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In 2000, Eric Bana starred in an Australian movie based on the life of a notorious criminal and folk hero named Mark Brandon “Chopper” Read, a goateed, silver-grilled biker who boasted of murdering almost 20 people in Melbourne in the 1970s and ’80s. Bana brought to life Read’s unique brand of charisma and psychopathy in a way that somehow evoked both revulsion and sympathy. The performance was career-making, and anyone who saw it knew Bana was put on earth to be a movie star. Since Chopper, Bana has spent nearly two decades in Hollywood playing tortured souls—think Avner in Munich, Hector in Troy, and King Henry VIII in The Other Boleyn Girl—all while conveying an affability and genuineness that makes him seem like a guy you’d want to have a beer with. Now 48, Bana never moved away from his hometown of Melbourne, where he lives with his wife and two teenage children, surrounded by friends he grew up with. Despite a few early miscalculations on the path to leading man (namely, Hulk), Bana has defined his career on his own terms. These days you’ll find him in smaller but pivotal parts in big-budget blockbusters—the villain Nero in 2009’s Star Trek and as Uther Pendragon in this month’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, directed by Guy Ritchie— and in meaty leading roles in brainy indie films, such as the upcoming The Forgiven, opposite Forest Whitaker. Perhaps surprising to those only familiar with his Hollywood work, Bana started his career in stand-up comedy, touring from venue to venue across Australia in a Tarago van. He didn’t begin acting until he landed a spot on the sketch-comedy show Full Frontal, Australia’s version of SNL, and later on his eponymous show, Eric, which ran for nine episodes in 1997. Bana performed a selection of oddball characters and did celebrity impersonations of actors like Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was “Chopper” Read himself who recommended Bana to the movie’s director, Andrew Dominik, after seeing him perform on Full Frontal. When he was approached for his first dramatic role, Bana didn’t hesitate. “I’ve always felt that if you can do sketch comedy well, then
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you can act,” Bana says. “So I just never really put up a huge barrier, and for whatever reason, I instinctively reacted to the thought that I would be able to become him.” Bana put on 30 pounds for the movie and spent several days with Read at his home in Tasmania, learning the criminal’s mannerisms and diction. Bana’s performance, which earned him the Australian Film Institute Award for best actor, was lauded by the late film critic Roger Ebert: “He has a quality no acting school can teach you and few actors can match: You cannot look away from him.”
After Chopper, Bana’s star rose rapidly. He landed an agent and read scripts for Hollywood movies. There were a few potential leads, but Bana’s choice for his first role outside Australia was a supporting part in Ridley Scott’s 2001 Black Hawk Down. His character, a war-hardened Delta Force soldier named Hoot, was originally a minor one—“Just one of the dudes,” Bana says—but as filming went on Hoot grew into the moral compass of the film. Toward the end, he delivers a memorable “It’s about the man next to you” speech with distant eyes that seemed to suggest that the consequences of abiding that rule never really leave you. Bana’s shot at becoming a bona fide movie star came in 2003, when he was cast as Bruce Banner in Ang Lee’s ill-conceived $137 million Hulk. Bana has spoken publicly about the struggles he had filming the movie and the difficulties of working with Lee. He was forced to perform 140 versions of the same scene, a process that left him burned out.
The movie lost money domestically and was greeted with mixed reviews. Bana followed Hulk with another bigbudget studio blockbuster, playing the doomed warrior Hector opposite Brad Pitt’s Achilles in Wolfgang Petersen’s 2004 epic, Troy. But it was in 2005’s Munich, directed by Steven Spielberg, that Bana hit his stride as an actor; 12 years after it was released, it’s still his defining role. He plays the tortured assassin Avner in the film, which received five Academy Award nominations. It was those same haunted eyes viewers saw in Black Hawk Down that helped Bana convey the character’s inner anguish. “What makes Avner memorable,” Manohla Dargis wrote in the New York Times, “is that he is never more human than when faced with killing another person.” Bana went on to star as Henry VIII in 2008’s The Other Boleyn Girl and returned to the war genre in 2013’s Lone Survivor, about a stranded team of Navy SEALs in Afghanistan. Despite his reputation as a dramatic actor, he hasn’t forgotten his comedic roots, delivering a memorable turn in Judd Apatow’s Funny People and, last year, starring with Ricky Gervais in Special Correspondents. Bana and Gervais play a radio reporter and producer, respectively, pretending to be dispatching from a war zone while safely ensconced in a New York apartment. “That was kind of a pinch-yourself-everyday kind of job,” Bana recalls. “Going to work with Ricky and having the time of your life every day. It kind of reminds you that work can actually be a lot of fun.” In Ritchie’s radically reimagined King Arthur, Bana plays Uther Pendragon, the father of Charlie Hunnam’s titular character. Bana was drawn to the project for the opportunity to work with Ritchie for the first time. “I’ve known Guy for a long time, and he just called me up and said, ‘Would you consider this part? It’s not a huge part in the film, but I’d really like you to consider it.’ And it was a pretty quick yes,” Bana says. Bana’s upcoming projects are the kind of smaller, thoughtful films that are in the actor’s sweet spot. The Secret Scripture, directed by Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father, My Left Foot), about a woman’s years in an Irish mental hospital, recently premiered at the Dublin International Film Festival. In The Forgiven, directed by Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields), Bana plays a murderer seeking redemption, opposite Whitaker as Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Bana calls The Forgiven, which was filmed on location in Pollsmoor Prison in South Africa, “the purest definition of the kind of film I like to do…And probably one of the most challenging characters I’ll ever play.” Coming from a man with a history of playing haunted characters, that says a lot.
Bana plays Uther Pendragon in Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, which releases this month
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Baywatch
The worldwide phenomenon that brought red swimsuits and a young actress called Pamela Anderson to a global audience returns, this time on the big screen. The superstar cast includes Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Mitch Buchannon, the role made famous (infamous?) by David Hasselhoff. Alexandra Daddario (True Detective), Zac Efron (Neighbors), and Priyanka Chopra (Quantico) also star. For Anderson’s former character, C.J. Parker, the producers tapped up-and-coming model Kelly Rohrbach, who has appeared in campaigns for Old Navy and Gap and in an uncredited role in Woody Allen’s film Café Society.
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Alien: Covenant
A follow-up to 2012’s Prometheus, this film represents the second installment of the Alien prequels. Michael Fassbender returns, this time starring alongside Billy Crudup (Almost Famous), Danny McBride (Eastbound & Down), and Katherine Waterston (Steve Jobs). The tale begins after the destruction of the spaceship Prometheus and brings the crew of a new ship to what they believe is an undiscovered utopia on an isolated planet. But this is Alien, after all, so rest assured there is nothing tranquil about this movie.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The sequel to Marvel’s ensemble superhero flick brings back Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, and Co. as a ragtag team of misfits on myriad adventures (and misadventures) throughout the galaxy. Vin Diesel attempts to improve on his original role of Groot with his new role as Baby Groot. Now that is acting range.
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The classic literary tale of the boy who pulled sword from stone is radically reimagined. Helmed by director Guy Ritchie (Snatch), who also cowrote the script, the film stars Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) as Arthur, the rightful heir to the British throne whose birthright is stolen by his treacherous uncle Vortigern, played by the excellent Jude Law (The Young Pope). The cast includes Eric Bana (Munich; see profile, page 20), Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond), and Annabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders), while relative newcomer French-Spanish actress-model Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey turns the role of Guinevere into a career-maker.
