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letter editor STEVEN VISNEAU, SISTERBROTHER MGMT. 8 F rom 1946 to 1977, a little American travel mag- azine called Holiday was all the rage — in my mind, it's still one of the smartest publications to have ever graced newsstands. John Steinbeck wrote about Sag Harbor. Truman Capote penned an essay on Brooklyn. Jack Kerouac waxed poetic about Manhattan's beatniks. And Slim Aarons photographed Eleuthra in one issue — and those "glittering socialites" in another. There was something radically indulgent about a magazine so international — connected, current, cool — during a time when the world was decidedly more insulated than ours is today. Its motto? "Holiday is not an organ of the intellectuals. Holiday is a magazine of civilized entertainment. It aims at satisfying and spurring the leisure-time interests of a sizable number of moderately well-heeled Americans. It is wedded to no doctrine except that of making propaganda for the politer pleasures of our time." I like to think this July/August issue is PaperCity's version of that. It's summer, so to occupy idle minds and leisure time, we've indulged in the near and the far, all in our own adven- turous way. We thoroughly explore Mexico, from its cuisine to its architecture, beginning on page 42. Art and creative director Michelle Aviña and photographer Max Burkhalter go for an edgy Juergen Teller-inspired pre-fall fashion project on page 36. We visit the growing art contingent south of Dallas in Corsicana with executive editor visual arts/features Catherine D. Anspon. And in a test of intelligence, managing editor Linden Wilson catches up with the brilliant Linda Abraham-Silver, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science's new CEO, who comes to town from Abu Dhabi. In a more subtle moment of globalism, David Griffin and James Ferrara allow us into their magnificent home, a studied, contemporary take on the great Italian Renaissance-era villas. The couple was inspired to build their home after hosting friends at Villa Saraceno — one of Andrea Palladio's masterpieces in the Veneto. But, golden mean and the glory of Italian style aside, the purpose of the home really came down to one poignant idea. Says Griffin, "In centuries past, things were built to last for all time. I hoped James and I could build a house that wasn't as transient as 21st-century life has become, where everything is designed for obsolescence." To build something that lasts is by far the greatest luxury of all. Also this month, we introduce new senior editor Lisa Collins Shaddock to our Dallas editorial team. A long-ago PaperCity intern, who spent time at Elle magazine in New York, Shaddock will bring her Audrey Hepburn style, innate sense of luxury, and well-traveled eye to these pages and to papercitymag.com. Look for her — and us — out and about on the town come September. Until then, happy summering. Christina Geyer Dallas Editor in Chief christina@papercitymag.com