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MEXICAN MARVELS<br />
Hotel news from<br />
city to beach<br />
ANNUAL BENEFIT<br />
A London charity<br />
making a difference<br />
LOUISIANA STYLE<br />
The culinary scene in<br />
New Orleans rebooted<br />
BY DESIGN<br />
Salone del Mobile’s<br />
best creations<br />
GREEN DREAM<br />
The Ozarks plays host<br />
to a golfing paradise
TAKING OFF<br />
THIS MAGAZINE GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY to share details about wonderful<br />
places to travel. In this issue we highlight countries and cities that inspire<br />
the mind, awaken the senses and captivate the soul. From the latest<br />
restaurant openings in the Big Easy to a portfolio of new and noteworthy<br />
stops in Mexico, each feature reminds us to discover new destinations.<br />
Travel aside, we also take a moment for self-care, as wellness continues to be an area of focus.<br />
Our editors expound on the benefits of spending time outside each day – especially in<br />
green spaces. Whether you look to an outdoor wellness retreat or an app that tracks your time<br />
in nature, you can reduce stress and lower blood pressure with even a simple walk.<br />
Finally, we look at the triumphant return of NetJets events with a very special dinner at<br />
Alchemist, and we share profiles of outstanding Crewmembers.<br />
Wherever your travels take you this season, we hope they are extraordinary.<br />
Adam Johnson<br />
Chairman and CEO<br />
C O N T R I B U T O R S<br />
JENI PORTER<br />
The Copenhagenbased<br />
writer met<br />
up with Anders<br />
Kirk Johansen,<br />
a scion of one of<br />
Denmark’s most<br />
notable families, and<br />
discussed collecting<br />
vintage cars,<br />
restoring opulent<br />
villas and more for<br />
A Dynamic Approach<br />
(page 32).<br />
BRUCE WALLIN<br />
In Mexico Now<br />
(page 60), the<br />
experienced travel<br />
writer, who is based<br />
in the country,<br />
finds it blossoming<br />
with new resorts<br />
on its Caribbean<br />
and Pacific coasts,<br />
bijou boltholes in<br />
the vibrant cities<br />
and fresh culinary<br />
options aplenty.<br />
FIONA McCARTHY<br />
Salone del Mobile<br />
returned after a<br />
pandemic-induced<br />
hiatus and with it<br />
came designs of<br />
graphic shapes,<br />
whimsical sentiment<br />
and indoor-outdoor<br />
style, according to<br />
our lifestyle scribe,<br />
who reports from<br />
Milan for Thoughtful<br />
Furniture (page 54).<br />
MATT SATERNUS<br />
In Not the Usual<br />
Suspects (page 38),<br />
the expert on all<br />
things from tee to<br />
green and editorin-chief<br />
of Plugged<br />
in Golf takes a look<br />
at some innovative<br />
manufacturers<br />
creating clubs that<br />
differ from the norm<br />
and balls that bend<br />
the rules.<br />
JÖRN KASPUHL<br />
The German<br />
illustrator creates<br />
images of the<br />
great outdoors<br />
for Nature’s Cure<br />
(page 44), which<br />
examines the<br />
healing qualities<br />
of forests, fields,<br />
beaches and more<br />
for ailments from<br />
depression to<br />
diabetes.<br />
This symbol throughout the magazine denotes the nearest airport served by NetJets to the<br />
story’s subject, with approximate distances in miles and kilometres where applicable.<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
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DESERT ESCAPE<br />
Little Kulala, Namibia,<br />
page 44<br />
44 16 64 60<br />
HELPING HANDS<br />
The annual dinner of The<br />
October Club is a boon for<br />
up-and-coming charities<br />
pages 12-15<br />
IN THE NEWS<br />
Must-visit cities, desirable<br />
drinks, technological<br />
wellness and more<br />
pages 16-27<br />
<strong>NETJETS</strong> UPDATE<br />
The magic of Alchemist,<br />
growing the fl eet and<br />
staff in profi le<br />
pages 28-30<br />
BUILDING A LEGACY<br />
Anders Kirk Johansen is<br />
making his passions<br />
very much his business<br />
pages 32-35<br />
FAIRWAY FLARE<br />
Golfing in the Ozarks<br />
is taking a step up, plus<br />
the latest equipment<br />
pages 38-43<br />
CALL OF THE WILD<br />
The great outdoors can<br />
provide a healing balm<br />
for body and mind<br />
pages 44-52<br />
DESIGN FOR LIVING<br />
Salone del Mobile’s return<br />
was marked by a plethora<br />
of inspired creations<br />
pages 54-59<br />
MEXICAN EVOLUTION<br />
From the Pacific to the<br />
Caribbean, new hotels and<br />
culinary options abound<br />
pages 60-67<br />
BIG EASY EATS<br />
The restaurant scene<br />
in New Orleans is tasting<br />
better than ever<br />
pages 72-75<br />
LEAGUE OF ITS OWN<br />
West Sonoma Coast’s<br />
vineyards keep producing<br />
wines of distinction<br />
pages 76-81<br />
COUNTRY PRIDE<br />
The Whitney Museum in<br />
Manhattan is a remarkable<br />
chronicler of America art<br />
pages 82-89<br />
THE LAST WORD<br />
A cutural oasis is coming<br />
to California thanks to<br />
Toyozo Shimano<br />
page 90<br />
TEAGAN CUNNIFFE, ISTOCK, ARTUR BEGEL, THE INGALLS<br />
BOUNCING BACK<br />
Rubber straps play a fi ne<br />
supporting role in the latest<br />
reel of sporty watches<br />
pages 68-71<br />
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DUNCAN SOAR<br />
GOODWILL<br />
The October Club<br />
With mid-sized charities in their sights, this City of<br />
London foundation – named after the month of its<br />
gala event – is making an outsized difference to a huge<br />
range of disadvantaged people// By Josh Sims<br />
IT’S PERHAPS INEVITABLE that when you pitch a<br />
business plan to a bunch of investment managers,<br />
they’re going to ask some taxing questions.<br />
“We’re all data geeks so look for evidence<br />
of the impact that an investment might<br />
have,” laughs Henry Knapman, previously an<br />
Investment Banker for 20-plus years at Swiss<br />
Bank UBS who has spent the last two years as<br />
a senior industry adviser to HM Treasury. He’s<br />
also the current chairman of The October Club,<br />
a City of London-based group of fellow experts<br />
in equities – those focusing on trading and<br />
investing in shares – which for more than three<br />
decades has been supporting charities with their<br />
next big leap forward. These are the charities<br />
that get a brunchtime grilling. But each year, one<br />
of them comes away with a sizeable pay day.<br />
It all culminates with a grand dinner at The<br />
Savoy each October – a much-loved annual<br />
get-together for around 400 of the City’s equities<br />
professionals and what has, in effect, become<br />
a hot-ticket trade event. “Everyone wants to be<br />
in the room, so we have a lot of pricing power,”<br />
says Knapman, putting it in suitably business-like<br />
terms. “More people want to come to the event<br />
than we have capacity for because it’s the main<br />
event in the calendar where senior participants in<br />
London’s equity markets come together”<br />
But there is more to this black-tie do than<br />
a good party. Thirty-five years ago, a group of<br />
equities professionals held a charity dinner to<br />
raise money for a colleague diagnosed with<br />
leukaemia. It was such a successful event<br />
that it became an annual fundraiser – though,<br />
notes Knapman, it’s only in recent years that<br />
what came to be known as The October Club<br />
has become a registered Community Interest<br />
Company and professionalised its governance.<br />
And, seeing as the dinner now raises close<br />
on £1 million, and has several major banking<br />
brands as key sponsors, that is just as well.<br />
What hasn’t changed is the focus with which<br />
The October Club – so-called, though it doesn’t<br />
have any members per se – then gives away<br />
such a sum. It’s always to a single charity and<br />
to one of a certain size, with revenue between<br />
£500,000 and £2.5 million.<br />
“The feeling is that the Club can have a bigger<br />
impact when the money is directed to just one<br />
charity, which sounds obvious, though the proof<br />
is in the fact that many charities have done<br />
fantastically well since we backed them,” explains<br />
Knapman. “But the money also goes to a charity<br />
of a size that means it tends to get ignored. A lot<br />
of funders out there give money to charity, but<br />
there’s rarely the appetite to support the size of<br />
CAPTURING THE MOOD<br />
Photographer David Yarrow (with mic)<br />
donated one of his works, The Barber<br />
off Fairfax, for an October Club auction<br />
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Holiday home ownership<br />
for 1 /8 the cost<br />
pacaso.com/uk
GOODWILL<br />
charity that is beyond the tin-rattling phase but<br />
not big enough to attract the big funders either.<br />
The October Club doesn’t want to swamp a charity<br />
with the money, nor give the money to a charity to<br />
whom it just doesn’t mean that much.”<br />
Selecting said charity can sound akin to<br />
testing recruits for the SAS. The October Club<br />
receives up to 100 applicants each year, and its<br />
sub-committee is charged with whittling these<br />
down to just 12. The full committee - just 19<br />
people, all City professionals who volunteer their<br />
time, keeping the Club’s overheads to the bare<br />
minimum – then narrows these down to three,<br />
independently verifies their applications, and then<br />
gives each a half- hour slot to make their pitch.<br />
From these, just one is chosen. Among those<br />
supported in the past are the diverse likes of the<br />
Spinal Injuries Association, WellChild, Auditory<br />
Verbal and the Multiple Sclerosis Trust. But what<br />
draws The October Club to these winners?<br />
In part, it’s about the potential for<br />
transformation: one key quality the Club is<br />
looking for is a charity whose work can really<br />
make genuine progress thanks to this large cash<br />
injection, and a charity that knows how to bring<br />
this transformation about.<br />
“After all, this is the biggest single amount of<br />
income we’ve ever had, and that enables us to<br />
plan, to think in terms of staffing, to take a much<br />
longer-term vision in a way we haven’t been able<br />
to before,” explains Alex Smith, founder of The<br />
Cares Family, last year’s October Club charity of<br />
choice, which applied unsuccessfully in 2020<br />
but, after the appointment of its first CEO and an<br />
effort to put its operational planning on a more<br />
professional footing, struck gold on its second<br />
attempt. It’s a group of local community networks<br />
connecting young professionals and older<br />
neighbours in a bid to tackle rocketing reports of<br />
loneliness at both ends of the age spectrum.<br />
“We realised we couldn’t scale ourselves up<br />
indefinitely. We needed a new model,” adds<br />
Smith, explaining how The Cares Family outlined<br />
its plans to The October Club. “We know that<br />
model needs to be one that teaches people to do<br />
what we already know how to do, that identifies<br />
bridge-builders all over the country and supports<br />
them in a leadership programme, but which also<br />
allows us to develop the toolkit to find people who<br />
can apply our model of intergenerational social<br />
clubs locally, under their own name. That’s how<br />
we aim to transform what we do.”<br />
But, Knapman says, instinct also plays a<br />
significant role in the Club’s choice: “Every year<br />
there’s a couple of charities applying that just<br />
WINNING SMILES<br />
A race day at Ascot<br />
is a precursor to the<br />
annual dinner<br />
press our buttons,” he says, explaining that<br />
these are often the ones that seem particularly<br />
pertinent to the times. The looming publichealth<br />
and social crisis around loneliness – and<br />
hence the work of The Cares Family – became<br />
much more apparent over the pandemic, for<br />
example. Another October Club charity, James’<br />
Place, with its mission to stop men dying by<br />
suicide, similarly seemed notably relevant during<br />
the UK’s first Covid lockdown, with reports that<br />
suicide numbers consequently spiked.<br />
“Just as intuition can play a part in<br />
investment, so it can play a part in selecting the<br />
charity each year,” explains Knapman. “Likewise,<br />
just as when the committee members invest<br />
in shares, so they put a lot of importance on<br />
assessing the quality of the charity’s management<br />
team, whether it has a good product, and<br />
whether that product looks to be of growing<br />
importance over years to come. Identifying those<br />
attributes is the training of everyone in the room<br />
– and they apply the same philosophy here in<br />
selecting a charity to support.”<br />
It’s not just a transformative cash pile that<br />
this group of finance industry insiders is able<br />
to offer, either. Mentorship, encouragement<br />
“Just as gut feeling can play a part in<br />
investment, so it can play a part in selecting<br />
the charity each year” – Henry Knapman<br />
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and connections can prove transformative too.<br />
Through the doors that The October Club could<br />
open, the Honeypot Children’s Charity, which<br />
helps young carers of parents and siblings,<br />
was able to become Downing Street’s charity<br />
of the year – which in turn greatly helped raise<br />
its profile, of course – while one sponsor was<br />
so impressed by their work they gifted an extra<br />
£50,000. James’ Place was able to find a new<br />
City premises through October Club contacts.<br />
“Those kinds of connections can prove<br />
enormously useful when a charity is going<br />
through a growth phase – just becoming<br />
an October Club charity suggests a positive<br />
direction and helps build momentum,” Knapman<br />
argues. “And the more we can get The October<br />
Club’s name out there, so more and better<br />
charities will hear about it and maybe apply.”<br />
It’s connections that help The October<br />
Club raise the money too. The Savoy dinner<br />
raises the bulk of the Club’s funds (an event<br />
at Ascot also helps) through sponsorship<br />
from the equities world’s big players, the likes<br />
of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and<br />
Schroders, as well as through table sales.<br />
Some half of the money is generated on the<br />
night through bets on a fun 10-horse race – the<br />
winner gets their name inscribed on the October<br />
Club Stakes’ trophy, made by the goldsmiths<br />
behind the Cheltenham Gold Cup trophy – but<br />
also through an auction of art works, holidays<br />
and luxury experiences compiled through working<br />
the committee members’ little black books.<br />
Among recent lots has been a huge photo by<br />
one-time hedge-fund manager turned acclaimed<br />
wildlife photographer David Yarrow. Alex, The<br />
Telegraph newspaper cartoonist, provides an<br />
original work each year too – indeed, The October<br />
DUNCAN SOAR<br />
CHOSEN ONES<br />
The Cares Family, which tackles<br />
loneliness in society, was The<br />
October Club’s charity for 2021<br />
Club dinner always gets a mention in the paper’s<br />
Alex cartoon on the day of the event.<br />
Since the chosen charity doesn’t know how<br />
much money will be made on the night, “it<br />
makes for a deeply exciting evening,” says Alex<br />
Smith of his experiences, with just a hint of<br />
irony. “Of course, you’re always aware that some<br />
people in the room might be more motivated by<br />
the cause than others. And by the end of the<br />
evening I was exhausted.”<br />
Certainly, bringing together a collection<br />
of tempting lots is not the only way in which<br />
the work of The October Club is intimately<br />
connected to London’s equities sector. Knapman<br />
concedes that the money it raises each year<br />
does seem to go up and down with the broad<br />
sentiments of the market, “so the week that<br />
Lehman Brothers went bust in 2008 there was a<br />
mood that wasn’t quite so giving,” he chuckles.<br />
“In fact, one of the problems in having the<br />
dinner in October is that historically that’s been<br />
a month of market volatility.”<br />
Not that this seems to really hamper the<br />
enthusiasm for backing a good cause. Last<br />
year, The October Club raised £910,000, with<br />
diners expressing their post-pandemic pent-up<br />
desperation to get into their dinner suits and<br />
frocks and hit the town. “You could feel the<br />
overexcitement in the room,” Knapman recalls.<br />
So, indeed, why not just make it a bigger room,<br />
with more tables to sell?<br />
Much as The October Club targets an<br />
overlooked sweet spot in the charity world, so<br />
it operates within a sweet spot too. Keeping<br />
the annual event at the size that it is allows<br />
it to retain the cachet that drives the desire to<br />
be one of the lucky diners in the first place. A<br />
much bigger event, Knapman argues, would<br />
not have the same mystique. Sure, he says,<br />
raising even more money “would be a nice<br />
problem to have”, but right now The October<br />
Club raises just the right amount to help the<br />
kind of charities it wants to help.<br />
It’s just the sort of strategic financial thinking<br />
that one might hope to get from, well, an<br />
investment banker – and the sort that has<br />
kept the club going strong over the years.<br />
theoctoberclub.co.uk<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
DISPATCHES FROM ROUND THE GLOBE<br />
From the creative vibes of Tinseltown and Africa’s Mother City to the hotels that have<br />
revived the Spanish capital, the places that need to be on your must-visit list kick off<br />
our guide to the brightest, the best, the newest and the boldest // By Lauren Ho<br />
WITH ITS EVOCATIVE cityscape<br />
of ancient ruins, impressive<br />
basilicas and elaborate<br />
piazzas, alongside an<br />
astounding artistic heritage, it’s<br />
easy to see why Rome is one<br />
of the world’s most captivating<br />
cities. Now its allure has<br />
reached new heights, thanks<br />
to the arrival of a clutch of<br />
new hotels that started with<br />
the opening of The Hoxton<br />
(thehoxton.com), followed<br />
