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Perched on and cantilevering out from a steep jungle slope overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica, the 1,000-square-foot villa, one of two by sustainably minded Czech firm Formafatal, is built from rammed earth using clay excavated from the site, its wraparound sliding glass doors opening to an infinityedge pool. Photography: Boysplaynice.

features 106 IN THE HEIGHTS by Edie Cohen

The renovation of a San Francisco house by Shamir Shah Design and Geddes Ulinskas Architects does full justice to the property’s elevated position. 114 MAIDEN VOYAGE by Ian Phillips

Kenshō, a private super yacht produced in Italy’s Admiral shipyard, is Jouin Manku’s debut nautical vessel to hit the high seas. 124 MADE IN THE SHADE by Rebecca Dalzell

Paseo Mallorca 15, an eco-friendly apartment building in Palma, Spain, by OHLab, embodies passive-house construction, natural or locally sourced materials, and not a drop of paint.

132 THIS IS LIVING by Lisa Di Venuta and Georgina McWhirter

Whether rental or condo, America or Asia, today’s residential developments are housing occupants in supreme style amid five-star amenities. 146 PUTTING ON A SHOW by Stephen Wallis

A Southampton, New York, retreat by Sawyer|Berson is an artful stage for interiors by its design-forward homeowner, Dune CEO and founder Richard Shemtov. 156 THE RULES OF THE GAME by Ian Phillips

For an apartment overlooking the Danube in Budapest, Hungary, Ramy Fischler Studio applied precepts of an ancient Indian system of architecture, along with its own savoir faire.

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VOLUME 94 NUMBER 4

walk-through 35 COLOR STORY by Elizabeth Fazzare

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Geometric floor tiles by Ceramica Bardelli bring an energetic note to a three-bedroom apartment in Ragusa, Italy, by Studio Gum. Photography: Filippo Bamberghi/Living Inside.

openhouse 67 SURF, SKY, SAND by Edie Cohen 73 ART ON VIEW by Rebecca Dalzell 85 THEME AND VARIATION by Georgina McWhirter and Jen Renzi

Designers play with dichotomy and difference in creating weekend getaways informed by their locales—from the Costa Rican jungle to Ontario lake country.

at home 81 PAUL VANRUNXT DRAFTS HIS DREAM DWELLING by Kurt G. Stapelfeldt

departments 15 HEADLINERS 19 DESIGNWIRE by Annie Block and Athena Waligore 24 PINUPS by Lisa Di Venuta 28 BLIPS by Annie Block and Athena Waligore 40 SHOPTALK 43 MARKET edited by Rebecca Thienes text by Wilson Barlow, Lisa Di Venuta, Georgina McWhirter, and Rebecca Thienes 101 CENTERFOLD A Perfect Sequence by Athena Waligore

With a name and layout inspired by the Golden Spiral, the Fibonacci wine-tasting terrace in Prague by Marco Maio Architects adds up to an outdoor oasis.

189 CONTACTS 191 INTERVENTION by Wilson Barlow 35

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I must admit, it’s quite natural to assume that residential work is exclusively the expression of “the power of one”—be it one person’s own digs or the ancestral home of one family, with one contractor and one highbrow designer as the lead (when there’s the budget, of course). Yes, this assumption is justified because singularity is the name of the game here. But life being complex and all that, residential design actually spills over into soooooo much more. Take the obvious, city living and apartment buildings. That’s already a different story, a place where individuality and community mix it up and create new rules for the (design) game. Now, add live-work commissions to this equation (another very common occurrence today), whereby residential space is inextricably joined to, say, hospitality, retail, and even workplace situations—poster children for all-things-social. And then add to the picture that great American original, large-scale development with

resi: both sides now! major amenities to boot, and we can only imagine where resi will lead! Phew! In short, the residential segment of our business is an exceedingly vast patch on which to ply our craft, much larger and more varied than what we ever expected, more “commercial” than we ever suspected…and when we add the kazillions of products specified into the mix, it is a wonderland of opportunities that has been known to swallow a design team or two. ;) And because it is both sides now—residential and commercial—it also happens to be a positively intractable bear to cover effectively, a nightmare of agonizing choices to make for a poor editor-in-chief like me (hee-hee). Us being us however—as intrepid as they come!— we once again prevailed upon this eclectic beast. We begin with, surprise, surprise, a mini edition of Interior Design Homes (with hard cover and all!) for a taste of unapologetically modern living. Our cover story takes us to new heights with twin rental villas that actually cantilever from a steep jungle slope in Costa Rica…oh my! Then, our top-flight features include a swanky house reno in San Francisco, a to-die-for apartment overlooking the Danube in Buda pest, and a global roundup of developments with amenities that would take anyone’s breath away! From primary to secondary, city to country to seaside home, and including a wide variety of developments with residential as the lead, we are proud to present our most recent endeavor showcasing all sides of resi design today…the Interior Design way! Follow me on Instagram

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Shamir Shah Design “In the Heights,” page 106 principal: Shamir Shah. firm site: New York. firm size: Four architects and designers. current projects: House renovations in Bedford, New York, and Los Angeles. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Awards. past: Shah was raised in Kenya, where the landscape and natural colors played a large part in forming his sensibility. present: Now a naturalized American, his Indian heritage makes him feel like a truly global citizen. shamirshahdesign.com

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Jouin Manku “Maiden Voyage,” page 114 ceo: Patrick Jouin. ceo: Sanjit Manku. firm site: Paris. firm size: 50 architects and designers. current projects: La Mamounia hotel in Marrakech, Morocco; Van Cleef & Arpels in Seoul, South Korea. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Award. early days: Jouin’s first design job was with Philippe Starck and Manku’s with Yabu Pushelberg. nowadays: Both express themselves through drawing, Jouin using red notebooks and Manku black. jouinmanku.com

h e a d l i n e rs Ramy Fischler Studio “The Rules of the Game,” page 156 principal: Ramy Fischler. firm site: Paris. firm size: 41 architects and designers. current projects: A penthouse in Paris; residences in Beaulieu-sur-Mer and Vexin Français Regional Natural Park, France. honors: Maison&Objet Designer of the Year; Ordre des Arts et des Lettres; Laureate of the Académie de France à Rome.

OHLab “Made in the Shade,” page 124 cofounder, director: Paloma Hernaiz. cofounder, director: Jaime Oliver. firm site: Palma de Mallorca, Spain. firm size: 18 architects and designers. current projects: Residences, a jewelry store, and a yoga retreat in Mallorca; Casa Cabrera Hotel on La Palma, Canary Islands. honors: Interior Design Best of Year Awards; World Architecture Festival Prize. work: OHLab also has offices in Madrid and New York. play: Hernaiz is eager to explore new destinations and cultures, while Oliver is drawn to sailing the Mediterranean. ohlab.net

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foreign exchange: Born in Belgium, Fischer is a graduate of Paris’s ENSCI-Les Ateliers. passing the torch: Aware of the importance of mentoring the next generation, he was director of studies there for several years. rfstudio.fr

Sawyer|Berson “Putting on a Show,” page 146 partner: Brian Sawyer, AIA. partner: John Berson, AIA. firm site: New York. firm size: 30 architects and designers. current projects: Residences in New York, Southampton, and Bermuda. master gardener: Sawyer has a collection of some 1,000 rare orchids. mvp: Berson was captain of the Princeton University fencing team. sawyerberson.com

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“In the Heights,” page 106 principal: Geddes Ulinskas, AIA. firm site: San Francisco. firm size: Seven architects and designers. current projects: A synagogue in San Francisco; residences in Los Angeles and Honolulu. honors: San Francisco 2023 Decorator Showcase Staircase Award. then: Born in the Philippines, Ulinskas was originally drawn to a career as a commercial artist. now: He remains an avid watercolorist, unsurprisingly since he comes from a family of illustrators. ularch.com

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modern classic “We should seek out ambitious, even unrealistic projects, because things only happen when we dream.” Those salient words were famously proclaimed by the late legend, Andrée Putman. The interior and industrial designer’s contribution to the Modernist movement coupled with the 10th anniversary of her passing has resulted in a comprehensive exhibition titled “Andrée Putman and the Creators of the Mouvement Moderne” at the Fondation CAB Saint-Paul-de-Vence in her native France. The show’s compendium of furniture, photographs, personal effects, and archive materials showcase her signature monochrome graphics and streamlined aesthetic. Particularly noteworthy is the reconstruction of one of Putman’s most iconic interiors: the checkered bathroom she designed for the Morgans Hotel in New York, which is considered to be the first ever boutique property. Daughter Olivia Putman, who has run her mother’s studio since 2013, lent many of the private objects and conceived the exhibit’s scenography. From top: “Andrée Putman and the Creators of the Mouvement Moderne,” at the Fon dation CAB Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, through October 29, features the reconstruc tion of a bathroom at New York’s Morgans Hotel, which Putman designed in 1984. Her portrait from 1982, a hand-painted gelatin silver print by Pierre et Gilles, also on exhibit.

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Clockwise from bottom: One of the four bedrooms in the model apartment at One High Line in New York has been trans formed by India Mahdavi into a home office, featuring her Hexagonale chairs and custom TX desk. Mahdavi’s Nuage screen, Garden of Eden rug, and Charlotte armchairs, made famous at Sketch, the London restaurant she also designed, in the main bedroom. The entry hall’s Waltz coat hanger from Thonet and India Mahdavi x Cogolin runner. Mahdavi’s Oedipe sofa across from her Botero armchairs in the living room. The Iranian French designer leaning on her Jelly Pea sofa.

As if One High Line’s creative team wasn’t already star-studded enough. The two-tower residential complex, which occupies a full New York City block and contains 236 condominiums, has architecture by Bjarke Ingels Group and interiors by Gabellini Sheppard Associates and Gilles & Boissier. Recently, Interior Design Hall of Fame member India Mahdavi joined the team, designing a 3,500-square-foot model apartment on the 27th floor. “India’s use of color is authoritative and engaging,” says Alex Witkoff, principal at Witkoff Group, the developer, along with Access Industries. Mahdavi drew inspiration from Gotham’s energy. “I put these combinations together so they vibrate, so they bring a certain level of happiness,” she explains. Perhaps the buzziest is the bedroom Mahdavi converted into a tangerine dream of an office. The frequency is high in the living room, too, where she harmonizes emerald greens with regal purples. The vibe chills in the main bedroom suite, wrapped in soothing buttercup. Throughout are Mahdavi’s pretty and pleasing furniture pieces, available domestically through Ralph Pucci International and internationally at india-mahdavi.com.

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Since its founding in 2017, Spanish firm Clap Studio has accumulated international awards for its playful interiors. A recent project, Septiembre, a 1,300-square-foot dermatological clinic in Valencia, shows why. Inspired by the name, which is the Spanish word for September, the aster became a centerpiece of the concept, as the perennial blooms that same month. “Everything revolves around relaxation,” Clap cofounder and creative director Jordi Iranzo says. Nature and calm are perhaps best seen in the light, bright waiting room. Wrap ping its perimeter are wooden bleachers, some surfaces fitted with cushions for seating, most dotted with hundreds of small white pedestals ranging from 2 to 25 inches tall—Clap’s abstract nod to a wildflower field. Actual flowers, albeit preserved, are clustered in corners. Cerulean ceramic tile fronting the reception desk recalls blue sky; a yellow acrylic “sun” behind it dips gracefully toward the horizon. Farther in, the consultation room proclaims “Wake up your skin” in custom neon signage. It and the treatment rooms are rounded, entered through archways that can be cordoned off with curtains the color of goldenrod. —Athena Waligore

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Clockwise from bottom: For Septiembre, a skincare clinic in Valencia, Spain, Clap Studio populated the waiting room with 239 custom lacquered-steel stands on matte-varnished white-ash bleachers to represent a field of asters, perennials that bloom in September, the same month the clinic is named after. Víctor Carrasco’s Maarten chairs for Viccarbe and a custom table in the consultation room. A treatment room’s cotton-polyester drapes by Prestige Curtain. Facial creams displayed alongside preserved asters.

