Left: Part of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s permanent collection, ALEX KATZ’s Green Cap (1984) depicts a brightly dressed bather poised against a background of aquamarine water, in the artist’s signature style of flat planes of prismatic color. With a lakeside home and studio in Maine, Katz has been painting idyllic beach scenes for almost seven decades, with the motif of the bather appearing frequently across his oeuvre. Right: Models in Max Mara’s spring 2023 runway show, titled “The Blue Horizon,” donned streamlined coats over mod knitwear in a nod to 1920s and ’30s style icons such as art muse Renée Perle and architect Eileen Gray. 

Left: This ring by Beverly Hills jeweler Martin Katz features a bewitching orange and yellow, 3.66-carat, cabochon-cut Mexican fire opal encircled by an astonishing 128 multicolored sapphires, 16 tsavorites, and 110 diamonds, all set in platinum. Right: Known for her fanciful landscapes rendered in intense hues, including Now It’s Heated (2020), Shara Hughes brings imaginary realms to life in her otherworldly paintings.  

Left: Evocative of a ship’s billowing sails, the sculptural shades of Barcelona designer Pepe Llaudet’s table lamp for Roche Bobois swivel around a center bulb, allowing for various configurations that change the intensity and direction of the light. Right: A leading figure of the Impressionist movement, Gustave Caillebotte used bold forms and energetic brushstrokes to capture the gentle sway of boats on the water in Sailboats on the Seine at Argenteuil (1892).

Left: Chanel Watchmaking Creation Studio director Arnaud Chastaingt drew inspiration from the humble pincushion for the atelier’s Mademoiselle Privé Pique-Aiguilles collection. For a pearl-and-diamond-embellished timepiece, the decal lacework of the dial’s yellow-gold and “grand feu” enamel depicts the
maison’s camellia motif. Right: La Reina Isabel de Borbón (circa 1620), an official portrait by an early 17th-century Spanish court painter, shows the French-born queen and wife of Philip IV of Spain in a dress of ornate fabric adorned with gold, pearls, and precious stones.