After nearly 25 years as the city’s premier seafood restaurant, downtown Los Angeles’s famed Water Grill has opened its second location—in view of the Pacific, on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. The 8,700-square-foot space, designed by Jeff and Todd Hatch of Hatch Design Group, has a vintage nautical feel, thanks to exposed brick, reclaimed wood, oversize leather booths, a copper-topped bar, and industrial lighting that recalls a ship’s pulleys. The restaurant offers traditional table seating, a bar serving sign…

The bathroom manufacturer Duravit launched its DuraStyle and Happy D.2 collections this summer in North America, and now the German brand is making a number of whirlpool-bath technologies available for models in both of those lines. The sleek bathtubs can be outfitted with heaters, waterproof speakers, floating remote controls, LED lights in various colors, and massage jets. The company also has added a new tub with a built-in acrylic headrest to its popular Starck 2 collection (the designer Philippe Starck cr…

Timed with the company’s 180th anniversary this year, Jaeger-LeCoultre has unveiled the Jubilee Collection, which celebrates some of its best historic timepieces in striking new variations. Inspired by Jaeger-LeCoultre’s ultrathin pocket watch from about 1907, the new Master Ultra Thin Jubilee ($17,800) debuts as the brand’s thinnest mechanical wristwatch—its movement is just 1.85 millimeters thick, and its case (in extra-white platinum) is 4.05 millimeters. The company will make 880 editions of the watch.
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On October 9, Nobu Matsuhisa will gather 28 of his executive and sushi chefs from Nobu restaurants across the country—including Malibu, Miami, Aspen, and New York—to host an exclusive seven-course omakase menu at Nobu Hotel Caesars Palace Restaurant and Lounge in Las Vegas. Open to 250 guests per seating ($195 per person), the first Nobu United event will kick off with a cocktail party where canapés of salmon and ikura with yuzu-jalapeño miso, fig dumplings with yuzu, and duck breast with Okinawan potato (and …

Just in time to pack up for your fall getaway, there are many new versatile weekender bags in a range of smart shapes, supple leathers, and rich colors. Here are six of our favorite new styles.
Etro’s Bordeaux bag comes in ultrasoft buttery leather with a rope detail ($4,200; www.etro.com).
Tramontano’s oversize doctor bag—which comes in 40-, 50-, and 60-centimeter versions—has stylish bamboo trim ($2,000 to $2,500; www.tramontano.it).
Bottega Veneta’s soft crocodile duffel is the ultimate in understated lu…

The family that owns David Family Wines is not named David. This boutique producer of Pinot Noir based in Santa Rosa, Calif., was founded in 2006 by Michelle Reeves, an entrepreneur from Australia who developed a fascination for wine, particularly Pinot Noir, while living in San Francisco. Enlisting the expertise of master sommelier Emmanuel Kemiji and winemakers Byron Kosuge and Pat Knittel, Reeves traded a career in sports-and-fashion marketing for one in viticulture. Because her maiden name, Turnbull, was a…

On September 9, Barneys New York unveiled its much-anticipated sixth-floor men’s department. The open layout is fitted with modern details, including leather-clad columns and limestone floors; a separate area for made-to-measure suiting; and expansive collections from the best of the best in menswear—Boglioli, Brioni, Isaia, Kiton, Ermengildo Zegna, and Giorgio Armani, to name a few.

The site of a former Vons grocery store is set to become the next luxury-living enclave in California’s Central Coast region. Alma del Pueblo—a three-story residential development in Santa Barbara’s cultural and performing arts district (the 82-year-old Arlington Theatre is next door, and the Granada Theatre and the new Vic Theatre are within walking distance)—will welcome its first residents in December or early 2014. As one of the only large condominium developments in the Spanish Colonial Revival–style town…

The wallpaper company Graham & Brown opened in 1946, on the heels of World War II and during a period of paper shortages. Sixty-seven years later, the still-thriving East Coast manufacturer is teaming up with leading designers around the globe. This year, Graham & Brown joined with the British husband-and-wife design team of Wayne and Geraldine Hemingway to create the new Vintage 2 collection. (The Hemingways also worked on the company’s previous Vintage collection in 2011.) The line’s four retro desi…

The jeweler Paolo Costagli has assembled a mouthwatering collection of unusual, hard-to-find colored gemstones for his new Bespoke series of one-of-a-kind pieces. Extraordinary gem specimens include an intense Windex-blue, cushion-cut 9-carat Paraíba tourmaline in a pavé ring of diamonds and Paraíba tourmalines, and a bright 5.58-carat oval purple-pink sapphire set in a striking ring with diamonds and Paraíba-type tourmalines. Trained as a gemologist, Costagli began his career some 20 years ago working in emer…