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Rosewood’s Newest Hotel Opens in the French Alps
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| Rosewood Courchevel Le Jardin Alpin, in the French Alpine village of Courchevel 1850, includes 48 rooms and three penthouse suites. From left: the two-bedroom Courchevel House and Saulire House apartments recall the 1960s with shaggy chairs and globe lanterns. Rosewood Courchevel Le Jardin Alpin |
Rosewood Hotels & Resorts’ second hotel in France is slated to open this week in the village of Courchevel 1850. The ski-in, ski-out property in the town’s Jardin Alpin enclave has 51 guest rooms, including three penthouse apartments. Apart from one penthouse designed by the Paris firm Studio KO, the interiors were done by Tristan Auer (who also worked on the renovations of Paris’s Hôtel de Crillon). He reimagined the glitz of Courchevel’s 1960s golden age with globe pendant lanterns, plushly upholstered Eames lounge chairs and sectional sofas placed around a fireplace, while a snowflake-inspired installation in the lobby by the Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson adds a more modern note. The restaurant Salto serves Italian and French fare such as seafood platters and Savoyard classics like gooey fondues. For guests whose priority is the mountain, the property’s First and Last Track experience grants skiers dusk or dawn access to the first and last skis runs of the day, accompanied by a private instructor. The Asaya spa emphasizes treatments for powder hounds, too, like the 60-minute Ski Legs Revival treatment, combining cryotherapy with special boots designed to help lactic ski legs recover, as well as an aromatic oil massage. Rosewood Courchevel Le Jardin Alpin opens Dec. 19; from $2,650 a night, rosewoodhotels.com.
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A Collection of Greek Textiles Meant to Illuminate Dark Winter Days
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| Left: the Greek brand Anthologist’s vintage Polychroníon textile, from its latest collection of handwoven vintage pieces. Right: the vintage Lampi pillow from Crete. Sofia Konstantakopoulou |
In 2020, Andria Mitsakos founded her Athens-based brand, Anthologist, with a desire to showcase traditional Greek handiwork. She saw it as a rebellion against modern slickness. “This is about age and imperfection, qualities that modern life edits out,” she says. The brand’s winter line, titled the Heirloom Hearth, is a collection of vintage throw pillows and woven textiles that were handmade by Greek women artisans, drawing on the visual vernacular of the country’s folklore: swirling botanicals, birds that link earth and sky, and pomegranate motifs symbolizing prosperity. One highlight is the densely woven Polychroníon textile, whose name comes from the Greek word for “many-colored” — its bright pattern seems to be aglow against winter darkness. Deep reds and oranges warm the charcoal grounds of the other fabrics, all made with a blend of sheep and goat wool. From $295, anthologist.com.
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Sculptural Lighter Cases in Silver and Gold
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| Clockwise from top left: Gio lighter holder, $195, frypowers.com; Cyclops lighter case, $2,300, sophiebuhai.com; Amorphic lighter case, $138, llyatelier.com; Mini Fiamma necklace, $720, pamelalove.com; Tree Skin lighter, $1,600, lisaeisnerjewelry.com; Shell lighter case, $595, jujuvera.com; Rive Droite lighter holder, $310, ysl.com; Gemstoned lighter case, $95, edie-parker.com. Courtesy of the brands |
If you’ve noticed all your favorite designers making lighter cases lately, it’s not because smoking is suddenly cool again (rates are actually at a 60-year low). Credit instead the resurgence of Art Deco: In the 1920s and ’30s, smoking became glamorized among socialites and celebrities, and accouterments like cigarette holders and cases became style must-haves. Now, along with other Art Deco design elements like lacquer, fringe and tassels, fancy lighters are back, too, particularly in the form of a sleeve for your disposable Bic.
The Los Angeles jeweler Sophie Buhai has leaned into the era’s decorative motifs with a suite of cabochon-studded sterling silver cases, and the former vintage dealer Julia Ferentinos of Juju Vera does so with a fluted cover that has a tiny shell affixed to it. The holder by the New York brand Fry Powers comes with a separate stand for home display, while Saint Laurent’s minimal brass and aluminum versions are embossed with the brand’s coveted logo. Edie Parker’s playful jewel-encrusted case and Pamela Love’s version with a braided and jade-adorned base can both be ordered as necklaces, and L.L.Y. Atelier’s amorphous, sculptural holder has a small protrusion for attaching an optional chain or key ring. Don’t sleep on Lisa Eisner’s tree-bark-esque lighter cover, either, part of her recent jewelry collection for the Row. Of course, you don’t need to light a single cigarette to justify acquiring one of these cases — use it for candles or incense, and display them all together on a beautiful vintage Art Deco tray.
