A Paris Hotel With Rooftop Views and a Rock-Climbing Wall

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In Paris, a hotel that mixes and present

The seventeenth district of Paris, near the limits of the northwest of the city, is mainly residential, so it is not usually the mind for visitors to the French capital. But the opening of the Fondation, a 58 -room hotel with interior design firm based in New York Roman and Williams, could change that mentality. It is part of a new 10 -story complex that also includes an office space with roof gardens, a gym, which has a rock climbing wall, 80 -feet pool and multiple fitness rooms, and a spa with saunas, a Hammam and treatment rooms. Hotel guests get access to all this, along with two French restaurants, a classic bistro and a fine fin option, both directed by local chef Thomas Rossi and a rampptop bar that sacrifices seen views from the Sacre Coeur to the Eiffel Terwer. For the Hotel decoration, Roman and Williams referred to the Late Modernist period of the city: the rooms have walls blocked by colors bordered by Oak Frames, a wink to the 1965 Mondrian dress by Yves Saint Laurent. In common areas, large -scale commissions, such as a wooden wall sculpture by Croatian artisan, Vedran Jakšić or painted ceramic tiles by French artist Pierre Yves Canard, merger with architecture. “There is a constant interaction between refinement and rawness, fashion and function, Paris then and now,” says Robin Standfer, co -founder of Roman and Williams. Fondation opens on April 28; From $ 440 per night, in.lafondationhotel.com.

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A pocket guide for modernist buildings worldwide

The historian and design photographer based in Prague Adam Štěch had an early fascination with marine biology. “My model to follow was [the French oceanographer] Jacques Cousteau, “says.” I wanted to be an explorer. “Štěch, who then developed a great interest in architecture, has visited almost 50 countries, documenting notable buildings of the twentieth century and the forgotten. The family chorus goes. Now, thanks to the online magazine and the first book editor, the book editor or the station of the company’s posts of the positions in which it opens to the pancus of the pancos in the Pancos of the Pancos in the Copa Penc. public. The “modernist travel guide” cannot be used on May 8; $ 38, Shop.sightunseen.com.

The Japanese artist Teruko Yokoi lived and worked at the Chelsea hotel in New York for three productive years until she moved in 1961. She never returned, says her daughter, Kayo, who has administered her heritage Halle Het Dath in 2020. Homecoming Outs with the opening of a Japanese restaurant called by her and an exhibition in the Hollis Taggart exhibition. The restaurant, in the hotel winery, will serve simple Japanese dishes (silver in the ceramics of chef Tadashi Ono) through a bar and dining room of sushi of 12 seats, with an area of ​​cocktails specialized in Japanese whiskeys. Guests can access it from inside the lobby or, through an exterior staircase between the main entrance of the hotel and a lunga guitar store that leads to a small underground garden corridor. Nine of Yokoi’s paintings of his career will be exhibited and, a few blocks, another 25 will compress a gallery survey co-cured by his grandson, Tai, who is also in excess of his heritage. Titled “Noh Theater”, draw parallels between that traditional form of Japanese performance and the artist’s work. Both often used tea role (the first for their programs) and are characterized by “slow, deliberate and symbolic movements”, as Tai writes in an accompanying essay. Kayo says that his mother had a story of showing her work beyond the galleries: after relocating her family in Switzerland after the dissolution of her marriage to the painter Sam Francis, Yokoi exhibited her work in public spaces such as restaurants and hospitals. “She wanted to bring beauty and create a refuge from this tumultuous world,” says Kayo. “I think she would be very happy for this.” The Teruko restaurant will open in mid -May; “Noh Theater ”is in sight from June 1 to 14, on June 14, Hollistaggart.com.

