlington Lodge, a Regency-era parsonage about a mile from the Newt, as a private vacation rental. The 12-acre estate comprises Yarlington Lodge, two smaller cottages, a palm-filled greenhouse and a swimming pool amid walled gardens and woodland. It can sleep up to 32 guests, who will also have access to the broader hotel amenities of the Newt. The interiors feature 19th-century woodwork, four-poster beds and tented ceilings. In the lodge’s largest bedroom, draped fabric overhead and botanical wallpaper are meant to conjure the romance of sleeping outdoors. “Maybe because of where I come from, I love being under canvas,” says Roos, who is South African. “I wanted to give it the feeling of a tent in the tropics.” Yarlington Lodge opens June 1; from about $14,250 a night, thenewtinsomerset.com. EAT HERE A New York Fine-Dining Destination That’s a Partnership Between a Farmer and a Chef
The South Korean chef Hasung Lee met Brett Ellis while working at the French Laundry in Napa, Calif.; Lee was a sous chef, Ellis the head farmer. “Between those two roles, there’s constant communication, so that’s how we got close,” Lee says. After they both moved back to New York, Ellis started Crown Daisy Farm in Staatsburg, N.Y., and Lee — who was formerly the chef de cuisine at Manhattan’s Atomix — began work on his debut restaurant, Oyatte, which opens in the city’s Murray Hill neighborhood on May 5. It’ll offer a tasting menu that’s the result of collaboration between farmer and chef. This past winter, the duo honed a planting strategy (“What we’re going to grow, when to harvest and specifically what sizes, colors and flavors we want,” says Lee), which will be showcased in spring dishes like charred celeriac, parsnip and daikon consommé infused with walnut oil. Come summer, Lee plans to incorporate Romano and pole beans, six types of cucumbers, four varieties of eggplants and several strains of chiles, the seeds for which a friend sent from Korea. Preservation and fermentation are central to Oyatte’s menu, and charcuterie, pickles, garums and vinegars will all be made in-house. The dining room unfolds across two floors — the first is inspired by the farm, with wood salvaged from a 19th-century barn demolished on the upstate property; the second is brighter, with tall ceilings, large windows, herringbone floors and midcentury modern furniture from Portugal. A five-foot work of suspended clear quartz by the Korean artist Bahk Seon Ghi connects them. oyattenyc.com. VISIT THIS Dan Flavin’s Fluorescent Creations, on View in the South of France
In the 1990s, the 85-year-old French conceptual artist Bernar Venet began transforming a 17-acre estate in Le Muy, a village in the South of France about 20 miles from St.-Tropez, turning it into his home and creating a sculpture garden featuring works by Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd and James Turrell. In 2014, Venet completed an exhibition space that’s open to small groups of visitors in the summer months. On May 8, to begin its season, the Venet Foundation will debut “Dan Flavin: Simple Fluorescent Tubes,” a show curated by the art historian Erik Verhagen. It brings together more than 10 of Flavin’s linear light sculptures, which he began experimenting with in 1963. Venet, who spent time with Flavin and Judd when they all lived in New York in the ’60s, compares Flavin’s work to that of the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, who was known for his abstract geometric pieces. “Flavin is the Mondrian of the ’60s,” says Venet. “It’s the radicality of his gestures, the lines, the primary colors — his work is very powerful.” “Dan Flavin: Simple Fluorescent Tubes” will be on view from May 8 through Oct. 3, venetfoundation.org. SMELL THIS Ulla Johnson’s First Perfume Collection, Made With Italian Beaches and Breezy Gardens in Mind
Twenty-seven years ago, the New York-based fashion designer Ulla Johnson founded her namesake line, which specializes in vibrantly patterned gowns and resort wear that draws inspiration from her collaborations with artisans around the world. Now she’s releasing her first fragrance collection, Ulla, created in collaboration with Lyn Harris, the British founder of the London-based fragrance house Perfumer H. It comprises three nature-inspired scents: Drift Rose, whose sandalwood and lemon are meant to conjure a walk along the beach; Baroque Garden, which has notes of jasmine and orange; and Adriatic Gold, a tribute to Johnson’s memory of visiting coastal Italy as a child, with notes of bergamot and black pepper. Each bottle is topped with a coral-like porcelain cap designed by the Los Angeles-based ceramic artist Jonathan Yamakami, who previously created a decorative stoneware vessel for the brand. The line also features a selection of home scents, including four candles, each poured into a sculptural ceramic vessel handmade by Yamakami. An incense set comes with a blossom-shaped porcelain holder made by the Brooklyn-based ceramist Jane Yang-D’Haene. From $55 for incense, available for pre-order on April 28, ullajohnson.com. STAY HERE A New Bohemian Hotel in a Grand Madrid Building
At the edge of Las Letras, the Madrid neighborhood that was once home to Spanish writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, a 1917 building has been transformed into Nômade Temple Madrid, a hotel with 93 rooms and three penthouses. Its interiors are inspired by La Movida Madrileña, the 1980s countercultural movement that embraced kitsch, bold color and a rough-around-the-edges D.I.Y. approach. Handwoven wool-and-silk rugs are laid over hardwood floors, while hand-glazed Spanish tiles decorate the bathrooms, echoing the building’s preserved ceramic-lined stairwell and the grand staircase leading to the hotel’s co-working and exhibition space, Monopol of the People. In the basement’s small alcoves, where coal was once stored, there are now tables and vinyl-listening stations within the speakeasy Say No More. On the ground floor are the cafe-bar Café Libre and Guga, a restaurant serving Italian dishes influenced by Argentine and Uruguayan grill flavors. (The Paccheri All’ Acqua Pazza, for one, features pasta cooked in fish broth and white wine from Mendoza topped with grilled scorpion fish.) Spa offerings include sound healing and breath-work sessions, as well as a hammam, sauna and cold-plunge pool. Nômade Temple Madrid opens May 5; from about $560 a night, nomadetemple.com. SEE THIS A Manhattan Exhibition of Artworks That Incorporate Styrofoam and Nitrile Gloves
For more than two decades, the Miami-born, Brooklyn-based artist N. Dash has infused disposable materials, which she refers to as “provisional architecture,” into works that blend painting, photography and sculpture. She regularly rubs small scraps of synthetic fabric (typically used to buff cars or for other custodial tasks) between her fingers until the cloth frays and unfurls, transforming it into a whorled, abstract shape that she photographs and enlarges through silk-screen. Several of these works will be on view at “N. Dash: Geophilia,” an exhibition opening April 23 at Manhattan’s Hill Art Foundation. The show also includes a three-panel painting to which Dash has attached nitrile gloves and a rock. In another work, lines of light green Styrofoam appear mottled like jadeite, cutting through one of Dash’s silk-screens, this one a blend of cyan and yellow, and amoebalike in shape. Cardboard corners bind another pair of canvases together; stacked atop each other and pointing downward, the cardboard becomes anthropomorphic, evoking a vertebrae. On another canvas, Dash layered graphite atop packed earth and jute, creating a textured surface that’s bisected by a piece of string. Merging throwaway manufactured items with more natural materials, Dash’s work provokes viewers to meditate on the relationship between humanity and the environment. Her process, she says, is “unapologetically nature worship.” “N. Dash: Geophilia” is on view from April 23 to July 31, hillartfoundation.org. FROM T’S INSTAGRAM
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