closely by W Rome (marriott.<br />
com), and then Soho House<br />
(sohohouse.com), which<br />
launched in November 2021.<br />
Here, 49 bedrooms and 20<br />
long-stay apartments, along<br />
with the brand’s signature<br />
club offerings – including a<br />
rooftop pool – are housed in<br />
a ten-storey building in the<br />
San Lorenzo neighbourhood.<br />
Coming soon, the historic<br />
jewellery brand Bulgari<br />
(bulgari.com) will make a<br />
grand homecoming with the<br />
opening of its latest hotel in<br />
a 1930s building on Piazza<br />
Augusto Imperatore, while<br />
other global luxury brands<br />
putting a stamp on the Eternal<br />
© THE HOXTON<br />
GIULIA VENANZI<br />
LA DOLCE VITA<br />
Brunch at Cugino at The Hoxton, Rome,<br />
above; view over the Eternal City from<br />
the rooftop pool of Soho House<br />
ROME<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
FRANCISCO NOGUEIRA<br />
IBERIAN EXCELLENCE<br />
Clockwise from above: the spa at the<br />
Mandarin Oriental Ritz, Madrid; Pedro<br />
Pena Bastos (left) in CURA, in the Four<br />
Seasons Hotel Ritz, Lisbon; Kimiyo<br />
Mishima’s Work 18-CS5, 2018, in the<br />
Portuguese capital’s Sokyo gallery<br />
City are Anantara (anantara.<br />
com), Six Senses (sixsenses.<br />
com), designed by Milan-based<br />
Patricia Urquiola, and The<br />
Rome EDITION (editionhotels.<br />
com).<br />
Up first for The EDITION’s<br />
European collection, though,<br />
is a 200-room property in the<br />
heart of Madrid, near Puerta<br />
de Sol, which will feature<br />
a rooftop terrace and pool.<br />
Madrid is, in fact, experiencing<br />
something of a revival, thanks<br />
to the arrival of a host of topof-the-line<br />
hotels including the<br />
recently launched Rosewood<br />
Villa Magna (rosewoodhotels.<br />
com), the Mandarin Oriental<br />
Ritz (mandarinoriental.com),<br />
which now occupies the<br />
city’s iconic 110-year-old Ritz<br />
hotel, and The Four Seasons<br />
(fourseasons.com), which is<br />
part of the Centro Canalejas<br />
project, a mammoth eight-year<br />
undertaking that has revived<br />
a city block of seven historic<br />
buildings in the city centre, a<br />
few steps from Kilometre Zero.<br />
On the west coast of the<br />
Iberian Peninsula, meanwhile,<br />
Lisbon is seeing exceptional<br />
development as well: the<br />
© FOUR SEASONS<br />
Four Seasons Hotel Ritz<br />
(fourseasons.com) recently<br />
launched a series of newly<br />
refurbished guest rooms and<br />
also just gained a Michelin<br />
star for CURA, where head<br />
chef Pedro Pena Bastos draws<br />
inspiration from Lisbon’s rich<br />
palette of seasonal ingredients.<br />
The city’s gastronomy scene<br />
LISBON<br />
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continues to flourish with<br />
the recent opening of Dear<br />
Breakfast (dearbreakfast.com),<br />
and Ofício (oficiolisboa.pt),<br />
a “tasco” or street restaurant<br />
serving elevated traditional<br />
Portuguese dishes – from<br />
stuffed spider crab to firecooked<br />
skate – in a newly<br />
designed setting by local<br />
studio, Spacegram. Elsewhere<br />
in Portugal’s capital, Sokyo<br />
Gallery, the contemporary<br />
ceramics art gallery from Kyoto,<br />
has launched Sokyo Lisbon<br />
(sokyolisbon.com), while<br />
Barcelona-based designer<br />
Lázaro Rosa-Violán has taken<br />
his maximalist style to the next<br />
level with an outrageous design<br />
for The Ivens (theivenshotel.<br />
com), a new hotel that takes<br />
its inspiration from Portugal’s<br />
history of exploration. The<br />
city’s hospitality landscape will<br />
be further boosted this year<br />
with the opening of a series<br />
of new properties, including<br />
the much-awaited Palácio<br />
Ludovice (palacioludovice.<br />
com), Hotel Hotel<br />
(hotelhotel.pt), The Curator<br />
(curatorhotelsandresorts.<br />
com), and an outpost from the<br />
supremely hip Mama Shelter<br />
(mamashelter.com) brand.<br />
Much farther west, the<br />
Four Seasons Napa Valley<br />
TASTE AND STYLE<br />
Linguini de Lavagante from The Ivens,<br />
Lisbon; comfort in a cottage at Auberge<br />
Resorts’ Stanly Ranch, Napa Valley<br />
(fourseasons.com) brings<br />
a delightful boost to North<br />
America’s food and wine<br />
capital, which will soon see<br />
the return of its Truffle Festival<br />
(napatrufflefestival.com) as<br />
well as the Napa Lighted Art<br />
Festival (festivalnapavalley.org)<br />
which is a celebration of<br />
creative arts. Coming soon is<br />
the opening of Stanly Ranch<br />
(aubergeresorts.com), a<br />
285ha working private ranch<br />
on the banks of the Napa<br />
River, which is the latest<br />
offering from Auberge Resorts.<br />
The Los Angeles culinary<br />
scene continues to move<br />
apace with the upcoming<br />
launches of an abundance of<br />
much anticipated restaurants<br />
including an offering from<br />
Tommy Salvatore (instagram.<br />
com/tommysbeverlyhills),<br />
who spent years cultivating<br />
relationships at celebrity<br />
hotspot Craig’s, and is now<br />
opening a place of his own in<br />
the former Bouchon space,<br />
with chef Vartan Abgaryan.<br />
Chef Lincoln Carson,<br />
meanwhile, is opening a<br />
French-inspired bistro called<br />
Mes Amis (mesamisla.com) in<br />
the recently opened Thompson<br />
Hollywood (hyatt.com),<br />
which has been designed by<br />
London-based Tara Bernerd &<br />
Partners to feature a bold West<br />
Coast modernist aesthetic. In<br />
other hotel news, designer<br />
Kelly Wearstler blends vintage<br />
and modern at the recently<br />
opened 147-room Downtown<br />
Los Angeles Proper Hotel<br />
(properhotel.com), which<br />
has a city-view rooftop pool<br />
alongside two destination<br />
restaurants in partnership with<br />
James Beard Award-winning<br />
local chef Suzanne Goin and<br />
NUNO CORREIA<br />
© STANLY RANCH<br />
NAPA VALLEY/LA<br />
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NEW YORK<br />
THE INGALLS<br />
THE SMART GUIDE<br />
Caroline Styne. Later this year,<br />
Soho House is set to land with<br />
its fourth Los Angeles opening,<br />
Little House West Hollywood<br />
(sohohouse.com), a 34-room<br />
bolthole set over three floors<br />
with a courtyard bar, a new<br />
restaurant concept and views<br />
of the Hollywood Hills and<br />
Downtown Los Angeles.<br />
Elsewhere in North<br />
America, New York’s NoMad<br />
District and neighbouring<br />
Flatiron District have already<br />
been making waves in the<br />
culinary department with a raft<br />
of new restaurants including<br />
The Gallery (odogallery.nyc)<br />
and Sushi Muse (sushimuse.<br />
com) – a sushi delivery<br />
service – from chef Hiroki<br />
Odo, Evgeny Zhuravlev’s<br />
L’Adresse (ladressenyc.com),<br />
and Tortazo (tortazo.com) from<br />
Rick Bayless. Soon-to-open<br />
is the Ritz-Carlton New York,<br />
NoMad (ritzcarlton.com) as<br />
well as a new offering from<br />
Virgin Hotels (virginhotels.<br />
FROM THE CITY TO THE SEA<br />
From top: The Proper Hotel in<br />
Downtown LA; sunloungers at<br />
Cabo Beach Club, Cape Town<br />
com), The Fifth Avenue Hotel<br />
(thefifthavenuehotel.com)<br />
designed by Martin Brudnizki,<br />
and a stateside outpost of<br />
London’s The Ned (thened.<br />
com), which will, like its<br />
British sibling, be housed in an<br />
iconic, heritage-imbued space.<br />
Cape Town continues<br />
to prove its worth as<br />
South Africa’s prime urban<br />
destination, with the<br />
launch of The Rockefeller<br />
(newmarkhotels.com), a<br />
new hotel in Foreshore<br />
with a rooftop pool set<br />
against a backdrop of Table<br />
Mountain, Canvas Collective<br />
(canvascollectiveafrica.com),<br />
an ultra-luxe glamping<br />
experience that can set up<br />
© CABO BEACH CLUB<br />
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camp across any number of<br />
epic locations across South<br />
Africa, and a top-to-toe refurb<br />
of the city’s iconic Winchester<br />
Hotel (newmarkhotels.com) on<br />
Sea Point Promenade. Here,<br />
alongside the newly overhauled<br />
signature Harvey’s Bar, is<br />
Shoreditch House, a smokeand-fire<br />
restaurant, which<br />
serves up sharing plates like<br />
the smoky braaied corn and<br />
seared tuna tacos alongside<br />
meat dishes such as the Dirty<br />
Ribeye with chimichurri. At<br />
ëlgr (elgr.co.za), chef Jesper<br />
Nilsson serves a modern<br />
offering that focuses on fresh<br />
seasonal produce with dishes<br />
like toast with lardo and<br />
anchovy, or the cucumber and<br />
celery salad dressed with fish<br />
sauce, lime and coriander,<br />
in a low-key Scandinavianinspired<br />
setting that takes<br />
its cues from his Swedish<br />
background. Meanwhile, chef<br />
and restaurateur Andrew Kai<br />
has launched Tomson, a bijou<br />
Asian restaurant inspired by<br />
the Cantonese classics – think<br />
crispy pork belly and wonton<br />
– that he grew up with. This<br />
sits next to his other venture,<br />
Max Bagels (maxbagels.<br />
com), which now transforms<br />
CAPE TOWN<br />
into Leo’s Wine Bar at night.<br />
On the wine front, urbanist,<br />
curator and publisher Zahira<br />
Asmal has recently launched<br />
Cultivate (cultivatecollective.<br />
co.za), an oenophilic initiative<br />
that is redefining the future<br />
of black South African<br />
winemakers. Over at the V&A<br />
Waterfront docks, Ryan Cole<br />
– former head chef at The<br />
Test Kitchen and co-founder<br />
of Salsify at The Roundhouse<br />
– has pulled out all the<br />
stops with Cabo Beach Club<br />
(cabobeachclub.co.za). This<br />
new hotspot, with its all-day<br />
beach vibes, has a number<br />
of cool hangout spaces,<br />
including an indulgent caviar,<br />
CAPE TOWN COOL<br />
From top:<br />
The Winchester<br />
Hotel’s pool; the bar<br />
at The Rockefeller<br />
NICHOLAS VAN DER TOUW HEIN VAN TONDER<br />
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Monaco<br />
Marina of Fontvieille<br />
Stunning duplex penthouse<br />
with spacious terrace and<br />
private swimming pool<br />
offering over 500 sq m living<br />
space and panoramic views<br />
of the Prince’s Palace and<br />
the Marina.<br />
Ref. BQMC-AD5001V<br />
Price on Application<br />
France<br />
Roquebrune Cap Martin<br />
Superb, south-facing, fully<br />
renovated 127 sq m duplex<br />
penthouse with panoramic<br />
views of the Mediterranean<br />
and Monaco.<br />
Located moments away<br />
from the Principality and<br />
the beach, the apartment<br />
is spread out over two floors<br />
and counts 97 sq m living<br />
area and 30 sq m terraces.<br />
Ref. BQFR-SB404V<br />
Price on Application<br />
20 avenue de la Costa - Principality of Monaco<br />
Tel: +33 6 80 86 47 09 contact@berry-quinti.com<br />
www.bq-internationalrealty.com
KEVIN MAK<br />
THE SMART GUIDE<br />
champagne and oyster deck as<br />
well as two restaurants.<br />
Hong Kong is another<br />
global capital that has been<br />
busy, most prominently with<br />
the West Kowloon Cultural<br />
District (westkowloon.hk),<br />
one of the largest cultural<br />
projects in the world. Based<br />
on a Foster + Partners<br />
masterplan, it has been<br />
nearly a quarter of a century<br />
in the making and blends<br />
art, education, performance,<br />
exhibition centres, green open<br />
spaces, hotels, and dining and<br />
entertainment venues over 40<br />
hectares of reclaimed land.<br />
Already open is Freespace,<br />
a venue for contemporary<br />
performance; the Xiqu<br />
Centre, a space dedicated to<br />
traditional Chinese theatre; Art<br />
Park, an open-air exhibition<br />
destination; and the standout<br />
M+ Museum, which is the<br />
most recent to debut. Most<br />
anticipated in the months to<br />
come is the Hong Kong Palace<br />
Museum, a space dedicated to<br />
Chinese art and culture, which<br />
will house over 800 Chinese<br />
national treasures across nine<br />
galleries. Elsewhere, Hong<br />
Kong’s food scene continues to<br />
thrive with the recent opening<br />
of both Aqua (aqua.com.hk)<br />
and its sister brand Hutong in<br />
the stylish new H Zentre, and<br />
the relaunch of the renovated<br />
Central Market (centralmarket.<br />
hk), which occupies a 1939<br />
listed building. Also at the<br />
forefront of sustainable dining,<br />
Hong Kong just received its<br />
first Michelin Green star thanks<br />
to the efforts of Michelinstarred<br />
Roganic (roganic.com.<br />
hk) for its commitment to<br />
provenance of ingredients from<br />
local farms.<br />
ART RISING<br />
Installation view of “Individuals,<br />
Networks, Expressions,” above,<br />
and Fang Lijun’s “1995.2” at<br />
M+ Museum, Hong Kong, right<br />
ROME CIAMPINO AIRPORT TO CITY CENTRE: 8miles/13km<br />
MADRID-BARAJAS AIRPORT TO CITY CENTRE: 11miles/18km<br />
LISBON AIRPORT TO CITY CENTRE: 4miles/6km<br />
NAPA COUNTY AIRPORT TO FOUR SEASONS NAPA VALLEY/STANLY RANCH:<br />
34 miles/7 miles; 55km/11km<br />
HOLLYWOOD BURBANK AIRPORT TO DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES: 3miles/5km<br />
HOBOKEN AIRPORT TO NEW YORK NOMAD: 6miles/10km<br />
CAPE TOWN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TO V&A WATERFRONT: 12miles/19km<br />
HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TO WEST KOWLOON: 21miles/34km<br />
© FANG LIJUN<br />
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LEGACY OF LIFESTYLE<br />
For 50 years, Quinta do Lago has established its reputation as one of the most desirable locations for prime real<br />
estate and a world-leader in luxury lifestyle. In its semi-centennial year, there is no better time than now to invest<br />
in this world-class destination.<br />
Surrounded by three immaculate golf courses, including the €7 million upgraded South Course, world-class sports<br />
and fitness hub, The Campus, and sublime gastronomic experiences, in Quinta do Lago, a luxurious lifestyle of<br />
wellness is enjoyed beside a protected coastal nature reserve and the breath-taking shores of Portugal’s Algarve.<br />
With its sustained investment securing the future for generations to come, Quinta do Lago’s stunning properties<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
All-Round Living<br />
Enlivening elixirs, an ambitious project, technological marvels and<br />
must-read books on how to explore the Continental way of life<br />
Spirits of Adventure<br />
1<br />
3 5<br />
6<br />
7<br />
4<br />
2<br />
1 THE GLENDRONACH AGED 50 YEARS The oldest and rarest whisky from the Highland distillery has been aged for five decades in rare Pedro Ximénez and Oloroso sherry<br />
casks. Just 198 bottles of the single malt will be available worldwide. glendronachdistillery.co.uk // 2 THE MACALLAN THE REACH Another single malt breaking the age<br />
barrier, The Reach, presented in a decanter cradled on a bronze sculpture of three hands, was laid down in 1940, a smooth-tasting remnant of turbulent times. themacallan.com<br />
// 3 THE SINGLETON 39-YEAR-OLD Master of malt of The Singleton Maureen Robinson has taken a vintage matured in a variety of casks and finished it in French Bordeaux<br />
ones, ensuring a taste that captures single malt scotch with a hint of exquisite European wines. thesingleton.com // 4 GRAND MARNIER RÉVÉLATION A subtle twist is<br />
placed in the mix as only a dash of bigaradia essence is added to XXO cognac to produce a liqueur in which primary flavours are heightened as the sweetness is curbed.<br />
grandmarnier.com // 5 L’OR DE JEAN MARTELL ZODIAC EDITION The first in a range celebrating the Chinese New Year and available in just 700 decanters, Assemblage du<br />
Tigre is a rich and complex cognac to mark the Year of the Tiger in <strong>2022</strong>. martell.com // 6 ARTINGSTALL’S GIN From the creative minds of Hollywood director Paul Feig and<br />
Wisconsin’s Minhas Micro Distillery comes a gin made from 11 botanicals, including orris root, coriander, cassia bark and cardamom. artingstallsgin.com // 7 COMPASS<br />
BOX VELLICHOR The latest limited-edition blend from the iconoclastic whiskymaker aims to evoke the nostalgia associated with second-hand bookshops, using rare, sherrymatured<br />
blends with malt whiskies from Highland Park and Macallan, together with a smidgen of very old whisky from the Caol Ila Distillery. compassboxwhisky.com<br />
CALIFORNIA<br />
DREAMS<br />
A MAN WITH A PASSION, Toyozo “Toyo” Shimano is creating a very special one in the Golden State. 1921 is a state-of-the-art space<br />
in Thermal, California, where Shimano is both honouring the past and ushering in the future. The name marks the year that<br />
Shimano’s grandfather, Shozaburo, opened Shimano Iron Works in Sakai, Japan, and 1921 will be a haven for arts and culture<br />
– a passport to ultimate luxury and a performance lifestyle. It will provide patrons with a selection of facilities for work and play,<br />
and will bring together people of shared interests, serving as a hub for philanthropic endeavours as well as developing worldclass<br />
experiences, tailored for its select clientele (see page 90).<br />
ALL IMAGES COURTESY THE COMPANIES<br />
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GAME ON<br />
Bang & Olufsen has upgraded its<br />
Beoplay Portal wireless gaming<br />
headphones, with increased<br />
connectivity and compatibility<br />
with the world’s leading platforms.<br />
Originally envisaged to create the<br />
ultimate personal experience for<br />
all forms of use, thanks to the<br />
Dolby Atmos for headphones, they<br />
offer virtualised surround sound,<br />
adding layers of depth and texture<br />
to movies and music, as well as<br />
games. bang-olufsen.com<br />
ALL IN THE MIND<br />
AT A TIME when mental health has never been more<br />
prominent or important, US design fi rm Layer has<br />
produced an ingenious device to encourage and enhance<br />
the experience of immersive meditation. The Resonate<br />
LightVision headset features an LED light matrix that<br />
translates videos of the natural world, such as fi sh<br />
swimming or trees swaying in the breeze, into an everchanging<br />
sequence of biomorphic patterns that activate<br />
the brain’s frequency-following response. Starting with<br />
