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The different sides of
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REAL ESTATE REALITY
How the market reacts
to this changing world
THE GREATER GOOD
Philanthropy is high on
the menu of top chefs
CHARTER LIFE
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TAKING OFF
THE PAST FEW MONTHS have rightly been a period of reflection, as we have all
been learning to adjust to our new normal.
Whether you are staying close to home, considering the ensuing changes
to your personal and professional lives, getting busy with new projects and
opportunities, or maybe rediscovering a long-loved secluded retreat, like you,
we have been using this time to take stock.
And though we are still very much in the throes of a continued and likely prolonged period
of uncertainty, at NetJets we remain ready to serve, and we have redoubled our efforts to
ensure your safety and security, which always come first.
In navigating this new course, NetJets, The Magazine will continue to provide you with
up-to-date articles that inform and engage, enlightening stories that provide context and
recommendations, and expansive features that we hope will inspire new journeys and experiences.
After all, what the pandemic has demonstrated more than anything else is that we must
revel in and celebrate life and all its many riches with those we love.
– All of Us at NetJets
C O N T R I B U T O R S
CATHY HUYGHE
An expert on the
wine industry and
entrepreneurial
spirit, the Atlantabased
writer found
both in abundance
at BRAND vineyard,
a venture from
two former Apple
executives, which
she writes about in
Breaking the Napa
Mold (page 66).
ANETTA NOWOSIELSKA
In Prince of Polo
(page 30), the
editor-in-chief of
Hamptons Magazine
finds Nacho
Figueras is still
enjoying his time
on the field but has
plenty of options
for his post-playing
career, with a love
of architecture to
the fore.
PETER SWAIN
The British property
journalist examines
the market on both
sides of the Atlantic
in A Real Look at
Real Estate (page
70), and discovers
that the pandemic—
and the rise of
the home office—
certainly doesn’t
mean the end of city
life as we know it.
JEN MURPHY
For Beyond the
Extreme (page 48),
the much-traveled,
Boulder-based scribe
explores the heli-ski
scene in Alaska,
which contrary to
what the ski movies
might show presents
less challenging
slopes alongside its
most spectacular
drops.
LISA ABEND
Despite the
hospitality sector
being hit so hard,
a philanthropic
seam runs through
it, as our food
correspondent
examines in Friends
in Need (page
60), starting with
her home town of
Copenhagen and all
around the world.
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story’s subject, with approximate distances in miles where applicable.
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CONTENTS
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REFLECTIVE ART
Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Mirrored
Room—Let’s Survive Forever,” 2017,
from the Rubell Museum, page 74.
48 42 60
GREEN AND BLUE
The NetJets program that
promises a bright future for
carbon-neutral flights
pages 10-13
IN THE NEWS
Travel’s changed landscape,
a golfing experience, skiing
updates, and more
pages 14-23
NETJETS UPDATE
A new delivery, catering
onboard, staff in profi le, and
companywide information
pages 26-29
RIDING ON
Polo star Nacho Figueras
has plenty of plans for
life beyond the game
pages 30-33
DREAM VOYAGE
Chartering a yacht is an
ideal—and luxurious—
getaway for our times
pages 38-41
IT’S ELECTRIFYING
Classic cars modified with
electric engines may be the
future for automobiles
pages 42-47
MORE THAN EXTREME
Alaska’s famed heli-ski
scene is not just the wild
steeps of movie fame
pages 48-55
FREEZING TIME
Blocks of ice encase
quality timepieces in a
study of glacial cool
pages 56-59
EXTENDED HOSPITALITY
In troubled times, top
chefs are reaching out to
their communities
pages 60-65
WINE AND TECH
Silicon Valley methods and
Napa Valley bounty merge
at BRAND vineyard
pages 66-69
REAL ESTATE NOW
With the lure of the
country getting stronger,
will the city survive?
pages 70-73
MIAMI PASSION
The Rubell Museum is a
testament to one couple’s
dedication to art
pages 74-81
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REALITY BITES
Chef to the stars Vikki
Krinsky on finding a
balance for healthy eating
pages 36-37
THE LAST WORD
Tennis star Angelique
Kerber on her life away
from the court
page 82
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WINTER 2020
FRONT
COVER
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glacier field during the
filming of “The Unrideables:
Alaska Range” in the Tordrillo
Mountains near Anchorage
(see page 48 for a guide to
heli-skiing in Alaska).
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SPOTLIGHT
A Clear Way Ahead
NetJets’ Blue Skies program is making strides,
both large and small, toward long-term carbonneutral
flying. // By Josh Sims
© CLIMATECARE
DIANA ORECK IS ON A MISSION. “As the leader
in private aviation, we have a responsibility to
provide our Owners options in the way they
fly with us,” says the vice president of service
representatives and philanthropy at NetJets,
“and that includes making more sustainable
ways to fly available. The reality is that as the
leader of any industry, your actions are viewed
as an example—and there is much we can do to
mitigate our impact on the environment.”
She’s referring, first and foremost, to the
company’s Blue Skies program, which allows
NetJets Owners to pay extra on their flights in
order to offset their emissions. The extra amount
is based on the hourly fuel consumption of the
aircraft—the current cost ranges from about $25
to $75 per flight hours depending on aircraft
type—but, Oreck explains, “with Blue Skies,
NetJets Owners have a choice about whether or
not they want to opt in.”
The Blue Skies funds are then used to
purchase carbon credits by a third-party
organization, ClimateCare, which is based in the
U.K. NetJets has been working with ClimateCare
since 2008 in Europe—where the European
division of NetJets chooses to be carbon neutral
and offsets any emissions that Owners do not
buy—and since 2015 in the U.S. In short,
the arrangement allows Owners to fly carbon
neutrally if they so choose.
“We provide options for our Owners, and
we get a mix of responses—only around 10%
of Owners worldwide take it up right now,”
says Oreck. “But the fact is that they’re all
typically happy to have the choice. Interest is
steadily growing as the whole mindset toward
environmental matters is changing worldwide.
At NetJets, we’re proud that with the help of
our Owners, as of October 2020, we have
offset some 1 million metric tons of CO 2
in
Europe, and 75,000 metric tons of CO 2
in the
U.S. That also means paying close attention
to what ClimateCare does.” Oreck is upfront
enough to note that, while NetJets is perhaps
ahead of the curve, though not alone, in the
aviation world in pursuing more sustainable
approaches, Blue Skies is only a foundation.
GAME-CHANGERS
NetJets has worked with
ClimateCare for 12 years in
Europe and since 2015 in the U.S.
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But, she adds, doing more isn’t just lip service.
In the spirit of corporate responsibility, it’s also
the ethical thing to do.
CERTAINLY THE ORGANIZATION has been a market
leader for 20 years, its services also used by
the likes of organizations such as Patagonia,
Method, and Warby Parker. And it’s audited
in the carbon offset projects it supports by the
gold standard likes of Climate Action Reserve
and Verified Carbon Standard. Among 300-
plus projects around the world, it’s worked on
forest protection in Alaska, for example, and
on supporting the Capricorn Ridge Wind Farm
in Texas—projects typically in areas close to
high populations of NetJets Owners—as well as
others in South America, Africa, and Asia, from
rural biogas to hydro.
“As a business that spans continents, our
global procurement [from our end] is vetted
very seriously, too,” adds Oreck. “We pay very
close attention.” That means keeping up with
the shifting sands of our understanding of
sustainability. ClimateCare divides its efforts,
for example, between household needs—clean
water, low-emission cooking, and the like—
waste management, grid-scale renewables,
and land use, including rainforest protection
and reforestation. But this year new studies
have suggested that, among other orthodoxies,
the planting of trees may not be as effective
in carbon capture as was originally believed;
likewise, renewable energy sources have
been found wanting for their current utility
in tackling climate change relative to (within
the ”green” community, at least) controversial
energy sources such as nuclear power.
“We think that Blue Skies has to be a true
partnership between NetJets and ClimateCare.
As the sustainability landscape changes
rapidly, it’s important we research all options,”
explains Oreck.
“We take a diverse approach to environmental
projects. Some Owners can be very passionate
about different aspects of environmentalism.”
But NetJets’ efforts toward sustainability are
not limited to the Blue Skies program—after
all, Oreck notes, we have to rely on Blue Skies
as one component of a broader sustainability
program—not the be-all, end-all.”
It’s why, for example, NetJets also
maintains one of the newest fleets in
private aviation—some new aircraft can be
more efficient and therefore less carbonintensive—even
if most Owners inevitably
select their aircraft according to transportation
parameters rather than any green credentials
it may have. Recent years have seen aircraft
manufacturers think more proactively about
their environmental standards too.
MORE PROFOUNDLY, NetJets has recently
partnered with Neste and Signature Flight
Support’s Signature Renew sustainability
initiative to accelerate the adoption of SAF,
or sustainable aviation fuel, initially making
it available at two key gateways—San
Francisco (where the fuel supply is located)
and Columbus, Ohio (home of NetJets global
headquarters)—with plans to roll this out to
various other international hubs as it becomes
feasible. SAF can reduce greenhouse gas
emissions by up to 80%, relative to conventional
aviation fuel.
And Oreck isn’t the only one thinking big. Brad
Ferrell, executive vice president of administrative
services recently said, “As the largest and
most experienced company in the private
aviation space worldwide, NetJets’ promise of
exceptional safety and service to Owners and
employees must extend to the larger global
community we impact as well. There remains
more to be done in the sustainable aviation
space, and we look forward to being on the
cutting-edge of those innovations and evolving
this program in our ongoing efforts to address
sustainability in the air, on the ground, and with
our team members.”
“We’re expecting to see an exponential change
in concern for sustainability issues among our
Owners over the next few years,” Oreck says
determinedly. “And we’ll be ready for them.”
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GREEN DREAM
Among ClimateCare’s many initiatives is
work on forest protection in Alaska.
© CLIMATECARE
“As the sustainability landscape
changes rapidly, it’s important we
research all options.”
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THE SMART GUIDE
A timely roundup of travel news, trends, and
destinations, as well as must-have accessories.
JÖRN KASPUHL
THE FUTURE OF TRAVEL
The world looks very different now
than it did at the beginning of the year.
Alex Erdman Ely, Alexandra Hanover,
Barkley Hickox, and Brooke Lavery
(above, clockwise from top), the women
behind leading travel consultancy Local
Foreigner, a NetJets partner, speak
about leisure travel now—and what the
months to come might bring.
This spring, the golden age of travel came to a screeching halt,
nearly overnight. In mere days, we went from a lifestyle of complete
freedom—you could discover a dreamy Southeast Asian beach or
romantic Tuscan road while scrolling your phone on Wednesday and
be strolling through that very place by the weekend—to having to
think twice before venturing out. This change in our habits has served
as a stimulus for self-reflection in many of us. Naturally, some of our
priorities on how we travel, and what we look for when we do, have
evolved—as explained by the four owners of Local Foreigner.
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THE SMART GUIDE
HIGHLAND HEAVEN
Glen Affric, a 10,000-acre
estate in Scotland, offers an
ideal, isolated escape.
HOW HAS THE PANDEMIC CHANGED
THE TRAVELER MINDSET?
