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Jenna Lyons shares makeup and skin care
If I have a lot of makeup on, I use Makeup Forever Gentle Eye Gel, which is good at removing it so I don’t have to rub. I’ll use the same cleanser at night with a towel and water, then a toner like Biologique Recherche Lotion P50, followed by Noble Panacea’s Brilliant Glow Hydrating Oil. I leave Chronobiology Sleep Mask packets by my bed so I can put them on right before bed. I go to Joanna Czech for facials and Dr. Belkin is my dermatologist. I wish I had the Lyma Laser sooner, I think it’s really great.
I have a Hinoki body oil that I love from Wonder Valley. I’m religious about the U Beauty the Sculpt Arm Compound and they have a Resurfacing Body Compound that I love. I use a Raw Honey Crystal Mask from Tata Harper on my butt — I don’t think it’s for your butt, I think it’s for your face, but that’s where I put it. I won’t travel without Kiehl’s Creme de Corps. Every day for 18 years, I’ve been wearing Creed Silver Mountain Water. My son won’t let me change it…maybe when he goes to college I will.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
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New Raffles Jaipur Hotel draws inspiration from its royal surroundings
Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, is filled with royal retreats, from elegant havelis (traditional mansions) and grand palace forts that today’s jet setter Maharaja Padmanabh Singh and his family call home. On July 1, the Raffles Hotel Jaipur opened in a marble building modeled after the royal residences found nearby, with fountain-centered courtyards and domed pavilions reminiscent of the zenanas, or women’s wings, of centuries-old Mughal residences. The 50 rooms have walls inlaid with gold leaf, with a fine latticework jalli screens, four-poster beds and handcrafted wooden wardrobes and desks. Four restaurants and bars serve regal fare, from North Indian fare at Arkaa to globally inspired afternoon tea at Safir (where dishes include rose petal crème brûlée with Himalayan honey and tres leches shahi tukra or Mughlai bread pudding). After a trip to the pink Hawa Mahal, City Palace and Johri Bazar in the historic center of Jaipur, half an hour away, guests can relax in the spa’s hammam or rooftop infinity pool with views of the Aravali Mountains. Longtime Raffles loyalists will know their way around the signature Writers Bar. Here, the cozy cocktail spot is decorated in bright blue and white with hand-painted floral patterns inspired by a color scheme found in many Rajasthani palaces. The Singapore Sling has been reimagined as the Jaipur Sling with hibiscus and citrus – a blush-colored drink reminiscent of frozen sherbets enjoyed by maharajas on sultry summer days. From $650 per night, raffles.com/jaipur.
At first glance, Tamara Johnson’s sculptures may not impress you at all. This is because they almost they seem to be the very things they depict, and because those things are decidedly humble: a colander, a dish sponge, a saltine cracker adorned with a canned cheese smiley face. Once you learn that these pieces, featured in Johnson’s solo show at the St. Louis Art Museum, “Currents 123,” are intricately crafted and always by the Dallas-based artist herself, you’ll inevitably wonder how. In the case of the salt, he made a rubber mold and poured tin into its void, then finished the effect with oil paint. The cheese was cast separately with colored resin. Johnson’s homemade ready-mades, as he calls them, nod to artistic heavyweights like Marcel Duchamp, Susan Collis and, in the case of the column of concrete waffle cones, Constantin Brancusi, while interrogating the value we place (or not) on the domestic and American. But even as it appears on the outside, her work is secretly autobiographical. Johnson considers her take on the ubiquitous monoblock lawn chair to be a self-portrait—the (faux) simple saltines affixed to it refer to her bouts of vertigo—and, becoming a mother brought her more in touch with her own mortality. , started making a lottery-style ticket strip with one ticket for every day he lives. The strip hangs from the gallery’s ceiling and pools on a plinth next to the funny “Finger Keychain” (2020-24), which mimics the type of die-cut silicone you might find in a Halloween store and evokes an intimate communication that had Johnson with an angle grinder in the studio last winter. She likes the idea of ​​making an object in time but also making one that moves through it. “I date-stamp the tickets and I’m up to February 1987,” says Johnson, 39, “so there’s more work to be done.” On view until September 22, slam.org.
