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ROME REBORN
Italy’s capital blends
the old and new
A CUT ABOVE
Hailing the latest
generation of tailors
SCIENCE OF REST
Why recovery is key
to all-round health
CUSTOM CARS
Dany Bahar’s one-ofa-kind
creations
ORGANIC GROWTH
A famed French vineyard
is taking a different path
TAKING OFF
IN THIS EDITION OF NETJETS, THE MAGAZINE, our editors have put together an issue
of the tailored, the elegant, and the beautiful. The amazing story of true automotive
customization from entrepreneur and NetJets Owner Dany Bahar, who discovered
the need for his latest venture in an intriguing twist of fate. Then we turn to the next
generation of tailoring talent, creating detailed designs for clients tired of work-from-home
ultracasual apparel. And we travel to Rome to experience the boom in exceptional new
hotels and restaurants in the Eternal City—each catering to unparalleled service, something we
pride ourselves on here at NetJets.
As we enjoy the warm welcome of a new season, we hope you are experiencing the very best
the world has to offer—whether adventures close to home or trips across the globe.
Only NetJets!
Adam Johnson
Chairman and CEO
C O N T R I B U T O R S
CHRISTIAN BARKER
The Australian-born,
Singapore-based
fashion scribe takes
a look at the new
cutters on the block
for The Future of
Tailoring (page
56). From Sydney
to New York, he
discovers changes
are afoot in the very
traditional world of
suitmaking.
NOCERA & FERRI
Italian photographer
duo—Luca Nocera
and Lara Ferri—
have worked out
of London since
2012, but had
the ocean as their
inspiration for Sea
Bounty (page 44),
showcasing the
stunning beauty
of pearls in artistic
settings.
DELIA DEMMA
In Rome’s Riches
(page 48), the
Italian writer visits
her country’s capital
to explore the latest
developments
in the worlds of
hospitality and
gastronomy that
are complementing
the city’s abundant
architectural and
historical treasures.
GUY WOODWARD
The wine expert
travels to a
venerable vineyard
in Bordeaux,
where a major
development is
underway thanks
to the visionary
leadership of Saskia
de Rothschild,
as Lafite Looks
Forward (page 70)
to an organic future.
CHRIS HALL
Where once watches
were a simple case
of black and white,
color is now in
vogue, and one hue
in particular stands
out. As our Londonbased
horology
specialist explains in
Feeling Blue (page
60), manufacturers
are embracing all
things azure.
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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ALPINE EAGLE
With its pure and sophisticated lines, Alpine Eagle offers a contemporary reinterpretation
of one of our iconic creations. Its 41 mm case houses an automatic, chronometer-certified
movement, the Chopard 01.01-C. Forged in Lucent Steel A223, an exclusive ultra-resistant metal
resulting from four years of research and development, this exceptional timepiece, proudly
developed and handcrafted by our artisans, showcases the full range of watchmaking skills
cultivated within our Manufacture.
CONTENTS
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TIME TO RELAX
Six Senses, Ibiza,
page 34.
64 48 64 26
IN THE NEWS
A desert cultural oasis, the
finest spirits, urban ebikes,
and more
pages 10-18
NETJETS UPDATE
The latest events, staff in
profi le, plus tools of the trade:
inside a pro golfer’s bag
pages 20-24
MADE TO MEASURE
With Ares, Dany Bahar is
making customization the
king in the automative world
pages 26-29
WIDE OPEN SPACES
Golfing revolutionaries are
making their mark in the
wilds of Nebraska
pages 30-33
SLEEP ON IT
The secret to healthier
living may be as simple
as taking a break
pages 34-43
PRECIOUS PEARLS
The ocean’s most beautiful
bounty sparkles in the
right settings
pages 44-47
ETERNALLY YOURS
Rome’s glorious past and
inventive present combine
for a unique city experience
pages 48-55
SUITED UP
A new generation of tailors
is redefi ning men’s fashion
in the post-pandemic world
pages 56-59
DINING OUT
The most intriguing and
inventive restaurant
openings around the world
pages 64-69
GROWING ORGANICALLY
An old name but a new
approach, Château Lafite-
Rothschild is reborn
pages 70-73
LATEST WAVE
Embracing new media, the
Kramlich Collection is a
sight to behold
pages 74-81
THE LAST WORD
Entrepreneur John Muse
on how he spends his
valuable spare time
page 82
JOHN ATHIMARITIS, FRANCESCA MOSCHENI, ISTOCK, © ARES
STORY OF THE BLUES
Once a rarity, marine-hued
watches are an increasingly
timely presence
pages 60-63
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NETJETS, THE MAGAZINE
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THE SMART GUIDE
An update on the world of culture heads our
collection of the latest, the best, and the brightest.
TODD HEISLER / THE NEWYORKTIMES / REDUX / LAIF
A CITY LIKE NO OTHER
Part of a growing trend, the latest artistic creation of extraordinary scale has opened
in the American West, after 50 years in the making. // By Brian Noone
© MICHAEL HEIZER; COURTESY TRIPLE AUGHT FOUNDATION; PHOTO BY JOE ROME
THE SAME SELFISH, INEVITABLE
question arises for visitors to
the pyramids of Egypt, the
Great Wall of China and every
other monumental relic of
the ancient world: In a few
thousand years, what will
be left of our contemporary
civilization? Michael Heizer’s
extraordinary project in the
austere desert of Nevada,
which took the artist 50
years to complete, is a good
candidate to be one of the
survivors.
When the project began
back in the early 1970s,
Heizer was one of the foremost
artists in a movement that
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SCENES FROM “CITY”
Every corner of the astonishing
work (below and previous page)
by Michael Heizer (above)
presents a new perspective.
is now known as Land Art,
along with Nancy Holt, Robert
Smithson, Richard Long and,
perhaps most famously, Christo
and Jeanne-Claude. The works
of all these artists involve the
earth itself as a part of the
piece, whether it is excavating
and reshaping the soil or
framing the landscape in a
novel way.
The pieces are often jawdropping
in scale—and the
newly opened work by Heizer
in the American desert, “City,”
is no exception, stretching 1.5
miles by 0.5 miles, an expanse
that is best appreciated from
an airplane but is intended to
be experienced on the ground.
TODD HEISLER / THE NEWYORKTIMES / REDUX / LAIF
As such, it unfolds slowly as
you pace through the imposing
site, continually surprised by its
angular concrete constructions
and mammoth earthforms that
evoke both ancient ceremonies
and modern metropolises.
Both the historic and the
contemporary resonances are
intentional here, just as
they are at other Land Art
masterpieces: The shadow
of conceptual art, which also
developed in the 1960s, looms
large over the movement
and the resulting conceptual
sophistication adds depth
to the visceral experience
of the works. Questions of
mortality, of Sisyphean futility
and, naturally, of legacy all
intermix—and you can’t fail
to appreciate, here in the
middle of the high desert of
Basin and Range National
Monument, why this massive
creation might outlive most
of our contemporary feats of
architecture.
The American West has long
been a popular home for these
creations of otherworldly scale,
from Robert Smithson’s iconic
“Spiral Jetty” (1970) near the
Great Salt Lake in Utah to light
artist James Turrell’s “Roden
Crater” in Arizona, which he
began in the 1970s and is still
ongoing, though the two-milewide
crater is only sometimes
accessible to the public (and,
in 2019, to Kanye West, who
filmed an IMAX-format music
video there). But America is
not the only setting where a
sense of our infinitesimality is
apt, and such works have been
proliferating in recent years in
places like Patagonia and the
Australian Outback.
Most recently, a new site
has been announced for a
series of huge projects: AlUla
in Saudi Arabia, where the
new Valley of the Arts will be
home to five new permanent
installations in the next two
years, including a work by
Heizer and another by Turrell.
Will it become the world’s
largest sculpture park, a
supersized version of the
soul-stirring Château La Coste
in Provence? Or will it be
something closer to a sculpture
graveyard, as a few of the
trendy art parks are sadly
becoming?
Impossible to say now—but
one thing is clear: largescale
outdoor art is here to
stay, and Heizer’s “City” will
almost certainly outlast us all.
tripleaughtfoundation.org
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THE SMART GUIDE
A GRAND COLLECTION
Tantalizing elixirs, the latest city
rides, art in New Mexico, and more.
1
2 3
4
6
5
1 COURVOISIER MIZUNARA Two giants of the spirits industry join forces for a unique cognac, as Grande Champagne eaux-de-vie aged originally in French oak barrels
is then moved to House of Suntory’s award-winning casks made of Japanese Mizunara wood for a second maturation. courvoisier.com // 2 GORDON & MACPHAIL 1949
FROM MILTON DISTILLERY An exceptionally rare whisky, this was the last cask laid down in the distillery—now known as Strathisla—in the 1940s. Small copper stills
with a distinctive shape helped to give the spirit its rich, fruity, and full-bodied character. gordonandmacphail.com // 3 BERRY BROTHERS & RUDD NORDIC CASK
COLLECTION Featuring five casks from pioneering Nordic distilleries, the second release from the renowned London wine and spirits merchant’s range features single malts
from Denmark, Sweden, and Finland (including Teerenpeli, pictured), plus a rare Nordic blend. bbr.com // 4 THE MACALLAN HORIZON As enchanting as the latest whisky
from the Moray-based distillery is, the focal point of this release is its remarkable packaging. A collaboration with Bentley Motors, the visionary design of the casing focuses
on the horizontal, producing a most distinctive look. themacallan.com 5 GLENFIDDICH TIME RE:IMAGINED Three single malts capture a single moment in time and are
encased in elaborate designs. The 50-year-old (pictured) stands for Simultaneous Time, the 40-year-old for Cumulative Time, and the 30-year-old for Suspended Time.
glenfiddich.com 6 FETTERCAIRN 18 YEARS OLD SINGLE MALT The innovative distillery’s first whisky finished in locally sourced Scottish oak casks, having been refined in
American white oak ones, represents a major development in master whisky maker Gregg Glass’s approach. fettercairnwhisky.com
CITY STYLE
2 3
1
The inexorable rise of ebikes continues apace with perhaps the greatest strides taking place in the
production of those improving transit around urban areas. The Brompton Electric P Line (1, brompton.
com) is a prime example. The lightest bike yet from the London brand, among its many charms, its
portability, with an innovative dual-locking seat post, means you can steer the folded bike by the
saddle. Further east, Taiwanese brand Tern (2, ternbicycles.com) has produced the NBD, with its
long-step-thru frame and low center of gravity making it an ideal getaround. And across the Atlantic,
Texas’s Denago (3, denago.com) has created the Commute 1, widely regarded as one of the best
ebikes around for navigating the busy city streets in style and ease.
ADDED POWER
Sportscar giant Porsche is increasing its interest in the ebike world, making motors, batteries, and software architecture at
its Munich factory, and acquiring a stake in Croatian ebike brand Greyp. porsche.com
ALL IMAGES COURTESY TH COMPANIES
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THE SMART GUIDE
A SOUND
INVESTMENT
Danish audio specialist Bang
& Olufsen has long been at
the forefront of technological
advances in the high-end
speaker sector but has also
always paid attention to
interior design, ensuring its
products are as easy on the
eye as they are pleasing on
the ear. So it proves with
the latest natural aluminum
Beosound Balance, which
combines a Scandinavian
aesthetic with hidden
interfaces which allow a
control of volume
that ensures the perfect level
for every occasion.
bang-olufsen.com
PETER VITALE
SIGHTS TO BEHOLD
Santa Fe has established itself as a major player in the art world, but how best to enjoy the city’s bountiful
culture scene when such hubs as New York and L.A. offer so much more in the hospitality sector? A simple
solution is provided by one of world’s leading hotel brands, Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado Santa
Fe, which has launched an art concierge program. As well as enjoying the intimate surrounds of the 65-casita
boutique hotel, guests will be offered an array of curated experiences around the 250-plus galleries in the
Santa Fe area, including meet-and-greet with artists, private shows, and after-hours tours at some of the
city’s top establishments. Perhaps the highlight is a four-hour Canyon Road Concierge Tour, helmed by local
expert Mike McKosky. fourseasons.com
SANTA FE AIRPORT: 20 miles
© BANG & OLUFSEN
BEST OF THREE
“A vehicle that’s all about leisure and
pleasure,” says Steve Morris, executive
chairman of Morgan, the British
manufacturer of the new Super 3. The
three-wheeler is a throwback to a more
carefree era, though the engineering
is of the highest contemporary
quality, with a Dragon inline engine,
monocoque body, and a five-speed
manual gearbox. Pitched to appeal to
curious motorcyclists and sports car
lovers wanting something a bit more
“fun,” the retro look is a sign of things
to come, with other manufacturers
such as Liberty Motors, Vanderhall,
and Polaris in the U.S. also playing
their part in the rebirth of the threewheeler.
morgan-motor.com
NICK DIMBLEBY
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PRIVATE
ISLAND LIVING
at it’s finest.
VIRGIN GORDA
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
OILNUTBAY.COM
THE SMART GUIDE
A BEAUTIFUL
FRIENDSHIP
A collaboration between the venerable
London luggage maker and the renowned
Paris-based fashion house, the Globe-
Trotter x Casablanca collection of
suitcases is truly the meeting of two worlds.
The range—which includes large check-in
and carry-on trolley cases alongside
smaller bags such as the miniature, London
square, vanity, and attaché sizes—
embodies the Globe-Trotter aesthetic, which
remains true to the principles laid out at
its founding in 1897, yet takes inspiration
from the very latest fall/winter designs from
Casablanca, “Le Monde Diplomatique,”
a homage to the world of jet-set travel.
globe-trotter.com
KEEPING A WARM FRONT
SPINNING TOP
Long-time leader in the field of home
entertainment, Audio-Technica has
upped the ante for lovers of vinyl with
its latest release, the AT-LPW50BTRW.
The newest edition of the brand’s
belt-drive wooded turntables gives
the listener all the benefits of their
old-fashioned records connected, via
Bluetooth, to the very latest speakers
or headphones. The rosewood-finish
veneer adds more than a dash of class
to a beautifully manufactured piece
of equipment. audio-technica.com
As well as producing some of the world’s finest golf clubs, Scottsdale, Arizona-based PXG
creates distinctive and bold golfing fashions. Its fall/winter collection, inspired in part by
its desert headquarters, comes in three sections—The Essentials, The Edit, and Coming in
Hot—each imbued with a sense of tradition and American style, and all equally wearable
on the course and off it. pxg.com
LIGHT FANTASTIC
Two British icons have come together for a
limited edition bike that features both a sense of
nostalgia and the latest engineering and materials.