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y Barry Bonds’ lofty standards, it wasn’t especially remarkable—an opposite-field fly ball that carried about 395 feet at hitter-friendly Coors Field in Denver. But when home run No. 762 drifted over the fence in left center field on September 5, 2007, it closed the books on the most prodigious power hitter of all time. The debate over Bonds’ legacy, on the other hand, was merely warming up. In its most recent vote, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, which is the Hall’s gatekeeper, granted Bonds 53.8 percent of the vote. Although that’s short of the 75 percent needed for admission to baseball’s Valhalla, he’s clearly on his way. “He’s unquestionably one of the greatest players in baseball history,” says Dan Okrent, the celebrated author, baseball historian, and fantasy league creator. Bonds’ career stats reveal a nearly incomparable player. In 22 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants, Bonds hit for average—his .298 matches that of Yankee great Mickey Mantle—and he could clearly hit for power. But Bonds also possessed great vision, giving him one of the most discerning eyes in baseball (hello, Ted Williams), forcing pitchers to throw strikes at him. Or not. He led the league in walks and intentional walks 12 times, his power terrifying opponents into 232 bases on balls in 2004—120 of them IBBs. That strike-zone discipline—the refusal to chase bad pitches—helped Bonds to a ridiculous on-base percentage (OBP) of .609 in 2004. His lifetime .444 OBP is the sixth best ever, just behind Lou Gehrig. And in a stat that baseball wonks worship, wins above replacement (WAR)—a
Bonds was a multifaceted baseball player, earning numerous Gold Glove and MVP honors
measure of a player’s value to his team—Bonds is second only to Babe Ruth. Let’s not forget defense, either: The guy was an eight-time Gold Glove recipient with few peers in left field. There were two Barry Bondses—and both of them have HOF cred. The “skinny Barry,” who played for the Pirates from 1986 to 1992 and for the Giants from 1993 to 1999, won three Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, averaged 34 home runs per season, and was among the league leaders in slugging average. By the time he entered his “bulked-up Barry” phase, Bonds was 36 years old. Had he retired, he’d have been a shoo-in. But in 2003, as Bonds was on his way to the third of four consecutive MVP awards, an Internal Revenue Service investigator named Jeff Novitzky made a case that would rattle the sports world. Novitzky’s target was a San Francisco–area nutrition supplement company named BALCO, run by a onetime rock musician named Victor Conte. The investigation would lead to charges that Conte was supplying steroids, testosterone, human growth hormone, and other performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) to Olympic and professional athletes across the globe—including the most famous athlete in San Francisco, Bonds. Why Novitzky started this particular investigation has never been clearly established. Based on Novitzky’s work, however, the federal government would win BALCO-related cases against Conte and some of his clients, including Olympic heroes such as Marion Jones—jailed for lying before a grand jury—and against Bonds’ personal trainer and friend, Greg Anderson.
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The federal prosecutors did not pitch a shutout. The U.S. attorney spent 12 years and millions of taxpayer dollars pursuing Bonds like he was Clyde Barrow. Following a sensational trial in 2011 in which witnesses testified to his use of PEDs, Bonds was convicted on a single count of obstruction of justice; his sentence included a month of home confinement, two years’ probation with 250 hours of community service, and a $4,000 fine. His conviction was eventually knocked so far out of the park by an appeals court that the U.S. attorney folded. Bonds isn’t guilty of anything. And he’s never officially failed a drug test. As the oldest son of Bobby Bonds, a free-swinging outfielder for the Giants, Yankees, and other teams, Bonds was born for baseball. From an early age, Barry was beyond gifted and beyond coaching. As described in the Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams book Game of Shadows, he developed an attitude before he could shave. At Arizona State, where he played for three years, his teammates even voted to kick him off the team, despite his obvious talent. As a Giant, Bonds was unloved by the media and resented by some teammates. For his part, Bonds simply put the numbers up. “Every player who’s ever played against me knows my ability, and that’s something I will never, ever have to explain,” he said after his exoneration. “I’m not insulted by anything. I don’t hold grudges. I’m not going to hold a grudge. I know what I brought to the game. I’m proud of that. That’s all. I’m proud of that.” (Bonds was hired by the Giants organization as an advisor for the 2017 season.)
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Perhaps the best Bonds comparison—in terms of both cantankerous personality and skill—is the great Bambino himself, Babe Ruth. Baseball’s history connects the Babe with Bonds. Ruth’s uppercut home run swing changed baseball. He popularized the long-ball game that would become the focus of Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa’s home run chase in 1998. Bonds made a market-based decision to go long: If baseball was rewarding pure power with money and fame, Bonds was an investor. He returned for the 2000 season with added weight and muscle and began crashing home runs with increasing regularity, hitting 49 dingers that season, 15 more than in the prior year and the most he’d ever hit. That is, until 2001, when he broke the record for most home runs in a season, 73, eclipsing the mark of 70 set by the hulking McGwire in 1998. PEDs can’t make you a ballplayer. Whether on PEDs or not, Bonds put in a ton of work to be great. He was naturally gifted, a fitness fanatic, and a baseball professional who practiced all the drills needed to become a virtuoso. To baseball’s cognoscenti, the unpopular Bonds is being held to a different standard than other heroes, in baseball or any other sport. And Bonds was truly great at his primary occupation, a genuine Hall of Famer. Just ask him. “There’s not one player that ever could say I’m not one,” he would say shortly after last year’s Hall of Fame vote. “There’s not a coach who ever coached me who says I’m not one. In my heart and soul, and God knows, I’m a Hall of Famer.”
Perhaps Bonds’ closest historical comparison is the great Babe Ruth
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easy, she says. She was raised by her grandmother, who died when Lana was only 13, leaving her in the care of her uncle. She says her childhood was a struggle. “Most actors have broken pasts…People don’t want to hear that; they want to hear you have a nice, fancy life. They don’t want to hear what you went through. But I have expressive eyes—I think you can see there is more to me.” Until she lands a role that challenges her, she will continue to model. She’s not afraid to push boundaries, but says that for many years, “I didn’t want to do all the supersexy stuff. I always felt, not shy, but it’s a funny thing to put on high heels and underwear for a magazine. You can do that in a bedroom with your man.” If she’s going to be provocative, she prefers that there be some mystery left. “[Magazines today] make it so open. They leave no space for imagination. I’m more European. I’ll shoot underwear, but it’s sophisticated.” Now single, she says her ideal man is “very well educated, very sensitive. A man who wants to take on the world. To work hard, to create something, to evolve. I don’t just mean a career; it’s deeper than that. I want the type of man who can make me better. And not just be like, ‘Oh, there’s another blonde model, let me go for that.’ I have to make sure the person appreciates me for who I am and understands where I am coming from.” Beauty, after all, is a curious thing. “I don’t even know what beauty is. It’s all about mathematical balance. I feel I am very lucky and I really appreciate it. I think, ‘Why me?’ ”
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The luxurious beachside resorts of Los Cabos You know a place has shifted away from its humble beginnings as a bohemian stop on the North American hippie trail when there are $25,000 tacos on the menu. The biggest of big spenders can find the delicacy—a corn tortilla filled with Kobe beef, shrimp, beluga caviar, and black-truffle Brie, topped with salsa shot through with Morita chiles and kopi luwak coffee made from partially digested coffee berries that have been excreted by civet cats, and sprinkled with 24-karat gold flakes—at the Grand Velas Los Cabos resort. “People are excited and a little surprised about how you can eat a taco for $25,000 when you can find one on the street for 10 pesos,” chef Juan Licerio Alcala told Agence France-Presse. “Then I explain the delicacy, the technique, and the harmony that they will lift from the plate, and that it’s worth it.” Welcome to Cabo in 2017. On the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, you’ll find paradise—no matter what your definition of that admittedly loose term is. To the west is the party paradise Cabo San Lucas, and to the east is the heavy-walleted beach bum paradise San José del Cabo. In between are 20 miles of bars, world-class restaurants, and breathtaking desert landscapes. (Not to mention beaches.) The region has recovered nicely since 2014’s Hurricane Odile, with a new international airport terminal and new luxury beachfront properties, which, combined with its proximity to California, have made Cabo one of the continent’s most attractive holiday destinations. It’s also a golfer’s paradise: Golf Advisor lists 15 courses in the area, with One&Only Palmilla’s Jack Nicklaus– designed course earning the ravest reviews. Tiger Woods is working on his second course in the region, and two new courses have opened at Rancho San Lucas and Chileno Bay. Nobu, Four Seasons, and Ritz-Carlton are all working on high-end hotel and residential projects. For those looking for a more laid-back upmarket experience, stay at Pueblo Bonito Pacifica and Quivira Golf Club, an adults-only all-inclusive. For an even lowerkey vibe, check out the Casa Natalia hotel, which features a tranquil pool surrounded by palms. You’ll quickly get used to the pool butlers and other sophisticated touches at Las Ventanas al Paraiso, A Rosewood Resort, one of the most lauded vacation spots in all of Mexico. San José del Cabo features a colonial cathedral, cobblestone streets, and a town square. It’s also home to an art scene that attracts collectors from around the world. Art Walk occurs every Thursday evening from November to June. The town features a cluster of 14 galleries—including Mata Ortiz Pottery and Corsica Galeria de Arte—that are worth a visit. Rent a car and explore the nearby surf breaks, organic farms, and surrounding desert. Flora Farm is a fully functioning 10-acre farm nestled in the foothills of the Sierra de la Laguna Mountains. Its Field Kitchen restaurant is open to the public. Drive to the nearby bohemian town of Todos Santos, 48 miles up the coast from Cabo San Lucas. It’s home to Hotel California, rumored to be the source of the famous Eagles song of the same name. —Mitch Moxley
