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An editorial archive of published writing across art, luxury, and culture, tracing the people, places, objects, and ideas that shape modern taste.

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Charles Fazzino: Taking a bite out of New York

Everyone who comes to New York comes, in some way, to take a bite out of it. The Big Apple may be myth, marketing, madness, and miracle all at once, yet let’s be honest: every transplant who has dragged ........

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Even Steven, but make it decadent: A night at........

There is a particular elegance to a night that refuses to unravel—one that recalibrates in real time and, with a certain inevitability, becomes more indulgent than originally intended. My original date was rescheduled,

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Joan Miró and the dangerous intelligence of..

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory,” Louise Glück wrote in Nostos, a line that feels almost uncannily suited to Joan Miró, whose art understood that childhood was not a lesser state of .......

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TEFAF New York reminds us that prestige is not a sin

Some will have you believe TEFAF is merely where the wealthy come to be seen, where polished shoes, serious jewelry, museum trustees, and collectors with enviable calendars gather beneath the Park Avenue Armory’s historic.........

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PEN America’s Literary Gala and the glamour of the written word

There is a private thrill in finding oneself inside a book. Not in a dramatic way, necessarily. Sometimes it is a sentence that understands you before you have understood yourself. Sometimes it is a character so flawed, funny, ashamed, hungry, or hopeful that you feel less alone for having met them. Reading can do that. It can make the world feel suddenly larger, while making one’s own inner life feel less strange.
 

That is glamour, too.
 

Not the obvious kind. Not merely chandeliers, gowns, velvet ropes, champagne towers, or forbidden caviar slipped into a room for effect. 

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