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Noma Launches a Coffee Subscription Service
In 2017, Carolyne Lane was working as a barista in Bielefeld, Germany, when she saw a YouTube video of René Redzepi talking about coffee. “Back then, specialty coffee shops were a rarity in Europe,” Lane says. And yet Redzepi, the chef behind Noma in Copenhagen, was pledging to have a world-class coffee service at his restaurant. The following spring, Lane drove north and asked for a job. Noma has a hyper-fixation on local food — the bark, branches, crickets and reindeer on the menu can all be found in the Nordic region. One of the few exceptions is coffee. “It’s the most exotic thing in the restaurant,” says Lane, who now manages the coffee and tea services at Noma. The restaurant began roasting its own coffee last year under the brand Noma Kaffe. This month, the beans will be packaged and shipped internationally for the first time as part of a subscription service. Offerings will change monthly, drawing from producers around the world. Some of them, like the Intzín family, a community of Indigenous farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, have supplied Noma in the past. The beans are roasted in Copenhagen and shipped to subscribers with notes on sourcing and brewing. “These coffees are very easy to make,” Lane says. “They taste good at home.” Noma Kaffe is the latest packaged product from the restaurant, which has been building out a pantry of consumer goods ranging from pumpkin vinegar to corn yuzu hot sauce. Noma Kaffe subscriptions will be available online beginning on March 6; from $65 for two bags of coffee beans, nomaprojects.com.
Stay Here
A Ritz-Carlton With Treehouse Tents in Costa Rica’s Tropical Forest
Nekajui, the name of the new Ritz-Carlton Reserve property on Costa Rica’s Peninsula Papagayo, means “lush garden” in the local Chorotega language. It’s a fitting description of its deeply verdant location. Hailed as one of the most biodiverse places on earth, Costa Rica’s Guanacaste region is home to about 7,000 types of plants, in addition to sloths, sea turtles, monkeys and approximately 500 avian species, including toucans and the rainbow-bright parrots from which the peninsula takes its name. Situated in a tropical forest atop coastal cliffs, Nekajui is surrounded by a 250-acre wildlife sanctuary where guests can partake in zip-lining, guided nature hikes and canoe excursions through the mangroves. The resort itself has seven restaurants and bars, a 27,000-square-foot spa, two large pools and a full-service beach club. Accommodations include 107 ocean-facing guest rooms and a handful of private villas — one with 10 bedrooms — but perhaps the most intriguing options are the three luxurious canvas-roofed, family-size casitas elevated on stilts to sit eye level with the forest canopy. Though they’re billed as treetop tents, they make glamping look like roughing it, with butler service, marble bathrooms and private plunge pools. From $2,390 per night, ritzcarlton.com.
Buy This
Colorful Outdoor Furniture From Dusen Dusen and Fatboy
In 1998, the Finnish designer Jukka Setälä released a vibrant beanbag chair called Fatboy, which was named not for its slouchy, oversize form but for the musician Fatboy Slim, whom he often listened to while working. As a child, the American designer Ellen Van Dusen, founder of the 15-year-old pattern-heavy housewares brand Dusen Dusen, had a solid red Fatboy in her room in Washington, D.C. Now all of that history is coalescing in a collaboration between the two companies that’s part of a pop-up beginning March 12 online and in-person at New York’s MoMA Design Store, where Van Dusen has been selling products for the past six years. The idea here was to create a new suite of outdoor furniture — a modular couch, a hammock, some poufs, pillows and bean bags, among other items — that’s as durable and versatile as it is bright and fun. On the sofa, for instance, there’s an orange pattern inspired by oak-tree bark; on smaller pieces, green or blue stripes are meant to reflect the land or the sky. All were envisioned with Van Dusen’s own Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, outdoor space in mind, with its abundant greenery and mosaic tiling by the artist Matthew Chambers — but would make any area look bolder. “I’ve been working on my own backyard for years, and most outdoor furniture that’s good-looking isn’t comfortable,” she says. “I often design because I want something exciting and useful in my own life.” Fatboy x Dusen Dusen launches March 12, store.moma.org.
