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The antiques dealer Eric Touchaleaume was one of the first collectors to travel to Chandigarh, India, in search of the Modernist office chairs and desks that were designed by the architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret for the planned city in the 1950s and are now among the most valuable vintage furniture pieces on the market. In 2000 he traveled to Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, where he tracked down several of the French architect Jean Prouvé’s rare Maison Tropicale houses, prefabricated metal dwellings built in 1951 for tropical climates. Lately, Touchaleaume has been gathering Modernist rarities in his own 1920s townhouse in Paris’s 16th Arrondissement and his new showroom next door, both designed by the French architect Robert Mallet-Stevens. “My idea was to create the feeling of a collector’s apartment,” Touchaleaume says of the showroom, which he’s named Galerie 54. Among the objects “with provenance,” as he describes them, meaning most are from the estates of esteemed private collectors, is a wall-hung olive green rug with a border of galloping horses from 1930 by the French tapestry artist Jean Lurçat, made for the Polish American cosmetics scion Helena Rubinstein. Next to it, atop a gouged oak buffet by Jean Touret, is a white plaster lamp with a tilted woven wicker shade conceived to evoke the shape of an opium smoker’s headrest, designed by Salvador Dalí and the French interior designer Jean-Michel Frank for the Tunisian home of the French American socialites Jean and Violet Henson. “I have a fascination with the great collectors,” says Touchaleaume. “The story always comes first.” By appointment only, galerie54.com. VISIT THIS The Haas Brothers’ Colorful Creatures Gather at Michigan’s Cranbrook Art Museum
“The uncanny valley,” a term coined by the roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970, names the point at which a lifelike robot or doll crosses the threshold from cute to creepy and back again. The artists Simon and Nikolai Haas, twin brothers, have spent the past 15 years making a career in that space between the delightful and the eerie. In their world, a table raises its leg like a dog; a vessel comes with horns. Their aim, though, is neither to disturb nor repulse, but to seduce — to draw their audience into an intimate relationship with the surreal. “We’re essentially trying to get someone to feel empathy with an inanimate object,” says Simon. That playful seductiveness is on full display in their first major survey, “Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley,” opening on Nov. 2 at Cranbrook Art Museum outside Detroit. In Cranbrook’s midcentury galleries, visitors will find Haas classics, like a mushroom whose cap is awash in violet and pink, alongside new “Accretion Paintings” (2024-25), in which layers of acrylic build on each other until the canvas seems to reach out into the room. “Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley” will be on view at the Cranbook Art Museum from Nov. 2, 2025, through Feb. 22, 2026, cranbrookartmuseum.org; travels to New York; Austin, Texas; and Charlotte, N.C. WEAR THIS A Line of Reimagined Moroccan Clothes, Now at La Mamounia in Marrakesh
After eight years living in London and working for Jimmy Choo and other luxury fashion brands, the Moroccan designer Kenza Bennani returned to her hometown Tangier to establish her own label. She named the company New Tangier and based many of her designs on the silhouettes Moroccan men and women had been wearing for centuries — caftans, robe-like djellabas and tunics known as gandouras — but gave them a contemporary twist by paring back or removing the classic embellishment and choosing locally sourced, all-natural fabrics, many of which are dead stock. “We’re not a fashion brand in the traditional sense,” says Bennani. “We don’t follow trends or seasons, but produce truly sustainable, limited collections.” In 2019, Bennani moved her design studio to her grandparents’ 1930s home in a residential neighborhood, where she converted part of the house into an appointment-only showroom. Earlier this month, the first New Tangier boutique opened in Marrakesh at La Mamounia, the storied luxury hotel that dates to the 1920s and is one of the glamorous hosts of the annual Marrakech International Film Festival, which kicks off this year at the end of November. Fittingly, New Tangier’s latest collection is a tribute to classic cinema, with pieces like the wool, silk-lined Abla caftan, in a vivid scarlet, and the Africa dress, in shimmering gold silk. From about $300, newtangier.com. SEE THIS Joan Mitchell’s View of the Mediterranean, on Display in New York