The mindset of travelers at this moment
largely depends on their perceived risk,
which is tied to where they live and the
behaviors of their friends and family. We
cannot speculate when our complete
freedom to move around the globe will be
restored, but it is safe to predict that travelers
will not take that freedom for granted.
Nibbling that croissant at a café in Paris
will taste much sweeter on the other side of
these restrictions. Perhaps we will be more
intentional with our travel decisions—more
likely to choose our destinations deliberately,
devoting more of our time and attention to
each stop on our itinerary.
FOR OPTIMISTIC AND ADVENTUROUS
TRAVELERS, OUR CURRENT MOMENT
POSES A RARE OPPORTUNITY FOR ONCE-
IN-A-LIFETIME EXPERIENCES. WHERE
ARE THE GREATEST OPPORTUNITIES?
The strategy of contrarian travel is to go
against the grain—to visit the places
nobody’s noticing, or to flip the calendar
and explore during the off-season. Benefits
include a secluded experience at a lower
price and usually very grateful staff. Right
now, many travelers are making short
hops, visiting boutique hotels close to home
and “staycationing” in their home state.
Contrarians are going the distance—literally.
They’re blazing trails to three bucketlist
destinations, open like never before
to travelers who are willing to make the
journey: East Africa for safari, the Maldives
for postcard-perfect beach sunsets, and
the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador for close
encounters of the reptilian kind.
In East Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, and Rwanda
are all open, and you can expect near-empty
luxury lodges at discounted prices. Plus,
the game-viewing is more private than ever,
and the conservations need tourist dollars to
continue admirable and necessary wildlife
protection efforts. In the Maldives, social
distancing is a way of life at the dozens of
private islands home to luxury properties;
the hardest decision is sussing out which is
right for you (which is where we come in).
Meanwhile, in South America, Ecuador is
open and seeing a trickle of tourists return to
pay homage to the vibrant marine and avian
life that call the Galápagos archipelago home.
(Aren’t we all dying to see a blue-footed booby
up close and personal?) While typically, top
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DREAM DESTINATIONS
From top: Lake Kora, in the
Adirondacks, New York state,
and La Chartreuse de Cos
d’Estournel, near Bordeaux,
remain ideal places for
celebrations.
Galápagos cruises and properties book out
up to a year in advance, now is the time to
experience the science lessons of Darwin for
yourself on short notice.
WHAT TRENDS HAVE EMERGED DUE TO
COVID-19 THAT ARE HERE TO STAY?
COVID-19 has impacted every sector of
life, and surely some changes will have
rippling effects for the future. The newfound
dedication to cleanliness at hotels,
restaurants, and airports is undoubtedly
here to stay—there is no way to go back on
that. While the last six months have held
a lot of darkness, the one positive thing
2020 has given us is time—time with our
kids, time to reorganize and reprioritize,
and time to refocus on what we want out
of life going forward. We are seeing a lot of
clients book a series of monthlong villa stays;
with opportunities for remote work and
school, there has never been a better time
to experience living in a new destination, as
opposed to just stopping by for a visit. Lastly,
among our clients who are traveling, we are
starting to notice early signs of a shift toward
discretion and away from sharing on social
media. On one hand, people are eager to
share their amazing experiences, especially
after spending so much time at home;
but on the other hand, there is a sense of
vulnerability to criticism and a hesitation
to broadcast joy during a tumultuous time.
The unexpected result is that suddenly we
are seeing people set their phone down and
travel for themselves, instead of with the goal
of checking off a list or posting to a profile.
ARE DESTINATION CELEBRATIONS
OFFICIALLY DEAD?
Pre-COVID-19, destination celebrations had
gone from a trend to a way of life, and we
were always scooting off to far-flung locales
to celebrate marriages, or decamping en
masse to fête a milestone birthday. Now,
with a series of proper COVID tests and
precautions in place, it is certainly possible
to create a safe bubble with room for
good old-fashioned fun. Just a few hours’
drive from Manhattan, for instance, is an
incredible private 1,000-acre estate in
the Adirondacks called Lake Kora, which
has the grandeur you’d expect of a former
19th-century Great Camp, with a side of
the rustic coziness we’re all craving. Or, not
terribly far from Bordeaux, nestled in the
Cos d’Estournel vineyards, La Chartreuse,
the private family home of owner Michel
Reybier, is available for takeovers. Reybier
is, of course, a hospitality icon—the man
behind the incredible and exclusive La
Réserve hotels that dot France and are
raising their first flags in Switzerland. And for
Londoners, it’s a quick NetJets flight to the
Scottish Highlands to play with friends on
the 10,000-acre estate of Glen Affric, which
is fit for a blissful bash year-round—and we’ll
always raise a whisky to that.
LOCAL FOREIGNER
For a novel perspective on
travel, it’s invaluable to be novel
yourself—and the all-female
team at this Manhattan-based
travel consultancy is anything
but conventional. Founded in
2012 with a mission of pairing
proactive personalization with
transparency and integrity, the
highly experienced team, which
now includes 18 members, boasts
a sterling reputation across the
globe. As a NetJets partner, Local
Foreigner offers NetJets Owners
unlimited access to the firm’s
hotel desk for quick bookings as
well as a $1,000 credit for travel
planning. localforeigner.com
GARY HALL, DIMITRI TOLSTOI
“It is possible to create a safe bubble
with room for good old-fashioned fun.”
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THE SMART GUIDE
ESSENTIALS
Pining for the slopes, searching for the sun,
or simply seeking domestic bliss—herewith a
selection of the finer things in life.
ON THE PISTE
Innovations among the elevations
abound even in a difficult climate
TO ENSURE A SEASON that’s both
safe and exciting, pandemicinspired
changes include resort
reservation systems, season
pass insurance policies, and
strict crowd-control measures.
Social distancing will be even
easier at Sun Valley (sunvalley.
com) thanks to the addition
of 380 skiable acres, while
Jackson Hole Mountain
Resort (jacksonhole.com,
pictured) will debut new
hike-to-terrain for those willing
to boot pack from the top of
Sublette Chair to the top of
the Rendezvous Bowl. Hotel
Jerome, an Auberge Resorts
Collection (aubergeresorts.
com) property in Aspen, will
be accommodating pods of
friends in poolside cabanas that
feature menus of bone broths,
ramen noodles, and boozy
hot cocoa. Bella Coola Heli
Sports (bellacoolaheliskiing.
com) in British Columbia is
enticing hard-core powder
hounds with an exclusive heli
package aboard a 138-foot
yacht. Offered only for four
weeks beginning in March, the
program combines heli-skiing
with fjord cruising and seafood
feasts. Purists who prefer to
earn their turns will likely head
to the backcountry this winter.
If you’re new to free-heel
touring, Bluebird Backcountry
(bluebirdbackcountry.com),
America’s first inbounds
backcountry ski area, is
located just outside Steamboat
Springs, Colorado, and offers
a safe place to learn the
techniques. Gravity Haus
(gravityhaus.com), a new
hotel-membership club with
locations in Breckenridge and
Vail, will offer backcountry ski
trips, avalanche education, and
gear rentals.
FRIEDMAN MEMORIAL AIRPORT TO SUN VALLEY: 14 miles; JACKSON HOLE AIRPORT TO JACKSON HOLE RESORT: 20 miles;
ASPEN/PITKIN COUNTY AIRPORT TO HOTEL JEROME: 4 miles; STEAMBOAT SPRINGS AIRPORT TO BLUEBIRD BACKCOUNTRY:
3 miles; EAGLE COUNTY AIRPORT TO GRAVITY HAUS: 71 miles (BRECKENRIDGE); 35 miles (VAIL)
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The 100-plus yards of prime beachfront and beautifully landscaped gardens of The Great
House, Barbados, are alluring enough in themselves, even before you get to the majesty of
the residences. Renovated over recent years by renowned local architect Michael Gomes and
Swiss interior designer Leslie Sturm, the 12 bedrooms spread across the property—which can
cater for up to 30 people—retain an original Barbadian style and now benefit from a gym,
spa, playroom, TV room, conference room, and tennis court. And while the whole property
is surrounded by walls (bar the seafront) and has 24-hour security, making it an ideal venue
for a private get-together, The Great House is also perfectly situated for guests to explore the
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THE SMART GUIDE
SOPHISTICATED SOUNDS
The CEO of Primephonic Thomas Steffens talks to NetJets
about the world’s premier classical music streaming service.
When it turned out that these major streaming services
were not planning to fix the issues behind this, we
founded Primephonic in 2017 to solve it ourselves. We
launched in select countries in 2018, and following the
success of this, we rolled the platform out globally last
year. The app has been downloaded 250,000 times and
is available in almost all countries.
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WHAT IS PRIMEPHONIC?
Primephonic is a streaming service designed from the
ground up for classical music, built to give classical fans
the best possible streaming experience. If you’ve ever
tried to search for classical music on platforms such
as Spotify or Deezer, it is often clunky and inaccurate
due to the high amount of data required—composer,
orchestra, conductor, movement, and so forth—in
comparison to a simple artist or track search in pop
music. Primephonic makes it far quicker and easier for
people to access classical music than ever before.
WHAT MAKES IT UNIQUE?
Unlike major streaming services, Primephonic
offers much higher audio quality, hand-picked
recommendations by classical experts, a superior
search function designed to handle the complex
metadata of classical music, and unique playlists and
content from the world’s leading classical performers.
Plus, perhaps more importantly, the Primephonic team
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City, all from a classical music background. It is
this passion and dedication to the genre that makes
Primephonic so special, and why we put in so many
hours to make it the best that it can be.
HOW DID THE IDEA COME ABOUT?
We noticed that Spotify and Apple Music offered a
great experience to pop music fans but a disappointing
and often frustrating one to classical music lovers.
WHAT MAKES IT THE RIGHT PLACE TO STREAM
CLASSICAL MUSIC?
On top of the superior audio quality, better search
functionality, intelligent recommendations, and
unique content, Primephonic pays out to artists
more fairly than the big streaming services do. The
latter pay artists based on how many times a track
has been streamed—but since classical works tend
to be much longer than pop songs, these artists get
far fewer royalties per hour from the big streaming
services than pop artists do. It’s quite astonishing,
really. Primephonic pays based on how many seconds
have been streamed, which is much more generous,
and, more importantly, fairer to classical music artists.
WHO IS THE AUDIENCE?
Primephonic serves two audiences. First, of course,
the core classical fans who are underserved by the
mainstream streaming services. There are, however,
many people who are interested in classical music and
would love to know more but don’t really know where
to start. For them, Primephonic is the perfect starting
point, with a wealth of playlists designed to give a crash
course in composers, eras, styles, instruments, and more.
Additionally, I am incredibly passionate about introducing
younger generations to classical music. I heard something
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decrease in music lessons in school. I truly believe
Primephonic is there to bridge the gap between classical
music and younger audiences.
THERE IS ALREADY A HUGE LIBRARY OF MUSIC,
PLUS PLAYLISTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS—WHAT
ELSE CAN SUBSCRIBERS LOOK FORWARD TO?
