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THE GARDEN OF JEAN-LOUIS DENIOT’S LOS ANGELES HOME.
14 Editor’s Letter 16 Object Lesson
The rebirth of Gabriella Crespi’s fabulous Fungo lamp.
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MARIA SHARAPOVA’S L.A. RESIDENCE.
Loro Piana unveils a luxurious update to a private getaway at Lake Como’s legendary Villa d’Este hotel . . . Bette Midler nurtures a Bronx community garden . . . Makoto Kagoshima’s floral ceramics . . . Pattern-happy designer JJ Martin’s bold new bedding for La DoubleJ . . . Tom Scheerer transforms a picturesque flat on the Île Saint-Louis into an inviting home away from home . . . Designer Ellen Van Dusen spills renovation advice . . . Favorite finds for green thumbs and garden lovers . . . and more!
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Every square inch of Maria Sharapova’s dreamy Los Angeles home is a testament to the tennis great’s style, spirit, and focus. BY MAYER RUS
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A CHAIR FROM CRISTINA CELESTINO’S COLLECTION FOR FENDI CASA.
64 Child Proof
Maisonette cofounder Sylvana Durrett calls on Carrier and Company to fashion a glamorous yet family-friendly nest in Brooklyn. BY JANE KELTNER DE VALLE
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SYLVANA DURRETT IN HER BROOKLYN DINING ROOM.
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Buzzy Milanese designer Cristina Celestino creates an exuberant collection for Fendi Casa. BY KARIN NELSON
Fashion designer Adam Lippes outfits his A-list Brooklyn apartment with a quirky attitude and low-cost, high-style antiques. BY MITCHELL OWENS
104 Resources MARIA SHARAPOVA, WEARING A BASSIKE SWEATER AND CHLOÉ SKIRT, AT HER L.A. HOME. “VISION QUEST,” PAGE 52. PHOTOGRAPHY BY DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN. STYLED BY LAWREN HOWELL.
The designers, architects, and products featured this month.
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A dazzling exhibition in Venice erases any distinction between art and design.
FROM LEFT: SAM FROST; COURTESY OF FENDI CASA
94 In the Heights
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86 Bold Strokes
In central London, Pierre Yovanovitch puts a modern spin on a turn-of-the-century home—with a pool to die for. BY HANNAH MARTIN
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When it’s raining in Paris, designer Jean-Louis Deniot simply hops a plane to his blissful hideaway in sunny Los Angeles.
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“I was inspired by Japanese architecture and minimalist aesthetics. . . . For me, uncluttered means healthy. If you don’t use something, you don’t need it.” —Maria Sharapova
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1. IN THE L.A. GARDEN OF DESIGNER JEAN-LOUIS DENIOT. 2. THE BROOKLYN LIBRARY OF SYLVANA DURRETT, DESIGNED BY CARRIER AND COMPANY. 3. A SITTING ROOM IN MARIA SHARAPOVA’S CALIFORNIA HOME. 4. WITH SHARAPOVA AT THE RALPH LAUREN 50TH-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION IN NYC.
AMY ASTLEY Editor in Chief @amytastley
1. SIMON UPTON; 2. SAM FROST; 3. DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN; 4. COURTESY OF MARIA SHARAPOVA
The question I am most often asked about my work is “How do you find the houses AD shoots?” Well, finding them is the job! We unearth exceptional houses via a vast network of contacts with architects, interior designers, and notables in every profession and industry from art and fashion to entertainment and sports. Which brings us to Maria Sharapova, whom I first met 12 years ago when she did a cover shoot for Teen Vogue, the magazine I founded. Maria was only 19 but preternaturally mature and poised, with flawless manners. I found her impressive and unforgettable—a true champion. Now 32, Maria is often out and about in New York City (she is a culture vulture!), and when I inquired about her own home, she modestly informed me that she had been working closely with architect Grant Kirkpatrick on the project for several years, and invited me to come visit on my next trip to California. I took her up on the offer and was floored when I stepped through the very Zen threshold: The house perfectly embodies that ideal California indoor/outdoor lifestyle. Sunlight streams through huge windows, massive sliding doors open up spaces to the breeze and sky, and there’s a pool so centrally placed that it feels like you could dive into it from any room. This is a carefully considered house, one that has its act together— much like the owner. An admitted perfectionist, Sharapova tells AD, “I was obsessed with the process of making this home. I’d jump off a plane from a tournament and go straight to the work site or the architect’s office or to a kitchen manufacturer. This was my project, and I wasn’t going to delegate any part of it.” Of his Grand Slam client, Kirkpatrick confirms: “Maria’s work ethic is astonishing. She’s competitive as hell, in the best possible way, and she was involved in every single aspect of this house.” We have a winner!
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THE STORY BEHIND AN ICONIC DESIGN
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1. DESIGNER GABRIELLA CRESPI, FLANKED BY FUNGO LAMPS IN HER MILAN HOME. 2. A FLEET OF NEWLY MADE FUNGOS AT DIMORE’S MILAN ATELIER (DIMORE GALLERY.EU). 3. A VINTAGE FUNGO LAMP. 2
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lamorous Milanese designer Gabriella Crespi contemplated an age-old decorating
restorative warmth of the sun indoors? Her answer came in the form of Rising Sun, a radiant lighting collection made from an unusual pair of materials: brass and bamboo. The latter, she observed, “combines force and flexibility, the warmth of color and a capacity to let light through.”
Crespi, who died in 2017, explored other materials to give Fungo a new look as time passed, topping the brass bases with Plexiglas shades to create
gives it a mushroom-like silhouette.
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1. MATTHIEU SALVAING; 2. ANDREA FERRARI/COURTESY OF DIMORE GALLERY; 3. COURTESY OF 1STDIBS
The rebirth of Gabriella Crespi’s fabulous Fungo lamp
From the first toast to the final bite, relish every moment and meal.
Cooking. Refrigeration. Dishwashing.
LAKE COMO AS SEEN FROM VILLA CIMA.
DISCOVERIES
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Soft Landing
Deploying yards upon yards of the finest fabrics, Loro Piana unveils a luxurious update to a private getaway at Lake Como’s legendary Villa d’Este hotel P HOTOGR APHY BY FEDERICO TORRA
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1. VILLA CIMA, NOW REFRESHED BY LORO PIANA (LOROPIANA.COM). 2. A SITTING ROOM. 3. A TERRAZZO-CLAD BATH. 4. ONE OF FOUR BEDROOMS. 2
WHERE TO DINE Take a note from the glamorous Luisa Loro Piana, who heads to the lakeside Cernobbio mainstay HARRY’S BAR for an aperitivo whenever she’s in town (harrys barcernobbio.it). Nestled in a nearby private park, KITCHEN
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hen Cardinal Tolomeo Gallio commissioned architect Pellegrino Tibaldi to build a Lake Como retreat in the mid– 16th century, the result was a summer house to rival all others: the sprawling Renaissance residence later christened Villa d’Este, on the coast of Cernobbio. Gallio would inhabit it for only 20 days, but the property (reborn as a hotel in 1873) has since become the go-to getaway for politicians, intellectuals, and style setters, among them the Loro Piana family of Italian cashmere fame. So when one of the grounds’ four private villas, the 1815 Villa Cima, found itself in need of a refresh, the hotel turned to Loro Piana to work its magic. The strategy was simple: Out with the old and in with the new. Unveiled this past spring, the airy update replaced heavy antiques with made-to-measure furnishings swathed in Loro Piana’s finest fabrics, all woven at Piedmont-region factories in Roccapietra and Quarona. Linen, silk, velvet, and (of course) cashmere now cover luxe headboards, sofas, and chairs, or are deployed as table linens, pillows, outdoor rugs, and throws. A painterly stripe designed especially for this project (and appropriately named Villa d’Este) was used for window treatments in several rooms. Every detail—from monogrammed pillows to contrasting piping—is impeccably tailored. Even the closets are lined with carpets woven with cashmere. “Softness is the defining feature of the interiors,” explains Loro Piana’s global CEO, Fabio d’Angelantonio. In other words, it’s the perfect place for guests (as many as eight) to kick off their shoes and unwind. “The rooms are an invitation to rest, relax, and let the days pass with leisurely ease.” From $11,700 per night; villadeste.com. —HANNAH MARTIN
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meanwhile, offers fresh takes on Italian classics like linguine with clams and saffron risotto (kitchen como.com). And down a cobblestone street in the city of Como, cozy IL COMACINO is beloved for its creative cocktails and Mediterranean fare (comacino.it). But if you’re craving the best views, just linger at Villa d’Este’s own VERANDA restaurant, which overlooks the hotel’s historic gardens and marina beyond.
