Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2018 i Town & Country

The fantasy of the last-minute European weekend didn’t die with the Concorde. Travel concierge services like Indagare let you book a getaway that packs in the sights, history, and glamour of the continent. Here, Indagare founder Melissa Biggs Bradley looks ahead to the fall season. Paris is a classic weekend destination. What fixtures are still worth the visit? The Ritz and Crillon are legendary hotels that have had amazing face-lifts, so in my mind they’re better than ever. Similarly, Chezla Vieille has been given new life by Daniel Rose. Deyrolle, the taxidermy shop on Rue du Bac, and the beauty shop Buly, which just opened a second outpost with a café in the Marais, are musts—still. And visiting the flea market has gotten to be even more fun now that you…

Tucked behind an ear or woven into a crown, flowers are nature’s ready-to-wear accessory. But a fresh bloom doesn’t last, as the ancient Greeks well knew. They crafted delicate gold diadems of swirling flora, a Hellenic riff on the laurel wreath. In similar fashion, British jewelry designer Christopher Thompson Royds immortalizes the moment a flower is plucked in his new jewelry line, Against Nature. Thompson Royds, who studied at London’s Royal College of Art, has been fixated on florals for years. “What appeals to me is being as natural as possible, which is not necessarily about making them pretty,” he says. The botanical 18K gold earrings, pendants, and brooches fasten onto stems, transforming the jewels into objets d’art. “You aren’t always wearing the pieces you love, so I came up…

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Although exile to Elba in 1814 was not the emperor of France’s idea, he embraced it with temporary enthusiasm. “I want to live from now on like a justice of the peace,” he said on arrival, and he immediately began making improvements to the Mediterranean island, building schools and draining marshland. HENRY DAVID THOREAU In July 1845 the 28-year-old Thoreau, who was working in his family’s pencil factory in Concord, Massachusetts, moved to a cabin he had built on Walden Pond to “live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” MARCEL DUCHAMP In the 1920s the conceptual artist stopped making art…

YES IT’S THE END OF COLLEGE AS WE KNOW IT Half a century ago, when I was in college, you had a choice. You could either hang out at Lamont Library (no women allowed), shoulders hunched, Marlboro in hand, poring over John of Salisbury’s Policraticus, or you could dodge tear gas canisters as a platoon of shield-wielding police barged into Harvard Yard to drag demonstrators against the Vietnam War out of University Hall. Always greedy for experience, I chose both. Today there are different causes; I’m not sure about the library part. I get the sense that reading old books (or new, for that matter) has become an obsolete pastime on campus, akin to playing the lute. Yet college tuition, which was steep enough in 1968 that my father had…

THE AMAZING WORLD OF BUBBLES, California Institute of Technology THE AMERICAN VACATION, Iowa State THE ART OF WALKING, Centre College GETTING DRESSED, Princeton INVENTED LANGUAGES: KLINGON AND BEYOND, University of Texas GAGA FOR GAGA, University of Virginia KANYE VERSUS EVERY-BODY!, Georgia State THE JOY OF GARBAGE, Santa Clara University HISTORY OF SURFING, University of North Carolina JUGGLING, Reed TATTOOS IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE, Scripps College UNDERWATER BASKET WEAVING, Reed WHAT IF HARRY POTTER IS REAL?, Appalachian State University WASTING TIME ON THE INTERNET, University of Pennsylvania THE SIMPSONS AND PHILOSOPHY, University of California, Berkeley THE TEXTUAL APPEAL OF TUPAC SHAKUR, University of Washington TREE CLIMBING, Cornell…

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, Pittsburgh This is the rare school that is renowned for both its technical offerings and its arts programs. The School of Computer Science, which is housed in a building funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is one of the best in the world. Carnegie Mellon is also where the world’s first WiFi network and the first artificial intelligence programs were created. Meanwhile, the School of Drama has produced such A-listers as Ted Danson, Judith Light, Sutton Foster, and Leslie Odom Jr. 2008 ACCEPTANCE RATE: 37.9% 2017* ACCEPTANCE RATE: 22% *2018 RATE NOT AVAILABLE AT PRESS TIME. BABSON COLLEGE, Babson Park, Massachusetts For more than two decades U.S. News has ranked Babson the number one undergraduate school for entrepreneurship. All first-year students take “Foundations of Management…

