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POV At the Eiffel Tower, the famed Jules Verne restaurant gets an update; 60 Seconds with artist Doris Salcedo; a sculpture park in Jaipur, India; and more 26
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SHOP TALK A West Coast outpost of Laura Vinroot Poole’s Capitol boutique features an Irene Neuwirth jewelry shop-in-shop 32
TALENT International women of design 34
SHORTLIST Stephanie Goto and eight things she can’t live without
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ED A-Lister Emma Jane Pilkington mixes restraint with brio in a Fifth Avenue apartment filled with museum-caliber treasures.
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A-LIST ARCHITECTURE The future of inclusive design, plus must-haves for accessible living 44
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TRIPLE PLAY Amale Andraos and Dan Wood of New York architecture firm WORKac transform a Brooklyn triplex into a light-filled haven. BY VANESSA LAWRENCE
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HEAVENS D’OR In her glittering aerie on the Left Bank, Linda Pinto fashions a Parisian home fit for an A-Lister: herself.
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and reflect on the last 10 years, it’s easy to see that the 2010s were a time of huge disruption and change in our industry (and every industry). Yet they were also a period when design became more integral than ever before. As Milton Glaser, the esteemed 90-yearold legend (he designed both the I♥NY logo and one of my favorite restaurants in New York, Trattoria Dell’Arte), recently told me in his office: “There isn’t anything that is not designed. Picking your lunch is an act of design. Design is having an objective and moving toward it—to change the existing condition into a preferred one.” I’ve taken that idea to heart in my nearly three years at the helm of ELLE DECOR . Together with my ace colleagues, we’ve tried to push the design dialogue into new realms and frontiers. In the past year, we celebrated our 30th anniversary by looking forward, not back. We’ve recently had some fun by turning couture rugs into cake and making skyscrapers out of Legos. We’ve raised money for our favorite charities with our monthly back page feature, Not for Sale. We’ve begun to report regularly on the crucial topic of universal design—the theory that all design should be accessible to everyone. In this month’s A-List Architecture report, we highlight architects who are trying to solve some of today’s biggest problems (page 39). And what do the 2020s have in store? We’re kicking them off with an issue dedicated to international women of design. Last June, our A-List issue for the first time featured a majority of women designers, a proportion reflective of the industry itself. It made sense, then, to focus our annual global issue by celebrating the fierce and fabulous female designers we keep discovering all over the world—we count at least 75 in this issue (many of them are pictured here). Among them, there’s the globe-trotting, taste-making glamazon on our cover, Filipa de Abreu; the legendary designer Linda Pinto, at home in Paris; and up-and-coming female furniture designers from across the world. And as for that tiger mural in de Abreu’s dining room? It was the brainchild of another designing woman we love: India-based Marie-Anne Oudejans. I think it’s the perfect symbol: This is going to be a wild decade for design!
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LEBANESE DESIGNER ALINE ASMAR D’AMMAN PUTS HER STAMP ON THE FAMED JULES VERNE RESTAURANT, 410 FEET UP ON THE EIFFEL TOWER.
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VER SINCE ITS OPENING IN 1983, THE JULES VERNE
restaurant on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower has been the ultimate affirmation of the real estate maxim “location, location, location.” Very few structures on earth are as iconic and as visited as Paris’s Iron Lady. So imagine Aline Asmar d’Amman’s response when she was commissioned to overhaul the storied fine-dining mecca, which sits hundreds of feet above Paris. “The tower is a symbol of innovation and boundless imagination,” says the Lebanese architect and interior designer. In other words, the stakes were high.
But this isn’t Asmar d’Amman’s first historically sensitive project. Having art-directed the four-year renovation of the Hôtel de Crillon, the legendary Paris hotel that reopened in 2017, she and her firm, Culture in Architecture, quickly became the go-to designers for breathing new life into the French capital’s most important buildings. Asmar d’Amman is especially known for her work on destination properties in many of the world’s most beautiful cities (she’s currently designing a new Rosewood hotel in Venice). It’s her balance of raw materials and refined surfaces that draws attention, an aesthetic approach that
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Busts of Jules Verne and Gustave Eiffel in the restaurant’s entry.
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The dining room offers sweeping views of Paris.
was inspired by her upbringing amid adversity in war-torn Beirut in the 1970s and ’80s. “When you come from a place like Lebanon, you grow up believing that beauty can save the world,” she says. “A ray of sunlight on concrete, a line from a book—anything can trigger something poetic.” At the Jules Verne, the harmony of measured opulence The silver, black, mixed with Gustave Eiffel’s and gold interior industrial aesthetic supported of the Jules Verne. her vision for the restaurant, which reopened last summer with a new chef de cuisine, Frédéric Anton, who holds three Michelin stars. Every detail, from hand-painted ceilings to custom circular light fixtures sculpted in plaster, plus commissioned works by women artists like Ingrid Donat and Marie Khouri, was drawn from
Four restaurants debut on the two-year-old Eiffel Tower’s first floor. They are demolished in 1937.
1983 Asmar d’Amman’s acute understanding of the tower’s history as a feminine symbol of Paris. The restaurant’s three main dining areas feature plush velvet banquettes inspired by the furnishings from Eiffel’s former apartment on the tower’s top floor and custom-designed oak-and–mother of pearl tables, whose legs recall 1930s jewelry designs by Suzanne Belperron. Passageways were transformed into usable dining spaces, complete with intimate alcoves and a long bar that offers front-row perspectives on the elevator’s mechanical yellow wheels. “For this to be an homage to Paris, it had to be more than just about the location,” Asmar d’Amman says. “It is a celebration of the arts, couture, and gastronomy.” And above all, it’s an ode to the restaurant’s eponym. A presentation plate in velvet resin—inscribed with an excerpt from one of Verne’s Voyages Extraordinaires—awaits guests. It is among the designer’s favorite nods to the past. “It’s a victory of culture,” she says. A culture that Asmar d’Amman continues to protect. restaurants-toureiffel.com ◾
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Doris Salcedo
The Jules Verne opens on the second floor under chef Louis Grondard. The restaurant features its own elevator.
2007 The restaurant is renovated by designer Patrick Jouin. Alain Ducasse takes over the kitchen.
2019 The Jules Verne reopens under Frédéric Anton, with a luxurious new interior by Aline Asmar d’Amman.
Salcedo’s Bogotá installation Quebrantos, 2019.
You were recently named the first winner of the Nomura Art Award, which comes with a $1 million check. How are you feeling? DS: It’s extraordinary to me that for the first time I will be able to make works that are important and ephemeral in remote, forgotten areas where art is most needed. Places like where? DS: Small towns in my home country, Colombia, where war has left the worst scars on its victims. Tell me about Quebrantos, your most recent work. DS: I invited 103 Colombian 22
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activists who’ve received death threats or survived attacks to write, using 21 tons of broken glass, the names of community leaders who have been assassinated since 2016. What project will you fund with the prize money? DS: I’m researching a piece in the northeast of Colombia. It’s an area that had paramilitary death squads committing terrible crimes from 1998 to 2004. This kind of violence has transformed the life of the people there. Their story is important. Will it be large-scale?
DS: Yes. I’m thinking of making it in two parts. One part will be ephemeral, and the other will be a permanent building where the victims can work through their trauma. A place for them to assuage their losses? DS: To reflect and to think about the future. Have the perpetrators been brought to justice? DS: From 2004, all the paramilitary organizations were offered amnesty if they confessed to their crimes. So they confessed. —Charles Curkin
INTERIORS: STEPHAN JULLIARD; SALCEDO PORTR AIT: DAVID HEALD; QUEBR ANTOS: JUAN FERNANDO CASTRO
THE FIRST NOMURA ART AWARD WINNER ON HER LIFE’S WORK.
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THE MUST-SEE EXHIBITIONS THAT ARE ON OUR CALENDAR. Maison&Objet January 17–21; Paris Lighting designer Michael Anastassiades, best known for his technically advanced geometric fixtures, will be honored as designer of the year at the January edition of this biannual design fair, where, for the first time, he will showcase all 16 of his Mobile chandeliers together. maison-objet.com
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IN JAIPUR, A HISTORIC ROYAL RESIDENCE BECOMES A STRIKING SETTING FOR ART.
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Site in Jaipur, India, the sculpture park opened on a cool December evening in 2017. Dozens of contemporary works were set against the dramatic backdrop of the 19th-century palace, which was built as a retreat by a bigamist king, with nine identical suites for each of his queens. The suites’ courtyards and terraces sit next to one another in an interlocking grid, and now sculptures have been installed in every room and on each terrace. “Madhavendra was considered to be modern when it was first built and is now an integral part of Jaipur’s architectural legacy,” says sculpture park director Noelle Kadar. “By exhibiting contemporary sculpture, we want to establish how today’s art is tomorrow’s legacy.” The park (thesculpturepark.in), which was founded by patrons Aparajita Jain and Shreyasi Goenka, with yearlong shows curated by art dealer Peter Nagy, is now in its second iteration, with nearly 70 works by 24 artists from eight countries. (The third opens in
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Migrant, 2017, by Ravinder Reddy. LE F T: Noelle Kadar at Madhavendra Palace. ABOVE: River of Stones, 2018, by Richard Long.
