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THE INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AUTHORITY SEPTEMBER 2021

the style issue

fashion insiders from New York to Nigeria

BEHATI PRINSLOO & ADAM LEVINE find their groove in Los Angeles

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CONTENTS september 20 Editor’s Letter 22 Object Lesson

Michel Ducaroy’s Togo Sofa BY HANNAH MARTIN

25 Discoveries

AD visits Eva Chen’s Connecticut getaway ... Louis Vuitton updates its classic portable desk ... Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin evolves and endures ... Bulgari celebrates Rome ... The designing sisters behind Rimowa’s new NYC flagship ... Updating Portofino’s Splendido Mare ... Frank Gehry’s design for the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles ... Marcel Breuer’s bohemian rhapsody ... And more!

72 House Music

At their idyllic L.A. home, superstar Adam Levine and model Behati Prinsloo Levine forgo bling in favor of serenity, connoisseurship, and ample natural beauty. BY MAYER RUS

82 Mood Elevator

Thanks to the avant-garde antics of Job Smeets, Rolf Snoeren’s Amsterdam penthouse puts a smile on his face from morning to night. BY MITCHELL OWENS

92 Cool Operators

Carlos Mota fashions an exuberant Los Angeles residence for model Jessica Hart. BY CARLY OLSON

A COZY KID’S ROOM AND THE INVITING OUTDOOR CONVERSATION PIT (ABOVE) AT ADAM LEVINE AND BEHATI PRINSLOO LEVINE’S L.A. RESIDENCE.

104 Mythic Splendor

For Pierre Hardy and his husband, Vincenzo de Cotiis elegantly blends old and new in a fresco-embellished Paris apartment.

BEHATI PRINSLOO LEVINE (WEARING A DRIES VAN NOTEN SWEATER AND JEWELRY BY BULGARI AND DAVID YURMAN) AND ADAM LEVINE (WEARING A DIOR HOMME SHIRT, LOST DAZE JEANS, DIOR SHOES, AND A ROLEX WATCH) AT HOME IN L.A. “HOUSE MUSIC,” PAGE 72. PHOTOGRAPHY BY WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ. STYLED BY AMY CHIN. FASHION STYLING BY MATT GOLDMAN (ADAM) AND DANI MICHELLE AT THE ONLY AGENCY (BEHATI).

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WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ (2).

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CONTENTS september

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INI ARCHIBONG IN FRONT OF HIS PAVILION OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN LONDON.

122

JENNI KAYNE’S LIGHTFILLED LIVING ROOM.

112 New School

With his poetic designs, artist and designer Ini Archibong centers the Black experience. BY EVAN NICOLE BROWN

116 Best Dressed

Fashion entrepreneur Reni Folawiyo stylishly outfits her penthouse in Lagos, Nigeria. BY LOLA OGUNNAIKE

122 Peaceable Kingdom

Working with Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen, L.A. tastemaker Jenni Kayne crafts a tranquil home. BY MAYER RUS

The designers, architects, and products featured this month.

136 One to Watch

Ceramic artist Woody De Othello channels the improvisatory energy of jazz. BY HANNAH MARTIN

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THE PETIT SALON AT PIERRE HARDY’S PARIS HOME.

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134 Resources

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STAY AUTHENTIC “THE BEADBOARD MADE THE ROOM,” SHE RECALLS OF THE CLASSIC COUNTRY WALL TREATMENT IN BENJAMIN MOORE’S WEDGEWOOD GRAY. BENJAMINMOORE.COM

RENOVATION AND DIY INSPIRATION FROM THE ISSUE

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“I’m very much a kitchen person,” says Eva Chen, reflecting on the renovation of her young family’s Connecticut weekend home (page 25). “Chinese culture is centered on food, so the kitchen is the gathering spot. I wanted ours to be cozy.” And cozy it became, thanks to some deft design choices. We’ve outlined her recipe.... 18

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editor’s letter

1. COVER COUPLE ADAM LEVINE AND BEHATI PRINSLOO LEVINE LOUNGE IN L.A. 2. RENI FOLAWIYO HOLDS COURT IN LAGOS, NIGERIA. 3. SUPER INFLUENCER EVA CHEN TAKES A FAMILY BREAK. 4. MODEL JESSICA HART AND HER DAUGHTER IN HER CHARMING L.A. HOUSE WITH INTERIORS BY CARLOS MOTA. 5. CALI LIFESTYLE GURU JENNI KAYNE IN HER VINCENT VAN DUYSEN– DESIGNED HOUSE.

“We didn’t want a palatial McMansion. That’s just not who we are. In a world where nothing ever seems to be enough, our home feels like a genuine unicorn, our perfect sanctuary.” —Adam Levine

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AMY ASTLEY Editor in Chief @amyastley

FROM TOP: DANIEL OBASI; WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ; CHRIS MOTTALINI; DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN; STEPHEN KENT JOHNSON.

What makes compiling the annual September Style issue such a creative thrill is that along with scouting out superlative homes, the editors are equally intent upon presenting a cast of fascinating characters. Take our cover duo: Adam Levine is an L.A. legend for his real estate acumen in addition to his music career, and AD100 designer Tommy Clements approvingly describes his client as “an obsessive design junkie.” In the storied, dreamy Pacific Palisades property Levine shares with his supermodel wife, Behati Prinsloo Levine, the couple eschew rock-star trappings, living in understated splendor among their impressive collection of major art and furniture. At the opposite end of the aesthetic spectrum is the utterly original Amsterdam lair of Rolf Snoeren, one half of the surrealistic Dutch fashion house Viktor & Rolf. Conceived by design provocateur Job Smeets of Studio Job, the apartment quite amazingly calls to mind amusement parks, Disney castles, the Flintstones, and Playmobil. In Lagos, Nigeria, we pay a visit to local fashion and social luminary Reni Folawiyo, owner of renowned luxury shop Alára, which was designed by Sir David Adjaye. Folawiyo’s sprawling duplex penthouse has plenty of “wow” factor, and her epic terrace, with its breathtaking views and infinity pool, “has achieved near-mythical status 5 in the megacity,” according to writer Lola Ogunnaike. And that’s not all. The grand Paris apartment of celebrated fashion designer Pierre Hardy, reimagined by AD100 talent Vincenzo De Cotiis? Yes. A tour of the minimal masterpiece AD100 architect Vincent Van Duysen created from the ground up for California lifestyle guru Jenni Kayne? Yes! Instagram power player and mega influencer Eva Chen finally off-duty in her family’s weekend getaway? Check! Supercool model Jessica Hart in her perfectly pretty L.A. house? Yes, yes, yes. Enjoy our fashionable crew, tastemakers one and all.

object lesson

THE STORY BEHIND AN ICONIC DESIGN

Togo Party

Michel Ducaroy’s slouchy 1973 seating for Ligne Roset is all the rage once more

examined his aluminum toothpaste tube, which, he said,

One quick sketch later it inspired his most recognizable design—Togo, a cushy, crimped, ground-hugging sofa series.

1. A SUITE OF RETRO TOGOS IN USE. 2. COLLECTOR JONNY RIBEIRO’S BROOKLYN HOME. 3. ACTOR COLMAN DOMINGO AT HOME IN L.A. 4. TOGO SOFA FOR LIGNE ROSET. 5. AN L.A. HOME BY REATH DESIGN.

