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Highlights this year include the beloved Arts for All Gala Napa fundraiser atPlease Nickelread and Jennifer Nickel other Haute Event thisinissue is my Festival Valley. inspiration for her latest book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, a beautifully illustrated Another fascinating profile this issue is the world-renowned writer Amy Tan, She, Dave Barry, and some other writers performed with her band, Rock Bottom refined Moroccan cuisine. Krug Winery in St. Helena. youPalmer, attend Festival Napa Valley, by please check out the vineyard aBoden’s special dinner by with chefWhile Charlie a concert headlined 8-time GRAMMY® award winner Festival President Rick Walker onhome this 17th season’s upcoming programs, work on the fascinating world ofamazing birds in her backyard. Amy has not whom Iinterview have known for over 35 I sold her talent! the where shestopped found Remainders, for charity, her musical Last but not least, be sureshowing toHaute read Health &years. 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Santa Fe’s rich artistic heritage comes alive at Four Seasons Rancho Encantado, an intimate high-desert retreat offering art, culture, cuisine, and adventure.

The Boca Raton celebrates 100 years of glamorous hospitality, honoring Addison Mizner’s architectural legacy while embracing five distinctive luxury hotel experiences.

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From Zero Bond to The Battery, private social clubs are redefining luxury through privacy, community, culture, and meaningful connection.

A new generation of collectors is reshaping the art market, embracing fresh mediums, disciplined buying, and the enduring power of instinct.

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Kiani Preserve blends conservation, regenerative agriculture and ambitious winemaking across 8,000 Santa Ynez Valley acres, creating a legacy rooted in stewardship.

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Ambassador Aubrey Brewster welcomes fall at Neiman Marcus San Francisco with a stylish luncheon celebrating seasonal fashion, elegant entertaining, and autumnal cuisine.

Festival Napa Valley celebrated its 20th anniversary with world-class music, opera, ballet, wine, philanthropy, and unforgettable performances across the Napa Valley.

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THROUGH SEPT. 12 San Francisco Playhouse | In 1960s Baltimore, Tracy Turnblad fights racial segregation and television bias to dance her way to stardom. A Broadway hit, winner of eight Tony Awards, is an uplifting celebration of selfexpression, inclusion, and standing up for what’s right. 450 Post St. sfplayhouse.org

Symphony, film, design, and theater bring arts and live entertainment into the spotlight, outstanding cultural events take center stage to start the season. Haute Living San Francisco is a proud media sponsor of legacy events: the popular Annual San Francisco Fall Show in its 44th year and the internationally acclaimed Mill Valley Film Festival in its 49th year. Haute Living San Francisco will be a media partner for this year’s San Francisco Opera Ball as well, now scheduled for November 12. Enjoy! BY LAURIE JO MILLER FARR

Dianne Reeves, SF JAZZ

THROUGH SEPT 27 SFMOMA | Matisse’s Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal In 1905, Henri Matisse sent shockwaves through the art world with Femme au chapeau. The portrait of his wife, Amélie, painted in bold color and loose brushstrokes defied convention. 151 Third St. sfmoma.org

SEPTEMBER SEPT. 6 - 27 Center Repertory Company |

THROUGH SEPT. 20 Legion of Honor | The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy The Etruscans thrived for almost a millennium before the rise of the Roman Empire. Nearly 200 examples of exquisite sculpture, gold jewelry, ceramics, and the longest-surviving piece of Etruscan writing. 100 34th Avenue. famsf.org THROUGH JAN. 31, 2027 de Young | Treasures of the Pharaohs Remarkable discoveries from Ancient Egypt exhibition U.S. debut in San Francisco before touring internationally. Some 130 rare artifacts from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the Luxor Museum tell stories about rulers in the cradle of civilization 3,000 years ago. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. famsf.org

A revival of Tennessee Williams’ quintessential American classic performed by the residential professional theatre company. Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Dr., Walnut Creek.centerrep.org SEPT. 8 - 13 Broadway San Jose | Disney’s

Wynton Marsalis, Monterey Jazz

The first North American touring production of the musical presented by Disney in over 25 years, premiered on Broadway in 1994 and ranks among the longest-running shows. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, 255 Almaden Blvd. beautyandthebeastthemusical.com SEPT. 10 & 12 San Francisco Symphony | Film with Live Orchestra performs John Williams’ score live to accompany the big screen action. Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave. sfsymphony.org SEPT. 10 - 20 Flower Piano | SF Botanical Garden A unique and creative 11-day event that transforms San Francisco Botanical Garden into an al fresco concert hall where everyone is invited to play and listen. More performances in VIP Lounge. 1199 9th Ave., Golden Gate Park. sfbg.org

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SEPTEMBER 12 – 27 San Francisco Opera | A story of love, loss, and reconciliation set in a divided Italy aching for unity. Music Director Eun Sun Kim leads the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus in a continuation of her multi-year exploration of the works of Verdi in this work’s first staging since 2008. War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Ave. sfopera.com

Phantom of the Opera

PHOTOS COURTESY OF MATTHEW MURPHY AND EVAN ZIMMERMAN (TOP), ELLIE KURTTZ (BOTTOM)

SEPT. 13 Opera in the Park Artists present arias and duets from the upcoming season led by Music Director Eun Sun Kim. Golden Gate Park, Robin Williams Meadow. sfopera.com SEPT. 13 Harvest Table | Calistoga A 1,000-foot-long table transforms downtown Calistoga into a farm-to-table dining experience for a unique tradition featuring food from nine restaurants. visitcalistoga.com SEPT. 16 Dreamfest | The Concert for Kids During Salesforce’s Dreamforce meeting in San Francisco, a concert and party benefitting UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. Presentation of Colin Powell Medal of Courage to a young patient for bravery in the face of medical adversity. Oracle Park, 24 Willie Mays Plaza. theconcertforkids.org Sept. 17 Mountain Winery | The Temptations with Four Tops From May through October, a blockbuster lineup of concerts for the 2026 season at the picturesque venue. 14831 Pierce Rd, Saratoga. mountainwinery.com SEPT. 17 - 20 SFJAZZ | Branford Marsalis and Dianne Reeves Celebrate John Coltrane The saxophone great and NEA Jazz Master and his quartet are joined by the brilliant jazz diva for a week devoted to the music of John Coltrane on the centennial of his birth. 201 Franklin St. sfjazz.org

SEPT. 19 Stanford Live | Brandi Carlisle Eleven-time GRAMMY® Award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer, the two-time EMMY® Award-winning composer, lyricist, and writer is one of music’s most respected voices. Brandi Carlisle presents The Human Tour at Frost Amphitheater, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford. live.stanford.edu SEPT. 20 Wheeler Farms | Good Company Walk-around tasting with seven vintners pouring, plus local food and live music from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Meet Accendo Estate, Annalus, Bella Oaks, Impensata, J.H. Wheeler, Kinsman Eades, and TOR. 588 Zinfandel Lane, St. Helena. events@ wheelerfarmswine.com SEPT. 20 - OCT. 4 San Francisco Opera | Scottish-born composer Thea Musgrave brings one of history’s most captivating figures to the stage with a score as bold and compelling as its young heroine. War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Ave. sfopera.com SEPT. 22 - OCT. 18 A.C.T. | Alfred Hitchcock’s An inventive take on the 1959 classic, a thrilling tale of mistaken identity that transforms this iconic film into a riotously funny high-speed theatrical ride. Toni Rembe Theatre, 415 Geary St. act-sf.org

Heidi Stober, Mary, Queen of Scots

SEPT. 24 San Francisco Symphony | Opening Gala Superstar violinist Hilary Hahn takes the stage with conductor Giancarlo Guerrero in a celebratory program to open the symphony’s new season. Pre- and post-parties plus a VIP dinner. Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave. gala@ sfsymphony.org

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OCT. 2 San Francisco Symphony | A Concert for MTT In a one-of-a-kind event, Michael Tilson Thomas’ longtime friends and artistic collaborators— including Yuja Wang, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Sasha Cooke, Audra McDonald, Edwin Outwater, Teddy Abrams, and others—join San Francisco Symphony and Chorus in a concert celebrating his life and legacy. Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave. sfsymphony.org OCT. 2 Robert Plant | On a U.S. tour to celebrate the recent album six years in the making. Robert Plant with Saving Grace and Suzi Dian present Up the Sharp End with special guest Rosie Flores joining the band. Orpheum Theatre, 1192 Market St. us.atgtickets.com OCT. 2 George Mark Children’s House Fall Fundraiser | An Evening of Love & Lyrics An annual fundraiser to make a difference in the lives of medically fragile children and their families. Performance by Broadway star Miguel Cervantes of Hamilton. Four Seasons Hotel, 757 Market St. georgemark.org OCT. 2 - 4 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Eighty acts on six stages in Golden Gate Park, the beloved free music festival is an annual San Francisco tradition, drawing large crowds for more than 25 years. hardlystrictlybluegrass.com

SEPT. 25 - 27 69th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Since 1958, the world’s longest continuously running jazz festival is set on a 20-acre, oak-studded venue. The nonprofit events presents dozens of artists over three days on five stages to celebrate America’s creativity and cultural heritage. Monterey County Fairgrounds. montereyjazzfest.org

OCTOBER OCT. 1, 3 & 4 San Francisco Symphony | Renée Fleming Sings Strauss A double dose of Richard Strauss by two of his greatest living interpreters, soprano Renée Fleming and debuting guest conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave. sfsymphony.org

Ravi Coltrane, Monterey Jazz

OCT. 1 - 11 Mill Valley Film Festival Haute Living San Francisco is a proud media sponsor of the 11-day internationally acclaimed cinema event. Now in its 49th year, MVFF presents a broad variety of new films by 200 filmmakers representing 50 countries in an engaged community-wide setting. mvff.com

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Mill Valley Film Festival

PHOTOS COURTESY OF (CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT) CORY WEAVER, MVFF, ERIN O’BRIAN

SEPT. 25 - 27 Valley of the Moon Vintage Fest Two centuries ago, the first wine grapes were harvested here, now celebrated with communitywide festivities in historic Sonoma Plaza. Presented by the Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation. valleyofthemoonvintagefestival.org

OCT. 4 - 12 Fleet Week Land, sea, and air. U.S. Navy Blue Angels headline the dramatic airshow (Oct. 9 - 11) over the bay during a busy week filled with concerts and tours of visiting ships, plus the waterfront parade of ships. fleetweeksf.org

Grace Cathedral

PHOTOS COURTESY OF LAURIE JO MILLER FARR (TOP), CORY WEAVER (BOTTOM)

OCT. 5 Judgment of Napa A once-in-a-generation blind-tasting event curated by Cultured Vine. International wine experts are judges as Napa competes with some of the world’s finest wines, a tribute to the 50th anniversary of the historic 1976 Judgment of Paris. Freemark Abbey, 3022 St. Helena Hwy. Tickets at.judgmentofnapa.com OCT 7 - 11 Oakland Style Now in its fourth year, a five-day celebration of the artists, musicians, designers, chefs, performers, and creators that give Oakland its unmistakable style. visitoakland.com OCT. 7 - 18 Broadway San Jose | On its new North American tour, a revitalized production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s legendary musical. Center for the Performing Arts, 255 Almaden Blvd., San Jose. broadwaysanjose.com

OCT. 13 - NOV. 1 ATG | Based on the miserable life of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, Cole Escola’s new play is a Tony® and Olivier® Award-winning smash hit. “One of the best comedies in years,” says The New York Times. Curran Theatre, 445 Geary St. us.atgtickets.com

OCT. 7 - NOV. 1 TheatreWorks Silicon Valley | Sink your teeth into this horror classic, Steven Dietz’s version of the vampire myth at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. theatreworks.org.

OCT. 15 - 18 44th San Francisco Fall Show | Opening Night Gala Haute Living San Francisco is pleased to be a media partner in a celebration of the timeless appeal of decorative arts, antiques, and design. This year’s theme is Métallique Chic unfolding in a striking interplay of gold leaf, silver filigree, and burnished bronze. Opening Gala is Oct. 14, 5 p.m. at Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason, 2 Marina Blvd. sffallshow.org

OCT. 11 158th Italian Heritage Festival & Parade Since 1869, North Beach has drawn thousands to the popular event, a fun-filled day celebrating the wonderful Italian-American community. Featuring sidewalk art, live music, performances, parade floats, pizza, and lots more. sfitalianheritage.org The Marriage of Figaro, SF Opera

OCT. 15 – NOV. 1 San Francisco Opera | Young and beautiful, Manon is torn between true love for a handsome chevalier and the deep temptation of a luxurious, wealthy lifestyle. War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Ave. sfopera.com OCT. 17 - 18 54th Annual Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival On historic Main Street between Mill and Spruce streets in the “World Pumpkin Capital.” Kicks off Oct. 13 with the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off. Main St., Half Moon Bay. pumpkinfest.miramarevents.com OCT. 30 Grace Cathedral | A special Halloween silent film screening of the 1920 horror classic featuring live musical accompaniment on the cathedral’s massive pipe organ played by renowned organist and composer Dorothy Papadakos. Presented with SFJAZZ. 1100 California St. sfjazz.org OCT. 31 - NOV. 29 San Francisco Opera | Everyone falls in love with the endearing comedy of schemes and disguises filled with back-to-back musical hits composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1786. War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Ave. sfopera.com

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Simon Bocanegra by Giuseppe Verdi

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA 2026-27 SEASON PREVIEW COVERED BY ALYONA MARENCHUK AND OLIVIA DECKER

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA CELEBRATES ITS 104TH SEASON

this year. On September 12, under Music Director Eun Sun Kim, the weekend opens with the performance of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra. The Opera Ball, the company’s annual largest fundraiser will be postponed to November 12. For over 85 years, San Francisco Opera Guild has brought music and theater education to tens of thousands of Bay Area students, giving them transformation experiences that help them grow as artists, collaborators, and compassionate citizens. This year the Opera Ball honors Diane B. Wilsey who has been the Grand Sponsor for the Opening Night and the Opera in the Park for over 20 years. At the September 12 opening night, San Francisco Opera brings back Giuseppe Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, composed in 1856–1857 and later revised in 1880–1881, It is politically charged

work blending personal tragedy with the turbulence of power struggles. Full of political conspiracies, gloom, and death. Last time production was presented in 2008 with Dmitri Horostovsky, Russian baritone, as Simon. Now, 18 years later Amartuvshin Enkhbat, a celebrated Mongolian baritone, will take the stage. He began his career as a soloist at the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Mongolia in 2008, interestingly the same year. On September 13, opening weekend continues with Opera in the Park, the annual free concert at Robin Williams Meadow at Golden Gate Park that has been a Bay Area tradition for more than fifty years. Together the two days blend civic glamour and open‑air community spirit, raising vital support for future productions and education while inviting everyone to share in the music.

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The season will continue with another political rivalry, Mary Queen of Scotts, written by Thea Musgrave in 1977. It brings a modern dramatic lens to the life of the embattled Scottish monarch, pairing contemporary musical language with historical intensity. Jules Massenet’s Manon, written between 1882 and 1883 and premiered in 1884, captures the irresistible allure and ultimate downfall of its heroine through lush French Romanticism. Finally, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, composed in 1785–1786 and premiered in 1786, remains one of opera’s greatest masterpieces, a sparkling yet subversive comedy that exposes the tensions of class, desire, and social order with unmatched elegance. A nice way to bring sparks and positivity before the holiday season unfolds. Summer season will continue with Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold, composed between 1851 and 1854 and premiered in 1869, serves as the mythic prologue to the Ring Cycle, introducing the theft of the Rhinegold and the creation of the cursed ring that sets the entire epic in motion.

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Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, composed from 1897 to 1899 and premiered in 1900, stands as one of the defining masterpieces of Italian verismo, a taut and emotionally charged drama of political oppression, passion, and sacrifice set against the turbulent backdrop of Napoleonic‑era Rome. San Francisco Opera General Director Matthew Shilvock describes the Company’s “Ring Journey” as multi‑season artistic arc, beginning with a standalone presentation of Das Rheingold and building toward a full staging of Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle for the 105th season. Although Wagner composed this epic more than 150 years ago, its exploration of power, corruption, politics, and class feels strikingly contemporary. Across history, humanity repeatedly confronts cycles of collapse and renewal, and Wagner understood that these forces are rooted not in circumstance but in human nature itself. His insight endures because human nature does not change, making the Ring as resonant today as when it first emerged from his labor of nearly twenty-eight years. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 15

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Opening Night Opera Ball is postponed to November 12, 2026

2026-27 SEASON IN DETAIL OPENING OF SAN FRANCISCO OPERA’S 104 TH SEASON OPERA BALL

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2026 AT 5 P.M. Each year, the Opera Ball marks the official opening of the San Francisco Opera season and the opening of the San Francisco social and entertainment season followed by the Opening of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Fall Show, transforming the Civic Center into a world of couture, artistry, and philanthropy. Guests arrive through the iconic colonnade, greeted by a tableau of shimmering gowns, sculptural florals, and the soft glow of the rotunda’s Beaux‑Arts dome. The evening unfolds with a champagne reception and a gala dinner where the rotunda transforms into a late‑night salon of live music, dancing, and luminous revelry. The Opera Ball is an integral part of San Francisco’s cultural vitality, supporting the Opera’s artistic programming and the Opera Guild’s education initiatives for tens of thousands of Bay Area students. Opera Ball 2026 is made possible, for the 20th year, by Opening Weekend Grand Sponsor Diane B. Wilsey, led by Co‑Chairs Sydney Leung and Jennifer Walske, with gratitude to the patrons and partners who champion San Francisco Opera’s artistic and educational mission. For details, please visit Website: www.sfoperaguild.com

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SIMON BOCANEGRA BY GIUSEPPE VERDI

SEPTEMBER 12-27, 2026 Set in 14th-century Genoa, Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra is a powerful tale of political intrigue, betrayal, and family reconciliation. Simon, a former Corsair, becomes Doge of Genoa but is haunted by the loss of his beloved and his daughter, who disappeared as a child. Years later, he discovers that a young noblewoman, Amelia, is his long-lost daughter. As rival political factions threaten Genoa, Simon must confront his bitter enemy, Jacopo Fiesco, Amelia’s grandfather. Amid conspiracies and betrayal, father and daughter are finally reunited, but Simon’s triumph is short-lived, ending in a moving reconciliation and his tragic death. San Francisco Opera’s 2026 opening night features an international cast led by Amartuvshin Enkhbat as Simon, Eleonora Buratto/Toni Marie Palmertree as Amelia/Maria, Joshua Guerrero as Gabriele Adorno, Christian Van Horn as Jacopo Fiesco, Aleksei Bogdanov as Paolo Albiani, Gabriel Natal-Báez as Pietro under the direction of Eun Sun Kim in the American premiere of Claus Guth’s acclaimed production.

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Mary, Queen of Scots By Thea Musgrave

OPERA IN THE PARK

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 AT 1:30PM, 2026 San Francisco Opera’s Opening Weekend unfolds into its most beloved public tradition: Opera in the Park. Set within the sweeping greenery of Golden Gate Park’s Robin Williams Meadow, the free outdoor concert transforms the city’s cultural heartbeat into an open‑air celebration. Music Director Eun Sun Kim leads the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and stars of the new season in a program of arias and ensembles.

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS BY THEA MUSGRAVE

Manon By Jules Massenet

SEPTEMBER 20-OCTOBER 4, 2026 The new production of Mary, Queen of Scots is co‑production with English National Opera and brings Musgrave’s drama to the company’s mainstage for the first time, directed and designed by Stewart Laing and conducted by Clelia Cafiero. Featuring Heidi Stober as Mary, with Thomas Mole, Thomas Kinch, and Christopher Sokolowski in principal roles, the 2026 staging reframes the opera within a contemporary Scottish landscape that sharpens its political tensions and emotional stakes. The 1979 West Coast premiere was presented not on the mainstage but by San Francisco Opera’s Spring Opera Theater at the Curran Theatre, where Musgrave herself conducted a more traditional Tudor‑era staging. What was once an intimate, composer‑led introduction now returns as a fully realized, visually modern production.

MANON BY JULES MASSENET

OCTOBER 15-NOVEMBER 1, 2026 Jules Massenet’s Manon follows the irresistible yet tragic journey of a young woman whose desire for love and luxury leads her down a perilous path. On her way to a convent, Manon meets the idealistic Chevalier des Grieux, and the two flee to Paris in a burst of youthful passion. Their happiness proves fragile as Manon is drawn toward wealth and social glitter, abandoning des Grieux for a life of opulence. When she later returns to him, their reunion ignites a final attempt at redemption, but the consequences of her choices close in. In the end, Manon dies in des Grieux’s arms, a heartbreaking portrait of innocence undone by temptation. San Francisco Opera’s 2026 production features Amina Edris, soprano, as Manon, Pene Pati, tenor, as des Grieux, Vitor Bispo, baritone, as Lescaut, and James Creswell, bass‑baritone, as the Comte des Grieux, including Steven Cole, Stephen Gaertner, Sofia Gotch, Laura Krumm, Taylor Roven and Olivier Zerouali with Eun Sun Kim conducting and Vincent Boussard directing. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 17

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THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO BY WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 29, 2026 The Marriage of Figaro is set at the estate of Count Almaviva. Figaro, the Count’s servant, is preparing to marry Susanna, the Countess’s maid. But the Count secretly wants Susanna for himself and tries to interfere with their wedding. Meanwhile, the Countess, who is unhappy because her husband has been unfaithful, joins Susanna and Figaro in a clever plan to expose and embarrass him. Through disguises, mistaken identities, secret letters, and unexpected encounters, the Count’s schemes unravel. In the end, the Count realizes his wrongdoing and asks the Countess for forgiveness. She forgives him, and Figaro and Susanna are finally able to marry. At its heart, the opera is a witty story about love, jealousy, class, marriage, and the triumph of cleverness over power. San Francisco Opera’s 2026 Marriage of Figaro features bass Peter Kellner as the quick‑witted Figaro and soprano Slávka Zámečníková as the resourceful Susanna, with baritone Thomas Mole as the scheming Count Almaviva and soprano Olivia Smith as the luminous, long‑suffering Countess. The ensemble includes Simone McIntosh as Cherubino, Maurizio Muraro as Bartolo, Catherine Cook as Marcellina, Alek Shrader as Basilio, Chance Jonas‑O’Toole as Don Curzio, Sofia Gotch as Barbarina. The production is led by conductor Sebastian Weigle and director Shawna Lucey.

The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

STRAUSS IN CONCERT

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2026 After two seasons of sold‑out performances, Music Director Eun Sun Kim returns to lead San Francisco Opera Orchestra in a richly expressive evening devoted to Richard Strauss. The program showcases the composer’s extraordinary versatility: the vividly characterized tone poem Till Eulenspiegel; the Brentano Lieder, one of Strauss’s most profound and virtuosic song collections; and the U.S. premiere of a new arrangement featuring highlights from Der Rosenkavalier. Soprano Adela Zaharia, whose appearance in last season’s Rigoletto was a standout triumph, makes a welcome return, bringing her radiant artistry to this sumptuous orchestral celebration.

Das Rheingold By Richard Wagner

THE FUTURE IS NOW: ADLERS IN CONCERT

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 AT 7:30PM AT *HERBST THEATRE San Francisco Opera’s annual showcase of its resident artists brings the Adler Fellows to the Herbst Theatre for an evening of opera excerpts and arias performed with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. This singular event offers audiences the rare opportunity to experience the next generation of major operatic talent. This year’s program will be conducted by Sebastian Weigle and staged by director Elio Bucky, highlighting the exceptional artistry and promise of these rising stars. 18 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

Tosca by Giacomo Puccini

2027 Pride Concert at San Francisco Opera

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA CHORUS IN CONCERT

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2026, AT 2:00PM The acclaimed San Francisco Opera Chorus offers an intimate afternoon concert on Sunday, November 22 at 2 p.m. in the Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater. Chorus Director John Keene leads the Company’s full‑time chorus, with Associate Chorus Master Fabrizio Corona at the piano, in a beautifully curated program of choral music that highlights the ensemble’s artistry and expressive ran

DAS RHEINGOLD BY RICHARD WAGNER

MAY 29-JUNE 22, 2027 Das Rheingold is the first opera of the four-part cycle. The Ring Cycle is one of the most monumental works in the history of opera. Four evenings of music, complex orchestral score, and Wagner’s famous system of leitmotivs, which connect characters, objects and ideas through the cycle. At the heart of the drama is a magical ring whose possession brings immense power but also a devastating curse. The central theme is the pursuit of power and its destructive consequences. In the end, the old world is destroyed, opening the possibility for a new one. San Francisco Opera’s 2027 Das Rheingold will bridge to the following season when the entire cycle will be presented. San Francisco Opera’s 2027 Das Rheingold brings the mythic world of gods and giants to life with baritone Brian Mulligan as a commanding Wotan and bass‑baritone Falk Struckmann as the driven, gold‑hungry Alberich. Tenor Brenton Ryan as Loge, mezzo‑soprano Judit Kutasi as Fricka, tenor Zhengyi Bai as the quicksilver Mime, and mezzo‑soprano Sofia Gotch as Woglinde, joined by Wellgunde and Flosshilde from the Company’s

ensemble, Sadie Cheslak as the prophetic Erda, bass Patrick Guetti as Fafner and bass Kwangchul Youn as Fasolt. Eun Sun Kim conducting Francesca Zambello production.

