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New York City for more sand all to myself.” Next
ri o er urc i
1. than 20 years—keeps an month, Franklin and her
SPIRIT OF THE NORTH (P. 76)
apartment in London that’s husband, chef Chris Bradley,
For this issue, the decorated with Berber- will release The Phoenicia
photographer, who is style rugs and a shade Diner Cookbook (Clarkson
based on the North Shore of paint called Moroccan Potter), a collection of
of Massachusetts, traveled red. Despite her interiors 85 recipes from their much-
around the Arctic on choices, she hadn’t been loved diner in New York’s
Silversea Cruises’ ice-class to Marrakesh, Morocco’s Catskill Mountains.
expedition ship Silver shopping and design
Cloud. “I didn’t know it was epicenter, until last spring,
possible to get that level of when she went there to 4. o ua e - c a iro
hospitality at the edge of report for T+L. One of OCEANS APART (P. 26)
the world,” he says. When her favorite discoveries “I live in Manhattan but
he wasn’t going on kayaking was Al Nour, a sewing spend as much time as I
excursions and taking “polar cooperative in the medina can on other islands,”
dips” in the ocean, Churchill staffed by women with says the geographer and
attended expert-led lectures disabilities. “They make the author of Island People: The
on subjects like Inuit culture most exquisite clothes and Caribbean and the World
and climate change. “It made linens,” she says. (Penguin Random House).
the downtime feel really full He credits his “islomania”
and educational,” he recalls. to the summers he spent
3. ara . ran in as a child in the Canadian
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province of Prince Edward
2. e ac weene The Hudson Valley–based Island, where he “first
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author first visited the experienced the sense of
The former Vogue features Puerto Rican island of inhabiting a place that’s
director—a resident of Vieques in 2014. She connected to every place
returned last fall—two years by the sea,” he says.
after Hurricane Maria tore
through the Caribbean—
and found the destination 5. ora a a o
more enchanting than ever. SHOP THE CASBAH; VIVA VIEQUES
“It feels wilder and quieter,” “In Marrakesh, I
she observes. Feeling photographed every nook
gloriously uninhibited, she and cranny,” says Matos,
even went skinny-dipping who traveled to the
at Sun Bay Beach. “I had Moroccan city for this issue. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: ISABELLE CHURCHILL/COURTESY OF CHRIS CHURCHILL; PETER FLEISSIG/COURTESY OF EVE MACSWEENEY; COURTESY OF SORAYA MATOS; MIRISSA NEFF/COURTESY OF JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO; NATALIE CONN/COURTESY OF SARA B. FRANKLIN
a pristine stretch of white In contrast, on Vieques,
Puerto Rico, she couldn’t
resist putting down her
1 2 camera to go snorkeling.
“I saw a family of hawksbill
turtles and literally gasped
underwater,” she says. For
her next adventure, Matos
is uprooting her life in
San Francisco and moving
to a 150-year-old dairy farm
in Marin County, California.
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