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THE INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AUTHORITY JANUARY 2018

THE DESIGNERS
OF THE YEAR
A PARADISE IN HAWAII
A MINIMALIST MASTERPIECE IN BELGIUM
plus NATE BERKUS SHARES
HIS CALIFORNIA DREAM HOUSE
CONTENTS january
156
NATE BERKUS, JEREMIAH
BRENT, AND DAUGHTER POPPY
AT HOME IN LOS ANGELES.

Features
140 DOUBLE VISION
Same architect, same
designer, same contractor,
same clients—two
extraordinary houses.
By Shax Riegler

156 SWEET SPOT


Life is good for designers
Nate Berkus and Jeremiah
Brent as they move into a
new home. By Mayer Rus
166 FUN HOUSE
Kelly Wearstler dreams up
a color-soaked L.A. pad for
a free-spirited young family.
By Hannah Martin

176 SACRED GROVE


Garden guru Fernando
Caruncho cultivates
an ancient attitude at an
estate on the Aegean Sea.
By Mitchell Owens

180 RULE, BRITANNIA!


Rose Uniacke channels—
and refreshes—the Aesthetic
Movement in Oscar Wilde’s
onetime London digs.
By Mitchell Owens

184 PERFECT HARMONY


Under the deft direction of
Pierre Yovanovitch, a dowdy
Belgian house gets a new
lease on life. By Ian Phillips
192 FANCY THAT
When a young San Francisco
TOP: DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN

couple asks for old-fashioned,


deep-dish decorating, Miles
Redd pulls out all the stops.
ON THE COVER PALMS ARC OVER A POOL IN KONA,
HAWAII. THE CUSTOM CHAISE LONGUES WEAR By Mitchell Owens
CUSHIONS OF A PERENNIALS FABRIC. “DOUBLE
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 22)
VISION,” PAGE 140. PHOTOGRAPHY BY DOMINIQUE
VORILLON. STYLED BY STEPHEN PAPPAS.

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CONTENTS january

140
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
GALERIE KREO;
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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CONTENTS january

Whether rule-breakers or

74 defenders of tradition, the


top architects and designers
in the world—the AD100—
all have one thing in common:
uncommon vision.

166
INSIDE COMEDIAN SEBASTIAN
MANISCALCO AND ARTIST LANA
GOMEZ’S LOS ANGELES HOME.

In Every Issue

FROM TOP: FRANÇOIS DISCHINGER; COURTESY OF RESPECTIVE COMPANIES (2)


34 EDITOR’S LETTER
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38 OBJECT LESSON:
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TWO NEW PRODUCTS BY A
Tracking down the origins PAIR OF AD100 DESIGNERS:
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WALLPAPER FOR GRACIE;
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editor’s letter 1

This is the second AD100 issue I have produced with


the editorial team, and we are excited to welcome
19 new names to the illustrious lineup. Eighty-one
individuals (or firms) are back, and six superstars
join the Hall of Fame. With major projects from
Kelly Wearstler, Miles Redd, Rose Uniacke, Pierre 4 1. NATE BERKUS’S DAUGHTER
POPPY KIDS AROUND IN THE MASTER
Yovanovitch, Fernando Caruncho, Roman and BEDROOM. 2. A KATIE STOUT
Williams, and more, the entire issue celebrates these CABINET IN A KELLY WEARSTLER
PROJECT. 3. A SERENE LANDING
top talents from around the world. Making his AD100 IN A PIERRE YOVANOVITCH–
debut, Nate Berkus shares his idyllic L.A. home and DESIGNED HOME. 4. DESIGNER
RODMAN PRIMACK AND I ON
family life with us this month—confirming that the LOCATION IN LONG ISLAND.
man really does have it all. And our cover story, 5. A CHAISE LONGUE IN A HAWAII
HOUSE DECORATED BY PRIMACK.
which documents two extraordinary homes for the

1. DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN; 2. FRANÇOIS DISCHINGER; 3. JOSÉ MANUEL ALORDA;


same discerning family—one in Hawaii, one on the 5
North Fork of Long Island—marks designer Rodman
Primack’s first time on the list. (Architect Tom Kundig,
his partner on both projects, has appeared previously.)
Primack, the chief creative officer of Design Miami,
the twice-a-year showcase for contemporary furniture,
lighting, and objets, is a true insider, having also served
as chairman of Phillips and worked with tastemakers
4. @AMYTASTLEY; 5. DOMINIQUE VORILLON

like Peter Marino, Simon de Pury, and Larry Gagosian


before launching his own interiors career in earnest.
Primack’s layered, colorful spaces artfully combine
the sophisticated (blue-chip design treasures) and the
humble (Guatemalan fabrics and vintage quilts).
This is the first time his handiwork has been featured
in AD, and it is a real joy to both show Primack’s most
important decorating work to date (thereby introduc- AMY ASTLEY
ing him to a wider audience) and welcome him to the Editor in Chief
club. Congratulations to all the AD100! @amytastley

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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.

FRANÇOIS HALARD/TRUNK ARCHIVE

Cloud Coverage
Tracking down the origins of Guy
de Rougemont’s wildly rare Nuage table

38 AR C HD I GES T.CO M
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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DISCOVERIES
THE BEST IN SHOPPING, DESIGN, AND STYLE EDITED BY JANE KELTNER DE VALLE AND SAM COCHRAN

Quiet Riot
Macaron-box pastels—
revved up with a touch of
metallics—are this season’s
unexpected stars

Buzzy Italian design firm Dimore Studio looked to the Art Deco movement for inspiration
in creating its first-ever collection of decorative objects, ranging from candlesticks to poufs.
LOST-WAX-CAST METAL-AND-BRONZE CANDLESTICKS; OXIDIZED-BRASS VASSOIO TRAY WITH BAMBOO
HANDLES; AND BRASS, FOAM, AND WOOD POUF. PRICES UPON REQUEST; DIMOREGALLERY.COM.

PH OTO G R A PH BY B E PPE BRANCATO AR C H DI G E S T. CO M 47


DISCOVERIES shopping
1 2

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CHRISTOFLE
MOUTH-BLOWN
GLASS VASES, EACH
WITH A SILVER-PLATED
ORNAMENT. 9" H. TO
14.25" H.; FROM $455.
CHRISTOFLE.COM

2. ALDO BAKKER
FOR KARAKTER
TABLE. 12.75" W. X
10.5" D. X 16.5" H.;
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COPENHAGEN.COM

3. JAIME HAYON
FOR FRITZ HANSEN
TEA LIGHT
CANDLEHOLDER.
4" W. X 5" D. X 4.5" H.;
4 $150. DWR.COM

4. MATTIA BONETTI
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REQUEST. DAVIDGILL
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5 5. CRISTINA
CELESTINO FOR
SERGIO ROSSI
CHARLOTTE POUF
IN MINT GREEN, NUDE,
AND IVORY WITH
COPPER FINISHING.
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DIA.; PRICE UPON
REQUEST. CRISTINA
CELESTINO.COM
COURTESY OF RESPECTIVE COMPANIES

6. STEPHEN BURKS
FOR DEDON
THE OTHERS LANTERN
IN 128 CLOUD WITH
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DEDON.DE

7. MARTINO GAMPER
7 FOR NILUFAR
FAKE FRANK
CUPBOARD. 48.5" W.
X 15.75" D. X 55" H.;
6
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DISCOVERIES at home with
ED TANG (NEAR LEFT) AND HIS
PARTNER PLAY PING-PONG
ON A TABLE BY ARTIST
RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA AT THEIR
MARCEL BREUER HOUSE.

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 at home with 1. A PAINTING BY LEO GABIN HANGS ABOVE A
1 DONALD JUDD SIDE TABLE AND AN ALVAR
AALTO CHAIR IN A LIVING ROOM. 2. THE
HOUSE BY JOHN M. JOHANSEN. 3. PIECES BY
on summer weekends. A short walk from town, the conjoined KARL HOLMQVIST, PHILIPPE PARRENO, AND
properties feel remote, a tucked-away idyll with sun-drenched WADE GUYTON LINE A WALL OF THE STUDIO.
interiors looking out on the rolling hills and nearby nature
preserve. One’s sense of arrival is heightened by the contrast
to Litchfield’s broad thoroughfare, lined with imposing white
mansions from the mid–19th century, “which look to me, a
foreigner, like a complete movie set,” says Tang, who was born
in Hong Kong and educated in the U.K.
Once they installed forced air, radiant heat, and delicate
outdoor lighting, as well as a new stone wall, the houses were
a blank canvas for personalization. And personalize they did,
though thoughtfully, making sure to keep comfort always the
primary consideration. “We don’t want to be those precious
people where you have to use a coaster or wear a towel to sit
down somewhere,” Tang says.
The Stillman house—marked by its sliding glass walls, pool,
pops of primary colors (the blue paint was sourced from
Switzerland), and an iconic ten-by-18-foot Alexander Calder
mural—is full of swimsuit-friendly, airy setups, cheerful artwork
by the likes of Darren Bader and Richard Prince, and a light
marquee by Philippe Parreno.
The Huvelle house, meanwhile, retains a more meditative
air. So it makes sense that it’s where the occupants are drawn

during the colder months. Here one finds a cozy, book-lined


library, as well as photographs by Brassaï and DO NOT EVER
WORK, by Rirkrit Tiravanija, a piece that amplifies the serene
atmosphere. Deferential to its views of the sloping landscape,
the house is the organic yin to Stillman’s carefully composed
yang. “I love nature, art, and architecture,” Tang explains,
“and all of that is, in a very humble way, distilled in this house.”
Asked if he’s content to make do with the current setup,
splitting time between their homes in New York City and
Litchfield, Tang takes a moment. “Actually, I would love to
have a third home with chintz and wallpaper and pattern-on-
pattern—a place where not a single surface is blank,” he says
with a laugh. —DAVID FOXLEY

“We don’t want


to be those
precious people
where you have
to use a coaster
or wear a towel
to sit down.”
—Ed Tang

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DISCOVERIES debut 1

The Art of Commerce 2

Roman and Williams—the go-to


firm for Gwyneth Paltrow, the
Ace Hotel, and others—opens a
bounteous home-goods emporium
3

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

6 1. SLING CHAIR, PRICE


UPON REQUEST.
5 2. VEDRAN JASKIC
WOODEN TOWER,
$4,000. 3. EMILY
THOMPSON FLOWERS
IN A VASE BY CASEY
ZABLOCKI. 4. SLAB BED
MADE FROM CLARO
WALNUT, $42,000.
5. DYLAN BOWEN
CERAMIC PLATE, $195.
6. DAVENPORT SOFA
UPHOLSTERED IN
CASHMERE MOHAIR,
PRICE UPON REQUEST.

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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.

