David Zilber was the sous chef of Hawksworth, Canada’s best restaurant, before he became the fermenter-in-chief at Noma, what many have deemed the best restaurant in the world. Now the food scientist is having the best time in his own Copenhagen kitchen, where he believes our culinary future will be far different from what we’ve come to know.
David Zilber photographed in Copenhagen by Jasko Bobar.
David Zilber has a home, but he is not in it. He is at the library, taking my call. It is one that he has visited many times in the years he’s spent inventing ways for old things to taste ambrosian and new in Copenhagen, nearly 4,000 miles from his native Toronto.
Across the narrow Krystalgade street from Copenhagen Main Library is Københavns Synagoge, designed in the early-19th century by architect Gustav Friedrich Hetsch with Egyptian Revival flourish, and in the lobby is Democratic Coffee Bar, a café where Zilber, 38, procures the elixirs necessary to fuel his many hours of inquiry into topics like the ubiquity of stuffed leaves across a boundless number of culinary traditions. At home is his 16-month-old son, Io, who reminds Zilber of himself with his endless “whys,” who makes him smile, and who, Zilber reports with some consternation, is liable to barrel into the background of a conversation—or into Zilber—at any moment, disrupting and perhaps inflicting minor injury on his subjects.
So, Zilber is at the library, and, on the other end of our video call, he appears to be at peace amongst the many volumes. It would be difficult to imagine him—relaxed, with a gently challenging gaze behind wire-rimmed Thom Browne eyeglasses, his hair bleached and shorn, his grin wry—looking even more at home in his actual home, except for the unassailable detail that his actual home also contains a kitchen. But despite his many years behind the scenes in restaurants where you or I couldn’t dream of a walk-in dinner, Zilber’s true dwelling has always been within compendiums of information. Which is not to say he was a star student; it was grades too poor for university, he says, that led him to a prolific career during which he’s made pinecones taste like bubblegum as Noma’s head of fermentation, or now, in his role working with microbial strains at bioscience company Chr. Hansen, where he “uses life to solve a problem in the most natural way possible.”
But, as much as any expat can be at home several thousands of miles from the Canadian high-rise where he grew up disassembling his father’s drills—where he would come to realize that perhaps the years he’d spent volunteering to make cakes for his friends’ birthdays was an indicator of some comestible curiosity—Zilber sits pretty among the library’s collections of storied texts, in the city where he’s now resided for 10 years.
When I go so far as to describe the backlit shelves of books as “chic,” though, Zilber can’t help but retort that he doesn’t know about that. If true, it would be one of the only things he doesn’t know about. He’s made a career out of understanding the esoteric. Like the way a specific strain of lactic acid bacteria can adjust the flavor and texture of soybean like a tuning fork. To Zilber, everything is connected: artificial intelligence, biological intelligence, the fact that he can make dinner at home nearly every night now that his six-plus-year run at Noma has come to an appreciative close. The sausage swinging from the rafters in the Canadian butcher shop where he broke down animals years ago, in another life, made with bacteria that came from the company where he works now. The culinary trends tearing through the world of fine dining today and the way we’ll answer the question, What do you want for dinner? a century or two in the future.
The way he sees it, we’re about to get our comeuppance. “The canary was silent in the coal mine for a while before the pandemic,” he says. Labor shortages, restaurant closures, these were not new phenomena—but they were catalyzed and exacerbated.
“I have fears for the coming 100 years,” he says. “You can’t build an economy where middlemen are expecting to be paid a premium endlessly. You can’t have three men at the top supported by this whole working class that’s being paid borderline minimum wage. The math doesn’t add up. The price of food has been subsidized by cheap labor, cheap oil, or other externalities we haven’t been taking into account for too long.” We’re more or less at the precipice of a culinary-industry Big Short, he thinks—not today, but “you can see the bill is going to come due,” he says. “You will see breaks in the system. Things people want to cook are not available in grocery stores, groceries taking up more of peoples’ income before a chef even transforms it and adds a 60 percent premium to cover his overhead.”
Meanwhile, says Zilber, there’s a cultural creep toward a new sort of luxury. Away from fine dining rooms with €1,500 prix fixe price tags and toward simple authenticity. “I know people who will travel to a small town on the coast of France to eat, not at a Michelin-Starred restaurant, but somewhere where there’s a grandma making bean stew and chickpea panisse,” he says. “The rug has been pulled out beneath us: Everything we were raised to believe will not be given to us. We’ll have to reinvent our definition of luxuriousness and find a new definition of decadence.”
