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In Paris, a hotel that mixes past and present
The 17th arrondissement of Paris, near the northwestern borders of the city, is usually residential, so it is usually not for the spirit of the French capital. But the opening of La Fondation, a hotel with 58 rooms with interiors by the New York -based design agency Roman and Williams, can shift that way of thinking. It is part of a new complex with 10 floors that also contains an office space with roof gardens, a gym with a rock-climbing wall, 80-foot long swimming pool and several fitness rooms and a spa with saunas, a hammam and treatment rooms. Hotel guests get access to all this, together with two French restaurants and a classic bistro and a fine-dining option, both helped by the local chef Thomas Rossi and a bar on the roof that offers a major view from the Sacre Coeur to the Eiffel Tower. For the hotel design, Roman and Williams referred to the late modernist period of the city: rooms are equipped with color-blocking walls bordered by oak frames-a nod to the Mondrian dress of Yves Saint Laurent from 1965. In the common spaces, large-scale commissions such as a wooden wall sculpture or the painted king of the Kroatic mans of the Kroatian Lame lady or the Sailde Karje Lamedam eyes Tiles by the French artist Pierre Yves Canard, together with the architecture. “There is a constant interplay between refinement and rawness, fashion and function, Paris then and now,” says Robin Standfer, a co-founder of Roman and Williams. La Fondation opens April 28; From $ 440 per night, en.lafondationhotel.com.
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A pocket-size guide for modernist buildings around the world
Prague -based design historian and photographer Adam Štěch had an early fascination for marine biology. “My role model was [the French oceanographer] Jacques Cousteau, “he says.” I wanted to become an explorer. ‘Štěch, who later developed a sharp interest in architecture, has visited nearly 50 countries and remarkable buildings in the 20th century and forgotten too. Is the well -known chorus. “Tell me some hidden modernist precious stones.” Now-Dankzij The online magazine and the first book Publisher, with the support of the Swiss company USM Modular Furniture-these answers arrive in a pocket form. Others, such as the Berlin example of the colorful Unité d’Abitation buildings of Le Corbusier, can only be admired from the street. “Modernistic Travel Guide” will be available on May 8; $ 38, Shop.sightunseen.com.
The Japanese Swiss artist Teruko Yokoi lived and worked for three productive years in the New York hotel until she moved in 1961. She never returned, says her daughter, Kayo, who has managed her legacy since her death in 2020. But next month the abstract painter and collage artist will have a return home with the opening of a Japanese restaurant and an exhibition in the nearby Hollis Taggart gallery. The restaurant, in the basement of the hotel, will serve simple Japanese dishes (gilded on the chef of the Tadashi Ono’s own ceramics) about a sushi bar with 12 seats and dining room, with a cocktail area specialized in Japanese whiskey’s. Guests have access from the lobby or, by an outdoor staircase that is stopped between the main entrance of the hotel and a long -standing guitar store that leads to a small, underground garden gang. Nine of Yokoi’s paintings from her entire career will be shown and, a few blocks beyond, 25 others will consist of a gallery survey that is partly compiled by her grandson, Tai, who also supervises her estate. With the title ‘Noh Theater’, the parallels draws between that traditional form of Japanese performance and the work of the artist. Both often use tea paper (the first for his programs) and are characterized by “slow, deliberate and symbolic movements”, as Tai writes in an accompanying essay. Kayo says that her mother had a history of showing her work outside the galleries: after moving her family to Switzerland after the dissolution of her marriage to the painter Sam Francis, Yokoi exhibited her work in public spaces such as restaurants and hospitals. “She wanted to bring beauty and create a refuge of this tumultuous world,” says Kayo. “I think she would be very happy with this.” The Teruko restaurant will open mid -May; ‘Noh Theater ”can be seen from 1 May to 14 June, Hollistaggart.com.
