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Beaded Necklaces That Go On and On

Left: Sophie Buhai’s 47-inch jade Constellation Necklace. Right: the Levant Shop’s antique tasbih bead necklace, reimagined with diamond bands.Credit…Left: Gillian Garcia. Right: Courtesy of the Levant Shop

By Zoe Ruffner

In the 1920s, as women’s freedoms grew, so did the length of their necklaces, known as sautoirs. Now, a century later, collars and chokers are once again giving way to longer silhouettes. The Levant Shop’s refurbished antique tasbih prayer beads (a handful of which come adorned with coins and tassels dating back to the late Ottoman period) and the Tribeca jeweler Ted Muehling’s one-of-a-kind creations, which are made with semiprecious stones and finished with 18-karat gold toggle clasps, both fall below the décolletage, while Elsa Peretti for Tiffany & Co.’s adjustable jade sphere-strung silk cord — currently on offer alongside the late designer’s reissued bone cuffs and snake lariats — extends even farther, to 40 inches. Necklaces that go to such great lengths are “incredibly chic and not obvious,” says Sophie Buhai, who founded her namesake jewelry line in 2015. Her nearly four-foot-long variegated Constellation Necklace — available in carnelian, jade and onyx — can be draped across the shoulder, wound around the waist or wrist, looped and layered à la Coco Chanel, or positioned in reverse to accentuate an exposed back.


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A Hidden Berlin Wine Bar With Red Walls

Left: the main bar at Pluto in Berlin. Right: an assortment of snacks from the bar menu, including fresh baguette, Mangalitsa ham, a chicory salad with anchovy vinaigrette and a pickled egg.Credit…Robert Rieger

By Gisela Williams

While Pluto, the new wine bar from the Berlin-based restaurateur Sören Zuppke and chef Vadim Otto Ursus, does not require a galactic adventure to get to, it does ask for a bit of effort. The main bar is in the last room of a long, railroad apartment-style space that’s hidden behind a storefront. “We liked that from the outside it’s hard to immediately identify as a bar,” says Zuppke. Inspired by Parisian caves à manger and pintxos bars in San Sebastián, Spain, the duo (who are also behind the casual fine-dining restaurant Otto) wanted to create a place for people to drop by spontaneously. The wine list is a mix of favorite classics (a 2010 blend from the Provençal vintner Domaine de Trévallon, for one) and natural wines from Germany (like a 2022 riesling from Glow Glow in the Nahe region), as well as experimental bottles like a Mythopia Finito orange from 2018. The bar menu includes crostini served with a spread made from local pike perch, and chopped veal liver that comes with rye crackers. Artworks on the walls are from Otto regulars, including photographs by Jonas Lindström and a tiny sculpture of a chess pawn by the Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Gregor Hildebrandt. And in a nod to the dwarf planet that gives the place its name, the walls are painted a deep clay red. pluto-berlin.net.