Until then, Gaudí fans can delight in some more


happy news: the restoration of Casa Vicens, the
architect’s very first residential project (a UNESCO
World Heritage Site). Tucked in the quiet neighbor-
hood of Gràcia, just below the Park Güell, the single-
family home was commissioned in 1883 by stockbroker
Manel Vicens i Montaner and later converted into
apartments, remaining under private ownership for
more than a century. Three years ago, a Spanish bank
bought the property, intent on transforming it into
a museum. Meticulously rehabilitated thanks to the
local design studio DAW, which worked in collabora-
tion with Martínez Lapeña-Torres Arquitectos, Casa
Vicens opened to the public this past November.
“Vicens is very important for understanding Gaudí’s
career,” explains DAW founder David García Martínez.
“Here you start to see the beginnings of his relation-
ship to the natural world.” Unlike Casa Milà and Casa
Batlló, with their catenary arches and rippling façades,
Vicens is intensely linear, more Moorish in spirit than
Gaudí’s signature modernisme. (In fact, the architect
based the house on the standard square tiles produced
by local artisans.) Nonetheless, fanciful ornamentation
abounds, from the front gate’s cast-iron palmetto leaves
to the French marigolds and dianthus that adorn the
exterior’s ceramic tiles. All throughout the interiors,
painted ceilings reveal trompe l’oeil visions of flora
and fauna, and textural papier-mâché tiles create
faux foliage on the ceilings and walls.

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Talk of the Town


Amid political upheaval,
Barcelona revels in the
reinvigorated legacy of
Catalan master Antoni Gaudí

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.

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1. SALA BECKETT THEATER,
DESIGNED BY FLORES & PRATS.
2. A ROOM AT CASA VICENS IS
CLAD IN WOODEN BLINDS.
3. SOHO HOUSE BARCELONA.
4. THE VIEW FROM PARK GÜELL.

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
MORE TO DO IN BARCELONA
SIGHTS RESTAURANTS HOTELS
Check out as many Gaudí build- If you’re hungry for a fresh catch, Sleep beneath a Catalan vaulted
ings as you can stand—and try try the family-run mainstay ceiling and hang poolside on
to schedule appointments in La Taberna Gallega (lataberna a candy-striped lounge at Soho
advance to avoid the lines. The gallega.com), which Alhadeff calls House, tucked inside an 18th-
shimmering Casa Batlló (casa “as authentic as authentic gets.” century building (once the site
batllo.es), undulating Casa Milà For tapas, Bar Mut (barmut.com) of a 13th-century convent) in
(lapedrera.com), and newly opened delivers faithful classics, while the Gothic Quarter (sohohouse
Casa Vicens (casavicens.org) are Bar But, just down the street, barcelona.com). Textile designer
a great buildup to the architect’s offers contemporary twists like Zak Profera recommends the
magnum opus: the Sagrada waffle-shaped patatas bravas low-key cool of Casa Bonay
Família (sagradafamilia.org). (barbut.es). And should you tire (casabonay.com), steps from
Then take in the view from the of finger food, head to Céleri, several Gaudí sights. Or keep
top at the fantastical Park Güell the open, airy kitchen of Michelin- it classic at Barcelona mainstays
(parkguell.cat). Experiencing starred chef Xavier Pellicer, where like the Cotton House (hotel
sensory overload? Cleanse the fruits and vegetables sourced cottonhouse.com) and Majestic
visual palate with a trip to from local farms are carted in Hotel (hotelmajestic.es).
the Mies van der Rohe–designed daily for rotating seasonal dishes
Barcelona Pavilion (miesbcn.com). (tribuwoki.com).

64 A R C HD I G E S T.CO M
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
RESOURCES.

All Together Now


At a Manhattan townhouse decorated by Russell Groves,
a family of art aficionados finds that more is more

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

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DISCOVERIES collecting
galleries that reveal themselves as you ascend. “You
see these fragmented views, which is similar to the
visual vocabulary of many of the artists,” says Melissa,
“but there’s also a sense of openness.”
For the furnishings the couple turned to Russell
Groves, a designer known for rooms that exude a subtle
glamour, combining warm palettes with a sophisticated
mix of vintage and custom pieces. “The furniture
couldn’t compete with the art,” says Groves. “We had
to find a way to make the rooms feel softer and relaxed
because there was already so much going on visually.”
The Neumanns have always favored art, Hubert
says, that is “creative enough to make a significant
step forward.” Translation: work that is joyously
idiosyncratic and often obsessively intricate—if
not outright chaotic. Take the entrance hall, where
you are greeted by a vibrant 11-foot-tall totem by
Charlie Roberts and a riotous 20-foot-wide Michael
Bevilacqua painting with fragments of imagery and
letters spelling out exclamations of joy. Climbing the

“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.

stairs to the second floor, you encounter a pristine


photo-realist portrait by Chuck Close beside a
kaleidoscopic painting by Ashley Bickerton. Nearby
is a magisterial Jean-Michel Basquiat work, one of
two the Neumanns bought from the artist in 1982.
When it comes to the subject of curators and
museums, Hubert, in particular, proudly wears his
reputation for being opinionated and at times irascible.
(Remarks like “Most museum installations are boring”
are not uncommon.) But the family does regularly
lend to exhibitions, like the recent Matthew Ronay
show at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston and the
Francis Picabia survey at New York’s Museum of
Modern Art. These days, they are making hundreds
of their works accessible on social media under the
handle Aftermodernism.
Melissa says she and her husband plan to rotate
what’s on display in their home and keep adding
new acquisitions. Asked what unifies the mix, Hubert
notes “it’s about antagonisms.” Melissa, pausing for a
moment, remarks that while a lot of thought went into
the way the house is laid out, there was also spontane-
ity. “Great art,” she adds, “just works.” —STEPHEN WALLIS
AD100 2018

A FAMILY ROOM
BY ISABEL LÓPEZ-
QUESADA ON
THE GREEK ISLAND
OF SPETSES.

Whether rule-breakers or defenders of tradition,


the men and women of the 2018 AD100
all have one thing in common: uncommon vision.
Adjaye Associates Diller Scofidio + Renfro Kelly Wearstler Robert Stilin Tom Scheerer Inc.
Aero Studios Dimore Studio Laplace Rockwell Group Toshiko Mori Architect
AL_A Drake/Anderson Leroy Street Studio Roman and Williams Veere Grenney
Alex Papachristidis Faye Toogood Lorenzo Castillo Buildings and Interiors Associates
Interiors Fernando Santangelo Inc. Madison Cox Associates Rose Uniacke Studio Ltd. Victoria Hagan Interiors
Amy Lau Design Fox-Nahem Associates Mark Hampton LLC RP Miller Design Vincent Van Duysen
The Archers Ryan Korban Architects
Francis Sultana Markham Roberts Inc.
Ashe + Leandro S. R. Gambrel Inc. Waldo’s Designs
Frank de Biasi Interiors Martyn Lawrence
Atelier AM G. P. Schafer Architect Bullard Design Sawyer | Berson
Ben Pentreath Ltd. McAlpine Selldorf Architects E
Gachot Studios LL M
Bestor Architecture Georgis & Mirgorodsky Michael S. Smith Inc. SheltonMindel HA OF FA
BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group Architects Miles Redd Snøhetta
Bilhuber and Associates Groves & Co. Monique Gibson Stephen Shadley Mario Buatta
Billy Cotton Hollander Design Interior Design Designs François Catroux
Brian J. McCarthy Inc. Landscape Architects Muriel Brandolini Stephen Sills Associates Thierry Despont
Carrier and Ike Kligerman Barkley Nate Berkus Associates Steven Harris Architects Mica Ertegun
Company Interiors India Mahdavi NH Design Steven Holl Architects Norman Foster
Caruncho Garden & Ingrao Inc. Olson Kundig Steven Volpe Design Jacques Grange
Architecture Isabel López-Quesada  Paul Fortune Studio Gang Hugh Newell Jacobsen
Charles Zana Jan Showers & Design Studio Studio KO Robert Kime
Architecture d’Intérieur Associates Inc. Perry Guillot Inc. Studio Peregalli Peter Marino
Commune Design Jean-Louis Deniot Peter Pennoyer Studio Shamshiri Richard Meier
Cullman & Kravis John Pawson Ltd. Architects Studio Sofield Inc. Juan Pablo Molyneux
Associates Inc. Pierre Yovanovitch
RICHARD POWERS

John Stefanidis Studioilse Jean Nouvel


Dan Fink Studio Brands Ltd. Architecture d’Intérieur
Daniel Romualdez Piet Oudolf Suzanne Kasler Interiors Robert A.M. Stern
Johnston Marklee Thad Hayes Inc. Rose Tarlow
Architects Joseph Dirand Rafael de Cárdenas Ltd./
Deborah Berke Partners Architecture Architecture at Large Tino Zervudachi Axel Vervoordt
Décoration Robert Couturier Inc. & Associés Bunny Williams
Jacques Garcia

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Interior Design
NEW YORK
Long before groundbreaking design began tiptoeing
across the borders of high art, Amy Lau was busy conjur-
ing bravura interiors that rejected antiquated distinctions
between the two disciplines. “I conceive an interior as
a total work of art, so that every piece in an environment
has a supporting role to play within that space,” she says,
underscoring the importance of serious connoisseurship
as the foundation for any decorative scheme. A familiar
presence at elite art and design fairs across the globe—
she was a cofounder of Design Miami in 2005—Lau has
an all-encompassing vision of inspired, artful living
that raises mere finesse into the realm of pure magic.
► amylaudesign.com

1. A NEW YORK
APARTMENT BY
AMY LAU. 2. PRISMA
RUG BY AMY LAU
FOR KYLE BUNTING.
8' DIA.; $5,931.
KYLEBUNTING.COM.
3. MEMBERS OF
THE ARCHERS’
TEAM, FROM LEFT: 1
DAN BAKLIK,
STEPHEN HUNT,
MARY CASPER,
RICHARD PETIT,
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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.
► team-archers.com

ALEX ASHE + LEANDRO ATELIER AM


PAPACHRISTIDIS Interior Design Interior Design
1. JASON SCHMIDT; 2. COURTESY OF AMY LAU; 3. ALEX POLILLO

INTERIORS NEW YORK LOS ANGELES


Interior Design Known for: Relaxed—but Signature: Husband and
NEW YORK deliberate—contemporary wife Michael and
Signature: Close attention luxury. What’s next: On Alexandra Misczynski
to details and finishes, the occasion of their tenth specialize in edited,
to create truly bespoke anniversary, the duo elegant, cultivated
interiors with comfort- is launching a furniture interiors blending
able, cozy, inviting line this spring. Notable pedigreed furnishings
atmospheres. What’s next: clients: Jake Gyllenhaal, with modern and
Wall coverings with Liev Schreiber, Seth contemporary art. Clients:
Gracie; a new line for Meyers, Rashid Johnson, Collectors, titans of
Langhorne Carpet Co.; Naomi Watts. business, entertainment
the launch of everyday- ► asheleandro.com execs. Obsessions: Chinese
elegance.com, a website furniture; virtual reality
devoted to the art of applied to architecture.
table-setting. ► atelieram.com
► alexpapachristidis.com

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1

1. THE MALIBU HOUSE


OF BEASTIE BOYS
MEMBER MIKE D,
ARCHITECTURE BY
BARBARA BESTOR.
2. BARBARA BESTOR.

