{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"June 20, 2026 – Air Mail","description":"Welcome to Air Mail Issue number 362.","favicon":"https://static.airmail.news/assets/icons/apple-touch-icon.png","home_page_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20","feed_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20.json","items":[{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/the-view-from-here","title":"The View from Here","content_text":"“Three weeks ago, a representative of our business community called me with a question,” Vladimir Putin said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia’s version of Davos, earlier this month. “I’ve known him for a very long time. We’re not close, but I trust him—he’s a decent person.”The businessman, Putin explained, had been invited to Kyiv and wanted to make sure the Russian president was aware. Putin said he told him that he could not act in any official capacity: “That should be handled by serious, specially trained people.” According to Putin, the businessman replied that he ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/the-view-from-here","summary":"“Three weeks ago, a representative of our business community called me with a question,” Vladimir Putin said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia’s version of Davos, earlier this month. “I’ve known him for a very long time. We’re...","tags":["The View from Here","But First ..."],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/01rc273jq0ay7vys9d0u07fdkg96-0a4844ed73665028f4a6e32242ccf6e1.jpg","author":{"name":"Andrew Ryvkin"},"date_published":"2026-06-20T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 20, 2026","date":"2026-06-20","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/andrew-ryvkin\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAndrew Ryvkin\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"As the Russia-Ukraine war drags into its fifth year, it’s clear that traditional diplomacy has failed. 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And that is the central issue, one as perplexing as it is disturbing, that continues to challenge investigators as the abduction of Nancy Guthrie stretches into its fifth grim month. Not only has Guthrie, an 84-year-old grandmother with a heart condition, vanished without a trace, but so has her kidnapper. And if he’s no longer trying to land the $4 million payday he had demanded of the family, then what was the point of the entire monstrosity?Yet, with one lead after another petering out, with suspects taken into custody only to ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/inside-the-search-for-nancy-guthrie-part-ii","summary":"Crime doesn’t pay—until you pocket the money. And that is the central issue, one as perplexing as it is disturbing, that continues to challenge investigators as the abduction of Nancy Guthrie stretches into its fifth grim month. Not only has...","tags":["Crime and Scandal","Gone Girl"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/61qwjskda5vyd78ohhypxgmyupm1-02346fc5cf73589ebdb24750722be5a0.jpg","author":{"name":"Howard Blum"},"date_published":"2026-06-20T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 20, 2026","date":"2026-06-20","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/howard-blum\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eHoward Blum\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Did law enforcement make a colossal—even fatal—mistake in the investigation’s early days?","shorts":false,"banner":"Gone Girl","category":"Crime and Scandal"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/the-resistible-rise-of-jen-rubio","title":"The Resistible Rise of Jen Rubio","content_text":"Is a yacht enough? What about bikini selfies on a yacht? Wait, better—bikini selfies on paddleboards, yacht in the background? Welcome to the fabulous life of Jen Rubio—co-founder and executive chairman of the luggage brand Away, investor, philanthropist, mother, probable billionaire, friend of society chronicler Derek Blasberg, and the fixation du moment of the most rarefied corners of Instagram. @Jennifer (a recent upgrade) has a relatively modest follower count of 67,500, but expect that to change thanks to her ambitious posting schedule, publicist, and team of agents at WME. Their e-mail address can be found in her bio line.Now everyone can vicariously experience Rubio’s adventures. In May, they ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/the-resistible-rise-of-jen-rubio","summary":"Is a yacht enough? What about bikini selfies on a yacht? Wait, better—bikini selfies on paddleboards, yacht in the background? Welcome to the fabulous life of Jen Rubio—co-founder and executive chairman of the luggage brand Away, investor, philanthropist, mother, probable...","tags":["News","packing heat"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/q773ou8b7zpzy7rkb8ytkhilahy4-473aec111706a06df3c1798091aa8d5a.jpg","author":{"name":"Ashley Baker"},"date_published":"2026-06-20T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 20, 2026","date":"2026-06-20","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/ashley-baker\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAshley Baker\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The co-founder of Away luggage is on the fast track to Bezosian ubiquity—but can she escape her baggage?","shorts":false,"banner":"packing heat","category":"News"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/the-cannes-film-festival-is-dead-long-live-cannes-lions","title":"The Cannes Film Festival Is Dead. Long Live Cannes Lions!","content_text":"Every summer, two festivals bring the global elite to the same strip of the French Riviera. At one, movie stars climb the red steps of the Palais in couture. At the other, the suits gather and talk shop.For decades, the hierarchy was clear. The Cannes Film Festival, founded in 1946, was the glamorous, controversial one. It’s where Bardot gallivanted on the beach in a bikini, Truffaut ushered in the New Wave, Tarantino flipped off a booing crowd after