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? A buzzy French interior designer opens a gallery in TriBeCa, Wildflower blooms in Chelsea, and one of NYC’s favorite chefs collabs with West Elm.
FRENCH KISS: Laura Gonzalez debuts in TriBeCa Laura Gonzalez is a Paris-based interior designer who, for now, may be best known for designing many of the Cartier flagship boutiques. But she’s also on a bit of a tear with hotel design (most recently the Hotel Hana in Paris), and has firmly established herself as a designer to watch. This just got a lot easier with the opening of her first space stateside, on Franklin Street in TriBeCa.
The floor-through storefront is absolutely gorgeous, filled with pieces from her own furniture and lighting collections as well as select pieces from others. The piece de resistance is undeniably the custom fireplace by ceramic artist Laurent Dufour, set in the far reaches of the space, under a typical-for-this-type-of-building skylight. LauraGonzalez .
Fr STANDING PROUD: Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center is open The site of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion (the Stonewall Inn) was designated a national monument by President Obama in 2016. The storefront next door was secured by Pride Live several years ago and, duri.