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Jenna Lyons Shares Her Makeup and Skin Care Regimen
If I have a lot of makeup on, I use Makeup Forever Gentle Eye Gel, which is good at getting it off so I don’t have to rub. I’ll use the same cleanser at night with a washcloth and water, then a toner like Biologique Recherche Lotion P50, followed by Noble Panacea’s Brilliant Glow Hydration Oil. I leave packets of Chronobiology Sleep Mask by my bed so I can slather that on right before I go to sleep. I go to Joanna Czech for facials, and Dr. Belkin is my dermatologist. I wish I had the Lyma Laser earlier, I think it’s really great.
I have a Hinoki Body Oil I love from Wonder Valley. I’m religious about the U Beauty the Sculpt Arm Compound, and they have a Resurfacing Body Compound I love. I use a Raw Honey Crystal Mask from Tata Harper on my butt — I don’t think it’s for your butt, I think it’s for your face, but that’s where I put it. I will not travel without Kiehl’s Creme de Corps. Every day for 18 years, I’ve worn Creed Silver Mountain Water. My son won’t let me change it … maybe when he goes to college I will.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
Stay Here
The New Raffles Jaipur Hotel Takes Inspiration From Its Royal Surroundings
Jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan, is brimming with royal retreats, from elegant havelis (traditional mansions) and sprawling forts to palaces that the current jet-setting Maharajah Padmanabh Singh and his family call home. On July 1, the Raffles Jaipur hotel opened in a marble building modeled after the royal residences found nearby, with fountain-centered courtyards and domed pavilions that bring to mind the zenanas, or women’s wings, of centuries-old Mughal abodes. The 50 guest rooms have walls inlaid with gold leaf, delicately latticed jali screens, canopy beds and hand-carved wooden armoires and desks. Four restaurants and bars serve up royal repasts, from the North Indian fare at Arkaa to the globally inspired afternoon tea at Safir (where dishes include rose petal crème brûlée with Himalayan honey and tres leches shahi tukra, or Mughlai bread pudding). After a trip to the pink-hued Hawa Mahal, City Palace and Johri Bazar in Jaipur’s historic center half an hour away, guests can unwind in the spa’s hammam or rooftop infinity pool with views of the Aravali Mountains. Longtime Raffles loyalists will know to find their way to the signature Writers Bar. Here, the cozy cocktail spot is decorated in luminous blue and white with hand-painted floral motifs inspired by a color scheme found in a number of Rajasthani palaces. The Singapore Sling has been reimagined as the hibiscus and citrus-infused Jaipur Sling — a blush-colored drink reminiscent of frosty sherbets enjoyed by maharajahs on sultry summer days. From $650 per night, raffles.com/jaipur.
At first glance, Tamara Johnson’s sculptures might strike you as nothing much. This is because they almost appear to be the very things they’re depicting, and because those things are decidedly humble: a colander, a dish sponge, a saltine cracker adorned with a cheese-from-a-can smiley face. Once you learn that these pieces, which appear in Johnson’s solo show at the St. Louis Art Museum, “Currents 123,” are intricately fabricated, and always by the Dallas-based artist herself, you will inevitably wonder how. In the case of the saltine, she made a rubber mold and poured pewter into its void, then finished the result with oil paint. The cheese was cast separately with pigmented resin. Johnson’s homemade readymades, as she calls them, nod to artistic heavyweights such as Marcel Duchamp, Susan Collis and, in the case of her column of concrete waffle cones, Constantin Brancusi, while interrogating the value we ascribe (or don’t) to the domestic and Americana. But even as it looks outward, her work is sneakily biographical. Johnson considers her take on the ubiquitous monobloc lawn chair to be a self-portrait — the (faux) plain saltines affixed to it allude to her bouts of vertigo — and, after becoming a mother put her in closer touch with her own mortality, she started crafting a strip of raffle-style tickets with one ticket for each day she’s been alive. The strip hangs from the gallery’s coffered ceiling and pools on a plinth alongside the mordantly funny “Finger Keychain” (2020-24), which mimics the severed silicone type you might find at a Halloween store and commemorates a close call that Johnson had with an angle grinder in the studio this past winter. She likes the idea of fixing an object in time but also of making one that moves through it. “I’m stamping the tickets with dates and have gotten as far as February 1987,” says Johnson, 39, “so there’s more work to be done.” On view through Sept. 22, slam.org.