A return to basics isn’t so much avant garde as it is cyclical. “Authenticity has long been this elusive unicorn people all over the world have chased; we got away from that for a while, everything was about tearing apart the establishment and everything needed to be this new version of itself,” he says. These days, more often than not, you’ll find Zilber seeking dinner in his own kitchen. Last night, he made bolognese for his partner and for Io, who he says is “notorious even at daycare for being especially talkative at mealtime when he likes something.” A few nights before that, Zilber put a Thai spin on the Vietnamese dish phở gà, inspired by a recent trip he made to cook in a guest chef series at Hom in Bangkok. In true Zilber fashion, he served guests a “juice” pairing alongside his menu, including a viridescent blend of ice-clarified avocado water and black mint with Thai coriander and sorrel, and lacto-fermented custard apple pulp in jasmine tea. To eat, there was rock lobster, conch, and melon sorbet peppered with ginger lime, served in a rind balanced jauntily in a bowl of crushed ice. Since he’s been back, Zilber’s been keeping it luxuriously simple, with Hainanese chicken one night and dumplings another. Recently, he took Io back to Toronto for his first birthday. It was the first time Zilber has ever felt homesick. Until then, he’d only ever missed the food: Jamaican patties, the spoils of Koreatown, taquerias, oxtail stew, rice and beans. Watching Io get to know the place where he spent so many formative years reminded Zilber of everything the city had afforded him growing up: deeply entwined diversity, warm strangers in coffee shops. It made him think about what it will be like to raise Io in Copenhagen, where he feels at home now. It reminded him of his grandparents, who arrived in Canada speaking only Yiddish, and who watched their children grow up with a language that was not their own.
But Zilber has made a home of his own, in a new city, where he gets to put on a nightly show for a little boy who loves to try the things he’s made: glassy-crisp tonkatsu, yakisoba served with a few wedges of fresh lime, a tureen of mapo tofu. And in the home that he’s made, Zilber relishes watching his son experience the world in his own way, bite by bite. The “joy that stems from feeding your friends and family—and from feeding strangers—from watching them,” he says, is “such a high, a core emotion.”
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From global group shows to local newcomers, Frieze London brings emerging and established artists together under one roof to showcase the latest in contemporary art. Here's what's of note.
A savory Chanel dupe catapulted Chloe Wise into virality when it ended up on the red carpet of the luxury label’s very real event. A decade later, the irony may be quieter, but the appeal of luscious foodstuffs in inedible manifestations has taken over.
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Inspired by research and self-reflection, West Bank artist Rana Samara makes beauty from taboos.
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South Korea’s oldest art fair prepares for its biggest edition yet.
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Through paintings rich with color and joy, Chelsea Ryoko Wong intertwines imagined interactions, poignant memories, and landscapes with stories of communities from near and far.
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vanessa german’s new sculptures are artifacts of a cosmic pursuit of being. “What if site-specificity was a type of love?” the artist asks. The answer is in the material.
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“Night Market” at Christie’s New York meditates on rituals tied to community and identity with works by 34 intergenerational artists of Asian and Pacific Islander descent.
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Barry X Ball has been breaking rules since leaving behind his Christian fundamentalist upbringing to become a sculptor. When he discovered robotics, he never looked back, he tells artist and thinker Hamzat Incorporated.
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Amanda Wall transforms her own likeness into poetic landscapes that undulate existential and temporal for her debut solo exhibition in New York at Almine Rech.
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Calida Rawles' debut solo museum exhibition in the U.S. celebrates the rich heritage and culture of Miami’s historically Black neighborhood, Overtown.
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Maria Arena Bell is named chair of the LA28 Cultural Olympiad.
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Curator extraordinaire Hans Ulrich Obrist’s favorite object is a miniature world of wonders he’s dubbed the Nanomuseum. At two inches in length and three inches wide, it has followed the Serpentine Galleries' artistic director around the world for the past three decades, carrying the works of artists from Yoko Ono to Chris Marker to Jonas Mekas on any given day.
David Medalla’s posthumous retrospective at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles illuminates his pioneering career.
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Music, mental health, and machines! In Arkansas, recording music artist Jewel's life-long interests culminate in an immersive exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
In Paris, Lily Stockman follows Le Corbusier’s designs to cosmic ends inside the late Swiss-French architect’s Maison La Roche.
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In Los Angeles, punk-rock artist Kim Gordon revisits her running Design Office trope as she explores living and work spaces through two video pieces, wherein private life bleeds into public persona.
The masterful abstractionist’s collaboration with BMW coincides with her exhilarating career survey at Palazzo Grassi in Venice.
The New Jersey-born, New York-based artist knows a thing or two about love. Her new exhibition this spring at the Broad in Los Angeles is an intimate ode to her community, female empowerment, Black liberation, and queer identity that spans the last two decades of her practice.
A new exhibition featuring work from every artist on the gallery’s 80-plus roster brings its LA outpost headcount to three.
At P.P.O.W in New York, Pat Philips’ dreamlike compositions and eerie juxtapositions meditate on race and class disparities in America.
