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A GETAWAY IN MEXICO DESIGNED BY KEN FULK AND VÍCTOR LEGORRETA.
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Arne Jacobsen’s cocoon-like Egg chair remains an icon of Scandinavian design.
Marie-Caroline Willms reimagines a finca in southern Spain as a lively home . . . Buzzy New York design duo Green River Project LLC sets up shop in the East Village . . . Harrison Green masters the art of Gotham gardening . . . A look at Martin Brudnizki’s new collection for the Urban Electric Co. . . . The boldest new wallpaper trends . . . Home is the ultimate laboratory for Lebanese designer Khaled El Mays . . . Iridescent metal offers a spectrum of possibilities . . . RH unveils a 90,000-squarefoot flagship in Manhattan . . . and more! (CONTINUED ON PAGE 18)
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For serial movers Athena and Victor Calderone, a townhouse in Cobble Hill has become their forever home. BY JANE KELTNER DE VALLE
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Parisian pattern master Pierre Marie brings his upbeat attitude to the 9th arrondissement. BY GAY GASSMANN (CONTINUED ON PAGE 22)
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Decorator Beata Heuman’s modest London house opens its door to a paradise of cheerful, cheeky style. BY MITCHELL OWENS
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In an idyllic corner of Pennsylvania, a timeworn barn becomes the perfect setting for modern family life. BY LEA CARPENTER
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Mission accomplished! If you fancy a vicarious vacation thrill, feast your eyes on Casa Grande, Fulk’s bright-pink Cabo San Lucas tour de force featured this month. The effervescent, San Francisco–based Fulk is a quadruple threat—visionary interior designer, renowned party planner, innovative flower arranger, and also a natural writer, as he proves by penning an engaging story on his longtime clients and their dream escape. The designer describes the genesis of the massive project—his clients, supreme hosts who really know how to show guests a good time, requested the ultimate pleasure palace on Mexico’s Baja peninsula. It’s a place they truly love, where they hope to entertain friends and family for years to come. Working with Víctor Legorreta, son of the great Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta, Fulk and his team (along with the highly involved owners) have conjured a singular, spectacular holiday house that seems to float on the sea. A bit closer to home, in Brooklyn, Athena and Victor Calderone (she is the domestic goddess behind lifestyle site EyeSwoon; he is an internationally in-demand techno DJ) embark upon their eighth renovation project together—a 25-foot-wide Greek Revival townhouse in Cobble Hill. Blood, sweat, tears, and a maxed-out Amex ensue. But the results speak for themselves (the dreamy kitchen, top right, figures prominently in Athena’s cooking videos), and the couple insist that this is their “forever” home. Time will tell! As for our cover star, Victoria’s Secret legend Alessandra Ambrosio, she worked with California designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard on fine-tuning her Santa Monica house into a haven for her and her kids. “This is my paradise,” she says. There are so many personal versions of paradise in this issue. Enjoy!
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cocoon-like shape that allowed jet-setting guests to swivel and recline. Since the foam was exceedingly lightweight—a hotel’s cleaning staff to move around. Fifty-some originals, clad in seafoam-hued fabric and leather, dappled the premises. “It was a great contrast to the 22-story glass-and-concrete skyscraper,” explains Henning von Gerstenberg Rosted, CEO Americas of Fritz Hansen, the blue-chip Danish manufacturer that has produced Eggs since 1958. It has been shipping them out to projects both commercial—the San Francisco International Airport and the Scandinavian golf club in Farum, Denmark—and residential ever since. Now, 60 years after the Egg’s crowd-pleasing debut, Fritz Hansen has unveiled a swank upgrade, with a raw-leather body perched atop a gold-plated base. But regardless of the upholstery or finish (a standard model starts at around $7,000), the curvaceous seat has proved its adaptability, playing well with minimalist, art-driven interiors and more decorative schemes alike. “I amped up mine with leopard-print silk velvet,” says decorator Emma Jane Pilkington of the one in her husband’s study. The root of its timeless appeal? Muses designer Russell Groves: “It’s a modern interpretation of the classic wing chair.” dwr.com —HANNAH MARTIN
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1. A VELVET-COVERED EGG IN EMMA JANE PILKINGTON’S NEW YORK CITY APARTMENT. 2. JAY MCINERNEY AND ANNE HEARST’S LEATHER-UPHOLSTERED EGG. 3. ARNE JACOBSEN IN HIS CREATION. 4. AN ANNIVERSARYEDITION EGG IN RAW LEATHER AND GOLD. 5. THE SAS ROYAL HOTEL STILL MAINTAINS ONE ROOM IN ITS ORIGINAL CONDITION.
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Marie-Caroline Willms The Austrian-German interior designer artfully reimagines a finca in southern Spain as a lively home—complete with olive groves 2
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hen MarieCaroline Willms and Alejandro Gamazo Hohenlohe moved to his mother’s finca near Marbella, Spain, six years ago, it was encircled in thorny bushes so overgrown “even the dogs wouldn’t venture into them,” Willms says. Today the restored estate is home to the couple, their two daughters (Flavia, 6, and Milana, 2), and a supporting cast of animals, from four donkeys to those nine wary dogs. To the couple’s happy surprise, they unearthed centuries-old olive groves, which now produce an organic extra-virgin oil from varieties of trees so unique to the region that they have yet to be named.
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Willms, an Austrian-German interior designer who relocated to Spain after she met Gamazo Hohenlohe, was well suited to the job of bringing the property back to life. She had grown up in historic homes (their wedding took place at Tratzberg, her family’s 16th-century castle in Austria’s Tyrol), and since she— like her husband—is descended from European nobility you might call “land rich, cash poor,” she had art and antiques at her fingertips. “I didn’t have any budget; I just started rearranging furniture. I found stuff in the attic and in other houses we had,” she says, explaining that two mismatched sofas in the living room have been draped with old curtains. (If Scarlett O’Hara could fashion them
into a gown, why not a sofa?) Unable to find a coffee table she liked in the family archives, Willms made a pair with faux tiger rugs, which she had sewn onto a base of woven grass that’s local to the region. (The tables caught the eye of tastemaker Lauren Santo Domingo, who has expressed interest in selling similar ones on Moda Operandi, where she recently launched a home division.) “The only money I spent was on paint,” Willms observes, such as the peppy peacock-blue that coats the living room walls; she also stenciled tropical pineapples across the master bedroom. “Interiors should be a collage of your life,” she explains. “My philosophy is to mix recycled, new, modern, antique, bespoke, collected, and homemade in a way that reflects one’s personality and creates a timeless interior.” Willms’s entertaining style is similarly DIY. Vegetables are plucked from the garden and thrown on the grill, and table settings make ample use of whatever is within reach, like the bay leaves she threads into garlands, mixed with heirloom china and Bohemian crystal.
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“For me, the layering of things is what makes a house a home,” Willms says.
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Unsurprisingly, Willms now has no shortage of clients—and the good news is you needn’t be born into a certain world to experience her talent firsthand. (That being said, a project for a Qatari sheikh came in £30 million over budget, thanks to the artisans and carpenters involved, some of whom helped restore Versailles.) Willms is currently designing two boutique hotels in the southern seaside town of Tarifa, Spain. One will resemble the private home of an old Spanish marquis—aristocratic and elegant but in the relaxed style of a country house. The other has a more Bahamian feel, with palm trees and a blue-and-white palette. Considering Willms’s assertion that her “least favorite thing is everything perfectly matching—it looks like a hotel,” neither of these properties will remotely resemble the dreaded H word. marie carolinewillms.com —JANE KELTNER DE VALLE
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Green River Project The buzzy New York– based design duo sets up shop in the East Village
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wonder if we can make a chair out of just this board?” That was the simple prompt that inspired sculptor Ben Bloomstein and painter Aaron Aujla—at the time assistants to Robert Gober and Nate Lowman, respectively— to consider a new creative calling: seating. Cut and assembled into an angular armchair that evoked Donald Judd’s
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Bode, who dressed Green River Project’s bamboo screens in vintage textiles. Next up, Bloomstein and Aujla are researching Art Deco legend Jean-Michel Frank for a more industrialage collection, which is set to hit their new East Village store this month. In the narrow, subterranean space, 5,000 pounds of tumbled stones, carted in from their namesake river upstate, cover the floor. Anchoring pieces into the pebbled ground, Aujla reflects, “Now the bed of our store—the foundation—is the same as the Green River.” greenriverprojectllc.com —HANNAH MARTIN PORTRAIT BY M AX BURKHALTER
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2 1. HARRISON GREEN PLANTED A ROOFTOP GARDEN IN NEW YORK’S MEATPACKING DISTRICT WITH NATIVE SPECIES. 2. IRREGULARLY PLACED PAVERS WITHIN A CARPET OF CREEPING THYME LEAD TO A CUSTOM TEAK-WRAPPED HOT TUB ON A TRIBECA TERRACE. 3. DAMIEN AND JACQUELINE HARRISON.
