Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.0, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Beyond St.Regis Magazine ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://magazine.stregis.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [All That Glitters](https://magazine.stregis.com/all-that-glitters/) - “I like things that shine,” jokes Glenn Spiro – fittingly for a man who makes exceptionally fine jewelry. One of Spiro’s shiny things was recently donated to the prestigious permanent collection of important jewelry at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum by none other than Beyoncé, who is both a friend and a client of Spiro’s. - [Smart Packings](https://magazine.stregis.com/smart-packings-3/) - [It's a Wonderful Life](https://magazine.stregis.com/its-a-wonderful-life-2/) - A conversation with Jon Batiste is like drinking a tall glass of liquid optimism. Even on an oppressively humid afternoon in New York, the dapper 31-year-old still manages to exude a joyful enthusiasm. His outlook reminds me of the famous Louis Armstrong song What a Wonderful World. It’s extremely refreshing. Batiste’s effervescent brand of charm – - [Kitchen Confidential](https://magazine.stregis.com/kitchen-confidential-7/) - Hailing from Toulon in the South of France, chef Sébastien Giannini has spent the last 20 years honing his craft under some of the world’s best chefs, reaching the final of the prestigious Bocuse D’Or Culinary Competition in 2010. Last year he was appointed executive chef at The St. Regis Washington, D.C., heading up its - [Tribal Art](https://magazine.stregis.com/tribal-art/) - Any regular visitor to the world’s leading contemporary art fairs will have noticed an increase in the amount of tribal art on display, specifically African tribal art. Unsurprisingly, this surge has corresponded with a rise in the price of high-end lots sold at the world’s big auction houses. In 2014, a very rare Senufo female - [The Razor](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-razor/) - According to Forbes, barbering is America’s fastest-growing profession. Much like bricklaying, it isn’t threatened by the internet – in other words, you can’t get your hair cut online. So while stores around the world battle against e-commerce, landlords are welcoming barbers with open arms. Which is convenient, given men’s newfound penchant for taking care of - [The Scarf](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-scarf/) - The foulard has become this year’s must-have accessory. These printed silk scarves have come and gone over the years, but never before have so many women (and men) looked to them to add a pop of a color or a dash of glamour to their ensemble. But instead of the traditional knotted-under-the-chin style, today’s fashion - [Bamboo](https://magazine.stregis.com/bamboo/) - Bamboo might well be the most versatile material on the planet. Today it is used in construction (its tensile strength is greater than that of mild steel), plywoods, plastics, biofuel, medicine, 3D-printing and even juice. Not only is it strong, lightweight, and even tasty, it’s also eco-friendly. Bamboo is the world’s fastest-growing plant – some - [The Wild Bouquet](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-wild-bouquet/) - “This country is in the midst of a floral revolution,” writes Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Deborah Needleman in The New York Times. “Flower arrangements have become wilder and stranger, incorporating all manner of seasonal flora plucked from the woods, the garden, the roadside and the vegetable patch.” And it’s not just in the US. Across the - [The Teapot](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-teapot/) - Tea, we’re reliably informed, is the new wine. Sommeliers in fine dining establishments are serving cold-brewed tea in wineglasses and at two Michelin-starred New York restaurant Atera you can enjoy a “tea progression” comprising six different teas matched to an 18-course tasting menu. But this isn’t tea as we know it. Following the “craft” blueprint - [The Earrings](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-earrings/) - Earrings – the bigger, danglier and more ornate the better – have been stealing the show on catwalks since the beginning of the year, when Flamenco-style tassels filled the glossies’ fashion pages. This season, if earrings don’t tickle the shoulder, they’re considered understated. Versace’s key-shaped earrings look like they could unlock a castle gate, Zadig - [A Little Place I Know](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-little-place-i-know-12/) - An enchanting mosque in Cairo by Philip Hewat-Jaboor Aqsunqur Mosque, Bab el-Wazir Street, Tabbana Quarter, Cairo There’s something profoundly enchanting about Egypt. The light and the landscape are so extraordinary, with the Nile snaking through the country, and this belt of lush green landscape, which then stops abruptly. You can literally stand with - [Culture Clash](https://magazine.stregis.com/culture-clash/) - A well-known figure within contemporary Indian art, Rekha Rodwittiya rose to prominence internationally through the Eighties and Nineties with her forceful, vibrantly colored and idiosyncratic depictions of female forms and rituals. The product of a liberal, middle class, highly educated cross-cultural household – her father was a Parsi and her mother a Roman Catholic - [A Little Slice of Heaven](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-little-slice-of-heaven/) - Many conventional investments nowadays offer poor financial returns and zero excitement. So it’s no surprise that many of us dream of putting cash into something that sets the pulse racing – diamonds, a classic car, fine wines or contemporary art, perhaps. But what if what you desire is simply too rare, too precious, unless you - [Losing It](https://magazine.stregis.com/losing-it/) - For some of us, vacations are an opportunity to indulge in bacchanalian delights. Others view them as a chance to kick-start a healthy routine, with advice from spa experts and access to fresh, healthy menus. We might think of this focus on weight and body shape as a fairly modern concern, yet there’s nothing new - [Dream City](https://magazine.stregis.com/dream-city-singapore/) - On 12 September 1965, shortly after Singapore had been cast out of the recently formed Malaysian federation, and had declared its independence, the fledgling nation’s prime minister Lee Kuan Yew stood before a crowd of supporters and declared, “We made this country. From nothing! From mudflats! Ten years from now, [Singapore] will be a metropolis. - [Mexican Wave](https://magazine.stregis.com/mexican-wave/) - A couple of years ago, a Bolivian chef told me he wanted to reclaim the chili for his country. The argument, that hot peppers were first cultivated in the Andean high plains and spread north from there, is supported by food archaeologists. If the message could only get out, it might actually do Mexico - [To Rome With Love](https://magazine.stregis.com/to-rome-with-love-2/) - It’s no small task, accomplishing the makeover of an iconic hotel – and the renovation of The St. Regis Rome has taken multiple teams more than two years to complete, at a cost of €48 million (approximately $56 million). All this, as general manager Giuseppe De Martino puts it, to equip the hotel for “a - [The Double Act](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-double-act-2/) - Perhaps even more difficult a task than dressing a royal bride is dressing the bride’s mother. So, when a vintage Rolls-Royce Phantom swept up the Long Walk of Windsor Castle at 11:58 on the 19th May 2018 bearing Meghan Markle, it’s little wonder the hawk-like gaze of the world’s fashion media settled also on her mother, - [Family Affair](https://magazine.stregis.com/family-affair/) - The Learning Vacation In the late 16th century, young aristocrats (well, the males ones at least – young women did not have this option) were sent off to France and Italy to complete their educations by immersing themselves in classical art and architecture on trips that became known as the Grand Tour. Today, Petits Tours - [Lionel Shriver](https://magazine.stregis.com/lionel-shriver/) - 1. The American South, 1977 When I was 19 I did my first big bike trip, from New York to the South and back, with my younger brother. We’d grown up in Raleigh and Atlanta and had just moved to New York, so this was a return to our roots. Every now and then the - [Baby, It's Cold Outside](https://magazine.stregis.com/baby-its-cold-outside/) - [Rooms with a View](https://magazine.stregis.com/rooms-with-a-view/) - At first glance, an interior painting by Los Angeles-based artist Jonas Wood (right) feels as fresh as a midsummer garden after a rain shower. Look again, however, and the effect is more disorienting: the flattened perspective and distortions of space are more the stuff of dreams than reality. Other contrasts in Wood’s work are similarly - [Mrs Astor Invites](https://magazine.stregis.com/mrs-astor-invites-2/) - For almost four decades, New York society – then the world’s most rigid and exclusive – was ruled by one woman, Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, known throughout New York as the Mrs Astor. Her prestige was such that to be invited to Mrs Astor’s annual ball, invariably on the third Monday in January, was to be - [Rancho Deluxe](https://magazine.stregis.com/rancho-deluxe/) - When Argentinian polo player and St. Regis Connoisseur Nacho Figueras set about creating a 30-acre ranch outside Buenos Aires two years ago, his thoughts turned to Cuadra San Cristóbal, the iconic equestrian estate created in 1968 by the late, great Mexican modernist architect Luis Barragán. “I have a thing for architecture,” says Figueras. “And I love - [Natural Selection](https://magazine.stregis.com/natural-selection/) - [I Love Rock ’n’ Roll](https://magazine.stregis.com/i-love-rock-n-roll/) - If John Varvatos had been a better musician he might never have become a fashion designer. “I was in a band as a teenager, but I just wasn’t good enough,” he says with disarming honesty. Thankfully, music’s loss was fashion’s gain. After stints at Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein, the designer set up his eponymous - [Treasures of India](https://magazine.stregis.com/treasures-of-india/) - “I started with watches. Then it was cars. Now it’s art,” says Nirav Modi. He’s describing his progression as a collector, which has resulted in the superb array of artworks that adorn the Mumbai headquarters of his eponymous jewelry brand. Having recently opened stores in London and Manhattan, Modi has turned the jewelry house he - [“The problem with being a woman jeweler is that you fall in love with the pieces you’ve made”](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-problem-with-being-a-woman-jeweler-is-that-you-fall-in-love-with-the-pieces-youve-made/) - Bao Bao Wan is one of China’s most successful jewelers, with her own line of haute joaillerie as well as a more accessible range. Although she is successful in her own right, with collections stocked worldwide in stores such as Harrods in London and Lane Crawford in Hong Kong, the designer and socialite was born - [Sands of Time](https://magazine.stregis.com/sands-of-time-2/) - Travel and the Middle East were made for one another. Over the centuries – and no region on earth this side of Africa has been around for so many of them – the land has been criss-crossed by Nabateans, Romans, Crusaders and pilgrims. Its dunes and deserts have enticed writers and wanderers, from Victorian explorer - [Claudia Schiffer](https://magazine.stregis.com/claudia-schiffer/) - 1. Paris, 1987 One evening in 1987 I was at a nightclub in Düsseldorf when out of the blue I was asked by a complete stranger if I wanted to be a model. Of course I thought it was a joke and asked him if he meant my best friend, who to my mind was - [Kitchen Confidential](https://magazine.stregis.com/kitchen-confidential-5/) - Chef Ayyoub Salameh has a passion for creating contemporary, elegant new dishes, and has cooked everywhere from Milan and Florence to The St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort. Today, he oversees the island’s four restaurants, serving up delicious Mediterranean and Asian cuisine – as well as some of his Jordanian mother’s tried and tested secret recipes. Who - [Sweet Dreams](https://magazine.stregis.com/sweet-dreams/) - Sleep, wrote Vladimir Nabokov in his 1967 autobiography, Speak, Memory, is a “nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius”. Only dullards do it, apparently. “Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world,” he declares. “It is a mental torture I find debasing.” Nabokov’s romanticization of the writer as a hyper-alert insomniac forging his creative - [A Little Place I Know](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-little-place-i-know-11/) - A traditional restaurant in Astana by Ryan Koopmans Qazaq Gourmet, 29 Mangilik El St, Astana This restaurant is in the main business area, near the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation (designed by Norman Foster) and lots of political buildings, so it’s right at the heart of Astana life. Although it’s on the ground - [The Outsider](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-outsider/) - Despite being considered one of the greatest painters alive today, Georg Baselitz insists he has “never felt secure”. Now in his 80th year, and the subject of a major retrospective – his first in the United States since the mid-1990s – his journey to artistic preeminence has been far from assured. Controversy and antagonism have - [The Micro-bag](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-micro-bag/) - Carrying a micro-bag is not a fashion to follow if you’re a woman who normally carries everything but the kitchen sink about with her. But this is a trend that even the most practical are swooning over because, well, this season’s bags – like the one pictured, from Tod’s – are just so adorable. Not - [The Folding Bike](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-folding-bike/) - We live in an era in which the savvy CEO is more likely to turn up at a board meeting on a bicycle than in a chauffeur-driven limo. The bike, after all, projects agility and all the fresh, un-starchy energy of a start-up. And folding bikes are emerging as a particularly popular way to get - [Charcoal](https://magazine.stregis.com/charcoal/) - The medicinal properties of charcoal have long been known: both Hippocrates (in 400 BC) and Pliny the Elder (in AD 50) described it being used to treat ailments from rotting wounds to vertigo. What the savants might never have predicted, though, is the sudden popularity of burnt vegetable matter in the food scene of the - [The Dress Slipper](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-dress-slipper/) - Originally designed as a house shoe for Victorian men hosting formal dinners, or to wear with a silk dressing gown for elegant evenings chez soi, the dress slipper is enjoying a remarkable revival among fashionable men. Almost 200 years after Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, elevated it from a practical, mud-free indoor shoe to a - [The Houseplant](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-houseplant/) - Greenery has been a motif on the fashion catwalks for the past few years, but it’s only recently that fashionistas have started to bring real tropicalia indoors and to grow plants themselves. Why their sudden enthusiasm? Not only because plants enhance a modishly midcentury interior – especially that 1970s stalwart, the cheeseplant (pictured), or because - [The Ruby](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-ruby/) - Although traditionally the ruby has been considered just one of the four great precious stones (alongside emeralds, diamonds and sapphires), in recent years it has taken a starring role in jewelry collections. According to the author Joanna Hardy, who spent three years researching a new book on the subject, the ruby’s rise to prominence has been - [Plywood](https://magazine.stregis.com/plywood/) - A clever composite made of layers of fine wood glued together, plywood has been used since Egyptian times. Although its easy-to-mold forms were widely put to use in the early 20th century to make boats, furniture, houses and even planes – such as Amelia Earhart’s famous trans-Atlantic Lockheed Vega 5B – it was only after - [The Spice of Life](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-spice-of-life/) - The celebrated Egyptian food writer Claudia Roden remembers clearly the meals she had in post-war London, having fled Cairo during the Suez Crisis. “False cream, false meat, false everything,” she says with a shudder. “It was a shock.” In a bid to comfort her daughter in their new home, Roden’s mother would cook familiar - [Kitchen Confidential](https://magazine.stregis.com/kitchen-confidential-4/) - With over 30 years’ gastronomic experience, Indian-born chef Samir Roonwal has cooked around the globe, from Dubai to Canada. Now, he’s heading up food and drink at The St. Regis Aspen Resort and preparing