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ON THE COVER Perched above Paradise Valley, near Phoenix, a home’s renovation-expansion by Stance Architecture features a pool pavilion of cast-in-place concrete capped by sunfiltering steel fins, the structure’s rectilinearity juxtaposing with local sculptor Peter Deise’s sinuous Solar Tendril in powder-coated steel. Photography: Jason Roehner.

features 108 STAR TURN by Peter Webster

In Sydney, Greg Natale revisits a residential project, evolving his Hollywood Regency signature into something more streamlined but no less glamorous. 116 WIDE OPEN SPACES by Jane Margolies

For an extended family living around the globe, a vacation compound on eastern Long Island by Bates Masi + Architects and Bart Verhelle Interiorarchitect brings everyone together. 126 SMOOTH SAILING by Ian Phillips

Moored on the Seine in Paris, a decade-old houseboat is now shipshape, thanks to a chic and eco-sensitive overhaul by Avenue Rachel Studio.

134 LEVEL UP by Rebecca Dalzell

For a three-story town house in Hong Kong, Bean Buro looked to nature and Postimpressionist art to devise a sophisticated sanctuary for a young family of four. 142 THIS IS LIVING by Annie Block

From Atlanta to São Paulo, new-build to retrofit, today’s residential developments boast enriching amenities, whether man- or Mother Nature–made. 154 JOURNEY’S END by Michael Lassell

The sense of discovery the homeowners found on a river rafting expedition helped inspire a house in Melbourne, Australia, by Pandolfini Architects and Lisa Buxton Interiors.

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at home 55 FEATS OF CLAY by Peter Webster

Olivier Garcé and Clio Dimofski’s Lisbon apartment-gallery reflects their deep engagement with Portugal’s ceramicists and other artisans.

open house 61 PICTURE PERFECT by Elizabeth Fazzare 69 JUST RIGHT by Wilson Barlow

Whether centuries old or new, houses big and small, stateside and abroad, have been tailored to meet their site and occupant needs.

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Inspired by and incorporating ancient ruins, Architectural Design & Research Institute crafted a multipurpose complex in eastern China for a coastal community’s present and future. 162 CONTACTS 175 INTERVENTION by Edie Cohen 33

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Bringing to press and screen a new issue of our storied magazine is, at times, an affair comparable to an Ironman Triathlon or an impossibly nervewracking puzzle. All the complex planning, editing, designing, and matching of stories and products we cram into a month (particularly when there’s a timely scoop or two in the mix) would drive anyone to abject insanity. Yet rarely, but sometimes—maybe because we were visited by Middle-earth magic or an impossibly benign conjunction of the planets took place—prepping an issue does turn out to be a walk in the park…birds, fragrances, and all (hooray!). Considering that we are all-hands-on-deck right now, contending with our yearly extravaganza (Hall of Fame… turning 40, btw!) while sorting through a gargantuan harvest of talent (Best of Year Awards), and that I now have to take out the dog (Maxi!), a stroll in the park is exactly what I need and desperately agonize for. So, lo and behold: The November issue, an all-you-can-eat residential kinda thingie, is a design playpen if ever there was one, in which to lose myself and my worries. And here it is for you, too! We discovered a modern houseboat moored on the Seine, complete with environmentally sensitive systems and a zenlike wood-toned vibe. A sense of discovery experienced on a rafting trip inspired a Melbourne, Australia, house composed of three pavilions made from concrete, brick, and patinated copper. And a global roundup of residential developments is chockablock with amenities plus views of nature, water, and yes, even a park! So, take a walk, a stroll, or even a meander into the following pages and enjoy! xoxo

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Greg Natale “Star Turn,” page 108 director: Greg Natale. firm site: Sydney. firm size: Seven architects and designers. current projects: A penthouse duplex in London; a town house in New York; a residence in Jones, Oklahoma. honors: Australia House & Garden Room of the Year Award; Belle Interior Designer of the Year Award. pop: Natale collects art from the second half of the 20th century, including works by Keith Haring, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. rock: He has a great memory and can even recall when Elvis Presley died, though the future designer was only 3 years old at the time. gregnatale.com

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“Journey’s End,” page 154 director: Dominic Pandolfini. firm site: Melbourne, Australia. firm size: Eight architects and designers. current projects: The Avoca and the Dyason apartment buildings in Melbourne; a residence in Portsea, Australia. honors: NSW Concrete Institute Award; Think Brick Awards high commendation; Victorian Architecture Awards shortlist.

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“Journey’s End,” page 154 design director: Lisa Buxton. firm site: Melbourne, Australia. firm size: Two designers. current projects: Residences in Melbourne, Armadale, and Noosa, all in Australia.

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Bart Verhelle Interiorarchitect “Wide Open Spaces,” page 116 director: Bart Verhelle. firm site: Sint-Denijs, Belgium. firm size: One designer. current projects: Homes in Knokke and Bruges, Belgium, and New York. student: Verhelle earned his degree from the KU Leuven Higher Institute of Architecture Sint-Lucas Ghent. founder: He launched his firm in 2006. bartverhelle.be

wheels: Pandolfini is a car enthusiast with a particular love for Porsche. wings: His favorite international travel destination is Japan, where he enjoys the lively food scene as well as the distinctive architecture. pandolfini.com.au

Avenue Rachel Studio “Smooth Sailing,” page 126 founder: Thierry Poubeau. firm site: Paris. firm size: One designer. current projects: An apartment and an office in Paris. design: Poubeau studied under Sylvain Dubuisson and Christian Liaigre. dance: His son and daughter are members of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and the Paris Opera Ballet, respectively. thierrypoubeau.com

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“Wide Open Spaces,” page 116 principal, cofounder: Paul Masi, AIA. partner: Aaron Weil. firm sites: East Hampton and Manhattan, New York. firm size: 17 architects. current projects: Homes in Long Island, New York; Maui, Hawaii; and Geneva. honors: AIA Peconic Honor Award; Tucker Design Award; Wood Design & Building Honor Award.

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new kid on campus Olimpia Zagnoli studied illustration and animation at the Istituto Europeo di Design, graduating in 2007. Nowadays, she’s at Georgia’s Savannah College of Art and Design, which is celebrating its 45th anniversary. But actually, it’s four of her site-specific portraits that are there, approximately 1 mile away from the main campus at the SCAD Museum of Art, where her signature graphic saturation is energizing the large-scale exterior vitrines in “Multifaceted.” “The title is a literal translation of the concept of identity and an expression of my art practice,” Zagnoli explains, “which began with me drawing small characters in big spaces. It was only after growing as an artist and a woman that the figures slowly began to take more space inside the graphic grid, to the point that they almost didn’t fit anymore. The same happened with color: Little by little, I incorporated more of it, pushing the boundaries of my comfort zone,” she continues, sounding fittingly mentorial. The works are indeed a highlight of SCAD MOA’s 2024 exhibitions, which have an international focus—”We’re a beacon for lovers of visual ideation across the globe. No passport required!” SCAD president and founder and Interior Design Hall of Fame member Paula Wallace proclaims. Come January 15, the work of Mexican-born sculptor Raul De Lara fills the vitrines. COURTESY OF OLIMPIA ZAGNOLI AND SCAD

From top: Multifaceted 04 and Multifaceted 03, both in vinyl and measuring 8½ by 10 feet, are two of four site-specific artworks in “Multifaceted,” Olimpia Zagnoli’s exhibition occupying the exterior Jewel Box vitrines at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, through December 23.

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Clockwise from top left: The 22-inch-tall Sybilla, named for the prophetic priestesses of ancient times, is featured in “Sottsass | Sèvres Tempus 1994–2024,” an exhibition of porcelain works by Ettore Sottsass at Galerie de Sèvres in Paris through November 30. Juliette (of Romeo and Juliet), Diane (for Diane de Poitiers, King Henry II’s mistress), Joséphine (for Joséphine de Beauharnais, Napoleon’s first wife), Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame heroine), and Tseui (China’s last empress).

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For its second year, Design Miami.Paris was held at the L’hôtel de Maisons, where exquisite vintage and new furnishings for sale included Jean Prouvé’s 1952 prefab Carnac House, Anna Le Corno’s Undergrowth desk composed of mycelium, and a series of vivid, shapely totems made and named after noteworthy historical, literary, and mythical women by Ettore Sottsass for Sèvres. To celebrate the latter collection’s 30th anniversary, the centuries-old French porcelain manufacturer has mounted “Sottsass | Sèvres Tempus 1994–2024,” a coinciding and still-on-view exhibition at its Paris gallery, reintroducing the same 14 sculptures shown at Design Miami.Paris, plus one wonderful surtout, or table centerpiece. “Sèvres by Sottsass is the most powerful expression of Sottsass’s genius and his dream of eternity,” architect and exhibit curator Charles Zana says of the Memphis Group founder. In fact, the Sèvres pieces, which have such titles as Cléopâtre, Joséphine, and Juliette, boast hues and shapes that are Memphis reminiscent—and showcase the Italian icon’s ceaseless quest for balance in form, confrontation of materials, and exploration of color. They’re also part of the Musée nationaux de Sèvres’s permanent collection.

d e s i g n w ire Clockwise from top left: This circa 1960 colored pencil over sepia print of the nondenominational Tuskegee Institute Chapel, now Tuskegee University, an HBCU in Alabama, is one of 80 works in “Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York through March 16. A 1989 balsa wood and plastic model for the proposed yet unbuilt Sino Tower in Hong Kong by Rudolph, who passed in 1997. His 1961 Temple Street Parking Garage in New Haven, Connecticut. A 1972 section drawing in ink and graphite of the Lower Manhattan Expressway/City Corridor, also unbuilt.

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His Harvard GSD classmates included I.M. Pei. He taught Norman Foster at Yale University. And, with a portfolio encompassing residential and commercial projects stateside and abroad, his clients ranged from Halston to Tuskegee University to the Niagara Falls Public Library. This history and more are explored in “Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the institution’s first such exhibition since its 1972 Marcel Breuer survey, and particularly meaningful, as Rudolph’s 1952 Sanderling Beach Club in Sarasota, Florida, was destroyed by Hurrican Helene four days before the exhibit’s opening. It features over 80 works in various scales, from small objects that Kentuckyborn Rudolph collected throughout his life to work-related models, furniture, material samples, and colored pencils used for his “intricate, visionary drawings,” curator Abraham Thomas notes. Photographs are included too, spanning the architect’s 1950’s Sarasota Modern houses to his later, brutalist works, such as Yale’s Art and Architecture Building (now Rudolph Hall) and Temple Street Parking Garage, both in Connecticut and completed while he chaired the school’s architecture department. Of the latter, famous for its organic, poured-in-place concrete form, its sodium lights recently replaced with LEDs, he said: “I wanted to make a building which said it dealt with cars and movement. I wanted there to be no doubt that this is a parking garage.”

