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In its 1960s and ’70s heyday, Le Bus Palladium in Paris’s Pigalle neighborhood was a late-night sanctuary for beatniks and suburban club kids known for hosting artists and musicians like Salvador Dalí, Serge Gainsbourg and Patti Smith. It closed in 2022 but has recently returned, reimagined with Brutalist-meets-70s-glam interiors by the French firm Studio KO (though its original neon sign remains intact). There’s a low-lit ground-floor restaurant and bar led by the Marseille-born chef Valentin Raffali, who combines unexpected flavors and textures with French dishes like smoked leg of lamb served with asparagus and a kumquat gremolata sauce. Several nights a week, a D.J. will spin vinyl in a corner of the dining room. Upstairs, six new floors have been divided into 35 soundproof hotel rooms, each featuring cork-paneled walls, retro furnishings, raw-concrete ceilings and Hollywood mirrors. The refurbished club and concert space are now four levels underground, accessible for hotel guests free of charge. The hotel collaborated with Parisian nightlife fixtures like the model-music producer Caroline de Maigret, who created the woody house scent, designed staff uniforms and curated playlists for in-room Ojas sound systems. Lionel Bensemoun, the Parisian mogul who co-founded the nightclub Le Baron, is in charge of club programming. “Music, bohemianism — it’s all about a certain iconoclastic lifestyle,” says the Studio KO co-founder Karl Fournier. “That’s Le Bus.” Rooms from $575, buspalladium.com. COVET THIS Julio Torres’s First Furniture Collection Is Meant for House Guests
The comedian Julio Torres is known for exploring identity through a surreal design lens. In the fairy-tale-like film “Problemista” (2024), Torres plays an artist facing imminent deportation; in his stand-up specials, he ascribes personalities to inanimate objects and colors. It’s fitting that these themes would recur in Torres’s debut furniture collection, releasing next week with the New York-based home décor brand Sabai. Torres and the Sabai co-founder Phantila Phataraprasit, both immigrants (Torres is from El Salvador, Phataraprasit from Thailand), connected over their acute familiarity with “Curtain Wall” (2001), the Harry Roseman installation at JFK Airport’s Terminal 4 that depicts a series of carved drapes billowing in the wind. The conversation was a jumping off point for the All Other Passports collection, named after the customs line for non-U.S. citizens. Torres designed four limited-edition pieces for “welcoming a friend from out of town,” he says. “Most of us who have come from somewhere else and now call New York home have been that couch friend.” A daybed’s legs resemble the repeated arches of New York City’s bridges. A polished stainless-steel folding screen, meant to provide privacy for a guest in a small apartment, has a wood inlay curtain illustration that echoes the Terminal 4 sculpture. Torres’s favorite piece, a wooden stool that doubles as a side table, has a swirled collage of everyday essentials, like a fork and phone cords, on the seat — “A beautiful vortex of clutter,” he calls it. All Other Passports will be available May 21; from $425, sabai.design. WEAR THESE A Debbie Harry-Approved Set of Sunglasses
Since 1969, the British eyewear brand Cutler and Gross has offered stylish glasses that aren’t overly trendy or logo heavy. For its first official collaboration with a musician, the company has partnered with Debbie Harry, Blondie’s dynamic frontwoman, to create a collection of sunglasses with rock ’n’ roll swagger. As Harry puts it, “What’s the point in having my name on something if it isn’t a little bit splashy?” There are three styles: Akira 001, with an extra-large butterfly frame; Valentina 002, which has elongated, sharp angles; and Maria 003, a cat-eye that Audrey Hepburn might have worn walking into CBGB, had it been open in the early ’60s. The first two are named for Harry’s goddaughters, the daughters of her bandmate Chris Stein; Maria nods to the title of the band’s popular 1999 single. The sunglasses, which come in black and brown, are made predominantly by hand at Cutler and Gross’s workshop in the Italian Dolomites, in an area with a longstanding tradition of high-quality optical production. Shades of Difference will be available starting May 27 in an edition of 1,500 pieces; $675; cutlerandgross.com. READ THIS A New Book Zooms in on Marble in Early Renaissance Paintings
