NetJets EU Summer 2023

HOLDING DESIGN OF THE COURT TIME
The Roger secret Federer behind on his
Laplace’s career and creations beyond
SLEEPING KEEPING WELL COOL
Mayo Clinic’s guide
to a dealing good night’s with stress rest
SOUTHERN PARADISE FOUND CHARM
The Costa renaissance Rica unveils of
the its French many charms Riviera
TEEING THE SADDLE OFF
Cycling How will in this all year’s its
forms Ryder is Cup on play the out? rise
CHICAGO NEW IDEAS SCOPE
The Revolutionising eclectic restaurant breast
scene cancer in treatment the Windy City

TAKING OFF
THE SUMMER SEASON IS ONE OF OUR BUSIEST TIMES OF THE YEAR.
School is out, the weather is warm, and holidays are on the rise.
It’s a great time to recharge and rejuvenate.
As we continue our partnership with Mayo Clinic, I found its experts’
insight on stress (check out page 36) to be relatively timely. It is usually at this point
in the year when many of us start looking ahead at the next six months, adjusting
goals or course-correcting to meet deadlines.
Like the article shares, there are certainly ways to decrease the impact of stress
on our lives — for many, the favourite way to relax and re-energise is through travel.
And tennis champ Roger Federer agrees …
We sat down with Roger for one of his first wide-ranging interviews (featured in pages
38-47) since he retired from the sport. He mentions his travels with NetJets allow him
to save time and be more rested, ultimately sharing that his experience feels familiar,
like an extended family. We wish the same for all our Owners.
As autumn quickly approaches, we look forward to being your familiar, trusted partner for
all the holidays and travel opportunities ahead.
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Adam Johnson
Chairman and CEO
CONTRIBUTORS
NICK BAYLY
The experienced
golf journalist is
looking forward to
this autumn’s big
event and takes a
look at potential
US and Europe
teams, quizzes
the captains,
and previews an
exceptional course
in Ryder Cup in
Focus (page 50).
LANIE GOODMAN
From her base
in the South
of France, the
American writer
is well placed to
assess the new
Riviera Chic
(page 56), as
the Côte d’Azur
news includes
old favourites
reborn and fresh
destinations.
FARHAD HEYDARI
At a special event
for Owners in New
York, NetJets, the
Magazine’s editor
discovers it is
Game, Set, Match:
Federer (page 38),
as he questions
the Swiss tennis
legend on his
recent retirement,
triumphs past and
future plans.
GUY WOODWARD
The veteran wine
expert with a
taste for the
new is caught
Between Tradition
and Modernity
(page 70) as he
delves into the
heartwarming story
of Château-Figeac,
an old Bordeaux
institution
changing its ways.
XAVIER YOUNG
Against a backdrop
of sculpted rocks,
for Summer Lights
(page 66) the
London-based
photographer
captures the
season’s finest
jewellery, where
the most exquisite
gems are paired
with the most
precious of metals.
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story’s subject, with approximate distances in miles and kilometres where applicable.
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CONTENTS
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BEYOND BLUE
The Maybourne Riviera,
page 56
56 38
50 64
SPECIAL CARE
The Breast Care Foundation
is changing concepts around
cancer treatment
pages 10-13
PERFECT ACE
Roger Federer on triumphs
past, present plans, and
future dreams
pages 38-47
GOLDEN TIME
The finest jewellery for
summer shines with
a precious hue
pages 66-69
RICHARD HAUGHTON, THOMAS AUDIFFREN, FRED MARCUS STUDIO, JACOB SJOMAN
IN THE NEWS
Developments in the
Cotswolds, the finest
spirits, and more
pages 14-24
NETJETS UPDATE
Latest events, staff
in profile, plus inside
a pro golfer’s bag
pages 26-33
STRESS LEVELS
Mayo Clinic’s guide on
how to deal with the
turmoil of modern life
pages 34-37
GREEN DREAMS
What lies in store at
the 44th Ryder Cup
in Italy this autumn
pages 50-54
RIVIERA REBORN
Hotel happenings and
gourmet updates from
the South of France
pages 56-64
TALE OF THE GRAPE
Old and new combine
in the ambitious plans
of Château-Figeac
pages 70-72
FINNISH PRODUCT
The Helsinki Biennial
aims to take art in a
different direction
pages 74-81
ON THE HORIZON
The world of aviation
viewed through
the lens of a pilot
page 83
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(See page 56 for a guide
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COURTESY ALEXANDER MONRO HOSPITAL
GOODWILL
HOW SPECIALISATION
SAVES LIVES
The first specialised hospital for breast cancer, The
Alexander Monro hospital, in Bilthoven, Utrecht, is aiming
to spread its model across the globe // By Claire Wrathall
“WORKING AS AN ONCOLOGIC surgeon in
a big hospital in the Netherlands, I saw a lot
of good things,” says Marjolein de Jong, also
the founder of the Breast Care Foundation
and Breast Care The Netherlands, a group for
founding specialised breast cancer hospitals.
“But every day I also witnessed so many
inefficiencies and conflicts of interest that
it seemed to me we were just not able to do
our best because the logistics of running a
hospital and having to share facilities were
working against us.” What, she wondered,
if instead of one huge institution striving
to treat all diseases, there were instead
small, specialised centres of excellence that
focused exclusively on just one condition,
run on a human scale, where the care was
not just clinical but compassionate and took
account of all the many different anxieties
brought by a life-changing diagnosis.
“We always say the medical team are
experts in their specialty, but the patients
are specialists in their own lives,” she says.
And yet so often their feelings and personal
circumstances are overlooked. How much
better to take a holistic approach, and
“combine the two” in an ethos she describes
as “caring and curing”.
MISSION STATEMENT
Marjolein de Jong combines
caring and curing at the
Alexander Monro Hospital
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GOODWILL
DIFFERENT VIEW
A treatment room at
Alexander Monro Hospital
Ten years on, the Alexander Monro Hospital
in Utrecht, where de Jong is director of the
board, is the first dedicated breast-cancer
hospital in the Netherlands, and probably the
world. It also has among the highest patientsatisfaction
score of any Dutch hospital, an
impressive 9.5 out of 10.
“One out of seven women experiences
breast cancer during their lifetime,”
continues de Jong. “In the Netherlands, we
have 17,000 new breast-cancer cases every
year and nine women are dying each day from
it,” she says. Globally, the figures are even
scarier: according to the American Society
of Clinical Oncology, more than 2.26 million
new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed
in 2020, even when so many doctors’ offices
were closed. But caught early and treated
effectively, it is survivable and much less
traumatic to treat. As the otherwise fit
American novelist Elizabeth L Silver wrote
earlier this year after her diagnosis, at the
age of 42, of a stage-three tumour that even
a routine mammogram had failed to pick up,
“Early detection is the difference between a
small procedure or the loss of your breasts;
the difference between a pill every day or
months of chemotherapy and radiation
with long-term side effects; the difference
between a chronic issue that is dealt with
using medication, or a life-threatening
prognosis.”
Named after the eminent 18th-century
Scottish surgeon and anatomist Alexander
Monro, who studied at the University of
Leiden, the hospital offers everything from
diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy, state-ofthe-art
nuclear medicine, reconstruction
and an in-house tattoo artist who can make
the nipple look perfectly realistic after a
breast operation to genetic counselling and
physiotherapy, all under one roof, where every
patient is being treated for the same disease.
Not that there isn’t a vast range of
pathologies. “In the early days, there were
considered only a few types of breast cancer
that were known about.” she says. Some main
treatment pathways were prescribed. “But
now we know so much more extra details
of every tumour-type and there are many
more possiblities for treatment.” Indeed, of
all the second opinions they are asked for
– including some from other countries – at
the Alexander Monro Hospital, 12 per cent
receive a different diagnosis and 28 per cent
a different treatment proposal.
“By being so specialised, we are getting
better and better results. But it’s not just
the result of developments in knowledge. It’s
also the way we explain to people what their
situation is and what the options are,” she
says. “We help them choose. It’s important
patients feel seen and heard, that they are
not overwhelmed and feel they are in control
of the choices they are making.”
In keeping with the overall ambition to
make the experience of being treated here as
pleasant and unintimidating as possible, the
hospital’s airy bedrooms have been decorated
to recall those in a hotel, with tall, buttoned
bedheads, art on the walls, crisp white linen,
fluffy bathrobes and en-suite bathrooms.
ERIK VAN ‘T WOUD
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“
–Marjolein
For a long time, we’ve been told to check our breasts
monthly for lumps. But there are 11 other signs that
you cannot feel but mostly see.
de Jong
It is important, she says, that they look
“hospitable”, not institutional.
There is also a kids’ playing area as well,
so that the “children of mothers (and fathers)
with breast cancer can play games, read, draw
or use an iPad, and be close” to their parents
while they undergo treatment. This benefits
the whole family – “your loved ones are
extremely important as your support system,”
she stresses – and saves the patient from
having to organise childcare. Even the hospital
garb has been thought about. “We also
provide a gorgeous pink scarf you can wrap
around yourself,” she says, something pretty,
comforting (and warm) to help preserve the
patient’s dignity as she (for, statistically, the
hospital’s patients are likelier to be women
even if, according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, in the US about one
per cent of malignant breast tumours are
found in men, who have a 1 in 833 lifetime
risk of contracting it) sits anxious and halfundressed
waiting for a diagnosis.
It comes as no surprise that de Jong
has two specialisms: surgical oncology and
psychology. Nor that she has been touched
emotionally by breast cancer. “I saw it from
close up, not in my own family or in myself,
but in a close friend, a young woman. I said,
‘OK, this is what I’m going to give my energy
to.’ It’s such an enormous problem in the
world for women. So I said I will do everything
I have in my capability to help to cure the
disease and, if not that, to care for them.”
In order to fundraise for the hospital and,
she hopes, enable it to expand the model, she
has also founded a charity, the Breast Care
Foundation, as well as being a foundier of
Breast Care Netherlands/Europe, a new role
model for specialised breast cancer centres.
“Our aim is that we spread the word and by
doing so to create more breast centres in the
Netherlands and abroad. I think we can do
much better in breast-cancer care everywhere.
And we have a brilliant model that works and
that we can share. Though to do that you need
good partners.”
The foundation also funds research into
breast cancer (it has an affiliation with the
University Medical Center Utrecht) and runs
public-information campaigns in 10 languages,
the latest of which – Know Your Breasts –
exhorts women to check themselves not just
by palpating but also by looking.
“For a long time, we’ve been told to check
our breasts monthly for lumps. But there
are 11 other signs that you cannot feel but
you can mostly see. So we teach people the
12 symptoms of possible breast cancer you
have to be aware of and look for. The better
you know your own breasts, the more you
can identify any changes, and when you
notice a change, you need to go to your GP
[or primary care physician] for mammography
or echography, whatever is necessary from
their point of view.” (Just for the record,
the 12 symptoms she warns of are thick or
upright veins, bumps or dents, sores, dimples,
changes in the shape or size or skin colour of
one breast, orange-peel skin, hot or inflamed
skin, the emergence of fluid from a nipple,
crusted or inverted nipples, hard or thickened
zone – and, of course, a hard lump.)
But better detection and treatment
of malignancies is going to necessitate
greater capacity to treat them, hence the
need for more specialised hospitals run on
this model. “We have the power and the
guts to do something different, to make
something new and better,” she says. But
to do that, they’re going to need funding.
For more information scan the QR code,
visit stichtingbreastcarefoundation.com
alexandermonro.nl; or contact
Marjoleindejong@alexandermonro.nl
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Our collection of the latest, the brightest
and the best begins in a British idyll
COTSWOLDS CATCH-UP
What’s new, what’s great and where to go in England’s
best getaway spot // By Simon Mills
STATELY JEWEL
Aynho Park is
set in gardens by
Capability Brown
LONDON’S VERDANT and
increasingly vibrant answer
to The Hamptons is a land
of (organic almond) milk
and honey-coloured stone,
opalescent countryside
scenery, cute cottages and
fine hotels and destination
dining that’s home to a
plethora of boldface names
(think: Jeremy Clarkson,
Kate Moss, David Beckham,
David Cameron and Boris
Johnson), all of whom have
decamped to this rarefied
redoubt for R&R as well as
the privacy it affords.
Officially, the area
stretches across six counties
but it is amid the motorway-
adjacent Oxfordshire and
Gloucestershire Cotswolds –
with their Instagram-worthy,
farm-to-fork lunching
opportunities, rolling hills,
Hollywood villages and
chocolate box-pretty towns
like Burford, Chipping
Norton, Charlbury, Bibury,
Kingham, Great Tew,
Moreton-in-Marsh – where all
the rest, relaxation and retail
action is.
