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Roadside Stylish in Santa Barbara’s Desert Place

The salt flats and wildflower fields of Carrizo Simple National Monument in Santa Barbara County’s remote higher desert are element of the impressive surroundings available from Cuyama Buckhorn, a roadside motel-cum-wilderness vacation resort that is turn into a beloved base camp for explorers of the area’s natural splendor. Located approximately a few hrs northeast of Los Angeles in the historic town of New Cuyama, it 1st opened in 1952 and was procured a few decades back by Ferial Sadeghian and Jeff Vance of the style agency iDGroup, who reimagined the home with 21 guestrooms adorned with midcentury-present day furnishings. The most recent additions include things like an outside theater and screening spot, an open-air cooking college and cocktail bar, an alfresco dining house in an personal greenhouse and a trifecta of exterior spa facilities: heated pool, Jacuzzi and barrel sauna. Chef Daniel Horn, previously of Aman Resorts, serves hearty farm-to-table dishes like smoked pulled pork tacos on handmade tortillas with sides of Santa Maria pinquito beans and housemade spicy pickles at the Buckhorn Cafe & Bar. cuyamabuckhorn.com.

Very last year, the Myanmar-born, London-dependent designer Kerhao Yin was tapped to spearhead the relaunch of Vaara, a line of layering parts that was established by Tatiana Korsakova and started with a one style: finely created shade-block leggings. Getting finished stints less than Consuelo Castiglioni at Marni and Phoebe Philo at Céline, Yin was well suited to guide the minimalistic line into its up coming chapter, with a new wave of items that sit at the nexus of sporty daywear and modern-day luxurious. The contents of Vaara’s winter season 2021 selection, his second with the model, are divided into “Body” and “Day” and hew to a ’70s-inflected palette of earthy browns and oranges. The previous incorporates bra tops and bike shorts produced of recycled complex fabric and eco-helpful yarn the latter, a long merino knit tank costume and an ivory-coloured Japanese poplin down jacket. All of it is produced in Italy. “I want ease and comfort in a additional sophisticated way,” states Yin. For a lot more proof, see the capsule assortment of intarsia blankets featuring silhouetted figures, a collaboration with the artist Rosie McGuinness crafted by Norwegian wool masters Røros Tweed, that Vaara introduced before this yr. vaara.com.

The groundbreaking Lebanese artist Huguette Caland died in 2019, at the age of 88, just after a fertile 5-ten years profession developing paintings, drawings, sculpture and manner. Now the Drawing Middle has mounted the to start with-at any time museum exhibition of her oeuvre in the U.S., bringing with each other more than 100 operates on paper and canvas as very well as caftans, sculptures and notebooks. The daughter of Bechara El-Khoury, postcolonial Lebanon’s initial president, Caland moved to Paris in 1970, at age 39, to go after her art, leaving driving a spouse and three kids. There she produced erotic line drawings of lovers, lips and vulvas a series of stunning semi-summary paintings suggestive of corporeal close-ups titled “Bribes de Corps” (“Body Parts”) and pictorially embroidered caftans. These caught the eye of Pierre Cardin, who in 1978 invited her to structure a line of the common garments with him. Caland responded by transposing her painterly themes on to them, cheekily illustrating the caftans with breasts, pubic hair and buttocks. “Huguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête” is on watch by way of Sept. 19 at the Drawing Middle, drawingcenter.org.

After ending his debut album, “Due North,” before this 12 months, and staying unable to tour to assistance it, the Kansas City-dependent musician Liam Kazar took a different act on the road: Isfahan, a pop-up cafe inspired by his family’s Armenian heritage and the regional flavors encountered in the course of their diasporic journey via Syria, Lebanon and France. A self-taught cook, Kazar reconnected with the craft through the pandemic. “It turned my favored way to interact with individuals, to have them above for evening meal and prepare dinner for them,” he says. Right before prolonged, he was doing summer gatherings in the Catskills and Berkshires, producing herb-stuffed Armenian hand pies pomegranate-walnut stew with beef and fereni, rosewater pudding with fig maintain and a pistachio-and-graham-cracker crust. Now Isfahan’s progressed into a nearby food-shipping and catering services in the Midwest. Meanwhile, “Due North” was introduced by Mare Information just last 7 days, a successful midtempo confection of country, funk and New Wave showcasing chunky guitars, celestial synths and sinuous pedal steel and anchored by Kazar’s sincere but laid-back again vocals. (No tour dates however, alas.) “Due North” is readily available for download at woodsist.com/product/liam-kazar eatisfahan.com.

I did not know I was still exploring for the fantastic handbag — understated but eye-catching, tasteful but luxurious — until finally I identified MAS, a new line of leather-based products by the Canadian fashion designer Marie-Philippe Thibault. The designer, who has worked for brand names this sort of as the Row and Louis Vuitton, and hails from a loved ones of seamstresses, established out to produce a brand name that would truly feel both timeless and new. Choose MAS’s breathtaking Quinta bag, with its round, hand-carved walnut wood cope with poised atop a dainty blue suede (or black leather-based) tote. “I desired the handle to resemble a piece of art,” she describes. “I strategy form and kind as an architect would outline the volume of a residence.” Possessing partnered with equally Canadian woodworkers and Italian leather brands, Thibault released MAS late previous yr with 5 distinct models, every various in shade and function. Along with the Quinta, there is the Cooper’s Duffle the oversize Backyard Tote the slender Jane St. Crossbody and the 9 to Nine shoulder bag. States Thibault: “MAS is for a human being who desires to shine while currently being discreet, who is soulful, passionate and bold.” From $675 themasfamily.com.