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Harrisons, who had married and launched their own business. It was fortuitous timing for all. One of the couple’s motivations for going solo, Damien says, was to close the communication gap between landscapers and their clients. Observing the way interior designers worked, they wondered why their own relationships couldn’t be that “intimate and thoughtful.” Offering design/build services allows them to cultivate trust and maintain control over the result. Interior designers are now among their biggest fans. “They are wildly talented but also wonderfully open to ideas from the not-so-green-thumbed,” says Monique Gibson, whose East Village courtyard is now a verdant extension of her living room. Behind such feats loom logistics unique to city gardens, from calculating soil weights for rooftop beds to snagging crane permits to hoist a Sub-Zero-size boxwood into position. Jacqueline oversees installation and maintenance, while Damien runs the design studio. He counts classical Italian gardens—structured, functional, predominantly green— as influences, along with Australia’s urban garden culture. Until fairly recently, the Harrisons have catered to clients like themselves: high-achieving New Yorkers. That’s starting to change, but the couple insist they’ll never turn their backs on their Gotham friends—like Neville, Jacobs’s bull terrier. “Neville is a respectful guy,” says Jacqueline. “He’s just a great canine client.” harrisongreen.com —SARAH MEDFORD
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Martin Brudnizki is the man of the interior-design hour, thanks to his raucous, rambunctious, and altogether ravissante £55 million makeover of Annabel’s, one of London’s hippest (and most exclusive) nightclubs since it opened in 1963. But if one can’t dash across the Pond just yet to join the dependably aristo revelers swanning around the hot spot, one can get a bit of its flair Stateside—and without passing muster with the membership committee. “Most of my jobs are entirely bespoke, and usually we start with lighting,” the suave Brudnizki says of his new illuminators for the Urban Electric Co., two supersmart fixtures—one flush-mount, one pendant—that are based on the signature lantern he created for Annabel’s dramatic Garden dining room and bar. “The right lighting is crucial to the success of any room,” he continues. “It helps the mood, the atmosphere, makes it bright or sexy.” There’s delight, too, in his new designs: The faceted brassand-glass offerings are accented by kicky copper leaves that, Brudnizki says, “make them more playful. It’s very important that every space be special.” urbanelectricco.com —MITCHELL OWENS
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1. NEEDLES WALL LANTERN BY MARTIN BRUDNIZKI FOR THE URBAN ELECTRIC CO. 2. NEEDLES PENDANT. 3. THE DESIGNER. 4. THE GARDEN AT ANNABEL’S IN LONDON.
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DISCOVERIES world of 1. A WALL SYSTEM FROM KHALED EL MAYS’S PALMEA COLLECTION FOR NILUFAR GALLERY. 2. A CEILING LIGHT FROM THE SAME COLLECTION. 3. EL MAYS AT HIS NEW HOME IN CHTAURA, LEBANON.
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t was at a public art exhibition in Beirut that designer Khaled El Mays first looked—really looked—at the Fishawy chair, an artisanal riff on Thonet’s iconic bistro seats, ubiquitous across the Mediterranean and Middle East. “The artist had painted them gold with black calligraphy and distorted the proportions,” recalls El Mays of the bastardized versions on display. “I realized nobody had successfully made this chair into something that could actually live and evolve.” So he created his own mutant take on the 19th-century classic, enlisting local artisans to craft a chair that doubled as a valet, using French oak, brass, and rattan. “I deformed the chair in order to give it a new function, while still totally respecting the qualities of the original,” he reflects of the piece, which debuted at Design Days Dubai in 2016. Since then, El Mays—who studied architecture at the American University of Beirut before getting his MFA at PHOTOGRAPHY BY TONY ELIEH
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1. A COLORFUL SIDEBOARD EL MAYS CRAFTED FOR HIS NEW HOME. 2. PALMEA FLOOR LAMP. 3. PALMEA LARGE CABINET. 4. A SITTING AREA IN EL MAYS’S CHTAURA HOME.
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“I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.” So said Alexander Girard, an American designer with a joyful aesthetic, whether the commission was a building or a matchbook cover. Table linens that he created in the 1950s and ’60s have been magnified into Check (top) and Steps (above), new cotton dhurrie carpets by Maharam. A third carpet, Plus, is in the line as well, and two Girard textiles have also been put into production. maharam.com —MITCHELL OWENS
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designers, and design lovers, as the crowd of more than 1,500 enjoyed caviar, champagne, and frosé. “We liked the irreverence and soul of the Meatpacking,” explains RH CEO Gary Friedman, who first eyed the landmark property seven years back. “At its core, it’s a neighborhood of originals and leaders—the first Soho House outside London, Diane von Furstenberg’s steel-and-glass rooftop penthouse, the first Stella McCartney store.” RH has joined their ranks front and center as it continues to shake up not only the furniture business but shopping culture overall. Since Friedman took the helm of the company (né Restoration Hardware) in 2001, he has transformed a brand once known for rustic trestle tables and worn chesterfield PHOTOGRAPHY BY TY COLE
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With help from designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard, supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio crafts a haven in Santa Monica, California, that echoes the sunny delights of her native Brazil TEXT BY
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ALESSANDRA AMBROSIO, WEARING AN ELIZABETH AND JAMES DRESS, AND DAUGHTER ANJA IN THE GARDEN. OPPOSITE AMBROSIOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SON, NOAH, READS IN THE FAMILY ROOM. CUSTOM SOFA BY MARTYN LAWRENCE BULLARD; FRANCO ALBINI RATTAN CHAIR. FASHION STYLING BY CHLOE BARTOLI. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
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n the age of the #MeToo movement, is it still kosher to describe a woman renowned across the globe for her beauty and allure as a Brazilian bombshell? When the subject is supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio, it just seems coy to use a more demure descriptor. Ambrosio has been ranked as one of the highest-earning fashion models for years, and her name routinely turns up in popular media on lists of the world’s sexiest and most beautiful women. She has walked the runway and appeared in advertisements for myriad titans of couture, and she has parlayed that success into business ventures of her own, including her Ále by Alessandra fashion and lifestyle brand. In 2017, she announced her retirement from the annual Victoria’s Secret fashion spectacle after lighting up the catwalk for 17 years. “I travel constantly for work, but when I’m not on the road, I just want to be at home with my kids,” Ambrosio says, describing her love affair with the
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Los Angeles–area dream house she shares with her ten-year-old daughter, Anja, and her six-year-old son, Noah. Her 1920s residence in Santa Monica is a quintessentially Angeleno Spanish Colonial Revival design. “I come from a small town in Brazil, and Santa Monica has a similar vibe. I had to be near the beach, someplace where you can feel and smell the ocean breeze. This is my paradise,” she explains. Ambrosio has lived in L.A. for a decade. She spent five years searching for the perfect spot to put down roots for her family, and the next five years finetuning the property to make it completely her own. She met Martyn Lawrence Bullard, the effervescent celebrity AD100 designer, a year and a half ago, after admiring the Mediterranean-style villa Bullard had decorated for actress Ellen Pompeo (AD, November 2014). “Martyn brought a lot of color, texture, and life to the project. I love exotic places, and he knows how to conjure a fantasy that still feels playful and appropriate for kids. I didn’t want anything too stiff or serious,” she says. “I’d describe her style as Brazilian boho meets California rock ’n’ roll,” Bullard observes of his captivating client’s taste. “We wanted to do something
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that feels young and fresh, not just for the children but for Alessandra as well. She has an incredibly vivacious spirit.” The mood of the home is established in the entryway, where a stairway clad in brilliant blue tile is joined by a 19th-century Chinese apothecary cabinet, turquoise ceramic lamps with Indian sari-fabric shades, a vintage Persian carpet, and an Egyptian Revival chandelier. Reminders of Ambrosio’s Brazilian heritage are peppered throughout the residence, from the jacaranda tree planted in the front yard to the Jorge Zalszupin armchairs in the living room and the Jean Gillon lounge chair in the model’s bedroom. Sympathetic furnishings of Moroccan, Indian, Turkish, and Italian descent round out the globalchic assemblage. Black-and-white photography—of rock stars, fashion shoots, and Ambrosio herself—is another staple of the decor. Her collection includes signature images by Herb Ritts, Peter Beard, Arthur Elgort, Terry O’Neill, Raphael Mazzucco, and Ellen von Unwerth. “Every picture is special. Every one of them has inspired me. If I’m going to hang a photograph
in my home, it has to mean something,” she insists. As for the children’s rooms, Ambrosio confesses, “I had almost no say in the design. Martyn worked with the kids to express their unique personalities.” For Anja, Bullard channeled a punk-rock-princess theme, centered on a black four-poster bed festooned with garlands of hot-pink pom-poms. A watercolor painting of Marilyn Monroe that hangs beside the bed nods to the mother’s and daughter’s penchant for watching classic movies. Noah’s bedroom is a decidedly more boyish affair, replete with a hand-painted camouflage wall, car and airplane models, and plenty of ninjas. The real center of home life at Villa Ambrosio is the backyard, where swimming, volleyball, Brazilian barbecue and music, and roasting s’mores are the order of the day. “The house is very calm and peaceful, but the backyard is all about fun and noise. It has the same joyous feeling as my beach house in Brazil. When it’s winter in California, we head to Florianópolis, where it’s nice and warm,” Ambrosio says, adding, “I’m a summer girl. I grew up in bikinis.” Nothing could be less surprising.