to launch an exciting new restaurant there this autumn, bringing his passion for outstanding local produce to the menu. Oh, and - [A River Runs Through It](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-river-runs-through-it/) - Early evening on the Nile in Cairo, and the sail of our felucca, the traditional Egyptian sailing boat, was swollen with pink light. Mohamed – guide, boatman, sage – was standing in the stern, balanced against a stay, guiding the tiller with his bare foot. Caught up in the arms of the river, we were - [The Road More Traveled](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-road-more-traveled/) - In the Tian Shan Mountains – the Mountains of Heaven, to the Chinese – my guide and I came upon an old man on a white horse. He wore tall leather boots and a splendid white felt hat like an upturned jelly mold. With a jerk of his head, he invited us to come and - [Age of Elegance](https://magazine.stregis.com/age-of-elegance/) - [Smart Packings](https://magazine.stregis.com/smart-packings-2/) - [A Little Place I Know](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-little-place-i-know-9/) - An Ottoman palace in Istanbul by Leon Jakimič Dolmabahçe Palace, Visnezade Mahallesi, Dolmabahce Cd, Istanbul The palace is set between the ports of Besiktas and Kabatas and overlooks the Bosphorus, in which the old Ottoman fleets used to anchor. You can arrive here either on foot, through the little cobbled streets, or by boat, on - [Finding El Dorado](https://magazine.stregis.com/finding-el-dorado/) - From the baking coastal deserts to the fertile terraces of the Sacred Valley, the sun was worshipped by almost all of Peru’s indigenous peoples. And when the Nazca, Salinar, Vicús, Chimú, Moche and Sipán cultures sought a physical expression of this vital power, they turned to their most precious metal: gold. When I first - [The Luxe Sneaker](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-luxe-sneaker/) - So common is sportswear as daily wear, it has a special word: “athleisure”. And it’s booming. The greatest athleisure talisman is the training shoe, which has always had a bit of cachet since it emerged as a streetwear fashion item in the 1970s. These days sneakers are also viewed as exclusive after-party wear – with prices to match. Valentino’s - [The Lightbulb](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-lightbulb/) - It’s curious that new technology is making us hark back to old technology with nostalgia-infused fondness. Take lightbulbs. The market for LEDs is booming, and yet there has been a massive march of old-fashioned glass globes with exposed and often decorative filaments. The New York restaurant Craft is said to have kickstarted the trend more - [Japanese Whisky](https://magazine.stregis.com/japanese-whisky/) - Once, all whisky connoisseurs deferred to Scotland, and although whisky was made elsewhere, it was considered a pale imitation. But over the last decade there has been a real growth in Asian whiskies, notably in Japan. A keen whisky-drinking nation, it has made the drink for almost a century. “In the 2000s, Japanese whiskies started - [The Polaroid](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-polaroid/) - In October, Bonham’s put up an auction of Polaroid photographs by the director Andrei Tarkovsky. These square, framed images were intended by the Russian film director to be ephemeral – guidance for the shots needed for his 1983 film Nostalgia. Yet interest in them was huge. Indeed, despite the fact that Polaroids were designed to - [The Pomegranate](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-pomegranate/) - The pomegranate is having a moment. This is partly due to its “superfood” status: rammed with antioxidants, it’s a nutrient bomb – as suggested by its French name, “grenade”. It’s also visually arresting, inspiring painters like Henri Matisse, whose Still Life with Pomegranates (1947) can be seen at the Matisse Museum in Nice. Most importantly, - [The Rocking Horse](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-rocking-horse/) - When Prince George, the youngest member of the British royal family, was born in 2013, he received a fantastic range of luxurious gifts. But one in particular captured the public attention: a rocking horse from toy manufacturers Stevenson Brothers. Somehow, the rocking horse ticks all the right boxes: it’s an heirloom, a domestic icon, and - [The Brooch](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-brooch/) - Once considered fusty and outmoded, there are signs that the brooch is fashionable again. Last summer, for example, Uma Thurman wore a vintage Cartier Birds of Paradise brooch to the Met Gala. Look into the brooch’s history and you’ll find a fascinating world of ceremonial genres: the “aigrette” feather-shaped brooch, the “grand tour” cameo brooch, - [The Embellished Heel](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-embellished-heel/) - It’s 30 years since Paul Simon released his iconic album Graceland, which featured the song Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes. And while this surreal footwear concept is yet to be fully realized (to our knowledge), this season has seen something similar on the catwalks: the embellished heel. To accommodate dramatic decorations, the styles have - [The E-bike](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-e-bike/) - For anyone concerned about the environment, electric-assisted bicycles are the future of urban transportation. Combining pedal-power and electric drive, they are emissions-free and require minimal exertion. We’re now seeing a new breed of curvaceous creations such as the Vintage Electric “Tracker”, pictured. Based in California, Vintage Electric began making e-bikes inspired by 1920s racing motorcycles - [The Faberge Egg](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-faberge-egg/) - This year marks 100 years since Peter Carl Fabergé, goldsmith to the Russian Imperial Court, delivered his last Fabergé Imperial Egg. The Russian Revolution brought an abrupt end to the House of Fabergé, with the artist-jeweler and his family forced to flee Russia. Founded in 1842, the House was famed for the series of Imperial - [The Succulent](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-succulent/) - Houseplants were once considered woefully uncool among the young and hip. Anyone with a hectic social life would surely find it impossible to find time for plant-watering, and owning a yucca might hamper one’s ability to jet off to Berlin at the drop of a hat. But now hipsters from Williamsburg to The Mission have - [The Ski Poster](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-ski-poster/) - In January, a 1934 poster advertising alpine resort Gstaad sold at auction for nearly $108,814 – a world record. The sum paid came as a shock even to Christie’s, who had offered a guide price of $15,000. Christie’s holds sales of vintage ski posters twice a year, and the prices have been rising steadily. Originally printed - [The Black Noodle](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-black-noodle/) - Black food is one of the more unusual trends to hit the blogosphere this year. The seeds of this phenomenon were perhaps planted in 2015 with Burger King Japa’s Kuro Burger, tinted with bamboo charcoal. Since then, culinary mavericks have displayed their own take on the trend, from Melbourne bakery Lune’s squid ink and cumin - [The Color](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-color/) - As Vogue reported this year: “No matter how many we encounter, there is just something about a sunset that ignites the imagination. And this has got designers thinking, too; from yellow to fiery orange and cinnamon, there isn’t one color this spring but an ombré of glowing sunset hues. ”After decades in the fashion wilderness, - [The perfume bottle](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-perfume-bottle/) - When Coco Chanel was asked why her dressing table was covered with hundreds of perfume bottles, many of them empty, she replied: “Those bottles are my memories of surrender and conquest, my crown jewels of love.” Surprisingly, commercial perfume bottles are a relatively new invention. In the early 1900s, women would buy fragrance in simple - [The board game](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-board-game/) - In this hi-tech digital age, some families are returning to the simple pleasures of traditional board games. Games like chess and backgammon are often beautiful artifacts in their own right. Auction houses routinely sell antique chess sets for thousands of dollars, while brands like William & Son have carved out a reputation for selling exquisite - [The fountain pen](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-fountain-pen/) - For a certain type of person, there is only one type of pen – a proper ink pen. Whether you’re writing a novel or dashing off a note to someone, signing in ink speaks volumes about how you wish to present yourself – which is why it’s vital to own a quality fountain pen. Of - [The Romanesco](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-romanesco/) - Earlier this year, U.S. Vogue posed the question: “Are vegetables the new meat?” Veg is all the rage right now, it seems, and not just for the usual health-conscious, save-the-planet reasons – but because it tastes great And yet there is still a nagging sense that however imaginatively prepared, cabbage or kale will never inspire - [The hamam towel](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-hamam-towel/) - Canadian Jennifer Gaudet, founder of Jennifer’s Hamam in Istanbul’s Arasta Bazaar, is a passionate defender of Turkey’s vanishing textiles tradition. Thankfully her mission has been boosted by the global popularity of the hamam towel or pestemal – a compact and lightweight towel that’s highly absorbent and dries five times quicker than regular towels. “The hamam - [The globe](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-globe/) - Demand for globes has rocketed in the past decade. Yet for the most part, today’s globes are a far cry from exquisitely made antique versions, which are expensive and often too delicate for everyday display. A hand-painted Bellerby & Co. globe, like the exquisite “Livingstone” model pictured, takes a vast amount of expertise to complete, - [The emerald](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-emerald/) - When it comes to haute joaillerie, green is the color. Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett and Mila Kunis have all been spotted wearing emeralds on the red carpet; the famous Colombian emerald mine Muzo is creating a precious stone brand with top designers like Shaun Leane and Solange Azagury-Partridge; and earlier this year in Hong Kong, - [The Flat Shoe](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-flat-shoe/) - When officials turned away women who weren’t wearing high heels at a gala screening of Todd Haynes’ Carol at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the organizers were woefully arrière-garde – because in recent seasons there has been a noticeable return to flats. On the catwalks, designers from Prada to Louis Vuitton have embraced flats, from wedges - [The Nature Book](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-nature-book/) - Ask the international book dealer Bernard Shapero why there’s such a demand for rare old natural history books and he’s quick to answer. “People love to be surrounded by things they know, and everyone knows what a bird looks like, or a plant or an animal,” he says. “In addition, they’re also usually extremely beautiful.” They - [The Hot Potato](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-hot-potato/) - The potato is often referred to as “humble”, a support act rather than a star. But there’s something cooking in carbohydrate land, and the potato is climbing the ladder of gastro success, as chefs focus on the right kind of potato for each dish. For, like people, potatoes differ: some are smooth and waxy, others - [The Skateboard](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-skateboard/) - Skateboarders and surfers might not immediately strike one as being kin. The former inhabit urban environments, while the latter ride the wild ocean waves. But skateboarding was born out of Californian surfers’ desire to ride a board whatever the weather – by attaching wheels from roller skates to pieces of wood, they could ride year-round - [The Kimono](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-kimono/) - As recently as 80 years ago, the kimono – “something to wear” – was still commonly worn in Japan. An outer garment sported by both men and women, it can be adorned in different ways. Men’s kimonos might be embellished with paintings of great warriors. Women’s are traditionally embroidered and delicately painted with natural scenes - [The Colored Glass](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-colored-glass/) - Colored wine glasses have a noble history. They were popular with the Romanovs, the French Court and Britain’s Georgian dandies, and now they’re back in vogue. Versace, for example, has brought out wine glasses with arabesque patterns and yellow-tinted glass heads, while the antiques market is aflame with colored glasses from names like Moser, Heckert - [The Thank-You Note](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-thank-you-note/) - In our brave new world of laptops and smartphones, one might be forgiven for thinking that writing by hand is in danger of dying out. Indeed, a survey of 1,400 children found that just one in five had ever received a handwritten letter. But the art of the thank-you note is returning, and the impetus - [THE TIARA](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-tiara/) - No woman looks bad in a tiara. As designer Vivienne Westwood said: “You can wear rubbish and you can just put [a tiara] on and it does something for your hair.” Hence the tiara’s return to glamorous heads, from the tousled locks of Georgia May Jagger to the regal crown of the Duchess of Cambridge. - [THE HYDRANGEA](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-hydrangea/) - When hip stylist Camille Bidault Waddington was photographed in her home for French Vogue, she chose to be shot alongside just a few of her favorite things: an antique wooden dresser, a sensuous sculpture and a vase overflowing with bulbous pom-poms of inky-blue hydrangeas. In the past, the hydrangea was a plant that was kept - [THE SNUFF BOTTLE](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-snuff-bottle/) - Just as men today might compare watches or cars, in 17th-century China the object of desire was a snuff bottle. According to dealer Robert Hall, these miniature bottles were not just objects in which to carry powdered tobacco, but intricately embellished masterpieces, created for China’s elite. Snuff bottles only came to popularity in China because - [FANCY WATCH FACES](https://magazine.stregis.com/fancy-watch-faces/) - While many horologists obsess about the movement and complications housed within a watch’s casing, for most watch-lovers, it is the look of a watch that matters most. Hence the trend in the past few years for watch manufacturers to invent increasingly decorative dials. Vacheron Constantin, the world’s oldest watch brand, has led the way by - [WOODEN SURFBOARDS](https://magazine.stregis.com/wooden-surfboards/) - For those who didn’t know that wooden surfboards were having a moment, there is plenty of proof online. Such is the devotion of the natural board’s fans that there are now more than 120 websites dedicated to their manufacture. Once the means by which islanders would sail between atolls in the South Seas, wooden boards - [THE RETRO POSTCARD](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-retro-postcard/) - One might have imagined that the postcard would have died a death in the internet age. But there’s a growing trend for cool types to send "retro" postcards, according to Katherine Hamilton-Smith, director of cultural services at the Lake County Discovery Museum in Chicago, which holds the Curt Teich Postcard Archives, the world’s largest public - [TURKISH DELIGHT](https://magazine.stregis.com/turkish-delight/) - Istanbul is crammed with colorful shops vying for attention. But the emporia that really snag the eye are those selling pyramids of gelatinous cubes in acidic greens, pinks and reds, dusted with icing sugar. More than mere candy, this Turkish Delight or lokum is a visual and toothsome feast, in a riot of flavors such - [The cocoa bean](https://magazine.stregis.com/object-2-2/) - To the ancient civilisations of the Maya and the Aztecs, it was a highly prized currency; now the humble cocoa bean is once again revered in the kitchens of Michelin-starred restaurants. Philipp Kauffmann, co-founder of the sustainable chocolate company Original Beans, has a passion for the world’s rainforests and a hard head for business. Not - [Oud resin](https://magazine.stregis.com/object-3/) - Although it has been used for centuries in the Middle East, until about ten years ago oud was almost unknown as an ingredient in Western perfumery. In Arabia, the sweet, rich