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Sailors use ringbolt hitches… So does Windy Chien. But she uses the knotting technique to craft site-specific, room-size installations for such clients as Google and Nobu Hotels. Now, the artist and author switches mediums to precious metals, translating the aesthetics of her fiber works into Knot Life, an eight-piece collection of wearable art developed with fine jeweler Cast, launching this month. “My goal is to elevate the humble object into one of awe and beauty,” Chien explains. Stunning indeed. Among the standouts are the Woven Mesh Pendants, necklaces consisting of a 1.4-inch-diameter ring of charcoal jade—the material chosen for its protective qualities—sheathed in sterling-silver or 14-karat gold mesh. A smaller pendant, earrings, and a ring complete the series. windychien.com; castjewelry.com —Athena Waligore

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Needing a change of scenery in the early days of the pandemic, expressionist painter Heather Chontos decamped from New York to the countryside of southwestern France, the pastoral inspiration leading to prolific output. First to debut is her Toile du Peintre pattern, which has been produced by Pierre Frey in a cotton-blend upholstery for a limited-edition series of the Togo, Michel Ducaroy’s iconic chair for French furniture company Ligne Roset that’s celebrating its 50th anniversary. “Heather’s intense colors and dynamic patterns push the boundaries, aligning with our value of nonconformism,” says Simone Vingerhoets-Ziesmann, executive vice president of Ligne Roset in the Americas. Soon after, the artist returns to the U.S. for the first time to open “A Time of Sand,” her solo show of 12 new large-scale paintings, including Cold Morning Air, at Voltz Clarke Gallery in New York. It goes through June 10. ligne-roset.com; voltzclarke.com —Annie Block

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Photographer Sanlé Sory is 80 now… But in the 1970’s, during the postcolonial period of his native Burkina Faso, he posed teenagers in front of hand-painted back grounds to document the era’s zeitgeist, like in Je Vais Décoller, a 1977 black-and-white image of a young man boarding a plane. It joins some 180 pieces of clothing, textiles, and jewelry in “Africa Fashion,” organized by Victoria and Albert Museum and landing at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, June 23 to October 22. Dozens of creatives from 20 countries are included. From Nigeria is a yellow ensemble by Bubu Ogisi’s womenswear label IAMISIGO and Stephen Tayo’s photograph of Lagos Fashion Week models linking hands, while Djiboutian costume designer-photographer Gouled Ahmed’s black-and-white self-portrait was taken in Ethiopia. Additionally, Brooklyn Museum curators issued an open call for museumgoers’ related personal photographs to augment the exhibition. —Athena Waligore 32

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Clockwise from top left: Throughout a model apartment that has since been purchased are architectural recesses, like this Alacantra-upholstered one with custom pendant fixtures in the bedroom wing, that infuse the 7,500-square-foot penthouse with personality. Another custom pendant caps the living room. A custom Carrara marble vanity and shag stool outfit her dressing room in the main bedroom suite. A curio shelf has been built into the living room’s marble wall.

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Clockwise from top left: Upholstered doors open to a bedroom’s closet. Melt pendants by Tom Dixon hang over the custom sectional in the media room. The living room, furnished with custom pieces, shows how traditional partitioning has been done away with, creating large spaces that flow into one another. A short marble stair with LED-lit risers marks the transition from public to private areas. LED strips define arches in a bedroom.

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six-bathroom model apartment in a Shanghai high-rise, the addition of color was a certainty. After all, IFG, which was cofounded in Stuttgart, Germany, by Interior Design Hall of Fame members Peter Ippolito and Gunter Fleitz and today has additional studios in Berlin and Shanghai, is wellknown for punchy interiors, whether residential or commercial. Further layered with varied textures, a fluid floor plan, and charming built-ins and architectural recesses, the 7,500-square-foot penthouse is as unique as the art collector family that quickly purchased it. The full-floor project was begun without that client, however. The team envisioned it for someone who’d appreciate the amount of personality it packed, says Dirk Zschunke, general manager of IFG Shanghai. He, Ippolito, and design director Halil Dogan decided to eliminate any traditional divisions between the common spaces to allow for the maximum amount of floor space and natural flow. What defines each area instead are furniture groupings and artful lighting, built-in display niches, and curtains and paneling in unexpected colors. “Every room has its own identity,” Dogan explains. “For example, green paneling covers the elevator bank in the public area because it’s more energized during the day. But in the bedrooms, the scheme is a bit calmer.”

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A change in palette isn’t the only marker of going from public to private. There are also a few steps to ascend to reach the bedroom wing, which is situated at one end of the penthouse and includes a dual main suite, for a couple that wants their own space to sleep and dress (they do share an en suite bathroom). In the transition between these open and closed spaces is a flexible one that does both: a media room with glamorous golden pendant fixtures and a generous white sectional that can be secluded via amber acoustic curtains. Just down the hall is one of the project’s many Easter eggs moments: a recess upholstered in a fern-colored microfiber illuminated by whimsical glass fixtures. “This home is about discovering small details,” Zschunke notes. “We feel lucky to shape people’s lifestyles through design and let them live in that story,” Dogan adds. In the end, the residents—a married couple and their young son—moved their personal collection of art and heirlooms into the dedicated architectural spotlights and have begun creating their own storylines. They were so inspired by IFG’s concept that they bought the apartment turnkey—green paneled wall and all. —Elizabeth Fazzare

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Clockwise from top: Her bedroom in the main suite is entirely custom. The suite’s bathroom features fluted walls and a custom Brutalist-style double vanity, all in marble. Custom mosaic tile envelops a guest bathroom.

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What’s impacting commercial residential development? “The broader acceptance of work-fromhome culture paired with the transfer of wealth from Boomer parents to Millennial children has created a new demographic of discerning homeowners. The ultra-high-net-worth segment is expected to grow by as much as 27 percent by 2025, and the luxury residential market is thriving. A ‘health is wealth’ mentality continues to shape the top end of this market.” —Rebecca Buchan, Denton House

“Modular architecture has carried over to a modular way of living. The ability to bolt coworking, fitness, entertainment, dining, and other amenities onto rental living speaks to a young, independent, sometimes nomadic demographic that’s happy to consolidate many of their daily activities within a single property. That modularity extends to the ability to move from city to city within a portfolio of similarly programmed properties. Demand is through the roof for these ‘social living’ projects, and every market is a growth market right now—Denver, Tampa, Phoenix. There are visionary developers in every city that understand the demand for high design and luxury amenities regardless of the property’s scale.” —Thomas Zoli, Workshop/APD

“We’re exploring applying our hospitality expertise to residential and senior living.” —Margaret McMahon, Wimberly Interiors

“We’ve observed an increase in performance-driven residences prioritizing community building. Residential development projects have invested more in social programming and elevated amenities, with communal spaces akin to those of a five-star hotel.” “Wellness amenities that blur the line between hospitality and residential experiences, like our suspended indoor pool with city views at Eagle + West, a riverfront development in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Inside OMA’s gracious structure, we layered rose-colored cantera stone against an azure-tiled pool—at sunset, the entire mass glows with golden light against a framed skyline, something you don’t expect to encounter outside of a hotel.” —Ron Radziner, Marmol Radziner 40

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—Michael Gabellini, Gabellini Sheppard Associates

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ames Whether you call it a fortune teller, a cootie catcher, or, in Latin America, a comecocos, you would no doubt recognize the origami finger game children have been playing since time immemorial. The paper toy’s familiar shape is the latest everyday object to inspire Spanish studio MUT Design, which collaborated with German-Colombian furniture company Ames on Coco, seating that references the game's folding pyramidal forms. A seam-free acrylic textile woven on horizontal handlooms in the Bolivar region covers the foam-core armchair and ottoman. The upholstery colors appear solid but, up close, reveal variegation, with yarn threads in contrasting and tonal hues giving the impres sion the chair is ever-changing. amesliving.de

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Belgium Is Design, a group of the country's 13 emerging creatives, is among the up-andcoming talent showcased at this year’s SaloneSatellite in Milan, the Salone del Mobile off-site laser-focused on the under-35 set. Among the highlights: Marianne De Cock uses lacquered larch for her jaunty Fold stool; Ahokpe + Chatelin encourages circularity with Ku do azò, a hammock made with secondhand sweater yarn; curves delineate Fersasos founder Pauline Vercammen’s Shell light; and childhood games inspired a tapestry by Manuel Leromain. Narcissus by Studio Matta is a polished-steel mirror integrating a shelf and vase. Notadesk’s laid-back lounge chair pairs an ash frame with a recycled-cotton sling seat. Playful Piédestal 1 by Tim Somers mixes wood species, and textile artist Emma Terweduwe contributes Gradient, a reversible felted rug that’s endearingly wonky. We love, too, how the mirrored top of Joe Sterck’s Speculum table separates from its base to become a stand-alone art piece. belgiumisdesign.be

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FOLD BY MARIANNE DE COCK KU DO AZÒ BY AHOKPE + CHATELIN

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“The strength of this collective is the designers' attachment to a handcrafted reality”

CHILDHOOD SERIES BY MANUEL LEROMAIN NARCISSUS BY STUDIO MATTA

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Ethereal and fluid, wallpapers and textiles by Eskayel founder and creative director Shanan Campanaro begin as her own watercolors. Her company’s latest introduction, Aquarelle, a col laboration with pro surfer Kassia Meador (who Campanaro met while surfing herself), explores moments where water meets earth. “Kassia sent me beautiful photos of rivers, snow, mud, and cracked earth, and the paintings I made from them became the series,” she explains. The lustrous compositions are translated onto clay-coated wallpaper in three colorways: Ocean’s blues are layered to suggest a bird’s-eye view of dynamic estuaries; Ice blends white, lavender, and pale blue in cellular patterns akin to snow drifts; and Earth’s russet tones and biomorphic lines evoke parched terrain. Fabrics, pillows, and even wetsuits are also on offer. eskayel.com AQUARELLE

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The Townhouse is the New York showroom where design aficionados can see IRL the latest pieces from The Invisible Collection, which began in 2016 as an online retailer, when cofounders Isabelle Dubern-Mallevays and Anna Zaoui realized that thousands of site-specific pieces are created for private projects without ever being offered to the public. The company makes some of these heretofore hidden pieces accessible. New in is a cloudlike series by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance: 21 limited-edition pieces crafted between 2017 and 2022. Seating includes the Mousse sofa, “its flat walnut or oak base like a temple door,” the designer says; Whisper, an armchair or sofa reminiscent of a snowy mountaintop; and the Perros armchair inspired by the prehistoric standing stones found in the Brittany region of Duchaufour-Lawrance’s native France. On the other side of the materials spectrum yet similarly curvaceous are two tables sculpted from Verde Serpa marble: Mineral Flower and the tripartite Soft Rock. theinvisiblecollection.com 48

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laun Surf’s up! For the multidisciplinary studio’s first collab, Laun cofounders Rachel Bullock and Molly Purnell partnered with fellow Angeleno Chet Callahan of Chet Architecture, a firm that’s no stranger to these pages. The result is Mondos, an outdoor furniture collection named for the beach where Callahan lives. A powder-coated aluminum sun lounge that channels 1980’s pool furniture sports a retro vinyl-strap seat and an oversize wheel for easy maneuvering when chasing rays. With a curved backrest echoing the Mondo’s Beach seawall, the groovy armchair also comes in loveseat and three-seat sofa versions (and check out the matching side table). The materials palette exudes surf culture: Think longboard-appropriate fiberglass and stretchy wetsuitlike neoprene upholstery in neon yellow and oceanic blue-green. launlosangeles.com

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CHET CALLAHAN, MOLLY PURNELL, RACHEL BULLOCK MONDOS

“It’s been a joyful process to add a contemporary spin to classics from our youth”

