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Even before the founders of Frieze Art Fair, Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, had a reputation in the art world, the British couple dreamed of opening a restaurant. So three years ago, when they were asked to conceive a project for the developer of the brutalist building 180 the Strand in central London, they seized this opportunity. Last month, they opened Toklas after cookbook author Alice B. Toklas, who is a partner of writer Gertrude Stein and also The legendary salon hostess, this is a lounge and restaurant serving high-end Mediterranean comfort food. The space includes a spacious bar and restaurant with old-fashioned Børge Mogensen chairs and a luxuriously planted terrace. Lunch service starts this week, and specialties include chive crab and sweet herbs as well as cuttlefish, mussels and chickpea stew. In addition, Slotover and Sharp are opening an adjacent bakery and shop selling everything from traditional lemons to salt and pepper shakers designed by Martino Gamper. toklaslondon.com.
What should you do when your beloved Indian juttis was found in the market during a trip for your sister's wedding 15 years ago and cannot be repaired in the end? Los Angeles fashion and interior designer Jamie Haller's answer is to pay tribute to this shoe as the basis for her collection of the same name. "The original pair was the love of my life, and this pair is the new incarnation," she said. Haller's version combines its Rajasthan-inspired silhouette with old-world Italian craftsmanship and specializes in sacchetto manufacturing through a century-old Tuscan factory. Sacchetto means "small bag" and is a luxurious soft, breathable shoe with a glove-like fit. "I'm working hard to achieve the authenticity of the original work, which becomes better and becomes the second skin as I grow older," Haller said. Next paragraph: Lambskin-lined buffalo penny loafers inspired by Italian men's shoes from the 1970s, debuting this month. Starting at $390, shop-jamiehaller.com.
Since the Bauhaus era, the achievements of female designers have been minimized or disappeared from art history. For example: the iconic Barcelona chair exhibited at the 1929 World's Fair, although it was co-created by Lilly Reich, who was also the Bauhaus, only has the signature of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Jane Hall, the founding member of the Turner Prize-winning London architectural collective Assemble, tried to solve this gap in "Woman Made: Great Women Designers", an alphabetical survey of the works of more than 200 female practitioners . "Woman Made", a joint venture between Phaidon and the global luxury goods group Kering, showed photos of each designer’s representative work and briefly introduced her work, covering the elegant Viennese coffee set from Jutta Sika from the beginning of the 20th century to the present ( Around 1902) to the bulbous neoprene upholstered sports sofa made by Monling Lee last year. $60, phaidon.com.
London designer Erdem Moralioglu is famous for literary romantic and historically influenced women's clothing. This season, he finally focused his broad sensitivity on the men's side. His 36 new collection is a tribute to traditional British gardening clothing. It was inspired by the diary "Modern Nature" by the late British filmmaker Derek Jarman, which records his work in the United Kingdom after he was diagnosed with HIV. Moralioglu, a plot planted on the Dungeness coast, cuts down workers’ work clothes-Jarman's gardening uniforms-with de Jouy plant motifs, elongated chinos with belts, and colorful knits with elegant boat collars Shirt, realizing the natural extension of his formal and casual women's clothing. Starting at $295, erdem.com.
"Guys, we need a ping pong table," lighting designer Vladimir Slavov (Vladimir Slavov) said one night while drinking beer at Zaventem Ateliers, a former paper mill in Brussels. Turned into a creative space, there are more than 30 studios here. "I replied,'Yes, let's work hard!'" designer and founder of Zaventem Lionel Jadot recalled. What followed was an exquisite corpse in the entertainment room, in which 15 resident craftsmen spent more than seven months making different parts of the table, each part having only the most vague idea of the final combination. This week, the finished table, called "Rotating Love"-a crazy quilt in the shape of a clover, carefully inlaid on both sides, divided into two by a brass and copper mesh-will be at the Art and Design Salon in New York It is exhibited by Todd Merrill Studio. It is priced at US$450,000. "This is also a work of art," Jadot explained. "It can be hung on the wall, or it can be opened on one side as two screens." toddmerrillstudio.com.