Joan Mitchell, the Abstract Expressionist painter known for her dynamic, colorful canvases, would have been 100 this year, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation has organized a series of global events to mark the occasion, including scholarly round tables, a digital screening of a long-unavailable documentary and a gallery show opening at David Zwirner’s 20th Street location in Manhattan next month. The exhibition will focus on the years directly following Mitchell’s move to Paris in 1959, a vital juncture in her development, when she began to divest from the dominating influence of the New York School (an interdisciplinary movement that emerged during the ’50s) and took frequent, multiday sailing trips in the South of France with her partner, the painter Jean Paul Riopelle. It was those expeditions that prompted Mitchell to more explicitly capture the natural landscape: She even named some paintings after specific trees, revealing her abstractions’ referents for the first time. At the heart of the exhibition, curated by Sarah Roberts of the Joan Mitchell Foundation, are Mitchell’s so-called black paintings, though very little, if any, black pigment was used in their creation. Instead, they feature thick swirls of deep greens and blues, which the artist occasionally smeared onto the canvas with her fingers. Rather than painting the sea, Mitchell focused on the long stretches of coastline she observed from the boat, with its Mediterranean vegetation and limestone bluffs. “The cypress tree was so black and the ocher wall was a pale, pale ocher and it moved me,” she once said. Her works convey both that nebulous movement and the emotion behind it. “To define a feeling: Joan Mitchell, 1960-1965” will be on view at David Zwirner 20th Street, New York, from Nov. 6 through Dec. 13, davidzwirner.com. BUY THIS Elegant, Unfussy Shoes for Holiday Parties
When the writer and interviewer Aminatou Sow met Alexa Buckley Roussel and Sarah Pierson, the co-founders of Margaux, last year at a dinner party in Brooklyn, she was already familiar with the footwear brand because of their size inclusivity. “I wear a women’s size 12, and we’re a very special community of women with larger feet,” says Sow. Anytime a new brand releases a broad range of sizes, she adds, “you just know about it from friends.” The three women eventually decided to partner on a new collaboration, the Aminatou for Margaux holiday capsule collection, which launches today. For Roussel and Pierson, the limited-edition range builds on the elevated yet supportive style they debuted in 2015 with a single made-to-measure flat; the Margaux brand now offers 45 ready-to-wear silhouettes (including heels and boots) in extended sizes, from 3 to 14 U.S., and three widths (narrow, medium and wide). The four-piece line includes pointy flats in tuxedo black, burnished ocher and sophisticated leopard satin, as well as a geometric-heel slingback also in leopard, all designed to work for both everyday and formal wear. “I live in Brooklyn but socialize in Manhattan a lot,” says Sow. “I get around on the subway and walk — having shoes that are stylish but no-fuss is really important to me.” From $375, margauxny.com. READ THIS Chantal Joffe and Olivia Laing Spotlight Their Years-Long Dialogue in a New Book
In the spring of 2016, the painter Chantal Joffe read Olivia Laing’s just-published book “The Lonely City” and sent the writer a note of praise, along with an invitation for a portrait sitting. The resulting piece, “Olivia II,” captures the scene: floral dress, orange striped sofa, observant gaze. Nearly a decade later, Joffe and Laing’s collaborative book “Painting Writing Texting,” due next month from Mack, traces the pair’s interwoven output since, including exhibitions and accompanying essays, studio visits in London and Venice and an ongoing dialogue. What draws the two together — besides overlapping interests in people (David Wojnarowicz, Alice Neel) and themes (memory, time) — is a mutual desire for reinvention: “obliterating the comfortable old self with its habits and patterns, its lazy reliance on the already-done,” Laing writes. Or as Joffe puts it: “Keep it weird.” Laing’s texts have their own incisive framing, as when the use of yellow paint in one of Joffe’s series summons a reference to detective novels — the Italian equivalent of noir is giallo, after the sunflower-bright book covers favored by an early crime publisher. The last chapter is a transcribed conversation that touches on the pair’s analog process in making the book: “We were like kids with a paper doll set on the floor,” Joffe recalls. That childlike energy continues in her newest show, “I Remember,” which opens Nov. 14 at Victoria Miro’s London gallery. Family photographs were an inspiration — so, too, she says, were this past summer’s chats with Laing about the writer Joe Brainard and the “nonlinear nature of time.” $60, mackbooks.us; “Chantal Joffe: I Remember” will be on view at Victoria Miro, London, from Nov. 14, 2025, through Jan. 17, 2026, victoria-miro.com. FROM T’S INSTAGRAM
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