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For a visionary architect of public landscapes, home is a Queen Anne in Virginia with an intimate garden of his own making.
An all-star crew converged on a waterside New York home. The result? Art, design, and landscape are brilliantly aligned.
An ascendant French design star’s youthful exuberance adds high drama to a Paris pied-à-terre.
BY VICTORIA JOHNSON DESIGNER THOMAS WOLTZ
BY PIL AR VIL ADAS DESIGNER JOE NAHEM ARCHITECT BL A ZE MAKOID
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How do you bring downtown cool all the way uptown? You call the design duo Ashe Leandro.
On Portugal’s Comporta coast, Jacques Grange fashions a chic getaway for his effervescent friend Florence Grinda.
The team behind Ishka Designs bridges history and heritage to forge a harmonious brownstone in Brooklyn.
BY NANCY HASS DESIGNERS ASHE LEANDRO
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A French Directoire daybed at Thomas Woltz’s Virginia home (page 110).
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EDITOR’S LET TER The entry hall of a New York City townhouse designed by Ashe Leandro (page 102).
ur 12th annual A-List is here! And with it, we welcome 10 talented inductees to the Class of 2022. The work of this exceptional group embraces a broad range of aesthetic perspectives—from high-drama maximalism to warm minimalist ease. Each of this year’s newcomers offers a top-tier vision for what design can do to change the quality of our lives at home while adding beauty to the world. This round, as in 2021, we considered all of the work we published in print and online over the past five years. And again, we were impressed—and, frankly, gobsmacked—by the incredible breadth of talent on display. And we do mean breadth! Take, for example, our newsstand cover story, a townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, brought to new heights by the talented team at New York studio Ashe Leandro. You think you know Park Avenue? Think again. Or, turn your gaze to our second A-List Issue cover, a Jacques Grange– designed seaside idyll with real style—and a sense of humor—in the Portuguese village of Comporta. 28
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In a piece by historian Victoria Johnson, whose book on 19th-century botanist David Hosack earned her a spot among the 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalists, we also visit the central Virginia home of landscape architect Thomas Woltz. In addition to the handsome interiors of his Queen Anne Victorian, Woltz’s own garden is a testing ground for his acclaimed public projects. Back in New York, we stop in on a Brooklyn brownstone reimagined by Ishka Designs with an eye toward a young family’s comfort—centering design and art that nods to their South Asian and Caribbean heritages. I hope you enjoy each of these stories and more, and that every page inspires you the way it did our team. Meanwhile, if you want to have a truly stylish summer, check out our first-ever A-List Agenda (page 92), featuring hot spots designed by the world’s top talents. ◾
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Tina Frey’s new collection of vases are hand-sculpted in her San Francisco studio. Choose from eight colors.
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MONOCHROME LOUNGER Take a rest on this soft yet sturdy lounger composed of a proprietary handwoven silicone textile that’s stretched over high-performance marine-grade foam. Available in 11 colors. 36″ w. x 36″ d. x 24″ h.; $3,900. shorerugs.com
ES15 CENTERPIECE BOWL In celebration of its 100th anniversary, Alessi launched several special editions of this iconic Ettore Sottsass design, including this style in limewood. 12″ dia. x 6″ h.; $330 each. us.alessi.com
BOLLE GLASS These glasses are blown in Murano using a “bullicante” production technique that results in shimmering gold dots. In eight colors. 3″ dia. x 5″ h.; $95 each. lagunab.com
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RAPSON BAR CART The late midcentury architect Ralph Rapson sketched this bar cart decades ago; his son got it into production, and it’s made using recycled plastic. In nine colors. 22″ w. x 37″ d. x 30″ h.; $1,295. lolldesigns.com
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Yellow bullion fringe ups the glam factor of this cabana-stripe patio umbrella, made in Southern California from Sunbrella solutiondyed acrylic fabric and powder-coated aluminum. Also in aqua or pink stripes. 108″ dia. x 108″ h.; $4,300. santabarbara designs.com
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W H AT’S N E X T The Bar at Ralph Lauren in the brand’s Milan flagship, which opened in the fall of 2021. ralphlauren.com
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ABOVE: October 2010 cover, featuring Lauren’s Manhattan duplex.
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3. MIDDLEBURY PENDANT AP: I’d use it indoors, too! It would be good to install over a billiard table. AR: The leather and brass components provide a nice contrast with the softness of the textiles.
5. CAPTAIN FLINT BY MICHAEL ANASTASSIADES AP: It’s a little Memphis. I’m picturing it in a modern version of a captain’s house on Cape Cod. AR: This looks different from each angle. Head-on it shows one character, but then from the side it has different geometries.
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AR: Really cool. It’s compelling to have sculpture and lighting as one object. AP: I imagine these on a beach path to light the way. 33″ dia. x 63″ h.; price upon request. r-and-company.com
AR: It has an indoor quality. I love that it’s a bridge between inside and out, traditional and contemporary. AP: I like the idea of having this peek out from behind a sofa or in a corner over a card table.
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8. LANTERNE BY ZANELLATO AND BORTOTTO AR: The leather is very in line with what Louis Vuitton does. It’s a bit like a chic handbag. AP: These scream “Morocco.” I’d have them in multiples. 10″ dia. x 20″ h., $7,050; 12″ dia. x 28″ h., $9,350. louisvuitton.com
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Balancing novelty and understated luxury is key to what les vacances mean now.
Cédric Grolet opened a patisserie this spring at the Berkeley in London. the-berkeley.co.uk
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esigner Luc Berger is a soft-spoken 30-something with an unassuming demeanor that belies his accomplishments: We are, after all, taking coffee at Le Meurice, a hotel that is—at least partly—his own design. Berger, along with his partner in business and life, Margaux Lally, is in the midst of a pandemic-spanning project to update guest rooms and suites at the famed Parisian hotel. While the ground-floor public spaces bear the stamp of two earlier Philippe Starck interventions, Lally & Berger recently renovated chambres on the fourth and fifth floors of the hotel as well as the penthouse (work on the third-floor rooms and suites will tentatively begin this fall). Dating back to 1835, Le Meurice could easily have stayed steeped in its past, yet the result of the design duo’s efforts is both considered and comfortable. “We tried to keep the classical spirit of Le Meurice but made it warmer and softer,” Berger says, “with details from the 19th century set against contemporary lighting and color schemes.” The hotel now strikes a studied balance between novelty (guests can enjoy fine dining under a hand-painted canvas ceiling) and understated luxury (rooms feature Jouffre upholstery) that is key to what les vacances mean now. “People still have the same needs and desires, but the domestic component is stronger than before,” says designer Fabrizio Casiraghi, who sees his 46
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hospitality projects as “holistic experiences” encompassing scents, sounds, and sights. “People now expect residential touches even in a hotel room, even at a restaurant,” says Casiraghi. “A private, cozy atmosphere is preferable to a sensational one.” He would know. In the past two years, Casiraghi has overseen the design of Saint-Tropez’s Hôtel La Ponche as well as the Bellevue Hotel, opening later this year in London, a capital that has recently found itself at the top of many an itinerary. Design-wise, there’s plenty in the posh West End to warrant a visit: the revamped Beaumont in Mayfair; drinks at the Connaught’s newest bar, the Red Room; or a tisane with pastry chef Cédric Grolet, who got his start at Le Meurice under Alain Ducasse and has just opened his first patisserie outside France at the Berkeley in London. Back at Le Meurice, I am faced with a choice: unwind in my redesigned suite or take a stroll through the Jardin des Tuileries at the hotel’s doorstep. There will be time for both, of course. Now I can have my gâteau and eat it, too. ◾ The Red Room bar at London’s Connaught, designed by Bryan O’Sullivan Studio. the-connaught.co.uk
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3. Elizabeth Taylor was often seen in this Jean Schlumberger Fleur de Mer brooch, given to her by Richard Burton in 1965. 4. A 1930s platinum and diamond bracelet worn by Anne Hathaway at the 2011 Academy Awards. 5. Audrey Hepburn wearing the Tiffany Diamond in Jean Schlumberger’s Ribbon Rosette necklace for publicity photographs promoting Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1961.