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Italian Interiors: Rooms with a View By Laura May Todd New York and London: Phaidon, $70 272 pages, 250 color illustrations

In a seminal 1928 essay, Gio Ponti described the model Italian home as something much more than a refuge from the elements. It must go beyond the functional, he said, as a house is not only shelter but “a repository for life: a place where objects delight and provide comfort.” The domiciles collected in this new volume exemplify that theory, showcasing examples that serve as a canvas onto which the individuality of their residents is painted. The 50 projects are assembled into a novel table of contents, each itemized not by name or designer but with a description. And, rather than proceeding chronologically, chapters are arranged into a montage of styles and time periods. For example, Il Palazzetto, a Monselice farmhouse renovated by Carlo Scarpa and his son Tobia between 1978 and 2006, is listed as “a 16th-century home reworked by a pair of renowned architects;” it now has a room appointed with a Le Corbusier LC4 chaise lounge. Current designers are here as well. Mirta Ottaviani’s Puglian vacation retreat mixes limewashed white with vibrant accents and has ample outdoor access. In contrast on the very next page, a Tuscan home by Baciocchi Associati is earthier, its walls made of cocciopesto, a concrete dating to ancient Rome. As for Ponti, his work appears in the form of Casa di Fantasia, a Milan apartment he originally completed in 1953 for an art-collecting couple that’s considered, as the name implies, one of his boldest commissions. It was recently reinterpreted by David/Nicolas studio founders Nicolas Moussallem and David Raffoul, who not only pre served the surrealist style but also added it to with such elements as French oak boiserie inlaid with tiger stripes—exactly the sort of joy-sparking detail il signori Ponti spoke of when imagining the perfect Italian interior.

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“Clay Corner, a five-story apartment complex in Oˉtepoti Dunedin, New Zealand, is a best-in-class example of socially and environmentally sustainable city living. Mini mizing the design’s envi ronmental impact are low-carbon building systems, mass timber construction, photovoltaics, passive facade design, op timized glazing ratios, and circular material consideration. For instance, a custom terrazzo facade we developed uses aggregates recovered from the site’s existing brick structure. Given the great challenges the construction industry faces, we hope this development will drive outcomes that go far beyond the current sus tainability status quo to actively mitigate climate change.”

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“People have become lonelier and more politically divided in recent years, so it’s important to offer attractive opportunities for interaction by designing buildings that work as vertical commu nities. Our multifamily mid- and high-rises are conceived to be more like city fabric than isolated towers. The balconies of City Hyde Park and Aqua, both in Chicago, act like the porches and stoops of a traditional neighborhood. At 11 Hoyt in Brooklyn, New York, common spaces around the ground floor and the second-level outdoor landscape are what inspire social interaction. And we carved back the corners of Verde in San Francisco to create alternating terraces, unique across each floor, that allow residents to gather.” —Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang

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“The Travis Building, originally 10 stories of offices, had experienced a decline in demand. However, its prime location along the San Antonio Riverwalk and in the central business district made it an ideal candidate for conversion into apartments. The challenge laid in maintaining its historic integrity. We preserved key architectural elements, including the original tiled corridor floors, while remov ing dropped ceilings to enhance the spatial experience. The project’s success— evident in the full lease-up of its 63 units— has significantly influenced our approach and highlights the potential for converting workplaces into much-needed housing as demand for commercial real estate continues to fall. Additionally, by creating residential opportunities in urban centers, we’re helping reduce reliance on cars, fostering walkable communities, and further activating downtown cores.”

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Olivier Garcé and Clio Dimofski’s Lisbon apartment-gallery reflects their deep engagement with Portugal’s ceramicists and other artisans

FROM TOP: MARIE GRAUNBOL/LIVING INSIDE; COURTESY OF GARCÉ & DIMOFSKI

French duo Olivier Garcé and Clio Dimofski took a circuitous route to Lisbon, Portugal, where their 2,300-square-foot apartment doubles as a gallery for their eponymous multidisciplinary practice. The couple met studying design at Paris’s École Carmondo, completed second degrees at the École d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette, and then decamped to Beijing for a year. “It was just after the Olympics,” Garcé reports, “and we got to experience the impact of two cultures on contemporary design and architecture.” Back in Paris, individual stints at firms like Shigeru Ban Architects and Hamonic + Masson & Associés preceded a move to New York to launch an office for Pierre Yovanovitch Architecture d’Interieur, before returning to Europe in 2021—daughter Zoë and dog LeWitt in tow—to open a studio of their own. Lisbon beckoned for a number of reasons. “My mother’s Portuguese,” Garcé says, “so there was already a close connection.” More importantly, the couple wanted their practice to involve local craftspeople, something they felt would be easier to achieve in Portugal where, Dimofski notes, “There’s so much to discover and develop.” The apartment-gallery is on the second floor of a late 19th–century Pombaline-style building featuring solid-color exterior tilework rather than the ornate azulejos of earlier periods. The interior, however, doesn’t lack for elaborate plasterwork and moldings, which the couple carefully preserved when renovating the run-down property, “to keep the soul of the space,” as Dimofski puts it. Outfitted with a mix of new and vintage pieces, contemporary art, and the designers’ own distinctive handcrafted furniture and products, the light-filled quarters reflect their ethos and aesthetic perfectly. “It’s about materiality, too,” Garcé continues, “using marble, stone, wood, and ceramic.” The last is particularly important, appearing as massive sculptural legs on the Mimi coffee table, for example, or as wall tiles with a painterly glaze—developed with artist-potter Lígia Guedes—in the kitchen. Similar tiles in a larger format are used as baseboards in the dining room. The clay is locally sourced, as is the chest nut that tops the coffee table, composes the chunky Hélios sofa, or panels a wall in the study. Local design and art includes a Studio Haos aluminum dining table and several Pedro Batista paintings, while Korean American talent Minjae Kim, a frequent collaborator, is represented by characterful chairs, tables, and lighting that epitomize the apartment-gallery’s creatively eclectic spirit. —Peter Webster

From top: Flanked by a pair of their Almond glazedceramic sconces, the founders of Garcé & Dimofski stand in the entry of their second-floor apartmentgallery in the buzzy Arroios neighborhood of Lisbon, Portugal. Featuring a chestnut body on massive ceramic feet, the Hélios sofa incorporates two of the couple’s favorite materials.

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1. Garcé & Dimofski’s brushed stainless–steel Luis chair has a precise, graphic presence.

2. A niche holds a Zande decorative knife from Congo-Kinshasa in the hallway, which is lit by two G&D ceramic fixtures: a custom pendant and an Eclipse sconce. 3. The Iconic chair, commissioned from Korean American designer and frequent collaborator Minjae Kim, is handmade in Porto. 4. A vignette in the study includes a painting by Klara Kristalova, a Moon sconce, and a vintage Axel Einar Hjorth pine table, set against chestnut paneling. 5. Finished with an eye-catching painterly glaze, the kitchen’s wall tiles were developed in collaboration with Lígia Guedes, an artist-potter based in Porto. 6. Upholstered by Ateliers Jouffre in New York, Kim’s hand-carved Lola chair pairs wool bouclé with stained and lacquered Douglas fir. 7. The dining room is outfitted with Studio Haos’s waxed aluminum table and vintage Pierre Chapo S24 chairs, as well as a Pedro Batista painting and Kim’s Canopy pendant and hand-carved Lacquered Chair II. 8. Named for their daughter, G&D’s Zoë side table caps its biomorphic clay form with a colorfully glazed top.

9. Kim’s Iconic coffee table for G&D comprises a painted base with a ceramic plate inset on the sapele top. 10. In the main bedroom, Studio Haos’s bamboo pendant and a vintage Italian bench frame the door to the bathroom, where the ceramic tile–clad custom tub is backdropped by a Rosa Estremoz marble dado.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: MARIE GRAUNBOL/LIVING INSIDE; COURTESY OF GARCÉ & DIMOFSKI; MARIE GRAUNBOL/LIVING INSIDE (2); COURTESY OF GARCÉ & DIMOFSKI

11. The apartment’s original plasterwork ornaments the living room, while another Batista canvas presides over G&D’s chestnut-and-ceramic Mimi coffee table and Colin King’s handwoven Taglio rug for Beni Rugs.

“In terms of young designers being able to connect directly with craftspeople, Portugal is probably what Italy was 15 years ago”

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: MARIE GRAUNBOL/LIVING INSIDE (2); COURTESY OF GARCÉ & DIMOFSKI; MARIE GRAUNBOL/LIVING INSIDE; COURTESY OF GARCÉ & DIMOFSKI (2)

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In the living area of a two-story former photography studio turned two-bedroom home, the cinder-block wall and birch ceiling are original to 1991, but the Ohm nesting tables, Zig Zag stool, and custom lacquered shelf are new; the Winter Light rug is from Rill and Stone, the Brooke Aitken Design founder’s home-products company.

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It was less than a year into the pandemic when Sophia Vicent toured her future home, a photo grapher’s studio built in 1991 in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, its unconventional architecture sparking instant appeal. “It was love at first sight,” she recalls of the two-story, pavil ionlike building with cinder-block walls, timberframed glass panels that fill the ground floor with sunlight, a gabled birch ceiling with exposed steel trusses, and front and back gardens, a city rarity. “But,” Vicent continues, “it had a lot of warts,” particularly, the dark, water-damaged subgrade level; it’d been the darkroom, so it had no crossventilation and was reached via a ladderlike stair. But that same owner had an affinity for Japanese aesthetics and crafted the house with an indooroutdoor relationship, including siting a cherry tree to be visible from inside, a detail that felt fateful to Vicent, who has a cherry branch tattooed across her shoulder. However, to transform the 1,600 square feet into a livable quarters for herself, her college-age daughter, and their dog, she needed a professional who would also appreciate its quirks. Enter Brooke Aitken, director of her namesake, Sydney-based firm, who had previously lived in Japan and Vicent had met years ago while she’d been visiting nearby Palo Alto. For this near gut renovation, Aitken was not only commissioned

via Zoom but also concepted everything with Vicent on the virtual platform. The architect concluded that most elements— from floors to doorframes—had to be replaced. But she preserved the clerestory windows and cinder-block walls, their tones ranging from greige to burnt sienna, adding to the home’s wabi-sabi. Upstairs, they background new public spaces: a custom kitchen with hemlock-veneered cabinetry and a crisp white-tile backsplash colormatched in the sculptural island, a living area with plush seating by Didier Gomez and Yabu Pushelberg, and a dining area, which doubles as a home office, a printer and such hidden inside millwork. Vicent, who’s vice president of engineering at DoorDash, also has a built-in desk downstairs, where Aitken “borrowed as much light as we could,” from the exterior courtyards and upper level through employing glass doors where

Clockwise from opposite top: Ipanema sofas by Didier Gomez join a Pukka chair by Yabu Pushelberg. Beneath existing exposed-steel trusses, the kitchen’s Revolver stools by Leon Ransmeier stand on engineered white-oak floorboards. Oak and Opera Fantastico marble compose the custom stair down to the bedroom level, its custom wooden guardrail spray-painted Baked Terracotta. The glass-andtimber, 1,600-square-foot home opens to a multilevel rear garden, with a cobblestone patio and an existing cherry tree.

