where to spend it this fall

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I have a particular affinity for visiting ski destinations in the off-season: This year I’ve been to famous resorts in the Dolomites, Telluride, and Taos, New Mexico, all without witnessing a whisper of powder on any mountain. I also went to Aspen, which is on the cover of this HTSI Fall Travel Special.

Aspen especially surprised me, especially because I hadn’t realized how intertwined the city’s heritage is with the Bauhaus movement. Austrian architect, artist, sculptor, photographer and interior designer Herbert Bayer arrived there in 1946 and was instrumental in both preserving some of the city’s most underappreciated public buildings and creating a new architectural language in its city ​​of adoption. Its most significant contribution is the Aspen Institute campus, which today houses an extensive visual arts program, a summer music festival, and multiple site-specific outdoor installations.

Among its buildings, the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies hosts exhibitions dedicated to honoring Bayer’s legacy. When I visited in July, there was an exhibition celebrating the centenary of Bauhaus typography, a subject that, if you work in any creative field related to typography, should be the object of devotional worship. But I was even more captivated by the discovery next door to the Aspen Physics Center, conceived in 1961 by scientists George Stranahan and Michael Cohen to be a unique research center where theoretical physicists could gather in the summer. It was later described as “a scientist’s paradise.” The discovery of an outdoor classroom filled with a blackboard full of theoretical equations was one of the most magical things I have ever come across.

Bauhaus typography should be an object of devotional worship

But Aspen is all about discovery, whether it’s the incredibly beautiful view that greets you upon arriving at Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Reserve, or the roast chicken dish served at Meat & Cheese Farm Shop, or simply the enormous properties packed in the city space. small avenues lined with fences. Writer Josh Hickey followed in my footsteps in Aspenarriving to cover the annual arts festival and report on the city’s current primacy as a year-round destination. If for no other reason, I would return just to experience the wonder that is Carl’s Pharmacy, a pharmacy first founded in 1965 that now sells everything from bear spray to hard liquor.

The Louis Cheslaw Guide. to the best cottages to rent in the UK answers the eternal question of where to find the “really good” ones. Their selection is a rigorous edition of nine establishments recommended by fashion connoisseurs, shared, albeit reluctantly, with you, dear reader. My dream cabin is located by the sea, next to some decent cliff paths, reminiscent of a fairy cabin and rich in antique and authentic details. A wood stove and a clawfoot bathtub are also optimal.

David Coggins takes on the most grueling task in this week’s edition, eating in Alsace. The French region on the Rhine River plain is famous for its pretzels, sausages and sauerkraut garnie. David bravely set about his work without complaint, gorging himself and sampling the area’s many drinks along with photographer Torvioll Jashari. One can only hope they carried a multi-pack of Alka-Seltzer to control the incipient indigestion.

Alsace appears in more than one story this week. It is also the birthplace of Gdańsk-based yacht builder Francis Lappa former electrician who founded his Sunreef yacht company in Poland in 2000. Most of his competitors looked bemused when he first introduced his catamarans at the annual Monaco boat show. Today this is not the case: Sunreef now employs 2,600 people and generates revenues of 200 million euros.

Alsace is also one of the great terroirs recommended by Enrico Bernardo – once crowned “best sommelier in the world” – in his Wine and travel series published by Assouline. As Alice Lascelles discoversBernardo believes that “it has a strong identity and a distinctive gastronomy that pairs wonderfully with local wines.” I don’t need any more persuasion. Keep the Weisswurst going, guys… I’m on my way.

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