BELOW AMBROSIO, IN A GUCCI ROBE, WITH ANJA AND NOAH IN THE LIVING ROOM. SOFA BY THOMAS HAYES STUDIO IN A PINDLER FAUX SUEDE; PAINTING BY RAPHAEL MAZZUCCO. OPPOSITE IN THE DINING ROOM, AN ANTIQUE MOROCCAN PENDANT ILLUMINATES A TABLE AND CHAIRS BY THOMAS HAYES STUDIO.
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THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK AN ALPACA BLANKET COVERS A MINOTTI BED IN THE MASTER BEDROOM. KRAVET LEATHER ON JEAN GILLON CHAIR AND OTTOMAN.
TAJ MAHAL OVERSIZE MIRROR BY JAMIE YOUNG; $2,750. ONEKINGSLANE.COM
ATLAS DOMED BONE BOX BY MARTYN LAWRENCE BULLARD FOR FRONTGATE; $179. FRONTGATE.COM
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The house is part of me. It’s who I am and what I like.” —Alessandra Ambrosio
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IN THE PINK-HUED CENTRAL COURTYARD, AN ALLÉE OF PALM TREES FRAMES A VISTA OF THE HORIZON BEYOND. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
Designer Ken Fulk and architect Víctor Legorreta fashion the ultimate good-time getaway in Mexico TEXT BY
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THE CUSTOM LINEAR FIREPLACE IS SURROUNDED BY SEATING BY KETTAL, PALECEK, AND PAOLA LENTI. SMALL AFRICAN TABLES BY JOHN DICKINSON; COCKTAIL TABLES BY SUTHERLAND.
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ike many great stories, it all started with a glass of wine. Years ago, while enjoying a bottle of Casa Grande on vacation in Mexico, my clients joked that it would make a great name for a getaway. Little did they realize how true this moniker would one day become. I’ve known these clients for a long time, having first developed a friendship rooted in a shared understanding that life is short and how you live it really matters. When we undertook this project, we had already collaborated on one home and had shared a host of adventures that often led to dancing on tables into the wee hours. As a result, we had developed a shorthand that helped inform not only the look but also the feeling of this house. A close-knit family with a busy lifestyle, they wanted a home that could accommodate groups of all sizes. A place to escape, a place for family and friends to gather, a place where they could cut loose and celebrate. But what they dreamed of was far
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from a simple beach house; they wanted to create a truly remarkable destination that would be a draw for generations to come. The clients had long admired the work of the Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta, and they had hoped to one day have a house designed by his vaunted firm. Their initial request was for a singular home, unlike any they had seen. They took inspiration from the spectacular oceanfront setting and their favorite memories from beach locales around the globe—Tulum, St. Barts, Ibiza, Mykonos. The task of translating these references into a visual language fell to me. Through the combined efforts of my team, Víctor Legorreta (Ricardo’s son and successor) and project architect Marcela Cortina Rodríguez, and the clients, who were intimately involved throughout the process, a collective narrative developed. From the beginning, this house was going to be grand—not only in scale but in aesthetic. Legorreta designed a low-slung 30,000-square-foot house that slowly reveals itself as you enter and wend your way through a series of spaces, eventually leading up to a full view of the Sea of Cortez in all its azure splendor. For such a large house, it’s imperative that you don’t
FOR COURTYARD DINING, A SUTHERLAND TABLE IS SET WITH CHAIRS BY ROOMS AND CHRISTIAN ASTUGUEVIEILLE. OPPOSITE IN THE POOL, UMBRELLAS BY SANTA BARBARA DESIGNS SHADE COLORFUL LEISURE CREATIONS CHAISE LONGUES.
CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE CUSTOM ENCAUSTIC CEMENT TILE FROM OAXACA, MEXICO, ADDS WHIMSY TO BATHROOMS THROUGHOUT THE HOUSE. OPPOSITE CUSTOM BUILT-IN BEDS IN THE ZIPPERS SUITE WEAR LEONTINE LINENS. SWING-ARM SCONCES BY OBSOLETE; CUSTOM DIP-DYED COTTON SCONCES BY ALEX RANDALL; RUG BY MARK D. SIKES FOR MERIDA.
A vacation home is about the memories we create, the moments that leave an imprint and keep us coming back year after year. experience it all at once, but instead there’s a sense of exploration when you aren’t quite sure what’s going to come next. “We wanted to create a big surprise as you entered the house,” says Legorreta of the unassuming entrance that leads to a two-story central courtyard painted in the hot-pink hue that has been synonymous with his family name since his father started the firm in 1965. “This sense of mystery is very common in Mexican architecture. It is an architecture about emotions, one that keeps you discovering as you wander through it. From there you go to smaller courtyards and gardens of even smaller scale that create special atmospheres for the more intimate spaces.” The private spaces and guest suites radiate from either side of this dramatic hub, which we lined with palm trees as opposed to cactus. We wanted to create a sense of “otherness”—an oasis in the Baja desert. In fact, water features throughout the house give it the
feeling of an island floating on the sea (that water also has the added benefit of cooling the air on the hottest of days). As you look across the central courtyard’s large reflecting pool—where a hydraulic platform rises at the touch of a button to accommodate a dining table and chairs—you see straight through the doubleheight living room to an infinity pool painstakingly colored to match the hue of the water beyond. We went to great lengths to blur that line between the pool and the ocean, and we went through a similar exercise with the finishes throughout the house. Knowing how much these clients love color, texture, and pattern, we chose relatively simple materials that support all the glamour yet feel laid-back, honest, and true to the arid landscape: thirsty whitewashed wide-plank wood or beautiful pale stone floors, creamy plaster walls, doors and shutters in hand-scraped light wood. That restraint gives the house a more ethereal quality.
