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NATE BERKUS, JEREMIAH
BRENT, AND DAUGHTER POPPY
AT HOME IN LOS ANGELES.
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Same architect, same
designer, same contractor,
same clients—two
extraordinary houses.
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THE MASTER BEDROOM
OF A HOME ON LONG
ISLAND’S NORTH FORK.
Discoveries
47 SHOPPING: QUIET RIOT
Macaron-box pastels—
revved up with a touch
of metallics—are this
season’s unexpected stars.
62 TRAVELS:
TALK OF THE TOWN
Amid political upheaval,
Barcelona revels in the
reinvigorated legacy of
47
LOSANGE VASES BY
RONAN AND ERWAN
Produced by Kathryn Given Catalan master Antoni BOUROULLEC FROM
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Gaudí. By Hannah Martin GALERIEKREO.COM FROM TOP: DOMINIQUE VORILLON; COURTESY OF GALERIE KREO
50 AT HOME WITH: ED TANG
A set of historic modernist 66 COLLECTING:
ALL TOGETHER NOW
houses in Connecticut are
thoughtfully reunited by At a Manhattan townhouse
a design-minded couple. decorated by Russell Groves,
By David Foxley
a family of art aficionados
finds that more is more.
56 DEBUT: By Stephen Wallis
THE ART OF COMMERCE
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 26)
Roman and Williams—the
go-to firm for Gwyneth
Paltrow, the Ace Hotel, and
others—opens a bounteous
home-goods emporium.
By Jane Keltner de Valle
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Whether rule-breakers or
166
INSIDE COMEDIAN SEBASTIAN
MANISCALCO AND ARTIST LANA
GOMEZ’S LOS ANGELES HOME.
In Every Issue
38 OBJECT LESSON:
CLOUD COVERAGE
TWO NEW PRODUCTS BY A
Tracking down the origins PAIR OF AD100 DESIGNERS:
of Guy de Rougemont’s ALEX PAPACHRISTIDIS
WALLPAPER FOR GRACIE;
wildly rare Nuage table. GRACIESTUDIO.COM. 5914
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ALEXA HAMPTON FOR SA
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object lesson THE STORY BEHIND AN ICONIC DESIGN
GUY DE ROUGEMONT’S
NUAGE COCKTAIL TABLE
ACCENTS COSMETICS QUEEN
TERRY DE GUNZBURG’S
LONDON LIVING ROOM,
WHICH WAS DECORATED
BY JACQUES GRANGE.
Cloud Coverage
Tracking down the origins of Guy
de Rougemont’s wildly rare Nuage table
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object lesson
urging Samuel to pose an obvious
1 question: Why not make the shape
into a cocktail table?
Rougemont presented two
sketches to Samuel, who ordered
a five-puff cloud, marked 2/6, in
1970. Nuage, ultimately realized
in colored or clear Plexiglas
accented with brass, steel, or wood,
had a silver lining: Concealed
lightbulbs gave it a heavenly glow.
A lucky few—Reed Krakoff,
Jacques Grange, Diane de Polignac,
and the like—have gone to great
lengths to snap up the originals.
(One brought $200,500 at Christie’s
in 2011.) “Why?” enthuses Grange,
who tapped Rougemont, now in
his 80s, to make a Nuage bar and
tables for New York City’s Mark
hotel. “More like why not?”
The originals may be out of
reach, but you might pick up one
of Nuage’s sisters on the secondary
market, where they sell for closer
to $100,000. A decade ago, dealer
Pierre Passebon, Grange’s partner,
resurrected Rougemont’s unused
second sketch for Samuel as an
edition of 32 six-puff clouds in
four dreamy colors. —HANNAH MARTIN
FROM TOP: WILLIAM WALDRON; CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2017; COURTESY OF DEMISCH DANANT
A
t the end of the
1960s, traditionalist
French decorator 2
Henri Samuel did
something radical:
He asked a handful
of edgy artists—César, François
Arnal, Philippe Hiquily, and Guy
de Rougemont—to create furnish- 3
ings. Many of the stunning results
(the stars of which filled Samuel’s
louche Pompeian-red salon) have
gained cult followings, though one
piece in particular put the design
world on cloud nine and still does:
aristocrat Rougemont’s luminous 1. A NUAGE IN DESIGNER
RICHARD MISHAAN’S
Nuage table. MANHATTAN APARTMENT.
The painter and sculptor had 2. A CIRCA-1971 NUAGE OF
PURPLE PLEXIGLAS. 3. A
shown cloud-shaped volumes 2006 EDITION PRODUCED
at Galerie Suzy Langlois in 1969, BY PIERRE PASSEBON.
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Quiet Riot
Macaron-box pastels—
revved up with a touch of
metallics—are this season’s
unexpected stars
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in creating its first-ever collection of decorative objects, ranging from candlesticks to poufs.
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Double Impact
A set of historic modernist houses in
Connecticut are thoughtfully reunited
by a design-minded couple
I
’m a maximalist, and I hate empty white walls,” says
Ed Tang, a Manhattan-based art adviser, of his aesthetic WORKS BY RICHARD PRINCE,
sensibility. Tang, son of the late fashion mogul and MICHELE ABELES, AND WADE
GUYTON AND KELLEY WALKER
Shanghai Tang founder Sir David Tang, is discussing his OCCUPY A STAIRWELL.
design decisions for the pair of 1950s modernist houses
that he and his partner share in Litchfield, Connecticut.
The couple were introduced to the laid-back, leafy corner of
the state two years ago by a friend who thought the art collec-
tors would appreciate the famous 1950 Stillman house, designed
by Marcel Breuer, which had recently come on the market. “We
just fell in love with it,” Tang recalls, noting that the scale was
ideal, as was the opportunity to unpack some of their art and
furniture collection from storage. “Immediately we wanted it.”
Which is why when the adjacent property, a pristine 1953
house designed by Breuer’s fellow Harvard Five architect and
onetime student John M. Johansen, came up for sale, Tang
acted quickly to join the sister buildings, creating a low-slung
modernist compound. (The homes had previously been
renovated by Joseph Mazzaferro and Ken Sena, who won
a Docomomo award for their meticulous and faithful restora-
tion.) Tang and his partner keep both houses open, but
the second home, built for the Huvelle family, friends of the
Stillmans, now essentially functions as a winter residence,
while the four-bedroom Stillman house—the more playful
of the two—is where the couple often stay and entertain
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DISCOVERIES debut 1
I
f you visited our house, we might sit on the sofa and
have a glass of wine—it’s normal,” says Robin Standefer,
cofounder of Roman and Williams with husband
HAIR AND MAKEUP BY EVA SCRIVO FOR EVA SCRIVO SALONS NYC
Stephen Alesch. “But it’s not normal as a shopping
experience.” Or, shall we say, it wasn’t pre–Roman and
Williams Guild NY. The pair’s new 7,000-square-foot
Manhattan emporium encompasses their furniture, lighting,
and kitchen-and-bath line for Waterworks; artisanal objects
from around the world; books; prints; an Emily Thompson
flower shop; and Le Mercerie, a brasserie helmed by chef
Marie-Aude Rose (wife of Daniel Rose, the chef and co-
proprietor of the Roman and Williams–designed Le Coucou).
