Critic’s Notebook
Like Mona Lisa, Ever So Veiled
By CATHY HORYN
The designer Rei Kawakubo will be honored on Monday with a lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
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Taking Her Leave
By BEE-SHYUAN CHANG
Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times
Amanda Brooks was inspired to leave New York by a mother of four who lives on a cattle ranch in Oklahoma.
The New York City socialite Amanda Brooks is packing up for a farm in England a little more than a year after being appointed fashion director of Barneys New York.
Up Close
Kim France, Starting Over at 48
By MARISA MELTZER
Ms. France left her job as former editor in chief at Lucky Magazine and started a new career as a blogger writing for 40-something women.
Scene City
When a Countess Holds Court
By BOB MORRIS
LuAnn de Lesseps, a real housewife of New York, hosts a Memorial Day weekend charity benefit.
Front Row
Detached From His Label
By ERIC WILSON
It’s certainly not unprecedented for designers to quit the labels that bear their names, but Simon Spurr’s decision has industry insiders puzzled.
Street Style
Street Style: Suspenders
The best of readers’ dandy-inspired looks. This week, the theme was suspenders.
Preppy in Forest Hills
Joseph Jameson, a student and gas station attendant, explains why his style is so unique.
Shopping
LG Electronics, via Associated Press
Flash-Matic, right, was invented by Eugene J. Polley, top right, who died May 20. A 1956 Zenith ad shows how the device worked. Today, Ident Technology’s prototype Gesture Remote, right, allows users to control TV with a wave of the hand.
It frustrates us, we fight over it, and still we can’t live without the TV remote.
The Pragmatist
Summer Without Splinters
By BOB TEDESCHI
With a new surface, furniture and just a plant or two, a lightly used deck draws a family outdoors again.
On Location
Sleeping in the Cradle of Opera
By ROCKY CASALE
The Palazzo Bardi in Florence, Italy, presents its new owners with design challenges its 15th-century architect could not have imagined.
Shopping With Claire Pijoulat and Odile Hainaut
Bistro Chairs
By JULIE LASKY
The bistro chair is always comfortable and easily stored.
Multimedia
Shopping For Bistro Chairs
Claire Pijoulat and Odile Hainaut, who are the founders of WantedDesign, a design show and event program that ran concurrently with the recent International Contemporary Furniture Fair, went shopping around the Flatiron district to look at bistro chairs for sale.
Cuisines Mastered as Acquired Tastes
By FRANCIS LAM
Daniel Krieger for The New York Times
Andy Ricker, the Thai-cooking superstar at center, has received praise for his new restaurants, Pok Pok Wing and Pok Pok NY.
Several chefs, like Andy Ricker, are high-profile ambassadors for cuisines in which they have no family roots.
More Genes Than Humans: The Tomato Decoded
By NICHOLAS WADE
Plant geneticists who sequenced the tomato’s genome in hope of breeding better specimens found that it has 31,760 genes — about 7,000 more than a person.
Letter From Paris
It’s Not Just Lunch; There’s Tennis, Too
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
For 15 days every spring, the Roland Garros tennis complex becomes the place for power lunches in Paris.
Restaurant Review | Back Forty West and Back Forty
For These Twins, Nurture, Not Nature
By PETE WELLS
Back Forty West has filled in a void in SoHo left by the closing last year of Savoy. In doing so, it has seemingly surpassed its spinoff, Back Forty.
Back Forty and Back Forty West
A look inside two restaurant twins, where a similar philosophy of farm-to-table and sustainability is shared.
At the French Open, Tennis Isn’t the Only Attraction
When it comes to lunch at Roland Garros, the complex has much more to offer than hot dogs and popcorn.
Savannah Auger and James Citron
By MONICA CORCORAN HAREL
Stephanie Diani for The New York Times
Savannah Auger and James Citron after the wedding.
When a couple began dating, she thought he was an airline pilot and he was unaware she had a flourishing career as a singer.
Abigail Seldin and Whitney Haring-Smith
The couple, who met at Oxford as Rhodes scholars, are to be married in Florida.
Elizabeth Fischer and Jonathan Martin
The bride works for “Meet the Press.” The bridegroom is a reporter.
Vows Anniversary Issue
The Vows Column at 20
By LOIS SMITH BRADY
Six couples profiled in the first year of the Vows column look back at two decades of marriage — and divorce.
Planning Meets Serendipity
By BOB WOLETZ
The back story would now inspire the narrative of a wedding announcement.
Celebrity Couplings 20 Years Ago
By SIMONE S. OLIVER
In 1992, the year The New York Times started the Vows column in Sunday Styles, several notable couples wed.
Well-Mannered Columns
Wedding Q. and A.
By PEGGY POST
Answers to readers’ questions about how to tell friends or relatives they are not invited to your big day.
Multimedia
Vows: Jennifer & Kennedy
Jennifer Lane and Kennedy Gachiri met in college. After six years of living in a long-distance relationship, they are getting married this weekend.
From Oslo to Guatemala, it's all about celebrating joie de vivre.
T Magazine
Edible Selby | Fire Island
By TODD SELBY and ABBY AGUIRRE
On a craggy cliff in Majorca, grilled paella is a family affair.
T Magazine
Visiting Artists | Geoffrey Hendricks
By JOHNNY MISHEFF
The painter discusses the art world in the 1960s and his relationships with fellow artists Alice Neel and Brian Buczak.
T Magazine
Finnish Lines | Tiina in Amagansett, N.Y.
By ALIX BROWNE
Tiina Laakkonen's store, which opens next week, will have a bevy of design items inspired by the objects in her new home.
T Magazine
Arms in the Air
By T MAGAZINE
For the travel issue's T, the artist and photographer Adam Wallacavage turned his trademark - tentacled chandeliers - into the magazine's.
T Magazine
Cannes Do | Chopard Red Carpet Collection
By EDWARD BARSAMIAN
Lana Del Rey, Eva Herzigova, Bérénice Bejo, Virginie Ledoyen and Freida Pinto sparkled in one-of-a-kind pieces courtesy of Chopard yesterday at Cannes.
T Magazine
Up Close and Personal | 'Second Skin' at VPL
By ALIX BROWNE
A new aptly titled show at the SoHo store features well-known artists and reveals sides to their work most of us don't usually get to see.
The Moment
T Magazine
Artifacts | Man on a Mission
By LINDA YABLONSKY
Space Program: Mars," a collaboration between Tom Sachs, Creative Time and the Park Avenue Armory, is an inner-space playground for the whole family. It's also a serious artwork.
T Magazine
Timely | Sarah Neufeld: Calm Before The Tour
By JACOB BROWN
Some rock chicks pound beers backstage. Sarah Neufeld, the violinist of the Grammy-winning band Arcade Fire, prefers a yoga pose or two.
T Magazine
Village Vanguard
By ROCKY CASALE
Sicily's Ragusa region is home to stylish inns and Michelin-starred restaurants that blend in with the charmingly crumbling plazas and palazzos.
T Magazine
Masters' Chambers | New London Hotels
By EMILY MATHIESON
London's Olympic-size hotel boom continues with elite, smaller-scale properties, including a new Bulgari Hotel and an inn that actually floats on the Thames.
T Magazine
Lebanon Lens
By TIM MURPHY
In just five years, the 38-year-old Nadine Labaki has become the director laureate of her tiny, politically fragile country.
T Magazine
Sir Rocco's Report
By ROCKY CASALE
Even before building his high-style beach resort, Sir Rocco Forte had plenty of reasons to make frequent trips to Sicily.
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