Pierre GM is a true internationalist
Francois-Olivier Luiggi – the new general manager of The Pierre, one of Manhattan’s most iconic hotels – has been welcoming people to luxury establishments around the world for more than 22 years.
The narrative journey of J.J. Abrams
The filmmaker talks about telling stories that are out of this world.
Farm has Big Picture on goats
WAG spends some time on Big Picture goat farm in Townshend, Vermont.
Old World meets New in mid-country Greenwich
The stately stone Georgian that commands the prestigious cul-de-sac that is Meadowcroft Lane is a reminder that you can have traditional elegance and state-of-the-art dynamism, all wrapped up in a luxurious 1928 dwelling that is at once formally refined and casually comforting.
Sparkling at Saks
The 6,000-square-foot Vault — the only Saks store dedicated solely to fine jewelry — marks the latest chapter in the evolution of The Saks Shops at Greenwich.
Travels with Hemingway: Touring Paris – with Papa at every turn
Many people visit Hemingway sites in Paris. Not many get to meet him. Enter Elizabeth Kemble, founder of Travellati Tours in Tarrytown.
The garden of good and evil
Gardens mirror nature’s caprice and our own. So it is no wonder that these oases of enchantment can also be places of crucible and cruelty, mystery and madness, decay and death.
Finding permanence in the fleeting
In “The Rockefeller Family Gardens,” photographer Larry Lederman finds the permanent in ever-changing, intimate spaces.
The garden of memory
The writer returns to a place that holds poignant recollections – the newly renovated and reopened Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at PepsiCo.
Following Wyeth, on her own path
A new exhibit at the Hudson River Museum explores the iconic American painter Andrew Wyeth’s and French photographer Joséphine Douet’s relationships to the land and each other.
Secret gardens of sex
Eve – and, by extension, the garden – is a metaphor for female sexuality, particularly unbridled female sexuality, and man’s attempt to control it.
An Indian artist for our time
In the quietude of The Metropolitan Museum of Arts’ South and Southeast Asia Galleries lies an exhibit for the garden of the soul. “An Artist of Her Time: Y.G. Srimati and the Indian Style” (through June 5) is, in curator John Guy’s own words, “a modest show.”
Bravo, ‘Bawa’
A tale of two brothers – and the rival gardens they established in Sri Lanka.
The best of humanity in the aftermath of tragedy
In a time of rising nationalism and anti-globalization, a new Broadway musical looks at a Canadian town’s kindness to the world after 9/11.
A Greenwich home that’s a year-round resort
One of the few waterfront compounds in Greenwich, this 1.52-acre estate on Glen Avon Drive is a feast for the senses, inside and out.
Print it: The New York Botanical Garden’s latest venture
The New York Botanical Garden introduces its latest collaboration.
Hormones, history and horse sense
Dr. Erika Schwartz is back with a new book that puts plant-based bioidentical hormones in the context of hormone history and good, old-fashioned common sense.
That singular species, from ancient Egypt to Andrew Lloyd Webber
“Oh, he don’t belong to nobody. Cats don’t belong to nobody. He just rooms with me.” — John Wayne to Kim Darby in “True…
Que Seurat, Seurat
Georges Seurat, the late-19th century French painter, is best-known for two things — his Pointillist or dot technique and its ultimate expression, “A Sunday…
Annabelle Gundlach: from show jumper to polo patrona
Annabelle Gundlach got interested in polo when she bought a stable of studs — Kris Kampsen, Brandon Phillips and Nic Roldan. Wait, that didn’t…