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Eat Here
A Creekside Inn and Restaurant on Long Island’s North Fork
By Matthew Kronsberg
Anthony Martignetti is the classic New York multihyphenate: restaurateur (he owns the East Pole and Melody’s Piano Bar, both on the Upper East Side, with his brother, Tom), designer (he was a founder of the Brooklyn furniture and interiors company Uhuru Design) and cartoonist (his work has appeared in The New Yorker). Recently, in Mattituck on Long Island’s North Fork, he added innkeeper to the list with the opening of the Old Mill Inn. (“I was looking for an architectural challenge,” he explains.) The inn occupies a former mill that’s over 200 years old, which he had lifted five feet onto new pilings to protect it from flooding. On the bottom floor, there’s a locally driven restaurant with a waterfront deck and a menu featuring Peconic Bay oysters and North Fork wines, including those from Old Sound Vineyard, which Martignetti owns with his wife, Angela Ledgerwood. Upstairs is a single art-filled three-bedroom apartment with water views and pine flooring made from the building’s original centuries-old joists. “When you’re there,” says Martignetti, “you’re back in time.” $1,200 a night, three night minimum; oldmillnorthfork.com.
Covet This
English Perfume Makers Launch a Line of Furniture and Fabric
When they founded their fragrance brand, Moro Dabron, in 2020, Eliza Dabron and Austin Moro were working in the London design industry — Dabron at the New Craftmaker, a furniture showroom, and Moro with the Swedish designer Beata Heuman. They’ve long drawn inspiration from English homes and gardens that balance rambling romance with clipped restraint. Their candles, for example, come in sculptural porcelain vessels that reference eighth-century stem cups and the florist Constance Spry’s Fulham Pottery. The pair’s latest endeavor — a 25-piece collection of furniture, lighting and textiles, launching this week — feels like a natural extension of their carefully constructed world. Produced in England, items include handblown glass globes suspended from blackened bronze chains that channel 17th-century apothecary lights and armchairs whose undulating backrests borrow from the serpentine silhouettes of 18th-century portrait frames. The muted palette of the fabrics, which range from twill stripes to dotted ticking, is influenced by the contemporary British painter Howard Hodgkin’s one-time studio inside a former dairy in Bloomsbury. From $90, moro-dabron.com.
Stay Here
A Hotel in Brittany Where Every Room Has Ocean Views
By Fiona Castro Le Brun
Brittany’s northern coast is known for its pink-hued granite cliffs, dramatic tides and exceptional seafood. Les Bassans, a new opening from Fontenille Collection (a French boutique hotel group focused on restoring historic properties), offers a new vantage point for the area with its 25 sea-facing rooms in Perros-Guirec. “It feels like being on a boat,” says the Fontenille co-founder Guillaume Foucher. “The tide, the light, the view — it all shifts constantly.” Inside, the restaurant, bar and other common spaces are wrapped floor to ceiling in oak, evoking a Belle Époque cruise. The menu changes daily depending on the local catch, while cocktails are made with oceanic ingredients such as seaweed-infused gin. Each room has a telescope for aquatic observation; the bathroom tiles are made by Gwilen, a startup that transforms marine sediment into design objects. From the property, guests can walk the nearby coastal trail, surf the breaks or boat out to the Sept-Îles archipelago, where seals nap and white northern gannets gather en masse. The birds, called fous de Bassan in French, inspired the hotel’s name. “When they arrive,” says Foucher, “it looks like snow on the rocks.” From about $160 a night, les-bassans.com.
See This
Susumu Shingu’s Dynamic Sculptures, on View at the Japan Society in New York
By Sarah Archer
For much of his six-decade career, the artist Susumu Shingu has made sculptures that interact with nature. When his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, “Susumu Shingu: Elated!,” opens at the Japan Society on June 20, visitors will encounter “Silent Water” (2024), which comprises two rotating aluminum-and-stainless steel polygonal hemispheres powered by water collected from a garden pool in the museum’s foyer — a nod to Shingu’s early water-powered creations for Expo ’70, the first world’s fair to be held in Osaka. More lightweight works, made from wire, cloth and carbon fiber, are suspended in the galleries, requiring only a slight breeze to make them move. Born in 1937, the youngest of five boys, Shingu grew up in the wake of World War II outside Osaka, where his childhood was “full of nature,” he says, but lacking in toys. He and his brothers had to use whatever they could find to make their own fun — an experience he links to his desire to find just the right material for his sculptures today. For those who want to see Shingu’s pieces in the wild, they can also be found as far afield as Athens; Taipei, Taiwan; and Japan’s Susumu Shingu Wind Museum, his outdoor sculpture garden in Sanda, in Hyogo Prefecture, where he’s based. “Susumu Shingu: Elated!” will be on view from June 20 to Aug. 10, japansociety.org.
Read This
New Nonfiction That Explores Queer History and Identity
By Jameson Montgomery
Early summer has seen a crop of nonfiction books that consider queer culture and identity from various angles. Some are memoirs: The fashion designer Prabal Gurung’s book “Walk Like a Girl” traces his life, from his childhood spent in Nepal and India to his career in New York, where he dressed public figures like Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey. The actress Tommy Dorfman’s memoir, “Maybe This Will Save Me,” chronicles her struggles with addiction and subsequent path to sobriety, her time working in theater and film and her transition. Shon Faye’s collection of essays, “Love in Exile,” doubles as her memoir and a philosophical inquiry into romantic relationships, drawing lessons from such disparate figures as the singer Lana Del Rey and the Swiss British theorist Alain de Botton. The writer Jeremy Atherton Lin writes about his youth in the late ’90s in “Deep House,” detailing a whirlwind romance that takes him across America and Europe. Other new titles explore aspects of queer life through journalistic and historical lenses: “Aggregated Discontent” is a collection of essays by the journalist Harron Walker that range from personal accounts of navigating the workplace as a trans woman to broader investigations of reactionary politics. The food writer John Birdsall’s “What Is Queer Food?” looks at queer history through dishes, chefs and the habits of influential figures like James Baldwin and Truman Capote. And the New York-based artist Tourmaline’s biography of Marsha P. Johnson, the New Jersey-born L.G.B.T.Q. rights activist, examines her contributions to civil rights movements, including her involvement in the 1969 Stonewall uprising, as well as her lesser-known career as an artist and performer.
Go Here
In Luxembourg, a Romantic Hotel in a 19th-Century Home
By Lindsey Tramuta
For decades, Luxembourg City locals strolled past a stately villa on the edge of the Avenue Marie-Thérèse, set on a park with centuries-old trees, without paying it any mind. Built in 1880 as a private residence for the French textile industrialist Eugène Kerckhoff on the embankment of the city’s old fortress, the structure had long been abandoned. But on June 16, the property will reopen as the 22-room hotel Villa Pétrusse, complete with a fine-dining restaurant led by the Luxembourger-born chef Kim de Dood. “It’s made from a yellow-hued local stone,” says the French interior designer Tristan Auer, who oversaw its renovation. “The proportions and the slightly Germanic style are very strong and imposing. We can’t be anywhere else but Luxembourg.” That’s why Auer, who has family from the country, preserved many of the building’s original neo-Renaissance features, including the fireplaces, stained-glass windows and stuccoed and painted ceilings. Then he added custom furnishings, hand-painted wallpapers and large reproductions of works by the Luxembourger painter Sosthène Weis that span the walls behind each bed. “People often remark that the Luxembourgish identity is elusive,” says Auer. “This project should lift some of the mystery.” From $541 a night, villapetrusse.lu.
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