July 2020.) The central courtyard, once the site of nightly performances for the king, is now where the largest works are displayed. Indian artist Bharti Kher’s tall bronze sculpture Choleric, Phlegmatic, Melancholy, Sanguine, 2009–17, made of hybrid human-animal beings, was shown there. A piece by the Indian artist duo Thukral and Tagra, Arrested Image of a Dream, 2015, featuring gargantuan stone wings set askew, consistently lured long lines of selfie takers. This speaks to the popularity of the park, which, in the first two months of 2019, received a lmost 200,000 visitors—a surprising and encouraging number in a country where arts institutions often struggle to reach large audiences, Kadar notes. While many of the sculptures are grand, several are also intimate, even subversive. Ravinder Reddy’s 2017 Migrant is a larger-than-life blue bust of a woman carrying a bag of cement on her head. In the first edition, the head sat defiantly amid its palatial surroundings. Such is the nature of the sculpture park: always unexpected and tirelessly stunning. —Skye Arundhati Thomas
Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution February 1–April 30; Ghent, Belgium This major exhibition of works by Flemish Renaissance painter Jan van Eyck at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent will include such major works as the outer panels of The Ghent Altarpiece, along with a trove of paintings, miniatures, and sculpture by his contemporaries. mskgent.be
Frieze Los Angeles February 14–16; Los Angeles The second L.A. edition of the fair, taking place at Paramount Pictures, presents the inaugural Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award, in which 10 short films compete for a $10,000 prize, along with a campaign and public art project featuring artist Barbara Kruger. frieze.com —Samantha Swenson
A Mobile chandelier by Michael Anastassiades at Maison&Objet.
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January 23–24; New York City Nearly 1,000 pieces from the estate of the late decorator will be auctioned at Sotheby’s following an exhibition that opens on January 16. The lots encompass furniture, paintings (including Buatta’s beloved dog canvases), and objets d’art. sothebys.com
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Inspired by horticulturist Robert Furber’s 1730 book Twelve Months of Flowers, the Charlotte Moss for Tommy Mitchell Flowers of the Month collection features handmade, one-ofa-kind copper, brass, and steel blossoms in acrylic wall studies and cachepots, like this January carnation.
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THE BEST DESIGN DISCOVERIES Zodiac aficionados and astronomy fans alike will want to get their hands on this Prussian-blue calfskin-and– stainless steel Apollo 24 globe from Hermès. 17.5″ dia., $23,800. hermes.com
This saddle grade leather–and–white oak firewood carrier from the Hudson River Valley–based Fern can provide sturdy transport for logs, magazines, or books, depending on your needs. 20″ w. x 12″ d. x 19.5″ h., available in other colors, $1,100. fernnyc.com
The Roman decor brand La Gallina Matta makes elegant items in wrinkle- and stain-resistant oilcloth linen, like this white, moss, and starlight blue Le Liù lamp. 20″ w. x 6″ d. x 23.5″ h., price upon request. lagallinamatta.com
La Manufacture Cogolin is offering five wool rugs based on designs from the archives of André Arbus, a French designer who reintroduced neoclassicism in the 1930s. From $12,600 for 6′9″ x 9′8″. manufacturecogolin.com
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Like a sleek pair of black leather pants, this Shape bench from Calligaris is versatile and stylish—plus its two side pockets provide storage for magazines. 42.5″ w. x 15″ d. x 16″ h., $1,158. calligaris.com
Part of the debut Alexa Hampton Collection for Theodore Alexander, this Plum bed has an Alhambraarch headboard that nods at Moghul architecture. 84″ w. x 90″ d. x 88″ h., available in three sizes, $6,525. theodorealexander.com
These woven jacquard New Zealand–wool blankets by ZigZagZurich feature motifs by the company’s creative director Michele Rondelli with designer Sophie Probst (left) and by the artist George Greaves (center and right). 55″ x 79″, $200 each. zigzagzurich.com
The Lebanese tabletop company Zarina collaborated with the Beirut-based artist Mona Trad Dabaji on these charming dessert plates, which feature images from Dabaji’s paintings. 8.5″ dia., in Les Baigneuses (left) and Saveurs de l’Orient, $120 for six. zarinatableware.com
In its first collaboration with an American designer for its Objets Nomades collection, Louis Vuitton worked with Andrew Kudless, who crafted these undulating Swell Wave shelves from polished oak and the brand’s own leather straps. 59″ w. x 13.5″ d. x 55″ h., also available as standing shelves, price upon request. louisvuitton.com
The winner of ED’s 30th-anniversary furniture design contest, in partnership with BASHI and the Living Style Group, is Turkish architect Emir Polat, who dreamed up this La Pausa chair and debuted it at the High Point Market trade show in October. $399, also available as a bench. emirpolatstudio.com
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TWO STYLISH FRIENDS FROM OPPOSITE COASTS TEAM UP ON A DREAM BOUTIQUE IN LOS ANGELES. BY SA M ANTHA SWENSON PRODUCED BY PARKER BOWIE L ARSON
TOP: Tourmaline, sapphire, and pavé-diamond earrings, $14,380. ABOVE: Bracelet with carved chalcedony flowers, rainbow moonstone, and pavé diamonds, $28,400. Both available at ireneneuwirth.com.
retail entrepreneur Laura Vinroot Poole have a friendship that spans nearly two decades. But it wasn’t until last spring that the two creatives collaborated on a store, opening a Los Angeles outpost of Capitol, Poole’s beloved Charlotte, North Carolina, boutique, in the Brentwood Country Mart— replete with an Irene Neuwirth fine-jewelry shop-in-shop. Poole’s architect husband, Perry Poole, who was the mastermind behind her North Carolina f lagship, designed the 2,500-square-foot boutique; the two locations share much of the same decorative sensibility. “It should be warm and welcoming,” she says. “It should feel like our home.” Vintage midcentury-modern furnishings and herringbone floors offer a subtle and elegant backdrop for a curated assortment of designer ready-to-wear—including fashions by Peter Pilotto, Rosie Assoulin, and Johanna Ortiz. Within the boutique lies Neuwirth’s 300-square-foot jewelry micro-store, which was crafted by ED A-Lister Pamela Shamshiri. Neuwirth’s space is at once luxurious and 30
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tique in the Brentwood Country Mart in Los Angeles. Laura Vinroot Poole (left) with Irene Neuwirth and Neuwirth’s dogs, Teddy and Miguel, inside the jeweler’s shop-in-shop. Tops and dresses at Capitol. Oneof-a-kind earrings with carved pink-tourmaline flowers, $11,340; ireneneuwirth.com.
laid-back, channeling the California-cool vibe of her flagship on Melrose Place, also designed by Shamshiri. “I wanted it to stand out as ours, but to be on-brand with Capitol as well,” Neuwirth says. The whimsical interior incorporates a display case shaped like a horse (Neuwirth is an avid rider) alongside delicate glass cases and a woodland-inspired diorama by artist Clare Crespo. Though each space is unique in its own right, they are anything but disparate, epitomizing a match made in heaven. “It was really dreamy and fun to create together,” says Neuwirth of her collaboration with her longtime friend. shop-capitol.com ◾
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Tosin Oshinowo
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“I look to celebrate my Yoruban heritage in all my work, and I am constantly looking for ways to update classical aesthetics to make them modern.”
“The opposing ideas of control and chance are at the core of my work. With every choice I make, I also bow to the will of the materials and to that of gravity.”
Àdùnní chair, $1,390. ile-ila.com
The Inside plinth and vase, $11,153. hildahellstrom.se
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Lani Adeoye “My inspiration comes from my heritage. I research cultural objects and the traditional craft techniques of Nigeria.” Talking stools, $850 each. studio-lani.com
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Ayala Serfaty “I enjoy infusing inanimate objects and materials with a sense of soul, one that reflects poetry, history, or the human body, which inspired this series of works.” Soma: Wisteria, $75,000. maisongerard.com
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“This piece is a combination of the richest and poorest materials: gold and corroding steel. It is designed to provide a feeling of well-being and will add balance and harmony to any space.”
Akiko Hirai “I make up a narrative before designing new pieces. They do not have clear story lines, but they have emotional content. My work is produced in a halfdeliberate and half-intuitive way.”