Malibu is less than an hour from L.A. up the Pacific Coast Highway, yet it has always felt elusive to outsiders. That’s a bit unfair, considering its mood-altering beaches make laying your towel in Santa Monica look like the definition of settling. Even away from the sand, Malibu is a high church of fauna and renewal with its cragged mountains; winding, sagebrush-lined canyons; and shimmering light that has seduced filmmakers for decades, from Sydney Pollack, who filmed The Way We Were there (Barbra Streisand later became one of Malibu’s best-known residents), to Kathryn Bigelow, whose Point Break, set at Leo Carrillo State Beach, is the Sistine Chapel of surfing movies. Farther north Malibu’s lush remoteness unfolds, and it becomes clear why the locals have wanted to keep this 21-mile stretch…

ARTS & CULTURE Through August 5 Julian Schnabel The filmmaker and painter created new large-scale works for San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, on view in the courtyard. Through August 5 “Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics” The Museum of the City of New York traces the history of female activism. July 30 Magic Realism London’s Tate Modern dedicates an exhibit to the fantastical art of Germany between the world wars. August 14 SCAD The Savannah art school’s eponymous museum is giving an exhibition to a recent alumna, Kenzie Adair. Summer Konstantin Kakanias The Greek artist is celebrated in his hometown of Athens with exhibits at the Rebecca Camhi and Kalfayan galleries. July 22 Constantin Brancusi The pioneering sculptor’s iconic works, along with drawings, photographs, and archival…

Political parties are the most important kind of party in DC, but it would be a mistake to think the city’s only excitement is governmental antics. After all, when congressional offices close and bureaucrats are tucked behind tables at Café Milano, there’s a world of top-tier culture to enjoy. FRIDAY The Willard may be one of Washington’s oldest hotels—it’s turning 200 this year—but after a recent refresh, it’s also one of the most inviting. After check-in pop down to the Round Robin Bar, a White House press corps favorite, and have a mint julep before wandering over to the Kennedy Center, where—if you can’t get tickets to Hamilton (through September 16)—the National Symphony Orchestra has just kicked off a season that will welcome Joshua Bell (September 22), Renée Fleming (January…

People use fawning adjectives to describe this city, delicious being foremost among them. In fact, one of the most challenging aspects of a long weekend in Charleston is figuring out how to fit in as many meals as possible without inducing illness. Here is one foolproof culinary itinerary. FRIDAY There may be a line to get breakfast at Hominy Grill, but the fried green tomatoes, pimento cheese biscuits, and shrimp and grits make for the quintessential Southern breakfast—and it’s well worth waiting for. If you’ve already been to chef Sean Brock’s famous Husk, consider the charcoal grilled chicken wings and the addictive tacos (fried catfish, chicken with mango and pickled onion, steak with heirloom peppers and queso fresco) at his casual Mexican spot, Minero, for lunch. Later on, take in…

Swiss watch manufacturer Vacheron Constantin is dusting off 13 vintage timepieces as part of Les Collectionneurs. Manufactured between 1925 and 1994 and fully restored and certified by specialists, the pocket and wristwatches are on tour at exclusive retailers, including the discerning Soho boutique Material Good through September.…

TOWN & COUNTRY’S FIFTH ANNUAL PHILANTHROPY SUMMIT On Wednesday, May 9, T&C hosted an inspirational day where the world’s biggest donors and most prominent changemakers came together with a shared desire to better the world. Distinguished guests gathered at the Hearst Tower in New York City to engage in thought-provoking conversations curated by T&C editors and inspired by 2018 current events. T&C thanks its esteemed partners, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, City of Hope, Flexjet, de Grisogono, and 1 Hotels & Baccarat Hotels, for their consistent support of charitable giving. TO ACCESS OUR EVENTS AND PROMOTIONS, GO TO TOWNANDCOUNTRYMAG.COM/INSIDER FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM & @TOWNANDCOUNTRYMAG…

