A Midnight in Paris with Van Cleef & Arpels
With a name like Midnight in Paris, a name harnessing two of the more beautiful concepts in the world, what else would you expect but a revelation? Years ago, when very young, we walked all night through the streets of Paris. Over the bridges and across…
Heavenly Scent: Cire Trudon Spiritus Sancti Candle
Feeling a bit like Marie Antoinette lately? About to lose your head? Relax instead and light your home like Versailles with a candle from Cire Trudon. Founded in 1643, Cire Trudon served as the Royal wax manufacturer for the Queen and her court at…
Bad Boys: The Stretch Headphones by Philips | O’Neill
Someone we know hasn’t taken these headphones off his head for over a month. Well, okay, maybe two months. Make that two years. Not since the Christmas he received them. That’s saying something about this collaborative effort from two pioneers of…
Journey to Jouany’s Marrakech
All through childhood, oranges awaited us at the bottom of our Christmas stockings. Every year, a ripe orange, its bittersweet smell emanating from the red felt fabric. No Christmas was complete without the smell of a fresh orange. For more than a…
400 Years of Swedish Design at Stockholm’s Royal Palace
If you’ve ever been curious about the antecedents of the global preeminence of Swedish design, then you might consider a wander through Stockholm’s Royal Palace. A repository of Swedish art from the Middle Ages to the present, the Royal…
Dark and Delicious with Blood Concept B
One winter, due to the abrupt loss of a godparent and the subsequent discovery of a gift from a well-known oenophile, we sat in the library of my godfather and drank from a bottle of 1906 Chateau Margaux. It was a ceremonial occasion, filled with a kind…
Nutcracker Rouge’s Baroque Burlesque Yuletide
If you didn’t know before, it’s the pole-dancing Dewdrop that makes it abundantly clear that this is not your conventional sugarplum Nutcracker. Imagine instead that Marie Antoinette is throwing a bash at Le Petit Trianon – with Sally Rand and Gypsy Rose…
Red Hot Romance at Stockholm’s Brasserie le Rouge
Just because New Nordic cuisine has conquered the world doesn’t mean that you want to eat Scandinavian food every night – and particularly if you live in Stockholm. Some nights in Sweden you want to be transported to the Left Bank in Paris;…