The Guild is located in an 1860s building that originally
housed the oldest department store in America, though most
recently it served as a bank. So Standefer and Alesch—whose
1. FURNITURE AND OBJECTS FROM ROMAN AND clients range from Gwyneth Paltrow to the Metropolitan
WILLIAMS GUILD NY. 2. CASEY ZABLOCKI CERAMIC URNS,
$650 EACH, AND CUPS, $175 EACH. 3. COFOUNDERS
Museum of Art—stripped away drop ceilings and teller
ROBIN STANDEFER AND STEPHEN ALESCH. windows to reveal the treasured bones. Much of the marble
P HOTOGRAP HY BY AD R I A N G AU T
DISCOVERIES debut
façade is currently being cleaned, unveiling what Alesch
describes as a “Venice-like” exterior. The entrance on
Howard Street is painted a custom shade that Standefer
describes as between “French blue and indigo.” That arresting 2
color is carried over in the open kitchen, which features an
Athanor stove from France. Like everything else at the Guild,
the stove is for sale (special order in this case). “Our clients,
like Gwyneth, are cooks,” Standefer says.
Visitors wander beneath the majestic ceilings and through
gracious arches with a sense of discovery, moving from 1
the flower shop through the restaurant and café and
into living and dining spaces filled with cabinets that
are stocked with fabric and hardware samples. “It’s
not precious,” Standefer says. “You can go in and play.” 3
The mix of antiques and contemporary objects is
more than an aesthetic choice: It plays into Roman
and Williams’s core philosophy. “Stephen and I have
“A lot of modern
furniture challenges
itself to have no memory.
We are of the mind-set
that you can do both.”
always had an interest in the history of techniques
in artisanal objects,” Standefer observes. “It really
influences our designs.” Adds Alesch, “We’re extremely
stubborn about not having historical things be put
on pedestals behind velvet ropes and treated as if
they’re so much more extraordinary than anything
in the present. A cabinet today isn’t going to have
the same details as a Colonial one—we’ve moved on from that
kind of molding—but we want it to have the same heft, weight,
durability, and trustworthiness.” He continues, “While a lot
of modern furniture challenges itself to have no memory at
all, we are of the mind-set that you can absolutely do both.”
Standefer and Alesch actually sketched the initial designs
for the store some 10 years ago, and “it’s been simmering like
a broth ever since,” he explains. “Robin and I love to entertain.
We love to cook. To us, the house is a place that’s always alive.
Stores never inspired us the way being in people’s homes did.
In a funny way,” he adds with a smile, “the shop is becoming
4
like our third house.” rwguild.com —JANE KELTNER DE VALLE
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DISCOVERIES travels
1. ANTONI GAUDÍ’S NEWLY RESTORED CASA
VICENS. 2. INSIDE THE MUSEUM, GRAPHIC TILES
MINGLE WITH PAPIER-MÂCHÉ RELIEF.
1
2
I
t’s doubtful Antoni Gaudí ever contemplated
the perfect selfie. But the Catalan architect’s
dizzying oeuvre, a phantasmagoria of shapes
and colors, makes taking one almost irresistible.
On a recent sunny day in Barcelona, crowds
clamored toward the mosaic walls of Park
Güell, smiling for the camera. And all around town,
arms stretched up to snap Gaudí’s unfinished Sagrada
Família, an omnipresent masterpiece with melting
façades and spires topped by hulking cranes. More
than 135 years in the making, the basilica is now
a decade away from completion—a milestone some
thought might never come.
Modernisme—Catalonia’s hallucinatory
answer to France’s Art Nouveau—still
defines the city, electrifying the senses and
luring aesthetes like Anna Karlin, Reinaldo
Leandro, and Zak Profera. “Barcelona
has fully embraced this very courageous,
exciting aesthetic from its past,” says
design dealer David Alhadeff of the Future
Perfect, who visited last summer. “Locals
continue to create a place that’s completely
inspiring and unique.”
As Catalonian pride surges (at press time,
the region was in the midst of a struggle to
secede from Spain), Barcelona’s latest design
destinations all remain steeped in history.
Four years ago, another UNESCO World
2 Heritage Site, the Hospital de la Santa Creu i
Sant Pau, reopened as a cultural and research
3 center. Built between 1902 and 1930 by architect Lluís
Domènech i Montaner, it dazzles with stained-glass
windows and mosaic ceilings in glistening golden
hues. Just a short stroll toward the sea, a former social
club has been reborn as Sala Beckett, a contemporary
theater designed by local firm Flores & Prats, which
uses traditional ceramic tile (reclaimed from other
parts of the building) and a ribbed ceiling that nods
to the Catalan vault. Even the new outpost of Soho
House embraces its roots. Set on the former site of
a convent, the hotel and members’ club boasts vaulted
ceilings, tiled floors and walls, and exuberant textiles.
“Thanks to Gaudí, Barcelona is a celebration of
curves, color, and detail, inside and out,” says interior
designer Amy Lau, another recent visitor. “His man-
made structures echo the randomness and organic
essence of nature herself.” Gaudí, who famously
mused, “Nothing is art if it does not come from
nature,” couldn’t have agreed more. —HANNAH MARTIN
4
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DISCOVERIES collecting 1. MELISSA NEUMANN’S
MANHATTAN LIVING
ROOM DOUBLES AS AN
INTRODUCTION TO THE
HISTORY OF ART, WITH
MAJOR PAINTINGS BY
JEAN DUBUFFET, JOAN
MIRÓ, AND FERNAND
LÉGER, PLUS SCULP-
TURES BY JEFF KOONS
AND HENRI MATISSE.
2. THE ENTRY DISPLAYS
A CHARLIE ROBERTS
TOTEM AND A MICHAEL
BEVILACQUA PAINTING.
FOR DETAILS SEE
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S
itting in Melissa Neumann’s Manhattan
living room, you can feel almost
overcome—your eyes flitting from one
artwork to the next, trying to take it
all in. Over here a Jeff Koons sheepdog
and a Futurist composition by Gino
Severini. Over there classic abstractions by Joan Miró
and Fernand Léger. Yet, for all the visual ping-pong,
the room is actually one of the tamer spaces in the
house, which is packed with a collection spanning
three generations. Four, if you count the children. And
this family does. “We just brought in a Kenny Scharf
doughnut painting,” says Melissa, “and all three of
my young kids were lobbying to put it in their room.”
Art has been embroidered into the fabric of the
Neumanns’ lives ever since Melissa’s father, Hubert,
and his father began buying, around 1950. Melissa and
her sisters grew up surrounded with paintings
and sculptures, and when she and her husband bought
their latest home, there was no question it would be
a showcase for art—the more the better. “This house
is a cacophony,” says Hubert. “But so is the world.
Why wouldn’t art, and showing art, reflect that?”
The 1899 residence, designed by architect Clarence
True, might not have been an obvious fit for such
dynamic treasures, but Melissa says she and her
husband just felt it “had a great energy.” They hired
Zivkovic Connolly Architects to renovate and expand
the property, lightening its Victorian feel with a skylit
central staircase whose walls and landings serve as 2
“This house is a
cacophony. But so is the
world. Why wouldn’t art,
and showıng art, reflect
that?” —Hubert Neumann
1
2
1. A LANDING OF THE RENOVATED TOWNHOUSE REVEALS AN EARLY
BASQUIAT PAINTING. 2. ARNE JACOBSEN EGG CHAIRS PUNCTUATE ANOTHER
LANDING, ECHOING THE JUSTIN SAMSON PAINTING OVER THE STAIRCASE.