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BESTOR ARCHITECTURE BEN PENTREATH BIG–BJARKE BILHUBER
Architecture LTD. INGELS GROUP AND ASSOCIATES
LOS ANGELES Architecture & Interior Design Architecture Interior Design
“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

1. TREVOR TONDRO; 2. HAMISH ROBERTSON; ALL OTHERS COURTESY OF RESPECTIVE COMPANIES


Prince of Wales at What’s next: Headquarters collections for Henredon;
conjured a multitude of innova- for Google in London;
tive residential, commercial, and Poundbury in Dorset. rug designs for Elson &
What’s next: A furniture a police station in the Co. What’s next: Porcelain
institutional projects across the collection for his London Bronx, New York; a tableware for de Gournay.
sprawling metropolis. She has shop, Pentreath & Hall. factory for San Pellegrino ► bilhuber.com
designed homes for Jill Soloway ► benpentreath.com in Bergamo, Italy.
(Transparent), Jenni Konner and ► big.dk
Richard Shepard (Girls), Mike D
of the Beastie Boys (see AD
March 2017), fashion designer
Trina Turk, and Sonic Youth’s square one3DYH\RXUÀRRUVEDWKVEDFNVSODVKHV
Kim Gordon. Her design for the DQGPRUHZLWKVWXQQLQJWLOHVE\WRGD\¶VGHVLJQVWDUV
Beats by Dre headquarters
received a national AIA Award,
and her transformation of an
erstwhile makeup factory into
the new home of the Silverlake
Conservatory of Music is widely
seen as a model of community-
focused redevelopment. And
with projects on the boards in
Northern California and Oregon,
she’s put the rest of the country
on notice: Bestor Architecture LEAP INDIGO BY DAVID ROCKWELL E/S20 COLLECTION TILE BY PAUL
is coming. FOR BISAZZA. 8" SQ.; $24 PER SQ. FT. FORTUNE FOR EXQUISITE SURFACES.
► bestorarchitecture.com BISAZZA.COM. 8" SQ.; $28 PER SQ. FT. XSURFACES.COM.

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BILLY COTTON
Interior Design
NEW YORK
Although he counts some of the biggest
names in the contemporary-art world as
clients, Billy Cotton maintains no pie-in-
the-sky illusions about what he does. “I
make furniture and interiors, not art. I leave
that to my artist friends and clients. If people
like the work I do, that’s enough for me,”
says the Brooklyn-based dynamo. And like
it they do. Cotton has collaborated with
Cindy Sherman, Carol Bove, Lisa Yuskavage,
and other luminaries of the international art
scene to create soulful homes. And he’s got
the chair-and-table angle covered, too, with
his signature line of crisp, tailored furnish-
1
ings and accessories, which are coveted not
only by the smart art set but also his fellow
travelers on the cutting edge of design.
► billycotton.com

2
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.
► bjminc.com

CARRIER
AND COMPANY
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1. AND 2. STEPHEN KENT JOHNSON; 3. SILVIA CERRADA

NEW YORK
Known for: Husband-and- CARUNCHO GARDEN & ARCHITECTURE
wife team Jesse Carrier Landscape Design
and Mara Miller create MADRID AND PARIS
rooms as relaxed and
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livable as they are refined page forming between the three an indissoluble unity,” says Fernando
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Notable clients: Jessica 176 Caruncho, known for hypnotic commissions, from a private retreat
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Chastain and Gian Luca in Maine to the Pereda Gardens at Renzo Piano’s Centro Botín in
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Passi de Preposulo, I S I S Santander, Spain. Each is quietly influenced by Caruncho’s personal
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

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La Manufacture Cogolin. in Kansas City, Missouri.
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COMMUNE DESIGN DÉCORATION


Interior Design JACQUES GARCIA
LOS ANGELES Interior Design
Signature: Unpretentious PARIS
bohemian chic; California Clients: Crowned heads
cool with a hint of Wiener (Brunei, Luxembourg,
Werkstätte glamour. Belgium) as well as
Keywords: “Handcrafted, monarchs of business,
woodsy, elemental.” such as the Mauboussin
Clients: Ace Hotels, the jewelry clan and Mélissa
Elder Statesman, Kiki de and Martin Bouygues
Montparnasse, actor Jim of Bordeaux’s Château
Parsons, plus a slate of Montrose winery.
high-profile tastemakers Highlight: Opened a resort
in fashion, culture, and on his own property in A PLACE TO CALL HOME:
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room hotel in Kyoto, Japan. ► studiojacquesgarcia.com IN THE NEW AMERICAN HOUSE,
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Aim: “To redefine the phase of their ongoing
traditional interior for MoMA expansion; a
21st-century living.” ground-up house in the

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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Known for: Putting a Highlights: Leo’s supper H I S I S & KRAVIS (THE MONACELLI
contemporary spin on and nightclubs in London; PRESS, $65)
traditional and classical launch of first home-
design ideas. Aim: “To accessories collection.
simplify and demystify the In the works: A hotel in
design process.” Highlight: Paris; a private villa POETRY OF
Renovation of the dancers’ in Tuscany. PLACE: THE NEW
lounge at the American ► dimorestudio.eu ARCHITECTURE
Ballet Theatre practice AND INTERIORS
studio in partnership with DRAKE/ANDERSON OF MCALPINE
Interior Design (RIZZOLI, $55)
AD (see AD July 2017). NEW YORK
► danfinkstudio.com
Credo: “The best decor
DANIEL ROMUALDEZ expresses both place and
ARCHITECTS personality; environments FOX-NAHEM: THE DESIGN
Architecture & Interior Design should be inviting, VISION OF JOE NAHEM
NEW YORK delightful, and, above (ABRAMS, $60)
Signature: Sublime settings all, resolutely livable.”
that exude elegance. Personal causes: The Royal
Highlights: Vanity Fair Oak Foundation; the
profile (August 2017) and Alpha Workshops.
AD cover story (June ► drakeanderson.com
2017). Notable clients: Tory
Burch (see AD October
2017), Anh Duong, Daphne
Guinness, Aerin Lauder,
Lauren Santo Domingo.
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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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Ever since star hotelier André Balazs
tapped Fernando Santangelo to revitalize
Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont in
the early 1990s—a job that helped launch
both the boutique-hotel craze and Santangelo’s
career—the Uruguay-born, New York–based
interior designer has been conjuring richly
layered interiors that retain a sense of history.
These days, as he continues to appoint trendy
hospitality hot spots (a surf-and-yoga hotel
in Costa Rica; the McCarren Hotel & Pool in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn), the decorator
brings his signature sensitivity and virtuosity
to residential projects for clients like Bette
Midler, artist Jack Pierson (see AD December
2016) and Proenza Schouler designers
Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez.
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Aim: “To solve the Signature: Grounded in LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA,
challenges of young historic American AND NEW YORK
families who crave architectural traditions What’s new: Longtime
colleague Ilya Mirgorodsky 100 T
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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.
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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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Signature: Partners Tony visitor center at the A D EBU
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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.
1. AND 2. ERIC STAUDENMAIER

New York City. ► johnstefanidis.com


ture remains a passion. (Take, as evidence, their 2016
► isabellopezquesada.com book, House Is a House Is a House Is a House Is a House.)
But the firm has also branched out to institutional and
commercial projects: an ongoing update to Chicago’s
Museum of Contemporary Art, a retail building in
Miami’s Design District, and the eagerly awaited Menil
1. THE VAULT HOUSE IN CALIFORNIA,
BY JOHNSTON MARKLEE. Drawing Institute in Houston, opening later this year.
2. SHARON JOHNSTON AND MARK LEE. ► johnstonmarklee.com

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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

LAPLACE
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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JOSEPH DIRAND ARCHITECTURE wildlife sanctuaries
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
DOODEORRP7KUHHH\HFDWFKLQJÀRUDOVKDYH$'URRWV (see AD February 2017),
New York’s Charlie Bird
restaurant.
► leroystreetstudio.com

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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.
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+212-662-066-119. 3. A MADISON
COX–DESIGNED GARDEN AT PIERRE
BERGÉ’S COUNTRY HOME ON
FRANCE’S NORMANDY COAST.
4. MADISON COX. 2

MARK HAMPTON Ann Sacks, Perennials,


LLC and The Rug Company.
Interior Design What’s next: Wallpaper
NEW YORK designs for Cole & Son.
Highlight: Firm principal Notable clients: Dee and
Alexa Hampton was Tommy Hilfiger (see AD
named creative director of March 2017), Kendall
online retailer the Mine. Jenner, Khloé and
What’s new: Hardware Kourtney Kardashian, 3
with S. A. Baxter, mantel- Ellen Pompeo.
pieces for Chesney’s, ► martynlawrencebullard
and updates to ongoing .com 100 T
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Smith, Visual Comfort, Architecture & Interior Design
ATLANTA; MONTGOMERY, MADISON COX ASSOCIATES
Stark, Kravet, and more. Landscape Design
ALABAMA; NASHVILLE;
► alexahampton.com AND NEW YORK NEW YORK
MARKHAM Known for: Poetic layouts “Each place I’m working
ROBERTS INC. and soulful decor on has to have a relationship
Interior Design wrapped in beautifully to its context,” publicity-shy
NEW YORK crafted architecture.
Known for: Savvy, erudite Highlight: Bobby McAlpine’s Madison Cox once told AD.
interpretations that make completion of his own “I’m always striving to create
old-school, all-American house in Atlanta. Notable harmony and order as well
decorating fresh again. clients: Faith Hill and Tim as a sense of retreat, a private
1. AND 2. COURTESY OF MADISON COX; 3. AND 4. PASCAL CHEVALLIER
Highlight: Renovation of McGraw (see AD July world for the person I’m
Tortuga Bay, the legendary 2017), Harry Connick Jr.
Dominican Republic ► mcalpinehouse.com
designing for.” And what a
resort built by Oscar de heady crew that is, from
la Renta. MICHAEL S. style queen Marella Agnelli
► markhamroberts.com SMITH INC. to philanthropist Anne Bass
Interior Design
SANTA MONICA, to Moda Operandi cofounder
MARTYN CALIFORNIA Lauren Santo Domingo.
LAWRENCE Credo: “Live with things 4
BULLARD DESIGN Cox’s favorite gardens are
you love.” Recent work:
Interior Design
The Obamas’ new
just as eclectic, including
LOS ANGELES
Credo: “Modern luxury residence in Washington, Marrakech’s Fondation Jardin Majorelle (Cox, the
is comfort.” Highlights: D.C. What’s new: Furniture garden’s longtime vice president, is its new director);
His Palm Springs house and fabrics for Jasper, Scotland’s Little Sparta; Ganna Walska Lotusland
was in AD’s April 2017 rugs for Mansour Modern, in Montecito, California; and the Mediterranean
issue. Opened MLB Atelier, bathroom fittings for Garden Society’s Garden near Athens. Cox has only
in West Hollywood. Kallista, and a collection
of mirrors for Mirror one professional hero, though: that would be the
Partnered with Frontgate.
Ongoing work with Image Home. late, great Russell Page, the British garden grandee
Schumacher, Christofle, ► michaelsmithinc.com who counted Agnelli among his own devoted clients.
Daum, Haviland, ► madisoncox.com

