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TRUTH IN DECORATING In the design world, using recycled materials is the height of chic
enlists Suzanne Kasler to renovate a 1920s house for her young family. BY JESSE KORNBLUTH DESIGNER SUZANNE KASLER
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AMONG FRONDS With help from best friend Jonathan Adler, Liz Lange fashions a Palm Beach getaway that’s a guest magnet. BY KATE BOLICK DESIGNERS JONATHAN ADLER AND LIZ LANGE
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LA VIE EN ROSE Beit Trad, a traditional retreat in the mountains of Lebanon, is transformed into a chic guesthouse. BY JUDI ROAMAN DESIGNER MARIA OUSSEIMI
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TALENT Designer and architect André Fu collaborates on a new outdoor-furniture line with Janus et Cie 36
ANATOMY OF A HOUSE Part two in our series following the renovation of Los Angeles milliner Nick Fouquet’s geodesicdome house. BY ANNA FURMAN
IN THE SHOWROOMS New Jersey–based Phillip Jeffries crosses the Hudson to open its first to-the-trade flagship in New York City 47
POV How a group of fearless global designers are leading the charge for sustainability; the 1 Hotel West Hollywood; this month’s must-see exhibitions; and more
In his apartment near Manhattan’s High Line, Thom Filicia lets his creativity run wild. BY VANESSA LAWRENCE DESIGNER THOM FILICIA
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SET FOR LIFE A pair of Oscar-winning movie designers restore a midcentury house in Santa Barbara, California. BY BARBARA LAMPRECHT DESIGNERS DAVID WASCO AND SANDY REYNOLDS-WASCO
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DREAM WEAVER Be Inthavong, a master Laotian craftsman, creates an innovative new fabric line for the Thai-based textile firm Jim Thompson. BY CATHERINE HONG
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3. Part of the Richard Mishaan Collection for Theodore Alexander, the graphic Atticus side table is crafted from textured ebonized-oak veneer with faux-ivory lacquer detailing. 26″ w. x 26″ d. x 24″ h., $1,080. theodore alexander.com
4. A weatherproof version of a 2004 creation and part of a new outdoor collection, the Peter chair from Flexform is made of stainless steel and woven polypropylene or polyurethane rubber. 25″ w. x 29″ d. x 29″ h., available in other colors, $5,099. flexform.it
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8. The leaves on the Sheerwood lantern from Vaughan are individually molded and cast in brass before being finished in white paint. 18″ sq. x 31″ h., $7,680. vaughandesigns.com
9. The Surf modular seating by Yabu Pushelberg for Molteni&C offers a multitude of ergonomic arrangements, including the option of a small wood-
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10. A collaboration between two American heritage brands, the Matouk Schumacher Collection offers four printed patterns, an embroidered linen, a woven coverlet, and terry beach towels. A standard sham and full/queen duvet in Pomegranate in Prussian Blue are shown. From $84 for sham. matouk.com
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that typically comes to mind when you think of Los Angeles, where professional careers and social trends can vacillate with uncanny speed. The fact that Van Cleef & Arpels has occupied the same landmark building on a corner of North Rodeo Drive for the past 50 years is, therefore, a crowning achievement. Still, even the most distinguished environs can stand a little sprucing up now and again. As such, the luxury jewelry house is unveiling a renovation of its 6,000-square-foot Beverly Hills boutique, whose expanded, multi-floor spaces encompass, among other things, a dining room, a high-jewelry bridal salon, and Salon 1906, a room devoted to heritage pieces. The Parisian-inf lected interiors include the Poetic Salon, a VIP area with blush-pink furnishings, and a lounge featuring Zuber hand-painted floral wallpaper, custom raffia furniture, and a juice bar with an attendant doling out Billecart-Salmon Champagne alongside pressed blood orange, strawberry, and watermelon juices, all served in SaintLouis crystal glassware. In March, the Beverly Hills store will become the first U.S. boutique to offer pieces from Van Cleef & Arpels’s latest high-jewelry collection, Romeo & Juliet, inspired by the Shakespearean lovers who also know a thing or two about timeless cultural relevance. vancleefarpels.com ◾
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Rock Garden chaise with arms, $3,580. BE LOW: Fu’s new book.
DESIGNER AND ARCHITECT ANDRÉ FU COLLABORATES ON A NEW FURNITURE LINE WITH JANUS ET CIE. BY BEBE HOWORTH PRODUCED BY PARKER BOWIE L ARSON
Rock Garden lounge chairs, at left, $4,604 each, and Module Left, Module Center, and Module Right pieces, shown as a sofa, $9,976.
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the luxury outdoor-furniture company Janus et Cie, went looking for someone to collaborate with on a new line, she turned to the Hong Kong– based architect and designer André Fu. Feldman had seen his elegant work on the Cassia restaurant at Singapore’s Capella resort and arranged a meeting with the Cambridge-educated Fu in 2017. “His expertise in honoring heritage with a modern lens is something I greatly admire,” Feldman says. The resulting Rock Garden collection features 18 outdoor teak pieces. Dining, café, and side tables come topped with textured ceramic, while modular and lounge seating cushions are upholstered in a woven smoky-gray Janus fabric. “The collection embraces the poetic qualities of the authentic Japanese garden,” says Fu, who was named 2019 Interior Designer of the Year by ELLE DECORATION China. Lately, Fu’s touch seems to be everywhere. He has received commissions from the St. Regis Hong Kong and the Jean Nouvel glass tower at 53 West 53rd Rock Garden Street in New York City, where he completed side table, the first model apartment. Last year, he $1,446. launched his own lifestyle brand, André Fu Living. This June, the Mitsui Hotel in Kyoto, Japan, also designed by Fu, will open. And a month prior, his latest book, Crossing Cultures with Design, will be published by Thames & Hudson. If he keeps up his current pace, he’ll soon have enough work for another volume. janusetcie.com ◾
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Fouquet’s sun-dappled home in Topanga Canyon, California, there are fruit trees bursting with figs, plums, lemons, apples, limes, and grapefruits in the winter. From the wraparound deck of his geodesic dome—originally constructed in the late 1970s by a bohemian couple with utopian architect Buckminster Fuller’s designs in mind—Fouquet can gaze out at Los Angeles’s rolling, sagedotted mountains and relish its pinkish sunsets. Only eight minutes from the Pacific Ocean and perched atop a steep, winding road, Fouquet’s wooden dome is his sanctuary. He was drawn to the canyon’s relative isolation—an antidote to the buzzy pace of his Venice Beach flagship store and his globe-trotting lifestyle. (In January alone, he traveled to Paris to show the hat collection that he designed for Givenchy and also to New York to check in on the Gramercy Park Hotel’s
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Built for energy efficiency, the dome’s expansive triangular windows allow the sun to regulate heat during the day. ABOVE: A metal soffit will be installed to reinforce the
dome, clad in its original asphalt shingles. “It will act like the brim of a hat,” says contractor Timothy McCarthy.
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Fouquet is working on a gray-water system that would reuse shower and laundry water to irrigate the garden and surrounding landscape. MAKE USE OF RECL AIMED WOOD
“What’s being changed is the guts of the dome,” Fouquet says. “But the bones are still there.” The original telephonepole base of the house will complement new redwood planks.
