Gary Baseman: The Door is Always Open

The artist’s family heritage and childhood home inspire an interactive retrospective complete with custom wallpaper

Gary Baseman fills his world with a recurring cavalcade of characters. His constant companion Toby, the adorable ChouChou and creatures large and small fill forests, gardens and shrines and seemingly float through air. But the whimsy and fantasy can have a dark edge, depicting dramatic escapes and scores of bloody, fanged monsters exploring everything from dreams and nightmares to sexuality and religion. Now Baseman’s prolific …

Jemmy Button

Separated by land, sea and language, illustrators Jennifer Uman and Valerio Vidali collaborate on the historical tale

As the incredible true story goes, in the mid-1800s the HMS Beagle, captained by Robert FitzRoy, landed in Tierra del Fuego on the coast of Patagonia. After one of his boats was stolen Fitzroy reportedly took a group of hostages including a boy he paid for with a mother of pearl button. He renamed the boy Jemmy Button and took him back to England to …

Copenhagen: The Good Life

Herb Lester Associates' creative guide to one of the world's most livable cities

Copenhagen may be one of the world’s most livable cities, but navigating the surplus of reasons why it is indeed a crowd favorite—from shops to restaurants to monuments—can feel like a heavy task for even the savviest of tourists. We experienced this firsthand on a recent trip to the Danish capital, but while bumbling through the Strøget after a stop at one of our favorite …