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Thank you, team @tmagazine, for being the greatest colleagues and teachers I’ve had...and for putting together this AMAZING mini-magazine, with some of my words of wisdom (slides 3-6), my famous banned words list (7), and a found poem based on an email I sent banning vitello tonnato at the Salone party. The final slide is some of my favorite covers from the past nine years. Slides 10 and 11 are the gorgeous cake from @nibbline (they saved the head for me). Thank you, everyone. It’s been a joy and an honor.
01 Jun 2026
Have been meaning to post this since Salone! I can’t stop thinking of @dimorestudio cofounder (with Britt Moran) Emiliano Salci’s apartment. This is when I was reminded that 1) all you need to make a memorable space is utter commitment to your vision; and 2) I think my own space is way too bourgeois.
26 May 2026
For my final issue of @tmagazine, I got to publish the story I’ve been trying to get done since appx 2008: a piece that would follow the path of Buddhism as it left Sarnath, in India, and traveled eastward through Asia. At first, I thought I’d write this article myself. But thank goodness 1) I realized I was incapable of doing so; and 2) we have @aatishalitaseer, the mightiest writer on place, religion, and syncretism working today. Aatish went to Nepal, Thailand, and Taiwan to chart how Prince Siddhartha’s doctrine changed and adapted as it made its way across the continent. Along the way, he offers the best explanation of what Buddhism IS, and makes a case for Buddhism in the world today. What else can I say? You just have to read it. It might just change how you think about what religion is, and what it’s for. Up now at tmagazine.com and in your @nytimes this Sunday. Photos by Keerthana Kunnath (@kee_kunnath), who shot Nepal; Tomoko Yoneda, who shot Thailand; and @_maximefossat_, who shot Taiwan. The soundtrack is “Makahannya Haramita Shingyo,” or the Heart Sutra, a key chant in Japanese Mahayana Buddhism. #tmagazine
14 May 2026
How lucky am I to go from #ChantalJoffe’s fan to friend to now, sitter. These two portraits were made over two five-hour sessions in March and April, during which we never stopped talking. Thank you, Chantal, for this singular honor—I still can’t believe I got to sit for you. (The nude is in a private collection.)
05 May 2026
UNCLE HANYA’S LAST SALONE. And the best yet. Thank you to everyone who let me see your beautiful interiors and design, and especially to @tdelavan. @isaloniofficial
24 Apr 2026
Nine @tmagazine @isaloniofficial kickoff parties ✅ no rain, ever ✅ (also, no rain plan!). I don’t have words to thank everyone who makes these parties what they are, especially @kellyoberg and @mollybrownrc and @mradamshapiro at @l52world, @dessellepartners, as well as @villanecchicampiglio, for being our party’s home since before I arrived. This year, the culinary artist/genius @lailacooks embraced the “Jaipur in Milano” theme with mithai and samosas; a designer I’ve admired for years, @m.a.jaipur, conceived of all the decorations, including a dream dinner party setup inside the villa. Thank you to everyone who came, and special thanks to the @tmagazine team, the best around: @davidrfarber @nickkharamis @kurtsoller, and, deservedly, the best-loved person in the design space, @tdelavan.
21 Apr 2026
When I began this job nine years ago, I was reminded daily of how much I didn’t know. What WAS the difference between Italian Rationalist architecture and Futurism? What DID characterize the Viennese Secessionist era, and how did it differ from Art Nouveau? These weren’t random questions, born of free-floating neuroses; they were about topics that actually arose during the workday.
But soon after starting, I came to realize what a gift I’d been given; every day, I was learning something new from people — my colleagues — who understood their respective fields of authority in a deep way. They were sharing what they knew with me, and they were sharing what they knew with you too. It’s rare, in middle age, to get to spend so much time learning something different; I get to do so every day.
One of the reasons I took this job in 2017 was because I felt that we were in an era that called for more journalism, not less. I didn’t want gauzy first-person pieces by people riffing on one subject or another because it was “just” about design or art; I wanted writers who’d take our subject matter seriously, who’d approach a story on, say, garden design with rigor and reportorial skills. Not knowing is never the sin; the sin is assuming that what you don’t know isn’t worth knowing. (The other sin is assuming that just because YOU don’t care about or know about fashion, architecture, art, food or theater it somehow inherently doesn’t matter. Go to any museum and you’ll see: Humans have been taking these subjects seriously for millenniums.)
@tmagazine’s new Culture Issue speaks in part to how being incurious has become acceptable, a source of great sorrow and frustration for many of us. Not knowing is always unsettling. No one wants to have to say, “I don’t know,” or “What is that?” But the alternative is worse because it makes your world smaller. You don’t learn just because you don’t want to be embarrassed; you learn because doing so is invigorating. (Continued in comments.)