patterns of light at a rapid frequency, over a 20-minute<br />
session, these slowly sync with the user’s circadian<br />
rhythm, accompanied by a soundtrack of monaural and<br />
binaural beats. Along with a minimal design, the easy-touse<br />
interface ensures that even a newcomer to meditation<br />
can reap the benefi ts in a short time. layerdesign.com<br />
GETTING<br />
AWAY<br />
With some of the most<br />
spectacular scenery in the world<br />
as a backdrop – beautifully<br />
captured in this tome –<br />
Angelika Taschen explores the<br />
hotels of Europe’s premier<br />
mountain range, telling tales<br />
behind storied hostelries and<br />
uncovering some more unusual<br />
places to stay among the Alpine<br />
splendour. taschen.com<br />
DOMESTIC<br />
BLISS<br />
Furniture and interior designer<br />
Gesa Hansen, lifestyle<br />
journalist Estelle Marandon<br />
and stylist Charlotte Huguet<br />
combine to share their<br />
experiences of moving from<br />
Paris and embracing rural<br />
France, with tips on getting<br />
away from the urban rat race<br />
and embracing a more rustic<br />
way of life. flammarion.com<br />
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NOTES FROM <strong>NETJETS</strong><br />
Latest happenings, onboard updates,<br />
companywide news and profiles<br />
SOREN GAMMELMARK<br />
AT ALCHEMIST<br />
One of the most exciting changes for NetJets this past year was to be able to host in-person events again – and<br />
Owners seem equally enraptured with the increasing opportunities. This was shown in early November, as NetJets<br />
welcomed select Owners to Alchemist in Copenhagen. The two-Michelin-starred restaurant has a year-long waiting<br />
list and has long been on the radar as one of the world’s finest, so we were thrilled to be able to offer this exclusive<br />
experience to our Owners. It was a holistic dining experience like no other, with a 50-course menu sampling<br />
of chef Rasmus Munk’s magical dishes and select wine pairings. Alchemist aims to transcend conventions and<br />
challenge culinary boundaries while offering a multi-sensory dining experience. Owners enjoyed the pinnacle of<br />
the experience in the iconic Dome room of the restaurant where a projection of aurora borealis danced above their<br />
heads. The event was a great success, and it was wonderful to be able to host our Owners again in person.<br />
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INSIDE TRACK<br />
DIANA ORECK<br />
Vice President, Service<br />
Representatives and Philanthropy<br />
WHEN DID YOU START AT <strong>NETJETS</strong>?<br />
After 12 years leading the Ritz-Carlton Leadership Center,<br />
I was introduced to a new role at NetJets focused on<br />
assisting with a culture transformation. After accepting the<br />
position and starting in January 2016, I soon conducted<br />
80 courses related to NetJets’ strategic plan to ensure<br />
its proper launch and implementation. In April 2019, I<br />
was honoured to be asked to set up the fi rst Philanthropy<br />
Department at NetJets, as well as oversee the NetJets<br />
Service Representatives (NSRs) located at many of our<br />
top destinations to ensure our Owners have exceptional<br />
fl ight experiences.<br />
WHAT DOES YOUR NORMAL DAY CONSIST OF?<br />
Each day varies quite a bit. I start with an update on<br />
our daily operations, followed by a check-in with the<br />
NetJets Service Representative Leadership Team. I meet<br />
frequently with our employee Sustainability Committee<br />
Captains, our philanthropic partners and the Berkshire<br />
Hathaway Sustainability Leadership Council and Ohio<br />
Sustainability Network, of which I am proud to be a<br />
member. I continue to educate our organisation on<br />
NetJets’ strategic plan and philanthropy, as well as handle<br />
the logistics for the NetJets Scholarship Program, in-kind<br />
donations, and the signifi cant number of requests for aid<br />
to charities received throughout the year.<br />
JULIAN RENTZCH<br />
<strong>NETJETS</strong> BY THE NUMBERS<br />
GROWING<br />
THE FLEET<br />
$2.5 BILLION<br />
2021-<strong>2022</strong> aircraft investment<br />
55 NEW AIRCRAFT<br />
Added to the fleet in 2021<br />
75+ ADDITIONAL AIRCRAFT<br />
Will be added in <strong>2022</strong><br />
THE GLOBAL 7500<br />
Our new flagship (below) arrived in 2021<br />
– with more to come in <strong>2022</strong><br />
UP TO 100 PHENOM 300Es<br />
Being delivered to the US and Europe<br />
THE GLOBAL 5500<br />
Adding five within the next two years<br />
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE YOU FACE<br />
IN YOUR ROLE?<br />
I am fortunate to have an incredible group of NSRs, with<br />
more being added to our team in <strong>2022</strong>. Coordinating<br />
NSR coverage to best service our Owners, considering<br />
heightened demand, special events and seasonal<br />
destinations, is my biggest challenge. These individuals<br />
have incredible resilience and they embody the concept<br />
that service is everyone’s job. In October 2021, they<br />
earned a combined service score of 97% – absolutely<br />
incredible heart and determination. We know our Owners<br />
see our NSRs as a value-add and a true differentiator<br />
in the private aviation industry. Ensuring that they have<br />
appropriate coverage, and also a sustainable schedule, is<br />
one of my top priorities.<br />
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JULIAN RENTZCH<br />
NOTES FROM <strong>NETJETS</strong><br />
ONE THING OWNERS PROBABLY WOULDN’T<br />
GUESS ABOUT ME IS... I have a twin sister.<br />
CREWMEMBERS IN PROFILE<br />
LAURA BLAIR<br />
Cabin Crew, Falcon 2000EX<br />
MY FIRST EXPOSURE TO FLYING WAS… when<br />
I was a child on a family holiday to the south of<br />
Spain. This opened up a new world for me and<br />
I was extremely lucky that I got to travel from a<br />
young age. I caught the bug early.<br />
THE BEST PART OF FLYING IS… making<br />
Owners feel welcomed so they leave the aircraft<br />
with a smile. No day is the same as cabin crew<br />
will face many challenges, allowing us to grow<br />
and to learn from each experience. Flying to<br />
many different countries around the globe allows<br />
us to experience a variety of cultures, try local<br />
cuisine and meet lots of interesting people.<br />
BEFORE JOINING THE <strong>NETJETS</strong> TEAM,<br />
I WAS… fl ying for a commercial airline in<br />
Scotland for many years, which also operated<br />
private charters. This opened my eyes to<br />
the wonderful world of private aviation. I left<br />
commercial fl ying for another private operator<br />
before the doors opened for me at NetJets.<br />
ON MY DAYS OFF I… run and ride my road<br />
bike around the beautiful country of Portugal<br />
where I live. I spend quality time with my loved<br />
ones and go horse riding on the beach whenever<br />
I can. I’m also learning to speak Portuguese.<br />
WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR I WOULD LIKE<br />
TO… improve my swimming technique and<br />
compete in my fi rst triathlon.<br />
WITHIN THE NEXT 10 YEARS I... would<br />
still like to be doing the job that I love, while<br />
enjoying life in Portugal.<br />
MY BEST ADVICE FOR STAYING SANE<br />
ACROSS TIME ZONES IS … breathe some<br />
fresh air, exercise, don’t focus on what time it<br />
should be, sleep when you can, eat well and<br />
stay hydrated. But most importantly, enjoy the<br />
moment as much as possible.<br />
MY PROUDEST MOMENT AS A<br />
CREWMEMBER WAS… becoming a cabin<br />
crew fl ight trainer at NetJets.<br />
THE ONE DAY AT <strong>NETJETS</strong> I WON’T FORGET<br />
WAS… my fi rst day ground training in Lisbon,<br />
feeling incredibly honoured to start my dream job.<br />
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OWNER’S PROFILE<br />
A DYNAMIC<br />
APPROACH<br />
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Anders Kirk Johansen has followed his passions at every turn,<br />
ensuring that business and pleasure almost always mix,<br />
from car collecting and green energy to home refurbishment<br />
// By Jeni Porter Photography by Robin Skjoldborg<br />
FARMING AND BUSINESS may have been the<br />
subjects that Anders Kirk Johansen studied, but<br />
his truly formative years were those from the age<br />
of 12 to almost 18, spent with his grandfather,<br />
Godtfred Kirk Christiansen. The third son of<br />
the founder of LEGO, Godtfred transformed<br />
the Danish toymaker into the world-famous<br />
brand it is today. By the time Anders was 12,<br />
his grandfather was 70, winding down a little<br />
and happy to have his grandson keeping him<br />
company as he went about his business which,<br />
besides LEGO, included expanding Billund<br />
Airport to foster his international ambitions.<br />
Godtfred was a true entrepreneur with a zest for<br />
adventure and a passion for cars, both of which<br />
he passed on to his grandson.<br />
“He is my biggest idol, both business-wise<br />
and as a person. He was a great entrepreneur,<br />
understanding many things and bringing people<br />
together. He was also a real petrol head and<br />
liked to collect vintage cars from the 1920s and<br />
30s which he could not afford in his youth,”<br />
says Kirk Johansen. His father, on the other<br />
hand, was not interested in cars. The family<br />
villa did not even have a garage when Kirk<br />
Johansen was growing up.<br />
When the teenager pestered his father<br />
about getting a sports car or a vintage model,<br />
something for fun, his father would say, “No,<br />
no, then we would need a garage,” remembers<br />
Kirk Johansen. Some two decades later, when<br />
he was planning a new car-related business<br />
and trying to work out what to call it, these<br />
memories coalesced.<br />
“It has to be named My Garage. When<br />
people ask, ‘Where is your car?’ The answer is,<br />
‘In My Garage’ – the one we didn’t have space<br />
for and now we have it,” he says with a laugh.<br />
Kirk Johansen made up for those teenage years<br />
by building a large garage at his rural estate to<br />
house his car collection, which includes several<br />
inherited from his grandfather. His brothers kept<br />
DRIVEN MAN<br />
Anders Kirk Johansen at<br />
his desk in Villa Canada<br />
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“I want My Garage to be a rallying point<br />
for like-minded people, whether it is car<br />
owners, motorcycle specialists, mechanics,<br />
salesmen, or any other motor connoisseur”<br />
cars there too; visitors would frequently come by; and they<br />
ended up holding several events in and around the site,<br />
like a private club. The concept of My Garage, a high-end<br />
facility for storing, selling, servicing and socialising around<br />
cars, stemmed from those shared experiences.<br />
Begun in 2015 in Vejle in eastern Jutland, My Garage<br />
comprises a vast, 20,000sq m space with glass-box<br />
storage for 92 cars, service facilities, sales of luxury<br />
marques from Rolls-Royce to Dallara Stradale and<br />
spaces for social events. A restaurant and wine bar are<br />
next on the agenda, and soon there will also be more<br />
on-site partners selling tyres and other accessories. Kirk<br />
Johansen expects sizeable profits in <strong>2022</strong> and is looking<br />
to expand beyond Denmark, infusing Scandinavian<br />
style into more traditional car centres to create vibrant<br />
destinations for car lovers.<br />
“It’s not a museum or a normal car shop. It’s more<br />
like a gallery or maybe if you imagine a shopping mall<br />
just for petrol heads and then add a restaurant, you have<br />
My Garage.” He tries to make it accessible not just to<br />
people like him who can afford supercars and hypercars<br />
but also for others with treasured vintage vehicles or just<br />
a passionate interest.<br />
“What keeps me going is that My Garage is for<br />
everyone,” he explains. “I want it to be a rallying<br />
point for like-minded people, whether it is car owners,<br />
motorcycle specialists, mechanics, salesmen or<br />
any other motor connoisseur.” This inclusiveness is<br />
something else he learned from his grandfather and<br />
tries to live by – a down-to-earth relatability that belies<br />
the charmed life that has come, in part, thanks to those<br />
LEGO billions.<br />
Now 44, Kirk Johansen grew up knowing that he<br />
would not work in the LEGO Group. His grandfather had<br />
instituted a governing rule under which one member of<br />
each generation would take the role of the most active<br />
owner. This fell to his mother’s brother Kjeld, and then,<br />
in turn, Kjeld’s son Thomas.<br />
“My grandfather asked me all the time, ‘Anders, how<br />
is it going with your finances? What are your thoughts<br />
about your future?’ It was his way of telling me we<br />
cannot all be in LEGO when we grow up,” says Kirk<br />
Johansen. His grandfather encouraged him to follow his<br />
heart, which, as a teenager, meant farming and cars. At<br />
26, he bought Rohden Gods, a forestry and agricultural<br />
estate on the edge of the Vejle Fjord where he still lives<br />
and which now encompasses 850 hectares.<br />
Since 2007 the Kirk Johansen family interests have<br />
been run through Kirk Kapital, an investing company and<br />
family office set up with the proceeds that came when<br />
they sold their portion of LEGO. Based in an architectural<br />
wonder designed by standout Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur<br />
Eliasson and his studio, Kirk Kapital is a powerhouse in<br />
its own right. Kirk Johansen is a board member and also<br />
works with the executive team on projects such as green<br />
energy, a topic that interests him greatly.<br />
It is passion projects that truly drive Kirk Johansen.<br />
Villa Canada in Copenhagen gives him an urban base<br />
as well as an opportunity to earn income. A beautifully<br />
restored early-20th-century neoclassical residence, it was<br />
initially set up for Kirk Johansen’s exclusive use before he<br />
decided to make it available as a full-house luxury rental.<br />
“It’s a home away from home also for me because<br />
my first home is my estate in Jutland, therefore I hope<br />
people will keep coming back. If they want to leave<br />
something special, wedding photos or a pillow or<br />
something for their dog, they can store it in a box in the<br />
basement.” (In honour of Pippi, Kirk Johansen’s Swedish<br />
farm dog and constant companion, dogs get special<br />
treatment at Villa Canada.)<br />
Built for a wealthy bourgeois family in the late<br />
1920s, it housed the Canadian embassy for 62<br />
years before Kirk Johansen bought it in 2011. Since<br />
then, he has renovated and revamped the spaces<br />
to recapture their former glory – with a touch of<br />
contemporary pizzazz. Original features from the grand<br />
carved staircase to elaborate cornices and wooden<br />
wall panelling have been restored to a gleaming<br />
patina, overlaid with a touch of Italian palazzo<br />
glamour. Although he worked with an architect, it is<br />
a deeply personal project, imprinted with a style far<br />
removed from the muted palettes and natural materials<br />
of Scandi minimalism.<br />
“It was very important it should be my style of<br />
home, and while there are many beautiful Danish<br />
homes, I wanted more of an international feeling,”<br />
says Kirk Johansen, adding that he is a fan of blues<br />
and greens and plush velvets. “One of my style<br />
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Kirk Johansen with<br />
his beloved pet Pippi<br />
on Villa Canada’s<br />
restored staircase<br />
inspirations is Valentino because I love his colourful<br />
thinking: It makes you happy.” This is most evident<br />
in the moody living room, rich with textures and<br />
tones that are especially notable in the deep sofas<br />
and hand-painted French wallpaper. The dining room<br />
has a chinoiserie feel with aqua-toned wallpaper<br />
and the house’s original dining table and 24 chairs<br />
resplendent in midnight blue lacquer with gold<br />
detailing. He travelled to Verona in Italy to choose the<br />
marble, in varying tones of russet and dark coffee,<br />
that lines the eight bathrooms.<br />
Kirk Johansen likens sharing the villa to being a<br />
NetJets owner, where you also become a member of a<br />
community. “I’m travelling a lot, and half of it is with<br />
NetJets. It is fantastic because you don’t feel guilty<br />
about the planes being idle when you’re not using<br />
them, and it’s the same with the house. I will love<br />
it if I am at home on the estate or on vacation and I<br />
know that there’s a family in the house, discovering<br />
Copenhagen.” Knowing that it is being used and<br />
sensing that people have been there when he returns<br />
keeps it alive, he says.<br />
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Imagine your own private beachfront estate,<br />
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BESPOKE EXPERIENCES<br />
In case you wish to emerge from your private cocoon<br />
and the 24-hour in-villa dining service – ideally<br />
complementing the Club House Greek & Mediterranean<br />
Restaurant and the Maya Contemporary Asian<br />
Restaurant – an array of luxury experiences and fun<br />
activities for adults and children awaits. Delicious dining<br />
in one of the resort’s open-air restaurants, private training<br />
in the resorts’ Gym by Technogym, yoga sessions on the<br />
tip of the water, both motorised and non-motorised<br />
water sports for all ages, private yacht excursions, to the<br />
famed Navagio beach, Marathonisi protected area for<br />
the caretta sea turtles, or local landscapes like Ancient<br />
Olympia, birthplace of Olympic Games, sample fine<br />
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zen spa treatment. Awarded Greece’s Leading Hotel Spa,<br />
the Waterfront Spa is situated in front of the cobalt waters<br />
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by Greek nature. And while parents unwind under the<br />
care of experienced therapists, the staff at the Kids’ Club<br />
oversees children’s entertainment and organises fun<br />
activities. It is all dedicated to fun!
