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Byline: -LILAH RAMZI Off the Wall A new line of home goods mixes the merry with the macabre. 'I t's got a little bit of the old me. You know, [...]

Byline: -LILAH RAMZI Dressed to Kill Ridley Scott revisits one of fashion's greatest scandals with impeccably good style in House of Gucci. Earlier this summer, the public got its first [...]

Byline: asks Lilah Ramzi. Rules of Engagement Last year the blowout bash became a stoopside celebration, the destination féte a backyard barbecue. But will the micro-wedding last? 'On paper, we've [...]

Byline: -LILAH RAMZI In the Stretch psdSANTIAGO FELIPE/GETTY IMAGES.60 Coiled phone cords; Mariano Fortuny's Delphos dresses; Issey Miyake's textured, techy separates; and Roberto Capucci's lettuce-hemmed, rainbow-striped ball gowns: All of [...]

Austrian glassware maker Lobmeyr, known for its historical collaborations and prestigious clientele, has released its first-ever cowboy-themed collection called the Marfa Collection. The collection, a collaboration with interiors and fashion photographer Douglas Friedman, features six tumblers and a pitcher inspired by the town of Marfa in Texas. The vessels are adorned with whimsical hand-painted illustrations of cowboys, cacti, and other Western motifs. The collection is available exclusively online and ranges in price from $245 to $545. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: -LILAH RAMZI Flower Power psdDANIEL SEUNG LEE/PELLE.154 Creating one of Pelle's intricate papier-méché poppy sconces is an arduous process. First, Jean Pelle-one half of the design studio she runs [...]

Byline: -LILAH RAMZI Glass Act psdCOURTESY OF LA DOUBLEJ.288 Though American by birth, J. J. Martin has fully embraced la dolce vita. Martin's love affair with everything Italian began when [...]

Byline: -LILAH RAMZI In Fine Feather Meet Augustin, a surreal little bunny with a flair for trompe l'oeil. A resin objet d'art with a coat of feathers rather than fur, [...]

Byline: -LILAH RAMZI ALFRESCO ADVENTURES Spring brings a trio of far-flung hotels catering to intrepid flora- and fauna-lovers. Mombo and Little Mombo, Botswana Sister safari camps within Botswana's Okavango Delta [...]

Byline: -LILAH RAMZI Bloom Tme Fashion's floral fixation is age-old. Gabrielle Chanel was besotted with the pure-white camellia; designer Paul Poiret carried out a long-term love affair with the rose. [...]

Byline: -LILAH RAMZI PRIDE OF PLACE For the Chicago-based company Vintage Place Settings, Granny's prized Blue Willow patterns do not belong in the china chest. 'Our goal was to bring [...]

Byline: -LILAH RAMZI ISLA DE LA RENTA Ten years ago, Frank Rainieri of Punta Cana's Tortuga Bay Hotel asked the Dominican Republic's ultimate tastemaker, Oscar de la Renta, to lend [...]

Byline: LILAH RAMZI EDITOR: CHLOE SCHAMA Eastern Promises Next month, the jungly, beachside national park of Yala welcomes Wild Coast Tented Lodge -a family-run resort located on the southeastern shores [...]

Byline: LILAH RAMZI EDITOR: CHLOE SCHAMA Paper Trail In a famous photo shot by Horst P. Horst for VOGUE in 1969, the highly glamorous society matron Pauline de Rothschild peeks [...]

Byline: LILAH RAMZI EDITORS: MARK HOLGATE & MARK GUIDUCCI SOFIA Boutella Algerian-born and paris-raised, sofia boutella is not the bombshell you'd expect to star in the new Tom Cruise summer [...]

Byline: EDITORS: MARK HOLGATE & MARK GUIDUCCI LILAH RAMZI Comme les COLOMBIENS Spotting a rickety chiva rolling through the Haussmannized streets of Paris this summer may not, in fact, be [...]

Byline: -LILAH RAMZI Sculpture GARDENING Just after the Public Art Fund brought Anish Kapoor's spellbinding work Descension, an endless spiral of dark water that leads to nowhere, to Brooklyn Bridge [...]

Byline: LILAH RAMZI EDITORS: MARK HOLGATE & MARK GUIDUCCI Zoé Kravitz and Karl Glusman Certain Hollywood couples debut their romance with a tabloid shot heard round the world-and then there [...]