or almost 200 years Tiffany & Co. has been a name synonymous with New York City, from its 1905 landmark building on Fifth Avenue to memorable appearances on homegrown celebrities like Lady Gaga and Jay-Z. But many may not know that the brand set down roots in London well over a century ago, opening year, as well as the pièce de résistance: the 128.54-carat its first retail boutique there, on Regent Street, in 1892. Tiffany Diamond, which visitors can “try on” via AR in A new Tiffany & Co. exhibition, “Vision & Virtuosity,” a state-of-the-art app created to accompany the exhibit. debuts at London’s Saatchi Gallery this June. It’s an If after processing all of that, the one thing you immersive experience divided into seven “chapters” really want is to walk off with something in a Tiffany spanning almost 70,000 square feet and chronicling Blue bag, you’re in luck. The final stop on the “Vision & everything from Charles Lewis Tiffany’s relatively Virtuosity” journey is a boutique with an enticing mix humble beginnings (he started the company as a fresh- of products, including two limited editions by New York faced 25-year-old) to a survey of the f irm’s most artists: T-shirts and hoodies designed by Daniel Arsham illustrious designers (Jean Schlumberger, Paloma and a Gemini vase by Elise Grace Wilken of Mellow Picasso, Elsa Peretti) and even to re-creations of the ceramics in that iconic robin’s-egg blue hue, proof that boutiques’ otherworldly window displays. the spirit of this very global powerhouse remains rooted More than 400 objects from the archives, including in the Empire State. —Rima Suqi the annual Blue Book high jewelry collections and the origina l Breakfast at Tiffany’s screenplay—a nd, “Vision & Virtuosity: An Exhibition from the House of naturally, a deluge of diamonds—provide plenty of eye Tiffany & Co.” is on view June 10–August 19 at London’s candy. A spacious chapter is dedicated to carats, from Saatchi Gallery. Admission is free; tickets can be reserved vintage pieces worn by the likes of Elizabeth Taylor to via the Tiffany & Co. exhibition app through the iOS the brand’s lauded Empire Diamond, unveiled just last and Google Play app stores. tiffany.com 48
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efore I was a novelist, I was a wedding planner. The two occupations have more in common than one would thin k (problem-solving abilities, handling multiple plots)—except for human interaction. Wedding planning is quite social, while writing novels is intrinsically solitary. Which is no small part of why I switched professions in the first place. Despite wearing the coat of an extrovert, underneath I am pure Greta Garbo. I want to be alone. And this was never truer than by the summer of 2020, when I rented a gorgeous historic house in downtown Kingston, New York. The early pandemic found me without a permanent residence and on a deadline. In March, while getting my MFA in Iowa, I’d come home to New York City for a quick visit to celebrate having just sold my first novel. Three months and one case of COVID-19 later, I was quarantining with my best friend, her husband, and their toddler in their Brooklyn apartment. Before long, the close quarters and endless sounds of sirens made revising my novel there untenable. I decided to head upstate. I grew up in a charmless house in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn. It had three stories, a brick front, and a dingy hallway with a linoleum f loor leading, railroad-style, to rooms covered in dated wallpaper. Yes, we were poor, but the truth is, style is free. There was no excuse. Chicness just wasn’t a concern to anyone in my household—except me. I’ve always cared immensely about the aesthetics of my surroundings. I think because of this, my adult homes tend to be cozy. My friends—with little regard for my inclinations toward solitude—have turned my apartments into the hub of our social gatherings. I believe that a house is where you make memories, and that the backdrop should therefore be beautiful. I wanted to ma ke memories that summer, even if it was just the remembrance of what room I was in at the moment when I wrote a particular sentence. Which brings me to my rental house. Having stayed, during my two careers, in scores of Airbnbs, I know what separates the cream from the milk. It is not nice towels or mini shampoos (though those do help).
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A great rental should be aspirational: It should make you wish you could live there. Creating that kind of ambience requires taste, which the owners of this home clearly had in spades. The 200-year-old wooden residence sits on a quiet, cobblestoned street. T he interior is deceptively spacious. There’s a sun-filled kitchen that is proudly stuck in time, with midcentury cabinetry painted a cheery mint green and an antique table that just wants people to linger around it. The second-floor landing has a window seat so picturesque that it demands you sit and read in it. In these rooms, magazines and board games abound. And then there was the Gray Room, painted from baseboard to ceiling to recessed light sockets in the perfect shade of gray from Farrow & Ball, Dimpse. This was anchored by a massive gray sectional and a fragrant wood stack for the fireplace. There was nothing to do in that room but listen to records and write and dream beside the fireplace. It was perfect. So perfect that I could not stop imagining everyone I loved enjoying it too. The invitations were vague at first, dangled loosely at the end of a call: “You should come up and see the house.” After all, I had a novel to write! But the house was simply too dreamy and life outside of it simply too dark. I had to share it. I had to make some memories with people besides the ones I’d invented on the page. Week after week a different cohort from my “bubble” would make the trek. By day, rooms would be offices, loud with Zooms and calls and the sound of me typing away. But by night, the house was filled with dance parties. We took turns playing DJ with the record player, ate pizza on the back patio, and puzzled out board games in that beautiful gray room. Every space in that house—so specific, so vibrant—helped to firmly anchor my memories of each visit. This summer, with my second novel due oh-sosoon, I’ve rented the place out again. Foolishly, I’d attributed the inclination to gather upstate as a pandemic quirk, something that my friends and I did in lieu of having other choices. I texted our group chat to mention that I’d be heading back upstate and of course on deadline with so much writing to do. Immediately came the responses: Dibs were called on calendar dates and bedrooms; plans were made for river picnics and visits to farmers’ markets; requests arrived to visit bars and restaurants we had discovered two summers prior. Ah, well: Greta Garbo, I am not. ◾
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de Castellane says. That includes introducing men’s brooches and cuff links into high jewelry for the first time. With a couturier’s precision, de Castellane has assembled varying geometric cut diamonds and gems into multidimensional creations that reflect a sense of movement and lightness not easily achieved in metal and stones. “I have the opportunity to work with the best Parisian workshops, who realize my designs and adapt or develop the necessary manufacturing processes in order to achieve what I have in mind,” she says. T hat jewelr y savoir faire is brilliantly represented in this asymmetrical Galons Dior dia mond neck lace pu nctuated by a bright emerald set with green-lacquered prongs—so as not to distract from the richly hued gem. As with the maison’s haute couture collections, the magic here is all in the details. —Jill Newman
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period, Bennett’s team has also grown to include beekeepers, jam makers, and stone builders, giving clients access to a wide world of options. In 2018, Bennett implemented an equity pricing structure that allows her to offer her services at cost to Black women. She has also designed seven Black Sanctuary Gardens, which are created along the same aesthetic and functional lines as the rest of Bennett’s work, distinguished only by the intention to celebrate and support Black women. “I was scared to put the idea out there at first,” she says, “but I’ve seen a really positive response and have new, enthusiastic clients from all economic and racial backgrounds!” —Camille Okhio FUTURE RISING This story, created in partnership with Lexus, is part of a series that celebrates the profound impact of Black culture on American life. To read more, go to oprahdaily.com/futurerising.
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Alex Proba painted organic shapes in the pool of a midcentury home in Palm Springs.
Proba started out by imagining otherworldly pools lined with vibrant, overlapping Matisse-cutout-like shapes and then posting digital renderings of her proposals on Instagram. Before long, real commissions flowed in, and she found herself coating pool plaster in Palm Springs with special underwater paint in custom hues. “I love canvases that aren’t canvas,” she says. Designers are also increasingly using pools to make statements in hotels and private homes alike. “I wouldn’t leave a wall blank, so why would I leave a pool blank?” says Ken Fulk. “It’s about creating beautiful spaces where there’s also a sense of playfulness and whimsy.” Fulk’s current projects include a pair of pools for a home in Mexico, where artists will paint the bottoms
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WATER WORKS These extravagant pools have long offered more than just a place to do laps. When David Hockney painted the inside of the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel’s pool with drippy blue macaroni-shaped strokes in 1988, it became an instant icon. After decades of fading, a 2019 restoration brought it back to vivid life.
At Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California, you’ll find the “Neptune” pool lined with Vermont marble and overseen by mythic sculptural figures, and an indoor Roman-bathinspired pool blanketed in blue and orange mosaics.
The infamous pool at Gianni Versace’s mansion in Miami Beach (now the Villa Casa Casuarina hotel) is covered with mosaics depicting aquatic creatures and scalloped shells and includes thousands of tiles finished in 24-karat gold.
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with murals—one with a Cocteau-inspired figure of a woman, the other with a more abstract pattern mimicking sound waves. And for his upcoming Harthan hotel in Austin, Fulk is designing a pool that will sprout mosaic-covered tentacles that curl up and out of the water to form built-in furniture and planters. These pool provocateurs follow in the footsteps of earlier artists and designers who saw enormous opportunities in the watery voids. At the Villa El Martinete in Málaga, Spain, the f lamenco dancer Antonio Ruiz Soler had an original sketch by his friend Pablo Picasso re-created in tile to finish the bottom of his pool. Artist David Hockney is revered for not only painting pool-focused works on canvas but also painting directly on pools themselves, including his own kidney-shaped refuge. The Italian architect Gio Ponti, who designed irregularly shaped pools filled with unexpected features for hotels like the Royal Continental in Naples, Italy, summed up his motivation like this: “I want swimming pools for nymphs.” Designers Angel Sanchez and Christopher Coleman of Miami’s Sanchez + Coleman Studio were thinking along similar lines when they developed a sinuous pool covered in cherry-red glass mosaic to give it the appearance of an exotic sea creature for a
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client’s backyard. “Our thought was to use this red mosaic to make it a sculptural object,” Coleman says. Sasha Bikoff is also deviating from plain blue tile in a pool she’s currently designing in Palm Beach. Instead, she’ll install Moroccan tile with a graphic pattern rendered in pink, green, turquoise, and white. “It’s going to be the same tile we use on the patio floor, so it will feel like one big enveloping space,” she says. At Fulk’s Napa Valley ranch, he has a simple pool with an understated design. But now that he’s at work on ones with more artistic expressions, he can’t help but wonder what else his own could be. “It is indeed a beautiful blue rectangle that ref lects the sky,” the designer says. “But I don’t know that I would do the same thing if I was doing it all over again.” ◾
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GACHOT NEW YORK CITY @gachotstudios gachotstudios.com
ISHKA DESIGNS NEW YORK CITY @ishkadesigns ishkadesigns.com
DUNE HAI OAKLAND, CALIF. @dune_hai dunehai.com
GHISLAINE VIÑAS NEW YORK CITY @ghislaine_vinas ghislainevinas.com
JAYNE DESIGN STUDIO NEW YORK CITY/ NEW ORLEANS @jaynedesignstudio jaynedesignstudio.com
ELLIOTT BARNES INTERIORS PARIS @elliottbarnesarchitect ebinteriors.com
HAYNES-ROBERTS NEW YORK CITY @haynesrobertsinc haynesroberts.com
ERIC HUGHES DESIGN LOS ANGELES/ NEW YORK CITY @erichughesdesign erichughesdesign.com FABRIZIO CASIRAGHI PARIS @fabriziocasiraghi fabriziocasiraghi.com FLORENCE LOPEZ PARIS @f lorencelopezantiquaire f lorencelopez.com FOX-NAHEM ASSOCIATES NEW YORK CITY @foxnahem foxnahem.com
JEAN LIU DESIGN DALLAS @jeanliudesign jeanliudesign.com
HENDRICKS CHURCHILL SHARON, CONN. @hendrickschurchill hendrickschurchill.com HUNIFORD DESIGN STUDIO NEW YORK CITY @fordhuniford huniford.com IKE KLIGERMAN BARKLEY NEW YORK CITY/ OAKLAND, CALIF. @ikekligermanbarkley ikekligermanbarkley.com ISABEL LÓPEZ-QUESADA MADRID @isabellopezquesada isabellopezquesada.com
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BILLY COTTON With the recent release of his first book and graceful projects from prewar pieds-à-terre to a rollicking Greek Revival estate in the Catskills of New York, Billy Cotton is poised to become the new prince of elegant East Coast living. His cinematic, delightfully off-kilter interiors are the architectural equivalent of a handwritten note: personal, impressive, and wholly unexpected.
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Self-taught Nicole Hollis started off designing big-impact hotels in Atlanta, Seattle, and San Francisco. Now her residential work takes precedence, often encompassing large-scale collaborations with artists and designers. A Pop Art powder room by the designer in a San Francisco landmark graced our March 2022 San Francisco cover, but we’ve @nicolehollissf been in love much nicolehollis.com longer than that. 80
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LORENZO CASTILLO MADRID @lorenzocastillolife lorenzocastillo.org
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MARK CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK CITY @markcunninghaminc markcunninghaminc .com MARK D. SIKES LOS ANGELES @markdsikes markdsikes.com MARK HAMPTON NEW YORK CITY @alexahamptoninc alexahampton.com MARTIN BRUDNIZKI DESIGN STUDIO LONDON/ NEW YORK CITY @m_b_d_s_ mbds.com
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NICK OLSEN NEW YORK CITY @nickolsenstyle nickolsenstyle.com
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RICHARD MISHAAN DESIGN NEW YORK CITY @richardmishaan richardmishaan.com
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STEPHANIE GOTO NEW YORK CITY @stephaniegoto stephaniegoto.com
RITA KONIG LONDON @ritakonig ritakonig.com
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UNIONWORKS NEW YORK CITY/ PHILADELPHIA @theunionworks theunionworks.com
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ULLA JOHNSON Design by RAFAEL DE CÁRDENAS 15 Bleecker St. New York City 212-965-0144 @ullajohnsonbleecker ullajohnson.com
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OPPOSITE: Walter Lamb’s 1947 rockingchair design was reissued two years ago for Brown Jordan’s 75th anniversary. RIGHT, FROM TOP: Brown Jordan’s curved-back Oscar daybed by Ann Marie Vering. Toan Nguyen’s left-arm loveseat from the H collection. BELOW: Julius Shulman’s iconic 1947 photo of the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs helped popularize outdoor furniture. brownjordan.com
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The rooftop terrace overlooks Park Avenue. Outdoor sofa, CB2; chair, Black Wolf Design; cocktail table, Shoppe Amber Interiors; side table, Fermob. 102 E L L E D E C O R
IS The family room of Adam and Jennifer Miller’s Manhattan townhouse, which was renovated and designed by Ashe Leandro. Custom sectional in a Holland & Sherry linen; 1970s swivel chairs in a Rose Uniacke fabric; cocktail table, Burke Decor; Akari pendant, Noguchi Museum; artwork by Peter Bonde. For details, see Resources.
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The home’s foyer leads to a balcony that overlooks the sunken family room. Custom bench and shelf, Rob Pluhowski; sconce, Allied Maker.