Queen lamp, $1,544. mammalampa .com
Day & Night, $8,500. akikohiraiceramics.com
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Nada Debs “I like to experiment with new techniques and to combine natural materials like wood and stone with ones that are man-made.” Jawz Fauna cabinet, $6,500. nadadebs.com
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Mimi Shodeinde “I look for my muse everywhere—in music, fashion, art, architecture, nature, you name it.” Dip lounger, $2,265. miminat .com
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Berbere choker, price upon request. repossi.com
Rei Kawakubo is a visionary for both everyday signature items and one-of-a-kind statement pieces. I always stop by their Rose Bakery in London for a matcha pound cake. doverstreetmarket.com
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Chikuseiko Incense Their pine incense is the signature scent of my studio. It has a subtle, calming sensibility similar to the space itself. shop.nalata nalata.com
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Formula One Racing I became immersed in Formula One when I was a student in Italy. My favorite racetrack is Monza, home to the Scuderia Ferrari team. formula1.com
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Dom Pérignon parent company Moët & Chandon recently renovated this private property in Champagne, France. That whole region has such a deeply ingrained history.
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For the architect Stephanie Goto, taking on a new client isn’t simply a matter of collaboration—it’s an act of artistic communion. “There has to be a connection and an understanding that coming together helps to create something extraordinary,” says Goto, who has worked for Rafael Viñoly and David Rockwell and founded her eponymous New York firm in 2004. “It’s like the pairing of a Champagne with food.” It’s apt that Goto employs a culinary analogy when speaking about her practice. Early in her career, she helped Tadao Ando design the restaurant Morimoto in New York, and she counts the chefs Daniel Boulud, Paul Liebrandt, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten as clients. Goto’s passion for the intersection of food and architecture was honed growing up with the dual exposure to New York’s buzzing restaurant scene and the Japanese concept of hospitality, omotenashi, that she encountered when visiting her parents’ native Tokyo. These days, she has added modern art to her repertoire, designing exhibitions for the Calder Foundation, Pace Gallery, and Hauser & Wirth. Her quietly elegant aesthetic is well suited to heightening the experience of viewing a painting or eating a Michelin star–caliber dish. “There’s a strength in the small details of projects,” Goto says. “And the reduction of things in a space can make a place stronger.” stephaniegoto.com
Takuro Kuwata
He takes a traditional Japanese craft and disrupts what is the norm, turning it into this other thing. I love the idea that tradition can be seen in a different way. salon94.com
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Cofounders Iwan and Manuela Wirth have such a great vision for creating community, hospitality, and experience by breaking the boundaries of what a gallery can be. hauserwirth.com
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featuring pieces from Ann Demeulemeester’s collections for Serax, with a floral centerpiece by Emily Thompson and linens by Matouk. ABOVE , FROM TOP: From the Dé collection, plate, in off-white/black variation 6, $45; plate, in off-white/red variation 5, $32; plate, in offwhite/black variation 5, $30; plate, in offwhite/black variation 1, $40. BE LOW: Ann Demeulemeester.
grandiose beauty. An Aquarian tableau is meant to provoke your mind. After all, Aquarius (January 20–February 18) is an air sign known for its sharp intelligence and its need for mental stimulation. Ruled by Uranus, Aquarians also have a propensity toward rebelliousness and eccentricity, traits that might find their expression in, say, a graphic black-and-red assemblage of pieces by Ann Demeulemeester. A Belgian designer who helped change the fashion landscape with her cerebral, shape-shifting tailoring, Demeulemeester recently lent her singular vision to the brand Serax. Her porcelain plates have hand-painted dégradé, not unlike the raw frays of a piece of fabric, and her glassware features elegant curves and gently bent edges. “For me, it’s not so different to concentrate on sculpting the shape of a shoe or to create beautiful tableware,” says Demeulemeester, who has something of an Aquarian’s solitary tendency. “Contrasts, light and shadow, pure lines: These were also part of my ‘fashion’ language. To work all alone and to create with my hands is something I find very satisfying.” serax.com ◾ 36
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STYLE. DESIGN. CULTURE. 1. THE GALLERY AT WINDSOR Founded in 2002, The Gallery at Windsor is an independent art space in Vero Beach, FL. Beginning January 28, British artist Rose Wylie will present a site-specific exhibition titled Rose Wylie: Let it Settle. Included in the exhibition is a film about the artist in her studio and a fully illustrated book published by Windsor Press and the Royal Academy of Arts. windsorflorida.com/gallery
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3. ELLE DECOR AND LIGHTOLOGY RAISE A GLASS TO DESIGN CHICAGO To kick off Design Chicago, Lightology and ELLE DECOR’s Style Director Parker Bowie Larson hosted a VIP experience for an intimate group of designers. The evening’s festivities began with a champagne toast and private tour of the Lightology showroom led by President and CEO Gregory Kay and ended with an intimate candlelit seated dinner. lightology.com
MICHAEL KORS + HOUSE OF ELLE DECOR On Thursday, October 3, ELLE DECOR and Michael Kors hosted a trunkshow event at the House of ELLE DECOR located at 108 Leonard Street in New York City. Guests enjoyed cocktails and light bites while discovering Michael Kors Collection, with 20% of sales benefiting Harlem School of the Arts.
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Once more for the cheap seats! Can you imagine a theater where that tired joke couldn’t land? That’s just what Trahan Architects achieved with their newly finished 650-seat Coca-Cola Stage. The New Orleans–based firm sought to create a chamber with a strikingly modern aesthetic of sinuous strands of reclaimed oak while also making a performance space that is truly democratic, where all sounds—spoken words and musical notes alike—can be heard with the same intensity from any seat in the house. “We wanted to make everyone in the audience feel accepted and celebrated,” says Trey Trahan, the company’s founder. “Architecture should play a role in creating spaces that remind us to be, on the most basic level, kind to each other.” The aural effect within the Coca-Cola Stage is the product of assiduously researched acoustical theories. Each half-inch strand of shaped wood was placed to meet the requirements of every seat. With only one balcony and rows pushed 10 feet closer to the stage than is typical, this theater proves that there’s no longer shame in the back row. trahanarchitects.com ELLE DECOR
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As a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, deaf landscape architect Alexa Vaughn came up with DeafScape not so much as a specific design, but as a guide to follow. “It is a tool to help dismantle barriers in the built environment that hinder deaf and disabled people from using public spaces,” says Vaughn, now a practitioner at Olin, in Philadelphia. She envisioned a 10-footwide sidewalk, allowing adequate room for the hearing-impaired to stop to sign or lip-read, peppered with seating areas for longer conversations, tactile cues like raised bumps, and bright lighting at night. Her idea is universal and can easily be implemented for a vast array of indoor and outdoor spaces. “Disabled folks spend their lives adapting to architecture,” she says. “It shouldn’t be this way forever. The built environment should adapt to us.” theolinstudio.com
A rendering of DeafScape.
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An accessible military house at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
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More than two and a half million United States soldiers have fought in Afghanistan and Iraq since 9/11, and the number of those coming back with emotional and physical injuries has been astronomical. The assignment for Graves was to create houses—more than 20 in all—for those affected servicemen and -women returning home. With external features that include inviting gables, lively colors, and the firm’s signature porthole windows, the residences don’t look at all like they’re built for special needs. “We didn’t want this thing to scream at you that it’s for disabled people,” says Thomas Rowe, a principal at the New Jersey–based firm. The interiors, however, are an object lesson in universal design, with wide corridors and open spaces for wheelchairs as well as calming acoustic details for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. michaelgraves.com The Sweetwater Spectrum campus in Sonoma, California.
