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
1988 LEONARD AND EVELYN LAUDER “There are some men that gravitate toward those they can impress, take care of, be the big shot,” says New York Times reporter Katherine Rosman. “I think Leonard Lauder, however, gravitated toward formidable women.” That much was evident in T&C’s September 1988 issue, in which we photographed the cosmetics scion at home with his wife Evelyn, a VP in the family business and an esteemed activist for breast cancer research. The couple were married for 52 years, until her death in 2011. Four years later Leonard found love again with photographer Judy Glickman (Rosman got the story for the Times), and they were together until his death, in June, at the age of 92. And though Lauder was one of the most successful and philanthropic…
Dinner and A SHOW How far would you travel to see good theater? Last summer a group of us went to Boston for the Queen of Versailles and Great Gatsby doubleheader (you can trace our steps in Andrew Sessa’s excellent guide to that city, up now on townandcountrymag.com). This year I made sure to get to London for Jamie Lloyd’s Evita (if you read my Gems of Wisdom newsletter, you knew that already). More often the question we get asked is not how far we will go for a show but simply, “I’m in New York. What shows should I see?” This reaches fever pitch right about now, when a new season awaits. Should you see Ragtime at Lincoln Center Theater, and Lea Michele and Aaron Tveit in Chess? Yes.…
JOE ALLEN Table or at the bar? Either works. BAR CENTRALE The guac. The dumplings. The fish tacos. Yes, that is who you think it is. ORSO “My idea of a perfect night,” Nora Ephron wrote, “is a good play and dinner at Orso.” We agree. Add the pizza, the chicken, and the tartufo. THE LAMBS CLUB Chicken paillard, Caesar salad, martini. Done. BUCHETTE DEL VINO Late but starving = emergency. Solution: a sandwich here. LODI The mortadella bouquet. The caponata. The tuna tartare. It’s in Rockefeller Center, so you can walk it off on the way to the theater. BKK Spicy Thai chicken sandwich. And your own little secret place.…
WHERE ARE WE GOING? While we love a classic doomed romance, the Metropolitan Opera is opening the season with something new: Bartlett Sher’s adaptation of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon’s novel set during World War II about two Jewish cousins who create a comic book based on an anti-fascist superhero. Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin will lead arias—and electro. SEPTEMBER 21, METOPERA.ORG WHAT ARE WE WEARING? A wild imagination is great, but it means nothing without a strong foundation. That’s the idea behind Rolex’s Land-Dweller, a fresh iteration of the Oyster Perpetual with fine-tuned parts and a suite of new patents, like the calibre 7135, which measures time to one tenth of a second and resists strong magnetic fields. When the sky’s the limit, these are important things…
In Los Angeles, women trade tips on pattern recognition in the aisles at Erewhon. In Lower Manhattan, there’s an exclusive meetup that operates like Fight Club. Julia Roberts uses it to relax. Aerin Lauder designed a travel set in crocodile-embossed Italian leather. Your grandmother wouldn’t believe it, but in cities across America, tiles are clacking in the well-decorated homes of the urban elite. Mahjong is having a moment. The game looks complicated, but enthusiasts swear the rest of us could get the hang of it. It’s about creating winning hands of tiles and outfoxing opponents, and it has been around for centuries. After sweeping China in the late 1800s, it traveled the world, seeding variants throughout Asia and in the United States, where the businessman Joseph Babcock simplified it…
The people, places, and things we have in our sights this season. How to celebrate an artist whose pioneering use of motion changed the course of 20th-century art? For Alexander Rower, grandson of the sculptor Alexander Calder, whose mobiles and stabiles are centerpieces in collections around the world, the answer was, “Don’t build another museum.” Instead, says Rower, who is a trustee of the Calder Gardens, a new public space opening this month on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway, “the mandate was to find a new way for the public to experience the art—one that will offer both sanctuary and inspiration.” To that end, the garden’s founders enlisted design world heavyweights: the architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron and landscape designer Piet Oudolf. The former created a barnlike 18,000-square-foot exhibition space…