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snag one of the 18 rooms or cabanas. Overlooking Turtle Cove, El Pez virtually defines “seaside chic.” Jashita, nine miles northeast of Tulum, is a small luxury boutique hotel on Soliman Bay, reputed to be the Riviera Maya’s most protected bay. It offers incredible snorkeling year-round to go with its 30 rooms and suites. Book the Jasmine Penthouse, which offers simultaneous views of the ocean and forest. Meanwhile, Be Tulum, on the northern border of the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve, features 40 exclusive suites meticulously crafted with local materials. For an adults-only experience, try the Azulik Resort & Maya Spa. Its 47 villas lack televisions and even electric lighting, instead offering a luxury experience rooted in ecofocused practices and stunning natural beauty. An on-site cenote (see page 60) provides “sacred water” to all rooms, and the entire property is designed like a self-sustaining ecosystem. Restaurants in and around the town emphasize cooking local and sustainably sourced produce. Located near Tulum National
Park, Kitchen Table, built with recycled materials and powered by solar panels, serves up seafood from its lone wooden grill. Hartwood, the brainchild of expat New Yorkers, prepares a delicious open-fire-cooked meal—think slowbraised short ribs—with a side of insight into sustainable dining. Produce is sourced from traditional farms throughout the region, and the restaurant breaks down all waste for a zero carbon footprint. In case you need to unwind even further, check out Yäan Wellness Energy Spa. One of the top spas in the world, Yäan offers bodymelting rarities like the Yäan Traditional Mayan treatment or the Thai Temple Massage. Nearby Sian Ka’an, designated a national biosphere in 1986 and a unesco World Heritage site a year later, features world-class fauna, flora, and natural mangrove channels and Mayan canals. Eco-centric tours include outings to the Mesoamerican Reef, a network of coral that’s home to sea turtles, dolphins, and about 500 species of fish. Madre naturaleza’s finest. —Keith Gordon
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Built some eight centuries ago, after the classic period The ecstasy of Tulum of Mayan civilization, Tulum served as a walled port specializing in the trade of turquoise and jade. While the nearby ruins are a must-see (see page 58), modern Tulum is a world-class tourist destination. Despite the plentiful white-sand beaches and turquoise waters, the real draw is the town’s health-centric and eco-friendly ethos. That’s why so many savvy travelers skip the tourist hellhole of Cancún and head 80 miles down the coast to its quieter cousin. Many resorts and boutique hotels have popped up in recent years, few more impressive than Dream Tulum Resort & Spa. Graced with 44 acres of Eden-esque gardens, the property has 432 rooms, each of which offers a private patio or balcony, marble bathrooms, and “UnlimitedLuxury”—the property’s version of an all-inclusive experience. On a smaller scale, El Pez offers a boutique hotel vibe to the fortunate few who
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Above and right: Las Ventanas al Paraiso, A Rosewood Resort, overlooks the Sea of Cortez, eight miles from San José del Cabo
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Based on a plan hatched by his brother Bud, Dave Ekins took to the desert of Baja in March 1962. Ever since, the peninsula has been synonymous with extreme desert endurance racing. The brothers, veteran off-road motorcycle racers, navigated a route through the dirt roads and rugged terrain simply to push their Honda motorbikes to the limit. Little did they know, their test ride through the Mexican desert would spark one of the world’s greatest off-road endurance races, the SCORE Baja 1000, rivaling the Paris-Dakar rally. More than a half century later, 2017 marks the 50th running of the Baja 1000. (This year’s race takes place November 14–18.) Each year’s course is different, and the upcoming edition will feature a 1,300-plus-mile “point-topoint” route from Ensenada to La Paz. The race features classes ranging from motorbikes and quads to $500,000 purpose-built Trophy Trucks or VW Baja Bugs, a crowd favorite. Drivers must overcome a laundry list of obstacles and challenges, including fine, talc-like sand that clogs intakes, limited visibility, and damage caused by rocks. But few dangers rival those left by troublesome spectators, who build booby traps like jumps, ramps, pits, and ditches. Take that, Paris-Dakar. —KG
The 1,300-plus-mile SCORE Baja 1000 runs November 14–18, 2017
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Arts, culture, and nightlife in Mexico City Known until recently as the Distrito Federal, or D.F., Mexico City was named last year’s number one travel destination in the world by the New York Times. You could spend a lifetime exploring this densely populated metropolitan area of more than 20 million, but even on a short trip there are a few gems that can’t be missed. Start a cultural tour with the Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL) downtown, which features a collection that spans the second half of the 16th century to 1954. The Museo Frida Kahlo, located in Kahlo’s family home, also displays works and personal belongings of her husband, Diego Rivera. Don’t miss the Museo del Objeto del Objeto, a massive trove of both everyday and uncommon objects amassed over the course of 40 years by a private collector named Bruno Newman. The campus of Ciudad Universitaria, the Mexico City outpost of the country’s main university, is a unesco World Heritage site that features spectacular public art on its grounds. Chapultepec park, once a retreat for Aztec nobility, is a perfect place to while away a warm afternoon. The Museo Nacional de Antropología, the Rufino Tamayo museum, and the Museo Nacional de Historia are all within the park boundaries. Some of the world’s best emerging artists show their work at Mexico City’s multitude of galleries, like Kurimanzutto, Arredondo\Arozarena, Galería OMR, Lodos, and Yautepec. When you’ve had enough high culture,
head to the Arena México, the 16,000-plus-seat “Cathedral of Lucha Libre.” There are usually combates (wrestling matches) there every Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday. You can also catch matches at Arena Naucalpan, a 2,400-seater on the outskirts of the city. Take a cab to Plaza Garibaldi, the polestar of Mexico City’s mariachi scene. There you’ll find scores of mariachis playing at any hour, with a smattering of norteño and jarocho groups mixed in, but the real action starts around 11 p.m. The square is also home to Salón Tenampa, a restaurant and bar where
Mexico City has become a world-class travel destination, with limitless cultural, drinking, and dining options
mariachi legends have been performing for 92 years. Try the ponche de granada, a pomegranate punch with red wine, tequila, and chopped nuts. Chef Enrique Olvera’s Pujol is the city’s original temple to haute cuisine; Máximo Bistrot Local, opened in 2011 by a former Pujol employee, is another local standout. Pehüa, a newcomer located in the Roma Norte neighborhood, offers modern takes on traditional Mexican classics; don’t shy away from the Oaxacan-style toasted crickets with queso fresco, guacamole, and smoky chile pasilla salsa at Los Danzantes in the Coyoacán section of town. Sushi Kyo offers some of the freshest fish you’ll find anywhere. For a taste of the country’s exceptional street food, try Don Chuy’s tamale stand at Calzada Camarones, near the corner of 22 de Febrero, or Tacos Tony, a stand located at Calle Torres Adalid 1702 that offers suadero tacos, made from a soft cut of meat between the belly and the leg of a cow. Live rock and jazz can be found at El Hijo del Cuervo, in Coyoacán. SENS, in Bosques de las Lomas, features name DJs from across Latin America, and M.N. Roy, a quasi-private spot in Roma, has a notoriously exclusive door policy. Sleep it off at Camino Real Polanco, a hotel originally designed by Ricardo Legorreta for the 1968 Olympic Games. The Hotel Carlota is a paean to high design brought to life by the local architecture firm JSa. For a darkly adventurous outing, check out the Museo de la Tortura and its collection of torture devices dating from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, including skull splitters. —Justin Rohrlich
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Oaxaca’s food scene
In 2010, Mexico was the first country to be added to unesco’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on the basis of its food alone. And some of the best of it can be found in Oaxaca. Known as the Land of the Seven Moles (amarillo, coloradito, manchamantele—”tablecloth stainer”—chichilo, rojo, negro, and verde), Oaxacan cuisine revolves around chiles, chocolate, and maize, the earliest dated cob (about 3,400 BC) of which was found in Oaxaca’s Guilá Naquitz cave. The word chocolate comes from the Nahuatl chocolatl, which was an ancient beverage served to Oaxacan elites. You’ll taste chiles in Oaxaca you can’t find anywhere else in the world, as well as any number of the roughly 500 edible herbs found in the state’s nine microclimates. Origen, a restaurant opened in 2011 by French-trained Top Chef Mexico winner Rodolfo Castellanos, breathes new life into old classics in a bright, multilevel space.