With Sweetwater, completed in 2013, this firm answered a question of growing concern: When their parents can no longer care for them, where will adults with autism live? “One thing you can count on is that kids on the autism spectrum will become adults on the autism spectrum,” says Marsha Maytum, a principal at the San Francisco–based firm. “During the course of the project, the severity of this issue grew exponentially.” (According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2018, one in 59 U.S. children was born on the spectrum.) For the 2.8-acre campus, Maytum and her team created an oasis of calm tones and patterns to soothe its residents’ hypersensitivity, while balancing light and making connections to the natural landscape of Sonoma’s heavenly environs. lmsarch.com
Architecture for the Blind L I G H T H O U S E F O R T H E B L I N D A N D V I S UA L LY I M PA I R E D SAN FR ANCISCO
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The Lighthouse organization, which helps the visually impaired become self-reliant, had maxed out its headquarters in 2014 when it brought in Chris Downey to help with an extension at a new location. Good choice: Downey has the distinction of being the only practicing fully blind architect in the United States. And he was a trained architect before he lost his sight, giving him unique expertise. The most significant element in the design is a concrete pathway throughout the complex to facilitate echolocation, or using reflected sound to navigate a room. “For those with little to no sight, other sensory aspects, like acoustics, come into play,” Downey says. “We listen for all sorts of cues, which could be where other people are and the proportions of the room.” arch4blind.com
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the eclectic design of her home in the Hollywood Hills. McGann’s eponymous L.A. store began 25 years ago as an antiques destination; in recent years, it has garnered a following for textiles sourced from India, Mexico, and China. Her two-story 1932 Spanish-style townhouse, nestled in the historic Beachwood Canyon under the Hollywood sign, came with a pedigree. Owner Ramin Shamshiri, formerly of Commune and now at Studio Shamshiri, had recently renovated it, saving vintage details like arched doorways. “The house dictated the design,” McGann says. Upon moving in, she immediately had the yellowish-white walls repainted to Farrow & Ball off-whites—sandy-white Clunch in the downstairs rooms and Stony Ground for the master bedroom. She then quickly filled the house with her idiosyncratic collection of vintage furnishings and antiques. Her home work space offers insight into her design principles: On an early-20th-century English Arts and Crafts desk, paired with a midcentury German bentwood school chair, she places a keepsake box from Syria inlaid with mother-of-pearl alongside small art objects she made herself. Above all this hangs a 19th-century Dutch grain sack on a stretcher, which she found in London. As McGann says: “I looked at it and said, ‘That’s a painting!’” As her store’s focus has shifted to luxe and hard-to-find textiles, her home is now brimming with them. In the living room, the sofa is upholstered in a handwoven Indian fabric. Surprises abound in the space: Window treatments are made from hand-painted theatrical backdrops from Japan and 19th-century suzani panels from Uzbekistan. There are also plenty of enviable rugs, such as a deep-blue early-20th-century Mahal from Iran in the guest room. McGann’s home sometimes serves as a testing ground for what might make it onto her sales floor: “The shop changes all the time, and the house does too,” she says. When I ask her about any favorite pieces, McGann demurs a bit, rephrasing with a smile: “Something I wouldn’t sell? That’s a good question.” ◾
CLOC K WISE FROM TOP LE F T: The facade of Pat McGann’s 1932 Spanish-style townhouse in Hollywood. In the guest room, a daybed is covered in a Guatemalan blanket and Pat McGann Workshop pillows made from Indian block prints and an antique Persian carpet; the artwork is by Bart Miller. The home borders a communal garden. In the living room, a 19th-century Dutch grain sack from Howe hangs over an Arts and Crafts desk. An antique suzani from Uzbekistan is behind the master bed, which is dressed in a Neeru Kumar coverlet and topped with pillows in Indian textiles, all from Pat McGann Workshop. An antique American table and vintage metal chairs in the dining room; the pendant is a Japanese temple light, and the rug is by Missoni. For details, see Resources. 44
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Filipa de Abreu, in a Tory Burch dress, on the terrace outside her apartment in a century-old building in Lisbon, Portugal. The Ikea sofa is topped with pillows in a Carolina Irving Textiles ďŹ&#x201A;oral, the antique table and chairs are Portuguese, the pitcher is by Bordallo Pinheiro, and the glassware is by Tory Burch. OPPOSITE: A section of the mural in the dining room, which was designed by Marie-Anne Oudejans and hand-painted by artist Vikas Soni and his team from Jaipur, India. The antique bronze candelabra is French.
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Filipa de Abreu’s dreams nearly slipped through her fingers. She had underbid both the asking price and an aggressive French overbidder on a century-old fourbedroom rental in Lisbon’s coveted Lapa neighborhood. Its 12-foot-high ceilings, crown moldings, and boiserie-detailed walls had been meticulously restored; the large windows and bougainvillea-covered terrace had an uninterrupted view of the Atlantic Ocean. Still, de Abreu informed her real estate agent, “I have a feeling the apartment is going to be mine.” She promptly headed off to India—but not before sending a letter to the apartment’s owner promising to cherish the space. Sure enough, upon her return, the apartment was hers. De Abreu quickly settled in with her three children—sons Louis, 15, and Antoine, 10, and daughter, Maria, 14—and the family dog, Flynn. “I named him after Errol Flynn,” she says.
ABOVE: In the living room, a pair of Ikea sofas are covered in throws
purchased by de Abreu on her travels, the stools are custom, and the rug is from Jaipur. Two antique obelisks flank a love seat by Monica Penaguiao for Poeira Design, the wood flooring is original, and the framed artwork is by Júlio Pomar. RIGHT: The dining room’s daybed and placemats are by Oudejans, and the plates, stemware, and lettuceware tureen are by Tory Burch Home. OPPOSITE: The dining table is surrounded by Chiavari ballroom chairs with custom scalloped seat covers and a Louis XVI armchair in a fabric from India. The tablecloth is by Festa Aluga, the rug is by Jennifer Manners for Salvesen Graham, and the ceiling’s plasterwork is original. 48
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A bon vivant of the fashion world, she jet-sets from Lisbon to Europe’s bigger cities and New York in her role as a design consultant and brand ambassador for Tory Burch. When at home, she makes good on that original promise to the apartment’s owner, filling the space with the kinds of memories and decor that make a place unforgettable. She packs every nook and cranny with beautiful things she finds on her travels. And always, her home overflows with friends. De Abreu throws the type of dinner parties where dessert is served to the beat of a live three-piece band— and sometimes is accompanied by the kicks of a troupe of cancan girls. “This house is made for entertaining,” she 50
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says. “My way of thanking friends is to show them the best possible evening.” She can seat 24 comfortably (and often does) around her dining table, which is usually set with green lettuceware pieces designed by Dodie Thayer for Tory Burch Home. Linen napkins at each place setting are embroidered with her guests’ initials. And then there is the striking decor: Presiding over every meal are a pair of tigers and a giraffe hand-painted within a vibrant pink mural. The panels were a birthday gift from de Abreu’s good friend Marie-Anne Oudejans, the Jaipur-based interior decorator (and former designer of the Tocca fashion line). Oudejans, who famously
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covered in Indian fabrics, and the bedding is from Portugal. Tiger chairs serving as nightstands were purchased in Seville, Spain; the lamps are from Françoise Baudry, and the rug is by Madeline Weinrib. Papier-mâché plates from John Derian and antique English china hang over the bed. The framed artwork (left) is by Grillo Demo. BE LOW: De Abreu and her daughter, Maria, in the living room. The daybed is similar to those designed by Oudejans for Jaipur’s Bar Palladio. For details, see Resources.
full of glam,” she says of her friend. “Her tablesettings are packed with charm and love, and there are always flowers, fruit, delicious food, music, and lots of Champagne.” There’s another canopied daybed, this one in blue, in the apartment’s living room—known as the Blue Room. The entire space is furnished with pieces that de Abreu has brought back from such places as Jaipur and the Portuguese beach town of Comporta. A large shell is filled with glass evil eyes, while masses of books are stacked on the floor, since the apartment’s walls are too old and fragile to support shelving. Anything she has, she uses every day. “Nothing is too precious,” she says. “My life isn’t about that.” It comes as a surprise to learn that de Abreu has never shipped any finds home from her travels. “I leave clothes behind so I can carry everything home,” she says. “If I see a square meter of free space, I think, Ooh, what can I fill it with?” Indeed, in her bedroom, framed illustrations from a John Derian book hang alongside Catholic iconography, and a pair of tiger-shaped chairs serve as nightstands. “Minimalism,” she declares, “is not for me.” ◾
created the interiors of Jaipur’s Bar Palladio, flew to Lisbon from India last year with three painters, including the noted artist Vikas Soni, to create the bold tableau on-site. “The artists painted freehand,” de Abreu says of the project, which took four days to complete. Because the apartment is a rental, the mural was painted on large canvases that can be taken down should she ever move. “The day I leave, they’re coming with me,” de Abreu vows, and that also applies to the canopied daybed that Oudejans designed for the dining room. For Oudejans, the dining room’s bold touches were inspired by its ebullient resident. “Filipa is so bubbly and
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In the living room of a Manhattan apartment designed by Emma Jane Pilkington for her mother, Carolyn, and her husband, the Anthony LawrenceBelfair sofa is in a Pierre Frey silk velvet, the circa-1960 Jansen chair is from Thomas Gallery, and the brass tables are by Edouard de la Marque. The circa-1810 porphyry side table and Andrea Koeppel lamp are from Gerald Bland. The artwork is by Brice Marden. OPPOSITE: An Alexander Calder sculpture sits atop an antique table; the painting is by Jean Dubuffet. In the hallway, an artwork by Joan Mitchell hangs above an Aristide Maillol sculpture.
