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A new hotel on Mexico's Oaxacan coast, a fashion designer's floral rugs — and more.

View in browser|nytimes.com February 5, 2025 Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Each week, we share things we're eating, wearing, listening to or coveting now. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every Wednesday, along with monthly travel and beauty guides, and the latest stories from our print issues. And you can always reach us at tmagazine@nytimes.com. STAY HERE On Mexico's Oaxacan Coast, a New Hotel With Earthen Architecture and a Rooftop Bar All rooms at Hotel Humano face a terra-cotta-tiled central courtyard planted with tall palms. Guests staying on the ground floor can access the hotel's main pool directly via small private terraces.  Edmund Sumner By Suleman Anaya Once a bohemian enclave popular among surfers and backpackers, the Oaxacan town of Brisas de Zicatela (or "La Punta," as locals call it), just south of Puerto Escondido, has evolved into a buzzing tourist spot, its big waves and boisterous mezcal bars now attracting a still young but decidedly less countercultural crowd. Hotel Humano, the latest offering from Mexico City-based Grupo Habita, both embraces the area's lively ambience and offers a refined respite from it. The 39-room, three-level property opened in late December on a busy street that becomes a party strip every evening, but its striking design creates an elegant barrier between the action outside and the considered details within (while an enforced municipal ordinance also requires loud music to stop at 11 p.m.). The building, designed by Jorge Hernández de la Garza, follows the current fad, in local architecture, of disguising heavy concrete structures with earthy textures meant to evoke vernacular constructions; here, breeze walls made of pale clay bricks provide privacy and shade, allowing air to sweep through. Linen lampshades, toffee-hued glazed tiles and big stainless steel sinks by Madrid-based Plantea Estudio add a lighter, contemporary touch, most effectively in eight suites featuring terraces with soaking pools. Guests and visitors alike can enjoy Humano's casual cafe and juice bar in the double-height lobby, French fare by the self-taught chef Marion Chateau served in the palapa-covered poolside restaurant and the rooftop bar's concrete bleachers — La Punta's best spot to take in the sky at dusk. From $190 a night, hotel-humano.com. COVET THIS A Fashion Designer's Colorful Rug Collection Left: the fashion designer Victor Glemaud with the Biétry rug in Garden from his Patterson Flynn collection. Right: the Biétry rug in Terracotta.  Melanie Acevedo By Roxanne Fequiere Over the past 19 years, the fashion designer Victor Glemaud has gained a devoted following for his vibrant knitwear. His own wardrobe features an equally eye-catching array of bright colors and prints. "I've always dressed the same. It's just the clothes got better as I grew older," he says. He aims for consistency in his approach to interior design, too, gravitating toward dashes of color in the form of flowers, textiles and art — sometimes created by his nephews and goddaughter. Now, Glemaud has channeled his signature aesthetic into his latest home design collaboration: a collection of rugs made by the carpet company Patterson Flynn. A journey abroad provided the initial spark of inspiration for his creations. "The concept started with these gorgeous hand-painted bowls I picked up at the Grand Marché De Treichville market in Abidjan, Ivory Coast," Glemaud recalls. "On the plane ride back to Paris, I started looking at images I had taken, mixing [in] references from trips to Dakar and Copenhagen." His favorite of the resulting four designs, titled Biétry, is available in two colorways and materials (flatweave wool or abaca, a fiber that comes from the bark of the banana tree) and features a geometric design with a cheerful floral border. In a nod to Glemaud's fashion background, the full collection features additional unexpected materials like hand-spun silk, cotton and raffia. Price on request, pattersonflynn.com. SEE THIS The Artist Dan Friedman's Fantastical Furniture, on View in New York Left: an installation view of Dan Friedman's show "Why Shouldn't I Have Fun All Day?" at Superhouse in New York. Right: Friedman's "Basic Screen" (1981). Courtesy of Superhouse, New York. Photos: Matthew Gordon By Juan A. Ramírez Number one on the artist Dan Friedman's 1994 "Radical