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The food turned out by chef José Manuel Baños Rodriguez at Pitiona is known as some of the city’s finest, and the much-lauded Casa Oaxaca el Restaurante, run by chef Alejandro Ruiz, is considered the catalyst for Oaxaca’s latest culinary reemergence. Las Quince Letras is renowned for its mole, which is, of course, Oaxaca’s original claim to fame. Oaxaca is also famous for its street food, all of which you’ll want to try. Corn masa tortillas form the basis of memelas and tetelas, which are topped with cheese, beans, and various other ingredients. (Memelas are usually served openfaced, while tetelas are folded closed.) Tlayudas might be described as a Mexican pizza of sorts, and your Oaxacan tamale will come steamed not in a corn husk but in a banana leaf. Chapulines, or fried grasshoppers, are Oaxaca’s go-to street, bar, and walkingaround snack. Try them with a squeeze of lime. “You would need many lifetimes to master the endless nuances of mole,” Celia Florián of Las Quince Letras once said. Get started on that with Reyna Mendoza’s El Sabor Zapoteco cooking class ($75, includes transportation to Teotitlan,
30 minutes away;
[email protected]). Whatever you do, come thirsty—Oaxaca has some of the best mezcal you’ll ever taste. Stop by Mezcalería Los Amantes, where you can try 300 different types. —JR
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Francisco Alcaraz leads me to the covered back patio overlooking a small yard and what might be the world’s tiniest swimming pool at his gated home in Guadalajara. He asks if I need anything before sitting down to open an iconic bottle of Mexican Coke. At 71, the man who invented the recipe for America’s most popular high-end tequila no longer drinks the stuff. But he still commutes up to two hours to Hacienda Patrón, still serves as the mammoth tequila maker’s master distiller, and still trudges humbly from the copper pots he designed to the pine fermentation vats holding Weber’s blue agave, past the statue in the courtyard that depicts Alcaraz holding out a piña (a blue agave
Oaxaca—called the Land of the Seven Moles—boasts some of Mexico’s finest cuisine
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core) in one hand and a bottle of Patrón in the other. You’d think, now that he’s immortalized at one of the most powerful tequila companies in the world, that Alcaraz would be content to live out his last days on a beach in Sayulita. He certainly has that option. But retirement is the last thing on Alcaraz’s mind. Alcaraz is one of only a few people in Mexico who can take credit for teaching the rest of the world to rebuff the hangover-inducing mixto tequila popularized by massive companies like Cuervo and half-polluted with ingredients other than 100 percent agave spirits. Tequila has been Mexico’s most popular distillate for more than a century, and most of its residents know to look for the signature “100% de Agave” on the label. But Americans were blindly throwing back salt-rimmed shots of Cuervo mixto in the early days of tequila’s entry into the U.S. market, its makers capitalizing on an import freeze from Europe during World War II. It was Patrón that awakened Americans to a better brand of tequila—the company’s products now account for 70 percent of all sales of “ultra-premium” tequila in the U.S.— and it was Alcaraz who developed the first and lasting recipe for Patrón, which is responsible for 43 percent of all tequila that leaves Mexico today. “When Patrón Silver started going around, people realized ‘Oh, this is what tequila is supposed to taste like,’ ” says Rob Krueger, a veteran bartender and partner
at the restaurant Extra Fancy in Brooklyn. Alcaraz was born in the small Jalisco city of Tamazula de Gordiano. He began a life of hard work at age 8 after his father died, at first earning five pesos a week as a bicycle messenger. After high school, he studied chemical engineering and industrial fermentation. He spent his early career teaching, and eventually government officials asked him to be the world’s first tequila inspector. Mexican officials knew by then the importance of protecting tequila’s appellation of origin to gird against imposters. Alcaraz spent the next two years traveling to 54 different distilleries, primarily across Jalisco, to take samples and check quality control before their products could be approved for export. Then, one of his professors came to him with an enticing offer, to assist him with making a tequila of his own. “I’ll
the tahona method, whereby a large stone wheel (pulled by a beast of burden before automation) mashes cooked agave into a pulp before it ferments. First at Siete Leguas and then for Patrón, he decided to mix portions of two products together: tequila produced from the tahona method, which results in an earthier, slightly sweeter flavor profile, and the remainder made with a more modern roller mill, a crusher that produces a tequila with a bit more citrus. “I liked this blend,” Alcaraz told me. “It’s a nice tequila by the smell, by the taste, and most important, the next day, even if you were drunk, there’s no hangover. You feel fine.” Crowley and his partner John Paul DeJoria introduced Patrón into the North American market at a higher price point, with brighter packaging and a squat bottle that helped
double your salary,” the professor said. For the next 11 years, Alcaraz applied everything he’d learned inspecting distilleries to make tequila for a Jalisco company, tweaking the process and the production capacity, cooking agave piñas in brick ovens, and fermenting them in wooden barrels. In the late 1980s, a tall gringo dressed in black with long hair and worn-out boots approached Alcaraz on the street in Atotonilco el Alto, where he was distilling spirits for Siete Leguas. The American was Martin Crowley, who would go on to create the Patrón brand— and eventually dominate the North American high-end tequila market. Crowley and Alcaraz went into business. Alcaraz had produced tequila in numerous different ways by then, most of them applying
Patrón stand out behind bars and on liquor store shelves. Nearly 30 years later, Alcaraz and his team don’t mess much with that original recipe for Patrón’s ubiquitous silver blend, but they do work on newer releases, from the line of “Roca” products (they’re made only with the tahona method, not the blend) to the Patrón en Lalique, which retails for $7,500 a bottle. With his success has come some deserved, if modest, fame in his hometown and, of course, at Hacienda Patrón. But for a guy who walks past a statue of himself every time he goes to work, Alcaraz doesn’t let it go to his head. He’s proud of Patrón more because it employs hundreds of hardworking Mexicans, not because it’s served at bars around the world. He says of being the man who created its recipe: “I consider myself lucky.” —Winston Ross
Hacienda Patrón’s master distiller, Francisco Alcaraz, helped spark the high-end tequila revolution
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in a 1940s mansion and an adjoining minimalist building in art deco–rich Colonia Lafayette (doubles from $195). Spend an afternoon in one of the gorgeous pool cabanas and drink a mezcal Negroni at sunset. Alcalde’s chef, Francisco Ruano, apprenticed at Copenhagen’s famous Noma, and he learned well. The menu changes seasonally but Ruano has said his favorite is the piglet with pumpkin-seed sauce. The interior walls of Hueso, in a restored 1940s modernist house in Colonia Lafayette, are blanketed in more than 10,000 animal bones— which is fitting, since hueso means bones in Spanish. The restaurant’s chef, Alfonso Cadena, creates organic and locally sourced Mexican dishes with a modern flair. Palreal serves an exhaustive list of Mexican coffees and a menu featuring pork lonche and octopus tacos. After dinner head to the boisterous bar and nightclub Pare de Sufrir…Tome Mezcal—its name translates to “Stop suffering…drink mezcal”—which offers versions of the spirit from Oaxaca, Jalisco, and Michoacán. —MM
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Guadalajara is arguably Mexico’s most underrated city. Although it’s loaded with history—note the French baroque mansions and nightmarish José Clemente Orozco murals—this city of four million also has a distinctly Brooklyn vibe, with new galleries featuring the work of young artists and worldly chefs serving up new takes on regional staples. You’ll want to focus on the adjoining neighborhoods of Colonia Lafayette and Colonia Americana. These hoods, with their colonial buildings and blissfully quiet streets, have attracted a flood of Mexican artists and expats drawn to Guadalajara’s vibrancy and affordability. PAOS is an art incubator cofounded by Eduardo Sarabia, who relocated to Mexico’s second city from Los Angeles. The space hosts residencies in a building once owned by
Orozco. Meanwhile, Spaniards Silvia Ortiz and Inés López-Quesada opened a branch of their Madrid gallery, Travesía Cuatro, which has focused on building a bridge between Latin American and European art circles since debuting in 2003, to nurture the wealth of local talent. The gallery is housed in Casa Franco, which was designed by architect Luis Barragán in 1929. Francisco “Curro” Borrego Vergara, a Guadalajara native who spent time in London, founded the much buzzed-about Curro, a contemporary gallery that launched in 2008 featuring the works of unconventional Latin American mixed-media artists. Instituto Cultural Cabañas, housed in a building that dates back to 1810 and was named a unesco World Heritage Site in 1997, is the place to go to see Orozco murals—57 in total, some of which are like optical illusions—including Man of Fire, considered his masterpiece. Make Casa Fayette your home base in Guadalajara. Owned by the Mexican firm Grupo Habita, this 37-room hotel opened in 2015