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later in life and decide to make a home together from the studs up, it can be a jangling experience: clashing tastes and ingrained habits, the strain of never-ending construction, the friction of old memories resurfacing. Or, as in the case of an apartment on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue designed by the Australian-born Emma Jane Pilkington for her mother, Carolyn, and the elegant widower her mother married a few years ago, the process can instead be revelatory, as enlivening as a Verdi aria or the brushstrokes of the Franz Klines and Willem de Koonings destined to adorn the home’s walls. “It was a wonderful adventure,” Pilkington says. “It was watching
the evolution of two people you care so much about.” The widower had had a long career on Wall Street and an even longer first marriage during which he and his first wife had amassed a spectacular art collection, including some excellent works by several of the mid-20th century’s great Abstractionists. He wanted to make sure that the new apartment was a warm and unpretentious setting for the pieces; he had no interest in an oligarch’s palace. Pilkington understood immediately: She and her mother, with whom she had run an interior-design firm during the aughts, had known the widower, his first wife, and their now adult children for decades, having traveled in overlapping circles. The logic of discretion was second nature. While some designers feel they must slavishly adhere to an original layout or period detailing in a prewar apartment
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the four armchairs are covered in a Pierre Frey silk ikat, and a bronze Henry Moore sculpture rests on a reverse painted–glass porphyry cocktail table from Gerald Bland. A painting by Willem de Kooning hangs over a limestone mantel from Authentic Provence, and above an 18th-century chest from Cedric DuPont Antiques is an artwork by Cy Twombly. The curtains are of a C&C Milano linen. ABOVE RIGHT: Designer Emma Jane Pilkington in a blouse by Ulla Johnson. The painting in the background is by Franz Kline. RIGHT: A vintage plaster Medusa urn sits atop a silver-leafed Italian Rococo console from Foster-Gwin Gallery in the dining room, which affords a view of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park.
(this one dates to 1925), Pilkington had no such sentimental loyalties. The place had not been maintained by the previous owner; there was not much worth saving. And the couple had no need for the original three bedrooms or a large, open kitchen. So with the help of the architect Joel Barkley, who had assisted Pilkington in transforming a warren-like turn-of-the-20th-century house in Greenwich, Connecticut, into the airy, antiques-filled home she now shares with her husband and nine-year-old son (ELLE DECOR , June 2015), she began from scratch. The flat is now a burnished setting for colorful canvases and strong sculpture, plus a relaxed and comfortable haven. Unlike many Fifth Avenue apartments, there is no grand foyer, just a good-sized architectural curve once you enter from the private landing, which leads either to the living ELLE DECOR
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The guest room’s splatter print sets off drawings by Richard Diebenkorn, Pablo Picasso, and Lucian Freud. room or to a hallway hung with a huge painting by Lee Krasner. “They really have no one to impress, which is a theme,” says Pilkington of her mother and stepfather. “They just wanted to be happy and at ease.” In an apartment flooded with light that bounces off the nearby reservoir in Central Park, creating a setting for art was no easy feat. It involved taking a sophisticated approach to color, texture, and scale. As such, many of the walls and moldings are painted in an array of soulful, complicated grays made by Farrow & Ball; the hues have whispers of pink and undertones of corn silk, shifting and evolving as the day wears on. A lt houg h t here is no prof usion of f u r n it u re or objets—how might a bauble or a needless side table compete with a Jean Dubuffet or a Brice Marden?—the palette interacts in a lively fashion with the carefully chosen upholstered pieces. In the living room, the limestone fireplace is flanked by four chairs in shades of luscious violet and cobalt, and a Brice Marden painting hangs above an armless sofa in a rose-colored cut silk velvet. Pilkington has an eye for recasting traditional gestures through a daring contemporary lens. Such brio is on display in the guest room, where she played with the old-school notion of allover chintz: The room is bedecked—including built-in closets that seem to disappear—in a dense plum-colored splatter print that sets off drawings by Richard Diebenkorn, Pablo Picasso, and Lucian Freud. In the study, a tall John Dickinson table sculpted from tin resembles a classic buffet draped in linen, graceful folds and all. It can be disorienting to stand so close to a Joan Mitchell painting that you can see her fervor, or to commune in private with a Barbara Hepworth bronze, but for Pilkington, creating a proper place to view such works daily, as her mother and stepfather do, is a matter of understanding scale down to your core. You design in counterpoint, she says, but also in harmony, letting the space and the art speak. And in this apartment—an intimate collaboration born of love and history, of loss and gain forever entwined—there is one thing especially, she says, that you never forget: It has to feel like home. ◾
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are in a Fermoie splatter print. The William and Mary chest is in inlaid walnut, the 19th-century nightstand is faux-marble, the plaster pendant is from Liz O’Brien, and the abaca rug is by Patterson Flynn Martin. The artworks include two pieces by Lucian Freud (left), two by Richard Diebenkorn (center), and two by Pablo Picasso (right). ABOVE RIGHT: The master bed is by Rose Tarlow Melrose House, the 18th-century Irish wingback chair is in a Bermingham & Co. silk ikat, and the 19th-century ebonized table is from Lee Calicchio. The artwork is by Willem de Kooning. RIGHT: A collection of Ming vases sits atop a William and Mary tallboy from Doyle. For details, see Resources. ELLE DECOR
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In the living room of a Brooklyn triplex designed by the architects Amale Andraos and Dan Wood of WORKac, the sofas are by Caravane, the cocktail table is custom, and the ottoman is from the Vernaison ďŹ&#x201A;ea market in Paris. The speakers are by Audio Physic, the rug is from ABC Carpet & Home, and the custom blackened-steel ďŹ replace is by CF + D.
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TRIPLE PLAY THE ARCHITECTS OF WORKAC TRANSFORM A BROOKLYN TRIPLEX INTO A LIGHT-FILLED HAVEN.
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the evolution of Brooklyn’s appeal to once die-hard Manhattanites than this tale of a family’s journey from TriBeCa to Boerum Hill. It was 2001 and the couple, a French public-relations executive and a Georgian (as in the Republic of) building contractor, and their two children were renting a two-bedroom walk-up. They were eager to buy a place and couldn’t afford Manhattan prices. As they watched their close friends move across the East River, their gaze shifted, too. Their hearts took a little longer to follow. “I always said, ‘If I go to Brooklyn, I may as well move back to Paris,’” quips the wife, who eventually caved when the pair found a 2,300-square-foot duplex in a former factory turned condominium, complete with a garden. Fast-forward to 2015. The couple, soon to be empty nesters, were looking, however counterintuitively, for a larger place. They considered Manhattan, but ended up purchasing an apartment one floor above them. “We wanted to stay in Brooklyn,” she explains, fully aware of the irony. Combining their duplex with the new apartment proved nearly as arduous an undertaking as their initial travels
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across the river. For one thing, the new space did not line up with the preexisting staircase. The duo turned to Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, cofounders and partners (in life, too) of the New York architecture firm WORKac. Andraos and Wood started their practice in 2003 after working for Rem Koolhaas at OMA in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and New York. They have since become known for their vibrant and sustainable approach to both residential and institutional spaces for clients such as Diane von Furstenberg, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Guggenheim. “We take playfulness very seriously,” says Andraos, who is also the dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. “Our first thought here was, How do we highlight the relationship between the architecture and the landscape outside?” Andraos and Wood began by gutting all three floors and seeking out ways to maximize light and space. In the duplex’s former life, the ground floor (through which you enter) had housed the kitchen, the living areas, and the kids’ two bedrooms, while the cellar level held the master bedroom, a half bathroom, and a small closet. Andraos and Wood moved the kids’ bedrooms up to the new third floor and carved out more space at the cellar level for a full bathroom and a closet the wife describes as “like the storage of
In the dining room, the table is by Arnold de Vinck and the chairs are by Norman Cherner. The vintage mirror is from Holler & Squall, and the blue stained–pine paneling is by TorZo Surfaces. OPPOSITE: The kitchen’s cooktop, oven, and hood are by Wolf. The refrigerator is by SubZero, the Franke sink has Grohe fittings, and the marble countertop is from Stone Source. The custom millwork is sheathed in bluestained pine from TorZo Surfaces, and the backsplash tiles are by Mutina.
The custom-painted perforated-steel staircase was fabricated by 4th State Metals. The television is by Samsung, the American walnut shelving is custom, and the wallpaper is by Timorous Beasties. OPPOSITE , FROM TOP: The study’s vintage sofa is topped with pillows from Italy; the poufs are by Softline. In the master bedroom, the bed is inset into a wall covered in a Morris & Co. wallpaper; the sconces are by Wilhelm Wagenfeld, the curtains are of a Maharam fabric, and the walls are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Chantilly Lace. For details, see Resources.
