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CSCARLETT JOHANSSON

THE SCREEN SIREN ON BIG THINGS TO COME

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MODERN BOHEMIA TAKES REFUGE IN TOPANGA CANYON

HORSE POWER

SOCAL’S EQUESTRIAN CIRCUIT CLOSES THE GENERATION GAP

DESIGN ISSUE

CALIFORNIA STYLE

april 2014

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90 BORN TO RIDE

For a growing number of mothers and daughters, riding has become a shared source of empowerment to overcome any of life’s hurdles. Here, a look inside the ring.

102 A PLACE IN THE SUN

Before she turns 30, Scarlett Johansson has an ambitious to-do list: Release four films, prepare for her directorial debut, organize a wedding oh, and welcome her firstborn.

106 LAYERING EFFECT

Peter Dunham infuses vintage patina with modern appeal in a casually elegant Brentwood home.

112 NATIVE THREADS

A modern look at bohemian silhouettes unearths beaded caftans, tie-dye dresses and colorful, textured separates fit for a weekend retreat.

122 CREATIVE ENERGY

NATIVE THREADS, Chloé jacket, top and pants, and W. Britt cuff, Page 112.

Filled with timeless art and objects, Sausalito enamel artist June Schwarcz’s home is as relevant today as it was 60 years ago.

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22 FOUNDER’S LETTER

A unique point of view.

24 C PEOPLE

Who’s who behind the scenes of C

31 WHAT’S HOT

A look at new and exciting people, places and products around the state: Banks hits Indio’s biggest stage. Street scene: Highland Park. A nail artist in S.F. Plus, Benjamin Trigano’s eclectic family home in Hancock Park.

42 REPORTS FROM THE SOCIAL FRONT

C’s social scribe wraps up the party season.

47 FASHION

Monique Lhuillier’s window displays are but a glimpse into her world of wonder.

Step this way: Christian Louboutin’s favorite S.F. spots. Eye-catching Pop Art prints and spring’s candy-colored gems. A.P.C. and Oak head west.

57 BEAUTY

The Dalai Lama graces SoCal with his affable presence. MAC Cosmetics and Caudalie open their doors. Katherine Schwarzenegger on 20-something girl problems.

HOME

Soledad Alzaga’s worldly aesthetic finds a home in NorCal. Golden State inspired creations from Venice’s Chinese Jesus.

TRAVEL

From seaside restaurants to tony villas, Croatia is the new place to be.

CULTURE

How a tycoon’s far-fetched fantasy became an artistic beacon of California— the Getty Villa after 40 years.

129 SHOPPING GUIDE

130

CALIFORNIA

A closer look at the life and work of the late S.F. artist Ruth Asawa.

ON OUR COVER

SCARLETT JOHANSSON photographed by Craig McDean wearing a Roberto Cavalli corset top and bikini bottoms.

BORN TO RIDE, Page 90.

“I always knew deep down I was a female trapped in a male body. I changed my name to Katie and legally became a female when I was 16. I began my transitioning in high school. It was rough. I was bullied and spat upon. I decided I didn’t want to be treated like a victim or a freak. I began to explain to my classmates what I was doing—why I needed to transform. I was the ﬁrst trans person to graduate from Bixby High School in Tulsa.”

-Katie Hill

KATIE HILL

ARIN ANDREWS

PHOTOS BY BRUCE WEBER

INTERVIEW BY PATRICIA BOSWORTH

ANN DEMEULEMEESTER

CJENNIFER HALE Founder + Editorial Director

LESLEY CAMPOY President + Publisher

JENNY MURRAY Editor

PAUL MEANY

Art Director

KELSEY McKINNON Senior Editor

BRIAN D. LEITCH

Features Director

SAMANTHA TRAINA Fashion Editor

ALISON CLARE STEINGOLD Design + Menu Editor

ELIZABETH KHURI CHANDLER

Arts + Culture Editor

ANN SONG Director of Digital + Integrated Media

ELIZABETH VARNELL Digital Editor

ANNINA MISLIN Associate Fashion Editor

SUE CHRISPELL

Associate Publisher, West

RENEE MARCELLO Associate Publisher, East

CRISTA VAGHI Account Director, California

ALEXANDRA VON BARGEN Account Director, New York

CAMERON HARROS Director, Business Development

TRACY SKYTT Pacific Northwest Director

MARY KENNEDY Account Director, Home + Beauty

ANNE MARIE PROVENZA Account Manager

Masthead

MARGOT FODOR Photo Editor

MOR WEIZMAN

Art Production Assistant

MEGAN MEYER Assistant Editor

JACKIE TREITZ Contributing Designer

CATHERINE ABALOS Sales + Marketing Manager

KRISTA NATALI Administrative Assistant

TROY FELKER Finance Associate

SANDY HUBBARD Information Technology Director

ALLISON OLESKEY Special Projects Director, SHO & Company, Inc.

STYLE EDITOR-AT-LARGE George Kotsiopoulos DESIGN EDITOR-AT-LARGE Andrea Stanford

SAN FRANCISCO EDITOR-AT-LARGE Diane Dorrans Saeks CONTRIBUTING EDITOR-AT-LARGE Kendall Conrad

CIRCULATION CONSULTANTS/CIRCULATION SPECIALISTS, INC. Greg Wolfe, Russell Marth

SPECIAL PROJECTS CONTRIBUTORS Jill Borenstein, Allison Cressey, Jacqueline Dubbins, Stephanie Steinman, Courtney Zupanski

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Christine Lennon, Suzanne Rheinstein, Cameron Silver, Michael S. Smith, Jamie Tisch, Nathan Turner, Mish Tworkowski, Hutton Wilkinson

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Caroline Cagney, Molly Creeden, Cat Doran, Marshall Heyman, Deborah Schoeneman

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS David Cameron, Lisa Eisner, Douglas Friedman, Lisa Romerein, Williams + Hirakawa

INTERNS Fiona Park, Ada Madigan, Chase Wilt, Lindsey Cook, Ellie June, Joelle Grijalva

C PUBLISHING LLC

TEYMOUR BOUTROS-GHALI Chairman

NICHOLAS HALE Vice President + Chief Financial Officer

Beauty by nature

Mila Kunis photographed by Peter Lindbergh

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Apoint of view is important when living a life of style. Whether it’s a sartorial or interiors decision, your choices should be true to your core.

Someone who is living an authentic life is our cover subject: Scarlett Johansson. Famous from practically the beginning of her career, Scarlett has avoided the normal child-actress pitfalls and emerged unscathed. Even with a baby on the way (with her French fiancé, Romain Dauriac), Scarlett continues to choose intriguing roles that keep audiences excited to see what’s next. She seems to craft her career in an interesting and cultivated way, and we are all along for the ride.

In our feature well, we also uncover the close-knit circle of California girls in the world of serious horse jumping. I’m not sure there is a sport more elegant. What makes this story even more special is that these young girls are training and competing with their mothers. Their shared love for the sport is a wonderful way for multiple generations to bond in a positive and focused environment. We present three different families in a beautiful portfolio against the backdrop of Santa Barbara, Palm Desert and Moorpark— picturesque settings for all things equestrian.

Founder’s Letter

Famed interior designer Peter Dunham knows all about creating a perfect milieu. We take you inside a young family’s Brentwood home, which is a mix of comfortable and elegant—a signature of any Dunham design. With all the fashion choices you have this spring, we thought it would be fun to mix it up a bit. White was on all the runways (as expected), but even in spring, dark, rich colors reigned supreme in luxe materials. In Topanga Canyon, we put together the best looks—all surprising but still singular in style.

And at 95 years young, enamel artist June Schwarcz opens her home and studio in Sausalito filled with one-of-a-kind treasures. We should all live as long and as well as June…and with such a specific style that is as true to ourselves. Talk about authenticity!

Jennifer Hale Founder & Editorial Director

WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU Please send letters to edit@magazinec.com.

Gwen McCaw

“Horses make us better people,” explains Gwen McCaw, who both penned and is featured in “Born to Ride” (p.90). “I was so happy to learn that other mothers and daughters get as much out of it as I do.” The longtime equestrian recently served as a member of the Natural Resources Defense Council. C SPOTS • I love a California road trip, from the Oregon coast between the redwoods and the ocean • Napa Valley wine country • Paddleboarding with dolphins

Stephanie Steinman

C People 1

“I loved everything about Croatia...the private coves and beaches along the Adriatic are incredible—every day looked like a postcard,” explains C Social Correspondent Stephanie Steinman, who shared her experience in “Treasure Islands” (p.79). C SPOTS

• Fresh flavors from Pressed Juicery • The Beverly Hills Hotel’s Fountain Coffee Room • Olive & June for chic manicures in an even chicer setting

Heather John Fogarty

“Peter [Dunham] creates these gorgeous spaces that are sophisticated but very much meant to be lived in,” says Heather John Fogarty. The L.A.-based writer tells the story of the Brentwood hideaway Dunham designed in “Layering Effect” (p.106). Her work has been featured in Australian Vogue and Bon Appétit. C SPOTS • Tennis at Meadowood • Hog Island Oyster Co. • The Tower Bar for a stiff drink and a steak

Guy Lowndes

“It’s always nice to have a day in the sun in Topanga,” says Guy Lowndes, the Australian-born, now L.A.-based photographer who captured the bohemian air in “Native Threads” (p.112). Lowndes’ work has been featured in Nylon and Teen Vogue C SPOTS • Joshua Tree • Boomers! A mega mini golf course

• Hiking in Malibu, followed by Old Place in Agoura Hills, is one of my favorite ways to spend a day

Jessica Sample

“I could have just wandered around their place for hours looking at all the amazing photography,” explains Jessica Sample. The Hollywood-based photographer captured the scene at Camilla and Benjamin Trigano’s home in “Collector’s Edition” (p.36). C SPOTS • Forage in Silverlake • Oysters from The Marshall Store • Rincon Beach

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Coral von Zumwalt

“Everything felt exotic to me—the sound of the hooves on the brick barn floor, feeling the earth move as they galloped by, their warm breath on your face,” explains L.A. photographer Coral von Zumwalt, who shot “Born to Ride” (p.90) between Santa Barbara, Palm Desert and Moorpark over the course of three days. C SPOTS • The Belly Up in Solana Beach • Glazed donuts from Randy’s • Mattei’s Tavern

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“My favorite part of working on this piece was simply spending time with June [Schwarcz]. We always chat over tea and ice cream— she usually has at least five different flavors in the house—and no subject is off limits,” says Leslie Williamson of “Creative Energy” (p.122). The S.F.-based photographer also releases Modern Originals: At Home with Midcentury European Designers (“House Quest,” p.66) this month. C SPOTS • Yosemite • Freshfruit and veggie stands • Roadtrips through Big Sur WHO’S

Leslie Williamson

Margot Fodor

“After a decade away in Paris and New York, this issue reminds me of all that I love about California—its natural beauty, creativity and quality of life,” explains C Photo Editor Margot Fodor. The Studio City native recently relocated to Silverlake after working at Vogue in NYC. C SPOTS • The Madonna Inn • Point Dume • In-N-Out

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TAKING ACTION

Our fashion portolio, “Native Threads” (p.112), was shot at the Barbara Bestor-designed home of Mona Moore proprietor Lisa Bush and her husband, Scott Vineberg, in Topanga Canyon. Find photographer Guy Lowndes’ ﬁnal cut at magazinec.com.

