NETJETS US VOLUME 15 2021

ART ON THE VINE
The grape and the
grand come together
HUDSON REBORN
New York’s happy
and happening valley
A SENSE OF WELLNESS
Advice, apps, and more
for mindfulness matters
CHEF’S ODYSSEY
Daniel Boulud on
reinventing classics
THE NEXT STEP
One man’s quest
to travel to space

TAKING OFF
AS WE HEAD INTO FALL—a time that can be very busy at home and at work—all
of us at NetJets are rededicating ourselves to the idea of renewal.
We look forward to sharing with you some of the amazing features that our
editorial team put together. As hectic as this year has been for those of you
reading this, we all know how important it is to take a moment and reflect.
Perhaps that means you are taking a well-deserved trip to a favorite destination with your
family or finding time to begin that hobby you always said you never had time for. Or
maybe you are looking for ways to incorporate wellness into your everyday routine, as so
many of us are these days.
Our editors took an expansive look at all things running in the summer issue, and this
fall they investigate how e-bikes are allowing cyclists of different abilities the opportunity to
ride together for more meaningful experiences and exercise.
They find inspiration by visiting the French apple brandy region of Calvados where two
elements—craft spirits and cider—collide to produce a seasonal liquor for the senses.
Then they report from the Hudson Valley, where there are freshly unveiled hostelries,
restaurants, and attractions popping up in every conceivable corner.
Some of my favorites in this issue are the lifestyle features, where you’ll read about
Alaska native John Shoffner, who is training to fly Axiom’s Ax-2 mission for an eight-day
stay on the International Space Station; and the team connects with William Chase to hear
what’s next for the Herefordshire, UK-based entrepreneur. Finally, we bring you all the
latest in NetJets news, travel tips, and information about our partners.
We hope you enjoy this edition of the magazine and wish you safe travels wherever they
may take you.
Only NetJets!
Adam Johnson
Chairman and CEO
C O N T R I B U T O R S
BILL KNOTT
The London-based
restaurateur and
food writer gets a
glimpse into the
world of Daniel
Boulud, the
towering creative
mind behind the
reinvention of a
Manhattan icon,
Le Pavillon, in
Updating the
Classics (page 64).
ELISA VALLATA
For Fit For a Queen
(page 60), the
Italian stylist and
fashion expert
has selected and
arranged some
of this season’s
most spectacular
jewels against
the backdrop of a
beautifully crafted
chessboard from
Purling London.
LARRY OLMSTED
An award-winning
golf author, the
American looks
at the legacy of
legendary course
designer Donald
Ross and gets an
insight into The
Glorious Restoration
(page 32) that’s
taken place at
North Carolina’s
Southern Pines.
JIM CLARKE
The well-traveled
wine and spirits
specialist ventures
from his New
York home to a
fascinating part of
France to catch up
on the developments
in Calvados and
discovers the Spirit
of Normandy (page
68) is enjoying its
time in the spotlight.
JOHN McNAMARA
Always eager for
assistance, the
managing editor
of NetJets, The
Magazine evaluates
the latest e-bikes
on the market and
how they ease travel
around town and
country—and do
so with style—in
Power to the Pedal
(page 48).
This symbol throughout the magazine denotes the nearest airport served by NetJets to the
story’s subject, with approximate distances in miles where applicable.
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CONTENTS
THROUGH THE MIST
“Massless Clouds Between
Sculpture and Life,” by
teamLab, page 74.
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36 42 64
THE BIOFUEL EQUATION
NetJets’ support of
sustainable aviation fuel is
a pointer to the future
pages 10-13
INTOXICATING BEAUTY
Vineyards are now cultural
showcases as art and wine
prove a perfect blend
pages 36-41
ALL THE RIGHT MOVES
The season’s most alluring
jewels shine against a
chessboard backdrop
pages 60-63
IN THE NEWS
A hideaway in North
Carolina, Rolls-Royce
advances, and more
pages 14-22
ALL IN THE MIND
A comprehensive guide
to taking charge of your
mental well-being
pages 42-47
NEW YORK DARLING
Daniel Boulud’s latest
venture in the Big Apple is
an old classic reimagined
pages 64-67
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NETJETS UPDATE
Travel concierges, fall travel,
staff in profi le, and hiring the
best pilots in the industry
pages 24-27
SPACE 2021
John Shoffner’s adventurepacked
life is to have an
extraterrestrial twist
pages 28-31
RESURRECTING ROSS
The revered golf course
designer’s Southern Pines
classic gets another start
pages 32-34
MOTOR ON
The increasing popularity
of e-bikes is producing a
plethora of exciting options
pages 48-51
UPSTATE UPGRADE
The Hudson Valley is in
bloom as new openings
add to its timeless charm
pages 52-59
A TASTE OF CALVADOS
Normandy’s local spirit is
being elevated by a fresh
generation of producers
pages 68-73
RETHINKING THE GALLERY
Miami’s Superblue offers
a very different type of
artistic experience
pages 74-81
THE LAST WORD
Entrepreneur William
Chase on how he enjoys
the finer things in life
page 82
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FALL 2021
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vineyards in Italy, France,
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GOODWILL
Fuel of the Future
Key in reducing carbon emissions, biofuels present
a bridge to a sustainable future for NetJets—and
for the aviation industry as a whole. // By Josh Sims
ISTOCK
“THE FACT IS THAT, right now and for the
foreseeable future, sustainable aviation
fuel is the best option for sustainability in
aviation,” says Bradley Ferrell who, in his
role as NetJets’ Executive Vice President
for Administrative Services, is keen to raise
awareness of a biofuel that is already making
a significant difference within the industry.
As sustainability becomes ever-more
important, with new innovations across every
industry, what’s perhaps most remarkable
about sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is that it
is already a proven technology, a biofuel made
out of everything from used cooking oil to nonfood
crops, from urban or agricultural waste
to algae, which can be blended with standard
aviation fuel in order to reduce the life-cycle
emissions by up to 80%, depending on how
the SAF is made and sourced.
By the CI, or carbon intensity, standard
applied by the GREET model (greenhouse
gases, regulated emissions and energy
use in transportation), Jet A—that’s
conventional aviation fuel—scores 89, while
SAF scores just 37.
For the moment, SAF, which undergoes
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AND ON THE GROUND
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GOODWILL
the same necessary safety certification as
any aviation fuel, accounts for less than one
percent of all airlines’ fuel consumption. But
it is a game changer, and this percentage is
set to grow across the globe. This is the case,
not least, because several countries have set
blending mandates for sustainable aviation
fuels, with the Netherlands, for example,
stating that 14 percent of its aviation fuel must
be sustainable by 2030.
“In time, the likes of electrically powered
aircraft—which for the time being haven’t
solved the issue of limited range—will become
a bigger part of the sustainability picture,”
explains Ferrell. “But what makes sustainable
aviation fuel so important is that you don’t
have to change the specifications of the aircraft
or their engines to use it. As the technology
is refined over coming years, the fuel is only
going to become more efficient to produce. And
the more SAF is adopted, the more prices will
be driven down more in line with Jet A.”
That’s why NetJets is getting ahead of the
curve in becoming not just a buyer of SAF—
in 2020 it purchased three million gallons
of it in partnership with global aeronautical
services network Signature Flight Support—
but also the first private aviation company
to go as far as taking a stake in the actual
production of SAF.
NETJETS HAS MADE a sizable investment in SAF
developer WasteFuel, committing both to
buy 100 million gallons of its fuel over the
next decade—“that’s a substantial portion of
our annual fuel usage under any scenario,”
stresses Ferrell —as well as partnering with
the company in the development and building
of biorefineries.
The first, in Manila, will come on line
within four years, which is a fairly quick
pace, given the need to acquire land and
build infrastructure, and the logistics of what
is a hugely complex system. The plan then
is to import its SAF into Los Angeles, in time
perhaps using ships powered by sustainable
marine fuels, so that the carbon reduction
is maintained from end to end of the supply
chain. The biggest hurdles to SAF’s uptake
right now are its comparative expense and the
fact that supply is limited.
“THAT’S WHY WE invested in WasteFuel,”
explains Ferrell. “Yes it gives us a competitive
advantage over the availability of SAF,
but the primary goal for us has been to drive
better prices by putting our own money in at
the front end, and because the more
biorefineries there are the easier the global
supply of SAF will become too.” That
means it’s something good not just for
NetJets, but for the wider aviation industry
too. “Of course,” Ferrell continues,
“it’s also the chance to be part of a new
growth business.”
Ferrell stresses that as a leader in the
aviation industry —and as a business that’s
been carbon neutral in Europe for a decade
now—it’s important NetJets encourages
relevant action on important issues.
“The fact is that when it comes to
reducing aviation’s carbon footprint, SAF is
the way to go,” says Ferrell. “And it’s going to
play a major role in the promotion of aviation
in the future too, building acceptance of
the idea that, yes, you can travel the world
without compromising on a commitment to
protecting the planet.”
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CLEAR SKIES AHEAD
Sustainable aviation fuel
is the way forward for a
greener future.
SHUTTERSTOCK
“In time, the likes of electrically powered
aircraft will become a bigger part of the
sustainability picture.”
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THE SMART GUIDE
A North Carolinian getaway, travel accessories,
mouthwatering spirits, Rolls-Royce-plus, and more—
herewith the best, the boldest, and the brightest.
SOUTHERN
COMFORT
The team behind Blackberry
Farm resort has breathed
new life into a beloved
North Carolina retreat.
FOR WELL OVER a century,
High Hampton has been the
annual vacation getaway
for generations of Southern
families. Tucked away in the
heart of North Carolina’s Blue
Ridge Mountains, 90 minutes
southwest of Asheville,
the historic resort oozes
childhood camp nostalgia
with its private 35-acre
lake, miles of hiking trails,
and bark-sided cottages.
Set across more than 1,400
acres near the Nantahala
National Forest, the property
is reminiscent of Adirondack
Great Camps and the National
Park lodges of the 1930s.
Long a Southern secret,
the inn is gaining national
attention after the team
behind Tennessee’s acclaimed
culinary retreat Blackberry
Farm recently helped oversee
a complete property refresh.
A National Register of
Historic Places designation
meant the Blackberry Farm
design team had to work
closely with the North Carolina
Historic Preservation Office to
update and enlarge the 12 inn
rooms, 40 cottage rooms, two
freestanding cottages, and rustic
log cabin. Much of the original
antique furniture was cleverly
repurposed (doors have found
new lives as coffee tables) and
stylish design touches include
bright vintage kantha quilts and
botanical-print cushions and
drapes. Longtime guests are
thrilled with modern updates like
spa-worthy bathrooms, central
heating, and soundproof walls.
The biggest improvement—
no surprise—is the food. A
run-of-the-mill dinner buffet has
been replaced with a high-touch
multicourse dining experience
inspired by Blackberry Farm.
Locally sourced dishes such
as green garlic gnocchi with
fava beans and preserved
lemon, and poached farm egg
with wilted pea tendrils and
country ham are served in
the reimagined Dining Room,
which looks out over Rock
Mountain. Be sure to save room
for decadent Southern desserts
like the chocolate cake with
caramel buttercream. The more
relaxed Tavern serves gussiedup
versions of comfort foods
like pizza and burgers for lunch.
There are plenty of
opportunities to work up an
appetite in the fresh Appalachian
air. Fall is prime time to explore
the 15 miles of trails, lined with
brilliantly hued maples, black
birches, and yellow poplars.
Golfers can tee off at the new
Tom Fazio-designed course.
And tennis and pickleball
courts have been added to
complement lake activities like
kayak and canoeing. Doing
absolutely nothing is also highly
acceptable: Parasol-topped
daybeds on the lawn and a
new six-room spa might even
encourage you to embrace a
long, lazy day.
highhampton.com
RUSTIC RESPITE
High Hampton embodies
the best of North Carolinian
rural hospitality.
© HIGH HAMPTON
ASHEVILLE REGIONAL AIRPORT: 49 miles
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WHEN THEY ASK WHERE YOU’RE FROM.
THE WORLD
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As one of the few international adventurers who live this incomparable lifestyle, you explore
each continent and sail every sea surrounded by unrivaled anticipatory luxury service on
the planet’s largest private residential yacht.
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THE SMART GUIDE
Club Corner
Spirits of great distinction, making
cocktails with class and art in a glass.
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3 4
5 6
7
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ALL IMAGES COURTESY THE COMPANIES
1 THE BROLLACH A tribute to the Craft Irish Whiskey founder Jay Bradley’s late father, just 661 bottles of rare double-distilled, single malt whiskey have been released.
craftirishwhiskey.com // 2 TALES OF THE MACALLAN VOLUME I Distilled in 1950 and bottled in 2021, this is a homage to Captain John Grant, the inspiration behind Macallan,
whose story is told in an accompanying book. themacallan.com // 3 BENROMACH 40 YEARS OLD The Speyside distillery has released just over 1,000 bottles of this rare single
malt that has spent four decades maturing in Oloroso sherry casks. benromach.com // 4 BOWMORE 27 YEARS OLD Part of the Timeless Series, the whiskymaker from Islay has its
distinguished product housed in a distinctive display box with a decorative hourglass. bowmore.com // 5 GLENLIVET 2004 Independent bottler Gordon & MacPhail has added three
new single malts from the Moray mainstay to its Connoisseurs Choice range, including this 16 year old, aged in refill bourbon barrels. gordonandmacphail.com // 6 THE MACALLAN
A NIGHT ON EARTH IN SCOTLAND A single malt with which to bring in the New Year, the Speyside distillery honors aspects of Caledonia’s most treasured evening of celebration.
themacallan.com // 7 HIGHLAND PARK CASK STRENGTH The second release in the “straight from the cask’ series is whisky in its purest form, with no water added after maturation,
delivering a robust and intense flavor. highlandparkwhisky.com // 8 VECCHIA ROMAGNA RISERVA ANNIVERSARIO A blend of five different casks and a product of 200 years of
expertise, this Italian brandy comes in individually numbered crystal decanters. vecchiaromagna.it // 9 THE YAMAZAKI 25 A novel mix of single malt whiskies, marks a new direction
for the collectable Japanese brand, led by the fifth-generation chief blender Shinji Fukuyo. suntory.com
SHAKE IT
ALL ABOUT
Mixology comes home as
Italian design firm Alessi has
teamed up with world-renowned
mixologist Oscar Quagliarini to
create five different stainless
steel mixing kits, including North
Tide, left, which comprises
cocktail measure, bottle opener,
ice bucket, and ice tongs, along
with an “870” shaker designed
by Luigi Massoni and Carlo
Mazzeri in the 1950s. alessi.com
ARTISTIC TOUCH French cognac brand Rome De Bellegarde
continues to reinvent its luxe liquor, including a release of
150 decanters designed by Iranian artist Ghass Rouzkhosh.
romedebellegarde.com
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THE SMART GUIDE
Always moving, Rolls-Royce has never been
busier as it finds handsome ways to a new
spin to its classic cars.