TOSCA BY GIACOMO PUCCINI

JUNE 4-JULY 2, 2027 Tosca is one of the defining works of Italian verismo, the movement that brought opera down from mythic or aristocratic worlds into the realm of real people, real emotions, and real political danger. The opera is set during the Napoleonic occupation of Rome, and its plot revolves around state power, surveillance, torture, and political repression. This makes Tosca feel contemporary in every era; its themes echo wherever political power is abused. It remains one of the most performed operas worldwide. San Francisco Opera’s 2027 Tosca features soprano Rachel Willis‑Sørensen as Floria Tosca, tenor Riccardo Massi as Mario Cavaradossi, baritone Quinn Kelsey as Baron Scarpia and bassbaritone DaleTravis as Sacristan. The production is by Shawna Lucey, with Clelia Cafiero conducting Puccini’s score.

PRIDE CONCERT 2027

FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 2027, SAN FRANCISCO OPERA AND FEATURED ARTISTS. Celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community in the heart of San Francisco with the Pride Concert, a celebration of queer musical trailblazers. San Francisco Opera and featured artists invite you to sing the house down on this electrifying evening, accompanied by the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 19

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Behind the Velvet Rope From New York’s Zero Bond to San Francisco’s social salons, private clubs are having a cultural moment ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT IN MANHATTAN’S NOHO NEIGHBORHOOD,

a small gaggle of photographers often gathers outside the discreet entrance of Zero Bond. Their presence, and their camera flashes, usually signal that someone famous is entering or exiting. The scene has become familiar when figures like Taylor Swift are in New York. Paparazzi photos regularly capture such A-listers slipping in for private gatherings with friends. Inside, the atmosphere is different. Phones stay largely out of sight. Members and their guests settle into dining rooms, lounges, and cocktail bars designed to feel more like an elegant townhouse than a nightlife venue. The contrast explains much of the appeal behind the current boom in private social clubs. In a hyper-visible world, exclusivity and privacy are the new currencies.

WHY THE PRIVATE CLUB IS BACK

For more than a century, private clubs were defined by tradition. Many originated in the nineteenth century as gathering places for political leaders, journalists, or business elites. Today’s clubs serve a similar but deeper purpose. They operate as curated social ecosystems where hospitality, networking, culture, and sometimes wellness, intersect. Several forces have accelerated their return. 20 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

Remote work has transformed how professionals use cities. Offices no longer function as the primary gathering space they once were, while restaurants rarely offer the intimacy or continuity required to build meaningful connections. Private clubs fill that gap. Members gain access to a setting where they can work during the day, host meetings, attend cultural programming, and socialize in the evening. The environment blends the amenities of a luxury hotel with the familiarity of a neighborhood clubhouse. Privacy also plays a critical role. Strict no-photography policies allow high-profile members to socialize without the constant documentation on social media. With public life becoming increasingly performative, discretion is a welcome luxury.

A GLOBAL CLUB CULTURE

Private clubs are hardly a new concept, and they are certainly not limited to the United States. One of the most influential modern examples is Soho House, founded in London in 1995 as a gathering place for people working in creative industries. The idea proved powerful. Today Soho House operates more than 40 Houses across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East, each designed as a social and cultural hub for members.

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The brand’s global expansion helped redefine the modern private club. Rather than focusing on traditional elites, Soho House cultivated a membership drawn from film, media, fashion, technology, and the arts. The model demonstrated that a private club could function as both a cultural salon and a hospitality brand, setting the stage for many of the clubs that followed.

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New York’s modern club boom owes much to Scott Sartiano, the hospitality entrepreneur who opened Zero Bond in 2020. The club quickly established itself as one of the city’s most coveted membership communities. Spread across several floors, the space offers restaurant dining, cocktail lounges, and private rooms designed for conversation. Membership is selective, drawing a mix of entrepreneurs, artists, financiers, and cultural figures. The model proved powerful enough to expand. Sartiano recently partnered with Wynn Resorts to launch a Zero Bond location inside the luxurious Wynn Las Vegas, exporting the club’s members-only concept to one of the country’s most hospitality-driven destinations. Another New York club shaping the conversation is Bryant Parkadjacent The Moss, which positions itself less as a nightlife venue and more as a cultural salon. Programming often centers on art, literature, and conversation—an intellectual approach that reflects a broader shift in what members seek from these spaces. The Moss also features fitness; its home to Bedrock Aquatics & Athletics, a 20,000-square-foot wellness playground with high-tech fitness equipment, Pilates and training studios, a golf simulator, and a full-size pickleball court. The common denominator within most current clubs is intentional community. Members are not just buying access to a room; they are joining a network.

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SAN FRANCISCO’S LONG CLUB TRADITION

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San Francisco has been cultivating private club culture for well over a century. Historic institutions such as the Bohemian Club began as gathering places for artists, writers, and journalists before expanding to include business leaders and political figures. The tradition continued with the Concordia Club on Van Ness and the PacificUnion Club, whose stately Nob Hill clubhouse remains one of the city’s most storied addresses. These clubs reflected an older model defined by formal dining rooms, strict traditions, and long-standing membership networks. The twenty-first century introduced a different style of club entirely.

THE BATTERY AND THE TECH GENERATION

When Michael Birch and Xochi Birch opened The Battery in 2013, they brought a distinctly modern sensibility to the concept. It quickly became a hub for the city’s technology and venture capital communities, and with colorful and theatrical interiors designed by Ken Fulk, the spaces are visually stunning. Housed in a converted brick warehouse in the Jackson Square neighborhood, the five-story club blends hospitality with residential comfort. Members enjoy a restaurant, multiple cocktail lounges, and workspaces. There are even a handful of beautiful hotel suites, open to the public, and hotel guests are granted club access. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 21

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Zero Bond at Wynn Las Vegas entrance

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A NEW CLUB FOR THE ARTS

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WHO JOINS THESE CLUBS

While the settings vary, the members themselves often share a similar profile. Most clubs attract professionals in their thirties through fifties who value both privacy and connection. Entrepreneurs and investors are common, but so are architects, filmmakers, chefs, designers, and writers. Many describe their memberships less as status symbols and more as community infrastructure. Members return week after week to the same rooms and the same conversations. Over time, relationships deepen and collaborations emerge. In this sense, the modern club operates less like an elite institution and more like a shared living room for a city’s cultural class.

THE FUTURE OF THE MEMBERS-ONLY WORLD

Hospitality groups increasingly view private clubs as a powerful long-term model. Membership dues provide recurring revenue. Programming creates loyalty. The network effect—interesting members attracting other interesting members—builds cultural influence. More clubs are likely to appear in the coming years, particularly in cities where creative industries and technology intersect. San Francisco is a prime example of that type of crossroads. Between legacy institutions, entrepreneurial hubs like The Battery, and arts-focused ventures like Vita Brevis, the city’s club culture continues to evolve. Cities can feel transient. Restaurants come and go. Offices change. Social circles shift. A private club offers continuity. 22 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

Zero Bond at Wynn Las Vegas Sculpture Garden

PHOTOS COURTESY OF (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) THE BATTERY, ROBERT MILLER, NICOLE FRANZEN, ROBERT MILLER

San Francisco’s newest club concept is taking the idea in a different direction. The emerging Vita Brevis Club draws inspiration from the Latin phrase Ars longa, vita brevis—“Art is long, life is short.” Rather than focusing primarily on entrepreneurs or financiers, the club is positioning itself around the creative community. Its mission statement describes an environment where artists and entrepreneurs coexist: “We are artists and entrepreneurs. We are amateurs and professionals. We are all sorts of humans.” The club treatise continues: “Together, we are committed to building an enduring cultural institution for the great city of San Francisco, dedicated to supporting art in all its forms, including the cultivation and support of the next generation of great artists.” In practical terms, the club aims to host salons, performances, and gatherings that encourage collaboration between creators and patrons. The concept echoes the intellectual clubs of Europe’s past, where writers, philosophers, and artists gathered to exchange ideas.

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Serge Sorokko Gallery

The Informed Collector How the Smartest Buyers Are Approaching Today’s Art Market BY FRAN MILLER

PICTURE THE SCENE AT ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH THIS PAST

December. Barely three hours into VIP preview day, Hauser & Wirth’s booth had already logged sales 40 percent ahead of its entire run the year before. George Condo’s Untitled (Taxi Painting) led the charge at just under $4 million. Across the fair, David Zwirner moved a Gerhard Richter for $5.5 million, and by the time Lévy Gorvy Dayan closed a deal on Andy Warhol’s Muhammad Ali for $18 million, it stood as the week’s single highest reported price. By the time the general public arrived, the most coveted works were spoken for, their little red dots marking buyer territory. This is the art market at full throttle: glamorous, disciplined, and very much alive. It was not always so. After consecutive years of headwinds (geopolitical turbulence, stubborn inflation, and a bruising election cycle that rattled even the most committed collectors), the global art market returned to growth in 2025, reaching nearly $60 billion in total sales, according to the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report. But more telling than the numbers is what’s driving them: a broader, more diversified collector base with a different set of priorities than the ones that shaped the market even five years ago.

A NEW GENERATION STEPS FORWARD

Basquiat. Bourgeois. Hirst. Koons. Plensa. The names carry extraordinary weight, and extraordinary price tags. But they no longer define the boundaries of who collects, or what. A new generation of digitally fluent, visually literate buyers (millennials and Gen Z among them) has entered the market with confidence and is rewriting its rules. 24 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

They are expanding the definition of what constitutes a collectible work, gravitating toward digital art, photography, prints, and works on paper, categories once considered secondary to painting and sculpture. And they are far less inclined to wait for a museum retrospective or a bluechip gallery endorsement before trusting their own eye. Technology has accelerated this shift. More than half of collectors now report purchasing through Instagram, and direct transactions with artists have more than doubled year over year. The gallery remains an important touchpoint because nothing will ever replace standing in a beautifully lit space with a glass of wine and a work of art. But it no longer holds a monopoly on discovery.

THE QUESTION OF VALUE

For all its cultural romance, art collecting is also a financial decision, and today’s serious collectors are treating it as one. High-net-worth individuals increased their allocation to art in 2025, with the latest Art Basel and UBS survey putting the average at 20% of wealth, up from 15% in 2024. Meanwhile, Bank of America’s 2026 U.S. Art Market Report, produced in partnership with ArtTactic, found that U.S. auction sales rose 23% to $3.17 billion in 2025, the market’s first annual increase since 2022. Drew Watson, Head of Art Services at Bank of America, put it plainly: “What we saw in 2025 was not a return to speculation, but a return to discipline.” Serge Sorokko of Serge Sorokko Gallery in Napa sees exactly that discipline at work among his own clients. An international art dealer and curator with four decades of experience presenting museum-

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caliber, post-war and contemporary art through galleries in San Francisco, Beverly Hills, and SoHo, Sorokko has long been known for his representation of internationally recognized artists and for introducing significant works that have found their way into museum collections around the world. His Napa galleries, where serious contemporary art is brought into dialogue with the region’s celebrated architecture, design, and hospitality culture, reflect a career built on connoisseurship. “The informed collector today is not buying reactively,” he observes. “They are looking beyond the headline name and asking more disciplined questions: Where does this work sit within the artist’s oeuvre? Is the provenance strong? Has it been exhibited or published? Is it a major example, or simply an available one? The most thoughtful collectors are still guided by instinct, but increasingly pair that instinct with research, selectivity, and a long-term point of view. In this market, knowledge is not just protective — it is part of connoisseurship.” The gains, indeed, are concentrated in works with strong provenance and clear art historical significance. For collectors, the message is: selectivity matters more than ever.

WHAT THE DISCERNING EYE IS SEEKING

So what, precisely, are sophisticated collectors pursuing right now? Digital art has moved firmly into the mainstream, now ranking just behind painting and sculpture in overall spending among high-networth buyers. At Art Basel Miami Beach, demand for new media works drew an entirely new class of buyer, younger, global, and at ease making significant purchases in formats that didn’t exist a generation ago. At the same time, a counter-movement is taking shape. As AIgenerated imagery grows ever more sophisticated, many collectors are gravitating toward works that celebrate the irreplaceable human hand. Collage, textile art, assemblage — pieces where process is not only

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visible but central. At Art Basel Miami Beach, it was telling that among the notable sales was Jordan Nassar’s hand-embroidered Heat of the Wind, which sold at Anat Ebgi’s booth for $72,000. This love of the tactile extends to scale. Smaller, more intimate works are gaining significant traction, pieces that invite close, private engagement. On Artsy, demand for compact paintings surged 66% year over year. The impulse seems to be less about decorating a wall and more about living with something that genuinely moves you.

WOMEN ARE LEADING THE WAY

One of the most consequential and underreported stories in today’s art world is the rising influence of female collectors. The Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting found that women are not only outspending their male counterparts on art and antiques, but are shaping the market in far more directional ways. Their collecting patterns favor emerging artists, a wider range of mediums, and historically underrepresented voices.

AN INVITATION TO BEGIN

For anyone considering entering the market, or refining an existing collection, the current moment is propitious. A more selective climate has tempered some of the frenzy that defined previous cycles, creating room for thoughtful acquisition over reactive buying. Smaller galleries and dealers, nimble in their pricing and passionate about emerging talent, are playing an increasingly important role as entry points for new collectors. The most enduring collections, though, are never built on market intelligence alone. They are built on conviction, and on that particular and irreplaceable moment of standing before a work of art and knowing, with absolute certainty, that you can’t live without it. That, ultimately, is what the business of art collecting is really all about. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 25

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NAPA’S ART MOMENT Serge Sorokko Gallery premieres two international exhibitions on Napa’s First Street—and raises the curtain on wine country’s art scene. BY CLAUDIA CASTILLO ROSS

THERE WAS A TIME, NOT SO LONG AGO, WHEN A SERIOUS

art pilgrimage meant a drive over the Golden Gate and a parking garage in Union Square. Not anymore. This fall, the most compelling contemporary art conversation in Northern California is happening on a single street in downtown Napa—and it comes with a double bill. Serge Sorokko Gallery, the storied dealer’s operation founded in San Francisco in 1984, has fully planted its flag in wine country with two distinct spaces just steps apart on First Street. The flagship at 1301 First Street—a nearly 4,000-square-foot gallery designed by acclaimed architect Craig Steely, with sculptural curved forms that create a sequence of intimate viewing spaces—is joined by the jewel-box exhibition space at 1500 First Street, where Steely’s rotating circular partitions allow the gallery to be reconfigured almost like a stage set. Together, they form something Napa has never quite had before: a genuine contemporary art campus, programmed with the ambition of a museum and the intimacy of a private viewing. And the fall program does not waste the real estate. The gallery is presenting not one but two U.S. premieres simultaneously—a flex that would turn heads in Chelsea, let alone between tasting rooms. 26 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

At 1301 First Street, Richard Phillips: Best Picture debuts the artist’s Nominations series on American soil. Phillips, long fascinated by the machinery of fame, has created a suite of intimate pastel portraits inspired by performances recognized across the major international film awards. The works are quieter than his large-scale paintings, but no less pointed—meditations on cinema, celebrity, and how cultural icons are constructed, frame by frame, season by season. Standing among them, you feel less like you’re at an exhibition and more like you’re backstage at the awards themselves, watching the mythmaking up close. A short stroll down the block at 1500 First Street, the mood shifts entirely. Vasily Klyukin: Eclipse gathers more than 20 new and recent works—sculpture, illuminated light boxes, and the artist’s signature three-dimensional paintings—into an immersive exploration of light, technology, movement, and perception. Klyukin, whose monumental sculptures have appeared everywhere from the Venice Biennale to the State Russian Museum, builds his complex forms from laser-cut sheets of industrial material joined without a single fastener. The results seem to hover between engineering and enchantment. Where Phillips asks

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you to look closely, Klyukin makes it impossible to look away. The pairing is no accident. Sorokko has spent four decades placing museum-caliber work—his roster includes Hunt Slonem, Donald Sultan, Jordy Kerwick, Adébayo Bolaji, Isabelle de Borchgrave, Leonard Baskin, and Nathan Oliveira, among others— and championing artists across international borders long before it was fashionable. What he’s building in Napa is a natural extension of that vision: significant international contemporary art in direct conversation with the region’s celebrated culture of design, wine, and hospitality. It’s a conversation this valley is ready to have. We’ve long known that great wine and great art share a vocabulary—structure, balance, provenance, the patience to let something reveal itself. Now, between a morning tasting and a long lunch, visitors can stand before a U.S. premiere, then cross the street and stand before another. That’s not a gallery stop on a wine itinerary. That’s a destination in its own right. Awards season may belong to Hollywood, but this fall, the best picture—and the best sculpture, for that matter—is showing in downtown Napa. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 27

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Women of the Vine : Kathryn Hall Women of the Vine is an ongoing series celebrating the women reshaping wine country, one conversation at a time. BY CLAUDIA CASTILLO ROSS

FOR THIS INSTALLMENT OF WOMEN OF THE VINE, I WENT

straight to the top of my own list. As a winemaker, I have a short roster of women I look up to, and Kathryn Hall sits near the top of it. Lawyer, diplomat, farmer’s daughter, and proprietor of HALL Wines and WALT, she built one of Napa Valley’s most recognizable houses at a time when few women had a seat at the table. When I asked if she would join the series, she said yes without hesitation, and what came back was as direct and unfussy as the woman herself. Her story begins not in Napa but in Mendocino, where her family bought a vineyard in 1972. “I remember my father going out early in the morning to work on the vines and coming home late at night,” she told me. “His ﬁngernails were always dirty, and he was tired.” Her father took her to grower meetings where she was the only girl in the room while other farmers brought their sons. “Luckily, my dad took me.” She went on to run that vineyard with her brother for a decade, and it gave her two things she still carries: a love of walking the rows and looking at the fruit, and a deep respect for the weather. “We are at the mercy of Mother Nature,” she said. “It is humbling.” Any of us who farm know exactly what she means. 28 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

Before wine became her life’s work, Hall practiced law and served as U.S. Ambassador to Austria. What transferred, she says, was less about winemaking than management. “As a diplomat, I learned to listen.” Living in Europe also showed her how naturally wine could fit into everyday life, and she was certain America was headed the same way. In 2003, her husband Craig found an old winery on Highway 29 in St. Helena, what she calls “the Rodeo Drive of Napa Valley.” She saw the foot traffic before she saw anything else. Today it is one of the most visited wineries in the Valley, and one of the few where art is as much a part of the experience as the Cabernet. That was deliberate. “I want everyone, including our employees, to remember that in making and selling wine, they are creating art.” Pieces hang in back offices and production areas where only staff will ever see them. She credits Margrit Mondavi with bringing that sensibility to Napa in the first place, and names her as one of the people who influenced her most. Organic farming was another early commitment, and her reasoning is simple: “Without a healthy vineyard, you really have nothing.”

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Her name is on every bottle of HALL Cabernet. Her maiden name, WALT, is on the Pinot Noir. Bob’s Ranch, the WALT vineyard in Sonoma County, is named for her father. “He would have loved caring for the vines,” she said. She sees WALT, the smaller of the two, as the one with the most room to grow, as drinkers become more curious about boutique Pinot producers. When I asked whether there were many women in the room when she started, she laughed. “Maybe a few.” She had spent most of her career in male-dominated ﬁelds and simply took it for granted. What has changed, she says, is the support network. “There is a natural bond that exists among all of us. We love what we do, and we want to share the joy.” And what is she proudest of? Not the buildings, not the scores. The team. HALL’s all-female winemaking team produces award-winning wines year after year, and she says it without a hint of surprise. Her advice to a woman starting her own label is the kind you could put on a wall: “Make sure she loves wine. Even though sometimes it feels like you don’t ﬁt in, you must know yourself and know what you want to do. Then go for it.” Coming from her, it lands. www.hallwines.com @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 29

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Auro at Four Seasons Napa Valley Appoints New Executive Chef BY JENNIFER BODEN

MICHELIN-STARRED DINING DESTINATION AURO, AT FOUR SEASONS Resort and Residences Napa Valley, enters its next culinary era by

career spans the kitchens of Joël Robuchon, Alain Ducasse, AnneSophie Pic, and Christophe Bellanca — culinary luminaries across classical and contemporary French haute cuisine. Under Neumann, the restaurant sharpens its focus on Napa Valley terroir, precision-driven execution, and a kitchen culture built on mentorship, discipline, and collaboration. “What drew me to Auro is everything coming together in one place, the terroir of Napa Valley, Four Seasons standards of service excellence, and the opportunity to build something with a distinctive culinary identity and longevity, rooted in both French technique and the richness of California’s seasonal products,” says Neumann.

FROM PROVENCE TO NAPA VALLEY

Born in Provence and raised in Avignon, Neumann’s approach was shaped by Southern France’s markets, olive groves, and culinary traditions. His first professional kitchen was La Maison de Bournissac, a Michelin-starred restaurant nestled among the vineyards near Saint30 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

Chef Evan at Napa Valley Farmers Market

PHOTOS COURTESY OF NICO MELANI (TOP), MAX WANGER (BOTTOM)

welcoming seasoned Executive Chef Evan Neumann. Neumann’s

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Auro Executive Chef Evan Neumann

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PHOTOS COURTESY OF RAFAEL LUHRS (LEFT), MAX WANGER (RIGHT)

Japanese Kinmedai with Ebony Rose pluot, Meyer lemon, brown butter

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Rémy-de-Provence. “Every morning, we would go into the garden to pick vegetables, fruits, and fresh herbs for the day’s service,” he says. “That experience taught me that great cuisine begins long before stepping into the kitchen.” His travels deepened that foundation, particularly in Japan, where he explored the culture of umami, precision, and deep respect for the ingredient, principles that directly inspire his cooking at Auro. In Napa Valley, he finds a landscape that mirrors that beginning: agricultural, seasonal, driven by the integrity of what comes from the ground.