Palestinian-American artist Jordan Nassar’s motherland is always on his mind. At Anat Ebgi in Los Angeles, landscapes and motifs materialize in intricate embroidery and mosaic tiles.
Across his six-decade-long career, Bruce Nauman has depicted and pushed the boundaries of the human condition. In Hong Kong, a new major survey features a career-spanning selection of his works at Tai Kwun gallery.
Twelve newly created works by 12 intersectional creatives unfold in a mosaic that transcends borders, cultures, and social norms.
In Alex Prager’s latest solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Seoul, the Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker considers the rise of technology and the state of humanity today.
Chantal Joffe’s first solo show in New York since 2017 marks a seismic shift in the renowned British-American artist’s oeuvre.
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For Nikita Gale, the arena is an archaeological site that reflects deeper truths about human nature and the desire to dominate. At Petzel in New York, stadiums are broken open and exposed under the artist’s critical and curious eye.
In a Venetian chapel, Wallace Chan’s titanium faces ooze with echoes.
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Ming Smith has carried a camera with her for most of her life. Her New York exhibition at Nicola Vassell delves into her expansive archive with never-before-seen works from her early years.
Sung Tieu, who immigrated from Hải Dương, Vietnam, to East Berlin as a child, considers herself far more German than Vietnamese. The artist’s works, which often explore precarious aspects of the immigrant condition, are suffused with a sense of rootlessness.
Set in a not-so-distant future, Sedrick Chisom confronts America's violent, racist timeline and redeems mythical antagonists such as Medusa—their traits reframed as projections and products of the society that cast them out.
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Huguette Caland turned to art to express her innermost thoughts and her own physical form. Now in Miami, works from the late Lebanese artist are now on view at her first-ever solo exhibition in an American museum.
In his first solo exhibition in New York in almost two decades, Alessandro Twombly pays homage to ancient Italian civilization, his heritage, and the Roman countryside.
The Los Angeles art dealer opens the gallery’s first location outside of California with an inaugural exhibition by Croatian art collective TARWUK.
For the milestone edition of its art festival, the nonprofit will showcase a unique lineup of contemporary art, highlight a wide array of emerging artists, and host not-to-be-missed cultural discussions.
Sculptor Gisela Colón carries the land of her childhood in Puerto Rico with her. At Efraín López in New York, the stuff it's made of materializes in cosmic shapes.
While everything seems almost too perfect and too smooth, a disturbing smile hides behind the paintings of Chloe Wise’s new exhibition at Almine Rech in Brussels.
Ernie Barnes captured the beauty and perseverance of Black American life for over five decades. Until recently, the late painter was overlooked by the art world. Now his influence is on display at Ortuzar Projects in New York.
The artist’s representation of the U.S. at this year’s Venice Biennale still holds traces from his established rules to create an exhibition experience, including approaching the venue as a club and a church.
Ann Binlot had high hopes and a jam-packed schedule for the opening of the 60th Venice Biennale. Here’s what Family Style’s editor-at-large was actually able to see.
Idris Khan deconstructed a selection of Old Masters paintings by color. Then he created a symphony of geometric abstractions.
Lauren Halsey’s hometown of South Central, Los Angeles has influenced nearly all of her works. The artist’s latest installation at this year’s Venice Biennale reframes this heritage through ancient Egyptian architecture.
Nil Yalter has spent her career investigating lives in flux. Through her boundary-pushing work, this year’s Venice Biennale lifetime achievement award winner documents her own constant movement across mediums, borders, and identities.
A new exhibition in Venice, Italy underscores the abstract undercurrent within the artist’s figurative works with works depicting zoomed-in observations of nature and the late mid-century fashion designer Claire McCardell’s archive.
New Mexico-based Indigenous artist Rose B. Simpson unveils a tender public sculpture in New York City.
Olivia Erlanger’s immersive, multi-part installation at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston marks the multidisciplinary artist’s first solo museum show. An unnerving short film about haunted appliances sets the stage.
Lynda Benglis has spent decades forging an unparalleled sculptural practice that nods to the inchoate and ever-enigmatic fog of distant memories. Revealing two new works here, the artist reconnects with longtime curatorial collaborator and veteran dealer Adam Sheffer.
The 12th edition of Frieze New York takes over the city with boundary-pushing immersive performances, film screenings, music, and more.
Japan-born Saya Woolfalk constructs a thought–provoking moment of respite amongst the chaos of Hong Kong.
Elizabeth Glaessner’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, “Now you’re a lake,” unfolds in a series of imaginative and emotional confrontations between ambiguous figures and bodies of water.
The 2024 Young Collectors Council Party at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum featured a transcendent one-night-only immersive installation by the artist.
Long overshadowed by her 10-year relationship with Pablo Picasso, the works of the late French painter Françoise Gilot are now being celebrated in a solo exhibition in Paris.