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Clockwise from top left: Vinyl or grass-cloth wallcovering envelop the main bedroom, furnished with a Miro bed by Gabriel Tan, Turoy armchair, and Maria Kostareva artwork. Opera Fantastico marble reappears topping the powder room’s custom vanity. A Mangas Original Caramelo otto man by Patricia Urquiola awaits at the bottom of the stairs on the lower level, where flooring changes to ceramic tile. The custom kitchen features a Corian-topped island, hemlock-veneered cabinetry, tile backsplash, and a Stickbulb pendant fixture.

possible. The former rickety stair has been replaced by one in oak and marble with a rhythmic gridded guardrail. She also carved out two bedrooms, a bathroom (there’s a renovated powder room upstairs as well), and a laundry room. Otherwise, she embraced this level’s coziness, covering walls in linenlike vinyl and the ceiling in grass cloth. Although most finishes are natural, pops of red appear in the stairwell, on cabinetry, and in select furnishings. “We played with color atop a really calm base,” Aitken explains. Also calming are the Japanese-inspired gardens, to which the home can open entirely. “I close the gate and the city disappears,” Vicent notes. “It’s such a peaceful thing.” —Elizabeth Fazzare

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BEHIND THE DESIGN Explore Sebastian Herkner’s Latest Collection for Davis Furniture Sebastian Herkner’s earliest memories of design center around family trips throughout his native Germany, exploring cities with rich histories of craft traditions from ceramics to chocolate. As a renowned industrial designer, Herkner’s work reflects this deeply rooted appreciation of craftmanship, which makes for a synergistic pairing with legacy brand Davis Furniture. The fourth collaboration between the two is Elora, a lounge collection unveiled at NeoCon in June. Featuring a fusion of bold and curvaceous forms, the series includes a sofa and a lounge chair with a sink-into form tailored enough to suit a range of interiors, including bustling hospitality locales, modern workspaces, and residential buildings alike. The lounge chair effortlessly offers 360-degree rotation with its optional memoryreturn swivel. As for the sofa, it’s a standalone statement designed to elevate any aesthetic. Perhaps what sets Elora apart most, however, is the attention to detail, from its organic silhouette to its luxuriously comfortable seat designed from the inside out to lessen environmental impact. “We found a way to reduce the amount of soft foam inside, which is important for sustainability,” Herkner told Interior Design editor-in-chief Cindy Allen during NeoCon. “I think it’s a collection that’s fantastic for contract and hospitality, but I also see it in my future home.” Experience the Elora Lounge Collection with Sebastian Herkner and Interior Design’s Cindy Allen as they walk through the Davis Furniture showroom at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago.

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just right Whether centuries old or new, houses big and small, stateside and abroad, have been tailored to meet their site and occupant needs

See page 74 for a garden cottage in Warsaw, Poland, by Noke Architects, where a vintage Pierre Paulin chair stands under a window, its bottom halfmoon a mirror that reflects the interior when open or passersby when closed.

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site Brooklyn, New York. square feet 4,000. standout Natural light, room to grow, and a connec tion to and respect for the environment were top priorities for the gut renovation of a young couple’s four-story Cobble Hill town house. Natural materials abound, particularly in the cherrywood-paneled solarium-dining area, which extends into the reimag ined garden, pulling sunshine into the adjoining kitchen with white-oak cabinetry. The top floor, above the main suite’s spalike tiled bathroom, contains child and guest bedrooms, the latter with artwork by local painter Sara Woster easy to convert for more offspring when the time comes. boleearchitects.com

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site Palm Springs, California. square feet 3,000. standout Desert modernism meets mid-century Brazil in a threebedroom, three-bath ranch designed in 1964 by architect Charles Du Bois. What began as a decoration commission morphed into a full renovation for the client, a boomer couple that uses the residence as a weekend retreat in the offseason. Retaining the original concrete breeze-block, the house was returned to its studs, then outfitted with old and new furniture and art pieces, including the dining area’s custom table by James De Wulf, Thierry Jeannot chandelier, vintage Brazilian chairs, and Malcolm Hill mural, and a vivid Louis Fratino painting above the den’s cozy Avery Boardman sofa. studiotoddraymond.com

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site Warsaw, Poland. square feet 375. standout For a creative couple seeking proximity to nature but also urban buzz, a microscopic garden plot near the city center provided the perfect opportunity, albeit with serious limitations, namely that a permanent structure could not exceed 35 square meters. Deliberately hidden behind greenery, the spirited tidy cottage is indeed amid the elements. Tile encircles the bathroom, which, despite looking open-air, is glass roofed. Cobalt switches to rose red in the combined living/ kitchen/sleeping area, where plywood paneling is stained with natural oil. nokearchitects.com.

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site San Francisco. square feet 15,300. standout With a winding stair and stark-white, contemporary envelope, it may be hard to believe this seven-bedroom home plus carriage house were built in 1894 in the Queen Anne style—a revitalization, in collab oration with Cello & Maudru Construction, proving that preservation rather than teardown can result in something entirely fresh and modern, one that minimizes energy and material waste. Now, original moldings join orb-shape kitchen counters in crisp Corian, monolithic terrazzo bathroom vanities, and a gallery-esque dining room with wide oak floor planks and a sculptural Lindsey Adelman chandelier. studiovara.com 76

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Pura Cal site Costa Oeste, Portugal. square feet 1,025. standout The renovation of a seaside summer home retains its original mid-century flair while integrating such local materials as marmorite ter razzo for flooring and cobogó, a ceramic screen typically used on facades but here partitioning the kitchen. Guests are greeted with nautical stripes in their sleeping quarters, while, in the living room, the family mascot not only gets to lounge on a 1970’s Portuguese sofa reupholstered in côtelé velvet near a vintage bamboo lamp shaded in new Pierre Frey fabric but also has a custom commissioned portrait of herself. puracal.pt

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mobboli Spanish studio Arnau Reyna debuted a stool at this year’s Hábitat València fair that, in a thrillingly concise move, has just two components: an upholstered cylindrical ottoman and a tubular-steel armature that sidles below to provide even footing and extends ramrod-straight to terminate in a half-moon backrest… which itself doubles as a carrying handle. Tibo comes in three sizes and is available just as the ottoman and with optional casters. (The collection also encompasses three side tables made from the same powder-coated steel tubing.) The design neatly reflects cofounders Ramón Arnau and Mariola Reyna’s ethos of versatility and functionality and is sustainably made, too, at Mobboli’s workshops in Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid. ¡Viva España! mobboli.com

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product Colonna. standout A terra-cotta side table made in Italy nods to art history— namely, the evolution of columns, flutes, and capitals, which the Toronto designer strove to render in a form “both contemporary and compelling for today’s context.” Through Holly Hunt. hollyhunt.com INTERIOR DESIGN

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product The Rendezvous. standout The artist/designer’s new wallpaper and textile company, named after and celebrating the generous spirit of her late greataunt, launches with a collection of hand-drawn patterns that blend flora, folk art, and architectural nostalgia. oteatextiles.com

product Onigiri. standout The cofounders of Spanish firm Dibloo Estudio have crafted tasteful ottomans in oak plywood and Ultraleather that sport a black elastic band—akin to the seaweed strip wrapping the titular Japanese rice balls—that doubles as a handle. annud.es

Soffy Dombernowsky and Mikkel Lang Mikkelsen of Studio About

product Flex Tube. standout Create your own galleryesque light art with the cofounders’ ½-inch-diameter, LED-lit silicone tube—in warm white, warm red, blue, or bright pink (shown)—that can be bent, shaped, or draped any which way. Through Teak New York. teaknewyork.com

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product Forest standout The byproduct of an artist’s residency in Turin, Italy, the French designer’s carved-oak bench with mounds of mossy upholstery is a highlight of his debut solo show, “Fragments,” at the gallery’s Los Angeles location through February 1. friedmanbenda.com

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product DP1. standout Constructivist buildings on piles informed the DA Bureau architects’ kitchen island, with columnar supports clad in glazed, hand-molded ceramic. The cabinetry’s wood veneer was reconstituted from furniture-manufacturing scraps.

product Cane Cluster. standout Hand-assembled in the New York studio’s Brooklyn workshop, the chandelier sprouts a trio of brass-finished steel curves. Surfacing them with flat LED downlights maintains the fixture's minimalism while emitting a warm glow.

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product Subiksha. standout Although the artist is based in Barcelona, Spain, it was her time spent working—and the girls she met—at an NGO that provided the name of the hand-knotted wool, silk, and linen rug, its pattern derived from her abstract calligraphic canvases. knotsrugs.co.uk NOV.24

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The textile manufacturer launches the first of four new global showrooms, a 1,500-squarefoot space at The Mart in Chicago spotlighting residential offerings from the Edelman, Knoll Textiles, and Maharam brands. Designed by Neil Logan, Architect, it's gallerylike, with gridded wooden cubbies along a sidewall and a 25-foot-long central table with a Piet Mondrianlike display of colorful, textural samples. Other highlights include a custom credenza with slideout drawers for displaying leathers and a sunlit confab table—the ideal spot from which to peruse new fabrics, like Sir Paul Smith’s indoor-outdoor slubbed-yarn polyesters, Ladder Stripe and Stepped Plaid. maharam.com

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“The bouclé yarn is soft and cozy and ensnares the elegantly matched warp threads, which are hand-picked for each rug”

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Hamburg, Germany–based textile designer Jutta Werner’s previous rug collection ingeniously blended candy wrappers with wool. This go-round, the Nomad founder explains, inspiration struck when she encountered massive piles of sari cloth at a weaving mill in northern India. “Without even thinking”—and much to her colleagues’ amusement—“I just jumped right in!” For A_Rug, conceived while immersed in the “sari bath,” as she calls it, warp threads selected from dyed cotton fabric scraps or sari remnants are handwoven with thick bouclé wool yarn. Rugs are available in seven color ways including bright-red Summerkiss, with contrasting cobalt fringe (accented with a dash of cerise), and Ocean, a plunge into monochromatic blue. “The fabric remnants are presorted by hue, but even a single-color pile of threads offers a vast array of different textures and gloss levels,” Werner muses. That translates into rugs of unusually rich chromatic depth. nomad-studio.de

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“Sarah Ellison brings a design-led interior influence to outdoor space”

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ellison studios Fresh from Down Under: Aussie shelter-mag stylist turned furniture maven Sarah Ellison continues her partnership with Design Within Reach, introducing outdoor-ready reworkings of existing pieces. There’s the bullnose-edge Earth cocktail and side tables, fabricated in Vietnam from sealed tinted concrete. Arch Anywhere, her bestselling rounded dining chair with column legs, comes in textured UV-resistant molded plastic in a pale-nude hue dubbed Pebble. Finally, the Muse modular sofa and Alva armchair and loveseat have been reengineered for alfresco lounging courtesy of outdoor fabric (in creamy hues the color of bleached eucalyptus tree bark) with a 600-hour UV rating and quick-dry foam filling. Unfussy and crowd-pleasing, Ellison Studios’s designs fit the contemporary moment. And if they can stand up to the harsh Australian sun, they’re a shoo-in over here. Available exclusively through DWR in the U.S. dwr.com

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Here’s a curveball: Many high-end products take care to hide their stitching. But these beanbag perches from the Gandia Blasco brand flaunt it, in a nod to the red threading of baseball seams. The outdoor pieces, by Madrid-based Italian architect Teresa Sapey, were exhibited at Hábitat València. They expand upon Diabla’s Costuras collection ottomans, Base and Ball, with models built for two, cutely inspired by Sapey’s twins. Essentially doubled versions of the original shapes, XL Twin Base and XL Twin Ball each span 4½ feet. Their foam forms, topped with polystyrene beads for extra squish, are wrapped in waterproof upholstery that unzips for removal. Some 32 fabrics are available, from the geometric Comedia del Arte to solid colors like plain white or blush pink with contrast stitching.