A FAMILY ROOM
BY ISABEL LÓPEZ-
QUESADA ON
THE GREEK ISLAND
OF SPETSES.
1. A NEW YORK
APARTMENT BY
AMY LAU. 2. PRISMA
RUG BY AMY LAU
FOR KYLE BUNTING.
8' DIA.; $5,931.
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3. MEMBERS OF
THE ARCHERS’
TEAM, FROM LEFT: 1
DAN BAKLIK,
STEPHEN HUNT,
MARY CASPER,
RICHARD PETIT,
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AND ANDREW A D EBU
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THE ARCHERS
Interior Design
LOS ANGELES
It’s official. The avant-garde Los Angeles
2 design collective known as The Archers is
no longer an inside secret among the city’s
young creative elite. For the past decade and
a half, the firm, founded by Richard Petit
and Stephen Hunt in 2002, has been quietly
building a portfolio of some of the freshest,
chicest homes in town, including residences
for some of the boldest boldface names in
entertainment. The Archers’ design of the
Mare hair salon in West Hollywood also made
quite a splash, particularly in a city that takes
hair as seriously as L.A. does. Vanity Fair
dubbed Mare “The New It Hair Salon.” Petit,
an avowed cineaste who knows how to set a
scene, described it as “a time-travel journey
to the Franco-Japanese 1980s.” Just dreamy.
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“I want to redefine Los Angeles LONDON COPENHAGEN, LONDON, NEW YORK
In the works: Tornagrain, AND NEW YORK Known for: Interiors
architecture by rigorously Inverness, a new town Just completed: A visitor centered on the best of
engaging the city through design, on the Earl of Moray’s center for Lego and the the past while looking
art, and urbanism,” Barbara Scottish estate; and Tirpitz bunker museum, to the future. Highlights:
Bestor proclaims. And she has continuing work for the both in Denmark. Furniture and accessories
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1. JOINERY DINING CHAIR BY BILLY
COTTON; $4,300. BILLYCOTTON.COM.
2. BILLY COTTON. 3. FERNANDO
CARUNCHO’S MADRID GARDEN.
BRIAN J.
McCARTHY INC.
Interior Design
NEW YORK
Signature: A balanced mix
of classical, modern, and
contemporary design and
art. In the works: A 360-foot
luxury motor yacht, a
penthouse in Monaco, and
an apartment overlooking
Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse
Square, among many other
commissions.
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wife team Jesse Carrier Landscape Design
and Mara Miller create MADRID AND PARIS
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Annie Leibovitz, Jessica inspirations, among them sculptor Isamu Noguchi, architect
and Jerry Seinfeld, Anna Tadao Ando, painter Francisco de Zurbarán, ancient Greek engineer
Wintour. What’s next: Eupalinos, and the gardeners and architects of the Alhambra.
Expanding beyond
residential into commer- Authenticity, for him, is all. “We are going to want to return to nature,
cial endeavors. in opposition to a world too governed by technology.”
► carrierandcompany.com ► fernandocaruncho.com
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: JASON SCHMIDT/COURTESY OF PETER MARINO; COURTESY OF RESPECTIVE COMPANIES (2); SIMON UPTON/
Personal cause: Firm principal Hamptons; Zaryadye Park
Elissa Cullman is helping in Moscow. What’s next:
create a state-of-the-art The Museum of Image and
kitchen for the Kips Bay Sound in Rio de Janeiro;
Boys & Girls Club in the the U.S. Olympic Museum LORENZO
COURTESY OF MCALPINE; COURTESY OF ABRAMS BOOKS; COURTESY OF LORENZO CASTILLO; COURTESY OF RIZZOLI
CASTILLO
Bronx, New York, to help in Colorado Springs; (EDICIONES EL
the kids learn about nutri- a cultural center—the VISO, $75)
tion and the possibility of Shed—for Manhattan’s
careers in the culinary arts. Hudson Yards.
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Interior Design
NEW YORK
Known for: Rule-breaking
interiors outfitted with
A-list contemporary art
and design. Words of wisdom:
“Don’t just decorate,
curate.” What’s next: A new
house in Malibu for
Robert Downey Jr. and
Susan Downey.
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LONDON
Interior Design
LONDON Signature: Sophisticated
Designer Faye Toogood refuses to be boxed luxury built upon noble
materials and quality
in. At the intersection of refined and raw, her craftsmanship. Personal
earthy, elemental style nods to both past and cause: Raised in Malta,
present, a characteristic she credits to her aca- Sultana is a major
demic studies in fine art and the history of art. 3 supporter of the island
As part of her holistic approach to environments, nation’s contemporary
she designs everything for her spaces. Since founding art and design scene
and a board member of a
her multidisciplinary practice in 2008, the former new museum opening
World of Interiors staffer has created installations, there in 2021. Just launched:
objects, and interiors for Comme des Garçons. Recent A collection of 1950s-
and ongoing projects include a holiday house in Ibiza, inspired upholstered
a penthouse apartment in London, and the flagship furniture.
► francissultana.com
store for British brand Mulberry—all conceived to be
fully immersive experiences of her distinctive vision.
► fayetoogood.com 1. A FAYE TOOGOOD–DESIGNED LONDON
PENTHOUSE. 2. FAYE TOOGOOD.
3. TOOGOOD’S ROLY-POLY CHAIR/MOON;
PRICE UPON REQUEST. FRIEDMANBENDA.COM.
4. ARTIST JACK PIERSON’S NEW YORK LIVING
ROOM BY FERNANDO SANTANGELO.
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challenges of young historic American AND NEW YORK
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themselves, their children, people live today. Projects: Highlights: Interiors for
and their friends.” Notable Residential collaborations the Grill and the Pool, the HOLLANDER DESIGN
clients: George Lindemann with decorators Thomas new restaurants in the LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
(see AD January 2017), Jayne, Rita Konig, Miles former Four Seasons Landscape Design
Emilia Fanjul Pfeifler. Redd, Tom Scheerer, restaurant space in New NEW YORK, SAG HARBOR, AND CHICAGO
What’s next: Finishing his Virginia Tupker, and York’s iconic Seagram Edmund Hollander approaches
own home in Tangier Bunny Williams. Building. landscape architecture from a
with partner Gene Meyer. ► gpschafer.com ► gma.nyc holistic standpoint. “The three
► frankdebiasi.com ecologies essential to a timeless
GACHOT STUDIOS GROVES & CO.
Interior Design Architecture & Interior Design project,” he explains, “are the
NEW YORK
NEW YORK
Credo: “Reflect each
architectural ecology of the build-
Known for: Layered, ings, the natural ecology of the
nuanced modernism that individual’s taste, vision,
draws on the broad and needs.” Notable clients: vernacular landscape, and the human
experience in residential Michael Kors, Derek Lam. ecology of how the clients will
and commercial work What’s next: A furniture inhabit the landscapes we create.”
collection and line of ATURE
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Shinola’s Los Angeles architect Steven Holl’s expansion
flagship and a Shinola of the John F. Kennedy Center for
hotel in Detroit; eateries the Performing Arts in the nation’s
for restaurateur Geoffrey capital. That ongoing commission
Zakarian. is an especially prominent feather in a
► gachotstudios.com
cap that includes private landscapes,
from eloquent to heroic, for titans
such as theater scion Jonathan M.
