A User’s Guide to Traveling with Friends
Practice the fine art of shuttle diplomacy. Don’t bicker over breakfast. Include a wildcard. Aperitivo is Italian for bottomless brunch. Drop the intermittent fasting. And do not, for heaven’s sake, Splitwise.
David Prior, the vacation guru and founder of the namesake travel club, has planned trips for Gwyneth Paltrow and normies alike. He can organize a group of strangers to have the time of their lives in India for Diwali, and he has an 80 percent return rate to prove it. But this year he has taken on the daunting task of planning his own trip.
For his upcoming 40th birthday, Prior, whose previous jobs included assistant to Alice Waters at Chez Panisse and stints as a writer and editor, is planning a trip for about 25 of his closest friends to Andalusia. “There are people coming who are 25 and 80 and everything in between,” he says. “There will be food people, fashion people, people I went to school with,” including the illustrator Luke Edward Hall and the designer J.J. Martin. “It’s a mixed bag.”
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THE MASTER BUILDER
For the collector and philanthropist Amalia Amoedo, living with art and supporting the people who make it isn't just a choice it's a tradition. Is it any wonder she's known as Latin America's Peggy Guggenheim?
The ROTHSCHILD and the SNOWSTORM
Four decades after Jeannette May's remains were found on an Italian mountainside, the authorities have reopened the investigation into who or what-killed the former Lady de Rothschild.Was it a kidnapping? A mafia hit? Or have the rumors been wrong all along?
The WIZARD of MADISON
Suit up before stepping inside Giorgio Armani's new uptown Oz.
WHERE THE WILDLY EXPENSIVE THINGS ARE
In a small city in the Dutch hinterlands, sharp-elbowed dealers hunt the biggest game of all: billionaire collectors voracious for treasures from the last art fair that truly matters.
READ THE FINE PRINT
Nestled among the winding, narrow streets of Berkeley, California, which curve past a pastiche of architectural styles, including the material opulence of the spare modern mansions belonging to the tech elite, Susan Filter and Peter Koch's home stands apart.
Begin Here
Take a page from Sir Joseph Duveen, the man who taught America how to collect.
NOW YOU SEE HER
Bertha Russell would be so disappointed. When Carrie Coon, who plays the calculating social climber on The Gilded Age, sits down at the Regency Bar & Grill, just a few blocks and about 140 years from the fictional mansion where her character resides, it's the tail end of the restaurant's infamous power breakfast—a crucial error in timing for anyone hoping to rub elbows with New York City's ruling class.
Give Me Liberty!
Creative freedom, it turns out, is a very wise investment.
How Young Is Too Young to Start an Art Collection?
It will take more than just a trust fund to get them to sell you that painting.
Look Where You're Going
How many teenagers do you know who spend their free time doing this?