Showrooming the
area’s remarkable recent
transformation is the
17th-century Aynho Park
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Sir John Soane’s grand
design has been restyled
as both an experiential
store and restaurant – a
“gallery” destination and
RH’s first outside the US,
one of a planned ten across
Europe. Aynhoe Park is now
an architectural wowser of
a space that reimagines
and redefines the furnitureshopping
experience by
curating the RH lifestyle as a
and private members retreat
with four restaurants, 108
bedrooms and a spectacular
gym with a class studio and
padel courts. Interior design
– sumptuous, decadently
camp and more Wodehouse
than Soho House – is by
New York-based Roman and
Williams, the former movie
set designers who have also
created interiors for Ben
Stiller, Kate Hudson and
series of artistic installations
Gwyneth Paltrow. Estelle
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and multiple dining spaces
that blur the lines between
residential and retail, indoors
and outdoors, home and
Manor’s showstopper
promises to be its 3,000sq
metre Roman-inspired bath
house and spa which includes
hospitality. Think Conran
a bathing hall, five pools,
MAKING HISTORY
Gary Friedman,
CEO of RH, which
has remodelled
Aynho Park with
spectacular
results such as
the library, below
(rh.com) at Banbury. Boasting
a Capability Brownlandscaped,
30ha garden and
notable Jacobean masonry,
the house has recently
reopened as the first
British HQ for Californian
megastore as envisaged by
the Downton Abbey cast.
Estelle Manor
(estellemanor.com), a few miles
away, has similar grandscale
ambitions. The former
Eynsham Hall, now the rural
a lounge, ten treatment
rooms, thermal cabins and a
bar. Expect to clock everyone
from Princess Beatrice to
Shiv Roy nursing a negroni by
the tepidarium in one of the
manor’s bathrobes.
furniture and design
outpost of Mayfair members’
Over at Daylesford
überbrand RH (formerly
club Maison Estelle, has
Organic, 27km away in the
Restoration Hardware).
been converted into a hotel
Evenlode Valley (locals refer
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stainless steel-lined (this
material requiring the use of
less chlorine, which is better
for the hair), and adjacent
is The Source with sauna,
steam room, experience
shower, ice barrels, indoor
ice bath, outdoor infrared
sauna and heated
outdoor plunge pool. There’s
also a club restaurant, B
Well, serving a seasonal
menu of food made from
locally sourced ingredients,
to encourage post-workout
nourishment of the body
“from the inside out”.
COUNTRY HOME
Estelle Manor,
the new outpost
for a Mayfair
members’ club
to it as “the mothership”),
the food and lifestyle
superstore’s founder Carole
Bamford has expanded
the sprawling homestead
a bucolic antidote to the
basement sweatboxes you
might find in the city. Enjoy
a session of reformer pilates
or power yoga with a view
Retoxing Cotswoldsstyle
mainly happens at
its myriad public houses,
which, confusingly, only
seem to have one of three
and retail campus to now
of padel tennis courts and
names – it is very easy to
include The Club by Bamford
the rolling 1,400ha working
get one’s Bells, Bulls and
(bamfordclub.com). All pale
farmland beyond. The
Royal Oaks muddled up. Ergo,
woods and granite, with
Club even offers a farm-
The Bull (thebullcharlbury.
loft-style floor-to-ceiling
fit workout with bale lifting
com) at Charlbury is the
windows, Bamford’s naturally
and tractor-tyre flipping.
most anticipated reopening
lit rendering of a gym is
A 25m indoor pool is solid
of the year. Now under
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the landlordship of local
Oxfordshire boys James
Gummer and Philip Winser
– also of The Pelican on
Notting Hill’s All Saints Road,
and formerly of New York’s
Fat Radish – the Wilderness
festival town’s 16th-century
boozer is now all bare wood
beams, natural fabrics, tan
leather and open fires with
Kingham). Formerly a
hangout for literary types
– JRR Tolkien was once a
regular – expect a Grade
II-listed, English Heritage
approved, upper-Middle
Earth Bamford makeover
when The Bell reopens in
2024. In the meantime, try
The Bell Inn (thebelllangford.
com) at Langford, a small but
com), a pub and boutique
hostelry at Ramsden owned by
movie producer Tim Bevan and
his artist wife Amy Gadney –
both village residents – who
commissioned a major makeunder
of the 17th-century
interior by designer Nicola
Harding back in 2020. Homely,
warm and unpretentious, The
Royal Oak is at once both
a menu that is both robust
excellent pub run by chef
traditional and contemporary,
and warming: raw beef with
Tom Noest and manager
an outward-looking local
Gentleman’s Relish, ham
Peter Creed, formerly of
with five boutique lodgings
hock with egg mayo, spider
the famous Chequers in
that feel like an overnight
crab toast et al.
Churchill where The Times
stay at an old friend’s house.
Over the road is The Bell
restaurant critic tried the
Book the cute table in the
(thebellatcharlbury.com) – aka
kitchen’s garlic, parsley and
bothy, outside on the sun-
The Bell at Charlbury – a
bone marrow flatbread and
trapping rear terrace, with
13th-century coach house
declared it “not just the best
its own wood-burning stove,
and market pub recently
mouthful of the year, but the
for a cosy Sunday lunch of
purchased by the ubiquitous
best mouthful of my life”.
Wychwood Venison Ragout
Bamford (who also presides
On the way back to the
and Oak ale. And keep an eye
over The Fox at Oddington
A40, pull the Aston in at The
open for David Cameron, or
and The Wild Rabbit at
Royal Oak (royaloakramsden.
Bridget Jones, at the bar.
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RAISING THE BAR
From eco-concious whisky and rum to tequilas that
are setting new standards, the best of the spirit world.
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3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
1 BUSHMILLS 25-YEAR-OLD/30-YEAR-OLD SINGLE MALT The
Co Antrim distillery has released two very rare additions to its
aged single malts collection, matured and bottled at The Old
Bushmills Distillery. bushmills.com // 2 COTSWOLDS SINGLE
MALT The fourth expression in the Hearts & Craft series, this
single malt has been aged in premium French oak casks, and
seasoned with Banyuls, a dessert wine from the southwest
of France. cotswoldsdistillery.com 3 ARDRAY Japanese and
Scottish expertise meet in the latest release from Edrington,
as styles of blending from Suntory are employed in chief
blender Calum Fraser’s elixir conjured from an exceptional
selection of the very best Scotch whisky. ardray.com //
4 FETTERCAIRN WAREHOUSE 14 The fifth and final bottling
from the Warehouse Collection takes the Aberdeenshire
distillery’s signature tropical house flavour and gives it an
experimental twist by finishing the whisky in three types of
beer barrels – stout, dark ale and pale ale. fettercairnwhisky.
com // 5 GLEN SCOTIA CAMPBELTOWN MALTS FESTIVAL
2023 Finished for 12 months in white port casks, this 11-yearold
single malt mixes stone fruit flavours with the classic
Campbeltown taste of soft smoke and sea salt. glenscotia.com
// 6 KOMOS AÑEJO RESERVA The increasing popularity of
tequila is matched by the growing quality of products on the
market, encapsulated by Komos with its latest release, which –
after 12 months in a selection of specially chosen barrels – is
blended, then aerated to produce a softer and smoother taste
in the mouth. komos.com // 7 UHURU RUM Inspired by a love
of spirits and of conservation, Uhuru is a passion project from
Youngs Spirits that brings together cultures. Ten percent of its
net profits – including those from this enchanting XO Golden
Rum from the Caribbean – support wildlife charities in Africa.
uhuruspirits.co.uk // 8 NOBU RARE 2008 RESERVE Tequila
brand QUI teams up with legendary chef Nobu Matsuhisa to
produce a limited-edition spirit. The blend of agave harvested
in 2007 and 2008 and aged in American whiskey oak barrels
produces an additive-free tequila, with a clean, crisp taste.
noburestaurants.com // 9 TALISKER X PARLEY WILDER SEAS
Packaged in 100% recycled glass bottles, and created in
partnership with environmental organisation Parley for the
Oceans, the latest expression from the Skye-based distillery
is its first finished in French oak XO cognac casks. malts.com
// 10 LOCH LOMOND 47 YEARS OLD The final edition in the
Highland distillery’s Remarkable Stills Series is an unpeated
whisky that surprises with its distinctive fruit notes. Master
blender Michael Henry is able to produce such a unique taste
thanks to the straight neck stills that only Loch Lomond uses
in Scotland. lochlomondwhiskies.com
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A company from the southeast of England steeped in a
tradition of quality audio products, Ruark has now produced
the evolutionary 100 series to appeal to music lovers.
The smaller 410 unit (l e ft) and the “sideboard”-sized 810
combine Ruark’s trademark quality design – highlighted by
the elegant, hand-crafted grille and cabinet – with stateof-the-art
technology. The new CPU and the latest audioprocessing
technologies can provide the highest quality
aural experience for streaming sounds. ruarkaudio.com
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Dining with a Difference
AFTER PARTY
Dessert as envisaged by Paco
Roncero; top: the Champagne
Room at Sublimotion
In May, Sublimotion celebrated a remarkable ten years of
tantalising, surprising and ultimately satisfying the demanding
public in Ibiza. Chef Paco Roncero and creative director
Eduardo Gonzáles have marked the tenth anniversary of this
remarkable blend of culinary creativity and showmanship by
collaborating with Antonyo Marest at the Hard Rock Hotel,
Ibiza. The Spanish artist Marest has created a large-format
work that mirrors both his own – and the Sublimotion team’s
– Mediterranean language and multicultural origins. Limited
to 12 diners per sitting, the experience – and the ambience
– is enhanced by elixirs from the Pernod Ricard Group.
sublimotionibiza.com
ARTUR BEGEL ARTUR BEGEL
The Right Selection
NetJets Owners
travelling to the
US this autumn will
have the chance
to sample wines
chosen by Andy
Chabot, Blackberry
Farm’s sommelier
and senior VP of
food and beverage,
including this
Spottswoode
Sauvignon Blanc,
2022. Chabot
describes it as “a
classic wine from
the Novak family
of Napa Valley,
which has been
produced since
the mid-1980s and
continues to set the
bar for sauvignon
blanc worldwide”.
© SPOTTSWOODE
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ART AND STYLE
FREDERICK DUCHESNE (2)
BLUE HEAVEN
Conor Mccreedy, below, and his works
in the NetJets Lounge at Art Basel
In June, for the 22nd year, NetJets was an associate partner
of Art Basel in the fair’s original Swiss home. As well as
offering Owners First Choice and Preview access to the show
that features over 200 leading galleries and more than
4,000 artists from five continents, they were also invited
into the NetJets Lounge, which once again was adorned
with work curated by a chosen artist. This year’s choice
was South African-born, Swiss-based British artist Conor
Mccreedy. The works on show in the lounge are from
Mccreedy’s Alter-Ego Wildlife series, which brings together
his love of conservation with his focus on monochromatic
creations in blue. Believing the colour to be a powerful
force in storytelling, conveying such a contrasting array of
emotions, Mccreedy uses blue as a tool to explore the
complex relationship between one’s self and wild animals.
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INSIDE TRACK
ALEXANDER
UITENBROEK
DIRECTOR OF CUSTOMER SERVICE
JULIAN RENTZSCH
NETJETS BY THE NUMBERS
OWNERS AND
EMPLOYEES
11,000+
NETJETS OWNERS WORLDWIDE
With 8,400-plus in the US
and nearly 3,000 in Europe
NEARLY 7,500
EMPLOYEES WORLDWIDE
managing each flight down
to the finest detail.
(This includes nearly 4,000 pilots)
WHAT IS YOUR ROLE AT NETJETS? My role
is to ensure the smooth delivery of the NetJets
experience across the Customer Service Teams,
working hand in hand with our colleagues in
Operations to provide the best possible results
for our Owners.
WHAT DOES YOUR NORMAL DAY CONSIST
OF? I wear multiple hats throughout the day. I
always start the morning with an overview of how
the day is shaping up to be, both in my teams
and within the operation in general. If there are
any concerns on this front, I first assure these
are being attended to. Following this, the day can
take many different forms, whether focusing on
any possible disruption, providing guidance to the
teams, reviewing the departmental plan for the
years ahead, discussing digital transformation
and project development and more. Effectively,
every day is different!