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a store.” On the main level, they rerouted a pipe near the old kitchen, allowing them to create an open loft plan. They added a couple of feet to the ceiling and had it recess up near the windows, which they enlarged, emphasizing the natural light and views of the backyard garden. Arguably the most challenging decision was how and where to design stairs connecting all three divergently configured floors. Working “down to millimeters,” as Wood puts it, they slotted them near the entrance to the apartment and sculpted an airy, curving structure out of white perforated steel that contrasts beautifully with the black stained–oak floors. “It’s about transparency and openness,” he explains. He and Andraos used varied wall textures to differentiate areas through the open floor, while also nodding to natural motifs and surfaces. A Timorous Beasties floral wallpaper hangs near the entrance and study, and blue stained–pine planks sheath the walls by the dining area and kitchen. A rough brick wall, discovered during construction, grounds the living room and its blackened-steel fireplace. The result marries warmth and brightness with sharp, graphic lines. The expansiveness is perfect for the entertaining needs of adult socializing—and its sparkling appeal has been just as alluring to the couple’s grown children, now 19 and 22. “They love it. And they like having their friends come over and go, ‘Wow!’” the wife says, noting the delay this may cause in their empty-nest status. “I’m sure we’re going to have them with us for a little while longer.” ◾
The living room of Linda Pintoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apartment on Parisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Left Bank, which she designed with Jean Huguen. The vintage Jean-Michel Frank sofas are in a custom Manufacture Royale Bonvallet velvet, the lacquered armchairs are from the 1920s, and the cocktail table is by Yves Klein. A painting by Roberto Matta (left) hangs over a 1970s console by Philippe Hiquily, and a Victor Brauner artwork is above an Art Deco screen by Jean Dunand. 64
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Paris’s elegant Quai d’Orsay for decades, first in her own apartment on a side street, and later in the home of her late brother, the much-heralded decorator Alberto Pinto, which faced the Seine. Then she heard about a place for sale on a chic Left Bank street that is home to several prominent Parisians, including LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault. Built in 1932 in the Louis XVI style, the apartment occupies a generous 3,500 square feet and overlooks a private walled garden said to be one of the largest in the city. When Pinto saw it, she knew she had found her new home. “I hear birds all day long,” she says over tea on a cold autumn afternoon, sitting on one of her two raspberry-velvet Jean-Michel Frank sofas. “We are disconnected from the world—like in a cocoon. It’s a dream to live here. A joy.”
Since the death of her brother in 2012, Pinto has managed Alberto Pinto Interior Design, the firm he founded nearly five decades ago. Among the 50-person studio’s current projects is one of Paris’s most prized properties: the Hôtel Lambert, a 17th-century mansion on the Île Saint-Louis, designed by the French neoclassical architect Louis Le Vau and now owned by a member of the Qatari royal family. The company’s signature is what Pinto calls “classic contemporary,” with a strong Continental European base and a soupçon of Orientalism in the lighting, palette, and decor—influenced, no doubt, by the Pinto siblings’ childhood in Morocco. Her new apartment also embodies that style: opulent yet restful, historic yet modern, and very personal. She wanted ABOVE: Linda Pinto at home with her daughters, Deborah PintoFdeda (left) and Davina Pinto-Fdeda. LE F T: The living room’s bronze
sculpture is by Manolo Valdés, the slipper chair is custom, and the curtains are of a Veraseta silk. OPPOSITE: In the dining room, the Rossi table is surrounded by Patrick Gaguech chairs from Nimrod and topped with a rock-crystal ball, antique J. & L. Lobmeyr stemware, and 18th-century Chinese Famille Rose porcelain tableware. The custom pendant is by Hervé Van der Straeten, the Christophe Gaignon mirror is from Galerie Willy Huybrechts, and the silk rug is by Alfombras Peña. The walls are clad in panels of gold straw framed in burnt Oregon pine below a cornice of bronze-inlaid marble. 66
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to create a warm and welcoming retreat in the heart of the city, where she could host formal dinners for her beau monde friends as well as easily receive her grandchildren for movie nights and weekend sleepovers. With the help of her colleague Jean Huguen, she set to work. She kept the living room intact but buffed it up, employing artisans from Atelier Mériguet-Carrère to match the original patinated-oak paneling on the south wall with coordinating faux-finished surfaces. In the center of one wall stands a monumental bronze sculpture of a 17th-century lady-in-waiting by the contemporary Spanish sculptor Manolo Valdés; it is inspired by Diego Velázquez’s masterpiece Las Meninas. “Alberto bought it a long, long time ago,” Pinto says, as she walks over and gives it a gentle pet. “I caress it all the time.” ABOVE: In the master bath, an antique Breche marble counter sits
atop a custom black-lacquered vanity. The vintage slipper chair is by Grosfeld House, the sconces are from a Paris flea market, and the curtains are of a Créations Métaphores cashmere. The walls are sheathed in Art Deco mirrors. LE F T: The kitchen’s diner-style dining set and black-plaster pendant light are all vintage. The range is by La Cornue, the porcelain parrot is antique, and the floor is in black and white marble. OPPOSITE: The master bedroom’s custom headboard is upholstered in a Zimmer + Rohde fabric and trimmed with coral leather; the bed linens are antique. A pair of 19th-century ivory Dieppe mirrors hangs above vintage nightstands by Maison Jansen, the rock-crystal lamps are by Edward F. Caldwell & Co., the bench is by Bruno Moinard, and the vintage chest of drawers is by Luigi Caccia Dominioni. The carpet is by Codimat, and the artwork is by Louis Courajod. For details, see Resources.
The apartment overlooks a private walled garden. “I hear birds all day long. It’s a dream to live here.” LINDA PINTO She surrounded “la menine,” as the sculpture is known, with furnishings from her previous home, such as the 1970s bronze cocktail tables by Belgian artist Ado Chale; some new acquisitions are an Yves Klein cocktail table in hot pink (“You don’t see them often”) and a Jean Dunand lacquered screen decorated with puppies and kittens (“I thought it was so charming!”). There is also important art—much of it inherited from her brother’s collection, including drawings by Henry Moore, Zao Wou-Ki, and Joan Miró. Elsewhere in the apartment, down came the walls. Pinto reorganized the floor plan to incorporate three guest rooms for family visits; a media room (“I don’t like TVs in the living room,” she affirms); a professional kitchen (she has a private chef but loves to cook, too); a butler’s pantry; and a wall of vertical-slot shelving to hold her many silver trays. There is a walk-in china closet that would make any tableware collector swoon: its felted floor-to-ceiling shelves store her vast porcelain collection. “I got out the ladder this morning and said, ‘Hmm, what shall I use tonight?’” She was preparing to host a dinner for 10 that evening in her Japonisme-tinged dining room, with its ocher walls, black commodes, custom Lilou Grumbach-Marquand
window shades, and an imposing Hervé Van der Straeten bronze-and-crystal pendant light. She chose vintage violet Art Deco monogrammed placemats, antique Lobmeyr crystal glasses, Puiforcat Elysée silverware, an 18th-century Famille Rose dinner service, and a rock-crystal ball surrounded by 17th-century Chinese Ho Ho boy porcelain figurines as the centerpiece. “One is not obliged to always have flowers,” she counsels. Dinner was in the midst of being prepared by her liveried staff: roast quail, cèpes sautéed in a sea of butter, and gratin dauphinois. “It’s such a pleasure entertaining at home,” she says. Pinto has her fetishes, and they are apparent throughout her home. She is especially drawn to rock-crystal lamps and decorative objects, and a pair of thick candlesticks from the Yves Saint Laurent collection are a prized possession given to her by his partner, Pierre Bergé. “Rock crystal brings good luck,” she explains brightly. And there’s her veritable Noah’s ark of creatures: monkeys, elephants, toads, parrots, and toucans, in silver, bronze, porcelain, and crystal, on tables and shelves, on wallpaper, and in paintings—everywhere you turn. “Yes, I do love animals,” she admits with a laugh. “They, too, bring joy.” ◾ ELLE DECOR
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BETTING THE RANCH IN NORTHERN MEXICO, ALEJANDRA REDO CREATES AN IDYLLIC RETREAT ON LAND THAT ONCE BELONGED TO HER GRANDFATHER. BY ELISABETH M ALKIN PRODUCED BY ANITA SARSIDI PHOTOGR APHS BY WILLIA M WALDRON
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ranch house, perched on a hill beneath the endless sky of northern Mexico’s rolling scrubland, begins with a poker game. Her grandfather must have played for high stakes, because in one game, he won the title to a 54-squaremile ranch. Redo’s grandfather, a sugar baron, had no interest in the remote property and never saw it, but her father made the eight-hour drive over dirt roads through the state of Sonora and “fell in love,” she says. He built a rudimentary house where she spent holidays as a child, learning to ride horses amid mountainsides specked with walnut trees and the Mexican oaks called encinos.