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molteni&c The Italian brand dives into outdoor furniture for the first time and it’s all about liminal space. “I was inspired by modernism to recall the permeability and transparency between indoors and out, and that intimate connection with light and nature,” Molteni&C creative director Vincent Van Duysen says of the collection, which encompasses vintage reissues alongside newer releases. From the early 1950’s are two pieces by Gio Ponti: a rigid polyurethane rendition of his wraparound D.154.2 armchair that can be customized in myriad weatherproof polyester upholsteries, and his D.150.5 chaise longue, now produced in solid teak, its precise angles accurate to Ponti’s original drawings. Among the more recent is Arc Outdoor, a cement-finished version of the parabolic 2009 table by Foster + Partners, and the Palinfrasca armchair in supersized woven bands of teak or EVA polyurethane, an all-weather reinvention of a 1994 Luca Meda design. shop.molteni.it

“The furniture has a simple yet structured feel, where functionality and sophistication coexist” marketcollection

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Mutual admiration inspired Scandinavian rug producer Nordic Knots and zeitgeisty New York–based interior designer Giancarlo Valle to cocreate a new collection. Valle interprets the Swedish rug-making tradition through a Latin American lens, drawing on his upbringing surrounded by colorful, patterned homes replete with hand-painted furniture. The rugs’ hues are rich and deep while the motifs—Loop, Buds, and All Hands—derive from sketches Valle noodled on in the studio. He connects both regions’ folklore traditions by photographing the rugs in 16th-century farmhouses in Hälsingland, known for incredible heritage-listed decorations such as murals painted in the 1840’s. MAGNUS MÅRDING

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Handmade in England

Introducing the new Forme Collection made with uncompromising attention to detail and embedded in our tradition of excellence. samuel-heath.com

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“The MG + BW factory is a place where American craftsmanship has a home”

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mitchell gold + bob williams Founded in 1989 as an upholstery supplier but today encompassing all manner of furnishings for the home, MG + BW has earned its reputation as a provider of heirloom-quality American craftsmanship. Now, New York designer and creative director Rafael de Cárdenas—whose clients include Nike, Glossier, and Cartier—brings his eye-catching deployment of both tailored minimalism and confident extravagance to a 19-piece collection made in the company’s North Carolina factory. Among the standouts is the French art deco–style Sunbeam chair, the lushly padded Beam bench, and the color-block Lily ottoman that can be up holstered in any two hues or prints. “By changing the color and fabric, you create a different mood,” de Cárdenas notes—and with MG + BW’s library of over 500 textiles, there’s plenty to choose from. Also in the two-way mode are the Honeymoon nesting tables in walnut and Arabescato marble, while the Darling console is solely and solidly bleached walnut. “The forms are ready for you to go wild…or not at all,” de Cárdenas adds, “but always with a whisper of elegance.” mgbwhome.com

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“My home has been my training ground: I’ve had free reign to express and interpret my style while also getting to source, design, and upcycle pieces to enjoy within it”

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ere New Zealanders are proud of what’s known across the country as Kiwi ingenuity: a reputation for practicality, resourcefulness, and improvisation born of geographic isolation. Those ERENA TE PAA attributes certainly apply to Erena Te Paa, whose debut furniture collection for her company, Ere (pronounced “air”), is an inventive mix of new designs and upcycled finds. After the birth of her two sons, Te Paa channeled her fashion and interior-styling background into renovating her residence. “Everything in the collection is inspired by pieces in my home or items I’ve wanted to create,” she explains. She refinished the thrifted molded-plastic shell of a Ron Arad Tom Vac chair and added new timber legs inspired by candlestick holders to create Sentinel. Pet Bed, with a wool-filled cotton canvas cushion and a gel-stained milled-plywood base, riffs on one she’d fashioned previously from ad hoc recycled elements. Te Paa had long dreamt of designing organically shaped side tables from locally sourced timber—hence Arcade, a side table in striated tulipwood, and Verge, carved from layers of stained plywood evoking stones in balance. Pieces are handmade in Auckland and the Waikato. "My mother is Maori and my father is New Zealand European of Scottish descent," she notes, "so it was important to me to enlist local craftspeople.” ere.co.nz

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it’s in to be out

Cannolè Collection by Cristell / Gargano Cannolè is a collection with evocative shapes, re-interpreted by a clean and contemporary design. This steel modular lounge solution steals its design from the Italian knitwear tradition. The frame mimics the handmade ribbed knits, while the versatile and customizable padded seats offer multiple compositions easy to be assembled. A timeless style collection that fits harmoniously into contemporary and traditional environments.

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tekla In 1931 and then again in 1959, Le Corbusier debuted Architectural Polychromy: 63 colors arranged into cohesive palettes. Together, they form a standardized chromatic lexicon designed to mix and match, which is exactly what Copenhagen housewares brand Tekla has done in its second Le Corbusier Collection of blankets using the architect’s hues (with the blessing of Les Couleurs Suisse, which holds the global exclusive rights). After a first series in mohair launched last year, the seven new throws fall into two categories: checked in tonal colorways made from a cashmere-lambswool blend and finished with whipstitching, or double-striped in pure lambswool with fringed edges. “We worked freely with Le Corbusier’s colors,” Tekla senior product designer Christoffer Lundman says, “just as he did when creating his playful interiors.” teklafabrics.com

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ope n house Hyper Ellipsoid by Gisela Colon hangs over a Patricia Urquiola Bowy sofa and a Francois Bauchet table in the two-bedroom apartment’s living area.

surf, sky, sand firm: sheltonmindel site: miami beach, florida

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the opposite side of the entry zone. Vintage back-painted glass panels by Max Ingrand for SaintGobain adorn the main bedroom. The kitchen, with oak cabinetry and marble backsplash, anchors the dining area, where a Seymour Fogel artwork hangs on a column; the circular work, in pressed paper, is by Domingos Tótora.

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Clockwise from above: A built-in ceiling disc illuminates the living area, with Carlo Scarpa’s Cornaro armchairs and an Ammanoid Gama chair by Misha Kahn. The shaded balcony sports Rodolfo Dordoni sofas and tables and Alvar Aalto’s Stool 60 seats. The foyer is furnished with a Queen Anne chair by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown and Kate Shepherd’s Endless Summer, 2019. Vintage neon signage from a Helsinki gallery graces

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Every story has a backstory. The Florida condominium Interior Design Hall of Fame member Lee F. Mindel shares with his work/life partner, José Marty, is a tale of lucky strikes emerging from downbeat situations. The plot unspools as the SheltonMindel founder and architectural designer were awaiting takeoff from New York to Miami for a project meeting, when their client canceled last-minute. They flew south anyway, then were forced to quarantine there as COVID hit. The city was effectively dead, Mindel recalls. “It was doom and gloom.” Nonetheless, while there, the pair decided to check out Eighty Seven Park, Renzo Piano Building Workshop’s under-construction residential tower in Miami Beach, and impulsively bought an oceanview 1,700-square-foot unit with 1,400 square feet of balcony space. A week from move-in, however, a flood from upstairs devastated the new purchase. Mindel interpreted the event as another stroke of fortune: “It gave us the opportunity to improve the floor plan.” Three principles drove the reworked two-bedroom scheme. Walls and partitions float clear of the perimeter, creating “a necklace of light,” Mindel explains. Architectural ceiling elements and furnishings—such as Francois Bauchet’s alabaster-hued cocktail table in the living area, chosen for its “Morris Lapidus influence”—curve in homage to the building’s shape. The third design tenet was contextual color coding, which meant bathing the ocean-fronting side in watery azure tones and the garden-facing rooms in verdant tints. (For an example of the latter, see the main bedroom, with vintage back-painted glass panels designed by Max Ingrand in the 1970’s.) The shimmering palette changes with surf and sky reflections. Given the Mindel’s art-world ties—he is a chairman of the Design Basel and Design Miami vetting committees and owns Galerie56 in TriBeCa—it’s no surprise the place hosts enviable pieces. Though precious price-wise, they portray a breezy insouciance. A neon “MIA” at entry might be taken for the city’s nickname but is really part of a 1940’s sign sourced in Helsinki. Furthering the upbeat vibe there is Kate Shepherd’s Endless Summer, in Miami Vice hot-pink tones. Hanging on the floor-to-ceiling oak divider separating living and guest

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Clockwise from top: The guest bedroom’s Rupert Deese oil-onplywood relief painting is from the estate of the late editor Paige Rense Noland; on the Tom Dixon Offcut stool is a rare Max Ingrand table lamp. The wrap around terrace boasts ocean and city views. Solid surfacing tops the oak cabinetry in the main bathroom, with Seungjin Yang’s Blowing stool and Nightshop’s P.O.V. round wall work.

areas, Gisela Colon’s dimensional acrylic sculpture resembles “something you might see under the sea,” Mindel says. A diminutive Josef Albers work rests oh-so-casually on the oak kitchen’s counter. Big and bold in the adjoining dining zone are Domingos Tótora’s pressed-paper circular construction and a piece by Seymour Fogel, and the beachy guest chamber displays Rupert Deese’s oilon-plywood disc recalling raked sand. Even the main bathroom gets the art treatment: Nightshop’s round P.O.V. in resin, acrylic, and ink. —Edie Cohen FROM FRONT CASSINA: SOFA (LIVING AREA), SOFAS, TABLE (BALCONY). THROUGH GALERIE KREO STUDIO: COCKTAIL TABLE (LIVING AREA). THROUGH FRIEDMAN BENDA: CHAIR. CHILEWICH: FLOOR MAT. BITOSSI: VASE. KARTELL: STOOL (LIVING AREA), SIDE TABLES (MAIN BEDROOM). THE FUTURE PERFECT: FLOOR LAMP (LIVING AREA), STOOL (BATHROOM). ARTEK: STOOLS (BALCONY). MOLTENI&C: CABINETRY (KITCHEN). MARC KRUSIN: TABLE (DINING AREA). CAPPELLINI: STOOLS. VENINI: GLASS ARTWORK. GALERIE JACQUES LACOSTE: PANELS (MAIN BEDROOM). MINIERA: FLOOR LAMP (MAIN BEDROOM). PIERRE MARIE GIRAUD: TABLE LAMPS (BEDROOMS, FOYER). TOM DIXON: STOOLS (BEDROOM).

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art on view firms: ccy architects; david kleinberg design associates site: aspen, colorado

FRANCESCO LAGNESE; STYLING: HOWARD CHRISTIAN

Aspens line a concrete path leading toward a reflective stainless-steel head by the Swiss artist Not Vital at the house’s entrance. MAY.23

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CCY Architects does not typically design a long entry sequence for houses in Aspen, Colorado, which gets over 12 feet of snow a year. But for a mountainside residence overlooking the Roaring Fork Valley, the firm built a 90-foot path between the parking area and the front door. By local standards, “That’s a long, long walk,” says CCY principal Alex Klumb. But the clients, an art-collecting couple, sought to highlight a recent acquisition: a reflective PVD-coated stainless-steel head by the Swiss artist Not Vital. CCY placed the sculpture at the end of an allée of aspens leading to the entrance. “It frames nature, draws you to the door, and slows everybody down before releasing to an incredible view,” Klumb explains. It also establishes the home’s focus on art and the outdoors. The isolated 6-acre site straddles an aspen grove and forests of evergreens and Gambel oaks. The clients envisioned a modern house that would honor the setting and display their collection, including works by Alexander Calder, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Rauschenberg. CCY conceived two volumes of weathered steel and board-formed concrete connected by a glass-walled corridor. The two-story main house—with the primary bedroom, living areas, and downstairs rec room—sits at the front of the site; a single-story guest wing is in the back. The layout “allows nature to bleed through the house,” Klumb says, and ensures that the 10,750-square-foot, five-bedroom property feels comfortable for either two or 16 people. The only downside of the location was that it faced north—ideal for hanging paintings, but not for creating a bright vacation home. CCY designed winged roofs with south-facing clerestory windows to capture a little light. For the pool and terrace, the team calculated which spot got the most sun, paradoxically installing them on the north side of the house. For interiors, CCY collaborated with Interior Design Hall of Fame member and the eponymous founding partner of David Kleinberg Design Associates, who had worked with the couple on two other homes. They selected a limited, neutral palette of black porcelain-tile flooring and white-oak ceilings and millwork; triple-pane full-height windows provide panoramic valley views and close-ups of the woods. “There’s always an event at the end of a room, where your eye is either directed at an art wall or a window wall,” Kleinberg says.