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In most designers’ careers there
is an individual who urges them
to break out on their own. For
Monique Gibson that person was
none other than Elton John. When
she was a young apprentice at a
firm in Atlanta, John encouraged
her to go solo and then gave her
her first project: his home in the
South of France. Within a decade,
whispers of Gibson’s thoughtful
work had traveled through star-
studded circles, attracting clients 2
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what it requires. Allow the client to IS IS
and your work will vibrating approach to superswish chalet chic.
imagine their most beautiful life. always be authentic.” color; sophistication (And Nicky Haslam’s a
Then connect the dots.” What’s new: Fabrics and without pretension. What’s cabaret singer, too.)
► moniquegibson.com trims for Schumacher new: Fabric collections for Notable clients: Bryan Ferry,
and furnishings for Holland & Sherry. Notable Princess Michael of Kent,
Ballard Designs. Words of clients: Crown Prince Rupert Everett, Charles
wisdom: “If you get the Pavlos and Crown Princess Saatchi, Dame Janet de
walls and floors right, Marie-Chantal of Greece, Botton, Nellee Hooper.
the rest is easy.” Matt and Annette Lauer, ► nh-design.co.uk
1. MONIQUE GIBSON. 2. ACTRESS ► milesredd.com and Henry and Ana Pincus.
MEG RYAN’S NEW YORK CITY LOFT BY ► murielbrandolini.com
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privileged. His vision of the well-crafted
home centers on the fundamentals of scale,
1. AND 2. WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ; 3. ROGER DAVIES

proportion, craftsmanship, and, perhaps


above all, personal meaning. “I’ve always
believed your home should tell your story,” he
says. “The best interiors reflect what a person
or a family loves most, and who they really
are.” Refusing to enforce artificial distinctions
between class and mass, Berkus democratizes
great design through product collections for
Target and the Shade Store as well as private
commissions for the likes of Ricky Martin,
Charlize Theron, and Karlie Kloss. It’s all in
a day’s work for the dashing dynamo.
3 ► nateberkus.com

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SEATTLE NEW YORK AND MIAMI all the right ingredients at some of this
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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clients: Marc Jacobs, Sofia PARIS
Coppola, Dasha Zhukova, Credo: “The secret to great
Nate Ruess and Charlotte interior design is a good
Ronson (see AD October layout; the architecture
2017). In the works: A tell-all must leave nothing to
monograph-cum-memoir chance; useless ornament
detailing significant must give way to the
projects and stories from essential.” Highlight: The
Fortune’s peregrinations debut and exhibition
through the beau monde. of his furniture collection

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

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Interior Design
NEW YORK AND
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Credo: “Houses are for
living—they should be
comfortable, warm,
functional, and, of course,
beautiful.” Highlight: His
room for a collector at this
year’s Kips Bay Decorator
Show House took our
breath away.
► robertstilin.com

ROCKWELL GROUP
Architecture & Interior Design
NEW YORK AND MADRID
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A D EBU application of design
D OUDOLF FIELD BY PIET OUDOLF AT HAUSER & thinking to work in all
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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start with the architecture
such luxury fashion
brands as Balenciaga,
and work to make the Aquazzura, and Altuzarra.
RP MILLER DESIGN best of it, but know that Highlight: Completion of
Interior Design details, whether complex a 12-story, 61-unit luxury
NEW YORK or simple, really make residential building in
In fourth grade Rodman Primack the design.” Highlight: the heart of New York’s

1. MAX ZAMBELLI; 2. COURTESY OF RP MILLER DESIGN; 3. ANDREW MEREDITH


subscribed to AD and was obsessed Designed the interiors NoHo neighborhood.
with Mark Hampton. After college, of the Belmond Royal Notable clients: Alexander
he went on to work with a succession Scotsman, the luxury train Wang (see AD September
that tours Scotland and 2017), James Franco,
of formidable tastemakers—Peter its Highlands. What’s new: Kanye West, Natasha Poly,
Marino, Larry Gagosian, Simon de Her first fabric line, as and Debra Messing.
Pury—and hone his eye at Christie’s 3 well as additions to her ► ryankorban.com
and Phillips. Four years ago, business private-label home-
savvy and aesthetic sensibility achieved perfect furnishings collection.
► roseuniacke.com
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compositions perfectly suited to his clients’
needs and desires. Up next? Starting on his first
hotel, launching a collection of cashmere throws,
and creating a line of housewares—projects
that will give us all a chance to experience his
1. DESIGNER RODMAN PRIMACK’S OWN HOME.
sophisticated vision firsthand. 2. PRIMACK-DESIGNED FABRICS; $125 PER YARD.
► rpmillerdesign.com RPMILLERDESIGN.COM. 3. RODMAN PRIMACK.

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Interior Design Architecture, Interior Design, ARCHITECTS Architecture & Interior Design Architecture
NEW YORK and Landscape Design Architecture NEW YORK OSLO AND NEW YORK
Known for: Lacquered NEW YORK NEW YORK Credo: “Strive to create Aim: “To enhance a sense
walls, patterned floors, Aim: “To create unique Highlight: Annabelle what seems to be of place, identity, and
and kitchens we could environments tailored Selldorf’s design for inevitable.” What’s new: relationship to others
live in. Highlight: A new to individual clients Mwabwindo School The Four Seasons Hotel and the physical spaces
collection of statement- through architecture, in Zambia, which will at the Surf Club in we inhabit, both natural
making light fixtures landscape, and interior open this year, is the 2017 Miami (in collaboration and human-made.” Just
for the Urban Electric design.” Personal cause: winner of the Panerai with Richard Meier & completed: A tree-house
Co. In the works: Gambrel’s Designing a community Design Miami/ Visionary Partners Architects). hotel suite in Sweden;
second book will be garden in the Bronx for Award. What’s new: In the works: Residences an update to chef Thomas
COURTESY OF RESPECTIVE COMPANIES

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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1. MUSÉE YVES SAINT


LAURENT MARRAKECH
BY STUDIO KO.
2. KARL FOURNIER
AND OLIVIER MARTY.

STEPHEN SHADLEY STEVEN HARRIS STEVEN VOLPE


DESIGNS ARCHITECTS DESIGN 100 T
Interior Design Architecture Interior Design 2
A D EBU
NEW YORK NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO D
Aim: “To respond to Signature: Elegant spaces Aim: “Modern, thoughtful,
STUDIO KO

1. NICOLAS MATHÉUS/COURTESY OF THE FONDATION JARDIN MAJORELLE, MARRAKECH; 2. MATTHIEU SALVAING


the existing environment with clean lines and clear forward-looking design.”
and architecture in a volumes. Notable clients: In the works: Designing Architecture & Interior Design
PARIS, MARRAKECH, AND LONDON
respectful manner, using Aby Rosen and Samantha a San Francisco flagship
a selective palette of color, Boardman, Barneys for Rothy’s, the sustain- When Studio KO founders
texture, and surface.” New York. In the works: able shoe company, and Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty
Notable clients: Jennifer Restoring a modernist renovating that city’s put the finishing touches on the
Aniston and Justin house by Donald legendary, three–Michelin new Musée Yves Saint Laurent
Theroux, Diane Keaton, Wexler in Palm Springs, starred Quince restaurant. Marrakech this past October, the
Woody Allen. California; creating a ► stevenvolpe.com
► stephenshadley.com country retreat for a New architects didn’t just complete a
York advertising exec. STUDIO GANG home for the fashion designer’s
STEPHEN SILLS ► stevenharrisarchitects Architecture legacy—they cemented their own.
ASSOCIATES CHICAGO AND
Interior Design
.com NEW YORK Sculptural and spare, with walls
NEW YORK STEVEN HOLL Aim: “Using design as of terrazzo, concrete, and brick, the
Known for: Creating ARCHITECTS a medium to connect building stands as a testament to
an original atmosphere Architecture people to each other their rugged brand of minimalism,
tailored for creative NEW YORK and their environment
clients with their own Credo: “Our work fuses in order to bring about a personal style rooted in crafts-
point of view. Notable concept and phenomena.” measurable positive manship, plainspoken materials,
clients: Tina Turner, Wes Just completed: A Maggie’s change.” In the works: and sense of place. Marrakech
Gordon, various members Centre cancer-treatment A training facility for holds special significance for the
of the Rockefeller family. facility in London; an arts the New York City Fire duo: It was here that they got
► stephensills.com complex for Princeton Department; the new their big break conceiving villas
University. In the works: U.S. embassy in Brasilia,
A public library in Queens, Brazil; expansions of for members of the Agnelli and
New York; the Institute Little Rock’s Arkansas Hermès families. These days,
for Contemporary Art Arts Center and New however, Fournier and Marty can
in Richmond, Virginia; York’s American Museum be found circling the globe,
ongoing extensions to of Natural History. working on residential and com-
the Kennedy Center in ► studiogang.com
Washington, D.C., and
mercial projects for Balmain and
the Museum of Fine André Balazs, for whom they are
Arts, Houston. now designing a new Paris hotel.
► stevenholl.com ► studioko.fr

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open invitation
From blockbuster cultural
institutions to dazzling improvements
upon city infrastructure, these
public projects deliver great design
to the world at large

W LEGO HOUSE
T LASCAUX IV SNØHETTA’S UNDULATING IN BILLUND,
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
GROUP HAS
TRANSFORMED
AN ARCHITECT’S
FAVORITE TOY INTO
AN EXPERIENCE
AND EDUCATION
CENTER FOR FANS
OF ALL AGES.

T CITTADELLA BRIDGE RICHARD MEIER & PARTNERS ARCHITECTS’


BOWSTRING ARCH RAISES PEDESTRIANS AND VEHICLES,
SEPARATELY, ABOVE THE FLOODPLAIN OF ITALY’S TANARO RIVER.

S ZARYADYE PARK ON A MOSCOW SITE STEEPED IN HISTORY,


DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO RE-CREATED FOUR RUSSIAN LANDSCAPE
TYPOLOGIES—TUNDRA, STEPPE, FOREST, AND WETLAND.

T VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM EXHIBITION ROAD QUARTER

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.

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STUDIO SHAMSHIRI
Interior Design
LOS ANGELES
In April 2016, siblings Pamela and Ramin Shamshiri,
two of the founding partners of the AD100 firm
Commune Design, decided to strike out on their own.
The duo hit the ground running with a slate of high-
profile assignments, including homes for celebrity
power couples Anne Hathaway and Adam Shulman,
Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller, and Beck and Marissa
Ribisi. Pamela, the firm’s design lead, describes their
process as “narrative- and experience-driven.” That
translates into a cultivated, bohemian aesthetic built
on layers of alluring textures and colors, idiosyncratic
vintage furnishings, and unpretentious natural
materials. Current projects include a collaboration
with fellow AD100 initiates Johnston Marklee on
a house in L.A.’s Pacific Palisades, restoring a classic
A. Quincy Jones home in Holmby Hills, and breath-
ing new life into a Stanford White shingled beauty
in Montauk, New York.
► studioshamshiri.com

STUDIO PEREGALLI STUDIO SOFIELD STUDIOILSE SUZANNE KASLER


Architecture & Interior Design INC. Interior Design INTERIORS
MILAN Interior Design LONDON Interior Design
Signature: The reinterpre- NEW YORK Aim: “To prioritize human ATLANTA
tation of classical forms Known for: Truly luxe, experience in creating Signature: Mixing high
that reinvents and yet eminently functional spaces or products; to and low, traditional and
projects them toward space. Credo: “As the design in a way that makes contemporary, new
the future. Words of wisdom: legendary Billy Baldwin the normal special.” and old to create signature
“Details are perhaps put it, ‘Sustainability Personal cause: The design interiors and products
1. DEWEY NICKS; 2. SHADE DEGGES

