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BACK IN MY SALAD DAYS, I CARRIED MYSELF WITH SWAGGER. The dashing raconteur—that’s the role I liked to play. But today, I never turn on the charm the way I used to years ago. These days, I make a conscious effort to mellow my manner in mixed company. I’m talking about man issues, which for decades I had confused with girl problems. That confusion sent me on a quest leading to some of the most desired and objectified women in the world. If I’d read different books, watched different movies, and looked up to different role models as a kid, I might’ve figured things out earlier. Instead, here I am with my hair turning gray and I’m still revising my understanding of the man I want to be. My self-diagnosed girl problems…

VITAMINA B12 MARSELLA Colorida y festiva, resulta fácil sucumbir a su ‘charme’. Además de regalar unas fabulosas vistas al Mediterráneo, Les Bords de Mer, un coqueto hotel asomado a las luminosas aguas de la Costa Azul, es perfecto como cuartel general para descubrir algunas joyas de esta fascinante ciudad del sur. Comienza poniendo rumbo hacia el Vieux Port, donde turistas y lugareños se dan cita en las animadas terrazas de los restaurantes y cafés que lo circundan y regatean en el mercado de pescado. A pocos pasos, en el Cours d’Estienne d’Orves -una elegante plaza peatonal con librerías, bares y galerías de arte-, te toparás con la tienda de moda más chic, Agnes b (agnesb.eu), ubicada en un antiguo hangar naval. Junto a ella, en La Savonnerie, podrás surtirte del famoso jabón de…

IN THE CROSSHAIRS THIS MONTH… WILL POULTER You talkin’ to me? Yes I am, and very glad to. I’m a big Total Film fan. As a kid I read it a lot, and any time I was lucky enough to be involved in something featured in the magazine it was very exciting. Do you have an ‘off’ switch? I’ve been working on it! Especially on set, I’ve been trying to make sure that when my switch is off, so to speak, I’m making good use of my time, reading or listening to something informative. Previously I’ve found myself nervously foot-tapping or staring into space, which doesn’t make for the most relaxed transition back into shooting. Who’s the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him? I want to say the fool who wrangles all the…

You two should know each other. You have so much in common.” It was this typical friend’s refrain that set things in motion. Los Angeles gallerist Shulamit Nazarian first met designer Pamela Shamshiri at the suggestion of creative director Michael Reynolds. Reynolds’ instincts proved providential — Nazarian and Shamshiri did in fact have much in common. Both were independent women of Persian descent, born in Iran and transplanted to LA with their families in the wake of the Islamic Revolution. Both were divorced mothers raising sons. And both owned architecturally significant houses designed by mandarins of Southern California modernism. At the time, Shamshiri inhabited Rudolph Schindler’s 1948 Lechner House, while Nazarian occupied A Quincy Jones’s Smalley House (1969–73) in Holmby Hills, one of the architect’s largest single-family residences. “We were both…

In the art of seduction, a certain air of mystery is considered to be the secret element in making a person—or a timepiece, in the case of the Cartier’s 2022 offerings—all the more exciting. For this year’s watches present fascinating shapes and technicalities to bemuse you, and innovations that will pave the way for many others in the near future. Cartier’s command over fine jewellery and watchmaking, it’s known, is one of its hallmarks. Take the Mystery Clocks, for instance: inspired by the French magician Houdin, the father of modern conjuring, these feats of horological and technical invention have captured the fancy of collectors’ since they were first created in 1912. At the turn of the 19th century, Louis Cartier (the founder’s grandson, 1875–1942) and horologist Maurice Coüet (1885–1963) created the…

@JORDANFARLEY Good things come to those who wait. Even George Miller. The genial Australian director has spent over 20 years, on and off, getting his latest film, Three Thousand Years Of Longing, to the screens. He first read A.S. Byatt’s novella, The Djinn In The Nightingale’s Eye, in the late ‘90s, snapping up the film rights from the Booker Prize-winning author after paying her a visit. He then started noodling away on the script with daughter Augusta Gore, although other projects – Happy Feet and Mad Max: Fury Road – took precedence. Finally, Miller’s gotten around to making it – a beguiling love letter to the art of storytelling and a film that he’s already dubbed “the anti-Mad Max” for its palate-cleansing properties. Arriving seven years after Fury Road roared its way…

