The Grand Tourist (@thegrandtouristpodcast)

On the 13th season finale of @thegrandtouristpodcast, @danrubinstein speaks with a visionary architect and partner at @omanewyork, @shohei_shigematsu. The pair delve into his experiences growing up in Japan during the go-go 1980s era, unwittingly nailing his first interview with Rem Koolhaas, how his love of Kurosawa films inspired his choice of career, his soon-to-be-completed expansion of Manhattan’s @newmuseum, and more. You can listen to the episode online at the link in bio, or wherever you get your podcasts. Portrait courtesy Louis Vuitton at the @louisvuitton installation, with illustrations by @zebedeehelm. 02: @buffaloakgartmuseum, by @jasonorear 03: @dior installation, courtesy OMA 04: @audreyirmaspavilion, by @jasonorear

The Grand Tourist is pleased to announce our first-ever print issue, available for preorder now. In this 364-page hardcover magazine, you’ll find all of the incredible podcast interviews of our most recent season, along with hundreds of pages of original content from around the globe. You’ll dive into a rarely visited museum in Berlin photographed by @michaelthecanadian, meet Jonathan Anderson’s personal architect @officedka, sail the nile with @chriswallace4 and @jblackerby, explore a newly found American identity with @alessioboniphoto, sail the high seas with @vancleefarpels through the eyes and ears of @maximepoiblanc and @daveybarrett, explore emerging fashion with @spyressence, spend some time in the French countryside with @rolandbeaufre, soak in the latest fabrics with @marlonrueberg and @melissastroll, get into deep conversations with painter @janisprovisor, meet the muses of Milano with @roberto.palomba, tour Seoul with @misterngo and @vak.dongkyun, tour the atelier of @vikramgoyalstudio with @davidalhadeff and @navelichoyal, and explore the feminine form with artist @_tina_lechner_ and @becky_sunshine. And so much more. Creative direction by @matthiasernstberger of @meandfriendsnyc. Still life photos by @maximepoiblanc. Link in bio.

“One of the design world’s most influential podcasters has launched a magazine that entertains, informs, and fills a gaping hole in the luxury lifestyle category.” Thank you @rimasuqi for the incredible story in @forbes on the launch of the print edition of @thegrandtouristpodcast. Link in bio. Issue 01 is available for purchase now.

Designer @vikramgoyalstudio is probably the last person you’d have expected to become a champion of Indian material culture. Having recently made his debut Stateside, he sits down with his gallerist, the founder of @thefutureperfect, @davidalhadeff, to unpack his personal journey from learned economist to enlightened maker for the first-ever print issue of @thegrandtouristpodcast. Photographs @navelichoyal Read the full story online, and sign up for The Grand Tourist Curator newsletter, links in bio.

Artist @_tina_lechner_ analyzes the beauty and vulnerabilities of the female form with her carefully constructed costumes that she photographs to create enigmatic—and sometimes even haunting—portraits. We meet the Austrian multi-hyphenate. “My self-made costumes and their themes are closely connected to the female body. As a woman, I explore the specific needs, boundaries, and vulnerabilities that affect women,” she tells contributor @becky_sunshine in the first print issue of @thegrandtouristpodcast. “For me, the combination of vulnerability and strength can only be authentically expressed through working with women: isolating, protective, and body-augmenting prosthetics, props, and costumes in the tension between utopia and dystopia.” Read the full story online, and sign up for The Grand Tourist Curator newsletter, links in bio.

For the first print issue of @thegrandtouristpodcast, photographer @delphinejouandeau and writer @_e_m_m_a__m_o_o_r_e_ visit the Paris studio of Béatrice Bostvironnois, the creative director of @larsenfabrics to discover the house’s latest Amazon-inspired collection. Emma writes, “‘When Béatrice Bostvironnois was assigned the role of design director at the textile house of Larsen in 2020, she knew the boots were big. Founder Jack Lenor Larsen had recently passed away at the age of 93, leaving an exceptional archive of fabrics that had come to define the spirit of Modernism in woven form. For 70 years, Larsen pushed the potential of yarns to find new textures, testing the boundaries of textile creation and integrating techniques learned from other disciplines. The ‘Larsen look’ became the style everyone wanted to flaunt in their midcentury homes, including Jackie Kennedy when she reworked the White House interiors. Larsen effectively shifted the role of woven material from something that simply softens the edges of the built environment to something that becomes a part of the architecture itself. ‘A synthesis of material and engineering,’ he once said, ‘fabric is inherently related to the architecture which it completes and makes livable’” Read the full story online, and sign up for The Grand Tourist Curator newsletter, links in bio.

