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ADVENTURES IN BIG SUR
The bewitching and beautiful wilderness between
Carmel and Monterey on California’s HWY 1 became a
mystical destination for outlaw healers, earthy poets,
literary louches & progressive architects in the mid-20th
Century. TREATS! heads to the misty forests of Big Sur
in search of the mysterious pull of the place, both then
and now, that early Spanish explorers named El Pais
Grande Del Sur.
by ROB HILL photographed by TODD HIDO
20 GRUFFUDD, IOAN
Cardiff, Wales, is a long way from the scorching
California desert—but Welshman Ioan Gruffudd fit right
in with his fashionable tough guy swagger. TREATS!
sets up camp in the dusty badlands, Triumph
motorcycle in tow, to show off the latest Varvatos, Dior,
Levi’s, Diesel, All Saints and Prada menswear. “I love
the desert, but I’d never survive a night out there...” the
Cardiff boy charmingly announced at the end of the day.
by ROB HILL photographed by STEVE SHAW
34 AU LAIT
“Upon her silken avalanche of down/Dying she
breathes a long and swooning sigh/And watches the
white visions past her flown.”
photographed by BENEDICT REDGROVE
48 16 PELL STREET
How the other half lives.
photographed by STEPHAN WÜRTH
66 JENNIFER WEST
An artist who slathers her art and film in butter, coffee,
horse manure, mayonnaise and tar—TREATS! drops in
on Jennifer West, a whimsical, sexy and singular artist
whom also likes to scrape, rub and bite her finished
work. by SARAH LEHER-GRAIWER
72 ENYA
Between light & shadows, love & lust, dreams &
fantasies, lies sensual eternity.
photographed by DAVID BELLEMERE
88 HARRI PECCINOTTI
The legendary 76-year-old British-born photographer
and designer has broken all the taboos of photography
in his illustrious career: He incorporated black models
before anyone; his sensual close-ups of body parts,
including female nipples, made people gasp; and
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his edgy art design for NOVA magazine shook up a stale
publishing world. TREATS! meets with the iconic
photographer in his Parisian pied-