Clockwise from opposite top: A mirror in steel and oxidized glass by Nicolas and Sébastien Reese hangs inside the entrance. The downstairs rec room includes a custom billiards table; wine storage is hidden below the staircase. A corridor lined with triple-glazed windows connects the guest wing with the main house; the exterior pairs Corten sheet siding and board-formed concrete. DKDA’s custom sectional and a Gerrit Rietveld armchair furnish the guest sitting room. A David Hockney iPad drawing, Yosemite I, October 16, 2011, overlooks custom brass-inlaid tables in the dining room; Ingo Maurer’s Luce Volante pendant fixtures float above.

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From top: The pool terrace features a custom Corten fireplace and Richard Schultz seating. A Robert Rauschenberg painting hangs over a custom sectional in the living room, with Francois Monnet’s stainless-steel chairs from the 1970’s.

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Besides the Not Vital sculpture, the clients hadn’t earmarked specific pieces for the house, so they worked with Kleinberg to see which fit best: a Calder over a guest-room bed, a James Rosenquist at the top of the stairs. In the dining room, a David Hockney drawing echoes the moun tains outside the window. It hangs above three square oak tables that can be joined or separated depending on the size of the group—the sort of practical touch that makes the home livable. The paintings and views may be spectacular, Kleinberg says, “but the interiors have to hold their own.” The result is as layered as a work of art. —Rebecca Dalzell FROM FRONT THROUGH GALERIE CAROLE DECOMBE: MIRROR (ENTRY). APPARATUS STUDIO: CON SOLE. 11 RAVENS: CUSTOM BILLIARDS TABLE (REC ROOM). ADAM OTLEWSKI: SIDE TABLE. SOANE BRITAIN: CHAIRS (DINING ROOM). MINOTTI: PENDANT FIXTURES. FOCUS FIREPLACES: FIREPLACE (GUEST SITTING ROOM). PERENNIALS FABRICS: SECTIONAL FABRIC. THROUGH 1STDIBS: LAMP, COFFEE TABLE, CHAIR. CASSINA: ARMCHAIR. ROMO FABRICS: ARMCHAIR FABRIC. SCOTT GROUP STUDIO: RUGS (GUEST SITTING ROOM, LIVING ROOM). COLORADO POOL DESIGNS: CUSTOM POOL, SPA (TERRACE). ZACHARY A. DESIGN: TABLES. KNOLL: SOFAS, LOUNGES, CHAISES. A.R.S.ANTIQUA: CUSTOM WOOD COCKTAIL TABLES (LIVING ROOM). FERNANDO MASTRANGELO STUDIO: CUSTOM SQUARE SIDE TABLES BLANCHE JELLY: ROUND SIDE TABLE. THROUGH VALERIE GOODMAN GALLERY: CUSTOM FLOOR LAMP. COWTAN & TOUT; EDELMAN LEATHER: SECTIONAL FABRICS. GLANT

Clockwise from top: An Alexander Calder tapestry hangs on a plasterfinished wall in a guest bedroom, where a blackened-brass sconce is custom. Porcelain tile floors a cor ridor, accented with a James Rosen quist painting and an Offset Cube bench by Videre Licet. A built-in day bed and custom desk, both white oak, outfit the study, illuminated by a Jason Miller Endless pendant. Mill work of rift-sawn European white oak joins a custom sectional in the rec room’s bar area.

TEXTILES: LOUNGE CHAIR NIGHTSTAND (BEDROOM). BOURGEOIS BOHEME: CUSTOM SCONCE. DUNE: CUSTOM BED. NOBILIS PARIS: HEADBOARD FABRIC. THROUGH TWENTIETH GALLERY: BENCH (HALL). ROLL & HILL: PENDANT FIXTURE (STUDY). WARP & WEFT: CUSTOM RUG. NADA DEBS: SIDE TABLE. CHARLES H. BECKLEY: DAYBED CUSHIONS. MARK ALEXANDER FABRICS: CUSHION FABRIC. DESIGN WITHIN REACH: CHAIRS. TOKEN: BARSTOOLS (REC ROOM). ARABEL FABRICS: SECTIONAL FABRIC. ADAM OTLEWSKI: SIDE TABLES. THROUGHOUT ARRIGONI WOODS: WOOD FLOORING. ERGON ENGINEERED STONE: TILE FLOORING. GRABILL WINDOWS AND DOORS: WINDOWS, DOORS. LIFT STUDIO: LAND SCAPE ARCHITECT. LS GROUP: LIGHTING DESIGN. KL&A ENGINEERS: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. WOODY CREEK ENGINEERING: CIVIL ENGINEER. ANTHONY LAWRENCE-BELFAIR: CUSTOM FURNITURE WORK SHOP. STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATES: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.

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Having spent the past 30 years conceiving and building residences for others across Europe, Belgian designer Paul Vanrunxt finally got the chance to create a dream home for his own family. Although the property he and his wife, Kim, homed in on, located halfway between Antwerp and Brussels in Mechelen, was a bit charmless, the designer immediately saw its potential. “The house at first glance looked nothing special—gray facade, dark rooms, aluminum windows—but it was 46 feet wide and had a courtyard garden, both rarities in the city,” Vanrunxt recalls. He completely overhauled the 5,000-square-foot, threestory structure, parts of which were built in the 1960’s, with the aim to create openness, raising ceilings on the ground level and instating “vertical and horizontal see-through axes” to forge a strong connection between the interiors and the garden. Throughout, a limited palette of colors and materials imparts airiness, such as white lime–finished walls and reclaimed pitch-pine floorboards; the 15-inchwide planks were once used as platforms for drying Dutch fromage. “In many spots you can still see the outline of the cheese wheels,” Vanrunxt says. “We maintained the patina by chemically cleaning the planks’ surfaces with soap instead of sanding them down.” As for furnishings, pieces by the designer’s studio, such as the solid-oak coffee table and the poplar dining surface, intermingle with family heirlooms and works by the likes of Radboud van Beeckum and Faye Toogood. “We love a lived-in atmosphere,” Vanrunxt says, adding that he favors mixing chairs and stools of different styles. While most of the artworks in the living spaces are by Vanrunxt himself, the airy top floor houses an appointmentonly gallery in which he hosts shows by abstract artists. “It doesn’t have a separate entrance but is accessible from the house,” Vanrunxt clarifies. Perhaps the residence’s biggest achievement is the balance struck between family, work, and creative life. —Kurt G. Stapelfeldt

Inset: The Studio Paul Vanrunxt founder draws in the atelier of his Mechelen, Belgium, home. Bottom: A ceramic sculpture by Parisian artist Dorothée Loriquet accents the designer’s living room. HENDRIK BIEGS/LIVING INSIDE

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2 1. A porcelain art installation by Piet Stockmans animates the elevator shaft of the threestory house. 2. In the main bedroom resides a vintage Snedkerier lounge by Jørgen Høj and Poul Kjaerholm, with an oak frame and stretched-jute seat. 3. In the appointment-only gallery, where Vanrunxt exhibits work by fellow abstract artists, the 20-foot-long pitch-pine floorboards were once used to age wheels of cheese. 4. A ceramic piece by Lucien Petit accents the sill of an interior window offering views from the kitchen into a corridor and the living room beyond. 5. Vanrunxt specializes in the construction and renovation of villas throughout Europe, including recent projects in Spain, Holland, and France. 6. The multipurpose gallery doubles as an art-making studio and creative retreat for the homeowners; Vanrunxt also maintaints an office for his design work on the ground floor. 7. The vanity in the main bathroom is crafted of Pietra Bicci limestone, and sink fittings are by Belgian brand RVB. 8. Studio Paul Vanrunxt designed the living room’s solid-oak coffee table, while the fiberglass side chair is Faye Toogood’s Roly-Poly. The antique pottery pieces lining the shelves are flea-market finds.

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9. The 2,100-square-foot courtyard garden features 40-year-old pear trees and lowmaintenance dune grasses. A fireplace and patio heaters allow the Vanrunxts to sit outside even on cooler days.

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“The serene courtyard garden is an oasis of calm in the busy city.It’s the ideal place to catch your breath during or after a busy day”

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See page 96 for more about a pair of rental villas Formafatal designed in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica.

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“I put an extreme emphasis on all construction and architectural details and their mutual constraints”

formafatal site Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica. size 1 bedroom; 1,000 square feet (per villa).

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recap Dagmar Štěpánová of the sustainably minded Czech firm dreamt up and developed twin rental villas that cantilever out from a steep jungle slope toward Pacific Ocean views. They’re built of rammed earth (using clay excavated from the site) sandwiched between concrete-slab ceilings and floors, the latter coated with nonslip cement screed—a different color in each villa. Furniture custom designed by the studio is mostly concrete, save for the teak bed surrounded by a linen mosquito net…a must with an infinity-edge pool just beyond the frameless glass sliders. formafatal.cz

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“Contemporary elements were carefully inserted, a layer added over the original western red cedar panels that blanket the interiors”

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reigo & bauer site Milford Bay, Ontario, Canada. size 6 bedrooms; 6,760 square feet.

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recap For repeat clients, firm copartners Merike Bauer and Stephen Bauer rehabbed a century-old shingled cottage sited on a waterfront former resort in Ontario’s lake country, preserving and restoring its western red cedar–clad interior and then playing against type by juxtaposing spirited modern features: sculptural furni ture, bold accent colors, perception-warping outsize lighting, and an impressive collection of Pop Art, including works by Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol. reigoandbauer.com

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studio gum site Noto, Italy. recap Skillfully interlocked dry-stack sandstone blocks—Sicilian and yellow-toned, like the earth on which the villa stands—form exterior walls in a stylized square-and-triangle pattern, including on a belvedere that partially shades a swimming pool and offers a privileged prospect of the sea and surrounding olive and almond trees. Inside, firm founders Valentina Giampiccolo and Giuseppe Minaldi devised a long black-and-white cement-tile hallway that pierces the south and north elevations to maintain a suggestive glimpse through an enfilade of trees—the spark for the entire project, nicknamed Casa Carlita. studiogum.it

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size 4 bedrooms; 2,800 square feet.

“The project and choice of materials are contemporary reinterpretations of the traditional rural courtyard houses that dot the surrounding area”

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“The exterior was conservatively restored while, inside, tile flooring by Ceramica Bardelli surprise visitors with lively color”

studio gum site Ragusa, Italy. size 3 bedrooms; 1,280 square feet. recap In another project by the Sicilian architecture firm, Giampiccolo and Minaldi transformed a small, aging apartment into a vacation pad meets tourist digs. The team preserved as much of the external envelope as pos sible, including retaining the patina of original plasterwork, but revealed the interior’s (and the terrace kitchen’s) young soul by deploying a poly chromic play as vibrant as the homeowners. studiogum.it

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worrell yeung site North Salem, New York. size 6 bedrooms; 7,000 square feet.

