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Next Stop: A Newly Stylish Amman Asserts Itself

“AREN’T you going to check out the terrace?” Madian al-Jazerah said to me. It was just after sunset on a summer Thursday evening, and we were standing on the sprawling front deck of Books@Cafe, the combination bookstore, cafe and restaurant that Mr. ...

From ANDREW FERREN, International Herald Tribune,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Spread (musician)

In Madrid, a Season of Setting Suns

MADRID | Anyone who thinks that the churning clouds and dramatically colored skies of an El Greco masterpiece like “View of Toledo” might be a bit of artistic conceit has likely never been to Madrid in autumn. During these months the late afternoon ...

From ANDREW FERREN, New York Times Travel,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: El Greco

Globespotters: Celebrating Light at Madrid’s Palacio de Cristal

Andrew Ferren Visitors eyeball the Joëlle Tuerlinckx exhibit (lower right) at Madrid’s Palacio de Cristal. MADRID | So subtle are the installations by the Belgian artist Joëlle Tuerlinckx in Madrid’s Palacio de Cristal (Parque de El Buen Retiro; 34-91- ...

From ANDREW FERREN, International Herald Tribune,  7 Nov 2009

Celebrating Light at the Palacio de Cristal

Andrew Ferren Visitors eyeball the Joëlle Tuerlinckx exhibit (lower right) at Madrid’s Palacio de Cristal. MADRID | So subtle are the installations by the Belgian artist Joëlle Tuerlinckx in Madrid’s Palacio de Cristal (Parque de El Buen Retiro; 34-91- ...

From ANDREW FERREN, New York Times Travel,  3 Nov 2009

A Sip of English Tea in Spain

MADRID | On that inevitable day during your Spanish sojourn when your sweet tooth finally rebels at the concept of beer and olives as a late-afternoon snack, try Living in London (Santa Engracia 4; 34-91-319-7958), Madrid’s most authentically English ...

From ANDREW FERREN, New York Times Travel,  29 Oct 2009

Shining a Light on a Lesser-Known Impressionist

Courtesy of Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum “Immortality,” 1889, by the artist Henri Fantin-Latour. MADRID | Stroll through the Impressionist galleries at almost any grand museum — from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to the hallowed halls of ...

From ANDREW FERREN, New York Times Travel,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Foraging: Store Review: Everything’s Jake

On a tranquil stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, in the shadow of such enduring 20th-century icons as the Griffith Observatory and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House, Everything’s Jake, a store for vintage men’s clothing, looks as if it’s been there forever ...

From ANDREW FERREN, The New York Times,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Frank Lloyd Wright,  Don Draper

On Exhibit, an Architect's Favorite Curves

Andrew Ferren A model at the Oscar Niemeyer retrospective at the Fundación Telefónica in Madrid. MADRID | The Brazilian-born modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer is the subject of an expansive exhibition on view through November 22 at Madrid’s Fundación ...

From ANDREW FERREN, New York Times Travel,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Oscar Niemeyer,  Walter Gropius

Globespotters: Street Becomes Sidewalk, and Shopping Blooms

Closing some streets for pedesatrians was a failed idea in the 1960s USA….especially for small towns…and the advent of the suburban mall as the “new” downtown. It’s good to see a resurgence elsewhere. And today…with the demise of the mall …all across ...

From ANDREW FERREN, The New York Times,  26 Sep 2009

Related Topics: State Street

Street Becomes Sidewalk, and Shopping Blooms

Andrew Ferren Calle Fuencarral, a newly pedestrianized street in Madrid. MADRID | The latest thoroughfare to emerge from Madrid’s ongoing –- and, for those near construction sites, headache-inducing -– “pedestrianization” of downtown streets has to ...

From ANDREW FERREN, New York Times Travel,  22 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Custo Barcelona,  Cartier

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