Issue
No. 319
August 23, 2025
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PLAY
Muzen
It was a sad day when the faint glow of the transistor radio finally burned out. We sacrificed it for the cracked-out glare of phones…
Bid
Downton Abbey x Bonhams
Can you call yourself a Downton Abbey fan if your living room’s display cases aren’t crawling with…
treat
La Mercerie
There are good chocolate cakes, there are great chocolate cakes, and then there’s the Gâteau Forêt-Noire at La Mercerie—a dessert…
Energize
Wip
It’s no secret that we here at AIR MAIL are caffeine fiends. While I’m not against a fourth, fifth, or sometimes sixth cup of coffee…
spritz
Faux Rose
After working in fashion design under Ashley Williams, Claire Barrow, and Jeremy Scott, and as a stylist for Vivienne Westwood…
SHOP
Rondini
Didn’t make it to St. Tropez this summer? No need to despair. The Rondini sandals, bags, and accessories collected by…
PLAY
Muzen
It was a sad day when the faint glow of the transistor radio finally burned out. We sacrificed it for the cracked-out glare of phones…
Bid
Downton Abbey x Bonhams
Can you call yourself a Downton Abbey fan if your living room’s display cases aren’t crawling with…
treat
La Mercerie
There are good chocolate cakes, there are great chocolate cakes, and then there’s the Gâteau Forêt-Noire at La Mercerie—a dessert…
Energize
Wip
It’s no secret that we here at AIR MAIL are caffeine fiends. While I’m not against a fourth, fifth, or sometimes sixth cup of coffee…
spritz
Faux Rose
After working in fashion design under Ashley Williams, Claire Barrow, and Jeremy Scott, and as a stylist for Vivienne Westwood…
SHOP
Rondini
Didn’t make it to St. Tropez this summer? No need to despair. The Rondini sandals, bags, and accessories collected by…
Picture This A new coffee-table book collects Martyn Goddard’s photographs of Blondie, capturing the pop-punk band at their peak in the hot New York summer of 1978
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Force of Nature
Are you one of those who walk blithely by the floral paintings in museums with the same deep interest you devote to colonial fabric or silver plate? You won’t hurry past “Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, and Pioneer,” a major exhibition of 35 still lifes that opens today at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Each of these paintings presents a burst of brightness against a brooding dark background, and each is mysterious. Unlike so many women artists before and since, Rachel Ruysch was not a flower “born to blush unseen,” as Thomas Gray would have it. READ ON
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