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T Magazine

T's Nov. 13 Travel Issue

Highlights

  1. 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

    CreditRichard Mosse
  2. 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

    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
  3. 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

    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

  1. Imagining a Memorial to an Unimaginable Number of Covid Deaths

    In cities, especially, monuments have become not just an artistic genre unto themselves but evanescent, ever-evolving tributes to those we lost — and continue to lose.

     By Mark Harris

    An aerial view of the unfolding of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in 1992. Although the project is never finished, the quilt, now being honored on its 35th anniversary, includes more than 50,000 panels.
    CreditNational AIDS Memorial
    Social Studies

  2. 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

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

  3. 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

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

  4. 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

    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
    making it

  5. A 16th-Century French Chateau That Honors a Family’s Histories of Exile

    For centuries, the owners of an ancestral estate have sought to secure within its walls the worlds they lost.

     By Gisela Williams and Joaquín Laguinge

    Stretching the width of the Château Montalembert in Maîche, France, the 1,200-square-foot Grand Salon is clad in 1818 Zuber wallpaper, which depicts views of Rome and Switzerland, and furnished with a collection of French and Chinese antiques.
    CreditJoaquín Laguinge
    by design

  1. 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

    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
    Making It

  2. Jovan Adepo and Thundercat on Jazz, Superheroes and Ego Death

    Two creative people in two different fields in one wide-ranging conversation. This time: the “Watchmen” actor and the musician.

     By Paul Schrodt

    The actor Jovan Adepo (left) and the musician Thundercat, photographed in Los Angeles on Oct. 6, 2022.
    CreditAbdi Ibrahim
    admiration society

  3. 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

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

  4. A Cubed, Colorful Retreat in the California Desert

    Plus: an iced coffee season that never ends and more from T’s cultural compendium.

     

    The architect Josh Schweitzer’s Monument House outside of Joshua Tree, Calif.
    CreditKamil Zelezik for Homestead Modern
    People, Places, Things

  5. In the Marseille Clubs, Leather, Lamé and Fur Reign Supreme

    This season, get inspired by the high-gloss style of the French city’s nightlife.

     By Gabriel Moses and Dogukan Nesanir

    From left: Emporio Armani top and pants, price on request, armani.com. Acne Studios top, price on request; Loewe leggings, showpiece only, and boots, $1,950, loewe.com; and Panconesi necklace, price on request, marcopanconesi.com. Lukhanyo Mdingi top, $1,375, lukhanyomdingi.co.za; Paul Smith pants, $1,350, paulsmith.com; and Panconesi necklace, $343.
    CreditPhotograph by Gabriel Moses. Styled by Dogukan Nesanir
    In Fashion

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