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ark Avenue from East 57th to 96th streets is as much a literary and cultural allusion as it is an address. With a meticulously landscaped median, the Manhattan boulevard is a twomile gauntlet of elegant brick apartment buildings in shades from buff to earthen, with liveried doormen and Renaissance Revival and neo-Gothic exterior ornament. Designed largely between the Gilded Age and the Great Depression by such architects as Emery Roth and Rosario Candela, this stretch of rarefied real estate is mostly void of the quaint rowhouses and twee storefronts found on nearby Madison or Lexington. The writer Gay Talese immortalized it in the 1970s as “the Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window washer’s paradise.” As such, strolling the neutral-hued brick canyon of Park Avenue on an early summer afternoon, it is the architectural outlier that beguiles: On a corner in the 90s stands a stark white four-story structure, stuccoover-brick—a cheery cube that cuts through the staid neighborhood like a splash of Aperol. With nearly 40 steel-framed windows in its stocky facade, it seems equal parts fortress and aerie. At almost 7,000 square feet, it has seen many incarnations and owners since it was erected in the 1880s, while Grover Cleveland was president. It was built as a Victorian-era apartment house, then renovated in 1908 to incorporate three street-level storefronts. By the early 2000s it had been reborn, a bit haphazardly, a s a si n g le -fa m i ly hou se. But it i s t he re cent reimagining—down to the studs—by Ashe Leandro, the partnership of the Venezuelan-born architect Reinaldo Leandro and the American designer Ariel Ashe, which shows how a modest building can hold its own along the storied boulevard, simultaneously alluding to the past while celebrating modernity. “We weren’t looking to imitate anything,” Leandro says. “We had so few constraints, and that was really freeing.” The owners, Adam Miller, a media executive, and his wife, Jennifer, who works in public relations, looked for designers who would be willing to start without preconceptions. With two teenage children, the couple had previously lived downtown in lofts and were eager to bring their minimal sensibility uptown. Several firms either wanted to recreate other sober townhouses they had remodeled nearby or “had absolutely no idea what to do,” Adam says, “basically interviewing us and asking
if we had any good ideas.” Only Leandro and Ashe, who are in their early 40s and are known for working with edgy young clients, seemed on their wavelength. “If we had an inspiration, it was John Pawson,” says Leandro, referring to the famed British ultraminimalist. “We wanted to evoke that purity.” The pair suggested a complete reorientation of the house. They removed the original doors (there are now windows there, symmetrical with the existing ones), creating an elevated entry off the avenue reached by a set of wide poured concrete stairs. The change made the property wide instead of deep, rendering it more like an expansive mansion on a quiet side street than a narrow townhouse on Park Avenue. Inside the entry there is now a huge sweeping circular stair that forms the core of the residence, with oak treads and a simple black matte iron railing. The palette is a mixture of dark gray and ebony with warm wood and white walls. “It’s all about texture when you are so pared down,” says Ashe. The designers also came up with an innovative solution for the exposed ground-floor corner, which was previously highly visible through its tall windows. There had long been a kitchen in that spot with the shades continually drawn. Leandro and Ashe moved it to a new location and employed an idea they remembered from the Chelsea townhouse of the art dealer Matthew Marks: They removed the old f loor of the space to create a double-height basement family room that cannot be glimpsed from the street. Now, during the day, sun floods into the space through windows near the ceiling line, and at night, the room, with a plumcolored sectional, is illuminated by a dangling 20-foottall Isamu Noguchi lantern hung from the apex. The living spaces on the floors above hold a tightly edited selection of furnishings. In the dining room, a travertine table is surrounded by custom-made wooden chairs by Rob Pluhowski. The living room’s curvy green sofa sits across from an original stone mantel that was moved here from elsewhere in the house. The subtlety of Leandro and Ashe’s approach is perhaps best seen on the top floor, where a glassed-in garden room is flanked by terraces. In this newly redone space, light streams in through curved conservatory windows, and Adam makes his morning coffee at a black-countered wet bar. As night falls, the couple’s children and their friends take over this lofty oasis, with Park Avenue laid out, lights twinkling, below them. ◾ E L L E D E C O R 105
“We weren’t looking to imitate anything. And that was really freeing.” —REINALDO LEANDRO
In the living room, organic shapes pair with an original mantel. Custom sofa in a Rose Uniacke wool; 1930s Danish armchairs, 1stDibs; lounge chair, Moving Mountains; sconces, Ignazio Gardella. Painting (center) by Aythamy Armas; drawing (right) by Pedro Reyes.
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The teens’ lounge has a custom sectional in Rose Uniacke cotton velvets in a variety of hues. Cocktail table, Nortstudio; Alvar Aalto stools, Artek; rugs, Souda. Photograph by Elizabeth Cecil; paintings by John Zabawa.
Jennifer and Adam Miller in the kitchen. Countertop, Caesarstone; fittings, Brizo; range, Wolf; stools, Finnish Design Shop.
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In the primary bedroom, an upholstered headboard spans the length of the space. Custom nightstand, Rob Pluhowski; sconce, Lites on West; bed linens, Matteo; throw, Area Home.
In the garden room on the roof terrace, chairs by Gijs Bakker surround a custom table. Pendant, YLighting.
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A flowering dogwood tree shades the facade of Thomas Woltz’s Queen Anne Victorian home in Virginia. Korean boxwood hedges frame the porch. For details, see Resources. 110 E L L E D E C O R
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A bluestone and reclaimed-cobblestone pathway is surrounded by Blue Wave hydrangea in Woltz’s garden.
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In the living room, a Chippendale sofa and 19th-century Danish chairs flank a fireplace original to the home. The grandfather clock is a family heirloom. The 18th-century mirror is from Naples; the walls are painted in Sea Haze by Benjamin Moore.
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andscape architect Thomas Woltz has a passion for the clarity and proportion of Italian Renaissance architecture. That Woltz lives in a gabled Queen Anne Victorian comes as an ironic surprise, even to him. “Palladio did not use spindles and gingerbread,” he notes, dryly. But his home, together with the garden he has established there over the past two decades, is a unified study in pleasing contrasts. The impact is at once disciplined and spontaneous, respectful and irreverent. Much like the man himself. Woltz bought the house, in a small Virginia town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in 1999. His restoration honors what he calls the “historic intent” of the structure. “I decided to respect the Victorian volumes,” he notes. “I was not going to remove walls to create an open plan.” For two years, the place was a construction site as it received a copper roof, a mansard porch roof, and plumbing and electrical—all new. In the hands of a less erudite and playful designer, such attentiveness to history might produce a rigid monotony of style. But Woltz loves to devise temporal dialogues—not only between past and present, but also among different pasts. As a young man, he spent five years practicing architecture and teaching in Venice. He lived near the Palazzo Fortuny, which he often visited. “I was immersed in a world of the Islamic influence of southern Spain, Italian textiles, furniture, and Venetian Gothic architecture,” says Woltz, who began collecting antique Fortuny fabrics and light fixtures. Some of the furniture in Woltz’s house tells his own family’s history. Among the pieces handed down over five generations is the grandfather clock in the living room. It was commissioned by General William Lenoir of North Carolina, Woltz’s great-great-great-grandfather, to celebrate the end of the Revolutionary War. Other pieces are yard-sale finds, witnesses to unknown histories. Still other items have been gathered on his frequent travels abroad and from friends who are art and antiques dealers, among them Kenny Ball, David L’Eglise, and Simon L’Hopiteau. It’s a peaceful refuge for a man who has made his name executing public work at a radically different scale. Woltz is an indefatigable advocate for meaningful public spaces and authentic landscapes. Every year, more than 30 million people worldwide make use of parks designed by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, the firm he joined in 1998 and has led as owner and principal since 2013. Woltz is currently overseeing the creation of a new park in Houston that is nearly twice the size of New York’s Central Park. He always begins by exploring the history of a place—an approach that has made him a
In the entry hall, a Venini vase holds fresh-cut Japanese maple branches from the garden. The 18th-century desk is French, the Persian rug and Moroccan pendant are both antique, and the walls are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Pale Avocado.
Thomas Woltz in his garden.