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A CUSTOM LIGHT FIXTURE BY ALEX RANDALL HANGS OVER THE LIVING ROOM, WHERE CUSHIONS MADE WITH MEXICAN BLANKETS COVER THE BUILT-IN BENCHES.
ABOVE BOLD TILEWORK PUNCHES UP THE OPEN KITCHEN, WITH CUSTOM CONCRETE-AND-OAK MILLWORK. MCGUIRE STOOLS AT CUSTOM TABLE BY DOS GALLOS. OPPOSITE PATTERNED FABRICS ENLIVEN SPACES THROUGHOUT THE HOUSE.
To further the relaxed vibe, we made an early decision to incorporate a lot of built-in furnishings formed from the same plaster as the walls. The enormous sofas in the living room were designed to be like deep daybeds, so that anyone could curl up and nap at any time. This immediately gave an uncomplicated ease to the house. It also allowed the freestanding pieces we did introduce to feel more like jewelry adorning the spaces. Our selections include a Spanish table backed by two midcentury cabinets to create a casual bar in the living room, a sofa by Mattia Bonetti, and a sculptural shelf by Zaha Hadid. A Steinway purchased at auction was the pièce de résistance for the musically inclined family. Handmade textiles found on travels throughout Mexico bring color and pattern to the rooms. Ultimately, it was about more than simply building a beautiful house. It was about setting the stage for experiences. These clients truly understand that a vacation home is about the memories we create, the moments that leave an imprint and keep us coming back year after year. So we really considered what it
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would look like to host a dinner for 30 and where the DJ might set up, what amenities their guests might want in their suites and how we could evoke a sense of childlike wonder for movie night in the home theater. And as we do for many of our projects, we created a full brand identity, including a unique logo, typeface, and color palette, to suit this memorable resort destination: Casa Grande. After approximately three years and a few unforeseen detours (not one but three tropical storms! Stolen linens for 22 beds!), the combined efforts of hundreds of artisans and builders were ready for their big reveal. As the clients arrived to see their completed home for the first time, a mariachi band played in the courtyard while a troupe of dancers wearing long skirts embroidered with casa grande glided down the staircase. Tequila shots (with tamer refreshments for the kids) and maracas were passed around. After a delicious dinner, as my birthday gift for the wife, the DJ turned up the disco music, and right on cue, hotpink fireworks exploded in the sky reflecting in the pools around the property.
Ultimately, it was about more than simply building a beautiful house. It was about setting the stage for experiences.
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THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK
We wanted to create a sense of ‘otherness’—an oasis in the Baja desert,” notes Fulk. ENCAUSTIC CEMENT TILES COVER A BATHROOM WALL. SCONCES BY KELLY WEARSTLER FOR VISUAL
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no sleep till For serial movers Athena and Victor Calderone, the eighth time’s the charm— a classical townhouse in Cobble Hill has become the stylish couple’s forever home JANE KELTNER DE VALLE GIEVES ANDERSON STYLED BY COLIN KING
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s the saying goes, it’s the journey, not the destination. But for Athena Calderone, the domestic goddess behind lifestyle site EyeSwoon, and husband Victor, music producer and techno DJ, their journey brought them to a superb destination: a 25-foot-wide Greek Revival townhouse in historic Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Rewind to 1996 and The Limelight, New York’s legendary nightclub, housed in a Gothic-style deconsecrated church, where Victor first laid eyes on Athena, then a young bartender. A basement apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, set the stage for the next phase of courtship, quarters so cozy they shared a twin Murphy bed. “That’s love,” Athena jokes. By 1998 the two were engaged and exploring Dumbo, then an undeveloped neighborhood with not so much as a grocery store. “People thought we were crazy,” she says. Victor chimes in with a chuckle: “Our families were like, ‘You can go to Staten Island and get a house with property!’ ” They borrowed the money to purchase a loft, and so began the cycle of renovating and selling their homes—though, Athena insists, “we weren’t flippers. The reason we became serial movers is because our needs kept changing.” When their son, Jivan, now 15, was born, they wanted another room, and so on. “Each time we amplified our space, it also amplified my interest in design,” Athena says, admitting that one early apartment was so stark that when Madonna, who was collaborating with Victor at the time, visited, she asked, “Where is all your furniture?” With each new home, however, the spaces
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became more nuanced and layered. Eventually Athena enrolled at Parsons to study interior design, and in 2012 she launched a blog, EyeSwoon. “Cooking, decorating, and entertaining gave me a way to bring people together in my home,” she says. That blog is now a multipronged brand boasting the James Beard Award–winning Cook Beautiful (Abrams), with a design tome on the horizon for 2020. The Cobble Hill place is the eighth home the couple have done together. “I’d reached a point in my confidence level where I didn’t want a developer choosing my bathroom fixtures and base moldings,” Athena says. “I was like, ‘Come on, Vic, let’s do a townhouse.’ ” Victor, accustomed to the openness of loft living, thought townhouses were “dark and narrow.” He told his wife, “If we do it, it needs to be a wide one,” which, he adds, “made it really tough within our budget.” The house they found had been broken up into separate units, and only three of the four tenants would grant access. “The parlor floor, which is the floor you want to see the most, was like, ‘Sorry, not a good day,’ ” he recalls. While the brokers tried to negotiate entry, he texted Athena. “I was like, ‘Babe, this is it. I’m blown away. We have to figure out a way to make it work.’ I’m texting and walking,” he continues, “and the next thing I know, I slam my head into this shelf with a nail sticking out and split my head open. The brokers start screaming. My broker was like, ‘Call an ambulance!’ The other broker was like, ‘You’re bleeding on the floor!’ ” An ambulance arrived, and he was told he needed stitches. “Vic’s like, ‘I just want to see the parlor floor!’ ” says Athena, laughing. “We were real committed.
“I’m a design chameleon— always open, always absorbing,” says Athena.
ABOVE VICTOR, ATHENA, AND SON JIVAN LOUNGE IN THE FAMILY ROOM, WHERE ART BY ETHAN COOK (LEFT) AND ALEX PERWEILER IS DISPLAYED ON THE PLASTER WALLS. CUSTOM SOFA BY STUDIO GIANCARLO VALLE. ATHENA WEARS A ROSETTA GETTY DRESS. OPPOSITE AN RH SOFA AND VINTAGE FRENCH CHAIRS ON THE TERRACE.