Primephonic launched our integration with Sonos
hardware last year, and this year we have finalized
integrations with other hardware products such as
Chromecast and Roon. From a content perspective,
we’re producing plenty of unique playlists and in-app
audio commentaries from the world’s leading artists,
which will be freely available for our subscribers.
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FROM TEE TO GREEN
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NOTES FROM NETJETS
Latest happenings, onboard updates,
and companywide news.
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ANTICIPATING DELIVERY OF THE GLOBAL 7500
We are welcoming Bombardier’s newest aircraft and the largest purpose-built business jet ever built, the Global
7500, into the NetJets fleet in 2021. This aircraft provides a more expansive range than any other aircraft in the
NetJets fleet. It is configured with four distinct cabin zones, offering ample room for uninterrupted relaxation or an
extended boardroom meeting. The six-person conference/dining suite is ideal for hosting, and the entertainment
suite features a 40-inch 4K monitor and theater sound. The luxurious full-size bed in the private master suite
allows for quiet and comfortable rest while traveling across time zones. An innovative seat design features intuitive
adjustment controls and a tilting headrest for optimal neck support. Our experienced and professional flight
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JULIAN RENTZSCH, © NETJETS
INSIDE TRACK
BRIAN HIRSH
President,
Executive Jet Management
WHEN DID YOU START AT NETJETS?
I initially started my career with NetJets back in
2007 and spent time in six different departments,
including Operations, Sales, Service Quality, and
Strategic Initiatives. After transitioning to managing
internal sales for QS Partners, becoming EJM
President in 2018 and relocating to my hometown
of Cincinnati, Ohio, was a logical and welcomed
next step.
WHAT DOES YOUR NORMAL DAY CONSIST OF?
Every day we begin with an operations briefi ng,
with all key departments represented, and discuss
the day prior, current day, and the next day. We
have just over 800 employees, and our business
is composed of 80% aircraft management and
20% charter. We manage 215 aircraft across the
U.S. in 90 locations and complete an average of
115 fl ights every day. Between communicating
with both Owners and prospects, and each of our
internal teams, most of my day is spent ensuring
our business is running effectively and effi ciently.
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE YOU FACE
IN YOUR ROLE?
Currently, the biggest challenge is the everchanging
and varied operating restrictions by each
state and country. Even prior to the pandemic,
we have always carefully tracked political unrest,
weather, travel restrictions, and more, but entry
requirements have become incredibly complex
in the past year. We are fortunate to have the
relationship with NetJets and can leverage its
teams’ knowledge and technology to help us
track everything currently going on across the
world. Every day we have Owners and passengers
contacting us about when and where they can
travel, and our teams are constantly reviewing
rules so we can give the most up-to-date and
accurate information.
“The NetJets Touchless
Serving Menu features
a variety of options ...
that require no onboard
preparation.”
AERIAL APPETIZER
NetJets’ selection
of onboard menus
ensures something
for everyone’s tastes.
LARGE CABIN TOUCHLESS
AND LIGHT-TOUCH
CATERING MENU
With safety always being our top priority, we often collaborate with our
partner vendors to develop best practices to ensure the health and wellbeing
of both our Owners and crews. One result of a recent initiative with
our catering partners is the creation of our new touchless menu, available
on large cabin aircraft, which offers pre-plated selections that can be served
from caterer to table without intermediary preparation.
The NetJets Touchless Serving Menu features a variety of options, from
breakfast to dinner entrées, that require no onboard preparation. Lighttouch
choices—or items that require reheating, such as fl atbreads and
dinners with grilled proteins—are also featured. For more elevated dining,
our Signature Selections Menu, offering seasonal, location-based options,
can be prepared as a touchless or light-touch meal without being replated.
These new offerings are part of our investment in critical new protocols and
the wide range of additional steps our partners conduct for the protection
our Owners expect—and deserve.
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NOTES FROM NETJETS
NEW
IN-FLIGHT
BEVERAGES
NetJets continues to enhance
the Owner travel experience by
offering new beverages in-flight.
Beginning this fall, Nespresso
selections will become available
on the Phenom 300, Citation
Longitude, Citation Latitude,
and Challenger 350 fleets.
Replacing the existing Keurig
machines affords us the
opportunity to offer a more
luxurious experience, with
premium coffee and espresso
now available in a wide
variety of flavors and styles.
In addition, our fleet will now
have a seasonal beer selection
of New Belgium Mountain
Time Premium Lager and the
flagship IPA from Goose Island.
Beer selections will change
seasonally with an array of
crisp, light craft beers during
the spring and summer months
and another variety of heartier
pours in the fall and winter
months. Currently, this new
selection of beer is offered on
all NetJets aircraft.
ISTOCK
NETJETS BY THE NUMBERS
WINTER
HOLIDAY TRAVEL
Crews flew 18,440,313 statute
miles between the 2019
Thanksgiving and the 2020 New
Year’s holidays. That’s more than
740 trips around the globe.
WINTER HOLIDAY SEASON
NetJets took 15,311 flights during the winter
holiday season. That included the following:
5,287
flights the week of Thanksgiving (about
755 flights per day)
4,882
flights the week of Christmas (about
697 flights per day)
5,124
flights the week of New Year’s Day (about
732 flights per day)
(These numbers nearly double our average of
400 flights per day, or 2,800 flights a week,
throughout the rest of the year.)
Those flights carried 52,350 passengers and
2,712 pets.
Most Popular City
Teterboro, New Jersey, had the most flights, with
1,254 departures and 1,249 arrivals between
Thanksgiving and the New Year.
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every moment since. I am so thankful for all the
beautiful places and people I have encountered
along the way.
JULIAN RENTZSCH
THE ONE DAY AT NETJETS I WON’T FORGET
IS … a tie between the fi rst time I saw the
aurora borealis on a northern crossing, and the
fi rst time I saw the Southern Cross constellation
when I fl ew far south of the equator. Both are
magical sights that I will never forget.
CREWMEMBERS IN PROFILE
JESSICA LANGLEY
Flight Attendant
MY FIRST EXPOSURE TO FLYING WAS …
when I was a young child and I was exposed
to the glamours of aviation by my mother, who
was a fl ight attendant for Pan Am. The stories
of her routes from New York to Paris were my
favorites to hear—maybe because they were
accompanied by gourmet chocolates, which she
always brought home for my brother and me.
THE BEST PART OF FLYING IS … the food.
This is hands-down my favorite part of fl ying. I
love exploring and fi nding local dishes in small,
off-the-beaten-path restaurants when I travel
through new towns.
BEFORE JOINING THE NETJETS TEAM,
I WAS … living in Georgia. I was working on
my master’s in art education when I fi rst learned
of NetJets. I have always had a desire to see
the world and thought it was great opportunity.
That was 15 years ago, and I have enjoyed
ONE THING OWNERS PROBABLY WOULDN’T
GUESS ABOUT ME IS … I consider myself
a science geek. I am completely enamored
of astrophysics, quantum physics, spacetime
theorems, and the like. Though I am not
offi cially educated on these matters, I can’t seem
to learn enough about them now. I love reading
about quarks, nebulae, relativity, and new
theories and concepts. Once, I was invited on
“Science Friday,” an NPR program, where I got
to ask questions about quantum physics.
ON MY DAYS OFF … I like to spend my time
in, or on, the water. I enjoy sailing, surfi ng,
wing surfi ng, paddle boarding, snorkeling, lap
swimming, windsurfi ng—anything that involves
saltwater or a pool, I am all for it.
WITHIN THE NEXT TEN YEARS, I WOULD
LIKE TO … sail to the South Pacifi c on my
boat and spend some time in Polynesia, island
hopping and studying the local culture.
MY BEST ADVICE FOR STAYING SANE
ACROSS TIME ZONES IS … eat when you’re
hungry and sleep when you’re tired. It doesn’t
matter if it is 2 a.m. or 4 p.m., have a midnight
snack or take an afternoon nap whenever or
wherever you like.
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OWNER’S PROFILE
PRINCE
OF POLO
Beyond his on-fi eld adventures, Nacho Figueras
is building an empire, evoking global adventures
in scents, and creating a template for equestrian
architecture. // By Anetta Nowosielska
THERE IS NO SHORTAGE of grace and power in
the elegant game of polo. Intense and dynamic,
it’s a contact sport that demands the physical
prowess, elegant sensibility, and fearless
disposition of its players. And to a legion of
fans of the game, few inhabit these attributes
as effortlessly as Ignacio “Nacho” Figueras,
an archetypal dashing Argentine with a sharp
jawline and an unfl appable mane of dark
locks—along with the physical dexterity of a
distinguished athlete. A renowned competitor,
whose passion for the sport has taken him
around the world and assured his place in the
pantheon of the game, Figueras continues to
be one of the leading players today, even if his
greatest source of joy is more likely to be found
closer to his home—just outside Buenos Aires—
than on any of the manicured fi elds worldwide
that he has conquered over the years.
Introduced to the sport at the ripe age of
9, when his father purchased a farm near the
Argentinian capital, Figueras turned pro at 17
while living in Europe. His career has since
taken the debonair sportsman to the polo
capitals of Buenos Aires, Palm Beach, Aspen,
Dubai, Australia, and New York, yielding his
impressive ranking of a one-time eight-goaler.
Though he has since slipped to a handicap
of six, this placement still puts him among
the world’s top players—with many scars to
prove it: broken wrist, ankle, and nose (twice),
a fractured hipbone socket, and a mark from
stitches when he was hit in the eye with a ball.
“I’ve been a professional polo player for over
25 years now, so obviously I’m starting to see
the light,” Figueras muses while bustling around
his Argentinian estancia where I catch up with
this horseman on the move. He is careful to
articulate his words, which are often punctured
by a melodic accent—and joined, in this case,
by broody growls from nearby chickens and a
horse. “That’s not to say that I’m at the end of
my career,” he continues, “but I’m in the last
part of it. And so, for a few years now, I’ve
been thinking about what comes next. How to
continue to be relevant?”
It’s this ambition that propelled Figueras
to explore new realms of opportunities. Some
of these were built on his unexpected turn as
a fashion model that began in the Hamptons
back in the late 1990s, during a dinner hosted
by Kelly Klein (the then-wife of Calvin Klein)
when the gallant player met photographer Bruce
Weber, who shot all Ralph Lauren’s campaigns.
The subsequent Figueras/Lauren work
relationship that yielded numerous campaigns,
commercials, and product launches became
a narrative that synched up the aspirational
RIDING HIGH
The passion for horses runs deep
in Figueras and his family.
FRANCESCO CARROZZINI / TRUNK ARCHIVE
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© NETJETS
OWNER’S PROFILE
lifestyle fashioned by the American designer
with a rugged rider deluxe and his ambition to
improve polo’s visibility in the United States,
where the game has struggled to reach a mass
appeal. Never before had Ralph Lauren found a
more appropriate representation, nor had more
doors opened for Figueras.
With over 20 years of collaboration, Figueras’
lasting engagement with Ralph Lauren has
become a testament to a rare endurance in
the fi ckle world of fashion. It also encouraged
Figueras, eventually, to look beyond the reach
of the brand. “A few years ago, I told Mr.