AT THE TABLE

Guests at Auro will experience a refined seven-course tasting menu of contemporary California cuisine: ingredient-forward, built on classic French technique, shaped by Japanese influence. Resort Beverage Manager Derek Stevenson — a 2026 James Beard Award semifinalist for Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service — oversees a 750-label wine program with a cellar exceeding 4,400 bottles, featuring dedicated collections from Chris Carpenter, Hundred Acre, and Sine Qua Non. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 31

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Why Santa Fe is an Art Lover’s Dreamscape SANTA FE’S KNOWN AS THE “CITY DIFFERENT,” A MONIKER

that references its plethora of coral-hued adobe houses with blue-tiled roofs, those kiva fireplaces forever burning piñon logs, the region’s red dirt landscape specked with soulful juniper trees and the otherworldly rock formations that frame the city. Built on a cultural foundation that blends Mexican, Spanish, Native American and Old West influences, ancient lore and traditions, plus a long history of artistic pre-eminence (think Georgia O’Keefe), the Land of Enchantment’s capital city offers a magical outlook capable of launching great works and warming our hearts. A long time purlieu for artists, aesthetes, forward thinkers and the creatively inclined, the city continues to be a welcoming heartbeat of deeply-rooted inventiveness and imagination. From the captivating ateliers and showrooms on meandering Canyon Road to the Native American artists selling their handmade jewelry at the Palace of the Governors to the speciality boutiques around the plaza, the city’s unmatched riff on shopping is non pareil—even sacred. With more than 200 galleries and a world class opera company, complete with opera house that backs up to mountain views and opens to luminous sunsets, Santa Fe promises an enthralling, arts-centric weekend away. Add in its regional gastronomy, quality museums and outdoorsy pursuits—from hiking to skiing in season—and you may need to stay a week or two. 32 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

Check in at Four Seasons Rancho Encantado In Tesuque, just north of Santa Fe’s downtown, Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado shines in a wildly unspoiled parcel of high desert nature as if it were a lost city. Petite for a Four Seasons resort, though it stretches out across 57 acres, the hotel reads as an intimate spread of mostly stand-alone casitas. They rise at different levels around what might be construed as a plaza (in local vernacular)--an activity enclave of common spaces from spa to swimming pool to main house with restaurant. Though seemingly in the hinterlands, the retreat lies just minutes from Santa Fe’s main plaza (accessible by complimentary shuttle), and equally near the opera house in the other direction. Once a dude ranch run by eccentric groundbreaker Elizabeth “Betty” Egan, with guests as notable as John Wayne, the Prince Rainier family, Nelson Rockefeller and Jimmy Stewart, Rancho Encantado keeps Betty’s entrepreneurial spirit alive with homages such as Betty’s Sidecar (her favorite libation) and the naming of a hive after her in the apiary. As ideal for families as couples, and equally cosseting for single travelers, Rancho Encantado’s guest roster at most any time includes both leisure and business travelers, with artists, collectors and gallery owners calling it a preferred residence while visiting Santa Fe. Suites, re-polished in 2024, feature kiva-style wood-burning fireplaces (ask the Fire Concierge to light your’s up on a cold night), hand-painted

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Acoma pottery, exposed beams, deep soaking tubs and framed New Mexican-style woven blankets. Terra, the resort’s main restaurant, offers al fresco seating, prime for watching the kaleidoscopic sunset while you sample immersive dishes such as Juniper Braised Lamb Shank or Stuffed Poblano peppers. Don’t miss the guacamole while you lunch by the pool. For an art-oriented getaway, let Rancho Encantado’s acclaimed Art Concierge program take the reins, offering an insider’s point of view and VIP access. Local art expert Mike McKosky of InArt Santa Fe will open up his little black book of preferred galleries and artists to organize a bespoke outing to Canyon Road and beyond. Arranged for every type of art explorer from the true cognoscente to the art curious, McKosky’s tours often include artist meetings, private showings and after‑hours gallery experiences. Save time to visit McKosky’s onsite collection at Rancho Encantado, a jaw dropping grouping of regional artwork from sculpture to photography to painting. A guided visit to Georgia O’ Keefe’s far flung Ghost Ranch and opera packages (in season) will also enhance a holiday planned around artful activities. Want to change gear? No problem. Rancho Encantado’s team can propose seasonal adventures from skiing to hiking to hot air balloon floating. fourseasons.com/santafe 34 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

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Raise a Glass to 100 Years at The Boca Raton BY BECCA HENSLEY

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BELLIED UP TO THAT SPLENDID PEACOCK GREEN BAR IN THE

Palm Court at The Boca Raton, I’m here to celebrate the resort’s birthday. “I’ll have a Grand Century,” I tell the bartender, choosing a signature cocktail from the bar menu because it’s been specially created this year to mark The Boca Raton’s 100th anniversary. Like a fellow reveler, albeit a professional one, the delighted bartender dramatically mixes, then shakes up an elegant blend of Don Julio 1942 Añejo tequila, Grand Marnier, blood orange puree, lime juice, and agave syrup as if he were the (sophisticated) entertainment at an actual birthday party. With bravado, he pours his proud creation into a vintage-style cocktail glass, then tops the foamy goodness with edible gold flakes and a liquid-y version of the resort’s centenarian birthday logo. The drink costs $100 in honor of The Boca Raton’s century of hospitality—and it’s worth every penny. “Happy Birthday Boca Raton,” I say, raising my glass to my two friends. We sit mesmerized for a moment, watching glittery light swirl indoors from a panoramic wall of windows that face the water. Even more soft rays glimmer down from the atrium-like ceiling, which dapple the actual palm trees that shade the indoor tables at this legendary bar. Overall, there’s an en plein air, garden party spirit that feels imminently Gatsby-era at Palm Court. The etched crystal cocktail glass fits the “glam

bill” perfectly. I feel we should all be wearing long, twisty strings of pearls and low-waisted Flapper gowns. “Is that a monkey?” I ask, as I examine the elaborate design on my cocktail’s glass. “That’s Johnnie Brown,” says the bartender. “He was Mr. Mizner’s pet monkey. You’ll find his image hanging around (pun intended) throughout the resort. He’s our mascot.” I laugh uproariously, loving the whimsy. I imagine a naughty spider monkey, dressed as a 1920s-child, joining the hotel’s distinguished guests for a cocktail, perhaps begging them to share a spoon of caviar or two. With no Johnnie Brown in sight, we savor every drop of our indulgent drinks, and allow ourselves to be spellbound by the nostalgic enchantment of this historic portion of the original hotel instead. Designed by maestro Jazz-era architect Addison Mizner as a pink palace on 200 lush acres by the water, what’s now known as Cloister (then called Ritz-Carlton Cloister) opened in 1926. An undisputed work of art, it exemplified Mizner’s romantic melding of Spanish Colonial and Mediterranean Revival styles, an aesthetic he brought to other towns in coastal Florida—think Palm Beach. Ornate, theatrical, high toned, yet infinitely comfortable, Cloister, now restored, featured (and still does) hidden courtyards and open-air loggias, stucco walls, red-tiled roofs, exposed beams, painted tiles, poetic art pieces and Moorish archways as transportive as a storybook.

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A hundred years later, Cloister is just one of five distinct hotel experiences that comprise The Boca Raton. A clubby place favoured by celebrities and dignitaries aplenty, the modern version of the original Cloister (turned full scale resort) has evolved and grown with the times in ways artsy Mizner and his monkey might never have imagined. Though immense, The Boca Raton never feels thronged or chaotic. Rather, it hums with inviting energy, the sort that signals a good time and lots of options. Staying here smacks of being part of a grand house party, where every guest is an old friend. The resort’s massive footprint allows for buzzy spaces and intimate nooks alike. Besides drinks at the Palm Court or rides on the resort’s cruising yacht, Relentless, there’s something for every one at this plummy hideaway. Enjoy an 18-hole golf course, a racquet club, myriad pools, a pristine beach, a spectacular spa and 18 restaurants and bars. More on the Five Hotel Concepts With Cloister being the keeper of The Boca Raton’s soul and the obvious choice for art and architecture buffs, the resort’s other concepts each intrigue in their own way. Tower, attached to Cloister, soars 27 floors to offer urbane penthouse-style rooms and suites, all opening to expansive vistas. Adults-only Yacht Club sits lakefront, Beach Club summons modern South Beach with Miami-style pizzazz and a perfect beach. Families and long stay guests prefer the convenience of Bungalow, spacious two-bedroom suites set in the gardens, complete with kitchens, terraces and washer/dryers.

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The Kahala Hotel & Resort is Honolulu’s Most Storied Hideaway BY FRAN MILLER

overlooks the Pacific. One of the most fascinating occupies a wall inside the resort, stretching the full length of a long corridor, crowded with photographs and handwritten notes from famous guests. Frank Sinatra. Queen Elizabeth II. The Rolling Stones. Sting. Elton John. You’ll spot nearly every U.S. president from Lyndon B. Johnson onward, each of whom has slept here. In 1985, Prince Charles and Princess Diana booked a hundred rooms for their retinue. Not long after The Kahala opened in January 1964, NBC booked the entire property for its annual affiliates meeting and brought in a constellation of stars. Management recognized immediately what they had — a celebrity sanctuary — and marketed it as such. Sixty-two years on, the reputation endures.

THE GRAND ARRIVAL

The 6.5-acre property sits on a private road, bordered by the Waialae Country Club golf course on one side and the Pacific on the other. Pull up, step into a lobby where immense chandeliers made of 28,000 multi-colored pieces of Italian glass cast a warm light, and accept your lei. The floor-to-ceiling windows frame the ocean like a painting. The beloved orchid wall rises floor to ceiling with hundreds of blooms in 38 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

a kaleidoscope of varieties. It’s a living work of art that has welcomed guests since the hotel’s debut. For those who have been coming for decades, this arrival is a ritual.

THE SOFTER SIDE OF OʻAHU

The Kahala sits within the residential Kahala district, a tranquil hideaway along a secluded beachfront just past Diamond Head, away from the towers and tourism of Waikiki. The resort runs a shuttle into town. It’s a mere a fifteen-minute ride into all that action, should you want it. Zip in for the shopping on Kalākaua Avenue, the shave ice, the sunset at Kūhiō Beach. Then ride back to tranquility. The contrast is half the pleasure. Waikiki is exhilarating in the way that loud music is exhilarating; wonderful, and then you want it to stop. The Kahala is where you go when you’ve had enough. (The resort’s own retail offerings, from designer apparel to locally crafted keepsakes, eliminate the need for a shopping excursion elsewhere on Oʻahu.) The beach itself stretches 800 feet, its sand imported from Molokaʻi, with two man-made peninsulas at each end designed to keep the tidal action from washing it away. Those same peninsulas create a natural break that holds the surf at bay, leaving the water unusually calm and genuinely swimmable, a rarity on this stretch of Oʻahu.

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THE DOLPHINS — AND WHY THEY’RE FINE

At the center of the property, past the tropical gardens and the waterfall, is the lagoon, and the dolphins. The Kahala has had resident dolphins since its first year of operation, and the Dolphin Quest program that now oversees their care is more than the sum of its encounter packages. This is the question every conscientious traveler asks: are they okay? The answer is yes. The lagoon is open to natural seawater, mimicking the dolphins’ native habitat, and a team of veterinarians and marine mammal specialists provides around-theclock care. One of the dolphins, Hoku (“star” in Hawaiian) was born at The Kahala in 1991. These animals haven’t simply survived here; they’ve thrived. Where dolphins in the wild may live to 20, those in this lagoon can live beyond 60.

ROOMS THAT FEEL LIKE YOURS

The rooms are large, like apartments that happen to have housekeeping. The Kahala has one of the largest standard room footprints in Hawaiʻi, at more than 550 square feet, with his-and-her vanities, deep soaking tubs, walk-in closets, and an island palette. Nespresso machines and Bvlgari bath amenities are de rigueur. Many have spacious, furnished terraces with panoramic views. One morning, I awoke to a full rainbow that dipped into the ocean — coffee in hand, electronics out of sight, watching the arc of color slowly dissipate. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 39

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On-site Arancino has held the title of best Italian restaurant in Hawaiʻi for years running, and the claim holds up to scrutiny. Order the cacio e pepe: a cart arrives tableside bearing an imported wheel of pecorino Romano, brandy swirled into its hollow and lit, tempering the cheese into something molten and fragrant. The penne is finished inside the wheel itself. The result is what Roman shepherds invented centuries ago, made somehow even more persuasive. Then there is Alan Wong’s. He’s one of the founders of Hawaiʻi Regional Cuisine and a James Beard Award winner. His new restaurant opened at The Kahala in April 2026, replacing the longtime fine dining room Hōkūʻs. The menu brings back classics — ginger-crusted onaga, da bag’s steamed clams, twice-cooked kālua pig, and The Coconut, his famous haupia sorbet in a chocolate shell — alongside new work honoring his relationships with the farmers, fishers, and ranchers who sustain the islands’ food landscape. For breakfast, Plumeria Beach House delivers one of the island’s great morning meals: a bountiful oceanfront buffet featuring açai, local fruits, eggs made to order, and the trade winds off the Pacific.

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The Kahala’s cultural programming, offered through KISCA (the property’s Kahala Sustainability, Culture and the Arts initiative) provides complimentary daily offerings throughout the stay. This is where I learned to weave. The lauhala bracelet I made, with patient instruction from a local artisan, carries a memory no gift shop purchase could replicate.

THE TRADITION

There are newer hotels in Hawaiʻi, yet none have a wall of fame like The Kahala. None have dolphins born on the property, Alan Wong in the kitchen, sand barged in from another island, or chandeliers assembled from 28,000 pieces of Italian glass. There is only one Kahala. Sixty-two years in, that still says everything.

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LEARN SOMETHING WHILE YOU’RE HERE

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Ambergris Cay: The Luxurious and Private Side of Turks and Caicos Inside one of the Caribbean’s most secluded private islands. BY FRAN MILLER

THE WHALES GOT HERE FIRST. LONG BEFORE AMBERGRIS CAY

had an airstrip long enough to land a Gulfstream or a floating bar anchored offshore, sperm whales passed through the waters around the Caicos Banks, occasionally leaving behind ambergris, the waxy, perfume-grade substance for which the island is named. That was the island’s first export. Its second, arriving roughly two centuries later, is privacy so complete that it borders on fantasy.

A PRIVATE ISLAND, TWICE OVER

Big Ambergris Cay has been privately held since 1811, when a Loyalist settler bought it from the Bahamian administration. For most of the following century and a half, it stayed exactly what a 1,100-acre island in the southeastern Caicos chain tends to stay: remote. Sisal plantations came and went. A handful of whaling stations operated along the coast. The ruins of early colonial homesteads (and assumed pirate activity) are still visible today, scattered within the island’s rugged interior. Modern infrastructure didn’t arrive until the late twentieth century, when the island was developed as a private, off-the-grid community for second homeowners. In 2019, Ambergris Cay opened as an all-inclusive luxury resort. The homeownership program never went away; buyers can still purchase an existing residence or build from the ground up,

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with full access to resort amenities. But the island now also welcomes those who’d simply like to get away from it all, indulgently. The arrival sets the tone. Guests fly into Providenciales, are met curbside by island staff, and are shuttled ten minutes to Atlantic Aviation’s private terminal for the resort’s own onward flight. It’s a twenty-minute hop across turquoise water to Ambergris Cay’s own airport, whose 5,700-foot runway ranks among the longest private strips in the Caribbean. There is no commercial terminal to pass through on the island itself, no line, no hassle. You land, and you are there.

WHAT’S INCLUDED — NEARLY EVERYTHING

Ambergris Cay’s version of all-inclusive dispenses with the genre’s usual compromises. There are no buffets or watered-down cocktails. Gourmet meals are made to order, menus shift daily with the season, and the culinary team reaches out in advance to learn preferences. The inclusions are plentiful: the flights themselves, all dining, premium spirits and fine house wine, non-motorized water sports (kayaking, paddleboarding, Hobie Cat sailing, snorkeling), tennis and pickleball, electric bicycles, and a rotating slate of excursions. Each villa and bungalow is assigned a shared Island Host who is part butler and part concierge. He/she greets guests on arrival with

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a glass of prosecco and handles everything from a mid-afternoon bottle of rosé to arranging experiences such as conch diving, available at an additional cost. (The resort’s chefs will turn your catch into ceviche or fritters that same evening.) Chief among the excursions is the trip to the Hangover Tiki Bar, a floating pontoon bar anchored offshore and a short speedboat ride away. Guests are ferried over for a couple hours of music, crafted cocktails, and tethered floaties, for those who prefer to enjoy their rum punch from the water rather than a barstool. It is, by most accounts, the single experience guests talk about most after they’ve departed.

NEVER CROWDED, BY DESIGN

Even filled to capacity (somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 guests across its 29 bungalows and 12 villas, including the 11-bedroom Dream Estate) Ambergris Cay rarely feels populated. The math helps: 1,100 acres divided among a few dozen accommodations leaves enormous breathing room, and the resort’s low-density layout deliberately scatters its two restaurants, fitness studio, and activity hubs across the island’s western coastline rather than clustering them around a central pool deck. That same design logic underwrites the island’s other defining quality: discretion. There is no conventional ferry or day-trip traffic, and access is controlled. For guests who’d rather not be recognized, photographed, or approached (and Ambergris Cay counts more than its share of ultra-high-net-worth travelers, executives, and public figures among its repeat visitors) the appeal is inherent. Privacy here is the reason the island exists in its current form at all.

WELLNESS, BY THE SEA

The hilltop Fitness Pavilion is outfitted with Peloton and Precor equipment and hosts morning yoga sessions from its rooftop terrace. A short golf cart ride away, Elevate Spa occupies its own oceanfront perch, offering massages, facials, body treatments, and nail services, while a new state-of-the-art spa facility is in the works adjacent to the Fitness Pavilion. Between the two, a central pool, and the sea itself, there isn’t much reason to leave the property in search of movement or stillness.

GOURMET, AGAINST THE ODDS

Sourcing groceries for a private island 600 miles south of Miami is not, on its face, a recipe for exceptional food. Ambergris Cay’s kitchens ignores that logic. Dinner at Calico might run to grilled lobster, curry shrimp, or wild mushroom risotto, with off-menu requests accommodated as a matter of course. At the 11-bedroom Dream Estate, the experience becomes even more personalized, with two dedicated chefs and two butlers crafting menus around guests’ preferences. A weekly “Caribbean Night” features family style servings of jerk chicken and ribs, fried plantain, ceviche, and other assorted sides. Lunch leans more casual: grilled snapper tacos, fresh ceviche, and pizza fired in an imported wood-burning oven at the Club House. The pizza, unglamorous as that sounds next to grilled lobster, has developed something of a cult following among repeat guests, and deservedly so: it’s the rare all-inclusive offering that would hold its own at any celebrated mainland pizzeria.

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THE NEW WATERFRONT

The most recent chapter in the island’s evolution arrived this year with the debut of the Waterside Bungalows, twelve new accommodations, six one-bedroom and six two-bedroom, sited along a stretch of calm water. Each comes with a private plunge pool, direct water access, and a kayak and paddleboard waiting at the door. They join the island’s existing 17 beachfront bungalows (airy, a minimum 1,600-square-feet, with their own plunge pools), and a collection of villas ranging from three to eleven bedrooms, the largest of which, the 19,337-square-foot Dream Estate, accommodates multigenerational groups and private events. Later this year, a new Kids Club will join the island’s offerings, a thoughtful addition for families and multigenerational groups drawn to Ambergris Cay’s particular brand of private-island living. The growth here is measured. It’s more addition than transformation. Ambergris Cay has resisted the urge to become anything other than what it already is: a 1,100-acre private island where the staff remembers your favorite cocktail, the water stretches turquoise beyond the shore, and the outside world stays, reliably, outside.

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Carlsbad’s Coastal Luxury Starts at Park Hyatt Aviara With nonstop service from San Francisco restored, Park Hyatt Aviara offers an ideal base for discovering Carlsbad’s coast, culinary scene and luxury experiences. BY KRISHA CHHAGANLAL

CARLSBAD BECAME CONSIDERABLY EASIER TO REACH FROM THE

Bay Area earlier this year, when United Airlines resumed service to the city after more than a decade. The twice-daily nonstop flights between San Francisco and McClellan-Palomar Airport place travelers directly in North County, only minutes from Park Hyatt Aviara Resort, Golf Club & Spa. The timing is ideal. Carlsbad now offers far more than beach access and warm weather. Its dining scene includes Michelinrecognized restaurants and noteworthy new concepts, and Carlsbad Village brings together independent boutiques, a weekly farmers market and an easy coastal pace. Park Hyatt Aviara anchors the experience, offering plenty to do on property along with easy access to the city’s most compelling stops.

A RESORT REIMAGINED

Park Hyatt Aviara, set on more than 250 acres overlooking Batiquitos Lagoon, recently completed a property-wide transformation of more than $60 million. The project refreshed all 327 guestrooms and suites, reworked the public spaces, expanded the resort’s recreational offerings and introduced Miraval Life in Balance Spa Aviara. Guestrooms begin at a generous 540 square feet and include private balconies or terraces with views toward the coast, pool, courtyard or foothills. Marble bathrooms have double vanities, soaking tubs and separate showers, with Le Labo amenities and Frette robes. Some ground-floor rooms also come with private firepits. The pool complex is one of the transformation’s strongest features. The adults-only Ocean View Pool includes six private cabanas 44 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

overlooking Batiquitos Lagoon, with the Pacific visible in the distance. The separate Splash Pool serves families with zero-entry access, a splash pad and a two-story waterslide leading into a dedicated slide pool. Waters’ Edge provides poolside lunch, cocktails and refreshments. Beyond the pools, Park Hyatt Aviara offers five tennis courts, four pickleball courts, a Topgolf Swing Suite and Aviara Golf Club, home to Southern California’s only coastal-designed Arnold Palmer signature course. Walking and running routes near Batiquitos Lagoon pass through habitat supporting native plants, fish and birdlife, including the snowy plover, California least tern and clapper rail.

MIRAVAL AT AVIARA

Miraval Life in Balance Spa Aviara is one of the resort’s standout additions. The 15,000-square-foot spa includes indoor and outdoor treatment rooms, a quiet solarium, sauna, steam room and whirlpool, along with dedicated spaces for yoga, meditation and Pilates. The treatment menu ranges from facials and massage to signature rituals such as Ocean Song, an Aviara-exclusive experience combining a rosemary sea salt exfoliation, mineral soak, full-body massage and sound therapy. The Renew & Restore Facial is another highlight, pairing gentle Swedish techniques with Dr. Dennis Gross skincare for a treatment that leaves the skin noticeably refreshed. Beyond treatments, guests can take part in meditation, movement and other wellness programming, making it easy to spend anything from an afternoon to a full day at the spa.

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CARLSBAD AT THE TABLE

The culinary itinerary begins at the resort. Ember & Rye, created in collaboration with chef Richard Blais, occupies a vintage-inspired clubhouse overlooking the 18th green of Aviara Golf Club. The menu centers on steaks and seafood, and the setting gives a classic steakhouse dinner a distinctly coastal California context. For other dining options, Ponto Lago serves Baja-influenced cuisine, while Aviara Market is a standout for coffee, pastries and easy grab-and-go fare. Pacific Point offers sushi and cocktails, with in-room dining also available. Carlsbad’s dining scene becomes even more interesting in the village. Wildland, an all-day restaurant, bar and bakery, draws from the culinary traditions of France and Italy whilezx reflecting North County’s creative culture. Breakfast is top tier, with an excellent bakery program. Other nearby options include Beach Plum Kitchen, Inglorious Bagels & Coffee, La Costa Roasting Co. and Parakeet Cafe at The Forum, all useful for lighter breakfasts or coffee before returning to the resort. For dinner, Jeune et Jolie offers one of the most refined experiences in Carlsbad’s dining scene. The Michelin-starred restaurant reimagines French cuisine through the ingredients and sensibility of Southern California, presented through a four-course menu in which guests make their own selections. Indoors, the restaurant is known for its soft blush palette; outside, a garden patio framed by olive trees, terracotta tile and string lights. 46 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

Together, Ember & Rye, Wildland and Jeune et Jolie reveal the range of Carlsbad dining, from resort steakhouse to exceptional breakfast to destination-worthy French-Californian cuisine.

THE COAST, BEST SEEN IN A MOKE

One of the most memorable ways to explore beyond Aviara is in a Moke, an open-air electric beach cruiser that looks a bit like a vintage Jeep with the compact proportions of a golf cart. With exposed sides, round headlights and seating for four, it has a retro look that turns heads almost everywhere it goes. Carlsbad Moke’s vehicles are street legal on roads with speed limits of 35 mph or less and cruise at up to 25 mph. Carlsbad Boulevard is the route to take. From Carlsbad Village, head south with the beach and Pacific running alongside the road toward The Camp Store and Cape Rey Carlsbad Beach Resort. There is little between passengers and the ocean air, and at Moke speed, there is plenty of time to take in the coastline along the way. It serves as both transportation and sightseeing, and is easily one of the most fun ways to experience Carlsbad. Back in Carlsbad Village, Wednesday’s State Street Farmers Market brings growers, prepared-food vendors, flowers and artisan goods into the center of town. Nearby, The Drydown offers niche fragrance, JNB Style by Jacqueline Nicole Walton specializes in custom fine jewelry, and the Candle Bar allows visitors to create a custom scent.

CARLSBAD FOR LUXURY LOVERS

Carlsbad is also home to FASHIONPHILE’s San Diego flagship and gives visitors access to authenticated pre-owned handbags, jewelry, watches and accessories from houses such as Chanel, Hermès, Cartier and Louis Vuitton. One of the first things to catch the eye is a life-size LEGO Birkin, followed by rows of luxury pieces available to browse in person. For additional shopping, Carlsbad Premium Outlets includes designer names such as Ferragamo, Burberry and Tod’s, while The Forum Carlsbad and the boutiques of Carlsbad Village offer a mix of fashion, jewelry and independent brands.