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The renovation “nearly broke us— financially and emotionally,” Athena says. I mean, a 25-footer? We weren’t letting it go.” Adds Victor: “I walk back in with my head bandaged, and turn to the broker and say, ‘I bled for this home. You need to make this happen.’ ” Three years and a full gut renovation later, here they are. “This is our forever home,” they both insist. “It was a hell of a project,” says Athena. “It nearly broke us—financially and emotionally.” Because the townhouse had been converted into apartments, much of the history was wiped clean. “We salvaged what we could,” she says, pointing out the original mantels and an ornate medallion in the living room from which a handmade chandelier now hangs. They weren’t total purists, though. Speakers are set into the ceilings, and partitions between the living and dining rooms were demolished for a more open entertaining space. The kitchen—Calacatta Paonazzo marble counters on chalky gray cabinetry with Parisian-style open shelving—is literally “the star of the show,” Athena says. “For shooting purposes, you need side light, so that’s why we ended up with a square island instead of a rectangle. It sounds crazy,” she concedes, “but I needed to make certain things work for my brand.” They also added a wall of bifold glass doors onto the terrace just beyond, creating a spectacular indoor/outdoor experience seldom seen in New York City homes. In terms of furniture, they started almost completely fresh, curating a sophisticated mix of new (Apparatus coffee table and horsehair sconces) and vintage (a 1970s Mario Bellini sofa, 1950s French chairs). “I was obsessive about Royère and these
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incredibly prolific French designers,” says Athena, noting the Jacques Adnet sideboard in the dining area. “This was way beyond my budget. I lowballed the dealer almost a quarter of what it was worth. Didn’t even tell Victor. Then he was like, ‘Some crazy charge just came up on the Amex. I think someone stole my card.’ I said, ‘You don’t even know the deal I got.’ ” Next she showed him a photo of it. “He was like, ‘It looks like something in my grandmother’s house.’ I said, ‘Just trust me.’ ” Some may shudder at what she did next, having it stripped and bleached. But voilà! It worked. Upstairs, they devoted an entire floor to the master suite with double doors that lead from the bedroom to Athena’s walk-through closet to a bath lined with pink-veined white marble. “I legit asked Victor, ‘Are you man enough to shower in a pink bathroom?’ ” His response: “Hell, yeah.” Victor’s recording studio sits opposite the landing, while the top floor is where Jivan’s room, a library/family room, Athena’s office, and a guest room are situated. So how does Jivan feel about what’s been a lifelong game of musical chairs with respect to his homes? “A lot of people are like, ‘Isn’t it unsettling for your child to always be in a new space?’ ” Athena says. “But I feel like we are home. We make home wherever we are, and Jivan’s always been a part of the process. He’s designed every one of his rooms.” Perhaps the most telling indication of how the experience has rubbed off on him was this past summer, when he expressed interest in an internship. “He said, ‘Mom, I want to study architecture.’ ”
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With the opening of a new gallery for his vibrant creations, Parisian pattern master Pıerre Marie brings his upbeat attitude to the 9th arrondissement TEXT BY GAY GASSMANN PORTRAIT BY AMBROISE TÉZENAS
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very summer for the last three years, emerging design star PierreMarie Agin has cycled through France, creating a mental map of sorts. “I always come back loaded with inspiration and a desire to create,” reflects the native Parisian—known simply as Pierre Marie—fresh from a 17-day, 775-mile ride from Biarritz to Sète. Certainly the calm and adrenaline served him well. “Fully restored, mentally and physically,” he arrived home to open his first shop, just in time for September’s rentrée. Tucked into the 9th arrondissement, the small gallery offers a place for Pierre Marie—who specializes in graphic design and launched his career creating scarf patterns for Hermès—to showcase his brilliantly patterned creations. Those include his first tapestry, a masterpiece of botanical motifs realized in collaboration with Aubusson’s Manufacture Robert Four. He titled the work Ras El Hanout, an Arabic phrase that refers to the spice mixture displayed at the front of a shop to entice customers. Store owners keep their recipes secret, a practice that inspired Pierre Marie’s herbarium-like weaving, his own mysterious cocktail of flavors. “He is a true artist, combining boundless creativity with a certain degree of order for a totally unique approach,” says designer Pierre Yovanovitch, jury president at the 2018 Design Parade Toulon in the South of France. For this year’s festival,
Pierre Marie was invited to conceive a full room, joining forces with various craftsmen to realize an immersive environment of stained glass, carpet, ceramic pots, and Longwy enamels. “He has a respect for the antiquated, but his vision is contemporary and his use of color totally singular,” adds Yovanovitch. “He is that rare mix of eccentricity and mastery.” Pierre Marie describes himself as an “ornamentist,” one who decorates everything. Tapped by Hermès ten years ago, he became the youngest person to create scarves (some 20 and counting) for the legendary fashion house. Current projects include a holiday collection comprising special packagings, a book, and a short animated film for Diptyque, all debuting this month. And at his own apartment, just next door to the gallery, Pierre Marie has left no surface unadorned, splashing every floor, wall, and ceiling—even the clothes on his back—with patterns. No matter the project, he says he just wants to create something “marvelous—pure happiness.” If his gallery is a place for him to share recent work, it’s also an opportunity to give back to the neighborhood. “I wanted to be part of the history of this place,” says Pierre Marie, who hung his neon logo outside—an undulating ribbon that reappears in the shop’s tapestry and stained-glass window. After the inaugural installation, he plans to mount a few shows a year, some with other artists. As he insists, though, “I’m not in a hurry. I want to make this space live.”
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IN THE LIVING ROOM, EDWARD WORMLEY CHAIRS FLANK A JOHN DICKINSON SIDE TABLE. LYNN CHADWICK SCULPTURE; SOFA BY VAN DUYSEN; ON KAWARA PAINTING. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
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TOP VAN DUYSEN DESIGNED THE KITCHEN’S PENDANT LIGHT, OAK CABINETS, TABLE, CHAIRS, AND ISLAND. ABOVE THE LIVING ROOM SOFA IS COVERED IN A BELGIAN LINEN. VAN DUYSEN COCKTAIL TABLE.
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he relationship between designer and client, by any measure, can be defined as a romance that culminates, if all goes well, with putting a ring on it. “Twenty years ago, we fell in love with Vincent’s own home,” a Manhattan businessman explains, “and realized that he felt the same as we did, that he had the same desires: for more space, fewer objects, less color.” We are a financial-tech entrepreneur and a photographer, a dashing Belgian couple who settled in New York City not long ago. As for Vincent, that would be their landsman AD100 architect and designer Vincent Van Duysen, a maestro of decidedly underdecorated yet deeply sensual rooms. AD100 brethren Rose Uniacke, Ilse Crawford, and Axel Vervoordt count themselves members of the Antwerpian’s fan club. Ditto actress Julianne Moore, a close friend, who penned the foreword to Thames & Hudson’s Vincent Van Duysen: Works 2009–2018, which appears in December. Though unmistakably contemporary, Van Duysen’s oeuvre feels eternal. As in a Vermeer painting, one expects to hear nothing more than the ticking of a clock or, perhaps, one’s own heartbeat. Nothing appears new. Everything, the investor says, “has patiné.” Such has been the case with his and his husband’s previous Van Duysen commissions, among them a 130-foot
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explorer yacht. But in their sun-swept triplex in NoHo, that ticking is drowned out by the shouts of two young sons. “My clients have hectic lives now, always in a rush, so the spaces had to be very calming,” Van Duysen says of this Stateside project, a soup-to-nuts renovation that included designing much of the furniture. Towering doorways and windows are lined up throughout, establishing sweeping vistas and reassuring rhythms. When it comes to color, harshness is avoided and harmony embraced. Voluptuous Belgian linen curtains, the color of clotted cream, fade into same-color walls. Chunky handwoven carpets and cushions are executed in browns that recall earth, here pale and parched, there dark and rain-soaked. Oak beams have been sawn into manageable lengths and stacked to make a massive cocktail table. “My colors tend to be desaturated and mostly derived from nature,” says Van Duysen, adding, “I like to create a symphony of elements.” Consider the inviting roof terrace yet another movement in the designer’s musical analogy, a colorful, windruffled meadow masterminded by Piet Oudolf, the grandee of naturalistic gardening. Van Duysen also installed a shaded area for dining en famille and enough hardscape for the children to canter about as their parents look on. “Twenty-five years ago we were more formal, but with the boys, our world has become more convivial,” the entrepreneur says. “Our style has evolved as a result, but through it runs the same philosophy. Vincent, who has been with us from the start, understands us more than anyone, who we were then and how we live now.” Call it a match made in heaven.
A STAIR TWISTS INTO THE LIVING ROOM. CHARLOTTE PERRIAND TABLE AND BOOKSHELF; PIERRE JEANNERET ARMCHAIRS; DESK LAMP FROM WYETH. OPPOSITE, TOP IN THE LIBRARY, A JACK PIERSON SCULPTURE HANGS ABOVE A VAN DUYSEN SOFA. OPPOSITE, BOTTOM THE CHILDREN’S BATH IS CLAD IN CARRARA MARBLE. BRONZE BATH AND SINK FITTINGS BY VOLA.
“I like to create a symphony of elements,” Van Duysen says.