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

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THAD HAYES INC. VEERE GRENNEY
Interior Design ASSOCIATES
NEW YORK Interior Design RYHUQLJKWVXFFHVV$VDQHZFURSRI
Known for: Interiors LONDON ERXWLTXHORGJLQJVUHPLQGVXVOLYLQJLQ
infused with knowledge Words of wisdom: “Mix VW\OHLVDVHDV\DVFKHFNLQJLQWRDKRWHO
of the fine and decorative the humble and the
arts and architecture. grand, clean modernity
Aim: “To find the ordinary with classicism, but
in the unique, rare, and never forget beauty and
beautiful and seamlessly comfort.” Latest obsession:
work that into perfectly Collecting 19th- and
proportioned and tailored 20th-century oil paintings
interiors.” Highlight: A new of Moroccan scenes
brushed bronze–and– for his home in Tangier.
copper contemporary What’s new: New fabric
lounge chair available collection for Schumacher.
through Maison Gerard. ► veeregrenney.com
► thadhayes.com
VICTORIA HAGAN
TINO ZERVUDACHI INTERIORS
& ASSOCIÉS Interior Design
NEW YORK
Interior Design
NEW YORK, LONDON, Credo: “Whether a
AND PARIS project leans modern
Credo: “Focus on things or traditional, I strive
being simpler and for a classic spirit that’s
freer, released from the understated and elegant.”
constraining chains of Notable clients: Joe Biden, POPS OF VIBRANT COLOR AND MIDCENTURY LINES DEFINE
overdesign.” Highlight: Judd Apatow and Leslie THE ACE HOTEL CHICAGO, BY COMMUNE DESIGN.
His Hydra, Greece, house Mann, Conan O’Brien.
was in AD’s April 2017 ► victoriahagan.com
issue. In the works: A line of
furniture and a collection VINCENT
of outdoor pieces. VAN DUYSEN
► mhzlondon.com ARCHITECTS
Architecture & Interior Design
ANTWERP, BELGIUM
TOM SCHEERER INC. Known for: Embracing
Interior Design
NEW YORK an architectural language
Known for: Traditional but that is not shy of
lively place-appropriate aesthetics but resists
decorating, with just- fashion and trends.

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
from the American ► waldosdesigns.com
Institute of Architects.
► tmarch.com

AT THE HOTEL HENRY IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK,


ARCHITECT DEBORAH BERKE HAS TRANSFORMED
HISTORIC INTERIORS INTO A WARM, SUNNY RETREAT.

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A LONDON TOWNHOUSE
BY CATROUX.

X FRANÇOIS CATROUX
Interior Design
PARIS
“I’m not one who likes too much clutter and fuss, so he
gets me and I get him,” says Crown Princess Marie-
Chantal of Greece, who has lived amid Catroux decors
since childhood and recently asked him to take on her
Manhattan home, “to modernize it in the Catroux way.”
► +33-1-42-66-69-25

INSIDE BLOOMBERG’S
NEW EUROPEAN HEADQUARTERS.

S NORMAN FOSTER
Architecture
LONDON, OTHER MAJOR CITIES
“Norman was the perfect partner for us
because we wanted to be bold and take risks,

FROM TOP: DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN; NIGEL YOUNG/COURTESY OF FOSTER + PARTNERS; CHRISTOPHER SIMON SYKES
yet still blend into our historic surround-
ings,” said Michael R. Bloomberg, who
commissioned Foster to build his company’s
new London headquarters, now being hailed
as one of the greenest office developments in
the world. “The result is an open, innovative,
and sustainable workplace unlike any other
in the world. It’s a true testament to
Norman’s brilliance.”
► fosterandpartners.com

X ROBERT KIME
Interior Design
LONDON
“Whilst every room in our
house is different, Robert’s
use of color and eclectic
textiles—layered with his own
fabric range—creates a unity
and level of comfort that
we adore,” say Madeleine and
Andrew Lloyd Webber. KIME’S OWN APARTMENT IN LONDON.
► robertkime.com

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MARIO BUATTA THIERRY DESPONT MICA ERTEGUN JACQUES GRANGE HUGH NEWELL
Interior Design Architecture & Interior Design Interior Design Interior Design JACOBSEN
NEW YORK NEW YORK NEW YORK PARIS Architecture
► 917-420-0317 ► despont.com ► maciidesign.com ► +33-1-55-80-75-40 WASHINGTON, D.C.
► jacobsenarchitecture.com

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HALL OF FAME W JEAN NOUVEL
Architecture
PARIS
“Jean firmly roots his
designs in geographical
and cultural contexts,”
says Manuel Rabaté,
director of Nouvel’s new
Louvre Abu Dhabi—
which, he adds, “gives the
breathtaking impression
that the museum floats
upon the Arabian Sea.”
► jeannouvel.com

THE LOUVRE ABU DHABI.

T JUAN PABLO MOLYNEUX


Interior Design
NEW YORK AND PARIS
“He’s all about style, quality, and fantasy,” says Sheikh
Mohamed Bin Suhaim Al-Thani, for whom Molyneux
has decorated a palace in Doha, Qatar; five apartments
in Paris; and, recently, two houses for the royal’s son.
► molyneuxstudio.com

A MOLYNEUX
PROJECT IN
PEBBLE BEACH,
CALIFORNIA.

FROM TOP: TDIC, © MOHAMED SOMJI/LOUVRE ABU DHABI/COURTESY OF JEAN NOUVEL ARCHITECT; ROGER DAVIES (2)
THE L.A. HOME OF ART COLLECTORS EDYTHE
AND ELI BROAD, DESIGNED BY TARLOW.

S ROSE TARLOW
Interior Design
LOS ANGELES
“I didn’t want my house to look like hers, but I wanted
that level of taste,” David Geffen, the film and music
producer and philanthropist, explains. “Everything is
flawless. But she doesn’t consider herself a decorator,
and she’s vaguely insulted if you call her that.”
► rosetarlow.com

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PETER MARINO RICHARD MEIER ROBERT A.M. STERN AXEL VERVOORDT BUNNY WILLIAMS
Architecture & Interior Design Architecture Architecture Interior Design Interior Design
NEW YORK NEW YORK AND NEW YORK WIJNEGEM, BELGIUM NEW YORK
► petermarino LOS ANGELES ► ramsa.com ► axel-vervoordt.com ► bunnywilliams.com
architect.com ► richardmeier.com

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KONA, HI
AT A FAMILY’S HOME IN
HAWAII, A GUEST SWIMS
A LAP IN THE INFINITY
POOL. ACROSS THE HUGO
FRANÇA TREE-TRUNK
BRIDGE FROM THE MAIN
LANAI, THE PING-PONG
ROOM IS ENCLOSED WITH
NETTING TO PREVENT
ERRANT BALLS FROM
GOING ASTRAY. FOR
DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
DOUBLE VISION
Same architect, same designer,
same contractor, same family—
two extraordinary homes halfway
round the world from each other
TEXT BY SHAX RIEGLER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DOMINIQUE VORILLON
KONA STYLED BY STEPHEN PAPPAS
ORIENT STYLED BY HOWARD CHRISTIAN
Picture two spectacular houses, both in breathtaking
locations (one on the leeward coast of Hawaii’s Big Island,
the other on a promontory of Long Island’s North Fork);
both filled with treasures; both deserving of the word
masterpiece. Each was created for the same family by an
AD100 duo: designer Rodman Primack (NEW TO THE LIST
THIS YEAR; SEE PAGE 106)

and architect Tom Kundig .


(SEE PAGE 102)

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ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO this family decided they wanted
a place of their own in Kona, after traveling to the Four
Seasons resort there for years. “They kept sending me
pictures and saying, ‘But we don’t really like the houses,’ ”
says Primack, who was in the middle of designing
the clients’ New York City apartment. “And I was like,
‘Of course you don’t, because they’re terrible.’ ”
Pastiches of clichéd Hawaiian style, none felt
special. And after a summer of disappointed search-
ing, Primack suggested that the then London-based
couple, serious collectors of art and design, build
something they would really like. They quickly found
the perfect lot, and then the designer introduced
them to Kundig. “I just thought his aesthetic would
be right,” Primack explains.
The clients agreed, and the designers got to work.
A prime objective was to create a house that could host
20-plus family members and friends at a time but that
wouldn’t feel big and fussy. “It’s full of amazing pieces,
but at its heart, it’s a beach house,” says Primack.
In addition to things the couple had bought over
the years, the designers incorporated new finds like a
big George Nakashima cabinet purchased at auction—
Kundig made sure there was a living-room wall to
accommodate it. Primack also likes to commission
new work. Here, that includes a monumental chande-
lier by David Wiseman and a massive tree-trunk
bridge by Hugo França spanning the pool. Even the
little things are bespoke: tableware, linens, textiles,
and carpets. And it’s all meant to be used.
The clients, Primack says, are “very comfortable
with letting things age and develop a patina.” That
includes the architecture. For the Kona house, archi-
tect and designer thoughtfully chose materials and
finishes that will weather the tropical climate, and the
entire roof can be opened so that trade winds cool
the house. “In no way is the structure meant to be
hermetic,” Primack declares.

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.”

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ORIENT, NY
CURTAINS IN PRIMACK- RP MILLER FROM FEDORA
DESIGNED TEXTILES HANG DESIGN; ON BED, CASHMERE
IN THE MASTER BEDROOM THROW BY I PEZZI DIPINTI.
OF THE HOUSE ON LONG OPPOSITE THE HOUSE SITS
ISLAND’S NORTH FORK. ON ITS OWN PROMONTORY,
JOSÉ ZANINE CALDAS ALMOST ENTIRELY
CHAIR; CUSTOM RUG BY SURROUNDED BY WATER.
ORIENT, NY
AN ENORMOUS RUG
(APPROX. 14' X 21.5')
DESIGNED BY PRIMACK AND
WOVEN IN GUATEMALA
DEFINES THE MAIN HOUSE’S
SITTING AREA. BACK-TO-BACK
VINTAGE EDWARD WORMLEY
SOFAS UPHOLSTERED IN
PRIMACK-DESIGNED FABRICS;
JEAN ROYÈRE CANOPY
LOUNGE CHAIR AND OAK
COFFEE TABLE; PLASTER ART
BY THOMAS HOUSEAGO.

“You know you’ve done


your job when you walk
into the finished space
and it just fits,” archıtect
Tom Kundıg declares.
“It feels like home and
also someplace special.”
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Primack explains.
all worth looking
“We included lots of

been commissioned

at,” designer Rodman


for the house, so it’s
basically everything’s
open shelving because
PREVIOUS SPREAD: © 2018 THOMAS HOUSEAGO/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/ADAGP, PARIS;
THIS SPREAD: © 2018 THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM, NEW YORK/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK
ORIENT, NY
BELOW THE WALLS OF SILK IKAT FROM JOHN
THE GUESTHOUSE SITTING ROBSHAW TEXTILES; DECO
ROOM ARE COVERED IN RUG FROM JAMAL’S RUG
A BACKED NAVY BURLAP. COLLECTION. OPPOSITE A
ISAMU NOGUCHI AKARI MASSIMO VIGNELLI FOR
LANTERNS; CHARLOTTE VENINI MURANO PENDANT
PERRIAND AND PIERRE HANGS OVER THE KITCHEN
JEANNERET SHELF; VINTAGE ISLAND. GRETE JALK CHAIRS
DANISH LOVE SEAT WITH IN VINTAGE FABRICS.
CUSHIONS OF A VINTAGE
ORIENT, NY
SPIRITED WALL COVERINGS ADD PEP TO THE CHILDREN’S ROOMS. ABOVE MARTHE ARMITAGE HAND-PRINTED WALLPAPER IN THE DAUGHTER’S
BEDROOM. PAINTING BY ELIZABETH PEYTON. OPPOSITE AN RP MILLER TEXTILES LINEN-COTTON, IN INDIGO, IN THE SON’S BEDROOM.

