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Step by Step
How Anna Sui Gets Ready
I start out by washing my face with my line’s cleansers, the clearing oil and cleansing water. Then I use my plumping lotion; it has these gold specks in it and it really does something nice to your skin. I use Clearstem’s Hydraglow stem cell moisturizer before I put on my foundation, and then at night I’ll put on their Clearity serum with vitamin C and mandelic acid as well as their CellRenew serum. The beauty product most nostalgic to me is red lipstick. It’s something I started to wear once I moved to New York, because my mom didn’t let me wear lipstick as a teenager. I’ve been using Anna Sui Cosmetics the longest; we’re going on 25 years of that. We always do a red lipstick, number 400, that I wear. I also like the Nars lip pencil in Dragon Girl that I put underneath my lipstick. And I always wear my Perfect eyeliner. I use this eyeliner brush that’s Thierry Mugler, and it’s thick — it gives me that wide eyeliner look that I like. I wear my signature winged eyeliner everywhere, even when I go to the gym, even when I go to the drugstore. I love going to Bigelow [in the West Village] because they have a bubble bath that I like, Mistral in Lychee Rose Floral. I realize that bubble baths must not be popular now, because it’s really hard to find. But I like those bubbles. I guess from old movies, you always see the glamour pusses in the bathtub with all the bubbles. Garren New York, he’s cut my hair forever and nobody cuts hair like Garren. I get so many comments like, “You have such a great haircut.” I get my hair cut maybe three times a year, but I trim my own bangs in between with whatever scissors I have on hand. I wash my hair with R+C Television shampoo and conditioner or the Primary shampoo and conditioner and masque from their Bleu collection. I always use a Denman brush. Every time I go to London, I buy some from Boots. I also just bought a Dyson flat iron. I guess I copy my mom because she always wore fragrance, Chanel No. 5, and lipstick. I wear fragrance every day. I’ve been wearing our new Electric Whisper. I love the black currant and lychee, which give a slight fruitiness, but then the pink pepper patchouli and vetiver add a spiciness. And of course the hint of rose. Again to the gym, to the drugstore … it’s just natural for me to wear it all the time like my mom. The other thing I always wear is nail polish. My favorite color is Seafoam Green. I hate chipped nails, so I usually do my own, twice a week.
Stay Here
A New Lisbon Hotel With a Private Garden and River Views
Rose Fournier, the Swiss French interior designer and owner of Tarabel Marrakech, the 10-room riad that opened in the Moroccan city in 2007, spent the past five years overhauling a 19th-century mansion in Lisbon’s Lapa neighborhood. Situated across a cobblestone street from the United States ambassador’s residence, Tarabel Lisbon is set to open next month behind a facade painted enamel blue in homage to Queluz Palace, built in 1747 for the first female ruler of Portugal. For her new hotel’s relaxed, elegant interiors, Fournier scoured French flea markets for antique furniture (“Everything Napoleon III is comfortable,” she says) to mix with extra-deep, French linen-covered couches and a stone fireplace she brought over from her private Megève chalet, plus trompe l’oeil bookshelves and birdcages by the painter Gonçalo Jordão. All nine rooms across four levels have views over the Tagus River, some extending to private terraces. Specialist carpenters from France who work at the Palace of Versailles hand carved intricate treillage woodwork for some of the rooms, while closets were finished in leather by Moroccan artisans. Green parrots crisscross the sky above the guests-only garden that’s bordered by jacaranda trees. There’s also a glass-tiled swimming pool, heated year-round. From about $525 a night, tarabellisbon.com.