JUSQU’EN SEPTEMBRE, UNE EXPOSITION ITINĒRANTE RETRACE 40 ANS D’ARCHITECTURE SUR LE LITTORAL DE LA CHARENTE-MARITIME. DE ROYAN Ā LA ROCHELLE ET DE L’ART DĒCO AU BRUTALISME, UNE PLONGĒE PASSIONNANTE DANS UN PATRIMOINE BĀTI ENCORE MĒCONNU. (INFOS SUR CAUE17.COM) LAURENCE DES CARS, PRĒSIDENTE-DIRECTRICE DU MUSĒE DU LOUVRE, SERA LA PROCHAINE PRĒSIDENTE DU JURY DU PRIX LILIANE BETTENCOURT POUR L’INTELLIGENCE DE LA MAIN. CRĒĒ EN 1999, CE PRIX RĒCOMPENSE L’EXCELLENCE, LA CRĒATIVITĒ ET L’INNOVATION DANS LE DOMAINE DES MĒTIERS D’ART. DEVENU UN LABEL D’EXCELLENCE, CE CONCOURS A CONSACRĒ DĒJĀ 123 PERSONNALITĒS. (FONDATIONBS.ORG) Rodrigo Lopes; A. Mole, courtesy Semiose, Paris/Adagp, Paris, 2023; Hervé Plumet/Adagp, Paris, 2023; presse. Paris Musées/Musée Carnavalet Histoire de Paris; presse. Alessandro Sala Cesura; Eric Delage; Francis Amiand; Deïdi von Schaewen; presse…

MAYANK MANSINGH KAUL WRITER An expert in the post-independence histories of textiles and design in India, Kaul writes about the work (pg 72) and home (pg 80) of Monika Correa. “It was great to capture the two worlds of Monika Correa—that of the extraordinary textiles she weaves and her Goa home, where she goes to rejuvenate and take time off. There are so many seamless connections between the two….” ADITYA AHUJA WRITER Designer Aditya Ahuja is the CEO of Lola & Veranda, an online bedlinen brand. He joined SHYAM AHUJA right out of college, working his way up to CEO before leaving to begin his own company, Aditya Ahuja Design House, in 2019. In this issue, he charts his late grandfather’s journey (pg 66), one that culminated in “the rejuvenation of a moribund…

In some corners of the internet, you’ll find people sharing and comparing photos of their ‘bug-out bags’. These are backpacks or duffle bags stuffed full of things their owners believe they’ll need in an emergency, from water and bandages to flares and gas masks. Keeping such a bag packed sounds quite prudent, especially for people who live in areas prone to flood or wildfire, or who may need to escape an unsafe environment. Disaster can strike anytime, so it’s good to be prepared. However, many of these bags are clearly built around survivalist fantasies of rugged self-reliance, rather than real-life emergencies. (The suspiciously high prevalence of weapons is a giveaway. You rarely need to shoot a forest fire). As one online wit pointed out, when the time comes that you really…

Finding representation is one of the biggest hurdles in the publishing process. Once you’ve signed with an agent, it’s easy to believe that it will be smooth sailing from there. But this isn’t always the case. Besides the challenge of securing a deal with a publishing house, sometimes writers figure out that their agent is not the best fit for them. Here’s advice from two authors who found themselves in that situation. AMY ROOST Amy Roost produced a podcast about a family secret that was subsequently picked up and retold by The New York Times. After the story went viral, Roost received several inquiries from agents interested in representing her. One of the inquiries came from a powerhouse agent prepared to handle both book and film rights—an attractive offer to Roost. But after…

Try, if you can, to imagine a world without art and culture. No theatres or concert halls or art galleries. No dance, opera, classical music, plays, musicals, cabaret or circus. The little bar in your suburb that hosts live bands would be gone, along with your child’s dance school. Say goodbye to novels, cinema, television dramas, radio, pop music, video games, graphic design and fashion. It’s hard to get your head around just how many things that we take for granted would no longer be there. In fact, you probably need an artist to help you imagine what such a world would be like. But artists do more than make art. They entertain and uplift us. They tell us about ourselves and the world we live in. They allow us to undl&tand…