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1. FANNIE’S GARDEN AT PARADISE ON EARTH, A BRONX COMMUNITY GARDEN FUNDED BY JEWELER JOEL ROSENTHAL AND TRANSFORMED BY THE NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT. 2. FANNIE’S GARDEN STANDS OPPOSITE C.S. 150, A PUBLIC SCHOOL, WHOSE STUDENTS ARE FREQUENT USERS OF THE GARDEN. 3. BETTE MIDLER, NYRP’S FOUNDER.
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Blooming Genius
Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project nurtures a multilayered, multipurpose Bronx community garden
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ong used by residents in ad hoc fashion, one particular empty lot in the Bronx’s Morrisania neighborhood had “always been a magnet,” says Bette Midler, the founder of the New York Restoration Project, the green-space organization that has been revitalizing woebegone urban plots since 1995. Today, thanks to the NYRP, that unprepossessing acreage is now Fannie’s Garden at Paradise on Earth, a 13,000-square-foot public living room. Children can grow vegetables on the trapezoidal parcel, and families can barbecue. A pavilion awaits a complement of solar panels, which will soon allow people to charge smartphones. A deck on the lawn hosts graduation ceremonies (C.S. 150, an elementary school, sits directly across the street) and film nights, and storm water is collected and channeled to irrigate the rain garden. Of the 36 raised planting beds, 12 were designed with wheelchair-dependent gardeners in mind. There’s even a chicken coop and potable water. “It’s an energetic and flexible space,” says Brian Sawyer of Sawyer | Berson, an AD100 design and landscape firm, which developed the scheme pro bono. As for the garden’s name,
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it honors the late mother of Midler’s close friend Joel Arthur Rosenthal, the Bronx-raised, Paris-based cult jewelry designer known as JAR. Rosenthal and Pierre Jeannet, his life and business partner, underwrote and fund-raised, asking clients such as philanthropist Jo Carole Lauder to cultivate an enchantment that is one of the NYRP’s 52 community gardens. “The school, C.S. 150, was very enthusiastic,” Midler explains. “The science teachers were thrilled beyond belief because they never had any space to teach children about seeds and planting and growing them. And Joel was smart enough to understand that a third of his contribution went into a maintenance fund: Everybody likes to build, but nobody likes to maintain—and maintenance is key.” As for Rosenthal, his requests were few, one being “Please have lilacs.” The large purple Syringa vulgaris shrubs—the highly fragrant classic perfumes Rosenthal and Jeannet’s garden at their country house in Switzerland—that Sawyer installed accent the garden spaces and are visible from any vantage point. Says Sawyer, “Now we just sit back and watch Fannie’s Garden become its own world.” nypr.org —MITCHELL OWENS
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When searching for inspiration, ceramic artist Makoto Kagoshima turns to flowers. From their brilliant blooms to their curlicue tendrils, everything about them fascinates him. “I am always mesmerized by the intricate sense of purpose I observe within the natural world,” Kagoshima says. “I draw flowers in anticipation of those who will behold them.” Based in the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka, Kagoshima has honed his spirited breed of earthenware for more than 15 years, developing fresh twists on traditional techniques. He applies
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DISCOVERIES ELLEN (ENTERTAINING HER DOG, SNIPS) SITS ON A PAIR OF CHAIRS MADE IN COLLABORATION WITH DESIGNER BRENDAN TIMMINS. THE TWO SEATS FIT TOGETHER LIKE PUZZLE PIECES AND ARE UPHOLSTERED IN HER OWN FABRICS.
“I COMMISSIONED MY FRIEND SAM KEENE TO BUILD A SHELF THAT WOULD NOT ONLY HOLD MY BOOKS BUT HIDE MY TELEVISION,” NOTES ELLEN. “THIS IS WHERE WE LANDED. YOU PRESS A BUTTON AND THE TV EMERGES FROM THE BACK.” SHE FOUND THE TULIP AT AN UPSTATE NEW YORK ANTIQUES WAREHOUSE.
“I HAVE A TENDENCY TO GO OVERBOARD WITH COLOR, SO I HAD TO TALK MYSELF INTO DOING PLYWOOD,” SAYS ELLEN, WHO STILL MANAGED TO GIVE
THE CABINETS SOME PIZZAZZ BY HIRING A WOODWORKER TO ROUTE A PATTERN OF CONTINUOUS CURVES. THE YELLOW RANGE IS BY DACOR.
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Known for her use of graphic patterns and eye-popping colors, designer Ellen Van Dusen has finished her most ambitious project yet: an ingenious, upbeat update to her Brooklyn brownstone. “Everything in this house kind of looks like a cartoon,” says Ellen, founder of the fashion-and-furnishings brand Dusen Dusen. “And I love it.” Here she spills some advice for renovating and decorating—from creating her kitchen from scratch to making a DIY hearth. dusendusen.com —HANNAH MARTIN
FOR THE FIREPLACE SURROUND, ELLEN BOUGHT A BATCH OF BROKEN TILE ONLINE, LAID THE PIECES OUT, AND GROUTED THE PATTERN INTO PLACE. THE ARTWORK ABOVE THE MANTEL IS A MASSIF CENTRAL SCARF BY JONAS WOOD.
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SHE TAPPED DESIGNER SAM STEWART, THE QUEENSBASED FURNITURE MAKER, TO CREATE CUSTOM KITCHEN STOOLS THAT MELD FORM AND FUNCTION. THEIR TOPS LIFT UP TO REVEAL A NESTED STOOL—PERFECT FOR ENTERTAINING.
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TOM SCHEERER’S PARIS MASTER SUITE FEATURES A BESPOKE BED BY THE RAJ COMPANY, A CUSTOM WALLPAPER, AND (ON THE PILLOWS AND HEADBOARD) A LISA FINE TEXTILES FLORAL.