Wear This
Flamboyant Fans From the Parisian Atelier Duvelleroy and the Jewelry Maker Bangla Begum
When the Paris-based designer Fanny Boucher launched Bangla Begum, her line of playful jewelry and accessories, in 2019, Léa Dassonville, the creative director of the French fan maker Duvelleroy, was one of her first clients. In the fall of 2023, Dassonville asked the jewelry maker to collaborate on a capsule collection of fans. Boucher began by diving into the 197-year-old company’s archives. “I found this frilly pink ostrich thing that was half the size of me and thought, ‘What woman was using this? Who was she?’” Boucher says. Using that 1920s-era creation as a starting point, Boucher worked with Dassonville and her partner, Eloïse Gilles, to design four fans using leftover fabrics from mills that supply to French couture houses like Chanel and Dior. One is fringy green and gold, another is burgundy silk, while a third is a shiny bright green with a red splatter pattern. Boucher’s favorite is the pink moiré iteration inspired by the writer Colette. The entire line has an added racy touch in a nod to the cocottes, or courtesans, that often appear in Colette’s stories: attached to each design is a delicate chain, which comes in two lengths, strung with pearls, colorful beads and Boucher’s viral breast and bum motifs. “We need a bit more weirdness in our lives,” Boucher says. Bangla Begum and Duvelleroy’s Chéries collection launches on July 5, from about $430, banglabegum.com and eventail-duvelleroy.fr.
Covet This
Raphael Navot’s Nature-Inspired Furniture, on View in Los Angeles
From his Paris studio, the Israeli-born interior designer and artist Raphael Navot explains how the natural world underpins “Reverberations,” his new show at Friedman Benda’s Los Angeles location. “All of these pieces come from a combination of shapes that form in nature,” he says. “[The question then is] how we assemble them.” Threefold, an armchair made of cast concrete and velvet, was inspired by the simple shape of three stones stacked together. Other pieces are the result of Navot’s experiments that combine new technology with traditional craftsmanship: Clast (Translucent Stream), a coffee table made with an eco-resin foam sourced from ocean plastic, uses 3-D printing as part of the casting process.
Navot, who for the past two years has collaborated with the Italian fashion brand Loro Piana on its first-ever range of furniture and in 2011 designed the interior of the filmmaker David Lynch’s Silencio — a Parisian nightclub six floors underground in a former printing press — now works mostly in hotels and restaurants. (In 2017, he completed the Hotel National des Arts et Métiers in Paris.) His limited-edition home furnishings also include carpets that depict aerial views of the Earth’s surface, some of which were produced by Nepali weavers according to traditional methods. “Reverberations” will be on view from July 11 through Sept. 25, friedmanbenda.com.
Visit This
In Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward, a New Hotel With a 1970s-Inspired Rooftop Bar
Atlanta’s historic seal, adopted in 1887, depicts a phoenix rising from flames, representing the city’s rebirth after the Civil War. When the Philadelphia-based hospitality group Method Co.’s designers were working on the Forth, a new 196-room hotel in the city’s Old Fourth Ward that opens this week, they wanted to incorporate that symbol of resilience. Along with hand-knotted antique rugs and oak flooring, the guest rooms are decorated with custom floral wallpaper that, upon a closer look, reveals various creatures, including a heron modeled after Bennu, an Egyptian god that some say inspired the Greek myth of the phoenix. Thirty-nine rooms come with kitchens and a washer and dryer for extended stays. The lobby, like much of the hotel, is furnished with midcentury modern-style furniture; it also features a wood-burning fireplace (one of three throughout the property). There are four restaurants, including the ground-floor Italian steakhouse Il Premio and the 1970s-inspired rooftop cocktail lounge Moonlight, which serves snacks and drinks — the bar has a mirrored-tile backsplash and a zebra-print couch. A mural of a full moon adorns the marble fireplace, inspired by the murals that run along the BeltLine’s Eastside trail, which is adjacent to the hotel. Forth will also launch a social club later this summer: members get exclusive access to the fourth-floor bar and lounge space, specialized fitness classes and personal training, and locker rooms with a dedicated steam room, cold plunge pool and sauna. Rooms from $345 a night, forthatlanta.com.
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