Byline: -LILAH RAMZI Into the WILD The ethically and environmentally focused travel group Time + Tide welcomes two properties-both plunged deep into local African ecosystems-to their portfolio of luxury lodgings. [...]

Byline: LILAH RAMZI EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER By the SEA Flora meets fauna in Chive's new collection of handmade ceramic objets inspired by nature found in and around the ocean. Anemones, [...]

Byline: EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER LILAH RAMZI Tropical Punch Just south of mainland Fiji, the Melanesian island Yaukuve Levu welcomes luxury resort Kokomo Island Fiji, whose aquamarine waters give on to [...]

Byline: EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER LILAH RAMZI IN Season 'The decor speaks the language of the local environment,' says Samuel Leizorek of Las Alcobas , Napa Valley's newest resort, set in [...]

Byline: EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER LILAH RAMZI MIAMI Rhapsody 'It's like watching a great movie where everything looks like it belongs,' says hotelier Michael Satsky of the Art Deco mise-en-scéne at [...]

Se Oh, a Korean American artist based in Los Angeles, recently held a solo exhibition titled "Elegies" at the Stroll Garden gallery. The exhibition showcased hand-thrown and hand-painted vessels inspired by Korean burial ceramics, adorned with flowers native to California. Oh, who took up pottery during the pandemic, used the medium to connect with their heritage and explore themes of endings and personal loss. The artist will be participating in a residency and exhibition at the Asian Cultural Center in Gwangju, South Korea, and will also be exhibiting at the Felix Art Fair in LA and collaborating with Phillips's curated online platform Dropshop. [Extracted from the article]

The article evaluates lifestyle products including the sweatshirt by Dolce and Gabbana, dress by Valentino and Ralph Lauren Collection and a floral porcelain plate by Dior.

The article presents a conversation of actress Rachel Zegler who talks about her role as Maria in West Side Story, 2021.

The article focuses on model turned organic farmer Kirsten Owen based in Vermont. She shared her fantasy about owning a blueberry farm and how it came true after she moved to Vermont in 2002. Owen spends her time in the country with her children and her energies are reserved for her blueberry bushes.

The article focuses on ballet dancer Wendy Whelan who has a position within the artistic leadership. Topics discussed include views of audiences who see human aspects in the dance, Teresa Reichlen on New York City Ballet, and her collaboration with choreographer Lucinda Childs at Pillow Dance Festival that will be held in Massachusetts.

The scenery was especially barren right outside the kitchen window, where the family members (including daughters Apollonie and Violette Grey) spend much of their time and Halard has positioned a couch for midday naps. The fabric covers Halard's napping couch, where the dogs and cats also settle in. "The need to fit our quite muddy life was pretty important", says Brooks. Miranda Brooks and Bastien Halard had their work cut out for them when, in 2017, the married couple acquired a 17th-century farmhouse in Gloucestershire, England. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on several entrepreneurs including Olivia Wilde and Barbara Burchfield, Jamila Woods and Chicago Mentees, and Jacquelyn Jablonski and family. Wilde and her best friend and business partner Burchfield founded creative agency Conscious Commerce, which helped develop eco-friendly products. Woods says mentorship is importance to her because that's how she was able to own her own voice. Jablonski founded Autism Tomorrow, a nonprofit organization for adults with autism.

The article offers wellness tips for 2018. It presents practices and products for mother-child coupling including the prenatal-fitness studio to aid in labor and delivery, the Expectful app which prescribes guided meditation and the Spoon meal-delivery services that features organic-food plans. It highlights how models embraced wellness which include the Body by Simone dance/workout classes of Amber Valletta and the aim of Angela Lindvall in generating life-force energy from within.

