Non -alcoholic beverages go in their own way

The Mexican born, Ridgewood, a sculptor based on Queens, Raul de Lara, knows the irony of choosing the medium: wood. The most rooted material is a contrast to the labeling of his upbringing – he came to Texas at 12 with his parents and stays here under Daca.

A meticulous Carver who often uses traditional American and Mexican techniques, De Lara, 33, repeats irrational household items – snow shovels, chairs and shovels, as well as the Monstera Deliciosa plant, a local South Mexican local

The series of “Tired Tools” causes to exhaustion of invisible workers: a broom turns off against a wall. The pitchfork shaft hangs on a hook like a rejected garment. For the “soft chair” (2022), a Siberian live edge plate is shaped by what seems to be an elegant seat. “The Waiting” (2021) and “The Waiting (Again)” (2022) are rounded rocks covered with peaks mimicing the Cactus spines. (In 2023, Hermès entrusted a version of the chairs that were shaped like a child’s horse, equipping with one of his rich saddles for the window of Aspen, Colo., Store.)

The artist, who graduated from the University of Texas in Austin and has an MFA from the University of Virginia Commonwealth, likes to go from wood from parts to her past: Texas. Chicago; Provincetown, Mass, where he had a scholarship at the Fine Arts Working Center. And Mexico. Like Martin Puryear and Wendell Castle, which counts between its influences, De Lara-whose second exhibition of the Solo Museum opens on September 12 in modern Austin-worked with a carpenter dried by furnaces (prefers oak, walnut and ash). “With wood,” he says, “you can see the passage of time on his skin. No other material shows you time. ” – Petala IronCloud

For non -alcoholic wine and alcohol, the creation of complex flavors has always been the primary challenge. “You try to mimic that alcoholic bite,” says Jens Christophersen, 45, the founder of Brooklyn with less than 0.5%, a consulting firm and importer of non -alcoholic beverages. Often, launchers start with removal of alcohol from high performance drinks using vacuum distillation or enzymes and then add water or grape juice to balance the taste-a complicated process with mixed results. Now, however, a growing number of manufacturers is using a different strategy, turning green, woody, often brackets of wild ingredients to give their products an advantage. The Norwegian company Villbrygg, for example, mainly uses plants in mixtures such as the ENG-name is Norwegian for “Meadow”-which includes leafy leaves and vanilla shaft flowers, as well as a tannic, black tea that resemble flowers and foliage. Including the multiple sections of a unique plant offers “different layers of taste, which create structure,” says co -owner Vanessa Krogh, 34. “The needles are bright and citrus and juice [from the twigs] He adds depth and hue, “says Peder Schweigert, 42 years old, one of the brand’s co -founders. The Copenhagen -based Muri -based label also uses Evergreens, which provides a Douglas Fir Shoots from Woodlands around the city for the daydream of Sherbet. Murray Paterson, 45. Indeed that the future of non-ALC does not copy or make delicacies of existing drinks, “he says- Ella Riley-Adams

The mosaic, an early form of decorative art, appeared around the eighth century BC. In Anatolia in the form of flooring with smooth colorful stones. Hundreds of years later, the Romans realized that the mosaics could run walls in fine color eruptions from tiny pieces of glass called Tesserae (the term is Latin for “cubes” or “dice”). But it was the Byzantines who perfected the use of gold and silver leaf in mosaics starting in the fourth century AD, decorating almost everything with brilliant mirrors. Buccellati, the century of Milan -based jewelers, known for the graduation and drawing of precious metals on a tulle -like web, celebrates the boat in this latest incarnation of the Eternelle ring. In 18ct yellow and white gold, with 10 rubies, 20 seemingly tsavorites and more than 200 round brilliant diamonds, it is a bright tribute to the wild decorative Byzantine style. Buccellati Mosaico Eternelle Ring, Price upon request, buccellati.com. – Nancy Has

Photo Assistant: Pietro Dipace

A large but intimate hotel in Milan

One of the largest new hotels in Milan, the nine historic Maison Senato, designed by architect Massimiliano locatelli, offers only one handful of rooms. It opened earlier this month in a post-war building at the northern end of the Boutique-Heavy Quadrilatero della Moda fashion, including five full floor apartments and a two-storey pool and a two-storey pool. The furniture is from remarkable Italian designers: Gabriella Crespi’s bamboo armchairs, balloon-shaped lamps and various pieces of locatelli line, including dining chairs with solid-alumni, sofas and sofas with sofa 19th-graph for marine painting. An underground floor holds a spa and gym and just outside the lobby is a cafe only for visitors, as well as a spacious patio hidden by the neighbors of pergolas covered by the English ivy and jasmine. “The idea was to create the feeling that you were entering a place that has been in a long time,” says Locatelli, 58, “like a local Milan has opened its own space.” From about $ 4,200 per night. maisonsenato.com. – Laura May Todd

Casey McCafferty’s life has followed a Picaresque path, so it’s no surprise that the 35 -year -old’s furniture and objects are fiercely imaginative. Despite the development of an early interest in sculpture – he began to make strange car speakers from Fiberglass – the local island of Staten Hand, studied funding at college. In the mid -1920s, tired of the banker’s life, he abandoned to adapt carpentry for architects in Los Angeles, experimenting with the anthropomorphic pieces that are now his signature. These days, he works and lives in FAIR LAWN, NJ, letting his subconscious guide him as he charts. In this breast, the abstract facial features and geometric shapes seem to be dreamy from the wavy surface of the cherry. “I let it take me places,” he says of the track. “For me. He was always the best way to go for things.” Low Cabinet Gaeta, $ 24,000, Casey-mccafferty.com. – Nancy Hass

Photo Assistant: Timothy Mulcare. Set Designer’s Assistant: Checka Lapierre

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