columns. The canyon was full of “hippies, middle-class snobs, stars, and potheads [in the ’70s],” recalls Saltzman, who now lives in Bellingham, Washington. “It was a place that drew out your playful side—if you had it in you to begin with.” After Saltzman and Goldberg sold the dome in the mid-1980s, it fell into disrepair and was almost torn down. “This is such a rare craftsman house,” Fouquet says. “I see myself as its steward.” The renovation will take several years, in large part because of the structure’s unusual dimensions. “There are no 90-degree angles,” Fouquet says. “Everything is a little bit uneven.” Installing basic items like a refrigerator or kitchen countertop requires careful planning and customcrafted designs. “Homes are like breathing organisms—they expand and contract with heat,” says Fouquet of the old wooden beams. Since our last dispatch in September 2019, contractor Timothy McCarthy has replaced the wraparound deck with new wood planks, rebuilt the interior staircase, and expanded the bedroom by a couple of feet. “I see this as an art project,” says Fouquet, whose namesake brand includes bespoke beaver-felt hats and leather goods that evidence their process. “I work with my hands, so I feel a close attachment to that process.” He is also putting down roots in the neighborhood. His sister lives down the street, and his neighbor will often swing by to bring honey that he harvests on his property. “He is a special dude and has become one of my closest friends,” Fouquet says. “I love him—he feels like family.” ◾
ABOVE: The new master bath will have a wall of mirrors
Rose Bar, which he redesigned two years ago.) “Topanga is its own microcosm,” Fouquet says of the hillside town. “It’s a special place; it’s sacred. And the town has hidden treasures.” (Think spiritual centers, taverns, general stores.) In the ’70s, Neil Young lived a couple of doors down from Fouquet’s property, as did actress Sissy Spacek, the Byrds’ Chris Hillman, and one of the Manson Family murder victims. Layered with a distinctly L.A. sense of history—one that is bound to the luxury real estate market and entertainment industry, both of which are defined by cycles of reinvention—the area embodies its California spirit. (The Tongva and Chumash tribes that once inhabited the land named it Topanga to express “where the mountain meets the sea.”) The dome was built by Arline Goldberg and Jerry Saltzman, a therapist, for their family of four using pentagonal timber and concrete 38
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“I have my own little Garden of Eden, and when it’s popping off and blooming, I can just go and pick,” he says. GO OFF THE GRID
Fouquet plans to power the house with solar energy. With help from a neighbor’s independent water system, he anticipates a time when he could be “totally off the grid.”
ABOVE: The original owners kept a scrapbook of the
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them vivacity and substance. David Webb’s pieces, however, have their own distinct lives. Every design by the North Carolina native—who founded his eponymous house in 1948, and whose work was revered by the likes of Marisa Berenson and Gloria Vanderbilt—has a soul, but his animal creations are perhaps the best testament to his ability to imbue metal and stones with personality. Webb crafted his first animal, a gold-and-emerald bracelet featuring the mythical Makara creature, in 1957. Over the next few years, his Kingdom collection came to encompass a full menagerie of enamel zebras, coral fish, gold lions, and diamond leopards. In 1964, when Webb won the prestigious Coty Award for jewelry design, the fashion photographer Milton Greene and illustrator Joe Eula made the film A Walk in the Woods, featuring Webb’s beloved creatures.
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CLOC K WISE FROM TOP LE F T: Lounging Leopard brooch with emeralds, diamonds, black enamel, gold, and platinum. David Webb in 1975. Twin Frog bracelet featuring rubies, diamonds, green enamel, gold, and platinum, $69,000.
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This month, the brand is paying homage to its late founder’s whimsical legacy with the exhibition “A Walk in the Woods: David Webb’s Artful Animals.” Running from April 16 through 27 at the company’s Madison Avenue flagship (by appointment only), it is the first such in-house endeavor by David Webb New York, which has previously collaborated with the Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach and Rough Point, Doris Duke’s former home in Newport, Rhode Island. The New York space “houses not only our flagship boutique, but also our exceptional workshop, where all David Webb jewelry is made by hand,” says Mark Emanuel, a co-owner of the famed jewelry house since 2010. Among the pieces on display in the exhibition, culled from an archive of more than 50,000 creations, sketches, and invoices, are a ruby, diamond, and black and white enamel zebra bracelet that was once owned by Diana Vreeland, and a carved-coral, emerald, sapphire, and diamond
monkey brooch that was the last piece Webb designed before his death in 1975. The brand will also debut two new owl jewels as part of the show: a brooch of amethyst and green and white enamel (shown below), and a bracelet of animal heads and gemstone beads, both of which customers can purchase after the exhibition closes. “Owls are wise and mystical,” notes Levi Higgs, who is the David Webb archivist and cocurator of the exhibit with Dianne Batista. Additionally, David Webb enlisted the photographer Noah Kalina to reimagine the original A Walk in the Woods film for the exhibition’s visitors. It was a fitting assignment, given that Kalina lives full-time in the woods of upstate New York. “Once you lay eyes on David Webb’s animal pieces and make a connection, it’s almost impossible to look away,” Kalina says. “I just want to hold and covet them. I think only the best kind of art does that.” davidwebb.com/woods ◾
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Diana Vreeland (with C.Z. Guest and Truman Capote) wears Webb’s diamond-and–black and white enamel zebra bracelet to a premiere in New York.
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Rossana Orlandi and Underwater Landscape, by Arsenio Rodriguez, an installation at her Milan gallery that showcased her Guiltless Plastic recycling initiative.
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POINT OF VIEW your neighbors are splurging on electric SUVs, and solar panels are now considered rooftop bling. Everyone, it seems, is an environmentalist. But as we approach the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22, even the most dedicated disciples of sustainable living may wonder if it’s all adding up to enough. Many in the design industry have realized that, as producers of truckloads of stuff, they have an outsize role to play in repairing the damage. The influential Milan gallery owner Rossana Orlandi, for instance, has emerged as one of the industry’s most ardent recyclers. With her Guiltless Plastic program, Orlandi challenges designers to develop new uses for recycled plastics through an annual competition. “Even before they sketch something, designers should be thinking about what the second life of their product will be,” she says. The problem with plastic isn’t the material itself, she points out, but the way people treat it as disposable. “It’s our misuse and abuse of plastic that makes it guilty,” she says. Across various disciplines, a number of other individuals are also embracing a holistic approach to green design that makes sustainability a core part of their business. With little fanfare, they have simply committed to making daily decisions through the lens of the environment. “The DNA of our company is in natural fibers and avoiding harsh chemicals,” says Bernie de Le Cuona, founder of the British textile company de Le Cuona. “It’s been that way for the 26 years we’ve existed.” Dismayed to discover that fabric marketed as organic frequently has as little as 5 percent organic fiber, de Le Cuona created a far more stringent collection of her own. Called Pure, it is Global Organic Textile Standard–certified and will be 100 percent organic at every stage of production. “It means that from the field to the warehouse, no damaging chemicals are used,” she says. The revered Japanese architect Shigeru Ban takes a low-key approach to sustainable design, although it has long been central to his work with recycled paper and wood—from his paper-tube Carta collection furniture to the timber Shishi-Iwa House hotel in Japan. Believing that
Recyclable Materials Oliver Yaphe’s rug (left) is made from recycled wool yarn. And yes, it does matter how your curtains are made. This one (right), from de Le Cuona’s new Pure collection, is certified organic at every stage of its production.
Better Building The Shishi-Iwa House hotel in Japan (left), built in 2019 by architect Shigeru Ban, was constructed with minimal impact on its environment. Made from timber, it is part of a wave of new buildings— including Perkins & Will’s Earth Tower in Vancouver—that use wood as their primary component.
Fantastic Plastic Rossana Orlandi awards prizes to designers innovating with recycled plastic. Past winners: A chair (left) by Alexander Schul and fabric (below) by Reform Studio, which are both made from it.
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POINT OF VIEW such awareness in design is common sense, he rejects being labeled a green architect. “I have no interest in ‘green,’ ‘eco,’ and ‘environmentally friendly,’” he told the New Yorker. “I just hate wasting things.” Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams aimed to change the status quo when they founded their furniture company in 1989. “A month after we started our business, I read a story in the New York Times about how the furniture industry in North Carolina was one of the biggest abusers of the environment through the manufacture of foam and using wood from rain forests,” Gold says. Refusing to participate, he and Williams searched for responsibly sourced wood and a new kind of foam that didn’t emit ozone-depleting substances. Then they focused on their production facility and packaging, aiming to reduce energy consumption and waste. “It’s become a lifelong mission,” Gold says. The New York interior designer Clodagh says sustainable thinking is “the glue that holds my studio together.” She has long created feel-good spaces awash in natural materials, but she colors outside the lines of conventional design. With an emphasis on biophilia, for instance, Clodagh replaced tennis courts with an organic vegetable garden at a Six Senses resort in Portugal; she often includes plant walls in her projects. When designing private homes, she tosses clients’ toxic cleaners and issues them her “cleaning bible” of nontoxic replacements. No longer willing to wait for someone else to save the Earth, these designers, and many more, are taking matters into their own hands, using the tools they know best. “It’s not always easy,” de Le Cuona says. “But it is the future.” ◾
Made to Last Mitchell Gold (left) and Bob Williams in their eco-friendly factory in Taylorsville, North Carolina. The credenza and swivel chair are from their new 2020 collection.