TEEING OFF<br />
BRANSON’S<br />
NEW GAME<br />
Nestled amid the stunning landscapes of the Ozarks, the golf courses<br />
in and around the burgeoning Missouri city pair distinguished<br />
pedigree with top-tier challenges // By Farhad Heydari<br />
EDWARD C. ROBISON III; FACING PAGE: © MATT SUESS<br />
GREEN SCENES<br />
The Jack Nicklaus-designed Top<br />
of the Rock par-3 course, above.<br />
Facing page: the remarkable<br />
19th hole at the recently opened<br />
Payne’s Valley by Tiger Woods<br />
FOR A CERTAIN GENERATION of Americans, the<br />
Missouri city of Branson has been synonymous<br />
with music, variety, comedy and theme shows<br />
for the better part of half a century, ever since the<br />
likes of Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson<br />
and Andy Williams decamped to this corner of<br />
the Ozarks and their showbiz friends and devoted<br />
disciples followed in droves. But nowadays,<br />
another pastime is quickly eclipsing all the glitzy<br />
productions and entertainment offerings here in<br />
the heartland – and that’s golf.<br />
Thanks largely to the vision of one native,<br />
conservationist and founder of Bass Pro Shops,<br />
Johnny Morris, the Show-Me State has quickly<br />
established itself as a serious golfing haven,<br />
courtesy of his outsized and expansive Big Cedar<br />
Lodge resort (golfbigcedar.com): a sprawling<br />
1,800hs retreat situated in woodland alongside<br />
Table Rock Lake, which he acquired in 1987.<br />
Twenty-five years later, having established it<br />
as an unsurpassed conduit to the great outdoors,<br />
Morris turned his attention to another of his openair<br />
passions: golf. He took ownership of the former<br />
Branson Creek Golf Club on 180 nearby hectares,<br />
brought in the noted architect Tom Fazio, who<br />
gave it a wholesale renovation, and opened it a<br />
year later as Buffalo Ridge: a brawny 7,036-yard<br />
routing surrounded by hillsides and prairie grasses<br />
where herds of roaming bison graze.<br />
Today, alongside Buffalo Ridge, which in<br />
2019 was ranked as the No. 1 Public Golf Course<br />
You Can Play in Missouri by Golfweek, Morris’s<br />
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Midwestern golfing lotusland features a pair of<br />
other superlative 18-hole championship tracks<br />
(more on those shortly) as well as a couple of<br />
absolutely terrific “short” or par-3 courses, one<br />
conceived by Jack Nicklaus in 2014 and another<br />
completed by Gary Player in 20<strong>17</strong>. These are<br />
not the chip-and-putt venues of yesteryear. The<br />
Nicklaus-designed nine-hole Top of the Rock Golf<br />
Course was the first-ever par-3 layout included in<br />
a PGA TOUR-sanctioned event, while Mountain<br />
Top by Gary Player is a bonsai-perfect 13-hole<br />
track through ancient rock formations, both<br />
featuring some of the best vistas in the region.<br />
But most who make the pilgrimage to this part<br />
of the world will do so for the 18-hole loops – and<br />
few venues can compete with the natural majesty<br />
of Ozarks National, by renowned architects<br />
Bill Coore and former Masters champion Ben<br />
Crenshaw. The duo, who work selectively and<br />
only on the best of projects, have sketched a<br />
7,036-yard masterpiece that almost levitates<br />
above the beauty of the region on a series of<br />
wooded ridgeline tentacles. No surprise, then,<br />
that in addition to the stunning views in every<br />
direction, since its debut in April 2019, it’s been<br />
showered with endless praise – first as Best New<br />
Public Course in 2019 by Golf Digest and a year<br />
later in 2020 as Best Course You Can Play in<br />
Missouri by Golfweek.<br />
As if this emerald tableau (which, come<br />
the autumn, is framed by a vibrant fall foliagescape<br />
akin to a burnt-umber Bob Ross-coloured<br />
landscape) wasn’t already alluring enough,<br />
hackers and low-handicappers alike can now<br />
avail themselves of the first fully public-access<br />
course in the world completed by Tiger Woods:<br />
Payne’s Valley. Named in honour of the late<br />
PGA TOUR player Payne Stewart, the 19-hole<br />
course (you read that correctly) opened for<br />
play in September 2020 and is routed around<br />
monumental waterfalls, wandering creeks, ponds<br />
and lakes stretching to 7,370 yards. Its add-on<br />
final hole is a knee-knocking, bet-settling 136-<br />
yard par-3 playing into a 200ft cliffside island<br />
green surrounded by a flowing stream running<br />
down exposed limestone.<br />
The entire five-course offering is anchored<br />
by the sprawling encampment that is Big Cedar<br />
resort, consisting of a collection of rustic-chic<br />
(think: taxidermy, exposed beams, handmade<br />
throws and locally sourced toiletries) rooms and<br />
suites plus standalone log cabins, lodges and<br />
villas with working fireplaces and kitchens that<br />
draw families and friends to this corner of the<br />
Hackers and low-handicappers alike can<br />
now avail themselves of the first fully publicaccess<br />
course in the world by Tiger Woods.<br />
© LEDGE STONE<br />
EDWARD C. ROBISON III; OUTSIDE RIGHT: © OZARKS NATIONAL<br />
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Ozarks for its unparalleled variety of nature-based<br />
experiences including fishing, boating, hiking,<br />
shooting and more. For those 36-a-day types<br />
who wish to stay on the links, a trio of outsized<br />
lodges have just debuted, all done up to topspec<br />
and available for small groups, corporate<br />
retreats or multigenerational families. There is,<br />
of course, a full complement of no fewer than<br />
a dozen restaurants and bars, plus shops, cafés<br />
and even a sprawling museum dedicated to the<br />
natural history of the area and Native American<br />
artifacts and artwork.<br />
Not all the golf, however, is demarcated<br />
within Big Cedar. The state’s No 1 ranked<br />
course, according to GolfPass, is Branson Hills<br />
(bransonhillsgolfclub.com): a tight thriller of<br />
a track conceived by Chuck Smith and Bobby<br />
Clampett that deserves the accolade, wending its<br />
way through valleys of mature trees that require<br />
forced carries over rock outcroppings and deep<br />
bunkers; and LedgeStone (ledgestonegolf.<br />
com), one of the area’s most popular and eyecatching<br />
courses, which highlights the region’s<br />
mountainous terrain. In all, there are now no fewer<br />
than ten courses to challenge golfers, with a few<br />
more already on the drawing board – guaranteeing<br />
that Branson’s next influx of enthusiasts will be<br />
devotees of the great game.<br />
BRANSON AIRPORT TO BIG CEDAR RESORT: 12miles/19km<br />
GOLFING NIRVANA<br />
Clockwise from top left: Mountain Top;<br />
Ozarks National; Buffalo Ridge;<br />
Branson Hills; LedgeStone<br />
© BRANSON HILLS<br />
© BUFFALO RIDGE<br />
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N O T T H E U S U A L S U S P E C T S<br />
EDISON GOLF<br />
Terry Koehler refers to himself as a “wedge<br />
contrarian.” While many OEMs were filling racks<br />
with different sole designs, Koehler created the<br />
one-size-fits-all “Koehler sole” that is so often<br />
imitated today. In contrast to wedges with weight<br />
concentrated in the club’s sole to get the ball<br />
airborne, he was designing wedges with a higher<br />
center of gravity. Why? Because his decades<br />
of experience and testing have shown that it’s<br />
the best way for recreational golfers to hit their<br />
short shots more consistently. And now other<br />
club designers are following suit. Founded in<br />
2018 by Koehler and fellow golf industry lifer<br />
Trace MacDougall, Edison allows Koehler to push<br />
short-game innovation, even when it cuts against<br />
the consensus. The brand recently expanded its<br />
line to cover the entire gamut of wedge lofts.<br />
edisonwedges.com<br />
SWAG<br />
Swag is the hottest company in golf. Nick Venson<br />
launched it in 2018 with the goal of creating a<br />
“truly badass” putter. He and his team have<br />
since applied their inimitable visual style to<br />
everything from headcovers to skateboards to<br />
pickleball paddles—and sold out every item<br />
in seconds. With its bold, in-your-face graphics,<br />
you might think Swag is all style and no<br />
substance. Take a closer look at its putters,<br />
and you’ll see that isn’t the case. Before<br />
launching the company, Venson worked for<br />
Scotty Cameron and Bettinardi where he developed<br />
an unparalleled eye for detail. This comes<br />
through in the way that his refinements elevate<br />
traditional putter designs. Each putter comes off<br />
the CNC mill nearly 100% complete, removing<br />
any room for inconsistency or imperfection.<br />
swag.golf<br />
GEOM<br />
Nothing in Garret Krynski’s background would<br />
lead you to believe that he would become a club<br />
maker, which may be why Geom’s clubs look<br />
like nothing else. A graphic designer by trade,<br />
Garret started Geom in 2018 after sculpting a<br />
putter to fit both his unique aesthetic and playing<br />
preferences. Fast- forward to <strong>2022</strong> and Geom<br />
has become a fixture in the minimalist golf<br />
movement for its Moe and Lee irons. These<br />
ultra-clean designs are sold primarily in short<br />
sets—3 or 4 irons—to allow players to carry<br />
less weight and focus on shotmaking. The<br />
absence of badging and branding lets players<br />
customize the look of their irons with unorthodox<br />
finishes, flashy ferrules, and personalized<br />
stamping. geomgolf.com<br />
R E B E L B A L L S<br />
PIPER GOLF<br />
Founder Mike Gottfried played<br />
golf for 30 years but was still<br />
confused about which golf ball<br />
to buy. His solution: Launch<br />
Piper Golf and make choosing<br />
the right ball easier. piper.golf<br />
SUGAR GOLF<br />
Sugar’s signature golf ball<br />
does the most impressive<br />
Pro V1 impression that I’ve<br />
seen, and for a price that<br />
makes losing one a lot more<br />
palatable. sugar.golf<br />
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These niche golf club manufacturers offer a different perspective on the game—<br />
from exceptional customization to avant-garde design // By Matt Saternus<br />
JP GOLF<br />
James Patrick “JP” Harrington takes the phrase<br />
“rise and grind” literally. His career started with<br />
a bang in 2006, grinding a set of MacGregor irons<br />
for PGA Tour player Aaron Baddeley. From there,<br />
Harrington created his own line of wedges in his<br />
parents’ Wisconsin garage. After four years and<br />
a tidal wave of internet buzz, he was approached<br />
to create “JP by Titleist” wedges. Harrington left<br />
Titleist in 2018 to create JP Golf, this time in the<br />
sunnier climes of San Diego. His latest creations<br />
are some of the most visually stunning clubs in<br />
golf. They also take a unique approach to the sole:<br />
JP puts the focus on camber, an under-discussed<br />
aspect of sole design, with the goal of creating<br />
perfect contact from any lie.<br />
jpgolf.com<br />
NATIONAL CUSTOM WORKS<br />
When most people say “custom golf clubs” they’re<br />
talking about choosing the best off-the-rack<br />
options. At National Custom Works, “custom”<br />
means a lot more. Every NCW iron starts as a<br />
blank slab of metal before it’s put into the hands<br />
of master club builders Don White and Jeff McCoy.<br />
Both men have created clubs for professional<br />
Tour winners—Don White has 14 majors to<br />
his credit—and they take into account each<br />
customer’s preferred look, sole shape, and ball<br />
flight when making these bespoke clubs. This level<br />
of personalization isn’t cheap or fast (the lead time<br />
can be between two and ten months), but if you’d<br />
like the same hands that built Jack Nicklaus’s<br />
irons to make yours, this is the only game in town.<br />
nationalcustomworks.com<br />
EDEL<br />
Most golf companies like to position themselves as<br />
groundbreaking, but few can back that up like Edel.<br />
Created by David Edel in 1996, his eponymous firm<br />
has a long history of taking chances on big ideas.<br />
Bryson DeChambeau came to Edel when he first<br />
decided to play single-length irons. Edel was one<br />
of the first to create a putter with zero torque, an<br />
idea that’s become more common in the last few<br />
years. Edel’s latest innovation brings them back to<br />
the short game. The brand’s new SMS wedges take<br />
the unique sole designs that Edel’s wedges were<br />
always known for and adds movable weights. While<br />
most golfers have seen these in drivers, Edel has<br />
shown that they can have an equally big impact<br />
in wedges, where the correct fit can increase spin<br />
rates and shrink dispersion. edelgolf.com<br />
CLEAR<br />
While many new ball companies<br />
promote lower prices, Clear goes<br />
in the opposite direction, claiming<br />
super-premium performance at a<br />
higher-than-Pro V1 price.<br />
cleargolf.com<br />
ALL IMAGES COURTESY THE COMPANIES<br />
SNELL GOLF<br />
WIth 29 years of experience and 40<br />
patents to his name, Dean Snell brings<br />
unprecedented credibility to the<br />
direct-to-consumer golf ball market.<br />
snellgolf.com<br />
ONCORE<br />
Perimeter weighting is common in<br />
golf clubs, but OnCore applies this<br />
technology to its golf balls in search<br />
of tighter dispersion and enhanced<br />
wind performance. oncoregolf.com<br />
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LIVING WELL<br />
NATURE’S CURE<br />
JÖRN KASPUHL<br />
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Body and mind are both improved with time in the great<br />
outdoors – it’s a truism that dates back to ancient proverbs<br />
and is backed up by cutting-edge science // By Jen Murphy<br />
IT WAS PARACELSUS, the 16th-century German-Swiss physician,<br />
who presciently declared, “The art of healing comes from nature,<br />
not from the physician.” Fast-forward to an era of urban living<br />
and non-stop screen time and doctors are now prescribing time<br />
outdoors as the best cure for ailments ranging from depression<br />
to diabetes.<br />
Japanese culture has long believed in the curative powers of<br />
nature. Research by Japanese scientist Dr Qing Li, an expert in the<br />
powers of “shinrin-yoku”, or forest bathing, has shown 50% of the<br />
positive health effects of forest bathing come from the chemistry of<br />
the forest air, which has a higher oxygen content compared to an<br />
urban setting. Health benefits are also linked to plant chemicals<br />
called phytoncides, natural oils that are part of a plant’s defence<br />
system. Human exposure to phytoncides have been shown to<br />
reduce physiological stress, blood pressure and heart rate.<br />
The concept of forest bathing is as simple as slowly walking<br />
through a tree-filled area, quieting the mind and breathing deeply.<br />
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LIVING WELL<br />
THE CONCEPT OF FOREST<br />
BATHING IS AS SIMPLE AS SLOWLY<br />
WALKING THROUGH A TREE-<br />
FILLED AREA, QUIETING THE MIND,<br />
AND BREATHING DEEPLY.<br />
Great thinkers and creatives such as John Muir, Hippocrates,<br />
Henry David Thoreau and Nikola Tesla found inspiration on walks<br />
in the woods. But forests aren’t the only natural landscapes that<br />
yield benefi ts. At a time when humans are more nature-deprived<br />
than ever before, any outdoor fi x, be it a walk on the beach or<br />
ramble through urban gardens, will do. Studies have shown<br />
exposure to any natural stimuli can lower blood pressure, boost<br />
immune function, reduce stress hormone levels, improve mood<br />
and promote immune-system function.<br />
People evolved in natural environments, but urbanisation, the<br />
industrialisation of agriculture, and a shift to a sedentary lifestyle<br />
have destroyed our relationship with nature. In 1950, around<br />
30% of the world’s population lived in urban areas. By 2018,<br />
that number was 55%, and, by 2050, it is projected to be 68%.<br />
And the work-from-home, Zoom-meeting culture has us spending<br />
more time than ever indoors. On average, Americans spend<br />
93% of their day inside. A rapidly growing body of evidence<br />
shows restoring access to nature can alleviate some of the most<br />
signifi cant public-health problems, including obesity, stress,<br />
violence and social isolation.<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for naturebased<br />
therapy. During the lockdown in England in 2020, a survey<br />
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showed 85% of adults reported that being in nature makes them<br />
happy and those who visited natural space in the last seven days<br />
reported being happier than those that hadn’t.<br />
A free miracle drug sounds too good to be true, but there is<br />
a growing movement of medical centres and doctors around the<br />
world prescribing nature remedies ranging from general advice<br />
to get outside at least three times a week to specifi c instructions<br />
such as walking in a park for one hour a day. The US now has<br />
over 100 provider-based nature prescription programmes, while<br />
countries like Scotland now have trained ecotherapists, and doctors<br />
in Australia have been prescribing greener workspaces to improve<br />
both health of workers as well as productivity and job satisfaction.<br />
A pill-free answer to a happier, healthier lifestyle is as easy as<br />
walking out your front door. Read on for more inspiration that will<br />
get you outside.<br />
Peter Wohlleben<br />
The German forester is the author of<br />
the new book The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing<br />
Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature<br />
JULIAN RENTZSCH<br />
What is driving the<br />
divide between humans<br />
and nature?<br />
We have been taught to<br />
see ourselves as apart from<br />
nature rather than part it.<br />
We spend so much time<br />
away from it that we have<br />
forgotten how exquisitely<br />
attuned we are to the<br />
natural world.<br />
What might surprise us<br />
about trees?<br />
Trees pass their life<br />
experiences on to their<br />
children in their seeds,<br />
teaching them how to deal<br />
with fl uctuations in the<br />
climate, including heat and<br />
drought. This is why old<br />
trees are irreplaceable<br />
allies in our fi ght against<br />
climate change.<br />
Deforestation is at an alltime<br />
high. What is at risk?<br />
When we lose trees, not only<br />
do we lose ways to remove<br />
carbon dioxide from the<br />
atmosphere, we also lose the<br />
forests’ abilities to cool the<br />
air and bring rainfall to the<br />
interior of continents.<br />
What happens to us<br />
physically and emotionally<br />
when we step into a forest?<br />
Spending time under trees<br />
really does relax us. Our<br />
brains developed to associate<br />
green with food in the form<br />
of nuts and berries on trees<br />
and to see forests as places<br />
that offered us shelter.<br />
What are your top places in<br />
the world to be in nature?<br />
Apart from my own forest in<br />
Germany, I especially love<br />
the old-growth forests in<br />
Sweden, Poland, Romania<br />
and coastal British Columbia.<br />
“Spending time under trees<br />
really does relax us”<br />
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LIVING WELL<br />
ISTOCK<br />
GADGETS TO GIVE YOU A DOSE<br />
OF THE OUTDOORS INDOORS<br />
HATCH RESTORE<br />
SUNRISE ALARM CLOCK<br />
Morning sunlight affects your circadian rhythm<br />
and signals to your body that it’s time to wake up.<br />
Research suggests when you wake up due to sunlight,<br />
your body will naturally shake off sleep grogginess<br />
and be more alert. This smart sleep device’s sunrise<br />
alarm mimics morning light and pairs it with gentle<br />
sounds like lapping ocean waves. hatch.co<br />
WAVE PREMIUM SLEEP THERAPY<br />
SOUND MACHINE<br />
The sounds of city sirens and noisy<br />
neighbours don’t produce sweet dreams.<br />
Drown out the distractions with a choice<br />
of six soothing soundtracks, including<br />
the lullaby of rain pattering and streams<br />
burbling. An optional sleep timer shuts off<br />
the machine after 15, 30 or 60 minutes, and<br />
it’s compact enough to fit in your carry-on<br />
bag for travel. pureenrichment.com<br />
NATURESPACE APP<br />
Calm anxiety or fuel creativity with this free app that transports users to<br />
serene natural environments. Cutting-edge recording technology recreates<br />
natural soundscapes ranging from a rainforest in Hawaii at sunset to a<br />
north woods lake with soft waves and crickets chirping at night, with<br />
remarkable accuracy. Choose from over 120 natural spaces, averaging<br />