A DESTINATION IN ITS OWN RIGHT

Beyond the resort, Carlsbad offers plenty to explore. Outdoor options include hiking at Lake Calavera and Batiquitos Lagoon or kayaking and paddleboarding at Agua Hedionda. Families can spend a day at LEGOLAND® California Resort, while the Museum of Making Music and Leo Carrillo Ranch, known for its roaming peacocks, offer entirely different experiences. With nonstop service from San Francisco restored, Carlsbad is now an easy coastal escape from the Bay Area. Park Hyatt Aviara puts travelers close to the city’s best experiences while offering plenty to enjoy without leaving the resort. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 47

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A Return to Aloha: The $240 Million Rebirth of the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel SOMETIMES, THE ONLY TRUE CURE FOR THE RELENTLESS PACE

of mainland life is the vast, blue expanse of the Pacific. When my best girlfriend, Gwendolyn, and I decided we were entirely overdue for a serious reset, the Kohala Coast called. We sought a sanctuary that balanced profound relaxation with an impeccable standard of luxury... a place where we could trade our daily responsibilities for the gentle trade winds. We found exactly that at the newly reimagined Mauna Kea Resort, which includes the recently renovated Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, The Westin Hapuna Beach Resort and Mauna Kea Residences. For this escape, we desired the spaciousness of a private home paired with world-class hospitality, leading us to Mauna Kea Residences. We stayed in Kumulani, this gated residential enclave sits beautifully elevated above the coastline. Our two-bedroom sanctuary offered a profoundly comfortable, residential take on Hawaiian luxury. Mornings began on our furnished lanai, coffee in hand, watching the sun illuminate the sweeping vistas of the Pacific, the resort’s meticulously redesigned Robert Trent Jones Jr. golf course, and the lush mountain landscape. It offered 48 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

the complete seclusion we craved, yet kept us effortlessly tethered to the resort’s vibrant pulse just down the hill. Staying at the residences provided us with access to all of the resort amenities. The true anchor of our restorative getaway was the highly anticipated Spa at Mauna Kea. Spanning 22,000 square feet, it is a masterpiece of indoor-outdoor design rooted in Hawaiian philosophy that healing begins from within. Our journey began with a traditional Hawaiian oli (chant), instantly grounding us in the sacred energy of the island. Gwendolyn and I surrendered to lomilomi-inspired therapies utilizing warm, hand-gathered lava stones and native botanicals. Post-treatment, we lingered in the open-air purification gardens and the serenity of the co-ed wellness deck. Hours melted away by the new adults-only infinity lap pool, where the only agenda was listening to the rhythmic crash of the waves. As someone who spends her days deeply connected to the land and the nuances of terroir, the resorts culinary elevation was a revelation. At Manta, the signature restaurant, the hyper-local, garden-

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to-table menu draws heavily from the new 28,000-square-foot on-site Ulu Garden. Even our casual beachside lunches at Hau Tree Cantina with its exceptional, curated agave spirits and modern regional Mexican fare felt elevated. But perhaps the most enriching part of our evenings was the spontaneous conversations with guests and club members over sunset cocktails. Between sips of thoughtfully sourced wine, we listened to their stories. They spoke of the resort not just as a vacation destination, but as a cherished community hub, sharing memories of the property’s evolution. Hearing their deep reverence for the mana (divine power) of the land, and how Laurance S. Rockefeller’s original vision has been passionately protected, added a beautiful, grounding layer of authenticity to our stay. The recent renovations gracefully honor the property’s midcentury modern heritage, meticulously preserving the original terrazzo floors, the iconic blue tile, and the spectacular museum-worthy Rockefeller Art Collection. Seeing the professionally restored Hawaiian kapa cloths and Pacific Rim antiquities showcased the resort’s true dedication to cultural stewardship. Gwendolyn and I arrived seeking a simple pause from our busy schedules, but we left having experienced the genuine “Mauna Kea Effect” a complete restoration of mind, body, and spirit, anchored by the timeless grace of Old Hawaii. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 49

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Kiani Preserve Takes The Long View

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THE ROAD THAT CLIMBS GENTLY TOWARD KIANI PRESERVE

reaches a crest, and then the entire landscape suddenly opens. The reveal is utterly breathtaking. You can see Figueroa Mountain and the Los Padres National Forest to the north, the Santa Ynez Mountains rolling away to the south, and in the foreground, a colonnade of slender poplars standing tall against the sky, lending the whole scene an improbable Tuscan vibe. Below, the vineyard blocks unfurl across the hillside like a freshly laid green carpet, row after disciplined row of young vines reaching toward the sun. This pristine property spans just over 8,000 acres in the Santa Ynez Valley, rising to 3,500 feet along ridgelines that catch the wind off the Pacific. From a distance it reads as pure California wilderness: rolling hills, crevassed canyons, creek corridors, and the occasional hawk riding a thermal above the chaparral. What is not so immediately perceptible is the degree of care and objective behind every acre. 50 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

Joe and Sarah Kiani acquired this land in 2013, at a moment when the original ranch faced the fate of so many California parcels: subdivision, fragmentation, and surely, slow erasure. Instead, the Kianis expanded their footprint and stitched adjacent pieces back together into a single continuous ecosystem. Only about two percent will ever be developed. The rest is held as a kind of private commons, protected not by easement or regulation, but by conviction. And that’s a personal distinction. Kiani Preserve is not a conservation project in the bureaucratic sense. It is an expression of values, shaped by two people who looked at a landscape and chose to see a responsibility rather than an asset. My full day on the property illustrated the choices made here. The land is pristine, unforced, and magnificent. “We don’t think of ourselves as owners,” says Joe. “We’re stewards. Our responsibility is to leave it better than we found it.”

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THE STEWARD’S LOGIC

Joe is an entrepreneur, but not in the disruptive, move-fast sense the word has come to imply. He founded the medical technology company Masimo in 1989 with a simple humanitarian conviction: that patients in hospitals were dying from preventable causes, and that better-designed monitoring technology could change that. His foundational invention, the Masimo SET® pulse oximeter, now measures blood oxygen saturation in patients the world over. He later founded the Patient Safety Movement Foundation with the goal of eliminating preventable patient deaths entirely, a mission organized around the idea that systems should be designed to prevent harm long before it occurs. At Kiani Preserve, that same sensitivity governs the land. Hunting is not permitted anywhere on the property. Wildlife corridors are mapped and maintained. Water is managed through a gravity-fed irrigation system drawn from estate wells. It’s efficient, and entirely without mechanical pumping. The cattle are humanely-raised Certified Wagyu, rotated across the hills in a pattern designed to build soil carbon rather than deplete it. The horses are well-tended and visibly content. There is even a dedicated feline sanctuary, shaded beneath a broad canopy, where rescued cats spend their days in relaxed tranquility. This alone tells you something about the Kiani family’s compassion.

A FARM, NOT JUST A RANCH

The ambition at Kiani Preserve extends well beyond wine grapes. The Kianis are building something closer to a fully realized agricultural ecosystem, one that is rapidly approaching the condition of selfsufficiency, provisioned almost entirely from what the land itself produces. Hives on the property yield estate honey. Olive groves are producing oil. The chickens are conspicuously well cared for: their resulting eggs with deep yellow yolks prove it. Agave plants are establishing themselves on the hillsides with an eye toward a future spirit program. And a more whimsical detail is the small orchard of newly planted trees that have been inoculated with truffle spores. It’s a place where the payoff, if it comes at all, lies years into the future. Nothing here is rushed. The balsamic program deserves special mention for its elegance as an agricultural idea: Trebbiano and Abrusco grapes are grown not for wine, but specifically to produce a traditional-style balsamic vinegar, via a centuries-old process that requires years of aging in successive barrels of diminishing size.

A VINEYARD BUILT WITHOUT SHORTCUTS

Wine entered the picture as the natural conclusion of everything else. Joe was born in Shiraz, and the idea of planting vines on this land felt more like a homecoming than a business decision. When the Kianis committed to a vineyard program, they committed fully: just shy of 100 acres, divided into more than 40 blocks, farmed entirely by hand, by a team that has tended these vines since they were put in the ground. To lead the winemaking, they brought on Adam Henkel, a Kentucky native who arrived at wine through a fine wine shop in Jackson Hole, deepened his craft over eight vintages at Harlan Estate, and built a successful Bordeaux-varietal program at Crown Point Vineyards in nearby Happy Canyon before the Kianis found him. His directive was straitforward: build it right, from the beginning, without taking shortcuts that would need to be corrected later. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 51

The site rewards that patience. Elevations range from 825 to 1,100 feet above sea level. The soils include marine sediments, serpentinelaced subsoils, cobble, and clay loam. They are stingy in the way good vineyard soils tend to be, forcing vines to reach deep and yield sparingly. The resulting fruit carries natural concentration and textural depth. Henkel personally selected fifteen distinct clones of Cabernet Sauvignon alone, each matched to a specific block and aspect based on what quality of tannin, aromatic character, or mid-palate weight it was expected to contribute. Cabernet Sauvignon anchors the program across 49 acres and 17 distinct blocks, supported by the full complement of red Bordeaux varieties, alongside six acres of Barossa Clone 8 Shiraz, and cooler-pocket plantings of Sauvignon Blanc and Vermentino. What registers in the wines, even from these still-young vines, is a combination of structure and freshness that speaks directly to the site’s climatic identity. Days in the Santa Ynez Valley push well into the 100s; nights fall back reliably into the 50s. Diurnal swings of 30 to 40 degrees are what maintain the natural acidity that keeps everything alive on the palate. The 2022 Estate Red (50% Cabernet Sauvignon/50% Shiraz) is a compelling marriage of these two powerful varieties. The Cabernet brings dark cassis while the Shiraz adds layers of black pepper, plum, and a hint of mocha. An impressive concentration and long, structured finish make it built for the long haul. The single varietal 2022 Estate Shiraz features bold notes of blackberry, cracked pepper, and violets, delivering the depth and complexity expected of this varietal. And the 2022 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon (95% Cabernet Sauvignon/5% Merlot) is a textbook Cab, tightly wound with a bit of softness from the Merlot. “My goal is to discover what this place wants to say,” Henkel says. “Tannin, structure, texture — those are tools. But there’s no recipe here. It’s about listening carefully to the vineyard and allowing the site to define itself.”

A NAME RISING IN THE VALLEY

Though their Los Olivos tasting room is not expected to open until spring 2027, Kiani Preserve is already generating considerable anticipation among local chefs, vintners, and food artisans across the 52 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

valley. Henkel’s very limited inaugural wine releases are expected next spring and word has traveled well ahead of the bottles, as indicated by the already robust allocation list. The combination of the site’s pedigree, the winemaker’s reputation, and the sheer ambition of the larger agricultural program has made Kiani a conversation in the valley long before the tasting room surely will become a desired destination. The Preserve’s Wagyu beef has already found its way to the menu at Solvang’s popular Ramen Kotori and to the shelves at New Frontiers Natural Marketplace. Bespoke olive oil and honey releases are expected to follow. Together, these early forays reflect something larger: the increasingly interconnected nature of Santa Barbara County wine country, where wine, farming, food, and hospitality merge into a holistic destination experience — one that focuses on the questions of where things actually come from, who grew them, and whether any of it is consequential. At Kiani Preserve, the answer to that last question is emphatically yes. The three Kiani children are growing up knowing this land. It is intended for them, and for whomever comes after. Joe and Sarah have spoken of the Preserve not as a possession but as a trust: something to be improved, stewarded, and ultimately passed forward. “In healthcare,” Joe has said, “the consequences of your decisions may not be visible for years. But that doesn’t make them any less important.” That same patience that governs evidence-based medicine governs the management of the Preserve. Both demand time measured in generations rather than months or seasons. Santa Ynez has always attracted a certain kind of enthusiast, those drawn by the sense that something authentic is happening here. Kiani Preserve fits that mold and pushes it further. The amber light, the rows of young vines, the cats dozing in their sanctuary, the cattle moving unhurried across the hills, the truffles slowly growing in the dark soil — it all adds up to one of the most promising endeavors this valley has seen in some time.

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Marrakech’s most quietly astonishing gallery is a private house on Sidi Mimoun — and you can sleep inside it. BY CLAUDIA CASTILLO ROSS

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cultural itinerary: the Majorelle blue, the Yves Saint Laurent museum, a fast lap of the Bahia Palace before lunch. All of it deserves the crowds it gets. But the most affecting encounter we had with Moroccan art happened behind an unmarked door on rue Sidi Mimoun, on a street whose civility is owed to its role as the link between the Royal Palace and Jemaa El Fna. The door is discreet, nearly a century old, and admits nothing about what it is holding back. Then it opens, and the volume of the city drops out entirely — motorbikes, calls from the square, the whole restless machinery of the medina, gone in a single step. Inside is a vast 1930s residence that reveals itself the way a good exhibition does, one room at a time. Patios give onto courtyards, courtyards onto arcaded galleries, galleries onto orange trees heavy enough to scent an entire passage. Water is everywhere and always still. For more than a quarter century, La Villa des Orangers has been counted 54 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

among the great houses of the Red City, a Relais & Châteaux sanctuary at the gates of the Medina. What distinguishes it is not the collection it hangs. It is that the building is itself the principal work. That building was made, and remade, by maâlems — master artisans, heirs to crafts that survive only by apprenticeship, one pair of hands teaching the next. Plasterers whose carving is so fine the trade calls it lacemaking. Painters of cedarwood ceilings, working overhead in patterns that repeat without ever precisely repeating. Zellije cutters, the true gem-cutters of the famed Arab-Andalusian mosaics, shaping every fragment by hand. Marble workers and fresco artists among them. The monumental phases were overseen by Studio KO — Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty, the practice behind the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech — with Aire au Carré. The result is not a restoration in period costume. It is a living tradition, still being practiced, that happens to have guests.

The movable collection is equally serious. Masterpieces of Sub-Saharan tribal art. Authentic Ottoman carved furniture. Rare bridal adornments and precious textiles, placed beside modern and contemporary works so that centuries speak across one another without friction. There are thirty-three rooms and suites and no two are hung alike: a monumental shower room in one, a private terrace in another, a duplex layout, an unexpected study. It is the rare house where you do not visit the art. You sleep inside it. We had help learning to see it. Our guide, Habib Ait Ali Oumansour — to us, simply Habib — spent days teaching us to read exactly this kind of workmanship, and it was here, in a quiet gallery off a courtyard, that the lesson finally landed. Serenity turns out to be the house’s other medium. Three pools, seasonally heated. A traditional hammam, where an hour resets a week. A rooftop where the Koutoubia goes gold at precisely the moment one should be holding a glass of something cold and Moroccan. And service that never once announces itself — the shutter adjusted before the sun reaches your chair, your name known by the first morning. Silence here is never empty. It is unhurried. La Table de la Villa des Orangers extends the same argument to the plate, moving between the cherished recipes of Morocco’s bourgeois families and the classical French repertoire generations of travelers carried into this country. Fish are landed at dawn by artisanal boats along the Atlantic. Vegetables come from market gardeners trusted for years. The cheeses, the mushrooms — truffles among them — and the wines are all Moroccan. The chef, we were told, does not cook from a shopping list. He cooks from what the morning delivered — the same instinct that built the house, and the reason it remains, quietly, one of the great collections in Marrakech. www.habibaitali.com www.relaischateaux.com/us/hotel/la-villa-des-orangers @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 55

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Highlight of 2026 Monterey Car Week Aston Martin, McLaren, Bentley, The Quail and Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance BY ADAM ROUTLEDGE

TO CELEBRATE SURVIVING THE 365 DAYS SINCE Monterey Car Week 2025 I kicked off the 2026 events the only way that made sense, by taking the keys to Aston Martin’s new Vantage S from The House of Aston Martin. The house had moved this year, from last August’s perch beside Spyglass Hill to a quieter property adjacent to Poppy Hills Golf Course, which felt less like a show stand and more like a retreat. Aston had brought its entire performancefocused S lineup to Monterey, and after a week of lawns, unveilings and a 75th Pebble Beach Concours, starting in the smallest and most focused of the three was the right sort of chaos. With a hand-built 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 sending 680 PS and 800 Nm through a ZF eight-speed to the rear wheels, the Vantage S is Aston’s idea of stripping the buffer between driver, chassis and tarmac. Officially it will do 0-60 mph in 3.3 seconds and 202 mph, though on the peninsula those numbers remain theoretical, as they always should. What you actually feel is the extra stiffness of a rear subframe mounted solidly at all six points, Bilstein DTX dampers recalibrated for the S, and a throttle map that makes the revs fall and rise with a snap the standard Vantage does not quite have. It is still civilised enough for Carmel, still a GT when you want it to be, and still the car you would quietly remove from the display if the valets looked the other way. 56 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

The House of Aston Martin was back with Bollinger, Bowers & Wilkins, Breitling, Glenfiddich and Elemis, and with the usual invitation to specify the next car over a drink rather than a brochure. Parked with the Vantage S were its siblings. The DB12 S is the 700 PS super tourer Aston calls the most powerful front-engine V8 nonhybrid in its class, 0-60 in 3.4 seconds, with a thicker anti-roll bar, an optimised electronic differential and carbon-ceramic brakes as standard. The DBX S takes the supercar-of-SUVs formula I drove last year in the 707 and adds 727 PS, 900 Nm and as much as 47 kg less weight, matching the Vantage S to 60 mph in 3.3 seconds. Valhalla was there too, as was a DB2, which was the right piece of heritage for what Q by Aston Martin had actually come to unveil. For the 75th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Q produced a three-of-a-kind collection of DB12 S coupés inspired by the 1951 Aston Martin Racing Team’s DB2s, the cars registered VMF 63, 64 and 65, each with its own coloured grille. The new trio wears Carbon Black with Rosso Red, Speed Yellow or Ellwood Blue accents, painted grille vanes, ‘75’ fender roundels and carbon side strakes, with matching embroidery and sill plaques inside. Vittorio Gabba, Head of Q, called it a fitting tribute to one of the largest automotive occasions, and for once the line felt earned. Also making its show debut was the Vanquish 25 Special Edition, Q’s limited nod to the 25th anniversary of the original

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V12 Vanquish, taking the 2001 car’s detailing and launch specification and finishing it with the current house’s handcraft. Wednesday had already put Astons old and new on Ocean Avenue in Carmel for Astons On The Avenue, in support of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. By Friday the same cars felt like a warm-up. Friday, as always, belonged to The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, now in its 23rd year on the lawns of The Quail Golf Club. More than 200 cars, more than 20 manufacturer debuts, including Porsche, Gordon Murray Automotive and Spyker, and five dedicated classes that actually meant something: the 100th anniversary of Route 66, the Lamborghini Diablo with some 30 examples gathered, the Legacy of Japanese GTs, the Ferrari F40, and a selection from the Bruce Meyer Collection. Best of Show went, fittingly, to Meyer himself, for the 1957 Ferrari 625/250 Testarossa originally commissioned by Southern California distributor and racer John von Neumann. Scaglietti-bodied, it took 11 wins in 1957 before later receiving a 3.0-litre 250 Testa Rossa V12, an unusual mix of period racing provenance and later specification. Spirit of The Quail went to Marc Davidian’s 1965 Porsche 911, the Hagerty Drivers Foundation Award to Richard Plavetich and Susan Denton’s 1962 Lincoln Continental, and Magneto Editor’s Choice to the Caretakers Collection’s 1994 Lamborghini Diablo VT JOTA. 2026 was also the first year of Broad Arrow Auctions as The Quail’s official auction partner. The lawn still does what no motor show does: you can walk from a period Ferrari to a car that did not exist at breakfast. I was lucky enough to be invited to the unveiling of the McL 6GT, a 2028 car that is either the first McLaren with a clutch pedal since the F1 or Bruce McLaren’s 1969 road car arriving 57 years late,

depending on how much of the very impressive introduction you swallowed. It sat, painted in what an official simply called Bruce’s Red, next to the original M6GT, with dihedral doors, racetrack tail lights and a six-speed whose titanium linkage was doing a lot of the talking. Carbon tub, a twin-turbo V8, rear drive, hydraulic steering, and almost none of the numbers anyone on the lawn was trying to extract from them. For a company that has spent a decade explaining paddle shifters, lining a stick-shift up with Bruce’s own car is the sort of stunt that only works if the thing is any good. I did not get to find out. 2028 will have to do. One of those cars was the Spyker C8 Preliator XXV Coupé, the Dutch marque’s return to Monterey after 17 years. Hand-built in aluminium, 800 horsepower from a twin-turbo V8, a true manual with Spyker’s signature exposed gear linkage, a top speed beyond 217 mph, and apart from a head-up display, no screen in the cabin. Production is limited to 25 cars, each commissioned. The Quail car was chassis 270, metallic Quail Green with rose gold flakes, trimmed in a leather the brand calls Tuscan Saddle. For Victor Muller, Spyker’s founder and CEO, the refusal to automate is the entire point. “We deliberately chose a real manual transmission, activated by our signature exposed gear linkage,” he said. “You decide when to shift. You feel every gear change in your hand.” In a week of paddle shifters it was almost subversive. At 10am Constantin Buschmann unveiled the open-top counterpart to the BODO Gran Turismo Coupe, the BRABUS BODO Cabriolet, a coachbuilt 2+2 with a carbon-fibre body and a handbuilt 5.2-litre V12 biturbo producing 1,000 hp and 885 lb-ft, 0-62 mph in 3.0 seconds and a top speed of 223 mph. Coupe and cabriolet @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 57

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together are limited to 77. I saw the car numerous times over the weekend, on the lawn and later in the week, and it is exactly as attitude-forward as Constantin has described it: a large Gran Turismo that is both the next step for BRABUS and a tribute to his father, Bodo Buschmann, whose unrealized dream of an in-house GT finally arrived at FuoriConcorso in May and then, with the roof gone, at The Quail. “I must have talked to him about a project like this a hundred times,” Constantin has said. I did not get a drive in Monterey. That will have to wait. After Los Angeles the car goes back to Europe, and a full piece will need time with the keys. If the Diablo class was the sentimental heart of The Quail, San Marino’s Eccentrica made the argument that the model is not finished with. The V12 Roadster is the most ambitious expression yet of their re-engineered first-series Lamborghini Diablo: more than 3,500 bespoke parts, a naturally aspirated 5.7-litre V12 with 550 hp and 600 Nm, a close-ratio six-speed gated manual and 208 mph. Developed by founder Emanuel Colombini with former Lamborghini chief technical officer Maurizio Reggiani, it wears a steel-and-carbon body with a widened track, aero work that removing a roof actually requires, 58 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

semi-active dampers, hydraulic steering and Brembos. It sat, as it should have, in a week that had gathered 30 of the originals a few lawns away. Sunday closed the week the way it always does, on the 18th fairway at Pebble Beach, this time for the 75th Concours d’Elegance. Two hundred and eighteen cars from 14 countries, Ferrari as featured marque, and Best of Show to Harry Yeaggy’s 1935 Duesenberg SSJ Special Speedster, one of two short-wheelbase cars built, this one originally Clark Gable’s. Yeaggy last took the trophy in 2007 with the Mormon Meteor. Nineteen years later, another Duesenberg, another Sunday of confetti. Aston’s VMF cars had been built for this anniversary. The Duesenberg made the case that Pebble still belongs to the interwar greats. I still do not pretend to hide my bias towards British manufacturers. However, what stayed with me, though, was the mix The Quail keeps getting right: a 1957 Ferrari taking Best of Show on the same grass as a Spyker with no screens, a 1,000 hp BRABUS cabriolet, and an analogue Diablo restomod. Monterey still rewards the cars that make you want the keys. The Vantage S did. A few of the others will, the moment someone lets me. Stay tuned.

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A CELEBRATION OF AUTOMOTIVE EXCELLENCE Inside The World’s Most Exclusive Automotive Gathering BY OLIVIA DECKER

EXCLUSIVE LIFESTYLE EVENTS BY LAMBORGHINI CLUB USA

Established in 1975, Lamborghini Club USA is the oldest and largest Lamborghini organization in the world. The Club hosted several exclusive events during 2026 Monterey Car week including a dinner event at the exclusive Santa Lucia Preserve on August 13. A private hospitality hub at Lamborghini Villa on August 14 in Pebble Beach for clients and collectors featuring the new hybrid lineup and the Revuelto SV and the Serata Campioni & Serata Italiana on August 15 held at The Club at Pasadera in Monterey, featuring a concours-style display of 63 vintage and modern Lamborghinis competing for class honors, followed by an evening celebration with Italian cuisine, official brand tributes, and live music. The ultimate celebration of Lamborghini lifestyle during Monterey Car Week set within the stunning 36,000 sq. ft. Spanish colonial-style Club at Pasadera, this glamorous affair featured authentic Italian cuisine from elegant al fresco pop-up stations, expertly crafted drinks, and a mesmerizing display of member Lamborghinis alongside Serata Campioni class winners. As the night unfolds, guests immersed the magic of Lamborghini with cozy fire pits, refined indoor and outdoor spaces, and an electric atmosphere. The celebration peaks with a prestigious awards ceremony and an exclusive tribute from Automobili Lamborghini S.P.A., making this event of luxury, excitement, and automotive excellence. Black Opal Life collaborated these events with Lamborghini Club USA.