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living room walls a forest green. In the adjacent bedroom, he concocted a tableau of his own, framing geometric collages in a grid above a pair of twin beds with wicker headboards and Egyptian-style feet. The second bedroom, meanwhile, resembles a hexagonal colonial-style cocoon, with a canopied four-poster bed and Marcus Leatherdale photos of India hung against faded, paisley-papered walls. “I was wary not to overindulge in French furniture, especially from the Puces,” Scheerer notes of the mix, which ranges
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rowing up in Los Angeles, JJ Martin was already a maximalist by the tender age of seven. “My room had crazy floral wallpaper and a yellowand-white gingham bedspread with lace trim,” recalls the Milan-based designer, founder of the fashion-and-home brand La DoubleJ. “It was the ’80s. It was my moment.” The reigning principessa of pattern is now in the midst of another moment, having realized the grown-up bedding of her dreams with the Italian manufacturer Mascioni. During April’s Milan Design Week, Martin unveiled six La DoubleJ linen sets, with pillows, blankets, and pajamas to match. To display them, she outfitted eight mattresses in the new prints, piling them high atop a petit bed in her Navigli showroom. Instagram, not surprisingly, went wild. Like her beloved, exuberantly printed frocks, the bedding motifs (all realized on 300-thread-count cotton and finished with contrasting top stitching) draw from a range of inspirations. Colombo Bianco riffs on a 1960s watercolor by German artist Suzanne Kientz; the pink-and-green Carnevale was adapted from a 1970s dress; and Wildbird Blu is based on a watercolor found at Mantero Seta, a Lake Como silk archive, that she recolored in blue and white. While customers can order matching sheet and duvet sets in Wildbird Blu and Colombo Bianco, mixing and matching is encouraged. Woven wool throws and velvet pillows emblazoned with Greek goddesses add another layer. “The prints are very strong,” allows Martin, who has injected a heaping dose of the collection into her own Milan bedroom, until now patently pattern-free. “They’re not for the faint of heart, but that’s what makes them fun.” ladoublej.com —HANNAH MARTIN
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THE HOME’S ENTRY FEATURES A MIX OF UNPRETENTIOUS MATERIALS: POURED CONCRETE WALLS, FLOATING BLEACHEDOAK STAIRS, AND A TRAVERTINE FLOOR. OPPOSITE SHARAPOVA, WEARING A CHLOÉ DRESS, IN THE DINING ROOM. GEORGE NAKASHIMA CHAIRS; BILLY COTTON CHANDELIER; CHRIS GWALTNEY PAINTING. FLOWERS THROUGHOUT BY JOSEPH FREE. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
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alk to anyone who worked with Maria Sharapova on the design, construction, and decoration of her discreetly ravishing home in Los Angeles and their responses invariably follow the same themes: that the tennis star maintained a resolute vision of how she wanted the residence to feel and function from the earliest phases of the project; that she was one of the most intellectually curious and committed clients they’ve ever encountered; and that her style and spirit—as a supremely confident athlete, aesthete, and businesswoman—animate every inch of the property. In short, Maria Sharapova is a boss. “I was obsessed with the process of making this home. I’d jump off a plane from a tournament and go straight to the work site or to the architect’s office or to a kitchen manufacturer. This was my project, and I wasn’t going to delegate any part of it,” insists the Russian-born phenom. As with many sports celebrities who have been in the public eye since they were children, it’s easy to forget just how young
Sharapova really is. Now 32, the statuesque player first attained the world number-one ranking in women’s tennis at the age of 18. She is one of only 10 athletes in the history of the women’s game to achieve a career Grand Slam, winning all four majors. Off the court, Sharapova has flexed her business muscles through a broad array of endorsements and sponsorships, the creation of her signature apparel line for Nike, the launch of Sugarpova, her premium candy–and–chocolate company, and other ventures. At present, she is developing sports and training venues keyed to principles of holistic health and wellness. “Maria’s work ethic is astonishing. She’s competitive as hell, in the best possible way, and she was involved in every single aspect of this house, down to the most minute detail and material permutation,” says architect Grant Kirkpatrick of KAA Design, who oversaw the project in tandem with his partner, Duan Tran. “To say that she simply collaborated with us does not adequately describe her dedication and influence on the design,” he adds. The three-story house is located on a sloping site with expansive ocean views from Palos Verdes to Malibu, with Catalina Island hovering in the distance—a dazzling panorama that unfolds with particular drama from Sharapova’s sun-kissed bedroom and bath. A luminous
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double-height entry gallery, defined by walls of sleek, panelformed concrete and punctuated with a stair and bridge, opens out to an expansive pool and alfresco entertaining area. The central volume is flanked by two wings—one for the open living/dining/kitchen sweep on the ground floor and the master suite above, and the other allocated to guest quarters, with bedrooms on the lower level and a well-appointed suite on the upper. There’s also a kick-back basement lounge with a bowling alley. “I was inspired by Japanese architecture and minimalist aesthetics,” Sharapova says of the spare, elegant design and decor. “I didn’t grow up with lots of stuff around. For me, uncluttered means healthy. If you don’t use something, you don’t need it.” For all its lean beauty, however, the home has no shortage of warmth, soul, and delight. Architectural details of bleached oak, cedar, and silver travertine provide a rich material counterpoint to the wide expanses of concrete and glass. A sculptural wood screen—which penetrates the façade as it undulates between outdoors and in—throws an organic curve into the largely rectilinear composition, modulating the influx of sunlight and providing privacy from the street. Even the positioning of the pool is calculated as a giddy surprise. When the sliding doors of the living/dining area are pulled away,
one can simply turn around from the dining table or sofa and hop right into the water. “We conceived the pool, garden, and great room as one large indoor/outdoor space. The pool becomes the center of everything,” Kirkpatrick explains. When the time came to furnish the house, Sharapova turned to interior designer Courtney Applebaum, who curated a mix of rough-hewn antiques from Asia, Africa, and Europe, all set against a strategic array of refined midcentury classics. “The texture and patina of the furniture create a bit of tension with the crisp, new architecture,” Applebaum says. “Maria is super-perceptive and detail-oriented. There’s not a chair or table that came into the house that she didn’t analyze, dissect, and discuss. She pays attention to every stitch and groove.” Sharapova’s designers all seem to echo the idea that their savvy, sophisticated client pushed them beyond their traditional comfort zone to conjure a truly one-of-a-kind home that radiates the creativity and confidence of the tennis star herself. “I kept telling everyone that I want this to be the best house they’ve ever done. I tried to push their vision because I believe in all of them and want to see them shine,” she says. “I’ve traveled all over the world and enjoyed lots of incredible spaces. But my home is my absolute favorite. I think that’s the way it should be.”
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“I’ve traveled all over the world and enjoyed lots of incredible spaces. But my home is my absolute favorite.”
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“I didn’t grow up with lots of stuff around. For me, uncluttered means healthy. If you don’t use something, you don’t need it.”
ABOVE VINTAGE ITALIAN ARMCHAIRS FACE DMITRIY & CO. SOFAS IN THE LIVING ROOM. ON SOFAS, PAT MCGANN PILLOWS; COURTNEY APPLEBAUM DESIGN COCKTAIL TABLE; BLEACHED JUTE RUG. OPPOSITE SLIDING GLASS DOORS FROM SEVERAL ROOMS OPEN ONTO THE POOL.
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we have the garlic? The anchovy paste? What about the Dijon mustard?” bellows a voice from the kitchen. A chorus of “Check! Check! Check!” echoes back. It’s 4:00 p.m. on a Tuesday, and cooking class is under way for four-year-old Gracie Durrett and a half dozen of her friends. The 17-foot-long Calacatta gold kitchen island is prepped with all the ingredients for a Caesar salad, and the junior chefs are just about to add the Worcestershire sauce when Sylvana Durrett— matriarch of the house and cofounder of children’s e-commerce boutique Maisonette—sweeps down the stairs and motions for me to join her one flight up on the parlor floor. “It’s mayhem down there,” she says, leading me into the decidedly more grownup living room where she sinks into a mustard velvet sofa perched atop a graphic striped rug. Gracie and my son are schoolmates, so the scene of a gaggle of kids in her roost—whether for a birthday party or a Maisonette photo shoot (the home serves as a recurring backdrop for the site’s campaigns)—is in fact a familiar one. The first time I laid eyes on the residence was through a picture my sitter texted me of my son, Gracie, and another girl donning swimsuits in the master bath’s freestanding tub for one such shoot. Sylvana claims she hadn’t even hatched the business idea when they started designing the home, but she admits, “it works out well.” She and her investor husband started househunting in Brooklyn shortly after the birth of their son, Henry, seven years ago. At the time, they were living in a shoebox apartment in Greenwich Village. “Henry’s nursery was basically a closet,” she says. When the new parents received an invitation to visit some friends in Cobble Hill, they trudged across the bridge and fell in love. Weekend treks to open houses (baby Henry in tow) and multiple lost bidding wars would ensue before they happened upon a classical 1901 brownstone with gracious proportions, a 60-footlong garden, and the perfect stoop on which to welcome trick-or-treaters. They clinched it, embarked on a gut renovation, and, at the tail end of 2017, moved in. By that time, their brood had expanded to six: Henry being joined by sisters Gracie and Millie, now two, as well as a one-year-old Labrador called Blue, which happens to be Sylvana’s favorite color. Sylvana wanted a space that would lend itself well to family living while being formal enough for entertaining on a grand scale. After planning nine Met galas while she was the director of special
PENDANTS BY THE URBAN ELECTRIC CO. HANG OVER THE CALACATTA GOLD MARBLE-TOPPED KITCHEN ISLAND. ON CABINETRY, FARROW & BALL’S CASTLE GRAY PAINT. ROHL SINKS AND FITTINGS; CHAIRS BY JAYSON HOME.