1. & 4. © LIGNE ROSET. 2. MAX BURKHALTER. 3. JENNA PEFFLEY. 5. LAURE JOLIET.

forgot or didn’t have time to build one.” Still, Togo won the René-Gabriel prize for high quality at a fair price. Its comfort soon swayed the naysayers, becoming an icon of groovy 1970s-era design with a range of modular sizes that could be mixed and matched. Comfy, affordable, and easy to move, Togo has a dedicated fan club: Musician and designer Lenny Kravitz installed a quartet in his Paris town house; more than a decade ago, Kelly Wearstler placed one in her kids’ room in Beverly Hills. But in the last year or two, a new crop of young, Instagram-savvy design lovers has gone gaga for Togo (there’s even been a recent proliferation of Togo memes). “It’s kind of like sitting on a cloud,” says Ed Be, cofounder of the Brooklyn design destination Lichen, where Togos are a top client request. (Ligne Roset sells new ones from $2,645, but vintage models—particularly in leather—still carry a certain cachet.) “It relieves the joints and forces you to recline ever so slightly.” Other disciples include actor Colman Domingo, collector-dealer Jonny Ribeiro, and French fashion insider Clara Cornet, who reports that her faux-leather Togo is equal parts stylish and kid-friendly. Plus, she gushes, “It’s the coziest!” ligne-roset.com —HANNAH MARTIN 5 22

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he algorithm doesn’t lie. Slowly but surely, the Explore grid on Eva Chen’s Instagram feed morphed from shoes, bags, and beauty serums into ceramics, mirrors, and house tours. Meanwhile, words like patina and names like Paul McCobb began to pepper her conversations and thoughts. All signs pointed to her latest project: the reno vation of a Connecticut country home for her young family. For Chen, a bornandraised New Yorker and sartorial superstar who now works as Instagram’s Director of Fashion and Shopping Partnerships, these newfound fixations marked an even larger shift. “I grew up a firstgeneration American in Greenwich Village and didn’t know a landscape beyond Manhattan,” she reflects. “To me, nature was Washington Square Park.” A weekend at Troutbeck hotel with her husband, Tom Bannister, an advertising creative director, introduced her to the lowkey delights of that sylvan stretch where upstate New York meets Litchfield County. Suddenly the consummate city girl had her sights set on the simple life. “We fell in love with the quietness and with the landscape, which was wild and not groomed to perfection,” she says, adding that, with two young kids, Ren and Tao, “we needed a break from the weekend birthdayparty, playground, park sprinkler grind.” (The couple recently welcomed their third, River.) After a search that Chen, also a celebrated children’s book author, likens to the story of Goldilocks, they fell in love with a contemporary Cape Cod house on nearly 10 untamed acres of land. “Some homes were too big, some were too small, but this one felt immediately right,” she recalls of its 2,800 square feet. “The bones were good. The energy was good. I could tell another family had been happy here.”

1. CHEN WITH REN, TAO, AND RIVER (ON THE WAY). 2. IN THE LIVING ROOM, CB2 SIDE TABLES, A VINTAGE PAUL MCCOBB COCKTAIL TABLE FROM CHAIRISH, A LAWSONFENNING SOFA, STONE AND SAWYER TABLE LAMPS, VITSOE SHELVES, AND A WORKSTEAD GLOBE LIGHT.

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Emeline’s whimsical design narrative is rooted in authenticity and timeless elegance, deftly presented without a hint of pretentiousness. Reading more like a living room than a lobby, the hotel’s foyer is flush with greenery and humble materials like walnut, concrete, and glass. Adding to the lived-in sense of place are decorative works from local creatives, including a fiber installation by artist Suzanne Le Méhauté, a vitrine stocked with Lowcountry curiosities (think taxidermy birds and turtle

shells) by Sisal Creative, and a mural behind the check-in desk from painter Whitney Stoddard. More art resides in The Foxhole, a hallway mini-gallery that links the main building with the garden courtyard. Don’t sleep on retail nook Keep Shop, where an exquisite curation of home goods and accessories awaits. With bespoke embroidered Matouk linens, Red Flower amenities, and a Crosley turntable to tune into the hotel’s robust vinyl collection, guest rooms and suites were designed to spoil their occupants. Drapery and upholstered furniture bask in hues like emerald, sky blue, and ochre that recall the Low Country’s ecological bounty. Walls are also adorned with works from

Emeline’s art program, like custom-shot still life photography of significant objects and framed vintage posters from Charleston’s Spoleto Festival, an annual extravaganza that celebrates the performing arts. With Emeline’s opening, Charleston added two fabulous dining destinations to its already impressive roster. Start off the day with locally roasted Second State coffee and country ham at cafe Clerks Coffee Company. Then for dinner, snag a courtyard table at signature restaurant Frannie & The Fox, where chef Tim Morton’s wood-fired pizzas and seafood dishes steal the show each night. Soon enough, Emeline will start to feel like home.

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1. ABOVE THE COUPLE’S LAWSON-FENNING BED IS AN ESTATE-SALE FIND. 2. THE KITCHEN’S PLAIN ENGLISH ISLAND, BERTAZZONI RANGE, AND WORKSTEAD PENDANTS; PAINT BY BENJAMIN MOORE. 3. A B&B ITALIA CAMALEONDA SECTIONAL AND FAYCE TEXTILES WALLPAPER IN THE ATTIC PLAY AREA. 4. NELSON THIN EDGE BED FROM DESIGN WITHIN REACH.

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At the recommendation of their realestate agent and friends, the couple enlisted the Connecticutbased design firm Hendricks Churchill to update the home. “I introduced myself over DM, my primary form of communication,” Chen jokes. “Heide [Hendricks] and Rafe [Churchill] really understood how to unlock the potential of the house, to make it warm and elegant and not too precious.” Down came a wall, opening up the living room to allow for several seating areas, with ample space for Ren and Tao to build forts while mom and dad, both avid readers, bury their noses in books. In the kitchen, the removal of partitions yielded an equally multipurpose space, with a dining area, fireplace, window seat, and new beadboard walls that satisfied Chen’s call for coziness. And the conversion of the attached garage into a bedroom anticipated visits from her parents, now regular guests. Throughout the home, meanwhile, Hendricks Churchill updated windows, details, and finishes for optimal light and visual cohesion. “Our goal was not to reinvent the house but to make it work better,” notes Churchill. Adds Hendricks: “It all just sort of flows.” She also worked hand in hand with the couple to furnish the rooms, pulling together sturdy, stylish pieces that could withstand the rhythms of their rowdy brood. Some come from showrooms Chen has long admired, places like Plain English, ABC Carpet & Home, and Apparatus. Others were sourced at estate sales or Reservoir, Hendricks Churchill’s own trove of antique treasures. And many were online discoveries, from art works seen on Tappan Collective to vintage finds on Etsy and 1stDibs. “I’ve always loved the thrill of the hunt,” Chen notes. Since the family moved into the home in the summer of 2020, the slog of urban parenting has given way to long, happy country days, as Ren and Tao splash around the pond and sur vey the grounds, looking for newts, dragonflies, geese, turtles, and bunnies. “Losing structure has been the greatest gift,” says Chen. “I never thought I’d be that person in gardening clogs.” —SAM COCHRAN

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Out-of-Office Reply

Digging into its archives, Louis Vuitton reinvents an iconic 1929 bureau for today’s remote-work era 34

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n July 1929—when the Roaring Twenties were still roaring— celebrated British orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski commissioned Louis Vuitton to design and produce a portable secretary. By then, the Paris luggage company, founded by French master trunk maker Louis Vuitton in 1854, had produced an impressive, if curious, array of specialty designs. The Bed Trunk, which contained a folding cot, was favored by 19th-century explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza; the Library Trunk was commanded by Encyclopædia Britannica to deliver its 29-volume 11th edition to customers; and the Shoes Trunk was requested by American opera diva Lily Pons for her ample collection of pumps. Upon receiving Stokowski’s order, the design team—led by Louis’s son Georges at the company’s original workshop in the Paris suburb of Asnières-sur-Seine— set about reconfiguring the traditional malle, or travel trunk, to meet Stokowski’s needs. When opened, a desk swung up and perched on foldable legs. There were bookshelves, a typewriter compartment, and drawers large enough to hold sheet music. (There was no need for a baton; Stokowski famously started the trend of conducting with his hands.) While the exterior was enveloped with the luxury house’s traditional Monogram canvas, an ecru–and–burnt sienna jacquard with geometric and floral motifs and the founder’s initials, the interior was lined with soothing gray swallow Vuittonite, a waterproof material introduced by Louis in 1854 and later popularized for automobile luggage. For many years, the Stokowski, as it became known, was one-of-a-kind. But it was such a smart and enviable design that the company eventually made it available for special orders, adding a compartment for a folding stool. It has remained in production ever since. Versions now reside in the company’s archives and in La Galerie Louis Vuitton, located at the Asnières-surSeine compound.