Modernist" agenda, which he wrote a year before his death from AIDS-related complications, is "Live and work with passion and responsibility; have a sense of humor and fantasy." That tenet is at the core of "Why Shouldn't I Have Fun All Day?," an exhibition at Manhattan's Superhouse gallery focused on Friedman's art furniture. It's the first solo gallery show of Friedman's work since his death in 1995, and includes several pieces from his private home collection that have never been publicly displayed. Stephen Markos, Superhouse's founder and director, sees a kinship between Friedman's practice and his own project to exhibit and promote New York-based art furniture makers. "Because Dan was friends with Keith Haring and that group, he was someone who pushed furniture into the fine-art sphere, which is what I try to do with the gallery," he says. Friedman's home goods were informed by his work in graphic design (his clients included Citibank and the downtown couturier Willi Smith), which similarly combined Swiss Style simplicity with extravagant Pop Art flourishes. In the 1980s, Friedman began making assemblages out of trash and crafting colorful, oddly shaped folding screens, which he used as canvases and to divide his Fifth Avenue apartment. The first of these screens, which he called "movable walls," is on display at Superhouse, along with assorted items Friedman owned, like a collection of ceramic ducks. A Day-Glo green-painted television set modeled after the artist's own will loop a video tour of his residence. "Why Shouldn't I Have Fun All Day?" will be on view at Superhouse, New York, from Feb. 6 through Mar. 22, superhouse.us. EAT HERE A New Rooftop Restaurant in Jaipur's City Palace Left: Sarvato, a new outdoor restaurant at Jaipur's City Palace. Right: the sandook course at Sarvato features ingredients from throughout Rajasthan. Clockwise from top left: Bikaner mushrooms with olive crumble, Udaipur fish, Jaisalmer lamb chop and chicken with saffron butter bread. Left: Bharat Agarwal. Right: Kritin Khandelwal By Sarah Khan The open-air Sarvato Bhadra, a pavilion in the heart of Jaipur's 300-year-old City Palace in the Indian state of Rajasthan, was historically used as a diwan-i-khas, where the maharajah would hold private audiences with visitors. On Jan. 23, Jaipur's current maharajah, the 26-year-old Sawai Padmanabh Singh, began inviting guests back to the rooftop aerie, now reborn as the restaurant Sarvato. Singh partnered with the New York-based hotelier Abhishek Honawar on a tasting menu that's intended to be "a celebration of Rajasthan's heritage, of the region's culinary folklore," says Honawar. Amid age-old surroundings, Sarvato offers a contemporary take on the state's food and design. An amuse bouche, for instance, comes in a sleek brass tiffin box. Inside is a clarified tomato consommé and onion dumpling paired with bajra pithod, petite discs of pearl millet sandwiched with a mirch malai, or chilli-cream, chutney. Another course comes in a filigreed sandook, or chest, holding an assortment that Honawar describes as the "jewels of Rajasthan," with bites of Udaipur fish, mushrooms from Bikaner and a Jaisalmer lamb chop. There's also a tableside phulka cart doling out made-to-order breads at regular intervals. The cocktail menu includes a signature Maharaja Martini made with Cîroc and dry vermouth punched up with pickled mango brine and a dash of pepper. "The idea was to have people spend time in this incredible space," says Honawar, "surrounded by historical monuments on all sides, sitting under the stars." Sarvato will be open seasonally, with reservations available through March, then from September through March 2026; thesarvatojaipur.com. WEAR THIS A Zegna Collection Made of Fine Merino Wool Zegna's Il Conte jacket in the house's newly developed wool, Vellus Aureum. Courtesy of Zegna By Jameson Montgomery Since its founding in 1910, the Italian fashion house Zegna has been known for its men's tailoring featuring innovative wools produced at the company's mill in the Piedmont province of Biella. When it comes to winter staples like sweaters and outerwear, the brand has long sourced the world's thinnest — and softest — cashmere fibers. Now, it's releasing a collection of pieces in a newly developed wool named Vellus Aureum (the term is Latin for golden fleece, in reference to the ancient Greek myth in which the prized wool of a winged ram is ultimately stolen by Jason and his Argonauts). The fabric is made of wool gathered from Merino sheep in