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58 PROFILE The female leadership of Allergan explains the empowering shift in aesthetics.

60 ROUTINE MAINTENANCE Moroccanoil co-founder Carmen Tal shares her beauty-sleep secrets.

62 PEOPLE C2 founders Clarissa Shetler and Christine Falsetti go beyond skin-deep with their plant-derived products.

64 TRENDS Mustard yellows, burnt oranges and avocado greens are moving back into homes.

66 HOME Architect William Duff recasts a forever home into a rejuvenating retreat.

70 HOME Interior designer Jay Jeffers transforms a Craftsman-style dwelling to an all-out modernist’s dream.

74 BUZZ A trio of ombre drink tables illuminates a space—together or apart.

TRAVEL & RECREATION103 SPOTLIGHT Live the life of Irish gentility at The K Club, a manor house-turned-five-star hotel in County Kildare.

104 JET SET Enjoy exclusive experiences and active adventures at Baja California’s luxury resorts.

108 GETAWAY Reconnect with nature at the Madeline Hotel & Residences, Auberge Resorts Collection in Telluride, Colo.

110 WEEKENDER Fall brings a harvest of new and newly transformed Wine Country lodgings.

112 RIDES Bentley’s completely redesigned 2019 Continental GT elicits regal glamour.

FOOD & DRINK115 SPOTLIGHT Restaurant entrepreneur Angelo Heropoulos serves up abundant Greek hospitality at Hero Ranch Kitchen.

116 PROFILE With a menu that includes homemade pastas and craft cocktails, Camper is poised to be your new go-to neighborhood spot.

118 PEOPLE An Israeli chef ’s sweet, savory treats bring a taste of home to the Bay Area.

120 GUIDE Your go-to guide for navigating Silicon Valley’s dining scene

LOOK WHO’S TALKING128 Rob Lowe brings his best-selling memoirs to life in San Jose.

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Apart from sport fishing, Los Cabos traditionally stood for sybaritic pleasures: sun, sand, sipping margaritas. Add in a round of golf, a massage or perhaps a sunset cruise with seasonal whale watching, and most would have considered their itinerary fully booked. But in the wake of 2014’s Hurricane Odile, which devastated structures in Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo and the upscale “Corridor” between them, a more experiential and cultural travel ethos has emerged. The now-cresting wave of new lodgings—nearly 4,500 hotel rooms in 2017 and 2018, plus hundreds of condo villas and custom homes—has also created a surge of interest in active and art-driven experiences along Baja California’s southern tip.

In Puerto Los Cabos, an elite enclave east of San Jose del Cabo, a new bike path winds around the spacious marina, where a recent installation of 15 sculptures and 50 signs honors the life and work of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. At the artsy, eco-friendly Hotel El Ganzo (winter rates from $420, elganzo.com), I rode my loaner beach cruiser past Carrington’s artwork to the 12-acre Wirikuta Botanical Cactus Garden, which boasts a million succulents and cacti from around the world, a bougainvillea labyrinth and a palm grove dotted with massive sculptures by some of Mexico’s most renowned living artists. Cyclists can also enjoy a new 2 ½-mile path from San Jose del Cabo’s hotel zone to its recently repaved main plaza,

Exclusive experiences and active adventures redefine Baja California’s luxury resorts.

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From top: The new Montage Los Cabos lies between a swimmable beach and hills with golf courses and hiking and biking trails; the Wirikuta Botanical Cactus Garden, accessible from Puerto Los Cabos’ marina bike path, includes a palm grove with massive sculptures.

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tomatoes under a brilliant blue sky at Los Tamarindos (lostamarindos.mx), an organic farm close to San Jose del Cabo that offers walking tours, cooking classes and a restaurant in its 19th-century stone farmhouse. Dining on grilled vegetables that I’d helped to prepare, along with fresh seafood roasted in a wood-burning oven, was almost as restorative as a sip from the owner’s private-label mezcal. Another night, I let a guest chef do all the work for an art-inspired dinner in gallery owner Patricia Mendoza’s eponymous new venue (artcabo.com/patricia-mendoza) in San Jose del Cabo, following the historic town’s weekly Thursday evening Art Walk. Performing arts patrons will want to schedule a visit around the annual Gala de Danza in March; founded in 2013, the spectacular open-air showcase at Viceroy Los Cabos attracts internationally recognized dancers, musicians and vocalists, including opera star Denyce Graves in 2018. One of Mexico’s indigenous cultures informs the new, bespoke temazcal experiences at the spa of One&Only Palmilla (private sessions from $540, group sessions from $130 per person, oneandonlyresorts.com). I sat in my swimsuit inside the dark, womblike temazcal—a domed adobe sweat lodge in a private courtyard—while shaman Raul Retana applied herbs and water to heated volcanic rocks in between ritual chants. I emerged from the spiritual sauna feeling renewed—and up for more adventures, which developers as well as hoteliers are happy to provide.

Auberge Resorts’ Chileno Bay Resort & Residences (chilenobay.aubergeresorts.com), which opened in 2017 on a virtually private,

swimmable beach on the Corridor, made an easy jumping-off point for me to kayak, snorkel and hike to a secluded cove. This fall marks the debut of its second phase, including 28 new villas (four bedrooms, from $2.7 million) and 12 hotel rooms (from $800). Two swimmable beaches on Santa Maria Bay are the main draw for Montage’s first international resort of Montage Los Cabos, which debuted in May, but miles of hiking and biking trails beckon across the highway, where an 18-hole Fred Couples Signature Golf Course opens this fall. The resort features two- and three-bedroom condo-style Residences (from $2.7 million) as well as 122 stylish hotel rooms and suites (from $725, montagehotels.com). It’s part of the master-planned Twin Dolphin community along with the 260-acre Maravilla Los Cabos resort, where residents of custom homes and villas (from $3 million, maravillaloscabos. com) have access to Montage facilities and a two-story climbing wall, an 18-hole putting course and the 18-hole Twin Dolphin Golf Club, among other perks.

Off-resort attractions are also key to enticing buyers. The private golf club resort Querencia (condos from $1.5 million, custom homes $8 million, qcabo.com), which recently unveiled a new beach and surf club, also added exclusive excursions such as an all-day jeep tour to remote surf breaks. Visiting the East Cape’s fledgling Costa Palmas resort an hour northeast (flats and residences from $2 million, costapalmas.com), I hiked with one of its guides to a waterfall swimming hole in nearby Sierra de la Laguna Biosphere Reserve and swam with sea lions at Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park. Sun, sand and sipping margaritas still entered into the picture, but the new experiences made me even readier to return.

From top: After experiencing One&Only Palmilla’s temazcal, guests may lounge in the spa courtyard; the Gala de Danza at Viceroy Los Cabos features towering visual projections of performers; grilled octopus is on the menu at Los Tamarindos, an organic farm and restaurant with cooking classes.

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