For the editor Karl Kolbitz, the world’s most interesting details are hidden in plain sight. In his 2017 book “Entryways of Milan,” published by Taschen, Kolbitz invited readers to linger in the fashion capital’s Modernist ingressi — spaces designed to be passed through. In his latest title, “Divine Presence: Depictions of Marble in Late Gothic and Early Renaissance Painting,” from the German publisher Hatje Cantz, Kolbitz turns his eye to an underexplored area of art history: representations of marble in 14th- and 15th-century painting. Kolbitz helps us see fragments of fictive marble as hallucinatory abstractions; they are “strange zones, springboards for spiritual reflection,” he says. Using cutting-edge scanning and photography, the images in “Divine Presence” bring out details in paintings by early Renaissance masters, including Fra Angelico, Andrea Mantegna and Carlo Crivelli. Look closely at an immense altarpiece by the 15th-century Sienese painter Domenico Di Bartolo, for example, and a small patch of marble beneath John the Baptist’s feet becomes a feverish swirl of red and emerald, like a Jackson Pollock canvas lying in wait. Alongside the images there are texts by Kolbitz, the writer Rosanna McLaughlin and the medieval-art scholar Andrea De Marchi that render this rich vein of art history accessible to a general audience. The reader of “Divine Presence” comes away stirred by the intensity of these details, ready to see the world anew. $90, artbook.com. SEE THIS In Brooklyn, a Play About Gathering Yourself for Romance
Sometimes, the journey from first to second date is winding and strenuous. That’s the experience captured in “I’m Almost There,” the writer-performer Todd Almond’s nearly one-man musical that premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2024 and, following a brief run at New York’s Minetta Lane Theater that fall, is coming to the Brooklyn Academy of Music next month. All the narrator wants is to arrive on the safe shore of love, as embodied by a potential paramour named Guy, who, the morning after their meet-cute at an Easter brunch in TriBeCa, is now waiting outside his apartment building with two coffees. But first our hero, as he tells us largely through song and while accompanying himself on the piano, must contend with obstacles both concrete and psychological: an upstairs neighbor with a missing cat, a pyramid scheme, childhood trauma, a debilitating fear of inadequacy, laundry. Almond based the tale on the beginning of his relationship with his husband, and on Homer’s “Odyssey,” which, he says, “has every story imaginable and every possible human interaction in it.” David Cromer, the director of the show, was drawn to its “lush classical pop” and to the winsomeness of the protagonist, his goal so worthwhile and his dilemma so familiar. As Cromer says, “With most of the people I know, myself included, the work we’re trying to do on ourselves is, ‘How do I stop getting in my own way?’” “I’m Almost There” will run at BAM from June 9 through 28, bam.org. STAY HERE A Grand Loch-Side Lodge in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides
In the Outer Hebrides, the cluster of over 100 islands off Scotland’s northwest coast, the heather-carpeted island of Lewis is known for its white-sand beaches and clear skies that offer views of the Northern Lights. After a 45-minute drive from Stornoway airport, visitors can experience Lewis’s remote wildness at Scaliscro, a new 10-bedroom lodge that’s set on 10,000 acres. Built to resemble a traditional Victorian estate with an exterior of Scottish sandstone, the mansion’s interiors are furnished with vintage and custom-made pieces. A coffee table carved from a single slab of cedar wood anchors the lounge, while the nearby library is painted emerald green. The drawing room features a self-playing Steinway piano and a collection of taxidermy deer heads. A tapestry inspired by sea kelpies (mythical creatures from Scottish folklore) by the Finnish artist Kustaa Saksi greets guests in the entrance hall. A private chef can create menus based around a group’s culinary preferences with a focus on local meat, including Hebridean lobsters, brown trout and venison. A variety of outdoor experiences are also included, from horseback riding to free diving for scallops and exploring the coastline by boat. A drive to the Callanish Stones, a cruciform arrangement of ancient standing monoliths that predate Stonehenge, can also be arranged. $27,000 a night for a three-night minimum stay, scaliscro.com. FROM T’S INSTAGRAM The Trailblazing Artist Who Traded Manhattan Lofts for a Life Upstate
Peter Bradley, a painter and fixture of the 1960s and ’70s Manhattan art scene, has brought a loftlike aesthetic to his lovingly restored home in Saugerties, New York. A simple Georgian design with two bedrooms, rows of sash windows on the front and a side-gabled roof, the roughly 3,000-square-foot, two-story structure was built for a Dutch family in the mid-18th century. Bradley and his wife, the retired fashion designer Debra Roskowski-Bradley, bought it in 1997. In 2021, after decades of working in relative obscurity, Bradley signed with New York’s Karma gallery, which in July will mount a survey of his paintings dating to the ’70s. This fall, he’ll be in a group show at MoMA PS1 called “Hard Art.” Click here to read the full story about the artist’s life and home and follow us on Instagram.
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