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A Closer Look

Benjamin and Camilla Trigano in the hallway of their Hancock Park home (“Collector’s Edition,” p.36), surrounded by vintage yard photos. Through April 26th, Benjamin’s M+B Gallery hosts the ﬁrst solo exhibition in L.A. of Brooklyn-based photographer Hannah Whitaker. mbart.com

The darling of Coachella, a native Angeleno, is ready to make her big debut Stage Presence

She grew up in Tarzana as Jillian Banks but now just goes by Banks. The bold, androgynous moniker is a bewitching contrast to her smoky, feminine vocals—she’s opened for The Weeknd and has spent the past few weeks on a solo tour in England. The self-taught pianist bows at Coachella this month (also look for her first album to drop and performances at The Governors Ball and Bonnaroo), joining fellow Golden State newbies: HAIM, Classixx, The Internet, Capital Cities and Young & Sick. April 11-13 and 18-20; coachella.com; hernameisbanks.com.

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Banks photographed by Doug Inglish at his L.A. home.

HOLLYWOOD

PRECIOUS CARGO

Originally commissioned by a Champagne producer to hold ﬁve bottles, Louis Vuitton’s Noé bucket bag gets a modern twist with sequins and studded leather. 295 N. Rodeo Dr., B.H., 310-859-0457. LEFT The Paramount lot. ABOVE Guy Bourdin’s Charles Jourdan, 1978.

Motion pictures

Hollywood’s Paramount Pictures Studios welcomes 80 art exhibitors from across the globe for the second annual Paris Photo art fair this month. Set against movie soundstages, the program features big-name artists alongside booksellers and exhibitions by emerging galleries— including L.A.’s Ambach & Rice and Night Gallery. Don’t miss a special display of rare photos from the LAPD Photo Archive. April 25-27; parisphoto.com

the NN14 PM in white leather, $5,200.

Becca dress, $1,150.

BEST DRESSED

Splash (Turn)

Stacy Twilley, a Hancock Park-based publishing industry veteran, launches Twilley Atelier with 15 feminine dresses—all made in L.A. using couture techniques. Says Twilley, “I set out to put a West Coast twist on Park Avenue chic.” From $1,050; available at Satine; twilleyatelier.com.

Highland Park

The rolling hillside bungalows dotting the landscape between Downtown L.A. and Pasadena belong to the quiet community of Highland Park. This artist’s colony hearkens back to the spirit of a 1960s Venice, or the Silverlake of the 1970s. Find a spot on York Boulevard and explore the family-owned boutiques, the midcentury treasure troves and the countless neighborhood charms. • Ba Cal-French cuisine from chef James Graham, who previously worked with Anthony Bourdain in New York. 323-739-6243. • Shopclass A vintage furniture outpost from the founder of Mohawk General Store, an interior decorator and a collector. 323-258-2500. • Pop-Hop Books & Print A delightful consignment shop with a well-edited ’zine wall. 323-259-2490. • Matters of Space

A design team displays custom work alongside home accents from other international artisans. 323-743-3267

• Galco’s Make your own or choose from a staggering variety at this 117-year-old soda pop shop. 323-255-7115

• Slow Culture Previously THIS gallery, the art and retail space showcases top local talent. slowculture.com

• Sunbeam Vintage All the Eames, Knoll and Baughman you could ask for. 323-908-9743

SAN FRANCISCO

SHINE ON

Mia Rubie of Sparkle San Francisco left a lucrative career at Levi’s for her craft nearly six months ago. “I just went crazy for nail art,” she recalls. The S.F. native (her father was a ﬁne artist) was spending time after hours painting the digits of friends and family until she realized she had a business on her hands. Tell her about your favorite designer or artist, and she’ll ri on their eyecatching motifs for fabulous results. 3150 18th St., Ste. 221, S.F., 415-684-8802; sparklesanfrancisco.com.

White-gold Bermuda bangle, $5,500.

TREASURE HUNT

Venice-based jewelry designers and friends Brooke Taylor (née Mason) and Jessica Stanley pay homage to their California roots with Mason Stanley, a recently launched beach-ready jewelry line—including surfboard-shaped rings, harpoon-like bangles and the label’s signature Bermuda ring. Available at Roseark; masonstanley.com

HOT TIP

Splash (Bits)

Santa Monica-based author Mona Simpson (My Hollywood, Anywhere But Here) releases Casebook this spring, a novel inspired by Simpson’s conversations with an L.A. private detective and the philosophies of mathematician Ian Stewart. Festooned with cartoon art, the tome stars the curious protagonist Miles, whose probing look into the lives of his parents—eavesdropping, wiretapping and laptop snooping included—hints at the author’s own elusive family history (she didn’t meet her biological brother, Steve Jobs, until her mid-twenties).

Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95.

OUI, S’ÎL VOUS PLAÎT Inside Diptyque’s ﬁrst L.A. salon, ’50s Regency-style furnishings and gemstone-engraved shelving showcase the perfumer’s new L’Art du Soin facial skincare products (think rose-infused water and almond cleansing balm) as well as classic votives. 202 N. Larchmont Blvd., L.A., 323-962-3622.

Infused Facial Water, $55. The Larchmont boutique.

WATER PROOF

Transform your selfie into a work of fine art with Waterlogue—an app that turns photos into colorful watercolors, no cleanup required. The new technology (available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch) adjusts photos— measuring, drawing, color coding and painting. Users can customize by filter, size, brightness and trim. waterlogueapp.com

VENICE

Mia Rubie’s sea kelpinspired look for Sephora.

Collector’s edition

An L.A. gallerist curates his family home in Hancock Park with eclectic sophistication

Splash (Bits)

BY KELSEY McKINNON PHOTOGRAPHED BY JESSICA SAMPLE

“ I think there must have been 130 people here,” says Camilla Trigano of the dinner party following the opening of Alex Prager’s sold-out exhibition at her husband Benjamin’s gallery, M+B, this past January. It was a rowdy scene as artists and actors mingled shoulder to shoulder over aged Champagne and homemade kitcheree. The 3,200-square-foot Hancock Park duplex and its tenants are well equipped for such occasions—as a young girl, Camilla spent many years at her family’s winery near Bergerac, and her mother, who attended Le Cordon Bleu, taught her how to cook for large parties. Benjamin grew up in Paris and New York (his family started the Club Med empire) and is the cofounder of the hotel concept Mama Shelter.

The couple met at Paris’ Moulin Rouge, got married on a boat on the Seine and had Chloe and Adrian before moving to the States. Benjamin had worked in advertising in NYC after graduating from Clark University and realized the opportunities here; L.A. seemed like a great place to raise children. Their friend, designer Philippe Starck (who has designed all the Mama Shelter properties in Europe), built them a “surf shack” in Mar Vista; Benjamin set to work opening the gallery, recruiting photographers and surveying the West Coast arts scene. Camilla, meanwhile, accepted a position at Taschen’s Hollywood headquarters and is now the director of marketing at Environment Furniture.

“I never thought we would live in an apartment again,” says Camilla— the family moved to the 1920s building five years ago after outgrowing the beach cottage. Not only did the space have the energy and character they desired; the swaths of white walls sold Benjamin instantly—a blank >>

Chloe, 13, Benjamin, Camilla and Adrian Trigano, 11. Painting by Eddie Martinez; fencing masks and boat from flea markets. BELOW Trigano represents L.A. photographer Alex Prager, whose work hangs in the living room.

Photos in the breakfast room by Nan Goldin, Hunter S. Thompson, Bruce Davidson and Joseph Szabo.

<< canvas, if you will. “I think the children have counted 400 pieces hanging up,” says Camilla. It’s a mixed bag: In the living room, a Richard Avedon faces fencing masks and a brass ship sourced at ﬂea markets; an Alex Prager hangs beside a Slavs and Tatars tapestry. In the hallway, stacked panoramic shots are met with Martin Schoeller’s portrait of the artist formerly known as Prince in the children’s room. “For me, it’s like Christmas every Sunday,” says Benjamin, who faithfully scours the Pasadena City College, Rose Bowl, Long Beach and Santa Monica airport markets with Chloe and Adrian.

Splash (Spotlight)

He is completely at ease, whether at a private vernissage or a parking lot ﬁ lling up his roller cart; a curious self-thinker, he’s excited by each new discovery. “Real collectors collect everything they’re passionate about,” Benjamin says. Look around, and his interests abound: Hundreds of record albums and books are neatly piled on the ﬂoor, Cire Trudon candles and ashtrays are scattered about, and in the garage, there are new and vintage cars, trucks and motorbikes.

“Benjamin has an incredible eye,” says Camilla, which he is also bringing to the ﬁ rst L.A. Mama Shelter property, slated to open at the end of the summer. The 70-room boutique hotel at the corner of Wilcox and Selma, which Benjamin likens to an “urban kibbutz,” will boast a casual, family-style restaurant by French chef Alain Senderens, a rooftop lounge and “the best desserts in the city.” He’s also launching Wax Poster, a high-end startup, with a $49 reproduction of Ai Weiwei naked in Tiananmen Square.