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A restored 10th-century monastery in Spain, now open as a holiday villa
In 2006, the Spanish food industrialist Juan Manuel González Serna found a dilapidated 10th-century monastery near the Castilian village of Baltanás. He stopped to wonder about the stone ruins and the densely wooded hills. On the way home, González Serna called his wife, Lucia. “He said he had fallen in love with the place,” she recalls. The couple bought the country and started a 13-year restoration of the Monasterio de San Pelayo. Since 2019, the house with 15 bedrooms has been the private home of the couple, but from this year it will be open to the public as a villa for exclusive use of use. The Spanish architect Rafael Manzano, who specializes in the renovation of historic places such as Sevilla’s Royal Alcázar, collaborated with archaeologists to peel back the 1200 years of history of the site, Die Romanesque Walls, the remains of a medieval monastery, a Hammam Crypts. That layered history inspired the design of 60,277 square feet extra living and dining room, where the 17th-century Dutch tapestries, antique Cuenca carpets and wood panel ceilings add heat to the other monastic setting. The owners worked together with the Prado Museum of Madrid and restored various works of art from their private collection, including a 13th-century sculpture of Jesus and a painting from the workshop by Peter Paul Rubens. Horse riding, hunting, flower workshops and Asados can be organized on the almost 5000 -hectare estate, which is fed by a network of feathers and covered with Holm Oak Forests, Truffle Fields and Wild Rose, Thyme and Lavender. While the vineyards of Ribera del Duero are less than 10 miles away, the building can organize private tastings on the spot. From $ 6,370 per night, Monaster periodsanpelayo.es.
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A photo album that records plant life and military presence in Okinawa, Japan
The first photo album of the French artist Victoire Thierrée starts with a creepy exclamation: the title – “Okinawa !!” – shouts about the shiny sour green coverage of the publication. In name and subject it is a contemporary ultrasound of the renowned Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu’s work “Okinawa Okinawa Okinawa” (1969), the first record of the American military basic culture on the island. Thierrée, who is also a sculptor and filmmaker, presents her own photographic study of the lush landscape, still characterized by signs of the 32 American military facilities that operate on Okinawa today. Fences with barbed thread and distant communication towers stem from the vegetation, while helicopters are slipping in pairs above the head. “The island is located in the middle of paradise, but can quickly turn into hell,” says Thierrée, who used vertical black and white compositions and hard afternoon sunlight to undermine the natural technicolor beauty of the setting. In addition to these unconventional panoramas, minimalist, close-up studies of pressed plants are: confused nests of vines, overlapping ferns and other copies of the Ryukyu Islands in 1951, six years after the devastating battle for Okinawa. Of the thousands of botanical entries that form the entire herbarium (housed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives), Thierrée says that she was attracted to certain monsters because they originally shot root in the vicinity of violence. “These plants saw the war or they grew directly on the battlefields,” the artist explains. Reproduced in an outsize scale in her photo album – and on a simultaneous solo show in the Lambert Museum Collection in Avignon, France – the natural world is disorientably entangled with military technology. From one page to the other, a flattened sheet Can be as arresting as the blurry silhouette of a fighter jet. About $ 50, RVB-Books.com. The exhibition “Okinawa !!” can be seen on the Lambert collection in Avignon from April 19 to June 15.
When Alex Matisse De Pottery Company East Fork in Asheville, NC, founded in 2009, he did not want his famous last name to overshadow his passion for clay. “My focus was mainly to escape the family name and to build something that stands out in itself,” he says. Since then, East Fork has become known for its ceramic dishes in earthly colors. Now the 40-year-old Potter has decided that the time is ripe to pay tribute to his great-grandfather Henri Matisse with a collection of plates, plates and mugs decorated with some of the most recognizable motifs of the artist. A quartet of female portraits from the 1940s decorate dessert plates; A 1951 drawing of a tree spreads over a larger dish. A series of blue nudes from 1952 is divided on dinner plates in Matisse’s iconic dense blue hue. The most important challenge, says Matisse, was the perfecting of the sticker process to capture the characteristic Azure tone of the artist and subtle strokes. East Fork eventually collaborated with a French supplier who is responsible for printing the Hermès service, and the Asheville team mixed a new tone of Blue called La Sirène, which Matisse regards a nod to the recognizable shade of his ancestor. The Matisse collection is available for pre -order on April 25; from $ 68 for a mug, Eastfork.com.
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