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HAIR AND MAKEUP BY ANN-MARIE LAWSON USING CHARLOTTE TILBURY AND BUMBLE AND BUMBLE
DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY Decorator Beata Heuman’s modest London house opens its door to a paradise of cheerful, cheeky style
BEATA HEUMAN WITH DAUGHTER GURLI IN THE LIVING ROOM. SHE WEARS AN EMILIA WICKSTEAD DRESS AND BLOUSE AND TORY BURCH BOOTS. BEATA HEUMAN DAYBED IN A JOSEF FRANK FOR SVENSKT TENN FABRIC; BESPOKE SOFA IN A CHRISTOPHER FARR CLOTH LINEN; PILLOWS OF A DONGHIA JACQUARD STRIPE. FASHION STYLING BY VIOLET NAYLORLEYLAND. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
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erhaps Beata Heuman creates fresh, welcoming rooms because she hails from Sweden, a country that ranks ninth on the 2018 World Happiness Report. Maybe it’s because her former boss is Nicky Haslam, the AD100 stalwart celebrated for his nose-thumbing approach to life as well as interiors. Then again, it could be destiny—after all, her parents did name her Beata, Latin for “happy.” “I want to make people forget about the outside world a little,” Heuman explains as she strolls into the entrance hall of her vest-pocket house in Hammersmith, a sparky, Thames-side neighborhood that’s gratifyingly ungentrified and, she points out, has great Tube connections. The high, narrow space offers a zesty contrast to the prim bay-windowed, golden-brick countenance of the Victorian semidetached where she and her husband, John Finlay, an executive at the hip beverage company Fever-Tree, live with their toddler daughter, Gurli, and await the arrival of another babe any day now. Colorful African animal masks (Heuman has a thing for wildkingdom accents, though “sometimes I think I’ve gone too far”) splash a wall dressed in honey-tone hemp. The radiator
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and its whimsical scalloped cover have been finished with the pale blue of a candied almond. Up the stairway races a vivid teal-and-pink runner, its irregular zigzag pattern transitioning from the hall’s crisp herringbone parquet in an eye-opening way that recalls the moment in a certain movie when blackand-white Kansas gives way to polychrome Oz. “People are too serious about interior design: You can have fun, or you can follow all these rules that don’t matter much,” says Heuman, a rising star who hung out her decorating shingle just five years ago. Even her husband has come around. “When we met, he was very excited about a pair of cable-knit cushions that he’d just purchased,” she candidly recounts. “I think I’ve opened his eyes a bit. He’s a late bloomer when it comes to creativity but has become quite good,” she continues. “It’s so great when the other person in your life is interested and contributes; we have a lot of fun.” Fellow Swedes, Heuman notes, might think that the couple’s cozy digs look overdecorated, but there’s definitely a Scandinavian vibe—lively, practical, bohemian in effect yet consciously, though not puritanically, restrained. “John is very tall,” she adds, “and he feels very unrelaxed if there’s the possibility of knocking something over, so I’ve become aware of streamlining.” Ensuring that rooms are relatively uncluttered doesn’t mean eschewing atmospheric delights. Working with Tibor, a long-lamented but recently revived British wallpaper firm,
PALM DROP AND MARBLEIZED CUSHIONS BY BEATA HEUMAN. RIGHT A LINEN PENDANT HANGS IN THE ENTRANCE HALL.
“I want to make people forget about the outside world a little.”
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Heuman commissioned a delicious background for the dining room: a squiggly pattern of perky flowers and twining leaves that’s a mash-up of vintage doodles by the firm’s founder. “It’s like somebody drew on my walls,” she says. The chairs around the Art Deco–style table add a racy frisson to the sweet setting, the bentwood frames slicked with zippered black-leather covers that were Heuman’s idea: “The zips make them a bit sexy.” An especially enchanting notion was to hire an artist to adapt Ludwig Bemelmans’s murals at New York City’s Carlyle hotel for Gurli’s room, transforming the walls into a virtual park that becomes momentarily real as the imagery wraps around a window that frames the garden. Heuman also copied (“shamelessly,” she admits and with her own hands) a jungly Charles Baskerville mural from a 1930s Elsie de Wolfe–decorated residence and displays that handiwork in the gardenlevel guest room, where yet another design-history footnote awaits: The Heuman-design bed rests on white lion-paw feet like those on an ottoman that Louis Süe fashioned long ago for French arts patron Marie-Blanche de Polignac. Scholarly yet delightfully dégagé, Heuman’s small but growing line of bespoke furnishings and lighting possesses a similarly knowing air. Flanking the living room’s marigoldyellow, 19th-century lion banner from the kingdom of Dahomey are a pair of arresting lyre-front cabinets, stage-set confections
that hark back to Regency England on the one hand and its Vogue Regency echo on the other. “We rarely buy newly made bits of furniture for projects,” Heuman explains of her office, “usually designing and making it ourselves.” That includes a whimsical light fixture that has captivated London’s smart set of late: an egg-shape pendant sprouting a leafy eruption that gives it the look of an airborne pineapple. Another of Heuman’s conjurings is the camouflage that disguises the refrigerator. The dining room looks straight into the exquisitely proportioned galley kitchen, and the most visible area, the decorator says, was “the only place for the fridge to go—but I didn’t want to look at a fridge.” So she encased the unmentionable in what looks for all the world like a contemporary version of an antique (dare one say Swedish?) armoire, accented with an arched pediment, a toothsome sky-blue paint job, and gleaming pulls she designed and then had made by a Florentine bronzista. “It’s really important to create things with depth and layers,” Heuman observes, adding that she regularly deep-dives into a personal library of design books for inspiration. “I know about the past and the history of things, and that’s something I also learned from Nicky: You have to have knowledge of what came before and what other people did, otherwise your work can become trivial.” If that’s the recipe for happiness, count us in.
“People are too serious about interior design: You can have fun, or you can follow all these rules that don’t matter much.” CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT THE MASTER BEDROOM’S HEADBOARD IS A BFGF BLANKET FRAMED WITH BLUE VELVET. IN THE DINING ROOM, JONAS BOHLIN FOR GEMLA CHAIRS SURROUND A VINTAGE TABLE. IN THE POWDER
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ROOM, THE VANITY SKIRT IS A MARBLEIZED VELVET BY BEATA HEUMAN. OPPOSITE THE KITCHEN’S BACKSPLASH AND COUNTERS ARE CLAD IN ESMERALDA MARBLE. PENDANT AND BLUE CABINET BY BEATA HEUMAN; SMEG RANGE.
TOMÁS AND ROBERTO BUCCINI BIKE PAST THE ORIGINAL WELL HOUSE AT THE FAMILY’S HOME, A RENOVATED 1860s BARN, IN CHADDS FORD, PENNSYLVANIA. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
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In an idyllic corner of Pennsylvania, a timeworn barn becomes the perfect setting for modern family life
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n 2009, while temporarily ensconced in a cozy 1860s farmhouse overlooking an empty bank barn on her family’s 130-acre property in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Mati Bonetti de Buccini was dreaming up a new permanent home for her family. Now a partner and director at Atelier Fine Art Services, a firm that stores some of the world’s top collections, Buccini had relocated to the Brandywine Valley from Manhattan with her husband, a real estate developer, and their three small children. The farmhouse was meant to be temporary. Her plan was to build a “proper house” on the land and reserve the farmhouse for guests; the barn would be for parties. To help them work it out, the couple had hired architect Pietro Cicognani, a former New York neighbor and close friend, who had previously designed homes for Buccini’s mother-in-law and brother-in-law (the latter’s sitting just over the hill). Buccini and her husband made their plans—and then decided to stay put. “We loved it,” she says. “I wasn’t burning to move. It was enough.” Then, over Thanksgiving dinner in 2011, with 25 friends and extended family crammed around multiple tables in the farmhouse, Buccini changed her mind: She and her husband decided to complete their dream project. Now, however, the vision had evolved. Rather than build a more formal, traditional house, Cicognani ABOVE RECLAIMED RED-OAK MILLWORK SECTIONS OFF THE LIVING ROOM; SOFA, COCKTAIL proposed transforming the barn into their TABLE, AND RUG BY ISABEL LÓPEZ-QUESADA. OPPOSITE IN THE SUNROOM, THE DINING CHAIRS, BAMBOO SEATING, AND FLOOR TILES ARE FAMILY HEIRLOOMS. home. As the footprint didn’t provide quite enough space for the family’s needs, his scheme included grafting additions onto the loved Isabel’s work.” Two weeks later López-Quesada visited structure while preserving the majestic triple-height central the site and immediately accepted the project, her first in space as a shared “public zone.” North America. By being built into the slope of a hillside, traditional bank Though based on different continents, Buccini and Lópezbarns allowed easy access to upper and lower levels from two Quesada stayed in touch via WhatsApp and carefully selected sides (often the hayloft and stables). Now a gravel courtyard each unique piece. A sunroom pairs distressed glass tiles from leads to the residence’s main entrance on what would have been the barn’s second story; the downhill façade opens onto a Bordeaux studio with antique tiles reclaimed from Buccini’s great-grandmother’s home in Santiago de los Caballeros a wide terrace and takes in the view of the valley beyond. in the Dominican Republic. An 18th-century French tapestry For help in taming the dramatic spaces, Buccini turned to Madrid-based AD100 interior designer Isabel López-Quesada, commands a wall of the dining area at one end of the kitchen, where antique glass-fronted cabinets frame a long farm table whose work she found on a design blog. “I cold-called her that can seat 12. In keeping with the desire to honor the locale, studio,” she recalls, “no references, no common denominator, much of the wood—on walls, floors, and ceilings—was salvaged and nervously explained to her receptionist that I simply
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ABOVE BUCCINI AND THE KIDS GATHER AT THE ANTIQUE KITCHEN TABLE UNDER A 1950s POUL HENNINGSEN PENDANT. MATI, LEFT, SITS IN AN ARNE JACOBSEN CHAIR COVERED IN A BENNISON LINEN BLEND. OPPOSITE MORE VINTAGE HENNINGSEN PENDANTS HANG OVER BRASS-AND-GLASS DINING TABLES BY ISABEL LÓPEZ-QUESADA. THE CHAIRS WEAR A SCHUMACHER FABRIC.