scent is an important part of the culture. The resin of the agar tree is instilled into precious perfumes, and the tiny chips of - [The tourbillon watch](https://magazine.stregis.com/object-3-4/) - Like car manufacturers or yacht engineers, high-end watchmakers thrive on achieving ever-more mind-boggling feats of engineering. Except that in watchmaking it is on a micro scale. The skill of these (mainly Swiss) technicians is their ability to keep mechanisms small and light while improving the watches’ functionality; this they do by creating “complications”, or additional - [Scottish cashmere](https://magazine.stregis.com/object-3-5/) - Some of the finest cashmere, as lovers of the fabric will attest, is woven in Scotland. It is in the Scottish Borders region adjoining England, beside the clear streams, that a Scot, Joseph Dawson, invented a mechanical process to sort and clean the fibres in the 19th century, and it is here, ever since, that - [The Silent Logo](https://magazine.stregis.com/object-2-1/) - Logos are an important way of signaling our wealth and our fashionability – key weapons in any status-conscious society. In previous ages, richly embroidered fabrics and tapestries delineated your class and engraved signet rings denoted your lineage; now logos have become the contemporary way of communicating our lifestyle, our aspirations and our means. However, in - [The St. Regis Bloody Mary](https://magazine.stregis.com/object-3-10/) - Conventional wisdom has it that hard-won cocktail recipes must remain secret, each bar jealously guarding the process of alcoholic alchemy that turns base ingredients into liquid gold. But at St. Regis hotels, the Bloody Mary – one of the most famous cocktail recipes in the world – also has other versions for each St. Regis - [The Fossil as Art](https://magazine.stregis.com/seven-objest-014/) - Natural masterpieces created by the patient hand of time, fossils are the world’s oldest antiques, with even the youngest claiming a 10,000-year pedigree. While fossil collecting remains a popular scientific endeavor, the parallel trade in one-off statement pieces is gathering pace, as these exquisite natural objects catch the eye of fine-art collectors. Dale Rogers, the - [The Riding Boot](https://magazine.stregis.com/seven-object-015/) - Forget the Year of the Snake, in fashion terms, the horse continues to dictate the stakes in 2013. The paradigm of English country style, the equestrian look, was originally tailormade with sleek lines deployed for comfort and to avoid spooking the horse. Its adoption by the gentry was established in the early 1800s, and the - [Musical memorabilia](https://magazine.stregis.com/seven-object-0178/) - When an Antoria six-string acoustic guitar played by Sir Paul McCartney in his early band The Quarry Men made $70,000 at Bonhams recently, no one batted an eyelid. Because alongside Elvis and Michael Jackson, The Beatles are kings of the thriving musical and entertainment memorabilia market. Financial woes usher many items to the auctioneer’s block: - [The Upcycled Gem](https://magazine.stregis.com/seven-object-0172/) - Vintage jewelery may feature stones of the highest quality, but it can easily look dated. Eliane Fattal, daughter of legendary arts patron Jill Ritblat, has found a stylish way to offer a second life to antique jewels. A photographer and art historian, Fattal was best known for keeping American Vogue editor Anna Wintour in statement necklaces. Stumbling - [Chinese stamps](https://magazine.stregis.com/chinese-stamps/) - One impact of the rise of China is the rise of the Chinese collector and the seemingly inexorable rise in price of the Chinese collectible. Everything from a Ming vase to a Shanghai movie poster from the 1930s is coveted by someone, somewhere (most likely China). Nowhere is this seen more than in the world - [Yellow diamonds](https://magazine.stregis.com/yellow-diamonds/) - Look inside any high-end jeweler’s window today and one color will shine out: yellow. In the past few years, yellow diamonds have become the fashionable choice for women who want jewelery that is different from their mother’s. While white diamonds will never go out of fashion, “women now want a bit of color”, says Katharina - [Roman Intaglios](https://magazine.stregis.com/roman-intaglios/) - When the Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France was excavated, one of the most exciting finds for archaeologists was a Roman intaglio ring. During the Roman Empire, the engraved rings would have been worn by businessmen who had images – mythological beasts, horses, portraits – carved into gems such as amethyst, agate or jasper. “In - [Exotic Tea](https://magazine.stregis.com/exotic-tea/) - Over the two millennia since Wang Bao first described the preparation of tea, the drink’s popularity has spread from China across the globe. Once the highly coveted drink of the rich, tea has become the world’s second-most popular drink after water. According to Cliff Burrows, the group president of Starbucks, it is not just the - [Tequila](https://magazine.stregis.com/tequila/) - Twenty years ago, tequila was a drink associated with youthful excess: downed in shots and sandwiched between lime squeezes and salt licks. What only a few aficionados appreciated was that in small places near the town of Tequila and villages along the Tequila Route, highly purified fine liquor had been distilled for use by aristocratic - [The Stiletto](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-stiletto/) - When one considers the sheer beauty of a pair of stilettos by Manolo Blahnik – slithers of the finest leather, artfully constructed above an elegant heel – it is unsurprising that some women have become obsessed with them. Although high-heeled shoes have been worn since Roman times, the slimline modern heel only came into existence - [The Bicycle](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-bicycle/) - This is the bicycle’s moment. It is the most popular means of transport on earth, with more than a billion models whizzing across the planet. There’s good reason for its renewed popularity. Ridden at low speeds of 10 to 15 miles an hour, a bicycle utilises the same amount of energy as walking. It’s cheap - [Netsukes](https://magazine.stregis.com/netsukes/) - In his poignant family memoir, Edmund de Waal describes how he inherited a collection of 264 netsukes from his great-uncle Iggie and traces their journey through generations of the Ephrussi family. “Netsukes have an extraordinary, irreducible character,” De Waal explains, “some funny, some hideous, some charming. And you can feel their stories through your fingers. - [The Fly](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-fly/) - The film A River Runs Through It has a lot to answer for. When Robert Redford turned Norman Maclean’s novella into a movie starring Brad Pitt, fly-fishing graduated from a pastime for old-timers into a super-cool sport, from the rivers of Japan to the mountain streams of Aspen. Even two decades on, fly-fishing has lost - [Artisanal Honey](https://magazine.stregis.com/artisanal-honey/) - There’s something magical about honey. It’s natural, created by one of nature’s more extraordinary alchemical processes – and it’s great on toasted sourdough. Small wonder that it is increasingly highly prized in a culinary world which obsesses over source and seasonality. Steve Benbow, who started the London Honey Company 14 years ago, points towards a - [New vinyl](https://magazine.stregis.com/new-vinyl/) - When Led Zeppelin released remastered, deluxe editions of their first three albums this year, they weren’t just streamed digitally or produced on CD. They were released, too, as old-fashioned vinyl records: that circular mold of plastic that for decades had been the favored medium of thousands of music-mad teens. This is no anomaly: last year - [The Saber](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-saber/) - Some pop their bottle open, others twist. But there’s only one way to open champagne with true brio: beheading the bottle with a ceremonial saber. It is a practice with Napoleonic roots, and many saberagers even carry their own swords for the purpose. One such enthusiast, Nicolas Krafft, president and CEO of French silverware company - [Chinese ceramics](https://magazine.stregis.com/chinese-ceramics/) - This year at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong a 500-year-old Chinese ceramic known as a “chicken cup”, due to its decoration featuring a rooster, a hen and her chicks, sold for a record-breaking $36 million. This enhanced the sense of vertigo in the auctioneering world caused by a 2013 sale when a Song dynasty bowl went - [Vintage Sunglasses](https://magazine.stregis.com/vintage-sunglasses/) - Jacqueline Onassis was renowned for leading many fashion trends, but one item truly became her signature – those paparazzi-confounding, jet-setting sunglasses. Jackie O’s favorite “bug-eye” Nina Ricci 3203 shades are not only coveted by fashionistas from Lady Gaga to model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, but are being reissued by the French fashion house and L’Amy America. Los - [IKB](https://magazine.stregis.com/ikb/) - There’s often a chasm between conceptual art and the rest of the world. But International Klein Blue (IKB), a colour devised in 1957 by French artist Yves Klein, is having a high-tide moment in couture and décor. IKB featured on Oprah, and since then fashion has pulsated with this fathomless indigo hue, with designers from - [Classic motorcycles](https://magazine.stregis.com/classic-motorcycles/) - There’s a reason why Jay Leno is crazy about pre-war motorbikes: so few survive from the period that those that do exist are highly prized and hugely collectable. In April 2014 the highest price ever achieved for a 1930s Brough Superior SS100 was reached at the Bonhams annual vintage motorcycle sale: £253,500, almost double its - [Luxury luggage](https://magazine.stregis.com/object-3-1/) - In 1846, just as the double wedding of Isabella II of Spain and her sister was inspiring the fashion for custom-made leather luggage and accessories, German-born Enrique Loewe Roessberg found himself in the right place at the right time. He established a reputation for supplying the country’s aristocracy with everything from vanity cases to gun - [Wooden Skis](https://magazine.stregis.com/object-2-2-2/) - Ask John Fry, president of the International Skiing History Association, why he believes there’s been an upsurge in wooden skis on slopes around the world, and he scratches his head. “To be honest, I have no idea. Wood was abandoned in the 1950s, when the metal ski was invented. By the 1972 Japan Olympics, everyone - [The Great Escape](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-great-escape/) - In his day, in the late 1800s, no other man possessed riches to match those of William Waldorf Astor. Having inherited his family’s estate at the age of 42 – encompassing businesses ranging from fur-trapping companies and a Pacific shipping empire to vast tracts of Manhattan real estate – he had access to almost anything - [The toy car](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-toy-car/) - You could probably buy a brand new car for the price of a replica classic these days. But that’s not the point. The beauty we have photographed here, from Bentleys London, is a model of a 1950s Ferrari F500 F2: a vehicle that took nine Grand Prix victories and became one of the best-loved cars - [The artist’s print](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-artists-print/) - In the past, the art print was considered a lesser commodity to the original artwork, often secreted in a portfolio, or hung en masse on a passageway wall. But recently the print has returned to favor. Why? Not simply because prints are less expensive and more accessible than an original (who can find an original - [The violet](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-violet/) - Until now, the scent of a violet has been thought of as, well, a little old-fashioned and prim. But, like many perfumes beloved by Victorian ladies, the fragrance of this most velvet of flowers is muscling its way back into fashion and scenting the smartest spaces once again. Violets are part of the scent of - [The charm](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-charm/) - No one can dislike a charm. Based on a simple talisman hung on a piece of string, it’s one of world’s oldest jewelry styles. While originally charms were carved out of a gem, rock, horn or wood, and worn to ward off evil spirits, in Victorian times, they became more decorative: fashioned from silver or - [Hooked on Fishing](https://magazine.stregis.com/hooked-on-fishing/) - Have you ever seen a leopard? A giant sloth? A tiger? How about a manta ray or a great white shark? Ever experienced a humpback whale breaching so close that it rocked the boat? Or had your toothpaste stolen by monkeys? I’m not talking about watching those sad-eyed animals that pad endlessly around their cages - [“Warhol said, ‘Scarlett, would you like to sit for me?’ I called myself that then. I was 16”](https://magazine.stregis.com/warhol-said-scarlett-would-you-like-to-sit-for-me-i-called-myself-that-then-i-was-16/) - A pair of matching Vespas is not the first thing you expect to find at the front door of one of Europe’s leading royal families. But, as the electric gates swing back to let me into the London townhouse of Prince Pavlos and Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece, there, by the chic black-lacquered front door, stand - [The White Stuff](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-white-stuff/) - Under a high, fierce sun, the Tuareg trader’s face is in shadow beneath his black turban. In one hand he carries a femur-like stick, with the other he leads a roped line of 15 laden dromedaries stretching back across the sand dune. “The source of all life,” he says, “is t-èsm-en… salt. It runs in - [The luxe weight](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-luxe-weight/) - In the fickle world of fitness there’s been a move away from unsightly and complicated high-tech products towards those that are simple and rather beautiful: excellent news for anyone who likes their workout space to be as beautiful as their home. Following on from other such handsome fitness items as cast-iron kettle bells, Indian clubs - [The antiquity](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-antiquity/) - Antiquities that have long gathered dust in museums are at last coming out of hiding and finding new homes in contemporary spaces around the globe. For those fed up with what they believe is the shallowness of contemporary art, the arrival of ancient sculpture in the domestic interior is a welcome relief. Busts are not - [The turmeric root](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-turmeric-root/) - Having been viewed for decades as a workaday addition to the curry-maker’s pot, turmeric is enjoying its moment in the sun as the spice du jour. The gloriously colored root, with its earthy taste and ability to turn your T-shirt into a Buddhist monk’s robe, is no longer being seen merely as a flavorful addition - [Green Shoots](https://magazine.stregis.com/green-shoots/) - Bali has long attracted free-thinkers: travelers seeking a tropical escape from the usual routine, with a spiritual dimension. When John Hardy arrived in the 1970s, he was struck by the beauty of the island, the lush landscape, the kindness of the people. When I visited the island, it was the unique institution that he and - [Steve McCurry](https://magazine.stregis.com/steve-mccurry/) - 1. London, 1969 I had never traveled outside America before, but in 1969 I spent a year backpacking through Europe – France, and Spain, and Amsterdam – ending up in a youth hostel in Soho, London, which I thought was the coolest thing in the world. There were people camped out in the lobby, in - [Food Goes Pop](https://magazine.stregis.com/food-goes-pop/) - In the fall of 2016, the food world was set ablaze with the news that Noma, the restaurant in Copenhagen that had topped the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list for four years, would be closing at the end of the year. Essays and memorials were penned. Food obsessives booked flights to Copenhagen to pay homage - [No Place Like Rome](https://magazine.stregis.com/no-place-like-rome/) - Throughout the 1950s and early '60s, Rome was the coolest city on earth, synonymous with fashion, style, design, glamour, a vibrant if sometimes disreputable nightlife – and, of course, movies. The epicenter of all this excitement and frenetic activity was a hitherto-unremarkable 200-yard street named Via Veneto. It was here that international high society would - [Splashing Out](https://magazine.stregis.com/splashing-out/) - Scroll through your social media feed and you’re bound to see it: an envy-inducing photo of a friend soaking up the sun on a giant swan-shaped pool lilo, cocktail in hand. Or a heart-pounding video of a daredevil with feet strapped to a hover board, performing tricks over the water. From extravagant to the futuristic, water - [Master of the