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“The concept draws inspiration from the Lewis Carroll characters Tweedledum and Tweedledee, honoring the unique bond inherent to twin siblings”

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Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch of Roman and Williams— the much-fêted set designers of Practical Magic and the creatives behind such zeitgeisty interiors as the original Ace Hotel and the Boom Boom Room, to name a select few— launch a collection that showcases lighting as art and science. Among the 12 fixtures are the Porto sconce, which features thick, denser-than-usual glass that offers ROBIN STANDEFER, STEPHEN ALESCH greater flexibility for bulb selection; the Lentium sconce and table lamp, with brutalist cast-bronze armatures hand-sculpted by Alesch; and Seed, a pendant of tinted rippled glass. Six of the designs exploit the skin-softening glow of lit-from-within alabaster, such as the fluted Petra egg pendant. And for the first time, Roman and Williams Guild, which is located in New York, is staging an off-site exhibition, “A Certain Slant of Light,” featuring 100 of its original lighting designs, including the new dozen, at the former New York Mercantile Exchange in TriBeCa from November 19 through December 1. rwguild.com

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Factory-made technical ceramic tile is perhaps not the sexiest product. But in the hands of awardwinning Milanese architect Cristina Celestino, the material is certainly enticing. The Tivoli Tech collection for storied Italian tile company Fornace Brioni references pathways and hedges in formal Italian gardens, just like the original Tivoli range for indoors (a mega-hit). Here, Celestino employs the same softened geometric forms in a new and innovative through-body-colored technical clay that is freeze-thaw rated, resilient to pool chemicals, and UV- and slip-resistant. The puzzle-piece pattern pairs pill- and movie-ticket-shape modules with slim rectangular ones, available in four colorways ranging from a composition of cool tonal blues to sage spiked with salmon. In the U.S., spec them through Clé’s just-launched source for outdoor tile, OUTERclé. outercle.com 96

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history lesson Inspired by and incorporating ancient ruins, Architectural Design & Research Institute crafted a multipurpose complex in eastern China for a coastal community’s present and future

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1. A CAD rendering by Architectural Design & Research Institute (UAD) illustrates the firm’s concept for Villagers’ Home, a cultural and visitors center in Taizhou, China, commissioned by a local governmental entity to enhance tourism. 2. and 3. In Wanghu Village, crumbling structures originally used for agricultural production stood on the ½-acre site, as did 10-foot-high rammedearth walls, portions of the latter integrated into the project. 4. and 5. UAD, which is affiliated with Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, performed extensive research into the history of the coastal village and had in-depth conversations with the intended users. 6. and 7. The new buildings were constructed in concrete and low-E coated glass alongside the existing rammed-earth walls.

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1. The multipurpose Villagers’ Home complex by UAD consists of three structures for such activities as exhibitions, movie screenings, fitness, tea ceremonies, and community meetings. 2. Existing steps lead down to a small unnamed river. 3. Slate from an older structure was repurposed to pave a small courtyard between the buildings. 4. A cherry tree, also existing, has been preserved. 5. The rammed-earth walls, which are remnants of the mud houses villagers used to cultivate mushrooms, reference the region’s past, while the streamlined concrete buildings, with their custom, steelframed windows seemingly randomly placed, have modern profiles. —Athena Waligore

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In Sydney, Greg Natale revisits a residential project, evolving his Hollywood Regency signature into something more streamlined but no less glamorous

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Previous spread: In Sydney, a Vladimir Kagan sofa, Warren Platner lounge chair, and freeform custom rug define the sunken living room in a 3,600-square-foot, two-story house recently renovated for the second time by local designer Greg Natale. Top, from left: The formerly rectilinear space has been softened with curving forms and a natural clay–plaster finish on the walls and ceiling. Christopher Boots’s Sugar Bomb pendant fixture hangs above the powder room’s custom Verde Alpi marble vanity. Bottom: Flanked by Lara Bohinc’s Celeste chair, a new sculptural staircase rises from the entry’s Patagonia Verde quartzite floor. Opposite: The striking Breccia Capraia marble that clads much of the kitchen was imported from Italy by the client, Eleni Taylor, who has a passion for the material.

Battered by the Great Depression, the 1930’s public escaped into the sleekly glamorous, white-telephone world of the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. Those and similarly art-directed American movies helped popularize Streamline Moderne architecture globally, and the aspirational style’s rounded edges, smooth surfaces, and curvilinear forms were often seen in residential and commercial properties from Beirut to Buenos Aires. In Sydney, too, where designer Greg Natale recently got to revamp a house dating from the swing era, a two-story structure with a contoured stucco exterior that still retains a feeling of creamy swellegance. In fact, this was Natale’s second bite at the apple. A dozen years ago, his eponymous firm completed a major redesign of what was then a two-apartment building on a compact site in Bellevue Hill, a leafy suburb, transforming it into a 3,600-square-foot, single-family home. This required structural changes, including the creation of a sunken living room and the addition of several Juliet balconies, each accessed by multipane French doors. Taking cues from the original terra-cotta roof, for the interior, Natale channeled another, slightly later movie-inspired aesthetic: Hollywood Regency. “It was all black and white with pops of color,” he reports, referring to such style signifiers as checkerboard marble flooring, Chippendale-Chinoiserie dining chairs lacquered red, and blue-and-white dragon-patterned vases. “There was a lot of painted wood paneling and crown moldings, too,” he adds, noting that the spaces were above all rectilinear. Much published, the eye-catching project became an exemplar of Natale’s signature style. In 2020, socialite Eleni Taylor bought the house for herself and her two teenage children. “The property checked a lot of boxes for her,” Natale says. “Not too big, in the right location, and it had a

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swimming pool.” However, while the new homeowner loved the high ceilings and overall feel of the interior, she sought a softer, more feminine look that would bring the curves of the exterior indoors. Taylor, who has Greek heritage, envisioned the kind of pared-down, seamlessly fluid spaces found in Cycladic architecture. “Even though I hadn’t done a project like that before, Eleni got in touch with me,” Natale continues. “After meeting our team, she felt confident we could achieve what she had in mind, so she hired us.” Once again, Natale gutted the place and started from scratch, which was a first for him. “I’ve gone back to projects to add rooms or layers to what we’ve already done,” he explains. “But here was a great chance to reinvent myself as a designer.” Apart from reconfiguring and slightly extending the second floor, which now comprises four bedrooms and three bathrooms, there were few structural changes (the garden-level kitchen and living, dining, and media rooms were not relocated). Outside, the balconies’ painted-ironwork balustrades are new, as are the simplified single-pane French doors and some other fenestration, including four glass-block windows on the ground floor. However, the interior envelope is all but unrecognizable: Its moldings, paneling, and ornamentation are gone, its straight edges and angular corners replaced with sinuous lines, swelling forms, and arching portals. Finished throughout with a natural-clay plaster that gives the walls and ceilings a silky tactility, the lofty living spaces are at once organic and pristine, suggesting a light-filled, soigné version of Ali Baba’s cave. In something of an “open sesame” moment, entering the custom bronze front door reveals a new showstopping sculptural staircase 112

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that ascends in a flowing arc to the private family quarters. Adding to the effect, the entry hall is paved with slabs of Patagonia Verde quartzite, a Brazilian stone awash with bold sea-green and smokegray swirls. “The colors remind Eleni of the beach,” Natale says of the flooring, which sets the stage for another of the home’s signature elements: the extensive use of marble in a variety of dramatic patterns and hues, enlivening the otherwise muted palette. “The client likes color, but she loves marble,” the designer discloses. “From day one, we knew it was going to be full-slab bathrooms.” These include moody, emerald-tone Verdi Alpi in the powder room, and jadelike Arcadia that wraps one of the bathrooms upstairs. Taylor was so enamored of Breccia Capraia, a Carrara marble with veins of delicate pink, inky purple, and charcoal gray splashed across a white background, that she imported a wealth of the striking stone from Italy. Now it not only clads the kitchen countertops, island, backsplash, and vent hood but also appears in the main bathroom: on the floor, lining the long, windowed shower cubicle, and as a backdrop wall for the custom vanity, a massive double-sink unit made of the same material. Along with marble and plaster, the principal material is American oak. The blond wood is used for the chevron-patterned flooring throughout, as well as the minimalist kitchen cabinetry and the handsome millwork in the two kids’ bedrooms, including a built-in desk with round travertine drawer pulls in the son’s study area. Gio Ponti’s 1931 Bilia table lamp sits on the work surface, which is served by Grant and Mary Featherston’s circa 1960 Scape chair— two pieces created 30 years apart but sharing the spirit of

Opposite, from left: Kelly Wearstler’s Melange sconces bookend the mirror in a secondary bathroom wrapped entirely in jadelike Arcadia marble. Beneath Marco Pagnoncelli’s Masai pendants, Bohinc’s Orbit chairs surround a vintage Lella and Massimo Vignelli table in the dining room, where the glass-block windows are new. Above, from left: In the main bathroom, Natale’s customized Milazzo tub sits on a floor of Breccia Capraia slabs, which also compose the custom vanity and cover the backsplash wall. Custom travertine drawer pulls ornament the built-in oak desk in the son’s bedroom, while Grant and Mary Featherston’s Scape chair faces Gio Ponti’s Bilia table lamp.

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Top, from left: Beyond Patricia Urquiola’s Husk bed, new single-pane French doors and painted-iron balustrades enhance the main bedroom’s Juliet balcony from the previous renovation. Matte black fittings make a graphic statement in the main bathroom’s all-Breccia windowed shower cubicle. Bottom: New skylights illuminate a felt wall hanging by Sarah Robson in the upstairs hallway, which has the chevronpatterned oak flooring that’s used throughout the house. Opposite: A ceramic side table by Tanika Jellis sits next to the tub in the second bathroom, one of three on the upper level, each featuring its own distinctive marble.

