Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC.It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city. What’s making our luxury list this week? Remedy Place debuts in Soho, Francesco Clemente sets the table and Tom Gold Dance returns for a one-night-only performance. For one night only, ballet fans can enjoy a one-hour performance by Tom Gold Dance at the Marlene Meyerson JCC.
This year’s performance, with live accompaniment by pianist Joseph Liccardo, is set to works by French composer Emmanuel Chabrier as well as Soviet jazz composer Alexander Tsfasman.For the uninitiated, Tom Gold was a 21-year member of the New York City ballet, ultimately as a soloist.
He worked with legendary artists, including Ruth Page, George Balanchine, and William Forsythe; readers of a certain generation may remember him as the Nutcracker Prince — a role he performed for many years.This year’s performance of his dance company takes place Thursday, November 14 at 7:30; tickets are $32 at TomGoldDance.orgEverybody needs goals, and ours is to snag a reservation at Manuela ASAP.
The recently opened restaurant, on the corner of Wooster and Prince, is owned by Artfarm, an independent hospitality and development company founded by Manuela and Iwan Wirth.If those names look familiar, it’s because they, with Ursula Hauser, are behind the blue-chip art gallery Hauser & Wirth, with over 20 outposts around the world.
Artfarm, on the other hand, owns almost a dozen properties including restaurants, bars, members clubs and hotels in the U.S., Spain and the U.K. Manuela is their first in New York.It’s a colorful space filled with works from artists, and not all are on the walls.
There’s a crazy-cool chandelier by Mika Rottenberg, chairs by Matthew Day Jackson, and a table and rug by Rashid Johnson in a private dining room.Their menu repres...