Her father divided the property among his three children, and when a relative suggested selling it a few years ago, Redo flew up from Mexico City and spent a couple of nights in a tent on her land under the enormous vault of stars. “I wanted my descendants to have the same childhood I had,” she says. “So I decided to build a house.” She picked a site overlooking the ranch’s paddocks with a view of the mountains and began to level the land. “I’m so happy there,” she says. “I’m not afraid, it gives me energy.” By 2017, the house was ready, a brick structure with iron beams and a pitched roof, constructed by local builders from
the nearby town of Bacoachi. Redo, an interior designer, laid out the house with five bedrooms, a long porch, and a garden planted with fruit trees—a base from which family and friends could immerse themselves in the landscape that is as much a part of her identity as is her society life in Mexico City. The iron windows are all accented with mesquite, a local hardwood. The bedroom and living room floors are polished cement, painted adobe. For the bathrooms, kitchen, and porch, she selected tiles from Mooma Mosaicos, a Guadalajara company. As she built the house, Redo began collecting pieces for it, storing them in
Mexico City until she was ready for a formal inauguration. She delights in the eclectic, both for her own houses and those of her clients, daring to combine the old with the new, high design with handicrafts, all mixed with a light touch laced with humor. A Mies van der Rohe sofa occupies a spot between windows in the living room, underneath a painting by a Goya contemporary. The vignette contrasts w it h a roug h-hew n cof fe e t a ble made by a carpenter from the Pacific resort town of Careyes, who used oak reclaimed from a tree that fell in the region’s 2015 hurricane. “I was buying things for years,” Redo says. “I knew
Interior designer Alejandra Redo, third from left, with three cowboys and a working horse at her ranch near Bacoachi, a town in the Mexican state of Sonora.
In the living room, the sofa is custom and the table was made from an oak that fell in a hurricane. The custom armchair and woven chair from Puebla are draped in traditional Mexican jorongo wool ponchos. The rug is custom, the ceiling beams are iron, and the ďŹ&#x201A;ooring is concrete. The photograph is by Gonzalo Lebrija. OPPOSITE , FROM TOP: A serape shawl, straw hat, and ranch accoutrements hang on a rack in the entry. The homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adobe exterior. On the porch, where the columns are covered in climbing jasmine, the traditional leather equipal-style table and chairs are from the Jalisco region of Mexico; the mesquite hat rack is custom, the handmade rebozo shawls are from the town of Malinalco, and the tableware is by Artemide.
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LE F T: In a guest room, the bed is dressed with a Mexican
wool jorongo, the rocking chair is antique, and the rug is Oaxacan. BE LOW LE F T: The master bath has an antique tub and a handmade Mexican chair and mesquite bench. The custom vanity has a Mirsa sink, and the floor tiles are by Mooma Mosaicos. OPPOSITE , FROM TOP: The bed and bench in the master bedroom are custom, and the side table and overmantel mirror are by Casamidy. The ranch’s old corral is a setting for outdoor meals; the chairs are by Casamidy, and the truck is a vintage Ford.
I was going to have a house. It was like having Christmas when the boxes arrived.” From the beginning, she had her eye on a photo by the Mexican artist Gonzalo Lebrija of a lasso used in charrería, the Mexican version of rodeo. Lebrija, a friend of her son Pablo Aldrete, a filmmaker, arranged to have it delivered during the housewarming party. Now it hangs against the apple-green wall of the living room, flanked by a pair of spurs that belonged to the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, which were in her father’s collection. In keeping with the charro theme, the lampshades are from Casamidy’s Ranchero Chic line, decorated with classic leather designs. Casamidy cofounder Jorge Almada, Redo’s nephew, built his own bungalow on the property. Pieces from the line are dotted all over the house, including the iron-and-cowhide chairs of the picnic furniture. Another source for furniture and accessories was vintage shops in Bisbee, Arizona, less than two hours away. (The roads are a bit better than in her father’s day.) Redo’s love of Mexican textiles is evident. Mexican silk-and-cotton shawls called rebozos are layered atop the leather-and-wood chairs known as equipales on the porch. In the living room, she places jorongos, the woolen ponchos that cowboys use, over chairs. Much of the furniture was made to order, including Redo’s mesquite bed and bench, fashioned by a local carpenter. A wool rug that she had woven in India carries the ranch’s design of a small tree, after its name El A rbolito. Sometimes the ra nch itself provides the decoration, like the antlers mounted in her son Pablo’s room, which were found in the mountains. Riding is required during Redo’s house parties. The cowboys, including Ramón Bejarano and his son, who has the same name, load up the ranch’s old Ford pickup (nicknamed La Princesa) with furniture and a barbecue and prepare a picnic for guests, who ride out to meet them. Lunch is simple: grilled meat or hot dogs and Mexican sauces, flour tortillas, perhaps paella. “We all ride back,” Redo says. The rule applies even to those who may have had too much tequila over lunch. “You have to ride back on your horse.” ◾ 74
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The exterior of a weekend home in Westport, Connecticut, designed by the architect Roger Ferris with interiors by Jenny Fischbach. The facade is in ďŹ bercement clapboard, and the entrance is framed in black steel.
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FOR A CONNECTICUT WEEKEND HOME, ARCHITECT ROGER FERRIS AND DESIGNER JENNY FISCHBACH ELEVATE A NEW-BUILD FARMHOUSE WITH A SLEEK MODERNIST SPIN. PHOTOGR APHS BY DURSTON SAYLOR AND PAÚL RIVER A
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BY JULIE L ASKY
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a weekend house she designed in Westport, Connecticut. Fischbach, who founded her own Manhattan interior design studio after working as a partner at Cullman & Kravis, was meeting about the project at the client’s primary residence when she smelled delicious soup being made and asked what was in it. The client promised to give her the recipe, but what arrived at her office later that afternoon was actual soup. “Who sends soup?” Fischbach asks. She and her colleague, Casey Pugatch, made the Westport house easy and soothing in the spirit of this thoughtful person and her comfort food. They created a retreat 78
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with formal purity but no preciousness, so a family with two teenagers and a large dog could mess around without fear. And they did it all in shades of gray, and without laying down a single rug. From a distance, the residence, set on nearly nine acres on Long Island Sound, looks like a cluster of farmhouses—or as the home’s architect, Roger Ferris, describes it, “Monopoly houses.” A closer look reveals that the buildings are attached and have fiber-cement clapboard siding in place of cedar shakes. Steel grids divide the big windows into human-scale panes; the roof, with gable lines as pure as a child’s drawing, is standing-seam zinc.
OPPOSITE , FROM LE F T: In the great room, the sofas are by Minotti,
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the Homenature armchairs are in a Fortuny fabric, and the custom cocktail table is by Fernando Mastrangelo; the custom hexagonal ceiling fixture is by LightArt, the steel sash windows and doors are by MHB, and the room is painted in Benjamin Moore’s Super White. In the entry hall, the horizontal wall lights are by John Wigmore for Ralph Pucci, the French white-oak flooring is from Exquisite Surfaces, and the artwork is by Meghann Riepenhoff. BE LOW: The family room’s Homenature sectional is in a fabric from Holland & Sherry, the custom ottoman is in a Holly Hunt leather, and the side table is by Desiron. RIGHT: In the dining area, Vica chairs surround a custom table by Asher Israelow, and the console is by Gregory Nangle. BE LOW RIGHT: The kitchen’s refrigerator is by SubZero, the range is by Thermador, the hood is by Bertazzoni, and cabinetry is by Bulthaup. BOT TOM RIGHT: Interior designer Jenny Fischbach.
Ferris says he wanted to see how far he could abstract the idea of this vernacular New England style “without losing what it means to be in a warm farmhouse on the water in Connecticut.” Inside, the tease continues with floors that appear to have been salvaged from a barn but are in fact newly distressed white oak. Their warmth and texture make them “the MVP of the project,” Fischbach says. And where you might expect to see rustic beams in the two-story great room, you instead find a custom lamp shaped like an exploded field of hexagons. The sculptural fixture adds a layer of visual interest to the soaring space and bounces light off the ceiling.
ABOVE LE F T: A custom neon sign
by Name Glo in the entry stair hall displays a quote supplied by the homeowners. ABOVE: In the master bedroom, the custom bed has a Tabu ash-veneer headboard and is dressed in linens from James Perse and pillows from Ralph Lauren Home; the HervĂŠ Langlais armchairs and ottoman are from Galerie Negropontes. LE F T: The back of the house at sunset. The lounge chairs are by Gandia Blasco, and the umbrellas are by Tuuci. For details, see Resources.