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recap In renovating and expanding an existing residence, copartners Jejon Yeung and Max Worrell riffed on the agrarian vernacular via a play of similarity and switching it up. The main house, a converted dairy barn, boasts moss green–stained cypress outside and Douglas fir inside, most notably in the form of exposed rafters in the peak-ceilinged great room. That species repeats as plywood wall cladding inside the new photography studio/garage, its volume likewise lofty, while lighter weatheredgray cypress sheathes the half-gable spa shed. worrellyeung.com

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“The house is like a vault designed for surveilling the surrounding pine trees”

ludwig godefroy site Cañada de Alféres, Mexico. recap The verticality of this Brutalist bunker, a week end retreat for Mexico City dwellers, is a direct response to the program, reconciling conflicting aims to maxi mize verdant views of pine trees while ensuring security in the remote area. (The small footprint also abetted foundation work on the sloped site.) The castconcrete walls are mostly solid on the ground level but punctured with larger picture windows higher up, while the skylight-capped double-height volume with mezzanine overlooks makes the entire house feel like a breezy interior courtyard. ludwiggodefroy.com — Georgina McWhirter and Jen Renzi

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a perfect sequence With a name and layout inspired by the Golden Spiral, the Fibonacci wine-tasting terrace in Prague by Marco Maio Architects adds up to an outdoor oasis

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1. With a Waterman pen, architect Marco Maio sketched a concept for Fibonacci, a terraced patio for Prague’s Jabloňka Winery that’s wrapped by a spiral of stone walls, its form inspired by its name sake mathematical sequence. 2. and 3. Marco Maio Architects pitched the idea to the client with renderings, these two done in Photoshopped ArchiCAD. 4. On-site, local contractors ensured the land had effective drainage, steel reinforcement, and infrastructure for lighting and water. 5. Using an improvised chute to complete the retaining walls, limestone and marlstone were funneled 600 feet downhill, and three varieties of grapevines were planted. 6. Before the final stones were placed, welders forged a steel-framed doorway.

“Guided by history, the goal was to bring back the romantic antiquity of the vineyard gardens”

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1. The shape of the Fibonacci wine-tasting patio loosely traces a stone ruin with a curved space that was discovered in the terraced vineyard. 2. A Corten door opens from the patio to views of the city past ancient oak trees. 3. The patio, its concept influenced by those in Maio’s native Portugal, is outfitted with CTR chairs by Piergiorgio Cazzaniga for Tribù, a concrete table by Monica Armani, and a Corten niche in the retaining wall for wine storage. 4. Maio’s curved stone walls are an artful inter vention into Jabloňka Winery’s terraced hillside. —Athena Waligore

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Shamir Shah Design has left its signature imprint all over the Manhattan residential map. So much so that when a sophisticated, world-traveled couple visited a lower Park Avenue loft principal Shamir Shah had created for friends, the pair was determined to bring the designer West—specifically to San Francisco, where a recently purchased Pacific Heights house was in need of a gut renovation. “All the things he did— art, furniture, textures, textiles, scale—spoke to each other,” the wife says of what initially attracted them to Shah’s distinctive style. An ensuing dinner party established that designer and clients had mutual respect and the right chemistry—prescient planning since the project took six years to complete, thanks to COVID erupting during the construction phase. “We do interiors and architectural design,” Shah says of his practice, “mostly in New York, where we generally don’t work with an architect on smaller residential projects.” Thousands of miles away, San Francisco’s infamously labyrinthine permitting process presented another story: “We needed a local architect to shepherd the renovation through the building department, take charge of the house’s core and shell, and work in a truly collaborative spirit.” Enter Geddes Ulinskas Architects. In a flip of the usual procedure, it was the designer who brought on the architect after diligently interviewing three other prospects. “We enhanced each other’s roles,” principal Geddes Ulinskas reports, lauding the thoroughness of Shah’s drawings. “He produced a brilliant package that was a fantastic way of communicating and transmitting his passion for the project to the entire team.” The house, originally a 4,000-square-foot, three-level, wood-sided structure dating to 1947, was lackluster in design and substandard in construction. What it did have was location. At an elevation of 340 feet, the

site offers panoramic views of San Francisco Bay. And in a city given to a mélange of residential styles, the property was located in a cul-de-sac of pedigree modernist houses by Gardner Dailey, Joseph Esherick, and William Wurster. In fact, the enclave is up for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Technically a renovation, the project was essentially a new build that encompassed seismic upgrades, new framing and fenestration, a reconfigured floor plan, and the addition of a penthouse, which increased the interior to 6,500 square feet. The envelope was also transformed to make a statement. An arrangement of blocklike volumes centered round a patinated bronze–clad front door, it’s sheathed in Accoya—a type 108

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Previous spread: In the art-filled living room of a San Francisco house renovated by Shamir Shah Design and Geddes Ulinskas Architects, a pair of Todd Merrill Custom Originals standard back-tufted sofas flank a custom bronze-framed cocktail table by Shamir Shah, all backdropped by a Max Neumann painting. Opposite: Nearby, Charles Kalpakian’s Crescent loveseat and Luca Boto’s Dep armchair gather round the travertine fireplace while, outside, a Dylan Lewis bronze arches above the terrace’s shallow pool. Top, from left: The living room’s Katherine Hogan wire sculpture and Kevin Walz daybed. The kitchen’s sintered stone countertops, backsplash, and floor. The oak stairs curling around the ash-clad elevator core. Bottom: In the entry, Niahm Barry’s Vessel sconce and Carole Egan’s hand-carved walnut shelf face a custom chaise below a Daniel Crews-Chubb painting and a Terrarium pendant fixture by Lindsey Adelman Studio.

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Top: Matthew Brandt photo graphs enliven the dining room, where Lindsey Adelman Studio’s Catch chandelier hangs above a Tyler Hays trestle table. Center: Geddes Ulinskas Architects added a penthouse to the res idence and sheathed the cubic volumes in two shades of shou sugi ban–charred Accoya, an acetylated-pine siding. Bottom: Matthew Hill’s site-specific, mixed-media mural presides over the media room’s custom sofa and Vladimir Kagan Wysiwyg armchairs. Opposite: In the penthouse, Eva Menz’s Regolith pendant fixture and Niels Otto Møller’s chairs serve Ferruccio Laviani’s UFO table, while a pair of Bruno Moinard L’île d’elle sconces bookend a commissioned Aaron Wexler painting.

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of acetylated-pine siding—finished in two shades of shou sugi ban charring, which creates an intriguing chiaroscuro effect. The idea was the owners’. “We’d just come from Japan and seen amazing materials,” the wife explains. “I didn’t want cedar or anything difficult to maintain.” “For planning we listened to the clients,” Shah reveals. “They even lived there while we were working so they could get to know the light.” The new layout pinwheels from the central core, a graceful stair wrapping around an elevator to accommodate the wife’s 90-year-old mother. From there, ground-floor spaces fall naturally in place. The living room is situated along the north side to take advantage of an existing fireplace and terrace, transformed into a shallow pool with a bronze sculpture at its center. Along the south side, also with a patio, lies the dining room and, in the east corner where daylight is sparse, the media room. A di minutive office is tucked into the connector hall between the two spaces. The kitchen, located just behind the staircase, is designed for the wife. A top-notch cook who entertains frequently, she detailed storage needs down to a pair of appliance “garages” that avoid even a speck of clutter. Though the rooms can be closed off via double or pocket doors, “All the spaces flow, making it easy for guests to circulate,” Shah notes. The second level is given over to private quarters: the main suite, two bedrooms, one doubling as a larger office, and a sitting room. The penthouse, which opens to a roof deck, is designated as a game room while more things recreational—a gym and a capacious wine cellar—join two additional bedrooms, a laundry, and a mudroom in the basement. “In general, our work is quiet and serene,” Shah says of the furnishings and materials, which are frequently custom and used plentifully “for a rich, layered approach.” Pale creams and grays dominate the color palette,

while bronze is the metal of choice. A characteristic vignette centers on the living room fireplace, which is surrounded by planes of travertine and flanked by a pair of oak-lined niches with custom bronze pedestals topped by Ju Ming sculptures, part of the family’s art collection. “We wanted large walls for art,” Shah continues. Whether existing, purchased, or commissioned, the pieces were curated by the designer. An impressive Max Neumann canvas, one of the first works acquired and a Shah favorite, anchors the living room. A pair of Julian Watts stained-maple bas-reliefs adorn the adjoining wall, across from which hangs a Katherine Hogan wire sculpture, a ghostly presence reminiscent of the late San Francisco artist Ruth Asawa’s iconic pieces. Arguably closest to home is the commissioned site-specific mixed-media work spanning a media-room wall. Made of canvas, burlap, rope, and wood, it’s by Malcolm Hill, Shah’s life partner.

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Opposite: The main bedroom is an oasis of calm outfitted with Bruno Moinard Apora armchairs, a velvet-upholstered custom bed, cerused-ash millwork, and Stardust Silk vinyl wallcovering.

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Top, from left: The earthquake-resistant, 1,800-bottle wine cellar. Heated cast-stone furniture and a Lionel Smit sculpture on the south terrace. A Paul Balmer commissioned painting, Antonio Citterio’s Michel Club sectional, and vintage teak armchairs in the penthouse. Bottom: A third bedroom doubles as an office, its Erickson Æsthetics EÆ lounge chair joined by three Caste Design Powell tables and a custom convertible sofa sporting a vintage Kuba cloth.

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Designer Patrick Jouin and architect Sanjit Manku both have sharp early memories linked to boats. For Interior Design Hall of Fame member Jouin, one of his grandfathers was a welder at the Saint-Nazaire shipyard in western France and worked on the construction of the legendary luxury liner, Le Normandie, in the 1930’s. As for Manku, in his early 20’s, he built a skiff so large that he had trouble storing it. “My dad had to cut it in half to get it from the backyard to the front,” he remembers. “It didn’t end well.” Since founding their Paris-based firm, Jouin Manku, in 2006, the co-CEOs and copartners have completed numerous restaurants for Michelin-starred chef Alain Ducasse, six boutiques for Van Cleef & Arpels, a spectacular residence in Kuala Lumpur, and a multitude of hotels. Yet, they had never been asked to work on the interior of a private yacht before. “We couldn’t understand why,” Jouin states. “We were so sure we were made to design one.” When the call finally came, it was well worth the wait. Built in the Admiral shipyard in Italy’s Marina di Carrara with sleek mint-green exteriors conceived in tandem by Azure Yacht Design and German architecture firm Archineers.Berlin, Kenshō, as the yacht is named, measures 246 feet in length and can accommodate up to 12 guests and a crew of 23. Its owner—a self-made European businessman—sounds both visionary and quite particular. Prior to commissioning the vessel, he’d checked out numerous other boats armed with a laser measure and noted down the exact dimensions of rooms he liked. He was also looking to create something different. “He’s always wondering whether things could be done better,” Manku notes. The client insisted on having ceilings just under 9 feet and shunned the need for walkways on both sides of each deck. “He said, ‘People like symmetry, but having two walkways eats up valuable space,’” Manku continues. Most importantly, he questioned the common assumption that the navigation bridge has to be located at the front of the uppermost deck. Why should the crew, rather than guests, get the best view? Instead, a 915-square-foot sitting room was placed up there, with the wheelhouse tucked on the floor below.

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Previous spread: On the main deck of Kenshō, a 10,000-square-foot private vessel with architecture by Azure Yacht Design and Archineers.Berlin and interiors by Jouin Manku, a Torsa table by Stéphane de Winter and a custom sofa stand on teak planks. Opposite: The yacht is 246 feet. Top, from left: Silk carpet covering the main staircase. The salon’s custom lamp by Jouin Manku. Patrick Jouin– designed furniture for the living room’s games table. Bottom: Hydrographic maps inspired the patterns on the salon’s ceiling fabric and rug, both custom, as are the tables and seating.