20th-century modernism that pervades the house. Other furnishings, which range from mid-century classics like Warren Platner’s steelrod lounge chair and Vladimir Kagan’s slinky Serpentine sofa in the living room to contemporary pieces like Lara Bohinc’s space-age Orbit chairs and Marco Pagnoncelli’s flying-saucer Masai pendant fixtures in the dining room, also exude the aura of eternal youth epitomized by Fred and Ginger and their streamlined world. PROJECT TEAM VICTOR WONG; GEORGA GOODWIN: GREG NATALE. UNITEX: CEMENT WORK. LUSSO VENETIAN FINISHES: PLASTERWORK. CLEVER BUILT CONSTRUCTIONS: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT KNOLL: LOUNGE CHAIR (LIVING ROOM). SEM: COCKTAIL TABLE. BAXTER: SIDE TABLE. ARTILLERIET: EASY CHAIR. CHRISTOPHER BOOTS: SMALL PENDANT FIX TURES (LIVING ROOM, POWDER ROOM). APPARATUS: SCONCE (LIVING ROOM), PENDANT FIXTURE (KITCHEN). DIMOREMILANO: MULTILEG SIDE TABLE (LIVING ROOM), ARMCHAIR (MAIN BEDROOM). THROUGH 1STDIBS: VINTAGE SOFA, MIRROR (LIVING ROOM), VINTAGE GLASS TABLE (KITCHEN), VINTAGE TABLE (DINING ROOM). ICONE LUCE: PENDANT FIXT URES (LIVING ROOM, DINING ROOM, MAIN BEDROOM). TANIKA JELLIS: CERAMIC SIDE TABLE (LIVING ROOM, SECOND BATHROOM). ANNA CHARLESWORTH: PENDANT FIXTURE (ENTRY). BOHINC STUDIO: CHAIRS (ENTRY, DINING ROOM). ESSENTIAL HOME: BARSTOOLS (KITCHEN). INSTYLE: STOOL LEATHER. ALIAS DESIGN: ARMCHAIR. LO & CO INTERIORS: CABINETRY HARDWARE (KITCHEN, SON’S BEDROOM). VISUAL COMFORT & CO.: SCONCES (SECOND BATH ROOM, HALLWAY). GLASS BRICK COMPANY: GLASS BLOCK (DINING ROOM). MEEK BATHWARE: TUB (MAIN BATHROOM). ARTÌCOLO STUDIOS: PENDANT FIXTURE. GRAZIA & CO: CHAIR (SON’S BEDROOM). FONTANAARTE: TABLE LAMP. GREG NATALE: MARBLE VASES. B&B ITALIA: BED (MAIN BEDROOM). KANTTARI: NIGHTSTANDS. THROUGH CONLEY & CO: VIN TAGE TABLE LAMPS. GIOBAGNARA: SIDE TABLE. KELLY WEARSTLER: RUG. THROUGHOUT ASTRA WALKER: BATHROOM SINKS, TUB, SHOWER FITTINGS. DESIGNER RUGS: CUSTOM RUGS. TONGUE & GROOVE: ENGINEERED OAK FLOORING. DULUX: PAINT.

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wide open spaces For an extended family living around the globe, a vacation compound on eastern Long Island by Bates Masi + Architects and Bart Verhelle Interiorarchitect brings everyone together

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The parents live on one continent. One of their grown sons and his own family live on another. The other son and his crew make their home in New York. But the big, far-flung group wanted to spend summers under one roof. So the parents bought a piece of waterfront land in a quiet corner of Southampton, on the South Fork of Long Island, New York, and commissioned Bates Masi + Architects to build a house that could accommodate everyone, approximately 10 people—often more when guests join the gatherings. But it wouldn’t be just any house. With so many people involved—spanning three generations, with the children ranging widely in age—the program grew to be extensive, eventually including an indoor pool, a gym with a sauna and steam room, communal home office, home theater, playroom, and guest bedrooms. Accommodating it all would involve a staggering amount of square footage. “The challenge was how to integrate this program into the landscape,” recalls Interior Design Hall of Fame member Paul Masi, who cofounded the local firm with the late Harry Bates, devising homes that live lightly on the land. The solution for him and Bates Masi partner Aaron Weil sprang from “the idea of weaving,” Masi adds. Rising only two stories but encompassing nearly 18,000 square feet and resting on a stone plinth so it’s lifted above the flood plain, the home’s interiors and exterior are indeed woven together in a patchwork. It is divided into five glasssided sections with terraces and courtyards in between—like the courtyard on the north side of the house that leads to the front door. And with each section bordered on three sides by open areas, the interiors gain maximum daylight, cross-ventilation, and views. “With the doors open, indoor and outdoor are all connected into one,” Weil explains. The outdoor spaces aren’t only on the ground level, either. The upper level cantilevers over the lower, providing room on the second floor for outdoor

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Previous spread: On the East End of Long Island, New York, the rear eleva tion of a ground-up, cedar-sided vacation home for multiple generations by Bates Masi + Architects and Bart Verhelle Interiorarchitect incorporates a terrace of Italian Repen marble, native plantings, reflecting and swimming pools, and steps down a firepit, all on 7 bayfront acres. Opposite top: In the double-height combined living/dining room, Francesco Binfaré’s Standard sectional sofa backs Bart Verhelle’s custom 18-foot-long walnut table flanked by Jin Kuramoto Eight armchairs. Opposite bottom: One Well Known Sequence pendant fixtures by Michael Anastassiades hang in the main stairwell. Top: Surrounded by Corian panels and lime plaster, Verhelle’s custom pendant suspends over the kitchen’s Repen marble island and Ovo stools by Foster + Partners. Bottom: Another Anastas siades pendant appoints the plaster staircase that spirals from the belowgrade garage to the two guest bed rooms; flooring is sandblasted Repen.

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“The understated setting focuses attention on views of the landscape”

showers and intimate decks enclosed by screens made of live-edge cedar boards. The cantilever also shades and shelters portions of the ground-floor open areas, which are outfitted with lighting, radiant heating, and cooking equipment so they can be in use—and members of the family outside—even when the sun goes down or the temperature drops. An expansive terrace of Italian Repen marble skirts the south-facing rear of the house, extending the living space out into the landscape. The same marble was used liberally inside too, helping tie the expansive house together and to its setting. The stone—which has “subtle, muted” veining, Weil notes—is found on ground-level flooring, a towering fireplace in the double-height living/dining room, and in the steam room, where it’s finished three ways: flamed for walls, honed for seating, sandblasted for floor. Elsewhere inside, Bart Verhelle Interiorarchitect, a Belgian firm that had worked with the clients on previous residences, took the lead in specifying furnishings and collaborated on finishes. Director Bart Verhelle chose lime plaster for walls and the enclosure of a spiral staircase leading from the underground parking area to the two guest bedrooms. In the kitchen, the plaster merges nearly seamlessly with a sleek Corian backsplash. Oak was used for stair treads and upstairs flooring. The limited palette of materials creates a calm, neutral backdrop that “at the same time, radiates sufficient character,” Verhelle says. A sophisticated selection of furnishings adds to the feeling of quiet luxury. Some pieces—such as slender aluminum pendant fixtures by Michael Anastassiades and comfy sofas by Francesco Binfaré—are used repeatedly. Verhelle also designed a few items himself, including an 18-foot-long walnut dining table that provides plenty of room for everyone in this clan—plus a couple of guests—to gather round. Eight so-called Hand Grenade pendants, designed in 1952 by Alvar Aalto for the Finnish Engineers’ Association Building in Helsinki, light the table from above.

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Above: The 17,970-square-foot house is composed of five volumes, connected by terraces and courtyards in between. Opposite top, from left: Among the home’s amenities is a sauna paneled in natural cedar. Live-edge boards of sawn cedar clad its exterior. Opposite bottom: All nine bedrooms, which are located on the second floor, have sliding glass doors opening to ipe decks, including the pair of oak-floored guest rooms, with Vincent Van Duysen’s Otti chairs and an Eros table by Angelo Mangiarotti composing the outdoor furniture.

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The understated setting focuses attention on views of the landscape as well as on the owners’ prized pieces of art. It also allows the life of the family to take center stage, which, after all, was the whole point of the house in the first place. Upstairs, four bedrooms and baths for the grandkids are clustered in their own wing, encouraging cousins to bond during summers together. Another wing is devoted to two suites for the sons and their wives. The eldest members of the family have their own domain, of course. The house was carefully designed to accommodate them as they age, with thresholds that are level with floors and an elevator tucked inconspicuously away—all to ensure that they can comfortably use the house, and join in all the fun, not only now but for many years to come. PROJECT TEAM RYAN BERRY: BATES MASI + ARCHITECTS. MICHAEL BOUCHER LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT. RADIANCE LIGHTING: LIGHTING DESIGN. SL MARESCA & ASSOCIATES CONSULTING ENGINEERS: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. DULA: WOODWORK. MEN AT WORK CONSTRUCTION: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT EDRA: SECTIONALS (LIVING AREA, THEATER). CONDEHOUSE CO.: CHAIRS (DINING AREA). ARTEK: PENDANT FIXTURES. MICHAEL ANASTASSIADES: PENDANT FIXTURES (STAIRWAYS). BENCHMARK: STOOLS (KITCHEN). MIYAZAKI CHAIR: ARMCHAIRS. D U PONT: CORIAN BACKSPLASH. ARCWAYS: CUSTOM STAIR (GUEST STAIR). BASSAM FELLOWS: STOOLS (POOL BAR). SUTHERLAND: CHAIRS (DECK). AGAPECASA: TABLE. KASTHALL: CARPET (THEATER). PROFILS: PANELING. MINOTTI: SIDE TABLE. BOFFI: TUB (BATH ROOM). OUTDOOR SHOWER COMPANY: OUTDOOR SHOWER. THROUGHOUT SPARK: CUSTOM FIREPLACES. LEVOLUX: WOOD SIDING. POLICH TALLIX: METAL SIDING. SCHUCO: CUSTOM DOORS, CUSTOM WINDOWS. BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.: PAINT.

Top, from left: In the home theater, pure wool carpeting helps control acoustics while a custom ceiling fixture adds color. The Piero Lissoni tub in a suite’s bathroom is joined by an outdoor shower and a gas fireplace. Bottom: The house’s south-facing rear, where cedar siding surrounds expansive glass panes of glass and screens of live-edge cedar boards provide privacy, overlooks the grounds, planted with such local species as blazing star and Purple love grass, by Michael Boucher Landscape Architecture, a Maine-based firm that has also collaborated with such contemporary studios as Rick Joy Architects and Lake | Flato.

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smooth sailing Moored on the Seine in Paris, a decade-old houseboat is now shipshape, thanks to a chic and eco-sensitive overhaul by Avenue Rachel Studio

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Previous spread: Inside Cap Ferrat, a houseboat moored on the Seine in Paris that has been renovated by Avenue Rachel Studio, acoustic oak-and-pine paneling wraps the living room, featuring Ploum sofas by Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec, an Eames Elliptical ETR cocktail table and vintage Molded Plywood chair, and a woodburning fireplace, all capped by a trio of linen-fiber Coupole pendant fixtures. Top: An oil painting by Guy Bardone and a black-and-white photograph by Carole Bellaïche, both artists French, hang in the entry. Bottom: The painted-steel facade of the two-story houseboat was extended. Opposite top: It contains 3,400 square feet and four bedrooms. Opposite bottom: The living-room ceiling is whitewashed-fir acoustic panels and flooring is white oak.

Marianne and Alexandre Bouchet never imagined living on a houseboat. That was until they were expecting their second child in 2000 and started looking for a larger home for their growing family, which now totals five. When they came across an ad for a Dutch bargelike vessel called a tjalk, moored on the Seine in Neuilly-sur-Seine, an affluent suburb of Paris, it was a case of love at first sight. “You’re at the heart of nature, surrounded by greenery and at the same time right next to an urban environment,” Marianne Bouchet enthuses. “It’s difficult to imagine such a place!” The couple decided to buy the tjlak before replacing it 12 years later with another custom-built boat, which they named Cap Ferrat for the stylish peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea to the east of Nice. Strictly rectilinear in design, it more closely resembles a floating home, its two stories encompassing 3,400 square feet, four bedrooms, even a chimney. It also adheres to rigorous constraints in terms of its dimensions. It could be no longer than 65.6 feet and no wider than 26.2, in accordance with the regulations of the Voies navigables de France. Another requirement for French houseboat owners is the necessity to dry dock them at least once every 10 years. In 2021, the Bouchets took advantage of it being out of the water to right various wrongs. By then, numerous problems had become apparent. Or as Thierry Poubeau, founder of Avenue Rachel Studio, the local firm hired to oversee the renovation, refers to them: “technical disorders.” The insulation was of poor quality, which meant the boat was too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. There were issues with condensation, cracks in the former plasterboard walls, and terrible acoustics. “You used to be able to hear people distinctly walking on the upper deck when down below,” Poubeau recalls. There was also an aesthetic matter to address. In his eyes, the structure on the upper level was disproportionately small. “The surface of its roof needed to be extended for it to be in scale with the rest of the boat,”

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“Picking up on the client’s love of Japanese aesthetics, Poubeau proposed a zenlike scheme dominated by wood.