OPENING UP
The Rolls-Royce
Boat Tail shows off
its cantilever trunk.
© ROLLS-ROYCE
Making of
a Marque
IT’S A SIGN OF THE standing
of Rolls-Royce that as
spectacular as its recent
models have been—think
of its “baby Roller” Ghost
model from last year, or the
attention-grabbing Black
Badge limited edition from
earlier this year—it’s not just
the big releases that really
make the marque. And so
Rolls-Royce’s innovators are
ever looking at different ways
to enhance the experience
of owning the world’s most
iconic automobile.
Nautical Nous
Inspired by J-class yachts,
the Rolls-Royce Boat Tail—of
which just three have been
made so far—does little to
hide its seafaring roots, but
the grand tourer, a product of
the company’s coachbuilding
workshop, has some secrets
within the undoubtedly
sleek design. At the touch
of a button the rear of the
car opens in a cantilever
movement—supposedly
inspired by Spanish architect
Santiago Calatrava. The
bounty is within, as the
trunk contains a champagne
chest, two bottles of Armand
de Brignac vintage cuvée,
caviar, and blinis. For perfect
moments of relaxation, two
cocktail tables open on
either side of the deck, with
accompanying picnic stools.
A Matter of Time
The Boat Tail is also home
to one of the most stunning
collaborations that Rolls-
Royce has been involved
in—with Swiss watchmakers
Bovet 1822. What appear
to be an unusual two
clocks in the fascia of
the Boat Tail, are, in fact,
removable watches. The
pair of reversible tourbillon
timepieces are both designed
to be worn on the wrist, used
as a table clock, pendant, or
pocket timepiece, when they
don’t take their place in the
dashboard. Both watches
have specially designed
18K white gold cases and
feature matching front dials
with the same Caleidolegno
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veneer found on the aft deck of
Boat Tail itself. The gentleman’s
timepiece is highly polished;
the lady’s is ornately engraved
then filled with blue lacquer,
with great effort—and teamwork
between Rolls-Royce and
Bovet—to get a precise color
match between this lacquer and
that of the car.
Escape to the Country
Rolls-Royce’s bespoke services
have also stepped up a gear
recently, epitomized by the
Cullinan, its take on the SUV.
At the heart of its “Celebration
of Sporting and Country
Pursuits,” the Cullinan has a
range of options for enhancing
a trip out of the city including
the Recreation Module, a
© ROLLS-ROYCE
motorized drawer cassette that
appears at the touch of the
button, offering the perfect
paraphernalia for a day out.
And Bags More…
Proving that it is about more
than the motors, Rolls-Royce
also has a luxury luggage
range to complement its
cars—a range that has
recently taken a different
turn with the Black Badge
variant to its Escapism range.
Comprising a 48hr weekender,
24hr weekender, holdall, tote
bag, and organizer pouch,
the leather collection reflects
the “darker, edgier personas”
of the Black Badge cars —the
Cullinan, Wraith, and Dawn.
rolls-roycemotorcars.com
IN BLOOM
FOR HIS FIRST MUSEUM exhibition in France, the
one-time enfant terrible of British art Damien
Hirst has opted for the rather calming subject
of cherry blossoms. The Fondation Cartier
pour l’art contemporain hosts 30 large format
paintings. It’s an intriguing mix of master and
subject, but as Hirst explains, “The cherry
blossoms are about beauty and life and death.
They’re extreme—there’s something almost tacky
about them. Like Jackson Pollock twisted by
love.” All 107 paintings in the series, which took
the artist three years to complete, are available
in an accompanying book. Until 2 Jan 2022;
fondationcartier.com
© ROLLS-ROYCE
DRIVE TIME
Bovet 1822’s timepiece
for the Boat Tail;
above: the Cullinan’s
Recreation Module.
© DAMIEN HIRST AND SCIENCE LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, DACS 2020
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THE SMART GUIDE
At the Wheel
Whether it’s taking to the open road or enjoying a guided tour, the
options for exploration are increasingly decadent.
SPORT BUT NOT
AS WE KNOW IT
ALL ABOUT
THE STYLE
© ARES
IF THE MILWAUKEE manufacturer of iconic motorcycles
has a particular reputation, then Harley-Davidson is
doing much to change that—and its latest release
certainly does challenge preconceptions. The
Sportster S is certainly different to what has come
before it, both as an HD bike and in the sportster
genre. Visually, there is no doubting this is a very
modern bike, but the devil is in the detail, in this case
a new engine (a Revolution Max 1250T V-Twin) and a
flurry of technical innovations. Sport, Road, and Rain
riding modes lead the way, while a sat-nav screen and
smartphone integrations follow. Performance-wise, it
is also a step up on previous iterations—and a bike
that truly shows its best on wide-open roads. harleydavidson.com
IT’S NO LONGER ENOUGH for high-end hotels and
entertainment venues to simply ferry their guests
around in ordinary vehicles—something special is
required. That’s why the Billionaire Life, whose portfolio
includes properties in Porto Cervo, Dubai, Monaco,
and Riyadh, has teamed up with Ares, the Italian
coachbuilder, which has delivered a fleet of individually
built ARES for Land Rover Defender Spec 1.2
Cabriolets. Each of these vehicles sports a remarkable
level of customization with features hand-crafted in
Ares’ Modena atelier. Every one of the Defenders’ livery
and style mirrors the color palettes and trims of the
various venues (such as Cipriani in Monaco, above)
and will offer a bespoke VIP service to Billionaire Life’s
guests. aresdesign.com
CLUTCH STUDIOS
VISION VIRTUOSITY
MARK COCKSEDGE
Iconic designer Marc Newson has joined forces with
Austrian crystal expert Swarovski to produce the CL Curio
7x21, light and compact binoculars that promise a higher
level of intensity and clarity. swarovski.com
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If you’re sipping Tito’s,

THE SMART GUIDE
On the Move
Travel in style with luggage and accessories that
prove function and form need not be strangers.
THE GAME
IS AFOOT
FOLLOWING ITS BELGIAN FOUNDER Georges Nagelmacker’s
dream of Orient Express being more than a way of
getting from A to Z, the Steam Dream collection of
travel objects is a series of accessories from the famed
company that elevates the travel experience. As the
remarkable interiors of the carriages are adorned
with fi ne marquetry and exceptional gold work, so
the creations of 18 craft houses and designers are
designed by singular talents and honed to perfection.
Among those contributing to the collection are such
diverse companies as Danish electronics company
Bang & Olufsen, French malletier Au Départ, Smythson,
London-based purveyors of high-end stationery, and
Hector Saxe, the Parisian creators of unique designer
games, whose mahjong trunk is pictured here.
orient-express.com
QUITE THE
CARRY-ONS
New world, new luggage—a pair of the
fi nest case makers has released exceptional
luggage for the modern traveler. The 19
Degree international expandable 4-wheeled
carry-on from TUMI (tumi.com;
below left) is made from recycled
polycarbonate. Carl Friedrik’s
Carry-On (carlfriedrik.com, right)
features large zip compartments
and compression straps to keep
essentials in order.
ALL IMAGES COURTESY THE COMPANIES
METAL MAGIC
Available in either silver (left) or black, the latest Rimowa
Personal Cross-body Clutch Bag, with a removable
leather strap, features two open compartments, a zipped
pocket, three slots for cards, and updates the previous
polycarbonate model to aluminum. rimowa.com
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Riviera living redefined
on the shores of Boka Bay.
BRANDED RESIDENCES AVAILABLE TO OWN
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NOTES FROM NETJETS
Latest happenings, onboard updates,
and companywide news and profiles.
PIECE OF PARADISE
A LaCure property on
Turks and Caicos.
© LACURE
THE BENEFITS OF A TRAVEL CONCIERGE
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EXPERIENCE NETJETS
ENCOUNTERS
IN ADDITION TO providing a luxurious experience in the skies, we also
offer our Owners opportunities for unique experiences through NetJets
Encounters. By partnering with other like-minded luxury brands, we
give our Owners an array of unparalleled travel opportunities. Whether
you want special access to the world’s finest resorts, most scenic
golf courses, or luxury sports cars, we have a partnership for every
lifestyle. You’ll find all of our partnerships and the benefits offered on
the NetJets Owner Portal.
TRINETTE REED
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NETJETS BY THE NUMBERS
NETJETS PILOTS
NetJets pilots accrue, on average
8 TIMES THE INDUSTRY STANDARD
of flight hours over the course of their careers
JULIAN RENTZSCH
Our pilots average
16+ YEARS
working for NetJets
INSIDE TRACK
PATRICK
GALLAGHER
President, Sales,
Marketing and Service
WHEN DID YOU START AT NETJETS?
I started with Marquis Jet and was the
Executive Vice President of Sales when
it was acquired by NetJets in late 2010.
At that time, I was asked to lead and bring
together the two sales organizations. In
the years that followed, I got the opportunity
to work with our Marketing and Owner
Services departments as well.
WHAT DOES YOUR NORMAL DAY
CONSIST OF?
No two days are the same. I try to divide
my time between our teams and our clients,
staying close to the front lines of our
business. There was no such thing as
“normal” over the past 18 months. When
COVID-19 spread worldwide, we had to
determine how to successfully survive a
pandemic with 10% of our typical fl ight
volume. Within a few months, we had
record interest in our services. It became
more important than ever to keep both our
customers and our teams informed.
We plan to hire
300+ NEW PILOTS
by the end of 2021
We hired
93 PILOTS
after our initial 2021
Pilot Career Day
NetJets employs
3,000+ PILOTS
worldwide
Our new pilots average
6,200 FLIGHT HOURS
of experience before joining NetJets
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE
YOU FACE IN YOUR ROLE?
Staying disciplined and maintaining focus
on the long-term view. It is so important
to not overreact to near-term stimuli and
to stay true to our business model. We
must never sacrifi ce the core values of
NetJets to take advantage of near-term
growth opportunity.
KURT ISWARIENKO
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NOTES FROM NETJETS
THE BRANDS OF
NETJETS INC.
SEASONAL
TIPS FOR
TRAVEL
© NETJETS
NetJets is one of several brands under Berkshire
Hathaway which all share the high standards for
safety, comfort, and service that you have come
to expect when flying with NetJets. From personal
security to aircraft brokerage, these companies offer
an array of services to meet the needs of the most
discerning travelers.
Fall can be a lovely time to travel,
with views of the changing leaves
from the skies above. Whether
you’re traveling to see your favorite
football team compete or to visit
family and friends for the holidays,
consider these suggestions when
making your autumn travel plans:
EXECUTIVE JET
MANAGEMENT
FOR 40+ YEARS, Executive Jet Management (EJM) has been the largest
aircraft management and charter company in the world, providing aircraft
management and charter services with a keen focus on safety and
reliability. Its aircraft management services allow customers to enjoy the
convenience and luxury of private jet ownership without the complexities of
the day-to-day operations. EJM’s charter solutions offer private jets one trip
at a time for those who travel less frequently.
QS PARTNERS
QS PARTNERS PROVIDES a full range of aircraft brokerage, acquisition,
and transition services to help individuals and businesses manage
transactions of wholly owned aircraft. Aiming to be the No. 1
broker in the world, and offering full consultations focused on the
unique and specific needs of each client, it creates solutions with
the smallest details considered.
QS SECURITY SERVICES
NETJETS HAS ALWAYS prioritized safety and understands that security is
not always a one-size-fits-all solution. QS Security Services customizes
additional personal safety and security services to perfectly suit the
unique travel requirements of each individual Owner. It offers security
drivers for ground transfer, armed protection agents, personalized
travel security briefs, and more.
Choose off-peak travel days:
Thanksgiving weekend has
the highest travel numbers of
the entire year. Travel earlier in
November to avoid the crowds
and potential delays and to gain
more quality time with your
family or fellow travelers.
Explore resorts outside the ski
season: Some of the country’s
most popular ski resorts have
gorgeous views and discounted
rates in the fall.
Discover off-season
destinations: Southern states
and beaches are much less
crowded outside the summer
months.
Consider state and national
parks: Enjoy the protected
beauty, wildlife, and free
family fun.
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JULIAN RENTZSCH
CREWMEMBERS IN PROFILE
PEGGY CARNAHAN
Captain
MY FIRST EXPOSURE TO FLYING WAS …
the Air Force Academy. I was in the fi rst
class to include women and took advantage
of orientation fl ights—even though women
weren’t allowed to be pilots. My senior year, that
changed, and I soloed in the Academy’s fl ight
screening program.
THE BEST PART OF FLYING IS … viewing
the world from above. I fi nd cloud formations
especially fascinating. I take pictures of airports
from the sky and post them on Facebook for
friends and colleagues to guess the airport. It’s
been a lot of fun.
BEFORE JOINING THE NETJETS TEAM,
I WAS …in the Air Force for 20 years. After
that, I fl ew an MD-80 as a First Offi cer for
American Airlines for 3.5 years until I was
furloughed. Then, I came to NetJets and
stayed even after American Airlines invited
me back.
THE ONE DAY AT NETJETS I WON’T
FORGET WAS … when I was able to give our
passengers a view of a missile launch from Cape
Canaveral. One of our Owner’s guests was in
her mid-90s, and I can still remember how she
clapped when she saw it. Thinking about all the
wonders she must have seen throughout her
long life and how I got to help add to that list
always makes me smile.
ONE THING OWNERS PROBABLY WOULDN’T
GUESS ABOUT ME IS … I used to teach online
master’s degree courses on leadership for the
Air Force.
ON MY DAYS OFF … my husband and I run a
Black Angus cattle farm, with 14 rescued cats
and a pot-bellied pig named Maxwell. I also
work on the Women Military Aviators’ board of
directors, where I oversee communications.
WITHIN THE NEXT TEN YEARS, I WOULD
LIKE TO … retire! I want to travel to places I’ve
only seen from the air. I also want to dedicate
more of my time to Women Military Aviators and
record more of the oral history from the women
aviators of my generation.
MY BEST ADVICE FOR STAYING SANE ACROSS
TIME ZONES IS … exercise. A short stint on the
treadmill helps clear your head, shakes out the
kinks from being in the pilot seat, and improves
quality of sleep. It’s also very important to
hydrate, eat nutritiously, and respect your
physical limits.