Folding-bike specialist Hummingbird has garnered
a reputation for its lightweight creations and its
latest frame made of flax-plant fibers weighs
in at just 15 pounds. It is also a homage to the
motorsports manufacturer British Racing Motors
(BRM), with the bike painted in the brand’s colors,
to mark the 60th anniversary of its Formula One
World Championship win. hummingbirdbike.com
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NOTES FROM NETJETS
Latest happenings, onboard updates,
companywide news, and profiles.
KEEPING ON TRACK
FREDERICK DUCHESNE (3)
DRIVING EXCITEMENT
The view over Tabac corner in Monaco, above, was just
one of the highlights of NetJets’ F1 events this summer.
This year, NetJets supported the Formula
One (F1) races in Miami and Monaco.
The Miami Grand Prix, the first F1 race in
Miami, was held on May 8. A total of 500
guests attended our Owner event. The night
before the race, Grammy-winning duo The
Chainsmokers performed at the event, and
former F1 driver and current commentator
for Sky Sports David Coulthard and English
professional golfer Ian Poulter were in
attendance for a Q&A session.
The final week of May saw the most
highly anticipated event in the F1 calendar
return to the Circuit de Monaco. After two
years with no spectators because of the
pandemic, the Monaco Grand Prix saw
excited guests crowding into the bustling
principality. As usual, we provided our
Owners with the best seats in the house—
the NetJets roof terrace overlooking the
12th corner, Tabac. In total, we welcomed
238 guests across the weekend and flew
51 legs equivalent to 96.7 flight hours—or
four straight days in the air.
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NETJETS BY THE NUMBERS
GLOBAL
STATISTICS
JULIAN RENTZSCH
ACCESS TO
5,000+ AIRPORTS IN
200+ COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES
(That’s more than the top four airlines combined)
INSIDE TRACK
ERIC McCARTY
Vice President, Safety
WHEN DID YOU START AT NETJETS?
I was hired in 2004 as a First Offi cer to fl y the Hawker
800XP. Prior to my current role, I served as an assistant
chief pilot, director of Technical & Compliance Programs,
and vice president of Flight Operations. Before that,
I spent six years fl ying at regional airlines.
WHAT DOES YOUR NORMAL DAY CONSIST OF?
I start every day with an update on our business
goals and performance metrics from the previous day.
Following this, our team focuses on safety promotion as
well as our regular monitoring and review of any safety
events, which could include weather-related events,
injuries, or industry incidents and accidents.
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE YOU FACE IN
YOUR ROLE?
Like all companies, we face challenges. However, we
view these as opportunities to learn and grow. This
positive mindset allows us to be creative and innovative
in our relentless quest to lead our industry in safety
practices and compliance standards. Safety guides
everything we do, and our team is challenged to elevate
these standards. In doing so, we have accomplished the
following milestones:
- Achieved the highest level of Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) Safety Management System
(active conformance) over 10 years ago
- Implemented a fi rst-in-class Flight Operations Quality
Assurance (FOQA) program that continuously monitors
fl ight activity
- Built a robust voluntary safety reporting program that
allows us to identify safety hazards from confi dential
reports from front-line employees
- Became the fi rst and only Part 135 operator to
launch an FAA Advanced Qualifi cation Program,
the highest level of training recognized and used by
Part 121 airlines.
260M+ SM FLOWN ANNUALLY
Enough to circle the Earth 10,400+ times or
take 540+ trips to the Moon and back
800+ AIRCRAFT WORLDWIDE 1
Greater than our three largest competitors’
fleets combined
175+ NEW AIRCRAFT PURCHASES
Nearly 80 jets will be delivered in 2022 alone
as part of a multibillion-dollar, multiyear fleet
investment
LESS THAN 5 YEARS
Age of almost half of our aircraft,
which is significantly younger than
that of our competitors’
APPROXIMATELY $83M
Annual investment in personalized,
industry-leading Crewmember training
630+ NEW HIRES
2021 recruiting efforts, including
300+ new pilots
1
Total number of aircraft includes aircraft under management by NetJets and
Executive Jet Management.
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NOTES FROM NETJETS
THE MASTERS
Our Team welcomed Owners to Augusta on Thursday, April 7, and we
provided exclusive hospitality at Club Magnolia throughout the weekend.
19TH HOLE
The entertainment continued once
the golf had finished at Augusta.
During our NetJets Friday Night event, NetJets Owners and their guests attended
a live interview hosted by Jim Nantz and featuring a panel of professional golfers
and NetJets Brand Ambassadors, including Tommy Fleetwood, Shane Lowry,
Lee Westwood, Tyrrell Hatton, and Harris English. Afterward, we hosted a private
performance by singer-songwriter Thomas Rhett. This is always one of our most
popular events and one that we look forward to every year.
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JULIAN RENTZSCH
CREWMEMBERS IN PROFILE
MIKE WITHORN
Flight Attendant
MY FIRST EXPOSURE TO FLYING WAS …
when I was 14 or 15 years old. I went to visit
my brother who was in the Air Force in New
Mexico. When I graduated high school, I moved
to Naples, Florida, and became a ticket agent for
Bar Harbor Airlines. I fell in love with fl ying and
was hired as a fl ight attendant for Northwest
Airlines in 1989.
THE BEST PART OF FLYING IS … seeing the
world and getting paid to do it. In my 30-plus
years in this work, it is still my favorite part and
the opportunity I most appreciate.
BEFORE JOINING THE NETJETS TEAM, I
WAS … fl ying for Northwest Airlines as an
international fl ight attendant and purser,
managing all in-fl ight details. I worked there
for 18 years and frequently took trips to China,
Japan, Europe, and India.
THE ONE DAY AT NETJETS I WON’T FORGET
WAS … the Monday I received the phone call
offering me a position as a NetJets international
fl ight attendant. It was two weeks after I’d
applied, and I thought my interview went
horribly. So, I was thrilled—and relieved—that I
got the offer. Within two weeks of that call, I was
welcomed to new hire orientation.
ONE THING OWNERS PROBABLY WOULDN’T
GUESS ABOUT ME IS … I am a commercial,
multi-engine, instrument-rated pilot and am
planning to transition to a NetJets pilot without
severing employment.
ON MY DAYS OFF … you’ll fi nd me at the
airport. I instruct in a Cessna 172 at both
Naples and Immokalee airports and manage a
Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six for a private owner.
I am a First Offi cer on a Cessna Citation 550 for
medevac fl ights, and my wife and I volunteer
our time to fl y for Pilots N Paws, taking rescue
animals to new homes. In addition, I am
working on gaining enough hours to become a
NetJets pilot.
WITHIN THE NEXT TEN YEARS, I WOULD
LIKE TO … be in the pilot seat of a NetJets
aircraft—and I should reach that goal within
the next six months to a year. I have loved
my career as a fl ight attendant and, now,
my ultimate goal is to co-pilot for NetJets
with my son, who is currently working on his
pilot licenses.
MY BEST ADVICE FOR STAYING SANE
ACROSS TIME ZONES IS … listen to your
body. It tells you when to sleep. Get out and
explore the places you’re visiting. The world
is different everywhere, so try to get together
with colleagues and learn about other cultures—
it really brings us all together.
NetJets
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NOTES FROM NETJETS
What’s in the Bag?
It’s an oft-asked question posed to professionals by everyone from golfing
journalists to equipment junkies. And thanks to the popularity of social media,
the hashtag #WITB has become a siren call for diehard enthusiasts to track
what their favorite pro is debuting, utilizing, modifying, or replacing.
It is in that spirit that we are lifting the veil to reveal the tools of the trade for
some of our favorite NetJets Brand Ambassadors, starting with this debut
feature that showcases the eclectic weapons used by none other than Jason Day.
WOODS
DRIVER:
Ping G410 LST Diamond
(10.5 degrees)
Custom Tpt 15 Lo shaft
3 WOOD: Taylormade SIM Max
80g Kuro Kage X flex
shaft
IRONS
3 & 4 IRON: Taylormade P770
KBS C-Taper shaft
5-PW:
Taylormade P7MC
KBS C-Taper shaft
WEDGES
52-DEGREE,
56-DEGREE: Titleist Vokey SM9
S400 shaft
60-degree:
PUTTER
Titleist Vokey 22 Proto
S400 shaft
Scotty Cameron F-5.5
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From Red Bull to Ferrari to Lotus, Dany Bahar has been a force for
change in the automotive world, and yet his coachbuilding company,
Ares, may be his most ambitious undertaking. // By Josh Sims
ONE
OF A KIND
YOU CAN IMAGINE the look on his face. A Saudi prince is the proud
owner of a $2.5 million Bugatti. He’s enjoying lunch in Monaco.
And then guess what pulls up outside the restaurant? A virtually
identical $2.5 milllion Bugatti. Fortunately, Dany Bahar was there
to provide a solution.
“He looks at me and just tosses the car keys across the table
and tells me to do whatever I need to do to make his car unique,”
recalls Bahar. In doing so, he became Bahar’s first customer. And
a rather good one, as he has since put a “double-digit number” of
cars a year through the entrepreneur’s services.
“If he hadn’t seen that other Bugatti maybe it would never have
occurred to him just how much he actually wanted something
unique—that what is, in most cases, the pure, theoretical idea that
someone else just might be able to buy the same vehicle as him [is
enough of an incentive to pursue that individuality],” Bahar adds.
What Bahar does, through his Modena, Italy-based company
Ares, which he co-founded with business consultant Waleed Al
Ghafari just eight years ago, is take a vehicle and remodel it as
a true one-off. Clients come with their seemingly run-of-the-mill
Ferrari, Bentley, or Rolls-Royce—automobiles that, in the more
everyday world, would already be considered extremely special—
and often with specific ideas as to how to make it utterly special.
That might amount to a reworked interior scheme or it might
involve something much more fundamental: turning a sedan into a
coupe, for example, converting a fixed roof into a convertible one,
or changing the entire profile of the vehicle.
“Actually I’m not really a car guy myself, not a petrolhead,”
says Bahar, who nonetheless spent a couple years at Ferrari as its
senior vice president for commercial and brand before leaving—
something hardly anyone at Ferrari ever does—to become CEO of
Lotus. Perhaps he is, at heart, more of a brand-builder: He made
his name in the business world with considerably smaller wheels,
helping to make inline skating the global phenomenon, if a fleeting
one, that it became, before moving on to Red Bull, where, as
its chief operating officer for four years, he was instrumental in
launching its Formula One racing team.
“What I learned [from both experiences] was how important
emotional content is to any product, how powerful that can be,”
enthuses Bahar, who’s more an ice-hockey player than an inline
skater, and who, one imagines, has enough get-up-and-go in his
veins to bypass energy drinks. But perhaps both brands attuned
him to the needs of younger people—and what the “Me Generation”
wants, more and more, is something that’s all about them.
Indeed, the falling age profile of the very wealthy isn’t something
all manufacturers of luxury products have yet grasped, he contends.
It was Bahar who battled with Ferrari’s dominant engineering
culture to get the company to launch vehicles that worked with
the lifestyle needs of the young and wealthy, not just to provide
excellence in mechanics.
“Ferrari was becoming an old man’s car, an attribute that
[younger consumers] wouldn’t want to be associated with. I
think I was able to change that a lot while I was there, and
start to do some really cool things,” says Bahar, a Turkish-born
Swiss, now based in Dubai. “But I also met so much resistance
to that idea. I remember having this 1.5-hour-long meeting with
the CEO, who’s a dear friend, and at the end he said ‘Dany,
I didn’t understand anything you said, but it sounded good.’”
He continues: “To give a stupid example, it was as simple as
putting in cup-holders. Ferrari saw no engineering reason to
have them. But even a Ferrari needs a cupholder. The Ferrari
California was the first ever Ferrari for which the initial briefing
came from the commercial department, which had an eye to
fulfilling the needs of the customer [not finding a customer to
meet whatever the company built].”
And there are more and more of these customers, a new
demographic for whom lifestyle concerns are paramount, and,
increasingly, customization is king. That, Bahar concedes, is not
an original idea per se. “Modding” is now well-established within
the watch world, and luxury car makers, Ferrari included, have
long run programs that allow buyers to select, say, a particular
paintwork finish or seating leather. Many high-end car makers
also have decades-long relationships with famed coachbuilders
like Pininfarina or Zagato, each bringing their vision to exceptional
versions of production vehicles.
What’s new, arguably, is elevating it to the Ares level: The
customer ends up with their Bugatti looking like no other, complete
with all road-worthiness certifications and registrations. And
that’s possible because Ares will do what the bigger names of
the luxury automotive world could do—on paper—but can’t or
won’t do in actuality because the necessary disruption to their
production processes is just too costly and too complex. These
massive companies will, Bahar reckons, only ever be able to offer
CHANGING MINDS
Dany Bahar’s Ares is setting new
standards for customized vehicles.
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customization lite. In other words, Ares is filling a “market
niche”—no, Bahar pauses to correct himself, make that
“ultra, ultra niche.”
“In principle, no manufacturer really likes another
company messing with its cars,” Bahar laughs, though
the likes of Bentley and Volvo have already approached
Ares to take on some special projects they’re too big to
fulfil. Besides, he suggests, like it or not, for some of
their customers, this is the future.
“Even back at Ferrari and Lotus I felt that, while the
product is important, it’s individualization that’s even
more important, and that it’s only a matter of time
before the possibilities of individualization will come
to every kind of luxury item on sale today,” reckons
Bahar. “You can see that the customization business has
made huge progress over just the last few years, that
the personalization you got a century ago from having
a bespoke suit made just for you will be seen in many
other products, too. It’s all about having a product your
neighbor doesn’t have.”
Critics might worry that this is a reductive view of
what’s driving customers—one-upmanship, swagger,
boastfulness—but Bahar suggests it’s precisely the
reassurance that you have what nobody else has that is
the motivating force for, maybe, half of his clients. And
it’s all the more pertinent given that, as he suggests,
the likes of a Ferrari doesn’t have the cachet it once did.
After all, these days it’s within the pocket of a top lawyer
or doctor.
“You may, if you’re fortunate enough to have the
money to do so, select your paint color, or whatever,
at the likes of Rolls-Royce, but there’s nothing to stop
someone else selecting the same paint color. And, fair
enough, that’s going to annoy you if you’ve spent a
million on a car and 5,000 people turn out to have the
same,” says Bahar. “The fact is that the more people
there are who can buy a $2.5 million Bugatti, the more
it’s a precondition that it has to be unique.”
Remarkably, he has found that the wealthier an
Ares’ client is, the less interest he—and it’s usually a
he—has in the mechanics of his vehicle, even though,
thanks to massive consolidation within the car industry,
many parts are common to vehicles up and down the
price spectrum. That’s not just because some of Bahar’s
clients already have hundreds of cars in a very big garage
somewhere. It’s because what provides them with the
additional value is the look and the feel of their car. “It’s
very particular. You might even call these people nerds,”
Bahar laughs.
That can lead to some very particular results, too.
