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“YOU WON’T REALLY UNDERSTAND THE HOUSE,” THE WONDERFUL caretaker told me when I arrived at dusk on the Greek island of Sifnos, “until the morning.” The sunrise woke me, streaming through the bedroom window. That light followed me around all day. “It’s in the east, from Delos,” was how its calming effect on me was explained, the magic of that ancient site mutually understood. “Mrs. Sarantitis designed the whole house around it.” Malvina Sarantitis, owner of Malvez interiors, is a friend who invited me to stay at this quaint house high above Chrysopigi. I came to Sifnos for the food—lunch at Cantina, dinners at Omega3 and Pellicanos, a feast at Tsapis Taverna after an afternoon swim—but I will return for the light. You can too. The house is now available…
7:00 a.m. Mornings for an early riser will be wholeheartedly enriched when OJ comes with Hermès. 9:00 a.m. Some will receive this as an invitation to work out, some to time out. To either, the correct response? “You’re welcome.” 11:00 a.m. For some, being busy is a status symbol. Offer them other suggestions. 5:00 p.m. There are drinks and there are cocktails, but we present here the ingredients for an apéro. Say the Bottega playing cards insisted. 7:00 p.m. Dinner with Elsa? It’s an invitation no one will ever refuse. 9:00 p.m. For anyone exhausted by reality: the elements of sweeter dreams.…
NEW YORK CITY The Manner An A-List suite in the cobblestoned heart of downtown. Creature comforts are refined at the Manner, a 97-room luxury retreat in Manhattan’s SoHo from Standard International, the team behind the Standard and Bunkhouse hotels. Verena Haller, chief design officer for the company, tapped ELLE DECOR A-List architect and designer Hannes Peer for the project, his first hotel. The interiors feature bold strokes like Brutalist-leaning light fixtures and a sumptuous palette of jewel tones alongside work by artists including Ben Medansky and Alex Proba. themanner.com CABO SAN LUCAS Four Seasons Resort at Cabo Del Sol A family-friendly idyll with new residences. Mexico’s Baja Peninsula now boasts the Meyer Davis–designed Four Seasons Resort & Residences at Cabo Del Sol. Inspired by the hotel’s setting on an old…
When you are a 90-year-old fashion and design icon, the only way to take Manhattan is to do it your way. In October, Giorgio Armani arrived in the Big Apple to plenty of fanfare, from his first fashion show in the city in 11 years to the reveal of his new 12-story tower at Madison Avenue and 65th Street. That corner has long been associated with Armani: His former flagship, designed in 1996 by ELLE DECOR A-List Titan Peter Marino, sat on the same spot. But the Milanese designer has since embraced the power of a total lifestyle brand, with pioneering moves into everything from furniture to hospitality. Indeed, behind the fluted limestone facade of 760 Madison Avenue, designed with CookFox Architects, is a universe where you can dress, eat,…
I’m writing this on the cusp of sweater weather, already wearing one of sky blue that says not my first rodeo in white letters. This morning, I switched from my summer perfume to Ffern’s new seasonal scent and have written out a comprehensive list of the changes that will need to be made to my rented apartment in order to get it ready for the colder weather. It’s a semiannual ritual. Of course we’ll change the bedding from linen to percale; and of course I’ll swap out the floral candles for a hit of ecclesiastical French smoke. I’ll switch the soap in the bathroom—I like fig for October and the first two weeks of November—and get asters and dahlias and Seckel pears to display on the table and a couple…
For centuries, a warm bath has remained one of life’s great luxuries. From the earliest examples of bathing facilities at the Palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete to modern architectural marvels like Peter Zumthor’s Therme Vals in Switzerland, the reassuring comfort provided by a deep soak has long been treated as nothing less than sacred. Winston Churchill was so enamored with bathtubs that he routinely took two baths per day (with the water temperature set at a precise 98 degrees) and made many of his most important decisions while submerged, even when England was under attack during World War II. Although few of us have the time to follow Churchill’s example today, as we speed through showers to rush to morning meetings, bathtubs haven’t lost their allure.…