Tisch, real-estate magnate William C.
Rudin, and Goldman Sachs CEO
Lloyd Blankfein.
► hollanderdesign.com
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HAMPTON GARDEN BY
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Architecture Interior Design
NEW YORK AND DALLAS
SAN FRANCISCO Credo: “Interior design is
In the works: Reviving a an art form that, if done
collection of 1960s properly, helps people live
handmade houses in rural comfortably surrounded
Marin County, California; by beauty.” Other projects:
a shingle-style poolhouse A furniture collection for
in Water Mill, New York; Kravet; a line of cowhide
a new Dutch Colonial in rugs for Kyle Bunting;
Greenwich, Connecticut. modern Oushak-style
Personal cause: The firm carpets for Moattar.
recently announced the ► janshowers.com
IKB Traveling Fellowship,
a grant program that will JEAN-LOUIS DENIOT
fund up to two graduate Interior Design
students for travel and PARIS
research relating to Known for: A belief in the
architectural history. importance of atmosphere
► ikekligermanbarkley.com more than the actual look.
Aim: “Magic.” What’s next:
INDIA MAHDAVI Interiors for his first
Interior Design 57-story condo building,
PARIS overlooking Biscayne Bay
Signature: Vibrant, in Miami; introducing new
vivacious, enveloping pieces to his collection
color. Credo: “I am here for Baker.
to bring joy.” Highlights: ► deniot.com
Pieces for Louis Vuitton’s
Objets Nomades; a JOHN PAWSON LTD.
collection of velvets for Architecture
Pierre Frey; a collabora- LONDON
tion with French retailer Signature: Rigorously
Monoprix. simple architecture
► india-mahdavi.com grounded in fundamentals
and modest in character. 1
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Interior Design West Hollywood;
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bring an audacious vision in the Czech Republic.
to every project. Notable ► johnpawson.com JOHNSTON MARKLEE
clients: Kim Cattrall, Kevin Architecture
James, Howard Stern. JOHN STEFANIDIS LOS ANGELES
► ingraoinc.com BRANDS LTD. As artistic directors of the 2017
Interior Design
LONDON
Chicago Architecture Biennial,
ISABEL Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee
LÓPEZ-QUESADA Aim: “To be both
Interior Design practical and visual.” conceived the theme “Make
MADRID Notable clients: The Duchess New History,” working with the
Words of wisdom: “I love of Westminster, Noemi exhibition’s 141 participants to
this quote by Borges— Marone Cinzano, Princess 2 explore how the latest design can
‘Not a day goes by that Sadruddin Aga Khan,
we are not, for a moment, Abigail and Leslie Wexner.
upend convention and redefine our world. Certainly
in paradise’—and I believe In the works: Hotel this design duo knows a thing or two about that. After
good design makes this Cappuccino, a ground- founding their L.A.-based firm, Johnston Marklee, in
happen.” Highlights: up hotel in Pollensa, 1998, the duo quickly built a reputation for daring houses
Completed her first U.S. Majorca; a penthouse in with complex geometries, cerebral concepts, and site-
commissions, in the Athens with views of specific structural acrobatics. And residential architec-
Brandywine Valley and the Parthenon.
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Credo: “Design is storytell-
ing.” Highlights: Encaustic-
tile collection with Ann
Sacks; new designs for
The Rug Company; wall
1 covering, fabric, and trims
with Lee Jofa. What’s next:
Outdoor-fabric collection
for Lee Jofa.
► kellywearstler.com
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Architecture & Interior Design
PARIS
Aim: “To create functional
1. ADRIEN DIRAND; 2. LASSE FLØDE; 3. ADRIEN DIRAND/COURTESY OF JOSEPH DIRAND/AURELIE JULIEN COLLECTIBLE; ALL OTHERS COURTESY OF RESPECTIVE COMPANIES
spaces that complement
artworks and enhance
engagement with a collec-
tion.” Highlight: Introduced
a bespoke furniture line.
Personal cause: In support
of the French nonprofit
Ligue pour la Protection
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Interior Design 1. A PARIS APARTMENT in many projects.
PARIS DESIGNED BY JOSEPH ► luislaplace.com
DIRAND. 2. JOSEPH DIRAND.
Joseph Dirand’s understanding of space and romantic take 3. DIRAND’S SOFA LEROY STREET
on minimalism can be traced back to childhood days spent at MALAPARTE; PRICE STUDIO
the side of his father, a noted interiors photographer. Through UPON REQUEST. Architecture & Interior Design
AURELIEJULIEN.COM NEW YORK
that lens he learned to see architecture, and his soulful decor— Credo: “Design that is
spare but never cold—has earned devotion from a discerning intelligent, responsible,
clientele, including fashion houses like Chloé, Balmain, and and enduring.” Highlights:
Emilio Pucci, and restaurateur Joël Robuchon, whose upcom- Alley Pond Environmental
ing New York space Dirand is designing. But he surpassed the Center, Queens, New York,
expectations of even his most ardent fans with the opening an immersive-learning
center highlighting the
last spring of the Surf Club at the Four Seasons, just north of wetlands ecosystem;
Miami Beach. In Dirand’s hands the historic Prohibition-era Hester Street Collabora-
club wasn’t just restored, it was magnificently reimagined. tive, the studio’s sister
► josephdirand.com nonprofit, completed a
blueprint for future
cultural development and
investment in New York.
Notable clients: Lyor Cohen
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New York’s Charlie Bird
restaurant.
► leroystreetstudio.com
LORENZO
CASTILLO
Interior Design
MADRID
Aim: “To balance the
classic with the modern.”
What’s new: The firm’s
fifth collection of ultra-
maximalist, mucho-
polychrome fabrics,
trimmings, and wall
CHITINA BY LORENZO CASTILLO BANGALORE FLORAL BY IVORY #14 BY MURIEL coverings for Gastón y
FOR GASTÓN Y DANIELA; TO THE JASPER FABRICS BY MICHAEL S. BRANDOLINI FOR HOLLAND & Daniela. Projects: Hotels
TRADE. GASTONYDANIELA.COM. SMITH; TO THE TRADE. SHERRY; TO THE TRADE. in Barcelona and Ibiza.
MICHAELSMITHINC.COM. HOLLANDSHERRY.COM ► lorenzocastillo.org
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Designer Kelly 212-564-9750.
Wearstler’s fourth
collection with
Groundworks for
Lee Jofa is a series of
illusionistic fabrics, STROMBOLI TABLE BY
leathers, trims, and wall INDIA MAHDAVI; $6,730.
coverings. In vibrant INDIA-MAHDAVI.COM.
hues and sophisticated
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Clientele: Nature lovers, art Known for: Designs imbued year’s best new restaurants
collectors, thrill seekers. with historical references.