ROLLS ROYCE’S PACIFIC-SIDE RETREAT BUILT FOR DEALS, NOT CROWDS

Rolls-Royce returned to Monterey Car Week with a private villa overlooking the Pacific and two customer commissions that show how far the automaker’s Bespoke division will go for the right client. The marque isn’t bringing a new production model to California this year. Instead, it’s using the week to hand over two one-of-one cars built for individual North American buyers, both revealed at the Villa rather than on a show stand. The setup fits Rolls-Royce’s pitch to Monterey’s collector crowd: less spectacle, more private theater. A Pacific-Side Retreat Built For Deals, Not Crowds, the Villa returns as the center of Rolls-Royce’s Monterey program, described by the company as a home rather than a hospitality tent. Clients get direct access to designers, Bespoke specialists and Rolls-Royce North America leadership throughout the week, alongside private events, and design consultations. It’s also where the two commissions below actually change hands, following what Rolls-Royce says were months to years of back-and-forth between each client and the artisans at Goodwood. I test drive the Cullinan and experienced the sophisticated force, the elegance and refined emblem of fine materials and peerless craftsmanship. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 59

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THE 75TH PEBBLE BEACH CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE

The collector car world’s top prize, Best of Show at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance 2026 was awarded to a 1935 Duesenberg SSJ Special Speedster shown by Harry Yeaggy of Cincinnati, Ohio, originally owned by screen actor Clark Gable. The 75th celebration also reached a major milestone, surpassing $50 million in total charitable giving. This year, 218 cars—Including 33 international entries from 14 countries and 185 US entries from 30 states including several Best of Show contenders: the 1938 Delahaye 165 Figoni et Falaschi Cabriolet shown by The Pearl Collection of Baar, Switzerland; the 1955 Ferrari 375 MM Pinin Farina Berlinetta shown by the Heinecke Family Collection of Bangkok, Thailand; and the 1954 Ferrari 375 America Vignale Cabriolet shown by RQ Collections of The Woodlands, Texas. “Duesenberg often tops the list of desires for people with a passion for American classics, and the iconic SSJ is the marque’s ultimate expression,” said Concours Chairman Sandra Button. “This Special Speedster, one of just two made, offers both style and performance—and has a fantastic Hollywood backstory.” The SSJ embodies the dramatic styling of the era, with its sweeping hood line and rakish, aerodynamic windshield. It has been recently restored to its initial presentation, with a black lacquer finish and a light saddle leather interior. This year, Lamborghini celebrated 60th anniversary of Miura with the largest gathering of Miuras ever assembled at concourse. Enthusiasts attending Pebble Beach Automotive Week had the rare opportunity to view this unprecedented collection of groundbreaking automobiles and connect with many of the world’s most respected 60 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

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Miura cognoscenti. First unveiled in 1966, the Lamborghini Miura revolutionized the automotive world with its groundbreaking transverse mid-engine architecture and dramatic design, establishing the template for the modern supercar. Six decades later, it remains one of the most celebrated and coveted collector cars in existence . 2026 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance also presented its first ever Japanese Motorsport class. Spanning decades of innovation and perseverance, the inaugural class brings together landmark competition cars that tell the story of Japan’s evolution from an emerging motorsport nation to a global endurance racing powerhouse. The class included the racing greats stretching across three decades of endurance racing, from the 1985 Toyota 85C L Longtail Le Mans Coupe through a host of Mazda, Honda and Nissan racing greats to the 2018 Toyota TS050 Hybrid Le Mans Coupe. Together, these automobiles illustrate Japan’s remarkable rise on the world’s greatest racing stages. Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will undergo a significant transition on October 1. After a remarkable tenure of 40 years, Concours Chairman Sandra Button will step back from day-to-day operational leadership and into a new role as Brand Ambassador & Strategic Advisor. Vince W. Finaldi will join the team as Concours President. Finaldi is a respected trial attorney, legal strategist and former US Marine, grew up in the car world. His grandfather moved from Italy to the US and worked for General Motors in the 1920s, then returned home to open his own auto shop, where his sons—Vince’s father among them—were employed. From a very young age, Vince was steeped in all aspects of the car hobby, from purchase and sale

Olivia Decker test drive the Rolls Royce Cullinan

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At TPC Monterey at Pasadera, Lamborghini celebrated 50 years of Miura, the world’s first supercar launched in 1966

Aston Martin USA Manager Lisa Anastas with Olivia Decker and Valhalla

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Japanese Motorsport Bill Hayward’s 1934 Rolls Royce Phantom II Continental Freestone & Webb Drophead Coupe

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Alfa Romeo fleet at 2026 Pebble Beach Concours field

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to preservation and repair. Over time, he became an ardent collector of significant historical automobiles, auto books, and automobilia. In recent years, as he began to transition away from his full-time law practice to devote more time to cars, Finaldi opened his own auto shop, Finaldi, Inc., in the Monterey Bay area. That pursuit will now be put on hold as he takes on the responsibility of The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. The Concours raised more than $4.3 million for charity this year, bringing the event’s total charitable donations to $50,154,192 to date. More than half of that total has been raised in the past decade. Through the Pebble Beach Company Foundation, the primary charitable partner of the Concours, these funds will benefit more than 130 local nonprofits dedicated to improving the education, health, and well-being of children throughout Monterey County. This year, a record $756 million sold at the various Monterey Car Week auctions including the 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe, a gorgeous hardtop racing version of the Cobra chassis CSX2300 sold at Gooding Christie’s Pebble Beach auction for $42,905,000. It’s not only the most expensive car sold at Car Week auction, but the most expensive American car ever sold at auction.

A 2026 NEW FARRARI ELECTRIC CAR LUCE

Tailor Made fetched $40 million for Ferrari Foundation charity. Farrari Luce, the first fully electric Ferrari was sold at RM Sotheby’s on August 15 at Monterey Car Week to benefit Ferrari Foundation for education projects in United States and elsewhere. The auction fetched more than 36 times the model’s presale price $640,000, but the auctioned car had a higher price tag estimated at $1.1 million because it has a pre-production chassis. American billionaire, philanthropist and Ferrari collector Herbert A. Wertheim, bought the vehicle. The five-seat, four-door Ferrari Luce was designed by Sir Jony Ive, the former Apple design chief and Marc Newson’s design firm LoveFrom with an unconventional style and with four electric motors, two on each axle, produce a combined 1,036 brake horsepower. Jony Ive, the designer of iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch and industrial designer Marc Newson are selective about who they work with, the prospect of designing the electric Ferrari was too tempting to resist when Ferrari’s executive chairman, John Elkann, proposed a collaboration. Luce took five years to create and launched in May 2026, the delivery will be in 2027.

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THE BLOWER: BRUTE FORCE, REBUILT BY HAND

Bentley Mulliner’s new Blower is, by the company’s description, the world’s first pre-war continuation series: not a replica or tribute, but twelve new examples built from original 1920s drawings and tooling jigs. The project began with Bentley’s own Team Car #2, chassis HB 3403, engine SM 3902, registration UU 5872. The priceless original was taken apart piece by piece and laser-scanned to generate a complete digital CAD model precise enough to guide a hand-built recreation. What followed was less manufacturing than industrial revival. The chassis is hand-formed and hot-riveted from heavy-gauge steel. The radiator shell is mirror-polished nickel silver; the fuel tank is hand-beaten steel and copper. Period-correct leaf springs, headlamps, an ash frame, specialist Rexine and Bridge of Weir leather complete the painstaking reconstruction. Car Zero’s seats are even stuffed with natural horsehair, just as the originals were. Under the louvered bonnet sits a recreation of W.O. Bentley’s 4½-litre four-cylinder engine, fed by an Amherst Villiers roots-type supercharger, the device that gave the Blower its nickname and outlaw reputation within the factory. All twelve cars were sold before the project was publicly announced.

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EVERY LUXURY MARQUE CLAIMS HERITAGE. FEW CAN PRODUCE

the actual chassis. Bentley can: chassis HB 3403, the surviving 1929 Team Blower that Mulliner disassembled, laser-scanned, and used as the master reference for a car it is now building by hand nearly a century later. That decision says more about how Bentley thinks about itself than any brand manifesto could. This is not a company borrowing the imagery of motorsport for a badge. In 2026, Bentley still treats its 1920s race program as an active design brief. To understand why, start at Le Mans, where Bentley won the 24 Hours five times between 1924 and 1930, powered by the legendary Bentley Boys. Woolf Barnato became the first three-time winner in race history, taking the top step in 1928, 1929, and 1930. Sir Henry “Tim” Birkin became the driving force behind the supercharged 4½-litre “Blower” Bentley. W.O. Bentley reportedly disapproved of the car, and it never won Le Mans outright, yet it became perhaps the most famous Bentley ever built. That tension provides the perfect frame for Bentley today: two continuation cars built to 1920s specifications and one radical modern coupe carrying the same DNA into the future. Together, they trace an unbroken line of what “fast” has meant to Bentley for a century.

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Custom spec interior of the Batur

Another example the customer ordered Batur

The Speed Six and the Blower

THE SPEED SIX: THE CAR THAT ACTUALLY WON

If the Blower is Bentley’s romantic outlier, the Speed Six is its proven champion, the car that carried Barnato, Birkin, Kidston and company to consecutive Le Mans victories in 1929 and 1930. Where the Blower represented one driver’s supercharged gamble, the Speed Six was the factory’s answer: a larger, more powerful sixcylinder engine in a chassis engineered to survive 24 hours of flat-out racing. It worked. Twice. The Speed Six continuation series follows the same philosophy of forensic authenticity. Roughly 80 percent of its technical drawings came from the archives of the WO Bentley Memorial Foundation, cross-referenced against mechanics’ notes and original cars. Speed Six Car Zero wears Parsons Napier Green with tan leather because that is what the historical record shows, not because it photographs well, though it does that too. Car Zero will remain with Bentley for extensive validation before production of the twelve customer cars, all already sold. Together, the Blower and Speed Six answer the same question differently: How do you keep a race car honest nearly a century later? The Blower answers through obsession with one legendary machine. The Speed Six answers with the discipline of a winning record.

THE BATUR: THE SAME INSTINCT, POINTED FORWARD

At first glance, the Batur seems a total departure, a low-slung modern grand touring coupe created to preview Bentley’s future design language. Look under the bonnet, however, and the connection becomes clear. The Batur is powered by a handassembled 740+ PS version of Bentley’s 6.0-litre twin-turbocharged W12, the most powerful engine ever fitted to a production Bentley.

It is the same instinct that created the Blower: take the most extreme version of the current powertrain and put it into the most focused expression of the brand possible. Its advanced chassis adds speed-tuned air suspension, active anti-roll control, an electronic limited-slip differential, four-wheel steering and torque vectoring, modern technology doing work once entrusted to a supercharger and a driver’s nerve. Only 18 coupes were built, each co-created with its owner through Mulliner. The Batur Convertible followed, carrying the W12 into another exceptionally limited chapter. That makes the Batur less a departure from the Blower and Speed Six than their direct descendant: the most extreme available engine in the most exclusive available car, created just as that particular era of engineering prepares to disappear.

THE BESPOKE PROMISE

Put all three side by side and the pattern is impossible to miss: a supercharged four-cylinder born from one driver’s obsession; a six-cylinder factory champion that won the race the Blower never did; and a twin-turbo W12 sending off an engine platform while pointing toward an electric future. Different eras. Different technology. The same instinct: build the most capable version the moment allows, offer it to a handful of people who understand exactly what they are buying, and let the rest of the industry catch up later. That, ultimately, is what “bespoke” is supposed to mean: not a term used loosely, but a promise from a company that, a century later, still builds extraordinary cars to meet and exceed the demands and dreams of a deserving few. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 65

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Rick Walker, Mauro Aprile Zanetti, Michael Uytengsu,Veronica Bocelli, Maria Manetti Shrem, Sienna Peck, Chase Johnson, and Olivia Decker presented Angel of Arts Award to Andrea Bocelli

Andrea Bocelli Honored with Festival Napa Valley’s Angels of the Arts Award BY OLIVIA DECKER PHOTOS BY DREW ALTIZER PHOTOGRAPHY

FESTIVAL NAPA VALLEY PRESENTED WORLD-RENOWNED

tenor and humanitarian Andrea Bocelli with its Angels of the Arts Award, the Festival’s highest honor, at a celebratory gala on September 14. Festival President & CEO Rick Walker and Executive Producer Sienna Peck presented Bocelli the award and San Francesco Chief of Protocol Penny Coulter presented Bocelli a piece of Golden Gate Bridge, a gift from Mayor Daneil Lurie. “Andrea Bocelli embodies the spirit of the Angels of the Arts Award through his extraordinary artistic achievements, enduring contributions to the arts, and philanthropic leadership,” said Rick Walker. “His work demonstrates the power of the arts to transform lives and strengthen communities.” “We are incredibly grateful to the Johnson and Uytengsu families, Maria Manetti Shrem, Olivia Decker, and all of the generous donors and sponsors who made this extraordinary evening possible,” said Festival Napa Valley Brand and Philanthropy Officer Mauro Aprile Zanetti. “Their vision and generosity allowed us to celebrate Andrea Bocelli and the power of music while supporting two organizations making a meaningful difference in the lives of others.” Held at the historic Carolands Chateau in Hillsborough, California, the home of Dr. Ann and Charles B Johnson Family before they 66 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

donated to California Historical Landmark. At 46,050-square-foot, this magnificent 98 room mansion on 5.83 acres is a finest example of American Renaissance and Beaux-Arts design. The gala benefited the Addiction Education Society and Festival Napa Valley. The evening was presented by Charles Johnson and family in memory of Dane Johnson, whose family has long championed both organizations and generously supported the event. “We are deeply grateful to Festival Napa Valley, the Johnson family, and everyone who came together in support of this exceptional evening,” said Addiction Education Society Executive Director Daniel Dadoun. “Dane’s memory brought this community together, and their generosity enables us to continue bringing essential, science-based education to young people, education that helps them understand addiction before it touches their lives.” The Addiction Education Society (AES) was founded in 2013. AES translates neuroscience into age-appropriate curricula that explain how substances affect the developing brain, delivered in local classrooms by trained educators. More than 25,500 Bay Area students have completed AES programs, and independent evaluation shows significant gains in students’ understanding of addiction. AES partners with schools, families, and community organizations across the region. www.addictioneducationsociety.org

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Larisa Martinez, Olivia Decker, Joshua Bell, Maria Manetti Shrem, and Veronica Berti Bocelli

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Veronica Berti Bocelli, Chit Dela Cruz, Maria Manetti Shrem, Linh Nguyen, Marie Reynolds, and Tatiana Rozhneva

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San Francisco Chief Protocol Penny Coulter presented Andrea and Veronica Bocell gift of Golden Gate Bridge from Mayor Daniel Lurie

The 112 patrons of Festival Napa Valley and supporters of Andrea Bocelli enjoyed a spirited reception and a gourmet dinner created by Componere Culinary & Events, paired with Michel Foch Champagne and wines from Tusk, HALL Napa Valley, Trinitas Cellars, Darioush, Castellucci, and Joseph Phelps Vineyards. Music was at the heart of the celebration. Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell, soprano Larisa Martínez, and pianist Peter Dugan presented selections from their Voice and the Violin, in a performance generously underwritten by the Uytengsu family. Andrea Bocelli joined in with an impromptu rendition of Panis Angelicus. Larisa Martinez is an excellent opera singer from Puerto Rico and frequent recital partner of Andrea Bocelli. She has performed at the Hollywood Bowl, Kennedy Center and Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Hall. Joshua Bell is a superstar violinist, who performs as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and conductor. Bell has made more than 40 recordings, winning numerous awards. He also serves on the board of the New York Philharmonic. As a couple, Bell and Martinez have advocated for classical music education and are affiliated with Turnaround Arts, All Our Kids, Education Through Music, and the Boys and Girls Club of Puerto Rico. One of the world’s most celebrated vocal artists, Andrea Bocelli has sold more than 90 million records worldwide and in 2011, he and wife Veronica Berti founded the Andrea Bocelli Foundation to build hospitals, support education and opportunity for disadvantaged people and communities. Performed for Popes, Presidents, and concerts around the world for over 30 years, Bocelli received the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award 68 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

in recognition of his artistry and philanthropy in 2015. During Covid pandemic lock-down in Easter 2020, Bocelli performed in the deserted Milan’s Duomo in one of the most-watched musical live streams of all time. This “Music for Hope” event drew over 28 million views in its first 24 hours. In 2022, Andrea and his son Matteo and daughter Virginia as the Bocelli Family trio performed “The Greatest Gift” at London Royal Albert Hall for the “Festival of Remembrance” dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II and celebrated music as a tool for soothing the soul and fostering spiritual growth. Singer Celine Dion has said that “If God had a singing voice, it would sound a lot like Andrea Bocelli”. Currently, Bocelli is performing a world tour of the 30th Anniversary of his Romanza album. I attended this concert on September 13 at SAP Center in San Jose. This fabulous 2+ hours concert attracted over 18,000 attendees and the standing ovation got 4 encores. It was one of the best concerts among hundreds of concerts I have ever attended. One of the top 5 festivals in the world, Festival Napa Valley champions the power of music to enrich lives and build a thriving, healthy, and connected community. Through its annual summer Festival and year-round Olivia Decker Power of Music series and Arts for All programs, the organization presents world-class classical, jazz, and popular artists while expanding access to music education and well-being initiatives. Festival programs bring live performances and learning opportunities to schools, libraries, hospitals, and community venues across Napa Valley, the greater Bay Area and hosted concerts at Shanghai Peninsula Hotel and Beijing American Embassy as part of Culture Exchange with China. Details on: www.festivalnapavalley.org

Olivia Decker, Veronica Berti Bocelli, and Joel Goodrich

Kristin Sorensen, Danny Tran, Steph Busch and, Tim Busch

Michael Covarrubias, Rick Walker, Sienna Peck, and Kathleen McIntosh

Ben Yu, Alice Mong, Andrea Bocelli, Song Zuying, and Yoan Ma

Reese Johnson, Andrea Bocelli, Tracy Johnson, Greg Johnson, Chase Johnson, and Melodie Pacheco

Jessica Martin, Timothy Martin, Michael Uytengsu, Tara Uytengsu, Andrea Bocelli, Bonnie Uytengsu, Candice Uytengsu Hamilton, Christian Uytengsu, and Kerri Uytengsu

Veronica Berti Bocelli, Maria Manetti Shrem, and Andrea Bocelli

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Mill Valley Film Festival: Where Movies, Magic, and Marin Meet EVERY OCTOBER, MARIN COUNTY BECOMES ONE OF THE MOST

exciting places in the San Francisco Bay Area to watch a movie. The Mill Valley Film Festival (October 1–11) returns with extraordinary storytelling, drawing filmmakers, cinephiles, and industry names to the Bay Area for 11 days that feel like a love letter to the art of film. Presented by CAFILM, MVFF unfolds across four venues: three in Marin County, including the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, the Sequoia Cinema in Mill Valley, and the Lark Theater in Larkspur; and one in the East Bay, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) in Berkeley. Each venue brings its own character to the festival; what unites them is the audience. Year after year, MVFF crowds are known for something increasingly rare: They show up, lean in, and watch closely. This is a festival built for people who still believe a great film deserves your full attention and a packed house to share it with. That spirit is exactly what makes MVFF special. This isn’t a festival of red-carpet spectacle for its own sake. It’s a place where a post-screening Q&A turns into an unscripted conversation with the filmmaker, or where a documentary about a stranger’s life leaves you thinking about your own for days after. Where discovering a 70 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

new voice in world cinema feels like being let in on a secret before the rest of the world catches on. The program is famously eclectic. Expect a sweeping selection of world cinema, boundary- pushing US independents, characterdriven documentaries, shorts programs, and family-friendly films that welcome the next generation of moviegoers into the fold. Add in filmmaker conversations, panels, and parties that carry the energy of the screening room into the Marin night, and MVFF becomes less a series of showtimes and more an immersive, communal experience. There’s also something quietly powerful about watching a film in community. MVFF offers a reminder that cinema was built to be experienced together, not alone in front of a screen. Every audience reaction, every gasp, every burst of laughter, every held breath in a dark theater becomes part of the story itself. It’s the kind of collective experience that lingers long past the closing night celebration. For nearly five decades, MVFF has built its reputation as a launching pad and a gathering place, championing films that go on to define awards season while giving longtime festivalgoers

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Lars Ulrich and Jonas Åkerlund, Metallica Saved My Life

Zoey Deutch, Nouvelle Vague

Elle Fanning, Low Down

Joel Edgerton, Train Dreams

Producer Clint Bentley, John “Divine G” Whitfield, Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, Sean Dino Johnson, and Director Greg Kwedar a reason to return year after year. It has hosted legends and discovered future ones, often in the same evening. And with each passing year, that legacy only deepens, making the festival feel less like an event on the calendar and more like a homecoming for anyone who loves great storytelling. Whether you’re a die-hard cinephile who plans your October around the schedule or a first-timer curious about all the buzz, MVFF offers an entry point for everyone. Grab a ticket to a buzzy premiere, take a chance on an unfamiliar title by a firsttime director, or wander from venue to venue and let the festival surprise you. However you choose to experience it, one thing is certain: You’ll leave with stories, both the ones on screen and the ones you’ll tell about being there. Mark your calendars for October 1–11 and plan your visit now. Marin County is once again ready to prove that in a world of infinite content, nothing beats the magic of watching a great film unfold in a room full of people who came to be moved. For tickets, schedules, and the full lineup, visit mvff.com and start planning your festival experience.

Jesse Buckley, Opening Night of Hamnet

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Left to right: Saela Rivera-Martinez, David O’Matz, Kelsey McFalls, Augustin Lehner, Lily Mangiaruga, Ryan Williams, Harry Warshaw

Kelsey McFalls and Augustin Lehner

The Believer on the Hill: Margaret Karl and the Ballet That Shouldn’t Exist MARGARET KARL WATCHED THE DANCERS THE WAY ONLY

a dancer can — reading the weight shift before it happened, catching the half-second of recovery the rest of us missed. She had danced professionally with San Francisco Ballet. She knew what it cost to hold a line on a stage that flat. This one wasn’t flat. It was built into a Petaluma hillside, open to the sky, ringed by cattle pasture. I was her guest that night, hers and her partner’s. They thought I ought to see it for myself. Tara Firma Farms rises over pastoral hilltops, opening into sweeping views of rolling country washed in endless shades of green and gold. What Julia Adam and Aaron Lucich have made there has no obvious peer: a world-class ballet staged in open air on a working ranch, preceded by a farm-to-table dinner at long communal tables under the moon. Thirteen seasons now, six nights each July, one hundred guests a night. I run a ranch, so the impossible part was the part I understood first. Water uphill. Footing after a dry spell. Feeding a hundred people from your own ground on a night the wind turns. Add nine dancers who cannot afford an uneven board, and you have months of work behind ninety minutes that look like nothing at all. The evening opened with cocktails at 5:30, and a hayride carried us up to tables set with field flowers. Chefs Brian Leitner and Annette Yang of Pearl Petaluma moved through a menu drawn from local purveyors — a summer salad, pork and brandied plum crepinette with charred cabbage, a pot-au-feu-style beef stew with furikake sticky 72 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

rice, fresh corn polenta with grilled pork, and an olive oil zucchini cake with drinking chocolate. As the air cooled, blankets and hot chocolate disappeared fast. Then the dancers stepped out in white, sculptural as marble brought to life. The Allegretto from Beethoven’s Seventh stopped time. The hills dissolved into shadow until only the moon was left, and the title — Lunae et Amore Amisso, “Of the Moon and Lost Love” — read less like a name than a revelation. The program unfolded like a tasting menu: Beethoven, Puccini, Albinoni, Lhasa de Sela, Harold Arlen, Piazzolla’s Libertango. The dancers, drawn from Houston, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and Memphis alongside independent freelancers, blended seamlessly, like a single cluster of grapes shaped by the same wind, moon, and soil. Watching it beside someone who had lived inside that discipline changed what I saw. Karl’s path into this world has been a gradual immersion rather than a single gesture. She spent years on the other side of the curtain before becoming a supporter of the art form that shaped her. In recent seasons she has become a familiar presence in Napa Valley’s cultural life, among the guests at Festival Napa Valley’s Power of Music series, and this year she took the further step of joining the JAD board — moving from audience to stewardship. It is a natural progression for someone who understands the work from the inside. Dancers know what a season costs. They know what a board seat is actually for. And Karl’s ambition for JAD is specific rather

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Saela Rivera-Martinez and Augustin Lehner,

than sentimental: she wants the production connected to the region’s larger cultural architecture. “I’d love to see more partnerships like Festival Napa Valley, along with additional performances and collaborations throughout the year, so that even more people have the opportunity to experience its magic,” she said. “It’s the kind of production that feels almost logistically impossible, yet here it is in its 13th season with a growing audience year after year. That alone is a testament to how special it is.” Her argument for the work is not nostalgia. It is a claim about what we are losing. “In a world increasingly driven by AI and technology, JAD celebrates the things those innovations can never replace: genuine human connection, live performance, shared meals, and the feeling of being fully present,” she said. “I honestly believe experiences like this are what we need most. It’s one of those experiences that’s hard to explain, but once you’ve experienced it, you just get it — and you immediately want to come back for more.” That is the sentence that stayed with me. Not a pitch. A dancer’s verdict, delivered from a folding chair on a hillside, on something she has decided to help carry. That is a patron’s instinct — not to preserve a thing in amber, but to give it more room to live.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF KEITH PHILLIPS (LEFT), JAD EXPERIENCE (RIGHT)

Attendees dining

PRODUCTION CREDITS Lunae et Amore Amisso Choreography by Julia Adam

Dancers

Lighting Design by Cassie Barnes

Augustin Lehner, Ryan Williams, Saela RiveraMartinez, Zoe Lucich (Houston Ballet)

Costume Design by Amanda Farris

David O’Matz (Pittsburgh Ballet Theater)

Venue Design by Aaron Lucich

Lily Mangiaruga (New Orleans Ballet Theater)

Music by Beethoven, Puccini, Lhasa de Sela, Jeff Alexander, Alexander and Anthony Wilson, Albinoni, Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, Billy Rose, York, O’Brien, Selway, Greenwood, and Piazzolla

Kelsey McFalls and Tessa Barbour (Freelance Dancers)

Dramaturgy by Alexander Lucich

Harry Warshaw (Ballet Memphis)

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Alessandro Biciocchi, Cardinal Dominique Mamberti, Adriano Caroletti, and the Sacred Voices Choir members at St. Peters Square in the Vatican

Grace Cathedral Presents A Legacy in Music, Faith and Italian Art ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2026 THE ICONIC GRACE

Cathedral in San Francisco was resonated with magnificent sacred music. Under the direction of Pontifical Cantor Adriano Caroletti, the Sacred Voices Choir traveled from Rome to California for the first time. They performed six concerts in six days, at the Bay Area cathedrals spanning San Francisco, San Jose, Stockton, Sacramento, and Oakland. Sacred Voices is a mixed voice choir of forty singers from leading Roman and Vatican musical institutions. The choir is affiliated with the Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci Foundation in Rome, which was established to preserve Maestro Domenico Bartolucci’s sacred music tradition. Legendary Bartolucci (1917-2013), directed the Sistine Chapel Choir for nearly fifty years. He was one of the greatest lyricists and composers of sacred music of the modern age. On November 20th, 2010 Bartolucci was elevated to the College of Cardinals by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. The voices filled the cathedral with spiritual joy. The program at Grace Cathedral opened with acapella singing of Terra Trenuit, Offertory Antiphon for Easter Day, Psalm 75:9-10 by Palestrina, who was a 16th century genius. “What was beautiful and sacred in the past remains beautiful and sacred today. It is beautiful in every age and every culture” -Pope Benedict. The program continued with Lorenzo Perosi Tu es Petrus, For the feast of SS. Peter & Paul. The audience experienced music that 74 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

was an integral part of liturgies in the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica and still is a part of the Catholic sacred tradition. The next offering was Crucem Tuam, From Passion Chorals, by Domenico Bartolucci. Beautiful polyphony anchored by deep low male voices kept spectators grounded and spiritually lifted. Easter Motet, also by Bartolucci, was performed by choir and Davide Bucci on organ, who serves as an organist of the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary. Toccata, Fugue and Hymn on Ave Maris Stella by Flor Peeters (1903-1986) was a solo organ piece that filled the entire cathedral with a powerful sound of 7,466 pipes. The organ is one among the largest church organs in the West, built in 1934 by the AeolianSkinner organ Company. Fourteen compositions ranging from 16th to 20th century were on the program. Music consisted of a cappella choir, organ solo, choir & organ, and three soloists & choir: sopranist Gianluca Alonzi was leading in Crux fidelis, tenor Francescantonio Bille in Agnus Dei and soprano Maria Tomassi in Ave Maria. Sacred Voices Choir projected each voice line with a precise clarity and direction layering into magnificent polyphony, while harmonies defined the architecture of the music, culminating high as a cathedral ceiling and spiritual experience! The Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci Foundation is dedicated to preserving and advancing the extraordinary legacy of Maestro

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Sacred Voice Choir with Alessandro Biciocchi and Cardinal Dominique Mamberti at Sala Regia of the Apostolic Palace with Pope Leo XIV John and Sally Ann McInerney, Olivia Decker, Asher McInerney, and Alessandro Biciocchi

Sacred Voices Choir led by Adriano Caroletti performed at Grace Cathedral

Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci, one of Italy’s great composers of sacred music. In addition to more than 40 volumes of liturgical music, including masses, motets, madrigals, and oratorios, Maestro Bartolucci composed an opera that has never been performed. Brunelleschi, a lyrical opera in three acts, pays tribute to Florence and to the extraordinary life and genius of Filippo Brunelleschi, the visionary architect of the Renaissance. At the heart of the opera is the construction of the magnificent dome of Santa Maria del Fiore, one of the greatest architectural achievements in the history of Western civilization. In 2027, the world will commemorate the 650th anniversary of the birth of Filippo Brunelleschi. To mark this extraordinary occasion, the Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci Foundation plans to bring Brunelleschi to the stage for the first time, transforming a long-unheard work into a living celebration of Italian art, music, architecture, and Christian faith.

