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A New Rosewood Hotel on Mexico’s Pacific Coast
By John Wogan
The expansion of Riviera Nayarit — a roughly 200-mile stretch along Mexico’s Pacific coast, about an hour drive north of Puerto Vallarta — continues this week with the opening of Rosewood Mandarina. The 134-room hotel occupies a verdant, densely forested 53 acres interspersed with farmland, and has views of both the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountain Range and the ocean. The environment was central to the interior design, says Caroline Meersseman, a principal at the New York-based studio Bando x Seidel Meersseman. “Ninety-five percent of the rooms face the ocean,” she says. “We used as many windows and mirrors as possible to bring the exterior inside.” Aside from the natural beauty, Meersseman and her team found inspiration in the region’s Indigenous Huichol and Cora cultures. Mexican contemporary artists were commissioned to create the decorative pieces and furniture found in every guest room, such as the sculptural ceramic lights by Salvador Nuñez that resembles the native peyote cactus, each one painted to reference Huichol art and craft; and a series of abstract murals based on traditional Huichol fairy tales by the Guadalajara painter Maryan Vare. The hotel’s primary restaurant, La Cocina, will be another nod to the region, with seafood (ceviche with jackfruit, lobster tacos, spiced prawns) caught from the Pacific, a few steps away. Rosewood Mandarina opens May 8; from $1,000 a night; rosewood.com.
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The Crunchy Red Berry That’s a Celebration of Autumn in Chile
By Tanya Bush
Autumn in Chile signals the arrival of murta season, when ancient wild berries — known variously as murtilla, Chilean guava or strawberry myrtle — flood the country’s southern landscapes. Fragrant and floral, with a texture somewhere between a crisp blueberry and firm apple, murta has long been treasured across Chile for both its distinct flavor and nutritional value. At Amaia in Maipú, a suburb of Santiago, the chef Iván Zambra, a champion of Indigenous Chilean foodways, favors murta berries for their crunchy texture and natural acidity. From March through May, Zambra showcases fresh red murta in vibrant herb salads and a tartare. To preserve the season’s bounty, he steeps the berries to make syrups and jams, capturing their essence for year-round dishes like murta panna cotta with yogurt semifreddo and lawen, a traditional herbal infusion intended to soothe colds and ease stress. At Boragó in Santiago’s Vitacura neighborhood, the chef Rodolfo Guzmán sources murta — including a rare white variety he serves fresh as a condiment or predessert — through an expansive network of southern foragers. He resists preserving the berries whenever possible. “When you preserve them, you lose the soul,” he says. Though his team occasionally ferment or dehydrate murta to layer flavor into broths, they most often present the fruit at its aromatic peak. This season, Guzmán is debuting a dessert that pairs murta with tangy Patagonian rhubarb and rich sheep’s milk ice cream. “It’s about honoring the momentum of the land,” he says. Murta has found its way into gardens and farms in Italy, New Zealand and parts of Britain (at Crocadon, an organic farm and restaurant in Cornwall, the chef Dan Cox serves strawberry myrtle with sorrel sorbet, anise hyssop oil and fresh sorrel leaves), but Guzmán notes that the Chilean variety retains a unique flavor. “You want to grab that personality and allow it to accent all the other ingredients,” he says. “When it’s fresh, it’s just pure magic.”
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Embroidered Bed and Table Linens Created in Collaboration With Laila Gohar
By Roxanne Fequiere
The New York-based artist Laila Gohar and Véronique Taittinger, the owner and artistic director of the bespoke linen company Vis-a-Vis Paris, are launching their first collaboration, a 13-piece collection of hand-embroidered bed and table linens that draw on traditional techniques. A pleated duvet cover took nearly 500 hours to complete, while the intricate point de noeud style of embroidery on the collection’s top sheet was once used by 15th-century French nuns. Gohar’s penchant for whimsy emerges in the form of a scalloped tablecloth embroidered to look as if a handful of multicolored beans had been scattered onto its Belgian linen surface. For those worried about the practicality of using such delicate pieces on a regular basis, Taittinger says that upkeep is surprisingly simple: “Avoid the dryer, but they can be machine washed. The more you use them, the better they get.” From $55, modaoperandi.com.