If you’re selling a client on the carte blanche they will
have to produce a car just as they want it, there’s no
scope to quibble with their taste. You have to respect that
taste is—thankfully—not universal, not cross-cultural.
Bahar also recalls the frustrations his design department
experienced with a new project that could barely get
started for the client making one minute change after
another—and that was just to the steering wheel. Why
all the fuss about such an insignificant part of the car,
they wondered?
“I called the client and he said, ‘Look Dany, it might
not have occurred to you but when you’re driving a
car all you’re doing really is holding this one piece in
your hands. That makes the steering wheel the most
important part of the car, the part that has to be the
most beautiful. I can’t see the car from the outside when
I’m sitting in it. So I’ll spend all the time I need until the
steering wheel is perfect,’” Bahar recalls. “And I thought,
‘Yeah, he’s right.’ It’s all a question of what’s important to
you. Each detail typically has a story behind it. It’s that
emotional element again. I think understanding that is
why people come to us, because really we have no track
record to speak of yet. I think that’s why people come
back to us over and over again, too.”
Yet providing a service that can pay that level of
attention to detail doesn’t necessarily make for a longterm
growth business, especially given the realities of
contemporary geopolitics, even if the very, very topend
may be largely insulated from most events. Bahar
stresses that Ares’ customization service is, almost by
definition, limited in its growth: “You could produce
a thousand [specialist] cars per year and you’d be a
tiny, tiny company [in the automotive world]—and
we’re producing 50,” he says. But he also believes the
company has some way to go to reach what he calls “the
exclusivity limit.” He puts this at between 300 and 500
cars per annum, just few enough that what Ares does
will remain super-exclusive.
All the same, much as Pininfarina, after decades
focusing on design for third parties, has recently returned
to manufacturing its own cars, so Ares has now pressed
ahead with the launch of its own range of vehicles,
including its impressive S1 Project supercar. The first
production run of 77 was successfully pre-sold and will
be delivered this year. It has its own SUV in the pipeline
for 2023, and it’s also, somewhat incongruously,
planning an electric compact city car, bicycle, and
scooter. Manufacturing is, Bahar agrees, a very different
proposition from customization, but he’d rather Ares
stood on multiple pillars than become dependent on
one. Ares, he says, is moving away from being a service
provider and towards being a brand in its own right.
Certainly, he’s already thinking like a manufacturer. Has
any buyer of the S1 tried to put their new car through
Ares’ bespoke process?
“No,” says Bahar, “and, answering like all the big
manufacturers would, I hope it never comes to that.”
And at least this time it’s on his terms. Bahar might
well have been put off car manufacturing for life,
following his experience at Lotus. Brought in to rescue an
ailing brand, he went at it full throttle, upping its glamour
quotient by signing up Kate Moss, launching five new
models in one year (something the car industry just
doesn’t do) and then being fired by new owners in a hail
of accusations of financial impropriety, legal battles and,
finally, a settlement out of court.
“It’s all a question of what’s important
to you. Each detail has a story behind it.”
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Inside and out, Ares
transforms already
superlative cars such
as a Bentley.
ALL IMAGES COURTESY ARES DESIGN
“Each and every experience gives you an opportunity
to learn, and from Lotus I learned a lot about loyalty,
teamwork, the corporate world, and how you should get
absolutely everything in writing,” Bahar laughs. “But, you
know, it’s fine. I’m a pragmatic person and accept that
every life has its ups and downs. I won’t make the same
mistakes again. That said, whoever knows me, whoever
works with me, knows that I like to achieve goals in less
time than might be expected. There’s no rush really. It’s
just what drives me. I mean, why take things slower if
you can do them faster?”
That’s an apt question for the world of Ares, with
its 0-60 in three seconds culture and its exasperated
princes. At Ferrari, Bahar recalls, it was standard—as it
remains for most automotive manufacturing—for a new
car to move from drawing board to production in around
four or five years. “But we’re not at Ferrari here, we’re not
at Aston Martin,” he exclaims. “Here, there’s no reason
why we can’t do that in a year, a year-and-a-half. And
we’ve shown now that this is possible if you have good
processes and project management.”
In the long run, might Ares’ more important
contribution be to bring an overhaul of approaches to
luxury car production rather than for car customization?
After all, Bahar claims that Ares is already the world’s
largest coachbuilding company, both by turnover
and number of projects. Within the next five years he
expects it to be manufacturing around 400 of its own
cars every year. It’s an ambitious goal, but Bahar has
experience with doubters. When bankers and private
equity managers told him that it would be impossible
to achieve his proposed business plan within Ares’ first
five years, he decided to do it, and go beyond it, in four
years. And he did.
“It’s just the satisfaction of saying, ‘There, in your
face!’” he says with a knowing smile. aresdesign.com
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TEEING OFF
GOLF
ON THE
BEN VIGIL
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PLAINS
The new must-play course from hotshot
American golf design firm King-Collins
is a true stunner spread across a vast
parcel of former farmland in Nebraska.
// By Larry Olmsted
IT HAS ONLY BEEN a little over three years since Golf Magazine
named little-known architect Rob Collins “The Next Big Thing” in
golf course design, but it is looking like its crystal ball was spot on.
The young star in the making partnered with construction manager
Tad King to create King-Collins Golf Course Design & Construction,
a boutique fi rm that handles every step from site evaluation to
design to building the course. Most uniquely, they became the fi rst
notable designers ever to hit it out of the ballpark and make their
reputation with a nine-hole course, Tennessee’s Sweetens Cove.
Despite its small size, the course has gained cult-like status, drawn
favorable comparisons to the Alister MacKenzie-Bobby Jones
masterpiece Augusta National, and landed on Golfweek’s Top 100
list as the 21st Best Public Course in the U.S.—the only nine-holer
on that vaunted ranking.
Since Sweetens Cove, King and Collins have been swamped
with requests for their work and have projects under way in Texas,
New York, Mississippi, and more in Tennessee, but the next big
thing—in a very literal sense—is in one of golf’s less heralded
destinations, Nebraska. Here, in the extreme northeast corner of the
state—the closest “big city” is not even in Nebraska, it’s Sioux City,
Iowa, about 15 miles away—is a big chunk of agricultural land that
has been farmed by the Andersen family for four generations. The
Andersens are of Danish descent and proud of it, and own a local
nine-hole routing called Old Dane, but wanted to do a lot more in
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TEEING OFF
The greens are among the largest most
golfers will have ever seen, totaling nearly
six and a half acres unto themselves.
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CONTRASTING COUNTRY
From left: The seventh
and eighth holes of
Landmand, amid the
sparse Nebraska
landscape.
terms of golf, so they hired King-Collins and gave
it the run of 580 acres that have laid fallow for
two decades. The result is the Landmand (Danish
for farmer) course, a 7,200-yard, par-73 stunner,
which opened for play on September 3—one of
the highest-profile openings in the world this year.
If Sweetens Cove shocked with its small
stature, the opposite is the case at Landmand,
where everything is much larger than life. The
course site is about four times the average for
18 holes, with a whopping 84 acres of turf
between tees and the gigantic green complexes.
That would suggest ample landing areas, and,
to a degree, that is true, but players will have
to navigate a maelstrom of bunkers, totaling
almost four sand-strewn acres in all. The greens
are among the largest most golfers will have ever
seen, amounting to nearly six and a half acres
unto themselves. The largest is the signature
17th, a tribute to MacKenzie’s infamous,
legendary, and now vanished Sitwell Park green,
an enormous and extravagantly contoured green
he built at an otherwise pedestrian course in
England, with a drop so steep it is often described
as a waterfall. The long extinct green has become
a mantra of sorts in the currently hot retro-golf
architecture circles, led by the likes of Tom Doak,
Gil Hanse, and Kyle Franz, among others. Collins’
Sitwell take here in Nebraska farm country covers
more than 30,000 square feet for just one pin. In
comparison, the famed enormous double green
at St. Andrews Old Course, for the fifth and 13th
holes, is over 37,000 square feet. There are four
greens at Landmand in excess of 25,000 square
feet—more than four times the size of the average
putting surface on the major professional tours
(around 6,000). Collins is clearly influenced by
the early architecture of the British Isles, with
fairways meant to play firm and fast in the hot,
dry Nebraska summers and additional homages
to the classic punchbowl and redan greens.
So Landmand requires length off the tee
and gives room to play, but both fairway and
greenside bunker shots will be a vital part of any
visitor’s round, and two-putts may be rare, while
four- and five-putts won’t surprise. What will
surprise is the beauty and magnificence of the
land itself, which was cleared of trees decades
ago for farming, yet is hardly the flat cornfields
Nebraska is famous for, but rather a series of
valleys bisected by prominent ridges, offering
constantly impressive 360-degree panoramic
views but also creating a natural optical illusion
that makes it hard to judge distance. Collins was
dead-set on a walkable course, and designed it
initially by walking, channeling the old-school
Old Tom Morris method employed at Scotland’s
legendary Prestwick 170 years ago when Morris
would wander about the dunes selecting the
best green sites, then find a way to connect
and play to them. As a wonderful result of this
methodology and the very generous parcel, with
no constraints for homesites or such, there are
par threes, fours, and fives of every conceivable
length, and the holes play in every possible
direction. In addition, there are some dramatic
elevation changes, as Collins let the natural flow
of the landscape and its towering ridges dictate
the routing, which, for example, led to a drivable
par-four (seven) in a short valley between ridges
followed by a climb to a short par-three up on
top of the next hill.
As Collins has written, “Prior to the Sweetens
opening, we knew we had something special
on our hands. Right now, I multiply the feeling I
had early on in my gut about Sweetens by about
1,000 and that’s how I feel about Landmand.
We cannot wait for everyone to get out there and
experience it firsthand. The pictures don’t do it
justice. You just have to go and see it for your
own self.” landmandgc.com
SIOUX GATEWAY AIRPORT: 18 miles
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REST,
RECOVER,
RECHARGE
The missing link to your fitness program
may just be taking it easy. // By Jen Murphy
FOR DECADES, “No Pain, No Gain” and “Sore Today, Strong
Tomorrow” were the mantras preached by fitness instructors
and written on gym walls. We were always going hard, be it in
the gym or on the job. The events of the past two years have
caused us to take a collective pause. Suddenly, the slower pace
and work-from-home lifestyle allowed us time to embrace good
habits we’d typically skimp on—an indulgent hour-long yin
yoga class, a nutritious breakfast, 10 minutes of foam rolling
after a workout, a full eight hours of nightly rest. We never
realized we’d been running on fumes.
As the world reopened, we emerged with a new appreciation
for rest. Gyms and hotels have taken note, introducing everything
from dedicated recovery rooms equipped with self-massage tools
and compression gear, to sleep coaches and in-room meditations
to induce calm and tranquility. We still care about getting in our
steps, but we turn to the latest technology and fi tness trackers to
also help us monitor our sleep and maximize recovery.
Top athletes, such as NFL legend Tom Brady, ski champ
Mikaela Shiffrin, and tennis great Rafael Nadal, have long
known the secret to maintaining longevity while continuing
to improve performance is a balancing act. The big days of
intense workouts are carefully paired with naps, massages,
active recovery days, and smart nutrition programs. Studies
have shown rest days are essential for the body to maintain
homeostasis, or a state of balance. An intense bout of
physiological stress followed by recovery allows the body to
adapt and restore balance. Skip the rest and keep pushing, and
the body’s balance gets out of whack, increasing risk of injury
and illness.
Rest doesn’t have to mean lounging on the couch. Active
recovery can be as simple as scaling back intensity or doing
something active outdoors versus pumping iron at the gym. And
massages, once seen as an indulgence, are now viewed as selfcare.
If you’ve been giving it your all and aren’t seeing gains,
it may be time to step back and re-evaluate your routine. Here
are some easy ways to incorporate a bit more rest and recovery
into your day-to-day so you can look good but also feel good
day in and day out.
JÖRN KASPUHL
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Five Yin Yoga Poses for
Every Weekend Warrior
Yin yoga is jokingly called sleepytime
yoga as you often remain lying
on your mat the entire class and
hold poses for three to fi ve minutes
to access deeper layers of fascia—
the connective tissue that acts as
shrink-wrap around your muscles
and bones. Studies have shown that
fascia requires sustained stretching
before it starts to change elasticity.
Those longer holds in restorative Yin
postures have been shown to be one
of the most effective ways for fascia
to stretch and lengthen. And like
any style of yoga, breathing is at the
heart of the practice. As you breathe
into each pose, you’ll increase blood
fl ow and circulation, while also
activating your parasympathetic
nervous system to melt away stress.
Here are fi ve Yin poses to integrate
into your home routine.
SUPPORTED BRIDGE POSE
BENEFIT:
Relieves lower back pain and
opens the chest to counteract
slumped desk posture.
RECLINED SPINAL TWIST
BENEFIT:
Helps decompress the lower back,
stretches the glutes, and opens
tight shoulders.
RECLINED SUPPORTED
BUTTERFLY
BENEFIT:
This hip opener stretches
the groin and adductors while
releasing tension in the
lower back.
RUNNER’S LUNGE
BENEFIT:
Targets tight hip flexors, the psoas
muscle, and the lower back.
PUPPY POSE
BENEFIT:
Provides a deep stretch
through the shoulders, chest,
and upper arms.
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WHAT IS IT
This indigenous Hawaiian
healing art involves long,
rhythmic forearm strokes
that can deliver light to
deep pressure to improve
circulations and realign
the body.
Rooted in Ayurveda, a
traditional system of
medicine from India, this
massage is performed with
warm, dosha-specific oil.
Instead of a table, you lie
on the ground, clothed, as
a therapist uses their feet,
elbows, knees, and hands
to compress and stretch
the body.
Utilizes a “patu,” a wooden
weapon of war, and beech
spheres to apply varying
pressure to every muscle of
the body.
A century-old Japanese
massage technique that
deftly uses finger pressure
to knead, press, soothe, tap,
and stretch muscles as well
as stimulate the flow of “Qi”
or vital energy, throughout
the body.
WHERE TO TRY IT
The newly renovated Four
Seasons Resort Hualalai
on the Big Island of Hawaii.
fourseasons.com
Ananda, a five-star holistic
spa resort in the Himalayas
in India. anandaspa.com
Thai massage is a specialty
at COMO Shambhala Spa at
COMO Point Yamu in Phuket,
Thailand. comohotels.com
Newly opened Monteverdi
Spa in Tuscany.
monteverdituscany.com
The revamped Four Seasons
Hotel Westlake Village
in southern California.
fourseasons.com
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How To Know
When You Need A Break
If you’re putting in too much time at the gym, you could be doing more
harm than good. Overtraining can undo your fitness gains and make
you more susceptible to injury and illness. Samantha Campbell, owner
of Deep Relief // Peak Performance Athletic Training Center in Haiku,
Hawaii, on the island of Maui, trains some of the world’s top athletes
including big-wave surfer Ian Walsh, snowboarder Travis Rice, and
kitesurfer Jesse Richman. Here she shares insights on everything from
the importance of a rest day to how to get back to baseline.
