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For over three decades, the architect Alexandre Lafourcade has specialized in the restoration of historic mas (traditional Provençal farmhouses) and wine estates in the South of France. His latest project brought him and his wife and business partner, Céline, to Hyères, one of the oldest seaside towns along the French Riviera, where he renovated the pistachio-hued Villa Almanarre as a holiday rental. Originally built in 1885 as a winter escape for British aristocrats, the hillside villa features oriel windows, colorful earthenware tiles and Art Nouveau doors, all typical of heritage Hyèrois residences. Lafourcade preserved those elements while modernizing the layout to create seven airy suites, including one with direct pool access. The interior designer Juliette Macherey, Lafourcade’s stepdaughter, wove in florals, stripes and folkloric forms with wallpapers, rugs and Pierre Frey fabrics. The furnishings are a mix of antique and custom pieces, like a stained-glass fish-shaped backsplash by Atelier Toporkoff, a Paris-based studio, made in collaboration with the Chinese-born designer Tong Ren. A weeklong rental includes concierge services, the use of a pétanque court and an on-site hammam and easy access to Almanarre beach (where kite surfing is popular) and Villa Noailles, a 1920s Art Deco house turned art museum. From about $14,000 for the week, villaalmanarre.com. WEAR THIS Jewelry That Pairs Wood With Gemstones
As gold prices continue to climb, some jewelers are setting precious stones in wood, creating a warmer, understated sensibility. The Brazilian-born designer Silvia Furmanovich makes earrings out of purple heart, a tropical wood known for its violet color, with inset kunzite and pavé rubies. The Venetian jeweler Antonia Miletto also uses purple heart in a bracelet inlaid with a kunzite; another one of her bracelets combines ebony with an oval citrine quartz. Hemmerle, the fourth-generation family-run jewelry house based in Munich, makes one-of-a-kind designs, including, recently, a pair of green tourmalines suspended from pock wood, a green variety from Thailand. Anna Maccieri Rossi, who’s based in Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy, designed a walnut ring with a pink sapphire in a gold setting. At the London-based jewelry house Glenn Spiro, the father and son designers Glenn and Joe Spiro begin with the gemstones they collect from around the world. An old-mine cushion-cut Colombian emerald, for example, is set in gold and framed by two pieces of antique zitan wood from a 19th-century brush pot. In New York, Jade Ruzzo combines Brazilian rosewood with an oval-shaped rose zircon, while the London-based jeweler Fernando Jorge recently showed stud earrings made of petrified wood and dark brown diamonds at the art and design fair TEFAF Maastricht in the Netherlands. EAT HERE An Eclectic Izakaya in New York’s SoHo
After opening Kiko, an Asian-influenced restaurant in New York’s Hudson Square, in 2024, the chef Alex Chang and the sommelier Lina Goujjane are partnering again on Noury, an intimate Japanese izakaya on SoHo’s Sullivan Street. They’ve collaborated with the Japanese American chef de cuisine Joji Miwa, who recently worked as the sous chef at the kaiseki restaurant Ryoriya Morihiro in Fukuoka. Dishes at Noury include a Montauk royal red prawn and onion kaki age with tom yum seasoning, which Chang describes as “a perfect onion fritter,” as well as a selection of sashimi that will change daily. The food is meant to be paired with wine and sake, which Goujjane says she selected “for generations-long history, interesting fermentation styles and unique grape or rice varietals.” That includes Kenbishi Kuromatsu Honjozo, an umami-rich sake “historically favored by samurai before battle,” she says, and the Cirelli Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo, a dark and acidic Italian rosé that pairs well with the grilled Montauk bluefin-tuna belly. The space, by the New York- and Florida-based design firm Studio Tre, reinterprets traditional Japanese materials — tatami mats are fixed to the ceiling — and incorporates elements from elsewhere, including textiles by the Senegalese French designer Aïssa Dione, a handwoven abacá tapestry from artisans in the Philippines and a bar that would be at home in a Paris bistro. “We wanted it to feel familiar and welcoming and lived in,” says Goujjane. Noury opens June 25, nourynewyork.com. COVET THIS Are Textured Glass Light Fixtures the Next Paper Lanterns?
