Musings
Sleeping with Jeff Koons
A cool piece in the WSJ's OFF DUTY that discusses the shift in hotels' relationships with high end art. Hotels are beginning to acquire big names in the art world to keep up with lifestyle marketing trends, with a focus on continuingly crafting memorable stays for their guests, a "daring approach" as explained by Donna Rosen, a trustee at New York’s Whitney Museum. Read more, here.
Ionian Islands
I stopped in my tracks when I saw this portrait of Charlotte Stockdale and Marc Newson on my Instagram feed, as highlighted by WSJ Magazine. Between the photograph of the insanely creative duo and the chic rattan garden furniture, I knew this had to be good material.
Charlotte Stockdale, is just half of the impossibly cool couple - a model and stylist (she consults for Karl Lagerfeld), style editor for Jo Malone London and is the fashion director of art magazine Garage. On her right hand is her Australian hubby, Marc Newson. Heard of a little thing called the Apple Watch? Well, he is the gent behind the product's design, not to mention his design of this sumptuous bottle of Dom, the interior design of Qantas' First Class Lounge in Sydney, this body jet pack and many, many other insanely epic products. They are a force to be known.
In addition to their influential contributions to modern society, they have bestowed us with a glimpse into their custom home sitting pretty in Greece's Ionian islands. Outside of this tech enabled, art saturated revolving reality of theirs, they retreat to a stone abode surrounded by radicchio and okra that grow in concert with blossoming orchards and night-blooming jasmine. It's a paradise I truly lust for. Read and see more, here.
'A Tuscan Dream' indeed.
The desktop on my work computer has for years, always been a lustrous scene at Il Pellicano, one of my dream destinations. In fact, one of my first C&C posts was on this tuscan gem (see here). I love the history behind its inception, the magical romance it never ceases to illustrate in both words and illustration, and the modern day allure it continues to exude despite being a fixture of the 60's jet-set culture. I was so pleased to see it featured in the WSJ Magazine. Slip into the lens of Marie-Louise Sciò, the hotel's Creative Director, by reading here.