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Household Objects of the ’90s, Recreated in ClayImageArtist Stephanie Shih conjures a poignant domestic drama by recreating the symbols of temptation, vice, convenience and self-improvement that defined American life in the 1990s.Credit...© Stephanie H. Shih, Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Robert Bredvad

By Sarah Archer

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In “Domestic Bliss,” a tenderly realized portrait of American life in the 1990s at Alexander Berggruen gallery in New York, the artist Stephanie Shih draws us into a fraught family narrative. The ceramic objects on view play various roles in the interior drama: Cigarette butts and a crushed beer can signal temptations acquiesced to; the complete “Buns of Steel” workout series on VHS and Suzanne Somers’s ThighMaster offer proof of an investment in personal improvement. Viagra tablets point to lust, perhaps hope. Frozen dinners — one for each member of the titular “Nuclear Family” — sit atop a white Panasonic microwave oven, suggesting an uneasy coexistence. On an ironing board, an iron keeps company with the paperback bodice-ripper “Prisoner of My Desire.” The book that inspired this body of work? 1998’s “Divorce for Dummies,” which Shih has rendered here as part of a self-help library. The artist builds the pieces by hand, using a fine brush to decorate their surfaces. There are subtle signs that each object is handmade, evoking the crafted pop sensibility of Corita Kent or Liza Lou — a slightly dappled finish here, a hint of hand lettering there. The net result is the uncanny feeling that the whole room has been seen, recorded, lost, then lovingly recreated, each element conjured by a human being with a memory that aches. “Stephanie H. Shih: Domestic Bliss” is on view at Alexander Berggruen, New York,okjl from Jan. 22 through Feb. 26, alexanderberggruen.com.

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A New Madrid Hotel Pays Homage to the City’s Creative HistoryImageLeft: a bedroom at the recently opened Brach Madrid, designed by Philippe Starck. Right: the indoor pool at the hotel’s 4,300 square foot spa, La Capsule. Credit...Guillaume de Laubier

By Gisela Williams

When the French designer Philippe Starck was asked to design the Brach Madrid, a hotel that opened earlier this month in a 1920s building on the Spanish capital’s central Calle Gran Via, he wanted to channel the city’s creative spirit. On the ground floor, the hotel’s cafe features woven-leather ceilings and walls lined with artisanal tiles, along with dozens of paintings by Spanish artists that Starck spent three years searching out. The 57 rooms are decorated with flamenco shawls, vintage black-and-white portraits, leather headboards and tasseled pillows. Each bathroom has an oversized terra cotta-framed mirror and flecked breccia-tiled floors. The Brach restaurant, which serves a Mediterranean-inflected menu with dishes like grilled eggplant with tahini and lamb shoulder with za’atar sauce, is meant to feel like a grand European cafe. Starck put in wood-paneled walls, large tilted mirrors and several portraits of the Spanish poet Gabriel Garcia Lorca, a reference to Madrid’s Surrealist avant-garde era when Lorca, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí would gather at the city’s Café Gijón. From about $500 a night, brachmadrid.com.

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Pineapple Cake, a Taiwanese Staple, Takes New Forms in New York, California and MissouriImageLeft: Té Company’s pineapple linzer cookie with yuzu kosho is finished with lime zest and Maldon salt. Right: Jessica Little Fu’s pineapple bars are filled with pineapple-and-stone-fruit jam, then topped with nectarine and crème fraîche chantilly.Credit...Left: Johnny Fogg. Right: Jessica Fu

By Martha Cheng

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