Joelle Lifestyle - The World at Home

Every time I stroll around the narrow streets of the Old City I can’t avoid stopping in one of my world’s favorite antique shops. Hamsas , Ambar, semiprecious stones and impressive Judaica blow my mind and wallet simultaneously.

This city’s name is spelled so many different ways-Tzefiya, Safad, Zefat, Sefad. A rather small town located in Northern Israel, 900 meters above sea level in the mountains of the Upper Galilee, it commands magnificent views east to the Golan. If you see any of these on your itinerary, ( for long a well kept secret even to most Israelis) it’s a place you’ll want to visit.

Travel in the Holy Land is an experience you need to take very seriously. There is something fundamental, obligatory, even if you are a pragmatic atheist, to try to look for God. This is the region that for centuries many suspected to be His preferred hang out . Check my own personal pilgrimage!

It all started in New York, when a friend insisted I spent a few days in Israel for Passover with his family.

… As I turn myself around and around I can’t stop relating to these images. They are strange, extremely disturbing yet at the same time they are constantly talking to my deranged soul.

Last Sunday, a very rainy day I went to see Marc Jacobs wear a red-and-black plaid kilt with black combat boots for a discussion with T magazine editor Stefano Tonchi, a part of the TimesTalks series. Though it was the day before the Met ball , Jacobs was confident, relaxed, and tan, as usual. Check the interview!

Because of my profession, the decision to rush to the Delhi Craft Museum on the last day of my stay was made very conscientiously. I knew it was a must but had no idea that place, together with its shops, would turn out to be one of my favorites in the world, due to a great concept of its own.

There is a simple reason the Moghuls, and later the British, lusted after India: Its fabulous wealth and treasures – from emeralds the size of eggs to sumptuously embroidered fabrics. Say goodbye to the tat of the past, swept away by the rising expectations of Delhi’s shopping middle-class, and prepare to be dazzled by the wares of the world’s biggest bazaar and shopping madness!

Indian perfumes or attars, as they are called, have a small but committed clientele. At a marvelous 1868 old-fashioned fragrance shop in Old Delhi, Krishna Mohan Singh describes the centuries-old art of blended scents that goes into their making, and the available varieties.

India is a mosaic of different religions varying from the ancient animistic beliefs of the tribal communities to the rigid orthodoxies of the Hindu caste system. I wandered through different degrees of spiritual energies, absorbing openhearted all that surrounded me with great passion and an observer’s devotion.