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Portugal’s Algarve area takes a new retreat
Located in a natural park in Algarve, Portugal, the Hotel Quinta Do Pinheiro is 10 minutes away from protected dunes, oyster farms and island beaches that can only reach swimming or boat. Originally built in 1870, the estate was purchased in 2021 by the Dutch couple Martijn Kleijwegt and Monique Snoeijen, who wanted to restore the property and turn it into retreat. Now there are five elegant holiday homes designed by Portuguese architect Frederico Valsassina and his daughter, Marta, all with two or three bedrooms, a dining room and a kitchen. The window frames were painted red, which are traditional in the area. The floors were placed with local Santa Catarina tiles. And the old bread oven and the distillery remain owned. While there is no restaurant at the hotel, staff can arrange a chef. For a meal outside, the city of Tavira-a Roman settlement founded in 400 BC. It is famous for its churches and bells-it is a 90-minute graphic hiking (or 25 minutes with electric bikes) away. In May, it will be much easier for the New Yorkers to visit this Portuguese section thanks to a new United Airlines flight between Newark, NJ and Faro, capital of the Algarve region. From about $ 380 per night in the low season (November to March), quintapinheiro.com.
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Opera Pumps for all occasions
For the collection of Pavillon des Folies of Spring 2025, the creative director of Valentino Alessandro Michele, known for the spirit of Bohemian Bohemian of his sex, put his broccar and rain with a historical element of the male night wear: Opera pump. Initially a component of the official men’s dress dating from the Regency era, opera pumps or court shoes are characterized by low heel, Grosgrain bow and slightly higher Vamp than a ballet (but a low enough to show a luxurious sock). In Victorian era, they became the popular selection of footwear for gentlemen who visited the opera and have been wearing Marlene Dietrich since then to Frank Sinatra at Colman Domingo. The version of Valentino, called Bowow Ballerina, joins a series of similar designs recently released. New York’s Bode Label, also known for its nods in the past, sells couples for both men and women in a patent and Napa skin. Thom Browne, a re -exam champion of the official dress, and New York designer Suzanne Rae produce varieties for women. And Manolo Blahnik offers a pair of velvet for men. A relics of footwear, opera pumps are traditionally available for more to buy more old school shoemakers, such as London’s Arthur’s sleep-and it was difficult to find in female sizes. Although the silhouette has remained largely unchanged to date – the biggest riff is the detail of Valentino near the bow – the way they wear certainly. Domingo, for one, recently combined with an embroidered evening vest, black pants and Pointlle socks.
The Spanish Fashion House Loewe has collaborated with French brandy manufacturer Hennessy to release a shaggy shell for the distillery’s Paradis Decanter, turning the curved bottle into more than one Objet d’A art. The Muppet -like shell, covered by hundreds of leather strips of calf strips, is inspired by the brown burr, the gooseberry that grows and matures the plants in. The three color paths of the case-green, brown and black-represent Burr’s life cycle and reflect the chestnut belts that enclose Hennessy barrels as protection from beetles. The limited edition housing is offered for the 700mm bottle standard, which has 400 complex hubs, while a three -liter bottle created for the cooperation comes with a case of 875 knots. Even the most greedy collector may need to secure a set of box-which comes with the decorated separator, a cognac extraction and two cognac glasses-as only 47 units of three liters and 177 from the 700mm worldwide. Hennessy Paradis X Loewe starts on March 17th. of $ 2,850 for 700 milliliter, hennessy.com.
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An elegant new hotel in the center of Litchfield, Conn.
The leafy center of Litchfield, Conn., Offers layers of architectural history-buildings range from decorated colonial colonial houses of colonial rejuvenation in linear structures from famous modernists, such as Marcel Breuer and John M. Johansen-and the neighborhood Connecticut, on Lake Bantam and on hiking and birds in the areas of the nearby Memorial Conservation. But until recently, there was no place to stay in the city center unless you have happened to have a friend with a room. This month, Belden House & Mews will become the second option for visitors (after Abner, which opened in September 2024). The family behind Troutbeck, a Country House hotel in New York’s nearby Amenia, has turned a complex real estate into the green into “The hotel that should really have been here throughout,” says co -owner Anthony Champalimaud. He worked with his mother, designer of the hotel Alexandra Champalimaud, to preserve the architectural characteristics of an 1888 physician’s mansion and a neighboring modernist structure of the 1950s they have combined, in a tribute to the architectural variety of Litchfield, to create Belden House. Inside, the buildings are further unified with custom grass of cloth wall and, in the Mews building, a four -poster -built -in beds built by a local craftsman. Champalimaud, who lives a few doors away, says the atmosphere is meant to be “inhabited”. For this purpose, the Belden House restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, with items from local farms and the Coast of Connecticut, in the original dining room of the mansion. Belden House & Mews opens on March 28th. from $ 500 per night, beldenhouse.com.
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A gallery in Corsicana, Texas, this is a home for its founders
In 1894 the oil was discovered in Corsicana, Texas and became the first boomtown of the state. By the end of the 1950s, the elegant center of the city had fallen into significant relaxation. When Katharine and Susan Hable sisters grew up in Corsicana in the 1970s, “he felt a little like a ghost city,” says Susan, who is now an artist and runs a creative company with Katharine in Athens, GA. “I felt a pulse that wasn’t there before,” Susan says. “We discovered a very cool home and collective collection called 100 W Corsicana.” They decided to buy a two -storey building in the city center and, after two years of renovation, transformed the space into a gallery that opened last month. The ground floor shows a mix of works of art of Susan – including organic paperwork and abstract ceramics and gypsum sculptures and bronze bronze – and the jewelry collection recently created in Jaipur, India, as well as rotating exhibitions. Up will host art workshops, community events and casual popup dinner. “If we can expose people to something they have never seen before,” says Susan, “then half of our job is over.” hablegallery.com.