Covet This
A New Hue for Apple’s MacBook Air
In 1999, the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs announced the arrival of the iMac G3, a desktop computer, in an array of fruit-themed colors. The computer industry, he noted in his keynote presentation at the 1999 MacWorld Expo, had long been stuck in a world of black and beige. But with this launch, he told the crowd, “One of the most important questions now when you buy a computer is going to be, ‘What’s your favorite color?’” This week, the company continues its longstanding tradition of palette experimentation with the latest MacBook Air, now available in Sky Blue. The crisp, metallic hue joins the current stable of Silver, Starlight and Midnight. The laptop also comes with a higher-quality video camera and double the memory. It’s more environmentally friendly too, made with 55 percent recycled materials — the most of any Apple product — with packaging that’s entirely fiber based, bringing the company closer to its goal of removing all plastic from packaging by the end of the year. From $999, apple.com.
See This
In Berlin, an Artist’s Plant Life Made of Maps
Growing up in Los Baños, Laguna, a mountainous area surrounded by rainforest in the Philippines, the artist Ryan Villamael felt a connection to nature, fashioning twigs, leaves and stones into playthings in place of toys. He’d watch his mother, Luisa, who worked in plant genetics at a university, look at botanical specimens through a microscope. In turn, his own gaze as a young artist became fixated on maps and “how maps document history and define borders and migrations,” Villamael says. His fascination also grew out of a personal motivation: wondering where his father, who had left the family to work overseas, was at any given moment.
Villamael combines these two preoccupations in the group show “Musafari: Of Travellers and Guests” at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, using scissors to cut prints of vintage maps into vegetation-like canopies in his “Locus Amoenus” series. “Locus amoenus is Latin for ‘pleasant place,’ and every time I install this series, the goal is to create a space where people can find a place of refuge,” he says. For the paper leaves of his creation, Villamael used a replica of a 1734 map of the Philippine archipelago drawn by the Jesuit Father Pedro Murillo Velarde. His choice of botanical references has meaning too: Viewers might recognize the leaves of the tropical Monstera deliciosa, now a common house plant, which represents the “interplay between cultivated and wild,” says Villamael, and how “certain species thrive in unexpected contexts.” “Musafari: Of Travellers and Guests” will be on view at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin from March 7 through June 16, hkw.de.
Visit This
A Norwegian Art Museum With Interiors by India Mahdavi
The Paris-based architect India Mahdavi, who’s known for her colorful interiors, has designed restaurants (Sketch in London, for one), hotels (Condesa DF in Mexico City) and homes (including an earthen retreat in Egypt). But she’d never done a museum — that is until two years ago, when the collectors Monica Reitan and Ole Robert Reitan approached her to help them with the interiors of an Art Nouveau building in the Norwegian city of Trondheim, where they planned to open a new museum for modern and contemporary art. The space was initially built in 1911 as the town’s main post office. The Reitans considered calling the museum Posten Modern (or Modern Post Office) but eventually shortened the name to PoMo. Their brief to Mahdavi was that it should retain the function and feeling of a community hub. She used pops of color, inspired by those she found in Trondheim, throughout to “offer another form of visual stimulus aside from the exhibition spaces,” she says. The door to the gray stone building is fuchsia; the dramatic metal staircase that rises from the ground floor is a mandarin orange inspired by some of the city’s old wooden waterside warehouses. The reading room on the third floor features murals of local flora and fauna by the Amsterdam-based artistic duo Gijs Frieling and Jobs Wouters of Atelier FreelingWaters. “Colors draw people in,” says Mahdavi. PoMo’s opening exhibition is “Postcards From the Future,” a group show of about 100 works by 24 international artists, on view through June 22. pomo.no.
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