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A Feature · tested · Travel

The grand hotel taste forgot to ruin

This month's feature - one place, visited, used, and judged in person. No press-release praise. A real verdict, and the reasons behind it.

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I.

Fashion

2 pieces

Last great perfumes

The case for a golden age that ended quietly - and what replaced it.

The White Lotus, in Jacquemus

How a resort silhouette migrated from a TV set to a runway, and back.

II.

Interiors

2 pieces

Calvin Klein's 1975 apartment

The room that explains a whole decade of American minimalism.

The lamps worth collecting

Five lights that became objects, and the rooms that made them matter.

III.

Art

1 piece

Inside a colourist's studio

A painter on instinct, restraint, and the one rule she keeps breaking.

IV.

Travel

1 piece

A Feature · tested

The grand hotel taste forgot to ruin

Two nights, paid in full, judged in person. What still works, and what doesn't.

V.

Culture

1 piece

Good taste is the new mediocrity

The day correctness became the baseline, and style became deviation.

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