Dear Tripped Up, In June 2023, we stayed six nights in an Airbnb apartment in Paris, and it was trouble from the start. The electricity was faulty, forcing my children to use a flashlight to climb a steep stairwell, and the Wi-Fi didn’t work, requiring us to spend about $200 on international data. For workers…
The Loquet jewelry company in London has made shopping for lockets a playful experience. The starting point is a 14-karat gold and clear sapphire-crystal case, which can be filled with any number of charms, from jeweled fruits to a martini glass. In search of a sentimental gift for his wife, Dillon Newell, a British businessman,…
If self-reflection comes better through a piece of clay, La Meridiana in Tuscany offers classes all year long, including a weeklong hand building course (€1,700 [$1,770] tuition) in March and a course on creating contemporary porcelain jewelry (€1,900 tuition) with Luca Tripaldi, a sculptor, in July. Finding inner peace and meditation in a countryside setting…
About 25 years ago, the jewelry designer Sylvie Corbelin was at the Musée Guimet, France’s national museum of Asian arts, when she overheard a woman talking to a group of children. “She was in front of a sculpture of Buddha with two Naga snakes and she said, ‘The snake is like a human: To grow,…
Universally associated with love, passion, warmth and desire, the color red also is the most dominant hue. “Because it has the longest wavelength in the visible spectrum,” said Karen Haller, a color psychology expert in the English county of Kent, “we see red before other colors; it’s what we notice first.” So presenting someone with…
It was a question begging to be asked after President Trump announced on Sunday that he had ordered the Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, to stop minting pennies: What would become of the penny loafer? Though it is unclear whether Mr. Trump’s presidential powers permit him to stop the production of pennies — according to the…
For more than 500 years, people have marveled at the Torre dell’Orologio, the magnificent clock tower on Piazza San Marco in Venice. But only two visitors were so inspired by it that they created a watch company called Venezianico, or, in English, Venetian. Alessandro and Alberto Morelli, the brothers who founded the brand in 2017,…
New York Fashion Week offers little by way of men’s fashion — the spotlight shines brightest on women’s wear here in America’s fashion capital. Still, the men’s roster was particularly emaciated this season, which wrapped on Tuesday night with Thom Browne. To twist an “Annie Hall” quip: The men’s clothes were forgettable. … Yeah, and…
When the third season of the hit HBO series “The White Lotus” debuts on Sunday, viewers will be transported to the tropical island of Koh Samui, Thailand. And if previous seasons are any indication, many of them will soon be booking vacations there, too. The show, which takes place at a different fictional White Lotus…
At the century-old Souk Waqif here, dozens of watch repairmen spend their days maintaining luxury timepieces and doing more mundane jobs like replacing the batteries in digital watches. Most of these workers and others like them — who tailor traditional Arab clothing, craft cultural accessories and do thousands of service jobs — are immigrants from…