The nonprofit’s new Chinatown location marks its return to Manhattan and is inaugurated by a cosmic exhibition by Derrick Adams.
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Palestinian artist Yazan Abu Salame uses a variety of materials—and a background in construction—to explore the psychology of separation.
Since the 1960s, the Palestinian artist has made art that is personal and inevitably political.
Trailblazing artist Judy Chicago opens up about her New Museum retrospective and her 60-year-career built on taking up space.
Samantha Ronson has a love-hate relationship with her shoes that she can’t take off.
Vegetables with Paul McCartney, eggs with Lady Gaga, and kimchi alone: Mark Ronson offers a glimpse into his music-filled life to sister and fellow DJ Samantha Ronson.
This year I choose as much love as possible for Valentine’s Day. And Sugar.
Samantha Ronson has endured the crazy, so you don’t have to.
After a life of cocktails and take-out, the DJ-musician has found a new relationship with food. And it’s f*cking delicious, as she writes in her new column for Family Style.
We revel in shapes that cast shadows with our bodies, angular and strong. Metamorphically, these fabrics realize our fantasies and dreams into otherworldly sizes and forms. Materials billow up and build around us. Soon enough, we become monuments of our own.
Clothing and home brands Auralee and Tekla release a collection inspired by Nordic and Japanese bathing cultures.
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Prada and Axiom Space designed a sleek spacesuit to be worn by NASA astronauts on their mission to the moon, marking mankind’s first voyage in over 50 years.
She arrives at midnight in six-inch heels, floating on a cloud of oud. Aura metallic. Whispers hum around her like a force field: She says she comes from Saturn. Wet skin, lips. Icy eyes, slicked hair, stacked hoops. There is no other option but to believe her.
At the helm of Issey Miyake, Satoshi Kondo translates the ineffable quality of a cloth—the spaces it fills and forms between the body—into thoughtful garments.
Run your fingers along your clothes and let intuition guide you. Dress and go north until the cityscape disappears and green takes over. If you can’t leave, go within yourself and plant a tree. Wait for it to grow. Climb its branches and look out at the horizon until you’re one with it.
Haider Ackermann has earned the luxury of reflection. Now, the designer known for inspiring desire is surer than ever in the resonance of his own voice.
Clothes shrink and disappear under the unforgiving, white-hot summer sun. But for the whimsical and inspired, the bone-dry heat is no match for the fantasy of getting dolled up. Wools, gowns, hats, tinsel, and sequins are, after all, a glamorous barrier against sunburn—and when the Mediterranean breeze rolls into the eastern coast, they rustle, billow, and glisten to the rhythm of castanets in the distance.
The fashion creations of Torishéju Dumi reveal equal parts distortion and elegance, inspired at once by Nigerian mysticism and a myriad of familial anecdotes.
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Not too long ago, style was truly personal. Outfits offered a safe and temporal space to experiment with identity, says Stefano Tonchi. Clothes faded back into the closet after the day was finished, sans digital footprint.
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Daniel Lee tapped artist Gary Hume to resurrect his work from the ‘90s for Burberry’s Spring/Summer 2025 show at London’s National Theatre.
Captured by many but only really known by a few, Carolyn Murphy has conquered ubiquity while preserving the sanctity of mystery. But who is the fashion chameleon when she steps back from the glaring spotlight? As the legendary model confides to long-time collaborator Michael Kors: whoever she wants to be.
After a captivating runway show at the Guggenheim, the house announced an exclusive New York City capsule collection.
Prada’s Fall/Winter 2024 campaign has a hotline—call it and the artist, writer, actor, and filmmaker’s voice will answer.
Fleshy eggplant, a recovered Rolex, and the breadcrumbs of a forgotten night—what goes bump by the light of the moon often surprises when revealed the morning after.
Channeling its iconic house codes, Chanel’s new product—at once a necklace, watch, and pair of headphones—is the city dweller’s new Swiss Army knife.
Issey Miyake Homme Plissé releases the first wave of items from its new collection with Ronan Bouroullec, a harmonious blend of billowy silhouettes and gestural strokes.
Balenciaga's new collaboration with Apple allows users to imagine its clothes through spatial computing technology.
Cult grocer Erewhon dips its toe into footwear with a new collaboration with UGG.
We realize the magic of making something out of nothing when we’re young. Tire swings spiral beneath large oak trees, and scraps of fabric and jewel-toned yarn billow into ready-made couture gowns. As time passes by and materials fade into well-worn memories, this world-building persists, appearing when and where we least expect it.
The fashion house’s everyday approach to luxury spills out into fragrances that can be lathered on, spritzed atop, bathed in—or all of the above.
