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T Magazine

T's Nov. 13 Travel Issue

Highlights

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    CreditRichard Mosse
    Letter from the Editor

    How Do You Visit a Vanished World?

    For T’s Winter Travel issue, we look at three cultures that have all but disappeared — or been resurrected.

     By Hanya Yanagihara

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    The ceiling of the Hall of Ambassadors in the Alcazar in Seville, Spain. Built by Peter I of Castile (1334-69), the structure is an example of the Mudéjar style of architecture, in which Islamic ornamentation and building techniques were overlaid with Christian meaning.
    CreditRichard Mosse
    T’s Travel Issue

    In Search of a Lost Spain

    In the southern part of the country, churches and streets hold the remnants of eight centuries of Islamic rule.

     By Aatish Taseer and Richard Mosse

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    On this and the following pages, Peranakan favorites made by the Singapore-born, New York- based cookbook author Sharon Wee, who ate around Singapore with this article’s writer. From left: kueh lapis kukus (steamed rainbow layer cake), pineapple tarts and puteri salat (steamed coconut milk custard on glutinous rice).
    CreditPhotograph by Esther Choi. Set design by Martin Bourne
    T’s Travel Issue

    Can Cultural Identity Be Defined by Food?

    Cuisine is one of the few ways to characterize Singapore’s Peranakan culture, a hard-to-pin-down blend of ethnic and racial identities.

     By Ligaya Mishan and Esther Choi

  2. Traditions
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    A moat separates Oxburgh Hall from the Parterre.
    CreditDavid Fernández

    How Can a Historic Garden Adapt to Climate Change?

    English estates are trying to maintain the heritage and identity of their grounds, while also making them resistant to unfamiliar temperatures and weather.

     By Jordan Kushins and David Fernández

  3. Arts And Letters
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    The artist Mary Kelly in her Los Angeles studio.
    CreditPhilip Cheung

    Mary Kelly’s Revolution Is Ongoing

    The pioneering artist’s feminist work was groundbreaking in the ’70s. She never dreamed it would look just as radical half a century later.

     By Sophie Haigney and Philip Cheung

  4. making it
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    To accompany this story, Ren MacDonald-Balasia, the founder of the Los Angeles- and Honolulu-based floral design studio Renko, created an arrangement of hibiscus flowers interwoven with turquoise jade vine and hot pink coral vine. The base is composed of dried bamboo and sugar cane and surrounded by Hawaiian fruits.
    CreditPhotograph by Joyce Kim. Set design by Samantha Margherita

    Why the Showy, Short-Lived Hibiscus Is the Flower of Our Time

    The plant’s grandiose blossoms are as dazzling as they are ephemeral — and, in an age of shortened attention spans, they’re having a resurgence.

     By Amanda Fortini

  1. Making It
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    From left: Gigi’s Little Kitchen’s vegan confetti cake with lemon buttercream, sugar pearls, wafer butterflies, dried flaxseed pods and preserved scabiosa pods; and vegan confetti cake with vanilla buttercream, dried cherries, sugar pearls, wafer butterflies, dried baby’s breath and preserved scabiosa pods, from $275 each, gigislittlekitchen.com. Aimee France’s chai cake with brown butter salted cardamom maple crème fraîche buttercream, grapes, calendula and gem marigolds; chocolate cake with mixed summer fruit jam, amaranth, Eastern hemlock pine cones, flowering peppermint and a Comice pear; olive oil cake with brown butter lavender buttercream, zinnias, lemon thyme, sweet alyssum flowers and a Concorde pear, from $300 each, aimeefrance.com.
    CreditPhotograph by Chase Middleton. Set design by Maria Santana

    These Cakes Have Thorns

    A group of bakers are taking nonconformist cake decorating trends to new heights, creating otherworldly confections bristling with surreal protrusions.

     By Mahira Rivers

  3. Making It
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    Clockwise from left: Chair N18, Chair N20 and Chair N12 by Solenne Belloir.
    CreditPhotograph by Alyona Kuzmina. Set design by Victoria Petro-Conroy

    Tiny Furniture Isn’t Just for Dollhouses Anymore

    For artists and designers accustomed to considering both form and function, working in miniature affords outsize opportunities for experimentation.

     By Adriane Quinlan and Alyona Kuzmina

  1. T Introduces

    In Paris, a New Incense Room to Awaken the Senses

    The Japanese store and restaurant Ogata Paris offers custom aromatic blends.

    By Ellie Pithers and Matthew Avignone

     
  2. First of Its Kind, Last of Its Kind

    A Blazing, Bejeweled Comet Re-Enters Chanel’s Orbit

    Coco Chanel’s first — and only — high jewelry collection informs the house’s latest bijouterie.

    By Lindsay Talbot

     
  3. Market Report

    Accessories That Are Worth the Fuzz

    Hats, bags and shoes in cheerful colors to combat the cold.

    By Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi