A Three-legged Beauty with Tami Hausman

Dates, almond oil, persimmon, pomegranate... These recipe ingredients that have given Persian women their legendary beauty from the inside out are also the core pillars of hair brand 14th Night, founded by Negar Mohammadi.

Sun-kissed, athletic, and curious, Negar mastered the technical aspects of business as a young professional working for a major consulting firm in Paris--yes, like Emily in Paris but with real work involved. 

Armed with fluency in French and a sense of true luxury, Negar returned to New York and rose up the corporate ladder in the city's competitive fashion industry. Her last corporate post was with VOGUE.

Listen to her story to get all the sensorial details that define Negar's journey in hair beauty and learn how she  bottled them all in a series of divine natural formulas that are good for the hair and, mainly, for the soul.

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It offers unique stories driven by our desire for meaningful objects and brings to life individual accounts of personal luxuries. The guests, accomplished creatives from across ages, cultures, and professions, relate to one object of desire at a time.

You can find more information about the podcast on its website. You can also follow me, your host, Thomaï Serdari for additional content and insights relating to luxury and the creative industries.

If you retain one thing, please remember this: I made this podcast for you and everyone who considers beauty an action word that helps spread kindness. Love, Thomaï

Get ready for a new year filled with exciting conversations and inspiring guests.  Season Four coming soon!

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It offers unique stories driven by our desire for meaningful objects and brings to life individual accounts of personal luxuries. The guests, accomplished creatives from across ages, cultures, and professions, relate to one object of desire at a time.

You can find more information about the podcast on its website. You can also follow me, your host, Thomaï Serdari for additional content and insights relating to luxury and the creative industries.

If you retain one thing, please remember this: I made this podcast for you and everyone who considers beauty an action word that helps spread kindness. Love, Thomaï

A passionate explorer of nature, a committed adventurer, a tech entrepreneur whose mission is to create a sustainable and equitable travel industry for all, Håvard Utheim moves from idea to idea and from start-up to start-up.

He is the type who has vision, sets the mission, and culls the right people to populate the new business. In doing so, he is also working on ensuring that the beneficiaries are many as opposed to the usual select few.

Listen to this episode to find out what his connection to Succession is.

Håvard Utheim is an entrepreneur. He founded several companies, including: The Transparency Company, a database and a practical tool to manage, document and communicate social and environmental responsibility; Travelopment, a company that provides education for those in the travel industry; Re-Treats, a system of mobile high-end hotel rooms built with used materials; and Nanook,  a company that matches travelers with more sustainable travel options.

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Did you enjoy this episode? Consider subscribing to this podcast!

It offers unique stories driven by our desire for meaningful objects and brings to life individual accounts of personal luxuries. The guests, accomplished creatives from across ages, cultures, and professions, relate to one object of desire at a time.

You can find more information about the podcast on its website. You can also follow me, your host, Thomaï Serdari for additional content and insights relating to luxury and the creative industries.

If you retain one thing, please remember this: I made this podcast for you and everyone who considers beauty an action word that helps spread kindness. Love, Thomaï

Her impeccable foresight and vision of market trends, along with her passion for haute couture and luxury leather goods make Diane D’Amato a true force in the luxury market. She is as sharp in business as she is warm and empathetic in her relationships. 

In charge of the luxury accessories categories at Heritage Auctions, Diane brings unique pieces to auction and regularly buys and sells entire collections privately. She is the pulse of the luxury world.  

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It offers unique stories driven by our desire for meaningful objects and brings to life individual accounts of personal luxuries. The guests, accomplished creatives from across ages, cultures, and professions, relate to one object of desire at a time.

You can find more information about the podcast on its website. You can also follow me, your host, Thomaï Serdari for additional content and insights relating to luxury and the creative industries.

If you retain one thing, please remember this: I made this podcast for you and everyone who considers beauty an action word that helps spread kindness. Love, Thomaï

Hats, authentic jewelry from Africa, mainly Senegal and Ghana, as well as tie-dye shirts and other accessories are Fallou's Wadje's street hustle in Harlem. 

Her life's calling is creativity. Her purpose is the creation of objects that give luxury a new definition: 'twixt the physical and the spiritual.  A vessel of energy herself, Fallou the artist finds daily inspiration in Central Park where she observes and absorbs all that nature has to offer. 

Listen to Fallou's radiant voice that resonates with the knowing that creation originates in belief and practice.

Fallou is BaayFall Fashion’s CEO, designer, and stylist. After emigrating to the US from Senegal in 2013, she launched Baayfall Fashion with $192 and a single vendor table, selling customized hats, original screen-printed t-shirts, and one-f-a-kind garments and accessories on 125th street in Harlem.

Baayfall Fashion quickly grew from one table to six, then to a brick-and-mortar storefront. That led to numerous editorial features, and a 2022 presentation at Harlem Fashion Week. Today, Fallou’s Harlem atelier creates custom clothing, screen printing, hand-painted garmets, and unique accessories for celebrities, activists, and everyday people across New York City and around the world.

Baayfall Fashion is fashion that uplifts, reminding those who choose to wear it how powerful they are as human beings. As Fallou herself says: “If you can make the outside look royal, you certainly have it inside you.”

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It offers unique stories driven by our desire for meaningful objects and brings to life individual accounts of personal luxuries. The guests, accomplished creatives from across ages, cultures, and professions, relate to one object of desire at a time.

You can find more information about the podcast on its website. You can also follow me, your host, Thomaï Serdari for additional content and insights relating to luxury and the creative industries.

If you retain one thing, please remember this: I made this podcast for you and everyone who considers beauty an action word that helps spread kindness. Love, Thomaï

A century-old Cape Cod wooden house seems to be the point of departure for interiors architect Robert Finger's journeys into desire. 

At first I thought of it very similar to a juicy and delicious piece of candy that releases a range of magical sensations when you bite into it. But after we spent some time chatting, it became clear that that little house is a marvelous container of unique and intense experiences that have shaped the lives of all those who have spent time in it.

It is the house that allows its tenants to open up, release, and practice their singular sense of desire. One with nature, the house is a launchpad for creativity.

A founding partner of Fogarty Finger, Robert Finger leads firm interior projects. Graduating from Syracuse University, Robert developed a passion for design at the venerable architecture firm, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), where he oversaw several international projects. In 2003, he and fellow SOM collaborator, Chris Fogarty, started architecture and interiors firm, Fogarty Finger. 

Robert brings a unique approach to commercial interiors, a devotion to 20th-century modernism, and a love of historic preservation that emerged from childhood summers on Cape Cod. Through design work, he translates idealism and politics of the modern age into living in contemporary society. He is also passionate about textiles, ranging from historic Persian and Peruvian fabrics to the work of modern designers such as Hella Jongerius. In addition, he takes inspiration from movies and the representation of reality captured in interiors, architecture and landscapes that communicate time, place, and mood.

With a breadth of experience in luxury residential design, Robert’s emphasis on scale and materials brings refinement and detail to commercial projects. Robert has designed award-winning, corporate office interiors in New York and the Northeast for major clients including: BXP, Rockefeller Group, Rudin Management, Tishman Speyer, and Vornado Realty Trust.

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Did you enjoy this episode? Consider subscribing to this podcast!

It offers unique stories driven by our desire for meaningful objects and brings to life individual accounts of personal luxuries. The guests, accomplished creatives from across ages, cultures, and professions, relate to one object of desire at a time.

You can find more information about the podcast on its website. You can also follow me, your host, Thomaï Serdari for additional content and insights relating to luxury and the creative industries.

If you retain one thing, please remember this: I made this podcast for you and everyone who considers beauty an action word that helps spread kindness. Love, Thomaï

There is so much activity underwater. Reefing takes attention, concentration, and a small dose of obsession. The feat is rewarding and illustrates how our climate works and what preserves life in our oceans. Listen to this captivating episode, in which Adam Simon explains the ins and outs of reefing and how to start collecting live coral.

Adam Simon is a Buy Side Analyst currently pursuing his MBA through NYU Stern's Langone Program. During the pandemic, he chose to take up reef aquaculture as a new hobby similar to his past of keeping saltwater fish only tanks. 

