The Banquet
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Signature Series · Style

The Tastemakers

Who sets taste in each market: the buyers, stylists, founders, editors, and socialites our diaspora reader should know by name.

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Tokujin Yoshioka grid-body mannequins wearing Issey Miyake Body series sculptural bodices in gold, blue, and red, National Art Center Tokyo 2016
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Radical Form

Thai silk sarong with weft ikat pattern, 1940s, from the East-West Center textile collection
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Bangkok's Global Creative Class

Totem poles and carved house posts in the Great Hall of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, framed by floor-to-ceiling glass with the North Shore mountains beyond
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Transpacific Taste

Longquan celadon screen panels across the facade of a hall at the Hangzhou National Archives, reflected in the pool in front of it
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The New Literati

Plan Ahead

The Banquet Calendar

A considered map of the fairs, festivals, rituals, and cultural weeks worth organizing a journey around.

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Fashion

Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art

London, United Kingdom

Art

Biennale Arte

Venice, Italy

Art

Singapore Gallery Month

Singapore

Travel

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Street corner view of Azumi Setoda’s tiled roofs, white upper storey, and dark wooden lattice on Ikuchijima
Travel

Skip the Marble Lobby in Asia’s New Hotels

Merchant houses, machiya sequences, hanok compounds, and shophouse suites are rewriting the stay brief. The interesting new keys measure themselves in courtyards and alleys, not atrium volume.

The fire-lit dai character of Gozan no Okuribi on Nyoigatake above Kyoto
Travel

Watch Daimonji and Let the Other Fires Go

Aerial view of Premier Residences Phu Quoc Emerald Bay along Kem Beach at sunset, with hotel towers and villa residences set in tropical forest
Travel

Vietnam’s Hotel Pipeline Sells Residences First

Aerial view of Garrya Mu Cang Chai thatched villas set into rice terraces and mountain forest in Yen Bai
Travel

Vietnam’s New Luxury Hotels Are Moving Beyond Colonial Nostalgia

Aman Kyoto Living Pavilion terrace in autumn with sunken lounge, fire pit, timber lattice, and maple hillside
Travel

Three Nights at Aman Kyoto

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Tokujin Yoshioka grid-body mannequins wearing Issey Miyake Body series sculptural bodices in gold, blue, and red, National Art Center Tokyo 2016
Style

Radical Form

The designers and visionaries who made Japan fashion's great laboratory.

Thai silk sarong with weft ikat pattern, 1940s, from the East-West Center textile collection
Style

Bangkok's Global Creative Class

Totem poles and carved house posts in the Great Hall of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, framed by floor-to-ceiling glass with the North Shore mountains beyond
Style

Transpacific Taste

Longquan celadon screen panels across the facade of a hall at the Hangzhou National Archives, reflected in the pool in front of it
Style

The New Literati

Ochre Peranakan kebaya from Malaya, circa 1950, in the collection of the Peranakan Museum, Singapore
Style

Equatorial Modern

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Eggplant with smoked soy, polenta and egg yolk on Sorrel's vegetarian summer tasting menu, beside the printed card listing the $195 menu and a $225 premium pairing
Table

Longevity is a Green Flag in Trendy SF Dining

Eight years in on Sacramento Street, Alex Hong's one-star Sorrel is still full on a chilly Wednesday. In a city that closes cult counters, that counts for more than hype.

Round Tate table for four with embroidered chair backs, pale ceramic cups, and mirrored wall reflecting the Sheung Wan dining room
Table

Give the Kitchen Sixty Percent at Tate

Round dining table with lazy Susan and garden view at Cherry Garden by Chef Fei, Mandarin Oriental Singapore
Table

Put Chinese Back at the Hotel Center

Overhead view of a sculptural octagonal ceramic bowl with a lattice of pale green slices on white marble at Restaurant Naides in San Francisco
Table

Book Named Asian Tables Before the Season Fills

Curved cream dining room at Tate on Lok Ku Road with striped banquette, floral chairs, and mirrored ceiling
Table

French-Chinese Craft Gets the Floor Plan It Needed

Residence

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Spa jacuzzi and lounge chairs at Aman Residences Tokyo with Tokyo Tower visible through floor-to-ceiling windows
Residence

When the Building Becomes the Country Club

Luxury towers now sell restaurants, wellness floors, guest suites, and concierge programming as a private world. The useful question is which amenities improve Tuesday, and which mainly sell the brochure.

Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi lobby with oak columns, navy lounge chairs, and a shinkansen passing beyond the glass
Residence

A Manor Beside Tokyo Station

Cassina 3to9 table lamp by Neri&Hu with translucent ivory fabric panels on a bronze wire frame
Residence

Hang the Kite Above the Table

Aman Tokyo 33rd-floor lobby with soaring washi-paper lantern atrium, dark stone floor, and low lounge seating
Residence

A Lantern Above Otemachi

Authors' Lounge at Mandarin Oriental Bangkok with grand white staircase, wicker seating, bamboo, and skylight
Residence

Wicker Under the Authors' Skylight

Society

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Ferrari Luce Chassis 0 on a Monterey Car Week stage beneath a Ferrari backdrop reading $40,000,000 for the Ferrari Foundation
Society

Chassis 0 Puts Forty Million on Ferrari's Next Client

At Monterey, Ferrari’s first electric production car sold for charity at $40 million. The hammer matters less than who Maranello built the Luce to court.

Fountain and main entrance of The Peninsula Hong Kong on Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
Society

Read the Owner Before the Flag

Glass entrance and living-wall lobby of The Hari Hong Kong in Wan Chai, designed by Tara Bernerd & Partners
Society

The Hari Keeps Its Name Inside IHG

Shane Ng porcelain pinwheels on the main wall of FOST Gallery, with a framed photograph leaning in the alcove beyond
Society

Singapore Gallery Month Starts With a Conversation

Wide view of Dib Bangkok's central courtyard, with the cone-shaped Chapel reflected in a still pool and a small figure at the far end
Society

Kulapat Yantrasast and the Asian Museum Century