A Fortuny pendant hangs over a Sheraton mahogany table in the dining room, where the walls are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Wet Concrete.
natural choice for such historic properties as Monticello, Winterthur, and Olana. When he bought his Queen Anne, it was surrounded by nothing but a half-acre of grass and two trees. Walking through the garden today, you move through a series of embracing outdoor “rooms” designed by Woltz, who is his own full-time gardener. In front of the house, an eight-foot-tall circular hedge made of European hornbeams and bordered by fritillaries, wild tulips, and ferns creates a private space in an urban front yard. Just beyond is a small terrace encompassed by five hornbeams that, over the course of 20 years, Woltz has sheared into living columns. Stone steps framed with viburnum and hydrangea lead into the colorful perennial garden, where bluestone-lined beds outline a tidy square of lawn, then descend to the bowling-green terrace, which forms a long cross axis. The final garden is laid out in an ellipse that spans the full width of the 114 E L L E D E C O R
The Victorian-era pulley pendant on the porch is not electrified, so meals are enjoyed by candlelight. Chairs, Munder Skiles.
property and is home to f lowering shrubs native to China, Japan, and Virginia. Pleasing as it is to the eye and the spirit, Woltz’s garden also works hard. “It was never envisioned as a showplace,” he notes. Instead, it’s a living laboratory where he tests the spacing of plants for hedges, fresh combinations of bulbs and perennials, and different pruning methods and regimes. Every season he pulls some of the plants and distributes them to friends, making room for new trials in plantings and design. For one of his birthdays, Woltz hosted guests at a long table on the bowling green under a massive chandelier made from a staghorn sumac that had given up the ghost. He had wrapped the sumac in hundreds of delicate LEDs and suspended it upside down over the dinner table from a sturdy sycamore. It was a characteristic gesture for Woltz, reminding those gathered that nature, even in death, illuminates life. ◾
In the library, a Chippendale desk—an heirloom from Woltz’s mother—holds books by some of his author friends, including Andrew Wulf, Elizabeth Kostova, and Daniel Mendelsohn. The 19th-century chair is Swedish; photograph by Olivier Valsecchi.
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The guest bedroom’s antique four-poster bed is dressed with a quilt sewn in 1835 by Woltz’s greatgreat-great-grandmother. The room’s antiques include an English Regency chair and a French Directoire daybed.
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The pool at Florence Grinda’s Portugal vacation home, which was designed by Jacques Grange with gardens by Louis Benech. 118 E L L E D E C O R
On Portugal’s Comporta coast, Jacques Grange fashions a relaxed getaway for his effervescent friend Florence Grinda. WRIT TEN AN D PRODUCED BY IAN PHILLIPS PHOTOGR APHS BY STEPHAN JULLIARD
The sitting room houses some of Grinda’s fleamarket finds. Vintage wicker chairs (left) by Franco Albini; German rattan armchair (right), Galerie Vauclair; carpet, Didier Benichou; toy birds in cages, Stork-Club. For details, see Resources.
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lorence Grinda is an enthusiastic collector, to say the least. “I adore buying things,” Grinda admits. She has a group of cockerel sculptures in her Paris apartment, and the kitchen of her chalet in Gstaad is filled with black ceramics from Vallauris. Meanwhile, her vacation home near Comporta in Portugal is stocked with rattan mirrors, midcentury Murano glass fish, and turquoise-colored vases from the Burgundy village of Accolay. “She’s quite insatiable,” says her longtime friend Jacques Grange, who oversaw the architectural design of her Portuguese getaway. “She’s like a child who wants all their toys.” The pair have known each other for 50 years and counting. “Florence is charming, amusing, and not afraid of speaking her mind,” says Grange, who is far from alone in falling under her spell. Her list of friends over the years has included Brigitte Bardot, Andy Warhol, and Hubert de Givenchy. In recent times, the increasingly fashionable region around Comporta has draw n such celebrities as Madonna, Mick Jagger, and Harrison Ford. Christian Louboutin and Anselm Kiefer have bought houses there, but among the first of the jet set to put down roots in the area was Grange himself. He still remembers gazing out the window of a plane between Lisbon and Faro in the early 2000s and spying an immense beach with nobody on it. “What’s that?” he turned and asked his partner, antiques dealer Pierre Passebon. Grange found out on his return to Paris. “Oh, that’s my family’s property,” asserted one of his assistants at the time. She was the late Vera Iachia, a member of the Espirito Santo banking family, whose grandfather and great-uncle had bought more than 10,000 hectares of land near Comporta in the 1950s. Grange bought a property near the village of Carvalhal consisting of several huts tucked behind the dunes. Each structure is edged in indigo blue, a distinctive local architectural trait. The setting of Grinda’s home is quite different, but no less spectacular. She acquired the land six years ago, largely for the view. It looks directly onto rice fields, part of the Sado nature reserve, renowned for its white storks that grow to nearly four feet. Grange designed three separate buildings arranged in a U to shelter the garden from winds that arrive from the north. The architecture is based on the region’s traditional cabanas but with much larger volumes. The two structures with terracotta-tiled roofs are home to the guest quarters and to an entertaining space with a kitchen and dining room. The third, with a sitting room and principal suite, is topped with straw. “I wanted to create variety,” says Grange, who worked with a local builder, Nuno Carvalho. 120 E L L E D E C O R
“There’s something so poetic about straw houses.” Grinda entrusted the garden design to another friend, the renowned French landscape architect Louis Benech, whose projects have included the renovation of the Tuileries in Paris. “I totally trust his taste,” she says. The scheme he devised includes lemon and orange trees arranged in squares, a flurry of blue flowers, and a lap pool now regularly used for AquaFit classes. When it came to the interiors, Grange and Passebon helped to source a number of pieces. The large vase by Lisbon-based ceramist Bela Silva and the suspended birdcages in the sitting room were bought at Stork-Club, Grange and Passebon’s shop in Carvalhal. Much of the rest reflects Grinda’s own style, suffused with humor and fantasy. She loves rattan and color, and fearlessly combines pieces of diverse provenance. A number of items are signed, such as the Franco Albini armchairs and the credenza by the postwar French duo Guillerme et Chambron in the sitting room. Others are more lowbrow but no less chic. Fabrics were acquired from the Marché Saint-Pierre in Montmartre, known for its bargainbasement prices. A bust covered in brightly hued beads was brought back from South Africa, and the rug in the dining room is a patchwork of three identical ones from the BHV department store in Paris. And while the Comporta region may no longer be the wild, undiscovered paradise of 20 years ago, for both Grange and Grinda it retains its charms. “The magic is still there,” he says. “I love the natural beauty,” adds Grinda, who spends six months a year there. “Whenever I’m here, I feel true happiness.” ◾
Repainted 1960s Baumann chairs add pops of color in the dining room. Vintage table, Cleto Munari; Rug Republic rugs (three sewn together), BHV; resin wall art (left) by Jean-François Fourtou. OPPOSITE: Grange designed custom cabinets for the kitchen. Antique Portuguese plates adorn the wall.
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“Florence is charming, amusing, and not afraid of speaking her mind.” —JACQUES GRANGE
Grinda on the terrace outside her bedroom. Vintage French sofa, Barracuda Interiors; vintage cocktail table, Roger Capron.
OPPOSITE: A pendant from Loja de Cá hangs from a soaring pine ceiling in the primary bedroom. The rattan screen and floor lamp are both from Paris flea markets; vintage Mozambique mahogany cabinet, Santa Maria Velharias; artwork by Ophélie Asch. RIGHT: In a guest room, patterned blankets from Monoprix mix with floral cushions from Marrakech. Artwork by José Canudo.
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An all-star team creates a bayside home where art, design, and landscape are perfectly aligned. BY PIL AR VIL ADAS PHOTOGR APHS BY PE TER
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The living room of a waterfront home on Long Island, New York, designed by architect Blaze Makoid with interiors by Joe Nahem and landscape by Edmund Hollander. Custom sofa in a Chapas handwoven fabric, with wooden wall by Caleb Woodard; cocktail table by Casey McCafferty; vintage chaise (center) by George Nakashima; swivel Niemeyer chairs, Insidherland; driftwood chandelier by Hinterland Design; rug by Dana Barnes Studio; artwork by Carrie Moyer. OPPOSITE: A walkway outside the living room has a path in Madras gray limestone. The home is clad in shou sugi ban wood from Delta Millworks. For details, see Resources.