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In Paris’s Grand Palais, a New Take on the Brasserie
By Fiona Castro Le Brun
When the French interior architect Joseph Dirand was asked to design a restaurant inside the Grand Palais — the Beaux-Arts monument just off Paris’s Champs-Élysées — he saw it as a chance to honor the building’s iconic past. “It’s one of my favorite places in Paris,” he says. “Somewhere between a train station and a cathedral — built for both passage and wonder.” With Le Grand Café, which opens this week, Dirand has created a grand version of the traditional Parisian brasserie with a brick-toned color palette (a nod to the Grand Palais’s original clay floors), velvet banquettes, wood paneling and patinated mirrors. Servers wear white jackets, and a small stage will host live jazz musicians beneath the restaurant’s 60-foot ceilings. Outside, camellias and magnolias bloom on the stone terrace. The menu leans nostalgic, with a buttery sole meunière, steak au poivre and île flottante. But there are a few surprises, like citrus-crusted veal sweetbreads and a sweet-and-savory salad of green beans, raspberries and lobster. legrandcafe-paris.com.
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A Painter’s Layered Depiction of Family Ties
In Antonia Showering’s new exhibition, “In Line,” at Timothy Taylor in New York — her first solo show since becoming a mother — the British painter explores cycles of life and shifting roles within a family. Showering, who pours oil paint onto a distemper-brushed canvas while it’s flat and lets the colors pool, will sometimes spend weeks on an artwork, like the eerie painting “Pruning” (2024), which shows one figure atop another in a situation that seems both “sexual and surgical,” she says. In that painting, “you can see a palimpsest of paint leading up to the final surface,” she adds. Her expressive compositions often feature these layers of pentimenti, the ghostlike traces of older versions of an artwork that remain visible even after they’re painted over, evoking memories, regrets and dreams. Other times, Showering goes to the canvas with an idea in mind. Living and working in pastoral Somerset, Showering says she feels removed from her cohort, so she frequently spends time on the phone with friends. Some of her new pieces have come out of these conversations. “The Waiting Room” (2025) — in which orange-and-purple light suffuses a room where a pensive, naked woman sits in bed with her newborn baby beside her — was informed by her friend the art historian Katy Hessel, who’d recently read aloud an extract from her upcoming book, “How to Live an Artful Life.” Each painting, Showering says, “is all about trying to translate and share a feeling.” “In Line” will be on view from May 8 through June 21, timothytaylor.com.
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Chairs Designed by Antoni Gaudí, on Display in New York
By Jinnie Lee
Antoni Gaudí is most famous for his fantastical architecture in Barcelona, Spain, but his contribution to Catalan Modernism also included furniture with a surreal spin. For Casa Batlló, the aquatic-inspired building that Gaudí renovated between 1904 and 1906, he designed a custom wooden dining chair with a hammerhead shark-shaped backrest, a thick, curvy seat and sinewy legs. “The chairs look like animals. They have so much character, like they want to walk away,” says the designer Giancarlo Valle, a co-founder of the TriBeCa gallery Casa Valle, which will exhibit various replicas for the NYCxDesign Festival. The presentation is in collaboration with BD Barcelona, a Spanish design company that has a license to reproduce Gaudí’s furniture using the same techniques and materials as the originals. (An exclusive Casa Valle x BD Barcelona Batlló chair with an ebony-stain finish, limited to 50, is available for purchase.) Also on view are a Gaudí-designed Casa Calvet armchair and stool, recreated by BD Barcelona, alongside Valle’s own collection and other curated objects. “There’s a whole side of Gaudí’s work that feels rarefied and undiscovered because it can get lost to the ornate, grand gestures of his architecture,” says Jane Keltner de Valle, Giancarlo’s partner and a co-founder of the gallery. “These chairs are a prime example. There’s such a purity and elegance to them.” On view at Casa Valle from May 15; Casa Valle x BD Barcelona Batlló chair, price upon request; giancarlovalle.com.
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