12-plus minutes. naturespace.org<br />
Must Reads on Nature as Medicine<br />
INTO THE FOREST<br />
How Trees Can Help You<br />
Find Health and Happiness<br />
by Dr Qing Li<br />
A deep-dive into forest medicine<br />
by one of the foremost experts<br />
in the Japanese art of “shinrinyoku,”<br />
or forest bathing.<br />
THE NATURE FIX<br />
Why Nature Makes Us Happier,<br />
Healthier, and More Creative<br />
by Florence Williams<br />
A compelling investigation into<br />
whether time spent in nature<br />
can improve both the quality<br />
and quantity of life.<br />
THE HEARTBEAT<br />
OF TREES<br />
Embracing Our Ancient<br />
Bond with Forests and Nature<br />
by Peter Wohlleben<br />
The follow-up to the German<br />
forester’s bestseller, The Hidden<br />
Life of Trees, draws on new<br />
scientific discoveries to show<br />
how humans can rekindle their<br />
connection to the natural world.<br />
NATURAL REMEDY<br />
A Story of Depression and Healing,<br />
by Richard Mabey<br />
A powerful memoir that relates<br />
distance from nature to a larger<br />
problem in modern life and a<br />
tale of how the author’s reengagement<br />
with nature leads<br />
him out of his depression.<br />
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Move Your Workout Outdoors<br />
INSTEAD OF THE EXERCISE BIKE<br />
Book a self-guided or group cycling trip in the Swiss Alps with<br />
luxury bike tour operator Butterfield & Robinson. Electric bikes<br />
make Tour de France-worthy climbs accessible to all.<br />
butterfield.com<br />
INSTEAD OF THE TREADMILL<br />
Hit the ground in the Dolomites (left) on a guided trail-running<br />
vacation with outfitter Dolomite Mountains. Run along the Alta<br />
Via N.1, one of the region’s famous high routes, over five days<br />
sleeping in mountain huts or boutique hotels along the way.<br />
dolomitemountains.com<br />
INSTEAD OF THE ROWING MACHINE<br />
Get out on the water in a kayak with adventure outfitter OARS.<br />
Itineraries in Baja, Mexico island hop around the Sea of Cortez and<br />
promise wildlife encounters with seals and whales. oars.com<br />
INSTEAD OF THE SKI ERG<br />
Explore the wilderness of Banff National Park in Canada on Nordic<br />
skis. Base yourself out of Skoki Lodge, which can only be reached<br />
by gliding along a 11km ski trail. Once there, you’ll have five<br />
adjoining valleys to discover on skis. skoki.com<br />
Jared Hanley<br />
The co-founder and CEO of NatureQuant,<br />
a new company based in Bend, Oregon,<br />
which optimises technology to track, assess,<br />
and promote nature exposure<br />
JULIAN RENTZSCH<br />
There are apps that track<br />
steps, sleep quality, heart<br />
rate, and more, but an app<br />
that monitors time spent<br />
outdoors is novel. How exactly<br />
does it work? Doctors are<br />
already prescribing time<br />
outside, but there’s no way<br />
to monitor or quantify it.<br />
Our app, NatureDose, acts<br />
as a personalised nature<br />
prescription tracker that<br />
monitors your aggregate time<br />
inside, outside and exposed<br />
to nature.<br />
The US Centers for Disease<br />
Control and Prevention<br />
(CDC) recommends we get<br />
10,000 steps a day. How<br />
much nature exposure should<br />
we be aiming for? There is no<br />
consensus, but most doctors<br />
writing nature prescriptions<br />
suggest getting outside for<br />
two hours a week. That is<br />
what we’re using as our base.<br />
Research shows if you get that<br />
amount of nature per week it<br />
will improve your mental and<br />
physical wellbeing.<br />
How do you quantify nature?<br />
We’ve created NatureScore, a<br />
mapping system that captures<br />
every tree, body of water,<br />
grassland and other natural<br />
elements as well as human<br />
elements, like buildings, down<br />
to 10 metres. This allows us<br />
to determine the quality and<br />
quantity of natural elements<br />
for a location. A score of zero,<br />
for example, is a largely built<br />
environment, where 100 is a<br />
largely natural environment.<br />
We’ve mapped and created a<br />
score for every census tract in the<br />
US and Canada, and Europe will<br />
be finished later this year.<br />
Can these scores serve as<br />
health predictors for cities?<br />
NatureScores are superpredictive<br />
of a lot of health<br />
outcomes. We know, based<br />
on data from the CDC, that<br />
there is a correlation between<br />
obesity, cancer, asthma and<br />
mental stress based on location.<br />
Research shows that for every<br />
10% increase in greenness<br />
within a 0.5-kilometre radius<br />
of where you live, your chance<br />
of all-cause mortality death is<br />
reduced by four percent.<br />
What implications do these<br />
scores have for urban<br />
planning? Right now, the<br />
Arbor Day Foundation is<br />
using our data to determine<br />
“There is a correlation between<br />
obesity, cancer, asthma, and<br />
mental stress based on location”<br />
where access to nature isn’t<br />
equitable in cities. They can<br />
take those nature-deficient<br />
scores to donors and then<br />
use our data to show how<br />
tree planting in certain<br />
neighbourhoods could affect<br />
the rates of obesity as much<br />
as five percent in 30 years.<br />
Is a walk in Manhattan<br />
equivalent to a hike in<br />
Colorado? If you’re in a park<br />
or formal natural area you are<br />
scored 100% credit for your<br />
time there so every minute<br />
you spend in the park counts<br />
as a one-minute dose of<br />
nature. If you’re walking in<br />
downtown Boulder, Colorado,<br />
versus the foothills, you may<br />
get credited 40 seconds of<br />
nature for every minute. In<br />
Manhattan or the Las Vegas<br />
strip, one minute outside<br />
might only be equivalent to 10<br />
seconds of nature.<br />
Do different types of nature<br />
have more powerful benefits?<br />
For example, is a walk in a<br />
forest better than a walk on<br />
the beach? We’ve found that<br />
desert is not as beneficial<br />
as water and water is not as<br />
beneficial as live vegetative<br />
biomass, like trees and forests,<br />
but all of it is better than<br />
anything human modified.<br />
Will you gamify the app?<br />
We have plans to add features<br />
like reminders to get off your<br />
screen because you haven’t<br />
been outside in two days.<br />
We hope to partner with<br />
different organisations to create<br />
challenges with motivations<br />
like a coupon for REI if you hit<br />
a certain number of minutes in<br />
nature per month. We foresee<br />
insurance companies and<br />
employers using the technology<br />
to incentivise healthier living.<br />
naturequant.com<br />
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LIVING WELL<br />
TOP RETREATS<br />
TO SOAK IN NATURE’S<br />
HEALING POWERS<br />
These off-the-grid escapes complement their wild landscapes<br />
with five-star comforts and amenities<br />
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CELINE FRERS<br />
1. ARCTIC WATCH WILDERNESS LODGE, CANADA<br />
The most northerly fly-in lodge on Earth has 16 private<br />
cabins and your only neighbours are polar bears, muskox<br />
and Arctic foxes. Explore the surrounding tundra by ebike<br />
or ATV or take to the water on paddleboards or kayaks. For<br />
the ultimate whale-watching experience, visit in summer<br />
when thousands of beluga whales congregate in a bay<br />
just a 15-minute walk from the lodge. weberarctic.com<br />
ARCTIC WILDERNESS LODGE AERODROME: 1mile/2km<br />
2. EXPLORA EL CHALTÉN, ARGENTINA<br />
Experience the wilds of southernmost South America<br />
at this 20-room lodge set within Los Huemules Reserve,<br />
a private 5,700ha parcel devoted to the preservation<br />
of native flora and fauna. Guided activities range from<br />
ice hiking on glaciers to treks to dazzling Desert Lake.<br />
explora.com<br />
EL CALAFATE AIRPORT: 135miles/2<strong>17</strong>km<br />
3. GANGTEY LODGE, BHUTAN<br />
An all-suite adventure base overlooking Phobjikha Valley,<br />
Gangtey Lodge delivers an experience steeped in both<br />
nature and culture. The valley is laced with trekking trails<br />
that wind through blue pine forests and past endangered<br />
black-necked crane roosting grounds. Mountain biking is<br />
also top-notch, with trails that lead to local villages and<br />
far-flung monasteries. At day’s end, reward your efforts<br />
with a traditional hot-stone bath. gangteylodge.com<br />
BATHPALATHANG AIRPORT: 89miles/143km<br />
4. THE GREEN O, GREENOUGH, MONTANA<br />
A new adults-only hideaway from the owners of luxe<br />
glamping outfit Paws Up is tucked away in a dense<br />
patch of towering pines on the southern edge of its<br />
15,000ha sister property. Twelve architecturally striking<br />
accommodations include treehouses perched eight<br />
metres in the air and curvy round houses that have<br />
bedrooms with 180-degree forest views. thegreeno.com<br />
MISSOULA AIRPORT: 38miles/61km<br />
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5. KASIIYA PAPAGAYO, COSTA RICA<br />
With just nine spacious tented suites set on 50 hectares of<br />
untouched jungle between a hill and two dreamy beaches,<br />
this 100% off-the-grid eco retreat feels like your own<br />
private island. Floor-to-ceiling windows make it easy to spot<br />
monkeys from your bed, but you’ll eventually want to get up<br />
to snorkel, kayak and hike around the grounds or venture<br />
further on surf safaris and boat expeditions to marine-rich<br />
reefs and wildlife-filled mangroves. kasiiya.com<br />
LIBERIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: 24miles/39km<br />
6. LITTLE KULALA CAMP, SOSSUSVLEI, NAMIBIA<br />
The closest base to the renowned dunes of Sossusvlei, Little<br />
Kulala Camp is set within the 27,000ha Kulala Wilderness<br />
Reserve. Nicknamed “the Living Desert,” this region is home<br />
to desert-adapted wildlife like ostrich, aardwolf and dune lark.<br />
One of the darkest places on Earth, stargazing is unrivaled<br />
and each of the camp’s 11 suites features rooftop beds for<br />
starry sleep outs. wilderness-safaris.com<br />
HOSEA KUTAKO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: 237miles/380km<br />
7. RIFFLIN’ HITCH LODGE, LABRADOR, CANADA<br />
Immersed in the solitude of deep wilderness, Rifflin’ Hitch<br />
Lodge is an angler’s paradise located steps from the Eagle<br />
River, one of the top Atlantic salmon-producing rivers<br />
in North America. Seven rustic, yet elegantly appointed<br />
rooms feature paintings from Canadian folk artists and<br />
goose-down comforters. Over-the-top meals might include<br />
your catch of the day cooked on an open-fire riverside or a<br />
wine-paired evening feast showcasing the regional bounty.<br />
rifflinhitchlodge.com<br />
GOOSE BAY AIRPORT TO HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY:<br />
6miles/10km (then helicopter transfer to Rifflin’)<br />
8. AURORA SAFARI CAMP, SWEDEN<br />
This Arctic glamping experience in remote Swedish Lapland<br />
offers the unique experience of hot-air ballooning under<br />
the aurora borealis. Snowshoe and fatbike quiet forest<br />
trails in winter; kayak and swim out to a floating sauna<br />
in summer. aurorasafaricamp.com<br />
KIRUNA AIRPORT: 165 miles/266km<br />
9. 3 SPEAR RANCH, DUBOIS, WYOMING<br />
Located in the small cowboy town of Dubois, this eightcabin<br />
luxe ranch is a 90-minute drive from the grandeur<br />
of Yellowstone National Park and an hour from the majesty<br />
of Grand Teton National Park. Nestled on 485 hectares,<br />
the property has plenty of natural attractions to keep you<br />
on site, from warm springs to hiking and horseriding trails<br />
and two lakes for fishing. 3spearranch.com<br />
DUBOIS WYOMING MUNICIPAL AIRPORT: 5miles/9km<br />
10. ARDFIN, JURA, SCOTLAND<br />
George Orwell described Jura, an isolated island in the<br />
Inner Hebrides, as “an extremely un-get-at-able place”.<br />
Ardfin, a 4,900ha estate on the southern tip of the island,<br />
is worth the effort to reach. Outdoor pursuits include<br />
golfing on what’s been called the greatest course on the<br />
planet, kayaking, deer stalking and exploring endless<br />
trails, including one that passes Barnhill, the house<br />
where Orwell completed 1984. ardfin.com<br />
ISLAY AIRPORT: 19miles/31km<br />
11. CAP KAROSO, SUMBA, INDONESIA<br />
Opening in September, this eco-haven situated on<br />
pristine Karoso beach in southwest Sumba Island boasts<br />
47 rooms, 20 oceanfront villas and a sustainable farm<br />
run by a local Sumbanese team. Local-led excursions<br />
include snorkeling the calm waters of Karoso Lagoon,<br />
hiking to waterfalls, and getting schooled in the island’s<br />
signature sport, Sandalwood Pony riding. capkaroso.com<br />
TAMBOLAKA AIRPORT: 30miles/48km<br />
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DESIGN DIGEST<br />
A sofa and mezze<br />
from the Salon<br />
Nanà collection<br />
by Annabel Karim<br />
Kassar for Moroso;<br />
below: Patricia<br />
Urquiola’s<br />
Dudet armchair<br />
for Cassina<br />
THOUGHTFUL<br />
FURNITURE<br />
Stuck at home during the pandemic like the rest of us, furniture designers<br />
were busy – and their new ideas for how we can live range from<br />
delightfully whimsical to hyper-functional // By Fiona McCarthy<br />
AFTER A TWO-YEAR hiatus, the design world converged on a warm,<br />
blue-skied Milan last September for the 59th edition of the famed<br />
Salone del Mobile furniture fair. Here, the world’s best designers,<br />
manufacturers, and industry movers and shakers in furniture,<br />
lighting, homewares and interior fixtures and fittings were welcomed<br />
by a city delighted to be back in business and to prove that, after<br />
months of being cooped up at home and communicating via<br />
Zoom, creativity still thrives. Here we share are our hot investment<br />
picks from the fair for freshening up your post-pandemic interiors.<br />
GEOMETRIC GRAPHICS<br />
Bold, graphic shapes teamed with sharp, smart edges and<br />
geometric patterns marked many of the standout pieces at Salone,<br />
especially those influenced by 1970s design like Cassina’s Dudet<br />
armchair by Patricia Urquiola (cassina.com), made of two curved<br />
arms and a padded seat that can all be disassembled for easy<br />
recycling. The same rounded edges appeared in Driade’s Tottori<br />
seats and tables designed by the Ukrainian industrial designer<br />
Kateryna Sokolova (driade.com), where the clean-lined bucket<br />
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shapes of the chair, armchair and sofa echo the polypropylene<br />
injection moulded shells of Robin Day’s chairs in the 1960s<br />
(although Sokolova’s come upholstered in fabric or leather).<br />
Christophe Delcourt’s folded origami-style Keren armchair and<br />
Fany table for Baxter (baxter.it) also followed a similar aesthetic.<br />
The retro 1970s lived on too in Cristina Celestino’s Gala seating<br />
for Saba (sabaitalia.it) – where the designer, who loves to draw on<br />
fashion for inspiration – channelled the way plissé fabric folds and<br />
Pierre Cardin’s sculptural silhouettes to create a modular system<br />
where the backrest flows in a pleated shape with structured curves<br />
that can adapt to seating poufs of different depths back and front.<br />
Similarly, Lebanese designer duo david/nicolas developed Victoria<br />
for Tacchini (tacchini.it) – a modular system of long, rounded<br />
armchairs, sofas, chaises longues and ottomans with shapes like<br />
puffy marshmallows, supported by a zigzagging, tubular frame.<br />
The assorted chaise longues of Antonio Citterio’s Noonu for B&B<br />
Italia (bebitalia.com) – named after an atoll in the Maldives – were<br />
designed to fit together in different graphic configurations, forming<br />
your very own floating archipelago sofa retreat. French designer<br />
Constance Guisset also took inspiration from far-away places –<br />
this time Iceland, and its landscape’s geometric forms shaped by<br />
lava – for Pierre Frey’s Dolmen seating system (pierrefrey.com).<br />
Designed to evolve with need and desire, the individual elements<br />
of footstools, benches, backrests, tables and armrests can be used<br />
alone, separately or in multiple versions. Modularity in graphic<br />
form continued with Annabel Karim Kassar’s Salon Nanà collection<br />
for Moroso (moroso.it), where the London-based French-Lebanese<br />
architect developed seating in clean, simple shapes (which can<br />
be upholstered in primary-coloured linen, cotton or velvet, or<br />
Moroccan-inspired stripes), supported by oversized rounded<br />
bolsters, and side tables decorated with bold Moorish motifs.<br />
Graphic woodworking came to the fore with pieces such as the<br />
hexagonally faceted Château chair and side table, made in<br />
solid oak, mahogany or walnut, by LA-based Atelier de Troupe<br />
(atelierdetroupe.com) and French interior designer Dorothée<br />
Meilichzon’s Panarea armchair. The latter’s shape is informed<br />
by the classic Adirondack chair, but with a rounded back and its<br />
detailing contrasted in ash and mahogany with its slats affixed with<br />
“butterflies” by master craftsman Morelato Ebanisteria. It was made<br />
in collaboration with Doppia Firma (doppiafirma.com), a project by<br />
Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’arte with Living Corriere della<br />
Sera devised to marry designers with artisans to create unique<br />
and original works (presented at Salone by the Michelangelo<br />
Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship). Influences of<br />
Japanese modernism, 1970s curves and just a tiny hint of Frank<br />
Lloyd Wright came to fruition in Hannes Peer’s Paesaggio collection<br />
for SEM (Spotti Edizioni Milano, sem-milano.com), where pieces<br />
such as the Alea chair, Muir sofa and Butterfly dining table, were<br />
finished in richly hued solid woods (walnut, mahogany-stained ash).<br />
Geometric pattern brought GamFratesi’s pigmented woven-leather<br />
Plot room divider to vivid life for Poltrona Frau (poltronafrau.<br />
com), as did the woven cotton and paper horizontal stripes<br />
and elongated cylindrical shape of the limited-edition Royal bar<br />
cabinet by Armani/Casa (armani.com). Meanwhile, Moroso’s<br />
Secret Cubic Shelves are at a distance a filigree of rhythmic<br />
zigzagging lines but up close, a play on Icelandic-Danish artist<br />
FURNITURE FOR THE FUTURE Clockwise from top left: GamFratesi’s Plot room divider for Poltrona Frau; a Ringer dining armchair from Kettal, designed by Michael Anastassiades;<br />
sofa from the Lido Cord Outdoor collection by GamFratesi for Minotti; Antonio Citterio’s Noonu chaise longue for B&B Italia; Christophe Delcourt’s Fany table for Baxter<br />
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Olafur Eliasson’s long-term work with stackable rhomboid modules<br />
(like the stainless steel Less ego wall, 2015, and the towering<br />
sculptural installation How to build a sphere out of cubes, 2018).<br />
OUTDOOR IMITATING INDOORS<br />
It was unsurprising that outdoor furniture – parading as indoor<br />
furniture – proved a highlight during last year’s Salone. With the<br />
garden well and truly now considered a key additional room to any<br />
home, there is an increasing interchange between what we can use<br />
outside and in. New technologies are bringing exciting innovations<br />
to not only the look but feel of weather-resistant materials such<br />
as the woven polypropylene cord used by Parisian designer<br />
Christophe Pillet for Flexform’s Echoes outdoor seating (flexform.<br />
it), in both an armchair and chaise longue, which intimated the<br />
same aesthetic appeal of vintage rattan. That same 1950s Riviera<br />
vibe also flowed through GamFratesi’s Lido Cord Outdoor collection<br />
for Minotti (minotti.com), where Danish architect Stine Gam and<br />
Italian architect Enrico Fratesi brought an undulating asymmetric<br />
form to the shape of a sofa, supported by a sculptural bronzehued<br />
aluminium base, or nest-like seating with wooden legs for<br />
the chairs (there are footstools and tables also in the collection).<br />
It was easy to see how these pieces would work just as well<br />
inside – especially where being subjected to the rough and tumble<br />
of children and pets – which was certainly not an idea lost on<br />
Poltrona Frau (poltronafrau.com) with the inaugural launch of its<br />
Boundless Living collection, and particularly The Secret Garden<br />
range, created to go from terrace to conservatory, spa or poolside<br />
to yacht. With pieces such as the solid teak, Scandi-style curved<br />
armchair and stoneware-topped table by Roberto Lazzeroni, the<br />
rope-woven high-backed Solaria armchair by Ludovica + Roberto<br />
Palomba, and the Sparkler portable and rechargeable lanterns by<br />
