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Décor That Showcases Alekos Fassianos’s Artwork
Alekos Fassianos is often called the Picasso of Greece because his colorful work provokes the same type of instant recognition. Fassianos’s visual vocabulary of saints (his grandfather was a parish priest in Athens), sailors and birds conjures images of his homeland. Deeply beloved in Greece, Fassianos’s art has appeared in top museums but also in product partnerships, such as on limited-edition glass water bottles and books he designed for Olympic Airlines. Now, three years after the artist’s death, his estate is partnering with Svenskt Tenn, the Swedish interior design company, to create a limited-edition collection of home décor. According to Victoria Fassianou, Alekos’s daughter and the founding director of the Alekos Fassianos Estate and Museum, it’s a natural fit. “My father was a multifaceted artist,” she says. “Apart from working on a canvas, paper or different materials, he was really passionate about creating everything he lived in, from his clothes to his furniture.” The items in this collection include table linens featuring Fassianos’s iconic bird — a symbol of escape, according to the artist — and cushions showing his windswept profile portraits. All are available online starting June 5 as well as at Svenskt Tenn’s Stockholm flagship, which is hosting an exhibition bringing together the work of Fassianos and Josef Frank, the Austrian-born architect and designer, from June 5 through Aug. 27. To go deeper into Fassianos’s world, visit the Alekos Fassianos Museum in Athens, or the Alekos Fassianos Atelier on the Cycladic island of Kea, open June 5 through Sept. 14. From $48, svenskttenn.com.
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A Maker of Fantastical Hats Finds New Fans
By Gisela Williams
“When I made the Head in the Clouds hat, I was pretty sure not one single person would ever buy it,” says the Berlin-based artist and milliner Maryam Keyhani, referring to a design that resembles a half-filled pouf constructed from neoprene or linen. But last November, Sarah Jessica Parker was photographed in the billowy piece while filming Season 3 of “And Just Like That …,” which debuts this week on HBO. “The stylist of the show, Danny Santiago, had pulled a few hats from me a few months before, but I had almost forgotten about it,” says Keyhani, who’s been designing her surrealist headpieces (others look like elaborate meringues or many-tiered cakes) since 2015. Now, the cloud hat is one of her best-selling designs. Keyhani’s hats will also feature in Lena Dunham’s upcoming Netflix show, “Too Much.” Molly Rogers, a fashion stylist who worked with Santiago on “And Just Like That …,” theorizes that Keyhani’s hats are having a moment because of their unabashed eccentricity. “It is so refreshing to work with someone who makes things purely to make herself and others happy.” From $480, maryamkeyhani.com.
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Hotel Souvenirs You Can Use All Summer
By Kurt Soller
Four years ago, the Los Angeles-based Frame launched a collaboration with the Ritz hotel in Paris that upended the hospitality and fashion industries: Why buy a gift shop tchotchke or basic branded merch when you could rep a destination you love (or even hope to visit) in a cheekier, more stylish way? Frame’s Ritz range, featuring cashmere crew necks and some denim, is in its fourth iteration, and now several other niche fashion companies are creating similar programs, many of which are ideal for summer travel season. The Swedish line CDLP, known for its swimwear and other off-duty essentials, has just introduced several pieces in tandem with Passalacqua, the hotel on Lake Como, in Italy, including airy pool shirt-and-short sets and if-you-know-you-know graphic tees, while the French swimwear brand Vilebrequin is working with St. Regis internationally on fun striped and patterned trunks, as well as other offerings. And down at Rosewood Mayakoba, the popular resort a half-hour or so south of Cancun, Mexico, there’s a new collection (coming June 15) of customizable hats and wooden beach bats — for playing frescobal, the racket sport popular along Brazilian coasts — made with the Rio de Janeiro-based Frescobal Carioca. Unlike most souvenirs, these are ones you’ll actually want to wear and use long after your vacation’s over.
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Sherrie Levine’s Early Work, on View in Aspen
By Lauren Kane
The postmodernist artist Sherrie Levine’s work is rich with reference and questions about originality and authorship. A new exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, in Colorado, focuses on the first 11 years of Levine’s wide-ranging career, beginning with “Shoe Sale” (1977), a performative piece that involved selling 75 small black shoes for $2 a pair out of a SoHo storefront in New York. For Levine, it came from an interest in the ready-made — she would later create a bronze-cast homage to Marcel Duchamp’s famous urinal — and a belief that “a shoe is the ultimate fetish object,” as she said in a 1994 interview. The Aspen exhibition’s curator, Scott Portnoy, has included one pair of those original shoes, on loan from a private collection, in the show. Also on view is Levine’s “President Collage: 6” (1979), in which a model’s face pouts out from a silhouette of George Washington, and the entirety of her 1981 series “After Walker Evans,” where Levine captured reproductions of Evans’s Depression-era images. This compilation of early work, Portnoy says, is “extreme and radical and beautiful and has never really been seen together.” The show doesn’t attempt to be a comprehensive retrospective, instead aiming to focus the viewer on one of Levine’s most potent periods. “Sherrie Levine: 1977-1988” will be on view from June 6 through Sept. 29, aspenartmuseum.org.
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A Centuries-Old Danish Watch Brand Gets a Revival
By Jameson Montgomery
The second-generation Danish watchmaker Urban Jürgensen was a prodigious designer throughout the early 1800s, producing over 700 watches in his native Copenhagen, as well as technological innovations like marine chronometers and bimetallic thermometers, which earned him a spot in Denmark’s Royal Academy of Sciences. The Finnish-born watchmaker Kari Voutilainen, one of two new CEOs of the company that bears Urban Jürgensen’s name, notes that Jürgensen “achieved all this while working in Denmark, far from the influence of Paris or other watchmaking centers.” Now, over 250 years after Jürgensen’s father founded the brand under the name Larpent & Jürgensen, the house is debuting three new watches, as well as a new logo inspired by the calligraphy on a pocket watch designed by Jürgensen himself. Though the company is now based in Switzerland, the essentialist philosophy of Scandinavian design is central to its new releases, which feature clean dials with minimal ornamentation. Details like patches of guillochage — an engraving technique that results in a luminous effect — and hand-applied numbers reveal hours of painstaking handiwork. The new designs include a 39 mm watch set in a platinum case on an alligator strap with calfskin lining, as well as a version with a midnight blue dial that looks particularly elegant against its rose gold case. Urban Jürgensen’s other CEO, Alex Rosenfield, hopes that, along with the streamlined designs, customers will embrace the Danish idea of hygge, a term that generally means a state of contentment or well-being, or an appreciation of one’s time. Urban Jürgensen’s new watches will be released on June 5, price on request, urbanjurgensen.com.
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