In the first print issue of @thegrandtouristpodcast by @danrubinstein, journalist @lauraneilson and photographer @brianwferry visit a vibrant museum in upstate New York that exemplifies the region’s booming cultural significance: @magazzino. Writes Neilson, “’It’s a focused museum,’ says Adam Sheffer, a 57-year-old Boston-raised Italophile of the highest order, who joined the museum [as director, pictured] last fall after more than three decades in the commercial gallery world working with blue-chip galleries such as Pace and Lisson. ‘I wanted to have a different kind of relationship to art, and thus a different kind of conversation with a different kind of person. Italian postwar and contemporary culture—architecture, art, food, and design—have always been of personal interest, so Magazzino was very appealing to me.’” Order the first print issue online now, and read this story online. Links in bio.

Berlin’s state-run Gipsformerei is one of only a few institutions around the world dedicated to formally reproducing works of sculpture at the highest level. For the first print issue of @thegrandtouristpodcast, photographer @michaelthecanadian and writer @camille_freestone give readers a rare behind-the-scenes look at this incredible treasure trove. “Some of these originals are 5,000, even 6,000 years old. You don’t need to imitate only the material, you need to imitate all of the dirt layers or oxidation when it comes to metal objects,” says the Gipsformerei’s Marcin Korbanek. “We do it by using different binders. This is also part of what we are trying to research now, to find out what kind of binders our ancestors used to work with, trying to understand why objects age differently. Unfortunately, not all of the knowledge survived.” Order the first print issue online now, and read this story online. Links in bio.

“I made a decision that I was really coming out because then, at that point, there was no doubt anymore that I was gay because of the photos I was taking. For me, that part stays and remains important to me because it changed my life, and I always say that I was very lucky to be in New York with a camera in my hand. And I could have this mega freedom of expression,” says @alessioboniphoto about his portfolio “The Idea of the Past Is Immutable” he created for the first print issue of @thegrandtouristpodcast. “When I look at my work now, it’s that male element in particular that’s always present. It’s about sexuality. The thing is, after many, many years, I don’t need to literally translate that into an image. A car on fire can be sexual for me, the same goes for a palm tree on fire, same as a runner from the 1943 Olympics, because it’s the male body.” Order the first print issue of @thegrandtouristpodcast online now, and read this story online. Links in bio.

On today’s episode of @thegrandtouristpodcast, @danrubinstein welcomes a true paragon of classic American style, Aerin Lauder, founder of @aerin. On this episode, she speaks about growing up with her legendary grandmother Estée, what she’s learned over years of being in the business, her latest bestselling book, “Aerin Lauder: Living With Flowers” from @rizzolibooks, some simple rules to follow on all things floral, and more. Available wherever you get your podcasts, link in bio. Photo by @douglasfriedman, illustration by @zebedeehelm.

“I remember going to visit family members. My father’s family was from the Maryland eastern shore. And then we’d go visit my uncles, but they wouldn’t go with us to the beach. And I would be like, ‘Why?’ And he was like, ‘I would never go there.’ And I came to understand that when he grew up, you could only go on Thursdays. So because of the segregation laws and that rejection of not being allowed or feeling welcomed in the ocean, he would never enjoy the beach. How that impacted my culture, and that fascinated me. I wanted to learn more about that and understand. And then I wanted the opportunity to give the element back to us, that water is also for us for leisure, and the beach and those kinds of things. And there’s freedom in it. There’s a freedom of taking it back and believing it’s ours.” Listen to painter @calidagarciarawles ( @lehmannmaupin) on @thegrandtouristpodcast, and purchase our first-ever print issue, links in bio. Photos by @gilliangarcia.

“My parents always told me that since I was a child, I had this sort of fascination for the unknown, for adventure,” said curator @nb_lecompte of @nomadcircle to our contributor @giselaatlarge. “I think I’ve always had this urge to be a cultural explorer. I don’t know how to define it, but in a way, I’ve always been compelled to question things, to go deeper, to explore and travel. Everywhere I travel, whether it’s to East Africa, North Africa, India or the Middle East, I am always trying to understand different systems of thinking and creativity and how everything works.” Order the first print issue of @thegrandtouristpodcast online now, and read this story online. Links in bio. Portrait by @depasquale.maffini. Other photographs by @tinkaud.