Signature: Rugged-meets- Highlight: As much scholar
refined modernism, as architect, Pennoyer
with the ultimate goal— was awarded an honorary
individually expressed by doctorate of fine arts last
firm principals Jim Olson year from the New York
and Tom Kundig—to School of Interior Design
unify architecture and and just published (with
landscape. What’s next: coauthor Anne Walker)
For Olson, museums in the study Harrie T.
Denver and Pullman, Lindeberg and the American
Washington; for Kundig, Country House (The
wineries the world over. Monacelli Press). What’s
► olsonkundig.com new: A collection for Maine-
based Lowe Hardware.
PAUL FORTUNE ► ppapc.com
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: TREVOR TONDRO; SCOTT FRANCES; OBERTO GILI; MAX GLEESON; ELIZABETH LIPPMAN/COURTESY OF THE LOWELL
► paulfortunedesign.com at New York’s R & Co.
Notable clients: Christian
Louboutin; the Pinault
family, for whom he has
done private residences as
well as Kering’s corporate
headquarters.
► pierreyovanovitch.com FARINI A BAKERY AND CAFÉ IN MILAN THE POOL LOUNGE GEORGIS &
DESIGNED BY JOHN PAWSON. MIRGORODSKY ARCHITECTS
REINVENTED PHILIP JOHNSON’S FOUR
SEASONS RESTAURANT IN NEW YORK.
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Landscape Design
SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK
Landscape architect Perry Guillot’s idol
is not a garden giant of the past but rather
an American minimalist sculptor. “Fred
Sandback’s work is the all-time greatest
example of accomplishing so much by doing
so little,” explains Guillot, whose sweeping
swards for fashion’s Tory Burch and style
gurus Delphine and Reed Krakoff possess a
similarly powerful restraint. Guillot shapes
properties in poetic fashion, subtly blending
heroic sight lines and vanishing points with
swelling hills, artfully clumped trees, bands
of boxwood, and frothing fescue grass. Small
wonder that when AD asked Guillot about
the earthly paradises that continually inspire
him, he cited Central Park’s Sheep Meadow,
an engineering feat that looks utterly natural.
A GLIMPSE OF FASHION STAR TORY BURCH’S SOUTHAMPTON GARDEN BY PERRY GUILLOT. ► perryguillotinc.com
ROCKWELL GROUP
Architecture & Interior Design
NEW YORK AND MADRID
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WIRTH SOMERSET IN ENGLAND.
PIET OUDOLF building types; product
Landscape Design and industrial design;
HUMMELO, NETHERLANDS theater set design; event
When it comes to Piet Oudolf, the hospitality world’s loss is production; content
gardening’s gain. “I come from a family of restaurateurs and creation; interactive
technologies; and business
barkeepers, and I did not want to continue doing that,” says the incubation. In the works:
undisputed maestro of cult landscapes—what he calls “gardens RAFAEL DE The Shed (in collabora-
that look wild but are not wild.” That includes New York’s CÁRDENAS LTD. / tion with Diller Scofidio +
game-changing High Line and lush Battery Park and, in England, ARCHITECTURE Renfro), a center for the
adventuresome nurseryman John Coke’s Bury Court estate AT LARGE visual and performing arts
Architecture & Interior Design in New York’s Hudson
in Hampshire and art dealers Hauser & Wirth’s complex in NEW YORK AND PARIS Yards. What’s new: Debut
Somerset. “I’m always looking for plants not usually found Credo: “Ever-focused on
TOP: JASON INGRAM/COURTESY OF HAUSER & WIRTH; ALL OTHERS COURTESY OF RESPECTIVE COMPANIES
tile collection for Bisazza;
in gardens, like Sporobolus heterolepis [prairie dropseed], Amsonia the contemporary, we new designs for
hubrichtii [bluestar], and Bouteloua [grama grass],” Oudolf take diligent note of the The Rug Company.
past while daydreaming ► rockwellgroup.com
explains. “I still like visiting decorative gardens like Sissinghurst the future.” Milestone:
and Great Dixter—I just don’t make them anymore.” His first monograph, ROMAN AND
► oudolf.com published this past fall. WILLIAMS
What’s next: A collection of BUILDINGS AND
chairs to be executed by INTERIORS
craftsmen in Portugal. Architecture & Interior Design
► architectureatlarge.com NEW YORK
Credo: “We revere what
ROBERT is genuine; we love to
PDJLFFDUSHWV&KDQQHOLQJSDLQWHUO\ COUTURIER INC. strip things down to their
IRUPVWZRGHVLJQHUVWDNHWRWKHÀRRU Architecture & Interior Design essence and excavate for
NEW YORK integrity and character.”
Credo: “I design for clients Highlight: Opening of
and not for myself. A Roman and Williams
successful project should Guild NY. Notable clients:
be a direct reflection of Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben
the client’s sensitivity.” Stiller, Kate Hudson.
Notable clients: Amy Fine ► romanandwilliams.com
Collins, Andrew Solomon. ATURE
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released in the fall of 2018. Bette Midler’s New York Hong Kong galleries around the world—from Keller’s the French
► srgambrel.com Restoration Project, the for both David Zwirner Cap Ferrat to Maine Laundry; the Lascaux IV
latest in the firm’s ongoing and Hauser & Wirth; and New York to L.A.; Caves Museum in France.
pro bono efforts. Notable a new home for Swiss a private Gulfstream jet. What’s next: Europe’s first
clients: Julianne Moore Institute, the contempo- ► sheltonmindel.com underwater restaurant.
(see AD November 2017), rary arts organization ► snohetta.com
Vera Wang. in Manhattan. What’s next:
► sawyerberson.com Selldorf will be in
residence at the American
Academy in Rome
this winter and spring.
► selldorf.com
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MUSEUM HOUSES A REPLICA OF THE CAVE AND DENMARK—THE
ITS PAINTINGS AT THE UNESCO WORLD ORIGINAL HOME
HERITAGE SITE IN MONTIGNAC, FRANCE. OF LEGOLAND—
BJARKE INGELS
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: IWAN BAAN (2); HUFTON + CROW (2); JEAN-FRANÇOIS TREMEGE
AL_A’S GATEWAY FOR LONDON’S V&A FEATURES A PORCELAIN
COURTYARD ATOP A NEW GALLERY FOR TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS.
the most important always overrules of Refettorio Felix, a that convey a sophisti-
thing in architecture.” fashion.’” Notable clients: community kitchen in cated simplicity.
Notable clients: Hamish Kelly Ripa and Mark London created with What’s next: New collec-
Bowles, Rachel Consuelos, Tom Ford restaurateur/chef-patron tions for Hickory Chair;
Feinstein and John and Richard Buckley, Massimo Bottura’s Food fabrics for Lee Jofa;
Currin, Umberto Pasti. Brice and Helen Marden, for Soul. In the works: A new wicker pieces for Ballard
1. PAMELA AND ► studioperegalli.it Matthew Marks and home for the Anna Freud Designs; lighting for
RAMIN SHAMSHIRI. Jack Bankowsky. National Centre for Visual Comfort. In the
2. A SANTA MONICA ► studiosofield.com Children and Families. works: Kasler’s third book,
HOME BY STUDIO ► studioilse.com to be published this fall.