What’s the first thing you do when you arrive on set? Usually, when I arrive in my trailer, I put the kettle on [laughs]. I maybe light a scented candle and figure out my playlist for the morning. If I’ve got extra time, I’ll roll out my yoga mat. But usually, things are run with military precision. What do you take on set with you? I always have music with me. It depends on the vibe of the set, and the vibe of the role, and what’s required. Sometimes you want to tune into something for a scene, and sometimes you want to tune out all the hectic moving around and the crew energy. Hot or cold lunch? Always hot, for sure. It depends on the catering, and also where I am. I was just…

BANQUETTE SEATING Without a doubt, banquette seating is a kitchen trend of the moment – but if bespoke joinery is a little out of reach for your budget right now, you can get the look with a bit of design trickery from HUSK. The kitchen innovator created this seating area with the new Smoked Oak V-Groove door fronts and Ikea Besta units – and the whole set-up costs around £268sq m, excluding installation. There are even deep drawers underneath for extra storage. Smoked Oak V-Groove range, standard doors from £164, HUSK FINE ART If you love the dramatic look of a freestanding bath, may we point you in the direction of Agape’s new freestanding washbasin as an additional flourish? The newest iteration of the Italian bathroom design brand’s Undici Inox series by Benedini…

Beth O’Leary captured accolades such as “the romantic comedy read of the summer” from USA Today and “Sleepless in Seattle for the 21st century” from Sunday Express for her debut novel The Flatshare. Published by Quercus in the U.K. and Flatiron Books in the U.S., O’Leary’s debut subverts the tropes of the rom com genre and tells a funny, witty story that also touches on poignant topics like dealing with emotionally abusive partners, the importance of therapy, being kind to others in need, and the consequences of being wrongly convicted of a crime. The two main characters, Tiffy and Leon, come together when Tiffy answers an ad Leon placed for a roommate. Tiffy is an assistant editor for a small publishing house making a subpar salary. She has left her abusive…

Le 15 novembre 2022, le compteur terrestre atteignait 8 milliards d’habitants. En 2050, il devrait grimper à 9,7 milliards et il passera le cap des 10 milliards en 2080 selon les projections démographiques de l’ONU. Les chiffres s’envolent tandis que les ressources naturelles et les sols de la planète s’épuisent. Dans ce contexte, repenser notre alimentation devient une question de survie. Cela tombe bien, les chercheurs et entrepreneurs mettent déjà en place des solutions ingénieuses, qui promettent quelques surprises gustatives… SEMER DEMAIN “Le choix le plus crucial pour l’avenir de la planète est : que mange-t-on? Quelle agriculture soutenons-nous? Régénérons-nous ou détruisons-nous la Terre ?”, déclare David Bronner, activiste et fondateur de la marque Dr Bronner’s dans le documentaire Kiss the Ground, de Josh et Rebecca Tickell (sur Netflix). Les techniques d’agriculture…

D’ici au mois de mai 2024, il sera possible de se baigner dans la Seine et la Marne ! Un programme de 1,4 milliard d’euros, le Plan baignade, soutenu par le président de la République Emmanuel Macron, est en effet destiné à améliorer les systèmes d’assainissement franciliens et à assainir ces fleuves. Le but ? Rouvrir ces eaux au grand public après plus d’un siècle d’interdiction pour cause de pollution – notamment d’origine fécale –, et même y organiser certaines épreuves aquatiques des prochains Jeux olympiques. Mais est-ce réellement le seul objectif ? Décryptage avec deux spécialistes. Science & Vie : Hormis pour les Jeux olympiques, assainir ces fleuves a-t-il un quelconque intérêt ? Vincent Rocher : Oui ! Améliorer la qualité des eaux fluviales n’a pas pour seul but d’accueillir les…

SUNROOM The ceiling beams were finished with hand-painted swirls. LIVING ROOM ‘This house is about savouring summer all year round with its earthen glow spliced with citrus accents,’ says Yasmine. Can you think of a more heavenly holiday home than this piece of perfection by Australian design studio YSG? Yep, we’re hard-pressed, too. In lesser hands some of the details could tip into kitsch-y territory, but for Yasmine Ghoniem, the founder of the Sydney-based practice, it’s these balancing-act ingredients that bring the space to life: think throwback terracotta-hued chequerboard tiling, quirky hand-painted decorative effects and Willow-ish pattern lamp bases. Somehow, thanks to Yasmine’s magic touch, we want it all and we want it now. Situated on one of Sydney’s north beaches, the four-bed abode is the second home for a family of six. Its new incarnation…