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food systems—a reliance on meat, specifically—to the ways we move around the city must be reconsidered. Being a car-optional city, for example. These are changes we can make to reduce our footprint. In an urban setting, is it more important to think about reversing climate change or about how to better prepare for future storms? MC: We have to do both. One exacerbates the other. If we just adapt, we’re going to keep adapting and adapting. We have to design around mitigation. We must walk and chew gum when it comes to dealing with the climate. Timber, which comes from trees that turn carbon dioxide into oxygen, is becoming more common in skyscrapers around the world. Could this kind of construction take off in New York? MC: It will be a component of the new normal. Materials that sequester carbon, like wood, are part of the future. We need to remove the carbon from the air. We can do that by developing new technologies, including natural systems. What’s the leading contributor to greenhouse-gas emissions in cities? MC: In New York, the energy we expend to keep
our buildings hot and cool and to keep the lights on is responsible for 68 percent of emissions. That’s the ballgame we are trying to change. Do you think megalopolises like New Delhi and Shanghai could ever become completely smog-free? MC: Yes. I think the benefit of some cities that have industrialized more recently is that they are very adaptive. They can more easily benefit from technological leaps. It’s the 50th anniversary of Earth Day this month. What’s something every urbanite reading this can do to live a more sustainable life? MC: There’s no way around rethinking our relationship with meat and being aware of the impact of our diets. I’m not vegan. I’m not saying it’s an easy thing. You don’t have to cut out everything tomorrow, but we should have a collective conversation about it. Can the effects of climate change be entirely reversed? MC: No. We have already lost some of the battles, and that comes with suffering for those of us who are least open to change. But our new low-carbon normal can cultivate a thriving environment for all of us. —Charles Curkin
“Raid the Icebox Now” Through August 16; Providence, Rhode Island On view in the decorative-arts wing of the RISD Museum is an installation by artist Beth Katleman (above). Her piece, which is part of a group show featuring eight artists, is a room decked out in ornate porcelain. Through nearly 10,000 elements, Katleman observes the life and scandals of antiquarian Charles Pendleton while seamlessly blending Rococo art with 1950s kitsch. risdmuseum.org
“Cindy Sherman” April 2–August 31; Paris Chameleon photographer Cindy Sherman is now the subject of a major retrospective. Known for her conceptual self-portraits, Sherman will show 170 seminal images from her career, including her Untitled Film Stills series from the 1970s as well as Broken Dolls. She is also cocurating a selection of works by other artists such as Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol. fondationlouisvuitton.fr
“Countryside, The Future” Through August 14; New York City Architect Rem Koolhaas takes over the rotunda at the Guggenheim Museum to present an ambitious new exhibition about sustainability. Focusing on science instead of art—specifically research and experiments currently done in areas outside cities; that is, 98 percent of the Earth—Koolhaas posits that the answers to climate change may be found in the countryside. guggenheim.org
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I’ve been sketching the same way for the past few years, so now I’m changing things up. Otherwise, you become formulaic. This is my new weapon of choice. staedtler.com
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In the breezeway of Liz Lange’s historic Spanish Colonial–style house in Palm Beach, Florida, which she renovated with her friend, designer Jonathan Adler, the vintage table is from 1stdibs, the bench from James & Jeffrey Antiques has a cushion in a Gastón y Daniela fabric, and the pendants and sconces are from Coleen & Company. Canvas palms by the Canvas Nursery are set in Frontgate planters, the checkerboard floor is hand-painted, and the ceiling is original. OPPOSITE: Lange with one of the six Electra bikes she keeps on the property.
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for the ages. Time: mid-1980s. Place: Brown University. She’s a bookish New Yorker with flair to spare. He’s a smalltown New Jerseyan with a penchant for pottery. They’re about to embark on an instant, lifelong best-friendship, not to mention becoming pioneering designers with eponymous empires. In 1998, Liz Lange Maternity will permanently transform pregnancy apparel from frumpy to formfitting, while Jonathan Adler’s first store, in New York’s SoHo, will simultaneously create and sate a national appetite for cheeky-glam ceramics and home furnishings. Yet, as Lange says about that long-ago moment when she met Adler: “I wish the story were more interesting, but frankly it’s not. A mutual friend brought Jonathan when he came to visit me in my dorm room. The rest is history.” Flash-forward to 2020, and if it’s a long weekend or a national holiday, you’ll likely find the duo lounging poolside with their spouses—Lange’s husband is a corporate lawyer, Adler’s is the writer and designer Simon Doonan—at Lange’s new vacation home in Palm Beach, Florida. Since winding down her partnerships with Target and HSN, Lange has turned her attention to investing in and consulting for brands that speak to her as a consumer (among them: sportswear line LE F T: In the great room, a pair of Selamat
sofas are in a Schumacher stripe, the vintage wicker chairs are from Etsy, and the cocktail table and floor lamps are by Serena & Lily. The frog side tables are from Devonshire Home & Garden Antiques, the mirror is by Selamat, and the pineapple sconces are vintage. The jute rug is from RH, Restoration Hardware, and the walls are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Daiquiri Ice. ELLE DECOR
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the landscape design, which includes a bougainvillea arch separating the pool from an outdoor dining area; a Todd Hase chaise is set next to a Serena & Lily table, and the Mario Lopez Torres wicker alligator (right) is from F.S. Henemader Antiques. A tented seating area by the pool is furnished with vintage wicker that has been repainted and topped with cushions in Schumacher fabrics. OPPOSITE: In the dining room, the table is covered in a custom cloth made from a Kravet fabric with Jonathan Adler fringe and topped with an Indian block-printed tablecloth. The chairs are by Bungalow 5, the vintage Mario Lopez Torres wicker monkey chandelier is from Circa Who, the wallpaper is by Peter Dunham, and the ceiling is sheathed in a Cole & Son striped wallcovering. Rug, Serena & Lily.
Carbon38, Tiny Organics baby food, and Rinse, a dry-cleaning delivery app) while nurturing a growing obsession with home and garden design. In early 2019, with her children Gus and Alice now in college, Lange decided to create a bright, colorful home away from home for her nearest and dearest—a place where comfort rules, the food never runs out, and her o≠spring can’t resist returning to on school breaks. Fueled by warm memories of childhood trips to the town’s historic Breakers hotel, she chose an early-1900s Spanish Colonial—stucco walls, tile roof, ample pink bougainvillea—on the Intracoastal Waterway, essentially a 3,000-mile-long extension of her backyard. 68
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When it came time to decorate, Lange knew exactly what she wanted and who her partner in crime would be (obviously). “I craved the opposite of what we have in New York,” she says about her city life. “Pinks and greens; blues and whites; trellis wallpapers; lots of lacquer; wicker, bamboo, and rattan; palm trees, palm leaves, animals. A surreal fantasy where nothing bad could ever happen. And nobody gets that better than Jonathan.” “We’re such old besties that I know exactly who she is, and she knows exactly who I am,” Adler concurs. “Pulling this place together involved the two of us hanging out as we usually do,” she adds. “It was so much fun just to have an
excuse to go shopping,” he muses. Cue a sun-kissed rom-com shopping montage featuring Lange and Adler darting in and out of Palm Beach’s many vintage stores (where they found most of the wicker, bamboo, and rattan) to the groovy melodies of 1970s throwbacks Helen Reddy, Olivia Newton-John, and the Carpenters on repeat (the house soundtrack). The end result, in Adler’s words, “is a mirror of who Liz is: bold, glamorous, colorful, and confident. Think Liz Lange meets the essence of Palm Beach meets explosion of lemon sorbet of the soul.” Central to Lange’s vision was making the place feel like a home while it functions more like a hotel. “I guess retail is in my blood. I’m all about customer service!” she says with a laugh. All five of the bedrooms are free of family and personal e≠ects so that each can serve as a guest room; they instead feature a “minibar” tray stocked with water bottles, Kind bars, jars full of candy, an unopened iPhone charger, and a laminated instruction card for the TV and house Wi-Fi, among other necessities. Every bathroom is furnished with piles of white towels of varying sizes (“Nothing is worse than not enough towels,” Lange laments) and a basket of amenities that includes toiletries emblazoned with the home’s address. Bathrobes, check. Slippers, check. Daily laundry and nightly turndown service, check, check. Because half the point of being there is spending time outside, Lange equipped the house with a fleet of six bikes (three pink and three white, complete with wicker baskets), three paddleboards, and two Jet Skis. Baskets stu≠ed with beach towels, sunblock, bug repellent, and pool
In the foyer, a vintage shell-encrusted table is topped with a porcelain pagoda, vintage cachepots, and an antique clamshell. The wallpaper is by Bob Collins & Sons, and the ceramic lions are from Florida Modern. OPPOSITE: The breakfast nook has a vintage Eero Saarinen table, chairs from Ballard Designs, and a pendant from Serena & Lily. A Slim Aarons photograph from Jonathan Adler hangs on a wall covered in a Pierre Frey wallpaper.
