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Thelma Golden, Curator
Book: Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound by Daphne Brooks
Thelma Golden at home in New York © Maceda Sandford
“So much of my time lately has been spent reading and re-reading books that are important to me. That was one of the highlights. It’s a history of black women musicians, from Aretha Franklin to Bessie Smith to Beyoncé, and shows how they’ve influenced intellectual life and the black female sound.”
Curator Thelma Golden talks about taste
Kengo Kuma, architect
Book: First person singular by Haruki Murakami
“Murakami’s novels have a sort of tunnel structure, and I apply the same design philosophy to my buildings. He is a good friend of mine and we inspire each other.”
Kengo Kuma: I’m not attached to objects at all
Cynthia Nixon, actress
Podcast: Little known facts with Ilana Levine
Cynthia Nixon at home in New York © Clément Pascal
“Levine is an actress who interviews all kinds of artists and celebrities, and she’s like Barbara Walters in the way she puts them at ease. For Sex and the city fans of the Stanford Blatch character, I highly recommend the two-part episode she did with Willie Garson, who played him.”
Cynthia Nixon talks about taste
Claudia Roden, food writer
Song: “Ya Mustafa” by Bob Azzam
‘Azzam was an Egyptian-born Lebanese-Palestinian singer in the 1960s. This song mixes Arabic with French and Italian and takes me back to the Egypt of my youth where we spoke many languages. I can’t resist getting up and dancing to it when no one is around. Nobody wants to hear me sing, but I sing to myself.”
Claudia Roden: “The first recipes I wrote down changed my life”
Lykke Li, musician
Song: “Song to the Siren” by This Mortal Coil
Lykke Li at home in Los Angeles © Arianna Lago
“It was the piece of art that changed everything for me. Basically, I hope one day I can make a vocal track this mesmerizing. However, I don’t think I succeeded. I will die trying.”
The style secrets of Swedish pop star Lykke Li
Hassan Hajjaj, artist
Podcast: Drink Champs
Hassan Hajjaj in the courtyard of Riad Yima, Marrakech © Yoriyas
“For this podcast, they interview hip-hop artists and work their way through a table full of drinks in the course of the discussion. I grew up in that era, so I love hearing the stories of artists like Busta Rhymes and De La Soul and hearing what they’re doing now.”
The extraordinary world of the artist Hassan Hajjaj
Toto Bergamo Rossi, curator and restorer
Book: Invisible cities by Italo Calvino
“I first read this 30 years ago. I loved the imaginary dialogue between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo: it inspired me in my battles against the deterioration of my city, Venice. I thought, let’s get more articulate and inspired, so I went back to Calvino.”
“I am married to Venice!” Toto Bergamo Rossi speaks of taste
Virginie Musat, writer
album: Nostalgia for the future by Dua Lipa
Virginie Mouzat at home in Paris © Alex Crétey Systermans
“I’m obsessed with Dua Lipa – her voice, her looks, she’s super talented. “Hallucinate,” “Levitating,” she’s got all those hits. Suddenly I’m back to being a teenager dancing around my house with loud music.
Virginie Musa: “I am terrified of modernity for its own sake”
Martha Freud, ceramicist
Podcast: Unlock usby Brené Brown
“Everything Brown says is gospel to me. She is a researcher specializing in shame, vulnerability, and leadership, and she breaks down behavioral patterns and consequences in a way that I can completely relate to. She interviews fascinating people like psychologists John and Julie Gottman about relationships. She tries to explore everything it means to be human. And I love her Texas accent.
Martha Freud: “The best advice I ever received? ‘Go to bed!’
Yalda Hakim, TV operator
Book: A Certain View of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson
A Certain View of France by Julian Jackson © Max Miechowski
“Jackson’s biography of Charles de Gaulle touches the way I feel about Afghanistan. I loved the way this junior general convinced Churchill to watch his back, then mobilized the French to get behind him and take their country back.’
BBC World News presenter Yalda Hakim talks about personal taste
Laila Gohar, food artist
Song: “Waiting for You” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
“I was really moved by the film One more time with feelingabout producing Cave’s album Skeleton tree after the death of his son arthur – that’s so sad – and I love all his music, especially the 2019 album. Guest.”
Culinary star Laila Goar talks about personal taste
Dom Bridges, founder of skincare brand Haeckels
The Blindboy Podcast
Heckels founder Dom Bridges in his Margate study © Tom Jamieson
“It would be sacrilege not to mention this truly unique and twisted blend of psychology, humor and social issues from an Irish comedian.”