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE YOU
FACE IN YOUR ROLE? The service oversight
of our flights and several different departments
within the Customer Service area is no easy
feat – all the nuances and developments in
each forum certainly pose a challenge, and I am
grateful for the team members I work with to
make it possible. That said, the last two to three
years have been particularly complex, with topics
such as the pandemic creating unique hurdles
for us to overcome. Nonetheless, we welcome the
challenges, as they only serve to strengthen the
business in the long term.
OVER 95%
OF OWNERS
choose NetJets year after year
NEARLY 400
GLOBAL FLIGHT ATTENDANTS
Most of whom have been
at NetJets for 10-plus years
700+
MILESTONE ANNIVERSARIES
Owners celebrating 10, 20,
or 30 years with us in 2021–23
NEARLY 1,500
NEW HIRES IN 2022
This is across the globe,
with 1,220-plus more
expected in 2023
50+
PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS
choose NetJets
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THE NEED FOR SPEED
For all the changes Formula 1 has undergone in recent years, one staple has
remained firmly in place – the Monaco Grand Prix is the race to see and at
which to be seen. This year, the combination of the best drivers on the planet,
the iconic track and glamorous guests were all in place and NetJets Owners
were again treated to some of the best seats in the house. From the NetJets
terrace, high above the first chicane, Owners could enjoy the view of Port
Hercule and the race unfolding below them.
FREDERICK DUCHESNE (2)
FIRE AND FINERY
Asador
Etxebarri’s
dining room
and the master
chef Victor
Arguinzoniz
at work
A PERFECT GRILL
Recently ranked fourth in the World’s Best 50
Restaurants, Asador Etxebarri has garnered a
reputation that belies its seemingly simplistic
setting. In a small village in the stunning foothills
of a Basque village, chef Victor Arguinzoniz
creates Michelin-starred cuisine from the local
fare, as NetJets Owners discovered when they
were treated to an exclusive seating at the
restaurant. The grill is king in Arguinzoniz’s
self-designed kitchen (which includes six grills
that the chef created himself), where he coaxes
complex flavours from his simple ingredients.
Owners enjoyed the finest of Basque dining,
paired with an exquisite wine selection.
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CREWMEMBER PROFILE
ROLANDA COSTA
Cabin crew, Global/Falcon/Challenger 350
MY FIRST EXPOSURE TO FLYING WAS …
on a 747 from Lisbon to Mozambique, where I
was born, and I got to visit the cockpit. That
was impressive for a five-year-old girl.
THE BEST PART OF FLYING IS … well,
there are several. Every day, every flight
and all the Owners are different, and we
organise each flight accordingly to these
different profiles. Then there are the
wonderful destinations and being able to
visit my friends abroad. And finally – there
is no routine.
BEFORE JOINING THE NETJETS TEAM, I
WAS … a purser for Portugália Airlines.
THE ONE DAY AT NETJETS I WON’T
FORGET WAS … the day I received the
letter saying that I was going to be part of
this wonderful family. It was almost 23 years
ago and I remember every word!
JULIAN RENTZSCH
ONE THING OWNERS PROBABLY
WOULDN’T GUESS ABOUT ME IS … that
I volunteer at the Cancer Institute (Children’s
Ward) in Lisbon and I practise a therapy
called Reiki [a Japanese form of energy
healing], for children and the families staying
with them. I also volunteer at the Ronald
McDonald house [which offers support and
free accommodation to families with children
undergoing hospital treatment in one of the
hospitals belonging to the Centro Hospitalar
Lisboa Central] and I have a beautiful threeyear-old
Australian shepherd dog called Mia.
ON MY DAYS OFF … I take my dog for long
walks, do yoga, meditate, volunteer. Sleep!
WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR, I WOULD LIKE
TO … get to know more about dogs, and
maybe become a dog trainer.
WITHIN THE NEXT TEN YEARS, I WOULD
LIKE TO … look back and be proud.
MY BEST ADVICE FOR STAYING SANE
ACROSS TIME ZONES IS … to stay in the
local time always! Even if it’s only for one day.
MY PROUDEST MOMENT AS A
CREWMEMBER WAS … surprising a
10-year-old Portuguese passenger by using
sign language. Her family were frequent
flyers, so i took a few classes just because
of her. I will never forget their faces when I
started interacting with her.
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WHAT’S IN THE BAG
A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Max Homa is a six-time
PGA TOUR champion. After winning the individual 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf
Championship, Homa then competed in the 2013 US Open as an amateur.
He earned his first PGA TOUR victory in May 2019 at the Wells Fargo Championship
and is looking to earn a place in this year’s US Ryder Cup team (see page 50).
Take a look inside his golf bag.
DRIVER:
Titleist TSR3,
9 degree, A1 setting,
Mitsubishi Tensei 1K
Black 65 TX shaft
3-WOOD: Titleist TSR2+, 14.5
degree, D4 setting,
Ventus TR Red 8X shaft
7-WOOD:
Titleist TSR2 21, D1
setting, Ventus TR Red
8X shaft
3-IRON:
Titleist T200, KBS
Proto Hybrid 105X
shaft
IRONS:
4 – Titleist T100S;
5 – Titleist T100;
6-9 – Titleist 620MB.
All with KBS $-Taper
130 X shafts
GREGORY SHAMUS / GETTY IMAGES
WEDGES: Titleist Vokey 46-10F,
KBS $-Taper 130X
shaft 50-12F, KBS Hi
Rev 2.0 135X shaft
56-14F, KBS Hi Rev 2.0
135X shaft
60-04L, KBS Hi Rev 2.0
135X shaft
PUTTER: Scotty Cameron
Phantom 5.5
BALL: 2023 Titleist Pro V1
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LIVING WELL
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MAINTAINING
SPIRIT LEVELS
Experts from Mayo Clinic analyse the causes of stress in
modern life and outline the best ways to deal with it
JÖRN KASPUHL
WHEN ONE TALKS about stress, it’s considered a negative thing. The pace,
challenges and noise in most of our lives today add stress to even the most
mundane situations and can lead to feeling frustrated and overwhelmed.
What we sometimes forget is that even happy times cause stress. Stress is
an inevitable part of life. What we have to do is figure out how to manage our
stress levels for optimal health.
It helps first to define stress. At Mayo Clinic, we define it as a normal
psychological and physical reaction to the demands of life. Some stress can be
good, motivating you to perform well. But many daily challenges, such as sitting
in traffic, meeting deadlines, and paying bills, can push you beyond your ability
to cope. And while the effects of stress may seem temporary – you finally
unwind after making it home after a long day at work and then an extra hour
added on to your commute due to a traffic jam – we understand that continual
stress can have lasting negative impacts on health.
“When stress becomes chronic – lasting weeks, months or even years – then
this stress can change the equilibrium (homeostasis) within our bodies by
affecting our immunological, hormonal and other biomarkers of health,” says Dr
Moain Abu Dabrh, a physician-researcher-coach with the Mayo Clinic Executive
Health programme in Jacksonville, Florida. “These imbalances can lead to
negative impacts on our physical, emotional, mental, social, environmental and
many other aspects of our well-being.”
His colleague, Dr Adam Perlman, agrees. “Stress can impact every system in
your body and increase your risk of developing not only issues like depression
and insomnia, but also heart disease, chronic pain and even the common cold.”
While there’s probably no way to eliminate negative stress for most of us, we
can learn how to better manage our reactions to stressful situations and lessen
the impact stress has on our bodies. The best part is that the most common
ways to decrease the impact of stress on our lives are pretty easy to include in
our day-to-day lives.
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LIVING WELL
BE ACTIVE
Physical activity can pump up your feel-good endorphins and
other natural neural chemicals that enhance your sense of
well-being. Exercise can also refocus your mind on your body’s
movements, which can improve your mood and help the day’s
irritations fade away.
STICK TO A HEALTHY DIET
Eating a healthy diet is an important part of taking care of
yourself. Aim to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables, and
whole grains.
AVOID UNHEALTHY HABITS
Many people turn to vices when the stress becomes
overwhelming. Alcohol, illicit substances, binging on junk
food or other risky behaviours are all habits that can harm
your health.
MEDITATE
During meditation, you focus your attention and quiet the
stream of jumbled thoughts that may be crowding your mind
and causing stress. Meditation can instill a sense of calm,
peace, and balance that can benefit both your emotional wellbeing
and your overall health.
LAUGH MORE
Too frustrated for a chuckle? Fake it ’til you make it! When you
laugh, it not only lightens your mental load but also causes
positive physical changes in your body. Laughter fires up and
then cools down your stress response. So find some of the best
dad jokes, watch a comedy, or hang out with your funny friends.
CONNECT WITH OTHERS
When you’re stressed and irritable, your instinct may be to
isolate yourself. Instead, reach out to family and friends.
Studies show that people with a strong social network are less
likely to turn to unhealthy habits in times of high stress due to
the availability of their friends to help lighten the load.
JULIAN RENTZSCH
“
Being able to prioritise a certain level
of self-care can have a dramatic effect
on how able you are to manage
stress and by extension how you feel
physically and mentally
Dr Adam Perlman, a physician in the Department of Internal Medicine
at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida
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“
values
We are all unique individuals with
unique needs, opportunities for
improvement, and context of life,
and preferences
Dr Moain Abu Dabrh, a physician-researcher-coach with the Mayo Clinic
Executive Health Program in Jacksonville, Florida. The Mayo Clinic Executive
Health Program serves as a preventive health programme for busy executives
in the demanding stages of their careers and is available at four locations:
Jacksonville; Rochester, Minnesota; Phoenix, Arizona; and London.
JULIAN RENTZSCH
ASSERT YOURSELF
Saying yes may seem like an easy way to keep the peace, prevent
conflicts, and get the job done right. But it may cause you
internal conflict because your needs and those of your family
come second, which can lead to stress, anger, resentment and
even the desire to exact revenge. And that’s not a very calm
and peaceful reaction. Learn to say no when you need to.
GET ENOUGH SLEEP
Stress can cause you to have trouble falling asleep. When you
have too much to do – and too much to think about – your
sleep can suffer. But sleep is the time when your brain and
body recharge. And the quality and amount of sleep you get
can affect your mood, energy level, concentration and overall
functioning. If you have sleep troubles, make sure that you have
a quiet, relaxing bedtime routine, listen to soothing music, put
clocks away and stick to a consistent schedule.
“There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to getting healthy,”
Dr Abu Dabrh continues. “We are all unique individuals with
unique needs, opportunities for improvement and context
of life, values, and preferences. The scientific evidence and
health care expertise provide us a blueprint to explore and
identify what approaches matter and apply to us to leverage
and live our healthiest selves – one day at a time. Living
healthy is a journey.”
CULTIVATE RESILIENCE
Cultivating resilience can occur by nurturing various
approaches in our daily life, including mindfulness, gratitude,
acceptance, curiosity, compassion, empathy and living with
purpose. When we talk about resiliency, we really mean how
a person reacts to setbacks and calamities. Do you use your
inner strength to rebound from a challenge, or do you dwell on
the issue and turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms?
NURTURE SELF-CARE
It’s much more difficult to build resiliency without skills to
manage stress. A person can develop resilience by learning to
train attention on more positive aspects of life. Decreasing
negative thoughts in your mind and bringing greater focus on
the most meaningful aspect of an experience works to enhance
resiliency. Improving resiliency can enhance quality of life and
decrease stress and anxiety by teaching you to view life’s
inevitable challenges as opportunities.
“Although it may seem like common sense, being able to
prioritise a certain level of self-care by focusing on things like
regular exercise and getting enough quality sleep as well as
things such as self-compassion through asserting your ability
to say “no”, can have a dramatic effect on how able you are to
manage stress and by extension how you feel physically and
mentally,” Dr Perlman shares.
MAYO CLINIC AND NETJETS
NetJets is excited to partner with the Mayo Clinic Executive Health Program to bring expert
medical, health and wellness content that matters to you. With a focus on preventive health
and wellness with timely, coordinated access to multidisciplinary care, including advanced
diagnostics, state-of-the-art prevention strategies, and therapeutics, the Mayo Clinic Executive
Health Program provides individualised, comprehensive care to meet the unique needs of
business leaders in the demanding stages of their careers. The QR code will lead you to more
thorough information about this world-class programme, and your Mayo Clinic Executive Health
liaison for NetJets Owners will be happy to answer your questions.