And while it has operated exclusively as a photo gallery since 2008, M+B is also evolving. This month, the gallery splits into M+B Art, which will include paintings and drawings, and M+B Photo. The moniker speaks to Benjamin’s general attitude about life: “I didn’t want to put my name on the gallery, so it stands for ‘Me and Benjamin.’ It’s a more collective feeling—that’s my goal.” •

ABOVE Ashtrays collected from ﬂea markets.

LEFT In the children’s room, a Martin Schoeller photograph.

CLOCKWISE In the living room, a Richard Avedon photograph and a pair of Sam Falls works; a Dan Shaw-Town piece hangs above the ﬁreplace. An Andrew Bush-commissioned series of the family and friends. The dining room features a Maison Jansen table, Warren Platner stools and a Marc Newsom chair. From left, paintings by Davide Balula (2), Donald Baechler, Walead Beshty and Jonathan Meese.

She’s recently landed gigs with I-D, Purple Magazine and Nylon, but Frenchborn, L.A.-based model of the moment Alex Noiret works just as hard offcamera. STYLE Simple, elegant. I like Céline, Chloé, Dries Van Noten and Stella McCartney. PROJECTS Models Unite, an organization I created to provide support, nutrition advice and activities for models on the West Coast. I am also in the process of publishing a book, Selfie PHOTOGRAPHERS Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Mert & Marcus and Tim Walker. HANGOUTS Hiking, art museums, home with my cats, Karl and Gwen, creating art with my friends and spending time with my boyfriend. MODELS Dovima, Veruschka, Peggy Moffitt, Laetitia Casta and Guinevere Van Seenus. MY CALIFORNIA It’s a warm haven, flourishing with opportunity. If you have a vision, a passion and determination to become a certain person or make your dream come to life, this is the place to be. All are welcome.

Dolce

EDITED BY KENDALL

19 ✹ MODEL ✹ PASADENA

& Gabbana dress, $2,195. FASHION EDITOR: ANNINA MISLIN

CONRAD

PHOTOGRAPHED BY DAVID CAMERON

reports from the SOCIAL FRONT

Sizing up California’s glamorous scene one bash at a time

Edited by Phoebe Doheney

SALVATORE FERRAGAMO

Salvatore Ferragamo’s new San Francisco boutique served as the backdrop for the Italian fashion house’s 100th anniversary. Guests including Vanessa Getty, Kathryn Lasater and Tatum Getty—dressed in pieces from its Fall 2013 ready-to-wear collection—gathered to commemorate the centennial with music by DJ Mathieu Schreyer.

BARNEYS

NEW YORK

BULGARI

Italian jewelry label Bulgari celebrated decades of red carpet glamour at an exclusive pre-Oscar celebration at West Hollywood’s Soho House. Celebrity guests including Kate Hudson and Emmy Rossum joined host Naomi Watts to kick o awards week by toasting the iconic Bulgari-clad stars of Oscars past.

designer Irene Neuwirth celebrated the launch of her new Cali-inspired scent for Barneys New York with fashionable friends including Kendall Conrad and Jessica de Ruiter at a private residence in Venice.

Reports

ART LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY

The ﬁfth installment of Art Los Angeles Contemporary drew a crowd of aﬁcionados, designers and artists who gathered for the fair’s opening reception, private parties—including an exclusive viewing at Moby’s L.A. home—and main exhibition, which featured more than 70 galleries from across the globe, including L.A.’s ACME and M+B.

Jewelry

Todd and Katie Traina

Radha Mitchell

Diana Nathanson, Ross Cassidy

Sam and Erin Falls

Max Chow

Jerry and Linda Bruckheimer

Robert Russell and Lisa Edelstein, Heather Cassils, Simon Haas

Vanessa Getty Alexis and Trevor Traina

Jessica Jo e

Jessica de Ruiter, Kendall Conrad

Shiva Rose, Irene Neuwirth

Busy Philipps, Constance Zimmer, Cobie Smulders

Connie Nielsen

Olga Dzilikhova

Moby

Orlando Bloom

Dianna Agron

Camilla Belle

Naomi Watts

Olivia Munn

reports from theSOCIAL FRONT

BABY2BABY

Baby2Baby honored an expectant Drew Barrymore at its second annual gala event at the Book Bindery in Culver City. Chic moms including Jessica Alba and Nicole Richie dined on small bites by Animal restaurant’s Vinny Dotolo and Jon Shook.

VAN CLEEF & ARPELS

Van Cleef & Arpels celebrated the redesign of its South Coast Plaza boutique with an array of celebrity guests including Kate Bosworth—draped in an exquisite diamond set— who delighted in the newly polished interiors before enjoying a live performance by sopranist Danielle de Niese at a post-party dinner.

Reports

Jamie-Lynn

S.F. BALLET

VELVET

Velvet by Graham & Spencer celebrated its spring collaboration with supermodelturned-designer Lily Aldridge at the line’s Brentwood boutique. Guests got a sneak peek at pieces from the newest collection, while Aldridge donned the neon Beki dress of her own design.

Bay Area socialites came out in droves for the San Francisco Ballet’s Opening Night Gala, which celebrated the 81-year-old institution’s upcoming season with a premiere show at the War Memorial Opera House, featuring principal dancers Maria Kochetkova and Yuan Yuan Tan. An after party at City Hall followed.

Deepa Pakianathan Carolyn Chang

Colin B. Bailey, Dede Wilsey

Alex Chases, Denise Hale

Yurie Pascarella

Erin Glenn

Komal Shah

Charlotte Shultz

Caroline Byron

Nicole Richie

Rosie HuntingtonWhiteley

Jessica Alba

Kelly Sawyer Patricof, Norah Weinstein

Kate Bosworth

Drew Barrymore

Alain Bernard, Lisalla Montenegro

Chanel Iman

Tori Praver

Lily Aldridge, Hilary Walsh

Sigler, Perrey Reeves

Inside the fantastical world of Monique Lhuillier’s head-turning window displays

“The store lives and breathes subtle glamour and ethereal beauty—for me it is all about the details, how everything plays together to create the fairy

Front of the House

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tale.”—Monique Lhuillier

MAKE IT PURSE-ONAL

Put your stamp on Longchamp Cuir handbag—to celebrate 20 years of the signature style, SoCal shoppers can monogram and customize the leather tote in a range of colors (indigo, lemon and vermilion). South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, 714-436-1963

If the shoe ts

After seven years in Florence designing leather bags for labels including Ferragamo and Fendi, Carrie Forbes returned to Newport Beach to relaunch her eponymous brand with a collection of woven-ra a sandals and slip-ons handcrafted in Morocco. The shoes feature a special weave that is indigenous to the region (she now travels to the country bimonthly to experiment with new designs). Forbes says, “The artisans there allow me to go that extra step.” No pun intended. carrieforbesinc.com

Tais top, $32, Cleo bottoms, $21, and Remy rash guard, $70.

<< Umbrellas suspended amid raindrops, dangling emerald crystals and curtains, and even ﬂocks of golden origami birds... every ﬁve to six weeks, the storefront at fashion designer Monique Lhuillier’s boutique on Melrose Place takes on a fresh fantasy with interchanging displays inspired by what’s inside. “The concept always starts with the dresses,” she explains. The latest show of cascading cherry blossoms parallels the rosy colors and textures seen in Lhuillier’s spring collection and pays homage to a beloved cherry tree planted outside her home in Los Angeles. “I take an element from the design and expand on it.” The displays— Lhuillier and her team have created approximately 250 different themes since the store’s opening in 2008 —bring an otherworldly quality to the shopping experience. “My store is an opportunity to share my world, my vision, with my customer.” 8485 Melrose Pl., L.A., 323-655-1088.

Fashion (Turn) Coast to coast

DIVE IN L.A.-based loungewear label Xírena is making a splash this spring with the launch of XWIM, a line of striped and color-blocked swim separates and rash guards inspired by designer Dierdre Roffoni’s travels in Formentera, Spain. scoopnyc.com

New York’s contemporary label Oak—which was recently acquired by L.A.-based American Apparel— heads west this spring to open two outposts for its urban tees, tunic dresses and leather shorts. 908 S. Broadway; 7228 Beverly Blvd.; oaknyc.com

A look from Oak’s Spring 2014 collection. BELOW Exterior of N.Y.C.’s Oak.

LOS ANGELES

The lavish Holiday 2013 window. RIGHT Monique Lhuillier. August 2013’s origami display.

Woven-ra a Suite ﬂat in blue, $295.

’s Le Pliage

NEWPORT BEACH

A personalized Le Pliage Cuir handbag, $695.

À L.A. Mode

French-based label A.P.C. picks up shop on Croft Avenue and moves to an expanded new home on Melrose Place. Modular display cases house casual knits and tees, along with seasonal offerings. Keep an eye out for the label’s upcoming Downtown L.A. address.

CROWN JEWELS

Jewelry designers and sisters Phoebe and Annette Stephens of Anndra Neen present a handcrafted collection of clutches, rings, cu s and necklaces made exclusively for the Beverly Hills Hotel this spring. Inspired by the pink palace’s architect Elmer Grey and Old Hollywood screen sirens, the line is accented with the property’s iconic palm fronds and jewelry sparkling with muted purple gemstones. 9641 Sunset Blvd., B.H., 310-276-2251; anndraneen.com.

IN FULL BLOOM

This spring, Chanel launches Camélia Galbé, a new ﬁne jewelry collection that puts a daring twist on the Coco Chanel-inspired Jardin de Camélias with black-onyx and white-agate blooms accented with brilliant-cut diamonds. 400 N. Rodeo Dr., B.H., 310-278-5500

TALK OF THE BAY

Fashion (Bits)

Peter Lippmann’s still life. Christian Louboutin black satin and lace Pigalace pumps, $795.

Sovereign shoemaker Christian Louboutin is stepping out this spring with a lineup of sexy laser-cut pumps and candy-colored bags, along with a new boutique in San Francisco. He has also teamed up with photographer Peter Lippmann, who cleverly captured the spring line in a French Impressionist style. “I’ve always had a fascination with San Francisco’s landscape, the architecture, the bridge, the trees, and that you can see the ocean from various points in the city,” Louboutin explains. The new interiors celebrate the artistic aura of the city—with white leather and tin wall paneling and steel displays that create a gallery-like feel—along with Louboutin’s signature red carpets. His Bay Area haunts: • de Young Fine Arts Museums • The Slanted Door • Britex Fabrics. 29 Maiden Ln., S.F.; christianlouboutin.com.