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OWNER’S PROFILE
REACHING
FOR
THE STARS
With boundless energy and a savvy tactical
approach, John Shoffner is hoping to become one
of the fi rst private citizens on the International
Space Station—and to be productive while he’s
there. // By Josh Sims
JOHN SHOFFNER CANNOT FLY an airship. “Gliders,
hang gliders, airplanes, seaplanes, warplanes, and
jets,” says Shoffner, ticking off those craft he has
learned to pilot. “But somehow I missed airships.”
One might be tempted to nip in with
“spaceship” too, but Shoffner has that covered as
well. The businessman, racing driver, and NetJets
regular has recently started training with private
space company Axiom Space with a view to
rocketing to the International Space Station (ISS)
on a SpaceX ship in the latter part of next year.
“I’ve always been interested in those activities
that involve calculated risk, that involve a
challenge you have to prepare for, that make
you feel uncomfortable, that have an element of
danger to them,” says Shoffner, who, driving for
his own champion J2-Racing team, once totalled
his new Porsche 911 on a corner at Germany’s
famed Nürburgring, fl ipping it over and over and
yet somehow coming out largely unscathed.
“That just showed me what you can go through
with good preparation and equipment. In fact,
when I woke up in hospital I was ready to race
again and did so the following week—though
not in that car,” he adds with a laugh. “When
[my wife and I] took up racing cars, neither of us
had even driven sports cars before. We stopped
skydiving because it was starting to get boring.
Put it this way: We’re not exactly golf fans.”
Unless, perhaps, it’s the kind played by
astronaut Alan Shepard on the moon. Then
Shoffner might be tempted. Indeed, getting
into space will be the fulfi llment of a lifetime’s
ambition, even if it’s a counterintuitive adventure
to go on, it might seem, for someone who’s
also fascinated by the idea of maxing out his
lifespan by keeping up with the latest science
in nutrition, sleep, and lifestyle. He grew up
through the bold ambitions and amazing
achievements of the Space Race between
the U.S. and Soviet Union, and always had a
fascination for equipment with plenty of lights
and switches, with rockets and the stars.
“I was sure I’d go into space some day—I
was just never sure how—so it’s been amazing
that the advent of private spacefl ight and the
gradual maturing of that market now allows
that to be possible,” says Shoffner, who made
his money building Dura-Line, a Kentuckybased
company that pioneered and patented
fi ber-optic cable installation technologies,
before retiring in 1996.
© AXIOM SPACE
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NEXT STOP: SPACE
Shoffner and Peggy Whitson, who
will command the flight to the ISS, in
Axiom’s zero gravity chamber.
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OWNER’S PROFILE
ALL IMAGES COURTESY JOHN SHOFFNER
ADRENALINE HIGHS
Shoffner has embraced
risk-taking activities from the
skies to the water—and is
now aiming for loftier heights.
“The first time I heard about it I [counted
myself] in,” he says. “I’m not a window-shopper.
If I have no interest in owning something I don’t
go into the shop. But I enquired about the ISS
trip, the answer was right for me, and then I
knew I was going. Space isn’t going anywhere,
but I want to be one of the first [private citizens
to go]. In five years people will be going into
space for the weekend but I want to go when it’s
difficult, not when it’s easy.”
OF COURSE, it would be easy to dismiss this all
as the ultimate joyride of someone with the
funds to pay their way. (Axiom isn’t talking
money, but SpaceX charges NASA around
US$55M for a ticket to the ISS.) Two other
billionaires have signed up for Axiom flights
to the ISS too. What makes Shoffner’s flight
crucially different, though—at least compared to,
say, that of Dennis Tito, the first space tourist,
20 years ago—is that he will be the pilot,
traveling alongside revered astronaut and NASA
veteran Peggy Whitson as commander.
“As a passenger I’d likely not have gone,” says
Shoffner, who, far from finding it an inconvenience,
seems thrilled by the fact that NASA now requires
that anyone going to the ISS undergoes full
astronaut training, the space station being, after
all, a government-owned research facility, not an
orbiting hotel. “I don’t want to go on a trip like this
just to take a bunch of selfies. I want to be useful
up there. It would just be way too much money for
it to be just for the fun of it.”
That’s why Shoffner will be helping to conduct
experiments during his eight-day stay on the
station, specifically those involving singlecell
genomic methods for 10x Genomics, a
Californian bio-tech company in which he’s also
an investor. To date, scientific work in this field
hasn’t been attempted on the ISS, so it was of
interest to NASA. That Shoffner has bought his
ticket is likely the only way 10x would be able
to get to conduct this research in a micro-gravity
environment—and get the results back quickly—
so that’s a huge bonus for it as well. It helps to
fund the likes of Axiom too, in its mission to build
the next space station, seeing as the ISS will soon
be decommissioned. And, naturally, it satisfies
Shoffner personally.
“Sure, I get to go on a cool trip,” says the
man whose slowest speed is white-water
kayaking or cross-country cycling (that is, across
the entire country). “I get to do something
challenging for me. But also to do something
good for mankind more broadly in the process.”
But that’s getting ahead of ourselves, Shoffner
concedes. He has to undergo all the training
first. NASA isn’t cutting any slack either. There
will, he says, be weeks and weeks of classroom
study before he spends the same time inside
a spaceship mock-up learning the controls in
practice. He notes that because they are now
highly automated, piloting such a craft is more
akin to being, as he puts it, “a high-function
systems manager.” But not everything is
automated. “There’s a lot to take in, right down to
how to use the toilet,” he chuckles. “I’m anxious
to get the training started.”
He certainly expects others like him
to follow—and he concedes that there is
something of a Wild West flavor to the
privatization of spaceflight that can divide
opinion. Is the idea of spaceflight trivialized by
allowing film directors to take actors into space
to shoot a movie scene? Or by allowing people
to be able to win tickets for spaceflights in TV
competitions? Both are currently on the cards.
In fact, the competition winner may be flying
with Shoffner and Whitson.
“It’s all still early, and people are still trying to
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work [this new world of private spaceflight] out.
It’s like the early days of aviation, in the 1920s
and 1930s. There was airmail and then cargo,
but when passenger routes were first proposed
people scoffed,” says Shoffner. “Even the military
thought aeroplanes were silly at first. But over
time the value of such advances came to be seen,
and improvements in technology and increased
availability pushes prices down. I think the public
is still skewed towards scepticism: There are so
many major problems on Earth that need solving
it’s easy to say that the cost of space travel would
be better put to other uses. But things have to
shift slowly.”
INDEED, with NASA increasingly seeing itself
as more a spaceflight customer and not as a
spaceflight provider, Shoffner argues that the
willingness of private individuals like him to
spend a lot of money in order to, in part at least,
fulfill an understandable childhood fantasy will
in the coming years prove vital to the next space
race. That’s space’s commercialization. And, from
the human perspective, its expansion.
“Right now, getting into space is expensive
enough that people who do it have to take the
decision very seriously. You have to think about
the value your money is providing,” explains
Shoffner. “But space is only going to become
more and more available to people with different
objectives. Some people will just want to go, as
I do, while also wanting to do something useful
with my time up there too.
“But I believe that it’s also important that
humanity makes progress in space,” he adds.
“Listen to Elon Musk and he argues that for our
long-term survival it’s important we think of
ourselves as an inter-planetary species. But also
because there are [scientific research] things
we can do in space that you can’t do on Earth.
And private people like me going into space is
another way of promoting awareness of space,
of catching attention in the way mine was as a
seven year old.”
That’s also why Shoffner is developing
a STEM (science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics) program for the school he
attended, in the hope that more of an emphasis
of science and tech—“education is too generic,”
he suggests—will foster an interest in working in
the space sector, a career he would have pursued
himself if he had been nudged in the right
direction earlier.
Still, better late than never, as he may say to
himself as the countdown runs out and engine
ignition fires up. After all, he’ll likely touch down
as a changed man. As so many astronauts have
found, spaceflight can be a profound experience.
Shoffner says he hopes it doesn’t make him
cry, but he does expect to be changed by being
able to see for himself the fragility of the planet,
protected only by its thin curl of atmosphere.
“I hope to come back wanting to look for ways
to do some good in the world, without going
to the top of the mountain and sitting crosslegged
for the rest of my life,” laughs the man
who, one imagines, would find sitting still rather
intolerable. “I hope to come back less resource
hungry and less consumerist. Really, just less of
an asshole. And that has to be a good thing.”
“I believe that it’s also
important that humanity
makes progress in space.”
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TEEING OFF
GREEN AND PLEASANT
Treelined fairways of
Southern Pines, now ready
to challenge golfers once again.
THE GLORIOUS
RESTORATION
© SOUTHERN PINES GOLF CLUB
A long-neglected Donald Ross-designed course in
North Carolina has finally come back into play—and
it’s a gem. // By Larry Olmsted
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IN 1899 DONALD ROSS left his native Scotland
and job as greenskeeper at the famed Royal
Dornoch Golf Club to make a new life in the
United States. Just a year later he found himself
at the newly opened Pinehurst Resort in North
Carolina—the nation’s very first purposebuilt
golf destination. Ross famously designed
the first four (of what are now nine) 18-hole
courses, including the revered venue No. 2,
which has hosted, among others, the U.S.
Open, PGA Championship and Ryder Cup.
In the next half-century Ross designed roughly
400 more courses in the U.S. and Canada,
including celebrated tracks like Seminole, East
Lake, Oak Hill, and The Broadmoor, but he
lived the rest of his life alongside the fairways
of Pinehurst. As a result, he also created
several very notable courses in the neighboring
town of Southern Pines, including seven-time
USGA Championship venue Pine Needles and
Mid Pines, both Top 100 U.S. rated layouts.
Now, 73 years after his death, Ross has
posthumously given avid golfers a big reason to
celebrate. Southern Pines Golf & Country Club,
one of the least known—but very best—of his
works, has risen from the dead, and after a
meticulous and historically accurate renovation
by Ross specialist Kyle Franz, it is open to the
public for the first time in over a century. Built in
1906, Southern Pines is one of the oldest of more
than three dozen courses in this concise region
rightfully called the Home of American Golf, and
it immediately becomes a must-play on par with
nearby Nos. 2 and 4 and its resort siblings—
making it, along with the twin Pine Needles
and Mid Pines, adjacent and under combined
ownership, the only resort in the world with three
classic Ross layouts in their original routings.
Southern Pines offers the stunning signature
green complexes that made Ross one of the
greatest architects in the history of golf, but
this is just the start. While 2 and 4 are flat
and wide open, speckled with stands of sparse
trees, Southern Pines occupies a much more
interesting site of rolling hills, ridges, and
forest. The first holes set the tone, with one
playing substantially downhill to a fairway
narrowing like an arrowhead as bunkers on
either side grow progressively closer, followed
by a gorgeous par-five that plays up and over
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TEEING OFF
a semi-blind ridge to a rewarding reveal of the
green complex below. The magical feel that is
Donald Ross at his best comes shining through,
accentuated by a piece of land much different
and more varied than many of his layouts.
“It works around a big valley with a lot of
side hills and a lot of up and over where you
can get a big run out from good tee shots,”
said Franz. “We are trying to restore it to the
Ross period of 1915 to the 1920s. I think of
it like The Beatles and “Sgt. Pepper.” Styles
changed, and Ross had more wild stuff in his
early designs of this era—forced carries, even
a blind bunker—but then he got more into the
finesse he is now known for. What we are trying
to do is center in on a different period, and this
is his oldest here after No 2.” Mid Pines and
Pine Needles were built in 1921 and 1928,
respectively, making Southern Pines the wild
child of the trio. “It gives people a chance to
play a different period in Ross’s life. Here his
early work had forced carries over native areas.”
ROSS GOT SO CREATIVE he added a 19th hole, but
not the typical post-round one-shotter used to
settle ties. The Lost Hole was a par-three set
in the middle of the non-returning loop that
allowed golfers to play across from four to 15
for nine holes. It disappeared years ago and,
using the original Ross drawings, Franz has not
only recreated it, but added an element visiting
MASTER PLAN
Kyle Franz’s design for the
restoration of the course
has come to fruition.
golfers will likely never have the opportunity to
experience anywhere else, a sand putting green.
In the early 20th century agronomy
limitations and the local climate hampered the
winter grass growth that was needed to keep the
greens in shape, which meant that for nearly
three decades the oldest Ross courses had
putting surfaces that were a compacted mix of
native sand, clay, and gravel. Franz built two
greens on the Lost Hole, one grass and one
sand, allowing golfers to choose whether to play
to the 21st century or travel backwards in time.
The course was long privately owned by the
local Elks Club as an amenity for members but
was underused and had fallen into disrepair. It
was sold to Mid-Pines/Pine Needles, and Franz
spent 18 months on the restoration, adding a
grass putting course outside the clubhouse, also
due for an overhaul, and rebuilding the range with
Toptracer shot-tracking technology. The course
has just reopened in all its glory and is hidden in
a residential section of Southern Pines, just a few
minutes from the adjacent resorts it belongs to.
No. 2, No. 4, Mid Pines, and Pine Needles
were all extensively and successfully restored in
recent years by Coore & Crenshaw, Gil Hanse,
and Franz, and there are no more hidden Ross
gems to unearth after Southern Pines. As Franz
notes, “This is the last great Ross restoration
here with all 18 holes where they were.” Or
in this case, 19. southernpinesgolfclub.com
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CULTURAL CACHE
A REFINED
PAIRING
LOST IN ART
Gao Weigang’s “Maze,”
2017, at the Donum Estate,
Sonoma, California.
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Vineyards have become showcases not only for the viticulturist’s
art but also for museum-quality artworks and exhibitions that are
increasingly taking center stage. // By Brian Noone
ART OPENINGS ARE INCOMPLETE without wine: It stimulates
conversation, of course, but the slow pleasures of sipping are
also a good match for the equally slow pleasures of reflecting on
a painting or a sculpture. You can’t—or at least you shouldn’t—
rush a glass of good wine any more than you hurry through an
interesting art exhibition. Not if your palate is sufficiently refined.
Museums have long understood this connection as well. It’s why
the wonderfully muralled restaurant at Tate Britain in London has
one of the city’s best wine lists, and why Odette, the three-Michelinstarred
dining destination at the National Gallery of Singapore, has
some 700 varieties in its cellar. Connoisseurs rarely appreciate just
one aspect of the world—and the opportunity to mix several sublime
things with each other is what makes for truly memorable occasions.
