



(Carter himself spends much of the year at his villa in Provence, France, where he weathered the lockdown with his family last year.) He and coeditor Alessandra Stanley even toyed with the idea of doing away with a physical presence entirely, but the desire for a New York address prevailed. Post-pandemic, the Air Mail office will function mostly as a home base while the already far-flung editorial team disperses further across the globe. “My wife was very glad to see that one go.” The portrait hanging in the library, for instance, was discovered at a market in Connecticut and had been stashed away in the barn of his family’s weekend house since. This accumulation is what many would call a dust collection,” he adds wryly. “I spent way too many years in flea markets in Paris and Brooklyn. Many of the pieces originated from decades of trawling flea markets, a particular passion of Carter’s. Become an AD PRO member and save 20% on the annual offer.
