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Home Cinema
A Century’s Worth of Rom-Coms
By Matt Weinstock
“The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen,” the critic Pauline Kael observed, “but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.” In the era of Covid, the prospect of meeting others feels more dreamlike than ever, which is why I’ve derived so much comfort from my subscription to the Criterion Channel . It’s one of the few streaming services whose offerings seem to have been curated by a human hand rather than by a sullen droid, and its terrific interview series, “ Adventures in Moviegoing ,” can make you feel as if you’re dawdling under the marquee after a packed screening, eavesdropping on enviably witty New Yorkers. Idiosyncratic retrospectives and themed series rotate onto the channel
gold accents
A New Line of Surrealist Jewelry and Amulets
By Thessaly La Force
This week, the Los Angeles-based designer Sophie Buhai is entering into the rarefied realm of fine jewelry with the debut of a 13-piece, 18-karat gold collection. Some of Buhai’s
Baked Goods
Homemade Baguettes Reminiscent of Paris
By Kate Guadagnino
Forgive the cliché, but I truly believe some of the most romantic afternoons of my 20s were those spent wandering along the Seine, alone but for a large baguette. Seeing, however, as the pandemic has forced us, as Billy Crystal once urged, to forget Paris, I’m willing to settle for just the bread part. Thanks to the Baguette Baking Box , I’ve even started making my own, and have never felt so competent. It used to be that making good French bread in a home oven required a pan of water or a spray bottle — it’s steam that allows the crumb to expand — as well as ample time for kneading and a laissez-faire attitude about the results. Then, in the mid-2000s, Jim Lahey of Sullivan Street Bakery popularized his no-knead method, which empowered any novice baker with a lidded pot to make excellent boules. “But I’ve always been partial to the baguette shape,” says Dean Anderson, an artisanal metalsmith based in New York’s Hudson Valley. And so he designed a “simple, workmanlike” stainless-steel container large and oblong enough to fit a pair of baguettes. First you place your dough in the preheated box with two ice cubes; after baking it for about 24 minutes, you remove the cover and bake for an additional 18 minutes, which yields a delectable golden crust. Anderson and his assistant, Amy Lahey (no relation to Jim), bend, weld, grind, polish and rivet each of the boxes in their workshop in Newburgh, N.Y., and are often told that the finished products work a little too well. As for Anderson? “I had to change my diet,” he says. “So now I only eat bread.”
Love Notes
Decoupaged Desk Décor From John Derian
By Tom Delavan
The decoupage artist and home goods retailer John Derian is known for designing trays and paperweights, among other items, embedded a new selection to choose from: Old English roses and Victorian hearts abound, but my favorite designs are the text-based ones, with quick little missives strewn across their front. Some of the messages
On the scent
A Fragrance That Combines Botanicals and Biochemistry
By Jameson Montgomery
Despite our visual nature, humans have only three types of light sensors, but about 400 for scent, a fact that helps explain the intimate link between aroma and memory. Christine Nagel, the perfumer for Hermès , is well aware. She stands out in her field for her background .
Sweet treats
Small-Batch Chocolates Handmade in Ghana
By Korsha Wilson
In midunu means “let’s eat!” It’s a declaration inviting everyone within earshot to gather around the table — and Midunu , an Accra-based
fashion for a cause
Totes That Give Back to the Women Who Make Them
By Alexa Brazilian
Traditional Indian crafts are at the heart of SMR Days , a new London-based line of understated but elegant men’s wear designed to be worn on holiday. “In our first collection alone, we worked with bandhani , a tie-dye technique; by-hand block printing; and kantha embroidery, a distinct dotted stitching style,” the brand’s chief marketing officer, Adam Shapiro, says of the line’s bohemian, relaxed separates, cut from silks, linens and cottons in colors that evoke the sand, sea and sun. During the first wave of lockdowns last spring, the brand’s co-founders — Shapiro, a veteran fashion publicist; Dan May, a creative director and former style director of Mr Porter; and Gautam Rajani, previously a vice president of international business at DVF and commercial director for Dundas — began researching small artisanal workshops and fell in love with Maison Bengal, a cooperative developed to fight poverty in Bangladesh
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