A Zara Home Collaboration With Vincent Van Duysen

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Mid-Century Modern Bungalows Near Joshua Tree National Park

On the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, where a grove of wild palover trees meets towering granite boulders, the Joshua Tree Retreat Center welcomes the first boutique hotel in Yucca Valley, a town known for its eclectic array of renovated motels and rentals. private homes. The 14 suites, now known as the Bungalows, were designed and built in 1960 by the architect Harold Zook to accommodate campus teachers. Located in the northwest corner of downtown’s more than 130 acres of desert, the bungalows still retain their original wooden exteriors, while the interiors appear sun-bleached, with earthy burlap and seagrass rugs, woven wicker-backed chairs, and intricately decorated milling to evoke a bare sand feeling. The spaces have been redeveloped by the hospitality company Homestead Modern and restored in collaboration with consulting designer Brad Dunning; as a nod to the work of Swiss architect Albert Frey, the rooms are accented with yellow textiles the color of Encelia flowers, a hue popularized by Frey in his Modernist buildings in nearby Palm Springs. Floor-to-ceiling glass panels and sleek concrete floors mingle with expansive outdoor patios and the view beyond. During their stay, guests can cook on the community grills on the site or dine at the retreat center’s vegetarian cafe. Rooms from $250, retreat.homesteadmodern.com†

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On the occasion of his 60th birthday this spring, the Belgian architect and designer Vincent Van Duysen was given the opportunity to look back. He dug into his records, both professionally — throughout the three decades of his career, he’s known for an unsaturated, soft-on-the-sensory aesthetic that was originally born as a rejection of the brash excess of the ’80s — and personally, through an analysis of his own living rooms, for an ongoing collaboration that begins this month with fashion giant Zara’s household line. “I wanted to rethink my ‘wardrobe’ of furniture pieces,” he says of the 19 products, which include furniture, lamps, rugs and smaller decorative items. High-quality materials, such as solid French oak, sanded stone from Galicia, Spain (where Zara is headquartered), and pure cotton and linen were paramount, but as a self-proclaimed ‘democrat at heart’, Van Duysen was drawn to the company ethic of affordable fashion for everyone; the pieces are designed to work with the scale and style of a city apartment or country house. “My furniture pieces can find a place in any kind of living room for any kind of person anywhere in the world,” he says. Starting at $299, starting June 30, zarahome.com†

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Vintner’s Daughter’s First Fragrance

Growing up, April Gargiulo’s house was notably free of artificial fragrances so they wouldn’t interfere with the wine’s hold. (Her family now owns Gargiulo Vineyards in the Napa Valley.) “I have a relationship with scent, but in the natural world,” she says. However, when she launched her sustainable skincare line Vintner’s Daughter in 2013, a facial oil gained a devoted following, both for its luscious botanical scent and for its formula, made from 22 food plants. The brand’s first limited-edition perfume oil, Understory, arrives this week and references the medley of flora along the forest floor, with notes of evergreen conifers, laurel and moss mingled with hints of jasmine, violet leaf and soft petals. The bouquet is designed to be unobtrusive. “Understory isn’t about an announcement to others,” Gargiulo says, “but rather a celebratory moment with oneself and nature.” The sleek rollerball applicator comes with a portable pouch made from vegan leather, so transport to a magical forest is always just a quick dab. $245, vintnersdaughter.com†

When Nick Poe started making plans for Time, his new 25-seat restaurant was inaugurated Chinatown in Manhattan, he wanted the design to be unexpected. “There’s almost a formula for what a sushi restaurant should look like: maple wood, wabi-sabi,” says the architectural designer and co-owner, known for creating airy spaces like Sky Ting yoga studios and Lee’s Private Dining Room. Instead, he looked to the Parisian travels of Japanese surrealist artists such as Iwata Nakayama and Kansuke Yamamoto in the 1920s; the result presents trademarks of both French bistros and sushi bars in Tokyo, from chairs reupholstered with vintage Persian rugs to glossy custom mirrors featuring the kanji for “sashimi” and “alcoholic drinks.” Chef Yukio Fukaya, most recently at Nare in Midtown, creates seasonal omakase for eight dinners at an oak bar topped with gleaming stainless steel. Beside him, two additional chefs make spicy sesame cucumber salad and chutoro with soy-salted egg yolks and fragrant nori rice for the full inner-city. As the sun goes down, brown paper lamps inverted on the original tin ceiling illuminate the hand-painted fresco of an architectural model that wraps around the walls and draws the eye to the street, where matcha martinis and tuna hand rolls are dispensed from a side window overlooking the Manhattan Bridge. 105 Canal Street, timeoncanal.com†

The plan for one of Hollie Bowden’s tastefully muted projects often begins with a single play. For example, a recently completed apartment in Notting Hill in west London was entirely inspired by a pale pink 18th-century mottled marble fireplace from Belgium. “I’ve called myself a minimal maximalist because I love bare space with an object that is so special,” says the 38-year-old interior designer, who has decorated homes for singer FKA Twigs and a shop for British luxury brand Tanner Krolle. † But after 20 years of collecting the sort of memorable one-offs that might be for clients, friends or herself (she’s renovating her family’s home in North London’s Finsbury Park), she was running out of space; hence the opening of the Gallery, an appointment-only shop next to her studio in Shoreditch. Design classics are on offer, such as a 1970s steel and leather lounger by Vittorio Introini for Saporiti and an attractively weathered De Sede DS600 wobbly sofa, alongside more obscure treasures, including a ceramic walrus bought in Mexico City. Then there’s the solid “Ebb” nightstand — Bowden’s first venture into homeware design and a collaboration with her partner, Byron Pritchard, a furniture designer who crafts the tables in walnut at his studio on nearby Broadway Market. What don’t you think? Everything Instagram is famous. As Bowden puts it, “I’ve always wanted it to be a subtle offering — a piece that says, ‘If you know, you know.'” E-mail [email protected] to make a one hour appointment.

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