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A Minimalist Mountain Cabin in Valais, SwitzerlandImageLeft: one of four wood-lined bedrooms at Cabane Tortin, a new property in Valais, Switzerland. Right: the cabane’s windows reflecting Valais’s evening alpenglow.Credit...Albrecht Voss

By Adam H. Graham

If evil villains skied, this cliffhanging lair in Switzerland’s Canton Valais would top their bucket list. From the outside, the new exclusive-use, three-bedroom property opening Dec. 15 looks more like a gondola station than it does a luxury chalet. The geometric fortress of concrete, galvanized steel, chimneys and solar panels sits solitary on a rocky ridge atop the ancient Tortin Glacier at an elevation of 9,500 feet. Its cantilevered glass windows reflect the surrounding pink alpenglow and bluebird skies that the 4 Vallées Ski area — Switzerland’s largest, including Verbier — is known for. Inside, the mind-clearing Scandinavian minimalism of the Norwegian architect Snorre Stinessen focuses on the elements with a blond wood grain ceiling, sauna and log fireplace. The ski-in, ski-out accessibility is off-piste, ensuring discreet and quick getaways. But fear not: Dog sleds and caterpillar-tracked buggies for those less active can be arranged by the staff, as can wine-pairing meals, massages and an emergency oxygen supply, just in case the plan for world domination fails. From about $68,000 for three nights for six people with full board; when not occupied, a self-catering option is available from about $2,260 per night, cabanetortin.com.

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In Philadelphia, a Museum Show Dedicated to the Japanese Designer Naoto FukasawaImageFrom left: Naoto Fukasawa’s Pao Portable Lamp, Juice Skin and Infobar Apple Watch Case.Credit...From left: courtesy of Design Within Reach; Masayoshi Hichiwa; Satoshi Sunahara 

By Laura van Straaten

Design lovers have long treated global outposts of the Japanese consumer goods company Muji like a mini-museum, if not a general store. Now one of Muji’s longtime designers, Naoto Fukasawa, is the subject of his first major U.S. exhibition, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “Naoto Fukasawa: Things in Themselves” celebrates his work not just for Muji but also for other design brands like Alessi, MillerKnoll, B&B Italia and Issey Miyake, along with tech companies, notably Samsung. Fukasawa-designed fashion accessories, home décor of all kinds, appliances and technology are on view alongside working sketches and models. One of his newest designs is a casing that transforms an Apple watch into a tabletop clock resembling his boxy first-generation mobile phone, also on view, from 2003. In another display, juice boxes conjure not just the colors but also the textures of the fruits inside. And his Pao lamps, created for the Danish housewares company Hay, take their shape and name from the dwellings of nomadic groups in Central Asia (pao is Japanese for “yurt”). Fukasawa, born in 1956, is also the director of Tokyo’s folk craft museum known as the Mingeikan and a co-founder of 21_21 Design Sight, Japan’s first design museum. The curator Colin Fanning has organized the show thematically according to the designer’s guiding principles, which include longevity, accessibility, humility, sustainability, friendliness and subtle humor. Speaking from his studio in Tokyo, Fukasawa highlighted another key attribute: While he’s known as “the detail king,” he says, he aims for his designs to “function without thinking” as if there were “a hidden communication happening.” “Naoto Fukasawa: Things in Themselves” is on view from Dec. 13 through April 20, 2025; philamuseum.org.

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She has often considered moving but then changed her mind once the chaos subsided. “It’s just one week, but it’s a very intense week,” Ms. Flores, 52, said.

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Patrick Quarm’s Colorful, Fragmented Paintings, on View in New YorkImageSome of Patrick Quarm’s paintings, like (from left) “Binding Strands” (2024) and “One Mind, Two Frames” (2024), include what he calls “viewfinders,” smaller canvases that play with visibility.Credit...Courtesy of the artist and Albertz Benda, New York and Los Angeles. Photo: Adam Reich

By Juan A. Ramírez

The artist Patrick Quarm considers himself a social archaeologist. Since moving from Ghana to Texas in 2015 for his master’s degree, he has learned to navigate various cultural spaces, and his eye for fitting into — or sticking out of — his surroundings informs his latest show at the Albertz Benda gallery in New York. The exhibit, titled “Phantoms in Familiar Terrains,” is a collection of mixed-media, highly fragmented portraits. Some, like his “Specimen” works (2024), show their subjects unraveling, threads emerging from painted canvas that’s framed within wooden vitrines. Other pieces obscure aspects of what’s shown: in “Echoes of Then and Now” (2024), the silhouettes of figures are depicted only as colorful gradients, with a few key features, like faces or hands, rendered on smaller canvases jutting out of the main painting. Quarm references his home country through his materials, using African wax fabrics sourced from local Ghanaian markets to dress his characters and placing them in inviting tropical hangouts. The artist splits his time between his hometown, Takoradi, and New Haven, Conn., and draws on the friends and family that he’s photographed between the two countries for his paintings. “I’m constantly looking for individuals living within that cultural third space, or that have a hybrid identity going on within them,” Quarm says. “Phantoms in Familiar Terrains” is on view from Dec. 12 through Feb. 1, albertzbenda.com.

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