Cable-knits, cardigans, and coats—so rarely do these three exist in a single garment, and yet White & Warren’s new Merino Luxe Cable Coat combines them to irresistible effect. Horn buttons, side slits, and roomy pockets are among the reasons we intend to wear this coat religiously. It also doubles as a wearable blanket (but make it stylish), ideal for roaming around the house. This is just one of the many tempting new designs from the New York City–based cashmere brand, which has been supplying the most fashionable ladies on the Upper East Side with knitwear since 1997. Just in time for fall, it has refreshed its offerings and added a new collection of outerwear. Expect to see these smart pieces all over Madison Avenue, and well beyond. ($995, whiteandwarren.com) —Ashley Baker

Do you dare describe yourself as a chocoholic if you don’t luxuriate in the confection daily? Chocolat, a new book from the food writer Aleksandra Crapanzano, is stuffed with more than 100 elegant, accessible recipes. Mousse, lavender tart, flourless cake, and éclairs are among the delights, which are accompanied by charming illustrations from the Parisian artist Cassandre Montoriol. Simply paging through the cookbook is a delectable feast, but if you’re on a sugar-free diet, perhaps give it as a gift instead—your Air Mail correspondent scarcely made it through the first handful of recipes before running out to the shop to try her hand at a bûche de Noël. ($35, amazon.com) —Ashley Baker

A hundred years ago, if you threw a stone down one of the charming medieval lanes of Clerkenwell, you were likely to strike either the window of an optical store or the lens of a passerby’s glasses. In an effort to revive some of the singular styles of the eyewear capital of the world’s heyday, London-based eyewear company Cubitts has rolled out its Golden Age collection. Featuring four deliciously unusual frames cast in robust Takiron acetate, which comes from Osaka, the collection is evocative of a certain House of Lords flair—restrained but suspiciously powerful. If you’re the type of person to get excited by engineering, you’ll also be thrilled to see that Cubitts has revived the Burleigh joint, an interwar style that’s so perfectly modern you’ll wonder how it was ever improved upon. We’d also be remiss not to mention a model Cubitts made in collaboration with Air Mail contributor David Coggins. Unless you’re Burt Reynolds, “the Angler” is probably better suited to the salmon streams of Scotland than to an Optimo-perfumed drawing room. But, hey, you’ll never know until you try. (from $250, cubitts.com) —Nathan King

All hail Franco Maria Ricci, the Parma-born graphic designer and publisher who, in 1982, created FMR, the most sumptuous and idiosyncratic art magazine in the world. A new book, Franco Maria Ricci: A Labyrinth of Beauty, captures the illustrious history with some 300 images from the magazine, which employed talents such as Italo Calvino and Antony Shugaar—the latter of whom served as the English-language editor of the quarterly and provides the book’s elegant and illuminating text. Published by Vendome, it’s one of the most beautiful volumes I have ever held, a book that, as Ricci’s widow and co-conspirator, Laura Casali, writes, “runs over so abundantly with lush loveliness.” A subscription to the magazine itself—now run by Casali—comes with a bonus: free admission to the Labirinto della Masone museum, in the town of Fontanellato, near Parma, which has the largest bamboo labyrinth in the world. ($95, vendomepress.com) —Jim Kelly

When Ragtime made its Broadway debut in 1998, The New York Times described the musical as “a diorama with nostalgia rampant.” There is nothing nostalgic about the show’s latest revival, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center. Everything about this magnificent production shimmers with the joy, indignation, and sorrow that E. L. Doctorow wove into the novel that the musical is based on. Ragtime is set in the early 1900s, the so-called Gilded Age, and highlights—through a mix of imaginary characters and historical figures such as Emma Goldman, Booker T. Washington, and Henry Ford—the racial injustice, economic inequality, and anti-immigrant militancy of the period. In 1998, audiences might have experienced Ragtime as a parable of past sins long overcome. In 2025, it feels like cinema verité of the moment. (stubhub.com) —Alessandra Stanley

La Coqueta and Flabelus, two Spanish brands with a shared fondness for heritage and a resistance to irony have joined forces on a limited-edition capsule. The eight-piece collection pairs the children’s store La Coqueta’s fun prints with the shoe brand Flabelus’s espadrille silhouettes. Handmade in Spain by actual artisans (not just “artisanal” branding), the collaboration is a quiet rebuttal to algorithm-driven kitsch. The shoes are charming but not cloying, nostalgic without trying to be. And while they are designed to match with La Coqueta’s ready-to-wear mommy-and-me line, they really go with anything. (from $144, lacoquetakids.com) —Catherine Scott