COURTESY OF LOUIS VUITTON.

LOUIS VUITTON’S SECRÉTAIRE BUREAU 2.0 (FOREGROUND) WITH ITS VINTAGE PREDECESSOR.

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TRUNK SHOW

An abbreviated history of Louis Vuitton’s Monogram canvas 1854

LOUIS VUITTON PIONEERS WATERPROOF CANVAS, ORIGINALLY OFFERED IN TRIANON GRAY AND ENCIRCLED WITH IRON SLATS (1879 VERSION SHOWN).

1. AN ARCHIVAL SKETCH OF THE 1929 SECRÉTAIRE BUREAU, COMMISSIONED BY CONDUCTOR LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI. 2–3. ORIGINAL VERSIONS OF THE STOKOWSKI.

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LOUIS VUITTON MEN’S ARTISTIC DIRECTOR VIRGIL ABLOH DEBUTS HIS OWN WATERCOLOR VARIATION ON THE MONOGRAM, SEEN HERE ON A SKATEBOARD TRUNK.

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Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of company founder Louis Vuitton’s birth, the brand has introduced the Secrétaire Bureau 2.0, an update of the Stokowski with modern needs in mind. The desk is larger, to accommodate laptops, as are compartments for storage. There is a cable passage for efficient wire management, a “smart top” that keeps the trunk organized when closed, and a lid lining that can serve as a bulletin board. As with all Vuitton trunks, carpenters craft a structure made of three types of wood: poplar for framework; okoume, a light, resistant African wood, for the body and lid; and beech for decorative and reinforcing laths. The interior is available finished with varnished beechwood or straw marquetry. And like all specialty Vuitton trunks, it is made to order, price upon request. Delivery time: one year. At a time when remote working is increasingly the norm, this luxurious take is anything but ordinary. louisvuitton.com —DANA THOMAS

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Sister Act

Tapped by the likes of Rimowa, Sanam, Laylee, and Safura Salek make bold ideas a family affair

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1. FROM LEFT, SISTERS SANAM AND LAYLEE SALEK OF MA-MA (MA-MA.COM) AND SAFURA SALEK OF MASS STUDIO (MASS-STUDIO.NET) IN MANHATTAN’S NEW RIMOWA FLAGSHIP, THEIR LATEST COLLABORATION. 2. THE SOHO SPACE FEATURES CONCRETEAND-CORIAN-CLAD TABLES AND A MIRRORED-ALUMINUM PHOTO BOOTH (RIMOWA.COM). 1. SEAN PRESSLEY 2. RAFAEL GAMO.

he material details, the narrative, the experience—we each bring something different to a project,” says Sanam Salek, reflecting on collaborations with her older and younger sisters, Safura and Laylee, all three designers. In New York City, this trio of rising stars has carried that threepronged approach into the new Rimowa flagship, a SoHo showcase for the German brand’s coveted luggage and accessories. “It was important to create a really flexible floor plan and fixtures that allowed for different customer experiences,” Laylee says of the 550-square-foot shop, as slick as a Rimowa suitcase with adjustable, wall-mounted aluminum-and-polycarbonate shelves and concrete-and-Corian-clad tables. At the back, a cylindrical capsule of mirrored aluminum contains a passport-photo booth, lending a futuristic feel to an often irksome process. “You can retake as many times as you want,” notes Sanam. Raised in Los Angeles in a creative household, the siblings first began collaborating in 2012, when they teamed up to renovate their family’s 1960s home in Brentwood. By that time, Safura, who has a degree in architecture, had founded Mass Studio, where her younger sisters lent a hand. In 2018, Sanam and Laylee—by then alums of BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group and OMA, respectively—launched their own multidisciplinary design firm, Ma-Ma, attracting clients like Nike, Hypebeast, and Houseplant, Seth Rogen’s cannabis company. But even as two separate studios (Ma-Ma is based in New York, Mass Studio is bicoastal) they’ve always worked together. And nowadays they are extending their reach to all sorts of projects, including California residences in Mount Washington (in Los Angeles) and Santa Ynez. As the world opens back up, they’re hoping to land more retail jobs and launch a long-simmering collection of furniture. Some prototypes they’ve been experimenting with include a laminated-plywood unit combining two chairs and a table, and a sculptural bench made from PVC pipe and lacquered MDF. “It’s a chair but not obviously a chair,” says Sanam of the latter. “We like when people can have different perceptions of our work.” —HANNAH MARTIN

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tudy nature, love nature, stay close to nature; it will never fail you.” So mused the world’s first starchitect, Frank Lloyd Wright. It’s a walk he walked and a talk he talked at Taliesin, as AD noted in a 2004 visit to his beloved home and school, set among the rock outcroppings and mature trees of rural Wisconsin. Until his death in 1959, the estate (begun in 1911 and rebuilt after fires in 1914 and 1925) continued to evolve, offering a laboratory for his designs. “He saw the built environment as a way to connect people and lives,” notes Stuart Graff, president and CEO of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Today the organization is looking to the past and future, endeavoring to, as Graff explains, “present Wright in ways that encourage people to take his ideas and act on them.” A comprehensive conservation plan for Taliesin is under way, with stabilization work to Wright’s bedroom, erected upon ashes, on the horizon. Among other ongoing projects is the restoration of the Hillside Theatre, in anticipation of live performances for the public. As Graff reflects, “The goal is not just to preserve the structures but preserve the values and ideas that underpin them, and the life that existed within them.” After its much-publicized parting with the

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new ways to welcome people on-site at Taliesin and at its sister Arizona campus, Taliesin West, partnering with universities on immersion programs and welcoming contemporary-art installations. (The school, since renamed, recently moved to Cosanti and Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri’s experimental home and community.) All the while, new brand partnerships are reimagining Wright’s interest in licensing projects, which date to the 1950s, when he collaborated with Schumacher on fabrics and Henredon on furniture. Earlier this summer, the foundation and Brizo announced a new collection of bath fixtures in the tradition of Wright that will be available this fall. And there’s more on the way. “Moving forward, the focus will be how to use Wright’s work to inspire a new generation of designers,” says Graff of the collaboration, which bears the spirit if not the signature of the architect himself. “Wright’s legacy is all about connection.” —SAM COCHRAN

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his childhood in Venezuela.) With a gift from Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen, the L.A. Phil was able to acquire and transform a former bank building in Inglewood, a small city near LAX. Enter Gehry, determined to create the best possible education-and-performance center on a tight $14.5 million budget. Gehry knows that, for optimal o understand Frank Gehry’s latest project, it helps to know a few things about the 92-year-old, reverberation, live music has to be able to travel 45 feet up before being reflected downward; he persuaded YOLA to cut a Los Angeles–based architect. First, he is happy to do buildings that don’t bear his signature flour- hole in the floor and cut a hole in the ceiling to get that height. As a result, Gehry says, “the YOLA students are getting the ishes. (His ongoing update to the Philadelphia same stage dimensions and acoustics as the L.A. Philharmonic. Museum of Art has won raves, and there isn’t a As an architect, this is what I can do to show these kids that crumpled metal wall in sight.) Second, in his 10th decade, he is devoting a big chunk of his time to pro bono work. (And this they are intrinsically worthy of the best our society can offer.” When the resulting concert hall isn’t being used for live at a time when he can have his pick of lucrative commissions.) performances, it can be divided into a pair of rehearsal spaces. Third, he is a classical-music nut, whose work on the Walt The architecture is spare, almost utilitarian, but there’s beauty Disney Concert Hall—home of the L.A. Philharmonic, headed everywhere you look. Gehry calls the building “one of the most by conductor Gustavo Dudamel—was a labor of love. important things I have done in my life.” laphil.com That explains his devotion to the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA), which provides free instruments, intensive —FRED A. BERNSTEIN music training, and academic support to more than 1,300 stuDESIGNED PRO BONO BY FRANK GEHRY, THE NEW JUDITH dents from disadvantaged neighborhoods. (Dudamel has based AND THOMAS L. BECKMEN YOLA CENTER AT INGLEWOOD PROVIDES YOLA on a program that nurtured his own musicianship during MUSIC EDUCATION TO MORE THAN 1,300 STUDENTS.

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Armchair travel doesn’t disappoint, but for Breuer buffs ready to really make the journey, the new Hotel Marcel beckons. Opening in January, the project revives the architect’s 1970 Pirelli Tire Building (a vacant Brutalist tower in New Haven, Connecticut) as boutique lodgings, with 165 guest rooms carved from the office floors and a showstopper lobby. (Think terrazzo and travertine galore.) And thanks to the expert interventions of architect/developer Becker + Becker and Dutch East Design, Hotel Marcel was conceived to be net-zero and meet Passive House standards. Sleep soundly. hotelmarcel.com —SAM COCHRAN

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ames Crump, the intrepid director, writer, and art historian, has done the impossible, crafting a smart, serious architecture documentary that isn’t hopelessly dry and boring. His latest film, Breuer’s Bohemia, takes an incisive look into the roiling cultural milieu in which Marcel Breuer crafted some of his most groundbreaking residential projects. It’s a tale of inspiration and decadence, rife with heavy drinking and free love, all set against a backdrop of leftist politics and social iconoclasm incubated in the seemingly staid suburban outposts of Connecticut and Massachusetts. “It’s a real-life version of Frank Perry’s The Swimmer meets Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm. The wild stories of Breuer and his circle of friends and advocates have all the necessary dramatic tension required for a film,” says Crump, who, in 2017, acquired the architect’s landmark Stillman House II in Litchfield, Connecticut, with his wife, Ronnie Sassoon, the documentary’s producer. “I wanted to explore the complex ways that Breuer’s architecture collided with the private lives of his patrons, how these houses both embodied and rejected the utopian ambitions of modernism,” the director continues, describing the triumph of Breuer’s residential 2 masterpieces as well as their underbelly of heartache and dysfunction. 1. MARCEL AND CONNIE BREUER AT HOME IN LINCOLN, MASSACHUSETTS, Through archival footage and interviews AND NEW CANAAN, CONNECTICUT (4). with historians, cultural icons (Alexander 2. BREUER’S 1949 EXHIBITION HOUSE AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Calder, Arthur Miller, William Styron, et al.), IN MANHATTAN. 3. STILLMAN HOUSE II, and family members who actually grew up in LITCHFIELD, CONNECTICUT. these radical houses, Crump’s documentary paints a nuanced, multivalent portrait of a subject typically examined through the limited lens of architectural bravado and sublime design. The release of a companion book, Breuer’s Bohemia (The Monacelli Press), written by the director, is set to coincide with the film launch on September 14 on Vimeo. breuersbohemia.com. —MAYER RUS

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RASHID JOHNSON. BEHATI: HAIR BY MICHAEL SILVA USING ORIBE AT THE WALL GROUP; MAKEUP BY NIKKI DEROEST USING ALLIES OF SKIN AT THE WALL GROUP. ADAM: HAIR BY SHAUL ARBIV; GROOMING BY DARCY GILMORE.

ADAM LEVINE (WEARING A MAISON MARGIELA SWEATER, RICK OWENS PANTS, AND UNION x JORDAN NIKE SNEAKERS) AND BEHATI PRINSLOO LEVINE (IN A KHAITE TOP, HELMUT LANG TROUSERS, BOTTEGA VENETA SHOES, AND BULGARI JEWELRY) IN THE DINING ROOM. (ADAM’S FASHION STYLING BY MATT GOLDMAN; BEHATI’S BY DANI MICHELLE AT THE ONLY AGENCY.)

CUSTOM CHAIRS OF TUBULAR STEEL AND OAK SURROUND A CLEMENTS DINING TABLE OF CHARRED WALNUT. AN ALBERT OEHLEN DRAWING HANGS ABOVE THE ORIGINAL FIREPLACE. THE PAINTING ON THE FAR WALL IS BY RICHARD PRINCE.

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“Adam and Behati like to live with beautiful things, but in a super-casual way, where the kids have the run of the house, and friends and family are always welcome,” designer Kathleen Clements notes.

A PAIR OF JACQUES ADNET CHAIRS SITS IN THE DEN, WHERE THE COLOR PALETTE TURNS A BIT MOODIER. THE VASE ON THE BAR IS BY CHRIS BROCK POTTERY, AND THE PAINTING IS BY HENRY TAYLOR. THE LEVINES WORK WITH ART ADVISER MEREDITH DARROW.

at the home of Adam and Behati Prinsloo Levine doesn’t seem very, well, rock-and-roll-y. Or supermodel-y, for that matter. The rooms aren’t cavernous, there’s no crazy waterfall or lagoon, and instead of zebra stripes and patent leather, all the furniture is covered in lovely linens and bouclés. Nothing feels even vaguely louche. To be fair, Adam does own a king’s ransom in groovy, blue-chip sneakers, but the closet where he keeps them has a Rick Owens daybed smack in the middle of it. That’s something you don’t see on your average episode of Cribs. “We didn’t want a palatial McMansion. That’s just not who we are,” insists the Maroon 5 frontman, who is currently

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touring in support of the band’s latest album, Jordi. “We were attracted to this place because it felt homey. You could tell that kids had lived here before,” adds Behati, describing the allure of the couple’s Pacific Palisades property as a refuge for themselves and their two daughters, Dusty and Gio. The couple sold their previous home, completely furnished, when the paint had barely dried after an extensive renovation by the mother-and-son design duo Kathleen and Tommy Clements. “Beverly Hills just started to feel hectic. It’s strangely central, so we felt surrounded by the city. We wanted to live somewhere quieter, where you don’t hear the traffic and feel the stress,” explains Adam, who grew up in Los Angeles and

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went to high school just minutes from their current abode. “The only things we brought were the art and the bonsai trees, which are my other little kids,” Behati says. The home they acquired has an architectural pedigree— ranch-style maestro Cliff May designed the house in the late 1930s—although the original May design had been all but erased in decades of renovations and additions by the time Adam and Behati arrived. Previous owners of the property, which is nestled far off the street and opens out to spectacular views stretching to the ocean, included Gregory Peck, producer Brian Grazer, and Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner.

BELOW VINTAGE LUDVIG PONTOPPIDAN CHAIRS FROM LIEF SURROUND AN AXEL VERVOORDT TABLE BENEATH A SAGE VAUGHN PAINTING IN THE BREAKFAST AREA. OPPOSITE TEAK CHAISE LONGUES BY GLOSTER, GUARDED BY OLIVE TREES, LINE THE POOL. LANDSCAPE DESIGN BY RIOS.

ADAM AND BEHATI once again tapped Clements Design—

the AD100 firm’s first monograph, Eight Homes (Rizzoli), launches this month—to conjure their vision of a high-design, low-pretension family oasis. “We basically stripped it all down. We simplified the materials and color palette and exposed the bones of the house to create a beautiful, neutral backdrop for their collections of art and design,” Tommy Clements notes. “Adam is an obsessive design junkie. He and Behati like to live with beautiful things, but in a super-casual way, where the kids have the run of the house, and friends and family are always welcome,” Kathleen adds. The voluminous living room, commanded by a striking Rashid Johnson canvas, best exemplifies the home’s pervasive vibe of hushed chic and lounge-y luxury with its deliberately low-slung custom seating, classic Jean Prouvé Visiteur chairs, and minimalist basalt slab cocktail tables that hover inches off the floor. “The low daybed isn’t for every client,” Kathleen muses. “I’d need a crane to lift me off, but I think Adam and Behati are fit enough to handle it.”

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Behati underscores the characterization of her husband as a real estate and design freak. “Adam usually takes the driver’s seat in making design decisions. He stays up all night looking at furniture and houses. He should be an interior designer himself,” the Namibian model says. Evidence of the singer’s cultivated tastes can be discerned in every room, from the Jacques Adnet chairs in the den to the Charlotte Perriand desk in the home office and the massive Raymond Pettibon painting that looms above the couple’s bed. “It’s not exactly earthquake-friendly, but we’re willing to die for that piece of art,” Adam jokes. In addition to the Pettibon and Johnson, the couple’s intriguing art collection includes a mix of boldface names— Henry Taylor, Richard Prince, Mary Corse, Mary Weatherford, Albert Oehlen, and others—along with dramatic works by friends Sage Vaughn and Andrew Zuckerman. Commissioned by Behati as a gift for her husband, Vaughn’s trippy painting of a shark floating above a field of flowers provided the cover art for the Jordi album. “When things are chaotic culturally,

RAYMOND PETTIBON. MARY CORSE.

A RAYMOND PETTIBON PAINTING SURMOUNTS A CLEMENTS DESIGN BED UPHOLSTERED IN A PIERRE FREY BOUCLÉ.

“We wanted to live somewhere quieter, where you don’t hear the traffic and feel the stress,” explains Adam Levine. CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE AN ARTWORK BY MARY CORSE GRACES THE LIVING-ROOM FIREPLACE. LOUNGE CHAIRS BY WALDO’S DESIGNS. BEHATI’S DRESSING ROOM HAS A CUSTOM CLEMENTS DESIGN DAYBED, WHILE A RICK OWENS DAYBED FROM CARPENTERS WORKSHOP GALLERY ANCHORS ADAM’S. CLOSET ORGANIZATION BY A DETAILED LIFE.

ANDREW ZUCKERMAN.

ABOVE THE HOME OFFICE IS OUTFITTED WITH AN ANDREW ZUCKERMAN ARTWORK, A CHARLOTTE PERRIAND DESK, MATS THESELIUS CHAIRS, AND A VINTAGE TABRIZ RUG FROM WOVEN. RIGHT MARK RIOS DESIGNED THE SUNKEN CONVERSATION PIT OUTSIDE THE DEN AS A COUNTERPOINT TO THE ELEVATED SEATING PAD AT THE EDGE OF THE BACKYARD.

as they have been for the last half decade, it tends to foster great art. Behati and I have an emotional attachment to everything we collect,” Adam says. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Mark Rios ensured that the house’s

alfresco spaces were just as conducive to easy repose as the interiors. “We created a series of discrete destinations—outdoor rooms that are truly meant for living—to add variety to the experience of the garden,” Rios notes. Those destinations include a raised platform for enjoying the sublime views, a sunken conversation pit off the den for nighttime frolics, and a pool area designed for hanging out as much as swimming. A bevy of mature olive trees ties the backyard to the front of the house, where Rios transformed a banal circular motor court into an Arcadian idyll with lush plantings and irregular stone pathways. “The COVID lockdown made us especially grateful to have this place. In a world where nothing ever seems to be enough, our home feels like a genuine unicorn, our perfect sanctuary,” Adam concludes. Behati puts a finer point on the sentiment: “It’s really all that we need or want.”

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A PLAYMOBIL-STYLE DOOR MARKS THE ENTRANCE TO THE AMSTERDAM HOME OF VIKTOR & ROLF’S ROLF SNOEREN AND HIS HUSBAND, BRANDON O’DELL; THE RESIDENCE WAS DESIGNED BY STUDIO JOB. OPPOSITE THE ROOF TERRACE. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.

mood elevator Thanks to the avant-garde antics of his friend designer Job Smeets, the Amsterdam penthouse of Viktor & Rolf’s Rolf Snoeren puts a smile on his face from morning to night TEXT BY

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“What they do in fashion,” Job Smeets says of Viktor & Rolf, “I do in design.”

A BRONZE FIREPLACE ANCHORS THE LIVING AREA, JOINED BY OTHER STUDIO JOB DESIGNS, SUCH AS THE COCKTAIL TABLE AND BRONZE CHAIR. PIET PARRA’S CUSTOM-MADE FABRIC FOR STUDIO JOB DRESSES THE CASSINA CHAISE LONGUE.

DAVID HOCKNEY.

“It may not be the most functional kitchen,” Smeets says, “but for people who don’t cook, it’s a beautiful kitchen.”

LEFT SNOEREN AND O’DELL. OPPOSITE THE KITCHEN. ARTWORK (AT LEFT) BY DAVID HOCKNEY.