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OWNER’S PROFILE
GAME,
SET ,
MATCH:
FEDERER
In one of his first wide-ranging interviews since stepping away from the
tennis court, the former world No 1 and 20-time major winner reflects
on the final chapter of his storied career, how his last match came
about, and what he has in store for the future // By Farhad Heydari
HIS ON-COURT PRESENCE has been likened to a master
class in artistry – what with his effortless balletic footwork,
his aerial superiority, his ageless one-handed backhand,
his fluid dexterity, speed and power. And, oh, that brutal
forehand, described as a “great liquid whip” by the novelist
David Foster Wallace in an appreciative New York Times essay.
It was a 25-year presence (an omnipresence, really) that first
caught our attention and imagination in the summer of 2001
and lasted right up until he stepped away from the game in
the autumn of 2022.
So, what has the 41-year-old, eight-time Wimbledon men’s
singles champion been up to since that fateful day when he
said goodbye to the game? In a wide-ranging conversation
ahead of a breakfast with NetJets Owners at New York’s
Rainbow Room, Federer – whose ethereal play, boundless
sportsmanship, conscientious ethos and unwavering decency
will live in legend and lore as one of the greatest to ever grace
a court – talked to NetJets, The Magazine about his plans and
priorities as well as his winning formula and his thoughts on
everything from parenting to pickleball.
DO YOU MISS IT?
Honestly, I don’t. Certainly, not the whole package. I do miss
some aspects of it: the winning feeling, for example. And,
looking back, I do miss some of the regular travel – getting
to see and hang out with all my friends on the road. And
connecting with the fans. These are things I obviously do
miss. So, I had to recalibrate my life a little bit, which has
PICTURE ALLIANCE / PHOTOSHOT
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TRUE CHAMPION
Among his 20 major titles,
Federer won eight
times at Wimbledon
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OWNER’S PROFILE
been fun. But I don’t miss having to put my body through the
ringer on a daily basis – you know, the constant beat down,
which can be quite grueling.
HOW TOUGH A DECISION WAS IT?
I don’t know what was harder – making the decision to retire
or figuring out how and when to exit the game. It wasn’t going
to be simple. Maybe because of what I mean to the game and
what the game has given to me. You have to make it somehow
prominent, for the fans but also for yourself. It’s supposed to
be a celebration, right? And I think we were able to achieve
that at the Laver Cup, for my family, for my fans, and for me
personally – I was very content and felt like I could move
on after that, because I finally had closure. But you know,
obviously, everything leading up to that was quite stressful
because you worry about that moment when you grab the mic
and you have to address the crowd. I knew it was always going
too hard for me.
TELL US ABOUT THAT OCCASION.
I mean, if you would have asked me “Where are you going to
retire one day?” I would have never thought the Laver Cup,
because it didn’t exist back then. So, the fact that it ended
up being the place where I retired and played my last game
with Rafa [Nadal], with all my rivals and teammates and
friends and legends all around me, it was like the perfect
emotional storm. I can’t believe it.
THE PERFECT SEND-OFF …
Actually, yes – the perfect send-off and it’s really beyond
me how that just happened in terms of the timing, because,
as an example, had the Queen passed away a little later, the
tournament would’ve been called off. And my send-off would
have been totally different. Now, I wouldn’t know where I’m
retiring or how I would do it, if it weren’t going to be at the
Laver Cup. I was even considering having it at the US Open,
but then I was not playing there so I didn’t know how that was
going to play out, so it ended up all being perfect.
THE SEND-OFF ITSELF WAS ALSO, IN SOME WAYS,
A KIND OF FULL CIRCLE: YOU STARTED OUT BEING
EMOTIONALLY INTENSE PLAYER AND WRAPPED UP
YOUR CAREER JUST BEING PLAIN EMOTIONAL.
Yeah, it ended the way it started – you’re right. I mean,
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TEARS AND CHEERS
Federer ran through the
whole gamut of emotions
at his final event – the
Laver Cup, an annual battle
between Team Europe and
Team World
PICTURE ALLIANCE / EMPICS (2)
obviously, I always knew I was going to be emotional. But
I would have never thought that Rafa or Novak [Djokovic],
for that matter, or Andy [Murray], who all cried as well, were
going to be as emotional. But it was really Rafa and me
front and centre on that bench, who showed the world how
much it mattered to us. It was tough but at the same time,
so beautiful and so special. And in seeing me retire, they saw
their career flashing in front of their eyes and they must’ve
thought maybe how beautiful it is to step away from this great
game and how it is OK to let go – even though I tried to hang
on for as long as I could. But, again, you’re right: I did come
full circle in my career. I started super-emotional, always cried
after every game that I lost when I was a little younger and
here I am crying after my last game as well.
TELL US ABOUT YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH RAFA.
I think we have great respect for one another, not just on
a linear level. It goes way deeper. He entered the game in a
very respectful manner and then grew into Rafa the man,
with a bigger personality and had more to say. And then, of
course, the rivalry also started to grow in intensity where we
had some intense battles and intense moments. But what I
always enjoyed is the mutual respect we had for one another’s
parents and teams. And once I had children, everything
shifted a little bit. There’s a recalibration in my head, and
that’s when we both realise we’re getting a bit older and we
actually started really appreciating having one another. So,
I’m very happy that we came out on the other side and are
actually getting along as well as we did – because I don’t
think that’s really normal after 25 years of having had an
intense rivalry – to be able to just sort of hug it out like this.
Although, having said that, and when you look at it through
the prism of the Laver Cup, Björn Borg and John McEnroe
are extremely similar – they battled, and it was intense, but
ended up being best friends afterwards, which is nice to see.
AND THE LAVER CUP IS NOW PART OF YOUR
ONGOING LEGACY.
I’m really proud of what we have been able to achieve with
Tony Godsick [the chairman] and Steve Zacks [the tournament
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OWNER’S PROFILE
“
NetJets allowed me to actually keep my travel supersimple
and easy: getting from A to B as quickly as
possible, avoiding transit, and saving enormous time
director] – I think the players really love it. The fans enjoy it in Switzerland, it’s not so important to be an ambassador.
a lot and I think it’s also something that for a long, long time But I was able to sign on with the likes of Gillette and other
to come is that get-together between the past, present, and huge global brands and to start building a great portfolio
future – I think that’s great.
of partners and, with Tony, learned how to navigate through
everything, which has been really valuable.
SPEAKING OF THE FUTURE, YOU’RE NOW LOOKING AT
A LIFE BEYOND COMPETITIVE TENNIS. TELL US WHAT AND SO YOU’RE INVOLVED AND COLLABORATING
YOUR PARTNERSHIPS MEAN TO YOU?
WITH THE SWISS SHOE AND APPAREL COMPANY
For the people who know me, I always try to be the best ON AND THE LIKES OF UNIQLO. HOW IMPORTANT
partner – a creative partner who brings with them a good ARE THESE COLLABORATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS,
team and then services those with whom we work. I mean, I INCLUDING WITH NETJETS?
take this role very seriously. But, of course, it also needs to They’re hugely important. Obviously, entering the On
be fun, a “win-win” for both sides, and I think I was one of relationship has been something quite different. Being able
the fortunate athletes who was willing to wait sometimes to invest and then following them through the IPO and seeing
for a good sponsor to come along instead of just taking the how the whole business is run. And then also embarking on
first one. And I think that probably helped me a lot in the this relationship with Uniqlo has been quite the mindbender,
beginning. So, when Tony Godsick came and joined the team, but in a very positive way. I love working together with them
it was a white canvas. I remember back in 2004, I was world because they believe in me in an incredible way. I mean John
No 1 and I was playing the US Open and people kept asking C Jay [the President of Global Creative for Fast Retailing,
me, “Why don’t you have more global deals, more sponsors?”, parent of Uniqlo] is a super-creative man. He said, “Roger is
because that’s a big deal here in the States – who you going to retire from tennis at one point, but he’s not gonna
surround yourself with is who you are. Whereas in Europe, retire from life.” So, the best is yet to come. And to hear that,
as an athlete who is sort of on the back nine of his career, is
great – because we know athletes usually have a lifeline of
three years of deals, maybe five years, if they’re lucky. But
I’m fortunate in that we have 10-year deals, 15-year deals
with some of my partners. Like with NetJets, as an example
– and these long partnerships mean that we get to know and
become acquainted with the in-house teams and then be
friends with them – so much so that, in the end, it almost
doesn’t feel like work but it’s just enormous fun to be able to
create something super-special.
SPEAKING OF NETJETS, WHAT CONTRIBUTION DID
THE PARTNERSHIP MAKE TO YOUR CAREER?
Well, I’ve been with them for maybe 15 years, maybe longer.
And, if you look back and ask why did everybody retire, on
average, between the ages of 28 and 32 – Sampras, aged 32;
Edberg, aged 30; Borg, aged 26 – I believe it had a lot to with
travel and nutrition. Also, the prize money wasn’t so high yet,
STAR OF THE SHOW
Federer at the NetJets
Owners’ event in New
York; facing page: in
conversation on stage at
the Rainbow Room
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but those three things to me in many ways dictated why you
couldn’t do it alone. NetJets allowed me to actually keep my
travel super-simple and easy: Getting from A to B as quickly
as possible, avoiding transit, and saving enormous time, which
allowed me to return, to be more rested, which in turn helped
me play better, have a better career, and, indeed, extend my
career – call it a competitive advantage. So, for me, NetJets
has just been wonderful, especially having had children on the
back end, the second part of my career – NetJets just made
life so much easier by being able to take them along, avoiding
the trials and tribulations of brutal transits, losing luggage,
you name it. So, I think it has been wonderful and when I step
onboard now, it still feels like a privilege. It’s something I don’t
take for granted but it feels familiar, like an extended family: I
know a lot of the pilots by now, a lot of the stewardesses, you
know – we’ve seen each other before.
BACK TO YOUR COLLABORATIONS: YOU ALSO HAVE
A NEWLY SIGNED DEAL WITH OLIVER PEOPLES.
Honestly, it’s a project that I’m really excited about –
something that I’ve been thinking about for a great many
years: the idea of building up a sunglasses brand. I always
thought Oliver Peoples would be the one I would love to
partner with the most. And this idea really started to gain
traction once I retired – I finally had the time to put into the
project, because I don’t like to do things half-heartedly.
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OWNER’S PROFILE
HOW MUCH OF IT IS STEERED OR INFORMED BY YOUR
FRIENDSHIP WITH ANNA WINTOUR?
Anna is a great sounding board and a dear friend, and a huge
supporter of mine. I can ask her advice and she will put me
in touch with certain people with whom I should be aligned
creatively, maybe which photographer or stylist I should use,
stuff like that. But honestly, I try not to overdo it because
she’s a lovely person. My wife and I really value our friendship
with her and have lots of time for her, such as co-hosting the
Met Gala [for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s
Costume Institute in New York City].
SPEAKING OF TIME, YOU NOW ALSO HAVE IT TO DO
LOTS OF THINGS YOU HAVEN’T DONE FOR A WHILE.
LIKE, SKIING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 15 YEARS THIS
PAST JANUARY.
Finally again. That was so cool.
THEY OBVIOUSLY DIDN’T LET YOU DO THAT WHILE
YOU WERE STILL PLAYING, RIGHT?
I could have! A lot of people think I could not have, because
of insurance or what have you, but I could’ve. So, the last
time I went skiing was 2008: I had just got back from the
Australian Open and I got super-sick with mononucleosis.
So, I said, “You know what? This is a sign that I don’t need
to ski. Let’s not get injured in the last five years of your
MOVING ON
The Swiss ace is embarking
on new adventures,
but tennis is very much
on his mind
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I would like to go back on the court and still promote
tennis, promote sports, promote a healthy lifestyle –
I believe in it a lot, obviously. And to play in the coolest
parts of the world and see my fans and thank them
for their support throughout
PICTURE ALLIANCE/EPA-EFE
career.” What I didn’t know was that I was going to play for
another 14 years. So, that was the unfortunate bit – that I
retired from skiing so young, at 27 years of age – but I knew
I was going to come back.
WHAT WAS IT LIKE?
The hardest part was getting the kids up and running, getting
them to ski lessons. But it was magical to get back out there.
And I was surprised that it was like riding a bike – that I could
still ski as well as I could before. Now, it’s truly a dream come
true to finally be back on the skis personally, but especially
with my children because they had been longing for this for
so long – asking me, “How much more are you going to play
because I wanna go skiing with you.” This was the theme for
the past few years.
AND NOW, I UNDERSTAND, YOU’RE TRAVELLING AN
AWFUL LOT AGAIN.
You’re right. I’ve been back on the road again and that’s been
super-cool fun. We went to Rome with the family – and were
privileged enough to visit the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel.
