All of my friends use smart watches. I can’t believe that a centuries-old tradition is being replaced by something that looks more like a computer. But by refusing to join in, am I identifying myself as a Luddite? What’s the meaning of wearing a classic watch in contemporary times? — Gustavo, Mexico City Back in…
Raul De Lara’s Transcendent Takes on Household Things The Mexican-born, Ridgewood, Queens-based sculptor Raul De Lara is aware of the irony of his choice of medium: wood. The most rooted of materials is a contrast to the precarity of his upbringing — he came to Texas at 12 with his parents, and remains here under…
The fire lit in 1764 — part of King Louis XV’s order establishing the Baccarat glass works factory in France — has burned continuously for centuries. And last year the French house, which has been making pieces such as the Zénith Chandelier Black by Philippe Starck and the Baccarat x Virgil Abloh Crystal Clear collection,…
Since the 1990s, the archives at the Petit Palais in Paris have gathered an unusual collection: thousands of drawings of jewelry designs, many of which have been shown only rarely, and never in France. The collection, which has more than 5,500 sketches and gouaches, a method of painting using opaque colors, includes creations by French…
On Tuesday, as news piled up about the Trump administration’s use of a Signal group chat to discuss military strikes, Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, found himself facing the Senate Committee on Intelligence. He looked like a prep schooler sitting in detention. His striped tie was yanked off center, and the top button of his…
Gai Gherardi, a Los Angeles optician who with a partner attracted a celebrity clientele by pioneering the notion that eyeglass frames did not have to be dull but rather could be fashion statements of individuality, died on March 16 at her home in Hollywood. She was 78. Her sister, Heather Gherardi, said the cause was…
I was brought up in a religious family in Buenos Aires. Every Sunday, I’d go to church with my grandma. This picture (below center) was taken at my first communion, in 1982. I’d never worn a tie before; I think I had on velvet trousers. Even at age 10, I was opinionated about how my…
Were it not for the fact that it was 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning and were it not for the blaring house music, one might have seen what was going on at HK Hall, an event space in Midtown, and at first glance said, “Is this a jock strap convention?” There were men in…
Were it not for the fact that it was 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning and were it not for the blaring house music, one might have seen what was going on at HK Hall, an event space in Midtown, and at first glance said, “Is this a jock strap convention?” There were men in…
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