from old barns, and much of the work was executed by Amish craftsmen in the area. Indeed, the principals adamantly agreed that they had to respect the setting, that all aspects of the design fit the vernacular and spirit of this very special place. They strove to avoid the cliché of pretending what’s old is new and vice versa. As a result, the remodeled spaces in the barn don’t hide their contemporary sex appeal, the pièce de résistance being a wood-and-steel spiral staircase inside what was once a working grain silo. It’s dramatic, yet its spare sculptural elegance minds the guiding aesthetic principle: simplicity. Every landscape has a history, and while the transformed barn is stunning, it sits humbly within the grandeur of its setting on land preserved over decades by the Brandywine Conservancy. When it came time to focus on the outdoors, Buccini enlisted local landscape architect Jonathan Alderson, who also took to heart the desire to fit in. “We looked to the surrounding landscape and drew inspiration from the native meadows and the local agrarian vernacular,” he says. The result includes a walled “secret” garden defined by Virginia Sweetbay magnolias and lined with Chinese Fringe trees off bedrooms on the lower level. Hydrangeas bloom beside a casual kitchen doorway one flight down from the main entry. Alderson selected native plants and grasses including amsonia, aster, bluestem, golden ragwort,
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Christmas fern, and geranium—each timed to bloom so something is always in flower. “This barn is sited in such a divine way,” Cicognani notes. “On the perfect spot, looking downhill, not sitting at the very top, where it would have been too cold in winter. It’s southfacing and protected from the wind. It was a pleasure to inherit that and play with that.” López-Quesada, whose first book, At Home (Vendome Press), has just been published, concurs: “Chadds Ford is one of the most beautiful landscapes on the East Coast. It was a dream, an absolute dream, to have this opportunity.” An Italian architect, a Spanish interior designer, a Britishborn landscape architect, all working to restore a classic American barn for a Dominican-and-Italian-American family. “The irony isn’t lost on us,” Buccini admits of the incongruous cultural mix coming together in this rural corner of Pennsylvania. With cousins nearby and extended family visiting often, La Finca (“The Farm”) has become a multigenerational gathering place. And while there is a sense of completion now, there are also little indications that Buccini might not be absolutely finished. A hilltop overlooking the barn could be perfect for another structure, perhaps a family chapel. “Something very simple,” she says, “like what my great-grandmother had. No formal walls, only an edifice. A place where you can come to be quiet.”
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Interiors by Ken Fulk Inc.; kenfulk.com. Architecture by Legorreta; legorretalegorreta.com. PAGES 116–17: Roll chairs by Patricia Urquiola for Kettal; kettal .com. San Martin outdoor lounge armchairs by Palecek (T); palecek.com; with cushions of By-the-Sea outdoor fabric, in snap pea, by Janus et Cie; janusetcie.com. Baia low lounge chairs, in verde ebra; and Otto poufs; all by Paola Lenti from DDC; ddcnyc.com. African three-legged tables by John Dickinson and Cubist coffee table by Domani; all by Sutherland (T); sutherlandfurniture.com. PAGE 118: Paseo 9' Hexagon umbrellas, in tropical pink, by Santa Barbara Designs (T); santabarbaradesigns.com. Aqua chaise longues, in marina, orange burst, purple burst, and lime green, by Leisure Creations Furniture; leisurecreationsfurniture.com. PAGE 119: Viking rectangular dining table by Sutherland (T) ; sutherlandfurniture.com. Moiste chair (at table end), in white painted cotton, by Christian Astuguevieille for Holly Hunt (T); hollyhunt.com. Wild Sculptural chairs by Rooms from the Future Perfect; thefutureperfect.com. PAGE 120: In master bathroom (top left), vintage Murano sconces by Venini from L’Antiquaire; lantiquaire.net. In El Mono guest bathroom (top right), Victor leather mirrors by CB2; cb2.com. Green Oaks wall pendants (customized as sconces) by Palecek (T); palecek.com. Low Profile .25 sink fittings, in unlacquered brass, by Waterworks; waterworks.com. In Zippers suite guest bathroom (bottom left), Green Oaks wall pendants (customized as sconces) by Palecek (T). Sink fittings, in unlacquered brass, by Waterworks. PAGE 121: On beds, linens by Leontine Linens; leontinelinens.com. Swing-arm sconces by Obsolete; obsoleteinc .com. Custom dip-dyed sconces by Alex Randall; alexrandall.co.uk. Palisades rug, in denim, by Mark D. Sikes for Merida; meridastudio.com. On beds, lumbar pillows of Oceanie cotton, in caravane, by Pierre Frey (T); pierrefrey.com. Pillow shams of fabric by Donghia (T); donghia.com. PAGES 122–23: Custom light fixture by Alex Randall; alexrandall.co.uk. Turn Around Swivel white tufted club chairs by Coup Studio; coupdetatsf.com. Leaf side tables by Luca Martorano for Neutra; neutradesign.it. Half Moon cocktail table and Wild Sculptural chairs; all by Rooms from the Future Perfect; thefutureperfect.com. PAGE 124: Swivel stools by McGuire; mcguirefurniture.com. Custom Douglas fir table by Dos Gallos Inc.; dosgallos .com. Refrigerator and wall ovens, in cobalt blue, range, and hood; all by Viking; vikingrange.com. Custom light fixture by Alex Randall; alexrandall.co.uk. PAGES 114–127:
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Interiors by Athena Calderone; eye-swoon.com. Architecture by Elizabeth Roberts Architecture & Design; elizabethroberts.com. Landscape design by Ferox Studio; feroxstudio.com. Millwork throughout by Hetman; hetman .nyc. Plasterwork throughout by Kamp Studios; kampstudios.com. Paint throughout by Farrow & Ball; farrow-ball.com. PAGES 128–29: On Rolled seat stools by Thomas Hayes Studio; thomashayesstudio.com; natural nubuck suede by Global Leathers; globalleathers.com. 48" professional range by Fisher & Paykel; fisherpaykel.com. Hood by Brooks Custom; brookscustom.com. Henry sink fittings, in unlacquered brass, by Waterworks; waterworks.com. PAGES 130–31: On Camaleonda sofa by Mario Bellini for B&B Italia; bebitalia.com; St. Germain cotton velvet, in acier, by Créations Métaphores (T); creations-metaphores.com. Portal cocktail table by Apparatus; apparatusstudio.com. PAGES 128–135:
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Flora Ottilia chandelier by Atelier Démiurge Editions; demiurgenewyork.com. PAGE 132: On Balmain Aluminum sofa by RH; rh.com; cushions of Classic linen weave, in natural, by Ann Sutherland for Perennials (T); perennialsfabrics.com. Sofa’s custom round pillows of Alpaca Boucle fabric, in chantilly, by Rogers & Goffigon (T); deringhall.com. Lumbar pillow by RH. On vintage French chairs, cushions of Crepe du Jour acrylic, in sea salt, by Perennials (T). Wall sconce by Rejuvenation; rejuvenation.com. PAGE 133: Custom sofa by Studio Giancarlo Valle; giancarlovalle.com. On pillows, limitededition fabric by Apparatus for Pierre Frey (T); pierrefrey.com. Horsehair sconces by Apparatus; apparatusstudio.com. On vintage slipper chair, Mohair cotton-blend with mohair pile, in terracotta, by Donghia (T); donghia.com; with trim by Samuel & Sons (T); samuelandsons.com. Stool by Tucker Robbins; tuckerrobbins.com. Rug by Studio Four NYC (T); studiofournyc.com. PAGE 134: Near stairway, vintage floor lamp from Roman and Williams Guild; rwguild.com. Stool by Green River Project LLC; green riverprojectllc.com. In master bathroom, Hanley tub by the Water Monopoly; thewatermonopoly.com; with Henry fittings, in unlacquered brass, by Waterworks (T); waterworks.com. Roman shades of washed Belgian linen, in natural, by RH; rh.com. PAGE 135: On Niels Otto Møller chairs, sheepskin by Global Leathers; globalleathers.com.
