Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2019 i Architectural Digest

ALENA CAPRA, CMKBD, Principal Designer, Alena Capra Designs FORT LAUDERDALE, FL “When selecting appliances for smaller spaces, the first thing we do is find a refrigerator that satisfies the size, scale, and aesthetics for the design. With so many size configurations, Liebherr Monolith fits the bill, offering options that work great in small, and even the largest kitchens. It’s not only a smart choice, it’s a smart device that can be controlled from your smartphone or tablet.” MATTHEW FERRARINI, Principal Designer and Co-Founder, Ferrarini & Co. PHILADELPHIA, PA “I study my client’s lifestyle to understand their ‘unique’ needs. For aspiring chefs, a commercial-level range might be needed to handle their culinary exploits. Whereas, wine enthusiasts may prioritize floor-to-ceiling wine towers to preserve and display their wine collection.” JAMIE BANFIELD, Principal…

Typically, Farrow & Ball, the cult paint company, goes it alone—developing its colors in-house. For the new Colour by Nature range, though, the 73-year-old British studio has partnered with London’s Natural History Museum. As Charlotte Cosby, head of creative for Farrow & Ball, explains, “The museum contacted me and said, ‘We found this amazing book in our archives. Would you be interested in realizing some of the colors from it?’” She took one look and was gobsmacked. Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours is a pocket-size 1814 handbook—based on the chromatic studies of German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner and adapted by Scottish artist Patrick Symes—that allowed scientists and explorers, Charles Darwin among them, to classify their discoveries in the natural world through a universal color language of 110 shades, from Broccoli Brown…

Shoppers at Cartier’s newly reimagined London flagship will find time passing with extra style. Available exclusively at the Bond Street boutique, this Exceptional clock offers a contemporary spin on traditional watchmaking. (Its rectilinear form is crafted of the same mineral glass found in the French jeweler’s iconic pieces.) In a nod to Great Britain, a Union Jack motif adorns the one-of-a-kind design, which is further accented by stainless steel and a floating dial with swordlike hands. Price upon request; cartier.com…

With a decorator for a mother and a background in architecture (she studied at the Rhode Island School of Design before pivoting into fashion at Central Saint Martins), it was only a matter of time before the Greek-born, Londonbased fashion designer Mary Katrantzou began repurposing her pattern-happy creations for the home. This month she launches a collection of six wool-and-silk floor coverings with The Rug Company (Framis at left), featuring scaled-up florals, sunray squiggles, and graphic paint-by-numbers patterns inspired by “childhood nostalgia.” therugcompany.com…

“The cross-pollination is what inspires me most and keeps me on my toes.” twenty years ago, when Los Angeles developer Brad Korzen asked up-and-coming designer Kelly Wearstler to decorate a model room for the Avalon in Beverly Hills, she was brand new to the hospitality scene. “I’d never done a hotel before,” recalls the AD100 talent. “I was completely freaked out.” But the nuanced interiors that she had in mind, schemes outfitted with midcentury-mod furnishings that played off the 1948 building’s boomerang shape, got her the job—and then some. Today, Wearstler has completed more than 10 hotel projects with Korzen, whom she married along the way. (They now have two teenage boys and split their time between Beverly Hills and Malibu.) One of the couple’s latest collaborations, the Proper Downtown…

“The California craft movement has always influenced our work.”—Roman Alonso “I put things together in an intuitive way. It’s all about scale and composition.”—Steven Johanknecht…

It’s official: We are 100. To mark AD’s impressive 2020 anniversary, the editors and I embarked on the Herculean project of winnowing a century’s worth of important images and projects into a book. No easy feat… but here it is, Architectural Digest at 100: A Century of Style, published by Abrams and available October 8. Appropriately, the chapter of the book dedicated to California—AD’s birthplace—is excerpted in this issue, an issue that is itself entirely devoted to the Golden State. And so we bring you a quintessential “indoor/outdoor” modernist house by AD100 architects Olson Kundig that boasts boffo views of Hollywood, two breathtaking pools, and a serious man cave including an “auto gallery” to display the owner’s car collection—what could be more L.A.? For a totally different vibe, consider the…

Seen from the Potomac River, the Reach, a newly opened extension to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., presents as just three modest pavilions. But like an iceberg, the bulk of the addition, designed by AD100 architect Steven Holl, remains hidden. Below the grassy landscape, 72,000 square feet of rehearsal and performance space unfold, connecting to the institution’s original 1971 Edward Durell Stone building and opening up a new world of creative possibilities. “The expansion is a fusion of architecture and landscape,” explains Holl, who collaborated with landscape designer Edmund Hollander on the project, a memorial for President Kennedy. Protruding from the city’s largest green roof, the concrete pavilions frame views of the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument. Incorporated into the public garden, meanwhile,…

The eye has to travel—true—but the eye also has to rest. For Angelenos in the know, that means retreating up the 101 to Ojai, a quiet nexus of natural beauty bordered by the Topatopa Mountains. Here, quintessentially Californian charms abound, from orange groves and lavender fields to apiaries and apothecaries. Local ordinances prevent the arrival of chain stores and restaurants, preserving a small-town feel. And, as believers will tell you, calming currents course through the valley thanks to its perfect east-west alignment. Visitors from near and far will certainly relax at the Ojai Valley Inn, a 220-acre pleasure playground dotted by Spanish Colonial Revival buildings, among them Wallace Neff originals (ojaivalleyinn.com). And what better time to go than now, with the recent arrival of the Farmhouse, a new culinary venue…