Is there a way to measure how hard
you’re taxing your body during training
or are you really just going on how you
feel? These days gadgets like your Apple
Watch give you a readiness score. This
metric is based on heart-rate variability
(HRV), or the variance of time between
the beats of your heart. Low HRV may
indicate your body has activated your
parasympathetic nervous system, or
fi ght-or-fl ight mode, to respond to stress.
Sometimes you could write off that low
number due to having a few drinks the
night before. What’s more useful is to
look at trends over time by using HRV as
an objective number and correlating it to
subjective states like mood.
How might overtraining affect mood?
Mood swings can often be one of the fi rst
signs that something is out of whack.
Exercise is usually a mood booster,
but overtraining can lead to feelings of
grumpiness and even depression.
Are there other signs to look for?
Depending on the person, you could
notice changes in appetite and sleep
patterns. If you aren’t usually a napper
and are suddenly taking two-hour
naps in the middle of the day or if you’re
an early bird now sleeping in, those could
all be signs you might need a break.
Training puts physical stress on the
body but can outside stressors play
a factor in overtraining? Professional
athletes get to rest as part of their
job. Normal people, say training for a
triathlon or CrossFit competition, may
still work a 70-hour week. You have
to consider the total amount of stress
affecting your body, including nonathletic
stressors like work, a new baby,
or being off your sleep schedule.
How does overtraining affect
performance? If you’re unable to
perform well, even when you’re set up
to perform well, it’s a sign you need
a change. If you’re a runner and your
top speeds are going down even when
you’re rested or you’re a paddler and
you aren’t hitting your intervals in the
water, it may be because you’re doing
too much in the gym.
If you have overdone it, how do you get
back to baseline? Majorly scale back so
you go back to baseline for a week. That
doesn’t mean don’t exercise. Change
what you’re doing. If you normally do
a hilly run, do an active recovery walk.
You’re still moving and getting outside. Do
your sport, be it surfi ng or cycling, at the
most relaxing level and integrate recovery
activities like ice baths and massages.
After one week, if you feel refreshed,
slowly increase the intensity of activity.
Any tips for avoiding overtraining?
At least every two weeks take one full day
off. And for every two to three weeks of
intense training, add a week where you
bring down the volume so you can absorb
your efforts. And if you’re coming off an
illness or have been suffering from “long
Covid” symptoms, go slow.
Nutrition
Hacks
Nutrition is the often-overlooked
piece of the performance and
recovery puzzle. But with so
many options, it can be hard
to know what to eat and drink—and
when. Kate Zeratsky, a registered
dietitian and nutritionist with
the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,
Minnesota, offers insights to help
you make a game plan.
SPORTS DRINKS
PROS
Sports drinks rehydrate the body and
replace lost electrolytes while providing
sodium to drive thirst that makes the body
want to continue to hydrate. The added
carbohydrates refuel and replace glucose
(glycogen in muscles and liver) for the
next activity.
CONS
For those who do not exercise regularly,
you could be adding additional calories
through sugar and excess sodium to your
diet. The latter negatively impacts blood
pressure and kidney health. For those
wanting less processed foods, the fluid and
electrolytes of sports drinks can be achieved
in a combination of water and food.
RECOVERY BEER
PROS
Beer can boost the body with carbohydrates,
and brewer’s yeast is a good source of
thiamine, or B1, an important vitamin in
energy production. Just watch the alcohol
levels and maybe opt for a session ale rather
than a high-strength IPA. Or better yet, look
for non-alcoholic options from craft brands
like Athletic Brewing Company.
CONS
Consuming alcohol is counterproductive
to rehydrating and depending on
formulation, may not meet recovery protein
recommendations. If you want to crack
open a celebratory brew, have one, with
a water.
CHOCOLATE MILK
PROS
The children’s drink provides hydration,
carbohydrates, protein for muscle repair,
and electrolytes, as well as nutrition in
the form of sodium, calcium, magnesium,
phosphorus, and vitamins D and A. Dairy
products are a good source of leucine, an
amino acid thought to be a key in muscle
growth, as well as iodine, a trace element
needed for thyroid hormone production
that plays a role in energy production and
protein synthesis.
CONS
Added sugar from powdered or syrup-based
chocolate provides extra calories.
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HIT THE RECOVERY ROOM
Stretching zones have long been relegated to a cramped back corner of the gym, perhaps with a yoga mat or two.
No longer. Gyms and spas at hotels, such as The Hythe Vail, a Luxury Collection Resort in Colorado, and Six Senses
Istanbul, are devoting dedicated rooms to recovery. Yes, you’ll find yoga mats, but so much more. Equipped with
everything from vibrating foam rollers to compression leg sleeves, they offer the D.I.Y. cure for all sorts of muscle
aches and pains. Create your own home recovery room with these essential tools.
From top:
TRS SUPERNOVA
It took 18 months of research and work with professional athletes to perfect
the design of this massage ball. The groove pattern provides serious deep
tissue therapy while the small size—just a third of an inch diameter—
can reach tricky trigger points. It’s the ultimate antidote for tight shoulders
and hip flexors. roguefitness.com
GAIAM VIBRATING FOOT ROLLER
Our feet are our foundation and one of our most overlooked body parts.
Acupuncture spikes on this pulsing foot roller help increase blood flow
and reduce inflammation to help avoid common injuries, such as plantar
fasciitis, achilles tendinitis, and shin splints. gaiam.com
NORMATEC 3
The perfect remedy after a long flight or tough workout, Normatec’s patented
pulse technology helps to increase circulation, restore muscles, and reduce
swelling. Leg attachments (pictured) can be expanded to full body and can
pack down into a carryon. You can choose from seven levels of compression
and ZoneBoost technology allows you to target specific areas with more
pressure. hyperice.com
MARC PRO PLUS
This electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) device is used by elite athletes to speed
up recovery and improve performance. The pain control mode helps instantly to
alleviate soreness caused by exercise strain. Free, unlimited access to one-on-one
coaching calls help weekend warriors optimize results. marcpro.com
THERAGUN PRO
Easy to take on the road, this handheld massage device comes with six
different attachments to deliver the exact relief you need, be it gentle
percussion near sensitive areas or flushing motions to increase blood flow. A
rotating arm and ergonomic multigrip make it easy to access otherwise hardto-reach
spots. therabody.com
TRIGGERPOINT GRID 1.0 FOAM ROLLER
The next best thing to a sports massage, this foam roller has a grid-like
surface that targets specific muscles to get stubborn knots and kinks to
release. Studies have shown regular foam rolling, even just a few minutes
a day, can improve mobility and circulation and prevent muscle tightness.
tptherapy.com
BODYSPACE BODY ROLLER (not pictured)
It takes about a dozen lymphatic massage treatments to cleanse your lymph
system. This cutting-edge tool integrates infrared technology into a body roller
so you can flush toxins daily, resulting in firmer skin tone and reduced muscle
inflammation. A built-in computer allows for precise control. bodyspace.ca
SUPERFOOD
EXTREME ATHLETES’ SECRET TO ALL-DAY ENERGY
Products from wild-harvested supplement maker HANAH have become ubiquitous in the social media feeds of pro athletes like
big-mountain skier Angel Collinson and snowboard icon Jeremy Jones. HANAH founder Joel Einhorn spent over three years
working with an Ayurvedic practitioner in India to develop the 30-herb recipe for the company’s signature product, HANAH ONE.
Jimmy Chin credits a daily dose of HANAH ONE for keeping up his stamina throughout the intense fi lming schedule of Oscarwinning
movie “Free Solo” as well as lapping Tram runs when he’s home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The paste-like superfood has
a pungent smell and Vegemite-like taste, but mixed into coffee or spread on toast, it’s easy to integrate into a breakfast routine.
And travel-friendly ONE Go-Packs are the ultimate weapon for avoiding fatigue on the road. hanahlife.com
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We know sleep is important, but what
happens to the body while we slumber?
Sleep is vital for repairing and providing
rest to the brain and the body. But several
changes occur during sleep that help
regulate the body’s immune function,
control blood pressure and heart rate,
regulate production of several hormones
including growth hormones and those that
control hunger and satiety, impact the
areas in the brain that control emotions
and logical thinking, and help consolidate
short-term and long-term memory. Hence,
sleep deprivation could contribute to
susceptibility to infections, weight gain,
mood disorders, pessimism, depression,
anxiety, emotional dysregulation, and
worse short-term and long-term memory.
The Sleep Effect
Dr. Rohit Budhiraja, the medical
director in the Sleep and Circadian Disorders
Clinic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in
Boston, weighs in on why seven to eight hours
of quality sleep can be a gamechanger in
how you feel and perform.
Can you explain the different qualities
of sleep? Sleep is usually divided into
dream sleep (REM sleep) and nondream
sleep (NREM sleep). NREM
sleep is further divided into light sleep
(N1), intermediate sleep (N2), and
deep sleep (N3). Both REM and NREM
serve important functions. REM is
important for learning new skills and
memory consolidation and may help
regulate emotions.
What are some things that might lead to
a poor sleep? Environmental factors like
noise, light, high temperature (usually
cold temperature helps improve the
quality of sleep), and blue light exposure
at night (phone and computer screens
are very rich in blue wavelength). Eating
close to bedtime can worsen sleep
quality, and while alcohol can induce
sleep it can also suppress deeper stages
of sleep. Anxiety, stress, and depression
can signifi cantly impact the ability to fall
and stay asleep. And medical factors like
arthritis, acid refl ux, and sinus issues can
all effect sleep quality and continuity.
Are there habits you can embrace to help
improve sleep? Relaxation, exercise and
meditation can help slow down the brain
and facilitate deeper stages of sleep.
Avoid alcohol and meals close to bedtime
and try not to have caffeine within 8 to
10 hours of bedtime. For optimal sleep,
exposure to screens, like phones and
computers, should be cut off two hours
before going to bed, but even powering
down 30 minutes prior makes a difference.
Are there benefits of napping and if so
what and how long is a good nap?
Naps can improve mood and memory in
some people. If napping, it is usually a
good idea to keep it less than 20 to 30
minutes since longer naps can worsen the
sleep on subsequent nights by decreasing
the pressure of sleep.
Does sleep quality become more important
if we are training for a physical activity?
Good sleep is vital if you are training.
Several studies have demonstrated
improved athletic performance with sleep
extension. Good sleep has been shown to
decrease exhaustion, improve refl exes and
accuracy, and also help control emotions
and enhance logical thinking, all of which
can be very helpful during sports and
physical training.
MEALS TO HELP YOUR BODY RECOVER
As convenient as power bars and protein shakes are, nothing beats a well-balanced meal, says
Kate Zeratsky, of the Mayo Clinic. “Wholesome foods provide macronutrients, which include
carbs, proteins, and fats, micronutrients, and naturally occurring phytonutrients, antioxidant-rich
compounds in plants.” Here are easy combos to prepare at home or order on the road.
JULIAN RENTZSCH (ILLUSTRATION), ISTOCK (FOOD)
GREEK YOGURT
AND FRUIT
Yogurt is a good source of
calcium and phosphorous,
both important for strong
bones, and Greek yogurt
has a higher protein content
than other styles. Fresh fruit
provides fiber, energy in the
form of carbs, plus vitamin C
as well as other polyphenols
that may reduce markers of
inflammation after exercise.
SALMON AND
SWEET POTATO
A fatty fish, such as salmon,
provides a solid dose of
protein, healthy, omega 3
fatty acids, and vitamin
D. The addition of skin-on
sweet potato adds healthy
carbs, vitamin A, fiber, and
magnesium, which has
been shown to play a role
in muscle performance and
strength.
TUNA SANDWICH
Tuna is a fatty fish (see
benefits left) and is also a
good source of selenium,
an antioxidant mineral
that has been shown to
boost the activity of DNA
repair enzymes. Eat it on
wholegrain bread for a
dose of fiber and add a
slice of cheese for extra
protein, sodium, calcium,
and riboflavin, a B vitamin
involved in many key
metabolic processes
including energy production.
GRANOLA AND MILK
This is a good choice if you
don’t have a big appetite
after exercise, says
Zeratsky. Low-sugar granola
comprised of mostly nuts
and seeds is a good source
of vitamin E, magnesium,
and zinc, an antioxidant
mineral with over 1,000
functions in the body, many
involving the growth and
repair of tissue. Granola
made with oats delivers
added carbohydrates and
fiber and the addition
of dried fruit provides a
concentrated source of
calories and carbs. Milk adds
protein and vitamin D.
VEGETABLE PASTA
PRIMAVERA
Pasta is a good source of
carbs while tomato sauce is
packed with vitamin C and
lycopene, an antioxidant
that plays a role in reducing
inflammation and oxidation.
Add in onions, an excellent
source of quercetin, an
antioxidant that is believed
to play a role in reducing
inflammation, mushrooms, a
good source of vitamin D and
selenium, and spinach or
other magnesium-rich leafy
greens packed with folate,
which plays a key role in the
production of new cells.
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OURA RING GENERATION 3
A discreet fitness tracker that doubles as bling, the Oura Ring
measures your body’s signals from your finger (next to your arteries)
for the utmost accuracy. Sleep, activity, and readiness scores based
on your body’s baselines are used to share personal insights, such
as how much time you spend in a relaxed state each day, as well
as guidance on your optimum bedtime and when you should start
winding down at night to ensure a solid sleep. ouraring.com
NUMBERS GAME
These fitness trackers measure everything
from sleep quality to muscle-oxygen levels to help
improve recovery and performance.
SUUNTO 7
Finnish company Suunto marries the best features
of its sports watches with smart technology in a
single device that delivers 70-plus sport modes
from cycling to skiing, free offline outdoor maps
with navigations, and a wrist-heart rate sensor
for activity tracking. An impressive battery life
supports 24 hours of active smartwatch use and
you can follow your steps, sleep quality, calories,
and other fitness data from the Suunto app and
connect with partners such as Strava. suunto.com
MOXY MUSCLE OXYGEN MONITOR
Muscle-oxygen saturation indicates the balance between oxygen delivery
and consumption in muscles. By attaching this matchbox-sized sensor
to a specific body part—say, forearms for a climber or quads for a
cyclist—athletes can see whether their muscle oxygen is stable, rising,
or dropping. The latter signifies a buildup of lactate and can let athletes
know when to dial back intensity and gauge how long they have before
they hit the wall. moxymonitor.com
POLAR VANTAGE V2
Polar is the gold standard
when it comes to heart-rate
monitors. Its new sports
watch is packed with even
more smart features to
help fine tune training and
recovery. Training Load Pro
technology alerts users
when they’re overtraining
and recovery tests provide
feedback on when your body
has recovered from a workout.