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“At first they told me that they
didn’t like pattern or color,”
Primack says with a laugh. “Things
have definitely evolved over time.”
design notes THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK

PERRY’S (NEAR RIGHT) AND


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contemporary house THE FRONT FAÇADE FEATURES


A WELCOMING RED DOOR.
within that language.”

ARC H DI G E S T. CO M 155
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
GLASS PENDANT;
1950S LOW TABLE
FROM A PARIS FLEA
MARKET; VINTAGE
CLUB CHAIR IN A
CAROLINA IRVING
TEXTILES STRIPE.
FOR DETAILS SEE
RESOURCES.

TEXT BY MAYER RUS PHOTOGRAPHY BY DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN STYLED BY LAWREN HOWELL


POPPY, IN A BONPOINT
DRESS, PUSHES A
WHEELED BASKET BY FIRE
AND CREME KIDS WITH
HARVEY (IN BASKET) AND
SWIGGEN, TWO REX CROSS
RABBITS. POOL DECK
CLAD IN GRANADA TILE.
A FRONTGATE UMBRELLA
SHADES A 19TH-CENTURY
ITALIAN MARBLE TABLE
SURROUNDED WITH IRONY
BY STEFANIA BAGLATZI
CHAIRS; CUSHIONS
OF SUNBRELLA FABRIC.
o
BRENT AND POPPY (WEARING A D. PORTHAULT DRESS) AT THE KITCHEN ISLAND; CIRCA-1960
FRENCH BARSTOOLS; SINK FITTINGS BY WATERSTONE; 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH LANTERNS.
BACKSPLASH AND SURROUNDING COUNTERTOPS BY OLLIN STONE; WHITECHAPEL BRASS KNOBS.

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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LEFT IN THE LIVING
ROOM, A SOFA BY AFRA
AND TOBIA SCARPA
FOR CASSINA, A CIRCA-
1950 ITALIAN CHAIR,
AND A PAIR OF 1940S
LINEN CLUB CHAIRS
SURROUND A MARBLE
COCKTAIL TABLE FROM
HOLLYWOOD AT HOME.
A 1950S ITALIAN SCONCE
HANGS ABOVE A 1960S “When you live with a
ENGLISH BENCH COV-
ERED IN A LEE JOFA
FABRIC; BELGIAN LINEN
small child, you don’t
CURTAINS BY RH.
want to feel beholden to
your possessions.”
—Nate Berkus

RIGHT BERKUS AND


POPPY BESIDE A
19TH-CENTURY ITALIAN
BOOKCASE IN THE
GALLERY. 18TH-CENTURY
SWEDISH TABLE; 1950S
AMERICAN BENCH.
LEFT IN THE DINING
ROOM, 1950S JACQUES
ADNET CHAIRS JOIN A
19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH
TABLE. A PAINTING BY
MATT CONNORS HANGS
ABOVE A DIRECTOIRE
LIMESTONE MANTEL;
CIRCA-1970 GEORGES
PELLETIER CERAMIC
PENDANT LIGHTS.
ABOVE THE PLAYROOM’S
“MEMORY” BOARD AND
TABLE, BY RH BABY &
CHILD; SOFA AND RUG BY
RH TEEN. FLOOR PILLOWS
AND HIPPO BASKET
FROM ANTHROPOLOGIE.
RIGHT THE PERGOLA
IS PAINTED IN BENJAMIN
MOORE’S ALABASTER.
OPPOSITE: © 2018 HUNT SLONEM/ARTIST RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK

RH PENDANT LIGHTS;
VINTAGE KREISS CHAIRS;
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.
THE CIRCA-1960 CHAIRS WEAR AN EDELMAN LEATHER SUEDE. CIRCA-1950 FRENCH BRONZE SAUCER LIGHT;
CUSTOM ROMAN SHADES BY THE SHADE STORE; MARIA PERGAY STEEL TABLE; HD BUTTERCUP RUG.

pieces by the likes of Jacques Adnet, Maria Pergay,


Angelo Mangiarotti, and Afra and Tobia Scarpa. “We don’t like to live with
The through line is the doggedly neutral palette;
Berkus and Brent rely on texture and patina to
a lot of color,” Brent says.
animate their personal interiors. “We chose to use
more country antiques because they already feel
Berkus chimes in, “Or any!”
timeworn. Another ding just adds to the life of the
pieces,” Berkus explains, continuing, “When you
live with a small child, you don’t want to feel
beholden to your possessions.” the rest of the house is the master bathroom, which
The one exception to the rainbow-of-beige rule features hand-painted murals by James Mobley along
is Poppy’s bedroom and playroom. “She’s obsessed with architectural details of a Prunella marble richly
with pink and princesses—big shocker—so we try veined in deep purple and brown. “The stone’s a little
to keep the color and chaos confined to her zone,” weird for us, but we loved it,” Berkus confesses. “It
Berkus explains. “But we like to help curate,” Brent has an old Venetian quality, and that influenced the
adds, with an inflection that suggests not just any molding profiles.”
polyester princess getup will do. In her bedroom, The couple took advantage of the ample space
Poppy has the beginnings of a proper art collection, beyond the bathroom to install two very serious his-
stocked with gifts from her parents’ friends, and-his closets. “Separate rooms are essential,” Brent
including a dreamy mobile by Julia Condon and avers. “When you marry a triple Virgo, there’s no way
a Michael Hainey hummingbird painting. to meditate the stress away. Good closets make for
For Berkus and Brent, the one other space that a good marriage.” And that’s the gospel according to
seems to deviate from the distilled masculinity of Jeremiah and Nate.

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IN THE MASTER BATH,
A JAMES MOBLEY
MURAL AND MARBLE
MOLDING AND PANELS
FROM WATERWORKS.
TUB BY SIGNATURE
HARDWARE, WITH
WATERWORKS FITTINGS;
DURAVIT SINK.
Fun House Kelly Wearstler dreams up a color-soaked L.A.
pad for a free-spirited young family
TEXT BY HANNAH MARTIN PHOTOGRAPHY BY FRANÇOIS DISCHINGER STYLED BY MICHAEL REYNOLDS

LANA GOMEZ AND


SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO’S
LIVING ROOM IS CHOCKA-
BLOCK WITH COLOR AND
PATTERN. CUSTOM SOFAS
WEAR CLAREMONT FABRIC;
CUSTOM STOOLS AND
BOLSTER CHAIRS BY KELLY
WEARSTLER; FLOOR LAMP
BY ANTON ALVAREZ;
CUSTOM RUG BY THE RUG
COMPANY, DESIGNED
BY GOMEZ. FOR DETAILS
SEE RESOURCES.

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THE ENTRY HALL IS COVERED WITH CANNON/BULLOCK WALLPAPER SHEETS. VENINI MURANO CHANDELIER; MARBLE SIDE TABLE
BY DANTE-GOODS AND BADS; CHAIR BY VERNER PANTON; STAIR RUNNER BY CHRISTOPHER FARR. OPPOSITE A SHIMMERING
CHANDELIER BY MISHA KAHN HANGS IN THE MASTER BEDROOM. CUSTOM BED BY KELLY WEARSTLER IN A ROBERT CROWDER & CO.
FABRIC; CUSTOM TABLE BY AQQ DESIGN; CUSTOM RUG BY THE RUG COMPANY, DESIGNED BY GOMEZ.

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I
come from a family where you went to
the furniture store, you bought a set, and
you brought it home,” explains comedian
Sebastian Maniscalco, whose old-school
Italian upbringing in the Chicago suburbs
fuels his searing stand-up routines.
Needless to say, when he and artist
Lana Gomez bought a new home for their
soon-to-expand family (their daughter,
Serafina, was born in April), he didn’t
quite know what he was in for. “Decorating,”
he explains, “is definitely not in my
wheelhouse.”
Thankfully, it was well within Gomez’s.
She had worked as the resident painter
for glamazon designer Kelly Wearstler
soon after moving to L.A. in 2007, conjur-
ing kaleidoscopic canvases for her boss’s high-octane projects—
it was the giant commission hanging behind Wearstler’s desk
that jump-started her painting career. So when it came time to
decorate her own space, Gomez knew Wearstler could distill
the couple’s fun-loving spirit into a warm, family-friendly home
where they could live, work, and entertain. Conveniently, the
designer’s office was just down the street.
“They both love color, and their personalities are so unique,”
explains Wearstler, who worked closely with Gomez on the
project. “And Lana was pretty much up for anything.” But the
house itself—a Spanish-style bungalow spec home near West
Hollywood that the couple chose for its open layout and
blank-canvas appeal—lacked pizzazz.
To add a bit of architectural nuance, Wearstler had a few
tricks up her sleeve: The rectangular front door was reshaped
into an elegant arch, the switchback staircase was refashioned
and lined with brass rails, and doorways into the kitchen and
dining room were framed in Silver Portoro stone. A grid of
Cannon/Bullock wallpaper sheets in a range of colors was
applied to walls throughout the house, creating the illusion
of rooms in the airy, open interior and giving the whole place
a Technicolor glow. “A lot of people actually think it’s stone
when they walk in,” Maniscalco says.
Liberated by Gomez’s daredevil streak (she calls Italian
provocateur Ettore Sottsass her “spirit animal”), Wearstler
employed, with measured restraint, furnishings that are gutsy
and creative. Collectible modern and postmodern trophies—
Jean Royère sconces (Maniscalco jokingly calls them “scones”), While the couple was down for decorating with art-forward
Verner Panton’s Vilbert chair, an eye-popping assortment furniture and blue-chip oddities, of course, there was one
of Sottsass icons—sit with one-of-a-kind commissions from thing that neither Gomez nor Maniscalco wanted to budge
emerging talents. The leafy gesso cabinet in the living room an inch on: comfort.
came from Brooklyn-based createur Katie Stout. Another “Lana and I have had sofas in our relationship where one
Brooklynite, Misha Kahn, dreamed up a plastic chandelier person would be comfortable and the other would be hanging
for the master bedroom. L.A.-based Matthew and Carly Jo off the side,” Maniscalco says with a laugh. Their current sofas,
Morgan devised the resin-coated Flintstones-esque credenza custom-made by Wearstler and upholstered in a patterned
for the guest bedroom. And Wearstler teamed up with Echo fabric intended to diminish the seating’s hulking silhouettes,
Park legend Peter Shire (of Memphis Group fame) on a long- are a whopping three and a half feet deep—which happens
legged bar cabinet. to be the perfect measurement for lying side by side while
“Kelly turned me on to a lot of these artists, and she worked watching a movie.
with them to create things nobody has ever seen before,” On the walls Wearstler paired Gomez’s own paintings
Gomez says. “Serafina is going to grow up in a house filled (which she creates in her garage studio) with pieces by Op
with characters. Each piece looks like it could come alive.” Art maestro John Townsend and rising San Francisco talent
THE MARBLE-CLAD
MASTER BATH. SCONCES
BY CHARLES BURNAND;
TUB SURROUND BY ANN
SACKS. LEFT A CALDER-
INSPIRED MOBILE HANGS
IN THE NURSERY.