Mass produced or hand crafted, decorative or practical, an object always has a subliminal use. Pens to write, clothes to wear, books to read. We see a shape and innately know what to do with it. But what if we didn’t? What if, for a moment, we willed ourselves to forget—and instead of utility, we saw limitless possibility?
Inspired by their dual practices in observance—of shapes, of textures, of objects—Andrés Jaña and Javier Irigoyen examine the temporality of objects and the rhythms and expressions they reveal when given the space to be.
Prized possessions do not arrive often, but when they do, they stay long, inhabiting the warm corners of our lives. These are the materials that distinguish our environments, the poetic flairs that find their way into descriptions of our personhood. She makes her coffee at home, eats an egg from a silver cup, pins her singular style on shoes and bags, and treasures the tangible: well-crafted silverware, china, objects for memories to coalesce.
Inspired by the opulence and glamor of New York’s freewheeling ‘70s, the Chloé’s Spring/Summer 2025 collection channels both the muse and the maker.
Paloma Elsesser is an everywoman in a monomyth. The supermodel has spent her hot ascent to fame atop a pedestal built, in many ways, to reduce its subject to material matter. Her resilience and humanity pervades. This fascination with the charged nature of physicality reverberates in the work of Ser Serpas, the artist who choreographs found objects into animated, poetic, and dystopian scenes.
The house reopened its Washington, D.C. location last week with designs inspired by Gabrielle Chanel’s Paris home and the founder’s love of the arts
Banana Republic’s 2024 Summer collection is rooted in optimistic escapism. Starring American model Taylor Hill, the brand’s latest campaign transports to sun-splashed spots in Mérida, Mexico.
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An exhibition on the legendary French fashion designer in Lacoste, France explores his relationship to the world of cinema.
An elemental gift guide to celebrate the maternal force in your life.
During any other ski season, Axel de Beaufort, Véronique Nichanian, and Christophe Goineau might find themselves independently gliding down the fluffy runs of the Swiss Alps. But this past winter, the three Hermès creatives headed west to Aspen, Colorado.
The finalists of this year’s LVMH prize include a diverse range of emerging designers united by sustainability, ethical practices, and an emphasis on womenswear.
Precious metals shimmer as hands dance across a long wooden dining room table to embrace, pass plates, raise toasts, emote. A familiar symphony of family heirlooms, tokens of love, and pendants of personal eccentricities clink and rattle as some float in and others assume their seats at the table.
Parisian label in the making, Zomer proves that good things still come to those who wait—and friendships really can last forever.
Little blue boxes have always accented Lauren Santo Domingo’s life. But as she settles into her new role at Tiffany & Co., she’s gathered new memories from its storied archives.
Maty Fall Diba and Ajok Daing remind us what true friendship looks like.
Lafayette 148’s new capsule collection with Claire Khodara and Grace Fuller Marroquin commemorates the life and legacy of their artist mother, Martha Madigan.
Almost six decades after its original release, a French New Wave classic is recreated in a new short film for Chanel. Directed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, the tribute brings together Penélope Cruz and Brad Pitt on screen for the very first time.
In its first foray outside of Paris, the luxury fashion house opens its first flagship store on New Bond Street. The three-story boutique blends fine art and haute couture.
After two years of renovation, the French fashion house reopens its Highland Park Village doors with an intimate and object-filled foray into its history that is firmly rooted in the present.
The hidden meanings and influences behind Simone Rocha’s awe-inspiring designs are explored in-depth for the first time in a new book set to be published in September of this year.
Unlimited carnival rides, a performance by Lil Wayne, and hot dogs and champagne. The Double Club took LA on a wild ride.
From the films of David Lynch to the music of Nina Simone, the late American composer Angelo Badalamenti’s haunting compositions left an indelible mark. Now this fashion house is underscoring his legacy.
Gucci’s new SoHo outpost is more than just a beautiful boutique. The over 10,000-square-foot-space doubles as an art gallery with works by Alghiero Boetti and Sasha Stiles in a program curated by Truls Blaasmo.
Style.com was ahead of its time, bringing some closer to the runway—and others to one another—more than ever before. For Family Style's debut print issue, several editors from the legendary digital platform reunited for brunch at Paris’ gilded Cheval Blanc to reminisce about their glory days of street style, cutthroat story turnarounds, and changing the world.
“The New Village: Ten Years of New York Fashion'' at Pratt Manhattan Gallery makes the case that the city’s D.I.Y. sensibilities still pack a punch in a sartorial group show that fuses art and design.
The seventy-nine-year-old Japanese menswear icon’s closet is influenced by the changing landscape.
Amongst the treasures of Love House's new NYC design gallery, Family Style found beauty, inspiration, and even obsession for Valentine's Day. Can you blame us?
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Why are so many culinary creatives covered in tattoos? Family Style met with six beautiful New Yorkers making beautiful food and beverages and stripped them down to find out more.