We went on the Orient Express with my parents as a birthday
gift and that was so cool – travelling from Paris to Venice.
And that was a super-special trip. So we’re doing a bit of
that stuff.
WHAT ABOUT HOME LIFE?
You know, being home is also great – obviously, I’m a
professional driver now for my children and I can’t believe
how much time that takes – to be supportive in the everyday
life we have with our children, at the moment because I want
to really make sure that I’m there. My girls are turning 14 and
the boys are turning nine so, you know, it’s getting a little bit
more serious, a bit more intense as they’re in their formative
years. And I think it’s important to be there and get them
settled, especially after having travelled so long. It’s actually
really nice for all of us.
IS BEING HOME ALLOWING YOU ALSO TO PLAY ANY
GOLF? HAVE YOU CAUGHT THE BUG YET?
Hmmm, good question: I’ve never taken a lesson, so that tells
you maybe that when I bomb it off the tee, it still sprays a
little bit. I do have good feel but, yeah, my dispersion rate
is not good! But let’s say if every shot counted, strokeplay
I guess, I feel like I could play to a 25 handicap. But with a
little practice I could be better. But it’s always one of the
things that I’ve wanted to start to try to play a bit more once
I retired – and now, if I were to do it more, it’s fun to find the
right group of friends so that we can create this environment
for golf. And I’m looking forward to that.
SO LIFE AFTER TENNIS IS …
Really good. I haven’t done any interviews – it’s actually
quite funny, the other day I went to surprise some kids
playing tennis and one of them asked, “How is Rafa
doing?” And I was thinking: “How is Rafa doing?” because
I completely checked out. But life is really good in
retirement.
WHAT ABOUT STEPPING BACK ON THE COURT, PLAYING
AN EXHIBITION HERE AND THERE, SO THAT THE FANS
CAN COME AND SEE YOU?
I would like to go back on the court and still promote tennis,
promote sports, promote a healthy lifestyle – I believe in it
a lot, obviously. And to play in the coolest parts of the world
and see my fans and thank them for their support throughout.
It’s been an amazing journey and I really hope the best for
my knee, working hard to get it back in shape, but a lot of
mileage has gone through this body – but life is good and
you won’t find me sitting at home doing the same old, same
old. The sport has given me too much and so I’ll be bouncing
in and out selectively – for example, I’ll be at this year’s
Wimbledon for the first week and, of course, at the Laver Cup
in Vancouver [in September].
LASTLY, YOUR FOUNDATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA AND
SWITZERLAND. IT’S VERY IMPORTANT TO YOU.
Yes, very important. We’re actually celebrating 20 years this
year, so that’s something I’m very proud of. We supported
more than 2.5 million children in early childhood education,
focusing on getting kids ready for school because we see it
really makes a big difference in their lives afterwards.
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ROGER FEDERER ON ...
MOST MEMORABLE
VICTORIES AND
STANDOUT CAREER
MOMENTS
Well, a lot of them have come at
Wimbledon, naturally. Maybe 2001, when
I beat Sampras. It had a lot of unique
things riding on it – it was my first time
playing on Centre Court, thinking I’ve
made it, and he was my hero at the time.
And I ended up beating him 7-5 in the
fifth set. And who knew that that was
going to be, sort of, the changing of
the guard? He was also going for five
straight Wimbledon titles and I stopped
him from doing that – funny anecdote:
Three months later, Björn Borg thanked
me because he had five titles! That was
an incredible moment. Then, of course,
winning my first Wimbledon in 2003 was
a dream come true – I was in disbelief.
First Swiss male to win Wimbledon, after
Martina Hingis won on the women’s side.
That was just an incredible moment
in my career. Then, of course, winning
the French Open in 2009: I could hear
and feel the whole stadium backing me,
wanting me to win. The 2017 Australian
Open was obviously fantastic because
of the comeback after a tough year with
my knee. I came back and played really
well in that epic five-setter against Rafa.
And the 2005 US Open was also special
because I played Andre Agassi in the
final: I expected it to be tough in terms
of the crowds and they were really behind
and supportive of Andre because they
expected him to retire and I felt that too,
though I wasn’t prepared for that kind of
an overwhelming pro-Andre crowd.
ALL-ROUND STAR
Federer is as
engaging and
thoughtful off the
court as he was
elegant on it
PICTURE ALLIANCE/EPA-EFE
THE SURGE IN POPULARITY IN PICKLEBALL
I’ve never played it. I know it’s very popular in the US. In Europe, it’s very much
padel and I played that once or twice when I was in Dubai and on vacation. I
know there is this rivalry between touch tennis, pickleball and padel, and I’m
asked which camp am I in. I see it more as something that’s great for racket
sports: the more people are playing pickle or padel, the more will pick up tennis
and vice-versa. I don’t think we’ll lose the tennis fan to just that alone. But
certainly, as you get older, it’s nicer to play something that is easier on the
body and where you don’t have to take huge strides left and right. So I think
it’s great. I don’t know how much potential it has in terms of becoming a TV
sport and going global – but it doesn’t matter, as long as it gets people out
there, having a good time and having fun, that’s all that matters.
ADVICE FOR PARENTS OF YOUNG ATHLETES
I spoke to my fitness coach about my children and, beyond practice, he said it’s all about “coordination,
coordination, coordination.” Until the ages of 13 or 14, they can still improve it but basically if you don’t
commit to become a professional by the age of 14, it might be too late. So, let’s take tennis as an example:
probably a lot of children nowadays play six hours of tennis a day but don’t focus at all on fitness. Or maybe
one hour on fitness. And I think the ratio has to be at least 50-50. So, my fitness coach said that if every
athlete would work on coordination, endurance, strength and agility, and all those different things – and
we’re talking things as basic as using a skipping rope, etc – we would have so many better athletes out there.
But, unfortunately, most of us don’t know how important all these disciplines are and how big the potential is
when you’re young. So, I think, hearing that from someone, say, like me or from another professional, is very
helpful. And so, I think getting this right is key.
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CONQUERING THE CLUTCH POINTS IN A MATCH …
AND HOW HE APPROACHES CRUNCH-TIME PLAY
I mean, I hope I also don’t choke as well! Seriously, though, I know we all look like everything’s totally under control.
But I think we both feel the same way. Let’s just not mess this up. Let’s just get this point over and done with so
we can move on to a different, less stressful point. But, of course, if you want to be specific, I guess once the point
is over, I use the first five seconds to react in a positive or negative way, the next five seconds to relax and then
the next five seconds to respond to what has happened quickly – the last point or the last hour. And ask myself,
“Is there something I had in the back of my mind that I would like to try out when it comes down to the crunch?”,
“What is his weakness?”, “Do we massage that or do we go to the strength to then go to his weakness?”, “How
aggressive are we going to play, how much risk are we willing to take?” – and off you go. All that in 15-20 seconds,
let’s say, and you compress it very quickly. And then as the point is obviously going on, then the mind is also
racing – focusing on the geometry of the plays, which are crazy all the time. If you wait a split second more, you
would get more options or fewer options. As you know, tennis is quite a difficult sport and you’re always thinking,
“Just don’t make a mistake, just don’t miss” and if you can, try to play with controlled aggression. That was always
a type of play I used to employ, and, of course, you try not to beat your opponent with the biggest shot. Don’t be
silly. Don’t be the hero in the certain moments – but, on the other hand, I always tried to remind myself to be young
in the brain, be willing to take risks. Because as we get older, I felt, or as a player as in life, you start playing the
percentages too much. So, for example, do you go for the high backhand up the line, smashing it for a winner from
the baseline against a fast runner – you hit maybe one of ten. So, you think to yourself, is this the right moment
to take that chance, because why not, he will not expect it. Or is it too big of a risk? So, I think sometimes you just
have to weigh the options, be a bit stupid and do that, just to remind your opponent that variation is there. And my
thing has always been variation, variation, variation on the tennis court.
MENTAL TOUGHNESS
AND FORTITUDE
I definitely think you can build mental
toughness. How did I become one of the
most consistent athletes out there? It
came through hard work. I figured out why
I’m going to the gym and not the beach
and I knew what I needed to work on and
what it was going to bring me. And once
I understood that the hard work was
in the gym, I could then translate that
to on-court and then that gave me the
confidence to believe in myself. One of
the things that I thankfully missed out on
at the beginning of my career was social
media, something I’m very happy that I
didn’t have. And so I didn’t have to deal
with negative comments or the echochamber.
I was able to deal with the wins
and losses because of the good team that
I had built around myself. I was able to
surround myself with the right people early
on, because before you know it, you have
people on your team, whom you don’t know
what they’re doing, but they’re there. And
it’s not that they’re bad people – but just
not the right people.
WHAT GOES INTO BEING
A PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE
It’s a full-time job. It’s not just when you walk out
onto the court. The match is the tip of the iceberg. But
everything that goes into it is beneath the surface, and
that’s what fills up your day. And I feel like sometimes
a lot of the athletes and the players, they think when
they come home they’re no longer a professional athlete,
no longer a role model – and they try to put it all away.
I agree we’ve got to put it on hold, but I still think you
have to be a professional 365 days a year, and I’m not
that crazy athlete that thought like this all the time: I
was a master at compartmentalising and you have to be
quite extreme because if I’m always tense and always in
the moment, then I can’t relax, I’ll get tired throughout
a long two or three weeks, like here at Flushing Meadows
as an example. So, the key for a professional athlete
is being able to bounce in and out. Yet be aware that
he’s always a professional athlete. And not that you can
do whatever you want – and to behave like an animal.
Because you have to be able to maximise the moment.
And your career is short: You have to always remember
that, and somebody is willing to take your place. It’s
windy at the top, I always say, and I think when you’re
conscious of that, you also have respect and a duty
toward your sport as a professional – you know that
somebody else would love to be in your shoes. And by
virtue of that, you do it the right way.
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Can Zach Johnson’s high quality US team
maintain its grip on the old trophy or will Luke
Donald’s mixture of proven major winners and
talented youngsters capitalise on a home
draw and superior course knowledge to win
the cup back for Europe at Marco Simone
Golf & Country Club in Rome this autumn?
Nick Bayly ponders the imponderables of this
most intriguing of transatlantic tussles.
RYDER CUP
IN FOCUS
TO THE HILLS
Marco Simone
promises a
challenge to form
and fitness
THE HOSTING OF the 44th Ryder Cup at the stunning Marco
Simone Golf & Country Club, located just 16 kilometres from the
centre of Rome, will see Italy become only the third nation in
mainland Europe – after Spain in 1997 and France in 2018 – to
host the biannual match-play event.
And while European golf fans will be praying that the result
goes the same way in Rome as it did for Seve Ballesteros just
over a quarter-century ago at Valderrama and for Thomas Bjørn’s
merry band of men in Paris just five years past, there is no doubt
that the 2023 renewal of this drama-filled clash will be one of
the most keenly observed in recent years, given the state of flux
that the professional golf tours on both sides of the Atlantic are
currently experiencing.
Neutrals will, of course, be hoping not only for a close fight,
with matches that go down to the wire, but also one that allows
the game’s best players, and not just those whose faces fit the
bill (or were on your chosen side of the LIV-PGA split before
the merger).
European captain Luke Donald will effectively be leading
his team with one hand tied behind his back in that, as things
currently stand, he will not be able to call on the services of LIV
golfers and experienced Ryder Cuppers such as Lee Westwood,
Sergio García, Ian Poulter and Henrik Stenson – the latter
being the man Donald replaced as captain – despite the fact
that the DP World Tour has now resolved differences, while US
Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson has the now much easier job
in whether to have PGA Championship winner – and LIV golfer
– Brooks Koepka in his team, should the Floridian continue his
strong run of form in the majors, and fellow LIV golfer Dustin
Johnson should be a shoo-in starter now that LIV Golf has been
effectively absorbed into the PGA TOUR.
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Personnel issues aside, there is no doubt that Marco Simone
will provide a suitably drama-inducing challenge for both
sides. Although not quite as challenging as Paris National
when it comes to its use of water hazards, there is enough of
the wet stuff out there, along with other man-made hazards, to
ensure that the players will have to think twice before blindly
pulling out the driver on many of the par fours and fives, while
the par threes also pose some devilish demands on accuracy,
especially if the wind gets up, as it is prone to do in autumn in
these parts.
Marco Simone was first built in the 1980s under the
ownership of fashion designer Laura Biagiotti and her
husband Gianni Cigna, when 145 hectares of rolling
countryside was transformed into a prestigious golf course
on the outskirts of the Eternal City. As with most previous
Ryder Cup venues, the course, which has hosted the last two
renewals of the Italian Open in order to give European players
an early sighter, has undergone a significant remodeling to
fit the demands of the world’s foremost team match-play
event, with European Golf Design, in cooperation with Tom
Fazio II, carrying out a significant redesign which was finally
completed in the spring of 2021.