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Melrose Pl., L.A.; apc.fr.

On the heels of opening its debut S.F. shop, West Hollywood-based Oliver Peoples launches OP West this spring, a line of beach-ready sunglasses inspired by the California coast. Each pair is named after elements found in the Golden State—such as the Manzanita and Piedra frames—and features optional “Maliblu” indigo-colored lenses. 8642 W. Sunset Blvd., WeHo, 310-657-2553; 140 Grant Ave., S.F., 415-326-3222.

Oliver Peoples West, Hobson in Maliblu lens, $280.

FROM LEFT Christian Louboutin.

WEST HOLLYWOOD

Black and white ceramic rings, from $4,550.

The Hills clutch in rose quartz, brass and alpacca, $745.

SAN FRANCISCO

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Fashion (Bits)

Culture club

With punches of primary colors and plenty of fashion optimism, spring’s museum-worthy prints hit the streets

Jil Sander

Fendi bag, $1,950.

Céline Prada

Pierre Hardy booties, $975.

FROM LEFT Burberry clutch, $995. Hermès bracelet, $375

Chanel bag, $2,400.

Harry Bertoia for Knoll chair, $1,132.

by Klaus Honnef, $10, Taschen.

Pop Art

Céline cu , $820.

Vhernier ring, $3,350.

Dior pumps, price upon request.

Fendi sandals, $995.

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Flying colors

Mix, don’t match, stunning purple amethyst earrings, vibrant ruby charms and cool aquamarine cocktail rings

Van Cleef & Arpels ring.

Marco Bicego necklace.

David Webb

Amrapali earrings. ring.

Verdura bracelet.

Harry Winston earrings.

INNER

Enter Laughing

It seems “enlightenment” is a laughing matter. The Dalai Lama lands in LaLa land and entertains the locals with his message of compassion— and everyone from Naomi Watts and Eva Longoria to Jeremy Renner and Jim Carrey are moved to tears, titters and tweets

BY BRIAN D. LEITCH

EDITED BY JENNY MURRAY

His Holiness at the California Science Center, February 26, 2014.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama laughs A LOT. At length. Every six to eight minutes. Like he’s at the best table at the best party in the best place in the world. And that may not be far from the truth.

Literally seated under the wings of the Space Shuttle Endeavor at the California Science Center, flanked by longtime BFF Sharon Stone and moderator Ann Curry, yet somehow still holding hands with Larry King, he’s magnetized an audience that included the luminous Lupita Nyong’o, Amber Heard, Malin Akerman, Amber Valletta, Rosario Dawson, politicians, philanthropists and astronauts into a group sing-along of “What The World Needs Now Is Love, Sweet Love.” The giggling is not a guise, but a gateway to what connects us all. Kathy Bates, looking uncharacteristically awestruck, says, “I’m pinching myself. I don’t know how I got here. Or why. But I’m very happy.”

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner is here at the invitation of the Lourdes Foundation, a charitable organization for troubled youth that generously funded the event, to answer questions submitted on the subject of social responsibility and compassion. He does so, with solemn import, good jokes and an unexpected and hilarious “What’s in your handbag?” segment.

that Buddhist teachings are founded on debate, not devotion. And that if someone has a better idea, the scientists who built the shuttle, for example, they must come forth. Every nut, bolt and widget included.

At age 78, would he like to go to the moon? “Yes, but not as an experiment. Once it’s established, I’d like to go—with Sharon [Stone].” On the subject of the future and its potential perils, he goes on: “Human beings have a gentle nature. Child trusts mother. Mother will sacrifice all for child. This is not religion or law…this is a new time for women to come forward and take a more active role in promoting human compassion.” Could there ever be a female Dalai Lama? “Of course!”

On human rights, he speaks not of his homeland, but to Curry’s interview with Desmond Tutu, in which the bishop said, “Gay rights is the new apartheid.”

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“Yes, I know his view. This is right. When both sides agree, there is no problem,” then adding, “Wonderful person. We both call each other mischievous!”

And what of our culture’s obsession with money and materialism? Perhaps his view is best summed up with this anecdote: “I wrote Pope Francis a letter after he dismissed a German bishop with too much luxuries. This impress me!”

Kathy Bates, looking uncharacteristically awestruck, says, “I’m pinching myself. I don’t know how I got here. Or why. But I’m very happy.”

After his appearance at The Forum, where he addressed a larger audience, his message was much the same at this well-heeled Hollywood luncheon. First up: practicing compassion and finding inner peace in the absence of organized religion. “Believer or nonbeliever must practice personal ethics. ME ME ME is outdated! That’s my view—any argument?” At that moment, Jim Carrey stood, doffed his jacket to fake-spar and rebutted with a good-natured, “I know a guy!” Throwing his head back and chuckling, His Holiness responded, “I love an argument! Argument always necessary!” He went on to explain

His Holiness strongly emphasizes the importance of teaching ethics and compassion in schools from kindergarten forward. Then comes the moment that makes every woman in the room with a designer handbag squirm just a little. Eyeing his simple cloth satchel, Curry asks what’s in it. “Ah! Now I demonstrate.” Reaching in, he pulls out chocolate. “I want to share!” he smiles, breaking off bits of Toblerone “from United Airlines” for Sharon and Ann. “Eyeglasses, a toothbrush…But this I want to keep!” he says of a small 11th century clay Buddha statue. “My tutor who gave me ordination blessed it in 1959, as I escaped [Tibet to India].”

A serious moment. “And this!” The mischief maker is back, pulling out the last item, a little thermometer he promptly puts under his armpit, and the room dissolves in laughter, left to take their own collective temperature on all they’ve seen and heard in this magic hour. “I think when I get to my car I’m going to burst into tears,” says “House of Cards” and “Entourage” star Constance Zimmer, “It was just so GOOD.” •

The Dalai Lama photographed by Peggy Sirota in Los Angeles, 1999.

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ADULTHOOD NATURAL SELECTION

USC grad Katherine Schwarzenegger has compiled interviews with Drybar founder Alli Webb and ﬁtness queen Jillian Michaels in I Just Graduated …Now What?, a look into life after the cap and gown ceremony with tips from famous post-grads including the author’s own parents.

Growing from its roots in the vineyards of Bordeaux, French skincare line Caudalie opens shop in Venice housing exclusive grape-infused products at the “Beauty Barrel Bar,” and a private treatment room for facials, body treatments and mani-pedis. 1416 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice; caudalie.com

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Cat’s meow

Cartier introduces La Panthère this spring—a fragrance inspired by its ’80s predecessor that blends gardenia with oaky notes and a hint of musk for a new seductively ﬂoral ﬁnish. From $72; cartier.us.

COLOR WHEEL In addition to a new retail concept store in S.F., MAC Cosmetics joins Proenza Schouler this spring for a collection of bold lipsticks, liners, nail lacquers and ombre blushes in pink and coral hues—all specially encased in colorful metallic packaging. maccosmetics.com.

$20, Crown Archetype.

RIGHT Katherine Schwarzenegger.

Gargiulo and her daughter.

Active Botanical Serum, $185.

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EQUINOX MADE ME

Vantage Point

What does a vintage Louis Vuitton trunk from Argentina have in common with S.F. cable car seats? Soledad Alzaga

In an Alzagadesigned Pacific Heights study, Paul Marra’s custom lacquered bronze desk is a cubist’s dream (and a nightmare to move).

While a grand house may tempt starry-eyed ideas, reality always seems to intervene. Soledad Alzaga understands this well; after all, the S.F. decorator has three children under 11. Recently, when she was designing a picnic table for a stately Pacific Heights kitchen, that moment struck. “I really liked white marble, but my clients had kids. They’re going to be cutting lemons, and it’s going to get ruined.” Solution? Caesarstone top, built-in bench, outdoor fabric cushions.

Home

and

a sitting room. An armchair from

and floor lamp found at Summerhouse, Mill Valley,

a quiet corner. A three-story glass LED chandelier from Arkitektura, S.F. Trolley seats were converted into a bench for Alzaga’s dining room, which connects to the kitchen with a see-through fireplace.

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The fast-talking native of Buenos Aires isn’t new to this attitude. After nine years flipping houses, she flipped into interior design when a friend hired her upon seeing a light-strewn Upper Haight/Nopa remodel. “I actually studied graphic design but got into construction to the point where I wanted to be a plumber,” says Alzaga. “I already had a crew of people that I trusted. The next day, I filed at City Hall and got my business license.”

The projects have been nonstop ever since, from Martha’s Vineyard and Buenos Aires to just around the corner. She has imported her share of Argentinean antiques, from a hewn carpenter table to her great-grandfather’s Louis Vuitton trunk—found in pristine condition in the back of a house. In S.F., she’s just as likely to pop into a little Indian vendor as Arkitektura. “High and low—for me, it has a sense of humor.”

Much of her job, indeed, revolves around opposites. Taking on a 10,000-square-foot, five-story John Maniscalco space in Pacific Heights, Alzaga found a way to temper life with four kids and a dog (“The first thing the dog ate was the most expensive rug in the living room”). While the children enjoy their own playrooms, the grown-ups have a book-filled study offset by a Saarinen table and a Cubist Paul Marra desk. Glass windows showcase the Bay view, and the diamond-pattern carpet reflects onto the desk’s facets.

Elsewhere, low-profile B&B Italia and Maxalto sofas in soothing beige contrast the rustic charms of an Indian bed retrofitted as a coffee table. It’s worn, weathered, perfectly family-friendly. “It has character, age and story. And I love that somebody used to sleep on it!” soledadalzaga.com. •

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT The Ali image was enlarged from a tiny portrait. A Ralph Lauren carpet, Paul Marra desk, Room & Board sofa, chair

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FROM TOP LEFT Robin and Lucienne Day’s Chichester, England home. Architect Finn Juhl’s Danish residence. Modern Originals, $50, Rizzoli. A sca olding staircase and a Roy Lichtenstein rug anchor Gae Aulenti’s Milan apartment/o ce; she passed away a month after Williamson’s visit.