LEO JULY 23–AUGUST 23 Meghan Markle Uranus at the top of your chart sets a do-and-dare tone this month, and a solar eclipse in your birth sign is a perspective shifter. But if cherished plans won’t fly, make some revisions and be more specific. Once Mercury, the detail planet, turns direct on the 19th, you’ll be able to command the attention you crave, and Mars’s forward motion on the 27th means you can finally break free of obstructions that have dogged you since late June. AQUARIUS JANUARY 21–FEBRUARY 19 Oprah Winfrey Because the Sun always travels through your relationship angle in August, your attention tends to be focused on others, especially those who matter most. And if they seem to be going through changes, be patient—at least until after the…

Chris Whittle is seated at a table in the Garden restaurant, with its bright green copse of African acacias, in the lobby of the Four Seasons hotel on 57th Street in New York City. An iPad rests beside him next to a cup that has been drained of coffee. Whittle is 70 but looks younger. He has a Civil War general’s mane and a close-cropped beard on his wide, granite jaw. He is wearing a striped shirt under a V-neck pullover vest, but not the bow tie that helped make him one of Manhattan’s more vivid presences in the 1980s and ’90s. It’s 10:30, and he could use a big breakfast, but he has to be in Boston in a few hours. He holds out his wrist. “My kids got…

MAY 2, 2014 The Department of Education releases a list of 55 colleges—including Dartmouth, Harvard, and Princeton—that are under investigation for their handling of sexual assault complaints. By June 2017 the list includes 240 schools. JULY 15, 2015 A UC San Diego student wins his suit alleging that he was not awarded a fair trial in a sexual misconduct case. At the time, more than 40 accused students across the country had filed lawsuits against their colleges. DECEMBER 6, 2016 A female Stanford University student sues, alleging that Stanford violated Title IX when it failed to protect her from a “known sexual predator on campus.” AUGUST 2, 2017 A group called Students for Fair Admissions sues Harvard for discriminating against Asian-Americans and giving preferences to other racial minorities. SEPTEMBER 7,…

HOTELS Nobu Ryokan Privacy is prized at this 16-room Japanese inn—the public is verboten, and reservations are taken only via e-mail. Once you’re in, though, it’s absolute barefoot luxury—with Nobu room service. FROM $2,000 A NIGHT, NOBURYOKANMALIBU.COM RESTAURANTS Mon Li L.A. mixologist Matthew Biancaniello just opened a restaurant inside Calamigos Beach Club featuring a 12-course “liquid tasting menu.” CALAMIGOSGUESTRANCH.COM Gladstones After the lease on this 46-year-old establishment expires next year, Wolfgang Puck and Frank Gehry are teaming up on a new, sure to be Instagram-worthy space. MUSEUMS Getty Villa Jeff Koons’s Play-Doh is on view at the newly renovated museum through September 3, in an exhibit inspired by Plato. GETTY.EDU WELLNESS The Ranch Malibu Along with a six-almond-a-day diet and five-hour hikes, you can now get cryotherapy. THERANCHMALIBU.COM REAL ESTATE…

Some things you replace every summer; others it’s best to keep forever. That may explain the presence in so many desirable destinations of “summer cars,” the kind of wornin rides that might not make it farther than the nearest beach, but don’t need to. Take the Buchanan clan’s decades-old Chevrolet Caprice Classic, seen above parked outside Beaulieu, their spread in Newport. It’s certainly not the latest model—but that’s the point.…