Lauren that although I was so appreciative of
our relationship, I wanted to start my own little
thing,” Figueras recalls. “I was very humbled
and thankful to him for giving me the honor to
represent the group essentially, but I wanted to
tell my own story before it was too late. I wanted
to do it not just for me but for my family …
I wanted to create something that my family
could relate to.”
The result of this soul-searching wasn’t
entirely surprising. Late last year, just before
the pandemic put a pause on everyone’s
plans, Figueras launched a fragrance
collection, available at Bergdorf Goodman and
Neiman Marcus, featuring scents inspired by
Aspen, Buenos Aires, Dubai, Jaipur, Palm
Beach, and Windsor. These polo hot spots
frequented by Figueras and his semi-nomadic
tribe of four children and wife, Delfi na
Blaquier—a model, photographer, and fellow
polo enthusiast—hold a special meaning in
their lives, which are noticeably marked by
the patriarch’s travels and occupation. “We’ve
named each fragrance after places where we
create our memories,” he adds.
Unsurprisingly, the couple’s offspring, ranging
in age between 7 and 20 years, are equinesavvy
and Figueras’ biggest source of pride.
With an unconventionally roving approach to
parentage, the family is based in Argentina for
part of the year, followed by a homeschooled
circuit that loops the Hamptons, Palm Beach,
Aspen and, on occasion, America’s West Coast
to meet the commitments of Figueras’ career—
which is, despite his age, still burning hot.
IN HIS ELEMENT
Figueras in action during
a recent NetJets event.
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Such a peripatetic lifestyle makes him an
ideal NetJets Brand Ambassador, and he fully
appreciates the service he receives: “With
my busy international schedule, NetJets has
allowed me to be a lot more fl exible with my
travel. I get to places faster and more effi ciently,
which means more time with my family and
better preparation for polo competitions.”
That busy schedule can take its toll but it’s
one he and his family have become used to.
“It looks more glamorous than it actually is,”
he says with a laugh. “The truth is we’ve been
doing it for 25 years. My kids were born into this
lifestyle. That’s what we love about it. It’s a lot of
polo, a lot of travel, and a lot about giving back.”
In keeping with Figueras’ charitable spirit,
a portion of the proceeds from his perfume
collection is donated to Sentebale, the nonprofi t
endeavor founded by a close friend, the Duke
of Sussex, that supports mental health and
well-being initiatives for children affected
by HIV in Lesotho, Botswana, and Malawi.
Thanks in large part to the game of polo, the
relationship between Figueras and Prince
Harry has evolved from that of vigorous and
joyful pursuit of trophies, to a deeper and
meaningful commitment to philanthropy. This
connection resulted in Figueras becoming the
fi rst ambassador for the charity and he has been
to Lesotho to see the program at fi rst hand and
collaborate with its efforts.
Figueras’ admiration for Prince Harry is
apparent, as he acknowledges that as avid rider
and polo enthusiast from a young age the prince
has done so much not just to raise the profi le
of the sport but to use that as a platform for his
charity work – and the Argentinian is honored to
work with his cause. “I give Harry all the credit
for getting the popularity of polo going,” Figueras
says. “Things got complicated when he joined the
army. His time was restricted, and he couldn’t
participate the same way. I thought, for sure,
without Harry this was it for my plans to promote
the game. He was a huge attraction who got the
popularity of it going. Still, we had huge turnouts
for the following tournaments, and that’s when I
knew that polo had a lot of the ingredients that
pulled people in to watch.”
In addition to his promising stock as a scent
purveyor, Figueras has engaged in developing
projects under his namesake design group
that fuses his two great passions: riding and
architecture. His beautiful and sumptuously
modern stable, or a study in controlled
refi nement as some observers might call it, is
located in the Argentinian countryside and is
where Figueras’ visions come to life, thanks to
the architect Juan Ignacio Ramos, a compatriot
and old friend.
Revering Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s
rectilinear forms and Luis Barragán’s colorful
modernism, Figueras isn’t timid about admitting
that architecture could have been an alternative
career choice if polo hadn’t worked out. “I
partnered with my architects who helped me
translate my vision and we created FDG,”
Figueras explains. “We now have equestrian club
design projects around the world that we are
working on. I just love it. Architecture is another
great passion of mine.”
With so many laurels to rest on and even more
plans for the future, the topic Figueras seems
to enjoy talking about most is the time at home
he gets to spend with his children. “They do
schoolwork in the morning and then they ride for
the rest of the day,” he says with a hint of pride
in the life he and his mallet have built for them.
“And I get to eat lunch and dinner with my children
almost every day of my life. It’s a blessing.”
“We have equestrian club design projects
around the world. I just love it.”
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LIVING WELL
FINDING
THE BALANCE
Chef to the stars Vikki Krinsky offers advice for a
healthy lifestyle, good bacteria, and well-being
in the air. // By John McNamara
VIKKI KRINSKY KNOWS A thing or two about traveling. Born in
South Africa and raised in Vancouver, her itinerant lifestyle,
which included stints as an actor and competetive soccer
player, eventually took her to Los Angeles, where she
now lives and runs her aptly named firm A-List Appetite.
Her love of cooking came, naturally enough, in France. After a
chance encounter on a train in Paris, she made her way onto the
staff of kitchens across Europe and returned to the U.S. with a
career in cuisine—and particularly healthy eating—firmly in mind.
Such a background makes her well placed to expound
on the process of traveling well, staying healthy, keeping fit,
and arriving at your destination in the best possible shape.
“My No. 1 advice would be to drink plenty of water,” she
says. “If there is anything that you can do anywhere at any time,
it’s drink water. By doing so, you are going to help regulate and
maintain the balance of body fluids—this helps keep your body
clock, digestion, temperature, and energy levels all on track.”
IF THAT IS THE SIMPLE OPTION, Krinsky expands on her philosophy
of balance in a diet—one as relevant for staying healthy in the
air as it is on the ground. “It’s important to remember that our
gastrointestinal tract is often referred to as our ‘second brain.’
This means that the connection between what we eat and how
we feel is greatly correlated. When you eat high-sugar foods or
junk food, you run a high risk of causing inflammation, which
then decreases the promotion of good bacteria. Good bacteria
positively affect the production of dopamine and serotonin
levels—chemical substances that help you to feel happy.”
At the heart of everything Krinsky talks about is balance:
“Eating well is not about being on a restrictive diet; it is central
to creating a fully balanced lifestyle. When you stick to a healthy,
well-hydrated meal plan, you are setting yourself up for fewer
mood fluctuations and an improved ability to focus. Having
that on your side is incredibly helpful in motivating you to stay
active. No one wants to exert energy when they feel low, right?”
Avoiding jolts from caffeine and excess sugar that can also
lead to a crash in your moods is vital. It’s something Krinsky
has investigated and counters with her new VK Bar (see below).
Having been the go-to personal chef to A-listers in Hollywood
and a star of CBS’ “Recipe Rehab,” expanding her dedication
to healthy living into food production makes sense—and her
passion to make a difference remains as infectious as ever.
THE CELEBRITY CHEF ON HER NEW PROJECT
“While life on set may look glamorous,
many of the scenes you love are shot at
6 a.m. or midnight. So, my emphasis has
been to keep energy high and nutrition
balanced. The VK Bar was created during
the filming of Seth MacFarlane’s TV show
‘The Orville,’ to rescue him from his
caffeine obsession. The bar became an
around-the-clock project to bridge the
gap between La-La Land and everyday
people—offering a premium, crafted,
super-charge bar to a broader audience
without access to a personal chef. Unlike
other bars on the market, it is loaded
with vitamin B12 and naturally preserved
with rosemary, giving it a delicious sweet
and savory flavor.”
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SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
Krinsky has many strings
to her bow, from private
chef to nutritional adviser
to entrepreneur.
JESSE DEYOUNG
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Combining those two most precious
commodities of the moment—isolation
and adventure—private yacht charters
with NetJets partner Northrop & Johnson
are booming. // By John McNamara
THE
PERFECT
GETAWAY
THE BLUEPRINT FOR THE ultimate escape in these strange times—
exclusivity, security, and peace of mind paired with an ultrahygienic
and self-sustaining environment—is exactly what
the world of yacht charter has always been about. So it’s no
surprise that Northrop & Johnson, one of the leading charter
specialists in the world and a valued NetJets partner, has been
one of the very few travel operators to see an influx of inquiries
from both first-time charterers and repeat clients this year.
It certainly wasn’t unexpected for Patrick Coote, chief marketing
officer and head of N&J Europe, a veteran of more than 25 years
in the superyacht sector. The initial advantages of chartering are
clear: “It’s the mobility factor,” he says. “Every single day a private
villa or the best hotel in the world is by default rooted to one
spot. Whereas on a yacht you can be in this bay one day, a new
beach the next, different coves, or a different island after that.”
And this is merely the beginning of the benefits. “The vast
majority of yachts are restricted to 12 guests,” he continues.
“With 12 guests, you would normally have 12 or more crew on
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SEPARATE WORLD
Available for charter around the
Bahamas and the Caribbean, Solo is a
236-foot motor yacht with captivating
outdoor areas for an alfresco lifestyle.
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OCEAN ADVENTURES
The 154-foot Rhino, top, with a 40-foot
water slide, is available for charter
around the Bahamas this winter;
Tutto Le Marrané, bottom, is a 152-foot
motor yacht with a sumptuous beach
deck, also available for charter
around the Bahamas and the British
Virgin Islands.
board. It’s a ratio that creates a phenomenal level of service.”
Then there is the sheer variety a charter yacht vacation
can bring. One might choose to have Michelin-starred cuisine
cooked up in the galley or venture inland to any number of
fine dining restaurants or casual eateries. The myriad waterbased
activities range from organized watercrafting and scuba
diving journeys to simply enjoying the sumptuous surrounds
(and service) on deck, with extravagantly stylish beach clubs
to the fore. The sheer diversity of vessels also makes chartering
a yacht such an intriguing possibility. “We have a very broad
range in our charter fleet, which numbers 120–130 yachts—
and these range not only in size but also in style,” Coote
says. “We have yachts from 80 feet up to 400 feet, with
sailing yachts, explorer yachts, classic yachts, motor yachts.”
All of this is reflected in the type of people who want to charter
yachts—and how they want to charter them. Again, Coote sees a
wide variation in what people are looking for, particularly in light
of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We can see different categories of
client emerging. We have those that are going to ‘stay away’—
that is, go as far away from everyone as possible, to take their
charter vessel to as remote a location as they could find.
We have those who want to stay close—U.S. clients staying
within U.S. waters, people who are happy to hop across the
country to go to New England or California but are not going
to travel across the Atlantic. Interest in locations is changing.”
MOSTLY, AT LEAST. The traditional destinations—the Mediterranean
in the summer, the Caribbean in the winter—still have their
advocates. “There are also those who were going to have their
summer holiday in Greece, come what may,” says Coote, but
chartering is also helping to foster and enable a spirit of adventure.
“There’s a sort of bucket list mentality at the moment,” he
continues. “People are thinking, ‘Given that we don’t know what
the future holds, let’s just go and do some fun things now. Let’s go
to see the polar bears. Let’s go and visit the Galápagos Islands. Let’s
do those three weeks in Bali we talked about before and have never
done. Let’s take the kids around the Pacific islands and introduce
them to local cultures.’ We’ve got a lot of clients wanting to do
this and wanting to do fairly lengthy charters. I think they’ve been
holding back for years, but there is a mindset of ‘If not now, when?’”