So there is an elegant simplicity about reversing the norm and
bringing art to the vineyards instead. Increasingly, this is just what
viticulturists around the globe are doing, turning the geometric
beauty of their repeating rows of vines into a stunning backdrop
for artworks of distinction—pieces that might otherwise be
found in an urban museum and are drawing culture vultures to
the countryside for a truly slow experience, of both art and wine.
ROBERT BERG
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CULTURAL CACHE
ITALIAN WORKS
From left: “Protect Me
Everywhere,” 2012, by Valerio
Berruti at Ceretto; “red
nerve,” 2019, by Miroslaw
Balka at Castello di Ama.
MARINA SPIRONETTI
ALESSANDRO MOGGI
The placement of art in vineyards is a relatively recent
phenomenon, largely because enotourism itself is relatively new.
For centuries, wine lovers, even the most ardent, were as unlikely to
visit the grapes as they were to try catching a beluga in the Caspian
Sea or visiting the dairy that made a particularly piquant cheese.
AS IN SO MUCH of the modern wine world, Robert Mondavi played
a role in turning vineyards into destinations. His efforts in getting
Californians to venture north to Napa kickstarted the concept—and
not just in the American West. In France, for instance, people didn’t
visit vineyards, in part because the négociant model gave merchants
full control of distribution, which meant that in some cases you couldn’t
buy the wine directly from the grower even if you knocked on the door.
Standing in the splendid isolation of the Peyrassol (peyrassol.
com) estate in Provence today, with views of the rolling hills and
distant mountains, kissed by the breezes wafting up from the
Mediterranean, you wonder why it took us so long to make vineyards
visitable. The estate dates back to the 13th century and still produces
standout rosés, but its leading appeal at the moment is its phenomenal
sculpture garden, superb permanent indoor exhibition, and current
temporary solo show given over to Anish Kapoor. Just up the road,
on the other side of Aix-en-Provence, Château La Coste (chateaula-coste.com)
has taken the art-and-wine destination to the next
level: Museum-quality exhibitions are joined by a sculpture garden of
marvels as well as two restaurants led by celebrated chefs—Hélène
Darroze and Francis Mallmann—and a 28-suite hotel and spa.
Across the Italian border, in Piedmont, Ceretto (ceretto.com)
was a pioneer in modern winemaking in the region—the singlevineyard
barolos are a must-try—and it was also the first to bring
artists to the region for site-specific creations. Third-generation
vigneron Bruno Ceretto invited British artist David Tremlett to
paint the Chapel of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the first of his many
Art in vineyards is a relatively recent
phenomenon, largely because
enotourism itself is relatively new.
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CHRISTOPHE GOUSSARD
commissions in the region, in 1999. Other internationally known
artists made their way to Ceretto and the region in his wake, from Sol
LeWitt to Marina Abramović, and now Piedmont has taken a place
beside Provence as the leading wine and art pairings in the world.
Towns like Alba and winemakers such as La Raia (la-raia.it) have
invited artists to make permanent installations, while Lunetta11
(lunetta11.com) is a standalone gallery in the hamlet of Mombarcaro
started by Eva Menzio, former director of the Marlborough
Monaco gallery, to cater to the growing demand in the region.
IT WAS ALSO in 1999 that Castello di Ama (castellodiama.
com) in Chianti began its collaboration with Galleria Continua,
bringing prominent contemporary artists to live on the terroir
and construct works inspired by the setting. The first creation,
“L’Albero di Ama,” by Michelangelo Pistoletto, has been joined by
works from Anish Kapoor in 2004, Louise Bourgeois in 2009,
Lee Ufan in 2016, among many other artists, which have created
a lasting showcase that has since been joined by five suites,
a convivial restaurant, and an atelier featuring local artisans.
In California, the Robert Mondavi Winery (robertmondaviwinery.
com) remains an art destination—including the Welcoming
Muse sculpture that has greeted visitors for more than four
decades—but other vineyards have taken the concept of on-site
art to dizzying heights. Donum (thedonumestate.com) in Sonoma
boasts a remarkable—and growing—collection of site-specific
sculptures by artists such as Ai Weiwei, Danh Vo, and Doug
Aitken that is among the leading sculpture parks in America.
The Hess Collection (hesscollection.com), meanwhile, is one
of the premier art collections in the world, with pieces assembled
over 50 years by Swiss winemaker and philanthropist Donald
Hess. Less than a quarter of the collection—which includes
works by Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, Frank Stella, and Anselm
HOME COMFORT
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s
“Teenager, Teenager,” 2011,
at Peyrassol.
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© MONA
CULTURAL CACHE
Kiefer —is on display at the winery atop Mount Veeder in Napa.
More of Hess’s collection can be seen at another winery: Bodega
Colomé (bodegacolome.com) in the Andes, the oldest continuously
producing winery in Argentina and one of the world’s highest vineyards
at 7,500 feet above sea level. The on-site James Turrell Museum is a
truly remarkable showcase of the artist’s immersive light installations—
in a building Hess worked with Turrell himself to design—as well as a
number of drawings and other works by the artist in Hess’s collection.
IN RECENT YEARS, South Africa’s picture-perfect valleys surrounding
Stellenbosch and Franschhoek have emerged as a relatively
compact centre for both world-class wine and African art. There
are Hess’s fingerprints here, too—he built the still thriving gallery
at Glen Carlou (glencarlou.com) before selling the property in
2016—but Cape Town’s emergence on the global art scene, led
by the city’s MOCAA, has spurred wineries across the region
to showcase art from all over the continent. Grande Provence
(gpgallery.co.za) hosts a gallery that focuses on South African
artists, while Cavalli Estate (cavalliestate.com) features both a
gallery and a residency program. Jeweler Laurence Graff’s personal
collection is on display at Delaire (delaire.co.za), a testament to
the history and quality of African artists. La Motte (la-motte.com)
similarly features the collection of its owner, Hanneli Rupert-
Koegelenberg, but here the art is more global in scope, with a
recent exhibition featuring works by figures as diverse as Picasso,
German Käthe Kollwitz and experimental Israeli artist Yaacov Agam.
Australia’s expansive vineyards are taking part, too, led by
Pt Leo Estate (ptleoestate.com.au) in Victoria, which features
pieces by blockbuster artists scattered across the grounds.
Elsewhere in the Antipodes, the sculpture garden at Brick
Bay (brickbaysculpture.co.nz) in New Zealand showcases
leading local contemporary artists, while in Tasmania,
the iconoclastic Museum of Old and New Art (mona.net.
au) was built on the Moorilla (moorilla.com.au) estate,
making for a permanent multisensory pairing like no other.
Aesthetes seeking pedigree should naturally turn back
toward France—and the southwest in particular. Malromé
(malrome.com) was the summer home of the Toulouse-
Lautrec family, and today pieces by its most prominent artistic
member, Henri, are on display, in combination with changing
contemporary exhibitions—best enjoyed with a glass of the
bordeaux in hand made from the surrounding 106-acre terroir.
Finally, at the venerable Château Mouton Rothschild (chateaumouton-rothschild.com),
the art exists not just for atmosphere:
Since 1945, the winery has commissioned an artist to draw a
label for it, and the originals are on display. There’s a Francis
Bacon from 1990, a Niki de Saint Phalle from 1997, as well
as works from Dalí, Miró, Chagall, Picasso, and Warhol. It’s a
remarkable collection from a remarkable winemaker—and evidence
of yet another reason why wine and art go together so well.
DOWN UNDER
Siloam—the tunnels leading
to the underground galleries
at MONA in Tasmania.
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TRUE BELIEF
One of Anton Smit’s “Faith”
sculptures at Delaire.
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LIVING WELL
MIND
OVER
MATTER
Perspectives, practices, and gadgets that demonstrate
how being rooted in the present can help us take charge
of our future. // By Jen Murphy
AS THE WORLD STARTS TO REEMERGE from lockdown, there are
different and new challenges to face. Controlling how we react
to changing situations is ever-more vital and we can do so by
adopting a mindfulness practice. The terms mindfulness often
evokes images of a Buddhist monk meditating in stillness for
hours on end. “I don’t even like to use the term mindfulness or
meditation because they scare people away,” says Monique Tello,
co-director of the Healthy Lifestyle Program at Massachusetts
General Hospital in Boston. “Being mindful is as simple as being
aware of what you are doing throughout the day. It encourages
you to be present in the moment and ignore distractions.”
We live in a world of distractions, so paying attention to the
present moment takes practice. But studies have shown that by
cultivating mindfulness, you can improve your mental and physical
wellness through reduced stress, anxiety, and depression. Being
aware of what is happening in the present moment allows us
to observe the emotions that arise and choose how we react to
those emotions, says Jacob Mirsky, a consultation physician at
Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, also in Boston.
While meditation is one formal form of mindfulness (and don’t
worry, there are apps to help you get started) it’s far from the
only one, says Dr. Mirsky. We can choose to eat, walk, and even
scroll through our social media feeds more mindfully throughout
the day. “If we can learn to recognize when a stressful thought
or emotion comes up it allows us the opportunity to develop
healthy coping mechanisms like walking around the block or
calling a friend,” he says. “And when we learn our stress triggers,
we can create a strategy for avoiding them in the first place.”
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DIANA HIRSCH / ISTOCK
MINDFUL RETREATS
In conversation with Amy Cherry-Abitbol, CEO &
co-founder of Shou Sugi Ban House—and its new,
more intimate sister property Shou Sugi Ban Inn—
an integrative wellness retreat in the Hamptons.
WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF
MINDFULNESS?
Mindfulness is being present and
aware of your physical state, immediate
surroundings, thoughts, and feelings,
and not focusing on the past or future.
HOW DOES MINDFULNESS PLAY
INTO THE SHOU SUGI BAN HOUSE
RETREAT EXPERIENCE?
To me, mindfulness is an important
part of the overall experience, but it
should be one element of our holistic
approach that includes wellness and
spirituality. Throughout each day we
weave simple acts of ritual into the
experience. Mornings at Shou Sugi Ban
House begin with a meditation and yoga
with gentle stretching followed by our
signature plant-forward breakfast. At the
end of each day, our house-made herbal
seasonal soaks are placed in each guest
studio, to encourage a nightly bath to
induce a restful sleep. We pay close
attention to the natural cadence of the
day and allow people to find the rest
and relaxation they need during their
stay with us.
CAN YOU HIGHLIGHT SOME OF
THE PROGRAMS FROM YOUR
RESIDENT EXPERTS?
Our programming is based upon both
ancient rituals and state-of-the-art
wellness practices. In addition to special
collaborations with extraordinary minds,
we also offer sessions with our resident
experts and healers for individualized
experiences that bring specific awareness
to mind, body, and spirit. Some of our
most popular guided offerings include an
intuitive painting workshop where you
are guided to express yourself through
art, and heart opening led by sensuality
mentor Juliet Lippman.
WELLNESS WAS ONCE RELEGATED TO
EXERCISE AND DIET, BUT YOU TAKE
A MUCH MORE HOLISTIC APPROACH.
CAN YOU SPEAK TO WHY THAT IS
IMPORTANT FOR OVERALL HEALTH?
I believe that self-care, movement,
mindfulness, and clean-eating combined
with sustainable practices create a more
positive and powerful impact upon our
physical and mental health as well as the
environment. Our multipronged approach
sets us apart and underscores how these
intentional practices and rituals work
synergistically for optimal wellness and
full-body health.
MANY PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING
WITH STRESS AND ANXIETY FROM
THE PANDEMIC. WHAT OFFERINGS
DO YOU HAVE AT THE RETREAT THAT
MIGHT HELP THEM?
The pandemic has underscored that
wellness in its many forms is more
important now than ever before. Our
programs have always been designed
to enhance mindfulness, and many of
our guests were already coming to us
to combat grief, stress, and anxiety. For
stress and anxiety relief, I suggest our
radical self-care workshop, which explores
the four pillars of self-care through group
sharing and meditation. Our breathwork
release workshop helps get rid of stagnant
energy and physical blocks that are often
inaccessible to our logical minds through
breathing exercises.
DOES MINDFULNESS HAVE TO BE A
STILL AND SEDENTARY ACT OR CAN IT
BE PRACTICED WITH MOVEMENT?
My favorite type of moving meditation
is a morning walk on the beach. I find
it to be a great way to clear my head
and start the day and I approach it as
a moving meditation—paying attention
to each breath, taking in the air, the
sounds, the sand between the toes, and
the physical sensation of each footstep.
Focusing on one element at a time, and
watching your breath, calms the nervous
system and can bring increased focus to
your surroundings. You can apply this
same approach to other situations and
rituals during your day, such as sipping
your morning coffee or tea, and taking
the time to appreciate and focus on each
element—the warmth of the mug, the
aroma, the taste. shousugibanhouse.com
TAKE HOME TIPS
STANDING MEDITATION: Stand
with feet hip-width apart and parallel.
Gently shift your weight back and forth
from the right to the left foot. Notice the
movement, but mostly, notice that tiny
instant when you’re perfectly balanced
between two feet. Try to “catch” that
moment and then, gradually, come to
stillness there. This is great to try if
you’re waiting in a line.
STEPPING MEDITATION: Every
time you pass from one room to the
other, at the office, at home, at a
restaurant, step with the right foot. This
mindful moment is a wonderful check-in
with yourself, wherever you are.
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LIVING WELL
END-OF-DAY NAMASTE
Four yoga poses to unwind from the workday.
WORK-RELATED STRESS can be a major contributor to health problems
such as poor sleep quality and high blood pressure. If you find
yourself still worrying about the office long after you’ve finished work
try adopting a yoga practice to help you unwind and reset. Studies
have shown that connecting breath to movement lowers levels of
cortisol, the hormone associated with the stress response. And
according to the National Institutes of Health, scientific evidence
shows that yoga supports stress management, mindfulness, mental
health, weight loss, healthy eating, and quality sleep. You don’t have
to be flexible, get sweaty, or carve out 90 minutes to reap the benefits.
Studies have shown that just 20 minutes of yoga can rewire the brain
and help bring clarity and focus. The following four beginner-friendly
poses will help you slow down the body and mind at day’s end.
1
1 CAT-COW POSE
How: Start on hands and knees. On an inhale, drop your belly towards the mat and lift
your chin and chest as you gaze up to the ceiling. On an exhale, draw your belly up to
your spine as you round your back toward the ceiling. Allow your head to drop toward
the floor. Alternate between poses.
Benefit: Coordinating movement between poses with your breath relieves stress and
calms the mind.
2 COBRA POSE
How: Lie face down with your legs extended behind you. The tops of your feet should
rest on the mat and your feet will be a few inches apart. Place your hands under your
shoulders and hug your elbows to your sides. On an inhale, slowly lift your head and
chest off the ground. Draw your shoulders back and press down through your thighs
and feet. Exhale and lower down.
