Town & Country features the latest in luxury, from beautiful homes, sumptuous dining to exotic locations. In 11 gorgeous annual issues, Town & Country covers the arts, fashion and culture, bringing the best of everything to America's trendsetters
1979 6666 RANCH IN TEXAS You may recognize it from Yellowstone, but the legend of the Four Sixes Ranch, as this Texan sprawl is known, goes back to 1870, when it was founded by Samuel Burk Burnett. He laid the groundwork for 6666 to grow into one of the state’s most successful horse breeding and cattle ranching operations—and for his family to become one of the wealthiest in Texas. (The discovery of oil on the property sped up the process.) In the 1960s it was the backdrop of the Marlboro Man ads. In 1979, for an issue devoted to the Lone Star State, T&C packed a trunk with Stetsons and couture to realize our own fantasies of ranch life. Today the 270,000-acre property belongs to Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan, who bought…
Where do we go from here? It’s always the question at the beginning of a new year, or at least one of them. Where have we been might be another. We decided to take them both literally for this last issue of 2024. There are no better travel guides than friends you trust, so let our itineraries become your itineraries. And hopefully we’ll meet somewhere along the way. Roxanne Adamiyatt, Deputy Digital Lifestyle Director: I will never complain about multiple trips to Europe every year, but I’m determined to make 2025 the year that I head to Japan. Emily Adar, Senior Visual Editor: Had an amazing trip to the Greek Islands this summer and looking forward to a family vacay in St. Lucia this coming winter. Jaclyn Bloomfield, Fashion Editor:…
WHERE ARE WE GOING? New Year’s Eve in NYC can be sublime—if you do it right. The Metropolitan Opera hosts an annual gala on this night, and this year the company is debuting a new production (by the Tony-winning director Matthew Mayer) of Aida, Verdi’s epic tale of love, war, and betrayal set in ancient Egypt. Dinner and dancing with the cast follows. Save room for the champagne countdown. METOPERA.ORG WHAT ARE WE WEARING? Even on a regular night, the unofficial Met dress code calls for operatic flair. A New Year’s Eve gala ups the ante. Since Aida will serve up plenty of gilded grandeur, you can bring the diamonds. Chopard’s l’Heure du Diamant watch has 52 of them—consider it one for each of the fabulous weeks you will have…
It’s hard to say when 2024 became so irritating. Was it the worldwide tech outage that grounded flights and stranded thousands of travelers last summer? Could it have been the one-two punch of hurricanes Helene and Milton, decimating first Asheville and then the Gulf Coast of Florida? Perhaps it was hearing news of what felt like the 200th horrifying Diddy allegation? Or did it occur as early as last spring, when campus protests forced some seniors and their families to miss long-planned and much anticipated graduations? Regardless of which straw broke your particular camel’s back, there seems to be a collective thirst for vacation, a need to get far, far from the madding crowd. Which, hopefully, you are doing, in the literal sense, sometime this holiday season. But there is…
“ I in Virgil’s Aeneid, trying to persuade his fear the Greeks even when they’re bringing gifts,” a Trojan priest exclaims early on countrymen that there’s something fishy about the giant wooden horse that has mysteriously materialized in front of their city’s gates. That line of the Latin epic has, over the millennia, morphed into a familiar saying: “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” And indeed, there are so many Greek gifts piling up on our cultural doorstep—stage performances of Greek tragedies, film adaptations of Greek epics, and a parade of novels based on Greek myths—that it’s hard not to be just a bit wary. The next six months alone are studded with high-profile performances on both sides of the Atlantic based on the greatest ancient dramas. The upcoming London theatrical…
Pierre Hardy is looking to the light. “Color is a natural resource on which we can infinitely draw, and I wanted to explore the whole spectrum,” the creative director of Hermès jewelry says of his latest collection, Les Formes de la Couleur, the brand’s most vibrant yet. He’s not kidding. There is a necklace that features a waterfall of white, orange, and gray moonstones and pink tourmalines, and a ring studded with a rainbow array of pink sapphires and spessartite garnets. But this isn’t just a study in mixing and matching, it’s an aesthete’s test to see how unconventional settings and combinations can change perceptions. Take the Color Flash brooch, an exuberant cocktail of rubies, yellow, blue, and green sapphires, black spinels, amethysts, diamonds, chrysoprase, and garnets—some cut into classic…