Peter Do and Trisha Do grew up near each other in Vietnam, but the pair didn’t become friends until meeting each other across the world, where they bonded over their shared experiences and cooking as an expression of love.
After a year’s-worth of wants, wonts, and will-I-evers, it’s finally time for the main event of the season: gifts. Take Family Style's inaugural holiday tasting menu, which spans fashion, accessories, and trophies for the home, less as an ordained prescription and more of a cherished collection of desires; many of which will surely bring a smile to a loved one’s face as well as your own, of course.
Trick-or-treating at Climax Books’ New York expansion reveals a vault of goth obscurities and witchy reads.
In her new Family Style column, Whitney Mallett investigates the prep power of Buck Ellison's art book—making sense of Brandy Melville and American exclusion trending in an election year.
For chef Chinchakriya Un, food is a medium for preserving memories of Cambodia, its history, its culture, and its flavor. For a collaboration with New Inc.’s Creative Science Dinner, she brought it all to the table, as she shares with the organization's director Salome Asega.
Writer Laura Rysman moved to Italy nearly two decades ago—and it wasn’t long before the country won her heart and her stomach.
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Geoffrey Mak shares a recipe for spicy, minced pork that he perfected over the year he spent living with his parents.
Laura May Todd shares a family recipe for pasta sauce—uncomplicated and warm.
Sonia Szóstak takes photos that are otherworldly, but this pasta brings her back to Earth.
The fashion writer opts for a simple and elegant rice dish. The twist? A splash of lemon.
Lotus Kang shares her two-part recipe for gosari namul, or stir-fried fernbrake.
Photographer Jack Bool makes his macaroni and cheese with a sweet and spicy twist.
Frederica Simoni shares her precise cherry-pitting method for the perfect pickled fruit.
In New York, Russell Steinberg is bringing fresh energy to the locale in a deeply personal vision in the form of new restaurant Cecilia on Saint Marks.
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Innovative and extreme, Family Style's Fall 2024 issue guest chef Laila Gohar has never been one to stop short of her imagination—just ask the thousands that stare in awe at her larger-than-life food installations.
Aileen Kwun shares her mother’s nourishing and adaptable Korean rice dish.
Elisabeth Toll shares her classic Lent recipe for cardamom buns.
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Pop-ups are a dime a dozen in New York, the food capital of the world with the least patience. So what happens when The Polo Bar, one of the most difficult restaurants to get a table at, temporarily exits the city? Magic.
The London-based photographer shares fail-proof instructions for classic toast.
Reserved for special occasions, Toby Coulson shares his recipe for a berry-topped sponge cake.
Stylist Ben Schofield shares a simple yet nourishing dish.
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The fashion photographer captures the essence of home in this Mexican-inspired familial dish.
The LA-based photographer and director is inspired by the aromas of his mother’s cooking.
Stylist Daniel Gaines turns to this nostalgic recipe as an easy-to-make dessert when entertaining at home.
The writer presents a crowd-pleasing potato dish that is perfect for year-round enjoyment.
The writer’s take on a traditional French staple is both innovative and nostalgic.
What comes first, cereal or milk? The sculptor and thinker’s answer flips the script.
Downtown Manhattan’s beloved Claud celebrates its two-year-anniversary with a decorative spin on its foodie-favorite devil's food cake.
Faran Krentcil’s cross-continental pasta is inspired by late-night Fashion Week delirium.
Kyle MacLachlan has specific rules when it comes to roasting his cruciferous of choice.
Virginie Benarroch shares her simplified take on a chocolate mousse.
A nostalgic blend of family traditions and whimsy inspires the work the artist makes as well as the meals she cooks.
The New York-based photographer taps into his French roots with his father’s classic combination of french bread and jam.
Actress and writer Annie Hamilton shares her no-nonsense, on-the-go breakfast routine.
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Three decades after Thomas Keller reinvigorated The French Laundry in Napa, California, the eatery still remains one of the best in the world. Michael Minnillo, the restaurant's oldest employee turned general manager, explains why.
The stylist’s version of this simple yet refined main course is a crowd-pleaser.
This flavorful recipe originally from Wolfgang Puck has become a staple in the Los Angeles-based artist’s kitchen.
The high profile Danish architect Bjarke Ingels prefers a classic New York dessert, chocolate cake from the River Cafe.
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At Matilda in Upstate, New York, Jeremiah Stone and Fabian von Hauske find room to breathe—and crisp potatoes.
In San Francisco, Veuve Clicquot and Dominique Crenn’s flower child of a dinner party sets the stage for the Champagne maison’s latest vintage.
New York-based artist Ser Serpas shares a taste of her hometown staple, made with love by her grandmother
When the London-based photographer is hungry for a taste of home, she turns to her parents’ handwritten instructions for this rustic pastry.
