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? Casa Tua lands on the UES, Kara Walker has a solo show and the Four Seasons Hotel has finally reopened. Tribeca now has another semi-hidden watering hole in a super-stylish spot.
It’s The Bar at Quarters, located inside Quarters, a beautiful, 8,000-square-foot home furnishings shop from the duo behind design studio and lighting brand In Common With.The bar’s offerings are divided into sections by time of day – Daytime, Apero Hour, and Evening — with menus created by Nicole and Jennifer Vitigliano of Raf’s and The Musket Room.
The beverage program, also created by the Vitiglianos, includes a wine list highlighting women and BIPOC-owned organic and biodynamic producers from Europe.Reservations are available through Resy.
Pro tip: the shop (and bar) are not on street level.ShopQuarters.comKara Walker’s solo show, “The High and Soft Laughter of the N***er Wenches at Night, in the Colorless Light of Day,” debuted recently at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
in Chelsea.It features a new body of watercolor and ink collages and works on paper, as well as a series of bronze busts.
“Through collage, drawing, sculpture, and installation, Kara Walker has consistently interrogated the legacy of American myth-making as it manifests through systems of race, sexuality, and violence.Her work leverages satire and archetypes to needle at the dominant narratives and prevailing dissonances of the United States’ own self- conception,” reads part of a statement from the gallery about the show.
Through December 14, SikkemaJenkins.comThere’s no shortage of high-end furnishings showrooms and galleries in NYC, but that doesn’t stop those who see a potential white space to be filled.In th...