SHAMSHIRI. ► suzannekasler.com
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: SPENCER LOWELL; COURTESY OF JACQUES GARCIA RESORT; CHRISTOPHER PAYNE/ESTO; JOHAN JANSSON
right modernist touches. Keywords: “Functionality,
What’s next: Completion durability, and comfort.”
of an island eco-resort Highlight: Reno of the
and villas 25 miles off façade, atrium, and first
Panama’s Pacific coast. two floors of Rome’s
► tomscheerer.com iconic La Rinascente
department store. What’s
TOSHIKO MORI next: Outdoor furniture
ARCHITECT for Sutherland.
Architecture ► vincentvanduysen.com
NEW YORK
Credo: “Simplify without WALDO’S DESIGNS
reduction, embrace a Interior Design SNØHETTA’S “THE 7TH ROOM” CABIN SET AMONG OLIVE TREES AND CACTI,
sense of clarity, and LOS ANGELES IN THE SKY AT NORTHERN SWEDEN’S THE VILLA DES OLIVIERS AT JACQUES
always consider ambience Credo: “Invest in important TREEHOTEL SETS THE SCENE FOR GARCIA’S ESTATE IN NOTO OFFERS A
and spatial experience.” design, furniture, and art; AURORA BOREALIS GAZING. ROMANTIC, PRETTY GETAWAY.
Signature: Thoughtful build up a collection over
modernism. Milestone: time; hold on to the pieces
Thread Artist Residency you buy.” Notable clients:
and Cultural Center in Brian Grazer, Goldie
Senegal won a 2017 Hawn, Will and Jada
Institute Honor Award Pinkett Smith
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KONA, HI
ABOVE A COLOSSAL RICE OWENS; YOSHITOMO
CHANDELIER OF BRONZE NARA PAINTING; CUSTOM
BRANCHES ADORNED RUG FROM CRISTINA
WITH PORCELAIN BLOOMS, GRAJALES GALLERY.
BY DAVID WISEMAN, RIGHT DESIGNER RODMAN
HANGS IN THE MAIN PRIMACK (LEFT) AND
HOUSE’S SITTING ROOM. ARCHITECT TOM KUNDIG
WENDELL CASTLE ON THE BRIDGE BETWEEN
SPRING CHAIR; GEORGE THE MAIN HOUSE
NAKASHIMA CABINET; AND THE KIDS’ HOUSE.
DOUBLE RECAMIER BY
KONA, HI
COUNTERCLOCKWISE OPPOSITE LANDSCAPE
FROM TOP A JULIA ARCHITECT DAVID TAMURA
KRANTZ LOUNGE CHAIR ORIGINALLY IMAGINED
IN STACK-LAMINATED VERTICAL PALMS LINING
SUMAUMA WOOD MAKES THE POOL, BUT AFTER A
A STATEMENT IN THE TRIP TO A NURSERY
FAMILY-HOUSE SITTING PLANTATION DECIDED TO
ROOM. IN A GUEST BATH, USE SPECIMENS GROWING
A HELLA JONGERIUS IN A NATURAL CURVE—
SHEEP CHAIR SITS BESIDE TO DRAMATIC EFFECT.
A DURAVIT TUB. IPE WOOD
BOARDWALKS CONNECT
THE STRUCTURES.
AT THE END OF SUMMER 2013, after work had wrapped Perriand table that can seat 12; a pair of midcentury
up in Hawaii, the family began to think about finding Edward Wormley sofas covered in Primack-designed
another place, out on the North Fork of Long Island, fabric sit back-to-back, dividing the space in two;
closer to their new home base of New York City. When canopied Jean Royère outdoor chairs (a design once
they came upon a piece of land with a 100-year-old made for the Shah of Iran) cozy up to a fireplace.
house spectacularly sited atop a promontory jutting Other treasures include a Thomas Houseago artwork
out into the water, they, with Kundig and Primack, on one of the chimneys, bronze fire screens by David
immediately thought, This is it. Wiseman, and an enormous custom wool rug that
Though the house was a mess inside, its traditional was woven in Guatemala.
New England farmhouse–like exterior had charm. In addition to their rapport with each other,
“The shape was great,” says Kundig. “So I said, ‘Let’s Primack and Kundig (who have now embarked on
try to discover the magic that’s already here rather a third project together, for different clients) cite
than tear it down.’ It had great proportions, and I knew their faith in Jim Dow, the Seattle-based contractor
we could create a beautiful, grand space.” To do so, who installed his team on both sites for the duration
they opened everything up to the rafters to make one of construction. His frequent visits helped make
big perfectly proportioned volume anchored by two sure the far-flung team’s wishes were executed to a T.
monolithic fireplace piers that give the sense of “We were kind of galloping from day one,” Primack
holding the house up. “Tom had the nerve to blow it recalls. “And that trust makes it easy to work quickly.”
all out so that it’s one truly great room,” says Primack. Their success also boils down to the desire—and
At 30-feet-by-28-feet and two-and-a-half-stories the discipline—to keep it simple. “Whenever things
tall, the room is the center of family life. A suspended start to get complicated, Tom asks, ‘What would
bridge (echoing the one that connects parts of the a farmer do?’ ” says Primack. “That question always
Hawaiian house) crosses the space, joining the master brings us back down to earth.” Adds Kundig, “You
suite at one end with the kids’ rooms at the other. can overthink, overengineer, and overcomplicate
Vintage Swedish lights hang over a long Charlotte anything, but you don’t have to.”
been commissioned
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SWEET SPOT
Life is good for designers Nate Berkus and
Jeremiah Brent as they move into a spectacular
Los Angeles home for their growing family
IN THE ATRIUM,
A 19TH-CENTURY
SWEDISH BENCH
WITH KRAVET-
VELVET UPHOLSTERY
SITS ATOP ANTIQUE
SPANISH TILES FROM
PARIS CERAMICS. 19TH-
CENTURY ENGLISH
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n first inspection, Nate Berkus rationalization is a better word—that while the house
and Jeremiah Brent felt that is indeed large, its rooms, true to period style, are
the house, clocking in at nearly relatively intimate, particularly in comparison with
9,000 square feet, was much the bloated volumes of contemporary McMansions
too grand for them and their and McModerns.
toddler daughter, Poppy. “Our But the clincher for Berkus and Brent was an
immediate reaction was, Who encounter with the then–home owner and her eldest
lives like this?” Berkus says, daughter, who were sharing a bottle of wine in the
recalling his and his husband’s kitchen. “Jeremiah and I had the exact same thought—
initial visit to the 1928 Spanish that we’d like to raise kids who want to hang out with
Colonial in Los Angeles’s us when they grow up. There was a lot of love there,
Hancock Park neighborhood. and you could feel that energy,” Berkus says.
“Certainly not us.” But as they made their way For cynics, that scenario might read like a commer-
through the various salons and gardens, the design- cial for General Foods International Coffees. But the
GROOMING BY ABBY WOODMAN
ers soon began to heed the property’s siren call. vision of domestic bliss and beauty that unfolds within
First, there was the majestic 200-year-old oak the home defies even the most jaded misanthrope.
tree rising in the backyard, like something out of Past the front door there’s the gorgeous grand stairway
a fairy tale. “We pictured Poppy, and eventually the with its original wrought-iron balustrade, straight
rest of our family, playing under that tree, and we out of a movie from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Then
thought this was a place we could put down roots,” room after room bathed in glorious sunlight, gurgling
Brent says. Then there was the realization—perhaps fountains, and that heavenly oak tree, literally topping
ARCH DI G E S T. CO M 159
everything off. And, of course, there’s Poppy, the
mistress of the manor. Not even Central Casting
could produce a more scrumptious sprite.