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ABOVE: The master bed is by Room & Board, the quilt and nightstands are by Serena & Lily, the love seat is by Jonathan Adler, and the tables are by Bungalow 5. Wallpaper, Quadrille. LEFT: The master bath’s tub, sink, and fittings are by Waterworks; the ceiling lights and sconces are by Jonathan Adler, the vintage blue glassware is by Portieux Vallerysthal, and the room is clad in Carrara marble.
toys are always at the ready. In short, it is virtually impossible for a guest to walk through the front door and into that Alice in Wonderland black and white–floored foyer and not have a wish be met. “It all feels conjured, seamless, and not real,” Adler says. “I wear a caftan the entire time,” Lange says. “She has about 5,000 di≠erent caftans, each one more Mrs. Roper than the last,” Adler confirms. “Caftans perfectly represent the spirit of the house!” Lange says. “Fantasy and reality. Light and easy. Friends and family of all ages lazing around. To me, that’s what this house is about.” ◾ 72
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A terrace at Beit Trad, a traditional Lebanese mountain home that Sarah Trad restored and converted into a guesthouse with the help of architect Fadlo Dagher and interior designer Maria Ousseimi. The chair is vintage, and the table is from Artisans du Liban et d’Orient. OPPOSITE: Roses from the property’s garden.
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unrest. “We love our heritage and country.” Beit Trad began as her family’s home. In the early 1980s, when Sarah was a child, the Trads were living in Saudi Arabia. Her mother, Danielle, missed her native Lebanon and dreamed of owning a traditional stone home there in the mountains. An aunt was sent on a mission to find the family a very special house; she came across a stunning two-acre property with a stone main residence, a private chapel, several small cottages, and a view of the Mediterranean. The oldest part of the stone house—which has vaulted ceilings, arches, and arcades—was a nunnery dating back to the end of the 18th century. Trad’s father bought the house in 1984 but sadly died a year later. Still, for the next three decades Trad and her mother enjoyed wonderful summers at the house. Her mother was an extrovert with great style. “She was extremely coquette,”
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main house, the custom sofas in a Rubelli fabric are topped with pillows covered in vintage African textiles, and the Syrian inlaid mother-of-pearl armchair, Turkish chandelier, and table and chairs by Eero Saarinen for Knoll are all vintage. A papier-mâché hippo from a Paris flea market hangs over a vintage photograph of a masked ball. The vintage prints depicting classical armor (left) are from Ann-Morris. RIGHT, FROM TOP: The home’s stone facade. In the dining room, the table is set with Syrian glassware and vintage plates; the Lebanese pendant is original to the house.
Trad says. There were constant parties filled with glamorous guests and delicious Lebanese food and wine. Keeping up the house was less of a priority for her mother. “If she had to choose between redoing the tiles and buying three dresses, she would buy three dresses!” Trad says with a laugh. When her mother died in 2013, Trad inherited a house and property that were “falling to bits.” For a time, Trad stopped visiting. “The house will wait for me,” she assured her friends. But when one of them warned that “houses die, they lose their vibe,” she realized she couldn’t wait any longer. She decided to convert the house into a guest home that would double as her personal retreat. “It’s a house that likes guests,” she notes. “That’s how it is most happy.” She hired a Lebanese team—architect Fadlo Dagher and interior designer Maria Ousseimi—to undertake a respectful restoration. The elegant results maintain the integrity and history of the original architecture while adding such modern conveniences as oversize bathrooms and air-conditioning. There are nine bedrooms for rent between the main house and the two cottages; for large groups, Trad also makes available her own house, a loftlike space converted from the doorman’s cottage. The public rooms are comfortable and slouchy, filled with books and flowers from the garden and furnished with vintage pieces, colorful textiles, and accessories sourced both locally and abroad. Ousseimi tapped several Lebanese artisans to design new pieces especially for Beit Trad. Nothing in the decor is to be taken too seriously, least of all the divinely quirky papier-mâché hippopotamus head that rules over the living room.
A vintage suzani hangs above the bed in a guest room. The coverlet is in a Lewis & Wood fabric, and the lamp is by Artemide. OPPOSITE , FROM TOP:
In another guest room, vintage beds are topped with coverlets in a Lewis & Wood fabric; the vintage wicker chair and side table were repainted yellow, the alcove has a banquette with cushions covered in a Le Manach fabric, and the vintage bird prints were purchased at a Paris ea market. Vintage wool abaya cloaks in a range of colors hang in the mudroom; the stone ooring is original.
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The property’s mature gardens, laden with jasmine and honeysuckle, were tenderly enhanced with native plants and flowers by the Beirut-based landscape designer Gaby Khalife. A variety of trees, from fig to pomegranate to mulberry, thrive on the property, and a cutting garden is filled with roses in a mélange of colors. The latest addition to the landscape is the sleek and modern pool that was added two years ago. Because Trad’s mother hated being served at a table, meals are offered buffet-style. Guests fill their plates with delicious, seasonal cuisine prepared by the house chef and gather at a long dining table set with vintage linens, dinnerware, and glasses. Every meal begins with cocktails served on the vine-covered porch, in full view of the Mediterranean and its extraordinary sunsets. For dessert, there are French pastries and mouhallabieh, a milk-based Lebanese flan made with orange-blossom water. For Trad, Lebanon’s latest turmoil, which began late last year with nationwide protests against corruption, is about economic change and creating a bright future for the country’s children. A single parent with a two-year-old daughter, Lilah, she retains her sense of optimism. Certainly, five years after she restored it, Trad’s mountain home is beyond “happy”—it’s overjoyed. The moment you walk through the rose-covered entrance, you are immediately welcomed and become part of the history of this very special place, sharing in the Lebanese tradition of family and hospitality. ◾
ABOVE: Sarah Trad outside her home wearing a traditional
embroidered Lebanese dress from Artisans du Liban et d’Orient. BE LOW: In the living room, an original fireplace is flanked by a portrait
of Trad’s grandmother and a Syrian inlaid mother-of-pearl mirror. RIGHT: The library’s floor-to-ceiling cabinets are paneled in vintage doors; a French metal garden table is framed by vintage Chinese bamboo chairs and a pair of bamboo stools from Morocco. The vintage pendant originally hung in a mosque. OPPOSITE: Beirut-based Gaby Khalife designed the gardens, which surround a new concrete swimming pool. For details, see Resources.
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Whitney Haslam Johnson and her three sons in the family room of her Georgian Revival house in Shaker Heights, Ohio, which was designed in 1927 by architect Clarence Mack and has been newly updated by Suzanne Kasler. The sofa and chair are from Bungalow Classic, the cocktail table is by Formations, and the wallpaper is by Gracie.
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ownership of a professional football team, and businessman Jimmy Haslam joined that elite club in 2012 when he bought the Cleveland Browns. Financially, he’s had success. On the field, the team has struggled. Change was in order. And in the executive suite of family-owned sports teams, that often means more family. Haslam knew exactly where to look. His daughter, Whitney Haslam Johnson, had worked for her father for more than a decade, becoming chief experience officer in 2017 at his company, Pilot Flying J, which operates highway rest stops. Her husband, James Wood “JW” Johnson III, had been a director and producer for CBS Sports for 15 years before launching a media company that made videos for the Browns. The Johnsons were happily living in Nashville, where they were raising three boys (now ages nine, eight, and seven), but Whitney was commuting to Knoxville, and her husband often flew to Cleveland—these were two exceptionally accomplished jugglers. So some years after her father bought the Browns, he invited them to move to Cleveland and assist in the team’s rejuvenation. They recognized the call as a touchdown pass. The Johnsons quickly bought a 1927 brick house—nine bays wide, with seven bedrooms and nine baths—on two acres in Shaker Heights, an inner-ring suburb of Cleveland, and enlisted Suzanne Kasler, the noted Atlanta-based decorator. Like her clients, Kasler is not orthodox; in a single room, she can combine periods and produce striking wall treatments that are, above all, comfortable environments. In the Johnsons’ new home, she found a house that had been “gracefully updated,” allowing her to focus on a master plan. The dining room was close to the RIGHT: In the dining room, the table, limestone urn, and pedestal
are by Formations, and the curtains and throw pillows on the custom banquettes are in a Robert Kime fabric. The chandelier is by Vaughan, the sisal rug is by Stark, and the walls are painted in Farrow & Ball’s Drop Cloth. The artworks are by Michelle Y. Williams.