Those looking for tactile yet minimalist light fixtures have long turned to Isamu Noguchi’s paper lanterns and their signature warm glow. But lately, a crop of designers have proposed an alternative: rippled, textured glass. The Brooklyn ceramist Natalie Weinberger tints her pâte de verre sconces with colors like pale apricot and icy blue and shapes them with clay molds, resulting in swirled surfaces. In Denmark, the glass blower Alexander Kirkeby’s first foray into lighting (currently on view at Fondazione Dries Van Noten in Venice,) includes a seven-arm take on a classic Venetian chandelier that features twisted pieces of ultrathin glass. For his own lighting debut, the Berkeley, Calif.-based glass artist Rafi Ajl fired his table lamp in a flexible webbed nylon binding, resulting in an undulating surface that resembles a relief map. The Milan-based studio 6:AM Glassworks collaborated with the Italian designer Hannes Peer on its Paysage collection, a modular series composed of glass plates that can be stacked into sconces, table lamps and totemic floor lamps. Their craggy surfaces were formed by Murano masters who used metal spatulas to press each refraction. Elsewhere on the Italian island, glass blowers hand-sculpted and bent the leaves and feathers that decorate the botanical pendants, sconces and table lamps of the Manhattan studio Blue Green Works’s Garden collection. A homage to the founder Peter B. Staples’s late mother, the collection is meant to borrow from “an older idea of beauty.” STAY HERE A Jewel-Inspired Hotel in Jaipur Opens New Suites
The Johri, a five-suite hotel in a Jaipur haveli, or traditional townhouse, in the heart of the city’s jewelry bazaar, has been in high demand since its opening in 2020. But as of last month, it’s a little easier to score a room with the unveiling of three new suites. Like the original rooms, the new spaces are each named for a different precious stone or metal — Firoza (turquoise), Sunela (citrine) and Moonga (red coral) — with décor that channels the material. The designer Naina Shah, the hotelier Abhishek Honawar’s wife, added terrazzo floors and bespoke pieces like bone-inlay night stands, rattan lampshades and hand-embroidered headboards. “Jaipur is the craft capital of India and we want to keep celebrating that,” says Honawar. For dinner, the ground-floor restaurant serves vegetarian fare like crispy avocado chaat and a signature dal makhani; a 30-seat speakeasy in a former jewelry factory is scheduled to open in October. From $400 a night, thejohrijaipur.com. BUY THIS Beauty Products That Give a Summery Glow
The arrival of summer calls for shimmery beauty products that make any hint of sweat look like a purposeful sheen. Accordingly, a number of beauty brands have recently released products that help achieve that glow, ranging from oils and lotions to more portable sticks. Last week, Rhode launched Highlight Milk, a new version of its Glazing Milk that can be worn alone or mixed into foundation or moisturizer for a pearly finish. Earlier this month, Dolce & Gabbana introduced Glazelighter, a face-and-body highlighter stick in a case that resembles a Zippo, and which includes Italian almond extract for nourishment. Brunel’s new Pearl Glow Body Oil evokes a summer getaway with notes of jasmine and sandalwood, while safflower, castor, coconut and jojoba oils help moisturize and revitalize the skin. Phlur’s lightweight body oil, enriched with floral oils like meadowfoam and paramela, offers a similar radiance. Its golden hour-inspired scent blends bergamot, coconut, vanilla and musk. If you prefer a lotion-like texture, Lisa Hanna’s Luminous Face + Body Glow replenishes the skin with hyaluronic acid and ceramides, while Sol de Janeiro’s new Daily Glow Lotion delivers hydration by way of Brazilian sugar cane. FROM T’S INSTAGRAM
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