Chefs Austin Johnson of New York City’s One White Street and Gregory Marchand of Paris’s Frenchie share more than a few passing similarities. The friends and former colleagues both helm beloved restaurants in culinary capitals, and are co-founders of companion farms (Rigor Hill Farm and La Ferme de L’Env) which supply their respective Michelin-starred establishments with produce used in their tasting menus. They each operate more casual sister concepts to their flagship locations: a wine bar companion to Frenchie, and Johnson’s Rigor Hill market and cafe. Crucially, they both take pride in helming, as Johnson puts it, “world-class neighborhood restaurants” driven by community.

To hear it from almost anyone else, “community” might land as little more than a buzzword. But hang around Johnson’s corner of White Street and West Broadway in Tribeca and you’ll see locals’ passion for everything he and his team have created. For instance, Rigor Hill’s remarkable produce never goes unnoticed. For two weeks in May, Catskill ramps from the farm flew off shelves, and so too did a fleeting harvest of white asparagus. Nearly every day of the week, Johnson buzzes between the restaurant, café, and admin offices, and is flagged down by regulars eager to chat about how he is and how things are going. And in the summer, heatwave or no, its sidewalk tables are a favorite destination for local office workers to settle in for a decidedly not-sad desk lunch. In short, the tasting menu, stars, and “best-of” lists are only part of a much larger vision.

That shouldn’t come as a surprise given the years he spent working alongside Marchand as Frenchie’s executive chef. In Paris, Marchand lives down the block from his own restaurant, around which Rue du Nil has transformed from a holdover of the second arrondissement’s dying garment district to a corridor teeming with some of the city’s finest épiceries and culinary purveyors. Both chefs beam, reflecting on their relationships to the regulars, the dogs, and the fellow business owners along Rue du Nil, whose intimacy and camaraderie Marchand describes as akin to “a village within the city.”

On a recent Saturday, around forty One White Street and Frenchie regulars trekked to the Hudson Valley for a peek at the inner workings of Rigor Hill Farm through a tour and a single-seating tasting menu by Johnson and Marchand. Over the course of the seven-hour day, which included a farm tour, cocktail hour, small bites, and a six-course dinner, guests got a sense for the kind of hyper-seasonality that drives both chefs to change their menus up to twice per week.

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Last year, Colony founder Jean Lin and art director Madeleine Parsons debuted the Designers’ Residency: a first-of-its-kind incubator program that aims to introduce American design talents to the global market and ensure their success within an industry often fraught with high barriers to entry. After a successful first iteration that saw an intensive eight-month learning program focused on product development and design entrepreneurship, the inaugural class—Ingemar Hagen-Keith, Alexis Tingey, and Ginger Gordon—enjoyed an exhibition at Colony’s studio and walked away with newfound career wisdom.

Lin and Parsons were eager to bring the residency back and announced an open call for applications, which attracted interest from designers across the country. Four designers were selected for the second class: Alara Alkan, a Turkish-American furniture designer whose pieces explore how nature alters the material world; Steph Betesh, whose Ember Studio focuses on creating long-lasting spaces with an eclectic mix of objects and materials; Maggie Pei, who world-builds by summoning obscured beauty from artful oddities; and Thomas Yang, whose studio melds culture, memory, and inherited techniques to create objects of ritual.

Pieces by the second class will be on display at Colony’s newly opened Tribeca gallery until July 13. Once the show concludes, each designer will be added to Colony’s permanent roster of independent American talents, joining such heavy hitters as Bec Brittain, Studio Paolo Ferrari, Bari Ziperstein, and Vonnegut/Kraft. “We take our role as the vanguard of American design very seriously,” Lin says. “The Designers’ Residency and the studios we launch through it have become our ongoing contribution to the greater whole, shaping a future where designers are thoughtful, community-minded, and creatively authentic.”

The artist and landscape designer upends ephemeral references with paintings that assign new narratives about humanity.

Here, we ask an artist about the essential details behind a recent work.

Bio: Phil Davis, 35, Los Angeles.

Title of work: Untitled (2024).

Where to see it: Fernberger Gallery, Los Angeles, until July 3.

Three words to describe this work: Redolent, histrionic, metal.

What was on your mind at the time: I was looking for source imagery for my show. When I found this, I thought it was a perfect moment wherein the origin story of the reference image illuminates the complexities within. When choosing imagery to paint, I’m always looking to create a situation where things we thought we knew and took for granted unexpectedly change.

Last week, a who’s who of the French fashion and art worlds descended upon Paris’s 8th Arrondissement to celebrate Sarah Andelman’s curation of fine art skateboards for The Skateroom. The crowd posted up at the Hôtel de Crillon, a former palace, where skateboards printed with art by Cindy Sherman, Juergen Teller, Jenny Holzer, Ai Weiwei, and Andy Warhol are installed in guest rooms and common areas. Guests took in the works over a DJ set by Andy 4000 and show-stopping floral arrangements by fleuriste Maison Lachaume.

When was it? June 17

Where was it? Hôtel de Crillon, Paris

Who was there? Ellen von Unwerth, Michèle Lamy, Aline Asmar d’Amman, Inès Longevial, Charles Antoine Bodson, Thomas Lelu, Jon Gray, Jean-Jacques Ndjoli, Odile Soudant, and more.

Pophouse is a full-scope design studio focused on the built environment. Located in Detroit, the brand works on both commercial and residential projects with a specialty in workplace, hospitality, and retail. Their team of designers and strategists works to positively impact people through interior, industrial, and environmental graphic design.

Surface Says: Clients flock to Pophouse for the studio’s demonstrated ability to create considered spaces unafraid to stray from convention.

Olivia Rutigliano’s musings on Jaws might make you watch it differently.

Some museums are staging fewer shows to deepen their existing programs.

Men are starting to “rawdog” long-haul flights for spiritual and emotional relief.

A wild American flamingo has drawn hundreds of spectators in the Hamptons.