Milan-based Japanese designer Kensaku Oshiro (which instantly<br />
inspire summer days spent by the sea but would look just as great,<br />
in groups of three or five, on tables or the floor inside), it was a<br />
sophisticated welcome to blurring the boundaries of in/out design.<br />
Advances in eco-friendly fabrics for upholstery and rugs – made<br />
from recycled plastic bottles or recycled polyester fibres, among<br />
other materials – are changing the way designers look at how<br />
we live and how they want to design for us in the future. Take<br />
Piero Lissoni, B&B Italia’s artistic director and his new Borea<br />
outdoor collection (bebitalia.com), made from recyclable tubular<br />
aluminium structures, cushions and sewing yarns fashioned from<br />
plastic bottle fibres, tops poured from melted slabs of Mount Etna<br />
volcanic lava stone and glazed with recycled glass (made by<br />
crushing and grinding the glass of discarded TV and PC monitors).<br />
The post-modernist geometric edge of teaming a square seat<br />
with a rounded horseshoe-shaped backrest brought Ringer, the<br />
London-based designer Michael Anastassiades’s first collection<br />
for Spanish brand Kettal (kettal.com), a fresh take on outdoor<br />
café dining. Similar explorations of aluminium fabrication brought<br />
a light touch to Ludovica + Roberto Palomba’s HiRay welded<br />
wire collection for Kartell (kartell.com), where the fine metal<br />
lines flowed together to create sensual, sculptural – but alluringly<br />
transparent – chairs and sofa, as well as bistro and side tables.<br />
In a more oversized version, the generous, rounded lounging<br />
forms of Venexia, Venetian-born, Stockholm-based designer Luca<br />
Nichetto’s latest collection for Ethimo (ethimo.com), where the<br />
thin metal slats were inspired by old-fashioned railings, provided<br />
a romantic contrast to the brand’s other additions, including the<br />
minimalist and streamlined Allaperto pieces by Matteo Thun<br />
ALL IMAGES COURTESY THE COMPANIES<br />
INSIDE AND OUT Clockwise from top left: Marco Lavit’s Hut for Ethimo; a Componibili storage container from Kartell; Flexform’s Echoes armchair by Christophe Pillet; Borea<br />
sunbeds by B&B Italia. Facing page top, clockwise from left: lamps from George Sowden’s Shades collection; fabrics created by Peter Savile for Kvadrat; Patricia Urquiola’s<br />
Simoon tables, designed for Glas Italia; bottom: De Sede’s 602 sofa<br />
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and Antonio Rodriguez, and Marco Lavit’s teepee-style outdoor<br />
lounge, Hut (with its slatted surround made from Siberian larch).<br />
PLAYFULNESS PREDOMINATES<br />
Lifting the pandemic-pounded spirits lay at the heart of many<br />
of the collections shown at Salone, and no more so than in the<br />
magical world of Alcova (alcova.xyz), an independent design<br />
platform developed by Italian multidisciplinary studios Space<br />
Caviar and Studio Vedèt, which is always a fair highlight. Here,<br />
within the setting of three historical buildings – peeling paint<br />
and romantically derelict spaces inside, overgrown with greenery<br />
and surrounded by verdant urban parkland outside – the New<br />
York-based lighting designer Lindsey Adelman (lindseyadelman.<br />
com) offset a room of pastel walls and intricately patterned tiled<br />
fl oors by fi lling it with her punk-meets-couture Murano glass<br />
and brass link Paradise lighting, which was reminiscent of<br />
Chanel and wouldn’t go amiss on the latest fashion catwalks.<br />
Equally enchanting – with the colour turned to full volume – was<br />
British designer Bethan Laura Wood’s Ornate collaboration with<br />
renowned Nilufar gallerist Nina Yashar (nilufar.com), bursting with<br />
Memphis-inspired hues, intricate curves and allusions to myriad<br />
infl uences, from Wood’s love of kimonos to embracing high- (CNCmilled<br />
anodised aluminium) and low-tech (veneer marquetry)<br />
craftsmanship. Art director, graphic designer and Factory Records<br />
co-founder Peter Saville brought the same daring eye he once<br />
deployed for Joy Division and Roxy Music album covers into a new<br />
collection of multicoloured fabrics for Kvadrat (kvadrat.dk). Inspired<br />
by the vibrant colours used to mark fl ocks of sheep, the range of rugs,<br />
upholstery and curtain fabrics were interwoven with rainbow hues,<br />
some subtly imbued with tiny fi laments intimating computer pixels,<br />
others woven in wafting ombre swathes to cotton candy effect.<br />
The 1980s Memphis infl uence resonated elsewhere too,<br />
particularly in many of Spanish-born, Milan-based architectural<br />
designer and creative director Patricia Urquiola’s new pieces,<br />
including the candy-striped inlaid marble legs of her Architexture<br />
table collection for Budri (budri.com), the cartoonish graffi ti<br />
squiggles of the hand-knotted Himalayan wool Venus Power rugs<br />
she had designed for cc-tapis (the same mood too echoed in the<br />
rug brand’s block-coloured Ombra collection by Muller Van Severen<br />
which launched at the same time, cc-tapis.com), and the extralight<br />
low tables, Simoon, made from recycled and chopped Murano<br />
glass that Urquiola designed for Glas Italia (glasitalia.com).<br />
Abet Laminati (abetlaminati.com) – and its design curators<br />
Giulio Iacchetti and Matteo Ragni – also celebrated the 40th<br />
anniversary of the Memphis movement with Superfi ciale, a<br />
collection of intensely graphic laminated furnishings, accessories<br />
and lighting, as part of the exhibition “Super Superfi ci – The<br />
Spirit of Memphis (reloaded).” Meanwhile, George Sowden<br />
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(one of Ettore Sottsass’s Memphis co-founders, georgesowden.<br />
com) launched SowdenLight’s gelato-hued Shades collection,<br />
fashioned from silicone in a myriad of confi guration possibilities.<br />
Playfulness also manifested in the invitingly soft, rounded and<br />
low-lying shapes of new designs such as Draga & Aurel’s 1970sinspired<br />
Barret curled leather armchair for Baxter (baxter.it);<br />
Cassina’s reissue of the Soriana sofa and armchair designed by<br />
Afra and Tobia Scarpa in 1969 (today redeveloped to include<br />
eco-friendly BioFoam fi lling and recycled blown fi bre padding,<br />
cassina.com); Adam Goodrum’s Big Talk snaking, swirling boldly<br />
striped modular lounge chair (inspired by the Victorian loveseat)<br />
for Swedish furniture brand Blå Station (blastation.com); and<br />
De Sede’s DS-602 back-to-back island seating, upholstered in<br />
marbled magnifi cences (desede.ch). All proved ideal for recreating<br />
a hint of the psychedelic plush sunken living rooms of yesteryear.<br />
At Rossana Orlandi’s eponymous gallery in Milan’s hip and leafy<br />
residential San Vittore district (rossanaorlandi.com), fi rst founded in<br />
2002 in an old tie factory and now a leading global authority in the<br />
best of new, innovative, and daring design, Diederik Schneemann<br />
drew on discarded collections of matchboxes, pins, postcards, or toy<br />
fi gurines (including hundreds of Smurfs) to fashion Cherished vases,<br />
mirrors and cabinets in a bid to reframe how we value materials.<br />
Other materials joyfully reimagined included Hermès’ organically<br />
shaped Sillage d’Hermès armchair by Indian architect Bij oy Jain<br />
and his practice Studio Mumbai, where a wooden chair handcrafted<br />
in Puglia was then hand-coated with a papier-mâché compound<br />
made of cellulose microfi bres, before being varnished and hand<br />
painted with graphic stripes (hermes.com). The pretty hues<br />
and crackled fi nish of London-based Nature Squared’s CArrelé<br />
eggshell tiles (naturesquared.com), created by the brand’s chief<br />
material innovator Elaine Yan Ling Ng, also showcased at Rossana<br />
Orlandi, ingeniously reconsidered an everyday by-product of the<br />
food industry (sourced from local bakeries and farms based near<br />
Nature Squared’s factory in Cebu in the Philippines) as an excitingly<br />
sustainable, strong and UV-resistant construction material.<br />
MARBLE & STONE<br />
While vividly veined marbles and jewel-toned stones have<br />
been enjoying their moment in the designs of show-stopping<br />
bathrooms and kitchens over the past few years, their use<br />
in furniture has remained largely confi ned to tabletops and<br />
fi replaces. The Bolzano-born architect (and current designworld<br />
darling) Hannes Peer aimed to change all that during<br />
September’s Salone when he showcased Lamina, a marble<br />
tabletop set on interlocking, intersecting triangular-shaped marble<br />
slabs which supposedly also all packs fl at, as well as Marmini,<br />
a chaise longue and armchair, each composed of juxtaposed<br />
triangular shapes. Both were produced in collaboration with<br />
Paris-based studio La Chance (lachance.paris) in his own<br />
elegantly modernist apartment in Milan’s Politecnico district.<br />
ALL IMAGES COURTESY THE COMPANIES<br />
COLOUR COORDINATIONS Clockwise from left: a piece from Bethan Laura Wood’s Ornate collaboration with Nilufar; Adam Goodrum’s snaking Big Talk lounge chair for Blå<br />
Station; Studiopepe’s Ritagli table<br />
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American industrial designer Stephen Burks’ Friends table mirror<br />
and Neighbors wall-mounted mirror for Salvatori (salvatorioffi cial.<br />
com), the third-generation Italian stone specialist, took a more<br />
humorous approach to demonstrating the company’s almost<br />
70-year history of admired craftsmanship by also refl ecting<br />
Burks’ hope for us all to be reunited again post-pandemic (where<br />
the use of stones such as Rosso Francia, Giallo Siena, Verde<br />
Guatemala and Nero Marquinia abstractly represented “the<br />
diversity of faces in the world”). For other designers, marble or<br />
stone provided an added layer of texture, elevating the simplicity<br />
of silhouette and form, as in Patricia Urquiola’s Sengu dining table<br />
for Cassina (cassina.com), where the layering of wood, marble<br />
and ceramic together created a subtle but tactile textural effect.<br />
Sweeping planes of Palissandro marble, relying on gravity as<br />
a structural force where separate cantilevered shelves can be<br />
moved according to need (to form a shelf or table), featured in<br />
Australian furniture maker Fred Ganim’s Mass functional objets<br />
d’art for London-based studio Agglomerati (agglomerati.com). In<br />
the same spirit, after Poltrona Frau (poltronafrau.com) discovered<br />
a large, rare piece of deep sage green Rosso Lepanto marble,<br />
marked by red and violet tones, the leading Italian brand invited<br />
the designer Roberto Lazzeroni to create an object to further<br />
amplify the beauty and uniqueness of the stone’s character.<br />
The Infi nito table, with feet carved from single blocks of white<br />
Carrara marble, milled by a robotic arm to Lazzeroni’s special<br />
dimensions, imitating opening tree branches, did exactly that.<br />
Meanwhile, with sustainability increasingly on every designer’s<br />
mind, Studiopepe’s Arianna Lelli Mami and Chiara Di Pinto<br />
(studiopepe.info) fashioned a set of Dadaist-inspired coffee and<br />
side tables from patchworked slices of scrapped marble and<br />
terrazzo, so named Ritagli after the Italian word ritagliare” (to<br />
cut out). In collaboration with Italian design innovator Mille997<br />
(mille997.com), young Milan-based design duo Cara \ Davide<br />
(headed up by South African Cara Judd and Italian Davide<br />
Gramatica) created two small Archivio tables by repurposing<br />
single sheets of archived Verde Lapponia granite and Calacatta<br />
Viola marble, simply slicing the material into smaller pieces<br />
and reassembling it in a grid pattern of solids and voids.<br />
For Dutch designer Stefan Scholten’s fi rst solo project since<br />
separating two years ago from Scholten & Baij ings, the design studio<br />
he ran with his wife Carole Baij ings, he masterminded The Stone<br />
House (stefanscholten.com). Celebrating the beauty and versatility<br />
of upcycling stone waste, he worked in collaboration with Stone<br />
Made Italy and Morseletto to marry traditional Italian stonemason’s<br />
techniques (such as terrazzo, mosaic, and marmorino) with<br />
marble and travertine saw residue, broken chunks and grit to<br />
produce chairs, tables, benches, and even a stone “carpet” while<br />
avoiding the use of non-degradable adhesives to bind the stone.<br />
Truly a marvel – and representative of the wonderfully outsidethe-box<br />
thinking that is suffusing the post-pandemic design world.<br />
CAST IN THE STONE Clockwise from top left: The Sengu dining table by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina; Fred Ganim’s Mass Medium (configuration b) for Agglomerati;<br />
Marmini lounge chair by Hannes Peer for La Chance<br />
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MEXICO<br />
NOW<br />
RUPERT PEACE, © HOTEL TERRESTRE (INSET)<br />
Soulful, sunny and sophisticated, the country’s hospitality scene<br />
has never been better, with coastal enclaves and cities alike<br />
turning into world-class destinations // By Bruce Wallin<br />
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AMID THE GREEN<br />
A Cliff Villa at One&Only Mandarina.<br />
Inset: a terrace at Hotel Terrestre<br />
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PACIFIC HEIGHTS<br />
Clockwise from far left: a One&Only<br />
Mandarina pool; one of Four Seasons Resort<br />
Tamarindo’s 157 rooms; One&Only Mandarina’s<br />
spectacular location; Ana Martínez of Conrad<br />
Punta de Mita’s Agave Studio; the restaurant<br />
at Casona Sforza; one of that resort’s Alberto<br />
Kalach-designed villas; on the beach at Four<br />
Seasons Resort Tamarindo<br />
MEXICO IS HAVING a moment. Impelled by escapist yearnings – and,<br />
not insignificantly, an open-door policy – travellers have flocked to<br />
the country’s shores throughout the tumult of the 2020s. But as<br />
the decade settles down, the growing appeal of this geographically<br />
and culturally diverse nation promises to spread far beyond the<br />
Cabos and Cancuns. From the surf-pounded coast of Oaxaca to the<br />
colourful streets of Querétaro, new hotels, resorts and restaurants<br />
– and even alternatives to tequila – are making Mexico more of an<br />
essential destination than ever before.<br />
PACIFIC COAST<br />
Nature and culture collide in spectacular fashion along the<br />
mainland’s west coast, where Mexico’s upscale evolution is surging<br />
full speed ahead. The incomparable Costalegre – a sprawling and<br />
still-wild region dotted with sublime (and surreal) resorts like<br />
Careyes – is restaking its claim as Mexico’s most exclusive stretch<br />
with the April opening of the Four Seasons Resort Tamarindo<br />
(fourseasons.com). Blessed with a spectacular setting between<br />
Manzanillo and Puerto Vallarta, the 157-room resort – and the<br />
property’s David Fleming-designed golf course – unfolds over 1,200<br />
hectares of jungle and three swimmable beaches. North of Vallarta,<br />
meanwhile, the Riviera Nayarit has made a sybaritic splash with<br />
recent debuts including One&Only Mandarina (oneandonlyresorts.<br />
com) on a dramatic coastal ridge, and the Conrad Punta de Mita<br />
(hilton.com/en/conrad) on a made-for-families sandy beach. The<br />
new Susurros del Corazón from Auberge Resorts (aubergeresorts.<br />
com), opening this summer, promises to extend the region’s streak.<br />
Kayaking, snorkeling, surfing and other ocean-based activities<br />
are all close at hand thanks to the resort’s setting on a nearly<br />
600m-long beach. Three pools located just up from the sand<br />
anchor the 59-suite property, which will also include 30 Aubergebranded<br />
residences plus four restaurants, an 11-room spa, and<br />
a children’s club. Naviva, A Four Seasons Resort, Punta Mita, a<br />
collection of 15 luxury tents, will also open later this year. Along a<br />
pristine stretch south of Zihuatanejo, the regenerative resort Playa<br />
Viva (see Extreme Green, page 64) just unveiled six manta-rayinspired<br />
treehouses to add to its collection of highly creative – and<br />
thoroughly sustainable – accommodations. The nearby Hotelito<br />
by MUSA (stayatmusa.mx) opens this year as part of what’s<br />
planned as a minimalist, self-sustaining community of homes<br />
and contemporary surf shacks on a 67ha beachfront site flanked<br />
by palm groves. A member of Design Hotels, the 13-room Hotelito<br />
will reflect the eclectic nature of the community’s founders – the<br />
Mexican-Canadian couple behind LOOT, a local architecture,<br />
construction, retail and surf-lifestyle brand. Mexican architect<br />
Alberto Kalach is behind two new retreats in the Oaxcan coastal<br />
town of Puerto Escondido. The adults-only Casona Sforza (see<br />
Oaxacan by Design, page 66) opened last year on a forested<br />
perch where the Colotepec River meets the sea. A collaboration<br />
between Kalach and Mexico’s Grupo Habita, Hotel Terrestre<br />
(terrestrehotel.com) debuts this year with 14 wood, brick and<br />
concrete villas, each with private pool. The Design Hotels member<br />
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RAICILLA REVOLUTION<br />
Tequila is still king in Jalisco, but another agave-based spirit<br />
– raicilla – is staking its claim in connoisseur circles. Long the<br />
moonshine to tequila’s bourbon, raicilla finally received its due in<br />
2019, when the Mexican government bestowed upon it a Jalisco<br />
Denominación de Origen. More refined versions of the spirit – which<br />
can be made from any agave variety except for tequila’s blue weber<br />
– soon followed. “There’s artisanal raicilla and ancestral raicilla.<br />
Raicilla from the mountains and raicilla from the coast,” says expert<br />
Ana Martínez, who leads the tasting programme at the Conrad<br />
Punta de Mita resort’s Agave Studio. “It’s amazing the quality that<br />
we have now, in just a couple years.” Here, Martínez shares a few<br />
of her favourite pours, which she suggests enjoying as they do in<br />
Mexico – as besitos, or little kisses.<br />
LA REINA hails from the town<br />
of Atenguillo, at nearly 1,600m<br />
elevation in the Sierra Madre.<br />
The 100% organic distillery<br />
crafts artisanal and ancestral<br />
raicillas, the latter made with<br />
pre-Hispanic stills. “It’s the<br />
same agave maximiliana, but<br />
the ancestral is more intense<br />
in flavour because of the still.”<br />
raicillalareina.com<br />
HACIENDA EL DIVISADERO<br />
makes raicillas from a range<br />
of agaves, including one that<br />
requires 14 years to mature.<br />
“It’s very traditional, very<br />
herbal.” The distillery, set<br />
in the mountains outside<br />
of Puerto Vallarta, also<br />
produces versatile agave<br />
blends ideal for cocktails.<br />
haciendaeldivisadero.com<br />
LAS PERLAS DE JALISCO<br />
is a raicilla de costa made<br />
from single-origin amarillo<br />
and verde agaves cooked in an<br />
underground oven for 72<br />
hours. Its “very intense”<br />
character – marked by citrus,<br />
vegetal, and floral flavours –<br />
distinguishes this spirit from<br />
its mountain counterparts.<br />
raicillalasperlas.com<br />
LA ESTANCIA is made from<br />
agave maximiliana in the<br />
historic mining town of San<br />
Sebastián del Oeste. The<br />
agave ferments in old Jack<br />
Daniel’s barrels before being<br />
bottled in hand-crafted<br />
vessels made from recycled<br />
Coca-Cola bottles.<br />
estancia-raicilla.com<br />
THE AGAVE STUDIO is<br />
experimenting with its own<br />
raicillas – of Martínez’s<br />
making. “I have one ageing in<br />
brandy barrels and another in<br />
sherry barrels. We’re not<br />
selling them; it’s only for<br />
the tasting experience.”<br />
hilton.com/en/conrad<br />
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: RUPERT PEACE, CHRISTIAN HORAN, RUPERT PEACE, © CONRAD PUNTA MITA, JPARK STUDIO, ALEX KROTKOV, CHRISTIAN HORAN<br />
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RISING UP<br />
Breakfast at Habitas Bacalar and,<br />
far right, a view over its lake; a<br />
freestanding bath at Etéreo, centre<br />
was built entirely with local materials and will operate completely<br />
off-grid.<br />
YUCATÁN AND THE CARIBBEAN<br />
Crystal-clear cenotes, white-sand beaches, jungle-shrouded<br />
Mayan ruins – the Yucatán Peninsula is awash in both natural and<br />
man-made wonders. The latter include some of the planet’s most<br />
popular tropical resorts, many of which can be found along the<br />
Riviera Maya. Stretching south from Cancun to Tulum, the region<br />
is augmenting its already considerable crop of luxury properties<br />
with an influx of idyllic upstarts in <strong>2022</strong>. First up is Auberge<br />