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ABOVE: In the living room, the Saladino sofa is in an Old World
Weavers velvet, the Directoire bergères are from Scott Antique Markets, and the armchairs from Kasler’s line for Hickory Chair are in a Nancy Corzine fabric. The cocktail table is by Karine Szanto, the floor lamp is from Kasler’s line for Visual Comfort, the urn torchieres are by Michael S. Smith, and the bar (left) is painted in Sherwin-Williams’s Fame Orange. RIGHT: The powder room’s sink is by Waterworks, the fittings are by THG Paris, and the sconces are by Travis & Company. The mirror is by Kerry Joyce, and the wallpaper is by Dedar. OPPOSITE: The sofa and chair in the living room are from the designer’s line for Hickory Chair, and the cocktail table is from Profiles. The side table is by Mark D. Sikes, the lamp is by Vaughan, and the antique barometer is French; the curtains are of a J. Robert Scott fabric, and the photograph is by David Burdeny.
entrance, and it was the room you walked through to get to the living room; it would, she sensed, work better as a family room, so she used a hand-wash to tone down the yellow wallpaper, and it looked as if it had always been the most welcoming room in the house. The living room was huge, ideal for the entertaining that the Johnsons planned to do. Kasler chose white sisal carpet and childproof fabrics, “but if something spills...well, rooms get better with age.” She created a library that JW has commandeered as his office, and she lacquered a closet and made it a bar. Upstairs, she added a very welcome laundry and expanded a closet for Whitney. “We wanted to make the house younger and more stylish,” Kasler says, “and we did.” The test of a family home is in the living, which, in this case, never stops. (“School is over by June, football starts in July,” Whitney notes.) Each boy has his own bedroom,
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linens, and the nightstands are by Made Goods. The ceiling light is from Kasler’s line for Visual Comfort, the Sister Parish wallpaper is from Travis & Company, and the curtains are of a Cowtan & Tout fabric. The artwork is by Kayce Hughes. RIGHT: In the master bedroom, a Joseph Konrad mirror hangs above a cabinet by Kasler for Hickory Chair. The artworks are by Hunt Slonem. OPPOSITE: The Hickory Chair master bed and Visual Comfort lamps were designed by Kasler, the poufs are by Bungalow Classic, the chandelier is by R Hughes, and the rug is by Stark. Artwork, Paule Marrot. For details, see Resources.
but they prefer to sleep in the same room. “They really are like triplets,” Whitney says. “Putting them to bed is never a one-and-done. It’s a process every night.” “Whitney keeps a pristine, edited, tailored house,” Kasler says. Yes, to a point. Cleveland winters can be long. Happily, so is the foyer, which serves as a “sports hub” for Nerf football and Nerf dodgeball and a construction zone for Lego towers and castles. There is a playroom in the basement that was intended for these activities, and the boys do use it, but “there’s nothing nice about it,” Whitney says. She still works at Pilot Flying J; she is also involved with the team. Her husband is now deep in the business side of the organization. The Johnsons remain jugglers, but the absence of planes and separations gives them time to make a real contribution to the Browns. “We spend our days thinking about new ways to have success on the field and off,” Whitney reports. It is still an uphill climb—the Browns have never been to the Super Bowl. But the Johnsons declare victory every night when they come home. ◾
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STAR CHAMBER IN HIS APARTMENT NEAR MANHATTAN’S HIGH LINE, THOM FILICIA LETS LOOSE WITH HIS CREATIVITY. BY VANESSA LAWRENCE PRODUCED BY PARKER BOWIE LARSON PHOTOGRAPHS BY DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN
Thom Filicia in the living room of his apartment in New York’s West Chelsea enclave. The artwork (left) is by Gavin Zeigler. OPPOSITE: In the living room, the chair, stool, sofa, and upholstered mirror are all from the Thom Filicia Home Collection for Vanguard Furniture. The side table and sheepskin throw are by Sedgwick & Brattle, and the floor lamp is by Vaughan. The artworks are by Scott Kerr. 90
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on shows like the original 2003 Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and 2018’s Get a Room with Carson & Thom, both on Bravo, Thom Filicia is accustomed to reimagining— and overhauling—spaces for design-challenged folks on extremely tight deadlines. It is a highly calibrated process whose final goal is as much about improving the emotional well-being of the clients in question as it is about aesthetics. When it comes to his personal environs, however, Filicia takes a more casual, free-associative approach that provides ample opportunity for creative brainstorming. “My home feels more experimental. I have a little more fun, hanging paintings on furniture or using wallcoverings in a way that clients might not want,” says Filicia, who started his eponymous design firm, which does both residential and commercial projects, in 1998 after working for Parish-Hadley and Bilhuber & Associates. “I allow myself to have an easy freedom with it. I’m not going to fire myself, so I don’t have to worry about it.” Eight years ago, Filicia decided to sell the SoHo apartment where he had resided for a decade and move to a neighborhood with a bit more breathing room. The tourist foot tra∞c in SoHo had increased steadily, and the density had made even walking his two rescue dogs a di∞cult endeavor. Filicia alighted on the then-emerging West Chelsea area, where the elevated High Line park was drawing people up and away OPPOSITE : In the living room, a vintage cocktail table is topped with
a Ralph Lauren hurricane, and the side table is by Sedgwick & Brattle. The rug is by French Accents, and both the Vanguard Furniture console and the MDC wallcovering are by Thom Filicia. LE F T, FROM TOP: The media room’s chaise, chair, and bookshelves are all from the Thom Filicia Home Collection for Vanguard, the Turkish pouf and side table are from Sedgwick & Brattle, the floor lamp is by Lorin Marsh, and the rug is by Crosby Street Studios; the artwork (left) is by Barry Lantz. In a hallway, the Emmy that Filicia won in 2004 for Queer Eye for the Straight Guy sits on a vintage Chinese console; the mirror, vase, and sculptures are from Sedgwick & Brattle, the bench is from the Thom Filicia Home Collection for Vanguard, the wood-veneer wallcovering is by MDC, and the painting on the left is by Filicia. ELLE DECOR
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LE F T: In the dining room, the custom table is made of
reclaimed wood, and the chairs and bench are from the Thom Filicia Home Collection for Vanguard. The table lamps are from Sedgwick & Brattle, the picture light is by O’Lampia, and the custom-stained mahogany floors are by State of the Art. The Victorian painting by Henry Nelson O’Neil was custom framed in an acrylic shadow box, and the work on paper to its left is by Elaine de Kooning. ABOVE , FROM TOP: The living room’s club chair and armchair are from the Thom Filicia Home Collection for Vanguard, the floor lamp is by Roman Thomas, and the curtains are of a Kravet linen; a vintage ironand-copper sculpture rests on a pedestal affixed with an artwork by Filicia. The kitchen’s cabinetry is by Poliform, the range is by Miele, and the counters are of Brazilian quartzite; the bar cart is from the Thom Filicia Home Collection for Vanguard, and the ceiling lights are by Cedar & Moss. ELLE DECOR
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ABOVE: The travertine-clad master bathroom has a Kohler tub, a
stool by Sedgwick & Brattle, and artwork from the Thom Filicia Home Collection for Wendover. ABOVE RIGHT: A chair in the master bedroom is from the Thom Filicia Home Collection for Vanguard. The marble side table is by Sedgwick & Brattle, the lamp is vintage, and the painting is by Filicia. OPPOSITE: The master bed, from the Thom Filicia Home Collection for Vanguard, is topped with pillows and bedding by Filicia for Eastern Accents. The coatrack is by Erich Ginder, the wallcovering is by Filicia for MDC, and the curtains are of a Kravet linen. The custom mobile was inspired by Alexander Calder, and the painting (left) is by Alex Weinstein. For details, see Resources.
