PARIS — The last thing the food universe seems to need these days is another restaurant guide. But the glut of guides hasn’t stopped France’s Foreign Ministry from compiling La Liste, an ambitious ranking of what it claims are the 1,000 best “tables of exception” in the world. La Liste is based on an algorithm…
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The event was billed as a cutting-edge biohacking event, but it was tame compared with what goes on at the fringes of this community. Seven months earlier and about two hours away, in Tehachapi, a much more extreme clique of biohackers gathered to share the recent discoveries from their world at a gathering called GrindFest.…
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Photo Credit Joanna McClure The new Slim d’Hermès is an expression of luxurious minimalism. Unlike timepieces designed to measure your steps while tracking your pace, the French house has created a line of watches for both men and women ” its first series in over 20 years ” that marks the passing of time in…
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From a series for T in which the artist Leanne Shapton makes new artworks from pictures in old books. A version of this article appears in print on 03/29/2015, on page M2198 of the NewYork edition with the headline: Flowers in Vases.
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In a season of underdone hair, a little adornment can make all the difference.
House Tour Video: Scholten & Baijings’s Bright Ideas A husband-and-wife team is brightening up the sober Dutch design world. They take T on a video tour of their colorful home, which they describe as a living still life. Marie Christophe’s Delicate Balance In rural France, the sculptor of whimsical objects finds a home for her…
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Rob Royer believes there is a yawning abyss in the furniture market between the inexpensive cookie-cutter couch and the luxury lounge. So last year he founded Interior Define to bridge the divide. The company works with factories to manufacture its own sofas, each made to order. Customers are pampered with a degree of customization (sizes,…
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For anyone worried about dust mites or bedbugs, or about cleanup after bed-wetting, conventional mattresses have a notable weakness: They’re not washable. That’s one reason Michael Rothbard, the president of Sleep Studio, created Newton Rest, a mattress company that does away with springs and foam. Its mattresses are made with a zip-off casing containing Wovenaire,…
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In a rare instance of graphic-design geekery intersecting with furniture, the Italian company Cassina is adding a new frame color to Franco Albini and Franca Helg’s 1959 Tre Pezzi (or Three Pieces) armchair to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Milan subway system that they also designed together. The Tre Pezzi Metropolitana ($4,250), available in…
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Love Adorned is discounting some bedding and home furnishings by 20 percent through March 12 (wool Pendleton Navajo Water blankets and Hidatsa Earth blankets, regularly $375 each, are $300); 269 Elizabeth Street (Houston Street), 212-431-5683, loveadorned.com. Dishware is 30 percent off at Waggo Home through March 13 (the Lotta Dot serving bowl, originally $98, is…
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