Resorts Collection’s Etéreo (aubergeresorts.com), which opened<br />
in December as the inaugural hotel in the new Kanai development.<br />
The 75-room retreat is set amid mangroves along a pristine section<br />
of the community’s 2km-long beach. The world’s second-largest<br />
barrier reef is just 75 metres offshore, while five restaurants,<br />
two swimming pools, a children’s club, and Kanai’s two 18-hole<br />
golf courses support life back on land. Also coming to this new<br />
Riviera Maya resort community is the St Regis Kanai (st-regis.<br />
marriott.com), which is scheduled to open by year’s end with 124<br />
rooms and suites plus 32 villas with private pools. Inspired by<br />
Mayan astronomy, the resort’s connected semicircular structures<br />
will maximise views of both sea and stars from private terraces.<br />
The Kanai’s collection of elite retreats continues with the opening<br />
of the Riviera Maya Edition (editionhotels.com) in late <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
The property – the Edition brand’s first in Mexico – will feature<br />
180 rooms and suites plus a sprawling outdoor deck made for<br />
epic events and parties. The party never stops in Tulum, which<br />
welcomed its first international luxury brand in January with the<br />
opening of the Conrad Tulum (hilton.com/en/conrad). With 11<br />
restaurants and bars and more than 4,500 square metres of event<br />
space, the beachfront property promises to honour the bohemian<br />
beach town’s revelrous roots. Offering a secluded escape from the<br />
party scene, Casa Chablé (chablehotels.com) will debut later this<br />
year in the Sian Ka’an reserve outside of Tulum. Sibling property<br />
to the beloved Chablé Yucatán outside of Mérida, the 10-residence<br />
boutique hotel is set on a white-sand islet where guests can watch<br />
the sun rise over the Caribbean on one side and set over the Sian<br />
Ka’an lagoon on the other. The Yucatán’s Lake Bacalar has become<br />
another insider alternative to Tulum, with its implausibly blue<br />
EXTREME<br />
GREEN<br />
David Leventhal is the founder<br />
of Regenerative Travel, a<br />
global collection of hotels<br />
and resorts committed to<br />
going above and beyond the<br />
concept of conservation.<br />
Among the group’s properties<br />
is Leventhal’s own PLAYA<br />
VIVA (playaviva.com), a luxe<br />
eco-retreat 50 kilometres south<br />
of Zihuatanejo that just debuted<br />
six mind-blowing manta-rayshaped<br />
treehouses.<br />
WHAT IS REGENERATIVE<br />
TRAVEL? The simple answer is<br />
a move from doing less damage<br />
to doing more good. How did<br />
this place get to be the way it<br />
is? What was the role of man<br />
in degrading what was once<br />
here? And what’s our role in<br />
bringing back the abundance of<br />
what was once here? That can<br />
happen anywhere.<br />
WHAT DOES THAT LOOK<br />
LIKE AT PLAYA VIVA? It’s<br />
everything from mangrove<br />
restoration to reforesting the 80<br />
hectares of what was once a<br />
coastal forest and got degraded<br />
into a coconut, mango and<br />
tamarind grove. And that’s<br />
just on our property. In the<br />
community we’re focusing on<br />
education, health and economic<br />
development – it’s not just<br />
about providing jobs. And now<br />
we’re doing an entire watershed<br />
regeneration project. Playa<br />
Viva is set at the base of this<br />
lagoon, which is formed by<br />
the Juluchuca River. If that<br />
watershed is dirty, Playa Viva<br />
is dirty. Most people think<br />
they’re only responsible for<br />
what’s happening within their<br />
four walls. We understand<br />
that we’re responsible for the<br />
downstream effect and the<br />
upstream effect of what we do.<br />
TELL US ABOUT YOUR<br />
NEW TREEHOUSES. I don’t<br />
like doing Bali in Mexico. It’s<br />
important from a regenerative<br />
standpoint that we honour<br />
place, and that what we do<br />
here is of here. The treehouses<br />
were inspired by manta rays<br />
– it’s like a mama manta ray<br />
coming out of the water and<br />
getting stuck in the trees as<br />
she comes back down.<br />
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waters and wellness-themed retreats. Habitas Bacalar (ourhabitas.<br />
com) elevated the area’s eco-spiritual vibe when it opened last<br />
summer with 35 cabanas, some perched along the lake’s iridescent<br />
shore. Temazcal ceremonies, floating meditations and stand-uppaddleboard<br />
yoga sessions embrace both the beauty and quirks of<br />
the Bacalar region. At the opposite end of the spectrum, Cancun<br />
will see its most anticipated debut in decades when the 150-suite<br />
Waldorf Astoria Cancun (hilton.com/en/waldorf-astoria/) opens<br />
this fall on a 40ha beachfront site.<br />
BAJA PENINSULA<br />
Nowhere is the move beyond Mexico’s tried-and-true beach towns<br />
more evident than in the southern reaches of the Baja Peninsula.<br />
The Los Cabos corridor – the wild and wildly popular stretch where<br />
the Sea of Cortez meets the Pacific Ocean at peninsula’s tip – still<br />
beckons with its unmatched arsenal of ultra-luxe resorts. But savvy<br />
travellers are straying north, east and west in search of laid-back<br />
locales with an upscale streak of their own. Long the anti-Cabo<br />
option for artists, surfers and spiritualists, Todos Santos is taking it<br />
up a notch in <strong>2022</strong>. The area, which spills down from a hilltop town<br />
to a series of smaller beach communities, will see its finest resort<br />
reopen in November when Rancho Pescadero (ranchopescadero.<br />
com) reemerges from a nearly four-year-long rebuild. Essentially all<br />
new, the beachfront retreat will be home to 103 rooms including<br />
12 ocean villas, 10 penthouses and a hacienda suite. A beach club<br />
and lounge will bring a Greek Island vibe to Todos Santos, while an<br />
“ethnobotanical” culinary programme will offer guests the chance<br />
to harvest their own ingredients in an organic garden. Guests of<br />
Habitas Todos Santos (ourhabitas.com), opening by mid-<strong>2022</strong>,<br />
can visit the resort’s onsite dog sanctuary or head to the adventure<br />
lodge for surfing, biking and hiking excursions. Set amid coconut<br />
palms and cacti on an oceanfront dune, the property will feature 35<br />
desert-hued rooms, a beach club and a communal space designed<br />
for small concerts and screenings. Across the peninsula from Todos<br />
Santos, on the serene East Cape, the resort community of Costa<br />
Palmas is a world apart. Already home to a beach club, a superyacht<br />
marina, a Robert Trent Jones II golf course, and a Four Seasons<br />
resort, this Sea of Cortez stunner will soon welcome Aman’s first<br />
hotel in Mexico. Scheduled to open in 2024, Amanvari (aman.<br />
com) will break the Baja mold with its collection of suites and fourto<br />
seven-bedroom residences, anchored by a main pavilion with<br />
restaurants, a library and a 25m infinity pool. An easy hop north<br />
A NEW DAWN<br />
A treehouse<br />
at Playa Viva<br />
KEVIN STEELE<br />
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ON LOCATION<br />
MEXICAN SCENES<br />
From left:<br />
whitewashed<br />
alcoves in Casa<br />
Polanco; Monte<br />
Uzulu, San<br />
Agustinillo;<br />
Habitas Bacalar<br />
on its eponymous<br />
lake; Enrique<br />
Olvera’s Carao<br />
at One&Only<br />
Mandarina,<br />
Riviera Nayarit<br />
by superyacht from Costa Palmas, the historic port town of La Paz<br />
is the jumping-off point for epic excursions ranging from whaleshark<br />
diving in the Sea of Cortez to sandboarding in the coastal<br />
dunes. The 1950s-era Perla (hamakhotels.com) – John Steinbeck’s<br />
novella The Pearl is set in the city – is reopening in October after<br />
a top-to-bottom refit. The landmark property sits on the malecón<br />
(esplanade) at the base of the Queen’s Pier, named in tribute to<br />
Queen Elizabeth II’s 1983 visit to La Paz.<br />
THE CITIES<br />
While their beach-resort brethren have long been the favorite<br />
ones – especially in the era of social distancing – Mexico’s<br />
myriad metropolises are primed for a popularity boost, anchored<br />
by a new wave of eye-catching hotels from Monterrey to San<br />
Miguel de Allende.<br />
The capital kicked things off last October with the debut of The<br />
Ritz-Carlton, Mexico City (ritzcarlton.com). Perched high in a<br />
tower above Paseo de Reforma and Chapultepec Park, the financialdistrict<br />
newcomer affords inspiring views from every room, most<br />
of all the sprawling terrace of the nearly 2,000-square-foot Ritz-<br />
Carlton Suite. Opening this spring, Casa Polanco (casapolanco.<br />
com) provides an alternative view of the capital, occupying a<br />
1940s mansion in the city’s luxury-retail-and-restaurant epicenter.<br />
The neocolonial villa underwent an exhaustive restoration and<br />
conversion led by architect Claudio Gantous and mother-daughter<br />
interior designers Monica Romo and Monica Novelo. The result<br />
is an exclusive 19-room retreat filled with period antiques and<br />
intimate amenities like a private restaurant and honour bar.<br />
The perennially – and deservedly – popular city of San Miguel<br />
de Allende is also witnessing a compelling conversion with the<br />
OAXACAN BY DESIGN<br />
Indigenous textiles, black pottery, colourful wooden alebrijes – Oaxaca’s inimitable arts and crafts have long lured professional decorators to this culturally<br />
rich southern state. The region’s revered artistic traditions are on display at a trio of new boutique hotels, from the cobblestoned colonial heart of the<br />
capital city to the rugged tropical shores of the Pacific coast. Set in a <strong>17</strong>th-century mansion near Oaxaca City’s central plaza, HOTEL SIN NOMBRE<br />
(hotelsinnombre.com) opened as a 22-room retreat in 2020 after a meticulous restoration led by Portuguese architect João Boto Caeiro. A central<br />
courtyard connects to a grand staircase lined with Teotitlán del Valle textiles by Oaxacan master Rey David. Elsewhere, discover a contemporary (read: neon)<br />
interpretation of a traditional Mixtec goldsmith design by local artist Sabino Guisu and black-and-white nudes by photographer Alberto “El Negrito” Ibáñez.<br />
Marketers have rendered the phrase small Mexican fishing village meaningless over the years, but San Agustinillo is the real deal. The languid Oaxacan<br />
coastal town unfolds over a series of three bays backed by the jungles of the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains. MONTE UZULU (monteuzulu.com), which<br />
debuted in 2020, offers views of both jungle and sea from its 11 bohemian suites. Mexico City studio Taller LU’UM sourced works from throughout the<br />
country for the wood-and-stone spaces, which include macuili furniture by local carpenters and hand-woven bedspreads from Teotitlán del Valle.<br />
Opened last year in the surf city of Puerto Escondido, CASONA SFORZA (casonasforza.com) features rugs from Teotitlán del Valle, textiles from<br />
Oaxaca Valley, and glassware, pottery and cabinetry from the local workshops of Pueblo del Sol, a sustainable community project that the hotel helps<br />
support. Eleven suites are set within an elegantly asymmetrical amalgam of arches and vaults by the Mexican architect Alberto Kalach. Head out from your<br />
suite for surfing, whale watching and other Pacific-based pursuits, as well as immersive full-day art tours of Pueblo del Sol.<br />
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opening of La Valise San Miguel de Allende (lavalise.com) in<br />
May. Set amid San Miguel’s spired churches, leafy zocalós,<br />
contemporary art galleries and colonial mansions, the six-suite<br />
hideaway offers a haven in the city’s heart. An expansive garden<br />
area includes a swimming pool and an installation by Mexican<br />
surrealist Pedro Friedeberg.<br />
Positioned both geographically and culturally between<br />
San Miguel and Mexico City, Querétaro is typically ignored by<br />
international tourists. But the city of some one million residents<br />
– and ample colonial charms of its own, including a pink 18thcentury<br />
aqueduct – is raising its profile in <strong>2022</strong> with the debut<br />
of two game-changing hotels. Marriott’s Luxury Collection will<br />
introduce its first Hacienda property outside of the Yucatán with the<br />
opening of Hacienda Carretas (the-luxury-collection.marriott.com).<br />
The 16th-century estate is undergoing a renovation by Legorreta<br />
Arquitectos and, when completed later this year, will feature 61<br />
residential-style rooms with aqueduct views. Displaying Querétaro’s<br />
contemporary side, the Hércules (hamakhotels.com) is part of a<br />
new retail development with restaurants, boutiques and galleries.<br />
The hotel, scheduled to open in October, will include its own craft<br />
brewery – apt for a city with one of Mexico’s best beer scenes.<br />
Some of the country’s finest wineries are also close at hand, and<br />
the Hércules will offer viticultural tours of Querétaro and surrounds.<br />
Similarly overlooked by most foreigners, Monterrey is a stunning<br />
contemporary city squeezed amid three rugged mountain ranges in<br />
Mexico’s arid north. Outdoor adventures are aplenty, but Mexico’s<br />
wealthiest per-capita city also offers first-rate barbecue, historic<br />
neighbourhoods and world-class museums. The new JW Marriott<br />
Monterrey Valle (marriott.com) is a hub for excursions both natural<br />
and cultural, with Chipinque National Park and the Museum of<br />
Contemporary Art, MARCO, each within a 10-minute drive. Opened<br />
last May, the hotel features 250 rooms and suites with views of the<br />
surrounding peaks. JW Marriott is also coming to the Jalisco capital<br />
of Guadalajara – home to tequila and mariachi music – with the<br />
opening of the JW Marriott Hotel Guadalajara later this year.<br />
ENRIQUE<br />
OLVERA’S<br />
QUICK<br />
BITES<br />
Enrique Olvera catapulted<br />
Mexico City’s food scene into<br />
the future when he opened<br />
Pujol at the turn of the 21st<br />
century. A couple of decades<br />
on, and the 46-year-old chef<br />
and restaurateur continues<br />
to shatter preconceptions<br />
of Mexican cuisine. His<br />
latest effort, Carao at<br />
ONE&ONLY MANDARINA<br />
(oneandonlyresorts.com),<br />
pairs his forward-thinking<br />
fare with the rich culinary<br />
traditions of coastal Nayarit.<br />
DO YOU HAVE A FAVOURITE<br />
DISH FROM THE<br />
RIVIERA NAYARIT?<br />
The zarandeado fish is a<br />
classic of the region. It is<br />
marinated in an adobo, a<br />
mixture of spices and chilis.<br />
I like that it usually goes to<br />
the centre of the table – it<br />
is a dish to share with friends<br />
and family, with cold beer,<br />
and hopefully with the ocean<br />
right in front of your eyes.<br />
Of course, we have our<br />
version in Carao at One&Only<br />
Mandarina.<br />
WHAT ARE YOU MOST<br />
EXCITED ABOUT WITH<br />
MEXICO CITY’S FOOD<br />
SCENE RIGHT NOW? Mexico<br />
City is fantastic because there<br />
are always a thousand things<br />
going on; there are always new<br />
projects brewing in every way.<br />
For me, that’s the incredible thing<br />
about the city. I’m more into<br />
classic restaurants in the city<br />
– I really like Rosetta by Elena<br />
Reygadas and Máximo Bistrot<br />
by Eduardo García and Gabriela<br />
López. For drinks at night I really<br />
like Tokio bar in Colonia Juárez<br />
and, of course, Ticuchi, our agave<br />
distillates bar.<br />
YOUR AFFINITY FOR<br />
OAXACA IS WELL KNOWN.<br />
WHAT IS IT ABOUT<br />
OAXACAN CUISINE THAT<br />
YOU LOVE, AND WHAT ARE<br />
A FEW FAVOURITE SPOTS?<br />
I love the richness and above<br />
all the generosity that there<br />
is in Oaxaca, in every sense<br />
– in its landscapes, in the<br />
vegetables and fruits of the<br />
region, and the flavours offered<br />
by its different cuisines. In<br />
the warmth of the friends who<br />
always welcome me there.<br />
I love to visit the markets.<br />
Casa Oaxaca is always a stop<br />
in Oaxaca and, of course,<br />
Alfonsina, a restaurant with<br />
amazing local food – simple<br />
with no pretensions but deep in<br />
flavours.<br />
WHERE ELSE DO YOU LIKE<br />
TO GO FOR AN ESCAPE<br />
IN MEXICO? I love Baja<br />
California. The beauty of the<br />
desert meeting the ocean is<br />
something that captivates<br />
me every time I have the<br />
opportunity to go.<br />
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RUBBER<br />
SOUL<br />
Along with the intricate mechanics of this season’s<br />
sport watches, the smartest of straps add a sublime finishing touch<br />
Photography by Xavier Young // Production by Elisa Vallata<br />
Above, from left:<br />
Facing page, from far left:<br />
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Titanium Blue<br />
Ceramic, with 44mm<br />
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to 100m;<br />
blue rubber strap<br />
PANERAI<br />
Submersible Bianco,<br />
with 42mm brushed<br />
steel case; brushedsteel<br />
anticlockwise<br />
rotating bezel with<br />
graduated scale;<br />
water-resistant<br />
to 300m; military<br />
green rubber strap<br />
PIAGET<br />
Polo Chronograph,<br />
with 42mm steel<br />
case; silvered dial<br />
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OMEGA<br />
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dial; water-resistant<br />
to 150m; beige rubber<br />
strap.<br />
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PATEK PHILIPPE<br />
Aquanaut ref. 5168G,<br />
with 42.2mm white<br />
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embossed dial; gold<br />
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coating; khaki green<br />
rubber strap<br />
BREGUET<br />
Marine Date 55<strong>17</strong><br />
Titanium, with 40mm<br />
titanium case; sunburst<br />
slate grey dial; Breguet<br />
signature hour and<br />
minute hands; waterresistant<br />
to 100m;<br />
black rubber strap<br />
CHOPARD<br />
Mille Miglia GTS<br />
Automatic Speed black,<br />
with 43mm scratchresistant<br />
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blackened steel case;<br />
rubber strap inspired<br />
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AUDEMARS PIGUET<br />
Royal Oak Offshore<br />
Selfwinding Chronograph,<br />
with 43mm stainless<br />
steel case; smoked<br />
light brown dial with<br />
“Méga Tapisserie”<br />
pattern; light brown<br />
rubber strap<br />
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GOURMET GUIDE<br />
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CLOCLWISE FROM TOP LEFT: © BESAME, PAPRIKA STUDIOS / JAMES COLLIER, CHRIS GRANGER<br />
NOLA<br />
IS BACK,<br />
AGAIN<br />
The food scene in New Orleans<br />
is hotter than ever, with a raft<br />
of new restaurants and<br />
bars upping the culinary ante<br />
// By Jeremy Wayne<br />
BIG EASY, BIG CHOICE<br />
Top row, from left: Donald Link’s Cochon; côte de boeuf from Chemin à la Mer;<br />
tapas restaurant Bésame; Mister Mao’s chef and restaurateur Sophina Uong.<br />
Bottom row; from left: Kashmiri Hot Chicken Benedict from Mister Mao; Eric<br />
Cook of Saint John; grilled oysters from Cochon<br />
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RANDY SCHMIDT<br />
GOURMET GUIDE<br />
NO CITY IN NORTH AMERICA respects its food<br />
heritage quite as much as New Orleans. Its<br />
rich Louisiana Creole traditions are kept alive<br />
in po’ boy shops and laid-back jazz cafés – and<br />
especially in its storied restaurants, many of them<br />
well over a century old. But while that tradition<br />
continues and notwithstanding the pandemic (or<br />
perhaps because of it – “resilient”, after all, is<br />
New Orleans’ middle name), new restaurants of<br />
real quality are opening at an almost furious rate.<br />
Take Miss River (missrivernola.com), the<br />
signature, lobby-level restaurant in the swish new<br />
Four Seasons hotel, which chef Alon Shaya says<br />
is his “love letter to New Orleans, Louisiana”. It’s<br />
already a very hot ticket, with duck and andouille<br />
gumbo, an indecently rich blue crab au gratin,<br />
and an even richer clay pot dirty rice – with blushpink<br />
duck breast, duck-egg yolk and creamy liver<br />
pâté – among the showstoppers.<br />
For its second restaurant, meanwhile, Chemin<br />
à la Mer (cheminalamer.com), with panoramic<br />
views of the Mississippi River, Four Seasons has<br />
snagged the renowned Louisiana chef, writer<br />
PICTURE PERFECT<br />
Booths at Saint John, Eric<br />
Cook’s “new restaurant<br />
with an old soul”<br />
and James Beard Award winner Donald Link. At<br />
Chemin, he thickens the seafood gumbo with okra<br />
and stock, as opposed to a traditional roux, and<br />
prepares a superb duck confit with white bean<br />