from the streets, and where art galleries provided cultural stimulation. A floor-through unit in a modern building designed by the South African architect Lindy Roy caught his eye, thanks to a layout with a strong separation between social and personal spaces. After spending four months in construction redoing floors, bathrooms, lights, and counters, Filicia set about decorating the 1,800-square-foot, two-bedroom apartment. The rooms include a mix of his own pieces, both from his Thom Filicia Home Collection and his to-the-trade New York showroom Sedgwick & Brattle, along with vintage furnishings and the artwork he has collected over the years. “I’m a single guy, so I wanted it to be timely and timeless, sophisticated yet inviting,” he explains, adding that he loves to entertain. The elevator opens onto an entrance hall, which leads to a light-filled living room, dining area, and kitchen. Views of the High Line abound, and the neutral-toned space boasts textural interest, like walls sheathed in Filicia’s own iridescent, steel-gray abalone wallcovering and an acid-washed mirror in an upholstery frame. Above a reclaimed-oak dining table
with a pickled finish hangs an heirloom Victorian painting by Henry Nelson O’Neil that once belonged to Filicia’s grandparents and which he modernized by framing it in an acrylic shadow box. A gallery hall separates the apartment’s public and private wings; Filicia treated it like a moody portal, covering the walls and ceiling in a charcoal-gray chevron wood veneer, against which a vintage red Chinese console and white plaster–and– gold bolection mirror pop. Another hallway leads to a media room, where Filicia does all his television watching, and to a nearly 800-square-foot master suite grounded by a four-poster bed that Filicia designed for Vanguard Furniture. An Alexander Calder–inspired mobile hangs above the bed, which faces an oil painting of the sea by Alex Weinstein—the work is so massive that a crane was required to lift it into the apartment. “Between the artwork and the mobile and the light filtering through the window treatment, it’s a very calming space in a city that doesn’t always provide that,” says Filicia, who also has a country home in the Finger Lakes region of New York. “I love creative problem-solving.” This accessible approach to interiors is, ultimately, the strongest connective thread running through his work. Whether for television—this spring, he will start shooting a new show for the Design Network’s streaming platform—or for celebrity clients like Tina Fey and Jennifer Lopez, Filicia strenuously eschews pretense. “It’s about concepts and ideas as opposed to the cost of things or how hard they are to find,” says Filicia of his philosophy. “Design should enhance the world around us without being intimidating.” ◾
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Sandy Reynolds-Wasco and David Wasco outside their ranch-style home in Santa Barbara, California, which was designed in 1956 by the architect Robert Ingle Hoyt and restored by architect Brian Hart. The front door is painted in Fresno by Benjamin Moore, and the windows are all original to the house.
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set-design team, David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco have long been on speed dial for directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, and Damien Chazelle. From the quirky-cool 1970s New York they conjured for Anderson’s Royal Tenenbaums to the nostalgic, Ed Ruscha–tinged Los Angeles of La La Land, the couple control every nuance of mood, views, and atmosphere in the films they design. And yet when they were looking for a home eight years ago, their priority was a view that was anything but static. Sited in the Santa Barbara foothills, the 1956 house that they saved and restored (the ultimate green solution) overlooks the ocean, the horizon, and the sky—even Santa Cruz Island. The scene is ever changing, turbulent one day and bucolic the next. Nearer, just beyond the glass, deer wander through the rugged hills and the new drought-tolerant plantings. The view is a “living artwork,” says Reynolds-Wasco, a set decorator. “We are so high, we can see above the level of the clouds,” adds Wasco, a production designer. I first met the duo in 2001, when I wrote about their ’50s hillside home in L.A.’s Silver Lake neighborhood. It was a well-executed example of modernism designed by Lee B. Kline, a talented University of Southern ABOVE: In the living room, a custom sofa from Ten10 and a pair of lounge chairs
by Milo Baughman surround an Eames cocktail table covered in gold leaf. The club chair is also by Baughman, the walls and hearth are painted in Green Ground by Farrow & Ball, and the ceiling is lined with Douglas fir. The whirligig sculpture (right) was made by David’s father, Lon Wasco. LE F T: In the kitchen, the new custom cabinets and banquette by Architectural Millwork are in Douglas fir to match the original ceiling. The range is by Miele, the washer and dryer are by Maytag, and the Tarkett vinyl floor tiles were custom cut to nine-inch squares to mimic the flooring in the Eames House.
In the dining room, the Kartell table is by Ferruccio Laviani, the chairs are by Gio Ponti, the pendant light is custom, and the French piano stool was purchased in the 1970s in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at Design Research, where the couple worked. On the table, the vase is by Hay, the square planters are by Bennington Potters, and the hurricane lamps are by Simon Pearce.
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California–educated architect. We kept in touch, as I went on to write books about the architect Richard Neutra and they proceeded to win an Oscar for their work on La La Land (at this point, they have designed 37 films). Off set, for architecture geeks, the couple were stars in a different firmament because they had worked on a blockbuster 1989 exhibition on midcentury design, “Blueprints for Modern Living,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in L.A. Also in the ’80s, they personally met such masters as Ray Eames and Pierre Koenig when they lived in the city’s Falk Apartments, designed in 1939 by the radical modernist Rudolph Schindler. Their love affair with modern—and their personal romance—began even earlier, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the 1970s, when they worked for Design Research, the lifestyle store that introduced modernism to the masses. Since moving to L.A., Wasco says they “devour books on the history of Los Angeles.” And apart from restoring wherever they live, they have always believed that their cinematic designs could play a role in saving the past. “We feel our work is also about
preserving Los Angeles, so that 50 or 100 years from now, people can see what the city looked like,” he says. Their move to Santa Barbara was intended to provide a refuge from the demonic pace of moviemaking. They still maintain an L.A. office in the Los Feliz Towers, but “the hour-and-a-half drive home allows us to decompress,” Wasco says. Like their former Silver Lake home, the Santa Barbara house embodies the best of residential architecture designed by no one you’ve ever heard of—in this case, the locally distinguished Yale- and Cornell-trained Robert Ingle Hoyt. The 2,000-square-foot Winter House, as it’s called, occupies the apex of a hairpin turn above the overgrown historic botanic gardens known as Franceschi Park. The triangular site, nearly an acre, is anchored by rambling stone walls, terraces, plants, and three mighty trees: a California redwood, a coast live oak, and a Chinese elm. From the outside, the house is rather nondescript: an elongated stucco box whose low-sloped, side-gabled roof, deep overhangs, and exposed wooden rafters recall the strategies of Japanese architecture,
FAR LE F T: Behind the house, a gravel yard is furnished with a pair of 1938 butterfly chairs by Jorge Ferrari Hardoy for Knoll. The dining table and chairs, designed by Tadao Inouye for Brown Jordan, are from Grain. The redwood deck is original. ABOVE: In the master bedroom, the bed is by Axel Bloom, the Gio Ponti chair is a prototype, the table lamp is by Luxo, and the ’60s floor lamp is by Joe Colombo for Stilnovo. The silk-screen prints are by Corita Kent. LE F T: A Jørgen Rasmussen chair pulls up to a Milo Baughman desk, both vintage, in the den. The Jacob Jacobsen floor lamp for Luxo, camp chair, Takeshi Nii side table, and bar cart are all vintage. For details, see Resources.
