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☆ Can a Forgotten Hot Spot Reclaim Its Cool?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Chantel Tattoli | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Anya Firestone’s job as a luxury tour guide in Paris has brought her to many rarefied corners of the city. But only recently did she do something that countless locals and visitors have done over the last 130 years: Book a reservation at Maxim’s, the storied French restaurant that opened in 1893 and has counted Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Margrethe II of Denmark, Jean Cocteau, Jane Birkin and Man Ray among its patrons. “The place was packed,” Ms. Firestone, 35, said of the night she ate there in late November. She was not alone in that perception. “Many people, even most, did not realize it was open as a restaurant,” said Pierre Pelegry, a director at Maxim’s who has worked there for 27 years and was hired by Pierre Cardin, the French fashion designer, after he bought the restaurant in 1981.

Persons: Anya Firestone’s, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Margrethe II of Denmark, Jean Cocteau, Jane Birkin, Man Ray, Ms, Firestone, hadn’t, ”, Pierre Pelegry, Pierre Cardin Locations: Paris, Maxim’s

☆ Her Clothes? Fabulous. Her Face? A Fungus.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Chantel Tattoli | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Ewa Juszkiewicz was staring at a portrait of Katarzyna Starzenska, a Polish aristocrat and social fixture, completed in 1804. “She had many romances,” Ms. Juszkiewicz said. The small painting by François Gérard, which presents Starzenska in a black dress and red shawl, was displayed at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, a museum that was once the home of Polish monarchs. “I think her black dress is velvet,” Ms. Juszkiewicz said. “The red shawl — probably cashmere?

Persons: Ewa Juszkiewicz, Katarzyna Starzenska, “, ” Ms, Juszkiewicz, ”, François Gérard, Ms Locations: Polish, Warsaw

☆ Jackie Kennedy as You’ve Never Seen Her
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Chantel Tattoli | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Amore!”The words echoed through Studio Salvadore, a family-run glassblowing workshop on Murano, the Italian island near Venice known for its centuries-old glass industry. It was 3 p.m. on a Friday in late July, and Mr. Findletar had been making drinking glasses with a small team since around 6:30 in the morning. At the mouth of a furnace, colorful glass rods lined up on the head of a shovel were melting together. Mr. Findletar, 49, flicked water droplets at the glass, which would become a cup, to make bubbles. “I call this dirtying up the glass,” Mr. Findletar said.

Persons: “ Amore, ” Hugh Findletar, “, Findletar, Mr Organizations: Salvadore Locations: Murano, Venice, India, Paris

☆ The Art of Drinking? Right This Way, S’il Vous Plaît.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Chantel Tattoli | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On a recent morning at the Louvre, Anya Firestone handed out bottles of Evian. “Because ‘the art of drinking’ begins with hydration,” she said. The set of ancient Babylonian laws included “an eye for an eye,” she explained, and it also dealt with issues of alcoholic beverages, like watered-down wine and the peoples’ “right to beer,” as she pithily put it. “Pretty impressive!” said Mr. Stanley, the chief executive of a memory care community near Austin, Texas. Mr. Stanley, 43, had hired Ms. Firestone to design a two-day visit around alcohol.

Persons: Anya Firestone, ’, Firestone, Manolo Blahniks, Charlotte Olympia, Matt Stanley, Salomé Bes, Hammurabi, ”, pithily, Stanley Organizations: “, Charlotte Locations: Evian, Austin , Texas

☆ How Far Would You Go for Midcentury Furniture?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Chantel Tattoli | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The credenza in the back of the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van groaned as Lars Balderskilde drove through the woodlands near Vejle, a city on a fjord about two and a half hours from Copenhagen. It was late January, and after passing a lake filled with swans, Mr. Balderskilde stopped at a house where he picked up an old bar cabinet that he paid for in cash. Then came stops at other homes to collect nesting tables and a mirror. “It’s always emotional, but you have to let go,” Ms. Toft said to Mr. Balderskilde, who had come to look at various pieces in the house. Ms. Kock showed him a tiny clay bird that she had made as a girl.

Persons: van groaned, Lars Balderskilde, Balderskilde, Nina Toft, Grethe Kock, “ It’s, ” Ms, Toft, Kock, “, ” Organizations: Mercedes, Benz, van Locations: Vejle, Copenhagen

There are plans to open the Olari Cultural Center, a new institution on Olari Street, in September. It will showcase Horezu ceramics, host conferences and present demonstrations by potters. The cultural center was paid for by the town of Horezu and the Romanian government. Olari Street is about a 10-minute drive from the entrance to town, which is crowded with souvenir shops. Many hawk ceramics from Bulgaria that tourists mistake for local pottery, said Laurentiu Pietraru, 52, a potter and shop owner in Horezu who sells ceramics made in the town for about $2 to $54.

Persons: Constantin Popa, Georgeta Popa, ” Tim Curtis, Daniela Ogrezeanu, Nicolae Sardarescu, Laurentiu Pietraru Locations: Horezu, Romanian, Bulgaria

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