In the current climate, putting together the sort of multidestination
itineraries that charter yachting does so well can be
something of a logistical nightmare, but it is one that Northrop &
Johnson is well qualified to deal with, particularly in association
with a private jet company such as NetJets. Commercial airlines
are unavailable, unreliable, or simply undesirable for those who
seek privacy and exclusivity, meaning that “those with access
to private jets have had a much wider opportunity to get to the
yacht themselves,” Coote explains. “It’s not just flying to the
FBO [fixed-based operator airport] that is closest to the yacht.
You can actually fly to the FBO, step straight onto a helicopter,
and in many cases then fly the helicopter straight onto the
yacht deck. A lot of larger vessels will have heli-capability.”
The side-by-side nature of Northrop & Johnson and NetJets
is also demonstrated in the absolute dedication to safety and
security. Always a priority, this dedication has never been
more crucial than in the time of COVID-19, and Northrop &
Johnson’s attention to detail is second to none. The approach
has three parts: First is ensuring the cleanliness of the yacht,
from deep cleaning to hand hygiene, and strict protocols
regarding food, supplies, cutlery, and glassware. Secondly, the
firm prepares and provisions for specific guests, a process that
includes a confidential pre-charter questionnaire on their health
before embarking, plentiful medical provisions and personal
protective equipment on board, and a comprehensive safety
briefing at the beginning of the charter. Finally, the captain and
the crew themselves are advised to undergo rigorous health
monitoring and to take every precaution with their health
and well-being. On top of this is a constant monitoring of
local regulations to ensure as smooth a journey as possible.
All yacht charters involve substantial planning, so trips at the
moment are, in a sense, just an extension of Northrop & Johnson’s
expertise. Perhaps counterintuitively, this might be a better time than
most to discover what the firm has to offer. northropandjohnson.com
“People are thinking, ‘Given that we don’t
know what the future holds, let’s just go
and do some fun things now.’”
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VINTAGE WHEELS
An electrified Porsche 911
from Voitures Extravert.
MARTIJN VAN DIJK
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Modifying classic cars with electric engines makes
traditionalists’ heads spin—but it might just be the key
to the future of automobiles. // By Will Hersey
WHAT’S
OLD IS
NEW AGAIN
TWO CURRENT TRENDS in car ownership are converging to
create a rapidly growing microniche—electrified classic
cars. On one side is the existing predilection for modernizing
classic vehicles to make them more comfortable and
usable, which is known as “restomodding” and until
recently has focused primarily on restoring or upgrading
petrol engine models.
Meanwhile, as more and more car buyers become
actively interested in taking the plunge with an electric
vehicle (EV) of their own, the options for electrics under
the hood are expanding at an almost exponential pace.
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ON THE CHARGE
Electric GT’s battery-based
engines for classic cars are
part of a growing trend.
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As these two trends dovetail, demand has risen for electrifying
vintage models, requiring the guts of the original car to be hauled
out and replaced with a modern electric powertrain.
While such a procedure might have more traditional car enthusiasts
feeling unsteady on their feet, the advantages are numerous for an
emerging customer who sees things a little differently.
THE FIRST OBVIOUS BENEFIT is reliability. Where vintage cars require
time, money, and patience to keep them on the road, good electric
systems need very little maintenance, and if any problems do arise
they can be diagnosed almost immediately.
This in itself is attracting existing classic car drivers and
completely new converts. “They’re typically in their 40s and 50s
and might already own a Porsche or similar classic but want to
drive it around regularly,” says Martijn van Dijk of Voitures Extravert
(voitures-extravert.com), a Dutch operation that specializes in
electrified Porsche 911s from the 1960s and 1980s.
“[Buyers are even] people who would never otherwise buy these
vulnerable classics for fear of sitting by the roadside in the dark
when they break down.” His company is focused on the 911 partly
because of its good supply but also because of its enduring appeal.
Each “Quintessenza,” as they’re called, is delivered to a very high
finish using original specifications alongside modern details such
as seat warmers and electric windows.
Another firm similarly going all-in on a specific model that it
knows will be popular is AC Cars (accars.eu), in this case, the
classic curvy silhouette of the 1962 AC Cobra, which manages
to combine American muscle car attitude with English opentop
elegance. Fifty-eight of these Series 1 Electric models
are available to order, at a base price of £138,000 (about
$177,000).
MAX EAREY, MAGDA WOSINSKA
THE CARS PRESENT very attractive options for those who love the
look and feel of classic cars and might not have the know-how, or
who may have a nostalgic affection for a car they grew up with and
now suddenly have an accessible route to owning one. Another
big pull, of course, is speed—pull being the operative word. The
instant torque provided by electric power means they will almost
always outrun their original counterpart and only adds to the sheer
enjoyment of cruising around in a characterful classic. Where
vintage cars can be difficult to drive, so these electric conversions
are remarkably easy.
In the U.K. Ionic Cars (ioniccars.com) offers a bespoke
treatment for converting any classic car you want. Its calling card
is a beautiful Mercedes-Benz W113 SL “Pagoda,” which upgrades
12hp onto the original power output and shaves 1.8 seconds off
its 0–62 mph time.
To some, such treatment of a highly prized classic is sacrilege,
of course, and they probably won’t be convinced otherwise. For
those who are still in two minds, Ionic and other operators are
quick to assure that their procedure is completely reversible. Ionic
even offers customers the option of storing the original and now
unused combustion engine in a Perspex coffee table for you to have
on show like a museum relic. Which isn’t too far from the truth.
A car of similarly rarefied status that also promises the reversible
treatment is the 1970 Aston Martin DB6 Mk II Volante, this
time engineered in-house by the team at Aston Martin Works
(astonmartin.com), which has deployed an innovative “cassette”
STAR CARS
From top: the Aston Martin
DB6 electric concept; Zelectric’s
all-electric VW Karmann Ghia.
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The prospects of zero emissions and
relatively guilt-free driving combine to make
an increasingly viable case for going electric.
© EVERRATI
EV powertrain that sits on top of the original gearbox and engine
mountings. Intended as a proof of concept, the option is now
available for any classic car owner to take advantage of for “futureproofing”
their prized asset, for a time perhaps when driving petrol
cars may not even be legal. And according to Paul Spires, president
of Aston Martin Works, “We also foresee collectors adding another
dimension to their collection by commissioning EV-converted
heritage cars.”
If the Aston Martin comes at a price upwards of £1.3M
($1.7M), London Electric Cars (londonelectriccars.com) operates
at the more accessible end of the market—and deliberately so as
its plans are more wide-ranging. At its core, the firm sees electric
car conversions as an essential component in a sustainable future,
by avoiding sending millions of old cars to landfill. Its portfolio
includes old Minis and Morris Minors but confidently asserts that
any car can be converted.
AS INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVES and government policy continues to
incentivize, the prospects of zero emissions and relatively guiltfree
driving combine to make an increasingly viable case for going
electric. And vintage electric offers something genuinely unique—
which is more than you can say for a Tesla.
It’s no surprise that it’s in California—the unofficial home of both
the electric car industry and the restomod scene—that a host of
electric conversion specialists are offering the full gamut of services.
Zelectric (zelectricmotors.com) specializes in Porsches and VWs
ICONIC IONIC
The British firm’s fully
restored Mercedes-Benz
W113 SL “Pagoda.”
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IN GEAR
partly because of the plentiful supply of parts. The models include
an original open-top Beetle and a 1964 VW Type 2 Microbus for
maximum Cali-appeal, which is somehow only enhanced by the
zero-emissions powertrain. In comes a new transmission, brakes,
suspension, and interior refurb—alongside the biggest change of
all, those lithium-ion phosphate batteries. Cars that might have
otherwise been frustratingly slow and temperamental are given a
new lease of life.
Manufacturers themselves are starting to bang the drum too.
VW of America commissioned EV West (evwest.com) to convert
a 1972 Microbus to show off the capabilities of a modern electric
engine—taken from a 2017 e-Golf. The result was a van with twice
the power and a usable range of 125 miles. Inside, a digital EV
gauge on the dashboard, designed in authentic analog style, is the
only discernible nod to its new power source.
In L.A., Electric GT (electricgt.com) is doing something a little
different: The team has developed an off-the-shelf “crate” motor that
can be supplied to car shops or even enthusiastic amateurs to convert
any pre-1990 car in roughly 50 man-hours. “People are calling up
the guy that fixes up their custom-built icon 4x4 and asking, ‘What’s
your electric option?’” says co-founder Eric Hutchison. “It absolutely
opens up the field to take a classic car that you want to drive more
for the style, and makes it super usable.”
Another L.A.-based purveyor, Zero Labs (zerolabs.com),
whose HQ isn’t far from Tesla’s, is taking a super-modern startup
approach, deploying artists and specialist designers in trendy
workshops to create incredibly high-spec finishes for its 150
electrified Ford Broncos ($185K), whose blocky, 1970s design has
found new appreciation from a fashionable, modern audience. The
result is a car that manages to be a proficient off-roader, luxury allrounder,
eco-conscious lifestyle choice, and design-led headturner
all in one. Those who still think electrifying vintage cars is a crime
against automobiles might do well to consider whether this may
be the way to keep car culture alive.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
A converted Fiat 124
Spider from Electric GT.
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SEVENTIES REVIVAL
Zero Labs’ reworked and
refurbished Ford Bronco.
DREW PHILLIPS
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BEYOND
THE
EXTREME
MIKE STONER
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Despite its experts-only reputation, Alaska’s legendary heli-ski
scene has more to offer than spine-tingling steeps. // By Jen Murphy
SPLENDID ISOLATION
Visitors to the stunning
Chugach Mountains, after
being transported there by
Valdez Heli-Ski Guides.
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WITH BIG MOUNTAINS, BIG LINES, steep slopes, and deep snow, it’s
no wonder Alaska is the backdrop for so many extreme ski movies.
Award-winning adrenaline filmmaker Teton Gravity Research
(TGR) shot its acclaimed 2019 ski documentary “Winterland” in
seven different international locations. While the powder scenes
filmed in Norway, Austria, and Canada were epic, it was the
segment deep in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains that underscored
why heli-skiing in the state is on a whole other playing field.
The scene begins with pro skier and 2008 Freeride World
Champion Elyse Saugstad exiting the chopper onto a heartstopping
peak and proclaiming, “I’m stepping into the steepest,
biggest, gnarliest terrain I’ve ever stepped into in my life.” She
describes Alaska as both her favorite place in the world to ski
and the place that terrifies her the most. Minutes later, her ski
partner, free skier Angel Collinson, clips a rock at the top of a line
and tumbles down a 1,000-foot mountain face, miraculously
escaping with nothing more serious than a knee injury.
Tucker Patton, owner of Triple Point Expeditions, the Palmer,
Alaska-based heli-outfitter that flew the athletes, admits he
sometimes regrets shooting “Winterland” because it portrays the
extreme reputation that has become synonymous with Alaska heliskiing.
