Town & Country Summer 2022

As the mercury rises, the call to dust off our T. Anthonys and book a trip becomes irresistible. Sixty-five years ago T&C understood the impulse, and we turned our April issue into a celebration of domestic travel, capturing the spirit with this aerial shot, by Ronny Jaques, of the “Great American Road,” the finest highway system in the world. Back then we journeyed from New England to California, stopping for dinner at Antoine’s in New Orleans and catching the Metropolitan Opera on tour in Cleveland. Now we’re broadening our horizons—because we can—scouring the globe for exceptional pilgrimages and singular treasures. Let’s go, shall we?…

But where will we be? Around the T&C offces we’re calling this the Summer of Yes: to travel, to adventure, to being carefree (or trying to). This issue is designed to give you all an itinerary to say yes to, in the next few months, or the next year, or the year after. But in case you get to the end and read Sadie Stein’s ode to airport taxis and are still not sure where to tell the driver to take you, below is a T&C itinerary mapped out through our own plans for summer 2022. I’ll be back in Greece, as always. (The people behind Milos opened a hotel in Athens! There’s a hotel in Mykonos called Kalesma that someone told me is “total Zen”!) The house in Paros…

WHERE ARE WE GOING? “The sovereign is the monarchy,” Tina Brown writes in The Palace Papers, the beach read of the summer. Everybody else is “high-born scaffolding.” Right on cue, a fresh, splashy reminder arrives this June, when Elizabeth II celebrates 70 years on the throne, the longest reign on record, and her Platinum Jubilee turns Britain into a party scene that would make Boris Johnson blush. WHAT ARE WE WEARING? When Elizabeth’s great-great-grandmother Victoria ruled 130 years ago, Tiffany & Co. opened on Regent Street, near today’s flagship at 25 Old Bond Street. To mark this milestone, Saatchi Gallery hosts“Vision & Virtuosity,” a show of 400 Tiffany objects (June 10 to August 19). With Wimbledon kicking off shortly thereafter and Oklahoma! at the Young Vic, call this London’s Summer…

Rob Ashford needed a break. In 2013, as the director was preparing to helm both his first opera, The Barber of Seville at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and a production of Macbeth in Manchester starring Kenneth Branagh, he and his partner Kevin Ryan decided to vacation in Tangier, Morocco. During the visit Ashford, who won a Tony in 2002 for choreographing Thoroughly Modern Millie, first heard about Joe McPhillips, the late headmaster of the American School of Tangier, who each year would stage and direct an unusual play at the high school for international students. “He did some crazy productions,” Ashford says. “For instance, Yves Saint Laurent did costumes and Paul Bowles composed the music for the Euripides play Hippolytus.” When McPhillips died in 2007, the productions stopped. Hearing…

The Louis Vuitton store in Las Vegas. MoMA PS1. The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. England’s Houghton Hall. James Turrell is certainly no stranger to high profile art commissions. But that isn’t to say the prolific 79-year-old artist is an elitist. This summer a small mountain town will become the latest locale to be blessed with the contemporary maestro’s magical (read: highly Instagrammable) touch. For three years he has been working on a new Skyspace in Green Mountain Falls, a scenic community of 650 people 90 minutes from Denver. When it is unveiled on June 18, it will be the first of Turrell’s Skyspace series to have been built into the side of a mountain. And it can be reached only via a half-mile hike. Given the artist’s lifelong…

Here’s a trip that literally can’t be topped: Wheeler-Windsor Expeditions’ “Himalaya Helicopter Expedition.” For one week, passengers in specialized high-altitude turbocharged helicopters soar over Everest and seven more of the 14 peaks that make up the aptly dubbed Roof of the World. (Offered twice yearly, the trip costs $26,000 per person, excluding airfare.) Socially speaking, the Wheeler-Windsor partnership is lofty, too. The latter half of the name derives from Edward Edmund Maximilian George Windsor, who was styled at birth as Baron Downpatrick. Now an erudite 33-year-old, he’s more often known as Eddy. In the fullness of time, Windsor—whose godmother was Princess Diana—will inherit the title of his grandfather, the Duke of Kent, a first cousin of the queen. Most of Windsor’s childhood was spent in Cambridge, England, where his parents,…