Wear This
A Third-Generation Jeweler’s Botanical Rings
“I grew up around the remnants — gold dust, stones and wax,” Alexis Alexandra Briano says of A. Hagosian & Son, the jewelry shop that her grandfather Aram and her father, John, maintained for half a century inside the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco. Aram opened the store in the 1930s after having escaped the 1915 Armenian genocide and, especially because of the precarity from which it emerged, Briano didn’t want the business to die with her father. A few years ago, she found a Los Angeles-based goldsmith with the skills to recreate Aram and John’s intricate designs — lost-wax cast, hand-engraved pieces inspired by the work of the 16th-century Italian sculptor and jeweler Benvenuto Cellini, and by the natural world. The result, launching this week, is a collection of eight 18-carat-gold rings featuring wraparound botanical motifs. There are delicate bands of interconnected pansies and weightier, wreathlike ones modeled after ferns and bay laurel or acanthus leaves. With their fine etchings and antique finishes, the designs — including one with snaking stems and drooping lilies — have an old-world appeal, though Briano notes that a band carved with acorns is also “so California.” While building the collection, Briano, who is also a psychotherapist, thought about what it is to withstand hardship or mine a difficult history and come out on the other side with something beautiful. She sees the project, which she’s named Alexis Alexandra, as a tribute to her family, and yet she also wants to move the story forward. She plans to experiment with her own designs — and with various gems — and hopes, one day, to pass her knowledge down to her daughter. Prices on request, alexisalexandra.com.
Covet This
Revived Furniture by the French Designer Pierre Guariche
In 1962, the French designer Pierre Guariche created a collection for La Plagne, a ski resort in France’s alpine Tarentaise valley. Among the pieces was a wool-upholstered chaise longue called the Vallée Blanche, meant to mirror the curves of the mountains and named after the world’s longest ski run. The chair was honored at the homeware exhibition Salon des Arts Ménegers the following year and is now part of the Centre Pompidou’s permanent collection of revolutionary designs. This fall, over 60 years since Vallée Blanche’s inception, the French furniture manufacturer Ligne Roset is reissuing it as part of a 16-piece collection of furniture and lighting from Guariche’s archives dating from the 1950s to the ’70s. “We wanted to extend the lives of these historic models,” says Ligne Roset’s executive vice president, Simone Vingerhoets-Ziesmann. To ensure a faithful recreation, the company went beyond referencing drawings: “We purchased the existing original Guariche designs and studied them,” says Vingerhoets-Ziesmann. “For the Vallée Blanche, there were only four left.” Ligne Roset’s designers preserved Gauriche’s original structure, building the spider-shaped base from welded steel and using polyurethane foam, a durable performance material, for the chair’s cushion. “We want the functionality to be embraced,” says Vingerhoets-Ziesmann. Other revived items include the gently curving Tonneau Chair, whose seat is formed from a single piece of plywood, and the G10 sofa, an upholstered couch with plywood panels. From $860, ligne-roset.com.
Drink Here
Balinese Artistry Finds a New Home in a Frankfurt Cocktail Bar
Frankfurt, Germany’s financial capital, isn’t necessarily known for its creative scene but, though it may be small, it does exist: Artists like the sculptors Tobias Rehberger and Martin Wenzel live and work in the city; DJ Ata Macias owns the lively Cafe Plank! in the Bahnhofviertel, a neighborhood near the main train station; and, since it opened in 2016, the stylish boutique hotel Libertine Lindenberg has been attracting artsy visitors to the historic Sachsenhausen neighborhood. Last month, the Libertine opened a bar on its ground floor called Toko & Bar. It’s inspired by Indonesian flavors and handicraft — Lindenberg, the hospitality group behind the property, also has a surf hotel on Bali — with cocktails featuring ingredients like Kaffir lime leaves and rosella. Snacks on offer include the Drunken Gurk, a pickled cucumber served with peanut crunch and a shot of a strong Indonesian rice spirit called arak. The tables are set with textiles and brass cutlery commissioned by the hotel and made by Balinese artisans. thelindenberg.com.
Smell This
A Fragrance Inspired by Cannabis and Wild Plants
Since launching in 2020, the Brooklyn creative studio Wenjüe Lu has released limited collections of clothes, soft sculptures and installations with the aim of promoting “longevity, sustainability and individuality,” says co-founder Chufeng Fang. Its garments are made from undyed cotton and linen, and the studio offers a mending service for customers to encourage lifelong ownership. In September the brand launched a fragrance in collaboration with the New York-based perfumer Yi Fei Li. The scent, called Wiid, has notes of bitter gourd, marijuana and patchouli. “We wanted to begin with the cannabis plant and end with something that feels more like an incense stick,” says Fang. Wiid is bottled in hand-carved glass bottles with wooden lids — each one is numbered and unique. And for those who want an additional layer to their fragrance, Fang and his co-founder Wenjüe Lu have created a zine, Wild Is the Wiid, that offers a guide to experiencing the perfume as well as poetry. $100, wenjuelu.com.
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