Tag: Byron
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Grey Gardens House Tour
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Grey Gardens documentary (released September 27, 1975), we return to one of America’s most mythologized houses — not in ruin, but in radiant renewal. Immortalized by Albert and David Maysles, the storied halls of Grey Gardens once echoed with the eccentric lives of Big and Little Edie Beale, relatives…
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Grey Gardens at 50: The Eccentric American Dream
Today marks fifty years since the premiere of Grey Gardens on September 27, 1975 — the Maysles brothers’ documentary that unveiled the eccentric, crumbling world of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter “Little Edie.” Half a century later, the film remains as haunting and magnetic as ever: a portrait of decline and resilience that has…
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Monthly Picks: Grey Gardens
Immortalized in the 1975 documentary and later restored to new glory, Grey Gardens remains one of America’s most iconic homes. To celebrate its enduring mystique, I’ve curated a special selection of books, films, and objects that capture the eccentric charm, style, and cultural significance of the Beales’ legendary estate. From evocative photo volumes to collectible…
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Monthly Picks: Our Favourite Coffee Table Books
I’m excited to share a carefully curated collection of coffee table books that feel like art themselves—each one chosen for its beauty, narrative strength, and capacity to spark inspiration in your home. Whether you’re drawn to architecture, design history, travel memoirs, or visual storytelling, these titles are meant to turn heads, invite touch, and reward…
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Scott & Zelda: Legacy, Love, and the Geography of a Jazz Age
Few couples loom as mythically over the 20th century as F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. They were beautiful, brilliant, and reckless — the gilded children of the Jazz Age, as dazzling as the parties they haunted, and as doomed as the decade they defined. To speak of them is to speak of literature, glamour, and…
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Villa d’Este, Lake Como: Renaissance Origins to Modern Grandeur
Perched on the shores of Lake Como, Villa d’Este is more than a hotel—it is a living testament to Renaissance architecture interlaced with 19th-century luxury, sustained by impeccable interiors and a storied cultural legacy. It has also just been confirmed that it’s the best hotel in Italy, possibly the world. No small feat. Architectural Heritage…
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Villa Borghese: Rome’s Most Cultivated Escape
There are few places in Rome where history, art, and nature fuse with such elegance as the Villa Borghese and its surrounding park. More than a green lung in the heart of the city, this is a cultivated landscape — a place where cardinals once entertained, where artists found inspiration, and where today, Romans and…
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Claudia Cardinale: A Life in Light and Shadow
Claudia Cardinale, indomitable star of Italian and European cinema, has died at the age of 87. Born Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale in 1938 in La Goulette, Tunisia, to Sicilian immigrants, she rose from modest beginnings to become one of the defining faces of post-war film, grace and grit entwined. Her death marks the closing of…
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Bridget Riley: The Discipline of Vision
As an art student in the UK in the 1990s, Bridget Riley stood as the grande dame of abstraction to me. She has now spent six decades bending perception into form — distilling line, color, and rhythm until they transcend into something more elemental: pure visual sensation. Born in 1931 in Norwood, London, Riley emerged…
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Aix-en-Provence: A Provençal Symphony of Art, Elegance, and Sunlight
There are towns in France that charm, and then there is Aix-en-Provence — a golden city of fountains, elegant façades, and a cultural life as abundant as its markets. Once the haunt of Cézanne and still a beacon for artists, gourmets, and travelers, Aix feels like a living canvas where history, art, and art de…
