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A New Jewelry Brand That Mixes Swedish and Japanese Styles
The Swedish sisters Ebba Engstrand and Sophia Watanabe started their new jewelry brand, Amane, with the goal of bridging their two cities: Stockholm and Tokyo. The line is centered on pearls, often upcycled from vintage jewelry, which Watanabe sources from online auctions and Tokyo’s jewelry district in Japan, where she’s lived since 2014. She also creates embroidered accessories under the name Sophia 203, and she previously worked for the French jewelry designer Marie-Hélène de Taillac. Engstrand, who’s based in Stockholm, has a background in TV and film commercial production. The first collection from Amane — which is named for Japan’s female Ama divers, who gather seafood and pearls without oxygen tanks — couples Japanese tradition with Scandinavian minimalism, with pieces like earrings and iridescent necklaces with baroque (irregular) pearls and dyed-pearl bracelets in tutti-frutti colors. They hope to bring some informality and effortlessness to the jewelry genre. “The whole point was to make a less ‘clutching your pearls’ kind of a collection,” says Watanabe. “We want people to stack them or pair them with other pieces — to wear pearls in a more playful way.” From $42 for a ring, amaneatelier.com.
— Dalya Benor
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A New Wave of Floating Saunas
Floating saunas, once a Nordic specialty, have lately been opening across the United States. This fall, Kos, a wood-fired sauna in a cedar-shingled building, named for the Norwegian word for coziness, is planned to launch on Saratoga Lake in New York. In Sausalito, Calif., a sauna called Fjord opened at the end of a harbor dock in June. Its wide windows have views of the San Francisco Bay, and guests can sunbathe on its roof deck or plunge into the harbor from a redwood patio when they’re not working up a sweat. “We have a lot of tail winds,” says Alex Yenni, a Fjord co-founder, of the floating sauna surge, pointing to a global push to increase access to public waters (see: recent swims in the Chicago River and the Seine) and a growing interest in the benefits of contrast therapy, as hot-to-cold submersion is called. Farther south, off Paradise Cove in Malibu, the Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike is experimenting with a “saunamaran” — an aluminum-hulled, spruce-lined vessel he hopes to anchor permanently near Point Dume this month as a free public sauna, accessible only by boat or an ambitious swim. Seattle now has three saunas on its waters, including Wild Haus, which began offering chartered trips across Lake Union last December. The earliest adopters were in Minnesota, where Cedar and Stone Nordic Sauna, on Lake Superior in Duluth, and Sisu and Löyly, on Devil Track Lake outside of Grand Marais, both debuted in 2023. Back on the East Coast, in Kennebunkport, Maine, Sea Sauna opened at the mouth of the Kennebunk River this past May. In the Scandinavian tradition, these structures suggest that winter can be recast as a season to savor, not just endure.
— Mackenzie Wagoner
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California Cooking in Paris’s 2nd Arrondissement
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