When Alexis Hearst and Mike Howard began planning their wedding, there was no doubt that they would have it at Hearst Castle. “It’s home for me,” says Alexis, who grew up visiting the estate and the surrounding 80,000-acre Hearst Ranch (the latter still owned by her family) in San Simeon, California. “I also wanted a fairytale kind of wedding—what better place to do it than at a castle?” Last August the couple, who live in Rancho Santa Fe (Mike is a partner at Ernst & Young), invited 130 guests for a weekend of festivities, including: a rehearsal dinner at the bunkhouse, with a menu of grilled tri-tips and roasted corn on the cob; a Spanish-themed reception at the winery with copious paella and sangria; and a brunch at the Senator’s…

Given Iceland’s beauty—and the short trip from JFK on Icelandair, via direct flight or stopovers en route to Europe—it’s no surprise that it has become a hot destination, attracting six times its population in tourists last year. And there’s more to see than just the northern lights. FRIDAY Drop your bags at Sandhotel, a boutique hotel built from three combined, modernized townhouses in the heart of Reykjavík. A good first stop is the neighboring Sandholt Bakery, which has been open and run by the same family for nearly 100 years, for a glass of the famous unfiltered wine. Don’t linger too long if you want to make a reservation at Dill, where the menu, which features such local specialties as arctic char and root vegetables, made it the first restaurant…

Angelenos say there’s a new energy to their city—so much is happening Downtown and on the East Side—but the iconic spots, like the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel, are still there. To fully appreciate L.A.’s charms, try this itinerary. It’s all about balancing old and new. FRIDAY Check into the No Mad Los Angeles, the second outpost of the New York hotel; it’s housed in a 1920s bank—and has a brand new rooftop pool perfect for lounging by. With Jacques Garcia’s signature style, NoMad has blended neoclassical elements with Parisian flair. Chefs Daniel Humm and Will Guidara of Eleven Madison Park are overseeing the food program, which means raw seafood and vintage champagne. Take a trip to Beverly Hills to visit Casa Perfect, an appointment-only design gallery, and work…

Exercise has never been my thing. Last year at a party I told a room full of people that I hated it so much that if they ever found me dead in a gym they should know that I had been killed elsewhere and my body moved. It’s not for lack of trying. I have gone to every type of group class there is: Tracy Anderson, the Brazilian Butt Lift, Pilates, SoulCycle. But nothing has ever been able to hold my attention. Eventually I moved on to a personal trainer, who would spar with me at the end of each session, which I loved. Boxing, I thought, could be my new workout of choice. It’s like therapy without the talking, and an incredible workout. So I was thrilled when my…

About a year and a half ago I ditched a glamorous, well-paying job as a magazine editor, where I had not only creative freedom but an ample budget with which to realize my ideas. I bid it adieu with no particular plan, just a broad and burning desire to be free and a vague notion of maybe becoming a basket weaver. (Yes, that’s right.) Having toiled for a half-century on other people’s schedules (parents’, schools’, jobs’), I wanted to be not the boss of others but of myself, my time accountable only to me and those I loved. I longed to read more, and more haphazardly, allowing one thing to lead to the next. I wanted to travel and learn more about beautiful objects created by people of different cultures…

HAPPENINGS SPRING GATHERING WITH BERMUDA TOURISM AUTHORITY On Saturday, April 14, an intimate group of tastemakers and travel enthusiasts joined Town & Country and Bermuda Tourism Authority for a spring gathering, hosted by T&C Digital Articles Editor Sam Dangremond. Guests were transported from the bustling streets of Tribeca to a festive island paradise with Bermuda-inspired cocktails and cuisine. GOTOBERMUDA.com JEWELRY ASK FOR A GIA DIAMOND REPORT Before you buy a diamond, always insist on its independent, accurate diamond grading report by GIA, creator of the 4Cs. 4Cs.GIA.edu TO ACCESS OUR EVENTS AND PROMOTIONS, GO TO TOWNANDCOUNTRYMAG.COM/INSIDER & FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM @TOWNANDCOUNTRYMAG “IT’S GREAT THAT YOU ARE A WHARTON MBA. BUT PLEASE, DON’T ACT LIKE IT.” –Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya, in his 2018 Wharton commencement speech…

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