EXTERIOR Slim concrete pilotis create a colonnade along the front of the house, with one section sitting in a water channel, which joins to the wedge-shaped infinity pool. VERANDAS The two levels are connected with a galvanised iron spiral staircase. The rails and staircase have been left in their raw state. ‘That’s the way it should be,’ says owner Silvio. ‘Why put paint on a good material?’ the property at the end of architects Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens’ Johannesburg street had been on the market for several years before arousing their curiosity. Overgrown with pervasive wattle, the house had proved almost impossible to sell and it even took Silvio and Lesley a couple of visits to realise its potential. Hidden behind the thick screen of overgrown vegetation was a spectacular view over Johannesburg…

DINING ROOM ‘I wanted this home to feel young and mature at the same time,’ says Ruchi (pictured). Antiques deliver the grown-up side. LIVING ROOM ‘This space is where a lot of conversations happen over movie nights and general lounging,’ says Ruchi. finding the perfect place for three people and a cat was no easy feat,’ remembers art therapist and illustrator Annie Jefferson, who shares her home on a tree-lined historical part of Brooklyn – not far from the downtown area – with her two best friends. Given the reality of an expensive NYC real estate market, the proximity of this property to Manhattan – which was key for all three flatmates – helped swing it. That and the idea of being able to enjoy life in Brooklyn, where they could get to know…

For ancient peoples living in and around the AlUla Valley, the sandstone mountains rising from the desert were not just part of the landscape, they were surfaces on which words and images could be engraved. Some are simple—a personal name, an animal—while others comprise long inscriptions reflecting the activities and rituals of society, from agriculture and worship to religious ceremonies and prayers. They are these people’s legacies, carved in stone. Many of the grand sandstone cliffs that tower in and around the AlUla Valley display depictions of human figures or animals known as petroglyphs, a term derived from the Greek words petra, meaning “rock”, and glypho, meaning “to carve”. Ancient artists would use stones or tools to scrape images onto the surface of cliffs and freestanding rocks—or, in some instances, they…

India is logically destined to be the fashion capital of the world,” says Radharaman Hari Kothandaraman, creative director and founder of Alamelu, the recently launched luxury ready-to-wear label headquartered in Bengaluru. Its first international collection—which debuted at Mumbai’s Le Mill in April and is set to hit stores in late August—is a selection of sharply tailored blazer-and-shorts sets, long dresses with plunging backs, light-as-air sheer silk shirts, wrap coats that double as dresses, all of which move easily from day to night. A subtly hued colour palette, from ice grey to muted ochre, anchors the collection. Steeped in a 600-year-old textile-weaving family legacy, Radharaman, 42, studied engineering at Cornell University and his capability in textile innovation is evident from the brands he successfully built prior to establishing Alamelu. These include the…

NGIE LANDEROS KNEW HER DAUGHTER had always been shy. “Very, very shy,” she says. “She always felt awkward talking to other kids her age.” Then came the COVID-19 lockdowns in March, 2020. Ten years old, Landeros’ daughter began feeling unbearably self-conscious seeing herself on the computer screen during Zoom lessons. When her elementary school went to a hybrid format that required most kids to attend in person, some days she’d refuse to go. Once she had a full-blown panic attack in the car and began kicking and screaming. On another day, says Landeros, “she literally ran out the door to hide from us.” Since Landeros and her husband, Michael Bloch, are psychiatrists at the Yale Child Study Center, they knew what their daughter was going through: social anxiety disorder. She wasn’t the…

Considérez un arbre. Considérez un homme. Rien à voir ou presque. L’un se décline en 70000 espèces, au bas mot, l’autre constitue le seul représentant de son genre. L’un prospère sur Terre depuis plus de 380 millions d’années, l’autre depuis 300000 ans. L’un est immobile, silencieux, non violent, l’autre marche, parle, fait la guerre. L’un peut mesurer jusqu’à deux fois la hauteur de l’Arc de triomphe (100 m), l’autre, en comparaison, est haut comme trois pommes. L’un est potentiellement immortel à condition qu’on ne lui en fasse pas voir des vertes et des pas mûres (une colonie de peupliers fauxtrembles, dans l’Utah, affiche plus de 80000 ans), l’autre est condamné à mourir. L’arbre et l’homme? Deux créatures verticales mais hautement dissemblables. Reste que ces deux-là forment un couple. Aussi vitale, charnelle,…