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Top: Upstairs is the dining area, its custom Pauline chairs by Avenue Rachel Studio founder Thierry Poubeau flanking an Opéra table. Bottom: A cobalt sculpture by Céline Gollé overlooks Philippe Starck’s Bubble Club sofas on the upper deck. Opposite top, from left: Johanna Grawunder’s ceramic vase and Fontaine by Ionna Vautrin accessorize the living room. Starck also designed the toilet and Arne Jacobsen the sink fittings in the porcelain-tiled powder room. Opposite bottom, from left: At the top of the stairs are Claustra acoustical light fixtures. Applique à Volet Pivotant sconces by Charlotte Perriand appoint a child’s bedroom.

he says. This he did both by increasing the square footage inside and adding an awning supported by Cap Ferrat’s chimney stack. The renovation took a total of 10 months and required the intervention of 20 different trades, including a river expert and installers of environmentally sensitive systems. In the process, the houseboat was completely stripped back to its steel hull before new systems were installed. Alexandre Bouchet runs an energy transition consulting firm, and, among other things, it seemed natural to install hydrothermal heating. “In the winter, the houseboat retrieves heat calories from the Seine,” Poubeau explains, “because the temperature of the water is higher than that of the air.” The Bouchets also desired a different look inside Cap Ferrat. “There was a lot of freestanding furniture before,” Marianne Bouchet continues, “and a real lack of unity.” Picking up on their love of Japanese aesthetics, Poubeau proposed a zenlike scheme dominated by wood. The walls and ceiling were alternately clad with striated acoustic paneling in oak and whitened pine. The layout, meanwhile, was largely maintained. The focus of the lower level is a central living room, flanked on one side by the main suite and on the other by three bedrooms and bathrooms for the Bouchets’ children. Poubeau simply reorganized the parental bathroom so it could accommodate both a tub and a shower, extended the utility room, added a cloakroom, and installed a desk that is separated from the entry and staircase by a glazed panel. “It’s like the boat’s control panel,” Marianne Bouchet notes. Poubeau was particularly astute in the way he integrated storage into the renovated interior. Place was found under the staircase for suitcases. Wardrobes were installed above a waterproof partition called “the peak” in the main bedroom and a platform created to access them. There are also trap doors concealed in its steps.

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Top: Among the house’s efficiency upgrades was installing hydrothermal heating. Bottom: Pet cat Vegas naps in the corridor leading to the three children’s bedrooms and bathrooms, all downstairs. Opposite top: Behind the main suite’s oak-and-leather headboard is a raised oakfronted wardrobe accessed by a platform with a trap door to additional storage space. Opposite bottom: Starck’s One More Please stools stand in the kitchen, which is the Oyster model.

With so many built-ins, freestanding furniture could be kept to a minimum. Poubeau used the pieces in the living room to introduce a few pops of color, as well as rounded forms to contrast with the architecture’s orthogonal character. A perfect example is the pair of Ploum sofas by French brothers Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec. “They’re enveloping and have shapes that remind me of shells,” Poubeau declares. He also selected a linen pendant fixture consisting of three overlapping circles. “The shape mimics the effect of water when a stone is dropped into it,” he adds. Another aquatic reference comes via the series of light columns that rise from the staircase’s guardrail on the upper level, which he compares to “masts.” Just like the Bouchets, Poubeau had never considered living on a boat before working on Cap Ferrat. Now, he would not be averse to the idea. “I’ve discovered a whole new world,” he recounts. “Being on the water in a boat rocking from side to side is very peaceful. When you look out the window and see the current flow by, it’s like being transported on a voyage.”

PROJECT TEAM ALAIN GALLISSIAN; LAURENT GUILLON; SIMON RIES: AVENUE RACHEL STUDIO. ENSEYO: HYDRO THERMAL HEATING SYSTEM. C3A; PROMOB DÉCOR: MILLWORK. CHANTIER NAVAL VANDENBOSSCHE: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT LIGNET ROSET: SOFAS (LIVING ROOM). VITRA: COCKTAIL TABLE, STOOL. TAI PING: RUG. METALFIRE: FIREPLACE. RIVA: BOOKCASE. LUMINA: FLOOR LAMP. CULTURE IN: PENDANT FIXTURES (LIVING ROOM), VERTICAL FIXTURES (STAIRWAY). CHAISERIE LANDAISE: CUSTOM DESK CHAIR (LIV ING ROOM), CUSTOM CHAIRS (DINING AREA). IMPERIAL LINE: TABLE (DINING AREA). MAISONS DU MONDE: COFFEE TABLE (DECK). IKEA: BENCH. KARTELL: SEATING (DECK, KITCHEN). IONNA VAUTRIN: ARTWORK (LIVING ROOM). THROUGH IMDA: VASE. HERMES: BLANKETS (LIVING ROOM, BEDROOM), PATTERNED PILLOW (MAIN SUITE). IRIS: FLOOR TILE (POWDER ROOM). DURAVIT: TOILET. INBANI: MIRROR (POWDER ROOM), SINKS (POWDER ROOM, MAIN SUITE). VOLA: SINK FITTINGS (POWDER ROOM, MAIN SUITE). NEMO: SCONCES (BEDROOM). CUIR AU CARRÉ: CUSTOM HEADBOARD (MAIN SUITE). FLOS: SCONCES. VENETA CUCINE: CABINETRY, ISLAND (KITCHEN). THROUGHOUT ADMONTER: FLOORING. LIGNOT REND: PANELING. IGUZZINI: SPOTLIGHTS. ALUDESIGN: [CUSTOM] WINDOWS. CRETE ET LAURENT: PAINT.

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level up For a three-story town house in Hong Kong, Bean Buro looked to nature and Postimpressionist art to devise a sophisticated sanctuary for a young family of four text: rebecca dalzell photography: steven ko

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Previous spread: A pastel-hued sanctuary inspired by Paul Cézanne paintings of Southern France, a three-story Hong Kong town house for a young family by Bean Buro features a tree-houselike structure for the 13-foot ground level in lacquered ash veneer with children and parent areas. Top: On the second level, the oakfloored living area, furnished with Pierre Paulin’s Pacha lounge chairs, a Faye Toogood Roly-Poly chair, and a Jonas Wagell pendant fixture in the corner, opens to a planted balcony and views of a British international school. Bottom: Flooring at the base of the carpeted staircase, which leads up to the bedroom level, is terrazzo.

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Opposite top: Pendants by Michael Anastassiades illuminate the firm’s marble-topped Bean dining table, accompanied by Atelier 2+ Cane chairs and Pietro Russo’s Libelle shelving unit. Opposite bottom: Window cutouts, storage, and built-in seating appoint the playpod, where, like the woven vinyl floor tile, the padded upholstery is durable in Trevira CS.

Hong Kong was a hard place to live during the pandemic. Like mainland China, it pursued a zero-COVID strategy that left residents cooped up in tiny apartments. “It was a fearful, oppressive atmosphere,” recalls Lorène Faure, a French native who lives in the city with her husband, Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui. The cofounding directors of Bean Buro, they have two young children and were often unable to go out as a family. “Our building even posted a notice saying our kids weren’t allowed to shout or play too much because it disturbed the neighbors,” she adds. So in late 2020, when another set of parents asked Bean Buro to conceive a calming home in Hong Kong’s mountainous Tuen Mun district, Faure and Kinugasa-Tsui understood exactly where they were coming from. The lockdown gave them plenty of time to get to know the clients and their two kids and to hold iterative design workshops. “The question became how to undo some of the damage from COVID and make the home a holistic cocoon where they could connect as a family,” Faure continues. The clients had bought a new three-story town house with a garden and a roof terrace, and they wanted the interiors to connect with the outdoors and promote mental health. The firm, its name, although not capitalized, an acronym for between exchanges of architectural narratives, responded with a whimsical pastelhued sanctuary and a tree-houselike playroom at its heart. The 2,860-square-foot property sits on a slope, and the lower level has a 13-foot ceiling—a rarity in Hong Kong. Logically, it made sense to put the three bedrooms on the top floor, living and dining areas on the middle level, and a children’s area

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below. For the latter, Kinugasa-Tsui says, “We sought something sculptural and unique to fully utilize the height.” He and Faure, who both trained as architects, aimed to create density without blocking the light that comes in through glass pocket doors opening onto the garden. Inspired by the natural surroundings, they landed on the concept of a tree house. “All children love them, right?” asks Faure. “Adults do too. It’s like a fantasy to have one inside a building, and, ironically, it’s on the lower floor.” Made of ash-veneered local timber, the structure, dubbed the “playpod,” has a flowing form that curves toward the windows and alludes to the shape of a mountain range. Supporting pillars and fluting on the prefabricated panels reference tree trunks, and the wood grain is visible through the sage-green lacquer coating. An upper mezzanine has a headroom of 5½ feet and houses a table where the kids can do crafts or homework; they can also look down over the balustrade and through cutout windows. The part below contains storage, an upholstered reading bench, and the mother’s desk, surrounded by fan-patterned vinyl flooring that’s rhythmic and durable. “The children have their own little world,” Faure says. “There’s a constant sort of playfulness, like they’re at the top of the castle with the parents downstairs.” It encourages both independence and togetherness, as everyone has some privacy within the shared space. The lush area around the town house reminded the architects of the South of France, where they often travel to visit Faure’s family. Thus, Paul Cézanne’s paintings of Provence became the project’s muse. “His color schemes and depictions of the landscapes are very soothing,” Kinugasa-Tsui explains. “We looked to recreate that feeling in an abstracted way.” Rounded corners, floors of terrazzo or oak, and a palette of gentle greens and 138

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Above: A Togo Fireside chair by Michel Ducaroy sits beside the mother’s desk and custom pegboard incorporated into the playpod. Opposite top, from left: Woodlook LVT floors its child-height, laminate-paneled mezzanine. Terrazzo clads the wall and vanity of the top-level children’s bath room, with MSDS Studio’s Annular pendants. Opposite bottom, from left: In the daughter’s bedroom, a play area behind the curtain under her custom loft bed can become a study when she’s older. A mirror by Paola Navone faces the living area, where a Julep sofa by Wagell meets Studiopepe’s Pluto cocktail table.