And when stress levels spike,
a Serene feature can restore
calm by helping you sync your
breath to your heart rate.
polar.com
APPLE WATCH ULTRA
Apple takes its watch
to the next level with
a titanium case, dualfrequency
GPS, and every
health feature you could
need from an ECG app
that can record your
heartbeat and rhythm, to
heart health notifications
that can alert you to
irregular heart rhythms.
It can also track the type
of sleep (REM, core and
deep) you’re getting and
provide readings on blood
oxygen. apple.com
BIOSTRAP EVO RECOVER SET
This personal health monitor uses a
combination of raw waveform analysis
and cloud-based algorithms to provide
a physiological snapshot of your sleep
quality, recovery, and nocturnal biometrics
including heart rate, heart-rate variability,
oxygen saturation, and respiratory rate.
Each day you’ll receive a sleep and
recovery score as well as insights into how
to make lifestyle changes that will improve
those numbers. biostrap.com
WHOOP 4.0
The fitness tracking manufacturer’s sleekest, smartest product
yet collects metrics including skin temperature, blood oxygen,
and heart rate. Available with more than 70,000 customizations,
from knit bands to precious metal-plated clasps, it can be a
fashionable accessory, or the sensor can be removed and hidden
in a pocket of the new WHOOP Body line of technical apparel.
whoop.com
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Deep Relaxation
Five unique therapies that promise
supreme tranquility.
SOUND BATH AT ETÉREO,
AUBERGE RESORTS COLLECTION,
RIVIERA MAYA, MEXICO
Performed ocean-side, a therapist lulls you into a
meditative state by creating vibrations with crystal
singing bowls that sync with the sounds of the
Atlantic’s rhythmic waves. The sea’s negative ions,
which increase the flow of oxygen to the brain,
enhance the benefits. aubergeresorts.com
CANCUN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: 24 miles
SENSORY DEPRIVATION AT TAYLOR
RIVER LODGE, AN ELEVEN EXPERIENCE
PROPERTY IN ALMONT, COLORADO
During Eleven Life wellness retreats, the saltwater
pool in the Bathhouse is used for sensory deprivation
experiences. Guests don floaties on their arms, a
cap that covers their ears, and an eye mask to block
the light and float into a state of deep relaxation.
elevenexperience.com
GUNNISON-CRESTED BUTTE AIRPORT: 22 miles
BHUTANESE BATH AT CERVO RESORT,
ZERMATT, SWITZERLAND
The resort’s new Mountain Ashram Spa has an
authentic Bhutanese hot stone bath. The deep wooden
tub is filled with steamy water spiked with medicinal
herbs and the heat releases minerals from the stones.
A long soak can help relieve joint pain, reduce blood
pressure, and revive weary muscles. cervo.swiss
SION AIRPORT: 51 miles
VIBRA HEALING CHAKRA
BALANCING THERAPY AT
MONTAGE BIG SKY, MONTANA
Our chakras—seven vital energy centers that run
up and down the body—can become blocked,
manifesting physical ailments and even emotional
distress. This balancing session uses meditation
techniques and vibrations from eight singing bowls to
unblock and rebalance the body’s energy pathways.
montagehotels.com
BOZEMAN YELLOWSTONE AIRPORT: 51 miles
LED/INFRARED DETOX POD
AT AMAN NEW YORK
The dazzling spa at the recently opened Aman New York
features a state-of-the-art, cocoon-like pod that detoxes
the body while also providing relief for both chronic and
acute pain. The lower panel acts as an LED therapy bed,
while the upper panel delivers infrared rays for deep
tissue penetration. aman.com
TETERBORO AIRPORT: 15 miles
Track Your Way to
Optimal Health
Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of WHOOP,
a manufacturer of fitness trackers, shares why the time
you spend in the gym doesn’t make you stronger, the dangers
of training when your body’s stressed, and how data can
help inform healthier habits for a better night’s sleep.
Does recovery really matter if you’re not an athlete or training for an
athletic endeavor? While WHOOP’s members include top athletes like
NFL player Patrick Mahomes and golfer Rory McIlroy, the majority simply
aspire to live healthier and more productive lives. Feeling good starts with
paying more attention to recovery and sleep. You can only manage what
you measure. If you want to put yourself in the best position to take on
the day, you need to recognize what’s going on inside your body.
Why are sleep and recovery crucial for optimizing performance? Sleep is
essential to maintaining good health and the foundation for our analytics
at WHOOP (see WHOOP 4.0, facing page). Our goal is to help members
understand when their bodies are ready for strain and when their bodies
should prioritize recovery. The time you spend training or exercising
doesn’t make you stronger—that’s when you break down the body. You
make gains during rest and recovery. Sleep repairs your muscles, restores
your cognitive function, and improves vital systems like immunity. Your
body can only take on so much stress each day. If you aren’t properly
focusing on recovery, you’re putting yourself at risk of injury or illness.
When you were the captain of the Harvard University squash team you
struggled with overtraining. What were some signs that you were doing
too much? I would regularly train for three hours a day. I wanted to be the
best and believed that meant consistently pushing myself to the limit. I
was overtraining, misinterpreting fi tness peaks, and underestimating the
importance of recovery and sleep. I was also balancing the rigors of being
a student. That experience ignited my interest in how technology could
help unlock peak performance. WHOOP really became the fi rst wearable
that would tell you not to train on days when your body was run down.
What personal revelations have you had from WHOOP, and how has that
data informed your habits? I use the WHOOP Journal that lets members
track how their choices impact their physiological data. For me, practicing
transcendental meditation has a very positive effect on my heart-rate
variability. Wearing blue-light blocking glasses every evening makes
my sleep much more effi cient. I’ve also found that supplements like
magnesium and melatonin enhance the quality of my sleep.
JULIAN RENTZSCH
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SWEET DREAMS
GUARANTEED
Sleep coaches and AI-powered mattresses are among the ways hotels
are ensuring their guests get a heavenly night’s rest. And the trendiest
spa retreats around the globe help guests adopt better sleep hygiene.
THE CADOGAN, A BELMOND HOTEL, LONDON
A sleep concierge accessed via the Belmond app offers guests sleep enhancements
including a choice of pillows, a weighted blanket, aromatherapy mists, a bedtime
tea service, and a meditative recording from London-based hypnotherapist and
sleep expert Malminder Gill. For a more personalized experience, the concierge
can arrange a private one-on-one session with Gill. belmond.com
LONDON CITY AIRPORT: 9 miles
SIX SENSES IBIZA
A resident sleep doctor curates three-, five-, and seven-night programs designed
to analyze and improve your current sleep patterns and habits. Guests receive
a sleep tracker and review data during one-on-one consultations. Workshops
on meditation, breathwork, and yoga nidra techniques are complemented by
cryotherapy sessions, massages, and diet and exercise advice. sixsenses.com
IBIZA AIRPORT: 22 miles
PARK HYATT NEW YORK
Park Hyatt teamed up with tech-enabled restorative mattress maker Bryte
to create a One Bedroom Sleep Suite. The bed features a menu of relaxation
experiences such as being rocked to sleep and dynamically adjusts to relieve
pressure points. Throughout the 900-square-foot space, guests will find sleepenhancing
amenities including a Vitruvi Essential Diffuser, sleeping masks, and a
collection of sleep-related books. hyatt.com
TETERBORO AIRPORT: 15 miles
PUENTE ROMANO, MARBELLA
The resort’s four-bedroom Villa La Pereza features the cutting-edge, sciencebacked
resting system from Spanish company HOGO. The technology defends
the body from electromagnetic pollution and optimizes the villa for a good night’s
sleep. Guests who book a stay also receive a consultation with a professional
HOGO sleep coach. puenteromano.com
MALAGA AIRPORT: 34 miles
HACIENDA ALTAGRACIA, COSTA RICA
This is one of the first hotels from Auberge Resorts Collection to roll out the
brand’s new Better Sleep program, created in partnership with cult New York
City spa the Well. Rooms feature amenities such as journals and yoga blocks
that encourage mind-calming practices. And a guided sleep meditation is set to
binaural beats, which are known for promoting REM sleep. aubergeresorts.com
HOTEL ALTAGRACIA AIRPORT: 0.6 miles
CANYON RANCH TUCSON, ARIZONA
In addition to physician-reviewed, overnight sleep screenings, Canyon Ranch
hosts annual five-day sleep immersion retreats that educate attendees about
foods that support rest, the best yoga poses to do before bed, and tips for
breaking bad sleep habits. The week includes overnight sleep screenings and
one-on-one consultations. canyonranch.com
TUCSON AIRPORT: 19 miles
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ROMANO, © HACIENDA ALTA GRACIA, © CANYON RANCH, © KAMALAYA, KEN HAYDEN
KAMALAYA, KOH SAMUI, THAILAND
Seven- and nine-day sleep-enhancement programs are specifically
designed for people suffering from insomnia. Each guest is assigned a
naturopath, Chinese medicine practitioner, and life-enhancement mentor
to work with them one-on-one throughout their stay. Bioresonance
therapy is used to help reset the nervous system, and guests learn how to
maintain that state of calm through meditation techniques and nutrition
hacks, like adding herbal and nutraceutical supplements to their diet.
kamalaya.com
KOH SAMUI AIRPORT: 14 miles
MIRAVAL, TUCSON, ARIZONA
Complimentary Rituals for Better Rest workshops delve into nighttime
rituals from ancient Greece and Egypt and offer advice on how to create
a home sleep sanctuary. For more personalized advice, book a session
with Miraval’s certified sleep science coach and take home an action
plan to improve your zzzs. miravalarizona.com
TUCSON AIRPORT: 15 miles
REST EASY
Clockwise from facing page: Miraval, Tucson;
The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel, London; Six
Senses Ibiza; Park Hyatt New York; Puente
Romano, Marbella; Miraval, Tucson; Kamalaya,
Koh Samui; Canyon Ranch Tucson; Hacienda
AltaGracia, Costa Rica.
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SEA
BOUNTY
The jewels of the ocean turn this season’s gems into works of art.
Photography by Nocera & Ferri // Production by Elisa Vallata
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Clockwise from top left:
TASAKI
White gold Atelier Cascade
earrings set with Akoya pearls,
South Sea pearls and diamonds.
YOKO LONDON
White gold necklace set with
South Sea pearls and diamonds,
from the High Jewellery
collection; white gold ring set
with one South Sea pearl and
diamonds, from the Mayfair
collection; white gold bracelet
set with Akoya pearls and
diamonds, from the Raindrop
collection.
MIKIMOTO
White gold ring set with
one South Sea cultured
pearl and diamonds.
BUCHERER FINE JEWELLERY
White gold Peacock ring set
with diamonds.
Facing page,
clockwise from the top:
GRAFF
White gold necklace
set with diamonds.
TASAKI
White gold Atelier Surge ear
clip set with Akoya pearls
and diamonds.
DAVID MORRIS
White gold Pearl Deco bangle
set with Akoya pearls and
diamonds.
YOKO LONDON
White gold ring set with one
South Sea pearl and diamonds,
from the Mayfair collection.
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Clockwise from top left:
CHOPARD
White gold necklace set
with cultured pearls and
diamonds, from the Haute
Joaillerie collection.
MOUSSAIEFF
White gold high jewellery
bracelet set with natural
pearls and diamonds.
GRAFF
White gold earring set
with diamonds.
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Clockwise from the top:
MIKIMOTO
White gold Les Pétales Place
Vendôme necklace set with
South Sea cultured pearls
and diamonds.
YOKO LONDON
White gold earrings set with
Akoya peals and diamonds,
from the Raindrop collection.
RETOUCHING BY LAURA CAMMARATA
DIOR JOAILLERIE
White gold Archi Dior
Diorama bracelet set
with diamonds.
BOODLES
Platinum Baroque pearl
pendant set with diamonds.
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ROME’S
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RICHES
The Italian capital is back in style, as global hotel brands flock
to open new standout properties and the restaurant and shopping
scenes are as hot as they’ve ever been. // By Delia Demma
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Rome’s architectural beauty
still shines, but the city has
so much more to offer.
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WHERE TO STAY
With the flood of luxury hotels over the past two
years, the charm of the Eternal City has never
been more piquant—and there’s still more to
come, with Six Senses, Bulgari, and Nobu all
planning big projects for 2023.
The best new hotels in Rome have all taken a
familiar course: merging the grandeur of Roman
aristocratic palaces with a contemporary interior
design. But each has done it with particular style
and verve, sometimes even playfully, and that
energy is radiating across the city. Take the highly
anticipated W Rome (marriott.com), which marks
the Italian debut of the always irreverent brand
and here occupies two 19th-century buildings,
located a stone’s throw from Piazza di Spagna.
In the 147 rooms and 15 suites, bright hues
and bold patterns combine with architectural
styles that date back to ancient Rome, a dizzying
mix that is heightened by designer furnishings
and ultra-modern technological accessories.
Unexpected paths lead to hidden corners, such
as the Parlapiano space, a garden inspired by the
architectural style of Borromini, or the Giardino
Clandestino, an outdoor courtyard very popular
with locals and creatives, who come here for a
drink and live music.
Conviviality is also the mantra of The Hoxton
(thehoxton.com), the first outpost in Italy of
the burgeoning English brand. Calling itself
an open-house hotel, it’s a stylish destination
attracting both travelers and locals in the always
chic Parioli neighborhood. The lobby is alive all
day long, while the Cugino bar is very popular
for breakfast and light bites, the social tables
bring gig workers from across the globe, and at
Beverly restaurant you can taste a Californian
cuisine with farm-to-table ethos. The 192 rooms
pay homage to iconic Italian design of the 1950s
with eclectic vintage furnishings and carefully
selected works of art.
Present also meets past in the Shedir Collection
(shedircollection.com) of boutique hotels, an
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MODERN TOUCH
The MAXXI—Museum of Arts
of the XXI century.
Facing page: The terrace of
a WOW suite at W Hotel.
Italian brand born just before the pandemic and
now getting its due. After the Vilòn hotel, a small
gem of 18 rooms whose atmosphere is reminiscent
of an elegant Roman house, the Maalot hotel,
set near the Trevi Fountain, has enriched the
portfolio. Occupying the former home of the famed
opera composer Gaetano Donizetti, it boasts 30
rooms and suites, a bar, and a restaurant with
contemporary British design. The latest addition—
perhaps even more exciting—is Umiltà 36, where
the elegance of the interiors harkens back in all the
best ways to La Dolce Vita.