“We were lucky that the house was in great
condition. It had been looked after. All we really
needed to do was give it a cosmetic makeover—
the perfect assignment for two decorators,” Berkus
says. That facelift entailed installing floors of
antique marble to demarcate points of entry and
transition; stripping, bleaching, and waxing the
existing mahogany paneling in the dining room;
replacing fireplace mantels and hardware with
antique models; reworking the kitchen with new
fixtures and surfaces; and furnishing the many
rooms of the home in signature Berkus-Brent style.
“We go for a very clean, masculine look. We
don’t like to live with a lot of color,” Brent says.
“Or any!” Berkus swiftly chimes in. As for what
constitutes clean and masculine in this context,
the designers layered the house with rustic French,
Swedish, and American furnishings of wood and
stone, juxtaposed with more tailored Continental
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POTTERY BARN PILLOWS.
POPPY WEARS A MARYSIA
BUMBY SWIMSUIT.
OPPOSITE IN POPPY’S
ROOM, A WALLPAPER BY
APPARATUS AND ZAK +
FOX HOSTS ART BY HUNT
SLONEM, MICHAEL HAINEY,
FERNANDO BENGOECHEA,
AND MARY LITTLE. A JULIA
CONDON MOBILE HANGS
OVER AN ARMCHAIR BY
CISCO HOME WEARING A
MEXICAN OTOMI TEXTILE;
CRIB, TABLE, AND CHAIR
BY RH BABY & CHILD;
NATE BERKUS STOOL
FOR TARGET; CAITLIN
WILSON RUG.
ARC H DI G E S T. CO M 163
BRENT AND BERKUS’S RH BED, DRESSED IN MATTEO LINENS, IS FLANKED BY 1970S ITALIAN TABLES.
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AR C H DI G E S T. CO M 171
A CUSTOM TABLE BY
WEARSTLER, MADE OF
BLEACHED AND EBONIZED
OAK, MAKES A SPLASH IN
THE DINING AREA.
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TOWERING CYPRESSES
PUNCTUATE THE CURVING
TERRACES OF A GARDEN,
DESIGNED BY FERNANDO
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Garden guru Fernando Caruncho
cultivates an ancient attitude at
an estate on the Aegean Sea
TEXT BY MITCHELL OWENS
PHOTOGRAPHY BY PEPE GÓMEZ-ACEBO
F
rom the vantage point of a sailboat
crossing the wine-dark Aegean Sea, the
house surmounts its hill like a modern
acropolis: noble, impassive, an assemblage
of intersecting stony-faced geometries,
blocky and sequestered here, open and airy
there. One of the last projects by Ricardo Legorreta,
the eminent Mexican modernist, and commissioned
by an elegant Greek family that flits between their
native country and London, the building crowns a
steep, stately landscape that was cultivated not long
ago by yet another contemporary virtuoso, Fernando
Caruncho, a suave, soft-spoken Spaniard known for
classical allusions informed by his youthful studies of
Greek civilization. Stone walls radiate out from the
house, knitting it into the acreage as it shapes languid
terraces where cypresses of the darkest green rise
like quills at regular intervals, towering above a
plantation of pomegranates, figs, apples, oranges, and
olives, what the garden guru calls “a paradise in the
middle of a citadel.” Grape ivy drips down the walls;
rosemary, santolina, and lavender perfume the salty
air; and Festuca and ryegrass feather hard edges into
velvety softness. A field of wheat underscores the
pastoral ambience, spreading out like a breeze-rippled
carpet of palest Attic gold. The ancients would have
understood this Arcadia. Indeed, it is easy to imagine
graceful figures clad in chitons and peploi strolling
down the long, curving paths—paved with rocks left
over from the excavation of the house’s foundation—
as if navigating a labyrinth, down to the crescent of
beach below. “This is a dreamer’s place,” Caruncho
quietly explains, “very open yet very mysterious.”
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BESPOKE ROSE UNIACKE WALLPAPER GIVES A GARDEN AIR TO THE LIVING ROOM. THE SOFAS, COCKTAIL TABLE, TUFTED
ARMCHAIR, CURTAIN FABRIC, AND TIBETAN SHEEPSKIN RUG ARE ALL BY ROSE UNIACKE. ANTIQUE W.A.S. BENSON LIGHTS;
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ULE, BRITANNIA!
Rose Uniacke
channels—
and refreshes—
the Aesthetic
Movement
in Oscar Wilde’s
onetime
London digs
TEXT BY MITCHELL OWENS
PHOTOGRAPHY BY SIMON UPTON
RIGHT UNIACKE IN HER OWN HOME.
BELOW A MORRIS & CO. LINEN PATTERNS HER
CLIENTS’ POWDER ROOM; UNIACKE DESIGNED THE
SCONCES AS WELL AS THE SWEDISH MARBLE SINK.
ARCH DI G E S T. CO M 183
PERFECT
HARMONY
Under the deft direction of
Pierre Yovanovitch, a dowdy Belgian
house gets a new lease on life
TEXT BY IAN PHILLIPS PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOSÉ MANUEL ALORDA
IN THE LIVING ROOM,
A VIGGO BOESEN CHAIR
SITS ADJACENT TO AN
ANGULAR SOFA BY PIERRE
YOVANOVITCH. SCULPTURE
BY PHILIPPE HIQUILY. IN
NICHE, ERNEST BOICEAU
JARDINIÈRES. OPPOSITE THE
CUSTOM SKYLIGHT BY
YOVANOVITCH THROWS
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AN ARTWORK BY DAVID ALTMEJD HANGS OVER THE TRAVERTINE FIREPLACE
IN THE LIVING ROOM. ASSIS(ASY)MÉTRIE ARMCHAIR BY PIERRE YOVANOVITCH;
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MADAME OOPS
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A CUSTOM FIREPLACE SURROUND AND WALNUT BOOKSHELVES ARE BUILT TO THE CURVATURE OF THE WALLS IN THE LIBRARY.
VINTAGE AXEL EINAR HJORTH ROCKING CHAIR AND SIDE TABLE. SVEND AAGE HOLM SØRENSEN FLOOR LAMP. HENRY MOORE
SCULPTURE ON TABLE. OPPOSITE IN THE TRAVERTINE-COVERED MASTER BATH, CUSTOM SEATING PROVIDES A PLACE FOR REPOSE.
ARC H DI G E S T. CO M 189
ABOVE THE ATRIUM DINING ROOM. PATINATED
FEATURES A MIRROR STEEL COVERS THE WALLS.
ARTWORK BY JONATHAN OPPOSITE IN THE KITCHEN,
HOROWITZ HUNG ABOVE A CONE PENDANT LIGHT
A TWO-PIECE BENCH BY BY RU EDITIONS HANGS
PIERRE YOVANOVITCH. OVER A BESPOKE STONE-
VINTAGE PAAVO TYNELL TOPPED ISLAND. SINK AND
LAMP. LEFT LIGHTING FITTINGS BY DORNBRACHT.