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Jouin Manku had distinct ideas of the atmosphere the team was looking to conjure. “Mega yachts are glamorous and powerful. At the same time, what intrigued us was, Could they still be intimate?” Manku asks. “Could they be something peaceful?”— indeed a challenge with a project that has four levels (plus one for staff) and six bedrooms. He and Jouin were helped by their client’s request to integrate Asian influences (Kenshō is the Japanese term for enlightenment). They adopted a soft color palette and favored the use of wood (specifically teak), silk, and leather. The latter lines the walls of corridors, where it has been sculpted by British artist Helen Amy Murray. The designers also opted for a more Asian approach to the lighting, installing backlit walls and ceilings. “The idea is that the light kind of hugs and surrounds you,” Jouin says. Most striking are the motifs drawn from the Far East: the guest cabin bedheads upholstered in a silk printed with a gingko pattern, the custom Chinoiserie-style wallpaper in the main dressing room featuring monkeys and flying cranes, and the doors into the main bedroom, which are decorated with an abstract landscape evocative of clouds and mountains. Created from patinated brass by French metalworker Steaven Richard, it recalls the work of mythical Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. Elsewhere, inspirations are nautical. The patterns of the rugs and ceilingscapes are drawn from hydrographic maps, and jellyfish and sailboats are among the subjects painted by Axel Samson onto the wood paneling the four powder rooms. Modularity was also worked into Jouin Manku’s scheme. Asymmetric nightstands were devised to look equally at place on either side of a double bed or grouped together between two twin berths. Several pieces of furniture were fixed onto rails, which allow their component elements to be

Top: A Sumo chair and a custom alabaster lamp sit be tween the main suite’s bedroom, bathroom, and sitting room. Center: Atelier Steaven Richard finished the brass doors to the main bedroom with acids and chemicals. Bottom: The doors to the suite sitting room have a similar treatment. Opposite: Two slabs of Carrara marble were sculpted into the main bathroom’s tub.

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Top, from left: Leather paneling sculpted by Helen Amy Murray. Custom hand-painted wallpaper on the main bedroom’s wardrobe doors. Bronze hardware for sittingroom doors. LEDs and onyx in a guest bathroom. Bottom, from left: Perlato Olympo marble, teak, and jellyfish painted by Axel Samson in a powder room. The yacht’s four decks. Gingko-patterned silk on a guest bedroom’s walls. A round of custom silk on the sitting room’s teak doors.

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Top, from left: Another powder room. The dining room’s cabinet of curiosities. A corridor’s coral reproduction in resin. Bottom: Above the pair of 10-foot-long dining-room tables, leatherlike Alcantara surrounds the custom chandelier made from cast Bohemian crystal. Opposite: The lower deck features a swimming pool.

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either joined or separated. A prime example is the expansive two-piece table in the dining room, which presented the team with a particular challenge. For much of the time, it could potentially be something of a dead space. “You only eat there on a bad day,” Manku says. “Otherwise, you’re out on a deck.” To enliven it, he and Jouin installed floor-to-ceiling glass cabinets filled with a collection of the owners’ nautical-themed curios. Finding the right marble for the tub in the main bathroom proved one of the most complicated tasks. Jouin and Manku traveled to stone yards around the world before realizing the solution was practically under their noses. The Admiral shipyard is located close to the famous Carrara quarries, where they came across two slabs with “calligraphy-like” veins and had them sculpted into an exquisitely rounded tub. “We created its curves not just for the eye, but, first and foremost, for the hand,” Jouin says. “The touch of the marble really is something else.” Call the experience enlightening.

PROJECT TEAM BÉNÉDICTE BONNEFOI; DIMITRI MALKO; JULIEN LIZÉ; FANNY PEUROU; AXEL DE CLERMONT TONNERRE; VINCENT DECHELETTE; BRUNO PIMPANINI; AURÉLIEN GAUDUCHEAU; NÉHEMY GOGUELY: JOUIN MANKU. AZURE YACHT DESIGN: YACHT EXTERIOR. ARCHINEERS.BERLIN: DESIGN, ENGINEERING CONSULTANT. TRAPPMANN CONSULTING SLU: INTERIOR DESIGN CONSULTANT. ATELIER 27; ÉBÉNISTERIE GÉNÉRALE; TISG: CUSTOM FURNITURE WORKSHOPS. VOYONS VOIR: LIGHTING DESIGNER. AUDE PLANTEROSE: ART CONSULTANT. ADMIRAL (ITALIAN SEA GROUP): SHIPYARD. STUART KING ARCHITECTURE: OWNER TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE, SURVEYOR. PROJECT SOURCES FROM FRONT MANUTTI: TABLE (MAIN DECK). SUNBRELLA: SOFA FABRIC. CARPET (STAIR). PEDRALI: GAMES CHAIRS (LIVING ROOM). STARSET: GAMES TABLE. PIERRE FREY: SOFA, CHAIR FABRIC (SALON, SITTING ROOM). HOLLY HUNT: CHAIR (MAIN SUITE). DELISLE: CUSTOM LAMP. DE GOURNAY: CUSTOM WALLPAPER (MAIN BEDROOM). CRYSTAL CAVIAR: CUSTOM CHANDELIER (DINING ROOM). PILOT’ AG: CUSTOM TABLE. THROUGHOUT GALERIE DIURNE: CUSTOM CARPET. PRECIOSA: CUSTOM LIGHTING. MISCIMASCI: CUSTOM SILK.

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Paseo Mallorca 15, an eco-friendly apartment building in Palma, Spain, by OHLab, embodies passive-house construction, natural or locally sourced materials, and not a drop of paint text: rebecca dalzell photography: josé hevia

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Previous spread: Behind a trio of Kangaroo armchairs by Pierre Jeanneret and a Suar table by Camilla Lapucci and Lapo Bianchi Luci, Arundo donax, aka Spanish cane, climbs the prefabricated-concrete panels defining the courtyard of Paseo Mallorca 15, an energyefficient 10-unit apartment building in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, by OHLab. Opposite top: An elevator takes cars from the basement parking garage to street level. Opposite bottom: In the living room of the triplex penthouse, also designed by OHLab, a local manufacturer made the stool and the armchair of almond wood and palm rope; the custom cocktail table is slate. Below left: Adjustable steel-framed shutters of thermo-treated, PEFC-certified Spanish pine wrap the sunny southeast corner of the building. Below right: In the penthouse dining room, custom handblown-glass pendant fixtures suspend over Matthew Hilton’s Welles table and Windsor chairs by Jader Almeida.

Architects Paloma Hernaiz and Jaime Oliver, cofounders and directors of OHLab, believe that a building is only as attractive as it is sustainable. “If you know it’s polluting the environment, it probably won’t appeal to you,” Oliver argues. Climate change has altered our perspective. Glass curtain walls, for example, have lost some of their allure. “Today, if you see a building that’s entirely glazed, it’s not as nice aesthetically because you should know it doesn’t work well,” he says. By that measure alone, Paseo Mallorca 15, an apartment building the firm designed in Palma, on the Spanish island of Mallorca, is a stunner: Covered in pine shutters, it relies on passive heating and cooling techniques and consumes little energy. Hernaiz and Oliver, who are married, met in New York while earning their masters’ degrees at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and later worked together at OMA in China. They founded OHLab (the O and H pulled from their last names) in Shanghai in 2007 but have since moved back to their native Spain and are now based in Mallorca, where Oliver grew up. In 2016, they completed their first passive-house project, Casa MM in Palma. “They haven’t turned on the heating or AC,” Hernaiz notes. “It was a breakthrough for us because we realized how easy it is to achieve.” Soon after, she and Oliver won a competition for the apartment building in central Palma. They have been building energy-efficient dwellings ever since. The developer asked for an iconic design befitting the prime location beside the tree-lined Riera canal. “He also requested something that would represent the values of the 21st century in terms of society and architecture,” Oliver says.

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Top, from left: Lime mortar coats the walls of the Spanish marble staircase, which leads from the lobby to the upper floors; there’s no paint anywhere in the building. OHLab furnished a penthouse living-room nook with a Greta M. Grossman G-10 floor lamp, Antonio Facco’s Olo side table, and locally made leather-and-walnut armchairs. Bottom, from left: In a nearby bathroom, custom sinks are carved from a single block of Binissalem, a crystalline granite often called Mallorca’s marble that comes from a quarry on the island. Stone mosaic tiles cover the walls in Paseo Mallorca 15’s lower-level spa. Opposite: Almeida’s Mad armchair faces a freestanding tub in a penthouse bedroom.

He and Hernaiz argued that a passive house structure would do just that. As glass curtain walls were the image of modernity in the 20th century, maybe sunshades would be a hallmark of the 21st. OHLab worked within the limited parameters of a trapezoidal lot and urban planning codes. The 38,000-square-foot building faces three streets: two narrow, quiet ones and the larger, noisier Passeig de Mallorca, which offers the best light and views. This setup determined the layout of the 10 units, with living areas facing the main road and bedrooms in the back. Each street also has different zoning regarding height limits, which resulted in Paseo Mallorca 15 having a zigzag roof line of four, six, and eight stories. Hernaiz, Oliver, and their team gave the back of the building a facade of prefabricated concrete panels and covered the southern side in moveable thermo-treated pine slats that act as a solar filter. Residents can adjust them manually from their balconies, closing them in summer and opening them in winter. OHLab incorporated panels of four different depths to account for the wood’s natural irregularity and aging, “So it won’t look like a mistake,” Oliver explains. At night, the building glows like a paper lantern. The design draws on vernacular Mallorcan architecture, such as Mediterranean pergolas and shutters, and uses such traditional techniques as cross-ventilation to keep rooms cool. “These are basic principles that were lost during the last century, but it’s a much smarter way to build,” Hernaiz says. A heat recovery system moderates the temperature and circulates fresh air, insulation is nearly 10 inches thick, and the structure is airtight. Although the building has heating and AC, Hernaiz and Oliver hope residents won’t have to turn them on. The result is a heating and cooling energy demand of 15 kWh per square meter per year, which not only is in line with Passiv haus standards but also a 90 percent less demand than a conventional building. Upon entering, visitors pass a green wall of Spanish cane, a perennial plant that was abundant along the canal during Oliver’s childhood. “It’s an homage to that local vegetation,” he says. The passage leads to an inner courtyard with a waterfall that refreshes the air and brings natural light to an indoor pool and spa on the lower level. Upstairs, there are no more than two residences per floor; a penthouse triplex, its interiors also by OHLab, tops out the structure. The architects considered the carbon footprint of all materials and sourced as much as possible from the island. The stone for sinks and countertops comes from a quarry in nearby Binissalem; traditional Mallorcan lime mortar coats walls and ceilings and regulates humidity. “It has a beautiful patina and a clean smell,” 128

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Opposite top: In the penthouse kitchen, pan eled in French walnut, OHLab’s H pendant hangs over the 10-foot-long Binissalem-topped island. Opposite bottom: On the seventh floor, the penthouse living room opens onto an ash ter race and plunge pool. Below left: In addition to the spa, a 30-foot indoor pool occupies the building’s lower level. Below right: Custom sinks and mirrors outfit a penthouse bathroom; flooring throughout the apartment is oak.

Oliver says. “You can feel when there are no chemicals, paints, or varnishes.” He and Hernaiz also favored timber, which doesn’t come from Mallorca but has a smaller carbon footprint than processed materials like steel. In the 5,000-square-foot, five-bedroom penthouse, OHLab incorporated oak flooring, French walnut paneling, and cedar closets, and sourced handmade wooden seating from a local manufacturer. Even some of the light fixtures are made on the island, like the handblown-glass pendants from Gordiola, the 300year-old factory that’s about 20 minutes away from the apartment building. “For us, sustainability is not just an add-on,” Hernaiz states. “It is embedded in our design decisions.” Each environmentally responsible choice contributes to a cohesion that extends from the facade to the bedrooms. It proves that a contemporary urban high-rise can be beautiful, rooted in its landscape, and respect the world at large. PROJECT TEAM REBECA LAVÍN; ROBIN HARLOFF; PEDRO RODRÍGUEZ; SILVIA MORAIS; MERCÉ SOLAR; LORETO ANGULO; M. BRUNA PISCIOTTA; TOMISLAV KONJEVOD; JOSÉ ALLONA; CLAUDIO TAGARELLI; ELENI OIKONOMAKI; AGUSTÍN VERDEJO; LUIS QUILES: OHLAB. JONATHAN BELL STUDIO: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT. HIMA ESTRUCTURAS: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. AMM TECHNICAL GROUP: MEP. ESTUDI LINIA: CIVIL ENGINEER. CONTRACT STONE & CERAMIC: STONEWORK. CONSTRUCCIONES REGLA DE ORO: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT CASSINA: CHAIRS (COURTYARD). IL GIARDINO DI LEGNO: TABLE. MALIFT: CAR ELEVATOR (GARAGE). LA PECERA MALLORCA: STOOL, CHAIRS (LIVING ROOM). BLASCO: SOFA. GORDIOLA: PENDANT FIXTURES (DINING ROOM, BEDROOM). DE LA ESPADA: TABLE (DINING ROOM). SOLLOS: CHAIRS (DINING ROOM, BEDROOM). GUBI: FLOOR LAMP (LIVING ROOM). MOGG: SIDE TABLE. FLOU: BED (BEDROOM). INBANI: TUB. CONTAIN: PENDANT FIXTURE (KITCHEN). MIELE: APPLIANCES. PAOLA LENTI; TRIBÙ: OUTDOOR FUR NITURE (TERRACE). THROUGHOUT DECÁGONO: FURNITURE SUPPLIER. GRUPO GUBIA: TIMBER FACADE INSTALLATION. DORNBRACHT: SINK FITTINGS, TUB FITTINGS.

