A well-composed fragrance takes you places: a journey via olfactory memory. And if you are truly fortunate, you arrive in a sanctuary redolent with flora, evocative of a halcyon epoch. Such is the case with Joya’s Foxglove, which takes as its inspiration the herbaceous perennial that once blanketed 19th-century New York. Named for the flower’s…
Water comprises more than 60% of the human body – and covers more than 70% of the planet on which we live. Hence the title of Hugh Arnold’s collection of underwater photography Agua Nacida, the Spanish phrase for “water born.” As Arnold stated in a recent London interview, “The moment you submerge yourself in water…the…
There’s much to be said for bitter – and not all of it negative. One of the four primary taste sensations, bitter resides at the very back of the tongue at the farthest remove from the lips. Bittersweet, for example, offers exactly what it promises, cutting the sugary with something bracing, an antidote to cloying….
In a country that is nearly 97% uninhabited, culinary treasures await those who forage the wild: cloudberries and dewberries, chanterelles and ceps – and a strain of the fabled Burgundy truffle. All this and more in the third largest country in the European Union, a country larger than Germany, with regional cuisines as varied as…
Los Angeles owes much to European émigrés – and particularly to those in the arts. Rudolph Schindler arrived in the States in 1914 with a fervent desire to meet and work with Frank Lloyd Wright. The young architect settled first in Chicago, overseeing Wright’s office while Wright completed work on Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel. Located on…
For many people, fragrance is one part of a personal signature. You’ve got to love a company that eschews mass adulation and says, “[This] is not a scent for the masses.” Produced by the Berlin-based Biehl Parfumkunstwerke, PC02 is French perfumer Patricia Choux’s homage to the circus, with its seductive fragrances of cotton candy and…
For many people, The Frick Collection, located on the Upper East Side in the erstwhile Beaux-Arts mansion of 19th-century tycoon Henry Clay Frick, has long been their “idealized” home away from home: a sanctuary of gracious rooms to which they return for a reunion with old friends – rendered, as it were, by some of…
Just north of Copenhagen, less than 10 kilometers from the city center, exists a bucolic sanctuary of art and architecture. A quick train ride brings you to the tony suburb of Charlottenlund, not so far from Dyrehaven (the Royal Deer Park), where you find yourself walking through a leafy neighborhood and up the drive to…