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Stunning fans from Parisian Atelier Duvelleroy and jewelery maker Bangla Begum
When Paris-based designer Fanny Boucher launched Bangla Begum, her line of playful jewelry and accessories, in 2019, Léa Dassonville, the creative director of French fan maker Duvelleroy, was one of her first customers. In the fall of 2023, Dassonville asked the jewelry maker to collaborate on a capsule collection of fans. Boucher began by diving into the 197-year-old company’s archives. “I found this pink ostrich that was half the size of me and I thought, ‘What woman used that?’ Who was she?’ says Boucher. Using this 1920s creation as a starting point, Boucher collaborated with Dassonville and her partner, Eloïse Gilles, to design four fans using fabric scraps from mills supplying French couture houses such as Chanel and Dior. One is fringy green and gold, another is burgundy silk, while a third is a glossy bright green with a red splatter pattern. Boucher’s favorite is the pink moiré repeat inspired by the writer Colette. The entire line has an added aggressive touch in a nod to the cocottes, or courtesans, often appear in Colette’s stories: attached to each design is a thin chain, which comes in two lengths, sprinkled with pearls, colorful beads and Boucher’s viral bosom and bum motifs. “We need a little more weirdness in our lives,” says Boucher. Bangla Begum and Duvelleroy’s Chéries collection launches July 5, starting at around $430; banglabegum.com and eventail-duvelleroy.fr.
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Furniture inspired by nature by Raphael Navot, on View in Los Angeles
From his studio in Paris, Israeli-born interior designer and artist Raphael Navot explains how the natural world underpins “Reverberations,” his new show at Friedman Benda’s Los Angeles location. “All these pieces come from a combination of shapes that form in nature,” he says. “[The question then is] how we put them together.” Tripli, an armchair made of cast concrete and velvet, was inspired by the simple shape of three stones stacked together. Other pieces are the result of Navot’s experiments combining new technology with traditional craftsmanship: Clast (Translucent Stream), a coffee table made with eco-resin foam derived from ocean plastic, uses 3D printing as part of the molding process.
Navot, who in the past two years collaborated with Italian fashion brand Loro Piana on its first furniture line and in 2011 designed the interior of director David Lynch’s Silencio — a Parisian nightclub six floors below ground in a former printing office — now operates mainly in hotels and restaurants. (In 2017, he completed the Hotel National des Arts et Métiers in Paris.) His limited-edition home furnishings also include rugs depicting aerial views of the Earth’s surface, some of which were made by Nepali weavers using traditional methods. “Reverberations” will be on view from July 11 to September 25, friedmanbenda.com.
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In Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward, a new hotel with a 1970s-inspired rooftop bar
Atlanta’s historic seal, adopted in 1887, depicts a phoenix rising from flames, representing the city’s rebirth after the Civil War. When the designers at the hosting team Method Co. based in Philadelphia were working on the Forth, a new 196-room hotel in the city’s Old Fourth Ward opening this week, they wanted to embody that symbol of resilience. Along with hand-knotted antique rugs and oak flooring, rooms are decorated with custom floral wallpaper that, upon closer inspection, reveals various creatures, including a heron modeled after Bennu, an Egyptian god some say inspired Greek myth of Phoenix. Thirty-nine rooms have kitchens and washers and dryers for extended stays. The lobby, like much of the hotel, is furnished with mid-century modern style furniture. It also has a wood-burning fireplace (one of three on the entire property). There are four restaurants, including ground-floor Italian steakhouse Il Premio and the 1970s-inspired Moonlight rooftop cocktail lounge, which serves snacks and drinks. A full moon mural adorns the marble fireplace, inspired by the murals that criss-cross the BeltLine’s Eastside Trail, which is adjacent to the hotel. Forth will also launch a social club later this summer: members have exclusive access to the fourth-floor bar and lounge, specialist fitness classes and personal training, and changing rooms with a dedicated steam room, cold pool and sauna. Rooms from $345 a night, forthatlanta.com.
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