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Pastries and Desserts Made With Classic Hawaiian Ingredients
The chef Robynne Maii and the pastry chef Katherine Yang first met 26 years ago while working at the now-shuttered Union Pacific restaurant in New York’s Flatiron district. Since then, Maii opened Fête, a restaurant in Honolulu, with her husband, Chuck Bussler, while Yang founded her own dessert catering business. Now, the pair have come together again with Mille Fête, a bakery that opened in February in Honolulu’s Chinatown. The shop offers pastries and desserts that nod to the tropical city, like a chocolate rum raisin cake made with ‘ulu (breadfruit) flour and a version of a New York black-and-white cookie but with fresh passion fruit pulp. To update and add texture to their space, previously a long-running Chinese restaurant, they exposed one of the building’s original brick walls and installed bench seating, as well as counter stools facing the windows. The goal at Mille Fête isn’t to come up with “wild and crazy combinations,” Yang says, but to serve “classic” flavors — classic, that is, to locals. Offerings include a Spam and cheese baked bao; a passion fruit, orange and guava layer cake, an interpretation of the ubiquitous POG drink; and Rocky Road ice cream with candied macadamia nuts. millefete.com.
For more than two decades, Lena Werner has spent family holidays in Majorca’s mountainous village of Sóller. In 2019, Werner — who is based in Stockholm, where she runs the co-working and membership club Ivar — and her husband bought a grand but decaying 16th-century townhouse that’s a two-minute walk from the town’s main square. After four years of renovation (“In historic areas of Majorca you have to do archaeological excavations before you even start,” says Werner) and design, this month she officially opened the six-bedroom house, named Ingeborg, as a vacation rental. She created the interiors with help from the Swedish designer Susanne Josephson and the Sóller-based creative directors David Mallon and Karin Oender. The décor is eclectic and colorful, with a dose of Scandinavian coziness: The open kitchen is stocked with handmade ceramic dishes and glasses from Sweden; the dining room is centered around a Piet Hein Eek table; and the living room features a Gaetano Pesce Big Mama armchair and a large work by the British photographer Kirsty Mitchell. All the beds and mattresses are from the Swedish company Dux. A stay includes gear for hiking, yoga and tennis (guests get access to the Sóller Tennis Club), as well as breakfast — often cooked by Werner, who prides herself on her homemade muesli. She can also arrange access to a private chef: Grace Berrow, formerly of the local restaurant Patiki Beach. From about $5,075 a night, ingeborgsoller.com.
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Lamps Made of Douglas Fir and Red Cedar
Last year, the Jackson, Wyo.-, and Brooklyn-based design firm Post Company added 11 rounded cabins to Scribner’s Catskill Lodge, a former motor inn in Hunter, N.Y. As the partners Ruben Caldwell, Jou-Yie Chou and Leigh Salem covered the structures in cedar shingles and outfitted them with knotty pine interiors, they gained a new appreciation for wood and the work that goes into sourcing and treating it. Their latest collaboration, an architectural lighting collection made with the timber company Idaho Wood, aims to highlight the humble material’s natural beauty. The line includes a flush mount fixture and a table lamp constructed from Western red cedar or Douglas fir, finished with oil or through yakisugi, a Japanese technique of preserving wood by lightly charring its surface, which gives the objects a striking charcoal color. The shape of the lamp calls to mind a birdhouse with its pyramidal shade sitting on a rectangular base. J.T. Vaughn, the owner of Idaho Wood, points out that the shade and the base are both carved from single pieces of timber. “Each piece of wood is distinct. It’s almost like a thumbprint when you look at the grain,” he says. “Our job is not to screw it up.” The Ravine Collection launches April 17; flush mount fixtures from $700 and table lamps from $1,500, ravinecollection.com.
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A Dallas Exhibition of Contemporary Tapestry Art
In a new exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary museum, the Mexico City-based curator Su Wu has gathered 35 tapestries that challenge the limits of the form. The Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui’s 2012 piece “Topos,” composed of found aluminum and copper wire, resembles a circuit board or a map. A 2024 work from a series called “Negative Entropy,” by the American artist Mika Tajima, depicts a single brain stimulation converted into a sound wave image and woven with materials such as cotton and nylon in striking shades of blue and green. Wu appreciates that the genre can be both unexpected and relatable. “Even if a person has never touched a painting or taken a ceramics class, everyone who comes through the show is wearing a little tapestry, ” Wu says. “We have a familiarity already with this medium, because it’s been so interwoven with human history.” Alongside the exhibit is a selection of objects on offer in the gift shop, curated by Joanna Williams, the founder of the textile archive and consultancy Kneeland Co. Items include embroidered pillows by Palestinian women in refugee camps in Lebanon, and place mats by the Los Angeles-based artist Christina Forrer, who’s also featured in the show. “You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry” will be on view at Dallas Contemporary from April 11 through Oct. 12, dallascontemporary.org.
The New York-based jewelry brand FoundRae has for the past 10 years specialized in symbolic pieces. A lion’s head medallion stands for strength, while a scarab cigar band is meant to convey protection. Now, the company’s creative director, Beth Hutchens, is launching her first collection intended to celebrate commitment. But it’s not all engagement rings: “How people interpret and celebrate love is really individual, so we wanted to be more expansive in the way we think,” Hutchens says. Next week, FoundRae will launch its United in Love collection, which comprises rings, medallions, bracelets and earrings made to be layered with other FoundRae pieces. Inspired by the style of the solitaire engagement ring, most items showcase at least one diamond that’s “very prominently placed,” says Hutchens. (The center stones start at half a carat and go up to five carats.) The collection was created for those celebrating romantic partnerships of all kinds — say, a devoted couple who don’t plan to formally wed or those seeking an anniversary heirloom for the renewal of vows. One pendant, shaped like a clover, has shimmering pavé and prong-set diamonds on the top leaf and “Will you marry me?” engraved on the bottom leaf. Hutchens imagined it for someone who wants to propose with a grand gesture but not a traditional ring. “We designed it with the intention that somebody is going to gasp when they receive it,” she says. United in Love launches April 15. From $1,500, foundrae.com.
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A Hotel Made Up of Lakeside Cabins in the Berkshires
The Berkshires, a hilly region in western Massachusetts, is a popular destination for city dwellers seeking a summer breeze or fall foliage. A new hotel, Prospect, offers access to both on the shores of its namesake lake, a 10-minute drive from Great Barrington, Mass., and less than three hours from New York City. It’s made up of 40 private cabins, nine accommodations with a shared bathhouse and a central lodge. Each cedar cabin is outfitted with a writing desk and camp chairs to bring to the lake. Bed linens and robes are by the bedding brand Sister Moons, which is owned by Prospect co-founder and interior designer Jade-Snow Carroll. At the heart of the property is the communal Cliff House, which is home to a coffee bar, a small shop selling various sundries including art supplies and the Cliff House Restaurant, where the chef Nancy Thomas makes dishes such as roast chicken and steak tartare. Outdoor amenities include a heated saltwater pool, lakefront Finnish saunas and courts for tennis and pickleball. Kayaks, paddle boards, sailboats and bicycles are also on hand for guests to borrow. Prospect opens May 16; from $390 a night for cabins and $225 for accommodations with shared bathhouse, prospectberkshires.com.