pistou. A massive côte de boeuf here serves four.<br />
Passionate about Cajun cooking, Link,<br />
whose other restaurants in the city include<br />
Herbsaint (herbsaint.com), Cochon Butcher<br />
(cochonbutcher.com), Pêche (pecherestaurant.<br />
com) and Gianna (giannarestaurant.com), has<br />
spent time in Haiti discovering its origins. At<br />
Cochon (cochonrestaurant.com), his restaurant<br />
in the Warehouse District, where crowds waited<br />
online for tables pre-pandemic, folks are already<br />
coming back in droves for the restaurant’s<br />
soft, pillowy boudin, which Link describes as<br />
“basically a farmer’s snack”, and following it with<br />
gulf fish or rabbit from the wood-burning oven, or<br />
the eponymous Louisiana “cochon” in a variety<br />
of iterations.<br />
A notable newcomer, one which also takes<br />
Haitian-Creole traditions as its inspiration, Fritai<br />
(fritai.com) started life as a stall in the refined St<br />
There’s room for everybody if the quality<br />
is good. Or as Eric Cook succinctly puts it,<br />
“A chessboard needs all pieces”<br />
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Roch Market. Half-Haitian chef and patron Charly<br />
Pierre’s short but punchy menu includes a tasty<br />
avocado and plantain sandwich, alongside Haitian<br />
“legim epina” (smothered greens with mirliton)<br />
and braised shrimp with a richly textured Creole<br />
sauce. He serves many of his dishes with pikliz, a<br />
tangy Haitian pickled cabbage condiment.<br />
Located in the new Virgin Hotels, with its selfstyled<br />
Funny Library Coffee Shop and –honestly<br />
– a humanoid white bunny rabbit reclining in<br />
an armchair, the Commons Club restaurant<br />
(commonsclub.com) is where longtime NOLA<br />
chef Alex Harrell is now wearing the whites,<br />
receiving plaudits for dishes like gulf shrimp<br />
pappardelle and confit chicken leg with squash<br />
ragout and ricotta gnocchi.<br />
And in a glorious 18th-century building on<br />
Decatur Street, in the heart of the French Quarter,<br />
Saint John (saintjohnnola.com) is the recently<br />
opened restaurant from the well-named, selftaught<br />
New Orleanian chef Eric Cook. “It’s a new<br />
restaurant with an old soul,” says Cook, who also<br />
owns the city’s acclaimed restaurant Gris-Gris<br />
SEAFOOD SPECIAL<br />
Ssam-style charmoula<br />
octopus at Mister Mao<br />
© PAPRIKA STUDIOS<br />
(grisgrisnola.com), and who positions himself as a<br />
custodian of traditional New Orleans cuisine. With<br />
his chef de cuisine Daren Porretto, he has scoured<br />
old cookbooks to develop Saint John’s mouthwatering<br />
menu, with dishes like sensuous oysters<br />
done three ways (poached in double cream, crispy<br />
fried, and in a vol-au-vent with oyster sauce), and<br />
luxurious shrimp étouffée – shrimp smothered in<br />
brown butter with Louisiana popcorn rice.<br />
Of course, it doesn’t always have to be Creole.<br />
Other significant recent openings include the<br />
long-awaited and elegant Saffron (saffronnola.<br />
com), in the Touro district, which fuses modern<br />
Indian cooking with Southern influences; Thaihey<br />
(thaiheythaifood.com) in the French Quarter, for<br />
curried frogs’ legs and Louisiana crawfish curry;<br />
and Bésame (besame-nola.com), in the Arts<br />
District, for Latin American-styled tapas. And<br />
yet another neophyte, which locals have good<br />
reason to be excited about, is groovy Mister Mao<br />
(mistermaonola.com), where the schoolroom<br />
meets the jungle in terms of decoration, and a<br />
Catalan fideuà meets Kashmiri fried chicken on<br />
the chutzpah-filled menu.<br />
The takeaway? There’s room for everybody if<br />
the quality is good. Or as Eric Cook succinctly<br />
puts it, “A chessboard needs all pieces.”<br />
All food and no drink would make for a very<br />
dull stay, but the Big Easy’s bar scene is also<br />
very much alive and kicking. Then again, it<br />
would have to be, in the city that gave the world<br />
Sazerac, the French 75 and the Ramos Gin Fizz.<br />
On a bibulous crawl of new and nearly new<br />
bars, you might take in a Jardin de Mémé (green<br />
chartreuse, St. Germain, absinthe and aquafaba)<br />
at Bar Marilou (barmarilou.com), located in the<br />
deliciously louche Maison de la Luz; a Peach<br />
Smash (peach-infused bourbon, vigne liqueur,<br />
ginger and mint), at the oh-so-cool Lobby Bar<br />
at the Ace Hotel (acehotel.com), or a McKittrick<br />
Old Fashioned (bourbon, sherry and bitters) or<br />
even Tom of Finland on the rocks in the garden<br />
at Seaworthy, another Ace Hotel outlet next<br />
door. And don’t miss out on a visit to handsome,<br />
jewel-like Peychaud’s (maisondeville.com), at<br />
Hotel Maison de Ville, with its beautiful marble<br />
fireplace and sumptuous modern art, for New<br />
Orleans classics like the Sazerac, Ramos Gin Fizz<br />
and Vieux Carré.<br />
Back at the spectacular square bar at Virgin<br />
Hotels, a Dragon Smoke (Montelobos Mezcal<br />
Joven, Cinzano <strong>17</strong>57 Rosso, Benedictine and<br />
rosemary-infused Campari) is not for the novice<br />
cocktail drinker. And last, but by no means least,<br />
at the glamorous, oval-shaped Chandelier Bar<br />
at the Four Seasons, run by Hadi Ktiri (an alum<br />
of Arnaud’s French 75 Bar), a classic and very<br />
dry martini comes with all the accoutrements<br />
presented separately in a cut-glass dish. With<br />
lemon for a twist, onion for a Gibson, and olives<br />
for a dirty, for you to assemble as you please, this<br />
is a very stylish presentation – but in stylish New<br />
Orleans you expect nothing less.<br />
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CALIFORNIA’S<br />
NEW CRU<br />
JAK WONDERLY<br />
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The forthcoming West Sonoma Coast appellation is<br />
putting the spotlight on a handful of ambitious winemakers –<br />
and their remarkable terroir // By Jim Clarke<br />
MISTY MANOR<br />
The fog-covered Peay Vineyards,<br />
a leading member of<br />
West Sonoma Coast Vintners<br />
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© FLOWERS VINEYARD & WINERY<br />
© FLOWERS VINEYARD & WINERY<br />
TASTING NOTES<br />
NORTH OF SAN FRANCISCO, just a few miles from the cool breezes<br />
of the Pacific Ocean, vineyards adorn the mountaintop ridges that<br />
poke through the dense fog below, the vines basking in the bright<br />
California sunshine. This is the Sonoma Coast, or, as at least some<br />
locals are accustomed to calling it, the “true” or “west” Sonoma<br />
Coast. Local wineries think that’s a distinction worth making.<br />
“In 2011, six wineries got together and we founded the West<br />
Sonoma Coast Vintners group,” says Andy Peay of Peay Vineyards.<br />
His 21ha property lies in Annapolis at the northern end of the<br />
region; they were the very first to plant vineyards there. “We<br />
had a belief that the coastal part was quite different from the<br />
inland areas, and we were determined to discover more about<br />
that and see what the differences were, in both the wines and<br />
the growing regions.” In 2015 the group took that information<br />
and submitted it to the government, applying to have the West<br />
Sonoma Coast designated an AVA (American Viticultural Area),<br />
the official designation for US winegrowing regions. After<br />
many delays – the Trump administration put a hold on all new<br />
regulations, for one – approval is imminent. The resulting AVA will<br />
stretch from Annapolis down through Fort Ross-Seaview (already<br />
an AVA in its own right) and into the Occidental Freestone area.<br />
If the word “west” seems redundant, the problem is that a<br />
Sonoma Coast AVA already exists. However, it encompasses not<br />
just the area along the coastline but also a large swathe of inland,<br />
decidedly uncoastal places, like the Russian River Valley. “It's so<br />
misleading,” says Chantal Forthun, winemaker at Flowers Vineyard<br />
& Winery. “The Sonoma Coast appellation is so large. I think<br />
calling out the western far reaches of the appellation is incredibly<br />
important because the wines have so much more coastal identity<br />
and they're so distinctive from the inland Sonoma Coast wines.”<br />
In the early 1990s Joan and Walt Flowers’ experience with<br />
nurseries and two years of climate and soil studies convinced<br />
them the coastal area was right for pinot noir and chardonnay,<br />
but the wine industry looked askance at the remote location.<br />
Hirsch Vineyards had been established nearby over a decade<br />
earlier, but when Bronx-born David Hirsch bought a disused<br />
BLOSSOMING BUSINESS<br />
Chantal Forthun, winemaker at<br />
Flowers, and the vineyard’s tasting<br />
room, above. Facing page: Hirsch<br />
Vineyards’ coastal setting<br />
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WEST IS BEST<br />
The tasting room at<br />
Occidental vineyards<br />
© OCCIDENTAL VINEYARDS<br />
sheep ranch in 1978 he was primarily looking for a place<br />
to retreat from the day-to-day work of running his clothing<br />
company. Two years later he planted vines at the suggestion of<br />
a friend, and only in 1987 did his pioneering, entrepreneurial<br />
spirit take over and he began developing the vineyards full-time.<br />
Around the turn of the millennium came an influx of new<br />
properties, all founded with winemaking in mind, such as Failla<br />
Wines, Peay Vineyards, and Freeman Vineyard & Winery. But large<br />
wine concerns have not invaded these mountaintop sanctuaries.<br />
“The big corporate guys want flat, no hills; they want to use<br />
large equipment,” says Carroll Kemp, owner of Alma Fria and<br />
committee chairman for the AVA submission process. “Aside from<br />
a few small spots that’s simply not possible on the West Sonoma<br />
Coast. So the family farmer is always going to define the region<br />
in the long term.” Pinot noir makes up about two-thirds of the<br />
region’s 600 hectares acres of vines, followed by chardonnay. “The<br />
reputation of the area rests on the success of those two varieties,”<br />
Kemp says. Several wineries are also working with syrah.<br />
Local conditions may demand a boutique mindset, but that wouldn’t<br />
mean much if the grapes and wines themselves didn’t stand out.<br />
Freeman Winery’s Yu-ki vineyard in Freestone is just five kilometres<br />
from the coast, but founder Ken Freeman can contrast the fruit it gives<br />
them with their estate vineyard, Gloria, inland in Green Valley. “In<br />
Green Valley we hope to get three tons per acre, but we only get two<br />
tons per acre in Freestone. At harvest, fruit from the vineyard on the<br />
coast comes in almost a month later. It’s more distinctive fruit, with<br />
more acidity. At Gloria we get more fruit-forward notes, a little bit more<br />
cherry, and out on the coast we get an umami, forest-floor character.”<br />
“You have a longer growing season at<br />
more moderate temperatures so you’re able<br />
to develop flavours and intensity”–Catherine Kistler<br />
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COASTAL PIONEERS<br />
From top: Ehren Jordan<br />
of Failla Wines; a<br />
chardonnay from Freeman<br />
Vineyard & Winery<br />
The coastal fog – and the inversion layer it creates – plays<br />
a major role in creating a cool but sunny environment for<br />
the vines. “If you’re used to coming to Napa and basking in<br />
40-degree temperatures, this is not your neighbourhood,” says<br />
Ehren Jordan, founder and owner of Failla Wines. He says on<br />
days when Napa temperatures exceed 40, a coastal site he’s<br />
developing will be struggling to reach 24. “A smoking-hot day<br />
there is 29 degrees.” The elevation and the resulting wind also<br />
minimise disease pressures, so almost all the region’s vineyards<br />
practise some form of organic or biodynamic winegrowing.<br />
The area’s soils bear the impact of human and superhuman<br />
influences. “If you clear cut and bring in sheep and cattle,<br />
there’s tremendous erosion,” says Jasmine Hirsch, who took<br />
over winemaking responsibilities at the family property in<br />
2019. “You’re farming on shallow soils lifted up by the San<br />
Andreas fault and then shorn away by the rain. That is a big<br />
part of why the wines have so much structure.” The fault is<br />
just a kilometre from Hirsch and influences all the wineries on<br />
the coast; its activity has created a hodge-podge of different<br />
soils, resulting in varied, complex expressions in the wines.<br />
That structure and the potential for complexity and balance<br />
attracted Steve Kistler of Kistler Vineyards in the 1990s. He<br />
purchased several sites and in 2011 founded Occidental<br />
Vineyards; all but one of their vineyard sources will lie in the<br />
new AVA. “You have a longer growing season at more moderate<br />
temperatures,” says his daughter, Catherine Kistler, “so you're able<br />
to develop flavours and intensity and get to actual, full ripeness<br />
of the grapes at lower sugar levels while preserving natural<br />
acidity. So the wines have all of this freshness and intensity<br />
and brightness to them without distractingly high alcohol.”<br />
“The pinots have a nice structure to them,” says Jose Delgado,<br />
wine director at San Francisco’s Mourad restaurant. “A lot of them<br />
are pretty intense in terms of tannin” compared to other California<br />
regions, where he says pinots often show soft tannins or none<br />
whatsoever. On the nose, the wines offer a mix of fruit, savoury and<br />
floral aromas. “You get this darker fruit profile, like black cherries or<br />
black raspberries. There’s also just a lot more perfume than in pinots<br />
from the valley.” Other areas may develop some of that perfumed<br />
quality with age, “but never that intense perfume you get up there.”<br />
Andy Peay says it was precisely this combination that drew him<br />
to the area: “The ability to have fruit, floral and earthy components<br />
all in the same wine.” He also says the remoteness, the low yields<br />
and the other challenges all act to keep the winemakers focused.<br />
“I think I can speak for the group by saying that they're wines<br />
that speak of place. Otherwise why go there? You have to be<br />
out there because you feel the wines are distinct and distinctly<br />
good. So anybody who's gone out there is pretty passionate about<br />
what they're doing: ‘I feel like the best pinot noir and chardonnay,<br />
and syrah can be grown out here and I'm going to go do that.’”<br />
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© FREEMAN VINEYARD & WINERY<br />
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MODERN<br />
THINKING<br />
The new Moco Museum in Barcelona<br />
– like its sister museum in Amsterdam –<br />
is dedicated to the art world’s here and now<br />
// Photography by Adrià Goula<br />
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People Walking by<br />
Julian Opie, 2018<br />
ABOVE<br />
From top: KAWSxCampana<br />
sofa Man’s Best Friend,<br />
2018, left, features Snoopy;<br />
a room dedicated to the<br />
works of Guillermo Lorca<br />
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ABOVE<br />
From top: Banksy’s Laugh<br />
Now 2003, and Stained<br />
Glass, 2011.<br />
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A TALE OF<br />
TWO CITIES<br />
Barcelona and Amsterdam – two contrasting cities divided by the ballast of Continental<br />
Europe. Different atmospheres, different aesthetics maybe, but in many ways united<br />
by more than the things that divide them. Both are inextricably linked with giants<br />
of the art and cultural world: the Catalan city is marked by the stunning designs of<br />
Antoni Gaudí, all the while celebrating the works of masters such as Pablo Picasso<br />
and Joan Miró; the Dutch capital revels in the genius of Vincent van Gogh, strongly<br />
supported by the likes of Rembrandt and Vermeer. A more physical art, football, is also<br />
a strong link between the two cities, united by Johan Cruyff, the beautiful game’s most<br />
beautiful artist. But these are not places obsessed with their past. Both Barcelona and<br />
Amsterdam are very much rooted in the now – modern metropolises that continue to<br />
evolve into ever-more enticing destinations. It’s this forward thinking that enticed Moco<br />
Museum of Amsterdam to open a second iteration of its brand of accessible modern<br />
and contemporary art in the Catalan capital. The DNA of the museum is clear both in<br />
location – as the original is set in Villa Alsberg, a privileged dwelling in the heart of the<br />
city, so Moco Barcelona inhabits Palacio Cervelló, home to aristocratic families since<br />
the Middle Ages – and in philosophy. The first exhibitions of Moco Barcelona reflect<br />
a desire to salute what is most relevant in today’s art world: Laugh Now represents<br />
a seminal selection of work from the enigmatic street artist Banksy; Moco Masters<br />
Modern features work from established names such as Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel<br />
Basquiat; and perhaps most importantly Moco Masters Contemporary is a celebration<br />
of “rising stars” such as David LaChapelle, Hayden Kays and Harland Miller. Combined<br />
with a desire to explore, experiment and exhibit an artistic landscape that increasingly<br />
blurs the line between technology and art, the Moco museums will continue to mine a<br />
vein of rich cultural gold. And if Amsterdam does it with the more pragmatic edge of a<br />
Northern European capital, while Barcelona retains a certain sense of Latin flair, both<br />
museums will uphold a commitment to the ideal of Kim and Lionel Logchies, founders<br />
of Moco. “We represent the voice of the street, and we trust in art as the amazing<br />
vehicle to help get us there.” Two cities, one ideal with art at its heart. mocomuseum.com<br />
FACING PAGE<br />
Rubik James Bond Girl<br />
by Invader, 2008, in the<br />
foyer of the museum<br />
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Nick Thomm’s<br />
Metamorphosis, 2021<br />
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THE LAST WORD<br />
FUTURESCAPE<br />
NetJets Owner Toyozo Shimano’s 1921 is a new kind of venue –<br />
one that is the result of a very singular ambition<br />
THE PREMISE<br />
1921 will be a state-of-the-art space in<br />
Thermal, California. “The overarching<br />
idea is to bring things together that have<br />
been separate parts of my life,” say the<br />
man behind it, Toyozo “Toyo” Shimano.<br />
“We have activities for cars, then there<br />
are philanthropic activities, then golf, then<br />
there’s music, and we can bring all these<br />
things together into one business. Then if<br />
I am in the business I am doing all those<br />
things all the time,” says Shimano of his<br />
latest master plan.<br />
THE ORIGINS<br />
Shimano is both honouring the past and<br />
ushering in the future. The name marks<br />
the year that Shimano’s grandfather,<br />
Shozaburo, opened Shimano Iron Works<br />
in Sakai, Japan, the start of an empire<br />
that would encompass the manufacturing<br />
of cycling components, fishing tackle and<br />
rowing equipment, among other things.<br />
Toyo Shimano spent many years in an<br />
executive role for his family company, but<br />
is looking to create his own legacy with a<br />
strong sense of community. “We have to<br />
go out of our way to build something with<br />
a sense of community and grandeur and<br />
purpose – otherwise there is no sense,”<br />
he says.<br />
THE OFFERINGS<br />
A haven for arts and culture, 1921 will<br />
be a passport to ultimate luxury and<br />
a performance lifestyle. It will provide<br />
patrons with a selection of facilities for<br />
work and play, and will bring together<br />
people of shared interests, serving as<br />
a hub for philanthropic endeavours<br />
as well as developing world-class<br />
experiences. “This is not a vanity project<br />
for Toyo. This is a business, you know,<br />
we’re trying to build something here<br />
that people are going to see a massive<br />
amount of value [in] and are willing to<br />
spend money to join us on this journey,”<br />
says Kevin Root, Shimano’s close friend<br />
and finance manager<br />
THE BUILDINGS<br />
All of this will take place in a space<br />
designed by Arizona-based architects<br />
Wendell Burnette, perhaps best known<br />
for its work on the spectacular Amangiri<br />
resort in Utah. 1921 will consist of<br />
two structures. The main building will<br />
host a flexible variety of event spaces,<br />
catering for events ranging from vehicle<br />
presentations to music concerts. Across<br />
the street, via a palm grove, an auxiliary<br />
building offers an additional courtyard<br />
among its other amenities.<br />
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