A Designer Who Starts With Destruction

In Linde Freya Tangelder’s opinion, nice design begins with demolition. “To pull something down or destroy a little bit of the past gives you freedom,” says the 35-year-old Dutch-born designer. Breaking aside her personal work and beginning over, deconstructing her fashions and rebuilding them, is, she says, an integral a part of her inventive course of.

So central is the philosophy to Tangelder’s observe that it impressed the identify of her nine-year-old studio: Destroyers/Builders, primarily based in Antwerp and Brussels. Here, she creates items, lots of them restricted version, that really feel extra like conceptual artwork or experimental structure than furnishings — a daybed made from chipboard, a reasonable constructing materials usually used for insulation, is hand-carved with a pitted end, giving it the looks of historic bronze metalwork; a hard-angled chair supported by industrial-looking tubes wouldn’t be misplaced in Donald Judd’s studio.

Now, nevertheless, she’s additionally increasing into extra industrial furnishings. This previous spring at Milan Design Week, she offered her first lighting assortment for Cassina: Wax, Stone, Light. The three flooring lamps and two desk lamps are constructed from stacked hole blocks of Murano glass that Tangelder kinds utilizing iron molds to provide them a wavy, waxy texture. It’s a follow-up to Soft Corners, a small grouping of ottomans and a facet desk she made for the corporate final yr that have been knowledgeable by her research of historic constructing methods.

“Linde has this pure aspect of being poetic and cerebral, but then she takes the hammer and starts banging on stuff. It’s something to see,” says the chief govt officer of Cassina, Luca Fuso, who selected Tangelder as the primary recipient of a brand new initiative referred to as Patronage, which supplies funding and technical know-how to fledgling designers. The program has given her the sources to experiment with totally different supplies and approaches (her present tasks contain Japanese lacquering, pink limestone and novel types of brick).

But though she’s now creating extra sensible objects, she plans to method design the best way she at all times has. “I never start by thinking about function,” says Tangelder, who can be engaged on a brand new collection of collectible furnishings for Aequō, an experimental design gallery in Mumbai, India, to be exhibited in 2024. “I think my head definitely works as an artist. For me, it’s all about the inspiration, the material, the process of making.” — Catherine Hong

Hair and make-up: Sofie Van Bouwel. Lighting assistant: Christian Jimenez. Production: Entrée Libre

Comforting Cabbage, Elevated

Unlike lots of its cruciferous cousins (brussels sprouts, cauliflower, kale), cabbage hasn’t been on the heart of a culinary craze — till now. At New York’s Thai Diner, the chef Ann Redding, 48, fills her cabbage rolls with turkey, mushrooms and jasmine rice and serves them in a coconut-milk broth perfumed by galangal, lemongrass and lime leaves. Her inspirations, she says, are two disparate however equally nostalgic favorites: her mom’s tom kha gai soup and the Ukrainian stuffed cabbage she used to order on the iconic East Village diner Veselka as a 2 a.m. post-shift dinner when she was a younger line cook dinner. Cabbage is commonly “the through thread in people’s taste memories,” says Bonnie Morales, 42, the chef and co-owner of Kachka in Portland, Ore., noting that “it’s actually a common occurrence that we have guests crying into their bowls of golubsty,” as cabbage rolls are identified in Russia. Elsewhere, cooks appear intent on elevating cabbage from its homey roots. At the French Room in Dallas, the place she spent a three-month residency earlier this yr, the New York-based chef Victoria Blamey, 41, layered the leaves with scallop mousse and seaweed and bathed them in a foamed vin jaune. And the chef Patrick Powell, 37, of London’s Allegra, employs a 10-step, multiperson course of to create a single cabbage roll. At Le Coucou in New York, the manager chef, Daniel Rose, 46, has made the traditional French rendition, chou farci. Sometimes full of pheasant, generally with shrimp and scallops, his rolls are formed into completely clean globes. As elegant as they seem, nevertheless, their flavors recall, Rose admits, “something my mother-in-law makes.” — Lauren Joseph

Since its founding practically 120 years in the past, Rolex has chosen simplicity over arcane issues reminiscent of tourbillons and minute repeaters. Now, although, the Geneva-based model has dived headlong into whimsy with the most recent iteration of the Oyster Perpetual Day-Date 36. The watch, which is available in rose, yellow or white gold, incorporates a champlevé enamel dial in a jigsaw motif with 10 baguette sapphires in rainbow hues because the indexes. Unlike different Day-Date 36 designs, whose apertures present the day of the week at 12 o’clock, this one shows phrases of inspiration, together with “Gratitude” and “Eternity,” and the three o’clock window, as a substitute of the date, options 31 emojis, together with a four-leaf clover, an eight ball and the Rolex coronet. In an period that appears to name out for a jolt of pleasure, this witty twist on an icon often is the excellent reply. Rolex Oyster Perpetual Day-Date 36, worth on request, rolex.com. — Nancy Hass

A Craft-Filled Riad in Marrakesh

In 2015, a few years after learning trend on the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, the Belgian designer Laurence Leenaert moved to Marrakesh, Morocco. There, she shortly immersed herself within the nation’s wealthy and assorted craft scene, learning with grasp potters, weavers and leathersmiths and finally creating her personal whimsical items. “I realized the freedom to create there is endless,” says Leenaert, now 33. Today, her label, Lrnce, sells handmade dwelling items, clothes and accessories, all in her Joan Miró-meets-Henri Matisse aesthetic. This month, Leenaert and her husband, Ayoub Boualam, 34, a Moroccan enterprise marketing consultant and Lrnce’s supervisor, are opening their first resort, Rosemary Riad, in Marrakesh’s medina. Though named after the earlier proprietor, Rose-Marie Burgevin, the Parisian promoting govt and famed bon vivant, the five-room guesthouse itself is an entire Lrnce universe. Nearly every little thing within the two-story constructing (and on the rooftop terrace) was designed by Leenaert, from the plaster and wooden carving on the doorways and wardrobes to the zellige tiles and the stained-glass surfaces in among the rooms. Even the embroidered bedsheets and rosemary-scented toiletries are bespoke. And to provide their friends a style of native craft traditions, the couple plan to prepare workshops within the riad and visits to artisans in and across the metropolis. Rooms from $274 an evening, rosemarymarrakech.com. — Gisela Williams