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this is living Whether rental or condo, America or Asia, today’s residential developments are housing occupants in supreme style amid five-star amenities text: lisa di venuta and georgina mcwhirter

rvdm arquitectos project Orizzont, Aveiro, Portugal. standout Staggered white concrete units partially clad in timber battens adhere to the grid in this three-story apartment building featuring abundant glazing that overlooks the canals of the city known as the Portuguese Venice. The 45,000-square-foot structure is raised on stilts, leaving the ground level as an open pavilion sheltering coveted perks, including a heated indoor pool that segues to a lawn. photography Ivo Tavares. MAY.23

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“There was a clear mission to pay homage to the architectural style of the adjacent resort and carry through that hospitality feel”

vida design project Bradbury, San Diego. standout Part of The Society, a new three-building rental-unit complex by Carrier Johnson + Culture that’s anchored by the Town and Country Resort, which was originally built in 1953, the Bradbury channels a mid-century lounge aesthetic, transporting residents to California’s golden era with public spaces hosting carved walnut wall art, tropical wallpaper, textural ceramic tile, lavish mohair sectional upholstery, and a groovy concrete-slab fireplace. photography Shelsi Lindquist.

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“We drew from the textures and colors of the neighborhood’s vibrant post-industrial landscape”

leong leong project The Bellslip, Brooklyn, New York. standout The 30-story rental tower in Greenpoint offers residents refined informality via a varied collection of spaces for living, working, and gathering—and even extends the experience to the public in the urban room, aka the entry lobby. There, curved walls fronted by anodized-aluminum extrusions flank partitions that pivot on tracks in the floor. Farther in and upstairs, monochrome contemporary seating defines the private lobby, café, and reservable room for tenants. photography Naho Kubota.

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moriyuki ochiai architects project HSR Excellent City Hiyoshihoncho, Kanagawa, Japan. standout Faced in minimalist white tile, the five-story, U-shape condominium edifice takes poetic inspiration from its surrounding hills and rivers. Colorful AstroTurf and rubber-chip surfacing in geometric and organic shapes anchor the courtyard’s native plants and built-in seating. In the entry hall, illuminated resin ceiling recesses, crafted by Moriyuki Ochiai himself, mimic sunlight reflecting off water. photography Takumi Ota.

“It’s a visual tapestry of diverse rhythms”

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morris adjmi architects project Front & York, Brooklyn, New York. standout The ground-up 1.2 million-square-foot condominium building blends into DUMBO’s grit with its facade of custom Glen-Gery bricks and panoramic factory-style windows. Interiors are more cosseting. Limestone floors the wine room, burnished wood lockers outfit the billiards room, and the four lobbies, boasting luxe furnishings from The Future Perfect, Mark Jupiter, and Matter, lead to a ½-acre park by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. photography Nicole Franzen.

“Our public spaces blend the area’s industrial heritage with modern comforts”

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mawd project The Set, New York. standout The 44-story Hudson Yards rental building by Handel Architects that contains 280 furnished residences includes a host of amenities, from a games den with a statement wallcovering evocative of the Northern Lights and a grand common area with Mario Bellini sofas and twin rose-marble coffee tables to a private members club. Kicking it all off near the concierage desk is a spiral staircase in Calacatta Gold marble, hand-patinated bronze, and high-gloss red paint. photography Angela Hau/Related Companies.

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“The stair is one of many bold moments creating an impactful first impression”

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michael hsu office of architecture project 44 East Ave, Austin, Texas. standout Located at the edge of the Colorado River, the 51-story condominium tower’s relaxed yet upscale concept was inspired by the idea of water currents sculpting space. In the lobby, for example, a greenhouse atrium curves in from the curtain wall, poured concrete terrazzo flooring mimics the gravel of the nearby riverside trail, and the plaster ceiling has a subtly rounded shape like the hull of a boat. photography Chase Daniel.

“The result is an unexpected expression of what beautiful, livable, modern spaces can be”

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putting on a show A Southampton, New York, retreat by Sawyer|Berson is an artful stage for interiors by its design-forward homeowner, Dune CEO and founder Richard Shemtov text: stephen wallis photography: joshua mchugh

Over the past few decades, the New York architecture firm Sawyer|Berson has designed a bevy of houses in the Hamptons. Admired for their stylistic versatility, founding partners Brian Sawyer and John Berson have masterminded everything from stately Colonial Revival residences to bold, contemporary compounds. But never before had the studio worked on a home quite like the one proposed by Richard Shemtov for a wooded single-acre property in Southampton. Shemtov, the CEO and founder of furniture company Dune, was looking to build a weekend retreat to share with his wife, Dominique, and their three daughters, who range in age from 14 to 26. He envisioned something modestly scaled, modeled after traditional gable-roof barns but in a rigorously pareddown style. Key inspirations were Herzog & de Meuron’s Parrish Art Museum in nearby Water Mill and the Baron House in Sweden by John Pawson. “It wasn’t our typical commission,” says Sawyer, who has known and worked with Shemtov for years. “It was an exercise in discipline, really, a fun puzzle to work out. We could fit a certain amount of program in the box.” Adds Berson, “As it turned out, that was a deceptively simple idea, to coordinate the plan and section and make the entire composition sing.” To create a crisp silhouette, Sawyer and Berson sunk one of the structure’s two main levels entirely below-grade and devised the standing-seam roof, a weathered-gray zinc, so that it is flush with the perimeter edges and has hidden gutters. Expanses of 10-foot-high, black-painted aluminum–framed glass—most of which slide open—line much of the front and rear facades, while the rest of the exterior is clad in a distinctive recycled-glass brick. The house’s ground floor encompasses an open living/dining area, the kitchen, and four bedrooms. The loftlike basement level—housing several entertaining areas, Shemtov’s home office, a laundry room, a gym, and a kitchenette—is completely column-free, which added significantly to the engineering complexity of the project. The house also expanded a bit as

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Previous spread: With architecture and landscaping by Sawyer | Berson, the lower-level lounge in the Southampton, New York, home of Richard and Dominique Shemtov and family is outfitted with a Delta sectional, Toiny swivel chairs, a Jardin cocktail table, and a Torque side table, all from Shemtov’s furniture company, Dune. He also designed the home’s interiors. Opposite top: Dune’s Rhapsody table, Dash chairs, and Mason sideboard gather beneath an Anna Karlin pendant fixture in the dining area. Opposite bottom: In the living area, a Brian Schmitt chandelier overlooks Dune’s DaBomb sectional and Cloud swivel chairs, a pair of Rick Owens antler side tables, and a hand-carved sycamore cocktail table by Caleb Woodard. Top, from left: The colorway of Romo’s Kuba Cay pattern covering the mudroom’s built-in oak banquette coordinates with an Anna Navasardian painting. The vaulted ceiling rises to 21 feet. Bottom, from left: In the foyer, a Michel Gribinski oil and a Paula Hayes sculpture accent Geo, a textured bronze–tube console that was a Dune prototype and is now available as a commission-only piece. The house is built of recycled-glass brick.

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Top: Damien Hirst’s Butterfly Kaleidoscope wallpaper and a Samantha Gallacher rug animate the built-in bed and storage in a daughter’s room. Center: Custom oak cabinetry surrounds much of the kitchen, with Corian countertops, Piet Boon stools, and tractor headlight–inspired Outsider pendants by Jacco Maris. Bottom: In the main bedroom, Dune’s Stellar chair and ottoman face the custom walnut-based bed and nightstands integrated into a linen-upholstered wall; the drapery fabric is Kelly Wearstler’s Grafitto. Opposite: Beyond Dune’s Float bench in the guest bedroom, the console and the gold-tinted stainless-steel wardrobe doors with lacquered rings are custom.

plans developed: A custom-fabricated carport was tacked on and room was carved out below the eaves to create a half level, a cozy attic den that can double as a guest bedroom. “It’s the house we wanted,” Shemtov says. “But we went way over budget and it took nearly three years to build.” A big chunk of that time was devoted to fitting out the 8,000-square-foot interiors. It’s not uncommon for Sawyer|Berson to handle every aspect of a project— architecture, interiors, landscape—as can be seen in the duo’s forthcoming monograph, to be published by Rizzoli this fall in advance of the firm’s 25th anniversary. But in this case Shemtov oversaw the interiors himself, his first time designing a project of this scale. “Every inch of the house was considered and thought out, almost to the point where it was obsessive,” he admits. Architectural detailing was kept to a minimum—just simple baseboard trim and crisp custom millwork in select spots. In the double-height living area, Shemtov devised a striking fireplace surround in richly grained wenge and, opposite, built-in bookshelves with a handglazed faux-linen finish, their back panels lined with mirror or hair-on hide to add layers of texture. On the ground level, 8-inch-wide pine floor planks were treated using a wire-brushed effect and then treated to a milky glaze. “You walk barefoot on it and it feels like a massage,” Shemtov enthuses. All built-ins and seating and most of the tables were made by Dune, which employs some 60 full-time furniture makers at its New Jersey facility. Shemtov used a mix of Dune Collection pieces and original designs—some of which have since been added to the line, like the living area’s amoeba-shape ottoman/table, upholstered in harlequin-pattern panels of coral leather, and the dining area’s Donald Judd–inspired teal-aluminum sideboard. Downstairs, which offers billiards, ping-pong, Pac-Man,

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and pinball, two separate seating areas are anchored by exuberant Dune sectionals, one covered in a rusty-hued chenille and the other, a channel-tufted circular model inspired by Pierre Paulin, in a lemony suede. The art is mostly things the homeowners have collected over years, works by friends or that have a personal resonance. One new acquisition is the Bernardo Siciliano painting of a restaurant interior that hangs in the dining area. The scene felt distinctly familiar to Shemtov, who learned after he bought it that the artist had based it on Lincoln, a restaurant in Lincoln Center where Dune created a custom banquette. To bring light down into the lower level, Sawyer|Berson, which oversaw landscaping, created a courtyard garden with a series of amphitheater-style concrete terraces that are arrayed with a profusion of potted plants. “I originally saw it as a kind of hanging garden with things tumbling Porcelain pavers surround the pool while a standing-seam zinc roof caps the 8,000-square-foot house.

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“I didn’t want the house to feel like a Dune showroom but rather an expression of what I know, what I do, and what I like”

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Top, from left: The pergola’s mint-green color is custom. A Lindsay Cowles wallcovering enlivens another daughter’s bedroom, with a Patty bench by Lievore Altherr Molina and Dune’s Monolith desk. Bottom, from left: Free standing Modernica screens partition the lower level’s custom game table and chairs, joined by Bertjan Pot’s Non Random pendant and a Liz Collins wall work. Variegated marble tile lines the main bathroom. Opposite top: Also on the lower level, a hair-on cowhide rug anchors a sitting area composed of Dune’s Yaz sofa and Peanut coffee table. Opposite bottom: Built-in beds double as lounging spots in the attic den, where Dune’s Faux corkpatterned wallpaper, Turbo sectional, and Bump ottoman flank the custom oak TV cabinet.