his and creative partner Viktor Horsting’s fantastical ensembles. “What they do in fashion,” Smeets responds, “I do in design.” The couturier’s American husband, Brandon O’Dell, the director of the Amsterdam Dinner Foundation, an NGO focused on the global fight against AIDS, calls the designers “cosmic brothers.” Born on the same day and in the same year, Snoeren and Smeets grew up only about 12 miles apart and likely crossed paths at Efteling, though they didn’t meet until they were in their 20s and working as interns at the same company in Paris. Snoeren also happens to be the godfather of Elvis, Smeets’s toddler son with art and design consultant Rebecca Sharkey. So when he and O’Dell purchased a penthouse in an 1890s former bank building on Keizersgracht, or Emperor’s Canal, Smeets was the only name on their short list, even though he’s conjured only a handful of interiors. “It’s not really something Job does,” Snoeren observes of the designer. “He makes things. But when we were talking about the apartment, he said, ‘I can do this.’ ” The results? Call it a temple to tomfoolery. After an 18-month renovation that was challenged by nightmarish permit mishaps and discussions largely conducted via WhatsApp, Snoeren and O’Dell settled into a gleeful Gesamtkunstwerk where nearly every element—from checkerboard-pattern glass panels to the button-tufted daybed where the couple like to gaze across rooftops in the company of their miniature dachshund, Little Rose—was conceived by Smeets. “It’s a celebration of our friendship,” Snoeren says, noting that the apartment was finished in March 2020, days before Amsterdam went into lockdown. “We moved in, and then we couldn’t leave.” Given the wonderland that Smeets wrought, they were delighted to stay put. The front door is made of shiny brown musement parks are for the young. resin textured with a hearty three-dimensional wood grain, as At least that’s the conventional if taken off the hinges of a Playmobil fort. The living area’s gas wisdom. Job Smeets, however, has fireplace is fronted by a gaping bronze mouth, flames flickernever put away childish things. ing behind bared teeth. A built-in cabinet resembles a grinning For the founder of Studio Job, the robot face, and, à la Studio Job’s punching bag, the kitchen provocative product-design firm, appears to be made of cartoon brick. Says Smeets: “It may not youthful recollections of Efteling— be the most functional kitchen, but for people who don’t cook, the largest theme park in the it’s a beautiful kitchen.” Walls are papered with a flagstone Netherlands—form the DNA of his pattern that Wilma Flintstone would have adored, and a fabric defiantly kitsch creations. Imagine bearing a Dutch artist’s scribbles of pneumatic nudes dresses an armchair in the form of a hamCharlotte Perriand’s iconic chaise longue. The curved stairburger, a punching bag that appears to be made of red brick, case adjacent to the dining area leads to a fire-engine-red roof and a table lamp that mimics a half-peeled banana. “If I can visualize those memories, I can explore new shapes and forms,” terrace shaped like a heart. It’s invisible from the street, due to UNESCO restrictions for Amsterdam’s canal area; Snoeren explains Smeets, who launched Studio Job, headquartered wonders if it can be seen by planes passing overhead. in the Dutch city of Tilburg, in 1998; it also has an outpost in The wackiness is a purposeful rejection of the five-story Milan and is now represented by New York City gallery canal house, just down the street, that Snoeren called home R & Company. “Not everybody needs to live in a modernist for a decade. “It felt like I was living in a status symbol,” white box.” the couturier recalls. The largely open-plan apartment, on the That would include Rolf Snoeren, one half of Viktor & Rolf, other hand, stretches across one floor (“I didn’t want any the Amsterdam fashion house famed for surrealistic haute more stairs,” Snoeren says), is peppered with skylights, and couture that would not look out of place in Efteling’s mock offers city views that take in the late-19th-century church castle. “We try not to lose the inner child,” he explains of

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DAVID ALTMEJD. RITA ACKERMANN.

ABOVE A DAVID ALTMEJD MIRROR SCULPTURE REFLECTS THE DINING AREA. JOSEF HOFFMANN CHAIRS, STUDIO JOB WALLPAPER, TABLE, AND CARPET. THE CUSTOM-MADE STAIRCASE ACCESSES THE ROOF TERRACE. OPPOSITE SNOEREN AND O’DELL’S FAVORITE PERCH IS A STUDIO JOB VELVET DAYBED THAT OVERLOOKS AMSTERDAM. DAVID ALTMEJD SCULPTURE; STUDIO JOB BRONZE TABLE WITH INTEGRATED EIFFEL TOWER LAMP.

where the couple, who met at a yoga class, were married three years ago. Guests included human-rights crusader Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau, who, at her own wedding to the Dutch king’s brother, wore a Viktor & Rolf dress bedecked with more than 200 crepe-georgette bows. “I TOLD JOB we would give him carte blanche,” Snoeren

continues, though he admits to having had second thoughts. The two designers can be equally stubborn, “so maybe it might not have been a good idea,” he gingerly allows. “Creating crazy and stunning is easy for him, but creating warmth, which Brandon wanted, is a bit more of a challenge.” The process went much more smoothly than he expected. O’Dell got the comfort and softness he desired—“The lines are graceful; the forms are rounded”—but he remembers that as the project progressed, “there were a few moments of ‘Oh, my,’ to be very honest.” One was Smeets’s suggestion, swiftly rejected, that he design penis-shaped light fixtures. Another surprise was a powder room tiled entirely in yellow—the color of urine, Smeets informed them. The primary bath, on the other hand, is a seemingly message-free shade of salmon. Smeets’s cheeky inspiration for the powder room’s color scheme “never crossed my mind at all,” says Snoeren, still sounding a bit astonished. “All I could say is, ‘Oh, Job, thank you.’ It does make me laugh. I’m not the happiest person in the world, generally, so when a house can bring you happiness, that’s really something.”

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ABOVE A KARA WALKER WORK SURVEYS THE BEDROOM LOUNGE; STUDIO JOB WALL COVERING AND CABINET, MARZIO CECCHI LOUNGE CHAIR AND OTTOMAN, CLAUDY JONGSTRA CARPET. BELOW RIGHT A STUDIO JOB MIRROR FOR GHIDINI 1961 HANGS IN THE POWDER ROOM; STUDIO JOB PORCELAIN AXE IN NICHE. BELOW LEFT A CUSTOM-MADE CEILING LIGHT RINGED WITH CARNIVAL LIGHTS HOVERS ABOVE VINTAGE SINKS.

THE CUSTOM-MADE TRECA DE PARIS BED IS SET ON STUDIO JOB TURTLE FEET.

HAIR AND MAKEUP BY CASEY GORE USING CHARLOTTE TILBURY AND LUMA BEAUTY AT THE WALL GROUP.

COOL OPERATORS

Australian model Jessica Hart calls on longtime friend Carlos Mota to fashion an exuberant Los Angeles residence for her growing family TEXT BY

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY DOUGLAS

FRIEDMAN

MODEL JESSICA HART (WEARING A VINTAGE T-SHIRT AND DENIM SKIRT) AND ENTREPRENEUR JAMES KIRKHAM (WEARING AN AMIRI SHIRT AND SHORTS AND GOOD ART HLYWD JEWELRY), A FORMER RACE-CAR DRIVER, IN THEIR GARAGE WITH A FERRARI 348 AND A MERCEDES-BENZ AMG GT R. FASHION STYLING BY MARY INACIO. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.

A VINTAGE GLASS GATE OPENS OFF ONE END OF THE KITCHEN, WHICH IS PAINTED A FARROW & BALL YELLOW. VINTAGE SPANISH CEILING LIGHTS; WOLF RANGE.

A MEXICAN RAFFIA LAMP FROM JF CHEN HANGS IN THE BREAKFAST NOOK, AND MOROCCAN BASKETS FROM CREEL AND GOW ADORN THE WALLS. THE VINTAGE WICKER CHAIRS ARE CUSHIONED WITH A CLARENCE HOUSE VELVET.

FLOYD, THE FAMILY’S YORKSHIRE TERRIER, PERCHES ON A VINTAGE DINING CHAIR. THE WALLS ARE SWATHED IN A WALLPAPER DESIGNED BY CARLOS MOTA FOR PIERRE FREY, AND FARROW & BALL’S CALKE GREEN COLORS THE CEILING. CABANA PLATES AND TABLECLOTH; NATURAL WOVEN MAURITANIAN RUG.