“Serafina is going to grow up in


Jonathan Anzalone. Rather than use
Gomez’s creations throughout the house, a house filled with characters,”
though, Wearstler successfully proposed
turning a few of them into painterly rugs says Gomez. “Each piece looks
fabricated by the Rug Company.
While Wearstler’s fearless furnishing
like it could come alive.”
choices spoke to the couple’s dynamism,
when a home is filled with such an
eccentric cast a moment of controversy is inevitable. tell Kelly we hate this lamp? It’s just too weird.” But leave it
Maniscalco recalls the arrival of a lamp by Anton Alvarez, to Wearstler to prove otherwise. Now Gomez and Maniscalco
a Swedish-Chilean designer whose sculptural furnishings are swear it’s one of their favorite things in the house.
made by wrapping raw materials in colorful, glue-soaked string. “Kelly really educates you,” the comedian continues.
“I thought it hadn’t been unpacked yet, but it turned out it “After she’s done describing something, you walk away and
was,” he says of the leggy fixture, which was intended for the you’re like, ‘Yeah, that does look great.’ I feel like I got a
living room. “Lana and I were thinking, How are we going to master’s in design.”

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.

ARC H DI G E S T. CO M 173
design notes THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK

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admits. “I’m along for the ride.”


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sacred
grove

TOWERING CYPRESSES
PUNCTUATE THE CURVING
TERRACES OF A GARDEN,
DESIGNED BY FERNANDO
CARUNCHO, NEAR THE GREEK
TOWN OF PORTO HELI. FOR
DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
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.”

ABOVE THE LATE ARCHITECT


RICARDO LEGORRETA DESIGNED
THE PROPERTY’S HOUSE.
LEFT SINUOUS PATHS LEAD
FROM THE HOUSE TO THE SEA.

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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;
GEORGE III MIRROR; ORIGINAL E. W. GODWIN MANTELPIECE. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
R
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.

“It’s like being inside


an apple,” Uniacke says
of the wallpaper that
greens the living room.
RIGHT A LUCIAN FREUD
ETCHING HANGS ABOVE
A MANTEL IN THE LIVING-
ROOM INGLENOOK.
GODWIN ARMCHAIRS IN
A UNIACKE FABRIC AND
BUILT-IN GODWIN BENCHES
IN A MORRIS & CO. PRINT.
OPPOSITE THE LIBRARY
FEATURES A UNIACKE
SOFA, OTTOMAN, PILLOWS,
AND CARPET. FRITS
HENNINGSEN LOUNGE
CHAIR; JACQUES ADNET
DAYBED; MORRIS & CO.
PATTERN ON WALLS.
PORTRAIT: FRANÇOIS HALARD
T
ucked high in an 1880 house in London’s storied scheme,” Uniacke explains. Instead, following a full-bore
Tite Street—that Chelsea lane of terra-cotta- architectural restoration, she conjured up a decor in which
red houses where Oscar Wilde so artfully once Victorian bohemianism meets 20th- and 21st-century furnish-
lived—Rose Uniacke stands in a double-height ings in a dégagé manner that is plainly, comfortably now.
living room that is wrapped with tart shades of In the 40-foot-long studio turned living room, the owners
green that seem to tint the very air with fresh- encouraged Uniacke to assemble what she calls “an interesting
ness. “It’s like being inside an apple,” the designer collection of furnishings.” Thus, sparkling 1890s light fixtures
smilingly says of the verdant, hand-blocked wallpaper, spotted coexist with Godwin-design ebonized chairs in the fetching
in the Victoria and Albert Museum archives, reproduced, and Anglo-Japanese style (“Aesthetic Movement furniture is quite
recolored for a family that now lives in Tite Street’s most undervalued,” the designer notes), a monumental Uniacke
admired dwelling. table carved from Swedish green marble, and herringbone
E. W. Godwin, a high priest of the art-for-art’s-sake parquet blanketed with fluffy Tibetan sheepskins.
Aesthetic Movement, designed the place, picturesquely Round the living room, atop the trelliswork wainscot,
melding Dutch and Japanese styles, for Frank Miles, a rich, runs an iris-pattern border, the purple blossoms serving as a
handsome, young painter known for a reckless personal subtle reminder that Miles cultivated Japanese flowers while
life and what a critic admiringly called “a series of pretty also giving the feeling that one might be sitting in a pavilion
female heads” rendered in pastels. Chelsea was then “a in the middle of a garden. That plein-air reverie is carried into
paradise for artists,” Uniacke says, all drawn by the clear the cozy adjoining library, a space that is swathed in an 1882
light glinting off the Thames. Whistler lived across the William Morris print on which rabbits and birds cavort.
street, Sargent painted portraits a few doors down, and for “My intention was to have a surprising mix of color and
a brief period, Wilde was Miles’s housemate. playful gestures,” Uniacke explains. “The point was to take a
“My clients were keen to respect that history but didn’t contemporary approach to a classic Godwin interior—but
want an academic re-creation of an Aesthetic Movement softer, cleaner, and less full of things.”

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
COLORED PATTERNS INTO THE
STAIRWELL, WITH SCONCES
OF HIS OWN DESIGN. FOR
DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
f
AN ARTWORK BY DAVID ALTMEJD HANGS OVER THE TRAVERTINE FIREPLACE
IN THE LIVING ROOM. ASSIS(ASY)MÉTRIE ARMCHAIR BY PIERRE YOVANOVITCH;
MONGOLFIERA FLOOR LAMP BY PAOLA NAPOLEONE.

AMBROISE TÉZENAS; PRODUCTS: JEAN-FRANÇOIS JAUSSAUD/COURTESY OF PIERRE YOVANOVITCH


© 2018 PHILIPPE HIQUILY/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/ADAGP, PARIS; PORTRAIT:
rench interior designer Pierre like Axel Einar Hjorth and Paavo Tynell, and a
Yovanovitch avows more than a hint graphic architectural approach.
of reverence for craftsmanship. “If you All are in evidence in the Belgian house, built
want a creation not to look industrial, in 1910 for an aristocratic family and transformed
you’re obliged to work with artisans,” into offices 50 years later. It had polystyrene drop
he asserts. Over the past decade, he has ceilings but neither a kitchen nor full bathrooms
built up close relationships with several, when first viewed by its current owners (he is a
including master carpenter Pierre-Eloi private-equity investor; she runs a foundation in
Bris, with whom he worked on the Indonesia). “The whole house had lost its soul,”
zigzag-like sofa in the living room of she laments. “Nobody even wanted to come and
one of his latest projects—a six-bedroom take the surviving fireplaces for free.”
house in an elegant Belgian enclave. Its All that remains of the original structure today
complex structure was assembled with is the graceful brick façade. Yovanovitch’s redesign
neither glue nor nails. “It’s very Pierre of the home’s interior features a huge picture
Yovanovitch,” he enthuses. window for the kitchen, while the most striking
He can use his own name as an adjective because element inside is the majestic spiral staircase that
his style is unmistakable. The words he apposes winds its way up three stories and is topped by a
most regularly to describe it are simplicity and sophis- geometric stained-glass skylight at its zenith. “It’s
tication. Its fundamental components include just brilliant,” gushes the wife. “People say it looks
furnishings by 20th-century Scandinavian masters like the Guggenheim Museum.”

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ZOU! PENDANT IN
HAND-CAST BLOWN
GLASS AND IRON.

MADAME OOPS
CHAIR IN OAK.

DESIGNER PIERRE YOVANOVITCH ON A FLOATING


SOFA IN A SITTING AREA AT HIS PARIS OFFICE.

OTTO DESK IN
OAK AND STEEL.

MARSHA FLOOR LAMP


DESIGNED BY PIERRE
YOVANOVITCH; BASE BY
ARMELLE BENOIT.

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Yovanovitch exhibited his
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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.

“If you want a


creation to not look
industrial, you’re
obliged to work
with artisans,” the
designer asserts.
The clients, who have four adult sons, were in the dining room. “It’s not something Pierre would
drawn to Yovanovitch not just for his architectural normally use,” admits the wife.
prowess but also by his efforts to get a firm under- One area in which Yovanovitch excels is in his use
standing of their requirements and lifestyle. “They’re of intriguing yet understated materials, as witnessed
really into entertaining, are very convivial and family- by the gouged oak doors and chiseled walnut book-
© 2018 STEPHAN BALKENHOL/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY

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

of Stephan Balkenhol. had suffered water damage. Inspired by both modern-


At times, some of their requests pushed ist architect Adolf Loos and the film Casablanca, the
Yovanovitch out of his comfort zone. For the family room is home to the husband’s extensive collection of
room next to the street-level kitchen, they demanded whiskeys and cognacs. “Every time he joined me for
a dining table and sofa. “Having both in the same a meeting with Pierre, it was the only space we talked
space perturbs me,” he admits. “For me, each room about,” says the wife with a laugh. Still, she is the first
should have a specific function.” They also craved to admit the result is pretty spectacular: “The only
more color than habitually seen in his projects and bad thing is that when people get in there, they never
insisted on hanging a 17th-century Japanese screen want to go home.”

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

When a young San Francisco couple asks


for old-fashıoned, deep-dish decorating,
an overjoyed Miles Redd pulls out all the stops
TEXT BY MITCHELL OWENS PHOTOGRAPHY BY TREVOR TONDRO STYLED BY HOWARD CHRISTIAN
a
IN THE GRACIE WALLPAPER–CLAD DINING ROOM, THE HOUSE’S ORIGINAL CHANDELIER AND MANTEL ARE
COMPLEMENTED BY AN ANTIQUE TABLE SURROUNDED BY LIZ O’BRIEN EDITIONS CHAIRS IN A LEE JOFA FABRIC.

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—

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A PAINTED FLOOR BY CHRIS PEARSON AND A GRACIE
WALLPAPER ADD A WHIMSICAL TOUCH TO THE
MASTER BEDROOM. BERGÈRE PURCHASED AT
AUCTION; LAMP FROM JOHN ROSSELLI ANTIQUES.
A BRUNSCHWIG & FILS
SATIN COVERS THE
LIVING-ROOM WALLS. ON
ARMCHAIRS AT LEFT,
PILLOWS, AND STOOLS, A
SCHUMACHER FLORAL
LINEN AND A CLARENCE
HOUSE JAGUAR SILK
VELOUR ADD PIZZAZZ.
THE BANQUETTE, AT
RIGHT, WEARS A DÉCOR
DE PARIS FABRIC WITH
SAMUEL & SONS TRIM.
ANTIQUE PERSIAN RUG.
ABOVE A DONGHIA OPPOSITE IN THE
STRIPED WALLPAPER DAUGHTER’S BEDROOM,
COVERS A BATHROOM. THE BED CANOPY
LEFT A ROBERT SILVERS AND CURTAINS ARE OF
ARTWORK HANGS CLARENCE HOUSE
IN THE STAIRWAY. LINENS AND THE HEAD-
FARROW & BALL PAINT, BOARD AND BED SKIRT
PATTERSON FLYNN ARE IN A BRUNSCHWIG
MARTIN RUNNER AND & FILS FABRIC; SWEDISH
CARPET; BENCH IN A GUSTAVIAN DESK;
LEE JOFA FABRIC. CARPET BY STARK.