screening Pulp Fiction, and Julia Roberts walked the red carpet barefoot.Cannes Lions, held a few weeks after the film ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/the-cannes-film-festival-is-dead-long-live-cannes-lions","summary":"Every summer, two festivals bring the global elite to the same strip of the French Riviera. At one, movie stars climb the red steps of the Palais in couture. At the other, the suits gather and talk shop.For decades, the...","tags":["Film and Television","Buttering the Croisette"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/to24i8l0amsg9371zt4n0e51cix7-370f07634f810c08825fe4c557f02373.jpg","author":{"name":"Alyson Krueger"},"date_published":"2026-06-20T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 20, 2026","date":"2026-06-20","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/alyson-krueger\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAlyson Krueger\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Stars used to go to Cannes to sell movies—now they go to sell themselves","shorts":false,"banner":"Buttering the Croisette","category":"Film and Television"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/the-patrick-bateman-of-london","title":"The Patrick Bateman of London?","content_text":"It was the most quintessential London scene: a Friday morning bathed in dappled sunlight in Putney, an upmarket yet unflashy corner of the city. The kind of place where bankers settle down with their young families for a change of pace. There were commuters making their way over Putney Bridge to work. A brown-haired man, running in a gray T-shirt and dark shorts. A red bus rolling along the road. Nothing you would expect to watch again on CCTV, or to go viral, garnering millions of views on social media, or result in a near decade-long investigation.But that’s what happened on May 5, 2017, at 7:40 ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/the-patrick-bateman-of-london","summary":"It was the most quintessential London scene: a Friday morning bathed in dappled sunlight in Putney, an upmarket yet unflashy corner of the city. The kind of place where bankers settle down with their young families for a change of...","tags":["Crime and Scandal","Push Comes to Shove"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/z6irwhvx6u1rwxp1348lw2kr92cg-9dfbfcd2ecdf65faea12671a947e8212.jpg","author":{"name":"Diana Fox"},"date_published":"2026-06-20T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 20, 2026","date":"2026-06-20","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/diana-fox\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eDiana Fox\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"In 2017, a jogger in a fashionable neighborhood shoved a woman into the path of an oncoming bus. The suspect, arrested this week, is reportedly a private banker with ties to the House of Windsor","shorts":false,"banner":"Push Comes to Shove","category":"Crime and Scandal"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/the-nine-ways-people-are-impossible","title":"The Nine Ways People Are Impossible","content_text":"Everyone wants to understand why people are the way they are, mostly because other people are a lot. It’s why astrology never dies. Not because anyone truly believes Mercury retrograde is responsible for their communication issues, but because it gives you a vocabulary for people you already had suspicions about. Naturally, you’re an Aries. No kidding, he’s a Leo.The Enneagram is a personality system, with a soupçon of woo-woo, that divides people into nine types. Each type is driven by a different basic need: The need to be right. (The Perfectionist) The need to be loved. (The Helper) The need to succeed. (The Achiever) ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/the-nine-ways-people-are-impossible","summary":"Everyone wants to understand why people are the way they are, mostly because other people are a lot. It’s why astrology never dies. Not because anyone truly believes Mercury retrograde is responsible for their communication issues, but because it gives...","tags":["Style","Notes on an Aesthetic"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/2tavtfi3hitwiu2ykd4xdcqefa3y-c5e781ca1ed00b2606c3f13d66375ead.jpg","author":{"name":"Jennifer Noyes"},"date_published":"2026-06-20T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 20, 2026","date":"2026-06-20","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jennifer-noyes\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJennifer Noyes\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The Enneagram promises self-knowledge. But its best use is to help you survive dinner parties—and buy gifts for difficult people","shorts":false,"banner":"Notes on an Aesthetic","category":"Style"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/n-soto","title":"N/Soto","content_text":"N/Naka—Niki Nakayama and Carole Iida-Nakayama’s one-Michelin-star kaiseki temple in Culver City, California—is among the most ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/n-soto","summary":"N/Naka—Niki Nakayama and Carole Iida-Nakayama’s one-Michelin-star kaiseki temple in Culver City, California—is among the most ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/uxzu4363u46ixlv2uphq22mur9e8-6fd8d521d8c4f46c562f8e3079cef86b.png","author":{"name":"Rachel Lesage"},"date_published":"2026-06-20T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 20, 2026","date":"2026-06-20","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/rachel-lesage\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eRachel Lesage\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"dine","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/lunch-on-a-beam","title":"Lunch on a Beam","content_text":"Whether or not you’re afraid of heights, I am certain you shivered a bit when you first saw the famed black-and-white photograph ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/lunch-on-a-beam","summary":"Whether or not you’re afraid of heights, I am certain you shivered a bit when you first saw the famed black-and-white