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he expression “indoor-outdoor” has become a bit overused in architecture, but for this weekend house on Long Island with expansive water views, it’s absolutely on target. The couple who commissioned the project wanted a house that was open to the outdoors yet also allowed them to display their extensive collection of contemporary art. From an impressive team that included the architect Blaze Makoid, the interior designer Joe Nahem, and the landscape architect Edmund Hollander, they got both, and then some. Makoid’s design for the two-story house was inspired in part by the cast-concrete buildings conceived by Tadao Ando for the Japanese “art island” of Naoshima. The clients, who had been there, shared Makoid’s enthusiasm. Makoid also used Japanese shou sugi ban, or charred wood, for the beams and exterior siding. The house’s site drops down a full story, and a lower level contains a garage, a gym, and laundry and mechanical rooms. To reach the glass entry hall from the garage, you walk up a flight of staggered limestone steps, flanked by corten-steel planters full of greenery. 128 E L L E D E C O R
“The topography drove a lot of the design,” Makoid says. “You’re inside-outside the entire time.” A neon sculpture by Tracey Emin hangs near the entrance, its boldness contrasting with Hollander’s landscaping featuring a soft mix of grasses. Inside, the entry hall is anchored by a striking copper-and-wood console by Wendell Castle. Just beyond is the high-ceilinged l iv i ng room , w it h its f u l l-heig ht w i ndows a nd blackened-steel fireplace, above which hangs a large red painting by Carrie Moyer. Nahem placed a curved sofa within a wooden “wall” designed by Caleb Woodard to give a sense of shelter. He credits the clients for trusting him “in seeking out craftspeople from around the world,” some of whom he found on Instagram—like Casey McCafferty, who designed the cocktail table, and Hinterland Design, who created the d rif t wood ha ng i ng light. A George Nakashima chaise offers a place to admire the view over the pool toward the water, and a handmade rug by Dana Barnes Studio adds a rich texture. The room’s palette is neutral, like that of the architecture, which Makoid calls “a great supporting actor.”
The swimming-pool deck sports brightly hued furniture by Paola Lenti. The outdoor shower is by MGS.
T he liv i ng room opens to the d i n i ng room, where—between a yellow painting by Sue Williams and a blue-and-green interior by Mickalene Thomas—an oak table by Gal Gaon surrounded by vintage embroidered chairs sits under handblown hanging lights by Jeff Zimmerman and James Mongrain. A louvered wall screens a staircase that leads to the second-floor gallery—a sitting room with lots of art—and the primary bedroom. Makoid designed the gallery as a black-granite-clad, rectangular tube that projects from the front and back of the house; its underside forms the dining room’s ceiling and a canopy for the front door. Throughout the home, custom shades control the light. B e yon d t he d i n i n g ro om , t he k itche n h a s Nahem-designed stainless-steel shelves, a terrazzo-clad island, and a bright blue artwork by Yayoi Kusama. An adjacent covered outdoor dining area is outfitted with a grill and a wall with a TV that can show video art. This side of the building, which faces east, looks toward the water through a screen of existing oak trees that Hollander was keen to keep. “The sun rises through these trees,” he says, “and shadows dance on the lawn.”
Near the residence, Hollander set Madras gray limestone steps into the grass. The spacious first floor also incorporates a den, an office, and three guest rooms. The blackened-plasterlined powder room is further embellished by a wall panel inset with mother-of-pearl, silver leaf, lacquer, and resin by the artist Nancy Lorenz. On the second floor, the gallery is filled with works by artists like Carroll Dunham, Christina Quarles, and Jordan Casteel. The primary bedroom’s neutral color scheme is broken by a red painting by Kusama above the fireplace. Nahem designed the wall behind the bed in polished stainless steel with an overlay of handwoven leather, through which you see reflections of the view. The primary bathroom has a soaking tub designed to look as if it had grown out of the floor, with a circular skylight above. The owners are, understandably, happy. The husband was especially impressed by Makoid, Nahem, and Hollander’s “team effort, which was terrific.” He says: “We really like the way the house is laid out. It’s great for entertaining, and it’s nice to have the outdoors be part of the indoors.” ◾ E L L E D E C O R 129
ABOVE: An orange artwork by Haim Steinbach is the focal point of the den, where the custom sofa is in a Rosemary Hallgarten alpaca bouclé. Seungjin Yang “Blowing” chair (left), the Future Perfect; Vladimir Kagan rocking chair and lamp, Holly Hunt; rug, ALT for Living. RIGHT: In the outdoor dining area, a table by Henrik Pedersen from Gloster is accompanied by chairs and carpet by Paola Lenti. Hanging chairs by Dedon. OPPOSITE: A poolside vista is the backdrop to the kitchen. Custom cabinets by Bulthaup; Rogan Gregory pendant, R & Company; vintage Harry Bertoia chairs redesigned by Clément Brazille; Aldo Bakker table, Suite NY.
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BELOW: Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity-Nets (Howan) presides over the primary bedroom. Custom bed in woven white leather and maple; vintage chairs by Phillip Lloyd Powell; custom rug by Vanessa Barragão.
OPPOSITE: A skylight illuminates a custom concrete bathtub in the primary bath. Fittings by Fantini. On the terrace, a chair by RH, Restoration Hardware, and table by Paola Lenti are positioned to take in the waterside view.
“The topography drove a lot of the design. You’re inside-outside the entire time.” —BLAZE MAKOID
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PERFECT The living room of an 1899 townhouse in Brooklyn renovated by designers Anishka Clarke and Niya Bascom of Ishka Designs and the architecture firm Harper Design + Build. Sofa by McGuire; chair by Loïc Bard; chandelier by Constance Guisset; rug by Robin Gray.
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A sculptural chair by Mathieu Matégot pairs with a chaise by Studio Paolo Ferrari. Carpet by Jan Kath; artwork by Ndidi Emefiele. For details, see Resources.
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Anishka Clarke (left) and Niya Bascom, principals and founders of Ishka Designs, beside an original mantel.
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tripped-back spaces are a specialty of the New York City studio Ishka Designs. “A home should be able to come to life at its barest,” declares Anishka Clarke, one half of the design duo behind the firm. With her partner in life and work, Niya Bascom, Clarke fashions spaces that support myriad functions with sleek, streamlined forms. The duo’s practice is rigorous and responsible; Clarke and Bascom eschew synthetic materials in favor of natural ones and incorporate their clients’ identities while working to sidestep clichés. This can be a tough ethos to follow, but it’s all done with the goal of “giving more” while using less, says Bascom. In a Brooklyn brownstone completed in 2019, Clarke’s and Bascom’s skill at designing with both efficiency and cultural context in mind were put to the test. The result is an elegantly minimal home with details that speak to the heritage of its stewards. The clients, a couple with Pakistani and Haitian lineage, were aligned on their needs: a largely open-plan home with room for their young family to roam. “It wasn’t a very hectic brief,” says Clarke. “They simply wanted a space that felt like them.” As a starting point, Clarke and Bascom deployed a circular motif in their decorative choices 136 E L L E D E C O R
throughout the house. “We love the principle of a circle,” says Bascom. “There’s no beginning, no middle, no end—only constant growth.” Clarke and Bascom came aboard just as local architecture and design firm Harper Design + Build finished renovating the historic townhouse, which was built in 1899; Harper was responsible for the interior architecture and preserving original details wherever possible. The house’s latest incarnation features higher ceilings and additional depth on several floors, extending the already roomy five stories into something akin to a self-contained world. “The space takes care of you,” shares the client. “When we go away somewhere we are always excited to come back home.” Each of the five floors in the house has a distinct purpose. The cellar, a floor below the garden-level basement, holds a gym, a DJ room for the record-loving husband, and a craft area for the whole family to enjoy. In the basement, an office for both husband and wife makes the most of its limited use of pattern and is adorned with a sumptuous Romo wallpaper that mimics the worn silk of an old Persian rug. Guests enter on the parlor level, where an airy living room is divided into two discrete sitting areas centered on round rugs that tee up the circle theme. In one corner, the shape is repeated in more dimensions with a 1970s Metafora Lella and Massimo Vignelli cocktail table, a Flos lamp, and a reissued Mathieu Matégot chair by Copacabana. Also in the living room is an Erased Heritage rug by Jan Kath, which references the complicated colonial legacies of the homeowners’ countries of origin. “The concept for the project started with the clients, their personalities, and their heritage, which was very important for them,” says Clarke. “They wanted to feel represented in their home.” Accommodating the clients’ desire for texture and depth alongside Ishka’s minimalist, culturally aware approach was a tightrope walk further accomplished by incorporating the work of contemporary artists Ndidi Emefiele, Prince Gyasi, and Shreya Mehta, each piece chosen specifically for the project. In addition to artworks, the duo
LEFT: In the light-filled dining area, chairs by Muuto surround a dining table by Ilse Crawford. The custom banquette is bookended by wooden sculptures from Ghana; wall light by France & Son.