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HART, WEARING A TORY BURCH DRESS, TURTLENECK, AND SNEAKERS, AND KIRKHAM (WITH BABY), IN A RHUDE SHIRT AND GALLERY DEPT. PANTS, IN THE LIVING ROOM. ARTWORK BY RICHARD PRINCE FEATURING HART AT LEFT; LEOPARD-PRINT CARPET BY PATTERSON FLYNN MARTIN. FLOWERS HERE AND THROUGHOUT BY ERIC BUTERBAUGH.

ften, friends make the best collaborators. So for Australian model and Luma Beauty founder Jessica Hart and seasoned interiors editor, stylist, and designer Carlos Mota, a decorating partnership was a long time coming. “I’ve just always really admired Carlos’s taste and love for all things colorful and amazing,” says Hart. The pair rolled with the same social circles for years in New York City and even traveled to India. But it wasn’t until Hart geared up for a cross-country move that their stars aligned for a project together. When Mota caught wind that she was giving up her glamorous Gramercy Park apartment (AD, September 2017) for a Spanish-style house in the Hollywood Hills, he immediately offered up his services. “I said, ‘When you move to L.A., I would love to help,’ ” Mota recalls. Things quickly fell into place. Hart decamped from New York to create a home with now-fiancé James Kirkham, a creative entrepreneur and former race-car driver, and his young daughter Wren, who lives with the couple part-time. She and

Mota set up meetings to discuss the vision for the layered, bohemian home. The pair pored over sample fabrics. Custom tiles were put into production. But when COVID hit, around the same time the renovation started, everything came to a standstill. Hart found out she was expecting her first child, and Mota was hunkered down on the opposite coast indefinitely. “I mean, it was a scary time,” Hart says. “I just found out I was pregnant. And my main priority was getting this house to where it needed to be.” It turned out that Mota had no choice but to design the home entirely from afar. (He didn’t even set foot on the property until days before the AD shoot.) Instead of in-person visits, the friends exchanged countless photos and videos. It helped that Hart and Kirkham were more hands-on than Mota’s average clients. Hart would text Mota photos of furniture she found online, and he’d weigh in. When it wasn’t yet safe for contractors to come back to work, Kirkham built the closet cabinetry, painted rooms, and rewired lights. He even learned to weld, thanks to the equipment at his body shop and instructional YouTube videos, building an iron gate that’s seven feet tall for their yard. “I felt like he did just as much as the contractors eventually did,” says Hart. “It all kept coming together one step at a time.”

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SWATHED IN A MUSTARD YELLOW and accented with a stainedglass gate that Hart found leading to the laundry room, the kitchen, too, boasts no shortage of decorative elements. “I like to create kitchens that feel more like rooms,” Mota says, eschewing the typical gadgets and slick surfaces of modern kitchens to maintain the artistic spirit of the home. The adjacent breakfast room is a case study in coziness. Hart considers the “basket room,” wrapped in a cane wall covering, one of her favorite spaces in the house. “L.A. is so bright, you have really great weather all year round, so I wanted to make that room kind of moody,” Mota explains.

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For the primary bath, Hart wanted something pink and girly but still in line with the ornate decorative themes of the common spaces. Mota dug through his treasure trove of samples for the wall covering he envisioned—a Scalamandré pattern based on an Iznik-tiled mural at the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. “Any decorator will tell you they have a library, you know,” he says. To offset the high-ticket panels, Mota dressed only one wall with the print and advised that the others get the painted-stripe treatment. To furnish the eclectic home, Hart and Mota gravitated toward vintage pieces, which they mostly hit upon by combing through online auctions and boutiques. Some of Hart’s favorite finds from her New York apartment even made their way into the mix, like a suite of wicker armchairs and a black Herman Miller bench. Other pieces are less recognizable. Curtains of a green Clarence House velvet—which formerly adorned the 14-foot windows of her Gramercy Park bachelorette pad—now upholster the wicker armchairs. And fabric from her old closet covers a bench in the breakfast room. Today, with daughter Baby born—and a new baby on the way—the arduous process is finally becoming history. “I had no initial expectation; I just knew it would be great with Carlos,” Hart says. “I just trusted him and took his lead.”

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Slowly, the vision began to reveal itself. A combination of Moroccan, Turkish, and Italian design influences, the global mélange is held together by stripes and botanical patterns throughout. Mota devised a combination of patterned wall coverings and graphic stripes to replace the home’s white walls. “I love stripes, and I’ve always loved them on ceilings,” he declares, a nod to Gio Ponti homes of the 1950s. Even the floors of the living and dining rooms got the punched-up treatment with a painted-on diamond pattern overlaid with Mauritanian flat-weave rugs. (Javier Sánchez created the house’s vibrant, painted effects.)

OPPOSITE THE PRIMARY BEDROOM’S WALLS ARE CLAD IN A CUSTOM CASAMOTA FABRIC FROM INDIA. VINTAGE BAMBOO BED; CUSTOM LAMPS BY CASA ALFARERA SANTO DOMINGO; ARMCHAIRS FROM NICKEY KEHOE; VINTAGE CHINESE TABLE. THE CEILING LIGHT IS FROM CIRCA LIGHTING, AND THE RUG WAS FOUND IN HYDRA, GREECE.

RIGHT A WALL COVERED IN A SCALAMANDRÉ PAPER DEFINES THE PRIMARY BATH. TUB BY MTI BATHS; RICHARD PRINCE PORTRAIT. BELOW BABY’S ROOM FEATURES A PINK-PAINTED BED BY CRATE AND KIDS IN D. PORTHAULT LINENS. WINDOWS DRESSED WITH COVERINGS FROM THE SHADE STORE. 1960s BRASS ARMCHAIR; MUSHROOM LAMP BY ATELIER MVM.

Mota devised a combination of patterned wall coverings and graphic stripes to replace the home’s white walls. “I love stripes,” the designer declares.

“I’ve just always really admired Carlos’s taste and love for all things colorful and amazing,” says Jessica Hart.

IN THE LIVING ROOM, VINTAGE WICKER SEATING CLUSTERS AROUND THE COCKTAIL TABLE. A CUSTOM MUSTARD CERAMIC LAMP FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC STANDS IN THE CORNER. OPPOSITE MOTA DESIGNED THE BESPOKE TILES THAT SURROUND THE LIVING-ROOM FIREPLACE. VINTAGE JANSEN DAYBED; CUSTOM PAINTED FLOOR BY JAVIER SÁNCHEZ.

design notes

THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK THE PRIMARY BATH FEATURES A VANITY CONVERTED FROM A VINTAGE DRESSER. LINDEN TABLE LAMP BY KELLY WEARSTLER FOR VISUAL COMFORT; $949. CIRCALIGHTING.COM

TOPKAPI GARDEN WALLPAPER BY NICOLETTE MAYER; TO THE TRADE. SCALAMANDRE.COM

We tried to be conscious and sustainable and reuse as much as we could and not buy anything too new.” —Jessica Hart CANAIMA PANORAMIC WALL COVERING BY CARLOS MOTA FOR PIERRE FREY; TO THE TRADE. PIERREFREY.COM SHROOM LAMP BY ATELIER MVM; $3,500. NICKEY KEHOE.COM

JAIPUR MIRROR BY RILEY SHEEHEY FOR FLEUR HOME; $2,100. FLEUR HOME.COM

MAURITANIAN TUAREG MAT; $9,800. BAZARDUSUD.COM

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INTERIORS: DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN. ALL OTHERS COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES.

EMERALD-AND-PEARLWHITE YORUBA GLASSBEAD CHAIR; $2,644. DAR-LEONE.COM

A JAPANESE LACQUERED TABLE FROM JF CHEN ANCHORS THE LIVING ROOM.

BASKETS; FROM $50. KAZIGOODS.COM

This is truly like a global house— without ever leaving L.A.” —Carlos Mota

BAMBOO BED; $9,350. BUNNYWILLIAMSHOME.COM

THE DINING TABLE IS ADORNED WITH TORY BURCH GLASSES, JULISKA FLATWARE, PLATES AND A TABLECLOTH FROM CABANA, AND VINTAGE MONKEYS FROM THAILAND.