There is another group that has just expanded
its collection of urban escapes as well. Following
The First Arte and The First Dolce hotels—the
former focused on impressive works of art and the
latter on haute patisserie—The Pavilions Hotels
& Resorts (pavilionshotels.com) has just opened
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The First Musica, where music suffuses every
corner, at least in spirit. The strikingly modern
concrete façade with floor-to-ceiling windows
pays homage to Richard Meier’s iconic Museo
dell’Ara Pacis, situated on the opposite bank of
the Tiber. Inside, Loro Piana fabrics and Calacatta
marble conjure a calm, warmly luxurious
ambience that echoes the promise of the brand to
cover all five senses in every property.
WHERE TO EAT
The hotel openings have led the transformation
of the Roman culinary offering thanks to the
arrival of numerous starred chefs. Perhaps the
most awaited was Ciccio Sultano of the two-
Michelin-starred Duomo Restaurant in Ragusa
Ibla, who has succeeded in merging Sicilian
cuisine and Roman culture in the kitchen of
Giano Restaurant (gianorestaurant.com) at W
Hotel. The sweet part of the meal is entrusted
OLD AND NEW
The history of the Pantheon,
above, contrasts with the
new hotels in the city, such
as The Hoxton, the Maalot,
and Umiltà 36, facing page,
clockwise from top left.
to the pastry chef Fabrizio Fiorani, who has also
opened his first boutique Zucchero x Fabrizio
Fiorani inside the hotel. Try his “Happy pills,” a
burst of pure happiness with five chocolate pilllike
bites: dark, white with vanilla, raspberry,
pistachio, and caramel. For those who want to
combine fine dining with a breathtaking view of
the Roman skyline, there is Cielo at the Hotel de
La Ville by Rocco Forte (roccofortehotels.com),
which has a good claim to being the best rooftop
bar in the city. Here, master of Italian cuisine
Fulvio Pierangelini offers his intriguing and
unconventional dishes from lunch to a smart
casual dinner.
Speaking of panoramic restaurants, La
Pergola (romecavalieri.com) by three-starred
chef Heinz Beck is an institution in the city,
as is La Terrazza Restaurant on the top floor
of the Hotel Eden by Dorchester Collection
(dorchestercollection.com) where presidents
The hotel openings have transformed
the Roman culinary offering thanks
to the arrival of numerous starred chefs
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and heads of state often meet. The view from
the Acquaroof Terrazza Molinari of The First
Roma Arte hotel is also astonishing: Here chef
Daniele Lippi offers a more informal version
of his creative cuisine served at Acquolina
(acquolinaristorante.it), the gourmet restaurant
located on the ground floor, where the art on
the plate obviates any need for additional views.
WHERE TO SHOP
Retail therapy has long been centered on Via
dei Condotti, but for something original and
handmade, the place to go is Via di Monserrato.
Along this secluded street, behind the Campo
de Fiori district, you can find the highest
concentration of creativity in the city. Take the
jewelry at Delfina Delettrez (delfinadelettrez.
com), where the eponymous daughter of the
goldsmith Bernard Delettrez and Silvia Venturini
Fendi creates handmade treasures inspired by
Surrealism and the art of Giorgio de Chirico. At
No. 18 there is another jewelry store beloved by
VIPs, including Queen Rania of Jordan: Fabio
Salini (fabiosalini.it) who, after working for
Cartier and Bulgari, founded his own firm. He
experiments with new materials, such as carbon
fiber, as well as combining gold, diamonds, and
sapphires with wood, leather, and silk. Two
more unmissable stops on Via di Monserrato are
Chez Dédé (chezdede.com), which purveys a
sophisticated mix of objets d’art, accessories,
and clothing, and the Archivio di Monserrato
(soledadtwombly.com), a jewel box of a boutique
founded by Soledad Twombly, daughter-in-law of
the American painter Cy. Argentinian by origin,
she has created her wunderkammer in Rome by
collecting ancient fabrics, mainly from Anatolia
and Uzbekistan, as well as kimonos and objects
inspired by her travels. For original fashions
with comfortable and elegant lines, head to La
Jolie Fille (lajoliefille.it) by Michele Capalbo, a
well-known Italian fashion designer who has
worked with Roberto Cavalli and Chiara Boni.
He makes deft use of silk, velvet, and lace in
his handmade dresses, which often boast deep
necklines and touches of transparency. The last
stop has to be Lab Solue (labsolueperfume.
com), an olfactory laboratory where you can
create your personal perfume or home fragrance
with the crack on-site team.
WHAT TO SEE
Rome is an open-air museum. Each corner reveals
its millennia of history to anyone who cares to
look. But to discover the secret soul of the city,
ISTOCK
A NEW DAWN
Sunrise over the
Roman Forum.
ROME CIAMPINO
AIRPORT TO CITY CENTER:
8 miles
the inaccessible aristocratic buildings, where you
can see not only recent trends but seldom-seen
archaeological finds, it’s worth seeking out the
right guide. Try the journey among myths, legends,
and superstition offered by Hotel de la Ville or the
guided tour to the places where Caravaggio spent
his eventful life curated by Hotel Eden. And you
don’t need to be staying to enjoy the bounty of
the historians: Eden also arranges private visits to
the MAXXI museum storeroom, where otherwise
unseeable artworks are kept, and jaunts in a
classic Italian Fiat 124 Spider convertible to
explore the beautiful Roman countryside.
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TABLE TALK
Fabio Ciervo, executive chef of
La Terrazza, at Hotel Eden.
DESCRIBE YOUR COOKING STYLE IN A FEW KEYWORDS …
Innovative, healthy, tasty, and artistic.
FOOD MEMORIES ARE VERY IMPORTANT. WHICH DISH REPRESENTS YOU MOST?
Bringing back my memories in my cuisine is essential for me. The crunchy mullet with its broth and seaweed
tartare is one of the dishes that represents me best. In it you can find uniqueness, concentration of taste,
and the enhancement of ingredients in different textures.
WHICH OF YOUR DISHES BEST CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF THE ROMAN CULINARY TRADITION?
The “cacio e pepe” pasta is one of the most representative dishes of Roman cuisine. My personal
interpretation is spaghetti with cacio cheese and black pepper from Madagascar scented with rosebuds.
HOW DO YOU FACE THE CHALLENGE FOR AN INCREASINGLY SUSTAINABLE CUISINE?
I am attentive not to waste, I use water only when needed, I ask our supplier to reuse the same cases to
deliver fruits and vegetables. I could continue with a long list.
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THE FUTURE
OF TAILORING
Bespoke is back in a big way, and a new generation of sartorial
talent has taken the reins at major houses across the globe, giving us
a peek at the cuts of tomorrow. // By Christian Barker
JACI BERKOPEC (2)
DURING THE PANDEMIC, the demand for bespoke tailoring
plummeted. That’s hardly a surprise. Who needed a new
suit or tuxedo when in-person business meetings, trips to the
office, social events, and formal occasions were out of the
question—and for some, even leaving home was forbidden?
According to the renowned New York men’s outfitter Alan
Flusser—who has dressed all manner of Wall Street tycoons—
during the lockdowns, his clients were hiding out at their holiday
houses in the Hamptons. “They’re telling me they haven’t put
a pair of trousers on for months; they’ve been living in T-shirts
and tracksuit pants,” Flusser said when we spoke in 2020.
His response was to down tools and offer protégé
Jonathan Sigmon the chance to take over the business.
Flusser wasn’t the only old hand to call it quits. There’s
been a great deal of baton-passing going on in the
sartorial scene of late, with numerous leading tailors
retiring and a new generation rising to take their place.
One such ascendant figure is Paolo Martorano (paolostyle.com),
who got his start working for Flusser, before honing his skills at
Paul Stuart and subsequently running the bespoke department
at Alfred Dunhill U.S.A. Five years ago, he hung out his own
shingle, setting up a bijou by-appointment atelier on West 57th
Street in Manhattan. Things were going fantastically well before
the pandemic hit. “By March 2020, we’d done about 80 percent
of 2019’s revenue. Business was just exploding,” Martorano says.
Then came the dip. Fortunately, as life has returned to normal,
demand for sartorial finery has bounced back—bigger and better
than ever, in fact. “Since the second half of 2021, the occasiondressing
business skyrocketed. Everyone wants to go out, everyone
wants to be dressed up,” Martorano says. “Weddings are almost all
black-tie now and we’re making a ton of tuxedos.”
As companies have begun returning to the office, “People are
coming to me for suits and they’re buying the most elegant suits
I’ve ever sold in my career,” Martorano says. “They’re going for
BACK AND BESPOKE
Paolo Martorano, right and facing
page, has emerged as a major player
on the New York sartorial scene.
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“People are coming to me for suits
and they’re buying the most elegant suits
I’ve ever sold in my career.”– Paolo Martorano
COURTESY EDWARD SEXTON
NEXT GENERATION
Dominic Sebag-
Montefiore is
carrying on Edward
Sexton’s subversive
traditions.
Facing page: Kevin
Seah leads the
way in Singapore’s
tailoring circles.
pinstripes; they’re going for double-breasted;
they’re going for peak lapels; they’re going for
dressy jackets and trousers with braces. They’re
choosing cloths like cashmere. They want luxury.”
And they want it from an under-the-radar purveyor
with pedigree whom Martorano personifies.
Across the pond in London, Dominic Sebag-
Montefiore, cutter and creative director at
Edward Sexton (edwardsexton.co.uk), is also
observing customers taking real joy in dressing
to the nines. “Bespoke tailoring is blooming into
something beautiful and special,” he says. No
longer is traditional men’s wear viewed as a
dour corporate uniform, reluctantly donned for
the workday. “Today, the suit is free to be an
icon of masculine elegance,” he explains, “or
something subversive.”
Sebag-Montefiore’s mentor, the eponymous
Sexton, knows a thing or two about subversion,
having earned legendary status as the cutter for
Savile Row insurrectionist Tommy Nutter, tailor
to 1960s London’s swingingest characters.
Today, Sexton’s house honors Nutter’s legacy,
remaining dedicated to making “clothes that
are striking, bold and timeless that are true
to our rebellious roots—dressing The Beatles,
Stones, Warhol, Hockney, and so on,” Sebag-
Montefiore explains. “We approach what we
do boldly and unapologetically,” he says. “We
have more freedom to be creative in what we
make than we have had in over 40 years.”
And yet, for all this talk of breaking with
tradition, Sebag-Montefiore says he’s acutely
conscious of the need to adhere to the oldschool
values of exquisite construction and
craftsmanship upon which Sexton built his
name. “Legacies are hard earned and easily
lost,” Sebag-Montefiore believes. “A reputation is
dependent on maintaining the standards that won
it. A legacy is kept by pursuing higher standards.”
The reputation of Australia’s oldest bespoke
tailors, J.H. Cutler (jhcutler.com), stretches
all the way back to 1884. When John Cutler
assumed the role of cutter at the family
business in the 1970s, he became the fourth
generation of his bloodline to run the company.
Over the years, John expertly catered to the
sartorial needs of a host of Australian prime
ministers, business leaders, top professionals,
and internationally renowned entertainers.
Unfortunately, none of John’s four children
chose to follow him into the trade, so when
he began pondering retirement, he was forced
to look beyond his gene pool for a successor.
Employed by John in 2009, Sam Hazelton has
been training to take the reins at J.H. Cutler
for the past 13 years. Now, with John retiring
to Tasmania, he’s poised to fulfill that destiny.
“It’s an amazing opportunity,” says Hazelton.
“I’m truly honored and I’m still getting used to
the idea. I’ve always known that the business
had incredible potential, and I’d like to really
explore that over the next few years.” He says
plans are afoot to refresh and slightly modernize
the brand, and to ensure the standards Cutler
and his forefathers established are kept.
“It’s difficult finding or training people these
days. Sadly, there’s no government-supported
tailoring apprenticeship program in this country.
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But I’ve just hired a fantastic new tailor. It’s
important to recruit young talent to learn alongside
the older guys we currently have, who are in
their sixties and seventies, so that their skills are
passed on,” Hazelton says. “We need to ensure
we can continue to keep producing tailoring of the
same or better quality 10 or 20 years from now.”
The most famous Florentine tailoring house,
Liverano & Liverano (liverano.com) is working
toward this same goal by actively educating a new
generation of talent. The house has established
a school where students are tutored by maestro
Antonio Liverano, who first picked up a needle
as a small boy in the 1930s. Select graduates
join the team as Liverano Fellows, a cohort that
currently includes men and women from Italy,
Japan, and Korea.
“Coming from different backgrounds, we
share one common goal, which is to craft the
most beautiful and comfortable tailoring for
our clients,” says Korean Seung Jin “Jin” An.
“We work in a collaborative setting, and we
learn from each other’s culture while upholding
what is a very Italian tradition and craft.”
Italian Leonardo Simoncini, who works
as a tailor in the atelier and a teacher in the
Liverano school, says carrying on the traditions
of the maestro is a dream come true. “As
a native of Florence, I am super proud to
represent the best in Italian and Florentine
tailoring and the ‘Made in Italy’ label,” he says.
Of his cosmopolitan team-mates, Simoncini
says, “Every one of us is passionate about our
craft. We have never forgotten and we never
take for granted the position that we occupy.
Whether we are in the atelier here in Florence
or visiting our clients halfway around the world,
we are ambassadors of the Liverano approach.”
One of the countries Simoncini and Jin
frequently visit to service Liverano’s customers is
Singapore. In this equatorial nation, for the past
13 years, sartorial culture has been championed
and fostered by one individual above all others:
Kevin Seah (kevinseah.com). In addition to
classic suits, tuxedos, and blazers, Seah traffics
in forward-thinking bespoke attire tailored to
Singapore’s steamy climate.
“Bespoke isn’t just about what a banker or
lawyer might traditionally wear to the office,”
Seah explains. “I encourage my clients to
reconsider their preconceptions of bespoke.
Why not commission a unique tropical shirt in
beautiful Indian block-print cotton? Or some
bespoke shorts or chinos? Individuality and selfexpression,
creating a wardrobe that reflects your
lifestyle and tastes. That’s the future of tailoring.”
ETERNAL STYLE
“Post-pandemic, the conscious consumer wants to invest
in something that they can wear numerous times in
numerous ways, dressing it up, dressing it down, rather
than spending £2,000 on a dress they’ll wear once to a
party, or buying disposable fast fashion that will quickly
find its way into a landfill. People’s mindsets around
fashion have changed. They want longevity, durability, and
versatility.” So says Daisy Knatchbull, founder of THE DECK
(thedecklondon.com), the first tailoring shop on Savile Row
exclusively for women, by women. Established in 2019, the
firm swiftly found a loyal fanbase among female consumers
seeking to “buy less but better,” investing in perennial
garments that can be mended when necessary and altered
as the body evolves. Trend-proof apparel of sufficient
quality to survive a lifetime—or more. “Our tailoring is
made to last,” Knatchbull explains. “We do free repairs for
life: We construct garments in such a way that they can
be adjusted for the rest of your life, and beyond. They truly
can be passed down to the next generation.”
