Travel News

Scarlett Johansson Shares Her Beauty Regimen

Scarlett Johansson Shares Her Beauty Regimen

I don’t really know how to do my hair that well. I don’t blow dry it or anything like that. I just started seeing Dana Ionato at Sally Hershberger for my color and I’ve liked working with her because the color grows out well.


Stay Here

Oxford, England — home to the country’s oldest university, founded in 1096 — is getting a new hotel to match its beauty and history. The Store, a 101-room property, opens today in the building that once housed Boswells, a beloved local department store that opened in 1738. “Before we started the project, we interviewed dozens of local people to find out what Boswells meant to them. Their affectionate stories and memories had a big impact on the look and atmosphere of the hotel,” says Imshan Jamal, managing director and co-founder of the EQ group, which developed the Store in partnership with the London based Reef Group. The shop’s name remains on the Art Deco facade, as do its display windows, which will be used for art exhibits. Inside, the materials used in the rooms’ design — among them oak parquet, brass and leather — are meant to echo the traditional college aesthetic. Treadwell, the hotel’s restaurant, serves what Jamal calls “British food with a twist,” including the Ruby Murray, a short-crust pie filled with creamy butter-chicken curry and served with a side of chili-infused gunpowder potatoes. In the cellar, a walnut-paneled spa offers yoga classes, sound baths and treatments using products from the Welsh brand Oskia.

Before a stay at the hotel, guests will receive a questionnaire asking about any special requests or interests. That’s when you can arrange a visit to some of the university’s colleges or book a literary-themed tour of the sites around town, taking in the spots frequented by many of the writers who attended Oxford, including T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh and Oscar Wilde, who famously quipped “the two great turning points in my life were when my father sent me to Oxford and society sent me to prison.” Rooms from about $360, thestoreoxford.com.


Monica Khemsurov, a co-founder of the design publication Sight Unseen and a T contributing editor, has long been obsessed with the vintage hardware she’d spot on 20th-century buildings in Europe. “Whenever I find cool doors and handles on my travels, I’ll post it on Sight Unseen’s Instagram with #doorporn,” she says. This fixation led to an idea: an…

Click Here to Read the Full Original Article at NYT > Travel…