Greene and Greene, or Cliff May. But inside, the vibe is a sure-footed synthesis of complexity and clarity, resulting in lighthearted spaces built of midcentury modern’s classic palette of materials: redwood, Douglas fir, thin concrete block, glass, and steel, materials flowing inside to out. Wherever possible, the duo preserved patina rather than replacing it. Working closely with architect Brian Hart and contractor Dan Clause, they strove to ensure consistency throughout: For example, inspired by the precedent of Douglas fir on the interior doors, new cabinet faces are the same material. Countertops are clad with white Corian, except for the office’s white Formica desk, an homage to an earlier history. Their love of California modernism is everywhere. Kitchen-cabinet interiors are painted a light bluish green, contrasting with the exteriors—just as Albert Frey or Neutra would add a fresh nuance to even a humble domestic event. The garden walls of Santa Barbara stone salute Marcel Breuer’s disciplined orthogonal stone walls. A projecting nook in the kitchen’s north wall holds a banquette based on
a design by Schindler. Ray and Charles Eames are here, too, in the playful way that books, objects, and art are displayed. With a bow to the great Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, new curving swaths of plantings and gravel were added to complement Hoyt’s rectilinear construction. The couple note that their appreciation for midcentury California design is a personal love. “We don’t run around injecting a movie with Case Study houses, we work with many periods of history and architecture,” Wasco says. Their role on a film is to advance the director’s vision. “The city itself can become a character.” The husband-and-wife team are currently preparing for a 2022 exhibition at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s AD&A Museum, a retrospective of their four-decade career in film design. “At our wedding, the exit music was a Shaker hymn: ’Tis a gift to be simple, ’tis a gift to be free, ’tis a gift to come down to where you need to be. Oddly appropriate,” Reynolds-Wasco says, summing up a view, in a way, of their priorities, both at work and at home. ◾ E L L E D E C O R 103
A bamboo-lined drive leads to the Jim Thompson silk farm in Pak Thong Chai, Thailand. OPPOSITE: A Jim Thompson chair is upholstered in Heritage Diamond fabric by Be Inthavong for Jim Thompson.
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leather and silk textiles for Jim Thompson started with, of all things, a quarter-life crisis. Back in 2003, Inthavong, then a 28-year-old LaotianAmerican accessories designer based in New York City, decided to spend a year of soul-searching in Laos. “I was actually considering becoming a monk,” he recalls. In the mornings, he would study at a Buddhist monastery near the village of Suan Morn, where his relatives lived and ran a weaving business. In the afternoons, he would often have lunch with his aunt, who worked for the company. One day, he persuaded his aunt to teach him how to make fabric on one of the old-fashioned wooden looms in her home. “I knew zero about weaving, but I felt as if the looms were calling to me,” Inthavong says. After many weeks of slow progress—learning the painstaking steps of spooling, warping, stretching, and Be Inthavong.
patterning—he felt ready to do it professionally. “It was like an awakening!” he says. “I felt connected to my heritage. I thought, This is why I’ve been brought here.” These days, that moment of revelation continues to feed the designer’s creativity. His capsule collection for Jim Thompson, the eponymous textile company founded by the late, legendary American expat in 1951, features some of the most inventive handwoven fabrics on the market. Drawing upon his expertise with Laotian silk weaving, Inthavong has developed a new type of leather-based textile (70 percent leather, 30 percent silk) that combines old and new, Eastern and Western methods. The technique involves weaving micro-strips of supple laser-cut hides— “about the width of a strand of spaghetti,” he says—on Lao silk looms, resulting in textiles with a distinctively ribbed texture and beautiful luster. Three of the four patterns in the collection are inspired by traditional ikats. Interior designer Anna Beeber, who works at the New York firm Champalimaud Design, recently used one of Inthavong’s ikats to upholster a sculptural Paul Mathieu bench for a client. “It’s a very glamorous and intriguing fabric,” she says. “I love how its appearance changes when you look at it from di≠erent angles.” The collection is among Jim Thompson’s most expensive offerings, and for good reason: Not only are the fabrics painstakingly created, but also, due to a scarcity of suitable looms and weavers experienced in Inthavong’s uncommon technique, they are mostly still produced in the designer’s own workshop in Vientiane, Laos. This is why Inthavong has been spending a lot of time at the Jim Thompson mill in Pak Thong Chai, Thailand, training weavers in his methods, which he hopes will help bring down costs. Working with Jim Thompson, he says, feels like fate. Since the collaboration, he has accepted a job as creative director of the company, overseeing the design of its handbags, clothing, decor, and other retail products. “In Laos, everyone knows Jim Thompson,” he says. “The funniest thing is that back when I first started weaving, my relatives would joke that I could someday be the Laotian Jim Thompson.” Eat, pray, weave indeed. ◾
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of platinum-colored leather, ready to be spooled and woven. CLOCK WISE FROM LE F T: Inthavong thanks weavers at the Jim Thompson mill. The designer (left) with Jim Thompson executive Eric Booth. Silk warps on a loom are prepped for the leather threads. Inthavong inspects leather strips. A roll of his striped Sarong textile. Detail of his Heritage Diamond fabric for Jim Thompson. For details, see Resources.
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RESOURCES Items pictured but not listed are from private collections.
Curtains fabric: Cowtan & Tout, cowtan.com. Artwork: Kayce Hughes, kaycehughes.com. Mirror: Joseph Konrad, josephkonrad.com. Cabinet: Hickory Chair. Artworks: Hunt Slonem, huntslonem.com. Bed: Hickory Chair. Lamps: Visual Comfort. Poufs: Bungalow Classic. Chandelier: R Hughes, r-hughes.com. Rug: Stark. Artwork: Paule Marrot, natural curiosities.com.
TALENT PAGE 34: André Fu, andrefuliving.com.
Janus et Cie, janusetcie.com. POV PAGE 47: Rossana Orlandi, rossana orlandi.com. PAGE 48: Oliver Yaphe,
oliveryaphe.com. De Le Cuona, delecuona.com. Shishi-Iwa House, shishiiwahouse.jp. Shigeru Ban, shigeru banarchitects.com. Alexander Schul, alexanderschul.com. Reform Studio, reformstudio.net. Clodagh, clodagh .com. PAGE 50: Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, mgbwhome.com.
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Beit Trad, beittrad.com. Interior design: Maria Ousseimi, maria.ousseimi1@ gmail.com. Architecture: Fadlo Dagher, Dagher Hanna & Partners, architecturedhp.com. Landscape design: Gaby Khalife, Roots, rootslebanon.com. PAGES 74–75: Table: Artisans du Liban et d’Orient, lartisanduliban.com. PAGES 76–77: Sofa fabric: Rubelli, rubelli.com. Prints: Ann-Morris, annmorrislighting.com. PAGES 78–79: Coverlets fabric: Lewis & Wood, lewisandwood.co.uk. Lamp: Artemide, artemide.com. Banquette cushion fabric: Le Manach, pierrefrey.com. PAGES 80–81: Dress: Artisans du Liban et d’Orient.
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Interior design: Jonathan Adler, jonathanadler.com. Landscape design: Mario Nievera, Nievera Williams Design, nieverawilliams.com. PAGES 64–65: Table: 1stdibs, 1stdibs .com. Bench: James & Jeffrey Antiques, jamesandjeffrey.com. Bench cushion fabric: Gastón y Daniela, gastony daniela.com. Pendants and sconces: Coleen & Company, coleenand company.com. Palms: The Canvas Nursery, thecanvasnursery.com. Planters: Frontgate, frontgate.com. Bike: Electra, electrabike.com. PAGES 66–67: Sofas: Selamat, selamatdesigns.com. Sofas fabric: Schumacher, fschumacher.com. Cocktail table and floor lamps: Serena & Lily, serenaandlily.com. Frog table: Devonshire Home & Garden Antiques, devonshireof palmbeach.com. Mirror: Selamat. Rug: RH, Restoration Hardware, rh .com. Wall paint: Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com. PAGES 68–69: Chaise: Todd Hase, toddhase.com. Table: Serena & Lily. Wicker alligator: F.S. Henemader Antiques, fshenemaderantiques.com. Cushions fabric: Schumacher. Tablecloth fabric: Kravet, kravet.com. Tablecloth fringe: Jonathan Adler, jonathanadler.com. Chairs: Bungalow 5, bungalow5.com. Chandelier: Circa Who, circawho.com. Wallpaper: Peter Dunham, peterdunhamtextiles.com. Ceiling wallpaper: Cole & Son, cole-and-son .com. Rug: Serena & Lily. PAGES 70–71: Wallpaper: Bob Collins & Sons, bobcollinsandsons.com. Ceramic lions: Florida Modern, floridamodern .etsy.com. Chairs: Ballard Designs, ballarddesigns.com. Pendant: Serena & Lily. Wallpaper: Pierre Frey, pierrefrey.com. PAGES 72–73: Bed: Room & Board, roomandboard.com. Nightstands: Serena & Lily. Love seat: Jonathan Adler. Tables: Bungalow 5. Wallpaper: Quadrille, quadrillefabrics .com. Bathtub, sink, and fittings: Waterworks, waterworks.com. Ceiling light and sconces: Jonathan Adler. Chairs: Beall & Bell, beallandbell.com. Chairs paint: Benjamin Moore. Table: RH, Restoration Hardware. Pendants: Serena & Lily. 110 E L L E D E C O R
Chair: Vanguard Furniture. Marble table: Sedgwick & Brattle. Bed: Vanguard Furniture. Bedding and pillows: Eastern Accents, eastern accents.com. Coatrack: Erich Ginder, erichginder.com. Wallcovering: MDC. Painting: Alex Weinstein, vaguestudio.com.