The changes focused on creating a course specifically
tailored to create match-play drama, with the previous layout
rerouted not only to provide numerous risk-and-reward holes,
but also to maximise the natural rolling terrain. Spectators will
now enjoy unrivalled vantage points of the on-course action,
as well as distant views of Rome, including spectacular views
of St Peter’s Basilica and of the castle of Marco Simone,
which together will provide a memorable backdrop to what will
hopefully be equally memorable sporting drama unfolding in
the foreground.
Either way, the stage is set for one almighty showdown. So
pull up a chair, plump up the cushions, uncork the burgundy,
and settle down for yet another edition of the greatest golfing
show on Earth.
THE TEAMS
Although we are still some time out from knowing the six
automatic qualifiers for each 12-man team, and even further
from knowing who the captain’s picks might be, both squads
are taking a semblance of shape and it won’t require too much
ROMAN EMPIRE
From top: captains Johnson
and Donald, right, at the Ryder
Cup launch at the Colosseum;
lush greens and arid rough at
Marco Simone
imagination to fill in the blanks. Nailed on starters for Europe
are Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Viktor Hovland, Matt Fitzpatrick and
Tyrrell Hatton, while the rookies currently in the frame include
Frenchman Victor Perez, Poland’s Adrian Meronk, Germany’s
Yannik Paul and Spaniard Adrián Otaegui. Experienced Ryder
Cuppers Justin Rose, Shane Lowry and Tommy Fleetwood all
need a good summer to get into Donald’s notebook, but will be
hard to leave out, while the likes of Denmark’s Rasmus Højgaard
and Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre will need a win or two in the
next few months to justify inclusion. Sadly, it looks unlikely that
Italian fans will have a home-grown player to cheer on unless
Matteo Manassero has a spectacular run, while Francesco
Molinari is hopelessly out of form.
As always, the US team has a solid look to it on paper but one
that doesn’t always travel well. The qualification ranking, which
is far simpler than the European list, currently features Scottie
Scheffler, Wyndham Clark – who not only won his first ever PGA
TOUR tournament in 2023, but also held off McIlroy to win the
US Open in Los Angeles – Brooks Koepka, Xander Schauffele,
Patrick Cantlay, and Max Homa in the top six, with Keegan
Bradley, Jordan Spieth, Collin Morikawa, Cameron Young, Sam
Burns, and Ricky Fowler filling the next six berths. That currently
leaves out the likes of Tony Finau (18th), Dustin Johnson (34th),
Bryson DeChambeau (43th), at least two of whom Zach Johnson
would probably like in his team. Johnson says he plans to bring
his final 12-man squad over to Marco Simone three weeks before
the matches to give them a proper look at the course, and in
that respect they should be a team that is better prepared for
an away leg than ever before.
THE CAPTAINS
EUROPE: LUKE DONALD
Donald was probably some way down the list of former greats
in the frame to captain the European Ryder Cup team, with
the likes of Westwood, García and Poulter probably ahead
of him. But with those players, along with preferred first
choice 2023 captain Stenson, forced to resign their DP World
Tour memberships during the LIV standoff, Donald stepped
manfully into the breach. As one of the more intelligent and
thoughtful players to have graced the pro circuit in recent
years, his enquiring mind and willingness to listen to the
counsel of others, while holding strong opinions of his own,
“ drama-inducing
Personnel issues aside, there is no doubt
that Marco Simone will provide a suitably
challenge for both sides
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FLYING THE FLAG
The Ryder Cup brings together some of the best golfers in the world from the two great dominions of the world
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Among them will be World No 1 Scottie Scheffler, joined by the likes of Brooks Koepka, Patrick Cantlay, Max Homa,
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will serve him well in a role whose importance has probably
been a little overstated in the folklore of the matches over the
years. He has so far named Thomas Bjørn, Nicolas Colsaerts
and stats specialist Edoardo Molinari as vice-captains, and will
no doubt announce more nearer the time, but he will have to
play a clever game when it comes to picking his pairings given
the lack of experience among potentially half of his team, and
will be hoping that his star talents bring their “A” games to
Rome if he is to avoid the ignominy of being the first European
captain to lose on home soil in 30 years.
USA: ZACH JOHNSON
Like Donald, US captain Johnson doesn’t come across as
a natural leader, with the 47-year-old from Iowa having
quietly gone about his career without causing so much of
a ripple, barring his two major victories. Despite his quiet
demeanour, he clearly possesses a steely core and has
surrounded himself with former captains, including Davis
Love III and Steve Stricker, along with Fred Couples, who are
all too familiar with the cut and thrust of the Ryder Cup. A
five-time Ryder Cupper himself, Johnson was on the losing
side four times, although he at least ended on a high when
part of the winning team at Hazeltine in 2016. Unlike Donald,
he has the problem of not knowing how many – or few – ex-
LIV golfers he will have in his team, and how divisive it might
be to pick them as wildcards over players who have stayed
loyal to the PGA TOUR. He will be under immense pressure to
choose the latter, despite the recently announced merger,
but if the result goes the wrong way and the likes of Dustin
Johnson are excluded, questions will surely be asked down
the line and for many years to come.
LEADING OPINIONS
ON THE CHALLENGES OF MARCO SIMONE …
Zach Johnson: “It’s got a lot of everything – up, down, left,
right, short, long. It will be one of the hilliest courses I’ve
stepped foot on and will be a true test of fitness and skill.
It’s all of Augusta and more. The greens aren’t nearly as big
or as undulating, but as far as approach play is concerned,
it’s remarkable how many yards up and down shots play.”
Luke Donald: “It’s going to be a great match-play course –
there’s some exciting holes, a few drivable par fours; some
great par threes, and, if the matches come down to 18,
there’s another spectacular par five down the hill with water
by the green that will test nerve and skill. The elevation
changes will also give crowds incredible viewpoints to see
some amazing golf.”
ON THE CHANCES OF VICTORY …
Luke Donald: “I fully expect us to be underdogs, despite that
home percentage of wins over the last 30 years. We’re going
to have a bunch of established, world-class players along
with a new generation of players playing well, and I think
that creates an exciting mix to have at my disposal. And
giving myself more picks will give me an opportunity to pick
the best in-form team, which hasn’t always been the case.”
Zach Johnson: “Europe are not the underdogs. They are on
their home soil, they will have the majority of the fans rooting
for them. We’re too used to being told we’re “strong on paper”
to come into this thinking we’re the better team. But we’ll go
there with what I believe will be our strongest team and do our
best to retain the cup.”
rydercup.com
IN PLAY
The second at
Marco Simone
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RIVIERA
CHIC
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Whether it’s shining up century-old iconic palaces
or sleek new-builds with top designers and haute local
cuisine, the South of France is aglow with a nouveau
golden era of style // By Lanie Goodman
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COASTAL CHIC
Facing page: Club La Vigie
Monte-Carlo
Previous page: The view from
Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat,
A Four Seasons Hotel
© MONTE-CARLO SOCIÉTÉ DES BAINS DE MER; PREVIOUS SPREAD: CHRISTIAN HORAN
MAKE IT NICE
The Anantara Plaza Nice Hotel (anantara.com) is the city’s new
pride and joy: a meticulously restored 1848-built landmark
set back behind the seafront Promenade des Anglais in Nice’s
“Golden Triangle” shopping district. Under new management
by the Thailand-based hotel group Anantara, which designed
its first French ultra-stylish luxe property with a nod to
Nice’s rich heritage, deep comfort abounds. The luminous
contemporary-style 151 rooms and suites, awash with Decoinspired
furnishings and a soothing mix of cream, gray, and
teal, give out to the sea. High points: the sprawling rooftop bar
and restaurant SEEN by Olivier, serving a combo of Asian and
Niçoise dishes and local wines, and the spa, featuring bespoke
treatments with organic seaweed and essential oils.
No one leaves Nice without a visit to Le Negresco (hotelnegresco-nice.com),
the city’s landmark pink and white
wedding-cake grande dame across from the Promenade
des Anglais. Begin in the lobby, where the modern world
pales beside the glitter of a huge Baccarat chandelier and
a dazzling glass and metal dome designed by Gustave Eiffel,
chockablock with museum-quality art from every era. Each
of the sumptuous 128 rooms (including 15 newly refurbished
rooms and sea-view suites) are unique, decked out with
precious antique furnishings from Louis XVI and Napoleon III
pomp and circumstance. Modernity reigns at the Michelinstar
restaurant Le Chantecler, helmed by chef Virginie
Basselot, who excels in innovative Riviera-inspired dishes.
The Negresco’s elegant walnut-walled bar with live jazz and
the new private beach club are other standouts.
At sunset, visit the antiques district and experience the
lively atmosphere at Rouge (rouge-restaurant.fr) wine bar,
where the locals flock for natural vintage, top-notch limited
editions and locally brewed beer. The organic small-plate
menu (mini-portions of Spanish-inspired or Southern French
dishes) includes charcuterie platters, tuna tartare with yuzu
and raspberry, squid à la plancha, barbajuans (fried cheese
and Swiss-chard ravioli), and a tasty pork knuckle burger. Try
the unctuous lemon cream dessert.
On the trendy backstreets of the Port, Les Agitateurs
(lesagitateurs.com) is the new kid on the block, a Michelinstarred
restaurant headed by a trio of young experimental
chefs, Juliette, Samuel, and Pierre-Jean. Call it pure poetry on
a plate: an inspired cuisine of delicately assembled creations
with the very finest ingredients. The three menus feature
dishes including asparagus in green curry, purple-coated
gnocchi infused with beets and red wine, a fusion of San Remo
prawns and Hanoi pork, and luscious caramel and nougat ice
cream for dessert.
Nice Côte d’Azur Airport to Nice: 5miles/8km
Lunching Around
A Nice icon, LE PLONGEOIR
(leplongeoir.com) was originally
a Belle-Époque-built gazebo
restaurant – formerly a beach
club for cocktails – that now
offers a yacht-like experience
with a multi-level dining deck
extending over the sea. The
Deco-style diving board is pure
décor, but the Mediterranean
fare is the real deal. Try the
courgette flower fritters, grilled
sea bass with spinach gnocchi,
and an iced chocolate truffle
dessert.
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GREEN PARADISE
The gardens at
Grand-Hôtel
du Cap-Ferrat
FROM CANNES TO THE CAP D’ANTIBES
Rebranded as a Regent Hotel and part of the IHG Hotels
& Resorts portfolio, the Carlton Cannes, a Regent Hotel
(carltoncannes.com) is – following a laborious restoration –
glowing, with the stunning revival of this beloved century-old
icon, mixing Art Deco heritage and ultra-contemporary new
wings behind the ornate Belle Époque façade. With a refurbed
lobby, seven new studios and a penthouse, 37 residential
suites, and an inner courtyard transformed into a fragrant
landscaped peristyle and garden, there’s even more to do now
without ever leaving the property. Highlights include the city’s
largest infinity pool with mini-cabanas, a new über-stylish bar,
and Rüya, an Anatolian-style restaurant, plus a high-tech C
Club fitness and spa complex with everything from boxing to
Pilates. Or you can just lounge in your elegantly refurbed Decomeets-beach
room, designed by Tristan Auer, and watch the
sailboats go by.
Right next door, the landmark Hôtel Martinez (hyatt.com),
in the Unbound Collection by Hyatt, reopened with a dazzling
multimillion-euro spruce-up that surprised Cannes Festival
regulars, starting with the celebrated bar, entirely refurbished
and an all-day outdoor eatery, Le Sud, on the ground level. But
perhaps even more unique are the 16 Oasis suites, designed by
Pierre-Yves Rochon, surrounded by walkways of lush greenery
and tropical plants, plus a seven-treatment-room Spa by
Carita. Add to that Rochon’s two new jaw-dropping penthouse
suites, landscaped with olive trees and flowers, that span the
entire 1,250sq m rooftop, named after French actress Isabelle
Huppert and Cannes Fest notable Thierry Frémaux, with
outstanding panoramic views.