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projects at Vogue, “my dream was to have a place where I would actually use my work at home in a meaningful way.” Brooklyn’s CWB Architects oversaw the renovation, devising a floor plan that could walk that delicate tightrope. They kept the traditional bones of the house with stately moldings and archways between rooms, while opening it up to maximize the flow of light. When it came time to decorate, there was never a question in the couple’s mind. Sylvana had met Jesse Carrier of the AD100 firm Carrier and Company Interiors years earlier, when she was an assistant to Anna Wintour, a longtime client of the designer’s. “I’ve always loved his sensibility,” she says of the country-chic style he and his wife, Mara Miller, are known for. “He’s easy to work with,” and, as a father of two, “he gets the family thing.” Or as Carrier explains: “We know what damage comes with having a herd of elephants running up and down the stairs.” For those, he opted for a broadloom, polypropylene runner, telling Sylvana, “You’re going to thank me.” The finished result is a high-low mix that looks rich and layered but isn’t so precious that “the children need to be sent to some obscure part of the house to play,” says Carrier. The designer shopped accessible retail outlets like RH, Williams Sonoma
Home, CB2, and Anthropologie, combining them with just enough wow accents to lend a luxe feel. In the dining room, the Durretts splurged on a de Gournay wallpaper of climbing vines that has the effect of extending the garden inside, and paired it with a relatively inexpensive sisal that can easily be swapped out “after red wine and turkey,” Sylvana says. (It’s already been replaced once.) For dinner parties, they can host up to 24 in the dining room— 34 if they extend the seating into the lacquered blue library by opening the pocket doors (a “genius” design detail Sylvana credits to the architects) and shifting the rose velvet sofa into the hallway. A goldsplattered Calico wallpaper on the library ceiling draws the eye up, and, notes Carrier, is like a modern version of a frescoed ceiling. “In such a confined space, it’s nice to be able to enjoy that constellation,” he says. Adds Sylvana: “It’s so cozy, and it’s where the bar is. My husband has become quite a beer aficionado. People come over and are like, ‘Tell me which brew you have on tap this week.’ ” Upstairs in the master suite, a serene palette sets the tone. There’s a deck overlooking the lush garden designed by celebrated landscape architect Miranda Brooks, another relationship Sylvana forged during her Vogue days. While the Maisonette owner now
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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT THE DURRETTS’ SON, HENRY, CLIMBS HIS BUNK BED. A ROBERT CROWDER WALLPAPER ADDS
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FARROW & BALL PAINT STRIPES THE CEILING OF THE MEDIA ROOM, WHERE THE FAMILY DOG LOUNGES ON CUSHIONS COVERED IN A KRAVET COUTURE VELVET. ARTWORK BY JULIE BLACKMON.
peddles mini-sized fashion, she has a walk-in closet that would do her alma mater proud. “My dream since I was a little girl,” she sighs, passing through the dressing room, which is wrapped in wood-framed glass cabinetry. “I don’t even have enough clothes to fill it.” She opens a pair of doors to reveal completely empty racks—an almost unheard-of predicament in New York City. The children’s quarters feature petite bedrooms filled with furnishings from the home wing of Maisonette—an Incy Interiors crib in the nursery, where a white noise machine is on full blast despite Millie’s absence; Oeuf rabbit chairs around a play table in Gracie’s blush-colored room; and a navy Chloe club chair in Henry’s nautical-themed bedroom, which boasts built-in bunk beds. Sylvana informs me that he sleeps on the top one and Gracie on the bottom. “She doesn’t want to sleep in her own room. Henry’s cool with it,” she continues. “I think he’d be bummed if she didn’t sleep in here with him.” The attic floor was transformed into a multipurpose media room, play area, and guest suite—the built-in banquette cleverly designed to house three twin-size mattresses and two trundles, so “when the cousins come, all the kids sleep up here,” Sylvana explains. “Literally every time it happens my heart sings.”
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Blue, white, and beige striping lends a beachy vibe and, combined with the fact that it’s perched in the treetops, almost makes you forget you’re in the urban jungle. “We did the circus-tent stripes on the ceiling,” says Carrier, “because the architects had the great idea of carving out space in the rafters, which created this funny pitched shape.” As we wind our way back down to kid central, Sylvana recalls their first holiday here. They had been living in the attic “eating cereal on the floor,” while the bottom half of the house was being completed, and serendipitously removed the construction tarps just in time for Christmas Eve dinner. Sylvana’s family was visiting. “We sat down at the dining table for the first time, and I was like, ‘This is exactly as I imagined it,’ ” she says, blissfully. “It suddenly felt like home.” “Mommy! Mommy!” calls a child as soon as we step off the landing onto the garden level. Gracie rushes toward her mother, her mouth cherry-red from a lollipop she’s just polished off. “Mama, I want spider pasta with cheese. Can you make it for me?” Of course she can, Sylvana assures her. She takes Gracie’s hand and walks into the kitchen. Henry will arrive home from soccer moments later, ready for dinner, too. Caesar salad and lollipops might make for good amuse-bouches, but the main course awaits.
THE CHILDREN PLAY IN THE GARDEN WITH THEIR MOTHER, WHO WEARS A VALENTINO DRESS AND TORY BURCH NECKLACE.
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THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK
IN THE MASTER BATH, A MITCHELL GOLD + BOB WILLIAMS SIDE TABLE STANDS NEXT TO A TUB BY CHEVIOT.
BISTRO MEDIUM CHANDELIER BY IAN K. FOWLER FOR VISUAL COMFORT; $2,099. CIRCALIGHTING.COM
ITALIAN KITCHEN SAN JULIO DECK MOUNT FAUCET BY HOUSE OF ROHL; $1,077. ROHLHOME.COM
LEAVES LINEN; $145 PER YARD. REBECCA ATWOOD.COM
ELBA LOUNGE CHAIR; $1,412. BUNGALOW5.COM
HOLLYWOOD VELVET; TO THE TRADE. FABRICUT.COM
CHAGNY RANGE BY LACANCHE; FROM $10,200. FRENCH RANGES.COM
ALCIDE RECTANGULAR MARBLE COFFEE TABLE; $699. CB2.COM
SWIRLS WALL COVERING BY ROBERT CROWDER & COMPANY; PRICE UPON REQUEST. ROBERTCROWDER.COM
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I gravitate toward English country, and my husband is much more modern, so we made sure to combine both of our tastes.” —Sylvana Durrett PRODUCED BY MADELINE O’M ALLEY
MAC PENDANT; $2,512. URBANELECTRIC.COM
A CIRCA LIGHTING CHANDELIER ILLUMINATES THE LIVING ROOM.
It’s important to be able to have a real family life and not have to send the kids to some obscure part of the house to play.” —Jesse Carrier
SAFARI SUNSET ROLLER SHADES; PRICE UPON REQUEST. THESHADESTORE.COM
A PATTERNED WALLPAPER BY STUDIO FOUR NYC BRIGHTENS THE NURSERY CEILING.
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FIFTIES CHAIR BY BUSETTI GARUTI REDAELLI FOR CALLIGARIS; $582. CALLIGARIS.COM
COASTAL WEAVES WALLPAPER; TO THE TRADE. PHILLIPJEFFRIES.COM
THE 1930s HOME FEATURES A TUDORSTYLE EXTERIOR AND GARDENS BY SHRADER DESIGN. OPPOSITE A CUSTOM CHANDELIER HANGS OVER THE PIET HEIN EEK DINING TABLE AND JACQUES ADNET AND ANDRÉ ARBUS CHAIRS. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
Golden Hours When it’s raining in Paris, designer Jean-Louis Deniot simply hops a plane to his blissful hideaway in sunny Los Angeles TEXT BY
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LIBRARY SEATING INCLUDES A T. H. ROBSJOHN-GIBBINGS DAYBED AND A SOFA BY DENIOT FOR BAKER, COVERED IN A NOBILIS FABRIC. VINTAGE SIDE TABLE; GIO PONTI GLOBE.
ean-Louis Deniot’s travel schedule reads like the index of a world atlas. Since establishing his Paris-based architecture and interior-design firm at age 26, nearly two decades ago, the French native has risen to global design-star status. Known for luxurious and eclectic, yet decidedly contemporary interiors, the AD100 designer currently has projects on five continents, from Beverly Hills to Manhattan, London to Moscow, and in alluring destinations such as Hong Kong, Bangkok, New Delhi, and Chandigarh, as well as both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar, in Tarifa and Tangier.