MY FRIEND, THE late Bill Kershner, who encouraged me to write my flight testing book, wrote his own book titled Logging Flight Time, published by Iowa State University Press. It’s about Bill’s humorous experiences during his flying career. In that book he had a chapter entitled “Chocks.” Bill thought that most everyone in aviation has had a humorous experience with those devices used to keep an airplane from rolling on the ground. I believe that Bill was correct; I certainly have my own. After spending 10 years in the industry as a test pilot and having had to exit two test airplanes via ‘nylon letdowns’—also known as parachutes—I decided that academia might be a little less hazardous. So I became a professor of aviation systems at the University of Tennessee Space…

Un haut tronc trapu, tranchant avec la légèreté de sa cime hirsute, domine la savane sèche. La silhouette du baobab, qui s’épanouit dans les zones sahéliennes du continent africain, peuple les premiers récits des voyageurs, tant l’espèce végétale aux proportions uniques impressionne. S’il ne le nomme pas encore, son identité se devine dans les descriptions de l’écrivain voyageur d’Afrique du Nord Ibn Battûta (1304-v.1373) qui le découvre alors qu’il arpente le bassin du Niger. Fasciné par sa rencontre avec le végétal, le naturaliste français Michel Adanson (1727-1806) inspirera au botaniste Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836) le nom scientifique de sa variété qu’on trouve en Afrique continentale, l’Adansonia Digitata – les sept autres se trouvent à Madagascar et en Australie. Subjugué par l’imposant végétal qu’il découvre au Sénégal, le jeune scientifique en…

I COULD FEEL MYSELF SUFFOCATING. Each step down the bedrock passageway brought me closer to what I’d long imagined: the pool of khaki water, the flooded tunnel it hid, and the moment I’d have to enter that darkness. The crumbling grandeur of a pyramid loomed above. Here, at the ancient necropolis of Nuri in Sudan’s northern desert, Kushite royals were laid to rest millennia ago in a series of underground burial chambers beneath mighty pyramids. Now the chambers were flooded with groundwater leaching from the nearby Nile. Archaeologist Pearce Paul Creasman, funded in part by a National Geographic Society grant, was leading a team that would be the first to attempt underwater archaeology below a pyramid. Initially, I’d been calm, even excited, about going along to photograph this ambitious and risky…

Alice Hoffman specializes in magical writing that tells the realest of stories. She published her first novel in 1977 while still at Stanford University and has written more than 30 works of fiction since, including the novels The Marriage of Opposites, Faithful, The Red Garden, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, The Dovekeepers, and the Oprah’s Book Club book Here on Earth. She’s also written many books for young adults, including Aquamarine, Green Angel, Green Witch, and Incantation. Her books have been adapted for film and television and have been translated into more than 20 languages. Her fans love her style, which blends magical realism and historical fiction. She may be most known for her bestsellers Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic. These novels follow the Owens family, strong women who…

IN A HOTEL IN DOWNTOWN SÃO PAULO PACKED with international press, Lula supporters waited with fingers crossed. The early election returns on October 30 showed the far-right President Jair Bolsonaro with a strong lead over the leftist former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. That was to be expected, since the first results came in from Bolsonaro strongholds. But you could feel the mood shift as the vote count reduced the gap. A few minutes before 8 pm, cheers broke out—the lines on the TV’s voter graph had met, and Lula proceeded to edge into the lead. The final tally for the election showed 50.9 percent for Lula to 49.1 percent for Bolsonaro. Lula made his triumphant entry shortly thereafter, as photographers yelled at supporters to get down off the chairs.…

@JORDANFARLEY 1 MARVEL STUDIOS Following a seemingly rudderless Phase 4 so far, Marvel’s return to the famous Hall H had to deliver something special, and Kevin Feige’s slew of announcements was an exhilarating display of grandiose forward thinking. The entirety of Phase 5 was revealed within a frantic 10 minutes, including a Daredevil series and a Thunderbolts movie. Feige went one step further, divulging that Fantastic Four will kickstart Phase 6, and two Avengers movies – subtitled The Kang Dynasty (directed by Shang-Chi’s Destin Daniel Cretton) and Secret Wars – will bring the newly-minted Multiverse Saga to an end. As per tradition, there was also exclusive footage shown only to those in attendance. Teasers can report that the trailer for Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 was an extremely emotional affair. Chris Pratt’s…