BELOW: Ishka added a custom desk and shelves to the office to accommodate work-from-home lifestyles. Chair by Eames; lamp by Jonas Wagell; Black Edition wallpaper, Romo.
selected lush floor- and wallcoverings, rich with color and pattern. The most vibrant moments in the house arrive in spaces for the couple’s first child, who was born after the house was complete: A playroom on the home’s top floor boasts a bookcase that combines the geography of Pakistan and Haiti in an ocean-hued configuration of shapes reminiscent of Memphis Design. In the nursery, hints of mango interplay with graphic silver-and-white Juju wallpaper. Other subtle nods to the clients’ respective backgrounds appear throughout the house: in the jali (a type of latticed screen) that frames a staircase; in the carved-wood doors joined together to make a headboard in the serene main suite; and in the Moroccan moucharaby-style cocktail table that anchors the den. None of these pieces comes from the clients’ specific countries of origin, though they all privilege non-Western craft and design traditions. Grouped together, they communicate a desire to honestly acknowledge the past while partaking in the rapture of the present. As Bascom puts it: “Forward ever, backward never.” ◾
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Clé tiles adorn the floor of the primary bath; the walls are plaster. Stool, Lulu and Georgia; fittings by Watermark. OPPOSITE: In the primary bedroom, carved wooden doors from Morocco set the scene. Pouf, CB2; pendant light by Workstead; carpet, Nourison; curtains, the Shade Store.
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STEPHAN JULLIARD The living room of a Paris apartment designed by Hugo Toro. Custom sofa, rug, and yellow-travertine screen; LC4 chaise longue from Cassina. For details, see Resources.
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ugo Toro draws obsessively. Sometimes on notepads, otherwise on his tablet. “If I’m not drawing, something is wrong,” says the Parisian architect and interior designer. He claims it even helps him concentrate in meetings. “Often, people think I’ve switched off, but it actually allows me to stay connected with them,” he says. In recent times, Toro has been sketching at a particularly furious pace. Since setting up his solo practice in 2020, he has created a corner for Orient Express to sell travel objects in Paris’s iconic department store La Samaritaine. He is also responsible for designing a trio of fashionable restaurants in France, all called Gigi, as well as Booking Office 1869, a flamboyant eatery at St. Pancras station in London. “I think my style is well suited to restaurants, where the goal is often to create a strong atmosphere,” he says. There is certainly a touch of drama to the pied-àterre he renovated in the heart of the Saint-Germaindes-Prés district for a Monaco-based financier. His client was attracted to the one-bedroom space for its classically Parisian architectural attributes, high
RIGHT: The kitchen is clad in a graphic Brèche de Médicis marble. Rotisserie, range, and hood from La Cornue; cabinets coated in a custom red lacquer from Redfield & Dattner. OPPOSITE: In the dining room, a travertine fireplace complements chairs by Willy Rizzo. Sofa by Pierre Augustin Rose; table and chandelier by Garnier & Linker; nesting bowls by Jaimal Odedra.
Hugo Toro sits on a custom travertine platform in the living room.
ceilings, and brightly colored stained-glass windows at the rear. He was interested in working with Toro, meanwhile, for his aesthetic exuberance and originality. “I wanted to be transported to a different world every time I opened the front door, and Hugo seemed the perfect person to take me on such a journey,” the client says. The art of travel, especially by train, has captivated Toro from an early age. He was brought up in the Lorraine region of France, near the German border, where his grandfather ran a coal business located close to a railway station. “My sister and I would play on mountains of coal and come back home completely covered,” he says. He inherited his love of interiors from his Mexican mother and describes the family home as being well appointed and painted in vivid colors. “My father would go crazy because we’d move the furniture around every other week,” he says. In the Parisian apartment, he carried out very little structural work. He simply removed a mezzanine level 142 E L L E D E C O R
in the bedroom, as well as most of the double doors in the public rooms. The rest of his intervention is marked by several strong gestures, the most imposing of which is the monumental travertine fireplace in the dining room, whose geometric forms are meant as a nod to the work of Ca rlo Sca r pa. Equa l ly eye-catch i ng, i n the adjacent living room, is the custom screen composed of yellow travertine—broken up and reassembled like a jigsaw puzzle—set into a patinated-brass frame. Each of its four elements can rotate. Aesthetic echoes ring throughout: Fluting is found along the base of the sweepingly sculptural sofa in the living room, on paneling in the primary bathroom, and in the padded forms of the custom leather bed. Toro has a beautiful way with textures too, as evidenced by the wallcovering made from banana leaves in the bedroom and the doors in the kitchen, which have been painted with a trompe l’oeil leather effect. But his interiors really sing through his highly
personal and exquisitely curated choice of furnishings. Here, he mixed a couple of design classics already owned by his client—the Library bench in the TV room and the LC4 chaise longue—with both bespoke items and mainly anonymous finds from the Paris flea market. Examples of the latter include a puffy Italian leather armchair in the entry hall and the puddle-shaped oak cocktail table in the sitting room. “Not everything needs to be signed,” he says. “A piece you’ve never seen before often has 10 times more impact.” In all of his projects, Toro likes to integrate references to the past. “It gives the architecture more meaning,” he says. One element here is of particularly persona l sig n i f ica nce—the washbasi n that has deliberately been left visible in the entry hall. “When I entered my grandmother’s house as a child, there was one by the door directly on the right,” he recounts. “I find the presence of water poetic. For me, it offers a sort of mental purification.” Just like drawing. ◾ E L L E D E C O R 143
“A piece you’ve never seen before often has 10 times more impact.” —HUGO TORO
The bathroom features red Languedoc and white Carrara marble on the floor and green Alpine marble on the walls and in the sink. Bathtub by Bette; all faucets by Lalique.
The stained-glass window in the bedroom is original to the apartment. Chair by Timothée Musset and curtains from Silva Paris. The carpet and the leather bed frame are custom.
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RESOURCES Items pictured but not listed are from private collections.
gijsbakker.com. Table: Rob Pluhowski. Pendant: YLighting, ylighting.com.
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Landscape architect: Thomas Woltz, nbwla.com. PAGES 112–113: Wall paint: Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore .com. PAGES 114–115: Pendant: Fortuny, fortuny.com. Wall paint: Benjamin Moore. Photograph: Olivier Valsecchi, oliviervalsecchi.com.
SO COURANT PAGE 44: Sleep mask: By Dariia Day, bydariiaday.com. Perfume: Ormaie, ormaie.com. Linen spray: Frédéric Malle, fredericmalle.com. Throw: Hermès, hermes.com. Suitcase: L/Uniform, luniform.com. Sunglasses: Aude Herouard, audeherouard.com. Notebook: Octaevo, octaevo.com. Wallpaper: De Gournay, degournay.com.
SHORTLIST PAGE 54: Ken Fulk, kenfulk.com.
FURNITURE FANTASY PAGES 70–71: Top: Adriana Degreas,
adrianadegreas.com. Pants: St. John, stjohnknits.com. Cuff: Jennifer Fisher, jenniferfisherjewelry.com. Bracelet: Ray Griffiths, raygriffiths.com. Dress: Louisa Ballou, louisaballou .com. Shoes: Alexandre Birman, alexandrebirman.com. Bracelets: Ramona Albert, ramonaalbert.shop. PAGES 72–73: Top and pants: Giorgio Armani, armani.com. Shoes: Nina Ricci, ninaricci.com. Dress: Adriana Degreas. Shoes: Alexandre Birman. Bracelets: Ramona Albert.