To think all of Alaska is what you see in TGR and Warren
Miller movies is to believe all of New York state is as intense as New
York City. Alaska’s Chugach range is vast—about 14,691 square
miles. Only its most gravity-defying lines get showcased in the
media. “It’s a disservice no one ever films the endless cruiser runs,”
says Chris Davenport, a two-time world champion skier. “People
think Alaska only offers spines and steeps. The reality is that there’s
as much introductory heli-ski terrain as there is crazy terrain.”
DAVENPORT BUILT HIS BIG mountain career in Alaska in the 1990s.
Back then, the Chugach range was truly a wild west for powderobsessed
adrenaline junkies. But 30 years later, those neon-clad
HEAD FOR THE HEIGHTS
Triple Point Expeditions
transports intrepid skiers to
some of the most exhilarating
runs in the Chugach range.
TUCKER PATTON/TRIPLE POINT EXPEDITIONS
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hot doggers have matured into some of the most knowledgeable,
highly respected ski guides and helicopter pilots on the planet. And
they excel at finding terrain to match their clients’ goals and abilities.
“When I started everyone wanted the apex,” says Kirsten Kremer,
who has been guiding with Valdez Heli-Ski Guides (VHSG), the
pioneer of commercial heli-skiing in Alaska, since 1997. “But if your
comfort level is blue and green runs, that’s where we’ll take you.”
When Kevin Quinn started Points North Heli-Adventures in
Cordova in 1998, he wanted to show people that between the gnarly
lines was terrain mellow enough for his 4-year-old daughter to ski.
“For decades the movies and magazines have made Alaska out to
be this scary place, and it can be if that’s what you’re looking for,”
says his wife and business partner, Jessica Quinn. A lot of guests
arrive scared, she says. The “whop, whop, whop” of the helicopter
rotors only adds to the intimidation factor. But just because James
Bond jumps out of a helicopter on skis doesn’t mean you do. (The
helicopter always lands. You safely step out. The chopper scoops
you up at the bottom of your run.) “Hollywood has its own version
of heli-skiing,” she says. “People forget the point of the helicopter is
to access perfect terrain—that includes glaciers and powder bowls.”
OVER THE YEARS, more operators have followed the Quinns’ lead and
are dropping their extreme façade and instead promoting Alaska’s
accessibility. And in the age of COVID-19, a heli-trip to remote
Alaska is the perfect prescription for a pandemic ski vacation. Why
deal with lift lines and resort reservations or the crowds in the
backcountry when you and your pod of ski pals can take lap after
lap of totally untracked powder? No operator has done more to
cater to a new clientele than Jeff Fraser. When the former tech
executive bought Tsaina Lodge in 2011, he ushered in a new
era and bulldozed what was widely regarded as the birthplace
of Alaska’s freeskiing scene. The no-frills lodge where rowdy
ski bums could grab $1 beers after hitching a $15 Super Cub
airplane drop atop harrowing peaks is now a 24-room boutique
stay. And after Fraser purchased VHSG in 2018, those helidrops
now cost guests between $500 to nearly $5,000 per day.
When Fraser purchased VHSG he got rid of the “experts
only” warnings on the website and instead touted, “any skier
who is confident in-bounds at a ski resort can have a world
of fun at VHSG. We’ve got more blue and black runs than
any dozen resorts in North America put together, and ours
are always covered in fresh snow.” He is clear that this isn’t
terrain for beginners or first-time powder skiers. But if you’re
confident shredding six inches of powder top-to-bottom on a run
at Alta or Jackson, he promises the trip of your life in Valdez.
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ALL DOWNHILL
The Chugach range has a
seemingly endless number
of descents to take on.
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“Hollywood has its own version of
heli-skiing. People forget the point of
the helicopter is to access perfect terrain—
that includes glaciers and powder bowls.”
MIKE STONER
Fraser admits, however, that most of his guests still pay for the
steeps. It has taken some serious marketing to convince competent
resort skiers they can hold their own in a place known for 3,500-foot
descents and 40-degree pitches. Tsaina Lodge is set atop Thompson
Pass, a gap in the Chugach that averages over 500 inches of snow
annually. Located by the coast, just northeast of Valdez, the area is
blessed with a maritime snowpack that clings to near-vertical ridges,
providing skiers unfathomable stability. And freezing temperatures
transform that heavy maritime snow into pillowy powder.
“It’s initially intimidating as hell,” says VHSG client Doug George.
A resident of Jackson Hole, George is a seasoned skier of steeps.
“When you’re on a 40-plus degree slope with that much snow, you
expect it to give way any minute and slide. But the snowpack is
different. It takes time to trust, but the guides give you 100% peace
BIRD’S-EYE VIEW
The journey to the slopes
can be as spectacular as
the skiing itself.
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of mind. They know what they’re doing and can dial it up or down
depending on what you’re ready to handle mentally and physically.”
VHSG’S 4-1 CLIENT-TO-GUIDE ratio also helps ensure you’re skiing
the runs you came for. Fraser prides his team on their ability
to progress Alaska newbies. “Medium-level skiers start out on
comfortable terrain and think each day is their best day ever,” he
says. “By the end of the week they are skiing stuff they never
thought they could.” With 3,600 square miles in Tsaina’s backyard,
the ideal run for almost every client is a short flight away. And
when the weather outside the window doesn’t cooperate, VHSG
has some 10,000 square miles of the Chugach in its permit area.
George has also heli-skied in Haines and Cordova but says
what Fraser offers stands apart for its experienced guides and slope
progression as well as its five-star service. “Luxury in Alaska is
different from luxury in St. Moritz or Aspen,” George says. “Alaska
is really remote, but Tsaina still flies in the best wine for its cellar
and just-caught fish for a sushi dinner.” And after a refresh last
year, it’s hands-down the cushiest base in the Chugach, complete
with a cigar room, gym, spa, Wi-Fi, and restaurant that serves
wagyu steak and Alaskan king crab legs. With a smile, Fraser says,
“We want to be the experience of a lifetime on and off the slopes.”
WHITE WONDER
The attraction of skiing in Alaska lies
partly in the untouched snow on its
picture-perfect slopes.
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Reaching the most extreme
slopes of the Chugach range
is only possible by helicopter.
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TICKING OVER
Captured in ice, this year’s finest timepieces radiate glacial chic.
// Photography by Xavier Young Production by Elisa Vallata
FROZEN
IN TIME

Above:
Facing page, from top:
AUDEMARS PIGUET
ROYAL OAK SELFWINDING
34 mm stainless steel
case, pink gold bezel,
silver-toned dial with
“Grande Tapisserie”
pattern, and date
window.
OMEGA CONSTELLATION
CO-AXIAL MASTER
CHRONOMETER 29 mm
Sedna gold and stainless
steel case, diamond-set
bezel, and sun-brushed
brown dial set with
diamonds.
ZENITH DEFY MIDNIGHT
36 mm stainless steel
case and gradient
blue dial both set
with diamonds, selfwinding
movement, date
window, and stainless
steel bracelet.
A. LANGE & SÖHNE
ODYSSEUS 40.5 mm
stainless steel case,
dark-blue dial, selfwinding
movement,
date and day-of-week
displays, and stainless
steel bracelet.
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Above, from top:
Facing page, from top:
CHOPARD ALPINE EAGLE
41 mm ethical rose
gold case, diamond-set
bezel, and Bernina gray
brass-stamped dial with
sunburst pattern.
BREGUET MARINE ALARME
MUSICALE 5547
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GREAT DANES
Two-Michelin-star chef Rasmus Munk,
center, has teamed up with JunkFood
manager Jeanette Duus and volunteer
chef Kåre Gottfredsen in kitchens
across Copenhagen, right, to provide
meals for those in extreme need.
SOREN GAMMELMARK
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Chefs across the globe have responded to the pandemic with
community outreach, and the results have been heartwarming.
// By Lisa Abend
FRIENDS
IN
NEED
RASMUS MUNK MIGHT HAVE two Michelin stars
and one of Copenhagen’s hottest restaurants, but
faced with the daunting prospect of making 200
tarteletter—the classic Danish tart fi lled with
chicken and asparagus—by himself, he admits
he felt a bit panicked. Two days after the Danish
government ordered restaurants to close in an
effort to stop the spread of coronavirus, the chef
of Alchemist reached out to Copenhagen city
leaders, offering to turn his now-idle restaurant
into a production kitchen that would prepare
meals for the city’s less fortunate. Under the terms
of Denmark’s aid package, he had been required
to furlough his staff, but he fi gured that in the
time it would take for the municipal government
to reach a decision, he could recruit other laid-off
chefs as volunteers. To his surprise, however, the
deputy mayor got back to him right away, with a
request for 200 meals the following day. “I said,
‘Sure,’” says Munk. “Even though it meant I had
to shop, cook, and deliver them by myself. So that
was a little stressful. But it was worth it.”
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If anything heartening has come out of
the COVID-19 pandemic, it is the widespread
effort of chefs—most of them forced to close
their restaurants or lay off staff at least
temporarily—to take care of their communities.
The initiatives have come from the leaders of
restaurants around the world and at all levels of
the food chain, from the humblest burger joint
to the starriest of fine dining. Together, they’ve
helped eased the crisis for all kinds of people,
from fellow restaurant workers, to hospital
staff, to the unemployed to—as in Munk’s
case—the homeless and drug addicted.
The outreach is all the more remarkable
for its origins in an industry that has been
among the hardest hit economically. Globally,
the restaurant industry is expected to lose
$600 billion in 2020, a 25–30% loss over
the previous year, according to food service
consultancy Technomic, and millions of
restaurant workers have lost their jobs—more
than 5 million in the U.S. alone.
“That’s what hospitality is about,” explains
Ravinder Bhogal, chef and co-owner of
London’s Jikoni. “It’s about looking after people.
At the simplest level, if you cook it’s because
ultimately you want to nurture.”
SOON AFTER THE British government-mandated
restaurant closures, Bhogal realized she could
continue to nurture. “We were reading every day
about how under pressure health care workers
were,” she recalls. “I thought, we have a kitchen
that’s not in use, we should use it to help back
up our National Health Service.” Bhogal did
all the cooking herself, and her husband and
restaurant co-owner, Nadeem Lalani, did the
cleaning. Volunteer drivers delivered the food to
the hospital. “The response was amazing, and
we were massively touched by it,” she says.
“We had nurses writing us after they got home
from a 14-hour shift to say how comforting it
was to have one of our meals.”
Jikoni was not alone. From the very beginning
of the crisis, the hospitality industry has stepped
in to take care of those on the front line. After Fang
Zhongqin decided to use up ingredients in his
closed Chao Yue Xiang restaurant by cooking for
local hospitals, his chefs soon found themselves
preparing 1,300 meals a day for grateful medical
staff in Wuhan, China. Similar initiatives have
spread nearly as quickly as the virus itself, from
Han Li Guang Labyrinth in Singapore to Mauro
Colagreco’s top-ranked Mirazur in Menton,
GLOBAL VIEW
José Andrés founded World
Central Kitchen in 2010 and
has helped those suffering
from the earthquakes in Haiti
to the current pandemic.