Universe](https://magazine.stregis.com/master-of-the-universe/) - Nebulas burst before your eyes, galaxies mingling with divine light. Some are rose-gold like sunrise; others are inky and bruised like a rainy evening sky. In the large-scale paintings of Nepalese artist Govinda Sah “Azad” (b. 1974), the many faces of the sublime in nature can be found – from bursts of energy exploding like - [Kitchen Confidential](https://magazine.stregis.com/kitchen-confidential-3/) - Oscar Portal is the innovative head chef at The St. Regis Mexico City, where he oversees six restaurants, from the King Cole Bar to private dining. Prior to moving to Mexico, he was pivotal in transforming the gastronomy scene in Madrid, while one of his first projects at St. Regis was creating a refined fish-and-chips - [Jewels in the Crown](https://magazine.stregis.com/jewels-in-the-crown/) - From the slums of Mumbai to the palaces of Rajasthan; from the technology hubs of Bangalore to the spiritual mecca of Varanasi, one common thread weaves its way through India: an enduring love of jewelry. No one sub-continent’s cultural, geological and historical makeup is so entwined in the sourcing, manufacturing and self-adorning as this great - [Wedding Belles](https://magazine.stregis.com/wedding-belles/) - Nobody wants a bare hall in a country club any more,” says Sylvia Weinstock, the cake-maker of choice for three presidential clans (the Trumps, Kennedys and Clintons). No, rather than standard décor, staid group photos, cookie-cutter sponges and restrained bouquets of roses, she says today her clients want to make a “standout visual statement” with - [East Meets Best](https://magazine.stregis.com/east-meets-best/) - At last year’s Salone del Mobile, the highly influential design fair in Milan, one of the star attractions was an exhibition that showcased Asian design. Walking through a series of coolly chic white rooms, the world’s designerati gazed upon some of the most exciting work coming out of Asia today. However, there were no glossy - [A Little Place I Know](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-little-place-i-know-issue-9/) - A linen shop in Mumbai by David Linley Khadi Stores, 145 Prathana Samaj, Ram Mohan Road, Mumbai I went to this shop primarily because Amin Jaffer, international director of Asian art at Christie’s in India, took me there – so it’s really his Little Place I Know, which I’ve learned to love too. Like - [‘We want to encourage a woman to dream. We’re playful, fun and unexpected’](https://magazine.stregis.com/we-want-to-encourage-a-woman-to-dream-were-playful-fun-and-unexpected-2/) - The typical super-busy, fashion-savvy woman from New York, what does she do when it comes to buying clothes?” asks Lauren Santo Domingo. “Is she going to walk around Bergdorf Goodman and throw things over her arm, then drag them to a fitting room? This woman doesn’t go to the supermarket, so why would she be - [Esther Freud](https://magazine.stregis.com/esther-freud/) - 1. Morocco, 1967 My first big journey was when I was four, to Morocco, where I lived until I was six, and wrote about [in Hideous Kinky]. For the rest of my childhood I felt I had a secret, exotic, colorful Moroccan life inside me that nobody else in gray, rainy England understood. It affected - [Life in the Fast Lane](https://magazine.stregis.com/life-in-the-fast-lane/) - Whisper it, but while Richard Mille founded the most revolutionary watch brand of recent years – with boutiques near numerous St. Regis hotels in cities from Jakarta to Beijing – his first passion has always been cars, as the extraordinary garage at his French château attests. Crunching up the driveway towards Mille’s private residence - [The Heat is On](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-heat-is-on/) - Sous vide – the culinary technique that sees vacuum-packed items submerged in a water bath at precisely controlled temperatures – helped define the food of the Noughties. Many of the world’s leading chefs, from Heston Blumenthal to Thomas Keller, employed it behind the scenes. Alongside the much-vaunted rise of “molecular gastronomy”, it allowed science to - [Richard E. Grant](https://magazine.stregis.com/richard-e-grant/) - 1. 1964, London When I was seven, my father went to America for six months on a Carnegie grant to lecture about education in Africa, accompanied by my mother. I went to live on my uncle’s cotton and cattle farm in the south of Swaziland, and, at the end of it, they arranged for me - [The New Gold Rush](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-new-gold-rush/) - [Speedy Returns](https://magazine.stregis.com/speedy-returns/) - Anyone who remembers how the classic car boom of the late 1980s ended in a dramatic bust might be inclined to steer clear of sinking their life savings into a collection of old automobiles. But perhaps they should think again. A cursory look at the prices being achieved for the most sought-after models shows that - [Mapping History](https://magazine.stregis.com/mapping-history/) - “What you have to understand is that, for me, map collecting isn’t a casual hobby,” says Nicolò Rubelli, with a laugh. “It’s a disease, an addiction. If I see a map shop, there is no way I can pass it by. I have to go in.” Rubelli, the fifth generation to run the eponymous textiles company - [Brand Ambitions](https://magazine.stregis.com/brand-ambitions-8/) - It was the late brilliant retailer Joseph Ettedgui who opened our eyes to the charms of interspersing some arresting, avant-garde furniture in among the fashion at his eponymous shop in London’s Fulham Road. The sight of one of André Dubreuil’s whimsical chairs lurking right next to the ball gowns seemed at the time to be - [King of the Red Carpet](https://magazine.stregis.com/jason-wu/) - Seated at the rustic boardroom table of his studio in the heart of New York’s Garment District, Jason Wu appears calm and relaxed, not at all like someone who has just shown two collections at New York fashion week: a ready-to-wear line for Hugo Boss and his eponymous line, Jason Wu. But don’t let the - [Artistic Alchemy](https://magazine.stregis.com/artistic-alchemy/) - In a visionary body of work, rich in symbolism and pathos, California-based artist Hung Liu connects history to the present, East to West, mundanity to beauty. Dripping with immediacy, as if the artist has just put down the brush, her paintings of anonymous figures adapted from historical photographs are timeless, yet paradoxically anchored to the - [Back to the Very Beginning](https://magazine.stregis.com/back-to-the-very-beginning-8/) - Two years ago, a friend I hadn’t seen in years phoned me from Washington, D.C. He was in the city on business and knew I lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, but he said he didn’t have time to visit “the South”. I told him something that surprised him. “You’re in the South, - [A Little Place I Know](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-little-place-i-know-8/) - A South Indian restaurant in Mumbai by Naeem Khan Trishna, Sai Baba Marg, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai I first ate at Trishna ten years ago, and now whenever I’m back in Mumbai I just have to go there. The restaurant is hidden away in a back street in the Kala Ghoda area, which has a - [Kitchen Confidential](https://magazine.stregis.com/kitchen-confidential-8/) - Widely regarded as one of the top chefs in Italy, Valeria Piccini’s restaurant, Da Caino, in southern Tuscany, has held two Michelin stars since 1999. Three years ago, Piccini was invited to team up with The St. Regis Florence’s executive chef, Michele Griglio, to create Restaurant Winter Garden by Caino, the hotel’s fine dining experience, - [A Life of Give and Take](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-life-of-give-and-take/) - Every day, from when he was 20 years old, Vincent Astor slipped into his pocket the most valuable thing he owned: the watch used by his father, John Jacob Astor IV. While personal heirlooms are normally of sentimental value to bereaved children, this watch was particularly precious. John Jacob had been one of the nation’s wealthiest - [Art's Movers and Sheikhas](https://magazine.stregis.com/arts-movers-and-sheikhas/) - Twenty years ago, you would never have imagined that Dubai would one day possess a booming contemporary art scene attracting the world’s biggest players. Yet today, the annual Art Dubai gathering has become one of the most important events on the international art calendar. It’s not just the scale of the event that has grown but - [Another Fine Romance](https://magazine.stregis.com/another-fine-romance/) - The classic honeymoon It seemed to Franz and Samantha that all their friends went to The St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort on honeymoon. Thus, they reasoned, The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort in the French Polynesian Islands would be something different to Instagram home about. They’re not disappointed. From the moment Sam’s Bottega Veneta-shod feet - [Home Game](https://magazine.stregis.com/home-game/) - In ancient times, the men of the Balearic islands were famed for their skills with a sling, which they tied around their forehead. It was their only weapon, so they honed their skills relentlessly and, legend has it, rarely missed their mark. The modern-day equivalent is Rafael Nadal, whose finely honed technique has allowed him - [City of Gods](https://magazine.stregis.com/city-of-gods-2/) - It’s those beautiful artists’ impressions of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan that make people say so many unjust things about Mexico City. The emerald-hued lakes, the slender causeways, the story of Montezuma, enthroned in his feathery splendor, warmly greeting Hernán Cortés – only to be betrayed by the duplicitous conquistador, cut down in his prime, - [Natalia Vodianova](https://magazine.stregis.com/natalia-vodianova/) - Natalia Vodianova looks incredible in red. Don’t get me wrong, she also looks incredible in white, black, pink, or even sludgy brown. But it’s in red that she really shines. Perhaps that’s because she wears it whenever she’s hosting one of her Naked Heart fundraising events, which she did in February of this year during - [The New Cultural Calendar](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-new-cultural-calendar/) - Sundance Film Festival January When it started in 1978, the Sundance Film Festival was given an almighty boost by the involvement of inaugural chairman Robert Redford. Not only did the name come from his most famous role as the Sundance Kid, but the Utah resident wanted to encourage U.S.-made independent movies. Now it’s the - [A Little Place I Know](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-little-place-i-know-3/) - The recycled fashion shop in Rome by Livia Firth RE(f)USE , 40 Via della Fontanella di Borghese, carminacampus.com I always enjoy wandering along the magical street of Via della Fontanella di Borghese, in the historical heart of Rome. Not just for its history and culture. I go primarily to see Ilaria Venturini Fendi’s magical shop, - [A Little Place I Know](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-little-place-i-know-6/) - A bar for all moods in Singapore by Maria Grachvogel Kilo Lounge, 66 Kampong Bugis, kilokitchen.com Because I now have a shop in Singapore, I’m there quite often, and this bar is my favorite. It’s in a little backwater called Kallang, close to the river in an old storage warehouse, so it’s very much off - [Kitchen Confidential](https://magazine.stregis.com/kitchen-confidential-2/) - Having first started cooking at the age of 15, Egyptian-born chef Michael Mina made a name for himself at Aqua in San Francisco, from where he established – with tennis star Andre Agassi – an empire of 18 restaurants across America. Since being named the James Beard Rising Star Chef of the Year in 1997, - [A Little Place I Know](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-little-place-i-know-7/) - A stylish menswear boutique in New York by Jonathan Adler Grahame Fowler, 138 W 10th Street, grahamefowler.com Grahame Fowler is located in Greenwich Village, which happens to be where I live and where I have one of my four New York stores. I may be biased but I think it’s the best neighborhood in - [Golden Years](https://magazine.stregis.com/golden-years/) - With its curvaceous black façade, The St. Regis Istanbul is a hymn to the style of art deco: a reflection of Istanbul’s golden 1920s, splendid in a palette of black and silvery gray, and standing in a prime location in the city’s most celebrated neighborhood, Nisantasi. But in Turkish architect Emre Arolat’s hands, the hotel, which - [Prosper Assouline](https://magazine.stregis.com/prosper-assouline/) - 1. Seville, 1962 I was born in Morocco, but my earliest memory of traveling was going to Seville with my parents when I was five. I can still remember the scent of orange blossom. I love Seville because it’s a crazy city. The people are so full of life. They enjoy every day because - [Come Together](https://magazine.stregis.com/come-together/) - When John Lennon left Britain to begin a new life in America in the summer of 1971, the transatlantic move represented something more than just a change of location. Encouraged by his wife Yoko Ono, it was a decisive step in shedding what remained of his Beatle skin, and, he hoped, towards reinventing himself as - [Mumbai Style](https://magazine.stregis.com/mumbai-style/) - Since the 15th century, when Vasco da Gama discovered the direct sea route to India, Mumbai has become a vital link between East and West. Today, this former cluster of islands is a vibrant megalopolis of more than 20 million people: India’s largest, richest and fastest city, which adds its own unique cultural spin to - [Roman Holiday](https://magazine.stregis.com/roman-holiday-2/) - [National Treasures](https://magazine.stregis.com/national-treasures/) - Edythe Broad clearly remembers buying her first artwork. “It was a Picasso print, on a school trip. I saw it, I liked it and I bought it. The excitement was like someone had hit me in the stomach. But then, I’m like that: buying for me is an emotional process. Eli’s the smart one.” - [The Art of Hospitality](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-art-of-hospitality/) - Ever since Claude Monet was made artist-in-residence at London’s Savoy hotel in 1899, painting a series of iconic views of the River Thames from his top-floor room, hotels and art have enjoyed a fruitful relationship. St. Regis in particular has a glorious tradition of working closely with artists, notably in the murals that adorn the - [Taste hunters](https://magazine.stregis.com/taste-hunters/) - The luxury minibus pulls up outside a scruffy door in a back alley somewhere in the vast metropolis that is Shanghai. Ten expensively dressed, if somewhat confused, figures step out and survey their insalubrious surroundings. In terms of age and ethnicity, they are an eclectic bunch that includes American business executives, newly wealthy Chinese entrepreneurs and - [Grit and Glitter](https://magazine.stregis.com/grit-and-glitter/) - The Brooklyn-based artist Mickalene Thomas has every right to be frustrated when people only associate her work with hip-hop. “It’s so easy and lazy to do that,” she rails. “Just because it’s all black women and bling!” But this spring, visitors to Aspen’s Art Museum – housed since summer 2014 in an exceptional new building - [Kitchen Confidential](https://magazine.stregis.com/kitchen-confidential/) - Austrian-born chef and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck came to the US in 1973 and has since built an international culinary empire. The Michelin-starred chef, who caters for the Oscars and is the star of TV food shows, is also active in philanthropic endeavors through his charitable foundation. How did your cookery career begin? My mother - [Capitol Style](https://magazine.stregis.com/capitol-style/) - [The House That Jack Built](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-house-that-jack-built/) - John Jacob “Jack” Astor IV was the American equivalent of a crown prince. His blue-blooded mother, Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, shaped and ruled the New York social elite in the Gilded Age. From his father’s side, he inherited a legendary name and a vast fortune based on Manhattan real estate. No family has ever owned - [Great Walls of China](https://magazine.stregis.com/great-walls-of-china/) - sPeeking through a door into a warehouse in the ancient city of Wuxi on the coast of central China, the scene within could be one from the 19th century. In a large, light-filled room, dozens of artists are bent over rows of long white tables, each slowly and methodically dipping long, slender brushes into small - [All That Jazz](https://magazine.stregis.com/all-that-jazz/) - Singer-songwriter Jamie Cullum’s obsession with jazz began when he saw The Fabulous Baker Boys. He was a 15-year-old piano prodigy at the time and had just started to get paid gigs in hotels. It didn’t matter that they were in Swindon, a small English town not noted for its rich jazz heritage. Teenage