AN INVITATION TO BECOME PART OF HISTORY

Bringing this historic opera to life requires the support of visionary patrons who recognize the importance of preserving Italy’s cultural and spiritual heritage for future generations. Your contribution will help make possible the world premiere of Brunelleschi and lay the foundation for its future presentation on international stages, allowing audiences around the world to discover Maestro Bartolucci’s music and the profound story of Brunelleschi’s genius. This is more than support for an opera. It is an opportunity to become part of a legacy. In recognition of their generosity, patrons will be welcomed among distinguished guests at a series of exceptional events in Rome, Vatican City, and Florence, offering a unique opportunity to experience the cultural and spiritual heritage at the heart of this historic project. Together, we can give voice to a masterpiece that has waited decades to be heard, and ensure that the legacy of Cardinal Bartolucci, Filippo Brunelleschi, and the extraordinary Italian tradition they represent continues to inspire generations to come. Your support can help bring this history to life. Please visit website for information and donation: www.fondazionebartolucci.it/en/donate @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 75

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The HighlightS of Festival Napa Valley’S 20th Anniversary Season BY OLIVIA DECKER PHOTOS DREW ALTIZER PHOTOGRAPHY

FESTIVAL NAPA VALLEY MARKED ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY

Season with its most ambitious calendar of events and performances to date, built on the founding idea that the arts belong to everyone. This July, audiences experienced musical expressions from more than 200 international stars and emerging artists, combined with Napa Valley’s renowned food, wine, and signature hospitality. Across four weeks and more than 80 concerts and events, that international lineup moved throughout the valley, filling concert venues, historic theaters, and working wine estates with performances of extraordinary range and caliber. Opening Night alone set the tone: conductor Stephanie Childress led a program featuring Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, the world premiere of a concerto by Michael Thurber for Grammy-winning ensemble Time for Three, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City in Gordon Getty’s Young America, and a symphonic reimagining of music by Bob Dylan and Billy Joel. It was the kind of night that could anchor an entire season. This summer, it was the opening act. 76 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

Olivia Decker and Joel Goodrich cheers to the art of life at Charles Krug

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Renée Fleming returned to Festival Napa Valley to perform Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, a stunning multimedia work inspired by her Grammy Award-winning album, on the Festival Stage at Charles Krug. The program also featured the world premiere of John Corigliano’s The Red Violin: Suite for Two Violins and Orchestra, commissioned by Festival Napa Valley and performed by the dynamic sister duo and Bouchaine Young Artists Hina & Fiona. Fleming was also the keynote speaker at the Music & Wellness Summit, a daylong symposium at The CIA at Copia exploring the power of music and its connection to longevity and well-being. The Young People’s Chorus of New York City surprised the room with a flash mob performance of Barber’s Agnus Dei following a captivating presentation on music and mental health by the chorus’s founder and artistic director, Francisco J. Núñez. The Festival’s mission was on full display at the Arts for All Gala at Nickel & Nickel, part of Far Niente Wine Estates. Lydia Fenet led a spirited auction featuring a dozen once-in-a-lifetime experiences, raising a record $6.5 million to empower youth, expand access to education and the arts, and strengthen the wellbeing of the community. Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis closed the evening with a performance that capped the most successful Gala in Festival history. The season’s Olivia Decker Power of Music concert brought pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and violinist Ray Chen together for their first performance as a duo at the historic Uptown Theatre. The concert was preceded by a reception at Serge Sorokko Gallery featuring wines from John Anthony Vineyards and followed by a patron dinner in the Culinary Garden at Copia hosted by Stanley and Helen Cheng, with wines by Hestan. The centerpiece of the season was The Judgment of Paris, a oneact opera by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, commissioned by Festival Napa Valley in celebration of its 20th

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anniversary. Inspired by the historic 1976 blind tasting that put Napa Valley on the world wine map, the opera transported Bacchus and Venus to 1970s Paris and Napa Valley. The world premiere featured an all-star cast led by Danielle de Niese, Quinn Kelsey, Nicholas Phan, Simone McIntosh, and Brenda Rae, conducted by Kent Nagano and directed by Jean-Romain Vespirini – an extraordinary new work anchored in the valley where the story began. Festival Napa Valley’s reach beyond the concert hall is what makes it more than just a summer festival. Taste of Napa transformed The Meritage Resort and Spa into a showcase for more than 100 of the valley’s renowned wineries, breweries, restaurants, and artisans, while the sold-out Allegro program brought young professionals together throughout Opening Weekend. Families found their own place at the Family Zone at Charles Krug and a screening of The Wizard of Oz with live orchestra. The Novak Concerts for Kids brought live classical music directly to young audiences, introducing children and families to exceptional performers in an engaging and welcoming setting. And through the admission-free Bouchaine Young Artist Series, rising talents including cellist Sonya Moomaw and saxophonist Valentin Kovalev performed for audiences witnessing the future of the arts. The season concluded with a grand finale celebrating America’s 250th anniversary, with Festival Orchestra Napa, led by conductor JoAnn Falletta, performing Bernstein, Copland, Getty, Gershwin, and John Williams beneath a Napa Valley sky. It was a fitting close to a season that made good on the Festival’s founding promise—that the arts are for everyone—in bigger and bolder ways than ever. Twenty years in, Festival Napa Valley is still setting the pace for what a summer festival can be. Festival Napa Valley’s 2027 Summer Season will take place July 16–25, 2027, at venues throughout Napa Valley. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 77

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Olivia Decker, Tatiana Copeland, David Pearson, and Guillaume Cousin

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Founders Dinner at Opus One in celebration of the 20th anniversary and in honor of the visionaries and patrons who launched Festival Napa Valley two decades ago, and the major contributors to the 2026 season. Few settings speak more clearly to the power of vision sustained over time, and to what becomes possible when people invest in a shared future. Guests at the Founders Dinner enjoyed an exceptional evening of cuisine, music, and Opus One wines, shared in a setting that Beth Nickel, Camilla Fall, and Kathy Tabbert said reflected the founders’ belief in generosity of spirit and the lasting bonds formed around the table. It was an evening to honor those who helped build the festival, and to toast the seasons still to come. The Founders Dinner was followed by an invitationonly Allegro Young Patron Afterparty which set the tone for the weekend ahead. The Afterparty featured Opus wines, cognac, elevated bites, and a DJ. The Allegro Program (www. festivalnapavalley.org/allegro) is a curated Festival Napa Valley experience created for a new generation of patrons ages 25-45.

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Beth Nickel, Camilla Fall, and Kathy Tabbert

Jane Inch and Michael Covarrubias

Kathleen McIntosh, Michael Jackson, and Pepper Jackson Maria Manetti Shrem and Francisco J. Núñez

Rick Walker and Claudia Ross

Darioush and Sharpar Khaledi

Steven Stull, Maggie Oetgen, and Laura Pettit

Sienna Peck, Suzanne Deal Booth, and Kate Freer

Designed for culturally engaged tastemakers and emerging supporters, Allegro offers Patron-level concert access paired with intimate gatherings, private dinners, and elevated hospitality throughout the year, while fostering deeper engagement with the Festival’s mission. Opus One (www.opusonewinery.com/) stands as one of Napa Valley’s most enduring symbols of vision and collaboration. Founded in 1978 by Robert Mondavi and Baron Philippe de Rothschild, the winery was born from a shared belief that the Old World and the New World could meet on equal terms, united by craftsmanship and a respect for place. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 79

Ranaan Meyer, Charles Yang, Anthony McGill, Rieko Tsuchica, Sienna Peck, Nick Kendall, and Mauro Aprile Zanetti

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Season with a festive Opening Night at Charles Krug Winery led by conductor Stephanie Childress celebrating classical masterworks, world premieres, and iconic songs by American composers. The program featured Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture alongside the premiere of a concerto by composer Michael Thurber commissioned by Festival Napa Valley and written especially for the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Time for Three. Also on the program was Young America, a six-movement cycle for chorus and orchestra by acclaimed composer Gordon Getty performed by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City under the artistic direction of Francisco J. Núñez. The evening culminated in a symphonic reimagining of songs by Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, and others, an exhilarating finale that set the tone for the landmark anniversary season ahead. A Patron Dinner was hosted after the concert at Beringer Vineyards, where Napa Valley history is beautifully preserved, from the lovingly restored Rhine House, with its Victorian stone façade, soaring turrets, and lush gardens, to the wine caves hand-dug into the Spring Mountain hillside more than a century ago. Beringer was visually spectacular and steeped in rich tradition. The winery’s long-standing commitment to sustainable practices has also made it a leader in the industry. The guests enjoyed an evening of fine cuisine and Beringer’s award-winning wines, all in a setting that captured the timeless beauty of Napa Valley. 80 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

Olivia Decker and Sienna Peck Ana Blackwell and Jerome and Thao Dodson

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Opening Night Dinner performer Anthony McGill at Beringer Vineyards

Claire Wilkins, Carl Evans, and Margo Van Staaveren

Michael and Pepper Jackson with Tim Busch

Antonio Castellucci and Christina Maxwell

Charles Yang, Nick Kendall, Stephanie Childress, Michael Thurber, and Ranaan Meyer

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and Patron Dinner at Gargiulo Vineyards SOPRANO RENÉE FLEMING RETURNED TO FESTIVAL NAPA

Valley in Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene at Charles Krug, a multimedia concert inspired by her 2023 Grammy Award-winning album. Accompanied by an original film curated by the National Geographic Society and featuring the Pacific Symphony under the baton of Alexander Shelley, the program wove together Romantic-era art songs by Grieg, Liszt, Fauré, and Hahn with works by contemporary composers including Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw, and Kevin Puts, exploring nature as both inspiration and casualty of humanity. Also on the program, dynamic sister duo and Bouchaine Young Artists Hina & Fiona performed the world premiere of celebrated composer John Corigliano’s The Red Violin: Suite for Two Violins and Orchestra, commissioned by Festival Napa Valley. The concert was followed by a Patron Dinner at Gargiulo Vineyards, hosted by Jeff and Valerie Gargiulo, who have been among Festival Napa Valley’s supporters from the start. They hosted a dinner at their Oakville estate during the Festival’s inaugural year two decades ago, as well as many memorable celebrations since.”That evening, they once again welcomed guests for an unforgettable evening of food, wine, and music amid the splendor of eastern Oakville’s hallmark hills. Music is central to the ethos of Gargiulo Vineyards. Jeff is a longtime musician and a member of the Silverado Pickups, and his passion is woven throughout the winery, from spontaneous jam sessions to the gallery of vintage and handmade guitars on view in the tasting room. The estate is also one of only a handful of wineries with a permanent concert stage on its grounds. Guests at the evening’s dinner enjoyed a beautifully prepared multi-course menu paired with Gargiulo’s acclaimed wines, an experience designed to showcase the estate’s celebrated Cabernet Sauvignon in all its depth and elegance. 82 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

Renée Fleming performed Voice of Nature

Valerie Boyd Gargiulo and Jeff Gargiulo hosted Patron Dinner at Gargiulo Vineyards

Alex Chases, Maria Manetti Shrem, and Craig Card

Katie and Peter Mondavi

Charles Letourneau, Christina Maxwell, and Rick Walker Farrok Yazdi, Rita Castellucci, Mahvash Yazdi, and Antonio Castellucci

Mauro Aprile and Eva Zanetti, Maryam and Oran Muduroglu

Mona Tavss, Peter Hanelt, Lauren Ackerman, Bill Urbach, and Janet Effland

Sally Yu and Jeff Shen

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Arts For All Gala headliner Wynton Marsalis Septet

Darioush Khaledi, Shari Staglin, Sharpar Khaledi, and Garen Staglin

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Raised Record $6.5 Million FESTIVAL NAPA VALLEY MARKED ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY

with a dazzling milestone: a record‑setting $6.5 million raised at the Arts for All Gala on July 12. Hosted at the stunning Nickel & Nickel estate, the evening unfolded as a celebration of Napa Valley elegance, philanthropy, and world‑class artistry. Philanthropists, vintners, cultural leaders, and artists gathered for a night defined by generosity and shared purpose. The Gala honored two decades of Festival Napa Valley’s evolution from a visionary summer event into one of the nation’s leading nonprofit arts organizations. Guests were treated to an electrifying performance by Wynton Marsalis and the Wynton Marsalis Septet, and a spirited auction led by Lydia Fenet, whose signature charisma energized the room. Chef Dustin Valette and Componere Fine Catering crafted an exquisite dinner paired with standout wines from Nickel & Nickel, Bella Union, and Dolce, creating a culinary experience worthy of the anniversary. 84 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

Bill Urbach, Janet Effland, Beth Nickel, and Erik Nickel A deeply moving moment arrived when Grammy Award– winning violinist Nick Kendall joined the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, under Francisco J. Núñez, for a stirring performance of You Will Be Found. The collaboration captured the Festival’s core mission: elevating young artists and expanding access to the arts. Gala Chair Mary Beth Shimmon reflected on the evening’s impact, noting that the event “hit all the right notes,” blending extraordinary artistry with remarkable generosity. The funds raised will support Festival Napa Valley’s Arts for All initiatives, which provide transformative education programs, scholarships, performances, and Music & Wellness offerings throughout the year. For over twenty years, the Gala has raised more than $40 million, enabling more than 1,000 scholarships, over 2,000 performances and educational programs, and support for 3,500 artists. More than 150,000 children, veterans, and seniors have participated in Arts for All programs across Napa County. The auction delivered its own sense of spectacle. Guests competed for experiences ranging from a private expedition through Egypt’s ancient wonders with archaeologist Kathleen

Patrick Nayrolles, Athena Blackburn, Sophie Nayrolles, and Timothy Blackburn

David and Mary Beth Shimmon co-hosted Arts for All Gala

Rich and Leslie Frank

Elizabeth Segerstrom, Maria Manetti Shrem, and James Milliken

Olivia Decker, Maryam Muduroglu, and Judith Caldwell

Martínez, to an exclusive Paris and Bordeaux journey featuring the world premiere of The Judgment of Paris at the Palace of Versailles. A luxurious Mustique escape at Toucan Hill, a Milan Fashion Week immersion, a Pebble Beach U.S. Open golf experience, and a Palm Springs Film Festival weekend with Pomellato and HALL Wines added to the evening’s allure. A once‑in‑a‑lifetime Judgment of Paris dinner at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, featuring a rare 1973 S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon, underscored the Gala’s commitment to offering experiences found nowhere else. Chef Valette surprised guests with a bespoke Healdsburg culinary experience for six, including a five‑course pairing at his new Valette Wine Lounge, dinner at The Matheson, and a stay at Charlie Palmer’s Appellation hotel. Popular Buy A Spot offerings included an intimate evening with Andrea Bocelli at Carolands, a chic Wine, Women & Music luncheon hosted by Claire Stull, and the Festival’s signature Chairmen’s BBQ at Alpha Omega. The night concluded with a powerful Fund A Need paddle raise generating more than $1 million, including leadership gifts from Maria Manetti Shrem and Mary Beth and David Shimmon. Top bidders will enjoy Tasting History, an intimate dinner hosted by Gordon Getty featuring rare Château d’Yquem vintages spanning more than a century, a finale perfectly suited to the Festival’s landmark year. The 2027 Arts for All Gala returns on Sunday, July 18, 2027. For events and ticket information, visit FestivalNapaValley.org. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 85

Bert and Jane Inch and Pepper and Michael Jackson

Maria Manetti Shrem and Tatiana Copeland

Kristin Sorensen, Danny Tran, Alyona Marinchuk, Craig Hall, Olivia Decker, Kathryn Hall, and Guillaume Cousin

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expression, Claude Debussy’s Préludes transformed the language of the piano. Celebrated pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet brought his lifelong affinity for these works to Copeland’s Olive Hill Estate, guiding listeners on an immersive journey through shimmering impressionistic landscapes and evocative musical poetry. Set among 3,000 Italian olive trees in the rolling hills of Carneros, Olive Hill Estate combines a restored historic residence and a striking barn designed for gathering, all framed by sweeping vineyard views. In this picturesque setting, listeners experienced Debussy’s singular voice at close range, performed by one of its most distinguished interpreters. Donor Exclusive Dinner at Bouchaine Vineyards Gerret and Tatiana Copeland understood what it took to nurture something lasting, whether in the vineyard or in the arts. They shared an appreciation for beauty, a deep commitment to 86 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

philanthropy, and a love of fine wine and exceptional food. While we remember Gerret with gratitude and admiration, we are honored that Tatiana Copeland continues to carry the legacy they built and championed together. Tatiana Copeland welcomed guests to their estate for a multicourse dinner paired with Bouchaine’s elegant Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, wines that reflect the cool-climate character of Carneros. The evening’s special performance featured Wynton Marsalis, one of the most important voices in American music. A nine-time Grammy Award winner and Pulitzer Prize recipient, Marsalis has defined the course of American music as a performer, composer, and longtime artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Guests experienced his artistry up close in great company, enjoying exceptional food and wine, amid the stunning rolling hills of Carneros and a gorgeous olive orchard.

Tatiana Copeland hosted Patron Dinner at Copeland Olive Hill Estate

Mona Tavss and Bill Urbach

Tatiana Copeland with Claire and Steven Stull

Romana Bracco and Timothy Blackburn

Michael Loftis, Oran Muduroglu, Rieko Tsuchica, Maryam Muduroglu, Erik Nickel, and Anthony McGill

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Maria Manetti Shrem, Jean-Charles Boisset, Gina Gallo, Rick Walker, and Tatiana Copeland

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La Dolce Vita Dedicated to Luciano Pavarotti and Italian Lifestyle GUESTS EXPERIENCED THE ENCHANTMENT OF LA DOLCE

Vita at this special evening dedicated to the artistic legacy of Luciano Pavarotti, one of the world’s most celebrated tenors and cultural ambassadors. The evening began at Charles Krug Winery, where the Festival paid tribute to Pavarotti’s extraordinary impact on opera and his lasting influence on generations of singers and audiences. Renowned for the brilliance and power of his voice, as well as his warmth and generosity of spirit, Pavarotti brought opera to vast new audiences throughout his career. He expanded the art form beyond the walls of traditional theaters, reaching millions through televised performances and spectacular open-air concerts in stadiums and arenas worldwide. An advocate for young artists, he was also committed to nurturing the next generation of operatic talent. That evening’s symphonic program highlighted his enduring legacy. Festival alumna Michelle Di Russo, recipient of the 2022 Joel Revzen Conducting Prize, led Festival Orchestra Napa with internationally acclaimed soprano Jeanette Vecchione Donatti, along with winners of the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition, presenting a new generation of artists shaped by the standards he set. Before and after the show, guests enjoyed the Culinary Garden featuring delicious fare from top Napa Valley restaurants and artisanal purveyors, with wine available for purchase from Charles Krug. 88 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

Patron Celebration at Raymond Vineyards The celebration of La Dolce Vita continued at Raymond Vineyards, one of Napa Valley’s most theatrically imaginative estates. Under the passionate stewardship of proprietor JeanCharles Boisset, the winery has been transformed into a world where fine wine, art, and the senses converge in endlessly surprising ways. It was a fitting stage for a Venetian masked ball filled with music, dance, and intrigue, including a special performance by Julia Adam Dance inspired by the elegance and mystery of Venice. Guests enjoyed an interactive, multisensory culinary experience celebrating the rich traditions of Italy, artfully paired with Raymond’s exceptional wines. The evening also included the presentation of the Manetti Shrem Opera Prize, recognizing outstanding emerging operatic talent and celebrating the vibrant future of opera. Notable attendees: Jean-Charles Boisset, Raymond Vineyards Proprietor; Victor Cardamone, Tenor; Michelle Di Russo, Conductor; Jeanette Vecchione Donatti, Soprano; Cumhur Görgün, Bass; Charles Letourneau, Festival Napa Valley, Executive Vice President, Director of Artistic Planning; Paul Pelosi, Businessman; Maria Manetti Shrem, Philanthropist; and Rick Walker, Festival Napa Valley, President/CEO.

Christina Maxwell, Ronny Michael Greenberg, and Gina Gallo

Antonio Alves, Bart Moore, Maria Castellucci Moore, Erik Nickel, Rieko Tsuchica, Anthony McGill, Michelle Di Russo, and Michael Loftis

Jean-Charles Boisset, Judy Chang, and Doug White

Gina Gallo, Paul Pelosi, Maria Manetti Shrem, Benjamin Breyer, and Kristine Breyer

Mauro Aprile Zanetti, Maria Manetti Shrem, and Matthew Shilvock

Director of New Orleans Ballet Oliver Halkowich, Julia Adam, Margaret Karl, Arron Lucich, and Olivia Decker

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Festival Napa Valley for their debut duo recital, uniting two internationally acclaimed virtuosi. Chen, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the finest violinists of his generation,” joined Thibaudet, renowned for his distinctive artistry and wide-ranging repertoire, in an evening celebrating the expressive power and musical dialogue of violin and piano. The evening opened with Ray Chen performing the solemn “Chaconne” from Bach’s D minor Partita for solo violin. Chen commanded the stage and captivated the audience with beautiful sound and masterful bow control, transforming solo violin into magnificent polyphony. The theme from Schindler’s List continued the program. Though written around two hundred and seventy years apart, the two works belonged seamlessly together. Jean-Yves Thibaudet then performed solo works by Brahms and Chopin, before merging into the second part of the program with Ray Chen. The duo introduced a new work by Manu Martin, Lim Cosmic Rhapsody (2025). Originally written for piano, large orchestra, chorus, electronic/ alternative instruments and vocal soloist, transcription for violin and piano was presented. The work is a musical journey into space, but its deeper subject is the future of humanity. Violin Sonata No.3, 90 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

Op.45 by Edvard Grieg concluded the evening with tremendous energy and passionate romantic expression. The duo was on fire and standing ovations were rewarded with not one, but three encores! Olivia’s Decker Power of Music concert was one of the festival’s most unforgettable evenings, a performance that elevated an already extraordinary festival to another level! Patron Dinner by Hestan Vineyards at the Culinary Garden at Copia The evening’s Patron Dinner took place in one of Napa’s most distinctive dining settings, the Culinary Garden at Copia, where beds of seasonal vegetables, herbs, flowers, and perennials stretch across the grounds, framing the entrance with life and color. Fruit, citrus, and olive trees dot the landscape, while a dedicated pollinator garden and greenhouse complete the lush and immersive setting. This remarkable garden provided the backdrop for an extraordinary wine and culinary experience hosted by Helen and Stanley Cheng, proprietors of Hestan Vineyards. Their family of wines showcases estate-grown fruit crafted by renowned Napa Valley winemakers Thomas Rivers Brown and Jeff Gaffner, whose work reflects the Cheng family’s deep commitment to excellence, hospitality, and stewardship of the land.