Benefit: This energizing backbend reduces fatigue and stress while stretching the
spine and opening the chest and shoulders.
3 LEGS-UP-THE-WALL POSE
How: Sit with your right side against the wall. Turn your body to the right and bring your
legs straight up the wall, using your hands for balance. Your butt should be against the
wall. Use your hands to lower your back to the floor and lie down with your arms open by
your sides, palms facing up. Close your eyes and breathe slowly for five minutes.
Benefit: This inverted pose calms the nervous system and helps bring on a deep state
of relaxation.
4 RECLINED BOUND ANGLE POSE
How: Start seated with your knees bent out to the sides and heels drawn inward, soles
of the feet touching. If this is uncomfortable you can place pillows beneath your thighs
for support. Use your hands to lean backward and lower your back, shoulders, and
head to the floor. Rest the arms by your sides, palms facing up. Close your eyes and
breathe slowly for five minutes.
Benefit: A reclined hip opener, this pose helps reduce stress and anxiety.
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4
3
J U S T B R E A T H E
Four mindful breathing techniques you can do anywhere.
We breathe 24 hours a day, usually without
thinking twice about such an innate act. But
monitoring and regulating our inhalations and
exhalations throughout the day can have huge
value. The next time you are stuck in traffic,
frustrated with your children, or stressed before
a big meeting, check in with your breath. Are
you holding it? Breathing rapidly? Mindful
breathing can help anchor us to the present
and prevent stress or anxiety from taking
over. According to an article in the Scientific
American, daily breathing exercises can help
counter the accumulation of even minor physical
tension associated with stress. When you feel
overwhelmed at any point of your day, use one
of these four breathing techniques to help calm
your central nervous system and help refocus
your mind.
2-4 BREATHING
This is a form of paced breathing when your
exhale is longer than your inhale. Start by
inhaling slowly through your nose for a count of
2 seconds, allowing your chest and lower belly to
expand. Then exhale slowly through your mouth
for a count of 4 seconds. You can slowly work
your way up to a 3- or 4-second inhale and 5- or
6-second exhale. If you lose concentration, try
using a free paced breathing app such as Breathe
for iPhone or Paced Breathing for Android.
4-4-8 BREATHING
Breathe through your nose for a count of 4,
allowing the lower belly to expand. Hold your
breath for a count of 4. Exhale through your
mouth for a count of 8. Immediately inhale for a
count of 4 through the nose, repeating the entire
technique three to four times in a row.
ALTERNATE NOSTRIL BREATHING
In Sanskrit, this technique is known as nadi
shodhan pranayama, which translates to subtle
energy clearing breathing technique. Yogis have
used it for centuries to calm and focus the mind.
Sit in a comfortable position with a tall spine.
Place your left hand on your thigh, palm up. Bring
your right up to your nose and use your right
thumb to close your right nostril. Inhale through
your left nostril. Now close the left nostril with
your left index and middle finger. Open the right
nostril and exhale. Inhale through the right nostril
and then close this nostril. Open the left nostril
and exhale. Inhale through the right nostril and
then close this nostril. Remember to always
inhale through the same nostril you just exhaled
through. Repeat five to ten rounds.
DEEP BREATHING
Also known as belly breathing or diaphragmatic
breathing, this technique helps activate the
body’s rest and digest response. Sit comfortably
with one hand on the chest and the other on the
belly. Inhale deeply through the nose. Ensure the
diaphragm rather than the chest inflates with air.
The hand on your chest should remain still and
the one on your belly should rise. Exhale slowly
through the mouth. Repeat for one minute.
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The Power of Daily Affirmations
Turn negative self-talk into positive motivation.
Being mindful of
the words we use
to talk to ourselves
can have a major
impact on our mood,
and subsequently,
our actions, says
Patricia Deldin, a
professor of psychology
and psychiatry at
the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor.
We’re in constant
dialogue all day long
with ourselves. Take
note of how many
times a day you use
negative words and
make a concerted
effort to replace them
with kinder, more
encouraging words,
like “could” instead
of “should” or “can”
instead of “can’t”. Dr.
Deldin, who is the CEO
of the mental-wellness
program Mood
Lifters, says if you’re
feeling depressed,
stressed or down, try
to repeat positive selfaffirmations
to adjust
your mood. Remember
it’s not “Monday is
a stressful day,” it’s
“Monday is going to be
a great day.”
G A D G E T S T O H E L P F O C U S T H E M I N D
If you find your thoughts racing nonstop, try using one of these high-tech devices to help you master a quieter mind.
Muse 2
This slim meditation headband works in tandem with Muse’s
free mobile app to provide real-time feedback on your heart rate,
brain activity, and breathing. When your mind is calm you hear
calm sounds, like lapping waves. When your mind is active, the
waves start to crash and grow louder, signaling you to refocus.
choosemuse.com
Melomind Headset
Reminiscent of Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones, this device
uses electroencephalographic technology to help you deal with
stress and anxiety. Calming nature-based soundscapes, such as
tropical birds chirping, calm the brain and an accompanying app
allows you to monitor when you reach a state of deep relaxation.
melomind.com
S8 Pegasi II Light Therapy Glasses
If you’re a frequent flyer and struggle with jet lag, wearing
these glasses for just 30 minutes a day can help reset your
circadian rhythms. NASA technology was used to create lenses
that generate wavelengths of light that stimulate the area of
the brain that regulates the release of cortisol and melatonin.
The result: improved sleep quality. sleep8.uk
Aromeo Sense
A combination of aroma, light, and sound therapy helps you
fall into a deep slumber instantaneously. And a combination
of sunrise simulation light, a symphony of chirping birds, and
invigorating aromas helps you wake in the morning. Focusintensifying
sensory effects, like alertness-boosting soft white
light, can help you stay focused all day. aromeodiffuser.com
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LIVING WELL
S I X A P P S F O R D E C O M P R E S S I N G
When you’re going to have screen time, make it with one of these meditation-based apps.
Calm
Downloaded more than 50
million times, this app has
features like Sleep Stories
narrated by actor Matthew
McConaughey and guided
body scans.
Headspace
This app’s tagline is, “Gym
membership for the mind.”
Friendly animations help
remove the intimidation
factor for newbies and
helpful how-tos go beyond
meditation and tackle
topics like how to deal
with a panic attack.
Aura
The customization
capabilities of this
app have earned it the
nickname the Spotify of
mindfulness. If you’re
short on time, the
30-second stress busters
and 3-minute personalized
meditations are easy to
slot into your day.
Simple Habit
If the thought of sitting
quietly is overwhelming,
this app is for you. All
you need is just five
minutes to achieve inner
calm. Meditations are
downloadable so you
can easily access them
on a flight or during your
commute.
Inscape
In addition to having
staple offerings like
guided meditations and
calming soundscapes,
this app helps you destress
based on real-life
anxieties such as
dating troubles or
overcoming fears.
STRESS-FREE
VACATION PLANNING
With so much uncertainty around travel,
specialists are more relevant than ever.
TRAVEL HAS NEVER BEEN more complicated. With borders opening and
then re-closing and testing protocols constantly changing it’s hard
even to know where to go, let alone what you’re able to do once you
arrive. Here, Brooke Lavery, a partner at luxury travel consultancy
Local Foreigner (localforeigner.com), shares fi ve reasons why
establishing a relationship with a bespoke travel specialist can help
take the stress out of pandemic travel.
1. SAVE TIME
Travel advisers protect your time during the planning process and
on your vacation. You could devote hours to researching and crossreferencing
your own itinerary just to use your precious vacation time
as a testing ground for those discoveries. Or you can work with a
professional you trust, who can design an itinerary to your taste and
preference based on years of experience and dozens of other client
experiences in that destination.
2. BEEN THERE, DONE THAT
Work with a travel professional and you eliminate the guesswork in
travel planning. Your expert has not only been to the destination,
they’ve thoroughly scouted the hotels, eaten in the restaurants, and
have local connections.
3. NAVIGATING THE PROTOCOLS
With each country dictating and changing their COVID-19 policies at
a moment’s notice, travel is more overwhelming than ever. Outsource
the stress of this to a travel professional who specializes in high-touch
service and has the bandwidth to ensure details aren’t overlooked.
JULIAN RENTZSCH
Ten Percent Happier
A beginner-friendly app
with 350-plus guided
meditations and access to
personalized meditation
coaches who quickly
respond to your queries.
4. PROBLEM-SOLVING
In the event something doesn’t go as anticipated on the ground, who
will you call for help? The best travel advisers are problem-solvers with
the best local connections—no waiting on the phone for hours to talk to
a real human.
5. FEELS GOOD TO BE A VIP
When you check in to a hotel, do you want to wait in line or be
greeted personally by the general manager or hotel owner? Have you
experienced a hotel room stocked with your favorite drinks and snacks?
Do you want to stroll through the Louvre with the masses, or explore the
underground closed-to-public workshops with a curator before visiting a
few of the museum’s highlights? Being connected on the ground creates
an entirely different travel experience, and a star travel adviser can
facilitate those connections.
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WE ARE
WHAT
WE EAT
WE’RE ALL GUILTY of scarfing down a sandwich at our
desk or devouring a pint of Ben & Jerry’s while zoning
out to the latest episode of “White Lotus.” When
mindless meals and snacks become part of your
routine, pounds start to pack on. No matter how much
you exercise, good nutrition is a crucial piece of the
weight-loss puzzle. Instead of adopting fad diets, try
paying more attention to what you put in your mouth
and why. Studies have shown that the practice of
mindful eating not only helps with weight loss, but,
additionally, it can help you embrace long-term habits
dealing with food cravings and portion control.
H O W T O B E I N T H E
M O M E N T A T M E A L S
Experts at Harvard Medical School share tips and
tricks for adopting more mindful eating habits.
• Set your kitchen timer to 20 minutes, and take
that time to eat a normal-sized meal.
• Try eating with your non-dominant hand; if
you’re a righty, hold your fork in your left hand
when lifting food to your mouth.
• Use chopsticks if you don’t normally use them.
• Eat silently for five minutes, thinking about what
it took to produce that meal, from the sun’s rays
to the farmer to the grocer to the cook.
• Take small bites and chew well.
• Before opening the fridge or cabinet, take a
breath and ask yourself, “Am I really hungry?”
Do something else, like reading or going on a
short walk.
• Avoid eating with distractions like the television.
• Avoid working meals where you eat at your desk
or in front of your computer.
• Avoid eating on the go when you are driving or
commuting.
• Start a food log and write down what triggers
binge eating and how certain foods make you
feel. Do they make you lethargic? Give you more
energy?
• Track your food choices on an app like
MyFitnessPal or EatRightNow.
P A N D E M I C P E T S
De-stressing your animal companion.
The pandemic created a boom in
pet adoptions. According to The
Humane Society of the United States,
requests for pet fostering spiked by
90 percent. Whether you’re a new pet
parent or longtime dog or cat owner,
the pandemic gave you more time
than ever to bond with your furry
loved one. As we start to travel again,
it’s normal for both owners and pets
to experience separation anxiety.
NetJets has seen a significant
increase in pets flying with owners
in the past year, with 24,000
animals joining their owners in
2020. Whether you’re bringing your
favorite feline travel buddy in the air
for the first time in months or leaving
your new pandemic pup in your villa
alone, the ASPCA suggests these tips
for keeping you and your pet calm.
1. Honor Routine
If you’re on vacation, try to mimic
your pets daily schedule at home.
2. Withdraw Slowly
A sudden decrease in time with
your pet can be difficult for both of
you. Make sure you practice shorter
periods of alone time before a big
trip where you’ll be apart for longer
stretches.
3. New Distractions
Change up your dog or cat toys to
help keep them novel when traveling.
Interactive toys or healthy chews can
help keep your pet engaged when
you’re gone.
4. Background Noise
Leave soothing music or the TV on in
your hotel room or villa for auditory
and visual stimulation.
5. Hire a Pro
Many hotels and villas offer petsitting
services so you can rest
assured your buddy is getting looked
after while you’re out for a round of
golf or catching a sunset surf session
at the beach.
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ON THE MOVE
POWER TO
THE PEDAL
The e-bike revolution has many spokes to its
wheels—equality, efficiency, and élan among them.
// By John McNamara
CLIMB TIME
The lightweight Angell
bike, designed by
Frenchman Ora Ïto.
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POWERED UP
From top: Serial 1’s Rush/Cty Step-
Thru; the Greyp e-SUV T5.
IT’S RARE A NEW TECHNOLOGY receives universal approval—
remember the ill-fated Segway?—but as increasing production
and sales demonstrate, e-bikes have managed to garner fans
across the full spectrum of cyclists. At the most basic level, the
battery-powered two-wheelers provide a leveling out effect,
allowing less able riders, including those of a certain age, to keep
pace with faster partners and to explore more adventurous trails
and experiences. Urban governments, too, have welcomed the
development of the e-bike as an alternative mode of transport
to help reduce pollution in city centers. Perhaps best of all, the
opportunities afforded by this relatively nascent form of transport
have piqued the minds of creative types around the world,
leading both to new cycling innovations—different materials
for the frame, belt drives replacing the cumbersome chain, and
integrated controls through apps—as well as to eye-catching new
designs. Be they tough trekkers or city slickers, the e-bikes of today
represent remarkable displays of forward-thinking imagination.
A leader in the this revolution is Seattle-based Rad Power Bikes
(radpowerbikes.com), which between April 2019 and 2020 enjoyed
a 297% rise in sales and was named as one of the 2021 TIME100
Most Influential Companies. Its latest model, the RadRover 6
Plus, exemplifies its ingenuity, with the fat-tired bike featuring an
upgraded user interface and a 750w custom-made hub motor that,
among other advantages, makes hill climbing much, much easier.
Another American mainstay making e-bikes a success is Trek
(trekbikes.com), a venerable name in the pedal-power market that
has effortlessly turned its hand to the modern version. Ease of use and
comfort are features of its award-winning Domane series, shown by
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ON THE MOVE
PRETTY IN GREY
Cowboy 3 offers
simple efficiency.
one of its most recent iterations, The Domane LT+, that really feels
and rides like a conventional bike, and can indeed be converted
to one with the removal of the lightweight Fazua drivepack (battery
and motor). But doing so misses out on the impressive capabilities
of one of the smoothest e-bikes on the streets—and the trails thanks
to the IsoSpeed technology that absorbs the bumps of rough terrain.
