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The first holiday season as a married couple, and someone’s mother has laid it on thick: Your father and I will have a quiet dinner in front of the t.v., you go have fun opening gifts with your new family. Subtle. Presenting her with the spectacular gioia tall platter from DeCicio glass will encourage a very merry détente. How luminosity and fragility melt so deliciously modern is the wonder of Seattle artist greg Clark. His beautiful hand-signed and dated pieces wear their ancestry like fragrance, their independence professed in succulent, fresh colors and shapes. The gioia is intended as a platter or vase, its duality a complex and gorgeous thing (which is not unlike our own parental relationships.) To purchase, Far 4, 206 21 8831 far4.net; to view collection decicioglass.com
How maddening is the urge to place only the most prized
and favored goods in a WANT les Essentiels de la vie bag,
instead of what life truly requires. Cool without trying, a
traveler in the company of these intelligently conceived
necessities is forced to make the heart-wrenching decisions:
Business casual or a breathtaking garment for a day at the
races? From montreal, twin brothers Dexter and Byron Peart
have imbued their chic worldview and chased it with an
ardor for grace and functional ease in travel. Superbly hand-fashioned, their collection of luggage, totes, cases and
accessories entices with supple leather and understated
detailing that would evade a fledgling jet-setter: No, no, the
laptop ensconced in their fabulous De gaulle computer
bag is not going to Ibiza. For retailers, wantessentiels.com
The forbidden fruits of liana Yaroslavsky. Encased in
plexiglass, and spiked with the dissonant nectar of
sparkle and rebellion—exactly how we like it. Born in
leningrad and creating in Paris, the designer slides into
her own astonishing genre, her tables precious guests in
the decorative, abstract parlor of vivid imagination. The
maure de venise, a magnificent allegory of Othello—his
vengeance and jealousy, the abyss of a black Archimede
Seguso crystal murano chandelier, branches climbing
and reaching out; the fate of Desdemona left to a blind
rage. Several pieces from the artist’s series revive the
fabled characters and lavish atmospherics of some other
time and place. We would be content to have this one in
ours. To inquire, + 33 6 09 41 09 80 lianayar.com