Jacqueline and Ryan Pio Roda Maria Manetti, Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Janet Effland, Craig Hall, Diana Roque Ellis, and Mona Tavss

Olivia Decker, Ray Chen, and Maria Manetti Shrem

Thao Dodson, Jerome Dodson, Thuy Vu, Russell Martinelli, and Rosalyn Chen

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classic The Wizard of Oz as it returned to the big screen in a spectacular live-to-picture performance with Festival Orchestra Napa, conducted by Ming Luke. They followed Dorothy and her companions on their journey from Kansas to the Emerald City along the Yellow Brick Road, as Herbert Stothart’s iconic score was performed live alongside the film. Featuring Judy Garland’s original studio recordings and treasured songs including “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and “The Merry Old Land of Oz,” the concert thrilled adults and children alike. The evening began with a festive reception in the Patron Lounge, offering patron passholders a chance to mingle before the performance. General Admission ticket holders enjoyed Charles Krug wines available for purchase. During intermission, patrons enjoyed an elegant dining experience in the Patron Lounge and 92 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

General Admission guests explored a variety of options on offer in the Festival’s Culinary Garden. A dessert reception for patrons closed out the night on a sweet note. The performance run time was approximately 2 hours 45 minutes, including a 1-hour intermission. Doors for the evening performance opened at 5:30pm. Before and after the show, guests enjoyed the Culinary Garden featuring delicious fare from top Napa Valley restaurants and artisanal purveyors, with wine available for purchase from Charles Krug. Before and after the performance, families with young children also enjoyed fun, hands-on activities together in the Family Zone. Patron passholders relaxed in the exclusive Patron Lounge. Production Credits: Producer John Goberman; Original orchestrations reconstructed by John Wilson and Andrew Cottee. Symphonic Night at the Movies is a production of PGM Productions, Inc. (New York) and appeared by arrangement with IMG Artists.

Merik Gross, Maria Manetti Shrem, and John Gross

Rick Walker, Leigh Braglia, and Jack Braglia

Stu Sweeney and Christina Maxwell

Diana Roque Ellis, Jerome Dodson, Ana Blackwell, Heide Betz, Robert Beadle, and Thao Dodson

Alyona Marenchuk, Olivia Decker, and Romana Bracco

Betty Yu, Heather Piazza, and Stephanie Block

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Rolling Stones legend Mick Jagger and wife Melanie Hamrick, co-producer of 2026 Dance Gala

Romana Bracco and Barbara Wolfe

Rick Walker and Karen Walker

Steve Fike, Alyona Marenchuk, Kay Fike, Kristin Sorensen, and Danny Tran

JP, Margaret Karl, Olivia Decker, Kathryn Hall, and Craig Hall

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delivered an unforgettable evening of world‑class dance, curated by Joanna DeFelice and Melanie Hamrick, with production by Daron Wehle and lighting and stagecraft shaped by Jana Prager. The program brought together artists from leading ballet companies across the country, creating a rare, intimate showcase of exceptional talent in the heart of Napa Valley. The evening opened with a burst of classical virtuosity in Diana and Acteon, followed by the “Mirror” Pas de Deux from Onegin. A striking shift in tone arrived with the Epilogue Pas de Deux from Alonzo King’s Deep River, accompanied by composer Jason Moran. Balanchine’s exuberant Tarantella ignited the stage with its whirlwind of speed and charm, while Ewig Du, choreographed by Dana Genshaft to music by Gordon Getty, offered a sensual, atmospheric interlude. Classical fireworks returned with Le Corsaire Pas de Deux, followed by a playful jazz‑infused departure in Tatum Boogie, translating Art Tatum’s rhythms into movement with wit and electrifying energy. Dramatic intensity surged with the Spartacus Pas 94 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

de Deux, a work with special meaning for Festival Napa Valley, originally commissioned for its 2012 season. The West Coast premiere of Can’t You Hear Me Knocking, choreographed and performed to the Rolling Stones classic, pushed the evening into bold contemporary territory. The finale, the Don Quixote Act III Pas de Deux, brought the night to a spectacular close with dazzling virtuosity and irresistible charm. Classical masterpieces met contemporary innovation; Romantic drama gave way to jazz; Balanchine and Petipa shared the stage with new voices and unexpected musical landscapes. In Festival Napa Valley’s intimate setting, the evening felt like an insider’s glimpse into the dance world, a celebration of artistry, athleticism, and the expressive power that makes ballet eternally captivating. A Night at the Ballet was made possible through the generous support of Margaret Karl, whose philanthropy brought this exceptional night of dance to Festival Napa Valley.

Stanley and Helen Cheng

Patron Dinner at Castello di Amorosa

Karen Cakebread, Chaning Henry, Suzanne Deal Booth, Ken Savage, and Stephanie Barron

Christopher Carpenter, Tina Carpenter, Theresa Smith, and Gavin Smith Alyona Marenchuk, Rick Walker, Olivia Decker, and Joel Goodrich

Jonathan Zakin, Jan Zakin, Maria Manetti Shrem, Hollie Seeley, and Allison Duignan

Charles Letourneau, Sienna Peck, Joanna DeFelice, Melanie Hamrick, and Live Arts Global dancers

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Premiere of Opera The Judgment of Paris at Charles Krug stage

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The World Premiere of: at Charles Krug COMMISSIONED FOR FESTIVAL NAPA VALLEY’S 20TH

Anniversary Season, The Judgment of Paris is a one-act opera by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, inspired by the legendary 1976 blind tasting that transformed the world of wine. Blending myth with modern history, the opera brings Bacchus and Venus from Olympus to 1970s Paris and Napa Valley, where they encounter the visionary vintners who dared to defy tradition, sparking a cultural turning point that reshaped both wine and art. The production featured an exceptional cast led by soprano Danielle De Niese, baritone Quinn Kelsey, tenor Nicholas Phan, mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh, and soprano Brenda Rae. They were joined by Manetti Shrem Opera Program Fellows and Festival Orchestra Napa under the baton of Kent Nagano, with stage direction by Jean-Romain Vesperini. Guests elevated their Festival experience with The Judgment of Paris Opera Tasting, a celebration of Napa Valley’s legendary wines. They savored a pre-performance glass of Charles Krug with a curated charcuterie box. After the premiere, guests joined a festive reception featuring tastings from Chateau Montelena, Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, Mayacamas, and Clos du Val, triumphant at the 1976 Judgment of Paris, plus special selections from Bouchaine Vineyards. 96 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

The Judgment of Paris opera is underwritten by the Manetti Shrem Opera Program. Festival Orchestra Napa’s appearance is made possible through a generous gift from Tatiana and Gerret Copeland of Bouchaine Vineyards. The Judgment of Paris is also supported in part by the Bacchus Society, a circle of visionary patrons helping to shape the future of American opera. Members of the Bacchus Society play a defining role in bringing this landmark production to life. Patron Dinner at Freemark Abbey Winery — Few wineries are as deeply woven into the fabric of Napa Valley as Freemark Abbey. Founded in the 19th century and shaped by generations of stewardship, the estate has been part of the most defining moments in California wine history, including the most famous of them all. I n 1976, Freemark Abbey was the only California winery invited to pour both a white and a red at the historic Judgment of Paris. Its Chardonnay outscored many of Burgundy’s finest, and the triumph of California wines that day forever transformed the world’s perception of Napa Valley. That achievement was built on a foundation laid decades earlier by Josephine Tychson, the first woman to own and operate a viticultural estate in California. Her vision endures today in Freemark Abbey’s historic stone winery and its award-winning wines. F ollowing the world premiere of The Judgment of Paris, the evening’s Patron Dinner celebrated that legacy in a place uniquely suited to do so.

First row, left to right: David Shimmon Mary Beth Shimmon Maryam Muduroglu, and Oran Muduroglu;Deborah and Kenneth Novack;Rich and Leslie Frank. Second row, left to right: Robin and Michelle Baggett;Gordon P. Getty; Gene Scheer, Jean-Romain Vesperini, Jake Heggie, and Kent Nagano. Third row, left to right: Jeremy Geffen, Romana Bracco, Fred Levin, Barbara Wolfe, Thao Dodson, Jerome Dodson, Carol Murphy, and Karen Kubin;Olivia Decker, Brenda Rae, and Danielle de Niese;Maria Manetti Shrem, Jean-Romain Vesperini, and Sarah Vesperin. Fourth row, left to right: Matthew Spivey, Keith Geeslin, and Priscilla Geeslin;Rick and Karen Walker;Parker Coomans, Kari Lincks Coomans, and Mauro Aprile Zanetti; Darryl & Tracy Curry.

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PNOC researchers and supporters gather for the PNOC Foundation 2025 La Dolce Vita longtable dinner in Sonoma

PNOC FOUNDATION’S BOLD VISION TO ACCELERATE RESEARCH FOR THE DEADLIEST CHILDHOOD CANCERS Harnessing The Power Of Philanthropy IN A CITY KNOWN FOR INNOVATION, PNOC FOUNDATION,

the philanthropic partner of the Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium (PNOC), is helping redefine the pace of scientific discovery—and what is possible for children facing brain cancer, the deadliest childhood cancer. Founded in 2013 by Bay Area parents Bruce and Allyn Campbell following their son’s brain tumor diagnosis, PNOC Foundation has grown into one of the Bay Area’s most consequential engines driving progress and innovation in childhood cancer research. PNOC’s groundbreaking model was sparked in 2012 at UCSF by pediatric neuro-oncology innovators Drs. Sabine Mueller and Michael Prados. With a vision that was bold, innovative, and collaborative, they set out to challenge the status quo and bring hope where there was none. Their ability to bypass bureaucratic hurdles and rapidly translate innovative ideas into actionable, multiinstitutional clinical trials has been nothing short of revolutionary. By leveraging private philanthropy and making collaboration amongst science, industry and patient families a cornerstone of their work, they have achieved unprecedented speed and flexibility in research, proving that the only way forward is together—no single researcher or institution can solve this problem alone. PNOC has not only flourished; it has become a beacon of hope 98 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

and a global leader in the fight against pediatric brain cancer. Starting with just seven collaborating institutions on the West Coast, it now brings together more than 300 pediatric brain tumor specialists across 43 children’s hospitals on six continents. By dismantling traditional barriers between institutions, sharing data, collaborating on discoveries, and accelerating promising therapies into clinical trials, PNOC is producing results. Its innovative research has already contributed to two historic FDA drug approvals—the first two drugs approved for pediatric brain cancer in 50 years. Now, PNOC Foundation is thinking even bigger. Its Lose No Child campaign aims to accelerate the next generation of breakthroughs, ensuring that promising science is not delayed by a lack of funding while children and families wait. That mission comes to life at the PNOC Foundation’s Gratitude Gala, San Francisco’s feel-good event of the year. Returning November 14 to the Julia Morgan Ballroom, the gala brings together philanthropists, families, physicians, and researchers for an unforgettable evening with one shared goal: to accelerate research until we lose no child to brain cancer. As the Lose No Child campaign gathers global momentum, PNOC Foundation stands as a testament to how far an inspired community can move the needle—and how much further it intends to go.

Isabella Strahan accepts the Excellence in Contribution and Commitment award at the 2025 Gratitude Gala

PNOC Foundation Founders Allyn and Bruce Campbell with their son George Campbell and Sofia Koop

Dr. Nalin Gupta, conducts a tour of his operating theatre for PNOC supporters at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital

Singer Christina Maxwell performs at the 2025 Gratitude Gala

PNOC Founder and Project Lead Dr. Sabine Mueller with Josh Allen, Chief Scientific Officer, Oncology, at Jazz Pharmacuticals at the 2025 Gratitude Gala

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Leanne Borghesi performed La Cage Aux Folles

Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation’s “Help Is On The Way” Gala BY OLIVIA DECKER AND DREW ALTIZER PHOTOGRAPHY

ON AUGUST 2, 2026, RICHMOND/ERMET AIDS FOUNDATION

(REAF) hosted its annual gala Help Is on the Way XXXII: Broadway & Beyond, at the Marines’ Memorial Theatre in San Francisco. It was a spectacular evening of entertainment but was also an important fundraiser for two important causes, the programs of Project Open Hand, which provides home-delivered meals and food for homebound seniors and other individuals with severe disabilities and no other reliable sources of healthy food, and REAF’s own Small Emergency Grants Program that provides small grants to people facing short-term crisis situations to help them get past their crisis and on with their lives. The evening, co-chaired by REAF board members Sophie Azouaou and Dr. Greg Hammer, opened with a special welcome by video from Governor Gavin Newsom, followed by remarks from Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, who presented Sophie Azouaou with a commendation on behalf of Governor Newsom in recognition of her years of service to the community. Azouaou also received commendations from San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and California State Treasurer Fiona Ma, followed by the REAF Community Award. The evening continued with a sensational performances by the Broadway touring cast of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Broadway Star David Burnham, Musical Director Michael Orland, SF Jazz Icon Paula West, Cabaret Star Leanne Borghesi, the 15 year-old virtuoso Alliana Liliyang and Comedienne Stephannie 100 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

15 year-old Alliana Lili Yang performed a song from My Fair Lady

The performance of a song from The Disney movie The Little Mermaid

Olivia Decker, Sophie Azouaou and Joel Goodrich

Dr. Oliver Dorigo, Faycal Buadellah, Francis Tsang, Sophie Azouaou, Dr. Greg Hammer, Pernella Sommerville and Eleni Kounalakis Performance of Mamma Mia

Performance of a 9 to 5 Broadway musical

Fergie L. Philippe performed a song from Shrek The Musical

Caleb McArthur and Grace Rusnica performed a song from Frozen

Block. In between performing eight shows a week, the Beauty and the Beast cast members found time to learn songs from other Broadway shows such as 9 to 5, My Fair Lady, Man of La Mancha, Gypsy, Chicago, Wicked, Rag Time, and dances from Mamma Mia, Anything Goes, to create an evening of Broadway love, hope and inspiration. The evening also included a special Fund-a-Need appeal and short live auction to raise additional funds for the cause before resuming a second act of outstanding performances culminating with the entire cast singing REAF’s theme song, Help Is on the Way, composed originally as an AIDS fundraising anthem by composer David Friedman 35 years ago. Following the performance, an elegant VIP Party chaired by Stephanie Block for cast, crew and VIP ticket holders finished off the evening in the Grand Ballroom of the Beacon Grand Hotel Union Square, one block from the theater where guests were treated to cocktails, special appetizers and desserts, and premium wines while mingling with the cast members. It was truly a one-night, one-time evening of remarkable magical entertainment for a good cause. Notable attendees included: Sophie Azouaou-Co-chair and REAF board member. Dr. Oliver Dorigo - Director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at Stanford. Joel Goodrich - Luxury Real Estate Agent. Eleni Koulanakis - Lieutenant Governor of California. Fiona Ma - California State Treasurer. Olivia Decker - Publisher of Haute Living Magazine Northern California and co-owner of Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty. Francis Tsang - Strategic Communications Advisor in External Affairs at SF International Airport. Hilary Newson &Geof Callan and Senator Scott Wiener. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 101

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V Foundation Wine Celebration Gala & Auction raises nearly$7 million

V Foundation for Cancer Research Wine Celebration Raises Millions THE 28TH ANNUAL V FOUNDATION WINE CELEBRATION,

held July 30–August 2 in Napa Valley, raised nearly $7 million to advance lifesaving cancer research. More than 350 guests, partners and philanthropic leaders gathered throughout the weekend. The V Foundation has awarded more than $37 million through 102 grants to researchers and institutions across the San Francisco Bay Area, helping fuel discoveries that extend far beyond the region. In total, V Foundation has eclipsed the $500 million milestone across nearly 1,500 gamechanging cancer research grants.

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• Dinner with the Docs, an intimate, starlit dinner at the Duckhorn Collection at Paraduxx, with featured speakers from the V Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC). 102 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

• Presidents & Vintner Grant Honoree Luncheon at the newly remodeled Robert Mondavi Winery. • Rock the V Party & Concert at The Pavilion at Estate Yountville for an evening celebration featuring 50+ acclaimed Napa Valley wineries and culinary partners, alongside live music by Jazz Mafia and country line dancing with Rachel Richied. • Krzyzewski Family Cancer Research Symposium at The Social at Estate Yountville offered attendees an inside look at the latest breakthroughs in cancer research, with V Foundation-funded grantees sharing how the V Foundation’s support is fueling discoveries. • Gala & Auction, hosted at Nickel & Nickel Winery, featuring a multi-course meal prepared by Chef Josip Martinovic, and a live auction of 25 remarkable lots.

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Guests enjoy Rock the V party at The Estate Yountville

13-year-old cancer thriver Harper Harrell and her mom

Country line dancing with Rachel Richied at The Estate Yountville

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ESPN college basketball analyst and V Foundation board member Jay Bilas hosted the evening, which centered on an emotionally resonant program with remarks from Bilas, V Foundation CEO Brandi Williams Broome, and cancer thriver Harper Harrell, 13, alongside her mother, nonprofit leader Heather Hindin. “Harper is alive because of cancer research. She participated in a clinical trial during her treatment, and the trial was so successful it has now been implemented as front-line treatment for her type of cancer,” said Hindin. The live auction featured extraordinary, once-in-a-lifetime experiences, including a private seven-night escape for up to 14 guests at the historic Aqua et Oleum estate in Spain’s Sierra de Gata wine region (winning bid $280,000); a VIP journey to the 2027 Ryder Cup in Ireland, complemented by exclusive golf and wine experiences with Vineyard 7 & 8 ($200,000); and a Tuscan getaway hosted by Exclusive Resorts, paired with a private Williams Selyem Winery experience ($103,000). The auction concluded with a generous show of giving during the Fund-A-Need paddle raise, bringing the event total to a remarkable $6.87 million. The V Foundation Wine Celebration was presented by John Anthony Vineyards. The next event will be held July 29-31, 2027. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 103

181 FREMONT MAGNIFICIENT HALF-FLOOR PENTHOUSE 68B

Soaring nearly 700 feet above San Francisco, Residence 68B is a remarkable half-floor penthouse that defines elevated city living. Spanning 3,256 square feet, this two-bedroom plus den residence offers a refined sanctuary in the sky, pairing architectural scale with curated design. Floor-to-ceiling glass reveals sweeping 180-degree views across the San Francisco Bay, the iconic Bay Bridge, Treasure Island, and Oracle Park—an ever-changing panorama that evolves with the light from dawn to dusk. Interiors by acclaimed designer Kendall Wilkinson embody a seamless balance of timeless elegance and contemporary sophistication. Custom furnishings, curated artwork, and bespoke finishes are integrated throughout, and the residence is offered fully furnished for an effortless, turnkey experience. A dramatic entry introduces shimmering aqua wall coverings, an aged-bronze console, and antique brass fretwork screens, setting a tone of quiet opulence. The great room serves as the heart of the home, anchored by an Eco fireplace, sculptural furnishings, and commanding San Francisco Bay views. The chef’s kitchen is both refined and discreet, featuring Brazilian Macaubas quartzite countertops, Valcucine glass cabinetry, and a full suite of Miele and Sub-Zero appliances, complemented by dual wine storage and a bar positioned to capture the view. The primary suite is a serene retreat, appointed with handcrafted gold-and-white wall coverings, a Jean-Louis Deniot sleigh bed, and a spa-like bath clad in honed Arabescato Corchia marble, complete with a freestanding soaking tub and dual vanities. A versatile den with custom sliding glass wall and antique brass shelving with a bar serving space functions effortlessly as a private office, media room, or intimate lounge. Residents of 181 Fremont enjoy access to an exceptional collection of amenities, including a wraparound Observation Terrace 470 feet high with 360 degree views of San Francisco’s skyline, a Fireside Gathering Area, the Bay Terrace Lounge and piano bar with breakfast and bar service, a fitness center, a Yoga Studio, 24-hour concierge service, a conference room, a conservatory, a dining room with catering kitchen and direct access to Salesforce Park.

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Soaring half-floor penthouse at 181 Fremont spans 3,256 sq ft with 2 parking. 2 Bedrooms+Den/3rd Bedroom, 2.5 Baths. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame 180-degree bay views including Bay Bridge, Treasure Island, Oracle Park. Fully furnished with Kendall Wilkinson design, custom furnishings, art and finishes are included in the price. Primary suite with wall coverings, Jean-Louis Deniot sleigh bed, spa marble bath with freestanding tub. Access to 470-foot wraparound terrace, piano lounge, fitness center, and 24-hour concierge and valet parking.

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Lydia Graham is a passionate advocate of healthy living. She has launched and positioned health and wellness-related companies, products, technologies, and organizations receiving more than 100 awards nationally and internationally. Her focus in the health sector is specifically on healthy living, aging, and longevity. She is a partner and investor in several nationally recognized brands. Graham envisions the possibility people can enjoy life at 95 as much as at 25 and that the steps we take each day matter on our heallh journey.

Can “Art” Make You Healthier? The benefits of making and engaging with art may surprise you. BY LYDIA GRAHAM

FOR THOSE OF YOU FOLLOWING MY COLUMN THESE PAST FOUR

years, this will be my last article as Healthy Living Ambassador. My mission was that you might integrate some of the information I have conveyed to build and lead a healthier lifestyle. My decision is simply to make room for some other creative endeavors, an irony given the theme of this article. So, let’s jump in. The Bay Area has long been a cultural hub for world-class arts along with attracting its respective creators, affording locals many opportunities for artistic immersion and enjoyment. But besides just sheer pleasure, for those of us on a wellness path, can the arts also improve our well-being? An entire field, neuroaesthetics, devoted to answering that question explores the interaction of the arts and wellness and the “impact of artistic beauty on the human psyche and biological well-being.” Susan Magsamen, founder and executive director of the International Arts+ Mind Lab, an initiative of the Brain Science Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine states in her article “Your Brain on Art: The Case of Neuroaesthetics,” “The field of neuroaesthetics offers research-based evidence that a variety of arts-based approaches may work to improve quality of life, mobility, mental health, speech, memory, pain, learning and more. Such interventions could potentially lower the cost and burden of chronic disease, neurological disorders, and mental health issues for millions of people.” Art is everywhere—if we focus. We just need to make the time. The choices of how we engage with art are endless, spanning from traditional, more passive experiences such as visiting a museum or attending a performance to actively creating art ourselves or dropping into a high-tech art immersion installation. Increasingly, research is showing it really does not matter what kind of art you engage in to improve well-being, although active participation is the best. “Art” in this article refers collectively to a myriad of artistic expressions—music, singing, dance, visual 110 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

arts, writing and poetry, etc. Whether you are an appreciator or a creator, it is all good— within reason, of course (if you are a musician or attend rock concerts, you might want to watch those decibel levels to protect your hearing, for example). And if you choose to actively participate and be a creator or maker, you do not have to be Chopin or Monet. No need for judgement or high achievement to gain benefits. It is the creative act that brings the benefits. Even something as simple as doodling, journaling, or coloring (as a child or an adult) qualifies.

THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF “ART” A Mayo Clinic blog post, “The intersection of art and health: How art can help promote well-being,” cites the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine on how “making or even just seeing art can impact health” in the following ways: • “Increases serotonin levels.” • “Increases blood flow to the part of the brain associated with pleasure.” • “Fosters new ways of thinking.” • “(Helps us) to imagine a more hopeful future.” Art helps us in other ways, too. Artists and appreciators alike talk about “getting into the zone” or a state of “flow” through the creative arts. In this state, our anxiety decreases; we become more focused and present in the moment, and more creative. It is a way to fast-track mindfulness. Through the arts, we can escape the pressures of daily life: work, family pressures, and other toxic influences such as the 24/7 news and social media cycle. Too, art fosters connection to ourselves and to others: both with the artist/creator and with those who love the arts we love thus providing us with community. A study by Finlay, et al. published in Wellbeing, Space, and Society, found living in a community with cultural resources confers a five-year advantage in cognitive age while museums and similar cultural organizations provide the biggest boost to cognitive health. Art connects us to a sense of place (sometimes spanning centuries), to our history as humans, to our humanity and to each other. Art is a communication between the creator and the viewer/ listener that transcends time. The simple act of self-expression can release emotions—heal trauma (with professional support) and improve confidence and self-esteem. Engaging with the arts exposes us to innovative ideas, new learnings, and ways of thinking and doing which, in turn, increase the brain’s neuroplasticity, its ability to form new connections. Artistic endeavors may also help manage chronic pain through a concentrated focus. Jackie Armstrong, Associate Educator, Visitor Research and Experience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shared on their blog, “In living with autoimmune illnesses and chronic pain, art has helped me to be with my symptoms in a different way. The emotional outlet art offers can help dial down the physical sensations, sometimes by simply turning my mind away from them.” No wonder some doctors now prescribe museum visits, art classes and other creative experiences as a complement to other therapies and treatments. Julia Cameron, renowned speaker, and author of many books on creativity including the worldwide

bestseller The Artist’s Way encourages us to take a weekly solo “artist date” which she says is essential to creative awakening. The artist’s date is sheer play and “that makes it much harder to do,” she says. The idea is to leave your daily routine behind and go on an outing that inspires you. It could be a visit to a museum, a bookstore, a special garden or a flower shop, whatever you fancy. It is your date and no one else’s. She says to think of these “dates” as one-half “artist” and one-half “date.”

