Timothy Latterner

In the Before Times, when the world wasn’t (as) scary and going to Paris was as simple as buying a ticket and booking a hotel, it was easy to pick up a favorite shampoo from that one little boutique in Le Marais. And if you were in Tokyo, you could buy the greatest canned coffee known to humankind from vending machines lining the streets—and it was well worth the overweight baggage fee to stock up on a suitcase full to bring back home. Alas, shopping sprees abroad are on hold for the time being.…

Last year, I boarded a red-eye from L.A. to New York and got settled into my aisle seat, 10C. Next to me, in 10B, a woman was already working on an Excel spreadsheet on her laptop, with papers spread across her folded-down tray table. She was clearly focused, putting her tray table up for take-off, but dropping it back down the minute we hit 30,000 feet to get back to it. Since I was on a flight without seat-back screens, I pulled out my laptop too, to stream some in-flight entertainment. The op…

All products featured in this story are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. As a travel writer, I (usually) spend a lot of time in airports, where stressors abound. I’m constantly afraid of baggage getting lost, if I’m going to miss hearing my boarding section called and have to wait at the back of the hoard for overhead space, how much I’ll overpay for a stale brioche turkey sandwich, and so on. Ha…

Whether you live in New York City or are just passing through, space is always of the essence. Even the most luxurious hotel rooms are smaller than you’ll find elsewhere. The result of living with limited square footage is that one’s “home” often extends beyond any apartment, enveloping daily haunts—that go-to restaurant, the coffee shop around the block, the bar you always find yourself ending the night at. For many New Yorkers over the last 40 years, The Odeon has been all of those places. Fou…

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Anyone familiar with Beata Heuman’s work—either from following her Instagram feed populated with cheery, inviting interiors, reading her lauded design monograph Every Room Should Sing, or shopping from her collection of whimsical-but-grounded decor—can sense the designer’s personality in every room she touches. Her work is a unique balancing act between playful colors, toile patterns, and plush fabrics, and the characteristics that remind one of home: weathered woods, handwoven rugs, and checker…