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Did you enjoy this episode? Consider subscribing to this podcast!

It offers unique stories driven by our desire for meaningful objects and brings to life individual accounts of personal luxuries. The guests, accomplished creatives from across ages, cultures, and professions, relate to one object of desire at a time.

You can find more information about the podcast on its website. You can also follow me, your host, Thomaï Serdari for additional content and insights relating to luxury and the creative industries.

If you retain one thing, please remember this: I made this podcast for you and everyone who considers beauty an action word that helps spread kindness. Love, Thomaï

Find out why I decided to own a silk scarf by Hermès and why my collection keeps growing.

What moved you to buy one of your prized possessions? Was it its qualities? Its aesthetic merit? Are your purchases based on emotional associations or simply fashion trends and peer pressure?

I invite you to email me at populuxepod@gmail.com and let me know.

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Did you enjoy this episode? Consider subscribing to this podcast!

It offers unique stories driven by our desire for meaningful objects and brings to life individual accounts of personal luxuries. The guests, accomplished creatives from across ages, cultures, and professions, relate to one object of desire at a time.

You can find more information about the podcast on its website. You can also follow me, your host, Thomaï Serdari for additional content and insights relating to luxury and the creative industries.

If you retain one thing, please remember this: I made this podcast for you and everyone who considers beauty an action word that helps spread kindness. Love, Thomaï

Mathias Rosenzweig is one of the most talented creative persons I have met. You have probably read his work through the pages of V Magazine, an authority voice in fashion. Mathias started as a writer covering the music scene for Interview Magazine and quickly rose to an editor's role covering fashion shows all over the world. His portfolio includes directing and hosting the podcast V Wanna Know (backed by V Magazine), in which famous students are connected to world renowned experts to explore the student's topic of interest in depth.

An avid traveler, people observer, and creative soul, Mathias is also producing his own creative writing and working on a special full-length project.

Mathias Rosenzweig is a writer splitting his time between Brooklyn, New York and Lisbon, Portugal. Upon graduating from New York University, he became the Senior Music Editor of BlackBook Magazine, as well as a regular contributor to Paper Magazine, Galore, Noisey, i-D, V Magazine, Malibu Magazine, and Interview Magazine. Today, he is the fashion editor at V Magazine while also exploring other creative projects.

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Did you enjoy this episode? Consider subscribing to this podcast!

It offers unique stories driven by our desire for meaningful objects and brings to life individual accounts of personal luxuries. The guests, accomplished creatives from across ages, cultures, and professions, relate to one object of desire at a time.

You can find more information about the podcast on its website. You can also follow me, your host, Thomaï Serdari for additional content and insights relating to luxury and the creative industries.

If you retain one thing, please remember this: I made this podcast for you and everyone who considers beauty an action word that helps spread kindness. Love, Thomaï

Deeply steeped in design, both by training and in practice, Tami Hausman could write a book about a seemingly humble object: A three-legged wooden chair with a molded seat and curved back of sticks.

This is no ordinary chair. It is the Mira chair designed by American woodworker George Nakashima and has been in Tami’s life since she can remember.

Listen to this episode of Populuxe to explore the connections between the essentialism of modern design, the economy of paired down aesthetics, and the passion for the integrity mid-century modern designers contributed to our culture.

Tami Hausman is a communications strategist, facilitator, and expert advisor who
collaborates with international architects, designers and building industry professionals to amplify their influence. Additionally, she writes articles and books about key trends in architecture and urban planning. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Semiotics-French from Brown University and a Master of Arts and PhD in Art History from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.

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Did you enjoy this episode? Consider subscribing to this podcast!

It offers unique stories driven by our desire for meaningful objects and brings to life individual accounts of personal luxuries. The guests, accomplished creatives from across ages, cultures, and professions, relate to one object of desire at a time.

You can find more information about the podcast on its website. You can also follow me, your host, Thomaï Serdari for additional content and insights relating to luxury and the creative industries.

If you retain one thing, please remember this: I made this podcast for you and everyone who considers beauty an action word that helps spread kindness. Love, Thomaï