photograph ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/mj2ki4d89osudzo5c9mkzl5xa4w7-1120481c5f6920f8d6eede7f3087c252.png","author":{"name":"Jim Kelly"},"date_published":"2026-06-20T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 20, 2026","date":"2026-06-20","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jim-kelly\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJim Kelly\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"read","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/pauline-at-the-beach","title":"Pauline at the Beach","content_text":"The third film in director Éric Rohmer’s series Comedies and Proverbs, Pauline at the Beach explores the emotions ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/pauline-at-the-beach","summary":"The third film in director Éric Rohmer’s series Comedies and Proverbs, Pauline at the Beach explores the emotions ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/kh1azig4g75oigcz0qmvip17nq4l-d576b0805032581fa877906c4ab2605c.png","author":{"name":"Eve Eismann"},"date_published":"2026-06-20T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 20, 2026","date":"2026-06-20","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/eve-eismann\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eEve Eismann\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"watch","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/loftie","title":"Loftie","content_text":"Of all the ways in which smartphones have insidiously infected our lives, surely it’s their presence in the bedroom that ranks among the ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/loftie","summary":"Of all the ways in which smartphones have insidiously infected our lives, surely it’s their presence in the bedroom that ranks among the ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/q9yrwtn4opyhbgggur4kg1uk0ye7-47acfda96221151bc96fafa2ba3d658a.png","author":{"name":"Spike Carter"},"date_published":"2026-06-20T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 20, 2026","date":"2026-06-20","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/spike-carter\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eSpike Carter\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"snooze","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/the-dud-avocado","title":"The Dud Avocado","content_text":"Summer technically starts this weekend—and I know exactly who I’m emulating this year: Sally Jay Gorce, the protagonist of the ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/the-dud-avocado","summary":"Summer technically starts this weekend—and I know exactly who I’m emulating this year: Sally Jay Gorce, the protagonist of the ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/5cb0yf9no39yx9zxkxgmgkaffr9v-2d69fe5382259053199a176988513fbe.png","author":{"name":"Maggie Turner"},"date_published":"2026-06-20T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 20, 2026","date":"2026-06-20","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/maggie-turner\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMaggie Turner\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"read","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/studio-mcgee-x-kohler","title":"Studio McGee x Kohler","content_text":"If you’ve ever searched kitchens on Pinterest and then briefly considered a full renovation before bedtime, Studio McGee","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/studio-mcgee-x-kohler","summary":"If you’ve ever searched kitchens on Pinterest and then briefly considered a full renovation before bedtime, Studio McGee","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/3ck3c67662ecbxhwwig92501h61g-268a269a62ff8b81d754e33f0ffbb051.png","author":{"name":"Jennifer Noyes"},"date_published":"2026-06-20T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 20, 2026","date":"2026-06-20","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jennifer-noyes\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJennifer Noyes\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"renovate","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/dancing-with-light","title":"Dancing with Light","content_text":"Paolo Roversi loves to quote literature. One of his favorite lines is from Rumi: “I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.” Another comes from the 17th-century religious poet Angelus Silesius: “The rose is without why; it blooms because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, asks not whether it is seen.”I recently visited Roversi in his studio in Paris’s 14th Arrondissement, where he has worked since 1981. His studio manager of 30 years, Anna Hägglund, greeted me at the door and invited me to take a seat in ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/dancing-with-light","summary":"Paolo Roversi loves to quote literature. One of his favorite lines is from Rumi: “I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.” Another comes from the 17th-century religious poet Angelus Silesius: “The...","tags":["Culture","An Artist's Life"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/kp1fho59yjb1gju21a8ttt9037rz-c72aa555caea8b17d5a6cc3a8742cd29.jpg","author":{"name":"Elena Clavarino"},"date_published":"2026-06-20T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 20, 2026","date":"2026-06-20","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/elena-clavarino\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eElena Clavarino\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"In his Paris studio—and in time for a sweeping new retrospective in Spain—Paolo Roversi, the photographer of Rei Kawakubo, Kate Moss, and Stella Tennant, reflects on a lifetime of looking","shorts":false,"banner":"An Artist's Life","category":"Culture"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/these-boots-were-made-for-walking","title":"These Boots Were Made for Walking","content_text":"Dear Cory:I have been thinking about something you said to me—two things, actually, and rather than argue them out [only to] hear you say I’m “defensive,” which reduces me to 1956, when men played Jules Feiffer tricks on women at every turn, I thought I would write to you and let you know what I am presently thinking.For one thing, it has made me very angry that I didn’t say anything to you at the time about my shoes. Because you didn’t like my shoes, you told me that my shoes were proof that I didn’t like myself. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/these-boots-were-made-for-walking","summary":"Dear Cory:I have been thinking about something you said to me—two things, actually, and rather than argue them out [only to] hear you say I’m “defensive,” which reduces me to 1956, when men played Jules Feiffer tricks on women at...","tags":["Books","Lost and Found"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/34fvqu7zrzohvt8lgznxlzbqj3be-dca00db690b3cb24d4694efc3b1dbbe7.jpg","date_published":"2026-06-20T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 20, 2026","date":"2026-06-20","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20"},"_article":{"byline_html":null,"subhead":"In an excerpt from \u003cem\u003eToo L.A.,\u003c/em\u003e Lili Anolik’s new collection of the novelist’s letters, Eve Babitz unleashes a fiery tirade against an unidentified boyfriend who dared to insult her shoes","shorts":false,"banner":"Lost and Found","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/the-air-mail-summer-reading-list","title":"The AIR MAIL Summer Reading List","content_text":"Waist Deep, by Linea Maja ErnstAn instant best-seller in Denmark after its release in 2024, Linea Maja Ernst’s slim novel is perhaps best described as a cross between Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection (winner of the inaugural AIR MAIL Tom Wolfe Literary Prizes) and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Seven friends in their early 30s spend the week at a Danish lake house, discussing monogamy, sexuality, and the intellectual radicalism of their university days over tastefully appointed tablescapes and craft cocktails. In between languid lake swims and sensual forest escapades, old crushes surface and new anxieties rear their heads in this deft portrait of millennial disenchantment. — ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/the-air-mail-summer-reading-list","summary":"Waist Deep, by Linea Maja ErnstAn instant best-seller in Denmark after its release in 2024, Linea Maja Ernst’s slim novel is perhaps best described as a cross between Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection (winner of the inaugural AIR MAIL Tom Wolfe Literary...","tags":["Books"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/45ly6g0ahpotphsf9l910e8q8y1o-73890db954daf957a7697e7630cf144e.jpg","date_published":"2026-06-20T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 20, 2026","date":"2026-06-20","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20"},"_article":{"byline_html":null,"subhead":"From Ann Patchett’s tender tale of reconciliation to Jenny Jackson’s juicy seaside romp, here are the 10 books our editors are taking with them on their travels this summer","shorts":false,"banner":"Books","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/george-mcnally","title":"George McNally","content_text":"“Aren’t people going to get so bored with hearing about me?,” George McNally asks. The 22-year-old British American is preparing to open his first restaurant, Faux, in Tribeca later this summer. George is the son of Keith McNally, the restaurant mogul behind Balthazar, Pastis,  and Minetta Tavern, and his debut has been the subject of speculation since rumors began circulating in December. With this wave of excitement come articles, and with articles come personal questions, many of which George would rather dodge.”I haven’t broken it down. I haven’t seen any therapist,” he says of his feelings about the ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/george-mcnally","summary":"“Aren’t people going to get so bored with hearing about me?,” George McNally asks. The 22-year-old British American is preparing to open his first restaurant, Faux, in Tribeca later this summer. George is the son of Keith McNally, the restaurant...","tags":["Food and Drink","Close-up"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/4txcal4ixmtt94dd2r6sbg5r7tc4-376ba0afef4ae239b18bf7a6b9b1e445.png","author":{"name":"Jeanne Malle"},"date_published":"2026-06-20T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"June 20, 2026","date":"2026-06-20","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jeanne-malle\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJeanne Malle\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The 22-year-old dishes on getting kicked out of school in London; learning the hospitality business from his father, Balthazar founder Keith McNally; and Faux, his upcoming Tribeca restaurant","shorts":false,"banner":"Close-up","category":"Food and Drink"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/hydras-secret-salon","title":"Hydra’s Secret Salon","content_text":"Nestled in the Saronic Gulf, a one-and-a-half-hour ferry ride from Athens, the village of Hydra rises sharply up the hillside behind its horseshoe-shaped harbor, creating the feeling of an amphitheater. Massive stone houses dominate the upper levels, and the austere exteriors hide vast ballrooms, painted ceilings, and marble-tiled terraces. The architecture is far from the whitewashed sugar-cube houses of many other islands. Ornate doors, colonnades, and the lavish interiors are reminders of bygone times when the island flourished in the early 19th century, and fortunes were made from shipbuilding and international commerce, assured by an unrivaled merchant fleet.One such property is the Old Carpet Factory, now a legendary ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-6-20/hydras-secret-salon","summary":"Nestled in the Saronic Gulf, a one-and-a-half-hour ferry ride from Athens, the village of Hydra rises sharply up the hillside behind its horseshoe-shaped harbor, creating the feeling of an amphitheater. 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