Jamie was - [Different Strokes](https://magazine.stregis.com/different-strokes/) - One of the world’s greatest living painters, Sir Howard Hodgkin, is sitting in his wheelchair in his vast London studio. “Forgive me if I don’t get up,” he says. At 83 years old he can be forgiven for needing a little help to get around these days, yet his compulsion to paint and to travel - [Art's New Muses](https://magazine.stregis.com/arts-new-muses/) - On a spring evening earlier this year, a group of women gathered in a stunning apartment just seconds from London’s Kensington Palace. As the uniformed maid opened the door, it seemed as if we were being ushered into an über-exclusive cocktail party, a sensation boosted by the glamour of the guests, many of whom were - [The Line of Beauty](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-line-of-beauty/) - During fashion’s flirtation with Surrealism in the late 1940s, Carmen Dell’Orefice, still in her teens, found herself at The St. Regis New York on a wildly extravagant set designed by the self-anointed high priest of the movement, Salvador Dalí. Cecil Beaton, a friend of Dalí’s, who was working at the Condé Nast studio on Lexington - [Smarten Up](https://magazine.stregis.com/smarten-up/) - In 1571 Queen Elizabeth I of England was given the most advanced timepiece ever created. It was a small clock that could be worn on the wrist. In 2015 Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, presented what he referred to as “the most advanced timepiece ever created” to the world. It was a small clock - [Bangkok By Design](https://magazine.stregis.com/bangkok-by-design/) - Bangkok has long been a compelling place to visit, a culturally rich Southeast Asian capital that has managed to retain a strong national identity despite rapid development. What has given the city an additional edge for luxury travelers today is that, as well as being home to gilded Thai temples, craft emporiums and markets rich - [John Malkovich](https://magazine.stregis.com/john-malkovich/) - 1. Schroon Lake, NY, 1970 The first journey you take without your parents is always an important one. When I was 17 I went on a road trip with two friends. We drove from our small town in Illinois to a Baptist Bible camp in Schroon Lake, New York. I’m not sure why my parents let - [To Rome with Love](https://magazine.stregis.com/to-rome-with-love/) - When Mary Shelley sat down to write her letters home in the early spring of 1819, she had already fallen in love. The author of Frankenstein and the wife of the famous poet had arrived in Rome a few days before, and the city had seduced her. Basking in the warm Roman sun, contemplating countless - [Carolina Herrera](https://magazine.stregis.com/carolina-herrera/) - You waited until 1981, when you were 42, before launching your fashion house. Why? There comes a time in your life when you need to do something new, and that was the right time for me. I’d never done anything before. I asked my friend Diana Vreeland what she thought about me designing some - [Super Tuscans](https://magazine.stregis.com/super-tuscans/) - In Italy, luxury has long been associated with food. When Catherine de Medici, great-granddaughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent, moved to France in 1633 to marry Henry II, a bevy of cooks followed in her wake, heralding the first export of Florentine cuisine that would go on to spread across the globe. Some 400 years later, - [Georgina Chapman](https://magazine.stregis.com/georgina-chapman/) - Tell me a bit about your English childhood. I was brought up in Richmond, just outside London, and went to boarding school in Wiltshire. We had a country house we went to at weekends. I used to ride ponies and go to gymkhanas, though I was never very successful. Then I studied at the - [A Life in Print](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-life-in-print/) - Now 83, Jasper Johns has long been ranked among the major, ground-breaking figures in American art. He was only 25 when his images of the Stars and Stripes broke free from the prevailing supremacy of Jackson Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists. In the mid-1950s Johns was hailed as a controversial young rebel, following the example - [In Search of Madame Butterfly](https://magazine.stregis.com/in-search-of-madame-butterfly/) - That snowy evening in March 1900, it seemed as if all of New York high society had crowded into the Berkeley Lyceum Theater on West 44th Street. The auditorium, glittering with ladies in pearls and fashionable off-the-shoulder dresses, flourishing lorgnettes and escorted by evening-suited gentlemen, buzzed with excitement. Before them lay an extraordinarily exotic scene: - [The Ascent of Man](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-ascent-of-man/) - You can’t mistake the Beijing West Railway Station. A massive, plain-face building broken in the center by a cavernous archway, it is one of the capital’s throbbing transportation hubs. Colorful little pagodas are perched on the roof, and the effect is a kind of hybrid of the Pentagon crossed with Disneyland. But the station handles - [Puppy Love](https://magazine.stregis.com/puppy-love/) - When we first ordered (on the internet) our Cairn terrier, a diplomat friend of mine asked, “Where will you be sending him to school?” Thinking she was joking, I laughed. Who would have thought, a mere three months later, that Wilson (the aforementioned Cairn, who now travels freely across the Atlantic between London and Long - [American Beauty](https://magazine.stregis.com/american-beauty-2/) - Twentieth-century New York was full of fashion role models: high-society ladies whose wardrobes were as stylish as any European aristocrat’s, whose jewelry was priceless and whose elegance was the result of years of devoted attention. But none had quite the grace of Babe Paley. Babe was the style icon of her day. The leader for a - [Zen Diagrams](https://magazine.stregis.com/zen-diagrams-2/) - In his adopted homeland of Singapore, Tan Swie Hian is not just one of the most famous painters in the country, but one of Southeast Asia’s best-known poets. In 1993 a museum was built to house his masterpieces, and another – covering a square mile of wooded mountain range – is under construction in Qingdao, - [Carlos Huber](https://magazine.stregis.com/carlos-huber-2/) - What do you recollect of the scents of your childhood? Although I’m absolutely in love with plants, I’ve actually always lived in apartments. But growing up in Mexico City I remember, when the elevator doors would open, always discovering a new flower arrangement that my mom had made. So the scent of flowers would always welcome - [Label of Love](https://magazine.stregis.com/label-of-love/) - In 1927, the year that The St. Regis hotel opened its new wing and ballroom on 55th Street, a Jewish-German teenager left his home in Berlin to try to find work in New York and to pursue his love of jazz. At first he lived rough in Central Park, walking by the grand hotel to - [Gentleman Racer](https://magazine.stregis.com/gentleman-racer/) - Goodwood House might have remained just another of England’s lesser-known stately homes were it not for the fact that its present incumbent, the entrepreneurial Earl of March and Kinrara, has put it well and truly on the map as the site of the Festival of Speed and Revival events which attract car enthusiasts from all - [Jane Goodall](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-life-in-7-journeys/) - 1. Cornwall, England, 1939 When I was four, the Second World War broke out, so I was taken by my uncle from London, where we lived, to Cornwall. One morning I collected a bucket of “shells”, only realizing that they were living snails when they escaped all over the living room. I was so upset - [A Little Place I Know](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-little-place-i-know/) - The Western-inspired restaurant in Park City by Kris “Fuzz” Feddersen Purple Sage, 434 Main Street, purplesageparkcity.com If my wife and I get time for a quiet dinner together, this is where we go. Although Purple Sage has been here as long as I can remember – and I’ve lived in this city for 14 years - [And Granny Came Too](https://magazine.stregis.com/and-granny-came-too/) - You see them all over the world, jogging, hiking, paddling, surfing and mountain climbing. And no, we’re not talking about athletes here. We’re talking grandparents. The generation once known as the “blue rinse set” is now not only active, but affluent. And there is nothing they like more than to spend their reserves of leisure - [Mexican Waves](https://magazine.stregis.com/mexican-waves-2/) - For decades in the second half of the 20th century, Mexico City was dismissed as one of the most dysfunctional cities in the Americas, struggling to cope with a population edging past 20 million and an unfortunate geological site. Founded by the Aztecs in 1325 on an island on Lake Texcoco, the city had been - [Gauguin’s Polynesia](https://magazine.stregis.com/gauguins-polynesia/) - In 1891, it took Paul Gauguin 63 days to sail from Marseilles to Tahiti. This year, it took me 22 hours to fly from Paris. The reception each of us received couldn’t have been more different. Whereas the arrival of the 43-year-old French painter, sporting shoulder-length hair and a cowboy hat, caused much mirth, I’m - [Let There Be Lights](https://magazine.stregis.com/let-there-be-lights-2/) - Just over a decade ago, the chandelier was languishing in design Siberia, deemed a fusty form of lighting that had no place in a chic modern interior. But no longer. In a quite remarkable reversal of fortune, today the chandelier is one of the most exciting, challenging and sexy objects in interior design, and big-name - [A Culinary Genius In Doha](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-culinary-genius-in-doha/) - The Scottish-born chef Gordon Ramsay originally set out to become a professional soccer player, switching to catering college at age 19 following a knee injury. He went on to train under chef Marco Pierre White before deciding to specialize in French cuisine, working alongside Albert Roux at Le Gavroche in London and Guy Savoy and - [Dalí in Manhattan](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-surreal-life-of-dali-in-new-york/) - DALÍ… IS… HERE!” For 40 years this gutteral cry announced that the greatest artist of the 20th century, certainly in his own estimation, had arrived in New York at his own private fiefdom, the fabled St. Regis. And whether it was in the hushed acreage of the restaurant, the lofty grandeur of the lobby, the - [City of Our Dreams](https://magazine.stregis.com/city-of-our-dreams/) - The first time I crossed the border into Turkey, I was on foot, on a long walk from Gdansk in Poland. My final destination was the glorious city of Istanbul, but on reaching Erdine I found it hard to leave. Right on the border with Greece and Bulgaria, the ancient city founded by the emperor - [The New Age of Sail](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-new-age-of-sail/) - Yachts have come a long way since the days when even the grandest was still made of wood, with sails of cumbersome cloth, each requiring a dozen sailors to manhandle. As the competitors crossed the finishing line of the America’s Cup in San Francisco Bay this summer, their racing yachts looked more like vessels from - [The Spice of Life](https://magazine.stregis.com/atul-kochar-the-spice-of-life/) - The first Indian chef ever to receive a Michelin star, in 2001, Atul Kochhar is famed for bringing his country’s cuisine to the forefront of fine dining. His simple, elegant take on traditional dishes has made Benares, his original restaurant in London’s Mayfair, known across the world, and he’s had a series of equally successful - [Mountain Playground](https://magazine.stregis.com/mountain-playground/) - Around Aspen, the term “heavy metal” is not bandied about lightly. Here, it does not mean that Judas Priest is in town for a set, although of course this little town in the Rockies attracts more than its fair share of big music acts, both to perform and to enjoy some downtime. Nor is it - [Fashion's New Address](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashions-new-address/) - The cavernous TriBeCa headquarters of the online fashion retailer Moda Operandi has all the urgency and buzz of an old-fashioned newsroom. Except that most newsrooms (or internet fashion companies for that matter) are not decorated by the society interior designer Daniel Romualdez, complete with a vintage bronze coffee table, floral upholstered Louis XVI-style chairs, and - [A Prince in New York](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-prince-in-new-york/) - Serge Obolensky’s life reads like a work of fiction. There is a fairy-tale beginning: he was born a Russian prince and married a princess. There is adventure: for our prince was brave as well as handsome… a dashing young cavalry officer in the First World War, he escaped from the Bolsheviks with a price on - [California Dreamer](https://magazine.stregis.com/california-dreamer/) - During the week, Andy Linsky can invariably be found behind the wheel of a conventional, modern car as he drives between some of the most prestigious properties in and around Palm Springs, going about his business as one of the region's leading real estate agents. But in his spare time, Linsky is more likely to - [Maps of Ages](https://magazine.stregis.com/maps-of-ages/) - “The maps of ancient Jerusalem are all fabrication, while celestial maps are an attempt to impose the Greek myths on to the night sky,” says Jay Walker of the Walker Library of the History of the Human Imagination in Connecticut. Today, printed maps of the ancient world have never been as prized, or as - [I am a Cover Girl in my Dotage](https://magazine.stregis.com/i-am-a-cover-girl-in-my-dotage/) - Iris, you were born and raised in New York, right? I was raised in Astoria, Queens, and lived there until I married. My grandparents were settlers, actually, and caught the boat here from Long Island. What memories do you have of coming to the city as a child? Well, the city was the mecca. You - [Tobias2](https://magazine.stregis.com/tobias2/) - Gert and Uwe Tobias are no ordinary artists. Identical twins born in Romania 40 years ago, they work together to create vivid, large-scale woodcuts that are as haunting as they are alluring. Twisted faces, dismembered pieces of furniture, hearts, flowers, lizards, human eyes and staring owl heads are intermingled with old-fashioned typewriter lettering to create - [The New Jazz Age](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-new-jazz-age/) - Breaking down barriers is what jazz is all about – music that lives and breathes collaboration and assimilation, both instrumentally and culturally. Aptly, the great melting-pot of New York City is jazz’s spiritual home – the center for swing in the 1920s, bebop in the 1940s, avant-garde in the 1960s and the loft scene of - [British Classic](https://magazine.stregis.com/gary-rhodes-british-classic/) - Gary Rhodes, OBE, made a name for himself in the early Nineties, bringing traditional British classics such as braised oxtail, fish cakes and bread and butter pudding into the realm of fine dining. He earned his first Michelin star as head chef at the Greenhouse restaurant in London’s Mayfair in 1996, and opened his own - [Made in Manhattan](https://magazine.stregis.com/john-delucie-made-in-manhattan/) - A born-and-bred New Yorker, John DeLucie was a late starter in the culinary world, discovering his calling at the age of 29. Since then, he has become a major figure on New York’s restaurant scene, making his name as the executive chef and partner of the Waverly Inn, the Greenwich Village restaurant that became the - [Carnival of Color](https://magazine.stregis.com/carnival-of-color/) - Once seen, a Beatriz Milhazes canvas is never forgotten. The 54-year-old Brazilian’s palette races through tangy citrus, raspberry, blueberry, coral, mint, scarlet and sky-blue. Sharpened here and there by linear shapes, the leitmotif is the sphere, often figured as a tropical flower. But she explodes the curves into fragmented arabesques that swirl and spiral across - [The Art of the Rug](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-art-of-the-rug/) - The grand British art historian Kenneth Clark, once the director of the National Gallery in London, owned a lot of art. But among Lord Clark’s favorite works was a piece made by Duncan Grant – a precious and much-loved artwork that he stepped on almost every day. Sacrilege? Not at all, because the artwork in - [A Little Place I Know](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-little-place-i-know-4/) - The craft shop in Bangkok by David Yeo 35 Soi 40, Th Charoen Krung, Bangkok Although most of the shops along this busy, narrow street cater to tourists, this unique store in a former monastery can be found among a cluster of interesting antique shops. Stepping inside Thai Home Industries is like being transported on - [A Little Place I Know](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-little-place-i-know-5/) - Santa