18 Apr 2026
TENS ACROSS THE BOARD! For our latest installment of @tmagazine’s #Livefromthe10thFloor, where we have performers activate T’s messy space on the 10th floor of the @nytimes building, we welcomed the stars of @catsjellicleball, opening tonight on Broadway, which reimagines Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical as a queer ballroom competition. Thank you to the talents that are @zhailon, #BillRauch, @omari_wiles, @arturo_thaengineer, @itsjonathanburke, @davahuesca, @dudney_jr, @primo_ballerino, and @burnbabygocrazy for coming to visit us (the fashion team and I missed the filming of this because we were at the shows). Read more about it at tmagazine.com. Video by @Yoonha_Park.
07 Apr 2026
As part of my nostalgia tour, I thought I’d share how the 2017 redesign of @tmagazine began. I started in April of that year, and creative director @patrickli__ and I immediately started mocking up new covers using existing art from previous covers. On slide 1, you see one attempt to explode the traditional hierarchy of a magazine cover: the logo (which we planned on being a relaxed version of the Times’ gothic T—that version never saw the light of day) would become almost recessed, and given the same weight as the actual title of the magazine. The reading lines and issue date (below) would be almost the same size as the logo itself. You can see other attempts to subvert the traditional magazine cover hierarchy on slides 2, 3, 4, and 5; slide 2 displays something I wanted to experiment with: all the text contained in a box, which would move around the cover. Slide 6 was an illustration of a design innovation I knew I wanted: What we call here the “floating T.” The reason most magazines display their logos or names on the top or on the upper left corner is because back when magazines were mostly sold on newsstands (either on actual newsstands or in grocery stores), you needed the logo to poke up above the rack. But T isn’t sold on newsstands, and I wanted the design to emphasize that we weren’t beholden to those sales. This is why you sometimes see the T logo in, yes, the upper-left corner; but it sometimes drifts to the bottom center, the upper right, or even the middle of the cover. On the remaining slides, you’ll see my drawings of the new rubrics I wanted to introduce. Many of these still exist today, though Patrick and his team made them look sharper and better. In fact, all of our covers are the result of Patrick and our photo director, @nadiavellam’s, genius. The magazine’s distinctive design and signature sense of discipline (I think Patrick has only allowed colored text inside the issue once or twice in the nine years I’ve been here) was developed and protected by them. There’s no one better, and I’ve learned so much from them.
01 Apr 2026
All I want to do is live in a crumbling villa, in which the paint is sloughing off the walls in great sheets, and in which the garden is so overgrown that whole herds of horses could be living among the vines and I’d never know. Mine would be outside Kyoto, but I’d also gladly take the von der Becke estate on the South Downs, about 50 miles southwest of London. This glorious house, left to make its own way to decay since the family bought it in 1975, is my idea of perfect, and an antidote to all the overdone, over-polished houses we’re shown. It’s also the cover of @tmagazine’s new Design Issue, up now at tmagazine.com and in your @nytimes on March 29. Written by @aimee_farrell. Photos by @henrybourne. (Oh, and P.S.: Thank you for all your kind messages and sweet words. I’m deeply honored.)
23 Mar 2026
After nine educational, surprising, and joyful years @tmagazine, it’s bittersweet to announce that I’ll be leaving; my last day will be June 1. This has been the best, most enriching job I’ve ever had, and I’ll miss it, and the people who work here, always.
When you get to be middle aged, you realize how short your time is. You also realize you have less stamina. I have a novel to work on, and other writing projects I’ve been pushing off— it’s time to tackle them. You realize as well that you want to have new adventures in different realms. My friends know that over the past few years, I’ve found myself increasingly drawn to theater: an irresistible art form made by an irresistible group of people I’m excited and humbled to get to know. I’m thrilled to say that I’ll be significantly involved in two upcoming productions—one in NYC, one in London—that are dear to my heart, and which demand commitment and a physical presence I wouldn’t be able to give them while maintaining a full-time position. I’ll announce news about these in the coming months.
One of the true pleasures of life is getting to meet people who challenge you to see the world differently. At T, I learned about, and was invited into, worlds and tribes I never imagined would be open to me, and was received with great generosity of spirit, despite my ignorance on numerous subjects. I like to say that working at T was like getting an honorary MFA in decorative arts, architecture, and contemporary design, and during my tenure, I got to meet architects, artists, artisans, garden designers, chefs, curators, historians, and, of course, fashion designers—some of whom have become dear friends. They, this job, and my colleagues have changed my life; they’ve given me the gift of entering spaces (sometimes literally) that few people get to see; they’ve made me more alert to the visual world in all its vastness. I’ll be forever grateful to them. (Continued in comments.)
19 Mar 2026
Never ever a dull moment with @patrickli__ @nickkharamis #katelanphear. Thanks to the best team around for all the laughs and a group text that never disappoints! @tmagazine 🥲 p.s. got sick!
10 Mar 2026
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