INSIDE JOB

Hang Time House quest

Charles de Lisle Workshop brings a little wink, color and character to its interiors and product designs, but being playful doesn’t skimp on drama. In its latest collection, handmade in S.F., a Brutalist lamp becomes serene; chainsaw shelves— à la Blunk—are smoothed; and a twig-like chandelier of hexagonal brass tubing, bu ed to a high polish, adds sparkle and geometry as it branches out.

Vertical Linden chandelier, $6,165, The Future Perfect, S.F., charlesdelisle.com.

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For the ﬁve-year compilation Handcrafted Modern (2010, Rizzoli), Leslie Williamson explored the knobs, knickknacks, nooks and crannies of 20th-century American designers, from Walter Gropius and George Nakashima to California heroes such as the Eameses. With a photojournalist’s eye, the San Jose native and S.F. resident chronicles a designer’s natural habitat. In April’s sequel, Modern Originals, Williamson hops the pond to capture artistry ranging from Lino Sabattini’s silver to the Roquebrune-Cap-Martin cabin where Le Corbusier painted some rather edgy murals. She peers into Carl Aubock’s Vienna Werkstätte basement, locked for years until her visit. “I’m looking for soul, for the people in these houses,” she says, “where even for these icons, there’s a common denominator of being human.”

With these books but a “fraction” of her library, Williamson’s growing oeuvre glimmers with Julius Shulman-like purpose. “Other designers will want to know the details of the cabinetry one day. But once it’s gone, it’s gone.” lesliewilliamson.com

Arteriors has opened a vast Melrose storefront packed with more than 400 lighting options (including the custom Mottega) and of-the-moment furnishings in aqua, brass and bronze. 8620 Melrose Ave., WeHo, 424-249-6855; arteriorshome.com.

$104/yard, wallpapercollective.com.

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Barry Dixon for Arteriors Mosquito bench, $750.

WEST HOLLYWOOD

CLOCKWISE FROM FAR LEFT Falls table and Chinese Jesus interiors. Deborah Rumens and Mike Lee at their Venice studio. Dragonﬂy table. Semiprecious table.

A SOLID STATE

For more than a dozen years, tucked away in a lightstreaked Venice loft with a woodshop nearby, there has been creative sawdust in the air for Chinese Jesus. Deborah Rumens and Mike Lee surf dual waves of interior design and furniture fabrication—touching on themes like the coast, redwoods and the beauty of Big Sur. Like sentence fragments, the new collection In California allows each piece to complete a statement about Golden State life: The grain of the Falls, a slyly reinforced co ee table constructed of 15-foot walnut slabs from the Sacramento Valley, cascades in curves and graduated angles. Atop a ﬂoating Semiprecious table, bevel-cut bronzed glass is shaped like a surfboard. And just look at the sculptural raised “jewel” in the center. That’s a wonderful by-product of creation, Lee points out. You’ll undoubtedly see skeletons of midcentury predecessors—the Kagans, the Baughmans—yet CJ is ultimately process-driven, devoted to discovery and change. “A lot of the time [clients will] want vintage, but patina doesn’t work for everyone. What they really want is something new,” says Rumens. “But it’s not derivative.” Available through Holly Hunt; chinesejesus.com

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Looming large

Launched online in October—and now with a companion Sacramento Street showroom—St. Frank imports textile art culled from around the world. Exquisite prints are emblazoned with a St. Frank product tag, matted in linen and set into any number of custom frames (white, silver, sleek black, warm maple or a statement-making shadow box). Stanford M.B.A. Christina Bryant, 29, has jumped between ﬁne art and poster with this artisan craft business. There are Chintamani Turk crochets and delicate rosepomegranate Suzanis as romantic as Josef Frank ﬂorals; bold, modern geometry in black-and-white Biddew pieces from Senegal. “Women in developing countries are not given equal access,” says Bryant of St. Frank’s choice to vet master workshops and collectives in under-resourced communities as partners. “Textile making has served as an alternative way for women to communicate their stories.”

under-resourced communities as partners.

3675 Sacramento St., S.F.; stfrank.com

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Biddew Noir, from $675. Marketing Adviser Julie Tucker, Founder Christina Bryant and Director of Operations Minda Nicolas. Blue Tenango Mexican embroidery, from $785. Christina Bryant in Tanzania at a Maasai Boma, not far from Ngorongoro Crater.

VENICE

SAN FRANCISCO

Pratesi Linens

Los Angeles 8405 Melrose Place (323) 653 2425

San Francisco Wilkes Bashford 375 Sutter Street (415) 291 9480

John Lautner’s Sheats-Goldstein house, 1963. BELOW $40, Princeton Architectural Press.

MODERNISM, BY THE YARD

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Summerland—Farm to Frontdoor packs a variety of weekly boxes with ﬁnds from area farms (think Weiser, Wong, Burkhart). Simply click to order with of-the-moment extras from Sqirl jam and Pressed Juicery. The Arts District seems an unlikely spot for a fresh delivery service, but this duo is making produce seem, well, cool. summerland.is.

Imagine a line drawing of a Neutra, Schindler or Lautner. How do the flora, color and scale of the landscape fit into that blueprint? Famed landscape architect Pamela Burton and interior designer Marie Botnick take an expert stroll through 20 landmark properties to find out in Private Landscapes: Modernist Gardens in Southern California

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804 N. La Cienega Blvd., L.A., 310-360-0880; georgesmith.com.

Mountaintop marvel

Originally from Canada, Judy and Peter Copses wanted to honor the California lifestyle they’d adopted years ago. They called on Mark Tessier Landscape Architecture to punctuate their modernist proclivities while pushing the limits and diversity of native plantings on their mountaintop Santa Monica property. Tessier brought in a dense array of succulents and exotics for an entry “as friendly to people as to vehicles.” Using concrete to deﬁne structures, a bridge over a substantial koi pond cordons off the world beyond, while a water feature provides white noise for a nearby ofﬁce. For entertaining,

The centuries-old U.K. house George Smith now makes all its plush seating for outdoor use.

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underneath L-shaped trellises with subtle LED illumination, the outdoor kitchen for their chef is as integral to the open-air dining room as the wood carpet and adjustable table. There are even interchanging grates for ﬁsh, steak and chicken on the Kalamazoo Grill. In another vignette, willows shade seating that begs for a family gathering. A quiet path leads past the pool to a wood platform with lounge seating facing expansive Santa Monica mountain vistas. Tessier selected simple grasses. “Here, it’s much more about the view, and outward focus.” marktessier.com.

FROM LEFT The table is adjustable for an alwaysintimate meal. The entry’s koi pond. A grid of Australian willows shades seating from Janus et Cie.

The Brunch Box, $42.50, includes Jaime Farms eggs and a loaf from Bread Lounge.

A confection from The Sugar Lab, the-sugar-lab.com.

Down the Line

Recipes calling for 3-D printers are but a taste of sweet things to come

Whether it resembles a take on napkin art or a vertebra done in delft, this flourish of hardened sugar represents the next step in culinary imagination—and it’s straight out of a Silverlake kitchen. In 2011, Kyle and Liz von Hasseln jerry-rigged an inkjet printer in order to craft a cake topper. After two years and a Euclidean playhouse of mini-geodesic domes for coffee, sculpted ribbons and molecular chain confections out of sugar, water and chocolate, the couple known as The Sugar Lab were named creative directors for the printing bakery of 3D Systems (top developers in the rapidly proliferating genre). Restaurants have cleared countertops for the forthcoming ChefJet Pro, poised to become the ultimate toy of high gastronomy. Meanwhile, the rest of us can snap up exclusive sets of Ombré Neon Sours and Geometric Peppermints on Cubify.com. Welcome to the future—and it’s deliciously sweet. •

TWO TO TRY

GRACIAS MADRE If a mezcal-spiked meeting place is going to emerge in the design-heavy nexus of Almont Drive and Melrose Avenue, you can bet it’s going to be chic, and not an L.A. eye would blink to know Gracias Madre is an o shoot of vegan favorite Café Gratitude. Interior designer Wendy Haworth has outﬁtted the vaulted space in white with cool patterned tiles, and landscape designer Scott Shrader has readied the patio with 80-year-old olive trees. Lush cashew crema, seared cauliﬂower tacos and tequila with lavender bitters? Por favor! 8905 Melrose Ave., WeHo, 323-978-2170; graciasmadreweho.com

$55/box of 18.

MAUDE While the feminine side of a restaurant experience seems to be trimmed away with the gristle these days, Curtis Stone, Aussie-by-way-ofL.A., has taken quiet respite from celeb-chef status with his long-awaited Maude, naming the petite space after his grandmother and making it perfectly date-worthy. Monthly nine-course tasting menus vary by seasonal whim (February citrus, for example), and when ﬂoral china with near-transparent lobster crudo and crimson turnip cream appears, it’s as if you’ve been transported to the countryside. 212 S. Beverly Dr., B.H., 310-859-3418; mauderestaurant.com

IN THE THICKET OF IT

When NYT and James Beard Foundation food photographer Erin Gleeson left New York City for a West Coast cabin in the woods, she signed up for a CSA and had a new creative vision. Her gorgeous new vegetarian cookbook, The Forest Feast, hits kitchens this month with illustrations and entertaining tips—down to the easiest baked brie.

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. Heather Taylor Home looks to a girl’s best friend this season. Hand-embroidered in black or rust, these diamond motif linens bring graphic impact to the table without losing earthy edge. Throw them in the wash— they’re all cotton. “Good for the working woman who loves to entertain,” adds Taylor. $80/set of 4; heathertaylorhome.com

FROM LEFT Erin Gleeson. $35, Abrams Books.

Curtis Stone at newcomer Maude. LEFT Gracias Madre interiors by Wendy Haworth.

LOS ANGELES

ST. HELENA

WEST HOLLYWOOD

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Patrick Dougherty’s Deck the Halls. Inside the Nicole Hollis-designed Visitor Center. Tasting area in the center. The original building dates to 1885. Farm acreage on the property.

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Hall of fame

On Highway 29, a distinguished name in Cabernet gets a high-concept look

Of Napa Valley’s world-class modern art and architecture, the Hess Collection, Herzog and de Meuron’s walled world that is Dominus, Quixote’s Friedensreich Hundertwasser mosaics and the Stonescape Turrell Skyspace immediately come to mind.