Maria Novella, Florence by Jason Wu Florence is a great city for walking, which is how I came across the Officina Profuma-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella (to give it its full Italian name). This exquisite old apothecary celebrated its 400th birthday last year, but has been in existence since 1221, when Dominican friars from - [A Little Place I Know](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-little-place-i-know-2/) - Rong Bao Zhai, calligraphy gallery in Beijing by Bao Bao Wan 19 Liulichang West Street, Xuanwu District, rongbaozhai.cn Along one particular street in the historic area of Beijing close to the Forbidden City are dozens of tiny old shops, mostly selling antiques and classic Chinese pieces. My favorite is this gallery which is more than - [Walls of Fame](https://magazine.stregis.com/walls-of-fame/) - On a chilly November night last year, about 120 people squeezed into the King Cole Bar and Salon at The St. Regis New York. The co-host of the evening, fashion designer Jason Wu, wore a dark suit and a slim black tie and stood in the center of the wood-paneled room, welcoming friends and colleagues - [Playground of the Gilded Age](https://magazine.stregis.com/playground-of-the-gilded-age/) - Squeezed between Vermont and Canada in the north-easternmost corner of Upper New York State lie the wild, remote Adirondack Mountains. At first sight it is an uninhabited wilderness; on closer inspection you will find, nestling by myriad lakes and folded into the hills, some of the most spectacular vacation homes ever seen in North America. - [Warhol Wizard](https://magazine.stregis.com/warhol-wizard/) - “Picasso was the greatest artist in the first half of the 20th century, Andy Warhol in the second.” That’s the typically blunt opinion of Peter Brant, billionaire industrialist, entrepreneur and art collector, and his money has followed his mouth. Brant, 66, won’t specify how many Warhols he owns, but it’s in the hundreds, and he - [King of Neon](https://magazine.stregis.com/king-of-neon/) - Bracey's backyard in East London – christened “God’s Own Junk Yard” – is like Las Vegas’s Neon Boneyard in miniature: a four-decade jumble of industrial metal, discarded advertising signage, architectural salvage and, as he says, random letters that had been earmarked for recycling. His is a family trade – his father made neon signs, and - [Box Clever](https://magazine.stregis.com/box-clever/) - “I was an army brat and traveled all over the world with my father to places like Burma,” the 48-year-old says. “Wherever we went we’d take at least 25 trunks. To me, that was how people traveled.” When the designer joined Moynat in 2011 from Hermès, where he’d worked for ten years under Martin - [A Taste of Shangri-La](https://magazine.stregis.com/a-taste-of-shangri-la/) - When Marco Polo visited Chengdu more than 700 years ago, he found the Chinese city refreshingly reminiscent of his hometown, Venice. “Several large rivers of fresh water come down from distant mountains to flow round the city, and through it. The branch-streams within the city are crossed by stone bridges of great size and beauty,” - [The St. Regis Atlas](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-st-regis-atlas/) - [Wings of Desire](https://magazine.stregis.com/wings-of-desire/) - It takes place in those empty lands that have fascinated men for millennia, a seemingly soundless world of sand and solitude. Sighting its prey with eyes round as dark marbles, the bird reels and swoops, diving at speeds of up to 200 miles an hour before rising again into the azure sky that canopies the - [The Wild One](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-wild-one/) - The New York-based Fred Tomaselli is acutely aware that as an artist – particularly one who makes a very comfortable living as such – he is privileged to enter his own little world every time he steps foot inside his Brooklyn studio, even as the world outside seems to be spinning out of control. “The - [Harry Benson](https://magazine.stregis.com/harry-benson/) - 1. Driving down to Troon, Scotland, 1956 I left the RAF when I was 19, but I couldn’t afford a car until I was 26. It was a Fiat 600, and my very first journey was from Glasgow down the west coast of Scotland to a seaside town called Troon. I’ll never forget the feeling, - [P. J. O’Rourke](https://magazine.stregis.com/p-j-orourke/) - 1. Across America in a ’56 Buick, 1977 I hadn’t traveled much until I was 30 and drove a very used car from Florida to California. It couldn’t go fast enough for Interstates so there was lots of scenery. I got stranded in most of it. The car broke every day: fuel-pump failure between a - [Paul Theroux](https://magazine.stregis.com/paul-theroux/) - 1. Camping in the woods, 1952 My very first adventure was as a Boy Scout, when I was about 11. You had to be able to cook on a fire, shoot a gun and camp. I grew up in a suburb just outside Boston, so my father drove us to the woods and dropped us - [A Life in Seven Journeys](https://magazine.stregis.com/elizabeth-gilbert/) - 1. The Soviet Union, 1986 This was my first overseas trip. I’d been saving my babysitting money for five years, and found an anti-nuclear war organisation that took students to Moscow and Leningrad. Although it was controlled and pretty grim – there was nothing to buy, and it was a gray November – we did - [Jewels in The Desert](https://magazine.stregis.com/jewels-in-the-desert/) - State of the Art Doha vs Abu Dhabi Doha has been transformed into a key arts hub with film festivals, innovative architecture and a thriving art market. The I. M. Pei-designed Museum of Islamic Art, above, has become a feature of the skyline, with numerous other museums being built, including Jean Nouvel’s National Museum of - [Now Voyagers](https://magazine.stregis.com/now-voyagers/) - The Late-Late Gap Years Early sixtysomethings Cathy and Larry can tell you the names of almost any capital city airport in the world (“Yangon – that’s Mingaladon – right?”). If they haven’t landed there, they plan to, and if they don’t then it’s not worth seeing. Larry’s business IPO’d two years ago and they’ve been - [All in the Detail](https://magazine.stregis.com/all-in-the-detail/) - For a privileged few car lovers, high-end custom-design is making their fantasies a reality. The luxury brands are taking what used to be known as the “options list” in car design and offering exhaustive “personalization”. We’re talking here about ways of customizing your new motor to make it utterly unique, and the likes of Bentley, - [Lords of The Turf](https://magazine.stregis.com/lords-of-the-turf/) - I tell you what I like about polo: it attracts an interesting bunch of people, and few more so than Porfirio Rubirosa. Rubi was the playboy’s playboy. With his magnificent physique, the five-times-married Rubi pulled off the unusual double of counting among his spouses two of the richest women in the world: Barbara Hutton and Doris - [The Kids Are All Right](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-kids-are-all-right/) - Walking into the New York office of social media company Mediabend, the first things one notices are its energy and its interiors. Beyond its buzzing staff, creating such luxury shopping sites as Lifestyle Mirror and Elizabeth Street, are an American flag owned by John F. 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Before I came to Vogue I was thinking seriously about quitting fashion journalism. I had been editor-in-chief at Marie Claire Hong Kong and Elle China, but although I studied law at university, I’d never practised it. I wanted to do something other than fashion - [The Style Gene](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-style-gene/) - When assessing traits that run through families, physical resemblance, values and attitudes are all up there with things we can expect to inherit from our parents. What is not often high on the list is personal style. One look, however, at some of the world’s most glamorous mother-daughter duos would show you that mothers are - [California Dreaming](https://magazine.stregis.com/california-dreaming/) - [The Empire Strikes Back](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-empire-strikes-back/) - Artisans have always been the heart and soul of Italy. 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Intelligent, stylish and ambitious, Beyond, The St. Regis Magazine, reflects the interests, values and passions of the St. Regis guest. 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An entree to her famous parties confirmed one’s status among Manhattan’s elite. Exclusion meant social doom. Yet even Mrs Astor’s glorious reign could not last forever Read article Rancho - [The World in Seven Objects](https://magazine.stregis.com/the-world-in-seven-objects/) - [Travel Tales](https://magazine.stregis.com/travel-tales/) - Claudia Schiffer The model, muse and global fashion icon reflects on the seven journeys – physical, emotional and spiritual – that have shaped her life and work Illustration by Tina Berning Read article Sweet Dreams A good night’s sleep is vital for our health and happiness – and there’s now a vast choice of gadgets, - [Contributors](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/) - [Our Destinations](https://magazine.stregis.com/destinations/) - [Contents](https://magazine.stregis.com/contents/) - [Subscriptions](https://magazine.stregis.com/subscriptions/) - Your Contact Details By providing this information, you authorize Starwood to process such information, either directly or through its third party vendors including its subscription service, to fulfill your subscription and in accordance with our Privacy Statement available at starwoodhotels.com . - [My Articles](https://magazine.stregis.com/my-articles/) - [Print Issues](https://magazine.stregis.com/print-issues/) ## Fashion Posts - [Baby, It's Cold Outside](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/baby-its-cold-outside-2/) - [Baby, It's Cold Outside](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/baby-its-cold-outside-1/) - The oceanside beauty of The St. Regis Punta Mita Resort calls for a wardrobe of easygoing elegance. layer soft, natural fabrics with shots of hot color for a chic take on modern beachwear - [Baby, It's Cold Outside](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/baby-its-cold-outside-3/) - [Natural Selection](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/natural-selection-2-2/) - [Natural Selection](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/natural-selection-3/) - The oceanside beauty of The St. Regis Punta Mita Resort calls for a wardrobe of easygoing elegance. layer soft, natural fabrics with shots of hot color for a chic take on modern beachwear - [Natural Selection](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/natural-selection-1-2/) - [Age of Elegance 2](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/age-of-elegance-2-2/) - [Age of Elegance](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/age-of-elegance-2/) - The St. Regis Atlanta Grace, grandeur and timeless elegance are the hallmarks of The St. Regis Atlanta, which makes it the perfect backdrop for our edit of sleek winter tailoring and laid-back chic - [Fantasy Island 3](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/fantasy-island-3/) - [Fantasy Island 2](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/fantasy-island-2/) - [Fantasy Island](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/fantasy-island/) - The St. Regis Langkawi With its golden sands and crystal-clear waters, The St. Regis Langkawi is a picture-perfect tropical paradise. Where better to showcase our edit of languid summer styles and laid-back beachwear? - [The New Gold Rush](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/the-new-gold-rush-8/) - [The New Gold Rush](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/the-new-gold-rush-2/) - [The New Gold Rush](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/the-new-gold-rush/) - The St. Regis San Francisco Art, glamour and urban chic are the hallmarks of the St. Regis San Francisco. What better backdrop for our fall fashion story, which features a thoroughly modern take on sharp tailoring and sleek separates, in rich shades shot through with metallic accents - [Roman Style 3](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/roman-style-3/) - [Roman Style 2](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/roman-style-2/) - [Roman Holiday](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/roman-holiday/) - The St. Regis Rome The belle époque splendor of the St. Regis Rome makes the perfect setting for looks that mix classic elegance with an insouciant modern spirit - [California Dreaming](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/california-dreaming/) - The dramatic beauty of Dana Point is the perfect counterpoint to the simplicity of classic American style, a pared-down aesthetic of subtle shades, brilliant whites and elegant silhouettes - [Strike A Pose](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/strike-a-pose-2-2/) - [Day For Night](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/day-for-night-2/) - [A Room With A View](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/a-room-with-a-view-2/) - [California Dreaming](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/california-dreaming-2/) - [Strike A Pose](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/strike-a-pose-3-2/) - [Capitol Style](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/capitol-style-2/) - [Petal Power](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/petal-power-2-3/) - [Petal Power](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/petal-power/) - The St. Regis Mardavall Mallorca Resort In the lush surroundings of The St. Regis Mardavall Mallorca Resort, discover this season’s freshest looks, inspired by nature and adorned with delicate floral prints - [Strike A Pose](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/fashion-post-issue-4/) - The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort With sharp tailoring and strong silhouettes, and drawing inspiration from Miami's buzzing art and design scenes and the urban chic of The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort, this is Fall fashion for the woman who means business - [Day For Night](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/day-for-night/) - The St. Regis Shenzhen From the cool of the morning to the heat of the night, mix classic, tailored pieces with touches of oriental glamor for a heady cocktail of East and West. Photographed at the St. Regis Shenzhen - [A Room With A View](https://magazine.stregis.com/fashion-posts/a-room-with-a-view/) - The St. Regis Florence The season’s bold new silhouettes combine hour-glass curves and statement shoulders with all the drama of cinched waists and fuller skirts. And they are best seen from the balcony of The St. Regis Florence, your own palazzo for a night ## Smart Packings - [Cool Kids](https://magazine.stregis.com/smart-packings/cool-kids-3/) - A beach vacation in Mallorca calls for cute but practical clothes that will keep your little ones looking stylish without compromising on comfort Your address: The St. Regis Mardavall Mallorca Resort - [Beat The Heat](https://magazine.stregis.com/smart-packings/cool-kids-2/) - Enjoying some much-needed downtime on the beach in Abu Dhabi? Relax in the knowledge that your outfit will keep you looking cool from dawn to dusk Your address: The St. Regis Abu Dhabi - [Ski Chic](https://magazine.stregis.com/smart-packings/ski-chic/) - Searching for a way to look chic on the slopes in Aspen but stay cozy – even on the coldest of days? Don’t worry, you’re getting warmer Your address: The St. Regis Aspen Resort - [City Lights](https://magazine.stregis.com/smart-packings/city-lights-3/) - The city of Nanjing is a fascinating destination. Whether you’re in town for business or pleasure, make sure your outfit is up to the job Your address: The St. Regis Nanjing - opening 2020 ## Contributors - [Deb Schwartz](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/deb-schwartz/) - Deb Schwartz is a New York-based writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Lifehacker, The Cut, and Architectural Digest. In this issue of Beyond she investigates the latest family travel trends, from wedding vacations to mini-Grand Tours. But where would she most like to visit? “My travel bucket list includes - [Reggie Nadelson](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/reggie-nadelson/) - In this issue of Beyond, New York native Reggie Nadelson sings the praises of a seminal Harlem jazz club: the spiritual home of bebop, Minton’s Playhouse. Aside from her work for Departures, Vogue and Condé Nast Traveler, Reggie has written a series of crime novels featuring private eye Artie Cohen, while her new book, At - [Daven Wu](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/daven-wu/) - After eight years as a commercial lawyer, Daven Wu decided to embark on a career in journalism. He now writes for Monocle, Time, Robb Report and Travel + Leisure, and he’s Wallpaper* magazine’s