The Mondrian (accor.com), formerly the venerable Croisette
landmark Grand Hotel, has gone resolutely modern. After a
massive seven-month renovation, the hotel boasts all the
fixings for a younger clientele who prefer a relaxed vibe to
palace grandeur. And no wonder. The 75 spacious rooms are
awash with Art Deco geometry and soft blues and cream,
blending perfectly with the sea view from the terrace. Best
bet: up on the city’s highest rooftop, the Mondrian’s two
TIMELESS TREASURE
GRAND-HÔTEL DU CAP-FERRAT, A FOUR SEASONS HOTEL (fourseasons.com) is an artful mix of Belle Époque
grandeur and sleek modernity, which is one reason why this stately landmark seaside palace, spread across seven
hectares of lush Mediterranean gardens on the Cap-Ferrat, continues to strike the perfect balance between
old and new. In that same spirit of reinvention, the hotel’s latest addition to the property are two private villas,
hidden away near the lighthouse: the gorgeously restored 1900s-built five-bedroom Villa Beauchamp, with a
Cocteau-inspired mosaic floor bathroom, and the more intimate Provençal-style two-bedroom Villa Clair Soleil.
Expect stylish interiors designed by Sybille de Margerie, private pools with pine-shaded decks, plus all ultraprofessional
hotel services and comforts. Best bet: Work up an appetite at the iconic Club Dauphin’s seawater
pool, then dive into a tantalising buffet lunch, headed by Michelin-star chef Yoric Tièche and pastry chef wizard
Pierre-Jean Quinonero.
CHRISTIAN HORAN
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GLAM GLOW REVIVAL
After a €500-million investment
to renovate hotels, Cannes is now
in the final stages of an ecological
project to revamp its iconic seafront
boulevard, LA CROISETTE (cannesfrance.com).
Beyond enlarging the
beaches, the city is implementing
energy-saving measures with a hightech
underground thalasso-thermal
system. Coming soon: almost two miles
of pavement with gold-flecked red
granite, Art Deco-style benches, and
lush greenery.
sunlit panoramic 11th-floor suites (think
wooden decks, a Zen garden, and a whirlpool
tub) are veritable showstoppers. Other
exciting additions include French-Japanese
fusion cuisine at Mr Nakamoto, cocktails on
the palm-shaded grassy garden patio, and
flavourful Italian cuisine at Hyde Beach, the
lively beach club.
For a great escape from Cannes’ buzzy
Croisette, it’s only a short boat ride to La
Guérite (cannes.restaurantlaguerite.com), a
Mediterranean restaurant and edge-of-thewater
beach club, tucked away on a tranquil
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: © ANANTARA PLAZA NICE, VIA TOLILA, © CARLTON CANNES, A REGENT HOTEL, THOMAS AUDIFFREN
flat-rocked cove on the nearby island of
Sainte-Marguerite. It was once a fisherman’s
cabin where locals played pétanque; today,
it’s the place for a languorous lunch among
friends, with a Greek-inspired menu of grilled
seafood, barbecued meats, and an impressive
choice of wines, helmed by executive chef
Yiannis Kioroglou.
The ongoing Riviera surge of making the
old new again has also extended to the Cap
d’Antibes, where you step back into the
Jazz Age at the 43-room Hôtel Belles Rives
(bellesrives.com) Art Deco gem, formerly a villa
where F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald spent the
summer of 1926, working on Tender is the Night.
This elegant beachside classic, run by the
Estène family since 1929, combines everything
from beautifully preserved 1930s furnishings
and vintage bow windows to a newly remodeled
Fitzgerald Bar (try the signature Zelda Azzura,
infused with peach liqueur). And you won’t
go hungry. In addition to its superb Michelinstar
restaurant, La Passagère, headed by chef
Aurélien Véquaud, there’s also a beachside
terrace serving haute snack food, plus an
outstanding waterskiing school. Romantic, did
you say? Come sunset, guests drift onto the
terrace to watch the pink, coral and mauve
reflections turn the Bay of Cannes into a
painterly seascape of hot colours.
Farther down the road, Cap d'Antibes
Beach Hotel (capdantibes-beachhotel.
com) is a discreet white low-slung 35-room
boutique hotel that you might mistake for a
contemporary private villa. Pourquoi? The
total remodelling has transformed every
aspect of this Relais & Châteaux stylish
beachside retreat, newly acquired by Adresses
Hotel Collection (La Ponche, Saint-Tropez).
The clean-line décor of the suites – white and
SOUTH STYLE
Clockwise from
top left: Anantara
Plaza Nice; The
Maybourne
Riviera pool; Le
Carlton Cannes;
a dish from the
tasting menu at
Les Agitateurs,
Nice
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WATER FRONTS
From top: the
remarkable
Le Plongeoir
restaurant;
boutique hotel
Pan Deï Palais
taupe with maritime-inspired wood furniture
and lush vegetation – is only part of the
draw. There’s also a sandy turquoise cove, a
Deco-inspired new beach bar, and two superb
restaurants: the new Levantine-style eatery,
Baba, headed by Michelin-starred Israeli
chef Assaf Granit (Shabour, Paris) and a one-
Michelin-star restaurant Les Pêcheurs, headed
by Nicolas Rondelli, who whips up delectable
seafood and modern Mediterranean classics.
At the nearby über-glamourous Hôtel
du Cap-Eden-Roc, Oetker Collection
(oetkercollection.com), everyone from
fashionistas to wellness addicts is flocking
to the new Dior Spa, which offers exclusive
body and facial rejuvenating treatments with
flower-infused shea butter, and hydrotherapy
housed in a jewel-box pavilion hidden away in
the wisteria and rose garden (or, if you prefer
– in a Dior-outfitted outdoor gazebo or a
seaside bungalow). Other news – the beguiling
contemporary redesign of Eden Roc Pavilion’s
32 sea-facing junior suites, lightened up
with blues, pale sage and cream, and Francis
Fontana-designed wood furniture, and the
new guests-only casual eatery, Giovanni’s, for
pizza and pasta under the windswept pines.
Cannes Mandelieu Airport to Cannes: 4miles/6km
WHERE TO EAT IN MONACO
What’s new under the sun in Monaco?
Plenty, beginning with the Monte-Carlo
Beach hotel’s latest festive reinvention of
its seaside restaurant and lounge, Club La
Vigie (montecarlosbm.com). Don’t miss the
weathered 1920s insignia engraved in stone
at the entrance, which hints at the concept:
a members-only private club, open 12-8pm,
serving copious platters of Mediterranean
fare to be shared among friends to the beat
of a live DJ. After lunch, indulge in a leisurely
day soaking up the sunshine or book one of
the five secluded bungalows lost in the pines.
Minutes away by boat shuttle, the party rages
on until 2am at Maona (montecarlosbm.com), a
new summer restaurant cabaret, named after
celebrated personalities Maria Callas and
Aristotle Onassis, who once frequented an
iconic 1960s club nearby. The menu features
chef Auguste Escoffier-inspired dishes – king
FROM TOP: ANTHONY LANNERETONNE, © PAN DEÏ PALAIS
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The Maybourne Riviera
juts out over the sea
prawns flavoured with pastis and other local recipes—and a
wide variety of signature cocktails made with Monaco orange
(don’t miss the Negroni Monte-Carlo 1956, a tribute to the year
that Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly were married). Dance off
dessert at the Tam-Tam Room lounge where live bands and DJs
heat up the atmosphere.
Another talk of the town is the recently opened
contemporary-style restaurant The Niwaki (theniwaki.com),
a gastronomic haunt discreetly set back across from the
Larvotto beaches. The brainchild of Samy Sass – owner of
the renowned festive night spot the SASS CAFÉ and longtime
Japanophile – The Niwaki’s handpicked award-winning chefs
have created an exquisitely prepared menu of authentic
Japanese cuisine. From out of the kitchen come unique
flavourful dishes, dreamed up by corporate chef Shahar
Dahan – crunchy tuna aburi, smoked Chilean bass, smoky
barbecued chicken with lime-soaked broccolini, Black Angus
beef tataki – expertly paired with a vast selection of sake and
rare whisky by sommelier Rob Willey, plus a sushi bar, and a
sleekly designed private back room for special occasions.
Over at Casino Square, hogging the limelight is the brand
new Les Ambassadeurs by Christophe Cussac (metropole.com),
a much-awaited bistronomic addition to the Hôtel Métropole
Monte-Carlo. A tribute to the Métropole’s former luxurious
1920s restaurant frequented by Europe’s crowned heads,
aristocrats, and diplomats, Cussac pays homage to Belle
Époque luxe with a signature menu of refined contemporary
Mediterranean cuisine, plus a trolley of tantalising pastries
by renowned pâtissier Patrick Mesiano. And talk about style
– the airy dining room, completely refurbished by design guru
Jacques Garcia, is an understated elegant mix of cream, beige,
and chocolate brown, the perfect backdrop for the rigorous
simplicity of chef Cussac’s modern classic cuisine.
And coming this autumn: Amazónico (amazonicorestaurant.
com), a two-level rooftop brasserie atop the Café de Paris
in Casino Square, a celebration of Brazilian and Peruvian
culinary adventures with tropical and Latin American
influences. Add to that live jazz and resident DJs, with
an exclusive speakeasy bar and a jungle-style setting.
Nice Côte d’Azur Airport to Monte-Carlo: 19miles/31km
SPA DAYS IN SAINT-TROPEZ
Beyond the worn cliché of Saint-Tropez as a hedonistic playground,
wellness and energy reboosting have become paramount. And
the talk of the town this summer is the spectacular reinvention
of the sleekly refurbished holistic Sisley Spa at Hôtel Byblos
STÉPHANE ABOUDARAM | WE ARE CONTENT(S)
A RIVIERA ORIGINAL
Perched in the heights of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, MAYBOURNE RIVIERA (maybourneriviera.com) is an eyecatching
Jean-Michel Wilmotte-designed hotel – a block of white concrete and glass jutting out over the edge of
a cliff on the Grande Corniche – is a veritable game-changer in the Côte d’Azur’s luxe offerings. With a clutch of
restaurants and bars, a holistic spa and 69 sleek modernist-inspired rooms and suites (some with private pools),
the dazzling plunging views of sky and sea, cruising yachts and hang-gliders are visible from just about every
corner of the hotel. Up in the top-floor restaurant Ceto, expect an exquisite ode to the Mediterranean dreamed up
by three-Michelin-star chef Mauro Colagreco and at the poolside, chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s healthy menu
features his unique combos of vegetables and haute-snacking. There’s nothing quite like cocktails at magic hour,
when the sea turns orange and pink and le beau monde flocks to the two terrace bars. At any hour, the shuttle
takes guests to the Maybourne Riviera’s newly redesigned Amalfi-inspired beach club by the rocks. with an oceanliner
deck restaurant serving Colagreco’s tasty grilled lobster and clam linguine.
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ALL ABOUT EZA
Worth every heart-pounding step up the stone stairs to the near tip-top of this perched medieval village,
the 14-room uber-romantic hotel Château Eza (chateaueza.com) is shining even brighter these days, now
that newly awarded Michelin-star chef Justin Schmitt is serving up exquisite seafood-themed tasting menus,
from roast octopus satay to a lobster caviar dish in champagne sauce. Add to that a contemporary-style
sprawling presidential suite and one of the Riviera’s most spectacular vistas of the shimmering sea.
LAP OF LUXURY
The Salon
Libanais in the
Sisley Spa at
Hôtel Byblos
Saint-Tropez
Saint-Tropez (byblos.com). Here, guests can
disconnect from their fast-paced routines
thanks to the approach to remedy treatments
and in energy-channeling curated workshops
that include yoga, meditation, human design,
breathwork, reiki and sound healing, plus a
choice of innovative anti-ageing massage
techniques. Customised classes are held in the
intimacy of the spa’s restful inner courtyard
(think a Roger Capron-designed mosaic-tile
floor shaded by banana and flowering camellia
trees) with a sky view. Highlights include
the mythologically themed inner harmony
treatments and pranayama, meditation classes,
and a one-on-one session with wellness
consultant extraordinaire, Marion M’Santi,
whose extensive knowledge of Shamanism, yoga
and meditative practices encourages a profound
self-reconnection. Add to that the five-element
“Epic Journey” programme, accompanied by a
delicious gluten-free and vegetarian menu with
freshly plucked ingredients from the hotel’s
neighbouring garden, whipped up by Byblos’
executive chef Nicola Canuti.
Steps away is the new exotic-meets-
Provençal restaurant Les Délices du Pan Deï
at the poolside terrace of 12-room boutique
hotel, Pan Deï Palais (airelles.com). Helmed by
chef Antonio Oresta, signature dishes include
sea bass in a salt crust, slow-cooked shoulder
of lamb, colourful creative salads, and a divine
salt-and-olive-oil chocolate mousse for dessert.