Haeckels founder Dom Bridges: ‘Margate changed my life’
Sebastien Foucan, Freerunner
Book: Ruthless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S Grover
“Grover was Michael Jordan’s coach, and this is a book about the champion’s mindset. He talks about how there is a part of ourselves that we often reject and how we can tap into that and take control of it. He calls it our “dark side,” which, when you think about it from Darth Vader’s perspective, sounds negative—but the way he explains it, it can be a good thing when it’s controlled. For me, working on big sets and training athletes, it all makes sense.”
Parkour pioneer Sébastien Foucan: “I kept the bullet Daniel Craig shot me with”
Leanne Shapton, artist and graphic writer
Book: mothers by Yeong-shin Ma
Leanne Shapton at home in Greenwich Village, New York © Beat Schweizer
“This graphic novel is based on the author’s mother and his mother’s friends. It was a subculture I knew nothing about: middle-aged Korean women. He writes about these women with love and sympathy and a little brutality. It reminded me of Alice Munro writing women and Haruki Murakami writing cities.
Leanne Shapton on vintage swimwear, David Hockney and learning to love a 40-watt light bulb
Joe Gebbia, co-founder of AirBnB
album: Battle lines by Bob Moses
“This album by a Canadian electronic duo is a mix of brooding lyrics, pop beats and synths.”
The co-founder of Airbnb about his favorite things
Joel Andrianomearisois, artist
Song: “The Sky in a Room” by Mina
Joël Andrianomearisoa at home in Paris © Arnau Bach
“We listen to this song, recorded in 1969 by the Italian singer Mina, every day in the studio. It has this melancholic melody and the lyrics talk about the feeling of being in love and the walls turn into a forest and the ceiling turns into the sky… I love the image and the idea of emotional elements turning into physical architecture.”
The monochrome majesty of Joël Andrianomearisoa
Arthur de Villepin, gallerist
Book: Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel
The Women of Ninth Street by Mary Gabriel © Amanda Co
“It’s about the New York art scene in the 1940s and 1950s from the perspective of five women artists: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler. I found it so interesting to look at history through their lens and you realize that a lot of things were happening in the shadows of other successful artists of that period like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.”
Gallerist Arthur de Villepin: “I just met Van Gogh”
Gia Coppola, director and winemaker
Book: Wine Girl: A Sommelier’s Tale of Succeeding in the Toxic World of Fine Dining by Victoria James
Gia Coppola at home in California © Arianna Lago
“I love reading about James’ personal journey, making her way to becoming one of the top female sommeliers. I never knew how complicated and expensive it was, especially for young women.
Gia Coppola loves Vance, Vegas and her grandfather Francis Ford Coppola’s vineyard
Carla Welch, Stylist
album: Serpentine Prison by Matt Berninger
“The last music I downloaded was this album by the lead singer of The National. I like that he’s a postmodern man – a bit sad, a bit sensitive and interested in rooting for powerful women.”
Celebrity Stylist Carla Welch on Why ‘Good Clothes Open Doors’
Sinead Burke, Accessibility Advocate
Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show
Sinead Burke at the National College of Art and Design © Ellius Grace
“I’m listening to a particular episode of it when Klein had sociologist Tracy McMillan Cotham as a guest. The interview was wide-ranging, but I’m someone who listens to things with notes at the ready, and in it she talks about a status that she defines as being apart of the class. Status is the currency you bring into a room with you, but we haven’t built a deep vocabulary around it because people are reluctant to articulate the role that status plays in their success. She is one of the best people I follow on Twitter and wrote a book called Thick in 2019, which I think everyone should read.”
Sinead Burke: “The door opened for me. I’m trying to make sure the door won’t close
Timothy Taylor, Gallerist
Book: Lee Child Jack Reacher series
“They are impressive to listen to on Audible. I recently heard an interview with Lee by Jeremy Paxman, and Paxman was asking him about his literary style. He said it was very difficult to design a Rolls-Royce, but extremely difficult to design a Ford Escort. That kind of sums it up.”
Gallerist Timothy Taylor: “Style is ambition and the freedom to follow your own path”
Shiza Shahid, co-founder of cookware brand Our Place
Different, by Coke Studio Pakistan
Shahid at home wearing a Tory Burch dress © Rich Stapleton
“The last music I downloaded was from Coke Studio Pakistan – a mix, new and old, of folk music, qawwali and other traditional genres with a modern beat. Some great shows include ‘Alif Allah’ by Arif Lohar and Misha Shafi and ‘Afrin Afrin’ by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.”
Shiza Shahid: “Cooking reconnects you with your body, your food system and each other”
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