OPPOSITE, CLOCK WISE FROM TOP LEFT: DURSTON SAYLOR (2); PAÚL RIVER A
You also find a monochromatic color scheme, if you can call it color at all. “The client was very clear that her palette was gray,” Fischbach says. There is not a stick of brown furniture in the house. The minimalist dining table was ebonized to wipe out any trace of a natural wood tone, and the stacking tables in the family room were washed in gray. “It is hard to find so many grays that speak to each other nicely,” Fischbach says, adding that the furnishings ended up harmonizing so well that they looked as if they could have migrated into any part of the house. In the great room, a large cocktail table cast in layers of cement, sand, and crushed glass incorporates all of the tones and subtly echoes the waves outside. Fischbach and her client commissioned the piece from the Brooklyn designer Fernando Mastrangelo after seeing a version at the Salon Art & Design fair in New York. The distinction between artwork and functional object
melted in collaborations. The designers worked with the lighting artist John Wigmore to mock up rice-paper light boxes for the gridded-glass entrance to make sure the quantity and scale were right. For the neon sign installation that illuminates the interior staircase, the family supplied the phrase Everyone’s going to bed early tonight. Then Pugatch “obsessed”—her boss’s word—over the size and font of the letterforms. The immersive combination of textures, heightened by the absence of color, might draw your attention away from the fact that there is not a single rug on those handsome oak floors. “The whole premise was ease,” Fischbach says. “If there’s not a rug to get ruined, you don’t have to worry.” After finishing the project, Fischbach redid her own apartment, all in gray. “I was totally brainwashed,” she says. “This is the most calming palette to live with. Although I do have a rug or two. And no dog.” ◾ ELLE DECOR
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Items pictured but not listed are from private collections. ANATOMY OF A HOUSE
Interior design: Pat McGann, patmcganngallery.com. PAGES 44–45: Pillows: Pat McGann Gallery, patmcgann gallery.com. Grain sack: Howe London, howelondon.com. Bedding and pillows: Pat McGann Gallery. Rug: Missoni, missoni.com. SAVAGE BEAUTY
Interior design: Filipa de Abreu. Mural: Marie-Anne Oudejans, Marie-Anne Oudejans Design & Interiors, cargocollective.com. PAGES 46–47: Dress and glassware: Tory Burch, toryburch .com. Sofa: Ikea, ikea.com. Pillow fabric: Carolina Irving Textiles, carolinairvingtextiles .com. Pitcher: Bordallo Pinheiro, bordallopinheiro.com. PAGES 48–49: Sofas: Ikea. Love seat: Poeira Design, poeiradesign.com. Daybed and placemats: Marie-Anne Oudejans. Plates, stemware, and tureen: Tory Burch. Tablecloth: Festa Aluga, festaluga.pt. Rug: Salvesen Graham, salvesengraham.com. PAGES 50–51: Rug: Madeline Weinrib, madelineweinrib.com. Papier-mâché plates: John Derian, johnderian.com. HIGH ART
Interior design: Emma Jane Pilkington, emmajane pilkington.com. PAGES 52–53: Sofa: Anthony Lawrence-Belfair, anthonylawrence.com. Sofa fabric: Pierre Frey, pierrefrey .com. Chair: Thomas Gallery, tomthomasgallery.com. Side table and lamp: Gerald Bland, geraldblandinc.com. Sculpture: Alexander Calder, calder .org. Artwork: Joan Mitchell, joanmitchellfoundation.org. PAGES 54–55: Armchairs fabric: Pierre Frey. Sculpture: Henry Moore, henry-moore .org. Cocktail table: Gerald Bland. Artworks: Willem de Kooning, dekooning.org; Cy Twombly, cytwombly.org. Mantel: Authentic Provence, authenticprovence.com. Chest: 82
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Cedric DuPont Antiques, cedric dupontantiques.com. Curtains fabric: C&C Milano, cec-milano .com. Blouse: Ulla Johnson, ullajohnson.com. Console: Foster-Gwin Gallery, fostergwin .com. PAGES 56–57: Wallcovering, bedspread, and lampshades: Fermoie, fermoie.com. Pendant: Liz O’Brien, lizobrien.com. Rug: Patterson Flynn Martin, pattersonflynnmartin.com. Artworks: Richard Diebenkorn, diebenkorn.org. Bed: Rose Tarlow Melrose House, rose tarlow.com. Wingback chair fabric: Bermingham & Co., berminghamfabrics.com. Table: Lee Calicchio, leecalicchioltd .com. Artwork: Willem de Kooning. Tallboy cabinet: Doyle, doyle.com.
Manufacture Royale Bonvallet, mbonvallet.com. PAGES 66–67: Curtains fabric: Veraseta, kravet.com. Dining chairs: Nimrod, patrickgaguech .com. Stemware: J. & L. Lobmeyr, lobmeyr.at. Pendant: Hervé Van der Straeten, vanderstraeten.fr. Mirror: Galerie Willy Huybrechts, willy-huybrechts.com. Rug: Alfombras Peña, alfombraspena .com. PAGES 68–69: Curtains fabric: Créations Métaphores, créations-métaphores.com. Range: La Cornue, lacornueusa .com. Headboard fabric: Zimmer + Rohde, zimmer-rohde .com. Bench: Bruno Moinard, brunomoinardeditions .com. Carpet: Codimat, codimatcollection.com.
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Architecture: Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, WORKac, work.ac. PAGES 58–59: Sofas: Caravane, caravane.co.uk. Speakers: Audio Physic, audiophysic .com. Rug: ABC Carpet & Home, abchome.com. Fireplace: CF + D, customfireplacedesign.com. PAGES 60–61: Dining table: Arnold de Vinck, arnolddevinck.com. Mirror: Holler & Squall, holler andsquall.com. Paneling: TorZo Surfaces, torzosurfaces.com. Candlesticks: Serena & Lily, serenaandlily.com. Cooktop, oven, and hood: Wolf, subzerowolf.com. Refrigerator: SubZero, subzero-wolf.com. Sink: Franke, franke.com. Fittings: Grohe, grohe.us. Countertop: Stone Source, stonesource .com. Backsplash tiles: Mutina, mutina.it. PAGES 62–63: Staircase: 4th State Metals, 4thstatemetals .com. Television: Samsung, samsung.com. Wallpapers: Timorous Beasties, timorousbeasties .com; Morris & Co., stylelibrary .com. Poufs: Softline, softline .dk. Curtains fabric: Maharam, maharam.com. Wall paint: Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore .com. Bedding: Serena & Lily. Throw pillow: Frontgate, frontgate.com. HEAVENS D’OR
Interior design: Linda Pinto, Alberto Pinto Interior Design, albertopinto.com. PAGES 64–65: Sofa fabric:
Interior design: Alejandra Redo, AR Interior Design, alejandraredo.com. PAGES 72–73: Photograph: Gonzalo Lebrija, gonzalolebrija.com. Tableware: Artemide, artemide .com. PAGES 74–75: Floor tiles: Mooma Mosaicos, mooma mosaicos.com. Side table, mirror, and outdoor chairs: Casamidy, casamidy.com. GLOW UP
Architecture: Roger Ferris, Roger Ferris + Partners, ferrisarch.com. Interior design: Jenny Fischbach, Jenny Fischbach Design, jennyfischbachdesign.com.
PAGES 78–79: Sofas: Minotti,
ddcnyc.com. Armchairs: Homenature, homenature.com. Armchairs fabric: Fortuny, fortuny.com. Cocktail table: Fernando Mastrangelo, fernando mastrangelo.com. Ceiling light fixture: LightArt, lightart .com. Windows and doors: MHB, mhb.eu. Paint: Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore .com. Wall lights: Ralph Pucci, ralphpucci.net. Flooring: Exquisite Surfaces, xsurfaces .com. Artwork: Meghann Riepenhoff, meghannriepenhoff .com. Sectional: Homenature. Sectional fabric: Holland & Sherry, hollandandsherry.com. Ottoman leather: Holly Hunt, hollyhunt.com. Side table: Desiron, desiron.com. Dining chairs: Vica, vicadesign.com. Dining table: Asher Israelow, asherisraelow.com. Console table: Gregory Nangle, wexlergallery.com. Refrigerator: Sub-Zero, subzero-wolf.com. Range: Thermador, thermador .com. Hood: Bertazzoni, us.bertazzoni.com. Cabinetry: Bulthaup, bulthaup.com. PAGES 80–81: Neon sign: Name Glo, name-glo.com. Bed linens: James Perse, jamesperse.com. Pillows: Ralph Lauren Home, ralphlaurenhome.com. Armchairs and ottoman: Galerie Negropontes, negropontes-galerie.com. Lounge chairs: Gandia Blasco, gandiablasco.com. Umbrellas: Tuuci, tuuci.com.
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BDDW’S TYLER HAYS BRINGS ART AND CRAFT TO THIS ONE-OF-A-KIND JIGSAW PUZZLE. PRODUCED BY PARKER BOWIE L ARSON PHOTOGR APH BY ALLIE HOLLOWAY
Tyler Hays, founder of the Philadelphiabased design brand BDDW, has earned a cult following for his beautifully crafted handmade furniture, including walnutslab dining tables and credenzas featuring delicate hardware. Hays has also put his stamp on ceramics and clothing, and more recently he’s even ventured into jigsaw puzzles for his New York boutique, M. Crow. This unique Bather puzzle consists of nearly 500 hand-painted, cut, and shellacked 84
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wooden pieces that have been permanently affixed to a custom oak frame measuring 58 by 82 inches. Hays’s imagery pays homage to the 19th-century European artistic ideal of the bather, while its format coolly elevates the status of the common jigsaw puzzle into the realm of art.
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