Town & Country US - May 2021

The Coup of the Year

Charles Lewis Tiffany was always a “just do it” kind of guy. One need only trace the early history of the house he founded in 1837 to see a theme emerge

Los Angeles, New York

L.A.’s first Keith Haring museum exhibition gives an East Coast mood its moment in the sun

Shmooze or LOSE

Oh, did you think getting ahead in 2023 wouldn't require leaving the couch? Stop scrolling and think again

THERE'S A LESSON IN THIS

If you haven't been able to get your hands on Jed Johnson's highly collectible book of interiors, your luck is about to change. A reprint of the design classic is out now, and his work is as classically radical as ever

The Queen Mum Defense

Could a 101-year-old matriarch who drank Dubonnet every afternoon be wrong? Yet suddenly teetotalers are everywhere, pouring you mocktails and proselytizing on your podcasts. Inside the new zero-proof doctrine

The Women Come and Go, for Michelangelo Searching

Can you sculpt back the clock?

The WOO WOO Establishment

Crystals, mushrooms, visions, and energy healing have evolved from follies of hemp-wearing hippies into status symbols for the one percent. So rev up your chakras, and don’t forget your credit card

DA VINCI WAS A DOUBLE MAJOR

After a decade of parents rushing to enroll their children in specialized math classes, and university humanities departments in crisis mode, a radical education movement is taking hold. Why not have students study Shakespeare and the quadratic formula? Prepare for a new Renaissance generation

Liar Liar: BRAIN ON FIRE

Welcome to the age of the fabulist. Facts are more accessible than ever, yet charlatans are thriving. Are humans getting more shameless? Or is brain science showing us that we just need something to believe in?

Where It All Begins

Americans’ greatest contribution to fashion is the confidence and ease of our style. Fifty years ago a group of designers, and this model, showed the French how it’s done, and changed how we dress forever