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Interior design: Suzanne Kasler, suzannekasler.com. PAGES 82–83: Sofa and chair: Bungalow Classic, bungalowclassic.com. Cocktail table: Formations, formations usa.com. Wallpaper: Gracie, gracie studio.com. PAGES 84–85: Table, urn, and pedestal: Formations. Curtains and throw pillow fabric: Robert Kime, robertkime.com. Chandelier: Vaughan, vaughandesigns.com. Rug: Stark, starkcarpet.com. Wall paint: Farrow & Ball, farrow-ball.com. Artwork: Michelle Y. Williams, michelley williams.com. PAGES 86–87: Sofa: Saladino, saladinostyle.com. Sofa fabric: Old World Weavers, scalamandre.com. Bergères: Scott Antique Markets, scottantique markets.com. Armchairs: Hickory Chair, hickorychair.com. Armchairs fabric: Nancy Corzine, nancycorzine .com. Cocktail table: Karine Szanto, paulbert-serpette.com. Floor lamp: Visual Comfort, visualcomfort .com. Urns: Michael S. Smith, michael smithinc.com. Bar paint: SherwinWilliams, sherwin-williams.com. Sink: Waterworks, waterworks.com. Fittings: THG Paris, thg-paris.com. Sconces: Travis & Company, travisand company.com. Mirror: Kerry Joyce, kerryjoyce.com. Wallpaper: Dedar, dedar.com. Sofa and chair: Hickory Chair. Cocktail table: Profiles, profiles ny.net. Side table: Mark D. Sikes, mark dsikes.com. Lamp: Vaughan. Curtains fabric: J. Robert Scott, jrobertscott .com. Photograph: David Burdeny, davidburdeny.com. PAGES 88–89: Bed linens: Peacock Alley, peacockalley.com. Nightstands: Made Goods, madegoods.com. Ceiling light: Visual Comfort. Wallpaper: Travis & Company.
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Interior design: Thom Filicia, thomfilicia .com. PAGES 90–91: Chair, stool, sofa, and mirror: Vanguard Furniture, vanguard furniture.com. Side table and throw: Sedgwick & Brattle, sedgwickand brattle.com. Floor lamp: Vaughan, vaughandesigns.com. Artwork: Scott Kerr, scottkerrart.com. PAGES 92–93: Hurricane: Ralph Lauren Home, ralphlaurenhome.com. Side table: Sedgwick & Brattle. Rug: French Accents, farugs.com. Console: Vanguard Furniture. Wallcovering: MDC, mdcwall.com. Chaise, chair, and bookshelves: Vanguard Furniture. Pouf and side table: Sedgwick & Brattle. Floor lamp: Lorin Marsh, lorinmarsh.com. Rug: Crosby Street Studios, crosbystreetstudios.com. Artwork: Barry Lantz, barrylantzart.com. Mirror, vase, and sculptures: Sedgwick & Brattle. Bench: Vanguard Furniture. Wallcovering: MDC. PAGES 94–95: Chairs and bench: Vanguard Furniture. Table lamps: Sedgwick & Brattle. Flooring: State of the Art, sotafloors.com. Club chair and armchair: Vanguard Furniture. Floor lamp: Roman Thomas, roman thomas.com. Curtains fabric: Kravet, kravet.com. Kitchen cabinets: Poliform, poliform.it. Range: Miele, mieleusa.com. Bar cart: Vanguard Furniture. Ceiling lights: Cedar & Moss, cedarandmoss.com. PAGES 96–97: Bathtub: Kohler, kohler.com. Stool: Sedgwick & Brattle.
Interior design: Sandy Reynolds-Wasco and David Wasco. Contractor: Dan Clause, Clause Construction, clause construction.com. PAGES 98–99: Door paint: Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com. PAGES 100–101: Sofa: Ten10, ten10site .com. Walls and hearth paint: Farrow & Ball, farrow-ball.com. Cabinets and banquette: Architectural Millwork, archmillwork.com. Range: Miele, mieleusa.com. Washer and dryer: Maytag, maytag.com. Floor tiles: Tarkett, tarkett.com. Dining table: Kartell, kartell.com. Vase: Hay, us.hay .com. Square planters: Bennington Potters, benningtonpotters.com. Hurricane lamps: Simon Pearce, simonpearce.com. PAGES 102–103: Dining table and chairs: Brown Jordan, grainla.com. Bed: Axel Bloom, axelbloom.com. Table lamp: Luxo, luxous.com.
DREAM WEAVER
Jim Thompson, jimthompson.com. Be Inthavong, beinthavong.com. PAGES 104–105: Chair: Jim Thompson, jimthompson.com. PAGES 106–107: Fabrics: Jim Thompson.
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STYLE. DESIGN. CULTURE. PA:M L AHM :M FB:FB :KM :G= =>LB@G P>>D “THE GREEN INITIATIVE: SUSTAINABLE STYLE” PARTY KICKS OFF ART BASEL IN MAGIC CITY In celebration of green design and sustainability, ELLE DECOR, Arhaus, and 1 Hotel South Beach joined forces to host an exclusive cocktail party with Editor in Chief Whitney Robinson and 1 Hotels Founder, Chairman & CEO of Starwood Capital Group Barry Sternlicht. Over 100 stylish guests enjoyed beautifully designed Arhaus lounge vignettes at hot spot Habitat and live music by Brothers of Others. arhaus.com
Jennifer Porter, Holly Hunt, Barry Sternlicht, Rachel Zoe, Whitney Robinson
Inviting Arhaus lounge vignettes transformed the space through exceptional design.
AN ARTFUL NIGHT TO REMEMBER ELLE DECOR and Ralph Pucci hosted an art filled fête in Wynwood among colorful murals by renowned artist Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. New works by John Koga, John Wigmore, and Ruben Toledo were also on display. ralphpucci.net
Whitney Robinson, Ralph Pucci
ANTOLINI’S EXCLUSIVE STONE: IRISH GREEN
JULIAN CHICHESTER EXPANDING ADAC SHOWROOM
Irish Green magnifies green tones, characterized by uneven coloring and flowing shades. The variegated veins allow Irish Green to create new geometries and make it unique and unrepeatable. antolini.com
Due to the overwhelming response to its initial opening in March 2019, Julian Chichester has expanded its footprint at ADAC increasing its commitment to the southeastern US. julianchichester.com
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Each month, ELLE DECOR
asks an artisan to create a unique item for us. At the end of the year, these pieces will be auctioned o≠ to benefit the charity of ED’s choice.
Dynamic Duo DAVID AND EVAN YURMAN MINED THEIR TROVE OF RARE GEMS TO CREATE THESE BESPOKE STUNNERS.
“Good things come in pairs,” says an old Chinese proverb. This is true not only of these dazzling statement earrings, but also of their creators: father-and-son duo David and Evan Yurman, whose New York–based jewelry line is noted for its high style and superior craftsmanship. The striking appearance of these one-of-a-kind baubles is due to the juxtaposition of gems, all from the Yurmans’ personal collection, in pastel and saturated hues. The focal point is a pair of lavender amethysts, cut in the Victorian Moghul style once used for diamonds. Above them, brilliant rubellites from Brazil are joined by 18-karat white-gold quatrefoils studded with sapphires from Madagascar. Graceful and glamorous, this pair reflects light in elegant, sparkling flashes, magnifying the stones’ natural beauty—and that of the wearer, too. —Samantha Swenson davidyurman.com 112 E L L E D E C O R
Artist Series lavender amethyst, rubellite, and sapphire earrings by David and Evan Yurman.