Little time and less ingredients creates culinary pressure—and inspiration?
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A refreshing vegan dish keeps the New York-based photographer connected to her California roots.
A new restaurant opens inside Bergdorf Goodman in collaboration with porcelain maison Ginori 1735.
In the heart of Portland, Oregon, where the culinary scene is as eclectic as the city itself, Gregory Gourdet interweaves centuries of history with his own memories. For Family Style No. 1, the James Beard Award-winning chef has imagined a unique three-course menu that is as powerful as it is personal.
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David Eardley’s grandmother has influenced his taste from design to cocktails.
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Peter Pan’s old fashioned Frankenstein is sensational without shock value.
The Berlin-based writer shares a recipe for burbur injun, or black rice pudding, that was passed down to her during her time in Ubud, Bali.
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Photographer François Coquerel returns to a modest yet nostalgic classic: instant noodle soup.
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Khushbu Shah's debut cookbook is the only convincing you need to stay inside this summer and try your hand at Indian American delicacies.
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The legendary Italian designer lived his life with an irreverence for rigid rules. Like his iconic designs, this recipe is anything but ordinary.
The story behind the writer’s go-to financier cake recipe includes a Parisian neighbor and a psychic.
A reverence design shines through everything the curator and author touches, including his preferred plate.
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At Saffy’s in Los Angeles, go with the flow—and order extra flatbread.
The New York-based writer shares her great-grandmother’s recipe for this fragrant comfort food.
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The architect and founder of Counterspace shares her childhood memories of hours spent folding sculptural pastry.
A noncommittal referral and blocks of over-appealing options in Galway, Ireland left vacationer Ella Quittner wondering if Daróg should be the first of three dinners. But the boutique wine bar changed her mind.
Francis Mallmann has lived many lives. He’s pioneered open-fire cooking, built his own restaurants from the ground up—plus a museum—and even picked up embroidery. Through it all, Family Style's Summer 2024 guest chef has learned lessons that make life a little sweeter.
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A delicious Filipino pop-up at New York’s WSA building brought together artists, performers, and lechon-enthusiasts.
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When the Brooklyn-based writer is craving something sweet but easy to make, she whips up her mother’s recipe for chocolate pudding.
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The New York-based artist shares a recipe for the classic Nigerian dish: ogbono soup.
Nothing is as good as the original but New York’s three best Japanese egg sandos are as close to home as they get.
The New York-based photographer shares his family’s spin on sancocho, a classic Latin American and Caribbean dish of his childhood.
The New York-based photographer pays tribute to her grandmother with this delicious Czech dish.
Add this not-so-known Sicilian trattoria to your Italian vacation itinerary.
Alain Ducasse began quietly leading a plant-based revolution in the late ’80s, and has continued to experiment with vegetable-forward haute cuisine since. It’s an appetite to better the world that he shares with Daniel Humm, whose creative culinary philosophy has both amazed—and even angered.
The London-based writer, editor, and photographer digs into her Italian roots with this family recipe for coniglio alla cacciatora.
Who needs a dinner date when Automatic Seafood’s fried fish collar requires so much attention?
When it’s apple season in England, the Somerset-raised, London-based photographer knows just what to do. He pulls out his family’s tarte tatin recipe and whips up the beloved classic.
Over the last few years, temaki-style sushi joints have become the go-to fast-but-not-casual rage for New Yorkers with no time to waste. Despite the endless options to dine at, these four should stay top of mind.
The Denmark-based photographer shares his recipe for his go-to comfort food: pura, a cornmeal porridge that brings him back to his childhood.
Sydney Vernon infuses her work with tender and intimate snapshots of Black life. Her own memories of childhood find their way into her art—and her meals, like her mother’s turkey spinach quiche.
Graphic designer Naomi Otsu shares her tried-and-true recipe for her all-curing soba noodle soup, a dish that transports the native New Yorker back to her formative years in Tokyo.
This jewel box pastry shop in New York's Chinatown is legendary for a good reason. So are its hotdogs.
The stylist shares a family recipe for stew she keeps coming back to.
The New York-based fashion stylist, creative director, and brand consultant prefers his toast British-style.
This sparse, old school Italian eatery should be on your Salone del Mobile schedule.
The New York-based photographer shares her recipe for scalloped potatoes and roasted autumn vegetables, a minimalist pairing that brings her comfort whenever she’s in need.
Lately, the city has been raptured by novelty eateries that use exclusivity as a commodity. These tried and true staples—which you can actually get a table at—serve good food without the artifice.
The design expert shares his friend’s recipe for the perfect salty preserved garnish.
There is only one restaurant that comes to mind when the New York-based fashion journalist thinks of fine, bespoke dining.
The acclaimed London-based photographer and director shares his mother’s recipe for their family’s celebratory staple.