BY JEFF ZIMMERMANN IS COUNTER STOOL BY MARK
SUSPENDED ABOVE THE ALBRECHT STUDIO. RANGE
YOVANOVITCH-DESIGNED BY LA CORNUE. SCULPTURE
TABLE AND CHAIRS IN THE BY STEPHAN BALKENHOL.
oriented,” notes Yovanovitch. They also share a shelves, the nubby fabrics, and textured plasterwork
number of his tastes. They already owned the Hjorth of the library fireplace. Then there is the bar, with its
rocking chair and occasional table in the second-floor rugged larch wood and Cordoba leather walls and a
library, and are fellow collectors of the sculptures ceiling that was deliberately conceived to look as if it
(ARS), NEW YORK/VG BILD-KUNST, BONN
ARC H DI G E S T. CO M 191
AGUSTIN HURTADO
PAINTED THE ENTRY’S
CEILING. AN ANTIQUE
SWEDISH CLOCK HANGS
ABOVE A ROCOCO-STYLE
CONSOLE. OPPOSITE THE
KIDS CRAFT IN THE
BREAKFAST ROOM. CHAIRS
CUSHIONED IN A COLEFAX
AND FOWLER FABRIC.
CUSTOM BANQUETTE IN A
BRENTANO FAUX LEATHER.
LARGE PHOTOGRAPH BY
MASSIMO VITALI. FOR
DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
FANCY
THAT
nglo-Continental elegance was the Built in the early 1900s and renovated for the
cynosure of the decorating world current owners by architect Gil Schafer, the San
back in the 1980s. Acres of flowered Francisco house has “a funny Norma Desmond
chintz. Deep-dish sofas dripping vibe,” Redd says, largely because of the decades-old
bullion fringe. Ball-gown curtains blanket of fig vine that threatens to smother the
tumbling onto romantically thread- building’s redbrick façade. That vegetal extravagance
bare carpets. It was all about layer- is an outward manifestation of the livable opulence
ing—ranks of paintings, clusters of indoors—part English, part French, a soupçon of
blue-and-white porcelain—achieving Venetian, and utterly comfortable.
the kind of noble clutter that often “Antiques are such a good value today, and
took generations to achieve. Located they’re great for a family lifestyle; they’ve already
in a posh precinct of San Francisco, been through a lot and will go through more,” says
the interiors shown here aren’t old at the mother of four, the youngest being a two-year-old
all. Surprisingly enough, given the venerable atmo- boy who runs wild among the Georgian pier tables,
sphere, they were completed just seven months ago Louis XV and XVI chairs, and clusters of blue-and-
for an energetic young couple who have lively white porcelain. Multiple patterns conceal wear
children and a delightfully old-fashioned idea of and tear, and, the client observes, “old carpets are
how they want to live. pretty much indestructible.” (When she told Redd
“It’s so nice when somebody doesn’t want that she wanted only well-worn Persians, the designer,
modern—the wife’s Pinterest is everything that’s in delighted, responded, “More power to you.”) As for
my wheelhouse,” says Miles Redd, the Manhattan the richness of decorative effect, “it really combines
decorator known for his carbonated personality high and low, but you would never know that,” she
and an encyclopedic knowledge of great tastemakers explains. “A lot of the furnishings are not significant,
of the past, from the dashing Nancy Lancaster to but they look significant. Miles is great at that,
the obscure Mrs. Guy Bethell, creators of the kinds repurposing things and making them look amazing.”
of seriously pretty, eminently inviting rooms Re-dressing, repainting, redeploying, reinventing:
that the California couple had been pinning up Refreshening is the Redd way. In the living room—
and pining for. where the walls are slicked with aquamarine satin—
indifferent taborets get chic with a jaguar-print “Those are the designers I’ve always looked to
velour that also shows up on a handful of cushions. emulate, and what I’ve learned from them comes out
(Big-cat prints were a leitmotif of Elsie de Wolfe, the in its own unique way,” Redd says. He adds with a
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fabled 20th-century decorating dynamo who ranks grin, “If you borrow from many, it’s research; if you
tip-top on Redd’s list of worthies.) A nearby antique borrow from just one, it’s plagiarism.”
German fauteuil, which should by all rights be clad One outright copy to which Redd readily admits
in a stuffy stretch of scratchy Aubusson, is splashed is the painted ceiling in the entrance vestibule,
with a sleek fabric striped in green, blue, and white a small, sunlit space that leads from the front door
(bringing to mind the parallel lines associated with to the apricot hall. Seeing the ceiling’s billowing
1960s style goddess Pauline de Rothschild). contours for the first time, Redd let his mind wander
Georgian tables, snapped up at auction for the to the big trompe l’oeil–tented room at Casa degli
dining room, now have fresh snow-white complex- Atellani, a flamboyantly stylish house seen in the
ions. (Hello, Dorothy Draper.) “Why wouldn’t you buy movie I Am Love. Artist Agustin Hurtado reduced that
a pedestrian old sideboard, something grandmotherly, Milanese inspiration to fit the San Francisco space.
and tweak it?” Redd asks. “Paint it, ebonize it, lacquer Redd complemented the whimsical tabs and tassels
it, or gild it.” Dining room and master bedroom bloom with some pleasingly fussy furnishings, including a
with classic chinoiserie scenic wallpapers, a decorat- palazzo-perfect rococo-style table and a grandiose
ing trope since the 18th century. In the breakfast 18th-century Swedish cartel clock. French Abstract
room, a Billy Baldwin hallmark (raffia wall covering) Expressionist watercolors add a dash of hipness.
meets a canonical Colefax and Fowler print (Bowood Tradition may be out of fashion at the moment,
rose-pattern chintz) and a dollop of Syrie Maugham but given the allure of this family-friendly anachro-
(the Venetian-style chairs are a lyrical touch that the nism on the West Coast, perhaps it’s time to start
British grande dame often used). There’s a John stocking up on languishing antiques. “It’s a great,
Fowler echo, too, in the entrance hall’s apricot walls, interesting, eclectic mix, the modern next to some-
a succulent shade that the Englishman famously thing very old,” the wife says. “And it’s still going to
splashed all over Christ Church Library in the 1950s. be amazing in 30 years. This will hold up.”
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Sea Change
At Manhattan’s hottest new restaurant, the Lobster Club—set in the Seagram Building’s basement—AD100
Hall of Famer Peter Marino (top left) has made his mark on every last design detail, from the punchy colors and
robust materials down to the dishware and waitstaff uniforms. Still, his is not the only creative force you’ll feel
as you dine. Paint-splattered floor tiles nod to Jackson Pollock, abstract sculptures to Pablo Picasso. Paeans to
Mies van der Rohe also abound, among them bronze partitions and railings that mimic the Seagram’s façade
and a floor plan that echoes the iconic Pool Room. As part of his research, Marino delved deep into the tower’s
history, consulting Philip Johnson’s drawings for the original subterranean restaurant, destroyed by a 1995
kitchen fire. “I know Philip would love it here now,” Marino says, adding of the overall blend of references: “Mixed
salads are always more interesting to look at than pea soup.” thelobsterclub.com. —SAM COCHRAN