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Casa Fayette, a 37-room hotel in a 1940s mansion, opened in 2015
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José Clemente Orozco’s Man of Fire is considered the muralist’s masterpiece
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Ruins to die for
The Mayans ruled the Yucatán Peninsula for centuries, and the area is still home to dozens of pyramids, temples, and other ruins. The most famous, Chichén Itzá, is one of the “New Seven Wonders of the World,” and despite the crowds can still impress the most jaded traveler. Chichén Itzá was one of the largest Mayan cities in its time, and today more than 1.4 million visitors explore its rich history each year. The centerpiece pyramid, known as the Temple of Kukulkan or El Castillo, is worldfamous, but climbing it is off-limits to tourists. The Cobá archaeological site, thought to be around 2,000 years old, features the Nohoch Mul pyramid, also called Ixmoja, which, at 138 feet, is the tallest in the region and offers stunning views of the historical surroundings. While most visitors join tour groups from Cancún or the Riviera Maya, you can also stay at one of the nearby hotels. Unlike many Mayan ruins, those near Tulum remain remarkably well preserved, with a 2,572-foot-long limestone wall on three sides and a castle atop a 39-foot sea cliff. The only Mayan city built on the coast, Tulum also features the Temple of the Frescoes, one of its best-preserved structures, housing original Mayan murals. —KG
The Tulum ruins are some of the best-preserved Mayan structures
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Unless there’s a looming hurricane, TV weather reports can be a bore. Not in Mexico. There, it’s more about the weathergirl than the weather. The most captivating among them is 26-year-old Yanet Garcia of Televisa Monterrey. The former model and public accountant has used her gig to build a YouTube channel and attract more than four million Instagram followers. Garcia is currently dating competitive gamer and fellow YouTube sensation Doug “FaZe Censor” Martin—a true couple for the social media age. An entrepreneur who founded her own modeling academy, Garcia says, “I have always visualized myself as a businesswoman. I love business, and I know that social networks will help me a lot.” Currently learning English in New York, Garcia has a simple philosophy for social media stardom: “Be yourself, be original, and be authentic.” We can’t vouch for the accuracy of the Instagram starlet’s meteorological reports, but we’re certainly paying close attention. —KG
The hidden beauty of the cenotes Mexico’s geography is best known for beaches, mountains, and deserts, but perhaps the most stunning feature of the country’s landscapes cannot be seen: They’re hidden underground. The Yucatán Peninsula is home to one of the world’s largest networks of underwater caverns, lakes, and rivers. As porous limestone bedrock collapses, natural pools form belowground. The Mayans considered these formations spiritual portals and called them dzono’ot, which was roughly translated to cenotes. The word means “sacred well” or “water-filled cavity,” depending on your Mayan translation. The water is filtered by the surrounding rocks, resulting in perfectly clear water that’s ideal for snorkeling. While some caverns are enclosed, many feature skylights to the world above and can be entered via stairs or vines that dangle in through openings. Some of the peninsula’s many cenotes are swarming with tourists, while others remain completely unexplored or undiscovered. A few are must-sees. Cenote Dos Ojos, or Two Eyes, located just outside of Tulum, offers two separate caves: The first is flooded with sunlight while the other is almost pitch-black, requiring snorkelers to rent flashlights to explore the pool. Not far from the acclaimed Mayan ruins, near Chichén Itzá, Cenote Yokdzonot offers a chance to escape the crowds of the more popular cenotes. There you can float peacefully in the clear blue water, surrounded by trees and hanging vines. At Grutas de Loltún, the largest caves in the Yucatán Peninsula, you don’t have to swim, snorkel, or navigate claustrophobia-inducing tunnels. Instead, take a guided tour of the stalagmite- and stalactite-studded rooms and sun-drenched caverns punctured by the roots of trees. But for the ultimate in Instagram-ready destinations, head to Cenote Samulá, also not far from Chichén Itzá. This sun-pierced pool is as surreal as they come, with dangling vines, fishfilled waters, and bats fluttering above. —KG
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How the Mexican billionaire built an empire by seeing value where others saw none Te x t b y J U S T I N RO H R L I C H
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arlos Slim Helú’s net worth—currently listed by Forbes at $55.4 billion—is equal to just under 5 percent of Mexico’s gross domestic product. In 2009, when the figure was 6.6 percent of the country’s GDP, author and Latin America policy analyst Brian Winter provided some context for the Mexican magnate’s immense wealth and vast corporate holdings: If Bill Gates were to control as large a portion of the U.S. economy, Winter explained in Foreign Policy magazine, “he would probably also have to own Alcoa, Philip Morris, Sears, Best Buy, TGIFriday’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, Marriott, Citibank, and JetBlue.” Unlike certain billionaires, the 77-year-old Slim does not go out of his way to flaunt his fortune. He has lived in the same home for the past four decades, in Mexico City’s Lomas de Chapultepec neighborhood. His office is a mile away; his childhood home, three miles. Slim’s social life isn’t actually much of one, a friend once told a reporter. He wears suits from Sears, which he owns in Mexico; he buys his food from Sanborns, a chain he also owns. As is widely known, Slim is the largest shareholder of the New York Times, the so-called “newspaper of record” of the United States. He drives himself, even though his cousin was kidnapped in 1994; Slim’s car is always tailed by bodyguards. And although he no longer lives in either of his New York mansions, Slim is said to be a steadfast Yankees fan. Slim’s father, a Maronite Christian named Khalil Slim (adapted from “Salim”), emigrated from Jezzine, Lebanon, to Veracruz, Mexico, in 1902. He later changed his name to Julián, marrying Linda Helú, whose parents were also Lebanese immigrants, in 1926. Carlos, the fifth of six kids, was born on January 28, 1940. When Carlos was 10, he opened his first savings account and kept track of it using a book that his father bought for each of the children to teach them financial responsibility. However, Carlos eventually found himself disappointed by the paltry interest the bank was paying on his money. He emptied out his funds and parked it all in bonds. By 1955, Slim was worth 5,500 pesos, or roughly $458 ($4,160 adjusted for inflation). Two years later, he was worth 32,000 pesos, or about $2,560 ($22,200 in 2017 dollars). Slim attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he majored in civil engineering. After graduation,
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he accepted a job in Mexico City. His nickname, which sticks to this day, was El Ingeniero—The Engineer. But in 1964, El Ingeniero decided he’d had enough of engineering. He quit and spent a month in New York City, where he studied the machinations of the New York Stock Exchange. Inspired by the writings of J. Paul Getty, Slim went back to Mexico and opened his own brokerage house. He bought a bottling company and established a real estate business, Inmobiliaria Carso—a portmanteau of “Carlos” and “Soumaya”—for Soumaya Domit Gemayel, another firstgeneration Mexican of Lebanese extraction whom Slim married in 1966. Instead of a house, which Linda offered to purchase for the newlyweds as a wedding present, Carlos asked for the cash. He got one million pesos, or $80,000 ($601,500 in 2017 dollars), which he promptly invested in the construction of a 12-story condominium building in Mexico City. Carlos and Soumaya lived in an apartment on the ninth floor, renting out the others. Slim, who was now generating fairly substantial amounts of income, bought Empresas Frisco, a mining concern; a printing company; and a tobacco company, Cigatam, which held the contract to produce Marlboro cigarettes in Mexico. Things proceeded apace until 1982, when the Mexican government defaulted on its debts to other countries and the nation slipped into economic free fall. Yet Slim didn’t see the crisis as a cue to shift his holdings abroad. Instead, he went on a buying spree. Taking the long-term approach, Slim paid bargain prices for the Mexican operations of Reynolds Aluminum, General Tire, Sanborns, Firestone tires, Hershey’s chocolate, and Denny’s, the iconic American diner chain. In 1984, Slim acquired a portion of the assets of Bancomer, one of Mexico’s most powerful financial institutions. He paid $55 million for the bundle, which was worth many multiples of the purchase price in short order. The spree continued, and once again Slim’s foresight was prescient. In 1989, when the Mexican government announced it would privatize Telmex, the state telecom concern, it was worth just over $3 billion. When the sale occurred in 1992, it was valued at $8 billion. Slim and his team of investors paid $1.76 billion for 20 percent of the voting stock. Slim put $30 billion toward infrastructure and reduced the prices of Telmex handsets, opting to make the bulk of his profit from the prepaid calling
