Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2018 i Architectural Digest

Bingo! In this quote from our cover story, not only does Jennifer Aniston pithily summarize her approach to interior design, she also unwittingly expresses the secret to her own enduring appeal. Sexy? For sure. But even more crucially, Aniston conveys a warmth, an authenticity, and good humor that are—yes—comforting. In her home, the sophisticated yet easy interiors seem perfectly suited to their mega-famous owner. Such affirmation is certainly part of the fun of seeing celebrities in their personal space. It can also swing the other way—and we at AD have witnessed plenty of disconnects in which the houses seem jarringly out of sync with the owners’ public personas. But that, too, can be revelatory— perhaps we don’t know them quite as well as we thought we did! It takes bravery…

“I HAD NEVER WORKED with wood before,” admits French furniture designer Pierre Gonalons, who has long been inspired by the painted-timber folk furniture of northern Europe. So for his latest collection, Gonalons collaborated with a traditional cabinetmaker in Bourgogne to create chairs, tables, and cabinets that pair colorfully stained frames with live-edge slabs. Says Gonalons: “It’s simple, it’s sincere, it’s not overdecorated.” pierregonalons.com…

This is my Scarface moment,” marvels Laure Heriard Dubreuil, sinking into the Vladimir Kagan sofa in the VIP suite of the Webster’s recently opened Manhattan boutique— the fifth outpost of her lifestyle emporium (which sells a curated array of fashion and home treasures, from vintage ceramics to Gaetano Pesce resin cups). The first was born nine years ago in Miami Beach, hence the cinematic nod from the French expat, who, along with her husband, artist Aaron Young, and their son, Marcel, now calls New York City home. A quick tour of the new six-level store affirms that it mimics the gangster flick in glamour alone. This particular chapter began in 2013, when our heroine spotted a vacant building on one of SoHo’s preeminent blocks. Damaged by a fire, the structure…

for John Demsey, it all began with a sofa: an enormous Willy Rizzo curved number that can seat 18. “In the mid-’70s my parents had an apartment at Olympic Tower in New York and they bought some furniture from Willy Rizzo, and the dealer at the time for Rizzo in the United States was C. Z. Guest,” remembers Demsey. (Guest’s representation of the Italian designer Rizzo in the 1970s is a little-known aspect of her illustrious life.) “When they left the city, they sent it back to Cleveland and it went into storage. So the idea was I wanted to start everything with this couch. And I was in a blue mood. I was very much obsessed with Yves Klein and shades of turquoise.” That inspiration set the direction for…

alexandra and Michael Misczynski, the wife-and-husband team behind the Los Angeles–based AD100 design firm Atelier AM, are standard-bearers for the increasingly superannuated concepts of quality and connoisseurship. In an imagedriven culture, where novelty and extravagance so often masquerade as virtues, the Misczynskis remain steadfast in their belief that true style can emerge only from substance. It’s an oldfashioned idea, perhaps, but as the firm’s work so eloquently demonstrates, it can be applied in ways that celebrate the present and future as well as the past. Consider the spectacular Montecito estate recently reimagined by Atelier AM in collaboration with Richard Manion Architecture. Built in 1930 by architect Reginald Johnson, author of such Southern California landmarks as the Santa Barbara Biltmore Hotel and the mansion at Ganna Walska Lotusland, the Montecito property…

Mendini’s own works—rare prototypes, wild cabinets, charming rugs—mingle with those of his friends. alessandro Mendini has a confession to make: “I never created furniture for a house of my own.” The 86- year-old Italian architect has long separated work and home, filling his humble Milan apartment—just upstairs from his atelier—with only simple, functional basics. But 12 years ago, as Mendini looked for a vacation home outside the city to share with his two grown daughters, Fulvia and Elisa, a photograph of a beauty in the Stile Liberty mode (Italy’s term for Art Nouveau) caught his eye in a real-estate agent’s office. “I immediately loved it,” he recalls. A private residence that served for a time as a summer camp for children managed by nuns, it sat snugly in the mountains…