Launching this month, Marni's Midnight Flowers collection comprises dinner and side plates, teacups and saucers, and bowls of various depths. - LILAH RAMZI TEA PARTY A thin black line creates asymmetrical patterns on Marni's tablewares; center: Francesco Risso's personal tablescape. At the Salone del Mobile fair last April, design enthusiasts filtered into Marni's Milanese showroom, an industrial space whose concrete floors had been softened with swaths of white fabric draped from ceiling to wall and dabbed with faded citron- or blush-colored patches. [Extracted from the article]

Reflecting on the harrowing early months of war, they remembered a growing sense of responsibility - not only to their country, but to the Ukraine-based ceramic, metalwork, glass, and textile artisans under their employ. When Kyiv awoke to the Russian invasion last February, Natasha Kamenska and Maria Gavryliuk, founders of the Ukrainian-based fashion and homeware label Gunia Project, were among the many who temporarily relocated to safer regions (Berlin in their case). After all, Kamenska and Gavryliuk come with fashion credentials, having worked in the industry for over a decade; the two met at the Kyiv-based cool girl label Lake Studio before launching Gunia in 2017. [Extracted from the article]

Bunting is describing the way flowers are more intertwined with what we consume than we might think - a point made in the new cookbook she coauthored with Jo Facer, The Edible Flower (Laurence King Publishers), out this month. Even if you're having pork", says Northern Ireland - based chef Erin Bunting, "that pig was probably, somewhere, eating flowers." The flower-to-table trend is one that Los Angeles - based chef Loria Stern, who operates a catering business wholly rooted in botanicals, celebrates in her new book, Eat Your Flowers (William Morrow). [Extracted from the article]

PHOTO (COLOR): Deeda Blair's dining table in New York, photographed by Ngoc Minh Ngo. Deeda Blair knows the power of a well-orchestrated supper. PHOTO (COLOR): Blair, photographed by Eric Boman. [Extracted from the article]

"He loved green", Zoë de Givenchy recalls of her late uncle-in-law, Hubert de Givenchy. Zoë describes Hubert as an encyclopedia of the decorative arts; he traveled to remote locales like the tiny French village Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, famed for its ceramics, and encouraged his deep-pocketed society swans to follow. But Hubert also brought the hue to his table, using it in a pattern called Camaïeu that adorned a set of glazed ceramic dinnerware he commissioned for his country home two hours from Paris, Le Jonchet. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents the discussion on Boston trade show, a woman carrying a pile of quilts catching John Derian's eye including stores selling decoupage, crockery, and oil paintings.

The article discusses event producer Laird Gough's pandemic prompted interest in pottery. It explores her striking porcelain vessels meant to complement their organic contents as a result of her interest and her securing a studio and gallery in Tribeca.

The article focuses on jeweler Ana Khouri, who has been involved with Projeto Ovo, a philanthropic endeavor that sells pre-owned designer pieces and distributes the proceeds to various nongovernmental organizations (NGO) based in Brazil.

A review is offered for the Academy Museum, which will be dedicated to the history of the motion picture industry, located in in Los Angeles, California.

In this article seven fashion labels discuss their source of material treasures. It is stated that label Duro Olowu uses lyonnaise jacquards from Bianchini-Ferier and chines from Swiss silk mill Abraham for manufacturing its empire-waisted frock. It is noted that single Rianna + Nina garment uses scraps of vintage textiles like Hermes scarves and Japanese obis. It is stated that label Julie de Libran uses dead-stock fabrics from silk mill Lorma located in Lake Como district of Italy.

The article focuses on an increased adaptations of nature and natural things by designers and architects in their work and presents views of author William D. Browning on nature therapy, as of April 2021.

The article highlights the Furniture store, Bokja Design based in Beirut, Lebanon. Topics include that its ateliers were damaged in the 2020 Beirut explosion; that the company invited its community to repair its furniture; and the preservation of the history and heritage through art works for continuation of culture.

The article offers information on digital performance of ballets. Topics discussed include planning of New York City Ballet to recordings to curate a best-of season; views of executive director of ABT, Kara Medoff Barnett for digital distribution of live performances; and challenges to deal of time rehearsing.

The article offers information on several ceramics related to products including majolica vase from Studio Le Nid; tray from Utopia Goods; and Kuznetsov porcelain from Tamam.

The article informs on the works of textile designer Olivia Wendel pillows depicting cuddly koalas perched on a tree.

In this article, the author talks about a dress worn by Anya Taylor-Joy which he thinks of recreating.

The article informs that nonprofit architecture and design firm LA-Mas has constructed the first Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) as a pilot project to provide low-cost home on an existing lot to tackle the problem of homelessness. It is noted that ADU resides in the backyard of another home. According to Elizabeth Timme, co–executive director of LA-Mas, it is wonderful to give one's backyard to someone who has housing instability.

The article focuses on dresses designed by fashion designer Alexandra O'Neill of womenswear label Markarian.