MOROCCAN POM-POM BEDSPREAD; FROM $400. CREELANDGOW.COM

PRESSED-GLASS WATER GLASS; $148 FOR A SET OF FOUR. TORYBURCH.COM BAMBOO FLATWARE; $145 FOR A FIVE-PIECE PLACE SETTING. HUDSONGRACESF.COM

BLOSSOM DESSERT PLATE BY CABANA MAGAZINE; $89. MODAOPERANDI.COM

IN PIERRE HARDY AND CHRISTOPHER TURNIER’S 17TH-CENTURY PARIS APARTMENT, VINCENZO DE COTIIS MIXES HIS OWN SLEEK FURNITURE DESIGNS WITH ANTIQUES AND MINIMALIST ART. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.

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For designer Pierre Hardy and his husband, Christopher Turnier, Vincenzo De Cotiis elegantly blends old and new in a fresco-embellished Paris apartment on the Seine

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DANIEL ARSHAM.

“There was a lot to do,” recalls Pierre Hardy, of the untouched space. the couple turned to De Cotiis for his ability to strip interiors down to their essence, keeping the past intact.

THE BLACK FIBERGLASS KITCHEN FEATURES MARBLE FLOORS AND STAINLESS-STEEL CEILINGS. OPPOSITE A DANIEL ARSHAM PAINTING GAZES INTO AN ANTIQUE MIRROR ABOVE THE MANTEL, WHICH HOLDS LAMPS BY TOBIA SCARPA AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY CINDY SHERMAN.

s soon as we walked in, we knew this was the one,” says the French fashion designer Pierre Hardy, wistfully recalling the moment he and husband Christopher Turnier (CEO of Hardy’s eponymous brand) set foot inside the Seine-gazing 17th-century hôtel particulier on Île Saint-Louis, a small island smack in the middle of Paris that they now call home. They didn’t expect to fall for a place so quickly—after all, Hardy was exacting. There were just a few streets in all of Paris he wanted to live on. But even totally empty and, by all accounts, a bit of a mess, the approximately 2,000-squarefoot apartment was bursting with life—elaborate mythological frescoes covered almost every inch of its soaring, nearly 15-foot ceilings. Apollo, robed in crimson, harp in hand, looked down upon the entrance hall. In the living room, Juno, wife of Jupiter, and Aeolus, Greek god of wind, lounged in the clouds, while Aurora, Roman goddess of dawn—resplendent amid a magnificent medley of cherubs and horses—presided over another room. The masterworks, attributed to the artist Bon Boullogne, best known for his easel paintings found at Versailles and the Louvre, were a serious selling point.

Hardy, a creative director at Hermès who also designed shoes for Dior and Balenciaga before founding his own brand of high-concept kicks (think Ettore Sottsass–inspired pumps, squiggly-soled sneakers), had always decorated his own homes. But for this place, so steeped in history, the couple called on the Milan-based AD100 talent Vincenzo De Cotiis—whose work they had long admired—to usher the interiors into the 21st century. Hardy laughs as he recalls De Cotiis’s casual response to the untouched place: “He was looking around and said, ‘Okay, perfect. Nothing we have to do here.’ ” Of course, Hardy admits, “there was a lot to do.” But that light touch was what had attracted the couple to De Cotiis— his instinct to subtract, rather than add; his ability to strip interiors down to their essence, keeping the past intact. “The space had very strong characteristics—so French and so classic—and we wanted to respect that history,” recalls De Cotiis, surprised to see ornate, frescoed ceilings in Paris. “I tried to join Pierre and Christopher’s contemporary style with the classical atmosphere. The paintings are the protagonists of the house. So the interior needed to be much more minimal.” Architecturally, there was what Turnier calls “a big cleaning.” They removed additions from the apartment’s most recent update in the 1970s and restored it to something closer

LEFT TO RIGHT IN THE PETIT SALON, BRASS SCONCES BY DE COTIIS ADORN THE GILDED WALLS, AND 18TH-CENTURY ARMCHAIRS PULL UP TO A CUSTOM BRASS-AND-FIBERGLASS TABLE. THE UPHOLSTERY FOR THIS SOFA BY DE COTIIS WAS PAINTED TO MATCH THE SEINE. HARDY (LEFT) AND TURNIER PERCHED ON A SILVERED BRASS SOFA BY DE COTIIS.

to its original. (The property itself was built around 1645 by architect Louis Le Vau for Antoine Lefèbvre de la Barre, an adviser to Parliament.) Original parquet floors (lifted, disassembled, and restored in Italy), elaborate bas-reliefs, and carved moldings were refurbished. But De Cotiis balanced that 17th-century classicism with distinctly modern touches: coating walls in plaster, cladding the petite galley kitchen in matte black fiberglass, lining floors in travertine. Perhaps most significant, a silvered brass wainscoting was added to many of the rooms, which, along with a slew of mirrors, new and old, could reflect natural light as well as the surrounding architectural wonders. “We face full south, so during the day the light plays throughout the entire home,” explains Turnier. DE COTIIS TOOK PAINS to create a home that would mesh

with Hardy and Turnier’s lifestyle. “The kitchen is quite tiny because we’re not having a dinner for 12 every night,” explains Hardy, who also confesses, “I hate dining rooms—they’re boring and always empty!” The couple preferred spaces that could transform, day to day, so De Cotiis carved out a series of salons—large, transitional areas for working, relaxing, eating, and entertaining—where they spend the most time.

The couple’s personal things lean rather minimalist, making them excellent foils to a handful of 18th-century antiques and slick custom furniture pieces designed by De Cotiis. In the bedroom, a cherub hovers in the clouds above prints by Sol LeWitt and a monumental custom bed De Cotiis made of hand-painted fiberglass. In the grand salon, custom brass-andfiberglass tables mix with 18th-century armchairs, a silvered brass sofa, and marble 1960s lamps by Tobia Scarpa. The Daniel Arsham painting—a classical bust with cubes for eyes—that gazes out from above the sofa feels like an apt metaphor for the whole place: history, refracted through a modern lens. Hardy and Turnier—excited by a reprieve from the fastpaced world of fashion—found their creative match in De Cotiis. He was happy to spend long hours discussing the precise shade of black leather for the living-room sofa and recommended hand-painting a window-side sofa’s upholstery fabric to perfectly reflect the color of the Seine. The Parisian waterway has become almost an extension of the apartment—an ever present shimmer out the window; a protective barrier between their home and the outside world. Hardy, whose mother’s family hails from Corsica, loves the paradox of this city isle. “It’s in the middle of Paris, but, at the same time, it’s secluded.”

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“The paintings are the protagonists of the house,” Vincenzo De Cotiis notes. “The interior needed to be much more minimal.” OPPOSITE IN THE DRESSING ROOM, THE WARDROBE DOORS ARE COVERED IN PLASTERED FABRIC AND BRASS, THE FLOORS AND TABLE ARE MADE OF TRAVERTINE, AND THE WOOD SCULPTURE IS BY NORMAN DILWORTH.

RIGHT IN THE BEDROOM, A PAINTEDFIBERGLASS BED BY DE COTIIS SITS WITH ARTWORKS BY SOL LEWITT AND DUANE MICHALS, STOOLS BY MIES VAN DER ROHE, AND TWO PERFORATEDSTEEL CHAIRS BY ARTIST ROBERT WILSON. BELOW A TRAVERTINE TUB AND ANTIQUED MIRRORS.

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NEW SCHOOL

With his poetic furniture designs and architectural structures, Switzerland-based artist and designer Ini Archibong is building an aesthetic world that centers the Black experience TEXT BY

EVAN NICOLE BROWN

PHOTOGRAPHY BY

UZO OLEH

NIGERIAN-AMERICAN ARTIST AND DESIGNER INI ARCHIBONG WITH HIS PAVILION OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA, AN ARCHITECTURAL FOLLY AND GATHERING SPACE AT THE LONDON DESIGN BIENNALE.

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