France, to Pim Techamuanvivit’s Michelinstarred
Kin Khao in San Francisco. In Atlanta,
Feed the Frontline collects donations to purchase
meals from restaurants such as Linton Hopkins’
Holeman and Finch—an effort that not only raised
$800,000 and funded meals for 11,000 hospital
workers, police, and firefighters in its first week,
but also, over time, has created enough work for
those restaurants to be able to hire back some of
their furloughed staff.
OTHERS HAVE FOCUSED their energies on helping
the network that normally depends on them: the
farmers, fishers, and craftspeople who have seen
their own livelihoods imperiled by the abrupt
downturn in eating out. Determined to fulfill their
responsibility to producers and help them build
an alternative path to consumers, many chefs,
such as Dylan Watson-Brawn of Berlin’s Ernst,
Manoella Buffara of Brazil’s Manu, and Dylan
Jones and Bo Songvisava of Bangkok’s Bo.lan,
turned themselves into grocers of a sort, offering
boxes of the same high-quality vegetables, fish,
and eggs they buy directly to customers. Dan
Barber not only organized these fresh ingredients
into boxes (along with recipes for turning it all into
a delicious meal) that allowed him to continue
to support the farmers who normally supply his
Blue Hill restaurants in New York, but also helped
create Harvest Corps, which linked unemployed
hospitality workers with farms suffering labor
shortages due to COVID-19. “Small farms are the
ones you want to keep around,” he says. “But it’s
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“That’s what hospitality is about. At the
simplest level, if you cook it’s because
ultimately you want to nurture.” Ravinder Bhogal
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BIG APPLE, BIG HEART
Daniel Humm and his
team have turned New
York’s Eleven Madison Park
into a soup kitchen.
COURTESY ELEVEN MADISON PARK
an incredibly precarious time for them. If 30-40%
of them go, that’s a generational catastrophe.”
OF COURSE, the catastrophe extends to far more
than just farmers. Vulnerable populations have
been especially hard hit, which is why numerous
chefs have brought their restaurant experience—
and in some cases, their restaurants themselves—
to feed those in need. The initiatives span the
globe from Detroit, where Maxcel Hardy, chef and
owner of COOP Caribbean Fusion has prepared
some 20,000 meals for people living in the city’s
homeless shelters, to India, where Michelinstarred
Vikas Khanna has created a supply chain
that has brought 20 million meals to orphanages,
nursing homes, and poor families. But perhaps no
project represented as dramatic a transformation
as Daniel Humm, who turned his three Michelinstarred
Eleven Madison Park in New York, where
a meal for two cost $1,100, into a soup kitchen.
With private donations and the logistical help of
the organization Rethink, the pristinely elegant
restaurant began cooking for and distributing to
3,000 people a day, from front-line workers to
poor families. “I believe the storm is still coming,
and will be for some time,” Humm posted on
Instagram when he announced the program. “If
we can do just a little something, these dark days
can be just a bit brighter.”
If anyone has experience bringing light to grim
situations, it is José Andrés. The Spanish-born
chef behind several acclaimed restaurants in
Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and New York
started World Central Kitchen (WCK) in 2010 after
earthquakes devastated Haiti, and since then,
the organization has fed millions during times of
crisis that range from hurricanes in Puerto Rico to
Australian wildfires to an early coronavirus outbreak
on a cruise ship docked in Japan. As the pandemic
has worn on, WCK has ramped up its efforts to feed
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literally millions of people in cities as far-flung as
Miami, Lima, Little Rock, and Madrid. More than
$100 million of the organization’s funds have gone
just to purchase meals from independent restaurants
and distribute them to the needy—a measure that,
not incidentally, helps keep these small places in
business even as they serve their community.
“These days, my role is to rally the troops to make
sure that no person will be hungry, and to generate
ideas and back them up with actions, with boots on
the ground,” Andrés says. “We’re just doing what
we can to keep America and the world fed.”
OTHER CHEFS who have spent the pandemic caring
for others have also found themselves changed by
the experience. Although Jikoni, like other U.K.
restaurants, reopened its doors in July, Bhogal
still cooks a meal once a month for the local
charity Nishkam Swat. And six months after it
launched, JunkFood, the charitable program that
COUNTRY FARE
Chef Dan Barber of Blue Hill in
New York believes supporting
small local farms is vital for
the future.
Munk established in the early days of Denmark’s
lockdown, is still going strong.
After his tarteletter crisis, Munk was able to
recruit other volunteer chefs from some of the
city’s top restaurants to help him cook 400 meals
a day for the city’s homeless and drug addicted.
The director of the treatment center that receives
some of JunkFood’s meals notes that she’s seen
a marked reduction in disruptive or harmful
behavior among patients since they began
delivering, and that kind of result encouraged
Munk to keep going. Once Alchemist reopened
and he needed his own kitchen back, JunkFood
took over a public kitchen near the treatment
center and staffed it with student chefs from the
local culinary school. He is working now to expand
the program throughout Denmark. “It’s important
for me that it’s not just a COVID project,” Munk
says. “I just think it’s quite important to still try to
make a change in the world.”
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Rooted in its Californian terroir, BRAND is a
winery merging viticultural customs with tech
world disruptions. // By Cathy Huyghe
BREAKING
THE NAPA
MOLD
ADAM POTTS
IT’S BECOME A TROPE—or maybe a cliché—for the Silicon Valley tech
entrepreneur to turn into a Napa Valley winemaker. They are usually
quick to discover that grapes are not as easy to tweak as a few lines of
code, and so the vineyard turns into something like a vanity project.
Even though it did originate south of San Francisco and
migrate north, BRAND Napa Valley is something altogether
different. Co-owners Jim Bean and Christine O’Sullivan met
while working at Apple, but instead of making just another
wine, they are creating a new template for how the Silicon
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The sublime setting
of BRAND’s property
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Valley framework can integrate with Napa Valley’s traditions.
BRAND is situated at the top of Pritchard Hill, where cabernet
sauvignon grapes have long reigned supreme. Planting white
grapes—and ones that are not even chardonnay or sauvignon
blanc—seems cheeky, if not flat-out sacrilegious. That is
precisely what Bean and O’Sullivan were going for. Their Napa
Valley White Wine, a blend of Italian grapes ribolla gialla,
fiano, coda di volpe, and arneis, takes inspiration from a
lesson they learned while at Apple: do what others aren’t and
do it well. With only 150 cases produced, the wine channels
the versatility of sauvignon blanc and the texture and structure
of chardonnay without actually using either of those familiar
grapes. “Why should we have to choose between those two?”
Bean says. “It’s what we love about our white. It’s something
new that people really didn’t have. We continue to refine that.”
The typical style of wine in BRAND’s Napa neighborhood is
Bordeaux-style blends, which involve a combination of five grapes
from that world-renowned French region: cabernet sauvignon,
merlot, cabernet franc, malbec, and petit verdot. BRAND bucks
this trend as well with its red offerings: the Proprietary Blend
comprises only cabernet franc (65%) and cabernet sauvignon
(35%). Cabernet franc does fit within the Napa tradition, but
by highlighting it, the Proprietary Blend stands out from its
peers with a nod to emerging global trends toward a lighter,
less fruit-forward style—something exceedingly rare in the
Valley. The estate also produces their flagship 100% Cabernet
Sauvignon, which is a pure expression of Pritchard Hill terroir.
Something that is very apparent in their work is the personal
relationship that O’Sullivan and Bean have with the land and its
other residents. Investing in vineyard property in Napa wasn’t a
spur-of-the-moment decision: The couple started visiting Napa
in 1998 to regroup and re-energize from time at Apple. Then in
2001 they married at the Culinary Institute of America’s historic
winery facility in St Helena, and it was seven more years of
renting homes before, in 2008, they bought a weekend home
and made a “family label” vintage. They finally purchased
vineyards on the Valley floor in 2013, a full 15 years after first
making their way to the area. It took another six years of making
friends and inquiries—until 2019—before Ed and Deb Fitts
chose to sell their Pritchard Hill property to Bean and O’Sullivan.
This personal connection extends to the customers—something
that has become extra-relevant in recent months. Plenty of Napa
OPENING UP
Christine O’Sullivan and Jim Bean,
top left, owners of BRAND Napa Valley,
where private tours and tastings are
once again available.
wineries have pivoted into new operational and marketing territory
as a result of COVID-19 and the wildfires that devastated the region
this autumn. O’Sullivan and her team, thanks to their approach,
were able to simply pick up the phones and speak directly with
BRAND’s customers, starting with a simple “How are you?”
What they learned is that the BRAND community wanted
to give back in a meaningful way to first responders and
front-line personnel. So O’Sullivan created a program called
#FromBRANDwithLOVE: Participants purchase a $150 bottle
of BRAND’s BRIO red wine and a second of the same bottle
was gifted to a first responder of the participant’s choice,
along with a personalized message. So far that innovative
program has reached more than 20 states and 70 ZIP
codes around the country, reflecting the evolving definition
of “first responder” to now include grocery store workers
and moms who homeschool their kids during the pandemic.
With such strong personal relationships with so many of their
customers, Bean and O’Sullivan again zag by eschewing one
of the most prestigious hallmarks of a premium Napa winery:
its wine club mailing list, where a limited number of customers
are given first dibs to the winery’s exclusive offerings once
or twice a year. “We believe we need to earn your business
and your belief that BRAND continues to be what you want to
invest in,” O’Sullivan explains. “There’s a lot of integrity tied
to that, because we want to make sure that we are curating an
offering to people who wanted what they are receiving from us.”
Underlying this decision is a firm belief in the quality
of their wine and a focus on their product. “We learned
at Apple that nothing comes before having an amazing
product,” Bean said. “We hold ourselves very accountable
to making sure we’re making the best wine we can make.”
Bean and O’Sullivan see a common set of values between
BRAND and NetJets, in that neither business is trying to
be the biggest or make the most of their product. At NetJets,
Bean says, they’re trying to be an amazing experience for
people who appreciate traveling in the best and most flexible
way. “We want to attract that type of person to BRAND,” he
said. “They’re going to have a personalized, curated experience
when they get here, and we want them to really enjoy the
beauty of the place and the quality of the product.” And there
is absolutely nothing clichéd about that. brandnapavalley.com
“We learned at Apple that nothing comes
before having an amazing product. We
hold ourselves very accountable.”
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It’s undeniable that some urbanites have fled for the
countryside—whether permanently or temporarily—
but are the reports of the metropolis’s death greatly
exaggerated? // By Peter Swain
A REAL
LOOK AT
REAL ESTATE
JÖRN KASPUHL
IN EARLY SPRING, when the worst of the coronavirus
pandemic hit, “those owners who could, fl ed New York,
taking their kids and putting them in local schools,” says
Steven James of realtor Douglas Elliman in the Big Apple.
Decamping to their country houses on Long Island and in
Connecticut, Gothamites soon discovered, as did many
others, that thanks to superfast broadband and new online
security protocols, they could easily work from home.
“That doesn’t mean they’ve left forever, but until the health
situation is resolved, they won’t be back,” reckons James.