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A Mirrored Carousel Touches Down in St. Moritz
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| Carsten Höller’s “Pink Mirror Carousel,” installed on an ice rink at the Kulm Hotel in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Pierre Bjork |
The Belgian artist Carsten Höller has long made art that challenges his audience’s expectations of what they might find in a museum, from a spiraling slide that he installed around Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in London in 2006 to the hallucination-inducing light frequencies he displayed at New York’s New Museum in 2011. “I’d like the art world to be a bit more playful,” he says. In 2005, he debuted his reworking of a life-size fairground carousel in a show at Gagosian’s London gallery. He’s revisited the form since, with installations in Copenhagen and Melbourne. The latest iteration, “Pink Mirror Carousel,” opens today on the ice rink of the Kulm Hotel in St. Moritz, Switzerland, where it will reside for the next two years. Measuring 23 feet high and nearly 16 feet wide, the carousel is ringed with lights, 24 suspended seats and highly reflective pink surfaces. Part fun-house mirror, part merry-go-round, it moves slowly, offering riders an unusually meditative experience. As Höller says, “It puts you in a dreamy mood and you have to let go in your mind.” “Pink Mirror Carousel” is accessible daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., weather permitting. Access is free for guests of the Kulm Hotel and is open to all with an admission fee of $15 for adults and $7.50 for children, kulm.com.
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Ski Sweaters That Channel Traditional Norwegian Motifs
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| The Oslo-based clothing brand Amundsen Sports’s new knitwear collection pays homage to Norwegian folk costumes. Amundsen Sports |
For Jørgen Amundsen — a descendant of Roald Amundsen, the first explorer to reach the South Pole — Norwegian culture is at the core of Amundsen Sports, the outdoor clothing brand he launched in Oslo in 2010. This winter, the company released a knitwear collection called Gommo & Goffa, which means “Grandma and Grandpa” in Norwegian, inspired by the embroidery typically found on the bunad, the country’s traditional folk costumes. Made in Italy with Norwegian wool from free-range sheep, the small batch of hooded and zip-up sweaters, as well as wrist and leg warmers, is decorated with colorful, custom-designed motifs that pay homage to three local mountain regions. Vines and Halling Rose, a traditional Norwegian floral pattern, represent the agricultural areas of Gudbrandsdalen and Hallingdal, respectively, while the Telemark pattern features repeated lines in muted pastels. “I wanted to bring the traditions and heritage of the bunad to something you can wear every day,” says Amundsen, adding that the knits can easily transition from the ski slope to the city. From $139 for wrist warmers, amundsensports.com.
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A Jakarta Hotel Filled With Indonesian Antiques
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| House of Tugu, a new hotel in the historic center of Jakarta, has 25 rooms filled with Indonesian art and antiques collected over the decades by its owner, Anhar Setjadibrata. Courtesy of Hotel Tugu |
Most hoteliers build a hotel, then hire a designer to fill the rooms with furniture and art, but there are a rare few who start with a collection, then create a space in order to display it. In 1989, the Indonesian art collector and hotelier Anhar Setjadibrata opened Hotel Tugu Malang, the first of five properties under the brand Tugu (which means “monument” in Indonesian). He filled it with an unrivaled collection of Javanese, Chinese and Dutch colonial antiques. But the bulk of Setjadibrata’s treasures have been stored in a 500-year-old, vine-covered building in Jakarta’s historic center that was once a warehouse for exotic animals, and where he lives when he’s in the city. Last year, it opened to visitors as House of Tugu, with 25 unique rooms, a restaurant called Jajaghu that’s decorated with tree branches that seem to grow out of the walls, a museum of Peranakan cultural objects, a spa and a small courtyard pool. The art will likely evolve as Setjadibrata continues to collect. “Every two weeks to this day, two more trucks of antiques arrive,” says his daughter Lucienne Setjadibrata. “He keeps extending into the next building.” From $250 a night, tuguhotels.com.
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In the Home of a Famed Artist, a Mummified Rat and Other Curiosities
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| Photograph by Danilo Scarpati. All Meret Oppenheim artworks: © Meret Oppenheim © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ProLitteris, Zurich |
The Surrealist artist Meret Oppenheim often centered her practice on domestic objects, transforming them into wry comments on the nature of life, sex and art. Her best-known piece, “Le Déjeuner en Fourrure” (1936), comprises a teacup, saucer and spoon swathed in the fur of a dik-dik, a small African gazelle. Four decades after her death, Oppenheim’s summer home in the Swiss hilltop town of Carona is still a testament to the artist’s singular vision. Click here to read the full story and follow us on Instagram.
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