Australia. Representing less than 0.05 percent of global wool production, Vellus Aureum is composed of fibers whose diameters measure just 12 to 13 micrometers, as opposed to cashmere, which typically measures 14 to 17. The narrower fibers result in a more delicate textile that feels smoother to the touch. Pieces debuting in the fabric include an assortment of shirting and knitwear, as well as Il Conte (the Count), a stand-collar chore coat named in honor of the house's founder Ermenegildo Zegna, who was given the title of Count of Monte Rubello in the 1930s. From $2,850, zegna.com. CONSIDER THIS An Interior Designer's Travel-Inspired Textiles Left: an 18th-century Indian cabinet containing fabrics from the interior designer Sean Leffers's new textile collections. Right: an English settee upholstered with Leffers's St. Clarens fabric, and pillows covered with his Cirsium Japonicum and Cabo de Rama textiles. Monica Stevenson By Camille Sojit Pejcha For 15 years, the Los Angeles-based interior designer Sean Leffers has been collecting vintage fabrics he encountered on his travels. "My favorite pieces are the ones that clearly show creation across hundreds of years, where you can see the lineage," he says. But when redesigning restaurants and interiors, he struggled to source vintage textiles of the length and strength required — so he began making them himself. He created his inaugural fabric collections — which include prints made using blocks hand-carved in Delhi and ahimsa silk created in Rajasthan — in collaboration with artisans around the world. Inspired by designs from Japan's Edo period, Leffers's new Between Heaven and Earth collection features woven checks, katazome florals (made using the Japanese stencil dyeing technique), and patterns of peonies and chrysanthemums. A second set of fabrics, In the Shadow of Merapi, is named after the mountain that looms over Java, and pays tribute to the history of Indonesian textiles via techniques like warp printing and dobby weaving. "It's about making things that feel connected to our human history of craftsmanship, while also being practical," says Leffers. Available through Kneedler Fauchère's showrooms in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Denver; from $178 per yard, seanlefferstextiles.com. FROM T'S INSTAGRAM She Cooked Dinner for 30. Then She Danced With a Lion. David Chow Growing up in Orange County, Calif., Beverly Nguyen always celebrated Lunar New Year with her family, a custom that her parents brought with them when they emigrated from Vietnam in 1984. When Nguyen moved to New York City in 2010, she in turn carried the tradition with her, sometimes inviting a few friends to her apartment for takeout and other years hosting more elaborate gatherings. This year's party — a dinner for about 30 people at the TriBeCa events space 102 Franklin Street on the Friday night before the holiday — ended up being particularly meaningful. A week earlier, Nguyen's paternal grandmother, Dương Thị Hoan, had died at the age of 95, and the loss, Nguyen told her guests, led her to reflect on the importance of "celebrating one another." Hoan, who was a mother of nine, had a "natural instinct to come together that I think she passed down," said Nguyen, whose four-year-old downtown New York store, Beverly's, sells entertaining essentials, including tableware and cooking tools. "Food heals everybody," she added, "and I think the best thing to do when you're grieving and emotional is to feed people." Wearing a red Ferragamo dress and kitchen-friendly Crocs, Nguyen cooked Vietnamese classics like pork rolls, sticky rice cake with mung beans and pork and Vietnamese pork-and-vegetable spring rolls. For dessert, she put candles in a taro cake from Daronghua Bakery in Chinatown to celebrate two birthdays in the crowd. Click here to read the full story about the Têt gathering, written by Emilia Petrarca, and follow us on Instagram. And if you read one thing on tmagazine.com this week, make it: Courtesy of the brands 1 Piece, 10 Budgets The Best Retro Sneakers to Buy Now Our pick of the season's vintage-inspired running shoes. By Angela Koh Need help? Review our newsletter help page or contact us for assistance. You received this email because you signed up for T Magazine from The New York Times. To stop receiving T Magazine, unsubscribe. To opt out of other promotional emails from The Times, including those regarding The Athletic, manage your email settings. 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