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Monday, June 4, 2012

Style

Ryan Shell

The best printed pants looks for the week of May 28.

Slide Show: MTV Music Awards Red Carpet

Red carpet highlights from the MTV Movie Awards 2012.

On the Runway Blog

Style Tumblrs We're Loving

Don't let the thousands of Tumblrs out there overwhelm you. Here are some suggestions worth a follow.

Soho House Is Taking the Party Global

Soho House, a members-only social club, is expanding around the world after losing its mojo with its New York location.

Outposts of the Empire

A look at the Soho House locations in Berlin, London and the United States.

Street Style
Street Style: Suspenders

The best of readers’ dandy-inspired looks. This week, the theme was suspenders.

Submit Your Photos

This week, the theme is round sunglasses.

Preppy in Forest Hills

Joseph Jameson, a student and gas station attendant, explains why his style is so unique.

Shopping
Design Notebook

Pushing All Our Buttons

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.
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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

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

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

The bistro chair is always comfortable and easily stored.

Multimedia
A Palazzo’s Rebirth

A 15th-century Renaissance palazzo in Florence, Italy, is made modern.

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.

Handmade

The handmade artisan aesthetic is a trend this year at North America’s largest design show.

Paddling Into the Sunset

TAKING A STAND Pickets at a Santa Monica, Calif., restaurant. Inside, the chef Mark Dommen readies foie gras dishes.
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TAKING A STAND Pickets at a Santa Monica, Calif., restaurant. Inside, the chef Mark Dommen readies foie gras dishes.

As the July 1 start of a ban on foie gras in California approaches, some of the best-known chefs have been mounting a repeal effort.

By Sound and Touch, Producing Pesto Bliss

From her 19th-century farmhouse, Maria Gandara produces a product that is enough to inspire a fierce devotion, bordering on the fanatical.

Food Trucks in Paris? U.S. Cuisine Finds Open Minds, and Mouths

Artisanal food trucks have been making inroads in Paris, adding a new twist in culinary culture to a city where diners rarely eat on the go, much less with their hands.

A Good Appetite

Grassy, Sweet and in Season

Green garlic, available in late spring and early summer, is best distinguished by its scent.

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.

New York Health Department Restaurant Ratings Map

Interactive map of health violations at restaurants in New York

Le Bernardin

Inside Eric Ripert and Maguy LeCoze’s four-star restaurant in Midtown.

NEW YORK, MAY 19 Michael Robinson and Sage Mehta are blessed by Rabbi James Ponet during the wedding.
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NEW YORK, MAY 19 Michael Robinson and Sage Mehta are blessed by Rabbi James Ponet during the wedding.

A couple who first met in 2001 reunite in 2009, and find common ground in writing, bicycling and their fathers.

Ashley Biden and Howard Krein

The bride, a social worker, has a famous father; the bridegroom is an otolaryngologist and plastic surgeon.

Charlotte Decker and Gabriel Morgan

The couple met in 2004 at a dinner party during their senior year at Duke.

Katherine Hynes and Thomas Scott

The bride is an assistant district attorney in the Bronx. The bridegroom is the chief financial officer of a real estate investment firm in Manhattan.

Vows Anniversary Issue

The Vows Column at 20

Six couples profiled in the first year of the Vows column look back at two decades of marriage — and divorce.

Planning Meets Serendipity

The back story would now inspire the narrative of a wedding announcement.

Slide Show: Celebrity Couplings 20 Years Ago

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.

Answers to readers’ questions about low-budget weddings.

Wedding Q. and A.

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.

T Magazine

Now Online | T Travel Summer 2012

From Oslo to Guatemala, it's all about celebrating joie de vivre.

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Edible Selby | Fire Island

On a craggy cliff in Majorca, grilled paella is a family affair.

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Visiting Artists | Geoffrey Hendricks

The painter discusses the art world in the 1960s and his relationships with fellow artists Alice Neel and Brian Buczak.

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Finnish Lines | Tiina in Amagansett, N.Y.

Tiina Laakkonen's store, which opens next week, will have a bevy of design items inspired by the objects in her new home.

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Arms in the Air

For the travel issue's T, the artist and photographer Adam Wallacavage turned his trademark - tentacled chandeliers - into the magazine's.

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Cannes Do | Chopard Red Carpet Collection

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

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
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Artifacts | Man on a Mission

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.

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Timely | Sarah Neufeld: Calm Before The Tour

Some rock chicks pound beers backstage. Sarah Neufeld, the violinist of the Grammy-winning band Arcade Fire, prefers a yoga pose or two.

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Village Vanguard

Sicily's Ragusa region is home to stylish inns and Michelin-starred restaurants that blend in with the charmingly crumbling plazas and palazzos.

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Masters' Chambers | New London Hotels

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.

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Lebanon Lens

In just five years, the 38-year-old Nadine Labaki has become the director laureate of her tiny, politically fragile country.

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Sir Rocco's Report

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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