A Summer Capsule Collection Inspired by an Italian Getaway

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Floating Figures by Katherine Bradford

The paintings of Katherine Bradford offer themselves like scenes from a dream, vivid and immediate even as their meaning remains mysterious. Fluorescent nude men ring a pool suspended among the stars. Disembodied legs wearing dress shoes encroach on a green-haired woman’s personal space. A group of sea swimmers gaze out at lightning on the horizon. “Sometimes I do a painting,” says Bradford, who splits her time between Brooklyn and coastal Maine, “and then I make it darker, and then darker and then darker. It’s because I like the mystery. I like things that happen at night.” Bradford has been painting since the 1970s, but her turn to figuration in the ’90s serves as the starting point for the first solo survey of her work, now at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. Across more than 40 paintings, the show traces her technical evolution — from single subjects to ensembles, from oils to acrylics — as she returns to what she calls her “bag of tricks”: swimmers, caped superheroes, floating horizontal bodies. The artist is drawn to these avatars of fear and uncertainty, she says, because “it’s the opposite of those old stately portraits of royalty, where they’re supposed to look invincible. I like to do people who are slightly falling apart.” “Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford” is on view through Sept. 11, portlandmuseum.org.

The British designer Luke Edward Hall was listening to “Week-End à Rome,” the synth-driven 1984 pop hit by Étienne Daho, when he dreamed up his latest capsule collection for Chateau Orlando, the fashion and housewares brand he launched in February 2022. A French song about an Italian getaway, it evoked for Hall the sun-drenched promise of summer vacations and languorous, long lunches in the Mediterranean — and spawned retro restaurant-inspired motifs in his trademark scribble for T-shirts, tote bags, a beach towel and a poster. Hall has designed interiors, ceramics and clothes for brands including Burberry, Ginori 1735 and Diptyque, but Chateau Orlando allows him to indulge his personal whims, such as zanily patterned cotton sweater vests and drink trays featuring an illustration of…