THIS IS PARK AVENUE Interior design: Ashe Leandro, asheleandro.com. PAGES 102–103: Outdoor sofa: CB2, cb2.com. Chair: Black Wolf Design, blackwolfdesign.com. Cocktail table: Shoppe Amber Interiors, shoppe .amberinteriordesign.com. Side table: Fermob, fermob.com. Sofa fabric: Holland & Sherry, holland andsherry.com. Chair fabrics: Rose Uniacke, roseuniacke.com. Cocktail table: Burke Decor, burkedecor .com. Pendant: Noguchi Museum, noguchi.org. Artwork: Peter Bonde, galeriehalf.com. PAGE 104: Bench and shelf: Rob Pluhowski, pluhowski.com. Sconce: Allied Maker, alliedmaker .com. PAGES 106–107: Sofa fabrics: Rose Uniacke. Armchairs: 1stDibs, 1stdibs.com. Lounge chair: Moving Mountains, mvngmtns.com. Sconces: Ignazio Gardella, 1stDibs. Painting: Aythamy Armas, gallerybr.co.uk. Drawing: Pedro Reyes, lissongallery .com. PAGES 108–109: Sofa fabric: Rose Uniacke. Cocktail table: Nortstudio, nortstudio.be. Stools: Alvar Aalto, artek.fi. Rugs: Souda, soudasouda.com. Photograph: Elizabeth Cecil, elizabethcecil.com. Paintings: John Zabawa, francis gallery.co. Countertop: Caesarstone, caesarstoneus.com. Fittings: Brizo, brizo.com. Range: Wolf, subzero-wolf .com. Stools: Finnish Design Shop, finnishdesignshop.com. Nightstand: Rob Pluhowski. Sconce: Lites on West, litesonwest.com. Linens: Matteo, matteola.com. Throw: Area Home, areahome.com. Chairs: Gijs Bakker, 146 E L L E D E C O R
BOM DIA, BONITA! Interior design: Jacques Grange, @jacques.grange. Builder: Nuno Carvalho, nunocarvalhodesign.com. PAGE 119: Armchair: Franco Albini, galerie-vauclair.fr. Carpet: Didier Bénichou, @didier.benichou. Toy birds: Storkclub, @stork_club. PAGE 121: Chairs: Baumann, galeriedupassage.com. Table: Cleto Munari, galeriedupassage .com. Carpet: The Rug Republic, bhv .fr. Artworks: Jean-François Fourtou, galeriemitterand.com. PAGE 124: Pendant: Loja de Cá, @lojadeca. Cabinet: Santa Maria Velharias, santamariavelharias.com. Artwork: Ophélie Asch, @ophelieasch. PAGE 125: Sofa: Barracuda Interiors, barracuda-interiors.com. Throw: Monoprix, monoprix.fr.
THE DREAM IS ON Interior design: Joe Nahem, foxnahem.com. Architect: Blaze Makoid, bmaarchitects.com. Landscape architect: Edmund Hollander, hollanderdesign.com. PAGES 126–127: Cladding: Delta Millworks, deltamillworks.com. Wood frame: Caleb Woodard, calebwoodardfurniture.com. Cocktail table: Casey McCafferty, casey-mccafferty.com. Sofa fabric: Chapas Textiles, chapastextiles.com. Chair: George Nakashima, sothebys .com. Swivel chairs: insidherland, insidherland.com. Chandelier: Hinterland Design, hinterlanddesign .com. Rug: Dana Barnes Studio, danabarnesstudio.com. Artwork: Carrie Moyer, carriemoyer.com. PAGES 128–129: Loungers: Paola Lenti, paolalenti.it. PAGE 130: Sofa fabric: Rosemary Hallgarten, rosemaryhallgarten.com. Chair: Seungjin Yang, thefutureperfect.com. Rocking chair and lamp: Vladimir Kagan, hollyhunt.com. Rug: ALT for Living, altforliving.com. Artwork: Haim Steinbach, haimsteinbach .net. Table: Henrik Pedersen, gloster .com. Chairs: Paola Lenti. Swinging chairs: Dedon, dedon.de. Carpet: Paola Lenti. PAGE 131: Cabinets: Bulthaup, bulthaup.com. Pendant: Rogan Gregory, r-and-company .com. Chairs: Clément Brazille, clementbrazille.com. Table: Aldo Bakker, suiteny.com. PAGES 132–133: Chairs: Phillip Lloyd Powell, sothebys .com. Rug: Vanessa Barragão, vanessabarragao.com. Artwork: Yayoi Kusama, yayoi-kusama.jp. Fittings: Fantini, fantini.it. Chair: RH, rh.com. Table: Paola Lenti.
Florence Grinda’s flea-market finds fill the guest bedroom of her Portugal vacation home, designed by Jacques Grange (page 118).
PERFECT CIRCLE Interior design: Ishka Designs, ishkadesigns.com. Architect and Design: Harper Design + Build, harperdb.com. Millwork: 33 Woodwork, 33woodwork.com, and H&H Woodworking, 845-204-0759. PAGE 134–135: Sofa: McGuire, bakerfurniture.com. Chair: Loïc Bard, loicbard.com. Chandelier: Constance Guisset, constanceguisset.com. Rug: Robin Gray, altforliving.com. Curtains: The Shade Store, theshadestore.com. Chair: Mathieu Matégot, gubi.com. Chaise longue: Studio Paolo Ferrari, paoloferrari.com. Carpet: Jan Kath, jan-kath.com. Artwork: Ndidi Emefiele, galleryrosenfeld.com. PAGE 137: Chairs: Muuto, muuto.com. Table: Ilse Crawford, studioilse.com. Wall light: France & Son, franceandson.com. Chair: Eames, hermanmiller.com. Lamp: Jonas Wagell, jonaswagell.se. Wallpaper: Black Edition, blackedition .com. PAGE 138: Tiles: Clé, cletile.com. Stool: Lulu and Georgia, luluand
georgia.com. Faucet: Watermark, watermark-designs.com. PAGE 139: Pouf: CB2, cb2.com. Pendant: Workstead, workstead.com. Carpet: Nourison, nourison.com. Curtains: The Shade Store.
NEW AGE D’OR Interior design: Hugo Toro, hugotoro.com. PAGE 141: Chaise longue: Cassina, cassina.com. PAGE 142: Rotisserie, range, and stove: La Cornue, lacornueusa.com. Cabinet paint: Redfield & Dattner, redfield-dattner .com. PAGE 143: Chairs: Willy Rizzo, willyrizzo.com. Sofa: Pierre Augustin Rose, pierreaugustinrose.com. Table: Garnier & Linker, garnieretlinker.com. Nesting bowls: Jaimal Odedra, maisongerard.com. Chandelier: Garnier & Linker. PAGE 144: Bathtub: Bette, my-bette.com. Faucets: Lalique, lalique.com. PAGE 145: Chair: Timothée Musset, ateliermusset.com. Curtains: Silva Paris, silva.fr.
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MY K I N D O F RO OM A dining room in a townhouse on New York City’s Upper East Side designed in the late 1980s by Keith Irvine.
FEAST ON THIS For Danielle Colding, a room designed by her mentor, “THIS DINING ROOM IS BY MY FIRST BOSS IN NEW YORK,
Keith Irvine. He became a mentor to me. He was a master—a Scotsman steeped in the Colefax and Fowler tradition who had worked for Sister Parish. He had that pedigree but was also irreverent. This is a pretty traditional space, which isn’t quite how I design, but it’s magical. The strié walls are unbelievable. I remember watching the process and the painter dragging his 148 E L L E D E C O R
thumbnail down the wall to bring out the white background against four shades of green. This level of craftsmanship is not something we often see anymore. You have these high-minded things going on in Keith’s rooms, but they are still comfortable and accessible. He spent crazy money on luxury items, yet you can still walk into one of his rooms and put your feet up!” —As told to Camille Okhio
MICHAEL MUNDY
the late Keith Irvine, is the epitome of fine dining.
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