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down,” says Sawyer. “Richard came up with the idea of lining it with pots, which I think is fun and punchy.” The focal point of the rear grounds is a minimalist swimming pool, surrounded by porcelain-tile coping and a sweep of precisely graded lawn. There’s an outdoor kitchen and a poolside dining pergola, as well as a covered terrace that’s become one of the family’s favorite hangout spots. Shemtov imagines spending weekends and summers here with the girls—and, eventually, their families—for many years to come. “Labor of love is a commonly used term,” he says, “but with this house, it resonates a lot.” PROJECT TEAM ALEX TAYLOR WILK: SAWYER | BERSON. BLUE SKY DESIGN: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. BK KUCK CONSTRUCTION: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT TOULEMONDE BOCHART: RUG (LOUNGE). NORMANN COPENHAGEN: SMALL SIDE TABLE. ROMO: CHAIR FABRIC (LOUNGE), DRAPERY SHEERS (LIVING AREA, DINING AREA), BANQUETTE FABRIC (MUDROOM), BENCH FABRIC, WINDOW-TREATMENT FABRIC (GUEST BEDROOM), SETTEE FABRIC (MAIN BEDROOM). ANNA KARLIN: PENDANT FIXTURE (DINING AREA). ÉLITIS: CHAIR FABRIC. CROSBY STREET STUDIOS: RUGS (DINING AREA, GUEST BEDROOM). SCHMITT DESIGN: CHANDELIER (LIVING AREA). POLLACK: SECTIONAL FABRIC. KERRY JOYCE: CHAIR FABRIC. THROUGH JEFF LINCOLN ART & DESIGN: COCKTAIL TABLE, SIDE TABLES. ORTAL: FIREPLACE. FORO MARBLE: FIREPLACE STONE. STONE SOURCE: FLOOR TILE (MUDROOM). RENSON: CUSTOM CARPORT, CUSTOM PERGOLA (EXTERIOR). DAMIEN HIRST: WALLPAPER (BEDROOM). ART + LOOM: RUG. KNOLL TEXTILES: WALL FABRIC. ROBERT ALLEN: HEADBOARD FABRIC. BRINKLICHT: PENDANT FIX TURES (KITCHEN). CORIAN: COUNTERTOPS. PIET BOON: STOOLS. WOLF: OVEN. CALIFORNIA FAUCETS: SINK FITTINGS. THROUGH LEE JOFA: DRAPERY FABRIC (MAIN BEDROOM). C & C MILANO: BED FABRIC. CÉLINE WRIGHT: PENDANT FIXTURE. BEADLIGHT: SCONCES. JAB: CHAIR FABRIC, OTTOMAN FABRIC (MAIN BEDROOM), CHAIR FABRIC (GAME AREA). MGS MILANO: OUTDOOR SHOWER (GUEST BEDROOM). PELICAN POOLS: POOL (TERRACE). CERAMICHE REFIN: PAVERS. LINDSAY COWLES: WALLPAPER (BEDROOM). PAUL SMITH: LAMP. LORO PIANA: CHAIR FABRIC. VERZELLONI: BENCH. JANE CHURCHILL: BENCH FABRIC. MODERNICA: SCREENS (GAME AREA). MOOOI: PENDANT FIXTURE. SALVATORI: WALL TILE (BATHROOM). CONCRETE COLLABORATIVE: COUNTERTOP STONE. ANN SACKS: FLOOR TILE. BRIZO: SINK FITTINGS. &TRADITION: LAMP (DEN). THROUGHOUT FLEETWOOD WINDOWS & DOORS: WINDOWS, EXTERIOR DOORS. RHEINZINK: ROOF. HARBOUR OUTDOOR: OUTDOOR FURNITURE. STONHARD: RESIN FLOOR COATING. BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.: PAINT.

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the rules of the game For an apartment overlooking the Danube in Budapest, Hungary, Ramy Fischler Studio applied precepts of an ancient Indian system of architecture, along with its own savoir faire text: ian phillips photography: stephan juillard

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Previous spread: In the living area of a three-bedroom apartment in Budapest, Hungary, by Ramy Fischler Studio, Pierre Paulin’s Pascha lounge chairs pair with a custom sofa, all seating selections based on principles of Vastu Shastra, an ancient Indian design philosophy that re quires furniture in an “earth zone” to be low and grounded, with no legs or feet. Top: Comprising wool bouclé–upholstered cushions perched on a travertine-slab base, the sofa sits on European oak flooring under a custom tufted-nylon rug. Center: A large porthole window connects the ashpaneled study to the living-dining area. Bottom: A series of custom floor-to-ceiling vitrines separates the living area from the central hallway. Opposite: Ceramics by Hungarian artists populate the vitrines’ oak-veneered floating shelves, while a pair of custom chairs with bronze arms, upholstered backs, but no seats nestle beneath the study porthole.

Ramy Fischler Studio prides itself on the diversity of its work. Recent projects include a smart fridge, an Hermès perfume store in New York, a line of self-produced furniture, and Twitter’s office in Paris, where the French firm is based and in the process of implementing a new master plan to harmonize the café and restaurant terraces on the ChampsElysées. From time to time, the studio accepts the odd residential commission. But as principal Ramy Fischler emphasizes, “If we take one on, it has to allow us a certain amount of creativity to develop something unique.” Recently, an entrepreneur with interests in Hungary approached Fischler with what was certainly a singular assignment. He had bought five apartments in a new luxury development with sweeping views of Budapest—one for his own use, the others for guests—that he wanted decorated in more or less identical style. Fischler took the bait. “We spent a year on his unit, defining exactly what he wanted,” the designer says of the 3,750-square-foot, three-bedroom floor-through, which has an additional 1,100 square feet of outdoor space. “It wouldn’t have made sense to do something different in the others. The décor fits him like a glove and duplicating it means he can give people the same experience as staying with him, only they have their own space.” The client had another very distinct demand: The design should adhere strictly to the principles of Vastu Shastra, the traditional Indian system of architecture. “It’s used to determine the layout of everything from religious to domestic spaces,” Fischler says, noting that the ethos is “simple and frugal.” One of its precepts is that the center of a home should be an empty space

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free from obstructions like columns or staircases (a requirement satisfied by the apartment’s mid-floor entry hall). And each area in the house is related to one of the four elements—fire, water, earth, and air—to which distinct design rules and color palettes are attached. Fischler admits that applying such edicts was not always easy, even given the apartment’s generous proportions. “The ideal locations according to Vastu Shastra for faucets, drainage, the kitchen, and so on were often in total contradiction to what was in place in the rest of the building,” he reports. Among the changes he had to make to his original plans was the position of the beds. “Normally I like to have them facing a window so there’s an equal amount of light on both sides,” he explains. “But that was impossible here because they needed to be turned toward the north.” Since the living area is in an “earth zone,” which requires furniture to be low and grounded, none of the seating could have legs or feet. Hence the custom sofas comprising large cushions perched on travertine-slab bases. And in an adjacent sitting nook with a somewhat Japanese aesthetic, two chairs have bronze arms and upholstered backs but no seats, the idea being that, supported by the frame, you sit directly on the floor. The living-dining room boasts a full-length terrace overlooking the Danube and the imposing Hungarian Parliament Building on the far bank. Vastu Shastra aside, Fischler was determined to create as open a space as possible, reveling in the peerless view and enhancing the great natural light. He did so partly by installing a trio of floor-to-ceiling glass storage units that double as quasi-transparent partitions separating the airy room from the center hallway and the kitchen. The massive vitrines are outfitted with substantial wooden shelves that appear to float weightlessly in the void. “These units are incredibly complex,” Fischler notes. In fact, they took six months to develop due to his insistence that there be no visible support system: Transparent glue and hidden mechanisms inside the boxy shelves were used instead. “There’s often something that’s a little extraordinary in my residential projects,” the designer adds. Fischler favored natural materials throughout, the most striking being the rammed-earth clay plaster applied in layers on the walls and ceiling of the main hallway. “It’s the most simple and sophisticated material there is,” he says. “ I like the way it looks as if different strata have been piled on top of each other.” Opposite top, from left: Hand-applied rammed-earth plaster clads the walls and ceiling of the hallway, which morphs seam lessly into the galley kitchen. Jason Miller’s Modo chandelier hangs above the study’s desk, chairs, and rug, all custom. Opposite bottom, from left: The same chairs surround the custom dining table, over which loops a bespoke fixture comprising strings of LED-lit alabaster cubes. Fabric panels encase the serene entry hall, where GramFratesi’s Bat lounge chair joins a cus tom sandblasted-glass table. Below: Three different shades of velvet upholster the walls of the main bedroom, in which custom furnishings include the sconces, bed, nightstands, bench, and rug.

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Top: Ramy Fischler Collection’s Walter nightstand sits beneath a custom sconce in a wool flannel–lined guest bedroom. Center: Vico Magistretti’s Atollo table lamp and Eero Saarinen’s Executive chair serve the main bedroom’s built-in desk made of tay, an African wood, which cantilevers from the oak-paneled wall. Bottom: Verde serpentine stone wraps the tub area of the main bathroom. Opposite: In the second guest bedroom, this one pan eled in silk and cotton satin, a sculpture by Hungarian ceramicist Simon Zsolt József gets its own niche.

Other walls are clad in wood veneers like ash and tay, a West African timber, while the entry hall and bedrooms are swaddled in sound-buffering fabric paneling, a response to the client’s sensitivity to noise. Fischler’s overall aim was to create not only a tranquil environment decibel-wise but also a visually soothing one. “There’s a sort of sobriety and calm to the whole space,” he says. No doubt the principles of Vastu Shastra contribute to that, but he believes the rigor of the architectural detailing also plays its part. “For me, the framework has to be perfect. When each line is precise, it brings a sense of composure,” he asserts. “That’s always the goal I set myself.” PROJECT TEAM FRÉDÉRIC ALZEARI; FLORENCE VLEMELINX; XIAO YE ZHANG; ESTELLE TRAN: RAMY FISCHLER STUDIO. LIGHT IS MORE: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. SAFA: CUSTOM FURNITURE WORKSHOP. PROJECT SOURCES FROM FRONT AU GRÉ DU VERRE: CUSTOM COCKTAIL TABLES (LIVING AREA). MAAMI HOME: SIDE TABLE. NORMANN COPENHAGEN: OTTOMANS. RUBELLI: SOFA FABRIC (LIVING AREA), PANEL FABRIC (SECOND GUEST BEDROOM). EPOCA: CUSTOM SOFAS (LIVING AREA), CUSTOM CHAIRS (NOOK). LASVIT; MANOOI: CUSTOM CEILING FIXTURE (LIVING-DINING AREA). GUBI: LOUNGE CHAIRS (LIVING AREA), ARMCHAIRS (ENTRY, GUEST BEDROOM). ROLL & HILL: CHANDELIER (STUDY). FERM LIVING: GLASSES, BOWL (STUDY), TEAPOT (KITCHEN). LIGNE ROSET: CHAIRS (STUDY, DINING AREA). GAGGENAU: APPLI ANCES (KITCHEN). ÉLITIS: PANEL FABRIC (MAIN BEDROOM). D’ARGENTAT: CUSTOM NIGHTSTANDS. KNOLL: DESK CHAIR. OLUCE: TABLE LAMP. BROSSIER SADERNE: CUSTOM SCONCES. DEDAR: BED FABRIC (BEDROOMS). HOLLAND & SHERRY: PANEL FABRIC (FIRST GUEST BEDROOM). EDEL CARPETS: CARPET (GUEST BEDROOMS). RAMY FISCHLER COLLECTION: NIGHTSTANDS. MANOOI: CUSTOM SCONCES (GUEST BEDROOMS), CUSTOM CANDELABRA (BATHROOM). MAKRO: TUB (BATHROOM). ALAPE: SINKS. DORNBRACHT: TUB FITTINGS, SINK FITTINGS. THROUGHOUT J.D. STARON: CUSTOM RUGS. TABU: WOOD VENEER. THROUGH ZSDRÁL ART POP-UP GALÉRIA: CERAMICS.

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