David Zilber was the sous chef of Hawksworth, Canada’s best restaurant, before he became the fermenter-in-chief at Noma, what many have deemed the best restaurant in the world. Now the food scientist is having the best time in his own Copenhagen kitchen, where he believes our culinary future will be far different from what we’ve come to know.
With or without a specialty grocer, the breakfast sandwich will cure you.
The writer and art critic shares his mother's spin on the celebratory Jewish bread.
The Paris-based Turkish writer shares her recipe for the perfect morning spread that lasts for hours and is meant for sharing.
The German-born, London-based photographer and director shares his favorite dish from his debut Italian cookbook.
Forget your favorite cooking method, there’s one critical step you’re likely overlooking.
The enigmatic musician and visual artist imbues everything she does with poetry. Here, she shares a boiled potatoes recipe that will warm both stomachs and hearts.
The luxury fashion house opens its debut restaurant and coffee shop in Jakarta, Indonesia. The dual dining establishments take inspiration from the brand’s New York roots—topped with a lifesize replica of the iconic yellow taxi cab.
Ruinart toasts to its year-long artist collaboration program with a Frieze LA dinner celebrating Andrea Bowers and her dedication to environmental justice.
Deep in the heart of Brooklyn, this old-world bakery is a kaleidoscopic Sicilian Willy Wonka candy jungle.
The photographer shares his mother’s recipe for this classic Eastern European dish.
Antonio D’Angelo oversees all of Giorgio Armani’s culinary empire, including Nobu Milano. When Covid-19 put a halt to importing produce from Asia, the executive chef decided to take matters into his own hands, opening his own wasabi farm in Northern Italy of all places.
Three off-the-beaten-Champs-Élysées dinners you must have on any occasion in the City of Lights.
The dual photographer and fashion stylist misses her friends (and their food).
A citrus-y pavlova to turn any somber winter day into a warm dance party.
Don’t Miss the Arroz a la Plancha, the banana pudding, or anything Jacob Nass wants to pour you at this new West Village, New York hotspot.
The Brooklyn-based writer senses what’s missing.
The Russian-Ghanaian artist has been enjoying this dish for more than three decades.
The documentary, portrait, and fashion photographer shares her mother’s recipe for blueberry coffee cake.
The Palme d'Or award-winning director and painter shares his own pasta take on sausage and pineapple.
The renowned British photographer shares his favorite dish. Much like his vivid artwork, it’s pure and simple.
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Forensic chemist Sissel Tolaas has researched the smell of everything from David Beckham’s armpits to Balenciaga’s storied archives. Now, she’s designing scents for The Met.
Finnish-born Tiina Laakkonen has bested all aspects of the fashion industry. Now that she’s sunset her iconic, minimalist Hamptons boutique, what’s the shopkeeper to do? Everything.
For the last four years, I've gone to sleep with and woken up beside Sophia Loren. More specifically: a life-sized poster of the actress and a giant sausage from the film La Mortadella hangs across her bed. The only thing crazier than the plot of the absurdist 1971 movie is the fact that I've never seen it—until now.
Is she sleepy or slept on? A deep-dive into the work of the New Age singer-composer reveals a better understanding of her impact—and my dad’s taste?
American textile designer Dorothy Liebes was one of the most influential textile designers of her time, so why don't more people know her name?
Friends and family from fashion, art, and interiors commuted to the Long Island City, New York gem to celebrate the magazine's Summer 2024 design edition and sip on summer cocktails inside its newly-revealed space.
Family Style No. 2 explores how the objects we surround ourselves with can tell us more about ourselves.
At Salone del Mobile 2024, Family Style presented a first look at the magazine's Summer 2024 design issue in the form of an ephemeral exhibition with Sophia Roe and DRIFT.
Flaky fried chicken, buttery biscuits, plenty of okra, and an unbelievable backdrop: Family Style's SCADStyle dinner in Savannah, Georgia felt like a scene right out of a Hollywood picture.
In collaboration with Banana Republic, the magazine celebrated its brand launch at the iconic New York restaurant with an intimate dinner full of creativity, culinary, and familiar connections.
Awol Erizku, Annie Philbin, Casey Fremont, Tariku Shiferaw joined Marriott International's Jenni Benzaquen and artist Sanford Biggers at one of Los Angeles’ most iconic institutions for a lush dinner by Alice Waters celebrating art and travel.
The theme of Family Style's inaugural print issue is No Place Like Home. Here's why.
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At a landmark Manhattan farm at the end of New York Climate Week, Family Style hosted a sensorial round table for the urgency of climate action and the celebratory spirit of a shared meal.
Between the bountiful California vines and the centuries-old oak trees, Family Style kicks off a quartet of intimate cultural dinners around America in ripe Yountville, California.