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A restored monastery of the 10th century in Spain, now open as a holiday village

In 2006, the Spanish food industrialist Juan Manuel González Serna met a ruins of the 10th century for the Castilian people of Baltanás. He stopped to marvel at stone ruins and densely wooded hills. On his way home, González Serna called his wife, Lucia. “He said he had fallen in love with the place,” he recalls. The couple bought the land and begged a 13 -year restoration of the Monastery of St. Pelayo. Since 2019, the 15 bedroom house has the private residence of the couple, but, as of this year, it is open to the public as an exclusive villa. The Spanish architect Rafael Manzano, who specializes in the renewal of historical places such as the Royal Alcázar of Seville, worked with archaeologists to take off the 1,200 years of history of the SIT, discovering Romanesque walls, the remains of a medieves bureauvías. That story in layers inspired the design of 60,277 square feet of additional life and dining room, where the Dutch tapestry of the seventeenth century, the old basin carpets and the roofs with wooden panels add warmth to the monastic environment. Collaborating with the Prado Museum in Madrid, the owners restored several works of art from their private collection, including a sculpture of the thirteenth century of Jesus and a painting of the Peter Paul Rubens workshop. Horse driving, hunting, flower workshops and roasts can be organized on the farm of almost 5,000 acres, which is fed by a spring network and covered with oak forests, truffle and wild pink fields, thyme and lavender. While Ribera del Duero vineyards are less than 10 miles away, property can organize private tastings on the site. Of $ 6,370 per night, Monaster periodsanpelayo.es.

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A photo book that captures plant life and military presence in Okinawa, Japan

The first photo book by French artist Victoire Thierrée begins with a mysterious exclamation: the title – “Okinawa!” – Shout through the green bright acid cover of the publication. In the name and in subject, it is a contemporary echo of the famous Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu “Okinawa Okinawa Okinawa” (1969), the first record of the culture of the US military base on the island. Thierrée, who is also a sculptor and filmmaker, presents his own photographic study of the lush landscape, still marked by the signs of the 32 US military facilities that operate today in Okinawa. The barbed wire fences and the distant communication towers emerge from the vegetation, while the helicopters turn in pairs above. “The island is in the middle of Paradise, but it can be transformed into hell very quickly,” says Thierrée, who used black and white vertical compositions and hard noon sunlight to subvert the natural technical beauty of the stage. Throughout this unconventional panorama they are minimalist and foreground studies of pressed plants: vines tangled nests, overlapping ferns and other specimens collected from the Ryuukyu Islands in 1951, six years after the devastating battle of Okawa. Of the thousands of botanical entries that make up the complete herbarium (housed in the archives of the Smithsonian institution), Thierrée says he was attracted to certain samples because they originated the root of violence. “These plants saw the war or grew directly in the battlefields,” explains the artist. Reproduced on extravagant scale in his photobook, and in an individual exhibition of competition in the Lambert Museum collection in Aviñón, France, the natural world becomes disorientingly tangled with military technology. From one page to the next, a flattened sheet It can be as striking as the blurred silhouette of a combat plane. Around $ 50, RVB-books.com. The exhibition “Okinawa!” He is in sight in the Lambert collection in Avignon from April 19 to June 15.

When Alex Matisse founded the East Fork ceramic company in Asheville, North Carolina, in 2009, he does not want his famous surname to eclipse his passion for Clay. “My approach mainly has the leg to escape the last name and build something that stands out for itself,” he says. Since then, East Fork has become known for its ceramic dishes in earthly colors. Now, the 40 -year -old Potter has decided that it is the right time to pay tribute to his great -grandfather Henri Matisse with a collection of dishes, dishes and cups adorned with some of the most recognizable reasons for the artist. A quartet of female portraits of the 1940s decorate dessert plates; A 1951 drawing of a tree extends on a larger dish. A set of 1952 blue nudes is distributed in dishes in the iconic dense blue tone of Matisse. The main challenge, says Matisse, was to perfect the decal process to capture the characteristic blue tone of the artist and subtle blows. East Fork finally associated with a French provider responsible for printing Hermès’s dishes, and Asheville’s team mixed a new blue tone called La Sirène, which Matisse considers a wink to the recognizable tone of his ancestor. The Matisse collection will be greedy to preordinate April 25; of $ 68 for a cup, Eastfork.com.

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