© KEVIN SEAH
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ON THE PULSE
FEELING BLUE
The coolest of hues took some time to make its
way into the world of watchmaking,
but now it’s here to stay. // By Chris Hall
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SINCE THE LATE 1960s, and defi nitely by the onset
of the 1970s, there have always been some blue
watches—the dressier kind of Omega Seamasters,
a few Rolexes, Heuer Monacos. And the latter
decade also saw a fair bit of wild and colorful
experimentation, especially as watchmakers
looked to compete with new-fangled digital
timepieces. But, by and large, the watches you’d
actually fi nd at a top jeweler or see advertised in
a magazine came in two colors: black and white.
To say it continued that way for the next 40 years
would be a serious oversimplifi cation—watches
associated with the sea certainly adopted blue as
a dial color earlier than others, and such is the
multitudinous nature of the watch world that you
can fi nd an exception to any rule. But it is true that
come the late 2000s and early 2010s, something
was afoot. Blue was suddenly everywhere, to the
extent that before long, it was accepted as almost
a third default color, something to be expected
every time a new model or range launched,
rather than something special that would follow
in due course. We see now that it was just the
fi rst trickle in what would become a chromatic
deluge, as manufacturing technology and fashion
tastes converged to allow watchmakers to offer
more or less any watch in more or less any color.
First, a sea of green watches emerged, followed
by a veritable rainbow of pink, purple, orange,
and more. At the same time, a whole new
generation of blue watches has launched—and
in comparison to the wilder hues on offer, it’s
starting to look like the perfect middle ground.
Allow us to present the best of 2022’s blue
watches: not necessarily as revolutionary as they
might have been a generation ago, but a very
welcome additional choice. As you might expect,
many brands still make the natural association
between seafaring and watches in some form
or other. The Baume & Mercier Riviera 10616
(baume-et-mercier.com), while possessed of the
necessary water resistance and sturdy steel case
to dip beneath the waves, is billed as a watch for
gazing down at the water from your Sunseeker,
and, appropriately enough, the semi-transparent
blue sapphire dial makes the automatic
movement beneath look like something halfglimpsed
in the shallows. Montblanc’s 1858 Iced
Sea Automatic Date (montblanc.com) is another
watch making metaphorical with its dial—this
time using an array of complicated techniques
to give the impression of gazing into the ancient
heart of a glacier. Back on the open waves, and
paying reference to the brand’s 176 years of
maritime clockmaking is Ulysse Nardin’s latest
Marine Torpilleur Moonphase (ulysse-nardin.
com), a watch that could well be said to embody
the safer side of blue dials (not for nothing is
navy blue supposed to be the easiest color for
men to wear when it comes to their wider
wardrobes). But at the same brand you’ll also
AZURE LIKE IT
Above from left: Audemars Piguet
Royal Oak 50th Anniversary 37mm;
Montblanc 1858 Iced Sea Automatic
Date; Baume & Mercier Riviera 10616.
Facing page, clockwise from top left:
Chopard Alpine Eagle Flying Tourbillon;
Patek Philippe 5470P-001; Ressence Type
8; Hublot Big Bang Integrated Sky Blue.
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BLUE HEAVEN
Above from left: H. Moser & Cie
Endeavour Perpetual Calendar;
Czapek Antarctique; Oris Big Crown
Pointer Date.
Facing page, clockwise from top:
A. Lange & Söhne Odysseus; Ulysse
Nardin Marine Torpilleur Moonphase;
Cartier Santos.
fi nd the Freak X Aventurine, an altogether bolder
way to work a deep blue into the collection.
Indeed, there is often a practical consideration
to the choice of color on offer. Whether it’s
the rich starry blue of aventurine glass or the
complexity of creating exactly the right color-fast,
wear-resistant pigment, or perfecting the dozens
of artisanal steps that can go into a high-end,
enamel-fi red dial, the fi nal color of a watch is
determined by what’s possible as much as by
what its creator may have been able to imagine.
Ceramic watches are notable for opening up a
whole new world of possibilities: The whole
watch can adopt a new shade, from bezel to
buckle, but each new color requires a fresh
chemical recipe for the raw ceramic powder,
which will change color when moulded and fi red
into shape. Hublot’s Big Bang Integrated Sky
Blue (hublot.com) is a case in point—such a
delicate hue has taken its engineers a while to
master. The end result is a watch that won’t be
mistaken for any other. Also experimenting with
spreading color beyond the dial is Cartier (cartier.
com), which having breathed new life into the
Santos a few years ago, is now expanding it
far beyond its 1980s roots (which seemed
daring enough back then) with a blue coating
to the bezel and bracelet. The all-blue look—
thanks to its expansive dial and carefully paired
leather strap—was also on display at Ressence
(ressencewatches.com), which debuted its new
Type 8 (the simplest and most stripped-back
of its creations to date) in just one color. And if
clever, independently owned watch brands with a
minimalist streak are your thing, there’s also H.
Moser & Cie (h-moser.com), whose nifty perpetual
calendar complication was given a dazzling blue
dial for the Endeavour Perpetual Calendar that
launched in February alongside a provocative
sister model whose dial came inscribed
with chalkboard-style instructions for use.
At the other end of the spectrum, in terms
of solemnity if not visually, there is perhaps no
better indication of blue’s arrival than its use by
the very biggest watchmaking maisons for their
top releases. Patek Philippe (patek.com) chose
to debut an incredible, multi-patented new
chronograph, reference 5470P-001, in what is,
by its dignifi ed standards, a very racy blue and
red color scheme, with a casual fabric strap to
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Ceramic watches are notable for opening up a
whole new world of possibilities.
match. Meanwhile, its companion at the very top
of the tree, Audemars Piguet (audemarspiguet.
com), wisely kept the classic blue dial for its
stainless steel 39mm Jumbo 50th anniversary
reissue of the Royal Oak but—according to
collectors watching the 50th anniversary
collection as it launched—the piece that set
tongues wagging was the smaller, more unisex,
37mm in ice blue. More than any other blue, this
particular shade stood out in 2022: it was hard
to miss at A. Lange & Söhne (alange-soehne.
com), , on the new Odysseus, and equally catching on Czapek’s Antarctique (czapek.com).
Some would surely argue that the combination
of a frosty pale blue is a perfect match for the
brushed and polished titanium of the Odysseus,
or the steel of the Antarctique, but I think the
truth is these sleek, integrated-bracelet designs
work well with almost any blue (or almost any
color at all, come to that). Certainly Chopard’s
Alpine Eagle (chopard.com), which is hewn
from the same strata as the Royal Oak, Nautilus
et al, is no worse for having a brighter, bolder
blue dial on its new Flying Tourbillon reference.
The dial pattern is crafted to resemble the
fl ecked iris of an eagle’s eye, and here has been
redrawn to emanate from the beating tourbillon
at six o’clock. Not to take away from the handfi
nished watchmaking on show, but sometimes
it’s all about having a dial the owner wants to
stare at for far longer than it takes to tell the time.
You could say the same—at a very different
price point, with very different techniques on
offer—of a watch as unassuming as Oris’s Big
Crown Pointer Date (oris.ch). Pictures only begin
to hint at how glossy, how rich and how all-round
smart is the navy blue dial. Alongside the more
illustrious horology we’ve just rattled through,
eye-
it might recede into the background, but when
all is said and done it’s a perfect embodiment of
our opening point: A blue watch that works as a
mainstream choice, with infi nitely more character
and life than if it were sombre black. Indeed,
when it comes to watchmaking, there has really
never been a better time to have the blues.
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THE GOURMET
TABLES
A global guide to the best new restaurants,
many of which have a Gallic twist. // By Bill Knott
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THE GOURMET
TASTING FINE
Below, from left to right: Soufflé for
two at Koloman, New York; the bar at
Batea, Barcelona; Adriana Cavita at
her eponymous London restaurant;
Japanese-French fusion at Magma in
Paris; Alejandro Saravia of Melbourne’s
Victoria by Farmer’s Daughters; a
private room at Mr. T’s in L.A.
P64-65, from left: Pancia di vacca
from Horto in Milan; peach and
raspberry Charlotte from the dessert
menu at Koloman.
IT MAY HAVE BEEN usurped in gourmets’ affections over the
past couple of decades by molecular gastronomy and Scandi
minimalism, but French cuisine is fighting back. Perhaps, postpandemic,
we all crave burgundy banquettes, crisp white napkins,
sparkling chandeliers, and the contented bistro buzz that only
Gallic savoir-faire can provide.
Nowhere is that truer than New York. Daniel Boulud, New York’s
favorite French son, has gone back to his Lyonnais roots to open
Le Gratin (legratinnyc.com), a pitch-perfect bistro de luxe with
dishes that would bring a tear to his maman’s eye: cervelle de
canut (soft cheese with herbs), quenelles of pike with mushrooms
and gruyère, pâté en croûte gourmand, and spit-roast chicken with
gratin dauphinois.
Not to be outdone, Fouquet’s, the hallowed Champs-Élysées
brasserie, now has a New York outpost, in the heart of Tribeca.
The menu at the Art Deco-ish Brasserie Fouquet’s New York
(hotelsbarriere.com) is the brainchild of marquee chef Pierre
Gagnaire, who adds his customary élan to a classically Gallic menu
of escargots, sole meunière, and steak tartare.
Up in NoMad land, Austrian chef Markus Glocker is fusing a
Viennese café vibe with a (mostly) French menu. Taking over the Ace
Hotel space vacated by The Breslin, Koloman (kolomanrestaurant.
com) offers cheese soufflé with confit mushrooms, and salmon
en croûte with beetroot beurre rouge, but there’s also a schnitzel,
naturally, and sachertorte to follow.
Back in Paris’s 16th arrondissement, Le Petit Rétro (petitretro.
fr) is hardly new—this glorious Art Nouveau bistro has been in
business since 1904—but the owner is: The renowned Guy Savoy,
who has installed wunderkind chef Irwin Durand (Le Chiberta) at
FROM LEFT: NICK JOHNSON, VILMA EK, ARIANA RUTH
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“Perhaps, post-pandemic, we all crave
burgundy banquettes, crisp white napkins,
and sparkling chandeliers.”
FROM LEFT: ALEXANDRE ZHU, TRISTAN JUD, INNIS CASEY
the stove. Expect marrowbone tartine, veal sweetbreads with grain
mustard, classic desserts, and a great wine list.
Over in the 11th arrondissement, by Oberkampf, the love affair
between France and Japan continues at the small and stylish
Magma (+33 01 4805 5690). Yamaguchi-born chef Ryuya
Ono’s menu changes “suivant son humeur”, but his sublime
technique is a constant, cooking classic French combos—gurnard
with bouillabaisse sauce, rabbit pithivier with smoked eel—with
precision and aplomb.
Across the Channel, chef Alex Dilling, who earned his spurs at
The Connaught and The Greenhouse, now has his name above
the door at the Hotel Café Royal (hotelcaferoyal.com). His refined
brand of haute cuisine marries French technique with luxury
ingredients and a generous dash of originality: aged kaluga caviar
with oysters and long pepper, for instance, or pâté de campagne
with black truffle and jamón ibérico.
It is London’s hottest ticket right now, but rivaling it will be
The Audley (theaudleypublichouse.com), international gallerist
Hauser & Wirth’s makeover of a towering old Mayfair pub. Hauser
& Wirth—known as Artfarm, for hospitality purposes—have plenty
of form (Roth Bar & Grill in Somerset; The Fife Arms in Braemar;
Manuela in L.A.) and promise a classic ground-floor pub with bar
snacks, and the first-floor Mount St. Restaurant, with ex-Gordon
Ramsay chef Jamie Shears rattling the pans.
Londoners love a little spice, and Cavita (cavitarestaurant.com),
the newly opened, much-lauded Mexican joint in Marylebone,
is happy to oblige. The chef/proprietor is the hugely talented
Adriana Cavita; the space is a high-ceilinged subtropical oasis;
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THE GOURMET
and the food is earthy and seductive. Try the smoked beef shin
quesabirria—a hybrid of a taco and a quesadilla—served with veal
bone consommé.
Elsewhere in Europe, Barcelona continues to cement its gastrotourist
reputation with Batea (bateabarcelona.com), the handsome
new seafood restaurant from local boy Carles Ramon and Galician
Manu Núñez, the two chefs behind the acclaimed Besta. Their
sometimes audacious menus delight in uniting their two corners
of Spain (and the Atlantic with the Mediterranean): spicy mussel
croquetas, maybe, or cockles with a salted fish broth dashi, or
sautéed baby cuttlefish with bouillabaisse mash and dry-aged
steak. Go with an open mind and an empty stomach.
In fashion-conscious Milan, nowhere is more in vogue than Horto
(hortorestaurant.com), the sleek and stylish restaurant atop The
Medelan, the new business and retail complex in Piazza Cordusio.
The brains in the kitchen belong to Norbert Niederkofler, the three-
Michelin-starred chef from St. Hubertus, who has transferred his
ultra-local philosophy from the Dolomites to Milan. All his produce
comes from within an hour’s drive of the city: The menu changes
constantly, but expect freshwater trout and sturgeon, locally farmed
caviar, and imaginative twists on northern Italian classics such as
Piemontese “plin” (agnolotti) gilded with saffron and scattered with
borage flowers from the terrace garden.
Meanwhile, Bangkok’s post-pandemic recovery continues
apace, and the city’s cosmopolitan tastes are exemplified by Terra
(bangkok-terra.com), the smart new Spanish restaurant from
Barcelona-born chef Sandro Aguilera. Located just off Petchburi
Road, Aguilera’s menu takes the very best of Spanish produce and
turns it into a feast both for the palate and for the eyes. Ajo blanco
is reinvented with coconut, clams, and a basil granita; cuttlefish
is served as a tartare with charred lettuce; while Galician octopus
has bomba rice, roasted white asparagus, and alioli for company.
For an underappreciated cuisine much closer to home, head to
North (north-restaurant.com), in Phrom Phong, a leafy sanctuary in
the middle of Bangkok. Chiang Rai-raised chef Panupong Songsang’s
menu, as the restaurant’s name suggests, is a homage to northern
Thai cuisine—the ancient kingdom of Lan Na—and his cleverly
crafted menu takes diners on a journey through river and jungle, far
away from the coconut palms and the ocean that inform many Thai
menus. Expect butterflied and grilled king river prawns with khao soi
noodles and a spicy broth, Chiang Rai-style deep-fried catfish salad
(“larb”), and tea-smoked duck breast with galangal chili sauce.
A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME
Above: Refined dining at Horto, Milan.
Facing page, from top: Markus Glocker
and Katya Scharnagl of Koloman,
New York; côte de boeuf from Le Gratin,
also in the Big Apple.
