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Floating Figures by Katherine Bradford

Katherine Bradford’s paintings present themselves as dream scenes, lively and immediate even if their meaning remains mysterious. Fluorescent naked men ring a swimming pool suspended among the stars. Disembodied legs wearing dress shoes encroach on the personal space of a green haired woman. A group of sea swimmers gazes at lightning on the horizon. “Sometimes I do a painting,” says Bradford, who splits his time between Brooklyn and coastal Maine, “and then I make it darker and then darker and darker. It’s because I love mystery. I like things that happen at night. Bradford has been painting since the 1970s, but his shift to figuration in the 90s serves as the starting point for the first solo study of his work, now at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. Through more than 40 paintings, the exhibition traces her technical evolution – from single subjects to ensembles, from oils to acrylics – as she returns to what she calls her “bag of tricks”: swimmers, superheroes with hairstyles, floating horizontal bodies. The artist is drawn to these avatars of fear and uncertainty, she says, because “it’s the opposite of those old stately portraits of royalty, where they’re supposed to look invincible.” I like to make people who crumble slightly. ‘Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford’ runs until September 11 portlandmuseum.org.

British designer Luke Edward Hall was listening to Étienne Daho’s 1984 synth pop hit “Week-End à Rome” when he designed his latest capsule collection for Chateau Orlando, the fashion and homewares brand that he launched in February 2022 A French song about an Italian getaway, it evoked for Hall the sunny promise of summer vacations and long, languid lunches in the Mediterranean – and spawned retro restaurant-inspired motifs in his trademark scribbles for T-shirts, tote bags, a beach towel and a poster. Hall has designed interiors, ceramics and clothing for brands such as Burberry, Ginori 1735 and Diptyque, but Château Orlando allows him to indulge his personal whims, such as wacky patterned cotton vests and drink trays. with an illustration of his whippet, Merlin. He tested this latest capsule during his honeymoon between Lake Como and the Amalfi Coast in June, but those staying closer to home might find the brand’s cherub-adorned beach towel, a spritz and a Italo-disco playlist can usher in a lazy afternoon in their own backyard. Starting around $100, chateauorlando.com.

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A farm produce shop in Vienna

For the past 20 years, the family-run biodynamic farm and winery in Meinklang, in Austria’s Burgenland region, has focused on producing ancient grains like spelled and emmer (from which it makes its own beer). ) and grass-fed Angus beef. This spring, inspired by a pandemic pop-up in Vienna, the estate’s general manager, Niklas Peltzer, and Werner Michlits, one of three sons still running the farm, opened Meinklang Hofladen, a farm shop and bistro. in a converted house in the Fifth arrondissement of the capital. “We preferred a cleaner, modern look that reflects the character of the farmhouse through the materials we use – we didn’t want it to look artificially old or kitschy,” says Peltzer of the minimalist design, which includes bouquets of dried herbs and – carved oak shelves lined with jars of pickled and preserved produce from last year’s harvest. 90% of the products offered come from the farm, to which are added nearly 200 bottles of natural wines from all over Europe, the United States and Australia. Chef Thomas Piplitz, formerly of Studio in Copenhagen, assembles a seasonal daytime menu of herb salads and small plates, like the signature Angus tartare, for the handful of tables in the shop and the street-side terrace up to 3 p.m., when the bistro starts pouring wine alongside homemade charcuterie and cheese from the Austrian Alps. Margareten Straße 58, Vienna, meinklang.at.

After two years of isolation, collaboration has never been so valuable. With its first project available for purchase by everyday customers, Ecco Leather, the Danish tannery that typically sells directly to manufacturers, seems to agree. At.Kollektive brings together four star designers for regular deliveries of nine articles of considered leather goods, including furniture, clothing and accessories. Names include Catalan designer Isaac Reina, French designer Natacha Ramsay-Levi, German designer Kostas Murkudis and British designer Bianca Saunders; Ramsay-Levi takes the reins of the initial collection this fall in her first furniture collaboration and her first design outing since leaving Chloé, where she served as creative director, in 2020. Results include a pouf and a table side that combines the raw marble of Trani with the aspirated leather. “I realized that the veins we were freezing on the leather echoed the natural veins of the marble, so we accentuated that dialogue, like in a game of mirrors,” says Ramsay-Levi. Continuing the spirit of collaboration, the group plans to work each season with an architect (starting with Belgian Bernard Dubois) to design leather-centric displays for the pieces, which will be displayed at the Ecco gallery and boutique in Copenhagen. From $200, atkollektive.com.

Insomnia prompted former Singaporean fashion director Bernard Teo to seek out ‘the most inhospitable place on earth’ five years ago and then travel there: Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, with its temperatures of 125 degrees, and the Omo Valley. There with the villagers, he eventually slept through the night and was inspired to foster this kind of connectedness with the environment, albeit in a friendlier climate – among the verdant rice paddies of Tabanan Regency in Bali, Indonesia. . His hotel, the Lodge in the Woods, opens this week as a series of low-slung concrete structures that embrace nature, with hallway roofs perforated to accommodate sinewy tree trunks and a colossal boulder supporting the house. of the river outdoors. Filled with wooden statues from Central Java and batik textiles by Bali-based American jeweler Lou Zeldis, who died in 2012, the six bedrooms (including a two-bedroom barn) evoke the harmonious indoor-outdoor living of tropical modernist Geoffrey Bawa . Here, harmonizing with nature means encouraging everything to roam freely, including four albino horses and seven albino Etawah goats, which can join guests in bathing in nearby waterfalls and tidal pools. Visitors can also plant zucchini and eggplant in the adjacent chemical-free farm and dine in the whitewashed dining room overlooking the pool. It’s a sanctuary, says Teo, where “humans and animals mingle indiscriminately.” Rooms starting at $240 per night, lodgeinthewoods.com.

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