Singapore editor – making him the perfect person to guide us through his country’s transformation from mudflats to metropolis, on page 30. - [Cassandre Montoriol](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/cassandre-montoriol/) - Paris-based artist Cassandre Montoriol illustrated the recommendations in this issue’s “A Little Place I Know” on page 41. Her expressive gouache drawings are reminiscent of travel diaries, fashion illustration and textile design, and have found favor with leading publications such as Vanity Fair, W Magazine and Marie Claire. Where is she yet to check off? - [Philip Gay](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/philip-gay/) - Fashion photographer Philip Gay took to the slopes of The St. Regis Deer Valley Resort for this issue’s fashion shoot on page 54. “I’m keen to visit New Zealand and Peru,” he says of his own travel bucket list. “But I’d also love to climb a few mountains in the Scottish Highlands.” Philip lives between - [Matt Munday](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/matt-munday/) - When he’s not busy rooting out rare vinyl records from obscure corners of the internet, Matt Munday writes about music, travel, business and culture for titles such as The Sunday Times, The Observer and Bio.com. His bucket list destination? “Definitely Bali,” he says. “I’ve spent a couple of days there with work and fell in - [George Pendle](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/george-pendle/) - George Pendle is a writer based in Washington, DC. He contributes to Esquire, Frieze and Atlas Obscura, and has written a number of books. On page 78 he looks at the career of one of the world’s greatest living painters, Georg Baselitz. This summer, George is looking forward to visiting Rensselaerville: “It’s a tiny village, two-and-a-half hours north of NYC. - [Pelle Crépin](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/pelle-crepin/) - This issue’s cover was shot by Swedish fashion photographer Pelle Crépin at The St. Regis Punta Mita Resort in Mexico. Pelle’s crisp Scandinavian style has seen him working with global retailers such as COS, Uniqlo and Mr Porter as well as shooting for publications such as Elle, 10 Magazine and Kinfolk. “This summer I’m planning - [Anne de Courcy](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/anne-de-courcy/) - Anne de Courcy has written a series of critically acclaimed biographies and social histories including The Viceroy’s Daughters, Debs at War and The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York. In this issue of Beyond, she looks back at Manhattan’s Gilded Age, and the legendary soirees given by Caroline Astor, mother of St. - [Emma O’Kelly](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/emma-okelly/) - In between writing articles for Wallpaper* and Condé Nast Traveler, Emma O’Kelly is busy renovating a 1960s house in Italy’s sleepy Lake Maggiore. “This summer we’ll have lots of visits from friends and family,” she says. “We’ll basically live lakeside all summer. I’m hoping to do the one-mile village swim this year.” For Beyond, she - [Jun Cen](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/jun-cen/) - Born in Guangzhou, China, Jun Cen is an award-winning illustrator and animator. His illustrations can be found in The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Washington Post, and his animated short films have been shown at a number of international film festivals. He illustrated our Sweet Dreams feature on page 84. This summer, - [Louisa Parry](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/louisa-parry/) - London-based still-life photographer Louisa Parry shot the noteworthy artifacts included in our regular World in Seven Objects feature (keep an eye out for the chic new Jack’s Club slippers on page 23). Her clients include luxury brands such as Elizabeth Arden, Red Valentino and Sony, and her work can be found in the pages of - [Victoria Bain](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/victoria-bain/) - The Scottish-born stylist and artistic director, who styled our fashion shoot at The St. Regis Atlanta, works her creative magic for brands from Martini to Estée Lauder and Graff Diamonds, while contributing to international titles including Vanity Fair, Vogue and T Magazine. Rather than hunkering down in her homeland this winter, she has dreams of - [Juliet Kinsman](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/juliet-kinsman/) - The writer, editor and brand consultant has been a journalist for more than two decades, writing on interiors for national newspapers, hip cities for the Louis Vuitton City Guides and green living for her own social enterprise, Bouteco. She has just returned from three months in Bali, where she enrolled her daughter in the Green - [Stephanie Rafanelli](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/stephanie-rafanelli/) - Currently based in Los Angeles, where she is writing a novel, the prolific documentary-maker and journalist has explored subjects from wildlife and footballers to lipstick, for media from PBS and Discovery to Condé Nast Traveler and Elle. For Beyond, she explores why salt is now worth its weight in gold to chefs, beauty therapists and - [Chris Moss](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/chris-moss/) - The award-winning author of Patagonia: A Cultural History has lived in Argentina for a decade and has spent the past 25 years exploring Latin America, writing more than 20 guidebooks on it. In this issue of Beyond, to celebrate a new exhibition of gold artifacts in New York and Los Angeles, he examines the precious - [Brette Warshaw](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/brette-warshaw/) - The freelance consultant, writer and editor was COO of Lucky Peach, the irreverent New York-based food magazine, which educated gastronomes on subjects ranging from Mexican bread to making beer. Having eaten in more pop-up restaurants than she cares to remember, she was the ideal writer to explain the trend for pop-ups all over the globe - [Steve McCurry](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/steve-mccurry/) - Since setting off in 1969 from his native Philadelphia, the legendary lensman, famed for his war reportage and his iconic portrait of green-eyed Afghan girl Sharbat Gula, has photographed people all over the globe, from Sudanese tribesmen and Nile boatmen to Himalayan monks. The country he’s looking forward to visiting next is Ethiopia, he tells - [Esther Freud](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/esther-freud/) - In the two decades since her first book, Hideous Kinky, was made into a film starring Kate Winslet, and she was named one of the UK’s top young novelists by literary magazine Granta, the actress-turned-writer has penned six more bestsellers. In this issue she recalls the journeys that influenced her life, including a trip to - [Stanley Stewart](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/stanley-stewart-2/) - Described as “among the first rank of contemporary travel writers by The Times, the Canadian-born author has traversed the globe, from the ice deserts of Mongolia to the jungles of the Amazon, meeting maharajas, tribesmen and bandits en route. In between writing hundreds of articles for magazines like National Geographic and Condé Nast Traveller, winning - [Jessica Diamond](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/jessica-diamond/) - Having worked for British Vogue, and been watch and jewelry editor for Wallpaper*, the aptly named Diamond now writes about all things precious for Condé Nast Traveller. Her hunt for the latest trends in the world of horology and gems has taken her to Kuwait, St Barths and India, meeting CEOs and creative directors, from - [Tobias Lundkvist](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/tobias-lundkvist/) - Stockholm-based Tobias Lundkvist, who traveled to Malaysia to shoot our beachwear story, has been a fashion photographer since 2008, working for major global brands like Lacoste, H&M and Hugo Boss as well as shooting covers for magazines such as Elle, Tush and L’Officiel Homme. This year, the thing he’s looking forward to most is a - [David Gritten](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/david-gritten/) - Since spending a decade in Los Angeles as an editor and columnist, David Gritten has lived in London, writing mostly about film for the Los Angeles Times. More recently he has specialized in profiling screenwriters for Written By, the Writer’s Guild of America magazine. Examining Rome’s La Dolce Vita scene of the 1950s for Beyond - [William Drew](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/william-drew-2/) - The Group Editor of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants has been a journalist and editor for more than 20 years. He considers himself incredibly lucky, being able to indulge his gluttony in a largely professional capacity. Recent food highlights include sampling wild mountain sheep in San Francisco and eating world-beating kebabs in Berlin, with plenty - [Richard E. Grant](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/richard-e-grant/) - Best known for his role in the cult comedy film Withnail and I, the Swaziland-born, London-based actor has played roles ranging from Izembaro in Game of Thrones to Jasper in Girls, as well as writing and directing the 2005 film, Wah-Wah, which was loosely based on his own childhood experiences. For Beyond, he writes about - [Ed Kashi](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/ed-kashi/) - Awarded Multimedia Photographer of The Year in 2015 by Pictures of the Year International, the American photojournalist has exhibited his work – featuring everything from Kurdistan festivals to Nigerian oilfields – all over the world. For this issue of Beyond, he captured the rolling hills and historic towns of Virginia. If he weren’t visiting his - [Douglas Rogers](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/douglas-rogers/) - The award-winning author and journalist has seen much of the world in the course of his work, whether it involved taking road trips for The Daily Telegraph or embarking on jungle adventures for Travel + Leisure. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, he now lives in the U.S. state of Virginia, whose historic hinterland he explores - [Tina Gaudoin](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/tina-gaudoin-2/) - The founder and former editor-in-chief of WSJ, the Wall Street Journal’s magazine, has edited four major publications on both sides of the Atlantic. Her unerring eye for detail – particularly in matters of style – made her the obvious choice to write our tongue-in-cheek take on “The New Honeymoons” in this issue of Beyond. Where - [Naeem Khan](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/naeem-khan/) - Since launching his eponymous label in 2003, the Indian-born fashion designer has dressed everyone from Beyoncé and Taylor Swift to Michelle Obama and the Duchess of Cambridge, who wore one of his outfits for her high-profile visit to the Taj Mahal. He divides his time between New York, Mumbai – where he recommends his favorite - [Lucia van der Post](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/lucia-van-der-post/) - The South African-born author of Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me is the undisputed doyenne of all things stylish in London, having been the founding editor of the Financial Times’ How to Spend It magazine. An inveterate traveler and committed wilderness-seeker, if she could be anywhere this winter, it would be “drifting through - [William Drew](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/william-drew/) - William has been a writer and editor for over 20 years, covering fashion, fitness, finance and food. A former editor of British style magazine Arena, he is now group editor of globally renowned organization, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants. In this issue of Beyond, he identifies the trend for gastronomic pilgrimages. “This summer,” he says, - [Maya Beus](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/maya-beus/) - Fashion and lifestyle illustrator Maya Beus featured as one of the world’s up-and-coming talents in Taschen’s Illustration Now! Fashion. In this issue of Beyond, we reveal highlights from her recent project, “Butler Stories”, which saw her capturing moments from the working life of three St. Regis hotels. A resident of Split in Croatia, Maya dreams - [Dominick Farinacci](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/dominick-farinacci/) - After graduating from the Juilliard School in 2005, trumpeter Dominick Farinacci was named the very first Global Ambassador to Jazz at Lincoln Center. Based for two years in Doha – in this issue of Beyond he recommends the city’s best sheesha restaurant – his achievements resulted in an invitation from TED to speak in Washington, D.C. His - [Prosper Assouline](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/prosper-assouline/) - In 1993, Prosper Assouline and his wife Martine decided on a whim to publish a book about Provençal restaurant La Colombe d’Or. Today, Assouline, the company the couple run together, is France’s largest independent publisher, creating beautifully crafted tomes on fashion, art and collectibles. “This summer,” says Prosper, who describes the journeys that have shaped - [Jonathan Adler](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/jonathan-adler/) - Having started out as a potter, Jonathan Adler now oversees a complete lifestyle brand, with nearly 30 eponymous stores worldwide selling everything from beds to lighting. For Beyond, the designer and author salutes his favorite men’s outfitter in his hometown, New York. This summer, he’s planning a trip to Capri with his husband Simon Doonan, - [Fiona Caulfield](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/fiona-caulfield/) - The Australian-born author moved to India in 2004 and has since published five handcrafted Love Travel Guides to Indian cities, including Mumbai, about which she writes in Beyond. Her dream holiday destination is her own 1920s fisherman’s cottage in Hardys Bay, near Sydney. “It’s directly on the water so you almost feel like you’re on - [Steve King](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/steve-king/) - Writer Steve King has worked for The Economist, Vanity Fair and is currently now editor-at-large of Condé Nast Traveller. For Beyond he writes about wearable technology, a subject he was able to research recently in his (current) favorite city, Shanghai. When he’s not exploring urban environments, he’s trekking in such empty spaces as the Simpson - [Daniela Federici](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/daniela-federici/) - The Australian-born, New York-based fashion photographer Daniela Federici, who created our fashion story in Washington, D.C., has worked for some of the world’s biggest brands, from Chanel to Coca-Cola, and styled personalities from Lenny Kravitz to Chloë Sevigny. The place she’d most like to be is Capri, with its “whitewashed houses, cascading bougainvillea, lemon groves, - [Georgina Chapman](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/georgina-chapman/) - Fashion designer Georgina Chapman, who writes about her favorite vintage shop for Beyond, travels extensively, when she’s not in her Marchesa studio in New York or the Westport home she shares with her film-maker husband Harvey Weinstein. She started exploring the world at 19 and has since lived in Thailand, trekked in Peru, and been - [David Downton](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/david-downton/) - The sought-after illustrator is employed by publications worldwide to capture personalities with his paintbrush, from Paris couture beauties to designers such as Paloma Picasso and the legendary model Carmen dell’Orefice, about whom he writes for us. His dream trip? “Sailing ten minutes from Franco Zeffirelli’s former villa in Positano to Da Adolfo, a nearby restaurant, - [Ashley Niedringhaus](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/ashley-niedringhaus/) - Two years ago this Travel+Leisure correspondent traded her home in New York for Bangkok (about which she writes in this issue) and has quickly become a local, even commuting by motorcycle taxi. Favorite travel experiences, she says, usually involve eating, whether that’s steak at Botswana Butchery in Queenstown, New Zealand or fresh blue crabs in - [Stanley Stewart](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/stanley-stewart/) - Few men have seen as much of the world as this award-winning travel writer, who has encountered headhunters in Borneo, witch doctors in China and bandits in Uganda, on his journeys aboard icebreakers, camels, canoes and motorbikes. For us, he explores Rome, the city he calls his second home. “Rome is the best city in - [David Masello](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/david-masello-2/) - The work of this widely published poet, writer and editor, who writes for us about society beauty Babe Paley, has appeared in publications from Art & Antiques to The New York Times. He is