SHARE Rande Gerber (L) and George Clooney (R) toast the success of their Casamigos tequila brand which sold to British beverage company Diageo in 2017 for $1 billion. Photo by Denise Truscello/Getty Images for Casamigos
As 2020 comes to a close, no other gift is better equipped to help you forget the year that was than a bottle of distilled agave.
Had this year been like just about any year before it, right about now at least for those of us who live north of the Mason-Dixon line many of us would be looking forward to the holidays ahead and then, shortly thereafter, embarking on a customary mid-winter escape to locations both balmy and tropical. Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, maybe even Brazil would be calling.
December 11, 2020
When French author and journalist Brigitte Benkemoun’s husband lost his old Hermès pocket agenda, and the store indicated it no longer carried address books in that style, he obtained a similar one via eBay.
When it arrived, it still had the previous owner’s address book inside and what an address book. It was filled with the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the major figures of French artistic and intellectual life circa 1950, but without any clear indication of who had originally owned the little volume.
The fascinating story of how Benkemoun was able to identify the owner then use the book’s contents to paint a picture of the owner’s life and times is the subject of “Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, An Address Book, A Life,” which was translated into English earlier this year and recently published by Getty Publications.