RATHER MORE OF A new kid on the block, Croatia’s Greyp (greyp.
com) shows the same innovative approach to two wheels as its
sister company Rimac does to electric supercars. It has entered the
trekking end of the market with the Greyp e-SUV T5, a bike that
is a perfectly respectable option for a city commute but more than
capable of taking on an Alpine jaunt. In a change from its previous
models, the T5 frame is made from aluminum, which is more
flexible than carbon, but it is the bike’s accessories that make it
stand out. The 700Wh battery is on the large side for a trekking
bike and allows the T5 a range of 62 miles, while a top speed of
15.5mph is currently being upgraded for the U.S. market. Greyp’s
next project is a city bike due next year and hotly anticipated.
If electric car and bike makers seem an obvious overlap, the world
of e-bikes throws up some more unusual bedfellows. Take MODMO
(modmo.io), the brainchild of Irishman Jack O’Sullivan, whose quest
ALL IMAGES COURTESY THE COMPANIES
ALL-ROUND EFFORT
Clockwise from top: Trek’s Domane
LT+; the Paul Teutul Jr.-designed
PJD-E; MODMO’s Saigon+.
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obvious overlap, the world of e-bikes throws
up some more unusual bedfellows.
to find the ideal location to produce his zero-emission e-bike took him
to Vietnam. The result is the aptly named MODMO Saigon+, which
boasts an incredible 125-mile range on a single charge and features a
Gates Carbon Drive System, claimed to be almost maintenance free.
Another cross-continent collaboration has seen Ruff Cycles
(ruff-cycles.com), based in Regensburg, Germany, team up
with Californian Paul Teutul Jr., renowned for his motorcycle
designs and his appearances on the U.S. reality show “American
Chopper.” The PJD-E combines the best of American design and
German engineering, creating a range of bikes that aims to put the
rock’n’roll into the market. The aesthetics of Ruff’s bikes, headed
by The Ruffian, is more motorcycle cool, but the tech, including
Bosch batteries, is very much the latest in e-bike innovation.
TEUTUL JR. IS NOT THE only motorcycling aficionado to see the potential
of the bicycle, and there is no bigger name straddling both genres than
Harley-Davidson. Under its subsidiary Serial 1 (serial1.com), the
iconic brand has produced a series of e-bikes with a particular eye on
the urban cyclist, including the Rush/Cty Step-Thru, which along with
the proprietary H-D battery has four ride modes—Eco, Tour, Sport,
and Boost—and a walk-assist function. It also benefits from the Step-
Thru, the simplest of design features, which allows the rider to quickly
mount and dismount, especially useful on crowded urban streets.
For all these flamboyant versions of the e-bike, there is also a
demand for the more classical look—one that allows the cyclist who
needs a bit of assistance to blend in with the crowd. French firm Angell
(angell.bike) turned to designer Ora Ïto to create a bike with a sleek
and stylish frame that camouflages an array of smart tech, including
an integrated GPS with vibrating handlebars to indicate directions
and security features include anti-theft alarm and light. Meanwhile,
Belgian firm Cowboy’s 3 and 4 (cowboy.com) are perfect examples of
how form and function can come together in an elegant and compact
package. Featuring a battery built into the seat tube and an app that,
among other things, synchronizes with the in-built GPS, the Cowboy
4 also offers intuitive speed adjustment and wireless phone charging.
In the U.S., e-bike sales rose 116% from $8.3m in February
2019 to $18m a year later—and many producers ran low on
stock last summer. It’s the sort of success that ensures creative
companies will continue to produce ever-more inventive versions
of the timeless two-wheeled treasure for many years to come.
MOTORING ON
From top: The RadRover 6 Plus;
the Ruffian Black Redwall.
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ALL ABOUT
UPSTATE
With new and noteworthy openings proliferating
across the Hudson Valley, its charming towns, hamlets
and estates prove the enduring appeal of the Empire
State—and not just as an escape from New York City.
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RIVER HIGH
The Hudson Valley in
all its fall glory.
IAN POLEY
EXTENDING 150 MILES north from the tip of
Manhattan all the way up to Albany, the Hudson
Valley seems to have it all. Its namesake river is
surrounded by a narrow corridor of hills, dales,
forests, wetlands, and open pasture as it weaves
between a preponderance of small towns and
villages and magnificent, historic houses and
estates. It’s no wonder TIME magazine described
it as one of the world’s great places for 2021.
The renaissance of the river-towns themselves—
Hudson, Beacon, Cold Spring, Peekskill, and
Poughkeepsie, to name but a few—had begun
before the pandemic, but COVID-19, in a sense,
has been kind to the Hudson Valley. Bolstered by
the great pandemic exodus from New York City
and the larger towns of the tristate area, an influx
of city folk has moved in, among them artists,
musicians, creatives, style-makers, designers,
artisans, and craftsmen of every description,
and the sense of optimism is unmistakable.
Towns like Nyack, Irvington, Millbrook, Kingston,
and Dobbs Ferry—already gaining traction in the
“great places to relocate to” stakes pre-COVID—are
now firmly on the map of cool. And all over the Valley,
from Kingston, New York, to Kent, Connecticut,
from Woodstock to Wappingers Falls, new specialty
shops are opening, galleries and event spaces are
launching, performance art is popping up, and
restaurants and bars—new, nearly new and even
some old-established well-beloveds—are starting
up or reawakening with a palpable new energy.
Yet for all its buzz and all its newfound
trendiness, the valley retains an ancient,
almost spiritual allure. Heavily forested, with
great swathes of land still vastly undeveloped
and astonishing in their natural beauty,
this bucolic region offers the best of both
worlds—pockets of urban sophistication
combined with a simpler, less stressful life.
WHERE TO STAY
Where not so long ago you had to make the
stark choice between a faceless Hilton or
Marriott, or a “mom and pop” B&B with strict
house rules and iffy plumbing, in the past few
years the number of characterful, comfortable
independent places to stay has surged.
The times they are most definitely a changin’
at small hotels like The Dylan (thehoteldylan.
com), the very cool hotel in Woodstock where
seasoned hoteliers Cortney and Robert Novogratz
have spiffed up a dilapidated old motel and created
a psychedelic tribute to the 1960s. And while
each room is named for a rock legend and comes
complete with a Crosley record player and a great
selection of vinyl, the Novogratzes never make
the mistake of letting style win out over comfort.
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JANE BEILES
If music and cool colors are the vibe in
Woodstock, across the scenic Ashokan reservoir—
ten miles from Woodstock as the crow flies—
silence is the allure at Hutton Brickyards
(huttonbrickyards.com). A 73-acre former
industrial site that reopened this year after a major
renovation, this “camp” for adults offers a variety
of luxury cabins—spare in design but with a sexy,
minimalist aesthetic—right on the Hudson itself.
There are spa sheds for massages and facials;
archery and croquet are available on the lawn;
and added to all this is an exceptional indooroutdoor
restaurant where ex-Balthazar New York
chef Dan Silverman cooks—mostly over wood.
JANE BEILES
© FRIDMAN GALLERY
NICOLE FRANZEN
THE CONTRAST COULD HARDLY be greater between
bucolic Hutton and sleepy Kingston, and its
lively neighbor across the river, Rhinebeck.
This long-established river-town has always
had a clutch of decent hotels and restaurants,
but the bar has been recently raised with the
launch of Mirbeau Inn & Spa (rhinebeck.
mirbeau.com), a thoroughly indulgent new
family-owned retreat, with a superb health and
wellness program and a restaurant, Willow, with
an appetizing New American menu, overseen
by Charlie Palmer of New York’s Aureole fame.
The approach is a bit more old fashioned
at Troutbeck (troutbeck.com), albeit with a
© THE ARMOUR-STINER OCTAGON HOUSE
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© THE AMSTERDAM RHINEBECK
© AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION
strikingly contemporary face—namely, design
and decoration by internationally acclaimed
designer Alexandra Champalimaud, mother of
Troutbeck’s owner, Anthony Champalimaud. (She
has recently done The Carlyle in New York and
Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles). The former home
of the poet-naturalist Myron Benton, whose circle
of friends included (Troutbeck visitors) Emerson
and Thoreau, and later home to poet and botanist
Joel Spingarn, this beautiful house—set on a 250-
acre estate, complete with swimming pool, tennis
courts, and wellness barns—still resonates with
political and literary history and has become home
to a hip young crowd. They love it for its laidback
charm and excellent restaurant, under the baton of
chef Gabe McMackin, for whom “farm-to-table” is
not merely a catchphrase but means exactly that.
ALL ON THE HUDSON
Clockwise, from top left: Hutton
Brickyards; The Maker; fare from The
Amsterdam; The Opus Westchester;
Glenmere Mansion; the house at
Troutbeck; Feast & Floret restaurant; the
Armour-Stiner Octagon House; the River
Pavilion at Hutton Brickyards; Fridman
Gallery; Troutbeck’s wellness barns.
© FEAST & FLORET
© GLENMERE MANSION
PAUL BARBERA
HEADING SOUTHWEST, about an hour’s drive down
the Valley, brings you to the town of Beacon.
Once an industrial hub, choked with factory
fumes, Beacon is enjoying a remarkable rebirth,
with good schools, terrific shops and restaurants
and a handful of independent luxe hotels, among
them the utterly charming, 23-room Roundhouse
(roundhousebeacon.com). At the former textile
factory and later the H. N. Swift machine shop,
where the first lawnmowers in America were
reputedly manufactured, owner and Long Islandto-Beacon
transplant Bob McAlpine, of the
McAlpine Construction Company fame, has
managed to create a welcoming hotel within the
curved walls, while respecting the building’s
integrity. Brick, reclaimed wood, and many other
salvageable parts of the original property meld
together to make a homogeneous and rather
beautiful whole, while the thrilling view of the
Fishkill Creek waterfall adds yet another dimension.
Continuing down to Peekskill, not so long ago
a fairly dodgy, down-at-heel river-town, it’s hard
to miss The Abbey Inn & Spa (theabbeyinn.
com)—a magnificent, newly converted convent
high up on the town’s Fort Hill, with spectacular
river views. The Mother Superior’s circular, paneled
office is now the Apropos bar; the nuns’ refectory
is the restaurant (along with the added Hudson
Room); and the church and chapel, complete
with stained–glass windows and glorious period
detail, are both breathtaking event spaces. A series
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of pictures from the top floor down tells the story
of the Hudson, from its source in the Adirondack
Park all the way to Manhattan and the Atlantic.
Cross the river itself, a relative trickle at this
point, via quaint Bear Mountain Bridge, and
half an hour’s drive west brings you to Chester,
and Glenmere (glenmeremansion.com). This
Italianate mansion, a Relais & Châteaux property, is
a stunner. It has been lovingly restored by writer and
realtor Alan Stenberg and his partner, orthopedic
surgeon Daniel DeSimone, who saw the crumbling,
neglected mansion when they were driving to lunch
one day and knew they had to buy it. Set deep in
the farmlands of the Lower Hudson Valley, with
its sumptuous public rooms, ornate library, formal
gardens, pool, and loggia, Glenmere is a dream of
good living. And the bartender surely mixes the best
dry martini between New York City and Montreal.
In White Plains, meanwhile, the county seat
and commercial hub of Westchester, where the bar
and restaurant scene has been burgeoning for some
time, the very swish Ritz-Carlton hotel has morphed
into The Opus Westchester (theopuswestchester.
com) and is much happier in its new skin. Part
of Marriott’s Autograph collection, complete with
indoor pool, steam room, and fitness center,
while hardly small or charming, Opus makes
perfect sense as a base to explore the region, or
if you are flying into or out of the extremely handy,
soon-to-be-expanded Westchester County Airport.
And all the way to the north, in hip and
happening Hudson-on-Hudson—not so long ago a
rough-and-tumble river-town where venturing out
after dark might have given you pause— without
a doubt The Maker (themaker.com) is making
its mark. A sumptuous house full of vintage
furniture and beautiful antiques, this exquisite
small hotel’s pool and gardens would not look
out of place in Provence. But with everything
sourced locally and brought together by Hudson
Valley artisans and craftsmen, it is in fact a
celebration of the region and American to the core.
WHERE TO EAT AND DRINK
With its abundance of high-quality local produce—
meat, dairy, and vegetables—coupled with
great butchers, cheese- and bread-makers, and
micro-breweries, the Hudson Valley is a veritable
cornucopia. But the great produce, sold in markets
and merrily sent further afield, hasn’t always
translated into local restaurants of any note.
Happily, that’s all history now. At spots like
Hudson Hil’s Cafe (hudsonhils.com) in Cold
Spring—where property prices in the last year
have soared and a recent search showed only two
active listings in the town—the vibe is casual and
easy-going. But menus, predicated on local and
organic ingredients, like house-cured salmon with
local eggs, or Hudson Valley grass-fed beefburger,
say, have a real resonance with the area and the
land. For a terrific sense of what’s going on in the
Hudson Valley generally, Beacon’s Hudson Valley
Food Hall & Market (@HVFoodHall), showcases
a variety of local chefs, and in addition to the
food and produce stalls, houses The Roosevelt
bar, which offers cocktails made with local
distilled spirits. There are eat-in outlets within
the food hall, too, including the cheerful Momo
Valley (momovalley.com), which is not strictly
local but its Nepalese dumplings and steamed,
pasture-raised chicken are irresistible nonetheless.
OVER IN POUGHKEEPSIE, a key Hudson town and
one which feels newly energized, Culinary Institute
of America-grad Charlie Webb, one of a new
generation of Poughkipsters, is delighting locals with
his distinctive Detroit pizza at Hudson & Packard
(hudsonandpackard.com). He uses locally
sourced ingredients wherever he can and the line,
which frequently runs along the street for his pizza
pies, is all the proof you need of taste and quality.
Just two doors away—and after some considerable
delay, now slated to open this fall—is The Academy
(theacademyhvny.com), a specialty coffee
shop, food hall, brewery, and fresh food market,
bringing further food-and-drink luster to the town.
Just below the Hudson’s widest point, at
Haverstraw, lies Tarrytown, home to a smattering
of historic houses, like Washington Irving’s former
home, Sunnyside, and Jay Gould’s Lyndhurst
estate (think railroads and Western Union). It’s
also home to the recently opened Goosefeather
(goosefeatherny.com), a small but perfectly
formed Cantonese restaurant, occupying a set of
rooms on the first floor of the imposing, mid-19thcentury
King Mansion, exquisitely decorated with
many original antiques and lit almost entirely with
candles at night. Four miles further on, at the Metro
North railroad station in Dobbs Ferry, another
characterful restaurant also respects the past—
well, actually, revels in it. The recently opened
Hudson Social (hudsonsocial.com) occupies a
Victorian-era ticket office between the railroad tracks
and the river, and its sublime burrata, generous
salads, and brunch-option ham, cheese and egg
sandwich are already earning it legions of fans.