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beiges exude tranquility. Bean Buro filled the living and dining areas with curvy furnishings like Jonas Wagell’s Julep sofa, Pacha lounge chairs by Pierre Paulin, and the firm’s own Bean table, topped in marble. Upstairs, arched shapes appear in the daughter’s custom loft bed, a recessed wall in the son’s room, and the entry to their bathroom, while a cloudlike headboard by Federico Peri softens the parents’ bedroom. The latter also incorporates one of the project’s many nooks and crannies: an enclosed tatami room on a platform behind sliding wood doors. It’s a place where the adults can enjoy tea around an automated table that rises from the floor, focus at the built-in desk, or simply find a little peace. Faure and Kinugasa-Tsui ensured the parents can work from home comfortably, drawing on their experience completing offices for such clients as Warner Music and L’Oréal. They prioritized good lighting and acoustics: Fabric panels absorb sound in the playpod and strategically placed downlights illuminate desks without casting shadows. Cable management, concealed sockets, and ample hidden storage reduce the visual noise. “We put a lot of effort into hiding clutter, because clutter creates stress,” Kinugasa-Tsui notes. Children’s spaces are challenging, since they often become obsolete as the kids grow up. But Faure and Kinugasa-Tsui expect these to weather the teenage years and beyond. With cozy hiding places, the playpod’s mezzanine feels like an attic where a moody adolescent could disappear. Loose furniture, heightadjustable desks, and the neutral aesthetic create flexibility throughout. Most importantly, the house fosters familial harmony, and those loving connections will outlast any phase.

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PROJECT TEAM WINNIE CHAN; KIRK KWOK; LAURA MULLER; MATTHEW LOK; ANNY TENG: BEAN BURO. RONALD LU & PARTNERS: ARCHITECT OF RECORD. R&C ENGI NEERING (H.K.) CO.: GENERAL CONTRACTOR. PRODUCT SOURCES FROM FRONT WAYFLOR: FLOOR TILE (LOWER PLAYPOD). LIGNE ROSET: LOUNGE CHAIR. KVADRAT: LOUNGE CHAIR FABRIC (LOWER PLAYPOD), WALL FABRIC (SON’S BEDROOM). TACCHINI: SOFA, COCKTAIL TABLE (LIVING AREA). TOOGOOD: ARMCHAIR. AUDO COPENHAGEN: PENDANT FIXTURE. GUBI: WHITE CHAIRS (LIVING AREA), LAMP (MAIN BEDROOM). YARNS: CARPET (STAIR). PODIUM: CHAIRS (DINING AREA). MICHAEL ANASTAS SIADES: PENDANT FIXTURE. IMPERIAL MARBLE ENGINEERING COMPANY: TABLETOP (DINING AREA), TERRAZZO FLOORING. BAXTER: SHELF UNIT (DINING AREA), MIRROR (LIVING AREA), BED (MAIN BEDROOM). SHAW CONTRACT: FLOORING (UPPER PLAYPOD). FORMICA: PANELING. WOUD: PENDANT FIXTURES (BATHROOM). ORIENTOP: CUSTOM MIRROR. CHUN YAN HEI TUNG TRADING (SHENZHEN): CUSTOM TERRAZZO. CERAMICA CIELO: SINKS. &TRADITION: SIDE TABLES, PENDANT FIXTURE (MAIN BEDROOM). POLIFORM: CLOSET. MUTINA: WALL TILE (BATHROOM). THROUGHOUT CHALLPAC DECORATIVE SURFACE SOLUTION: WOOD VENEER. DULUX: PAINT.

“Rounded corners and a palette of gentle greens and beiges exude tranquility”

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From Atlanta to São Paulo, new-build to retrofit, today’s residential developments boast enriching amenities, whether man- or Mother Nature–made

this is living text: annie block

See page 144 for One Domino Square, a ground-up, two-tower complex in Brooklyn, New York, by Selldorf Architects that combines rental and condominium units, all of which have access to an open-air loggia overlooking the East River and Williamsburg Bridge. Photography: Daniel Levin.

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“The porcelain-clad exteriors, living spaces, and amenities are in dialogue with the Williamsburg Bridge, East River, and New York City skyline”

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Selldorf Architects project One Domino Square, Brooklyn, New York. size 700,000 sq. ft.; 160 condominiums; 398 rentals. standout The latest addition to the redeveloped 11-acre Domino Sugar Factory site in Williamsburg is composed of 39- and 55-story towers sheathed in iridescent tiles developed by COR Architecture + Design that reflect sunlight and the waterfront. That outdoor con nection continues inside, where amenities, located in the shared five-story podium, include a cedar-lined sauna, a 50-foot pool surrounded by verdant Sicis mosaics, its glass oculus glimpsing the fitness center above, and a coworking lounge in a dusk palette. Likewise, residences feature such natural materials as teak for cabinetry and Carrara marble for countertops, as well as pieces from Vica, the furnishings collection by Interior Design Hall of Fame member Annabelle Selldorf. photography Clockwise from bottom left: Daniel Levin (2); Shannon Dupree; Daniel Levin; Evan Joseph.

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project Oscar Ibirapuera, São Paulo. size 270,000 sq. ft.; 56 condominiums. standout The city’s iconic Ibirapuera Park, completed in 1954 by Roberto Burle Marx, was the muse for this pair of new 14-floor buildings, with architecture by Perkins&Will and interiors and select furniture by local architect Fernanda Marques. The nods to tropical modernism begin with the facade, some elevations shaded by HPL wood-look brise-soleils, and the entry, where a nautical-rope bench by Indio da Costa keeps company with native plants and Brazilian cumaru planks. Tauari, another local wood, defines the dry sauna, among the suite of perks that include indoor and outdoor pools, the shape of the latter’s deck echoing that of the Oscar Niemeyer–designed lake within the park, of which many residences have unobstructed views. photography Leonardo Finotti.

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“The union of such materials as wood and concrete makes the complex not only contemporary but also timeless, just like Ibirapuera Park”

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“The public spaces celebrate the region’s unique culture and native materials with pieces by area creatives” “Diffuse light and shadow fall inside but the source is veiled, representing the existence and

mystery of God”

Cooper Carry and Fogarty Finger project Sora at Spring Quarter, Atlanta. size 460,700 sq. ft.; 370 rentals. standout “A light in the urban forest” is how Fogarty Finger describes this structure, its first multifamily project here, for which it handled interiors, with Cooper Carry architecting the 29-story base building. Colors, materials, art, and furnishings tie to the city, its vast tree canopy, or nature in general. Take the sunlit, double-height lobby, where a solidoak stairway leads to the mezzanine library, one wall hosting a Christina Kwan mural, fronted by a side table from B10 Union, artist and furniture maker local. Additional amenities are grouped on the 10th and 11th floors; the former is where residents can lounge in sophistication on Space Copenhagen’s Infinity sectional gazing at works by Caomin Xie and Eric Moore, both also Atlanta-based, under Stickbulb’s Diamond fixture, or scale the fitness center’s 20-foot climbing wall painted leafy hues. photography David Mitchell. NOV.24

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Yabu Pushelberg project Aman Residences, Tokyo. size 11 floors; 91 condominiums. standout Occupying the top levels of Pelli Clarke & Partners’s 65-story Azabudai Hills Mori JP Tower, the tallest residential building in Japan, a quiet luxury pervades the public spaces, spa, and six-bedroom penthouse, achieved via this firm’s signature employ of exquisite materials, blue-chip art, and sumptuous self-designed furnishings. Witness the travertine envelope and Dennis Lin sculpture in the lobby, and the 20-foot oak ceiling, slender Tatsuya Tokura plasterwork, and softly rounded Lombard Street sofas in the La Maison living room. Also curvaceous is the orb composed of waterproof plaster protruding over the 82-foot heated pool, part of the 15,000-square-foot Aman Spa, like the belly of a whale, the indigo ceramic screens made locally. photography Courtesy of Aman Tokyo. 150

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“In the coming years, we plan to introduce additional branded residences, continuing to deliver the revered Aman way of living, in Beverly Hills, Indonesia, Dubai, and Niseko”

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Metro Arquitetos project Renata Sampaio Building, São Paulo. size 82,200 sq. ft.; 93 rentals. standout First designed as a commercial entity by architect Oswaldo Arthur Bratke in 1958, the 13-story edifice has been converted to mixed-use, offering cafés, event spaces, and residences, ranging from studios to three-bedrooms, for short or long stays, furnished with vintage and found pieces as well as those by Metro Objetos, the firm’s product division. The angular swimming pool is new, occupying an existing terrace, now planted with native palm trees and guaimbés, but the concrete breeze-block facade is original, albeit repainted and repointed. It’s chiaroscuro effect inspired the lobby’s black granite flooring and ebonized cedar paneling. photography Fran Parente.

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The sense of discovery the homeowners found on a river rafting expedition helped inspire a house in Melbourne, Australia, by Pandolfini Architects and Lisa Buxton Interiors

journey’s end text: michael lassell photography: rory gardiner/living inside

Glen Iris, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, is just 6 miles from the city center. It features neatly laid-out lots, old-growth trees, and a history that dates back to the mid-19th century. The houses range from Victorian charmers to modern takes on family living, but none is more appealing— or boldly contemporary—than a recently completed, two-level residence by Pandolfini Architects. When the clients, a couple with three school-age children, approached the firm in 2020, they were living in the house—a century-old Californiastyle bungalow they had bought as a teardown—that came with the ¼-acre property. While they envisioned a distinctly 21st-century replacement, they were also looking for an enduring quality that would stand the test of time. “They showed us reference images of ruins,” director Dominic Pandolfini reports, “old structures that had been around for hundreds of years but were still standing, which really struck a chord with us.” Just as intriguingly, the clients mentioned a recent rafting vacation, where they had enjoyed discovering fresh vistas around each bend in the river. They hoped to evoke the feel of an unfolding journey in their new home—another idea that resonated with Pandolfini, who set out to give their vision concrete form. The resulting 6,500-square-foot house comprises three pavilions aligned along a block-through axis, with the front and rear street elevations facing west and east, respectively. The first volume, a two-story structure flanked by a single-car garage, contains the entry hall and the private quarters: a family room and four bedrooms, each with an en suite bathroom. The facade is unlike anything else on the block, a striking composition of simple geometric forms defined but softened by a distinctive yet restrained materials palette: raw concrete, terra-cotta brick, and patinated copper. “We wanted it to look like a modern building,” Pandolfini notes, “but we also wanted it to sit relatively comfortably in the street.” Hence the use of terra-cotta, which tiles many Glen Iris roofs but here clads the upper story—with a twist: The vertically stacked bricks are laid at a 45-degree angle, creating light-catching striations that animate the surface. Inspired by the 156

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Previous spread: Terra-cotta bricks, sandblasted con crete, and a screen of patinated copper pipes compose the street facade of a ground-up threepavilion house in Melbourne, Aus tralia, by Pandolfini Architects and Lisa Buxton Interiors. Top, from left: Spotted-gum slats clad the pitched ceiling in the kitchen, while oak is used for wall slats and cabinetry. The pipe screen opens to reveal a custom steel-and-glass front door, beyond which a stepped corridor runs the full length of the 6,500-squarefoot house. Bottom: Massive sandblasted-concrete arches support the central pavilion, which contains the kitchen, living, and dining areas. Opposite: In the living area, backdropped by more sandblasted concrete, Francesco Binfaré’s Standard sofa is accompanied by GamFratesi’s round Epic cocktail tables, a sculptural Doo side table by Christophe Delcourt, and Paavo Tynell’s perky 9602 floor lamp.

Top: A blackened stainless–steel fence surrounds the swimming pool. Bottom, from left: The breakfast nook’s built-in banquette is upholstered in leather and faced in travertine tile, which also covers the floor. A colonnade with irregular flagstone paving runs outside the laundry, mudroom, and service areas. Opposite top: Opening onto the street at the rear of the property, the third pavilion comprises a garage with a vehicle lift for the homeowner’s collection of classic cars. Opposite bottom: A freestanding fireplace finished in polished plaster separates the living from the dining area, where Hanspeter Steiger’s Torsio chairs gather under Meaghan and Roberto Rodriguez’s O’branch pendant fixture.