Given his far-flung exploits, Deniot’s Los Angeles getaway, nestled in the hills above Sunset Boulevard, serves as a well-earned retreat. “When the weather is nasty in Paris I jump on a plane and come to beautiful La La Land,” he says with a boyish grin, adding, “The light in Los Angeles is the most beautiful in the world.” Deniot began visiting L.A. nearly 20 years ago, and he insists that there is no place more exotic for a Parisian. “I love the eclecticism of the architecture and cultures. Los Angeles is 20 cities within one,” he explains. “Every night of the week you can have a completely different experience. There are so many different tribes. That’s what makes it so fun.” Eventually Deniot decided he wanted a place of his own. When he discovered his 1930s residence, he was immediately seduced by its fairy-tale quality.
“I knew right away it was a keeper,” he says, speculating that the 2,800-square-foot home’s Tudor-esque exteriors coupled with its Spanish-style interiors were likely the creation of a set designer or someone working for the Hollywood studios of the era. Deniot began plotting what would become a twoyear renovation during extended stays in California. The hideaway, which he shares with his partner, real-estate and tech entrepreneur William Holloway, sits on an expansive oversize lot. “In L.A. people tend to build the biggest possible houses their land can accommodate,” he explains. “I did the opposite. I kept the house modest and extended the gardens.” To tackle the challenge of creating a gracious garden on a tricky hillside site, Deniot brought in L.A.-based landscape designer Scott Shrader. “We literally carved out space,” Shrader says, describing the construction of a series of low terraced walls to create parterres for both planting and outdoor living. “Jean-Louis wanted the garden to be romantic,
BELOW GLOBAL ANTIQUE AND VINTAGE OBJECTS MINGLE IN THE LIBRARY, WITH WALLPAPER BY PHILLIP JEFFRIES. CUSTOM FLOOR LAMP.
meandering, and filled with lovely smells and the sound of water. He had a vision of relaxed al fresco entertaining that unfolds from one discrete space to the next,” Shrader adds. (Indeed, the collaboration was such a success that Deniot penned the foreword to Shrader’s recently published book, The Art of Outdoor Living.) Deniot’s interior renovations included opening up the ground-floor spaces to effect a more generous indoor-outdoor flow and extending the second floor to create a large master suite. Whatever the project, he took particular care to ensure that every detail was executed in a way that suited the spirit of the space. “When the house was built, the fashion was to turn one’s back to the city. We redirected the focus to take in the incredible views,” the designer says. New ceilings in the dining room and master bedroom were based on the existing architecture. Throughout the home, Deniot deployed materials such as textured plaster, hand-chiseled stone,
RIGHT JEAN-LOUIS DENIOT SITS IN A 1970s SIDO AND FRANÇOIS THEVENIN CHAIR AT A 1940s JANSEN GAME TABLE. BESPOKE EMBROIDERED-LINEN CURTAINS BY JEANFRANÇOIS LESAGE.
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ABOVE A TONY DUQUETTE CHANDELIER CROWNS THE GUEST BEDROOM. CUSTOM MOROCCAN CURTAINS; 19TH-CENTURY BED. OPPOSITE THE LIGHT-FILLED MASTER BATH FEATURES BESPOKE CABINETRY WITH HARDWARE FROM ANTHROPOLOGIE. TUB BY ASTON MATTHEWS. VINTAGE FRENCH CHANDELIER AND SCONCES; KARL SPRINGER MIRROR.
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ON THE TERRACE, WROUGHT-IRON CLEO BALDON ARMCHAIRS AND AN RH SOFA AND ARMCHAIRS SURROUND A STONE-TOPPED COCKTAIL TABLE THAT ONCE BELONGED TO CHER. FIREPLACE BY SHRADER DESIGN WITH VINTAGE CONVEX MIRROR.
“When the house was built, the fashion was to turn one’s back to the city,” Deniot says. “We redirected the focus to take in the incredible views.” brushed and stained wood, and large oak planks that mimic the original floors. “My rule of thumb is that it’s OK to be eclectic in terms of furnishings; however, architecturally the vocabulary needs to be one single language,” the designer avers. In contrast to the verdant landscape, the interior color palette is largely restricted to white, black, and a pale golden hue that Deniot calls honey. “I wanted to introduce as many textures as possible within that constrained range,” he says of the furnishings,
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which were mostly drawn from a collection he has been accumulating for many years. Much of the furniture—including a Jansen game table with banana-leaf details and a set of Jacques Adnet dining chairs—is 1940s French, a period characterized by the use of light oak finishes. Touches of straw marquetry, embroidery by Jean-François Lesage, raffia from Bali, natural-fiber wall covering, cane, bone inlay, and cast iron all add to the highly tactile mix. “There is something from almost every corner of the world—India, Greece, Morocco,” Deniot notes. “The irony is that this house is all about comfortable California living, but there are few American components. At the end of the day, you wonder if true California style isn’t really just about bringing together sunny vibes from all around the globe.”
IN THE LIVING ROOM, ANNE SOKOLSKY DESIGNED CUSTOM RAFFIA SHADES FOR A 17TH-CENTURY SPANISH CHANDELIER. RAFFIA ALSO COVERS THE KLISMOS CHAIRS FLANKING AN 18TH-CENTURY AMERICAN CONSOLE; MOROCCAN RUG.
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THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK AN 18TH-CENTURY AMERICAN ARMCHAIR STANDS WITH AN 1880s BRONZE FLOOR LAMP AND A 1940s ANDRÉ GROULT GUERIDON.
CHANDELIER BY TONY DUQUETTE FROM INCOLLECT; SIMILAR AVAILABLE FROM TISHU GALLERY. TISHUGALLERY.COM
MARFA CERAMIC LAMP BY NATAN MOSS FOR HOLLYWOOD AT HOME; $1,550. HOLLYWOODAT HOME.COM
PALLASITE LAMP TABLE BY JEAN-LOUIS DENIOT FOR BAKER; TO THE TRADE. BAKERFURNITURE.COM CARNELIAN SOFA BY JEAN-LOUIS DENIOT FOR BAKER; TO THE TRADE. BAKERFURNITURE.COM
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No one can tell what’s old and what’s new, because we did everything in the spirit of what was original.”
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PRODUCED BY MADELINE O’M ALLEY
HELIODOR WALL COVERING; TO THE TRADE. ARTE-INTERNATIONAL.COM
CALLIOPE FABRIC BY HARLEQUIN FOR STYLE LIBRARY; TO THE TRADE. STYLELIBRARY.COM
CLEMENTE FLOOR LAMP BY AERIN FOR VISUAL COMFORT; $929. CIRCA LIGHTING.COM
BRUNEL CAST-IRON TUB; $4,230. ASTONMATTHEWS.CO.UK
VINTAGE TRAVERTINE OBELISK; $3,995. JAYSON HOME.COM
INTERIORS AND EXTERIOR: SIMON UPTON; ALL OTHERS COURTESY OF RESPECTIVE COMPANIES
IN THE MASTER BEDROOM, CUSTOM CHANDELIER BY MARIE CHRISTOPHE AND A JEAN-MICHEL FRANK BENCH.
Rising with the beautiful L.A. light, you wake up a much happier person.”
SEBASTIAN LOUNGE CHAIR BY MARIO RUIZ FOR RH; FROM $1,965. RH.COM
ANOTHER VIEW OF THE GARDEN’S SEATING AREA, WITH A POND BY LANDSCAPE DESIGNER SCOTT SHRADER IN FOREGROUND.