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cards the company sold in stores all across the country. In 2010, Telmex was taken over by Slim’s América Móvil, which he had created in 2000 as a spin-off of Telmex and which is now among the most profitable phone companies in the world. “There are two views in the country about Slim,” a well-known Mexican banker told writer Lawrence Wright of the New Yorker in 2009. “The view I hold is that he has taken advantage of our system, but he is also a brilliant businessman. He runs his companies very well, with very little excess. The other view is that he’s a bully and he’s done enormous damage to Mexico.” “He’s ruthless, yes,” Roberto Newell García, general director of the Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad, told Wright. “Totally amoral, perhaps. Immoral, no. I don’t know whether to love him or hate him. I’m just fascinated by his competence.” Whatever side of the argument one happens to be on, there’s no denying the impact of Slim’s charity work. Former president Bill Clinton has called Slim “one of the world’s most important philanthropists...He owns stock in more than 200 companies that employ more than 200,000 people in Latin America and beyond. He has used his resources to help develop the communities where his businesses are located. In his own country, Mexico, he has personally supported more than 165,000 young people in attending university, paid for numerous surgeries, provided equipment for rural schools, and covered surety bonds for 50,000 people who were entitled to their freedom but could not afford it.” After a close call with his own mortality in 1997, when Slim nearly died during an operation to repair a faulty heart valve, he took a step back from his businesses and began transferring control of his empire to his sons, Carlos, Marco Antonio, and Everétt Patrick. But Slim still remains intimately involved with the day-to-day operations of his companies and,
Opposite page: The Soumaya Museum in Mexico City houses Slim’s collection of more than 65,000 pieces of art
in fact, has current plans to expand further into new sectors. Slim’s next move will be to manufacture a fully made-in-Mexico electric car. Giant Motors, which is controlled by Slim’s financial services company, Inbursa, plans to produce a prototype this year and expects to launch the vehicle in 2018, according to Forbes Mexico. The venture will be a partnership between Giant and Moldex, a subsidiary of Grupo Bimbo, the world’s biggest bread baker. While Slim would surely appreciate a commercial success, the electric car, which is set to be introduced first as a taxicab in the Mexican capital, is really a response to the increasingly toxic air pollution that Mexico City is known for. After all, “You want to have a toy and another toy, and that’s not maturity,” Slim once said. “The biggest things in life are not materials.”
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An Aston Martin Vanquish Coupe poses in front of its maker’s gorgeous modern headquarters in Gaydon, England
THINGS of BEAUTY How Aston Martin’s design legacy is defining its future
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The newest Aston Martin for sale, the DB11 has a 600-horsepower V-12 engine and a striking body silhouette with a “floating” roof
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Aston Martin’s love of beauty became clearer in 1963, when the jaw-dropping DB5 entered production. The DB5’s infamous cameo in the third James Bond film, Goldfinger, turned the car into poster porn— everyone wanted 007’s Aston Martin. The company stayed strong through the ’60s, but momentum slowed in the ’70s, starting with its sale to a holding group in 1972, then to a pair of American businessmen three years later. “There was a lot of boom and bust in our product cycles,” says Marek Reichman, Aston Martin’s chief creative officer. The company stabilized somewhat but at the cost of creating compelling cars. Aston Martins were no longer objects of beauty or desire, but boxy sedans that didn’t feel sexy. “Various investors who came into the company, often on an ego trip, invested in one car, built the car, and then went away,” Palmer says. “They either didn’t have the money to do another car or they sold the company.” Aston Martin languished through the ’70s and into the early ’80s until, in 1987, Ford Motor Company bought a three-quarter stake in Aston Martin. The ’90s saw the release of Aston’s swoopy and stylish DB7, which repurposed an unused project from another Ford property, Jaguar. The unbelievably gorgeous replacement for the DB7, the DB9, debuted in 2004, a year after Aston Martin established a new headquarters and design studio in the rural town of Gaydon, England. (Ford sold its controlling stake in the company in 2007.) At the studio’s opening, then CEO Ulrich Bez said it showed “a commitment from the shareholders of how important the design of new models is to the company’s future.” Aston Martin had mojo again, creating evocative cars that captured the imagination of a whole new generation, like the One-77, a dramatic carbon-fiber hypercar that topped out at 220 mph and claimed the title of CEO Andy Palmer does an inspection on a DB11. Aston Martin produced just 10 examples of the DB10 for the most recent James Bond film, Spectre.
the world’s most powerful naturally aspirated car, or the V-12 Zagato that stunned the crowd at Italy’s 2011 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este. To mark the automaker’s centenary in 2013, Reichman designed the lusty CC100 speedster concept, a nod to the DBR1 racecar that Carroll Shelby codrove with Roy Salvadori to victory at Le Mans in 1959. But Aston Martin still lacked saliency and made missteps, like the short-lived Virage and Cygnet city car, so in 2014 the company brought in Palmer, who went straight to work on a plan to sustain Aston Martin through its second century of life. The plan Palmer came up with is simple: Aston Martin will have a lineup of seven cars, each with a seven-year lifespan. The first to debut is the lovely new DB11, which can be optioned with a brogue interior. Reichman says the company will launch the second product this year and, by the third quarter, have a derivative of the DB11, referring no doubt to a drop-top version dubbed DB11 Volante. In 2018 comes an all-electric Aston Martin, followed by a low-slung SUV late in 2019. The car that has everyone talking is the Valkyrie, the ridiculous hybrid hypercar tandembuilt by Aston Martin and Red Bull Advanced Technologies. “It’s the creator of the line of DNA that will make up our range of midengine cars,” says Palmer. “It’s really important from that perspective. It will be one of those halo cars of the brand. It’s a defining car of the company and a defining car of my career.” Aston Martin also has a technical partnership, via shareholder Daimler, with Mercedes-AMG, which Palmer says provides key technologies, “mainly its V-8 engine and its electronic architecture.” He says having AMG as a partner allows Aston Martin to be contemporary in advanced technologies like autonomous driving, which will be essential to Aston Martin’s Lagonda
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sub-brand that typically attracts buyers with chauffeurs. Another of Aston’s sub-brands, AMR, offers edgier variants, and there’s Q by Aston Martin, which customizes about 10 percent of all Aston Martins sold. “Q is bringing to front of mind that the entire car is handmade,” Palmer says. “A luxury-car customer wants a narrative, a story. They want to tell the story that they worked with Aston Martin to develop something. You get something you made, you love, and it’s yours.” In Palmer’s plan, the supposed tie that binds these branches together is beauty, Aston Martin’s raison d’être. “We had to pick something to lead at. You have to decide what you are, because that defines what you can’t do. Clearly, Ferrari owns passion and the 0.001-second improvements
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From top: The CC100 concept; the Le Mans–winning DBR1 racecar alongside the CC100, whose design it inspired; the Valkyrie, which gives a glimpse into the future of Aston Martin supercars
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In 2015 Aston Martin released the Vulcan, a stunning carbon-fiber, track-only toy for well-heeled driving enthusiasts. The low-slung Vulcan weighs less than 3,000 pounds and has aerodynamic aids like an adjustable rear wing, front splitter, and rear diffuser. Behind its front wheels is an 820-horsepower, 7.0-liter V-12 engine that feeds power to a sequential six-speed gearbox. Only 24 examples of the Vulcan exist worldwide, and the sharp-edged model will be displaced by the forthcoming Valkyrie and the line of midengine supercars it spawns. Here you see the brash Vulcan beneath its namesake, the Vulcan XH558 long-range bomber. CEO Palmer said, “Clearly the Avro Vulcan provided the inspiration for the naming of our most extreme sports car, and I’m delighted that we have been able to unite the ‘two Vulcans’ and deliver our own tribute to this world-renowned aeronautical phenomenon.”