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PAGES 138–143: Interiors by Vincent Van Duysen; vincentvanduysen.com. PAGES 138–39: African three-legged table by John
Dickinson for Sutherland (T); sutherland furniture.com. Sofa and pillows by Vincent Van Duysen; vincentvanduysen.com; with Huyghe Decoratie; huyghedecoratie.be. Oak cocktail table by Vincent Van Duysen. Linen curtains and rug from Huyghe Decoratie. PAGE 140: In kitchen, oak cabinets and island by Vincent Van Duysen; vincentvanduysen .com. Table, chairs, bench, and pendant by Vincent Van Duysen with Huyghe Decoratie; huyghedecoratie.be. PAGE 141: Edward Wormley chairs upholstered by Huyghe Decoratie; huyghedecoratie.be. Serge Mouille three-arm ceiling lamp from Design Within Reach; dwr.com. PAGE 142: In library, sofa, slate cocktail table, and chairs by Vincent Van Duysen; vincentvanduysen.com; with Huyghe Decoratie; huyghedecoratie.be. Custom cabinetry by Vincent Van Duysen. Vintage kilim rug from Huyghe Decoratie. In bath, bronze bath and sink fittings by Vola; vola.com. PAGE 143: Desk lamp from Wyeth; wyeth.nyc.
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PAGE 148: Cushions of Palm Drop viscoselinen and Marbleized cotton-viscose, Lire cabinet, and Aslan stool, all by Beata Heuman; beataheuman.com. In entrance hall, pendant (similar) by Gong; gong.co.uk. Mirror by Reid & Wright; reidandwright .london. On walls, Manila Hemp grasscloth, in heather, by Phillip Jeffries (T); phillip jeffries.com. In summer house, on love seat by Beata Heuman, Mortefontaine cotton by Le Manach (T); pierrefrey.com. Wall pattern painted by the Finished Effect; thefinished effect.co.uk. Soho lamp by Julian Chichester; julianchichester.com. PAGE 149: Custom beds and chest of drawers by Beata Heuman; beataheuman.com. On headboards, Palm Drop viscose-linen, in sky blue/plaster, by Beata Heuman. Bed curtains of fabrics from Warris Vianni & Co.; warrisvianni.com. Wall mural painted by the Finished Effect; thefinishedeffect.co.uk. PAGES 150: In master bedroom, Desert II woven blanket (as headboard) by BFGF; bfgf-shop.com. Brass swing-arm sconce from Vaughan (T); vaughandesigns.com; with yellow shade from Pooky; pooky.com. Antique mirror from Rooms ; roomsofclapton.com. In dining room, Vilda chairs by Jonas Bohlin for Gemla; gemlaab.se. Vintage table from Foster & Gane; fosterandgane.com. Snowdrop Rise and Fall pendant by Beata Heuman; beata heuman.com. Custom wallpaper by Beata Heuman with Tibor; tibor.co.uk. In powder room, vanity skirt of Marbleized cottonviscose by Beata Heuman. Shell sconces from Felix Lighting Specialists; felixlighting specialists.co.uk. PAGES 151: Dodo Egg pendant and custom cabinet by Beata Heuman; beataheuman.com. A2-8 range by Smeg; smegusa.com. On white cabinetry, Blackened paint by Farrow & Ball; farrow-ball.com.
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PAGES 152–57: Mati Bonetti de Buccini of Atelier Fine Art Services; atelierstorage.com. Interiors by Isabel López-Quesada; isabel lopezquesada.com. Architecture by Cicognani Kalla Architect; cicognanikalla.com. Landscape design by Jonathan Alderson Landscape Architects; jonathanalderson.com. PAGE 154: On vintage bamboo lounge chair (right), Ralph linen by Les Créations de la Maison (T); castelmaison.com. On vintage bamboo daybed, small pillows of Cairo linen-blend, in blues on oyster, by Bennison Fabrics (T); bennisonfabrics.com. Cocktail table by Isabel López-Quesada; isabellopez quesada.com. PAGE 155: Reclaimed red oak millwork and reclaimed wood flooring, both by Artisans & Co.; artisansandcompany.com. On custom sofa by Isabel López-Quesada; isabellopezquesada.com; fabric by Dominique Kieffer for Rubelli (T); rubelli.com. Pillows of fabrics by Neisha Crosland (T); clarence house.com; Allegra Hicks (T); allegrahicks .com; and Schumacher (T); fschumacher.com. Cocktail table and rug, both by Isabel LópezQuesada. PAGE 156: Vintage Louvre pendant by Poul Henningsen for Louis Poulsen from Bakelita; +34-9-1429-2387. On antique table, ceramic painted pots by Isabel LópezQuesada; isabellopezquesada.com. On Arne Jacobsen Swan swivel chair, Wheat Flower linen-blend, in custom color, by Bennison Fabrics (T); bennisonfabrics.com. On benches, Cedar cotton by Güell Lamadrid (T); castelmaison.com. Kitchen island by Artisans & Co.; artisansandcompany.com. Exchange barstools by Palacek (T); palecek.com. PAGE 157: Pendants by Poul Henningsen for Louis Poulsen; louispoulsen.com. Dining tables by Isabel López-Quesada; isabellopez quesada.com. On chairs, Downtown Velvet viscose-blend, in aloe, by Schumacher (T); fschumacher.com.
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At most museums, it’s forbidden to touch the art, let alone climb on the building. But Amos Rex is no such museum. Unveiled in Helsinki this past August, the new cultural center extends from the 1930s Lasipalatsi building (now freshly restored) into its namesake plaza, some 460,000 cubic feet of which were excavated to make way for subterranean galleries. Their domed ceilings now double as undulating topography— a public playground for picnickers and skateboarders alike. Oculi, meanwhile, punctuate the concrete-tiled slopes, filling the exhibition spaces with natural light and creating visual connections between pedestrians and museumgoers below. “The biggest challenge was how to make [the museum] visible in the cityscape,” explains Asmo Jaaksi of the Finnish firm JKMM Architects, which oversaw the restoration and expansion. “We wanted to have the square open but still draw people from aboveground to underground.” Thanks to the daring architecture and inaugural exhibitions—including an interactive installation by the Japanese collective teamLab—so far, so good. amosrex.fi —SAM COCHRAN
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