GESSATO BABY CASHMERE BLANKET; $3,000. LOROPIANA.COM
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Buzzy Milanese designer Cristina Celestino creates an exuberant collection for Fendi Casa
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he work of Cristina Celestino is hard to miss. Mixing striking materials, shapes, colors, and cultural references, it manages to be both witty and refined. “I’d call it unexpected,” says the Milanbased designer and architect, whose recent projects include retro-modern furnishings for Sergio Rossi stores and a vibrant reinterpretation of a historic tram that scooted around her hometown last year. Her aesthetic certainly caught the attention of the Fendi family, who first enlisted Celestino to create one-of-kind furniture for their Fendi booth at Design Miami in 2016. For this year’s Salone del Mobile fair, they called on her for a follow-up collection, which— in a historic turn of events—has become the first full designer collaboration to be commercially developed for Fendi Casa. “We have a common approach to design,” explains Celestino of her cozy relationship with the Roman brand, which is known for its exquisite craftsmanship and innovative construction. Titled Back Home, the expansive project took Fendi’s signature Pequin pattern (introduced in 1987, the same year as Fendi Casa) as its starting point. The broad tobacco-and-black stripes now appear at their traditional scale along the base of Celestino’s curvilinear club chairs and sofas. But for a plush silk wool–and–linen carpet, she went to work supersizing the motif in puff pink and dusty blue, a palette inspired by Italian architect Luigi Moretti’s Roman interiors from the 1930s. “I wanted to give it a softer feel,” says Celestino, whose update propelled a matching set of luggage. Fashion—jewelry in particular—has long provided Celestino with a steady stream of ideas. In the past, she’s created marble- and onyx-top tables with earring-back bases and a dressing screen with colored lacquered-wood mosaics. For this collection, she conceived a series of brass floor lamps and pendants shaped like cuff links. And the cushy velvet lines of her Tivoli armchairs and ottomans recall those of ring boxes. “Fashion acts without boundaries,” she says. “I’ve always liked that sense of freedom.”
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ABOVE THE STONE-EDGED LAP POOL WAS DESIGNED BY YOVANOVITCH; LANDSCAPING BY CERI EVANS FOR THE NATURAL GARDENING CO. OPPOSITE OTTO SCHULZ CHAIRS FLANK A CERAMIC MANTELPIECE BY ARMELLE BENOIT IN THE SMALL LIVING ROOM. PAAVO TYNELL FLOOR LAMP; HARVEY PROBBER TABLE. ON OAK-PANELED WALLS, ART BY WILHELM SASNAL (LEFT) AND VALENTIN CARRON. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
SASNAL: WILHELM SASNAL, SCOUT POSTER, 2006. © WILHELM SASNAL. COURTESY OF SADIE COLES HQ, LONDON; CARRON: THE ELASTIC SIMULATION FOR A VELVETY FORGIVENESS, 2016. © VALENTIN CARRON. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND KAMEL MENNOUR, PARIS/LONDON
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In central London, Pierre Yovanovitch puts a modern spin on a turn-of-the century home—with a pool to die for
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IN THE LIVING ROOM, A GLASS-BEAD ARTWORK BY LIZA LOU HANGS ABOVE A BENOIT MANTELPIECE. ZEBRAWOOD CONSOLE BY DAVID EBNER, 1950s ITALIAN CHAIR, VINTAGE STILNOVO FLOOR LAMP, ROBERTO MATTA ARMCHAIR.
he client knew exactly what she wanted: not too many floors. High ceilings. Lots of light. And a southfacing garden. Her husband had two requests: a small hammam and a swimming pool in the garden. It was a tall order for a family home in central London, but eventually they found it—an unassuming but generously proportioned Arts and Crafts property nestled on a quiet street in Chelsea, the once-bohemian enclave turned posh residential district. After glimpsing the overgrown gardens—now planted with climbing honeysuckles, hedges, maples, and magnolias by the Natural Gardening Company— and a yard just big enough to carve out a narrow, stone-lined lap pool, they were sold. “When you look out the window, you almost feel like you’re in the country,” says the wife of the home she shares with her husband—they’re both globe-trotting businesspeople—and two teenage daughters. “We woke up one morning and found ducks swimming in the pool.”
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That feeling of the countryside doesn’t stop at the façade. The homeowner wanted interiors that were casual, comfortable, and finely crafted, so she called on Pierre Yovanovitch, the Paris-based AD100 designer and noted artisan whisperer. (His oeuvre will be showcased in a monograph—Pierre Yovanovitch: Interior Architecture—being published by Rizzoli in September.) “I wanted the interior to be in line with her lifestyle,” Yovanovitch says of the wife, with whom he had previously worked on the family’s chalet in the Swiss Alps. “She’s easygoing, never formal—she likes color, and she’s always laughing.” Aside from a few beloved elements—the staircase, the grand fireplace in the master bedroom—Yovanovitch stripped away most of the interior detailing to establish a clean, contemporary slate. By moving the dining room to the first floor, for instance, Yovanovitch transformed the home’s original formal eating quarters downstairs into a chestnut-lined spa that opens to the revitalized garden and new pool. “I didn’t want to create an Arts and Crafts revival,” he explains, “but I wanted to keep the spirit of the house.” In a nod to the property’s turn-of-the-century roots, he filled it with custom woodwork like intricately carved doors and moldings, made-to-measure oak wall paneling, and built-in shelving. Similarly, he points out, “I wanted the fireplaces
KATZ: © 2019 ALEX KATZ/LICENSED BY VAGA AT ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NY; LOU (OPPOSITE): © LIZA LOU. COURTESY OF GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC, LONDON, PARIS, AND SALZBURG; MATTA © 2019 ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/ADAGP, PARIS
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in the dining room, serving as backdrop for a portrait by Alex Katz. The azure glaze of Benoit’s ceramic mantelpiece in the living room relates to a vivid Liza Lou artwork made from deep cobalt-blue glass beads. And the otherwise serenely hued entryway gets a jolt of fun from one of Ugo Rondinone’s neon stone totem structures. “I saw an exhibition, and they had a room full of these,” the homeowner says of the exuberant artwork. “It just made me so happy I thought, That’s exactly what I want for the house—to feel that happiness.” She gets the same burst of energy from an anthropomorphic chair by Roberto Matta—a Chilean artist who dabbled in furniture design. “My dad is Chilean,” she says. “But I didn’t know that Matta did furniture until Pierre found two other wood pieces for our place in Switzerland.” Yet none of the art—or the furniture, for that matter— feels too precious. After all, says Yovanovitch of his client, “when she sits on a sofa, she wants it to be comfortable.” And his many custom sofas and banquettes—made with master in-house carpenter Pierre-Eloi Bris and wrapped in textural cottons, wools, and linens from Jouffre—do not disappoint. “We use every part of the house,” says the client. “Right now there are six teenagers down in the living room playing music so loud. We’ve only lived here a year and a half, but it really feels like we’ve been here forever.”
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to look like they were made in the old times,” so he called on ceramist Armelle Benoit, a longtime collaborator, to fabricate them in enameled ceramic tiles and bricks. Benoit went on to make a curved bench and a poolside ceramic fresco in her deep-hued, earthy glazes, modern foils to the folk-art ceramics—an alligator from Ethiopia; vases from Hungary—the wife has long collected. “This was a studio house—it belonged to an artist,” she notes. “So it was very important to incorporate craft.” Indeed, handmade touches—a Yovanovitch hallmark— figure throughout. Twentieth-century works in wood, like a cork-and-sycamore console by Paul Frankl, a squiggly oak bench by Peter Danko, and a range of furnishings by Danish masters Kaare Klint and Børge Mogensen, feel newly fresh in this setting. They are mixed with pieces by modern masters, like the wicker buffet by Brazilian maestros the Campana Brothers, bespoke furnishings by British collective the New Craftsmen, and a specially commissioned brass-and-glass light fixture by Milan master Vincenzo De Cotiis. But while such attention to detail is typical of a Yovanovitch project, the palette he employed here is less expected. “It’s a bit more colorful than Pierre would normally do,” the wife points out. “But he was very happy to go down that road.” The designer took inspiration from the family’s diverse art collection. A coral-hued Fortuny silk sheathes the walls
BESPOKE METAL DOORS OPEN INTO THE LIVING ROOM. BENCH, SOFA, AND COCKTAIL TABLE BY PIERRE YOVANOVITCH; CAMILLE HENROT BRONZE.
