Guest Edits
Journalist Joshua Glass spent years contributing to the most respected fashion, art and design magazines, including T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and Vogue, before launching his own independent title Family Style earlier this year. Devoted to the intersection of food and culture, the quarterly print publication’s first issue drew subjects like Michele Lamy and Chloe Sevigny. As Family Style releases its design-themed second issue, Glass shares a few of his objects of affection, including a Christofle flatware set, Brightland Ardor red chili olive oil, and a Willy Rizzo coffee table.
Photo: Huy Luong (Glass)
The soft-core satirist of New York and London’s town-and-country class, Plum Sykes affectionately savages her subjects with the thing they love most—luxury labels. The Vogue contributing editor and New York Times best-selling author of Bergdorf Blondes and The Debutante Divorcée is back with her newly released fourth novel, Wives Like Us. Ahead of its May 14 release, Plum shares a few of her own affluent delights, including a Herend teapot, Hermès nail polish, and her favorite Land Rover.
Photo: Oliver Holmes (Chanel)
Simone Bodmer-Turner’s organic, minimalistic ceramics have become shorthand for a specific aesthetic breed since her 2022 debut show at Matter Projects in New York City. After moving to a farmhouse in rural Massachusetts, Bodmer-Turner has focused on cast bronze lighting and lacquered wood tables for her show “A Year Without a Kiln,” on now at Emma Scully Gallery in New York. Here, Bodmer-Turner shares her selections for creating a pleasant personal space.
Photo: William Jess Laird (Bodmer-Turner)
When Trevor Cheney converted Frank Gehry’s understated Danziger Studio into the Melrose Avenue gallery, Seventh House, in 2021, the young decorator and Galerie Half creative director quietly breathed new life into Los Angeles’s design scene with his meticulous mélange of early 20th-Century, postmodern, and contemporary interior accents. Ahead of the opening of his eponymous second space, Cheney shares the timeless staples that he reaches for in his own Hollywood Hills home
Photo: Billal Taright (Cheney)
After rising through the ranks at W, WWD, and Art Basel Magazine, Sarah Harrelson struck out on her own in 2011 with the launch of Cultured. Ahead of the inaugural CULT100 celebration, the L.A.-based collector and editor—who’s known for championing under-the-radar creatives across art, design, and fashion—pulls back the curtain on her own must-have discoveries
Photo: Jojo Korsh (Harrelson)
In the two decades since Adam Pendleton staged his first solo show, the Virginia-born, Brooklyn-based conceptual artist has gone on to have his work—which now ranges from drawings and paintings to performance and video installations—shown at MoMA, the Mumok, and the Venice Biennale. Ahead of his latest exhibition, An Abstraction, at New York’s Pace Gallery, Pendleton spotlights the pieces that have earned a place in his home, studio, and travel bag
Photo: Matthew Septimus (Pendleton)
After a 13-year tenure as Calvin Klein’s creative director of womenswear, Francisco Costa pivoted his attention from the runway to the rainforest with the 2018 debut of Costa Brazil. Tapping into the natural healing power of the Amazon’s rarest—and most aromatic—plants, the sustainable beauty brand’s thoughtful skin-care saviors are a tribute to both the fashion veteran’s Brazilian roots and career-defining minimalist modus operandi—much like his cherished essentials
Photo: Weston Wells (Costa)
In 2016, former attorney Batsheva Hay quietly launched a handful of one-off Laura Ashley-inspired prairie dresses—and seemingly single-handedly changed the face of fashion overnight. Now, eight years since her signature ruffles and high necks began turning heads on the red carpet—not to mention at the Inauguration—the New York designer’s subversive sensibility is finally on full display in the brand’s first store. Blazoned with lime-green walls and hand-painted leopard floors, the Soho destination is just as delightfully distinctive as Hay’s own eclectic essentials
Photo: Alexei Hay (Hay)
Founded in 1878, Connolly was once regarded as the automobile industry’s finest leather supplier, but, since Isabel Ettedgui took over the driver’s seat three decades ago, the British heritage brand has also earned a place in the wardrobes of today’s most astute aesthetes. Honoring traditional savoir faire while simultaneously eyeing the road ahead, Ettedgui’s distinctly discreet garments and goods are nothing less than contemporary classics—just like her favorite finds
With the 2017 launch of Sana Jardin, former social worker Amy Christiansen set out to transform the fragrance industry—one bottle at a time. Empowering both the wearer and the indigenous women who hand-harvest its floral Moroccan notes, the perfume house’s transportive, zero-waste blends offer an indelible impression, much like Christiansen’s favorite feel-good finds, as seen below
Photo: Peter Schiazza (Christiansen)
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