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A New Collection of Curvaceous Glass Jewelry and Tableware
Daniela Jacobs, the founder and designer of Arc, a line of minimalist jewelry and home goods, is perhaps best known for her porcelain creations in shades of ecru and eggshell. But in 2018, a translucent organza garment that Jacobs created for a photo shoot led to such an unexpected swell of purchase inquiries that she decided to create a handful of one-of-a-kind garments to sell, titling it her Invisibles collection. Now, after 10 years in business, Jacobs is releasing a new batch of designs that explore the concept of invisibility with Arc Glass, a limited-edition capsule of rings, bangles, candle holders and plates made of borosilicate glass. In addition to pieces that are completely see-through, a handful of the designs are rendered in black, as well as a smoky hue that changes in different lights. “It almost has a turquoise tint to it, which feels right to me because of the Mediterranean vibe,” says Jacobs, who splits her time between New York and Majorca. As with her porcelain pieces, Jacobs’s glass creations require a bit of mindfulness when worn, but she insists that they’re made for everyday use. “I wear them on the subway. I wear them biking. I wear them when I’m in Spain. When I go to the sea, I take them off and put them on a rock; I come back, they’re fine,” she says. From $190, arc-objects.com.
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In Laguna Beach, an Oceanside Hotel With Earth-Tone Interiors
The new Casa Loma Beach Hotel is perched on a rocky cliff overlooking Main Beach, the most popular stretch of sand in Laguna Beach, Calif. Previously known as the Inn at Laguna Beach, the 1989 building was renovated over nine months by Marc & Rose Hospitality, which owns properties in Arizona and California, including La Playa Hotel in Carmel and The Scott in Scottsdale. Now, Casa Loma’s 70 rooms are outfitted with curved sofas and hand-painted tapestries by the California-born artist Joe Swec. A Tivoli Model One Radio plays Casa Loma’s custom channel, which can be relied upon for laid-back music by artists like the French Belgian Balearic-pop group Antena and the Los Angeles-based R&B band Brainstory. Over half the rooms have balconies or patios overlooking the ocean; others open onto the outdoor pool. The lobby bar and lounge, which extends onto a terrace, serves cocktails along with tapas-style snacks such as tinned fish with chips and a smoked salmon breakfast board with eggs, whipped feta and bagels. In the evening, guests get free gluten-free cookies by the local bakery Rye Goods. From about $500 a night, casalomalagunabeach.com.
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Olga de Amaral’s Ethereal Textiles, on View in Paris
The Colombian artist Olga de Amaral creates sculptures out of thread that, as the curator Glenn Adamson once wrote, “feel not so much made as summoned into being.” This month, the Fondation Cartier Pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris is presenting Europe’s first major retrospective of the 92-year-old titan of textile art. The show brings together 90 works made from the 1960s to the present, many of which have never been shown outside Colombia. They range from heavy wool weavings to fragments of fabric meant to recall leaves on a forest floor to diaphanous installations suspended from the ceiling like ombré mists. Many leaders of the fiber art movement — a cohort of artists, primarily women, who brought thread off the loom and into three dimensions in the 1960s and ’70s — were inspired by pre-Columbian textiles. But de Amaral was the only one of international renown at the time who was originally from Latin America. The Paris exhibition’s design, by the French Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh, echoes the spiral shape common in pre-Columbian art as well as de Amaral’s own work. “Olga de Amaral” will be on view from Oct. 12 through Mar. 16 at the Fondation Cartier Pour l’Art Contemporain, fondationcartier.com.
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Stainless-Steel Tables That Double as Fun-House Mirrors
When Angus Buchanan, the creative director of Buchanan Studio in London, gets an idea for a piece of furniture, his first move is to manufacture a sample for the Edwardian house that he shares with Charlotte Buchanan, his wife and the company’s chief executive. “The house is a graveyard for prototypes,” says Angus. “Everything we’ve ever made, we try it there first and live with it ourselves.” Iterations of the Daydream Collection, a new series of stainless-steel tables produced in Sheffield, England, were knocking around the couple’s home for over two years, going through rounds of refinements, before they were offered for sale.
The line ranges in size from a low triangular side table, designed to sit between two armchairs, to an oval-shaped dining table with legs that finish in brass casters. Their tops can be customized with Italian marble or English oak, but most items are made only of hard-wearing steel, hand polished to a slightly distorted mirror finish, intended to reflect light and surroundings in unexpected ways. The scene-stealer of the collection is a metal coffee table, the Studio Ottoman, that looks like two stacked cushions with soft, rounded edges. “You get these slightly Surreal, whimsical images in the reflections,” says Buchanan. “It’s almost a circus-mirror effect. We found it can bring on daydreams.” From about $1,880, buchanan.studio.
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A Renovated Riverside Safari Destination in South Africa
South Africa’s Kruger National Park region is known for its wildlife-rich savannas, where anyone keeping count is likely to spy all of the Big Five — the lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant and Cape buffalo — within a game drive or two. At the 36,000-acre Ngala Private Game reserve that borders Kruger, those who seek glimpses of something more elusive — a massive pack of African wild dogs or a handful of rare white lions, for example — might also find their patience rewarded. Ngala is where the luxury safari operator AndBeyond has two lodges and, on Oct. 5, unveiled a full revamp of its Ngala Tented Camp. The romantic retreat, an intimate spread of nine riverside suites shaded by mopane and tamboti trees, has long been a favorite with in-the-know safarigoers. Now there’s a larger spa, a new dining tent, a well-appointed gym and outdoor tubs on the terrace of each tent overlooking the Timbavati River. Inside, the design, by the South African studio Fox Browne in partnership with the Johannesburg and Cape Town-based architect Jack Alexander, combines traditional Shangaan motifs with varied textures in the form of stained glass wall panels, timber columns and locally embroidered upholstery. From about $1,290 per person, andbeyond.com.
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Jean Royère’s Playful Furniture, in Production Again
The self-taught French designer Jean Royère began his career at age 29, training in a cabinetmaking workshop in Faubourg Saint-Antoine, the traditional crafts district in Paris’s 11th Arrondissement — a departure from the plumb family job in the import-export trade that he’d previously had — and went on to become a prolific and celebrated interior designer in his own right. His most well known creations, such as the Polar Bear, Egg and Elephant seating collections, meld Old World craftsmanship with modern curved silhouettes. At the height of his success, Royère designed for Middle Eastern royalty and owned several showrooms and offices around the globe, though his furniture, never intended for industrial manufacture, had been out of production since his retirement in 1972. But in 2018, Vladimir Markovic, the great-nephew of Royère’s partner, Micha Djordjevic, inherited the estate and established the brand Royère with the goal, he says, “to continue Jean’s work in the most respectful manner.” Together with the artistic director Jonathan Wray, Markovic has drawn on Royère’s extensive archive of materials, held by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, to produce a catalog of new editions made to the designer’s original specifications by an assemblage of French artisans. Pieces from the collection — comprising a range of seating, daybeds, tables and lighting — will be on display at a new Royère gallery in New York’s SoHo opening later this month, arranged in a setting that pays tribute to one of Royère’s last sketches, and perhaps a dream unrealized: an interior for a Manhattan apartment. Price on request, maisonroyere.com.
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