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Jeow (jeow.net.au), in Melbourne, has much in common
with North: the food here is Laotian, from the other side of the
Mekong—“jeow” is the Lao word for a sauce, paste or dip—and
funky, jungle flavors are to the fore in dishes like “or lam”, a brothy
stew made with beef short ribs, spiced with the Szechuan pepperlike
“sakhaan” and fragrant with herbs. Chef and co-owner Thi Le
is also fermenting her own Laotian fish sauce, a cloudy condiment
called “padek” that adds its distinctively pungent flavor to many
Laotian dishes.
Also in Melbourne, Victoria by Farmer’s Daughters
(victoriarestaurant.com.au) has galvanized the Fed Square
culinary scene with an ambitious 250-cover restaurant, a 20-cover
wine library, and an all-weather terrace overlooking the Yarra
River. Leading the kitchen is chef Alejandro Saravia, and his menu
celebrates the produce of Victoria, from Snake Valley smoked eel
pâté with pancetta, and Koo Wee Rup asparagus with walnut
cream to Western Plains pork loin with roast onion and dark beer,
and free-range lamb cutlets with mountain pepper mustard. The
wine list is described as a “bible,” and they’re not kidding.
There’s no kangaroo on Saravia’s menu, but it has somehow
hopped over to Singapore: specifically, to Kaarla (kaarla-oumi.sg),
the new restaurant from Australian-born chef John-Paul Fiechtner.
His spotlight shines on Australian coastal cuisine: as well as
kangaroo, salted and given extra bounce with liquorice root and
bush tomato, you might find Australian oysters with oyster leaf and
fig leaf vinegar, Abrolhos Island scallops with edible flowers and
trout roe, and wagyu from Robbins Island, pepped up with pickles
and preserves from Fiechtner’s garden. The kitchen’s impressive
wood-fired grill gives a welcome lick of smoke to many of the
dishes, and the wine list is also striking.
Finally, heading back to the States, and two new restaurants—
the first in Los Angeles, the second in Chicago—that confirm
the Gallic trend, although Mr. T’s (mrtrestaurants.com) original
restaurant is in Paris’s trendy Upper Marais district, where chef
Tsuyoshi Miyazaki (the eponymous Mr. T) and business partner
Guillaume Guedj play fast and loose with the bistro concept, to
the delight of a hipster crowd that feasts happily on lamb kebabs
scented with burning thyme, truffled mac’n’cheese, and vegan
“merguez” made from carrots and served with salsify fries, all to a
thumping R&B backbeat. Expect no different on Hollywood’s North
Sycamore Avenue.
Obélix (obelixchicago.com), in Chicago’s River North district,
is cut from more traditional cloth: Daniel Boulud (or his mother)
could have written the menu. Gratinated onion soup features a
rich beef stock, Swiss cheese and croûtons, salade lyonnaise
tosses duck confit and duck egg in with the frisée and the
vinaigrette, and coquilles Saint-Jacques are bathed in a grapestudded
sauce Véronique. The sancerre is perfectly chilled, the
plateau de fruits de mer is a work of art, the jelly in the pâté en
croûte has the perfect wobble, and the room is as buzzy as a
beehive. As co-owners and brothers Oliver and Nicolas Poilevey
would probably say: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
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TASTING NOTES
One of Bordeaux’s leading vineyards is converting its
terroir to biodynamic farming —a change led by the
formidable Saskia de Rothschild. // By Guy Woodward
LAFITE
LOOKS
FORWARD
WITHIN THE WINE world, Bordeaux is not a place where things
tend to happen quickly. Take the region’s hallowed 1855
classification, which ranks the top châteaux of the Médoc from
first to fifth growths. The ranking has seen just one change
in its 167-year history—the stately Mouton Rothschild being
promoted from a second to first growth after its owner, Baron
Philippe de Rothschild, successfully petitioned agriculture
minister and future president Jacques Chirac in 1973.
Other than that, such is the sanctity of their terroir that changes
of ownership, winemakers, and even the expansion and addition
of vineyards, have not threatened the status of this vinous elite. As
a result, Mouton’s close relation, Château Lafite Rothschild, which
belongs to another branch of the aristocratic family, has, since 1855,
retained its status as one of only four, latterly five, Premiers Grands
Crus Classés – and with it, its reputation as a bastion of Bordeaux,
and one of most vaunted, coveted (and expensive) wines in the world.
Lafite, too, is not given to radical change. Under the long-time
stewardship of the debonair if somewhat detached Baron Éric de
Rothschild—cousin to Baron Philippe—it continued on its serene
trajectory, Baron Éric’s only nod to fashion the velvet smoking
slippers he was fond of wearing to the grand black-tie dinners
that are commonplace in Bordeaux’s wine fraternity. Yet having
celebrated its 150th year in the ownership of the same family in
2018, the property has undergone something of a transformation.
Two things happened in 2018, in addition to the anniversary
celebrations. Firstly, Saskia de Rothschild (the sixth generation,
and neither the oldest child, nor male, and therefore destined
not to inherit her father’s title) took over the management of
the estate, and its various sister properties, as the first female
chairwoman of Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite).
“When the family decided it was time for Baron Éric to hand
over to his daughter, it was a big, big change,” says Jean-Sebastien
Philippe, international director of DBR Lafite. “We moved from a man
who was a legend in the wine world, who had been managing the
estate since 1974, to his young daughter, who was only born in 1987.
“It was a big move, and when Saskia came on board, she wanted
to make quite a lot of changes across everything we do. Not that what
we were doing was wrong, but it was time to embrace modernity.”
The second change—and the most significant immediate
impact she made—was to convert all the Lafite vineyards (and
those of its sister estates) to organic viticulture, a relatively
radical move in Bordeaux. And having gone so far, why not go
further? Over the last four years, the estate has been following—
“in a scientific, empirical way,” says Philippe—biodynamic
viticulture. One third of the property is now biodynamic, after a
long-term study in collaboration with the University of Bordeaux,
to gauge the effect of biodynamic farming on the vineyards.
As Philippe acknowledges, it was “a very strong statement” for a
first growth to commit itself to a type of vineyard husbandry that is
more common in the more rustic wine regions of Burgundy, the Loire
or even that hipster’s favourite the Jura. A handful of Bordeaux’s
classified estates—notably Châteaux Palmer and Pontet-Canet—
have followed the same path, but very few of the scale and status of
Lafite (whose vineyard holdings total more than 270 acres, compared
FIRST AMONG EQUALS
Château Lafite Rothschild, home of
one of the Premiers Grands Crus
Classés of Bordeaux.
FRANÇOIS POINCET
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TASTING NOTES
“We’re trying to find a new way of interacting
with consumers.” – Jean-Sebastien Philippe, international director, DBR Lafite
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DRIVING FORCE
Jean-Sebastien Philippe is one of
the innovative team bringing a new
dynamism to the hallowed cellars of
Château Lafite Rothschild.
to small single-figure acreage at most Burgundy domaines).
But then Saskia de Rothschild is not scared of a challenge.
A graduate of HEC Paris and Columbia University, she carved
out a successful career as an investigative journalist for the
New York Times International Edition in the U.S., Africa,
and Europe, where her assignments included a month spent
interviewing inmates at the notorious La MACA prison at
Abidjan, in Côte d’Ivoire; following the first female U.S.
Marines on Afghanistan’s front line; and being embedded with
sheep farmers taking on the mining industry in Greenland.
This is not a woman afraid to get her hands dirty. “It was a great
time, covering elections and other events in the area,” she said of
her time in West Africa. When it became clear that she was favored
over her two brothers and other contenders from the six branches
of the family who are shareholders in Lafite, she returned to France
to study viticulture and winemaking, and committed herself to the
land where, as a young girl, she had picked grapes and tasted
blends with her father. “I knew the place. I loved the place. And
I felt I could protect it for years to come,” she said at the time.
The conversion of the vineyard to organic and, ultimately,
biodynamic farming is a wholesale undertaking. “It’s not a case of
being organic for the sake of being organic, but going further via
agroecology and agroforestry,” says Philippe. So while many Bordeaux
estates are bolting on vineyards through the somewhat controversial
purchasing of land from neighboring (but not necessarily classified)
estates, Lafite has been pulling out acres of vineyards and replanting
them with trees. “The trees were cut in the 1970s and ’80s so it
was time to replant them to reproduce corridors of vegetation and
wildlife,” says Philippe. The 494 acres of marsh fields at Lafite that
sit alongside the vineyards are now home to herds of wild cows.
“There is a lot of thinking and beliefs about biodynamism,
but we wanted hard facts,” says Philippe. “We already have
five years of data, and we need to do five more years’ study
to go deep into understanding what biodynamics bring to
the vineyard, good or bad. The electro-connectivity of soil,
minerality of soil, genetic studies of soil, rootstock, leaves, etc.”
The move is, he says, “very much linked to Saskia’s belief,” but is
“something that we are embracing and that everyone is following, right
across the château.” The transition, adds Philippe, has required “full
commitment” from all involved. “We can’t force our viticulturalists to
do something, so it needed us to fully explain and convince workers
who have been here for generations that this is the way forward.”
It is still too early to say how the move will impact the style of the
wine in the bottle, but analysis by plot, grape variety, and terroir via
blind tastings has shown “neither a drop nor a rise in quality”, says
Philippe. So, given that the process is significantly more expensive
and labor-intensive, leading to a drop in yields due to a less
interventionist approach, but requiring more manpower to prepare
and spread biodynamic concoctions in the vineyard, why bother?
“Well, fortunately, we can afford it,” says Philippe. “But
first and foremost, it’s about the health of the vineyard and
the people working there for us. And then we cannot ignore
the fact that there is a strong tendency these days—and this
affects everything that we do—for people to be more conscious
of the behaviour and approach of brands they consume.”
There is also, says Philippe, the social impact. “We do a lot of
things at Lafite that go beyond viticulture—so how can we create an
ecosystem where we can help people who are in difficult situations
to re-find a purpose in life and reintegrate themselves into society?”
The answer has been through a program that sees refugees
from parts of Africa and the Middle East recruited to be retrained
and integrated into the Lafite vineyard team. “We welcome around
10-20 every year, and try to provide them with a new job and
a path for the future,” says Philippe. The property also has a
foundation aimed at “being socially respectful in our local networks,
in Pauillac [the commune where Lafite is based] and Bordeaux, by
redistributing some of the wealth we accrue to the right causes.”
It’s all part of a mission, as Philippe says, to establish a more
emotional connection with consumers. “My first impression
when I came to Lafite was that we have a fantastic distribution
network via the négociant system, but conversely, it was
creating a distance from consumers. So we’re trying to find
a new way of interacting with consumers, and moving away
from big wine dinners where all the trade comes together and
tells you how good their wine is, which can be quite boring.”
Last year, Saskia de Rothschild added the title of CEO to
her responsibilities, after the resignation of former incumbent
Jean-Guillaume Prats, whose team now reports directly to de
Rothschild. It completed her assumption of total control of
the estate, where, in another break from tradition, she now
lives with her family, including her two young daughters.
De Rothschild’s father used to split his time between
Pauillac and Paris; indeed, Saskia is the first member of
the family to live at the estate since it was bought by Baron
James de Rothschild in 1868. “She decided to live at the
château and be here every day, to show her commitment,”
says Philippe. That commitment, it seems, is total. lafite.com
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KEEP ON
MOVING
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The Kramlich Collection
and Residence is a result of
one couple’s dedication to
new media art—and
this is just the beginning.
CLEBER BONATO
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INSIDE VIEW
ABOVE
“Right-handed
Koons Bunny,” 2005,
by Jason Rhoades.
FACING PAGE
Nam June Paik’s
“TV Buddha,”
1989.
P74-75
“The Enclave,”
2012-13, by
Richard Mosse.
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MEDIA MANAGEMENT
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RYAN YOUNG
Fittingly, for one of the most significant and pioneering collections of media art in the world, the Kramlich Collection is not standing
still. Since Pamela and Richard Kramlich (above, at their residence) focused their attention on new media in the late 1980s they have
cultivated a body of work that now encompasses over 200 films, videos, slides, and installations, as well as over 250 significant works
of photography, sculpture, painting, and drawing by more than 230 artists from around the world. Major players featured in these include
Marina Abramović, Steve McQueen, and Andy Warhol. Having amassed such a notable collection, the next step in the journey was to
build an establishment capable of presenting a series of works that, according to the Kramlichs, “lived and breathed, that was disruptive,
and that placed a complex set of demands on its installation, in terms of space, light, scale, sound, and time.” This involved both working
with artists to establish how best to display their work and a near-20-year collaboration with the architects Herzog & de Meuron, which
resulted, in 2016, in the magnificent Kramlich Residence. Located amid the beauty of Napa Valley, the 8,000 square feet of galleries
allow visitors—tours are invite-only—to view the collection at a pace dictated by the works themselves. The next stage involves exhibitions
drawn from the collection, with the inaugural one, “Human Conditions,” consisting of 22 installations of media art that investigate a
range of crucial issues in the spheres of politics and psychology. A second exhibition focusing on portraiture will begin in January. While
access to the collection is exclusive, the Kramlichs are conscious of engaging the wider public. Most recently, this has manifested itself
in the first volume of a series of four books, “The Human Condition: Media Art from the Kramlich Collection, 1” (published by Thames &
Hudson). Edited by Shannon Jackson, the tome features lush photography of the collection and essays by leading curators and scholars
in the field, commenting on complex issues from civil war to planet degradation. Like much of new media itself, this remarkable story
continues to move on. kramlichcollection.org
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ABOVE
“Drawing Restraint 9,”
2005, by Matthew Barney.
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THE LAST WORD
JOHN MUSE
The businessman, polo player, and
NetJets Owner on how he spends
his rare, spare time.
TRAVEL
Sun worshipper or thrill-seeker?
I’m a thrill-seeker, definitely. I like
to try things such as heliskiing in
Canada, New Zealand, or South
America.
ACCOMMODATION
Grandes dames, luxe design, or
eminently private? I like cool and
cozy—maybe a small cottage or rental
home over a slick, modern hotel.
FOOD
Top names or hidden gems? The
latter for me—hidden gems with
menus featuring very flavorful and
moist, tender proteins.
ARCHITECTURE
Classical or modern? Both—
but preferably a mix, with a classic
outside elevation, but modern
kitchen and bathrooms.
ARTS
Still life or live performance?
Always live!
TRANSPORT
Fast lane or cruise control? I prefer
cruise control and a smooth, but not
slow, speed.
DAY TO DAY
Big screen or good book? Big
screen for movies/documentaries
or sports. My favorite author is
David Brooks, the columnist on
The New York Times.
Chilled champagne or a
contemporary cocktail? Maybe a
contemporary cocktail, but I would
also settle for a great red blend.
JULIAN RENTZSCH
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