THE CURATED LIFE
MODERN LUXURY: Guests at the Marbella Club used to revel in splendid isolation: The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 passed them by entirely. Now the hotel offers Wi-Fi in the pool, and everywhere else.
MARBELLA CLUB HOTEL
OURS IS A world that prizes novelty. Something is always the new something else. We want to be early adopters, explorers, pioneers, whether of the latest social media app or smartphone, diet fad or contemporary artist. But there are times when one craves the comfort of familiarity. We need landmarks to guide us through life, otherwise we would find ourselves adrift in a featureless ocean of neologisms, changing course as the siren song of the modern comes first from here and then from there.