executive editor of the design magazine Milieu and is the author of two books about architecture and art. The journey he - [Anna Friel](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/anna-friel-2/) - Having made her professional debut at the age of 13, the actress has appeared on both sides of the Atlantic, from the London stage in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya to the small screen in Pushing Daisies. She writes about her favourite Italian store: a 17th-century pharmacy. Her most memorable trip was driving from Los Angeles to - [Joanne Froggatt](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/joanne-froggatt/) - The actress, twice nominated for an Emmy Award and the recipient of a Golden Globe in 2015 for her portrayal of Anna in Downtown Abbey, journeyed to Abu Dhabi for this issue, where she sampled the city's most popular deli. Her favourite trip ever, she says, "was on a boat around the Whitsunday Islands in - [Sherman Sam](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/sherman-sam/) - The Singaporian painter and critic Sherman Sam was educated in France and California and contributes regularly to Artforum and Art Review. For Beyond, he interviews septuagenarian artist Tan Swie Hian, who now has two major art spaces devoted to his work. Sherman's most memorable recent trip, he says, was to a German-English wedding on the - [Nigel Tisdall](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/nigel-tisdall/) - The prolific travel writer's career began one wet Monday morning in 1985 when he went to London's Liverpool Street station and caught a train to Hong Kong. Thirty years later he's still on the road, most recently island-hopping through French Polynesia for this issue's feature on Paul Gauguin. His most memorable adventure? "Sailing along the - [Jane Goodall](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/jane-goodall-2/) - The 81-year-old primatologist, the inspiration for Michael Jackson's song Heal the World and name-checked on The Simpsons, still spends about 360 days a year traversing the world, fundraising and raising awareness about apes. Her most memorable journey, described in this issue, was sailing to Africa and "seeing for the first time flying fish and dolphins, - [Ari Seth Cohen](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/ari-seth-cohen/) - “I love traveling for work because that way I get to meet the most amazing characters. As a street-style photographer I focus on really cool older people.” Ari is the author of Advanced Style, a book chronicling elegant seniors. A freelance writer, blogger and photographer, his work appears in Vogue Japan, The New York Times, - [Allegra Donn](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/allegra-donn/) - “I think my favorite journey is to arrive in Venice by train – it’s always uplifting to be surrounded by such beauty and to know that just beyond these islands is the open sea. The first thing I always do is have an espresso in San Polo. I love these small luxuries.” Turin-born Allegra lives in - [Alex Majoli](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/alex-majoli/) - “For me, a journey should be a cocktail of experiences. It’s never just a case of transporting oneself from one point to another. But these days I travel so much that just standing still has become a pleasureable experience.” Alex grew up in Italy and is president of Magnum Photo Agency. He lives with his wife - [Julie L. Belcove](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/julie-l-belcove/) - The New York-based arts journalist and former deputy editor of W contributes regularly to publications ranging from The New Yorker to Architectural Digest. For Beyond she interviews the American artist Fred Tomaselli, whose psychological journeys are represented in wild kaleidoscopic collages. The most memorable journey of her own? “Getting up at dawn in Kenya’s Maasai - [Jason Goodwin](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/jason-goodwin/) - The award-winning novelist and historian has not only visited Istanbul dozens of times to research his Ottoman mystery novels, but also spent six months walking to the city from Poland: a journey he describes in this issue. The long hike was “one that kindled my fascination with the Ottoman Empire, as we walked through a - [Adrian Dannatt](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/adrian-dannatt/) - Having been a New York and then Paris-based actor, writer, editor, curator and artist, Dannatt was an obvious choice of writer for our feature on the Manhattan life of Salvador Dalí. Described by the Louvre as a “dilettante and flâneur”, the eccentric Englishman is co-author of Surrealism in Wales. His most memorable recent journey was - [Cheryl Cheung](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/cheryl-cheung/) - The stylist, who did a stunning job working with model Lydia for our fashion shoot, is a huge fan of the Star Ferry crossing from Kowloon to Hong Kong Island. “It’s the most serene journey, in spite of the fact that you’re surrounded by skyscrapers,” she says. “The traditional sailor’s uniforms make it look old-fashioned, - [Nonie Niesewand](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/nonie-niesewand/) - Living with the Inuit in the Canadian Arctic had its downsides, says the Zimbabwe-born writer. “It was so cold that tears froze my eyelids together. But I will never forget the dog sleds, being holed up in igloos and stuck in frozen kayaks.” In this issue she recounts a more relaxed but no less eventful - [Norman Vanamee](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/norman-vanamee/) - “I was in Newfoundland, Canada, when I asked a man at a gas station where I could find something to eat,” recalls the former editor of Sherman’s Travel magazine, who delves into the tale of the Old King Cole mural at The St. Regis New York. “He sent me to his brother’s house for dinner. - [Livia Firth](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/livia-firth/) - There’s nothing like returning to her home city of Rome to make Livia Firth’s heart sing, says the creative director of Eco-Age. “When I drive in from the airport, particularly in the spring with the smell of jasmine in the air, my mind goes back to the adventures I had there as a girl,” she - [P. J. O’Rourke](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/p-j-orourke/) - The celebrated satirical columnist and author, who ventured to some of the worst places on Earth for his book Holidays in Hell, writes for Beyond about the seven journeys that sum up his life and career. His favorite of all? “The 100-yard hike back to my office after dinner,” he says. “I’m allowed to smoke - [Kiyan Foroughi](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/kiyan-foroughi/) - The 30-year-old Kiyan Foroughi grew up between Paris and Dubai, and has lived in Boston, New York and London, from where he runs his “online bazaar”, Boticca. He describes for us a store full of many treasures in Mexico City, but would choose Japan above all destinations. “I love the contrast of its buzzing cities - [Gemma Soames](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/gemma-soames/) - The great granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill was the ideal writer to analyze the style of some of the world’s best-dressed mothers and daughters. Now resident in Hong Kong, the former features editor of The Sunday Times Style travels regularly throughout the East on assignment. She recently sailed on a traditional Indonesian phinisi around the - [Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/natasha-fraser-cavassoni/) - The author of Sam Spiegel: The Biography of a Hollywood Legend, Fraser-Cavassoni started her career working for Karl Lagerfeld in the Chanel studio. Since then, between interviewing designers for Beyond, the daughter of royal biographer Lady Antonia Fraser has written several books, her most recent about Yves Saint Laurent muse Loulou de la Falaise. Her - [Anne Deniau](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/anne-deniau/) - After collaborating with fashion designer Alexander McQueen for 13 years, a Beyond assignment for this Paris-based artist to photograph a trunk collector was a refreshing challenge. Of all the journeys she’s made, her favorite is into Manhattan. “There is this big sign on the road saying, ‘Have a dream’, and on the other side, ‘Nothing - [Lesley Downer](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/lesley-downer/) - “One of my most memorable trips was to Kagoshima in the deep south of Japan, where I soaked in a hot spring on a live volcano.” The author and presenter lived in Japan for five years and spent six months in the geisha community of Miyagawa-cho in Kyoto. She is the author of Madame Sadayakko: - [Tina Gaudoin](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/tina-gaudoin/) - “I love flying into any Southeast Asian city at night – the moment when the aircraft doors open and that first waft of hot, humid air hits you,” says Tina Gaudoin, who in this issue identifies the new tribes of luxury travelers. Having launched WSJ Magazine in New York, where she also worked on Harper’s - [Hiroji Kubota](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/hiroji-kubota/) - A veteran member of the celebrated Magnum photographic agency, Hiroji Kubota is renowned for his images of the Far East. In this issue he sets out from Osaka in the footsteps of Sadayakko, the geisha thought to be the real Madame Butterfly. His own favorite trip? To Nara, Japan’s ancient capital, which has “many shrines - [Jeffrey Podolsky](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/jeffrey-podolsky/) - “For me, Venice is a perennial favorite,” says Podolsky, a New Yorker. “There’s nothing more romantic than happily (and hopelessly) getting lost at night with someone else on your arm. Come summer, I’m just like a fish. The Adriatic just rejuvenates me.” The next stop is Goa, says Jeffrey, who has written for T Magazine, - [Brigitte Lacombe](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/brigitte-lacombe/) - New-York-based photographer Lacombe now “feels like a traveler” when she returns to her native Paris. She roams the world for work, and for pleasure, she says, especially to cities: “Auckland, Cairo, Chicago… I just love to travel.” For this issue she photographed celebrated New York art collector Peter Brant. She has shot for The New - [Donna Karan](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/donna-karan/) - “I went a few summers ago to the Omo Delta. It’s one of the last great tribal areas of Ethiopia, where we met incredible people, known for their body adornment, who had amazing graphic body paint and enormous lip plates.” But it is the bedroom of her apartment overlooking New York’s Central Park that the - [Harry Mount](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/harry-mount/) - “When I worked in New York, my journey home from work should have been a five-minute bike ride from SoHo to Greenwich Village. But instead I cycled for half an hour all round the southern tip of Manhattan. Where else could your commute become your favourite journey?” An author and journalist in London, Harry specialises - [Caroline Roux](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/caroline-roux/) - “Journeys that combine trains and water seem hard to beat – among them the Milan to Geneva express that skirts Lake Maggiore with its stunning sequence of views. I love to stop off at Arona for a delicious lunch at Il Grappolo.” Caroline lives in London and writes about art and design for the Financial - [Raymond Seitz](https://magazine.stregis.com/contributors/raymond-seitz/) - “There is a lakeside cottage deep in the forests of Finland where I go to write the Great American Novel. But it’s so serene that I have never put a single word on paper. And that’s the way it ought to be.” Raymond was the US Ambassador to Britain 1991-1994. A contributing editor at Condé ## Print Issues - [Issue 12](https://magazine.stregis.com/print-issues/issue-12/) - Welcome to the latest edition of Beyond, the exclusive magazine of St. Regis Hotels & Resorts. In this, our 12th issue, we take a journey through Singapore, which has seen a dramatic transformation in just 50 years. We recount the glittering history of The St. Regis Rome, originally opened by celebrated hotelier César Ritz in - [Issue 13](https://magazine.stregis.com/print-issues/issue-13/) - Welcome to the latest edition of Beyond, the exclusive magazine of St. Regis Hotels & Resorts. In this, our 13th issue, we drive from Toronto to Manhattan, following the Hudson River through Upstate New York’s picturesque landscapes and historic villages, and we visit the Indian Ocean paradise of The St. Regis Mauritius Resort, which played - [Issue 14](https://magazine.stregis.com/print-issues/issue-14/) - Welcome to the latest edition of Beyond, the exclusive magazine of St. Regis Hotels & Resorts. In this, our 14th issue, we explore the magical islands of the Venetian lagoon – just a short hop on a vaporetto from Venice’s famous squares and canals – and meet acclaimed jeweler Delfina Delettrez Fendi, great-granddaughter of the - [Issue 11](https://magazine.stregis.com/print-issues/issue-11/) - Welcome to the latest edition of Beyond, the exclusive magazine of St. Regis Hotels & Resorts. In this, our 11th issue, we take a journey through the rugged landscapes of Jordan, discovering layers of history, religion and culture along the way. We also tell the fascinating story of Caroline Astor, grande dame of New York’s - [Issue 10](https://magazine.stregis.com/print-issues/issue10/) - Explore the captivating worlds of luxury and inspiration in the newest issue of Beyond. We travel along one of our planet’s greatest rivers, the Nile, from the bustling streets of Cairo to some of its remotest parts; we talk to style doyenne Lauren Santo Domingo, co-founder of the groundbreaking Moda Operandi online fashion boutique, about - [Issue 9](https://magazine.stregis.com/print-issues/issue-9/) - Explore the captivating worlds of luxury and inspiration in the newest issue of Beyond. We travel along one of our planet’s greatest rivers, the Nile, from the bustling streets of Cairo to some of its remotest parts; we talk to style doyenne Lauren Santo Domingo, co-founder of the groundbreaking Moda Operandi online fashion boutique, about - [Issue 8 – Fall/Winter 2016](https://magazine.stregis.com/print-issues/issue-8-fallwinter-2016/) - Explore the captivating worlds of luxury and inspiration in the newest issue of Beyond. We take a fascinating road trip through the historic heartland of Virginia, bring you exclusive interviews with fashion designer Jason Wu and tennis legend Rafa Nadal, and meet the influential women behind Dubai’s blossoming art scene. We also discover why classic - [Issue 7 – Spring/Summer 2016](https://magazine.stregis.com/print-issues/issue-7-springsummer-2016/) - In issue 7 of Beyond, we experience Mexico City’s historical and modern highlights by embarking on a journey around it on foot, we talk to illustrator Maya Beus about capturing the essence of three St. Regis hotels in a series of artworks, and meet the founders of The Broad Museum in Los Angeles, home to one - [Issue 6 – Fall/Winter 2015](https://magazine.stregis.com/print-issues/issue-6-fallwinter-2015/) - In Fall/Winter 2015, we pay tribute to Carmen Dell’Orefice who now is in her eighties and still remains a fashion icon; we learn about Jamie Cullum’s passion for vinyl - when he isn’t touring the world as a jazz musician; and we speak to Michelin-starred chef Wolfgang Puck about cooking for the Queen of England and - [Issue 5 – Spring/Summer 2015](https://magazine.stregis.com/print-issues/issue-5-springsummer-2015/) - [Spring/Summer 2013](https://magazine.stregis.com/print-issues/spring-summer-2014/) - [Spring/Summer 2014](https://magazine.stregis.com/print-issues/autumn-winter-2013/) - [Fall/Winter 2013](https://magazine.stregis.com/print-issues/spring-summer-2013/) - [Issue 4 – Fall/Winter 2014](https://magazine.stregis.com/print-issues/spring-summer-2015/) - There’s a sense of style that pervades Fall/Winter 2014. We celebrate the mothers and daughters who share not just brains and beauty but glamour too; we delve into Dali’s history with New York – he spent his winters at The St. Regis in Manhattan for over 40 years; and we speak to fashion designer Carolina ## Hotels - [31. The St. Regis Amman](https://magazine.stregis.com/hotels/31-the-st-regis-amman/) - [46. The St. Regis Hong Kong 2019](https://magazine.stregis.com/hotels/the-st-regis-hong-kong/) - [45. The St. Regis Toronto](https://magazine.stregis.com/hotels/the-st-regis-toronto/) - [49. The St. Regis Nanjing 2020](https://magazine.stregis.com/hotels/46-the-st-regis-nanjing/) - [48. The St. Regis Qingshui Bay Resort 2019](https://magazine.stregis.com/hotels/47-the-st-regis-qingshui-bay-resort/) - [47. The St. Regis Lijiang Resort 2019](https://magazine.stregis.com/hotels/the-st-regis-lijiung-resort/) - [41. The St. Regis Cairo](https://magazine.stregis.com/hotels/41-the-st-regis-cairo/) - [44. 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