Then there are the beacons that never were, like Frank Gehry’s 2007 design for Hall Wines. They broke ground in 2007 for the architect’s undulating, ﬂoating waves of rattan-like matter and, sadly, abandoned plans in 2010, live-feed Gehry-cam and all.

CA native and former U.S. Ambassador to Austria Kathryn Walt Hall and Dallas real estate investor Craig Hall recommitted to the idea of a museum-worthy home for the c.1885 winery they purchased in 2003. To create a new Visitor Center and renovate the historic Peterson Bergfeld Building, they called upon a new dream team: Signum Architecture and interior designer Nicole Hollis.

This past winter, the St. Helena location unveiled a new culinary center, winemaking facility, events space and gleaming Visitor Center of glass, smooth woods and saturated reds. Elements and furnishings are site-speciﬁc, too; a 43-foot table resembling a log, designed by Hollis and manufactured by John Houshmand, is embedded into blackened steel with glass panels.

Hand in hand with Hall’s respected Cabernet Sauvignon (the most recent release was in February), the center highlights the couple’s bold art collection. Joining a John Baldessari camel are Jim Drain, aluminum mandalas over fermentation tanks on the east side of the building and Graham Caldwell raindrops on the west. Outside, Patrick Dougherty’s “Stickwork” installation is juxtaposed with the Bergfeld building. Putting a call out to the community to assist with their construction, the landscape sculptor’s windswept woven-willow series went up with the help of more than 60 volunteers over three weeks in September. Deck the Halls will stay, ﬁttingly, for a lifespan of ﬁve years—until it fully biodegrades.

Terroir to terroir, dust to dust. 401 St. Helena Hwy. South, St. Helena, 707-967-2626; hallwines.com. •

2011 Ellie’s Cabernet Sauvignon, $80.

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Treasure Islands

With scores of seaside charms, Croatia emerges as the new dream destination

BY STEPHANIE STEINMAN

A Dominican Monastery in Bol.

EDITED BY JENNY MURRAY

YOld Town. A lookout at Rab Island. BELOW The exterior gardens at Villa Orsula. Boats docked in the harbor of Ika. Villa Agave, which rests on the remains of the 13th-century chapel of St. Lazarus. Interiors at Villa Agave.

ear after year, Greece, the South of France and the Caribbean have been the jet-set’s go-to destinations— it’s not very often that a new “hot spot” emerges. Until recently, Croatia been able to ﬂy under the radar, with a few in-the-know travelers seeking relaxation among the cobbled streets, white stone cottages and pristine beaches.

It’s hard to believe that Dubrovnik, which is only a quick two-hour ﬂight from London, was not so long ago in the midst of war and turmoil. In fact, much of the history of this picturesque city involves being conquered by one nation or another. Most notably, the Italians and the Turks wanted to claim Dubrovnik as their own, and it’s easy to understand why.

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Thankfully, the region is well recovered, and high-end accommodations in the seaside city have sprouted up at record speed, with Adriatic Luxury Hotels (adriaticluxuryhotels.com) at the forefront. If you crave the ultimate luxury experience, its ﬁve-star Villa Agave is at your beck and call. Sprawling terraces, beam ceilings and rustic decor make this Mediterranean-style dwelling a private paradise. For a simpler escape, Hotel Bellevue is easy and modern, with a postcard-worthy secluded beach. Just around the bay, it’s a great spot to get away from the hustle and bustle— and every room has an ocean view. Farther down the road, Villa Orsula is the quintessential boutique hotel, with the most decadent accommodations in all of Dubrovnik. Intimate and secluded, with a mere 11 rooms and two suites, it offers jasmine-scented hallways for guests to linger through to one of the many terraced gardens. Located on the water’s edge, it boasts sweeping views of the Adriatic and Old Town.

When you’re ready to venture out, Old Town, the heart of Dubrovnik, is where the action is. Walk along the city walls and experience a culture rich in history. Dozens of magniﬁcent churches, as well as one of the oldest pharmacies in Europe, leave you feeling as if you’ve stepped back in time. For lunch, feast on fresh mussels, oysters and squid at Kamenice. But keep in mind, gelato is practically a requirement here. The locals’ favorite is Dolce Vita, hidden off the main Stradun and serving ﬂavors such as lime and pistachio.

As the afternoon turns, ﬁnd your way down a windy maze of backstreets to Buza Bar, set high on the rocks. By day, sip ice-cold drinks, watch the cliff divers, take a dip in the sea and sunbathe on the rocks. By night, there’s music playing, and it’s a perfect place to meet up with friends. Make sure to order the lemonﬂavored as the rocks.

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SPRING FORWARD IN STYLE

SHREVE & CO.

Penny Preville Diamond Arabesque Enhancer with Milky Aqua Marine Center on Diamond Bale 1.84 ct., $9,990. 200 Post St., San Francisco, 415-421-2600; Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, 650-327-2211; shreve.com.

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CAROLINA HERRERA

100% Viscose white landscape threading organza jacket and dress, $2,590 each. 8441 Melrose Pl., Los Angeles, 323-782-9090; carolinaherrera.com.

ASPREY

Wiltshire shoulder bag, Sepia Lizard, $8,700. Asprey, The Beverly Hills Hotel, 9641 Sunset Blvd., Beverly Hills, 310-550-0520; asprey.com.

MICHAEL MICHAEL KORS

Selma Large Top-Zip Satchel, $298. 3333 Bristol St. Suite 1237, South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, 714-557-5600; michaelkors.com.

LOFT

Crisp Seafoam Half Frames with 100% UV protection, $24.50. Westﬁeld Century City, 10250 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, 310-788-3474; LOFT.com.

JURLIQUE

Purely Age-Defying Firming Face Oil and Ultra Firm and Lift Cream, $58 (oil), $72 (cream). 1230 Montana Ave., Santa Monica, 310-899-1923; 2136 Fillmore St., San Francisco, 415-346-7881.

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In Hillsborough, The Wiseman Group and landscape designer Stephen Suzman reinvent a timeless estate

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Up at the Villa

Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the Getty Villa has come a long way from fanciful vision to treasured L.A. institution

WRITTEN AND EDITED BY ELIZABETH KHURI CHANDLER

The view over the Outer Peristyle garden.

When the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu opened on January 16, 1974, criticism was widespread among the artistic cognoscenti.

Some called it “kitsch,” others “a folly” or “a millionaire’s whim.” At the time, Jean Paul Getty’s vision of a historically accurate re-created villa museum to contextualize antiquities and educate visitors—many of whom would never be able to go to Italy and Greece or see a Roman house in a non-derelict state— was counter to the decade’s glass-and-steel aesthetic.

But the public loved it. They crowded the Canon de Sentimiento to see the five bronze maidens scattered about the 18-inch-deep pool (in Roman times, it would have been 12 feet deep), view the riotously colored marble floors and meander through the leafy gardens populated with the same flora and fauna that the ancient Romans enjoyed. “The hubris on the part of Mr. Getty to build a re-creation of a Roman villa in Malibu was so wacky that it couldn’t help but draw the public,” says Kevin Salatino, a former curator of graphic arts at the Getty Research Institute, who is now director of art collections at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. “Critics called it Disneyland, but Disneyland is popular.”

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Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the museum that Getty refused to build in the style of a “glib and brittle age” now commands a comfortable place in the Los Angeles museum ecosystem. The structure continues to house a trove of ancient treasures and to offer unique programming, and after another renovation in the late ’90s, it’s become an emblem of the postmodern era: mixing and matching from various styles and time periods. As a subset of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which has four programs (and a $5.9 billion endowment as of 2013), the universe that is the Getty has vast resources and tentacles that span a variety of pursuits: scholarly work, Southern California-wide initiatives such as Paciﬁc Standard Time, and conservation projects that touch upon work from around the globe—all of which result in public access to great art. “It’s an institution that wants to do the most it possibly can do for its public. They’ve done a remarkable job of bringing more and more cultural credibility to Los Angeles. The world doesn’t look at L.A. as a place that is only interested in the

the Villa San Marco in Stabiae. Getty’s favorite sculpture, the Lansdowne Herakles, was unearthed from Hadrian’s villa in 1790. The original ranch house. The tycoon. A portion of a mosaic ﬂoor from the late 5th century, and a sculpture of Aphrodite from the 1st Century made Christian by the addition of a cross, both part of the traveling exhibition “Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections.”

new, the immediate and the superﬁcial,” notes Salatino.

What is now a cultural behemoth started out with one man who happened to be obsessed with outdoing the Rockefellers and the Hearsts. Like all tycoons, Getty was a ﬁercely competitive man with many eccentricities, including a lifelong fascination with the values of the ancient world and connecting himself with their traditions. The villa property was originally purchased as a weekend ranch house in 1946 for $250,000, and the oilman kept his own minimenagerie on the grounds, à la Hearst, along with a burgeoning collection of antiquities, decorative arts and European master paintings. Eventually, he came upon the idea of a small museum within his weekend home. By 1954, the public was able to visit the house by appointment on Wednesdays and Saturday afternoons, taking in the antiquities outside on the patio and additional antiquities, furniture and painting in the galleries. >>

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT The Outer Peristyle garden resembles the pool from

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<< It wasn’t until 1968—17 years after Getty left California for good (he developed a phobia about flying after owning an aircraft company and seeing a plane crash)—that the entrepreneur decided to build a bigger museum from scratch. From the United Kingdom, he hired archaeologist Norman Neuerburg as a historical consultant and the firm Langdon and Wilson, and declared he wanted a re-creation of the site Villa dei Papiri from Herculaneum, a coastal town that was covered by hot volcanic mud from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Believed to be owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law, Lucius Calpurnius Piso, Villa dei Papiri had been home base for a very powerful man and arts patron, appealing to Getty’s sense of context. “He was a very enlightened, important and complicated fellow—he’d roll over in his grave if he heard us calling him Caesar’s father-in-law,” quips Kenneth Lapatin, associate curator of antiquities. But perhaps even more important, when the Bourbon king of Naples, Charles III, first excavated the property in 1750, Swiss military engineer Karl Jakob Weber was prescient enough to create detailed ground plans of the building, from which the Getty architects took their cue. Construction began in earnest in 1970, with some crews

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ABOVE The Men in Antiquity gallery at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa. RIGHT Gold-and-enamel bracelet from the 9th or 10th century on loan from the Museum of Bzyantine Culture in Thessaloniki.

