Welcome to T-list, the editor's newsletter of T Magazine. Every week, we share what we are eating, wearing, listening, or craving. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every Wednesday, find our monthly trip and beauty guides, as well as our latest stories from printing issues. And you can always contact us at tmagazine@nytimes.com.
I'll stay here
A hotel that mixes past and present in Paris
Near the limits of the northwest of the city, Paris's 17th arrondisment is mostly residential, so it is not usually in front of the heart for visitors to the French capital. But the opening of La Fondation, a 58-room hotel with interior decor by New York-based design firms Roman and Williams, may change that mindset. This is part of the new 10-storey complex, which also includes an office space with rooftop gardens, a gym, rock climbing walls, an 80-foot-long pool, a gym with multiple fitness rooms, a sauna, hammam and spa with treatment rooms. Hotel guests will have access to all of this, along with a classic bistro and an upscale bistro conducted by local chef Thomas Rossi, as well as a rooftop bar with wide views from the Sacre Caule to the Eiffel Tower. For hotel decorations, Roman and Williams referred to the city's late modernist era. The room features colour-blocked walls adjacent to the oak frame. In the common area, large committees will merge with the architecture, including wooden wall sculptures by Croatian artisan Vedran Jaccić and painted ceramic tiles by French artist Pierre Yves Canard. “There is a constant interaction between refinement and rawness, fashion and function. Paris at the time and now, Paris,” says Robin Stand Yorfer, co-founder of Roman and Williams. La Fon will open on April 28th. Starting at $440 per night, en.lafondationhotel.com.
Please read this
A pocket-sized guide to modernist buildings around the world
Prague-based design historian and photographer Adam Szcz had an early appeal to marine biology. “My role model was (French oceanographer) Jacques Cousteau,” he says. “I wanted to be an explorer.” Later, Shachucci, who had a strong interest in architecture, visited nearly 50 countries and also documented prominent and forgotten buildings of the 20th century. As a result, he often makes inquiries from friends bound by Honolulu, Paris and Mexico City. “What should I see?” I go to the familiar refrain. “Tell me the hidden modernist gems.” Now, thanks to online magazines and first book publisher Sight Unseen, support for Swiss Company USM Modular Furniture – these answers arrive in the form of pocket-sized books. The Modernist Travel Guide is a tour of 30 international cities, each with a dozen highlights. Some are open to the public, like the psychedelic Pannenhuis station in Brussels and the canopy gas stations in Arnejakobsen outside Copenhagen. Others can only praise it from the street, as in the example of Berlin's Berlin's building of the colorful unit davitation. The width of the book – a lesser-known London storefront designed by Walter Gropius, the founder of the Madrid Optics Institute, Los Angeles Deli and Bauhaus – encourages quirky scavenger hunts wherever you are. The Modernist Travel Guide will be available on May 8th. $38, shop.sightunseen.com.
Yokoi, a Japanese Swiss artist, lived and worked at Hotel Chelsea in New York for three years before moving to 1961. She didn't come back. The restaurant in the hotel cellar serves simple Japanese cuisine (Chefono's own ceramic plated) in a 12-seat sushi bar and dining room. Guests can access from the inside of the lobby or through hidden exterior staircases between the hotel's main entrance and the long-standing guitar shop leading to the small underground garden passageway. Throughout her career, Yokoi's nine paintings will be on display, and a few blocks away, consisting of a gallery survey in which 25 co-curated their grandchildren, Tai. The title is “No Theatre,” and there is a similarity between its traditional form of Japanese performance and the artist's work. Both employ tea papers (the former of that program), characterized by “slow, intentional and symbolic movements,” as Tai writes in his accompanying essay. According to Kayo, her mother had a history of showing her work beyond the gallery. After the disbandment of her marriage to painter Sam Francis, she moved her family to Switzerland, Yokoi displayed her work in public spaces such as restaurants and hospitals. “She wanted to bring beauty and create a refuge from this turbulent world,” says Kayo. “I think she'll be very pleased with this.” The restaurant Terko will open in mid-May. “Non Theater” will be on display from May 1st to June 14th from Hollistaggart.com.