It all started at Britwell House, designer David Hicks’s country place in Oxfordshire. “He carpeted his bathroom in a Chinese pattern with interlocking Ys, which he found in Owen Jones’s The Grammar of Ornament,” explains Ashley Hicks of his father, who showed the world in the early 1960s that carpeting, of all things, could have a wild side. No one was making patterned floor coverings—at least not to the elder Hicks’s ultramod standards—so he had some whipped up by artisans in the north of England, where narrow, antique looms produced swaths of Brussels weave that could be stitched together to fit a room’s measurements. Soon Hicks was creating colorful confections for Windsor Castle and the Prince of Wales. The latter, a cousin by marriage, commissioned an octagonal number in royal…

When 14-year-old New Yorker Lara Connor moved out of her shared childhood bedroom and into a space of her own, she and her mother—the writer and Vogue contributing editor Marina Rust—couldn’t agree on a decorating scheme. That is, until they discovered artist Kate Schelter, whose freehand botanical murals won over both mother and daughter. To make the 6' x 12' space feel bright and airy, Schelter suggested an overall treatment that stretched across the shelving and onto the closet door. The flower was an easy sell: They all loved geraniums, a perfect complement to the room’s pale-green carpet. “It looks like the flowers are growing out of the floor,” says Connor after decorator Ramey Caulkins of Griffin Design Source added the finishing touches to the space. She admits: “It didn’t…

We wanted a small jewel of a hotel,” Oscar de la Renta once said of Tortuga Bay, the iconic Punta Cana resort he designed some ten years ago. “We wanted something that would be unbelievably comfortable, that people would come back to and would tell their friends about.” Spreading the word proved easy: Seemingly overnight, the hotel’s sunny yellow villas and ocean-facing suites landed on every jet-setter’s bucket list. But time and ocean air take a toll. So, early last year, in consultation with the late fashion maestro’s wife Annette, the owners set about restoring the property to peak comfort, enlisting AD100 decorator Markham Roberts to help revamp the villas and common spaces while retaining Oscar’s vision. “We didn’t have to reinvent the wheel,” says Roberts, who worked with Annette…

The beauty executive is also a passionate collector of photography, and the installation of 575 pictures from his trove was mapped out room-by-room with military precision. The installation—covering all six floors—took nine weeks. One recent acquisition Demsey is especially proud of is a striking Steven Klein portrait of Nicki Minaj painted blue and wearing a pink Marilyn Monroe wig. (Demsey recently worked with Minaj on a lipstick collaboration for MAC Cosmetics.) “His life is his work and his work is his life,” notes Aerin Lauder, a close friend and associate. “You see that in his home, his love of pattern and package and texture; it translates into everything he does. He’s definitely more is more.” That’s for sure. “Less is bore,” declares Donald Robertson, roving creative director of the Estée…

Elmo’s unmistakable squawk floats out of the nursery and into the hallway of the downtown penthouse that year-anda- half-old Lily Grace shares with her parents, James and Nicky Hilton Rothschild, new sister Teddy Marilyn (born this past December), and two cats, Mac and Cheese. With the drunken-sailor stagger of one who has just recently learned to walk, the toddler topples into her mother’s lap, revealing pink-heart D. Porthault bloomers that match the bedding on her cream crib. “I had so much fun doing this room; you just get to relive your childhood again with all the things you loved: kitties and bunnies and princesses,” says Nicky, cozily roosted on the nursery’s hand-darned felt ball rug (found on Etsy). The room’s sky-blue Peter Fasano wallpaper adds to the cheerful mix of…