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The fête begins in front of the closed museum.

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Before she turns 30, Scarlett Johansson has an ambitious to-do list: Release four films, prepare for her directorial debut, organize a wedding—oh, and welcome her firstborn

By Marshall Heyman Photographed by Craig McDean

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Scarlett Johansson doesn’t have a lot of free time on her hands these days. In addition to welcoming her first child this summer—a few months shy of her 30th birthday—she’s set to release four major films this year.

“I’m looking forward, not back,” says Johansson from Paris a day after the baby announcement. “I’m excited about accomplishing some big creative and life goals this year. I feel very positive about the future.”

Johansson has already overcome many of the hills and valleys of a long-term acting career, one of which was conquering the Great White Way. She won a Tony for her performance, opposite Liev Schreiber, in a revival of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge in 2010. But that wasn’t enough. She tenaciously returned to Broadway in 2013 in the notoriously challenging role of the sexpot Maggie in a revival of Tennessee Williams’ classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

One person she especially likes to be with is 32-year-old French creative agency manager Romain Dauriac, the father of the child she’s expecting and to whom she’s now engaged. She has described her divorce from actor Ryan Reynolds as “a very lonely thing. It’s like the loneliest thing you’ll ever do, in some ways.” But that doesn’t mean she’s not willing to take the plunge again.

“I’ve had a fair amount of time to process the experience and go forward,” she has said. “I continue to get to know myself better as I get older, and that helps me in my relationships.”

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Getting to know herself better has also helped her career, which over the last year has more than fulfilled the promise she showed almost two decades ago opposite Robert Redford in The Horse Whisperer. In Spike Jonze’s Her, she accomplished one of 2013’s most spectacular cinematic feats. Even though she never appeared on-screen, she turned the voice of an operating system into a fully formed, three-dimensional character.

“After my first time on Broadway, I decided I wanted to keep doing projects that I didn’t know how to do,” she told The New York Times last year. “I’m finally at a place in my life where I feel comfortable not anticipating the result. I’m comfortable with being uncomfortable.”

That discomfort may have led to mixed reviews, but it’s also led to more risk-taking. Next spring, she’s set to film her first feature as a director, an adaptation of Truman Capote’s novel Summer Crossing, about the romance between a 17-year-old WASP and a Jewish parking lot attendant in the summer of 1945. Johansson came across the source material at an airport bookstore and fell in love with it while reading it on the plane.

“I knew instantly it was the right project for me,” she says. “It was the first time I felt so strongly about pursuing an adaptation. I’m attracted to the themes of the book—the loss of innocence of a young woman, the failure of the American dream for many after World War II.”

Johansson wrote a treatment on her own and then cowrote the script with Tristine Skyler, a fellow child actor who had grown up in New York, graduated cum laude from Princeton and had written an adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar that Johansson particularly responded to.

“It was important for me that my partner was a New York native,” says Johansson, who has not yet made any casting decisions.

“I just want to work on things that are really hard,” she has said. “And when I’m not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that’s it.”

“You know, I gotta hustle,” Johansson told an interviewer in the fall. “Pretty soon the roles you’re offered all become mothers. Then they just sort of stop.” This month, in Under the Skin, she plays an alien seductress with a predilection for picking up hitchhikers. The film—in which Johansson shows more skin than ever before— has already proven divisive on the festival circuit, which doesn’t seem to bother her. She also reprises the part of the slinky Black Widow (aka Natasha Romanoff) from Marvel’s The Avengers in the sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier before starring opposite Robert Downey Jr. in Jon Favreau’s comedy Chef Lucy, which premieres in August, is one of those Luc Besson action flicks with Morgan Freeman in the vein of Taken. Next on the docket: two additional installments of the Avengers series.

Johansson also made waves earlier this year on the international political scene. After eight years as an Oxfam ambassador, she stepped down in January when the antipoverty group expressed criticism of SodaStream, an Israeli-owned company, for operating a factory in the West Bank. Johansson, who had been working as a representative for SodaStream and starred in the company’s first marketing campaign, disagreed with the backlash.

“I don’t feel the same pull to stay relevant,” Johansson says of the boldness that seems to drive her recent decisions. “I think I’m less concerned with impressing others and more focused on what feels authentic.” •

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In the family room, a French-inspired sofa with Indian embroidered pillows keeps company with a vintage hanging lantern and custom Morris armchairs upholstered in a Carolina Irving Aegean stripe.

OPPOSITE The dramatic Sputnik chandelier from Little Paris Antiques creates a sculptural centerpiece in the pool house.

LAYERING EFFECT

Peter Dunham infuses vintage patina with modern appeal in a casually elegant Brentwood home

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There are homes that look decorated, and then there are homes that are decorated by Peter Dunham. The Englishborn designer—whose A-list roster includes Drew Barrymore, Juicy Couture cofounder Pamela Skaist Levy and producer Steve Tisch—is known for his effortlessly chic spaces that layer rich textiles and vintage pieces with comfortable furniture that demands to be lived in. “California is about a carefree and casual existence, so it seems right to me to have interiors that are practical and easy,” Dunham says. “It’s a buzzkill to be careful every time one sits in a chair or puts a drink down on the table. That doesn’t mean giving up on style.”

Such was the desire for the owners of a 1925 traditional twostory home in Brentwood, who enlisted Dunham to make the space more convivial for raising their three daughters and the family’s two Labrador retrievers. “The idea was ‘California casual,’” Dunham says. “They entertain a lot in the garden, having friends with kids over, so they wanted comfort and practicality.”

Dunham added the space that serves as the formal dining room, incorporating custom armchairs, a Chesterfield sofa that was inspired by one from 1940s France. “A lot of my clients want vintage but don’t

want to live with a bunch of antiques. They want things that have clean lines and straddle that divide.” Dunham hung handwoven Indian bedspreads as curtains and installed an abaca rug to add texture to the room. Behind the seating area, an expansive rift-white-oak refectory table does double duty as a place for the girls to do their homework during the week and where the family entertains on weekends. In the pool house, framed maharajas preside over a square-arm sofa and chairs upholstered in bold-striped outdoor fabrics. Dunham’s hallmark of building up lighting from various sources plays out with glass table lamps, vintage brass sconces and an oversize sculptural Sputnik chandelier. “It’s almost like a planet—it’s quite big,” he says. “It’s very dramatic when all the lights are turned low.”

The dining room is one of the more formal spaces in the home, with hand-painted Fromental wallpaper inspired by a paper at Drottningholm Palace in Sweden and a 19th-century Spanish crystal-and-gilded-wood chandelier. The Danish modern Kaare Klint dining chairs are on the cusp of traditional and modern to create balance, Dunham says, “and the dining room sconces and chandelier aren’t matchy-matchy. They work off each other. I like to mix things so they look thrown together rather than overcalculated.” •

In the entryway, an aged English planter sits beside a love seat upholstered in a Samarkand fabric by Peter Dunham Textiles. BELOW Dunham designed the oversize teak outdoor sofas, cushions upholstered in Peter Dunham Textiles Fig Leaf fabric, and cocktail tables on the bluestone patio. OPPOSITE Fromental hand-painted wallpaper is the backdrop for the formal dining room, with Kaare Klint dining chairs and a Georgian Welsh oak sideboard.

Dunham used a durable chenille velvet on the custom nailhead sectional and covered the ottoman in an antique carpet. Jacques Adnet stools sit at the foot of a Whitley four poster bed from Hollywood at Home. The master bath echoes the soft blues and neutrals used in the living spaces. The New York Athletic dining chairs upholstered in red leather are from Hollywood at Home.

In the sitting room,

pairs of chairs in Dunham-designed stripes and terra-cotta linen sit atop an antique Persian rug; the convex mirror is from Mecox Gardens.

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CREATIVE ENERGY

Filled with timeless art and objects, Sausalito enamel artist June Schwarcz’s home is as relevant today as it was 60 years ago

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Beyond a pair of Wassily chairs, a James Weeks painting hangs above Native American art collected by June’s late husband, Leroy, who was one of the original mechanical engineers of the Stanford Linear Accelerator. OPPOSITE

June refers to the Native American boat paddle (center) that hangs from the ceiling in her living room as a “poor man’s Brancusi” for its simple, sculptural form. It sits among an African bust and other artifacts.

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FROM LEFT June Schwarcz at home in Sausalito; in 2010, she was recognized as a “Living Treasure” by the California State Legislature. A room off the hallway serves as a sort of home gallery for her work—vessels, both newly created and from earlier years, line shelves. OPPOSITE An African chair sits at the foot of a carved wood figure from Borneo.

he first time I stood at the door of enamel artist June Schwarcz’s home, I had a very limited understanding of what enamel art actually was. Her metal vessels at the de Young Museum seemed to transcend what I knew of the medium, and, frankly, they knocked my preconceptions on their ear. I was there to photograph her home, and I would come to learn that the birth of her passion for enamel and her life in this hillside Sausalito home are inextricably tied. They both began the same year—1954. While her husband, Leroy, searched for their new home, June and her two small children made a trip to Denver, her hometown. During their visit, a friend taught June

the basics of enameling. So, essentially, her entire life as an enamel artist has occurred within these walls, and being here helped me understand June and her work in a much deeper way.

Although she studied industrial design early on at Pratt Institute, that ignition point in 1954 set June on her life’s path. In layman’s terms, enameling is a process of fusing glass onto metal, but June’s work is more complex than that. It begins with a soft copper mesh material, which she electroplates into the solid vessels that she then enamels. Now 95, with her pieces in numerous museums, June is considered one of the most important enamel artists of the 20th century. And even after 60 years, her work is a process that still fills her with wonder. “There is always a bit of mystery as to what I am going to get,” she says. June refers to her work ethic as a “compulsion,” and it is clear that she means that in the best possible way. “I just can’t think of anything I would rather be doing,” she tells me. Even now, she continues to work and create every day in her home studio.