A 1950s TABLE AND CHAIRS DECORATE A BALCONY AT THE BROOKLYN HOME THAT FASHION DESIGNER ADAM LIPPES SHARES WITH PARTNER ALEXANDER FARNSWORTH. OPPOSITE LIPPES PERCHES ON A BALUSTRADE. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
GROOMING BY MARY GUTHRIE FOR ARTISTS BY TIMOTHY PRIANO USING R+CO
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Fashion designer Adam Lippes outfits his A-list Brooklyn apartment with a quirky attitude and low-cost, high-style antiques TEXT BY
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“I like that there are all these different areas for people to congregate,” says Lippes. ABOVE TILE BY STORKA LINES THE KITCHEN, WHERE THE CABINETS ARE BY SEMIHANDMADE. VIKING RANGE; GRETA VON NESSEN TABLE LAMP. OPPOSITE A SILK FAILLE FROM EASTERN SILK MILLS COVERS THE DINING ROOM WALLS AND MAKES UP THE CURTAINS. 19TH-CENTURY SWEDISH CHANDELIER OVER BIEDERMEIER TABLE AND ANTIQUE EPHRAIM STAHL CHAIRS.
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CENTERING THE LIVING ROOM IS A LIPPES-DESIGNED BORNE SETTEE THAT IS COVERED IN LINEN AND TRIMMED WITH SAMUEL & SONS FRINGE AND ANTIQUE RIBBON FROM THE COLLECTION OF BILL BLASS; 1940s PORTUGUESE RUG.
ABOVE THE BED, CUSTOM MADE IN INDIA, FEATURES SILK TAFFETA TENTING AND LINENS BY LIPPES FOR YVES DELORME. CIRCA 1905 AUSTRIAN LAMP ATOP VINTAGE ALDO TURA BAR CART; GUSTAVIAN CHAIR; 18TH-CENTURY VENETIAN BOOKCASE. OPPOSITE FIRECLAY TILES IN GRAPHIC GREEN AND WHITE COVER THE POWDER ROOM.
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LEFT A FRIEDEL DZUBAS PAINTING HANGS IN A LIVING ROOM CORNER. 18TH-CENTURY GUSTAVIAN BENCH; ENGLISH REGENCY FIRE SCREEN; 1950s ITALIAN MIRROR.
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odern stuff I just don’t understand,” fashion designer Adam Lippes says over coffee in the sun-splashed living room of his Brooklyn Heights apartment. “It’s just ugly.” So, defiantly, he surrounds himself with the atmospheric opposite. A Victorian-style borne settee centers the space like a white-and-blue water lily, and a Russian Empire mahogany bookcase stretches across one wall and nearly to the ceiling. The master bedroom’s main event is a custom-made canopy bed that channels the nutty Chinese Chippendale pagoda daybeds at England’s Stanway House, and Gustavian chairs ring a Biedermeier pedestal dining table. A Kentia palm—an arboreal accent beloved by another boldface fashion designer, namely Christian Dior—sprouts from a ceramic cachepot in the living room, its luxuriance, underscored by lacy wicker furnishings, evoking an old-fashioned jardin d’hiver, albeit one painted the palest shade of pink. “We chose it for this room and really loved it, and now it’s the majority of the apartment,” Lippes says of the hue, Farrow & Ball’s Setting Plaster, noting that the silk faille that upholsters the dining room was dyed to match. “It’s pink, but it’s not like it’s pink. It’s got a lot of gray in it, which is nice,” he adds about the paint. “And it turns pink-orange at sunset.” Friends compare Lippes’s dreamy setup to living like a grandmother, and in his defense he says, “Well, yes, I do, and what’s wrong with that? They live well.” Make that a granny with a twist. Last year, the designer and his partner, Alexander Farnsworth, cofounded Highminded, a purveyor of recreational marijuana products. Its first shop opens this year in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, near the couple’s country place.
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OPPOSITE LABRADOODLES LOLA AND KIKO LOUNGE IN THE SO-CALLED OPIUM DEN, WHICH IS TENTED WITH A MADEAUX LINEN-COTTON BY RICHARD SMITH.
Still, Farnsworth, Highminded’s CEO, wonders if the gentility of their domestic sphere needs to be quite so thorough. “Why can’t we just put some big, low sofas in here?” he once asked. “It could happen one day, but not right now,” Lippes observes. “I like that there are all these different areas for people to congregate when we entertain. Someone’s over there chatting, and another group is over here; people are sitting in the bedroom talking.” Or they’re sprawled on the banquettes that ring a tented space that the couple calls the opium den. “Everybody hangs out here,” Lippes says, settling into a supine posture in the golden glow of an Orientalist lantern that he and Farnsworth found on a trip to Tangier. The designer’s dedication to old-school style comes naturally. His mother was an interior decorator with a similar aesthetic point of view, and his father has long collected Biedermeier furniture and contemporary art. “I’m obsessed with furniture, obsessed, more than with clothes any day of the week,” Lippes says, adding that his treasures always end up influencing his fashions. The multicolored carnations and other flowers blooming on the living room’s 1940s Portuguese carpet “would be a great print for clothes.” When the designer learned that one of his father’s favorite dealers was deacquisitioning a truckload of antiques at auction, he leaped at the chance to bring more of the past into his domestic mix, including a pair of obelisk-shape mahogany cabinets that flank a fireplace in a guest bedroom. Invaluable.com, Lippes admits, is “my worst friend,” and the late French romanticist decorator Madeleine Castaing—some of the living room’s wicker furniture came from her house near Chartres—is an essential muse. “She took super grand spaces and made them livable.” Lippes and Farnsworth’s home could be one such setting: an upper floor of a stately 1850s mansion graced with fanciful waterfront balconies that give the building an Ottoman air. So much so that, if one is in a particularly escapist state of mind, New York Harbor might as well be the Bosporus. The two spacious balconies off the living room have proved to be so enticing that Farnsworth has a strict work-hours rule: He ventures out of the street-front guest bedroom that serves as his office only in the late afternoon, admitting, “Otherwise, I’d just fade away.” The theatricality of those outdoor spaces is easily matched by many of the apartment’s furnishings. “I like things that have something weird about them or are a little off,” Lippes says, a statement that takes in everything from 18th-century Italian gilt-wood girandoles with wildly twisting arms to a fantastic 19th-century sewing table fashioned of finely curlicued wicker. Since this story was photographed, for example, bizarre chairs discovered at an auction in Cincinnati have replaced the elegant Gustavians in the dining room; now he and Farnsworth and their guests settle down on high-backed seats, probably 19th-century French, that blend intricate rattan frames, Chinese panels, and burl-wood feet that resemble clenched fists. “Not that many people wanted them,” Lippes confides with a grin that makes it clear that Cincinnati’s loss is Brooklyn Heights’ gain: Six chairs, plus a sinuous matching settee and a desk, cost just $1,600. Invaluable, here I come.