[in acceleration], and clearly Rolls-Royce owns luxury. We are also sport and luxury, but what we think we’ve come to work for is the love of beautiful,” says Palmer. In Reichman’s opinion, beautiful cars cause positive reactions, and those reactions can sustain a company through any period, however trying. With Aston Martin’s unfortunate history around bankruptcy, perhaps building a business around the idea of beauty isn’t a bad idea. Then again, beauty can’t be captured or defined, as its standards evolve with our own, so is Aston Martin chasing a rabbit it might only see the tail of?
Chief creative officer Marek Reichman stares out from the backseat of the Aston Martin Rapide S sports sedan
Maybe, and maybe that’s not a bad thing. Beauty is a muse that stirs desires, drives innovation, and tickles with delight, and a sharper focus on beauty seems to have engendered a stronger, more self-assured Aston Martin. “Just tell the world what you do, what you stand for,” Reichman says. “Why we have seamstresses that sew the left and right seats together, because the line that they use is slightly different from someone else’s, so you always get a matched pair. I’ve described each of our cars as having a fingerprint. They’re all individual, they’re all unique. We’re explaining who we are and why we’re different.”
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The fictional spy’s long history with Aston Martin, from Goldfinger to Spectre
The handsome, brooding James Bond hasn’t always driven an Aston Martin. In author Ian Fleming’s first 007 book, Bond drove a Bentley. On the silver screen the spy has driven everything from a BMW to a Lotus to a Toyota. But none of that matters because of the deep-seated attachment between Aston Martin and James Bond. The relationship really started with the 1964 film release of Goldfinger, in which Bond—played by a young Sean Connery—slipped behind the wood-grain wheel of the now legendary Aston Martin DB5. Connery and the drop-dead DB5 returned the following year for Thunderball. In the late ’60s both Connery and the DB5 disappeared temporarily, replaced by George Lazenby and an Aston Martin DBS in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. An Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante appeared in the franchise’s 1987 installment of The Living Daylights, driven by yet another Bond, Timothy Dalton. Almost a decade later, Pierce Brosnan played Bond in GoldenEye and drove a DB5, which made another cameo a couple years later in Tomorrow Never Dies. In the early ’00s, Bond, still played by Brosnan, traded his DB5 for an Aston Martin V12 Vanquish in Die Another Day. When the series relaunched in 2006 with Casino Royale, Daniel Craig took over the lead role and drove an Aston Martin DBS. (A DB5 made a quick cameo too.) Two years later Craig and the DBS returned in Quantum of Solace, but while Craig came back for the 2012 film Skyfall, the DBS didn’t. It had been replaced by the DB5. In the latest Bond installment, Spectre, Craig drove an Aston Martin DB10, a stunningly gorgeous, completely custom coupe built from the ground up, just for the film. Aston Martin made only 10; eight were used for filming and none of them were for sale. It’s the first time Aston Martin has tailored a car just for Bond, which only serves to strengthen the already inextricable link between the fictional spy and his favorite automaker. Chris Nelson is executive editor at Iron & Air Magazine, a high-quality motorcycle quarterly, as well as an automotive journalist. If he’s not riding motorcycles or working on cars, he’s getting lost in an art museum or wandering further down the rabbit hole that is Los Angeles.
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Aston Martin unveils its one-of-a-kind collaboration with Mulder Design and Quintessence Yachts
Created by the same masters who molded Aston Martin’s Vulcan, One-77, and DB11, the AM37 powerboat brings the British automaker’s performance and craftsmanship to the water. A collaboration between Aston Martin, naval architect Mulder Design, and Quintessence Yachts, the boat comes in two versions: The standard AM37 is equipped with either two 370-horsepower Mercury diesel engines or two 430-horsepower Mercury gas engines and can reach a speed of 45 knots; the AM37S edition can reach speeds of 50 knots with its twin 520-horsepower Mercury gas engines. The 37-foot day-cruiser can comfortably seat at least eight passengers, while its cabin can be transformed into a bedroom. As with Aston
Martin’s cars, only the finest materials are used, including a carbon-fiber dashboard, premium leather upholstery, and a wraparound windscreen formed from a single piece of sculpted glass. Sliding deck technology means the cockpit can be covered at the push of a button and a swim platform can be extended from the aft deck. As Marek Reichman, Aston Martin’s chief creative officer, explains his vision, “AM37 is a pure translation of the Aston Martin DNA into an entirely new maritime concept. The powerboat reflects our values in terms of power, beauty, and soul…It was important to us when considering this project to make sure that the boat design was as beautiful and timeless as our cars.” —Keith Gordon
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As trends come and go, British custom clothier Huntsman sticks to what it does best: making impeccable suits
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that nobody else has got—it’s made for you.” Lagrange admits that even he used to buy his suits off the rack before he joined the brand, but now he’s Huntsman to the bone. “Buying bespoke is a gift to yourself,” he says. Among the most expensive establishments on the Row (prices for bespoke suiting start at $7,500; made-to-measure, which is rarely offered, begins at $4,500), Huntsman’s storied history begins at 126 New Bond Street, where founder Henry Huntsman paired elements of tailoring with equestrian workwear. Hunting, riding, and sporting pieces became a hallmark of the house in the 19th century, so much so that aristocrats like Prince Albert, King Edward VIII, and Winston Churchill donned its pieces. The classic Hollywood set followed suit, with Peck leading
The legendary Savile Row tailor provided clothing for the spy film Kingsman: The Secret Service
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the pack—between 1953 and his death, the actor commissioned nearly 200 suits from Huntsman. Though the firm has certainly had a presence in the U.S., Huntsman is now preparing for a great American invasion. Earlier this year, the brand opened up shop on New York City’s famous 57th Street (megaretailer Bergdorf Goodman happens to be just around the corner), where creative director and co–head cutter Campbell Carey, previously head tailor of competitor Kilgour, can now be found working. “What is fantastic is that our American clients have been the guardians of British tradition,” Lagrange says. “They share, based on values in terms of oneself, what an elegant man is; what a powerful and sexy man is.” Carey agrees: “Our American customer wants to stand out on Park Avenue or Madison Avenue, and they do that in our British house cut.” Carey explains that the house-cut suit, a Huntsman speciality, is a bespoke, one-button, high-armhole, long-waisted, two-piece offering. There are differences in pattern, as American men prefer a bolder check in their suits. (There are 38 standard customizations to choose from.) But generally, American clients come to Huntsman for the same reasons as the brand’s British base: “Why go to Ferrari and ask for a Porsche? Our men know what they are getting when they come to us.” Huntsman has also launched short-term trunk shows across the country in places like Dallas, Houston, and Palo Alto (Atlanta will be part of the circuit next summer). Lagrange credits the uptick in American business—20 percent of the brand’s clientele base comes from the U.S.—to men’s shopping habits. “American clients especially don’t like to shop too often, so it’s very good to make a product that you are going to have for 10, 20, 30, or 40 years. They love that they can buy things that last forever.”