Above her studio is the home she has lived in for the past 60 years. The living room is a testament to her curatorial eye for art

and objects, and it was here that I learned of June’s expansive, democratic taste. To her eye, beauty is beauty—there is no hierarchy to where you find it. So artwork by Robert Motherwell, Richard Diebenkorn and Ellsworth Kelly are mixed with sculptural pieces by June’s friends and contemporaries like Kay Sekimachi, Stephen De Staebler and Dominic Di Mare. Interspersed are everyday objects and artifacts from various cultures—Native American, African and Japanese, to name a few. The furniture in the room is simple and comfortable, with clean lines. A set of Marcel Breuer Wassily chairs (which June is pretty sure are copies) and a low-slung oak sofa that came from a kit in the 1960s anchor her collections in a quiet, humble way. And yet the one thing that is not in this main room is any of June’s own pieces. Those are all tucked into a room off the hallway. As I admire shelf after shelf, June and I talk about inspiration. The two pieces she is currently engaged with draw from the interiors of French Cistercian abbeys and a piece of Styrofoam packing material that came in a parcel she received recently in the mail—diverse subjects, to say the least. “I get ideas easily. It could even be the corner of something,” she explains. “Inspiration is just everywhere.” •

Each wall holds an ever-evolving composition of art, artifacts and everyday objects that she finds beautiful.

An Ethiopian chair (far right) and an oval ceramic piece by Jun Kaneko anchor the wall with pieces by June’s friends Kay Sekimachi, Stephen De Staebler and Dominic Di Mare and a sculpture of a flea by Tom Hill.

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The dining area centers around an Art Espinet carpenter table and wishbone chairs that were “inherited” from a neighbor long ago. Many of the smaller pieces of folk art that June loves so much are on her bedroom dresser; to the left are a large wood African plate and a paraffin print by her grandson Adam Schwarcz. The vessel at right on the top shelf was inspired by an abstract portrait by Paul Klee.

TREASURE ISLANDS

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ozujsko—Croatia’s famous beer.

If the open water is calling your name, charter a boat for the day and set sail into the Adriatic. Stop along the way to take a dip in one of the many uninhabited coves where the water is cool and crystal clear—a scene straight out of Blue Lagoon. Lokrum island is just 15 minutes from the mainland, with forests, a botanical garden and a salt lake. Korcula, the rumored home of explorer Marco Polo, is another charming island worth a stop. Take a walk along the water’s edge and dine at one of the chic outdoor cafés—you’ll wonder if you’re in the South of France. Next, sail over to Korta Katarina Winery (kortakatarinawinery.com), where you can experience the finest Croatian varieties prepared in small, precise batches. Palm trees dot this magnificent property, which actually looks and feels more like a glamorous resort. Make sure you plan time for lunch in the dining room, and you’ll want to take a few bottles with you—the perfect souvenir to bring home. •

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who had worked on the Hollywood set of Cleopatra, and borrowed elements liberally from a variety of other historical sites: masonry from the necropolis of the Porto Romano in Ostia, wall decorations from a villa at Boscoreale and spiral columns from the Villa San Marco at Stabiae. Getty insisted on precise historical accuracy, which was duly recorded, and dispatched to him through photographs and renderings of the building. Of course, there are a few digressions from a true Roman villa of antiquity: A proper pool would have required a lifeguard, and the topiaries are simple rather than figurative—in ancient times, the hedges would have been cut to resemble battle scenes and chariot races.

Getty remained in London when the property opened in 1974, and the evolution continued long after his death in 1976. Phase three of the villa took place in the late ’90s and early 2000s. Some of those changes are obvious, such as the new outdoor theater, opening up the galleries to let in natural

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light, but others are largely invisible to the public: tunnels, handicapped features, access roads, parking. It’s also when a postmodern sensibility came through in the architecture of the campus. “We reference a dig site in many of the new structures,” Lapatin explains. For example, the roof above the café is “held up by high beams and cross bars; that’s what you put on an archaeological site temporarily to cover a mosaic or a painting to protect it, but here we’ve done it in luxurious materials.”

Today, the villa still welcomes the same number of visitors it accepted in 1974— around 350,000 per year, a number limited by parking and the residential surroundings. But it’s also home to exceptional traveling exhibitions such as this month’s “Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections” (April 9), a nearly 170-piece extravaganza of icons, jewelry, frescoes, mosaics and textile art exported from Thessaloniki, Athens and the Peloponnese areas. Showing how the establishment of Christianity as a state religion influenced the art and culture of the time, the collection is an exciting peek into a unique visual patina. “Because Byzantine culture grew out of the art, literature and philosophies of late antiquity—itself a hybrid of Greek and Roman forms—this exhibition is a perfect fit,” notes Mary Louise Hart, associate curator of antiquities. And coming this fall, “Roman Luxury: The Berthouville Silver Treasure” highlights another advantage that the Getty Trust holds over almost any other art institution in the world: its reputation as a conservator.

“We’re like a university,” explains Lapatin as he strolls through the villa’s conservation lab and picks up a vase covered in scenes from the Trojan War. “With different departments working together and independently.” Within the trust, four divisions are busy: the Getty Conservation Institute, which advances conservation practice worldwide; the Getty Foundation, which supports the visual arts through grants; the J. Paul Getty Museum (of which the villa is one of two locations); and the Getty Research Institute, which leads the world in cultural research, with a massive

Herb Garden at the Getty Villa.

collection of rare books, photographs, prints, artists’ letters and archives of artists, architects and scholars.

For the Berthouville exhibition, the conservation department from the museum was able to take on a treasure trove of silver discovered in northwest France in 1830 and usually kept at the Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. A farmer had unearthed a pod of silver objects dedicated to the god Mercury from the first, second and third centuries. Since the Getty shipped in the materials in 2010,

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the objects have undergone extensive conservation (which means stabilizing the piece, not restoring, which can mean adding something that was not previously there). They’ve imaged the pieces with X-rays, discovering inscriptions hidden inside that were intended for the silver workers—thus revealing how the precious metal was tracked in ancient times. Along the way, they’ve also discovered fabrication techniques, corrected records and mounted the pieces for earthquakes, a specialty that the museum pioneered.

“It’s a win-win,” says Lapatin. “It’s part of our philanthropic mission. We get objects that need help, we help them, we display them, and we send them back better than they were before.”

And up at the villa, Californians get to see it all: Getty’s collection, traveling exhibitions such as “Heaven and Earth” and iconographic works on loan from the Mediterranean basin.

“It’s fitting that the villa is modeled after Herculaneum and Pompeii,” says Salatino. “I like to think that L.A. is as decadent as those cities. Or vice versa.” •

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p.112 Gucci silk blend Pink Lotus dress in dark wine, $2,900, Gucci, B.H., 310-278-3451; S.F., 415-392-2808. Karma El Khalil rose gold Isosceles earrings, $1,500, Roseark, L.A., 310-395-6706. Giuseppe Zanotti calfskin gladiator sandals with ankle straps, $1,195, Giuseppe Zanotti, B.H., 310-550-5760. p.114 Roberto Cavalli black beaded caftan, price upon request, Roberto Cavalli, B.H., 310-276-6006. Christian Louboutin black leather Neronna gladiator sandals, $845, christianlouboutin. com. p.115 Dries Van Noten black Basco blazer, $1,330, MAC, S.F., 415-863-3011, brown Jowina top, $1,415, A’maree’s, Newport Beach, 949-642-4423, and gold necklace with black yarn tassels, $1,080, Weathervane, Santa Monica, 310-393-5344. p.116 Etro multi print criss-cross halter top, $2,624, and illustrative

print silk pants, $1,377, Etro, B.H., 310-2482855. Jil Platner sterling silver Caracara bracelet, $1,460, sterling silver Beach Comb bracelet, $1,540, and sterling silver Starling bracelet, $1,000, Roseark, L.A., 310-395-6706. p.117 Lanvin single-breasted coat in Tea Rose pink, $3,835, and orange and gold silk chiffon dress, $5,625, Lanvin, B.H., 310-402-0580. Pamela Love brass and onyx Sunset necklace, $275, shopbop.com. Proenza Schouler heels, price upon request, Proenza Schouler, N.Y., 212-585-3200; proenzaschouler.com. p.118 Bottega Veneta red and black Palazzo cotton and mohair dress, $6,900, and black crocodile belt, $1,680, Bottega Veneta, B.H., 310-8586533. Mason Stanley gold skinny Bermuda ring, $460, Roseark, L.A., 310-395-6706. Christian Louboutin black leather Costa Nada sandals with tassels, $1,195, christianlouboutin. com. p.119 Miu Miu brown and navy Camoscio coat, $9,980, select Miu Miu stores; miumiu. com. p.120 Donna Karan embroidered cap sleeve Terracotta top, $4,800, and black and brown leather Puzzle Piece necklace, $795, Saks Fifth Avenue, B.H., 310-275-4211. p.121 Valentino multicolor embroidered gown, $12,000, Valentino, B.H., 310-247-0103. Mason Stanley ring, see p.118. MAKEUP Sisley Paris Hydrating Long Lasting Lipstick in Cognac, $55, sisley-paris.com. Clé de Peau Beauté concealer, $70, Nieman Marcus, B.H., 310-550-5900. MAC eye shadow in Rule, $15, maccosmetics.com. Tom Ford Beauty Eye Color Quad in Cocoa Mirage, $78, Neiman Marcus, B.H., 310-550-5900. Chanel Le Blush Crème de Chanel in 61 Destiny, $38, chanel.com. Nars The Multiple stick for eyes, cheeks, lips and body in Copacabana and Nã Pali Coast, $39/ each, narscosmetics.com.

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RUTH ASAWA AT HOME IN SAN FRANCISCO, 1956

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, 16-year-old Ruth Asawa and her family were forcibly removed from their farm in Norwalk, California, and placed in a Japanese internment camp at the Santa Anita racetrack (and later relocated to Arkansas). Of all places, this is where Asawa nurtured her talents—she befriended artists who had worked at Walt Disney Studios, who taught her to draw. After 18 months in the camps, Asawa went on to college, married architect Albert Lanier and started a family in San Francisco. She also began experimenting with abstract wire sculptures, employing techniques similar to those of basket weavers she had visited in Mexico; one of her pieces recently fetched $1.43 million at Los Angeles Modern Auctions. Last summer, she passed away at 87, leaving behind an incredible legacy in art education, numerous public projects across the Bay Area and an inspiring account of strength and human spirit.

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