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neighborhood’s ubiquitous garden fences, the ground floor is wrapped in a screen of copper pipes with a verdigris finish. “Eventually the metal would go green on its own,” the architect acknowledges, “but that could take decades, so we helped it along.” The rear pavilion, a low-slung concrete-block structure with an asymmetrical corrugated-metal roofline, houses a large garage with a vehicle lift where the husband works on a collection of classic automobiles. Sandwiched between it and the bedroom pavilion is a gabled, barnlike volume reaching some 16 feet at its peak. This contains the public spaces— living and dining areas, separated by a monumental freestanding fireplace, and adjacent kitchen—which open onto a covered terrace and swimming pool via a wall of sliding glass doors. Entirely lined with spotted-gum slats, the ceiling is supported by enormous concrete arches that have been sandblasted to achieve the dimple-textured look of bush hammering, a treatment applied to the material throughout. On residential projects, Pandolfini typically handles the interior design too, but in this case collaborated with Lisa Buxton, director of her eponymous studio, who influenced forms and materiality as well as selected finishes and furnishings. “Lisa really pushed us toward a richness we probably wouldn’t have managed alone,” the architect says of the first-time partnership, which has led to several more. “The architecture had clean, bold lines,” Buxton observes, “so we focused on adding warmth and comfort. I leaned into stone, wood, and metal—authentic materials that not only look beautiful but also stand the test of time.” She was careful to mix textures, balancing smooth, sleek finishes against rougher, more tactile surfaces or juxtaposing crisply detailed masonry and millwork against soft, yielding furnishings and fabrics. Honey-toned oak, used for cabinetry throughout and as slats that cover several walls, also appears as flooring in the bedroom pavilion, while travertine tiles lie underfoot in the barn, which is anchored by the fireplace—a molded, monolithic form that, like many of the walls, is coated with polished plaster. NOV.24

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Furnishings are by a mix of mid-century masters, contemporary innovators, and local artisans. In the living area, Francesco Binfaré’s striking yet sinfully comfortable Standard sofa is joined by a pair of GamFratesi’s Epic cocktail tables in rust-red steel—sculptural forms inspired by Greek columns that evoke the classical world. The breakfast nook’s built-in semicircular banquette, faced in travertine and upholstered in burgundy leather, is overhung by Meaghan and Roberto Rodriguez’s O’cluster pendant fixture, a grouping of ostrich eggs that shares an archaic aura with Simone Bodmer-Turner’s cast-stoneware vessel on the custom John Bastiras table below. And the sense of discovery that the clients had hoped for? Like a grandly scaled version of the traditional shotgun cottages found in the American South, a corridor runs straight as an arrow from the front door to the rear garage (even though “it’s bad feng shui to be able to see all the way in,” Pandolfini wryly notes). But a 7-foot drop in grade means the pathway steps down from one pavilion to the next, transitions further emphasized by pocket doors set in low portals that act almost like compression lockers between the spaces—the architectural equivalent of bends in a river through which the residence reveals itself in subtle stages.

Top: Kelly Wearstler’s Senso lamp sits on Arne Vodder’s AV08 chest of drawers in a child’s bedroom, one of three. Bottom, from left: On the terrace, Harrison and Nicholas Condos’s Balmain table and chairs face the outdoor exten sion of the nook’s ban quette. A blackened stainless–steel handrail adorns the staircase, where treads are engineered oak, as is flooring throughout the bedroom pavilion. Opposite: Surveyed by Wearstler’s Slab sconce, a custom oak vanity with a Sahara Sand marble top and Oko Olo’s castbronze door pulls com plements the main bathroom’s travertinetiled floor and walls.

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c o n ta c t s DESIGNERS IN SPECIAL FEATURE Cooper Carry (“This Is Living,” page 142), coopercarry.com. Fogarty Finger (“This Is Living,” page 142), fogartyfinger.com. Fernanda Marques Arquitetura (“This Is Living,” page 142), fernandamarques.com.br. Metro Arquitetos (“This Is Living,” page 142), metroarquitetos.com.br. Perkins&Will (“This Is Living,” page 142), perkinswill.com. Selldorf Architects (“This Is Living,” page 142), selldorf.com. Yabu Pushelberg (“This Is Living,” page 142), yabupushelberg.com.

PHOTOGRAPHERS IN FEATURES Rory Gardiner (“Journey’s End,” page 154), Living Inside, rory-gardiner.com. Steven Ko Interior Photography (“Level Up,” page 134), stevenkophotography.com. Eric Laignel Photography (“Smooth Sailing,” page 126), ericlaignel.com. Michael Moran (“Wide Open Spaces,” page 116), Otto, moranstudio.com. Anson Smart (“Star Turn,” page 108), ansonsmart.com.

DESIGNER IN AT HOME Garcé & Dimofski (“Feats of Clay,” page 56), garce-dimofski.com.

DESIGNER IN OPEN HOUSE Brooke Aitken Design (“Picture Perfect,” page 61), brookeaitkendesign.com.au.

PHOTOGRAPHER IN OPEN HOUSE Jonathan Cohen (“Picture Perfect,” page 61), jonathancohenphotography.com.au.

DESIGNER IN CENTERFOLD

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“I believe one of the obligations of a home is to delight,” muses Washington, D.C.–based interior designer Mary Douglas Drysdale. That’s evident in her award-winning, 40-year-strong portfolio of residential projects that flow effortlessly between traditional and more modern modalities. Her interiors typically have a strong architectural component and are filled with a mix of custom pieces and art collected by her clients—and/or pieces she helps them curate. Take her renovation of a newlyweds’ residence in Ashburn, Virginia. At the outset, the couple had no art and little furniture, and shared that their home, with its 11-foot-high ceilings, felt empty. Drysdale brought scale and color to the space with ceramics and sculptures and by filling the formerly blank walls with colorful canvases from regional artists—as in the study, which centers on a large-scale Julie Wolfe artwork of concentric circles that fairly hum with vibrancy. The house was sited on a piece of land with a substantial forest, and the views were terrific. So, to parallel that theme, landscape photography by Anna Beeke became integral to the interior decoration, animating both the approach to the study and the primary bedroom. “The worst view in the house was actually that of the fireplace wall in the living room,” Drysdale recalls. “It was just one very long horizontal bar of black.” To make sense of it, and add drama, she built out the entire wall in dark-stained oak, with a recess for the couple’s TV. Custom accent tables, also black, neatly tie it all together.

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Candelaria Design

“Our biggest strength is understanding what someone wants out of their home and creating a harmonious design that elevates its character and refines its flow”

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For architect Mark Candelaria, the process of designing a home is much more than producing a set of plans. From leading annual tours of Italy and Spain to cooking for his clients and charities, his approach involves celebrating every aspect of living well. “We are masters of designing custom homes tailored to our clients’ lifestyle,” says Candelaria, who runs his firm alongside principals Tim Mathewson and Evelyn Jung. “The challenge is to also keep the design timeless. It’s a delicate balance, but we achieve it at all scales, from remodels to 20,000-square-foot estates.” Collaboration without ego is key to his team’s approach. “Our biggest strength is understanding what someone wants out of their home and creating a harmonious design that elevates its character and refines its flow,” he explains. Since 1999, the firm has designed high-end custom residences throughout Arizona and across the country. There’s the ultracontemporary Johnson house, nestled on a steep hillside lot with 270-degree views maximized from every room, and the more traditional Longcross, a French manor–style estate designed for an NFL Hall of Famer. In another project, a highlight is the modernist jewel box of a dining room—glass-encased—that juts out toward spectacular views of sunsets over Camelback Mountain. Its glassand-steel doors are fully operable, opening entirely to the incredible outdoor space beyond.

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1. Sasha Bikoff’s Bon Bon outdoor pool table in solid maple with furniture-grade polyurethane finish in Fountain and worsted wool felt top by Elevate Customs. elevatecustoms.com 2. Naboo stool with lacquered feet and upholstered frame of polyurethane foam and wood by Royal Stranger. royalstranger.com

3. Helena Rohner’s Uda table with PET top on epoxied steel legs by Ondarreta. ondarreta.com 4. Holloway Li’s T4 seating system of hand-finished infusion-molded fiberglass in Ice Blue by Uma Objects. umaobjects.com

5. Yuri Suzuki’s The Ambient Machine Cornelius Edition, a limited-run instrument/speaker for making and listening to soundscapes, featuring a bespoke sound work by Keigo Oyamada aka Cornelius, by E&Y. eandy.com 6. Kumar La Noce’s Bindoo gloss-painted aluminum mirrors in Nitya, Kama, and Leela by Altreforme. altreforme.com 7. Kelp chair 3D-printed from a mixture of recycled Scandinavian fishing nets and wood fiber in Isometric Green by Interesting Times Gang through Sight Unseen. shop.sightunseen.com; itg.studio 8. Shanan Campanaro’s Swim clay-coated wallpaper in Shell (and, on the cover, in Sea) by Eskayel through Studio Four NYC. studiofournyc.com; eskayel.com 9. Altered Reality swing of mild steel with a high-density fiberboard shell featuring Debangshu Moulik’s handpainted artwork by Design ni Dukaan. designnidukaan.com NOV.24

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Vertigo Nova

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Working with Constance Guisset, Petite Friture added advanced integrated LED technology to the poetic elegance of the Vertigo to introduce Vertigo Nova. This collection offers two refined colors: a monochrome opalescent white or a white-on-black combination. Available as a suspension, a floor or wall lamp, Vertigo Nova captivates with its dynamic form, hand-mounted fiberglass hoop creating an ever-changing visual experience. us.petitefriture.com

The Alder is a head-turning masterpiece of design and comfort. Its low seat height envelopes you in softness as you sink into it, while the slender metal base and strong angles provide ample support. Lounge, chat, and connect in the ultimate expression of form and function as one. friant.com

Artesano Iron Works Nature-Inspired Iron Railing

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This custom wrought iron railing is finished in natural iron with a protective clear coat and showcases elegant branches and leaves, blending beautifully with the rustic charm of the space. It enhances the staircase with both artistic flair and functional design. artesanoironworks.com

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Baobab is a new generation of configurable tables inspired by the African tree of the same name, which can be adapted to both outdoor and indoor spaces. The table system is based on a polyethylene base structure manufactured using the rotational molding technique, upon which rests the tabletop with rounded shapes and a beveled profile. The result is a completely organic design.

Stone Forest’s Fluted Lumbre Sink is a striking work of precision and poise. Brass legs with intricately knurled details complement the unique stone basin, available in Verde Indio, a rich green marble, or Viola Bianco, a white marble with lilac veining. Legs come in Aged Brass, Polished Nickel, Graphite or Matte Black. stoneforest.com

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Kieffer Samba, an article out of the ordinary made with a technical raffia chenille that highlights Kieffer’s experimental and daring side; and Tiles, a fabric made of jute and recycled cotton. Both belonging to Untitled II, the second Kieffer collection created by Rubelli under the creative direction of Formafantasma. kieffertextiles.com, rubelli.com

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