If there’s one thing Scooter Braun is known for, it’s his ability to spot potential. After all, this is the man who discovered Bieber, back when Justin was just a shaggy-haired, small-town tween whose mother had posted a couple-dozen clips of him singing R&B covers to YouTube. (Scooter seems to have found his wife, Yael Cohen Braun, in much the same way: “I saw [a video of ] her TEDx talk,” he reports, referring to a speech she gave in 2010 about her nonprofit, F*** Cancer, “and I just really wanted to meet her.”) So perhaps it’s no surprise that Scooter—a mega talent manager and record-label boss whose other clients include Ariana Grande, Karlie Kloss, and Kanye West—instantly perceived the potential beauty of the couple’s Montecito, California, house, despite its…

In the high-stakes game of Los Angeles real estate, a good celebrity pedigree is always a bonus. Of course, not all celebrities are created equal. A home that was once owned by Cary Grant or Elizabeth Taylor, for instance, would probably hold broader appeal than one formerly inhabited by, say, Zsa Zsa Gabor. On that score, David Alhadeff definitely struck gold when he discovered the new location for Casa Perfect, the L.A. outpost of his furniture mecca, the Future Perfect. Designed in 1958 by architect Rex Lotery and renovated in the mid-1960s, the house is an idiosyncratic mash-up of classic California modernism and Hollywood Regency. For six years, beginning in 1967, it belonged to Elvis Presley. Those were good years for the King, encompassing his marriage to Priscilla Presley and…

THIRTY-SIX MILLION DOLLARS. That’s roughly how much the 18th-century Badminton cabinet fetched at Christie’s in 2004, making it the most expensive piece of furniture ever sold—and an enduring source of fascination for 29-year-old designer Kostas Lambridis. “It communicates the wealth, elitism, and aristocracy of its time,” reflects the rising star, who riffed on the cabinet for his 2017 graduation project at Design Academy Eindhoven. Traveling to Vienna’s Liechtenstein Garden Palace, where the piece is now exhibited, Lambridis made a 3-D scan of the original, then created his replica with materials arranged according to weight. Moving up from the base, hunks of concrete, stone, and ceramic give way to wood and plastic. The cabinet’s famous clock, meanwhile, is reconstructed in textiles and recycled electronics. Says Lambridis, reflecting on his materials palette:…

The land around Charles de Gaulle Airport is dotted with drab corrugatedmetal warehouses, and the one I pull up to with Julien Lombrail looks no different. Except, that is, for the arresting cluster of solid bronze conical pods on the front lawn, with what seems like a giant’s throne sticking out of them. Is it a sculpture? Is it a chair? It turns out to be both. Lombrail has taken me to the hidden atelier of Carpenters Workshop Gallery, the international design empire that he and his childhood friend Loïc Le Gaillard started 11 years ago out of a woodworking atelier. That oddly beautiful chair? It’s a piece by Wendell Castle—one of more than 30 leading lights whom the gallery represents. Chronicled in a new book published by Rizzoli, Carpenters…

“My favorite compliment is when people say how warm the house is.”…

“ I was in Paris and my friend was wearing these rad Louboutin boots that were turquoise, ocher, red, and gold, and I thought, That’s my color scheme!”…

Items pictured but not listed here are not sourceable. Items similar to vintage and antique pieces shown are often available from the dealers listed. (T) means the item is available only to the trade. ON THE COVER Hanging lounge with sheepskin throw by Blackman Cruz; blackmancruz.com. Custom bronze chain by Stephen Shadley Designs; stephenshadley.com; fabricated by DEC Fabricators; decfabricators.com. Pillow by Harbinger; harbingerla.com. Vintage wrought iron–and–glass cocktail table from Wyeth; wyeth.nyc. Hand-knotted silk rug from Marc Phillips Decorative Rugs; marcphillipsrugs.com. VIEW FROM THE TOP PAGES 64–77: Interiors by Stephen Shadley Designs; stephenshadley.com; with Clements Design; clementsdesign.com; and Hallworth; hallworth.com. Landscape design by Marcello Villano Garden Design; 760-401-0452; with Anne Attinger Landscape Architect; anneattinger.com. PAGES 64–65: Custom teak chaise longues by Stephen Shadley Designs; stephenshadley.com; in Canvas Weave acrylic, in hello, sailor,…