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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Re-dressing, repainting,
redeploying, reinventing:
Refreshening is the Redd way.
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stool, in ivory, from World Market; worldmarket Architecture by Legorreta; legorretalegorreta.com. Editions; lizobrien.com; in Althea linen, in light
abchome.com. In guest bath, tub by Duravit; green, by Lee Jofa (T); leejofa.com. Curtains of
duravit.com. Custom wall-mounted tub filler by .com. In pergola, Cambridge pendant lights by RH; RULE, BRITANNIA!
rh.com. Pillows by Pottery Barn; potterybarn.com. Jane silk taffeta, in medium green, by Christopher
Sonoma Forge; sonomaforge.com. Custom sconces PAGES 180–83: Interiors by Rose Uniacke Studio Hyland (T); christopherhyland.com; with Délicat
and mirrors by RP Miller Design. Accent tiles on On walls, Alabaster paint by Benjamin Moore; Ltd.; roseuniacke.com. PAGES 180–81: Custom-made
benjaminmoore.com. PAGE 164: Cloud platform silk tassel fringe, in green, by Samuel & Sons (T);
backsplash by Ann Sacks; annsacks.com. Custom wallpaper, wallpaper border, curtain fabric, tufted samuelandsons.com. PAGE 195: On walls, Linda’s
vanity by Jarrard Construction; 949-295-1922. Axor slipcovered bed by RH; rh.com; with vintage linens armchair fabric, pillows, and curly-haired Tibetan
in greige, by Matteo; matteola.com. On vintage Garden wallpaper by Gracie (T); graciestudio.com.
sink fittings by Hansgrohe; hansgrohe-usa.com. sheepskin rug, all by Rose Uniacke Studio; Lamp from John Rosselli Antiques (T);
PAGE 147: Curtains of linen-blend, in North Fork bedside tables, Prunella marble from Waterworks; roseuniacke.com. Studio sofas, Patinated steel
waterworks.com. Vases by Victoria Morris Pottery; johnrosselliantiques.com. On floors, paintwork by
feza, by RP Miller Textiles; rpmillerdesign.com. cocktail table, Rosewater tufted armchair, Hoof Chris Pearson; chrispearsonfloors.com. PAGES
Vintage chair by José Zanine Caldas from R & Co.; victoriamorrispottery.com. On vintage club chairs, standing lamp, and Hoof occasional tables
Royal Suede, in paper bag, by Edelman Leather (T); 196–97: On walls, Satin La Tour cotton-blend, in
r-and-company.com. Custom rug by Fedora Design (flanking sofa on right, with custom Swedish green blue, by Brunschwig & Fils (T); brunschwig.com.
(T); fedoradesign.com; and RP Miller Design. edelmanleather.com. Rug by HD Buttercup; marble tops), all by RU Editions; roseuniacke.com.
hdbuttercup.com. Custom flat Roman shades of On armchairs (at left) and pillows (at left and
On bed, cashmere throw by I Pezzi Dipinti; PAGE 182: In powder room, on walls, Brer Rabbit right), Lotus Garden linen by Schumacher (T);
ipezzidipinti.com. Bedding by Schweitzer Linen; wool flannel, in caramel, by the Shade Store; linen by Morris & Co. from Style Library (T);
theshadestore.com. PAGE 165: Scarlett cast-iron fschumacher.com. On stools and pillows (at left
schweitzerlinen.com. PAGES 148–49: Custom rug stylelibrary.com. Right Angle sconces, in distressed and right), Jaguar Velours Soie silk velvet, in
by RP Miller Design; rpmillerdesign.com. On bathtub by Signature Hardware; signaturehardware gilt, by RU Editions; roseuniacke.com. Custom-
.com. Universal Floor Union tub filler, in polished natural, by Clarence House (T); clarencehouse
Edward Wormley sofas from 1stdibs; 1stdibs.com; made Swedish marble sink, vanity, and fittings by .com. Banquette by Luther Quintana Upholstery;
Le Witt Loom linen-blend, in indigo, by RP Miller nickel, by Waterworks; waterworks.com. 1930 Rose Uniacke Studio; roseuniacke.com. In living-
series pedestal sink by Duravit; duravit.com. lqupholstery.com; in Velludo Seda silk, in toast, by
Textiles. On sofa, sculpture by the Haas Brothers room alcove, on armchairs, custom fabric by Rose Décor de Paris (T); decordeparis.com; with Rouen
from R & Co.; r-and-company.com. Vintage white Hand-painted mural by James Mobley; Uniacke Studio. On benches, Brer Rabbit linen
jamesmobleydesign.com. Molding and panels rayon-blend tassel fringe by Samuel & Sons (T);
floor lamp from Galerie Pascal Cuisinier; by Morris & Co. (T). On walls, custom-made samuelandsons.com. Antique Chinese cocktail
galeriepascalcuisinier.com. Bronze-and-porcelain of Prunella marble from Waterworks. wallpaper by Rose Uniacke Studio. PAGE 183: table (at left) from Lee Calicchio; leecalicchioltd
fireplace screen by David Wiseman; dwiseman FUN HOUSE Drawing Room sofa, Upholstered ottoman, and .com. On chairs (at right), Tassinari & Chatel
.com. Vintage chandeliers from Modernity; PAGES 166–175: Interiors by Kelly Wearstler; Jesmonite Hourglass stool (between antique Velours Uni silk, in turquoise, by Scalamandré (T);
modernity.se. PAGES 150–51: In kitchen, Grete Jalk kellywearstler.com. PAGES 166–67: Custom sofas armchairs), all by RU Editions; roseuniacke.com. scalamandre.com. Fauteuil by Todd Alexander
chairs and vintage Massimo Vignelli for Venini by Kelly Wearstler; kellywearstler.com; in Les Custom-made pillows, mahogany bookshelf, and Romano; toddalexanderromano.com; in Rayure
pendant lamp from 1stdibs; 1stdibs.com. In sitting Emerauds #L4227 fabric by Le Manach (T); carpet, all by Rose Uniacke Studio; roseuniacke Marionettes silk, in brun/blue, by Clarence House
room, Isamu Noguchi Akari lanterns; shop lemanach.fr. Willoughby stools by Kelly Wearstler; .com. Antique armchairs covered in, and window (T). PAGE 198: In foyer, on stairs, Fordham wool
.noguchi.org. On love seat, vintage silk from John in Oblique viscose-cotton, in slate/graphite, by Lee shade of, bespoke fabrics by Rose Uniacke Studio. carpet and runner, in cameo, by Patterson Flynn
Robshaw Textiles; johnrobshaw.com. Vintage rug Jofa (T); leejofa.com; and Borello lambskin leather, Bamboo mirror from Pruskin Gallery; Martin (T); pattersonflynnmartin.com. On bench,
from Jamal’s Rug Collection; jamrug.com. Custom in electric blue, by United Leather; unitedleather pruskingallery.com. On walls, Brer Rabbit linen Montespan Satin cotton blend, in espresso, by Lee
sofa by RP Miller Design; rpmillerdesign.com; in .com. Custom bolster chairs by Kelly Wearstler; by Morris & Co. (T); stylelibrary.com. Jofa (T); leejofa.com. On walls, Fowler Pink paint
Gorgona cotton, in 24 mammola, by Loro Piana in Velours Gatinas linen-cotton, in saumon, by by Farrow & Ball; farrow-ball.com. Mini Bridget
Interiors (T); loropiana.com. On vintage chairs, PERFECT HARMONY
Clarence House (T); clarencehouse.com; and PAGES 184–191: Architecture and interiors by Weave abacá rug by Patterson Flynn Martin (T).
Pondicherry Lake linen-cotton by Raoul Textiles; Mississippi fabric, in indigo, by Studio Four NYC In bathroom, Pembroke Stripe wallpaper, in beige
raoultextiles.com. PAGE 152: On wall, Hop Garden Pierre Yovanovitch Architecture d’Intérieur;
(T); studiofournyc.com. Floor lamp by Anton pierreyovanovitch.com. PAGE 184: Custom on white, by Donghia (T); donghia.com. Towels
wallpaper by Marthe Armitage for Hamilton Alvarez; antonalvarez.com. Custom rug by The Rug by Matouk; matouk.com. PAGE 199: On canopy
Weston Wallpapers Ltd. (T); hamiltonweston skylight and sconces by Pierre Yovanovitch;
Company; therugcompany.com. Magnifying Lens pierreyovanovitch.com. PAGE 185: Sofa by Pierre and exterior and interior bed curtains by David
.com. Parallel bed by Jeffrey Bernett, Nicholas cocktail table by Ma+39; ma39shop.com. Painting Haag Workroom; davidhaag.com; Dundee linens,
Dodziuk, and Piotr Woronkowicz for Design Yovanovitch; similar style at R & Co.; r-and-
by Lana Gomez; lanagomez.com. Vintage white- company.com. Pillows of Wallace Stripe wool- in ceramic and birch, by Clarence House (T);
Within Reach; dwr.com. Custom coverlet by C&C and-gold cabinet from Cosulich Interiors & clarencehouse.com. Curtains by David Haag
Milano; cec-milano.com. Around coffee table by blend, in petrol, by Ido Diffusion (T); ido-diffusion
Antiques; cosulichinteriors.com. Jean Royère .com. Curtains of Linsey-Woolsey linen-blend, in Workroom; of Dundee linen, in bubble gum, by
Muuto; muuto.com. PAGE 153: On wall, Perry’s triple-arm sconces by Edition Modern from Dering Clarence House (T); with Coeur Brush viscose
linen-blend wall covering, in indigo, by RP Miller halva, by Rogers & Goffigon (T); rogersandgoffigon
Hall; deringhall.com. On walls, wallpaper sheets by .com. Custom rug by Pierre Yovanovitch; fringe, in canton blue, by Brunschwig & Fils (T);
Textiles; rpmillerdesign.com. The White Edition Cannon/Bullock (T); cannonbullock.com. PAGE 168: brunschwig.com. Headboard by Jaydan Interiors;
cloud shelf by Wendell Castle from R & Co.; pierreyovanovitch.com. PAGE 186: Assis(asy)métrie
On walls, wallpaper sheets by Cannon/Bullock (T); armchair by Pierre Yovanovitch; pierreyovanovitch jaydaninteriors.com; covered in Tonga Leopard
r-and-company.com. Custom daybed by RP Miller cannonbullock.com. Vintage Venini chandelier linen blend, in blue, by Brunschwig & Fils (T).
Design; fabricated by Schuchart/Dow; .com. Mongolfiera floor lamp by Paola Napoleone;
from Avantgarden; avantgardenltd.com. Custom paolanapoleone.com. Pebble tables by Armelle Swedish Gustavian desk from 1stdibs; 1stdibs
schuchartdow.com. On daybed cushion, Perry’s hand-knotted jute stairwell runner by Christopher .com. Bed linens by Leontine Linens;
linen, in indigo, by RP Miller Textiles. Around Benoit for Pierre Yovanovitch. PAGE 188: On
Farr; christopherfarr.com. Marble Bavaresk cocktail custom borne by Pierre Yovanovitch; leontinelinens.com. On walls, Shanghai wallpaper
coffee table by Muuto; muuto.com. Custom table by Dante–Goods and Bads from Garde; by Sonia’s Place; sonias-place.com. Erica wool
cotton rug by Shyam Ahuja (T); shyamahuja.com. gardeshop.com. Verner Panton Vilbert chair from rug by Stark (T); starkcarpet.com.
1stdibs; 1stdibs.com. Vintage area rug from Jamal’s

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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

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