Air Mail

Frederik Bille Brahe Thirteen years ago, the Danish chef brought casual cool to Copenhagen’s fine-dining scene. Now he’s opened Daphne, his biggest restaurant yet

By Mary Holland

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Midtown Cowboy

The Wythe and Wherefores How an Americana brand grounded in craftsmanship and a distinctly Western sensibility came to be

By Louis Cheslaw

Lights Out!

Getting Into Bed With Cindy Crawford The supermodel and founder of Meaningful Beauty shares her nighttime routine

By Jeanne Malle

Real Estate for the 1 Percent

Pied-à-Terror! A new annual surcharge on New York’s luxury pieds-à-terre has the 1 percent crying robbery. But when has a tax ever actually driven the rich from Park Avenue?

By Michael Gross

It’s RH’s World Restoration Hardware, the high-end housewares company that recently rebranded as RH, is on a mission to colonize luxury cities. In Aspen, residents are drawing the line

By Emilia Petrarca

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An American in Paris Wire acrobats, floating mobiles, wooden figures … Celebrating the centenary of Alexander Calder’s years living in the French capital, an exhibition presents more than 300 of his works

By Nicholas Fox Weber

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The Face in the Mirror James Corden’s chummy charm conquered America, but the United Kingdom isn’t so keen

By Barbara Ellen

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Beating the System When every studio in Hollywood passed on Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola—the most successful movie director on the planet—became an independent filmmaker

By Sam Wasson

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Hell on Wheels Thousands of confidential files leaked by a Tesla employee reveal noxious working conditions, flawed technology, and a delusional, unstable C.E.O.

By Oliver Moody

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For All Your Death-Defying Needs Whether you were Amelia Earhart, Ernest Hemingway, or a very hungover Clark Gable, the original Abercrombie & Fitch was the perfect store for adventurers of all stripes

By Henry R. Schlesinger

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Medieval Chivalry for the Modern World Director Joe Wright’s new anti-musical musical adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac has shades of his own off-screen love triangle

By Ed Potton

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Art and Commerce

Kahlo Incorporated How did Frida Kahlo go from being a little-known artist to a feminist icon to a global brand?

By Rosie Millard

Close-up

Jocelyn Bioh Ahead of the Broadway debut of her new play, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, the actress and playwright discusses why she infuses her stories with humor

By Paulina Prosnitz

Social Studies

So You Want to Be a Guru? Fabulously wealthy women are rebranding themselves as lifestyle gurus. Who’s buying it?

By Judith Newman

After Hours: The Oral History of a Cult Classic With his career on the ropes, Martin Scorsese fought his way back to the top with a low-budget, surreal black comedy, set in New York’s gritty downtown scene

By Jake Malooley

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A Weekend at Marchmont On a recent spring day in the Scottish countryside, the newly restored estate of Rory McEwen hosted a tribute to the late, great British artist and folk singer

By James Fox

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An Unblessed Arrangement Inside the turbulent life and times of Consuelo Vanderbilt, the last heiress to be able to blame her unhappy marriage on someone other than herself

By Laura Thompson

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Popcorn Presidents The movies watched in the White House provide fascinating insights into the mindset—angry, affable, aggrieved—of its inhabitants

By Rich Cohen

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An Afternoon with Thomas Mallon The author and editor of Gore Vidal discusses the influence of Mary McCarthy, his latest book, and the upcoming TV adaptation of his 2007 novel, Fellow Travelers

By Jim Kelly

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The View from Here How did Thames Water, the U.K.’s largest water company, turn a foolproof monopoly into a $20 billion money pit, leaving the country short on the very commodity it was responsible for supplying?

By Jonathan Margolis

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Stranded in NewSpace It’s not just the fate of two marooned astronauts that’s at stake—it’s the future of interstellar travel

By Howard Blum

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High Times

And God Created Club 55 Since opening in 1955, the glamorous St. Tropez beach club has attracted everyone from Roger Moore to Alain Delon and Brigitte Bardot

By Joan Collins

Divine Comedy

Laughter in the Dark In his new memoir, comedian Paul Scheer takes on his childhood abuse with humor and one-liners

By Caira Conner

unreal estate

Shvo Me the Money! The outsize developer Michael Shvo has lost his crown jewel—the Transamerica Pyramid—and is battling former friends, aggrieved partners, and angry tenants. He’s survived spectacular reversals before. Can he rise again?

By Matt Kapp