Toulon Hyères Airport to Saint-Tropez:
36miles/58km
ALEXANDRE CHAPLIER
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LIGHTS
Glistening gems are at the heart
of these masterpieces of craft.
Photography by Xavier Young
Production by Elisa Vallata
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From top: MOUSSAIEFF white gold high jewellery earrings set with yellow diamonds and grey-greenish yellow diamonds
GRAFF white and yellow gold necklace set with white and yellow diamonds, from the Threads collection ADLER white and yellow
gold ring set with four fancy yellow pear-shaped diamonds as well as white and yellow diamonds MOUSSAIEFF white gold high
jewellery bracelet set with white and yellow diamonds
Facing page, clockwise from top left: BOGHOSSIAN yellow gold necklace set with Madeira and Palmeira citrines and diamonds
CHOPARD rose gold The Precious Lace rings set with pear-shaped and brilliant-cut diamonds LOUIS VUITTON yellow gold Spirit
Chapter II Radiance high jewellery bracelet set with diamonds and garnet
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Counterclockwise from top left: MASSIMO IZZO yellow and white gold earrings set with natural aquamarine from Brazil and
brilliant-cut diamonds from the Jewels of the Sea collection ANANYA yellow gold Mogra Rising earrings set with diamonds
and mother-of-pearl inlay G by GLENN SPIRO rose gold bracelet set with corals, citrines and diamonds MASSIMO IZZO
yellow gold ring set with natural oxblood coral from Sardinia and brilliant-cut diamonds from the Sicilian Lace collection
VAN CLEEF & ARPELS rose gold Zodiaque long necklace Cancri set with blue quartz TIFFANY & CO SCHLUMBERGER Croisillon
azure blue enamel bracelet with yellow gold CLARA CHEHAB pink gold bombée ring set with blue sapphires, diamonds and a
rough aquamarine, seen at objetdemotion.com.
Facing page, from the top: BULGARI white gold high jewellery earrings set with paraiba tourmalines, sapphires, emeralds and
diamonds BOUCHERON white gold Pompon bracelet set with pearls and diamonds DAVID MORRIS white gold necklace set with
pearls, emeralds, aquamarines, onyx and diamonds ADLER white gold Shinsei bracelet set with mother of pearl, diamonds
and one paraiba cabochon tourmaline BOODLES platinum The Cloud Trees ring set with an emerald-cut Indicolite tourmaline
and diamonds, part of the Always a Story collection.
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TASTING NOTES
BETWEEN
TRADITION AND
MODERNITY
As Château-Figeac transitions from its old Bordeaux
style to suit the modern palate, the venerable Right Bank
estate remains an institution // By Guy Woodward
COURTESY CHÂTEAU-FIGEAC
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FAMILY PRIDE
From top: owners
Blandine de Brier
Manoncourt and
Marie-France
Manoncourt, with
estate manager
Frédéric Faye;
a 2016 vintage
Facing page:
Château-Figeac
WHEN CHÂTEAU-FIGEAC WAS upgraded to the very top rank
of St-Emilion châteaux in the region’s 2022 classification, the
estate’s owners put out a pointed statement. “The Manoncourt
family and the entire team have a special thought for Thierry
Manoncourt, who ardently wished to see Figeac ‘in the right
place’,” it read.
Thierry Manoncourt was a shining light in a Bordeaux
firmament not short of stars. A prisoner of war in Germany,
he joined the family business in 1947; by the time of his
death in 2010, aged 92, he had overseen 64 vintages at the
property. While unafraid to innovate (Figeac was the first
classed growth on the Right Bank to introduce stainlesssteel
tanks, and one of the first to offer tastings to visitors),
Manoncourt was unashamedly traditionalist when it came to
the wine itself. Those 64 vintages he oversaw lent him the
confidence and experience not to be swayed by the whims of
fashion but instead stay true to a style that was less about
immediate flamboyance and more about the gradual unfurling
of complexity.
Château-Figeac is unusual in its make-up. Three warm gravel
ridges run across the 40ha vineyard surrounding the château,
meaning the terroir has more in common with the Médoc, on
Bordeaux’s Left Bank, than the limestone-clay of the Right
Bank. To suit such soils, the breakdown of grape varieties –
roughly a third each of cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc and
merlot (which tends to dominate most St-Emilion properties,
lending the appellation’s signature smooth texture) – is also
more Médocain, providing the structure and distinctive “old
Bordeaux” style that allows for Figeac’s prodigious ageing.
This unshowy but durable style reflected not only the
estate’s particular terroir but also Manoncourt himself. Sadly
for him, however, unlike in the Médoc, with its intractable
1855 ranking of classed growths, the classification in St-
Emilion has been regularly updated since the first edition in
1955 (with associated controversy and blood-letting). Figeac’s
misfortune was that these updates were not decided on the
quality of wines at the 10, 20 and 30 years of age at which
they were intended to be drunk. Instead, younger wines were
tasted, while other factors including the price and profile
of estates was also taken into account. And at a time when
LEIF CARLSSON
VIRGINIE OHRENSSTEIN
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Figeac’s wines were far from fashionable (despite a dedicated
following among Bordeaux purists) such criteria favoured more
immediately obvious, seductive cuvées. In addition, the final
two decades of Manoncourt’s stewardship were dominated
by the tastes of US critic Robert Parker, whose fondness for
more concentrated, velvety wines over the traditionally tannic,
brooding identity led the market in that direction.
Despite such a backdrop, Manoncourt refused to be drawn
into playing the game – never “dressing up” his wines for the
all-important en primeur tastings, when the press gives its
verdict and the market sets its price. Indeed, it is thought he
didn’t even submit his wines to Parker for tasting post-2006;
certainly the critic didn’t score them thereafter. Instead, he
stayed true to the estate’s terroir and style, and kept prices
modest compared to his counterparts, who enjoyed inflated
revenue off the back of generous Parker scores. There was
no little irony when, in the 2006 update, Figeac was told its
continued status as a mere Premier Grand Cru Classé “B” was
partly due to the fact that its price wasn’t commensurate with
the top rank.
What British member of the Jurade de St-Émilion Tim Hartley
referred to as the “quiet dignity” with which Manoncourt
accepted the decision – not for him a rush to court, as some
did – reflected the wines themselves, whose style never
changed. Perhaps it was for the best that he didn’t live to see
the 2012 promotion of two high-profile rivals – Châteaux Pavie
and Angélus – to Premier Grand Cru Classé “A”, off the back of
a prominent Michelin-starred restaurant and appearances in
James Bond films.
It seems, though, that the rebuff was too much for
Manoncourt’s widow, Marie-France, who, determined to correct
this slight, began a programme of change in conjunction with
two of her daughters. After Frédéric Faye, who joined Figeac
ten years earlier as a trainee, took over responsibility for the
management of the estate from Manoncourt’s son-in-law,
further headlines were made when arch-modernist Michel
Rolland was appointed as consultant winemaker. Given Figeac’s
classic, traditional image, the news shocked Bordeaux’s
tight community – indeed, given that the appointment was
announced on 1 April, many dismissed it as an April Fool.
When it became clear that it wasn’t a Poisson d’Avril,
committed Figeac followers expressed concern over the
implications. Would Rolland convert the trademark elegance
to a more modern, oak-dominated identity? Faye was
adamant that the terroir of Figeac was sacrosanct, and the
“
There has always
been evolution,
something put in
motion all those
years ago by Thierry
Manoncourt and
exemplified today
by the new cellars
and an added purity
in the wines
–Jancis Robinson MW
overall profile of the wine wouldn’t change. What Rolland
brought was his skills as a master blender – “the best I have
ever met,” says Faye – an area that was particularly integral
given the unusual, almost equal proportions of the three
different grape varieties. Since 2012, that blend has become
more flexible, with the cabernet sauvignon hitting 50% in the
tricky 2013 vintage, for instance, when Figeac was a notable
success in a tough year.
Faye says that in the decade since the new team was
installed, it has focused on improving tannin texture
and aromatic expression, and harnessing the “power of
seduction in youth” while “preserving the [wine’s] ageing
potential and identity”.
Critics have been almost uniformly impressed. Former
Washington Post wine columnist Ben Giliberti praises what
he calls “a highly intelligent refinement of Figeac, rather
than a revolution”. Others point to the better tannic finesse,
precision and palate density. Clyde Beffa Jr, co-owner of K&L
Wine Merchants in California, says, “Figeac is one of the most
improved properties in Bordeaux over the last 10 years.”
To set the seal on such evolution, the property unveiled
a spectacular new cellar in 2021, with a host of new vats
allowing for more precise vinification on a plot-by-plot basis.
As Jancis Robinson MW said: “There has always been evolution,
something put in motion all those years ago by Thierry
Manoncourt and exemplified today by the new cellars and an
added purity in the wines.”
A year after the inauguration of the new cellar, the
transformation was complete with the announcement that
the property had been promoted to the rank of Premier Grand
Cru Classé “A”. Finally, Figeac has reached its “right place”.
chateau-figeac.com
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The second Helsinki Biennial brings a unique fusion of local
and global art – all of it responding to contemporary issues
– to the Finnish capital and nearby Vallisaari Island
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KIRSI HALKOLA / HELSINKI BIENNIAL (2)
INSIDE VIEW
PAGE 74-75:
A detail from Ángel Yōkai
Atā (Render of some
Spirit Angel objects),
a piece by Keiken, an
artist collective based in
London and Berlin
ABOVE
From top: Keiken’s
Ángel Yōkai Atā
perches on the shore
of Vallisaari Island;
and an installation by
PHOSfate, a
collaboration between
an Algerian and a
Finnish artist
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SONJA HYYTIAINEN / HELSINKI BIENNIAL (2)
ABOVE
From top: Asunción
Molinos Gordo’s
¡Cuánto río allá
arriba!; Ciguatera, an
installation by artist
Diana Policarpo
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INSIDE VIEW
A NEW
DIRECTION
Two years ago, the island of Vallisaari, part of the Helsinki archipelago,
hosted the first edition of the Helsinki Biennial. A long-gestating event, the
inaugural showcase proved to be a massive success, not just for the Finnish
art scene but for the wider European art world that was reinterpreting its
role in the post-Covid environment. Now the second edition of the Helsinki
Biennial is integrating even more global perspectives, as it aims to become
the leading event to focus on the intersection of art and the issues in the
natural world. This edition’s curator of the biennial, Joasia Krysa, who was
born in Poland and lives in the UK, has brought together around 30 artists
from across the globe under the ambiguous heading “New Directions May
Emerge”. The uncertainty here is intentional: artworks have been chosen that
speak to complex and intractable themes, from environmental damage to
political conflict and rapid technological change. “How might contamination
be a force for positive change?” comments Krysa, offering an example of how
the works of art that she has chosen, or commissioned, might speak to the
wider world. And her ambition is not limited to the works themselves: “How
can we use biennials for the wider regeneration of things?” It’s a provocative
approach and one that Krysa and her team are hoping will lure visitors from
across the globe. Helsinki itself is hoping to be carbon-neutral by 2030, no
mean feat for the world’s northernmost metropolitan area. Hats off to the
biennial for aiming – and potentially helping – to go even further. Until 17
September, helsinkibiennial.fi
FACING PAGE
The idyllic shores of
Vallisaari Island
MATTI PYYKKO
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COURTESY OF RED FOREST; PHOTO BY OLEKSIY RADYNSKI
COURTESY OF HAM, HELSINKI BIENNIAL AND KIRSI HALKOLA
INSIDE VIEW
ABOVE
From top: scenes from
Jenna Sutela’s weton-wet
watercolour
painting, which will
be on display at the
biennial; Red Forest’s
Abandoned positions of
the Russian Army in the
Red Forest, Chernobyl
Exclusion Zone
FACING PAGE
A stage in the design
process of artist Adrián
Villar Rojas, whose sitespecific
installation, The
End of Imagination, is on
Vallisaari Island
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ON THE HORIZON
PHOTOGRAPHER:
RICHARD DEPINAY
Cessna Citation Longitude Captain
AIRCRAFT
Embraer Phenom 300E
LOCATION
Redmond Municipal Airport, Oregon
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metres, and a range of 1,971 nautical miles it is
an ideal jet for short-haul flights. As well as being
popular with Owners, the Phenom 300E is known
to be a pilot’s favorite, which may be why Richard
Depinay, a NetJets captain on the Cessna Citation
Longitude fleet and a keen snapper, captured the
jet on the runway at Redmond Municipal Airport,
beneath the cloud-dappled Oregon skies.
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