Manhattan over the summer was a shadow of its former
self, with restaurants, clubs, and theaters closed—ditto
Miami, L.A., London, and Paris. Underscoring the mantra that
work is a thing you do, not a place you go to, Jack Dorsey
of Twitter told his employees that most could work from
home indefi nitely, while PricewaterhouseCoopers suggested
the “majority” of its 22,000 U.K. staff would work remotely
even after the crisis has passed. Zoom’s stock price zoomed
upward. The question is: short-term reset or longer-range trend?
Sage observer of super-prime residential real estate
worldwide Hugo Thistlethwayte, of Savills in London, believes
the latter. “People have had the chance to refl ect on their entire
lifestyle, and many now want more space, bigger gardens,
closeness to the ‘great outdoors.’ They can run their business
remotely, work more fl exibly, and don’t need to commute
as much.” In California, real estate agent Cristal Clarke of
Berkshire Hathaway has seen sales of homes over $6 million
in Montecito, Santa Barbara County, shoot up 106% year over
year. “We’re getting people from L.A. and San Francisco who
want to leave the urban environment to be in a place that
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feels safe, that has beauty, greenery, and open space. A home
has become a key element in people’s lives—a sanctuary, in fact.”
American comedian Jerry Seinfeld, speaking for dedicated
urbanites everywhere, thinks the retreat is overblown. Writing in an
op-ed in The New York Times, he opined, “Attitude and personality
cannot be ‘remoted’ through even the best fiber optic lines. ... Real,
live, inspiring human energy exists when we coagulate together in
crazy places like New York City. ... And it will sure as hell be back.”
Time will tell, but current figures suggest, in the U.S., that urban
flight is gathering momentum. “The number of properties sold in
Manhattan fell by half this summer,” says Cheryl Young, a Zillow
senior economist. “People are leaving San Francisco too, with
double the number of homes available now compared with 2019.”
Meanwhile, Douglas Elliman reports sales of residences over $4
million in the Hamptons up by 135% in the 12 months to August,
and Palm Beach homes over $1 million are up 268%. As for Tahoe,
according to Justin Fichelson, CEO of residential real estate brokerage
Avenue 8, it “is having one of its hottest markets in a decade.”
THE SITUATION IN EUROPE, where travel restrictions have limited
international buyers, is more nuanced. “Traditionally, in prime
London, 70% of our buyers are looking to buy elsewhere in the
capital,” states Liam Bailey of Knight Frank. “Since May, that’s down
to 30%, so many people are now looking to move out of London.”
As a direct result, the U.K. country house market over £5 million is
seeing record levels of interest. At the top end, Paris prices are up
5.2% so far this year while Berlin is also buoyant—a key factor
is the German capital has so far handled the virus rather well.
Lombardy was hit much harder, and city dwellers in northern
Italy are on the move. “The Milanese are going as far as Como,
60 miles north,” reports Thistlethwayte. “And instead of a sleepy
holiday home, people now want to eat out in good restaurants three
times a week and work remotely—they want sophistication.” This
is a big theme emerging throughout Europe and North America—
rather than vacation properties for seasonal use, buyers want true
second homes where they can live and work full time, and “where
supermarkets and Amazon deliver.” So, in the Alps, Verbier, Gstaad,
and St. Moritz are in, while Tignes and Courchevel 1850 are out.
The same transformation from tourist to lifestyle economy is
happening in the U.S. Jackson Hole is booming, while sales in
Vail, Telluride, and Aspen are up 26% this year as city dwellers
start living the dream. “This event is a trigger—people who’ve
been on the fence are buying. Those who’ve been spending time
here for years are moving into bigger properties,” says Aspen
broker Tim Estin. Jay Parker, Douglas Elliman’s man in South
Florida, agrees that existing trends have been turbocharged
by the pandemic. “People are saying: If there’s ever a time to
move, do it now! Folks from high-tax states have been coming
down here forever, but now there’s an explosion in demand
from Boston, Chicago, and New York buyers wanting substantial
family homes on Palm Beach, Jupiter Island, and Delray Beach.
There’s a knock-on effect on restaurants and art galleries; privateschool
capacity is expanding, and a stronger philanthropic
base means more investment in hospitals.” It’s a win-win.
Remote working, a phenomenon that wasn’t technologically
possible even ten years ago, means that 90 miles out of the
city is the new 60. For London, “that brings in Wiltshire and
Norfolk,” says Andrew Perratt of Savills. “From Edinburgh, savvy
buyers can even buy a castle in Argyll.” It’s all about geoarbitrage:
moving to a place with a lower cost of living while keeping the
same level of income with a better lifestyle. The likes of Back-
Country Greenwich, Connecticut, is now on New Yorkers’ radar,
as is the Hudson Valley, where sales at Discovery Land’s latest
hyper-private gated community, Silo Ridge, are up 80% this year.
According to Kelly Hartzell, Discovery Land’s spokesperson, “A
lot of our New York owners have quarantined here. It’s a very
exclusive but still casual community, only 90 minutes from the
city.” The landscaping is stunning, amenities—featuring a Tom
Fazio golf course—are spectacular, and designer homes sit
on generous lots. Similar select communities, not only in the
U.S., but also in Europe, have become ever more desirable:
Terre Blanche in Provence; La Zagaleta, north of Marbella;
plus Wentworth and St. George’s Hill, both 20 minutes
from Heathrow. Proximity to an airport continues to be vital.
OF COURSE, FOR SOME, town or country isn’t a binary choice—
they can afford both. So, in London, buyers are returning to leafy
environs with family homes in Holland Park and Wimbledon,
while in New York the smart money is circling luxe developments
in which excess inventory is leading to price drops of 10%.
There’s jeopardy involved, but as Daniel Murray, an EFG Bank
economist, points out, “If you can afford to lose the money, you’ll
be happier to take the risk.” Robert Reffkin, Compass CEO, has
himself just bought in Manhattan. “You still have Broadway,
Central Park, and everything we love about NYC—we just
need to wait for a vaccine, and that’s only a matter of time.”
The initial reading of these crises is often too extreme—
after 9/11, many left NYC, then most returned. “Long-term
fundamentals are still important,” believes Flora Harley of Knight
Frank. “Our great metropolises are still innovation hubs with
vibrant centers, and that hasn’t changed.” There is undoubtedly a
move to the country, but the city is far from dead. It’s just resting.
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MIAMI’S
NEW MARVEL
The recently opened Rubell Museum
is a testament to the eponymous couple’s
lifelong love of art and their talent in spotting
the finest contemporary works.
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A PASSION FOR
COLLECTING
Mera and Don Rubell are art world aristocrats. They began collecting in New York in
1964 and over the past half-century have amassed one of the premier assemblages of
contemporary art in the world. Their approach—to visit artists in studios and develop
long-lasting relationships—was born out of necessity in the early years but has proved
to be prescient: Their collection now includes so many key works by totemic artists that
pieces are constantly rotating out on loan for exhibitions around the world. In 1993,
the Rubells bought an ex-Drug Enforcement Administration warehouse in the thenuntouchable
neighborhood of Wynwood in Miami with the intention of displaying their
pieces. The exhibitions were at their best during Miami Art Week (the Rubells were
instrumental in initiating Art Basel in Miami Beach), and the space soon acquired the
sheen of being one of the touchstones of contemporary art in America. Of course, the
Rubells didn’t stop collecting, and the new, much-expanded space for their collection—
now comprising more than 7,200 works—has been in the works for years. Located
less than a mile from the old one, the new museum is housed in six former industrial
buildings, which have been transformed into 40 galleries by Selldorf Architects, the
New York-based practice that specializes in art spaces (recent commissions include
the Chelsea galleries of both Hauser & Wirth and David Zwirner, as well as the coming
expansion of the Frick). Confidently minimalist, the Rubell Museum sprawls across a
100,000-square-foot campus, and in this notoriously fickle city is one address that will
never go out of style. rubellmuseum.org
P74-75
Don Rubell pauses to look at
Kehinde Wiley’s “Sleep” (2008),
left, and an untitled 1981 work
by Keith Haring, right.
P76-77
The inaugural installation
includes a survey of German
artists. In this room are
three paintings by Neo
Rauch, from left, “Das Neue”
(2003), “Demos” (2004), and
“Vorführung” (2006). A pair of
sculptures from Isa Genzken’s
2013 series, “Schauspieler”,
is also featured.
OPPOSITE
Amoako Boafo’s “Hudson in
a Baby Blue Suit” (2019).
ALL WORKS COURTESY OF RUBELL MUSEUM. P74-75: NICHOLAS VENEZIA, COURTESY OF SELLDORF ARCHITECTS; P76-77: CHI LAM; OPPOSITE: © RUBELL MUSEUM; P80-81: © CINDY SHERMAN; © JEFF KOONS STUDIO; © GLENN LIGON; © KERRY JAMES MARSHALL
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TOP ROW
From left: Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled
Film Still #21” (1978); Jeff Koons’
“New Hoover Deluxe Rug Shampooer”
(1979); Glenn Ligon’s “America” (2008).
BOTTOM ROW
An untitled, 12-panel work (1998-1999)
by Kerry James Marshall that stretches
more than 50 feet across the wall.
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THE LAST WORD
ANGELIQUE KERBER
The tennis star and NetJets Brand Ambassador on life off court
TRAVEL
Sun worshipper or thrill-seeker?
Long beach days mixed with the
occasional diving session are my way
to fully rewind and relax. I’ve been
fortunate enough to travel the world
as part of my job, but I’ve never
visited South Africa, which is why I
want to make a trip to Cape Town a
reality soon.
FOOD
Top names or hidden gems? Even
though I have the deepest respect
for the craftsmanship of Michelinstarred
restaurants, my passions
lie with little-known local treasures
that serve simple, fresh dishes.
Whereas a few years ago, I would be
very conservative with my choice of
restaurants while traveling on tour,
I have started to experiment a lot
more recently. I’m constantly seeking
out new recommendations from
friends and locals.
ARCHITECTURE
Classical or modern? That is a
tough question because I love
the architectural contrast of both
elements. Strolling around historical
European cities such as Rome and
Paris on a summer night is a magical
experience. But then again, the
modern architecture and skyline of
cities such as Singapore are full of
energy and inspiration.
ARTS
Still life or live performance? From
a packed Centre Court or a live
performance in a sold-out arena at a
concert, I’ve always been fascinated
by the dynamic of a crowd and the
interaction with the artist/athlete.
ENTERTAINMENT
Good book or big screen?
I have become more and more of
a book person. We spend so much
time digitally that sometimes it is
very relaxing to just take a book and
immerse yourself in it.
FUTURE PLANS
Media, coaching, or other ideas?
I am definitely investing more and
more thought in what I will be after
my active career in tennis. During
the lockdown I’ve used the time to
rebuild, renovate, and expand my
own tennis academy, the Angie
Kerber Academy. Besides, I’m proudly
involved in building up a new grass
court tennis tournament, with the help
of the All England Lawn Tennis Club,
in Bad Homburg, Germany.
ACCOMMODATION
Grandes dames, luxe design, or
eminently private? Throughout
the past few years I’ve spent on
average more time in hotels than at
home. To get a sense of coziness,
I prefer small, intimate hotels over
modern business facilities. Very
rarely—during Wimbledon, for
example—I do opt for a private
home.
JULIAN RENTZSCH
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