Elena Clavarino
V.I.C.’s—The New V.I.P.’s
Fashion-show seats and the odd freebie are no longer enough for luxury brands’ Very Important Clients. Cue candlelit dinners in ancient palazzos, regattas in the Caribbean … and a major case of keeping up with the Joneses
Avedon, Associated
A new book explores the relationships, both in front of and behind the lens, that were most formative for the groundbreaking photographer Richard Avedon
A Night Celebrating NOMAD
Rolf and Roya Sachs, Lola Schnabel, Tristan Hoare, and others gathered at the Dracula club, in Saint-Moritz, for a dinner party hosted by AIR MAIL in celebration of the NOMAD art fair
The Ultimate Map of New York and Its Drugs
From Xanax to cocaine to mushrooms, we break down the city’s drug scene by neighborhood
Palm Beach Living
A new coffee-table book surveys the architects and interior designers behind some of the island’s most beautiful homes—and the people who lived in them, from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to Lilly Pulitzer
William Klein’s World
A new coffee-table book pays tribute to the photographer whose unconventional style helped revive a staid industry
Jack Siebert
The Los Angeles–based curator using social media to find the art world’s rising stars
Fresh, Fly, Fabulous!
A new coffee-table book chronicles 50 years of hip-hop style, from Queen Latifah to Dapper Dan, Slick Rick to Run-DMC
Musical Chairs
Thierry Barbier-Mueller’s collection of more than 650 chairs, by designers including Ron Arad and André Dubreuil, is celebrated in a dazzling coffee-table book
The View from Here
An eight-hour trek through the Mexican wilderness in a drug dealer’s back seat, $1,000 beach-buggy rides … the lengths to which the young 1 percent will go for a party know no bounds
Beyond the Grave
Ahead of his new solo show, the artist Scott Covert discusses his artistic breakthrough and sneaking into cemeteries to create his paintings
Fifty Shades of Gropius
His great-uncle designed Berlin’s Gropius Bau, and he studied alongside Mies van der Rohe. Then he started Bauhaus. An illustrated biography tells the many-layered story of Walter Gropius
Where the Magic Really Happens
The Goop-ification of magic mushrooms swept a remarkable origin story under the rug of big business. But the tiny Oaxacan retreat where it all began hasn’t gone anywhere
The Accidental Collector
Judy Glickman Lauder didn’t set out to become a collector. Yet she ended up amassing some of the most important images in photography, shot by everyone from Berenice Abbott to William Klein, to Weegee
Carla Frayman
The jet-setting D.J. who goes by “Carlita” uses her classical-music background to curate sets for party-goers around the world
Seeing the World Through Rossi-Colored Glasses
Over the course of the 20th century, the Italian designer and architect Aldo Rossi left his mark on everything from coffeepots to Venice’s La Fenice opera house. His catalogue raisonné pays homage to a postmodern visionary
A Bigger Splash
More than 300 images, from paintings to oceanographic maps, collected in a new coffee-table book, provide a multifaceted look at oceans and the marine world
High Times in José Ignacio
How a pair of restaurants helped turn a sleepy Uruguayan fishing town into a worldwide destination—without sacrificing its charm
Pattie Boyd’s Life in Pictures
She married George Harrison and then Eric Clapton, was a muse for Mary Quant and David Hockney, and was photographed by David Bailey and Norman Parkinson, among others. Now the English model is publishing a book about it all
