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The Hudson Valley’s newest hotel, Pocketbook Hudson, makes use of a 19th-century textile mill a few blocks from Warren Street, the town’s main drag. The New York design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero renovated the four-story building to create 46 guest rooms with brick walls and oversize factory windows, many featuring stainless steel soaking tubs. Guests can cuddle up in bespoke green geometric-printed bathrobes from Eckhaus Latta, while, in select rooms, custom terra-cotta lamps by Misha Kahn add warmth to the industrial setting. A lobby lounge offers a cafe menu during the day and cocktails at night. Next door, the restaurant Ambos serves a menu of Argentine-inspired dishes, such as crispy lamb neck with charred flatbread, using live-fire cooking techniques. In addition to rooms, three floors house retail and gallery spaces showcasing a selection of art, clothing and housewares, including minimalist drinking glasses by Mamo and clothes by the Japanese sportswear brand Y-3. The original boiler room has been transformed into a club that will host rotating DJs and live performances. Next year, a bathhouse with plunge pools, a steam room and spa treatment rooms is scheduled to open in the factory’s former storage building. The artist WangShui helped to curate the property’s contemporary artworks, including a seven-foot-high painting by Tschabalala Self that greets guests as they walk into the lounge. Pocketbook Hudson opens Oct. 29; from about $380 a night, pocketbookhudson.com. CONSIDER THIS Rugs Adorned With Psychedelic Plants
The Los Angeles-based design studio Commune creates spaces and objects that are sophisticated yet unfussy and earthy, from the Ace Hotel in Kyoto, Japan, to a cabin in California’s San Gabriel Mountains where the bronze doorknobs were cast from local river rock. The firm’s new collection, Psychedelic Rugs, its fourth collaboration with the painter and designer Christopher Farr, draws inspiration from mind-altering plants. One rug, hand spun from wool and silk, is covered in poppies — an ode to the fluttering flower fields near Commune’s office. Another features a forest floor of mushrooms and ferns in shades of blue and orange inspired by the 19th-century designer William Morris. The third rug in the collection features marijuana leaves as a garland on a cool mint backdrop. “Hardly anyone drinks alcohol anymore,” says Commune co-founder Roman Alonso, who explains why he was drawn to these psychoactive motifs that are more ingrained in today’s culture. “We’re just elevating [these ideas] to a level of craft that has perhaps not been seen before.” From $130 per square foot, christopherfarr.com. READ THIS An Interior Designer’s Eclectic Eye, Showcased in a New Monograph
The interior designer Robert Stilin was once based in the Hamptons, where he designed homes and furniture that came to define the enclave’s understated modern aesthetic. In 2019, Stilin moved his firm to Manhattan and increased his work with clients across the United States. He views “New Work,” his second monograph with Vendome Press, as a chance to showcase the variety of homes he has decorated in Washington, Montana, Connecticut and Palm Beach, Fla. (where he got his start), as well as New York. The 12 featured projects range from rural farmhouses to elegant beach homes, along with urban residences including the designer’s industrial loft in Red Hook, Brooklyn. All were completed after the pandemic, which Stilin says gave clients an “If not now, when?” mentality about upgrading their spaces as well as a renewed appreciation for the home as a personal sanctuary. Stilin’s own East Hampton, N.Y., house, which he bought in 2022, is included in the book along with a bit of local history: Built by the architect Andrew Geller in 1969 as a prototype for low-income housing that was never developed, the three-bedroom cottage was renovated in the ’80s by the influential local shop owners Greg and Katherine Turpan. Now, Stilin writes, it’s decorated with “vintage and contemporary, unattributed and finely pedigreed, the mix runs the gamut. What can I say other than I like what I like?” $75, vendomepress.com. COVET THIS Gold Jewelry That’s Meant to Carry Weight
At the 2021 Met Gala, the actress Hunter Schafer arrived with an intricate white gold brooch balanced between her eyebrows. It was a piece from AdaLioryn, a line founded by the Los Angeles-based jewelry designer Evangeline AdaLioryn earlier that year. Now, AdaLioryn has debuted her first complete collection, titled the Genie’s Gift, which takes inspiration from medieval cathedrals and the ornate creations of noted designers like René Lalique. All the pieces are made of yellow gold and many feature inlaid gemstones including emeralds, sapphires and diamonds. One chain, with round fleur-de-lis-like circles interspersed with rectangular links, riffs on a pocket watch fob by the renowned French jeweler Henri Vever. Like the rest of the collection, it’s meant to be heavy, says AdaLioryn: “I wanted to make pieces of substantial weight that people can feel on their skin and on their bones.” In addition to working with precious metals, she also creates embellished porcelain ceramics; she plans to introduce a collection of those this winter. From $4,000 for a pair of stud earrings, AdaLioryn.com. GIFT THIS A Book That Offers Fall Travel Inspiration
“The Inn Crowd: Artistic Getaways and the Modern Innkeepers Who Crafted Them,” a new book from Monacelli, tells the stories of 20 inns in the northeastern United States. Its author and photographer, Jackie Caradonio, grew up around the business herself, first as the daughter of a onetime hotel general manager, then as a travel journalist, where she developed an appreciation for idiosyncratic boutique hotels. She didn’t want to produce the kind of coffee table book that people flip through for the imagery alone: “The stories were equally important to me,” she says. The makeup artist Bobbi Brown, for example, launched her inn, the George Montclair, when she parted ways with Estée Lauder in late 2016 after 21 years with the company. In that moment of transition, her husband, the developer Steven Plofker, suggested the two try something they’d never discussed before: creating a hotel out of a century-old landmark estate he’d bought in their hometown, Montclair, N.J. Today, the residence, originally designed by Charles Van Vleck (an architect for the Rockefellers), blends period details — a grand double staircase, dentil moldings, stained-glass windows — with personal touches such as art from Brown and Plofker’s own homes. Other properties featured in the book include a Gilded Age mansion in New York’s Hudson Valley and an 18th-century estate in Berkshire County, Mass., that was built by a Revolutionary War soldier and later hosted many a Tanglewood musician, including Leonard Bernstein. $60, phaidon.com. FROM T’S INSTAGRAM
Part of the thrill of watching a live performance is the knowledge that, at any moment, something could go wrong. At a fashion show, that might mean inclement weather, model collisions or late-arriving celebrity guests. In 1993, Naomi Campbell took her infamous tumble in eight-inch platforms at Vivienne Westwood; Marc Jacobs’s spring 2008 show started two hours behind schedule because the shoes were still en route; and in 1990, at a Michael Kors show, the music was so bass-heavy that it caused part of the ceiling to collapse. Obviously, these mishaps are unwanted and especially daunting for those with fewer runway shows under their belt. At the same time, they can add to the heart and personality of the proceedings — and make the show memorable in a good way. Then, too, it might be a comfort, given this season’s many debuts, to know they can happen to anyone. With Paris Fashion Week underway, seven designers talk about the ordeals they experienced — and survived. Click here to read all their stories and follow us on Instagram.
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