Kipp Nelson may not be settling down, exactly. But the high-octane Long Arc Capital partner—he’s raced cars, skied competitively, and also owns a chalet in Ketchum, Idaho, that The New York Times once likened to “the Playboy mansion transplanted into snow country”—has built a sleek Los Angeles residence that evokes Hugh Hefner less than Le Corbusier, the Swiss-French architect who famously described the modern house as a “machine for living in.” Nelson, whose work regularly brings him to L.A. (where his longtime girlfriend, writer Tanya Akim, lives), had been looking to put down roots in the city for years. Disenchanted with its glut of “soulless whitebox spec houses,” he eventually turned his attention to building sites, settling on a promontory in the Hollywood hills with views that can fairly be…

for 150 years Lake Tahoe has attracted generations of adventurers, artists, and pioneers to its shores—folks drawn to the magnificent rugged landscape of the Sierras and the intense beauty of the crystal-blue alpine lake. It was a mutual admiration of this place that helped lay the groundwork for my friendship with Kevin Systrom, the cofounder of Instagram, and his wife, Nicole. We first met in 2013 as neighbors in San Francisco. Kevin and his then-girlfriend, Nicole, came over for supper after a mutual friend introduced us. Instagram was already somewhat of a sensation but certainly nowhere near what it has become. Over the course of the evening we discovered many shared interests—in food, music, and travel, specifically Lake Tahoe. For years my husband, Kurt, and I had rented an old…

before the Manhattan penthouses and the Paris pieds-à-terre, and before the superyachts and Balinese pleasure domes came to its attention, Architectural Digest was singularly focused on the glories of California, where the magazine was born, a native Angeleno, in 1920. The young publication elucidated a vision of America’s western frontier as a place of 20th-century innovation and promise, replete with stately Mediterranean style manses, sun-kissed Italianate gardens, and picturesque reflecting pools. As California became a crucible for the nascent modernist movement, and streamlined houses of glass and steel rose up beside Cotswolds cottages and French châteaux, AD began to revel in the heterogeneity of the Golden State’s landscape. The greatest California-based architects of the past century were all championed in AD’s pages. Wallace Neff, who built romantic houses of every…

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“A friend used to call it my ‘one-day box,’” British interior designer Flora Soames says with a laugh. That would be a trunk full of antique and vintage fabrics and wallpapers that she’s collected for years. Well, “one day” is now. Those beloved documents have sparked Soames’s inaugural collection of textiles and wall coverings, all customizable and made in the U.K. Dahlias wallpaper interprets a floriferous Belle Époque treasure; Oulton Stripe, shot with gold thread, is based on a Syrian blanket; and Chartwell Weave (named in honor of Soames’s great-grandfather Winston Churchill’s house) was adapted from an Arts and Crafts bridge-table cover. “I’ve always been attracted to fabrics with a slightly crude, painterly quality,” Soames explains of her sources of inspiration, mostly late-19th and early-20th century. “People then took design…

“The house is one’s soul,” Lee Radziwill (1933–2019) once said. When it came to the style icon’s own residences, times good and bad were echoed in objects that recalled spouses, lovers, and that famous sister. “There’s a reason for her keeping these,” Christie’s deputy chairman Jonathan Rendell says, referring to three watercolor maquettes ($20,000–$30,000) offered in The Collection of Lee Bouvier Radziwill on October 17. Though designer Renzo Mongiardino decorated several of her homes, these are the only schemes that she saved. The bedroom and bath were likely a suite for husband #2, a Polish prince, though it’s uncertain if they were executed. Still, “as a piece of decoration history, they’re rather important,” Rendell says of the romantic ephemera, adding, “and better than a dreary virtual tour of a horrible…

“We built this place for relaxing and easy entertaining, not for striking poses,”says Michael Misczynski. Michael Misczynski describes it as a “defensive move.” The modest ranch house next door to the West Hollywood home he shares with wife and business partner Alexandra and their two sons was going on the market. Rather than risk the chance that a bloated McMansion or newfangled McModern might rise up beside them, blocking their views of the Chateau Marmont and the twinkling lights of downtown in the distance, the design duo behind the AD100 firm Atelier AM decided to purchase the property and transform it into a garden, entertaining pergola, pool, and poolhouse. As defensive moves go, it was a pretty sweet deal. In the great tradition of Angelenos looking to the Mediterranean for…

“Our regular visitors all have their favorite rooms.”—Kevin Systrom “From Bavarian antiques to retro midcentury lighting, we curated a collection that would add flavor and character.”—Ken Fulk…

Whistle While You Work Business or pleasure? They’re one and the same at Second Home, a series of shared workspaces (part incubator, part clubhouse) founded by Rohan Silva and Sam Aldenton in London five years ago. “Our ambition has always been to support creativity,” notes Silva, referring to both the communal atmosphere and the architecture. For Second Home’s first U.S. location, unveiled this September in Hollywood, Madrid-based architects SelgasCano tailored that philosophy to Tinseltown. Sixty podlike structures nod to the multifamily bungalow courts that proliferated throughout Southern California in the early 20th century. Yellow roofs of cross-laminated timber, meanwhile, take inspiration from Howard Hughes’s 1940s Spruce Goose aircraft. And curved acrylic window walls forge an immediate connection with the lush garden paths that link the structures. “Here we brought the…