Across the valley, in Bedford Hills, a South
Asian sizzler has come to sometimes staid
horse country, in the form of Dinh Dinh Kitchen
(dinhdinhkitchen.com), where Westchester native
Brian Candee offers what he calls a “Southeast
menu with an American core”—cue crispy
Korean chicken with fries, and peanut noodle
bowl with glass noodles and Napa cabbage.
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For all its buzz and all its newfound
trendiness, the valley retains an
ancient, almost spiritual allure.
SPANNING NATURE
Bear Mountain Bridge,
a notable landmark
on the river.
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Back in Dutchess County, meanwhile, there
are universal plaudits for The Amsterdam, in
Rhinebeck (lovetheamsterdam.com), a pareddown,
blond wood, minimalist restaurant offering
New American fare that focuses on the very best
local produce. Wonderful cheeses and charcuterie,
a hearty shakshuka, and a local take on chicken
paillard are all standouts. Up in Hudson, where
restaurants both before and during the pandemic
seemed to open and close in the blink of an eye,
Feast & Floret (feastandfloret.com), an eatery
whimsically situated within a flower shop, with
an evolved, mainly Tuscan menu—dishes prinked
with locally tinctured honey and salts—looks like
a keeper. And not far away, with probably the best
cheese selection in the Hudson Valley, along with
home-made pasta and prepared dishes to go, the
newly expanded Talbott & Arding (talbottandarding.
com) now offers indoor seating for the first time.
WHERE TO SHOP
You don’t go to the Hudson Valley for the
shopping. Or rather, you didn’t. All that’s changed
now. Where not so long ago, local shopping
meant fusty antiques shops open only three
days a week, or bijou indies selling macramé
plant holders and scented candles, in recent
years the bar has been raised stratospherically.
Amenia, in Dutchess County, is hot right now
and nowhere’s hotter than RiverTown Trade
(rivertowntradeshop.com), with its bespoke beauty
products, zingy china, all-natural totes, rockstar
photos in frames, and COVID-minded accessories.
“I love the romance of entering a space and being
transported,” says co-owner Samuel Gold, who
managed the retail outlets for Ian Schrager hotels
and Mandarin Oriental. The original branch of homedecoration
store Hammertown (shop.hammertown.
com) has been around for some 30 years in Pine
Plains, but its beautiful new satellite stores in
Rhinebeck and Great Barrington, Massachusetts,
keep punters coming back for more: There’s
kitchen ware, tableware, furniture, hand-printed
scarves, and jewelry, much of it by local designers.
Peekskill’s Bucko! (buckoshop.com),
meanwhile, in the town’s striking Flatiron Building,
is the place for gorgeous baby clothes, as well
as a small but super-stylish collection of casuals
for mom and dad. If it’s a one-off handbag or
beautiful jewelry you’re after, head to Millbrook
and the Kieselstein-Cord gallery (kieselsteincord.com),
where you’ll find Barry Kieselstein-
Cord’s now iconic bags and handmade jewelry in
the redesigned gallery space. His pieces (many
of which are on public view at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art) are always showstoppers.
IN FRANCOPHILE LARCHMONT—a wealthy outer
suburb and commuter town for New York City at
the base of the Valley in southern Westchester,
much favored by the expat French community
—the shopping has always been a cut above,
but even here the bar has been raised lately.
Marmoucha shags, Berber baskets, boujad prayer
rugs and heady, Mexican Nopalera soap (made
from cactus flowers) are just some of the tempting
goods to look out for at The Souk at Maisonette
(maisonetteshoppe.com). While in the town,
stock up on one-of-a-kind, handmade greetings
cards, many designed by local artists, at the
pint-sized Write On! (writeonwestchester.com).
If Larchmont has a French flavor, it was the large
expat British community of posh Mount Kisco, 25
miles to the north, that drew local resident and
British former musician Drew Hodgson and his wife,
Leigh, to bravely open The Hamlet (thehamletny.
com) at the height of the pandemic. (“For Brits
who couldn’t get back to the UK,” says Drew.)
Located in a former bank, this is a captivating
specialty store for all things British—jams,
relishes, crisps (of course), Cadbury chocolate,
tea, meat pies—plus an amazing collection of
ISTOCK
DIFFERENT FACES
From top: The Italianate
Glenmere mansion; along
the tree-lined banks of
the Hudson; inside the
Kieselstein-Cord gallery.
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than 25 regional artists, as well as workshops,
monthly open mic, and a panoply of other events.
© KIESELSTEIN-CORD
vinyl, including David Bowie, Radiohead, and
Roxy Music, housed in the bank’s original vault.
Serious and playful art, too, has made major
inroads into the region, as city dwellers have
drifted northward, and artists and gallery owners
have moved or expanded their galleries to meet
the new demand and fill wall-space. Up in
Beacon, in Iliya Fridman’s first outpost of his
well-known Lower East Side Fridman Gallery
(fridmangallery.com), the ambitious line-up
includes ten shows over the coming months.
Opened in April 2021, in the heart of Hudson,
Shakespeare’s Fulcrum (shakespearesfulcrum.
com) is a “self-curating gallery dedicated to
change,” essentially a five-year pop-up, although
patron Valerie Monroe Shakespeare’s concept
originated almost 30 years ago in a space beneath
the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Down in
Millerton, meantime, Geary (geary.nyc) is another
Lower East Side gallery which has spread its wings
to the Hudson Valley, where it represents new
artists as well as established ones in mid-career.
Poughkeepsie doesn’t want to be left out
either. Recent gallery openings include Queen
City 15 (queencity15.com), a member-run space
showcasing working artists, and Clinton Street
Studio (@clintonstreetstudiopk), another artistrun
workspace and gallery. And in close-by Hyde
Park—the historic home and estate of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt—at the Artists’ Collective of
Hyde Park (artistscollectiveofhydepark.com) you’ll
find year-round changing art shows from more
KIM SARGENT
WHAT TO DO
With its meadows, wetlands, forests, and waterfalls
—along with more than 700 trails to suit every
level of skill and endurance—the Hudson Valley
is a hiker’s paradise. At Wonder Lake (parks.
ny.gov), converted from a 1920s summer home,
you will never tire of the Highlands trail, which is
continually expanding, and will eventually extend
200 miles across four states, from the Connecticut
border to the Delaware River. The first segment
starts in Putman County. For hiking neophytes,
the recently opened Vlei Marsh trail, near
Rhinebeck, is a relatively gentle, 1.5-mile nature
walk offering superb views of the marshland.
If a formal garden appeals to you more than
rugged natural beauty, head to the Beatrix
Farrand Garden at the Bellefield Mansion
(beatrixfarrandgardenhydepark.org) on the
grounds of the FDR historic home at Hyde Park.
The garden has recently been painstakingly and
faithfully restored and is now open to the public.
In Irvington, and still in private hands, the
Armour-Stiner Octagon House (armourstiner.com)
is the world’s only domed octagonal house. Both
the structure and its garden have been restored to
their 1872 former glory, and both are now open
for small weekend tours, which must be booked
in advance. Last but not least, diagonally across
the river, in Nyack, the Edward Hopper House
Museum & Study Center (edwardhopperhouse.
org) has reopened following a long closure,
and is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a
year-long program of events and shows. They
include an exhibition of the artist’s caricatures
and one celebrating the life of his wife and
muse, the American painter Josephine Nivison.
HUDSON VALLEY REGIONAL AIRPORT AND WESTCHESTER
COUNTY AIRPORT ARE THE MAIN AIRPORTS SERVICING
THE AREA–FOR MORE SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON THE
BEST AIRPORT FOR YOUR NEEDS, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR
NETJETS REPRESENTATIVE.
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The season’s most alluring jewelery creations make all the right
moves. // Photography by Xavier Young Production by Elisa Vallata
FIT FOR
A QUEEN
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Above:
Facing page, from
left to right:
GRAFF white gold
necklace set with
rubies and diamonds
DAVID MORRIS white and
yellow gold Boreas
earrings set with white
and yellow diamonds.
CHOPARD white gold
Precious Lace earrings
set with emeralds and
diamonds VAN CLEEF &
ARPELS white gold Lotus
Between the Finger ring
set with diamonds
PRAGNELL platinum
Manhattan ring set with
rubies and diamonds
DAVID MORRIS white
gold ring set with one
black opal, diamonds,
sapphires, white opals,
and Paraiba tourmalines.
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GAME OF GEMS
From the top,
counterclockwise:
BOODLES platinum
bracelet set with
aquamarines, beryls,
kunzite, morganite, and
white diamonds
VAN CLEEF & ARPELS
white gold Lotus pendant
clip, set with diamonds
CARTIER white gold Les
Berlingots de Cartier ring,
set with blue chalcedony
and diamonds CHOPARD
white gold L’Heure
du Diamant ruby and
diamond-set pendant
with chain necklace
VAN CLEEF & ARPELS
white gold Olympia
necklace set with
diamonds CHOPARD
platinum and rose gold
Temptations earrings set
with orange sapphires,
tsavorites, rubies,
amethysts, and
diamonds ADLER white
gold Brocéliande ring set
with one pink cultured
pearl and diamonds.
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From top right,
clockwise:
BOGHOSSIAN white gold ring set
with a Zambian emerald, seed
pearl beads, and diamonds
FABIO SALINI white gold ring
set with one blue sapphire and
diamonds GARRARD white gold
Jewelled Vault ring set with rubies
and diamonds
BOODLES platinum and yellow
gold Scroll ring set with one
yellow-orange diamond and
white diamonds
PURLING LONDON Stone Chess
Black v White alabaster board,
with 34 Italian alabaster chess
pieces featuring natural veining,
and the Purling logo embossed
in 18kt gold on Italian nappa
leather felts.
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GOURMET SCENE
OLD AND NEW
Daniel Boulud’s Le
Pavillon perfectly
encapsulates a
modern take on
traditional French
cuisine.
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Always bustling with creativity, chef Daniel Boulud is at his best
in remaking the Manhattan icon Le Pavillon. // By Bill Knott
Photography by Thomas Schauer
UPDATING
THE
CLASSICS
ON 19 MAY THIS YEAR, after many months of restrictions,
restaurants in New York City were allowed to open their doors
once more. On the same day, one restaurant—Le Pavillon,
on the second floor of the ambitious new One Vanderbilt
skyscraper in Midtown—opened its doors for the very first time.
Speaking at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Bill de Blasio,
Mayor of New York City, paid tribute to Marc Holliday,
chairman and CEO of SL Green Realty, the building’s owners
“for believing in the people of New York City and investing in
them,” and to Tim and Nina Zagat, founders of the eponymous
restaurant guide, for their continued promotion of the city.
But his most fulsome praise was reserved for Daniel Boulud,
chef, restaurateur, and the culinary mastermind behind Le Pavillon.
“Daniel, New York City has always loved you,” he proclaimed. “This
is a symbol of New York City coming back, right here, right now.”
De Blasio went on to reference the original Le Pavillon, which
opened for the World’s Fair in 1939 and continued as a bastion—
for a while, New York’s only bastion—of classic French cooking
until 1972, acknowledging Boulud’s homage to the original,
but saluting the chef’s determination to reinvent. It managed, he
thought, to encapsulate the spirit of New York: “Amazing history that
we honor, but a place where we always create something new.”
Recalling the event, Boulud sounds a little uncomfortable
with what he calls “the hoopla of celebration,” but he
appreciates de Blasio’s central point. “If I am known
for anything, it is the modern interpretation of classics.”
One dish on the menu at Le Pavillon is a case in point.
“I asked Jacques Pépin [the veteran French chef, writer, and
TV presenter, who worked at the original Le Pavillon in the
late 1950s] what he remembered from the menu, and he
said that the most celebrated dish was poulet au champagne.
SEA BLISS
Halibut, Martha’s Vineyard shiitake,
consommé, cabbage, and barley
from Le Pavillon.
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“The classic French version is poached chicken with a sauce made
with cream and champagne, but Le Pavillon changed it to rotisserie
chicken served with its jus and a champagne sabayon. We have
brought back the rotisserie, but now the champagne sauce is foamed
in a siphon, taking out the egg yolks and making it much lighter.”
It is, however, one of only a handful of meat dishes on Le
Pavillon’s extensive menu. Seafood and vegetables share the
limelight, and Boulud is happy to see diners “having a seafood
dish each, and ordering vegetables to share.” Grilled avocado,
for instance, is served with bulgur wheat, kale, harissa, and
Boulud’s sophisticated, fines herbes take on green goddess
sauce. “In classic French bistro cooking,” he says, “vegetables
are often just a garnish, a sprig of watercress or corn salad,
perhaps. At Le Pavillon, we let them take center stage.”
And Cornelius Vanderbilt, the founding father of Grand Central,
is honored with an oyster, redressing the balance, as Boulud—
slightly tongue-in-cheek—says, with fellow magnate John D.
Rockefeller. The version at Le Pavillon is filled with oyster chowder
and shredded seaweed, topped with a hazelnut gratin, and
Boulud expects them to be a permanent fixture on his menu.
THE OPENING OF LE PAVILLON marks what Boulud hopes is “the end
of the rollercoaster,” a hugely traumatic year-and-a-bit for New
York’s hospitality business. Thinking back to the start of lockdown
in March last year, Boulud recalls his feelings at the time. “It is
one thing to lose the opportunity to be with your customers, but
quite another to lose your staff. That was even more devastating.
“So many of our staff had been with us for decades
— they had shown great loyalty, and we always took
care of them. Suddenly, we couldn’t.” A payroll of
800 employees was reduced to single figures overnight.
Boulud did what he could, paying many staff for weeks
afterwards, until they could claim benefits. “Some of them were
particularly hard hit, some lost family members to the virus.
“We put three staff members on the company’s board. Together
with our HR director and our director of operations, they allocated
funds to the neediest. Thanks to the generosity of friends and
customers, and some Zoom classes I did for corporate clients,
we managed to raise $750,000. And we made sure that staff
didn’t lose their health insurance, which was really important.”
The second phase was launched in cooperation with Marc
Holliday and SL Green: As well as One Vanderbilt, the realty
company owns a dozen or so other properties in Manhattan and
it is the landlord for many of the city’s restaurants. The Food1st
initiative brought back many staff into kitchens to cook meals both
for first responders and for vulnerable populations throughout the
city. Boulud tips his toque to SL Green: “Not many landlords, in
that situation, would say, ‘I’ll pay you to cook meals for the city.’ ”
Boulud reopened his downtown prep kitchen and, in
partnership with World Central Kitchen and Citymeals on
Wheels, they started cooking and distributing food to those most
in need. By August this year, they had served 627,000 meals.