resources Items pictured but not listed here are not sourceable. Items similar to vintage and antique pieces shown are often available from the dealers listed. (T) means the item is available only to the trade. VISION QUEST PAGES 52–63: Interiors by Courtney
Applebaum Design; courtneyapplebaum design.com. Architecture and landscape architecture by KAA Design; kaadesign group.com. PAGE 52: Reclaimed Douglas fir bench by Dos Gallos; dosgallos.com. Zambian bowl, used as vase, from Galerie Half; galeriehalf.com. PAGE 53: George Nakashima chairs from Galerie Half; galeriehalf.com. Pick Up Stick chandelier by Billy Cotton; billycotton.com. Custom oak dining table by Courtney Applebaum Design; courtneyapplebaumdesign.com; fabricated by Flour Powder Pollen; flour wood.com. PAGES 54–55: Willy Guhl Loop chair and table from Stardust Modern; stardust.com. PAGE 57: Tub, sinks, and fittings by Boffi; boffi.com. Jean Touret oak tripod stool from Galerie Half; galeriehalf.com. Antique rug from Lawrence of La Brea; lawrenceoflabrea .com. PAGE 58: George Nakashima chairs from Galerie Half; galeriehalf.com. Pick Up Stick chandelier by Billy Cotton; billycotton.com. Custom oak dining table by Courtney Applebaum Design; courtneyapplebaumdesign.com; fabricated by Flour Powder Pollen; flourwood.com. PAGE 59: Elm-and-stone console table by Dos Gallos; dosgallos.com. Antique French chair and vase from Galerie Half; galeriehalf.com. Brutalist Pricket bronze candle holders by Blackman Cruz; blackmancruz.com. Go steel-and-plaster light sculpture by Gareth Devonald Smith; garethdevonaldsmith.co.uk. Rug from Lawrence of La Brea; lawrenceof labrea.com. PAGE 60: In master bedroom, custom bench by Courtney Applebaum Design; courtneyapplebaumdesign.com; fabricated by Flour Powder Pollen; flourwood.com. PAGE 61: African daybed from Galerie Half; galeriehalf.com. PAGE 62: Vintage Italian mohair armchairs from Galerie Half; galeriehalf.com. On Chelsea Square sofas by Dmitriy & Co.; dmitriyco.com; Anjuna linen, in black, by Élitis (T); elitis.fr. On sofa, Chinese Hill Tribe brocade pillows from Pat McGann; patmcganngallery.com. Travertine-andstainless steel cocktail table by Courtney Applebaum Design; courtneyapplebaum design.com. Ishmael floor lamp by Jane Hallworth from Blackman Cruz; blackmancruz.com. Bleached jute rug from Lawrence of La Brea; lawrence oflabrea.com. PAGE 63: Colony armchair (left) by James Perse; jamesperse.com. CHILD PROOF PAGES 64–75: Interiors by Carrier
and Co. Interiors; carrierandcompany .com. Architecture by CWB Architects; cwbarchitects.com. Landscape design by Miranda Brooks Landscape Design; mirandabrooks.com. Millwork throughout by CWB Architects. Exterior doors and windows throughout by Marvin Windows and Doors; marvin.com. PAGE 64: Alcide marble-topped cocktail table by CB2; cb2.com. Broken Stripe flatweave rug by Williams Sonoma Home; williamssonoma.com. Side tables and pillows,
all by Jayson Home; jaysonhome.com. Kensington sofa (left) and floor lamp, both by RH; rh.com. Bistro Medium chandelier, in hand-rubbed antique brass, by Ian K. Fowler for Visual Comfort; circalighting.com. PAGE 65: On walls, Earlham wallpaper by de Gournay (T); degournay.com. Linear Live-Edge dining table, with polished brass base, by RH; rh.com. Fifties dining chairs by Calligaris; calligaris.com. Echo distressed mirror by ABC Carpet & Home; abchome.com. Darlana lanterns by E. F. Chapman for Visual Comfort; circalighting.com. Curtains of Belgian linen by Arabel Fabrics (T); arabelfabrics.com. PAGES 66–67: Mac pendants by the Urban Electric Co.; urbanelectric.com. On cabinetry, Castle Gray paint by Farrow & Ball; farrow-ball.com. Shaws Classic Shaker Modern sinks and fittings, all by Rohl; rohlhome.com. Fernando chairs by Jayson Home; jaysonhome.com. Sully range, in matte black with brass trim, by Lacanche; frenchranges.com. PAGE 68: On sofa by Lee Industries; leeindustries .com; Palace silk velvet, in coral, by Ralph Lauren Home; ralphlaurenhome.com. On millwork, Drawing Room Blue paint by Farrow & Ball; farrow-ball.com. Princeton Long sconce, in natural brass, by Schoolhouse; schoolhouse.com. Leaves pillows by Rebecca Atwood; rebecca atwood.com. Lumbar pillow by Jayson Home; jaysonhome.com. Elba chair by Bungalow 5; bungalow5.com. Bates cocktail table by Arteriors; arteriors home.com. PAGE 69: Belgian Parsons Slipcovered headboard with Bedskirt by RH; rh.com. Chaise longue by Lee Industries; leeindustries.com. Slit table, in brass, by Hay from ABC Carpet & Home; abchome.com. Cypress sconce by Rejuvenation; rejuvenation.com. Bond desk by Jonathan Adler; jonathanadler .com. Finley chair by Noir; noirfurniturela .com. Curtains of Seaside cotton, in spa, by Smith & Noble; smithandnoble.com. On walls, Skylight paint by Farrow & Ball; farrow-ball.com. PAGE 70: In Henry’s room, on bunk bed, Cabin quilt and shams, in navy, and Harbor sheets, in navy/white; all by Serena & Lily; serenaandlily.com. Cedar & Moss pendant by Rejuvenation; rejuvenation.com. Curtains of Arrows cotton-polyester, in harbor, by Smith & Noble; smithandnoble.com. On walls, Van wallpaper, in blue-on-white, by Donghia (T); donghia.com. Carpet by Crosby Street Studios (T); crosbystreet studios.com. In powder room, on walls, Swirls wallpaper by Robert Crowder from Arnitex (T); arnitex.com. Mirror, sink, and washstand; all by Urban Archaeology; urbanarchaeology.com. Highgate fittings, in unlacquered brass, by Waterworks; waterworks.com. Metro tiles, in black, by Nemo Tile Co.; nemotile.com. Near ceiling, Benito Industrial Loft 6 Point Antique Brass sconce by Kathy Kuo Home; kathykuo home.com. In library, on ceiling, Wabi wallpaper, in cloud, by Calico Wallpaper; calicowallpaper.com. Trellis rug by Anthropologie; anthropologie.com. PAGE 71: On bench, cushions of Shoreline polyester, in pacific, by Kelly Wearstler for Groundworks (T); leejofa.com. Mesa table by 45 Kilo for EQ3; eq3.com.
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Hans Wegner Wishbone chairs for Carl Hansen & Søn from Design Within Reach; dwr.com; with cushion of Ultrasuede polyester-blend, in tamarind, by KnollTextiles; knoll.com. On walls, Coastal Weaves wallpaper, in oceanside, by Phillip Jeffries (T); phillipjeffries.com. Galaxy Star pendant by Shades of Light; shadesoflight.com. PAGE 72: On ceiling, stripes of Strong White and Pavilion Gray paints, both by Farrow & Ball; farrowball.com. On bench, cushions of Faded Jeans viscose-blend velvet by Kravet Couture (T); kravet.com. Pillows by Room & Board; roomandboard.com. Floor lamp by RH; rh.com. Dryden side table by Rejuvenation; rejuvenation.com. Antigua carpet, in pewter, by Studio Four NYC (T); studiofournyc.com. GOLDEN HOURS PAGES 76–85: Interiors and interior
architecture by Jean-Louis Deniot; deniot.com. Landscape design by Shrader Design; shraderdesign.com. Custom furnishings throughout by Jean-Louis Deniot. PAGE 77: On dining table by Piet Hein Eek; thefutureperfect.com; sculpture by Hervé Van der Straeten; maisongerard .com. Curtains of Calliope viscose-blend by Harlequin (T); stylelibrary.com. On Jacques Adnet chairs (in background), Racine cotton-blend, in naturel, by Bisson Bruneel (T); bisson-bruneel.com. PAGE 78: On T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings daybed, pillow of Pietro wool, in natural/whisper white, by Holland & Sherry (T); holland sherry.com. On sofa by Jean-Louis Deniot for Baker; bakerfurniture.com; Coco Tweed cotton-blend by Nobilis (T); nobilis.fr. PAGE 79: In library, on walls, wallpaper by Phillip Jeffries (T); phillipjeffries .com. In living room, custom curtains of embroidered linen by Lesage Intérieurs (T); lesageinterieurs.com. PAGE 80: On vanity front by Jean-Louis Deniot; deniot .com; drawer pulls by Anthropologie; anthropologie.com. Tub by Aston Matthews; astonmatthews.co.uk. Curtains of Brina linen, in bianco, by Colony; scalamandre.com. Towel rack by West Elm; westelm.com. PAGE 81: On antique bed, pillow of Starlight silk, in dazzlelight, by Jim Thompson Fabrics (T); jimthompsonfabrics.com; and cashmere throw by Kelly Wearstler; kellywearstler .com. PAGE 82: Sofa and armchairs by RH; rh.com. Fireplace and sconces by Shrader Design; shraderdesign.com. PAGE 83: On 17th-century Spanish chandelier, custom raffia shades by Anne Sokolsky; abatjour-paris.com. On wall, mirror by Hervé Van der Straeten; maisongerard .com. Sofa by Jean-Louis Deniot for Baker; bakerfurniture.com. On armchairs (background) by Jean-Louis Deniot for Baker, Makeba silk, in carob, by George Spencer Designs(T); georgespencer.com. On vintage mantel, bronze urn by Hervé Van der Straeten. BOLD STROKES PAGES 86–87: Cristina Celestino for
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LAP OF LUXURY PAGES 88–93: Interiors by Pierre
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