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One of the more expensive tailors on the Row, Huntsman offers bespoke suits starting at $7,500
FINDING BJARKE INGELS An architectural tour of Copenhagen on the back of a motorcycle
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was when I first saw Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. You question your eyeballs. It’s not just the crazy forms that startle you, but rather the details, which sink in and beg for further reflection. So just like I did almost two decades ago, when I altered a business trip to lay over in Spain’s Basque region so I could witness Gehry’s blobitecture masterpiece firsthand, this winter I resolved to see more of Ingels’ work in his homeland. Denmark is, after all, where he got his start—not only where his first buildings took form but where his unique approach to architecture began taking shape. After booking flights I started deliberating on the perfect ride with which to see the starchitect’s early work as quickly as possible. Since I only had 24 hours for this mission, mobility was key: I would need
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MARITIME MUSEUM OF DENMARK While the morning is still black I swing my leg over the bike and ride it up the Strandvejen. Denmark’s equivalent of the Pacific Coast Highway proves a stunning ride, saturated in dazzling light as dawn colors the Øresund strait all the way north to the Maritime Museum of Denmark (MMD). Located next to the Kronborg—the castle immortalized in Shakespeare’s Hamlet—the Maritime Museum of Denmark is the ideal place to start the search for Bjarke. BIG won the contract to design the
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MMD when it outgrew its placement inside the Kronborg and had to be relocated just outside its fortress walls. But since the castle has been a unesco-protected site since 2000, BIG was informed that the new museum could not in any way block the view of the medieval keep. So how does one build a marquee destination museum in such a way that no one can see it? BIG came up with the solution of building the museum inside the dry dock next door. A series of bridges cross the empty underground void, not only connecting different sides of the museum (dug into the sides of the dock) but also becoming galleries—and a large auditorium—themselves. THE MOUNTAIN/VM HOUSES Another long jaunt back down the Strandvejen takes me to Ørestad, a booming development near the airport where two of BIG’s first major commissions sit side by side: the VM Houses and the Mountain, designed
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something that could nimbly dart across Copenhagen with speed and traffic-conquering agility. But it had to look good. If I was going to spend the day crisscrossing one of Europe’s most elegant cities while discovering works of epic visual proportion, I would need a ride that matched the mission. A motorcycle seemed the perfect solution: swift, stylish, and a shockingly easy-to-ride steed to carry me across the Danish capital.
its 278-foot climbing wall, the tallest in the world, and hike down its trail, replete with real trees and grass. On the outside, the building is sheathed in a beautiful scale-like aluminum latticework that will be filled with vibrant plant life. As a last testament to playfulness, the stack is designed to expel its fresh-air emissions in the form of giant “smoke” rings of clean steam. Remarkably, Ingels, together with German artist studio Realities: United, has transformed one of the most ungainly eyesores in the advanced world, the power plant, into a whimsical totem of beauty—and, at the same time, a functional center of urban recreation.
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with Julien De Smedt when he and Ingels were partners in a firm called PLOT. The two projects initiated the Danish architect’s global trajectory, as they introduced Bjarke’s habit of conquering obstacles with ingenious solutions. The first complex, the VM Houses—two buildings, respectively shaped like a V and an M—maximizes space by building corridors every three floors instead of on each floor, and designing apartments around these hallways like Tetris pieces, so each had access to one. While the buildings further innovate in their unique use of cantilevered balconies, it is difficult to see from the outside what makes them special. The second commission, however, is much more salient. “The Mountain” lives up to its majestic namesake. Ingels and De Smedt adapted the brief by incorporating the requisite parking structure into the base of the building, rising up like a slope, and then building the housing portion on top of it. This allowed the apartments to be stacked at an angle as if they were cubes rolling downhill. The result is the first example of what Ingels calls “BIGamy,” or the conflation of two disparate concepts into one. In this case, why choose between living in a high-rise building or in a house with its own garden? Why not build a high-rise building where the apartments each feature a coveted elevated view, while still having their own spacious roof garden? The Mountain is the first hint that you’re dealing with one of those rare minds that can transform frustrating challenges into eye-opening opportunities. 8 HOUSE If the Mountain introduced BIG’s habit of ingenious solutions, the 8 House—located just a stone’s throw away—cemented it. While not as clever as the Mountain, the seemingly self-folding 8 House just might be the most visually arresting. Resembling a 3-D version of the infinity symbol, the 8 House was designed so one could continuously walk (or bike) around the building in a loop, creating a self-contained ecosystem of living spaces and shops. Its dipping and rising sides grant each apartment unique sunlight streams and views into the dual courtyards. AMAGER BAKKE POWER PLANT A 20-minute ride back into the heart of Copenhagen—dodging 10 times the number of bicycles as cars—takes us to the Amager Bakke waste-to-energy plant. Situated on Amager Island across the bay from the quaint, brightly painted buildings of Nyhavn, the Amager Bakke will become the cleanestburning power plant in the world when it opens in 2020. It will literally convert garbage into clean energy. To emphasize the purity of the plant’s “fresh, like mountain air” emissions—and addressing the Danes’ love of skiing in a pancake-flat country—BIG proposed turning the building into a functioning ski slope. Citizens will be able to take an elevator up the side of the building—Copenhagen’s tallest—and ski down its piste, which will be twice as long as an Olympic half-pipe. In the summer they can ascend
From top: Taking a loop around the 8 House; VIA 57 West on Manhattan’s waterfront.
SUPERKILEN PARK As the sun dips toward the horizon, I aim the bike toward Nørrebro, enjoying the sounds of the powerful engine as we work our way to one of BIG’s most egalitarian efforts: Superkilen Park. Located in one of Denmark’s most ethnically diverse neighborhoods, the half-mile-long park acts as an urban hub for the community. But it goes one step further, adopting ingredients from the 60 cultures of its inhabitants and integrating them into the park itself. There are love seats from Mexico; swings plucked from the sandy beaches of Santa Monica; a tiled Moroccan fountain; palm trees from China that can handle the Danish chill; English trash bins; and neon signs from Russia and Qatar. And if you sit on one of the Belgian benches and look out onto Superkilen, you see that it is much more: It is a nexus of activity for the neighborhood. Kids sled down the man-made hill at its center. Couples sit adoringly in the facing love seats, exchanging doeeyed glances. Children squeal, climbing the metal octopus sculpture and the jungle gym. And here you can see clearly what BIG did: outsource the creativity and puzzle pieces of the park to the actual community. As I gaze over the studio’s work, eventually getting up to ride through the crowded Copenhagen streets back to my hotel, I contemplate Ingels’ next phase. He’s got megaprojects like Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters, a design collaboration with British designer Thomas Heatherwick; 2 World Trade Center; the New York “Dryline” seawall park, protecting against future flooding; and the Hudson Yards Spiral tower in the works—projects that could elevate the young architect from overachieving pioneer to household name. And we’ll all be lucky to see what his truly disruptive mind will come up with next. But as his star rises on the global stage, Copenhagen will always be home. And the projects that I’ve been lucky enough to see in the flesh will always be his foundation.
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i Building beyond borders Eager to expand his body of work beyond Denmark, Bjarke Ingels opened a New York branch of his company, BIG, in 2012. His first U.S. project, VIA 57 West in Manhattan (above), served as a statement of intent with its unique, modern-pyramid shape. His current projects in the States range from police precincts and museums to art installations and office buildings, and stretch from 2 World Trade Center in New York to the new Google North Bayshore complex in California. For more information, check out big.dk.
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Soul Searcher Photographer Jurij Treskow’s striking images dive deep into a fantasy world of his own making
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elarusian artist Jurij Treskow was drawn to the world of photography not by a fascination with cameras but by the intoxicating lifestyle of highend fashion. It happened when he was still a student, when a friend’s cousin, a model, visited from Lithuania. “She would tell us stories of her travels, the world of fashion, and photo shoots,” Treskow says. Needless to say, he was intrigued. Treskow and the woman sparked a brief romance, and when it ended he was determined to live in the world of fashion, photography, and, of course, glamorous women. “I started taking pictures of models in Brest, Moscow, Berlin, Paris, New York—everywhere I went. Soon enough, I quit my studies in economics and started circling the globe, photographing beautiful women for a living.” Treskow soon developed a style all his own. “I always look for a woman, a femme fatale, who is reckless, confident, sexy, and strong. And she has to be having a lot of fun. She must enjoy herself,” he says. Although he doesn’t work exclusively in black and white, it’s a style that holds a special allure for him. Indeed, his most striking images are monochromatic. “Black-and-white photographs are all about the soul. We don’t see the world in black and white, which makes blackand-white photography even more exciting. It’s a fantasy world. It’s an escape.” Treskow prepares meticulously for his shoots. “I try to train my imagination like a muscle,” he says. “I dream a lot. I’m very curious and I love to be surprised. I do my homework and prepare a mood board, but I rarely use any of it during the actual shoot. Once on set, my eyes are open. I am in the moment; it’s all hands on deck and the adventure begins.” —Keith Gordon
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Need for Speed Freshly tested on our European travels, the Scrambler Ducati Café Racer upholds the Italian motorbike company’s tradition of manufacturing machines of sculptural beauty. As the latest entry-level model within the Scrambler sub-brand (along with the off-road oriented “Desert Sled”), it’s a great introduction to would-be younger motorcycle riders. Our Café Racer, hitting showrooms now, was prepackaged with a suite of upgrades like clip-on handlebars, bar-end mirrors, and number plates, and a smooth 803cc engine producing 75hp.
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