He also made the decision, when rules were relaxed, to
open a sidewalk restaurant at Daniel, his Upper East Side
flagship. “We had to close Café Boulud when the owners of the
hotel we were in went bankrupt, so we brought in tables and
chairs from there and tried to recreate a kind of fantasy South
of France garden. We had never done it before, but it went
very well.” As winter approached, he had bungalows built,
complete with foam insulation, music systems, and heaters.
“Inside, when we could open for limited numbers, we called
Hermès, who very kindly gave us wallpapers and fabrics, and
we screened each table with trees and flowers. Thankfully, we
don’t need the dozen or so 11-foot panels we used anymore,
so we have cut them down to 9.5 foot and sent them to the
studios of some young American artists. We will sell them to
benefit Citymeals on Wheels. I hope I can afford to buy one!”
Daniel closed for eight weeks in summer for refurbishments
originally slated for 2019. Meanwhile, Boulud is looking for a
new Café Boulud site and planning the reopening of Boulud
Sud, at Lincoln Center, and db Bistro Moderne in Midtown.
He is optimistic for the future. “I look out from Le Pavillon to
42nd Street, and the open-topped tourist buses that run every
45 minutes are packed, which is a great sign. And I’m looking
forward to taking my son to basketball games again: He loves it.”
The Knicks? “And the Nets too,” he says, quickly. Boulud is far
too canny an operator to alienate the Brooklyn basketball fans.
In August, he managed to escape to France for a few days
with his family; passing through Paris, he and his wife Katherine
went for dinner at Michel and Sébastien Bras’s new restaurant
La Halle aux Grains. Bras père is revered as one of the founding
fathers of modern French cooking, and his Laguiole restaurant
in the southern French countryside is one of the country’s most
famous: “I love Michel, I have known him for many years.”
THE RESTAURANT IS on the third floor of the newly renovated
Bourse de Commerce, owned by François Pinault, who—as well
as owning many luxury brands and thousands of contemporary
artworks, many on display at the Bourse’s gallery—is the owner
of Château Latour, and a loyal customer of Boulud’s in New York.
The price of the Latour was too rich even for Boulud’s
blood. “But I knew I had to order Latour, because of
François. So I ordered its second wine, Forts de Latour,
which was delicious and very reasonably priced.
“It is a beautiful restaurant. The interior is very modern,
industrial-chic, designed by the Bouroullec brothers, but
when we had dinner, my wife was facing inwards and I
was looking out of the window, at the corner of the Saint-
Eustache church, and the canopy of Au Pied de Cochon.”
Au Pied de Cochon is a legendary Parisian brasserie that, until
the pandemic, had not closed its doors since 1947. Once again, it
is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. “I looked at the neon
sign, and I thought, ‘Well, if we’re still hungry after this, we could
always go over the road for a pig’s trotter!’” Daniel Boulud may
be famous for embracing the present and looking to the future,
but he still likes to keep one eye on the past. lepavillonnyc.com
ALL ABOUT ALFRESCO
A garden table at Le Pavillon,
the New York icon that Daniel
Boulud has reimagined.
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“Vegetables are often just a garnish.
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TASTING NOTES
There’s more than meets the eye in calvados, the
apple-based brandy from the northwest corner
of France with a new generation of custodians.
// By Jim Clarke
FRANCK PRIGNET/LE FIGARO MAGAZINE/LAIF
SPIRIT OF
NORMANDY
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DAVID MORGANTI
ON TAP
Jean-Luc Fossey, cellar
master at Père Magloire;
facing page: Inside the
Roger Groult distillery.
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PITY THE FRENCHMAN with no vineyards in his
département—unless he has apples instead. That’s
the fate of Normandy, the region memorialized by
Impressionists where the cliffs and beaches give way to
gentle hills that are green and damp but rarely hot, so
growing wine grapes has never really been an option.
And so was born calvados, the third and sometimes
forgotten brandy of France, which, unlike cognac or
armagnac, is made from apples, and tastes like it.
“A mix of terroir, weather, and a lot of apple varieties—
around 300,” are what make Calvados special, according
to Jean-Roger Groult of Roger Groult (calvados-groult.
com), the fifth-generation producer in Saint-Cyr-du-
Ronceray, who says his ancestor Pierre started distillation
between 1850 and 1860. “He used to produce for
[the] family and sell to neighbors,” before demand
increased and he won his first gold medal in 1893.
Even today, those 300 pomme varieties, sharp
and all but inedible, wouldn’t befit a tarte tatin. “They
are very different than eating apples and do not
grow in many places,” says 42-year-old Guillaume
Drouin at Christian Drouin (calvados-drouin.com) in
Pont-l’Évêque, a village best known for its delicious
square-shaped cheese. Drouin, whose half-timbered
estate is open for visits, grows 20 of those varieties,
divided into four categories: tart, bitter, bittersweet,
and sweet. Every calvados is a blend of these
types, made into a cider, then distilled and aged.
FRANCK PRIGNET/LE FIGARO MAGAZINE/LAIF
DAVID MORGANTI
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From the smallest orchards, like Michel Huard’s
(calvadoshuard.com) 37-acre parcel, where cows roam
beneath the trees’ high-trained branches amid a tableau
of decaying moss- and ivy-covered granite castles and
farmhouses, to the largest, Boulard (calvados-boulard.
com), these purveyors look positively petite when
compared to their outsized cognac counterparts. And yet,
many of them use the same terms as that grape-based
brandy on their labels: Fine, VSOP, and XO, for example.
“We try to make blends the same every year,” says
Drouin. “The work on vintages is different. Each year
shows a unique personality which evolves with time
spent in [the] cask.” That diversity is reflected in the
glass: Younger calvados, such as the Boulard VSOP, is
redolent of fresh ripe apples with a hint of vanilla, while
a more mature blend such as Groult’s Age d’Or is richer
and more complex, with spice and caramel notes. Older
vintages keep that complexity but grow more delicate
and elegant, sometimes showing surprising aromas like
green olive and brown butter, as in Drouin’s 1939 bottling.
These expressions of the apple are regulated, as
are production areas, of which the best known and
most revered is Calvados Pays d’Auge, between Caen
and Rouen, where, according to Drouin, the resulting
elixir is “rounder and milder, rich and long,” notably
because it’s double-distilled. Pays d’Auge is also home
to an avant-garde collective who have banded together
to create Esprit Calvados (esprit-calvados.com), an
association of five family-owned estates. “We started
in 2008 from the will of some producers with the
same ‘DNA,’ to show that there is a young generation
APPLE HIGH
The new generation of calvados makers
is led by the likes of Richard Prével of
Boulard, left, which has the largest
orchards in the region.
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TASTING NOTES
CORE FAMILY
Sister-and-brother
team Anne-Pamy and
the late Jerome Dupont
were at the heart of the
calvados renaissance.
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interested in calvados production and pursuing the
tradition and bringing some fresh and open ideas at the
same time,” explained Jerome Dupont to me a few years
ago. As head of the stately Domaine Dupont (calvadosdupont.com),
he did so much to push the new modern
image of calvados before his untimely death in 2018.
The aforementioned Groult, Dupont, and Drouin
are all members of Esprit Calvados, as is Le Père Jules
(calvados-leperejules.com), which is based in Saint-
Désir and which bottles 10, 20, and even 40-yearold
blends in its atmospheric cellars, and Pierre Huet
(calvados-huet.com), which still has a 1935 vintage
calvados for sale at its highly regarded domaine on the
Route du Cidre in the charmed village of Cambremer.
While Pays d’Auge, closest to Normandy’s historic
beaches, gets much of the attention, there is another
region, Calvados Domfrontais, which adds to the stylistic
diversity. Drouin calls these single-distilled brandies
“more straightforward, more acidic, vibrant, and lively,”
a character brought out further by the inclusion of
pears—at least 30%. Two exemplars of this appellation
are producers Lauriston (calvados-lauriston.com) and
Père Magloire (calvados-pere-magloire.com) whose
fruity and more subtle calvados work well as aperitifs
or in cocktails. Regardless of where they are cultivated,
“the apple aromas create the flavorful typicity of
calvados compared to other brown spirits,” Dupont once
said. “And this is one of the main reasons why calvados
lovers are so faithful.” Leave it to a Frenchman to
inject a bit of romance into the intoxicating equation.
WHERE TO STAY
Deauville has been a resort town for Parisians for
decades; its Hotel Normandy Barrière (hotelsbarriere.
com) is a classic, near the beach with a casino
attached. For a quieter time, head outside of town to
Les Manoirs de Tourgéville (lesmanoirstourgeville.
com), set among the area’s golf courses and stud
farms, or to Les Manoirs des Portes de Deauville
(portesdedeauville.com), where the nine cottages
are surrounded by six acres of blissful calm. In
historic Honfleur, Hôtel Saint-Delis (hotel-saintdelis.fr)
offers nine chic rooms and some remarkable
restaurants in easy reach. But to really get into the
heart of Calvados, head to Château de la Pommeraye
(chateaudelapommeraye.com), set in the countryside
inside a renovated 12th-century castle.
WHERE TO EAT
Normandy is known for its dairy; try the Michelinstarred
Le Pavé d’Auge (pavedauge.com) in Beuvronen-Auge
for some classic cream- and cheese-centered
dishes. Inside the casino in Deauville, Le Ciro’s
Barrière (casinosbarriere.com) makes the most of the
seaside location with a great seafood menu as well as
a superb list of calvados for afterward, or for a more
modern take on local, seasonal ingredients, try Caen’s
A Contre Sens (acontresenscaen.fr).
A TASTE OF THE PAST, TODAY
The popularity of the “third” French
brandy may be increasing but it remains
true to its traditions.
CLAES LOFGREN / WINEPICTURES.COM
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A KIND
OF MAGIC
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An immersive art experience like no other, the new
Superblue in Miami further cements the city’s leading
role in the contemporary art world.
© TEAMLAB, COURTESY OF PACE GALLERY
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TRULY IMMERSIVE
As stunning cultural experiences go, it’s hard to top Superblue, the new art space in
Miami that has quickly become a local, and global, sensation. It’s the brainchild of
Marc Glimcher, president and CEO of Pace Gallery, and former Pace London president
Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst. While the new venture is separate from Pace—one of the
world’s leading private galleries, with locations in New York, London, Hong Kong,
Seoul, and several other cities—the concept is much the same: A platform for artists
to express their visions. The primary difference here is scale. Superblue is housed in
a renovated warehouse a few blocks west of Wynwood that measures 50,000 square
foot (the White House in Washington, D.C., for comparison, is about 55,000 square
foot). Ceilings stretch to 30-foot high, and it’s easy to feel lost in the artists’ creations—
which is precisely the point. The opening show features installations by just two artists
and a collective, and the gallery’s directors foresee an ever-evolving program that
involves not only large-scale projects, but also ones that involve all five senses and are
interactive. Economically, Superblue differs from Pace as well: Superblue funds artists
to create the works and then pays royalties based on ticket sales. Plans are in place for
additional Superblue sites across the U.S. and the world, but for now this first location
has slotted into Miami’s flourishing art scene exceptionally well: Art aficionados looking
to decompress from the immersive experience can simply cross the street and wander
around the Rubell Museum, one of the largest private collections of contemporary art
in America. It’s a compelling proposition—and, perhaps, a model for what’s to come in
cities around the world. superblue.com
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A visitor explores “Massless
Clouds Between Sculpture
and Life,” a 2020 work by
teamLab in the “Every Wall
is a Door” exhibition at
Superblue Miami, 2021.
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Es Devlin’s “Forest of Us,”
2021.
FACING PAGE
Artist Devlin takes a photo
of herself in her installation
“Forest of Us.”
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THIS PAGE
Es Devlin is reflected multiple
times in her installation “Forest
of Us,” 2021.
FACING PAGE
Visitors explore “Meadow,” 2017,
a work by DRIFT.
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THE LAST WORD
WILLIAM CHASE
The farming entrepreneur on how he enjoys some rare downtime
TRAVEL
Sun worshipper or thrill-seeker?
I want to get more into sailing,
so I have to go and physically
take a break. I quite enjoy skiing
too, because it’s good to go and
do something rather than just let
the day pass by. So, I’d say I’m
probably more of a thrill-seeker.
I’d like to buy an Oyster yacht
and sail around the Med—and
in couple of years travel a lot
further. I’m into sailing because it
is a challenge.
ACCOMMODATION
Grandes dames, luxe design, or
eminently private? If I’m going
to stay somewhere briefly, I
really look for boutique hotels.
My favorite at the moment is
in Palma, Mallorca, called Can
Bordoy. It’s not ostentatious, it’s
very understated and privately
owned—and the food ... it’s all
about the food. They’re really into
healthy, healthy lifestyles.
ARTS
Still life or live performance? I love
museums, and that whole collecting
culture from wherever you are. On my
travels, I would say I’ve enjoyed more
things in places like Turkey and more
remote places. My first experience
in Turkey was going through these
different-era Roman sites, and they
weren’t protected at all—they just
asked you to stand back from the
mosaics. Tel Aviv is a beautiful
place—it’s phenomenal how much
culture there is there.
TRANSPORT
Fast lane or cruise control? I’ve got
a lot of old Land Rovers and steam
engines, but I’d love a Lamborghini
Miura—the first supercar ever made.
It’s not the actual car but the magic all
around it. I love very old Ferraris, but I
don’t like the new ones.
FUTURE PLANS
Expansion plans or build on what you
have? I love building a brand. After
crisps (Tyrrells) and spirits (Chase Gin
& Vodka), my new project, Willy’s
ACV is about live food, probiotics, and
fermenting. We’re trying to educate
people on the benefits of healthy live
food and a healthy diet. willysacv.com
FOOD
Top names or hidden gems?
Everybody’s now looking for
those hidden gems. And they
want some of the fun, something
that’s very typical, and very
honest. Everybody wants home
ferments and homemade,
healthy food. And I think the
best place to go is obviously in
all these traditional places where
they’ve been doing the same for
years and years.
ARCHITECTURE
Classical or modern? I’m a
classical fan—I like old stone.
I like character and the magic
in buildings. Once something’s
had years and years of oldstone
character and charm,
you can’t lose that. We’ve got
a 16th-century house I live in
in Herefordshire. And when we
developed that—it hadn’t been
touched for many years—we
wanted to preserve that feel.
JULIAN RENTZSCH
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