Please access this
Opened as a restoration of the 10th century monastery in Spain, as a holiday villa
In 2006, Spanish food industry Juan Manuel Gonzalez Serna took place in an aging 10th century monastery near the village of Baltanas, Castile. He stopped to marvel at the stone and densely wooded hills. On his way home, Gonzalez Cerna called his wife Lucia. “He said he fell in love with the place,” she recalls. The couple purchased the land and began a 13-year restoration of Monasterio in Sanperayo. Since 2019, the 15-bedroom home has been a private residence for a couple, but as of this year it is open to the public as an exclusive villa. Spanish architect Rafael Manzano, who specializes in renovating historic sites like the Royal Alcazar in Seville, worked with archaeologists to strip the site of one or two hundred years of history, discover Romanesque walls, discovering the remains of medieval corridors, hammams, and hundreds of burial plots. Its layered history influenced the design of the 60,277 square feet of living and dining space, with 17th-century Dutch tapestry, antique Cuenca carpets and wooden panel ceilings adding warmth to the monastery's environment. In collaboration with the Prado Museum in Madrid, the owners have restored several artworks from their private collections, including 13th century Jesus sculptures and paintings from Peter Paul Rubens' workshops. Horse riding, hunting, flower workshops, and Asados can be organized on almost 5,000 acres of real estate. It is powered by the Springs network and is covered in Holm Oak Forest, Truffle Field, Wild Rose, Thyme and lavender. The Rivera del Duro vineyards are within 10 miles, but the facility can host private tastings on-site. Starting from $6,370 per night, Monasteriodesanpelayo.es.
Please consider this
A photographic book that captures the life and military presence of plants in Okinawa, Japan
The first photobook of French artist Victor Thierre begins with the eerie exclamation point: title – “Okinawa!!”. – Cry across the glossy acid green cover of the publication. Among the names and subjects, it is a contemporary echo of the famous Japanese photographer Tamuragawa River Okinawa Okinawa Okinawa (1969), the first record of the island's American military culture. Sculptor and filmmaker Thierre presents her own photographic study of lush landscapes still marked with signs of 32 US military facilities operating in Okinawa today. Helicopters ring in pairs overhead, barbed wire fences and distant communication towers emerge from the vegetation. “The island is in the middle of paradise, but it can be transformed into hell very quickly,” says Thierre, who used vertical black and white compositions and harsh noon sunlight to destroy the natural technicolor beauty of the setting. Alongside these unconventional panoramas, there is a close-up study of minimalist pressed plants. These are entangled nests of grapes, overlapping ferns, and other specimens that gathered from the Ryuko Islands six years after the devastating battle in Okinawa. Of the thousands of plant entries that make up the complete herbaceous herbaceous (housed in the archives of the Smithsonian facility), Thierre says they were attracted to a particular sample because they were originally rooted in their closeness to violence. “These plants either saw war or grew directly on the battlefield,” explains the artist. On an outsize scale at the Museum of Collection Lambert in Avignon, France, and at the Museum of Collection Lambert in Avignon, France, nature is intertwined with military technology. From one page to the next, flat leaves can be as likely to get arrested as the blurry silhouette of a fighter. About $50, RVB-Books.com. Exhibition “Okinawa!!” It will be on display at Avignon's Collection Lambert from April 19th to June 15th.
When Alex Matisse founded East Fork, a pottery company in Asheville, North Carolina in 2009, he didn't want to cover up his famous surname with his passion for clay. “My focus was primarily on getting away from the last name and building something that stood out in its own right,” he says. Since then, yeast fork has become known for its earth-colored ceramic dishes. Now, 40, Potter has decided it's time to pay homage to great grandfather Henri Matisse with his collection of plates, platters and mugs decorated with the artist's most recognizable motifs. A quartet of 1940s female portraits adorned dessert plates. A 1951 wood painting spreads out on a larger platter. The 1952 blue nude suite is distributed on Matisse's iconic dark blue tint dinner plates. According to Matisse, the main challenge was to complete the decal process to capture the artist's distinctive navy gure tones and subtle strokes. East Fork eventually partnered with a French supplier responsible for printing Hermes' tableware, and the Asheville team mixed a new tone called La Sirane. The Matisse collection is available for pre-order on April 25th. Mugs $68, from eastfork.com.
From T's Instagram
