The Summer of the Bare Chest—and Other Huge Trends That Will Own 2019

MARY McCARTHY TRAVEL WRITING
Infuriated by the impotence of TripAdvisor reviews, and dismayed by wronged customers with suspicious agendas, the traveling elite will gravitate towards the writing of Mary McCarthy, who in her mid-50s books The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed elucidated the beauty of traveling as no guidebook ever could. As Americans begin to vacation more “mindfully,” McCarthy’s books take on a new scriptural importance.

Also worth stealing from McCarthy is an affection for Ferragamo, the storied Italian leather company with new juice. McCarthy noted that they made her signature shoe in her 1953 Harper’s essay “Artists In Uniform.” Back then. an antisemite mistook her fancy footwear to mean that she wasn’t a total raging communist. (Sound familiar, lefty fashionistos???)

PAINFULLY UPPER-MIDDLE CLASS BRITISH MUSIC
I don’t know if you’ve been to the movies lately but there is a vogue for biopics of musicians who were big the ’70s—not only the aforementioned Robert Zimmerman, but also Queen frontman Freddie Mercury (last fall) and Elton John frontman Elton John (this summer).

This summer, the anthemic gems of these stars will reach new levels of extreme relevance and meaning as our worldwide malaise congeals into a desire for songs that feel at once heroic and heavy with the ennui of a dark time—a time not unlike the one we live in today. Other admirable entries in this catalog include Paul McCartney’s milky pre-Wings solo work, obviously Fleetwood Mac, Clapton Unplugged, Joni Mitchell, and absolutely under no circumstances U2.

The high point of any serious Summer 2019 will be listening to Dire Strait’s “Sultans of Swing” while eating cake off Coalport china, the sentimentally botanical porcelain of choice for British grannies, including John Lennon’s famous Aunt Mimi.

COLLECTING FURNITURE
Art: who can afford that? People with a chunk of moolah to burn are instead investing in works of design, like “important” chairs and “historically significant” desks. If earlier generations amassed impresario art collections on modest salaries (think of Mike D’s mom!!!, who bought Brancusi’s Bird In Space, among many other Modernist gems, on a social worker’s salary), the young and vaguely rich are instead turning to young and aesthetically erudite interior designers like Charlap Hyman Herrero, or honing their eye on 1stdibs.com, in search of Wendell Castle cloud shelves, witty masterpieces by the recently departed Nicola L., coffee tables by Misha Kahn, swollen kiddie chairs by Katie Stout, and benches from Green River Project.

Do not forget: a Noguchi lamp is cheaper than your average jawns acquisition.

AND ONE FOR THE LADIES: SCHLUMBERGER JEWELRY
The delicate, nimble-thin bars of silver and gold on wisps of chain necklace and whisper-sized rings is OVER, as the iconic jeweler Jean Schlumberger, who made hunky rings for Tiffany’s and big wacky buttons for Elsa Schiaparelli, finally comes back into style. Costume-y and baroque and even a little tacky, Schlumberger jewelry sets the new standard for Big Rings.

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