HIGH-TECH WELLNESS-ART-TAINMENT Living in these times where technology is pervasive, it’s no surprise to find it in the art world, too. We are witnessing “a new era of Wellness-ArtTainment” with “more High-Tech, Multisensory Experiments” popping up particularly in spa and wellness” settings. These new multi-sensory art installations and experiences are becoming more popular across museums, hospitals, hotels, and spas. Global Wellness attributes this emerging trend to the convergence of new technologies in generative AI, projection mapping VR, holograms, LED screens and spatial sound, etc. But the word “experiments” is on point. There is still much neuroscientists don’t understand about the calibration of these multi-sensory immersions and their effect on the brain and body; caution must be exercised. The “Sensory Techtopias” report by creative agency VML notes, “while 64% of people expect virtual experiences to activate all their senses; 54% report finding multisensory experiences overwhelming.” This may be particularly problematic for certain individuals prone to migraines and other conditions. Just watching the video that garnered 70 million views on Tik Tok of QC Terme’s multisensory cinema pool in its Milan Spa seemed overwhelming to me. The world is your oyster. Technology has made it possible to visit museums virtually all over the world without leaving home. This is a terrific opportunity for folks too busy to travel or for older adults who might have mobility issues. Through Google Arts and Culture, you can access more than 1200 international museums and galleries through virtual tours including the Met. Other museums such as the Louvre provide access to virtual tours via their websites. MORE ART IN HEALTHCARE SETTINGS As the benefits of arts in healing are becoming more accepted, the arts are being incorporated into healthcare settings such as hospitals, elder care, drug, and alcohol treatment facilities. Implementation according to Mayo Clinic Press usually falls into one of two general categories:

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• ‘Arts in Health: which can include artists trained to help patients have positive creative experiences in a healthcare setting or art in the physical spaces where care is delivered.’ • “Creative Arts Therapies: which includes a licensed professional engaging a patient in arts to address a specific condition or health goal. Therapy can be delivered through visual art, dance, music, poetry or drama and there are corresponding licenses for each type of art specialization.” These therapies theorize ‘that artistic expression helps people feel better and more motivated to recover while addressing clinical needs such as reducing anxiety and blood pressure.’ Mayo Clinic’s Dolores Jean Lavins Center for Humanities in Medicine manages internal arts programs including: • ‘Arts at the Bedside: artists visit patients and offer opportunities to create art during their hospital stay.’

• ‘Mayo Performances and Events: featuring weekly concerts, lectures, and other art programs for patients, visitors, staff and the community.’ In addition to arts in traditional healthcare settings, there are community arts-based programs that have evolved and are available to address certain health issues such as Dance for Parkinson’s (the Bay Area has five locations). On their website, they cite the following health benefits of dance: “develops strength, fluidity, stamina and balance, improves cognition connecting the mind to the body, offers social connections and a sense of belonging, sparks creativity and develops problem solving skills; can express stories and emotions through our bodies, and how the essence of dance is joy.” We are learning how important movement is for optimal health. Sounds like we should all be dancing, doesn’t it?

YOUTH ENGAGING WITH ART The benefits on youth from exposure to and participation in the arts is widely recognized yet funding on these programs has been cut significantly and widely relies on private philanthropy. The San Francisco Opera Guild has a variety of youth educational and engagement outreach programs. They clearly state the impacts they hope to achieve: “Deepen cultural understanding and empathy Support students in problem solving and critical thinking Embrace comprehension of literary arts Enhance understanding of patterns and systems Encourage practice, goal setting, and self-determination Inspire imagination and innovation Promote greater self-esteem, self-expression, and regulation Unite students in effective collaboration and communication” Another excellent example are the school and community educational programs offered by the Monterey Museum of Art in Monterey, Calif. “Aligned with State and Common Core Standards, MMA’s adaptable K-12 programs are designed to engage students in deep looking, critical thinking, and creative art making. School tours are FREE for all Monterey County schools.”

CONCLUSION In short, carve out time to engage in the “arts” as part of a well-balanced wellness program and indulge your creative spirit! Connect with others who love the art you love. And make it a priority to support your local arts community. May you be creative and be well. Note: Nothing in this article constitutes medical advice. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 111

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Aubrey Brewster, a bon vivant and man-about-town, is a. product of his environment. His affinity for cooking, fashion, and entertaining was inherited from summer vacations shared in Charleston, West Virginia with his Southern belle model-turned-hostess grandmother. It should come as no surprise that Brewster followed in his grandmother’s footsteps, with an inherent talent for hosting legendary parties. He is often listed among San Francisco’s best dressed. Aubrey is a San Francisco native, traveler, and food and lifestyle blogger (aubreyabouttown.com). He resides in San Francisco with his husband, Edward. Aubrey can be found enjoying afternoons lunching with friends at Neiman Marcus and some of San Francisco’s favorite haunts when not hosting or attending events.

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AS SUMMER BEGINS ITS GRACEFUL FAREWELL AND LITTLE ONES

set off in search of their back-to-school finery, the first whisper of crisp autumn air makes its much-anticipated return. Coats are buttoned, rich seasonal hues appear in storefront windows, and Northeasterners everywhere gleefully declare the arrival of “sweata weatha.” Amid the final festivities of late summer, I found myself longing for fall. Its sumptuous colors, freshly invigorating air, and cozy rituals have always held a special place in my heart, stirring cherished memories of the vivid foliage surrounding my grandparents’ home in West Virginia. Naturally, I was delighted when Neiman Marcus San Francisco Vice President and Market Manager Anna Chung and NM’s Brand Experience Manager Alesandra Keys invited me to host its Signature Style Luncheon, an elegant debut of the season’s fall collections – available now. Neiman Marcus presented me with a beautifully considered selection of table elements: a choice of olive-green or blush water goblets, white hemstitched napkins, and white dishware, along with the Signature Style campaign palette of soft blush, ivory, burnt orange, olive green, and chocolate brown. Floral inspiration completed the brief. With these elements as my foundation, I set out to elevate the tablescape with a sense of refined, chic glamour that would mirror the afternoon’s fall fashions. 112 HAUTE LIVING hautelivingSF.com

Clockwise from left, Aubrey Brewster, Mary Beth Shimmon, Alysha Shahrukh, Daru Kawalkowski, Betsy Pottruck, Anna Chung, Barbara Brown, Liz Curtis

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The table was dressed in Italian hemstitched linen tablecloths with coordinating napkins, 24-karat gold-rimmed blush-coral crystal chargers, floral-motif silverware, and olive-green water goblets. Sterling-silver Art Deco candy dishes, filled with Charbonnel et Walker Marc de Champagne chocolate truffles (available at Neiman Marcus’, 5th floor), which was a favorite of her majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, added a decadent finishing touch - and my Southern grandmother Ruth Ann said that a little something sweet on the table promotes sweet talk at the table (who am I to argue?!). At each place setting, guests were greeted by a sage-green crystal apothecary jar filled with foil-wrapped vanilla caramels—a charming favor and a sweet reminder of the afternoon long after the final course had been served Sous Chef Nico has been masterfully overseeing the kitchen at the store’s fashionable fourth-floor dining destination, the iconic Rotunda restaurant. Together with Neiman Marcus’ Brand Experience Manager Alesandra Keys, sous Chef Nickolai “Nico” Craig curated the perfect autumnal menu for guests to savor while enjoying an exclusive presentation of the season’s most covetable pieces. As the afternoon’s VIP guests settled in for lunch, three models circulated through the room wearing twelve marvelous looks from an array of premier and luxury designers including mid-luxury fashions from Alice + Olivia to Vince and high-end couture house looks from Balmain to Valentino, giving a broad section. The presentation highlighted some of fall’s most compelling trends, including timeless trench coats, beautifully

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cinched waists, bohemian-inspired dresses that transition effortlessly from day to evening, and impeccably structured skirt suits. The luncheon began with a late-harvest stone-fruit and tomato salad featuring seasonal fruits, tomatoes, figs, lemon, fresh herbs, pistachios, and Turkish Urfa pepper (adding a rich, dark, and smokey note to the bright fruits). This was followed by seared sea bass accompanied by sautéed seasonal squash, caramelized baby leeks, maitake mushrooms, herbs, saba, and yuzu kosho aïoli. To accent the chic white table elements, each course was elegantly presented by chef Nico atop fine white French Limoges porcelain Bernardaud china (available at Neiman Marcus). I must confess that I am not ordinarily the greatest admirer of fish, but the sea bass was truly divine—and an undeniable favorite among the guests. Bringing the autumnal experience to an exquisite conclusion, the pièce de résistance was a pear gently poached in red wine and warming spices, presented atop a pecan crumble with blood-orange sorbet and crowned with a delicate oat tuile. The afternoon’s illustrious guest list included some of San Francisco’s most glamorous and accomplished women, among them socialites Barbara Brown, Mary Beth Shimmon, and Daru Kawalkowski; Fulcrum Group CEO Liz Curtis; Betsy Pottruck; Alysha Shahrukh; and Neiman Marcus San Francisco Vice President and Market Manager Anna Chung. It was an afternoon of exceptional fashion, gracious company, and beautifully curated details—the perfect prelude to the splendor of fall.

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AUBREY’S PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE A quintessential American autumn classic, this pumpkin cheesecake is simple, elegant, and filled with the comforting flavors of nostalgia. It is the perfect finale for a fall dinner party, Halloween soirée, or Thanksgiving celebration. Best of all, it freezes beautifully—so keep an extra one or two on hand for the next time you are called upon to bring dessert.

CINNAMON-GRAHAM CRUST ~ 16 graham crackers, squares (1 plastic sleeve) ~ 1/3 cup all-purpose flour ~ 1/3 cup butter, melted ~ 2 tbsp granulated sugar ~ 1-1/2 tsp cinnamon

To Prepare Crust 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 2. Melt 1/3 cup butter in the microwave, or over the stove in a small saucepan, set aside. 3. Line the bottom of an 8-inch springform pan with an 8-inch parchment disc. 4. To a large 1-gallon size plastic zipper bag, add: graham crackers, flour, sugar, and cinnamon. Press air from bag, and seal. 5. Lay zipper bag flat, and with a rolling pin, wine bottle, are the back of a skillet, roll across the bag to crush graham crackers to a mealy crumb. Shake bag to combine. 6. Add melted butter and shake and massage bag until the crust mixture resembles wet sand. Check with your fingertips to ensure butter has fully coated the flour & crumb mixture. 7. Evenly disperse crust mixture into the bottom of prepared springform pan. 8. With the bottom of a straight-sided water glass or measuring cup, working from the center-out, gently and eventually press crumbs into the bottom of the pan, working out to the sides, form a 1/2 lip around the circumference to form a short-sided crust up the sides of the pan (about 1/2 an inch). 9. Bake in preheated 350 degrees oven for 12 mins. 10. Transfer pan to a rack, let cool completely. 11. Prepare Pumpkin Cheesecake Filling.

PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE FILLING ~ 16 oz cream cheese (2-8oz packages, room temperature) ~ 15 oz prepared pumpkin, one can ~ 1 cup granulated sugar ~ 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream ~ 2 large eggs ~ 2 tbsp all-purpose flour ~ 2 tbsp corn starch ~ 1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice ~ 1 tsp vanilla extract ~ 1/2 tsp fresh ground nutmeg ~ 1/4 tsp salt VANILLA CHEESECAKE TOPPING ~ 8 oz cream cheese, softened to room temperature. ~ 1/2 cup granulated sugar ~ 1 tbsp heavy whipping cream ~ 1 tsp vanilla bean paste (or vanilla extract) To Prepare Cheesecake Filling 1. Mix ingredients together until smooth, and sugar has completely dissolved. 2. To check if the sugar has dissolved, rub a bit of topping between your fingers to check for grittiness. 3. With an off-set spatula, spread topping evenly over the cheesecake, refrigerate two hours to set.

To Prepare Cheesecake Filling 1. Adjust oven temperature to 325 degrees. 2. In a bowl of a stand mixer or a large bowl with a hand mixer, beat together: softened cream cheese, sugar, heavy cream, and vanilla, being sure to scrape the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula, blend until smooth, and sugar has dissolved. 3. Mix pumpkin, flour, and cornstarch into cream cheese mixture, combine until no streaks of white batter remain. 4. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. 5. Place prepared crust on a baking sheet. 6. Pour cheesecake filling over crust, using an off-set spatula to evenly spread-out filling. 7. Place on your oven’s center rack and bake for 45 minutes or until the edges of the top of the cheesecake begin to puff slightly and the center slightly jiggles (but has not puffed) when gently wiggled. 8. Turn off heat, and open the oven door slightly, using a rolled-up kitchen towel to keep the door open a jar. 9. Allow cheesecake to cool in and along with the oven until room temperature (about 4 hours). 10. Refrigerate cheesecake for at least 4 hours or better, overnight. 11. With an off-set spatula, evenly spread Vanilla Cheesecake Topping over the top of the cheesecake. 12. Refrigerate 2 hours longer. 13. Serves 10. @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVING 115

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philosophy here is not to disrupt the landscape but to amplify it. Through extensive public and private installations, the art will foster a meditative dialogue with Carmel’s natural beauty. It is an immersive experience where art is woven directly into the daily rhythms of life, supported by a museum-grade exhibition program, festivals, and a three-tiered residency program that bridges local talent with the global stage. For the vanguard of buyers, this cultural integration offers a rare, participatory opportunity. The initial release introduces ten exclusive Founders Selection Lots, with expansive parcels starting at $6 million and fully realized “Art Residences” reaching up to $25 million. These founding homeowners will act as an informal board of directors, directly influencing the curation of the community’s public and private arts programming, including the opportunity to commission sculptural installations and signature artwork under Pihakis’s guidance. Beyond the canvas of the landscape, the enclave is anchored by the reimagined September Ranch, a meticulously restored 20-acre equestrian center. Featuring state-of-the-art indoor and outdoor arenas, elite dressage facilities, and over 12 miles of private riding trails, it is a magnificent nod to the region’s storied equestrian heritage. The ranch’s historic red barn has also been beautifully preserved, poised to serve as the cultural heart of the community by hosting exhibitions, performances, and exclusive culinary experiences. Supported by future-ready, sustainable infrastructure, ONE Carmel offers the ultimate luxury: absolute self-sufficiency and secluded tranquility, all located just 75 minutes from Silicon Valley. It is a living, breathing testament to the untamed beauty of the Monterey Peninsula— a masterful convergence of architecture, nature, and community that will stand as a cultural beacon for generations to come. www.onecarmel.com @hautelivingSF HAUTE LIVIßßNG 117

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Charles R. Johnson, Wealth Director, is responsible for developing investment and trust relationships with families and organizations. He works closely with the trust and tax planning group to help clients determine optimal asset allocation and transfer strategies. Before joining Fiduciary Trust, he worked for Rockefeller Capital Management, an independent financial services firm offering global family office, asset management, and strategic advisory services to ultra-high net worth families, institutions, and corporations. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of Southern California. He works closely with the Addiction Education Society nonprofit.

Inheriting wealth: When will inheritance result in income tax? BY CHARLES R. JOHNSON, WEALTH DIRECTOR, FIDUCIARY TRUST INTERNATIONAL, ED MOONEY, DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL PLANNING, FIDUCIARY TRUST INTERNATIONAL, RICHARD PIANOFORTE, HEAD OF THE NEW YORK PERSONAL TAX GROUP

A COMMON QUESTION WHEN RECEIVING AN INHERITANCE

is whether it will result in income tax. An inheritance is generally excluded from federal gross income, although state income tax treatment may vary. Depending on the type of asset received, however, income tax may occur later— when an asset is sold, a retirement account is distributed or income owed to the decedent is paid. Understanding the tax considerations for each asset is key. Most inheritances fall into six general categories: 1. Cash and securities 2. Retirement accounts 3. Real estate 4. Art and collectibles 5. Life insurance and annuities 6. Interests in trust

SECURITIES Inheriting securities does not trigger income tax. The basis is adjusted to the fair market value on the decedent’s date of death (or the applicable alternate valuation date if validly elected by the executor generally six months later). For example, shares originally purchased for $100,000 but worth $1 million at death get a step up in basis to $1 million. An immediate sale triggers no capital gains tax, and further appreciation counts as longterm gains even if sold right away. A step-down in basis can also apply. If the asset declines in value before death, the lower value becomes your basis, and the pre-death decline cannot be claimed as a loss. 2. Retirement accounts Retirement accounts are among the most income-tax-sensitive assets you can inherit. Unlike Roth accounts, which are distributed income tax-free, traditional retirement accounts typically contain untaxed contributions and investment earnings. They do not receive a step-up in basis at death, and distributions are taxed as ordinary income. The rules governing how and when distributions must be taken and taxed depend on your relationship to the original owner, the type of account, and whether the original owner died before or after their Required Beginning Date (RBD)—the date required minimum distributions must begin. Spouse. A surviving spouse may roll the IRA into their own IRA, often providing greater flexibility, or retain it as an inherited IRA. If retained as an inherited IRA, required distributions generally are calculated using the surviving spouse’s life expectancy or, in some cases, the deceased spouse’s remaining life expectancy if longer. The timing of those distributions depends on whether the original owner died before, on or after their required beginning date. Non-spouse. Most non-spouse beneficiaries are subject to a 10-year distribution rule that varies by the owner’s RBD status. • If the IRA owner died on or after their RBD If the IRA owner died on or after their RBD, annual Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) are required during years one through nine, calculated using the longer of either your remaining life expectancy or the original owner’s, as determined under IRS rules. Any remaining balance must be distributed by the end of the 10th year. • If the IRA owner died before their RBD If the IRA owner died before reaching their RBD (applicable to deaths in 2020 or later), then you have until the end of the 10-year term to fully deplete the account. Different rules, including potential “stretch” distribution options, may apply if the original owner died before 2020. • If you inherited a Roth IRA

Here are some potential income tax consequences for each category.

Non-spouse-inherited Roth IRAs must be emptied within 10 years, with no required minimum distributions in the interim. Distributions are taxfree if the original owner held the account for at least five years.

1. Cash and securities

• Exceptions to the 10-year rule for eligible designated beneficiaries

CASH Inherited cash is generally not subject to income tax, with one important exception. If you inherit the right to collect income owed to the decedent that had not yet been taxed, the recipient generally includes that amount in gross income when received.

The 10-year rule doesn’t apply to minor children of the IRA owner, disabled or chronically ill individuals, or beneficiaries not more than 10 years younger than the decedent (and certain qualifying trusts for these beneficiaries). Instead, these beneficiaries take annual RMDs

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based on their own life expectancy, or in some cases, the owner’s. Extra distributions taken in a given year may also be taxable. Minor children take life-expectancy payments until reaching the age of majority, then shift to the 10-year rule. Trusts as beneficiaries. Inheriting a retirement account through a trust adds complexity. If the trust qualifies as a “see-through” trust, individual beneficiary rules apply, as a conduit trust (distributions pass through to the beneficiary) or an accumulation trust (distributions can stay in the trust, offering more control and asset protection, but taxed at compressed trust rates). If the trust doesn’t qualify as see-through, it’s treated as a non-individual beneficiary: subject to the 5-year rule (if the owner died before their RBD) or life-expectancy distributions (if after). Any required distribution the decedent missed in their year of death still must be taken, with the tax liability passing to the successor. 3. Real estate Like securities, inherited property gets a step-up basis to its value at death or an alternate valuation date. Selling triggers capital gains tax on appreciation over your stepped-up basis. If the property becomes your personal residence, you can exclude up to $250,000 ($500,000 for married couples) of gain on the sale from taxes, if you own and use it as your principal residence for two of the five years before selling. Inheriting from a spouse lets you count their residence period toward that requirement. 4. Art and collectibles Inherited artwork and collectibles also get a step-up in basis to fair market value at death or an alternative valuation date. Professional appraisal is important to document these assets’ value. Appraised values matter for tax purposes when donating items to charity (to document deductions) and when dividing items among family members (to ensure fairness and avoid claims of de facto sales). 5. Life insurance and annuities Life insurance proceeds are not counted as taxable income, though interest earned if you take installments instead of a lump sum is taxable. Annuity death benefits are treated differently and generally are not tax-free. For a non-qualified annuity: a lump sum returns your aftertax investment tax-free while earnings are taxed as ordinary income; payments over time split each payment into tax-free and taxable portions using an IRS exclusion ratio. Annuities inside an IRA or other qualified plan are taxed entirely as ordinary income under standard retirement account rules. 6. Interests in trusts You may also become the beneficiary of a trust following a decedent’s death. Trust assets do not receive a step-up in basis if they weren’t included in the decedent’s estate for estate tax purposes, and distributions from a trust may carry taxable income to the beneficiary. The assets and legal requirements of a trust also can vary, so communication with the trustee, or with legal and tax counsel if you are the trustee, is essential. Make the most of what you inherit. Inheritance is generally income tax-free, but tax considerations still matter. Your wealth advisor can help you make the most out of what you inherit.

Charles R. Johnson, Wealth Director, Fiduciary Trust International is responsible for developing investment and trust relationships with families and organizations. He works closely with the Trust and Tax planning group to help clients determine optimal asset allocation and transfer strategies. Ed Mooney, Director of Financial Planning, Fiduciary Trust International, provides goal-based financial strategies for the tax efficient and successful transfer of family wealth, planning for retirement, the sale and succession of business interests and achievement of philanthropic goals. Richard Pianoforte, Head of the New York Personal Tax Group, Fiduciary Trust International, provides tax services to clients with complex financial situations and goals. He is part of a team of experts that offers comprehensive and customized financial planning and solutions for wealth transfer, estate planning, charitable giving, and philanthropy. Important Disclosure This communication is intended solely to provide general information. The information and opinions stated may change without notice. The information and opinions do not represent a complete analysis of every material fact regarding any market, industry, sector or security. Statements of fact have been obtained from sources deemed reliable, but no representation is made as to their completeness or accuracy. The opinions expressed are not intended as individual investment, tax or estate planning advice or as a recommendation of any particular security, strategy or investment product. Please consult your personal advisor to determine whether this information may be appropriate for you. This information is provided solely for insight into our general management philosophy and process. Historical performance does not guarantee future results and results may differ over future time periods. IRS Circular 230 Notice: Pursuant to relevant U.S. Treasury regulations, we inform you that any tax advice contained in this communication is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code or (ii) promoting, marketing or recommending to another party any transaction or matter addressed herein. You should seek advice based on your particular circumstances from your tax advisor. Additional important disclosures: www.fiduciarytrust.com/important-disclosure

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Welcome to 720 Clementina Street, a breathtaking, newly and comprehensively renovated urban masterpiece in the heart of SOMA. Commanding approximately 4,250 square feet of meticulously finished indoor space and approximately 1,720 square feet of outdoor living across three dramatic levels with elevator access throughout, this extraordinary residence is truly one-of-a-kind in San Francisco. The crown jewel of this home is its spectacular museum-quality 7-car garage, a perfect sanctuary for the automotive aficionado and an almost impossible find in San Francisco. Finished with stunning custom Tivoli stonework throughout and paved in cobblestones reminiscent of the streets in Europe, the garage sets the tone for the entire home. Included in the garage in storage for toys, trophies, tools, and treasures. There is an auxiliary sink, car washing station, and stone covered powder room that completes this level. Even though the home is accessed on all levels by a full-size elevator, the primary architectural feature is the breathtaking curved stone staircase that ascends through a soaring, skylit two-story entry, flooding the space with natural light and creating a grand, gallery-like arrival experience unlike anything else in the city. The bedroom level is anchored by a dramatic primary suite featuring an opulent marble bathroom with a fully tiled wet room, steam shower, and a supersized walk-in wardrobe. The primary bedroom is grand in scale and features a terrace and fireplace. Two additional well-appointed bedrooms and a full marble bathroom along with a well apportioned laundry room complete this level, offering flexible living arrangements for a variety of lifestyles. The main living level stuns with an open-concept great room anchored by a showroom-grade chef’s gourmet kitchen. Calacatta Gold countertops, an oversized island with generous seating, a 48-inch SubZero refrigerator, and a six-burner Wolf range with griddle create a culinary environment as beautiful as it is functional, all complemented by custom cabinetry and impeccable finish details. Alongside the kitchen is a full-service bar with refrigerated wine storage Collapsible paneled glass doors dissolve the boundary between indoors and out, opening to a landscaped terrace with a fire pit, custom lighting, and an elegant courtyard-inspired venue space all framed by sweeping San Francisco skyline views. A private rooftop with 360-degree views crowns this remarkable home. Additional highlights include hardwood and stone floors throughout, Nest-controlled hydronic radiant heating throughout, Sonos sound system in all rooms and outdoor spaces, Bloomberg Window aluminum-framed glazing, and structural steel and grade beams ensuring that performance is as durable as it is aesthetic. Grand in scale, meticulous in detail, and impossible to replicate, this is San Francisco living at its absolute finest.

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