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Endless Summer • Looking to extend vacation season a bit longer? These exclusive Southern Hemisphere escapes are just gearing up for warm weather.

Secret Gardens

Top Guns • In technical fabrics or sumptuous suede, bomber jackets are a fast track to low-key cool.

Back in Black

Basquiat's Other Expressionism • A new show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts explores the celebrated artist's relationship to-and performance of-music.

FOOD & DRINK Où est le fromage? • Cheese, mustard, foie gras-what will vanish from our tables next?

Musicians' Wines That Really Sing • CELEBRITY BOTTLES are all the rage—and, yes, most are more about the celebrity than the juice within. But while the obvious branding exercises are easy to spot (and easier to ignore), consider the following five from respected musicians and their winemaker partners as true collaborations between artists.

In Time With the Music • Eight trendsetters and the watches they helped make famous.

THE ANSWERS with... Maluma

All Fired Up • Five alfresco fire pits that will turn your outdoor living space into a decadent escape for every season.

Hitting a High Note • In private homes and elegant real-estate developments, finely tuned music rooms are the coziest spots imaginable.

PEAK RETREAT

String Theory • Clapton, Dylan and the rest turn to Fender Custom Shop for guitars with soul and serious sex appeal.

Behold, the Iceman • Danie Ferreira felt burnt out in his CEO job—until he reinvented himself by self-funding polar expeditions. His new photo book documents those incredible adventures.

Lord of the Runabouts

Boating's GOAT

That Midrange Magic • Get these critical frequencies fight and everything else falls into place. Here are the names to know to realistically re-create “the soul of music.”

Mo' Money Mo' problems • An exploding demographic of serious buyer is jostling relationships between brands and longtime col lectors and invite-only releases just add to the strain.

Range Finder

Overdue Props • Long considered utilitarian aircraft, the turboprop is enjoying a luxe transformation.

Sex, Drugs and the Starship

The Truth About the Mille Miglia–a Very Odd Luxury Experience • CARS Beyond the thrill, the danger and the glamour, what you're paying for is exhaustion.

How rappers won over the once-squeamish industry.

ROCK ISLAND • Mick, Elton, Stevie, Paul: Almost every pop act of the '80s recorded on tiny Montserrat in the Caribbean, before twin disasters put an end to the merriment. Now it's ready for a comeback.

Now Hear This! • The ultimate rigs, whatever you're listening to.

The Purist

The Historicist • The Historicist revels in the greatest inventions of audio's past. Vacuum tubes—done right—envelop a listener with sound at once warm and revealing, especially when mated to a speaker designed 65 years ago that refuses to be bettered for transparency, Speed and an uncanny ability to replicate the human voice. Records, played on a turntable and cartridge just as old, deliver “the closest approach to the original sound,” as loudspeaker-maker Quad oft touted. CDs remain a satisfying music source and are conveniently spun.

The Maximalist • Audio's equivalent of a hypercar, the Maximalist's system is accomplished at about the same cost and delivers thrills in kind. But just as...