Innholdsfortegnelse for January 2023 i Architectural Digest

FOR MORE SMART IDEAS VISIT ARCHDIGEST.COM/AD-IT-YOURSELF BUNDLES OF JOY TUPKER WENT “ALL OUT” IN ONE BATH, GIVING SERIOUS BELLIES AND TAILS TO LONDON SHADES IN A CHELSEA TEXTILES PRINT, AN EFFECT SHE CALLS “OLD-FASHIONED BUT UNEXPECTED.” UNIFORM THINKING IN THE WIFE’S DRESSING AREA, TUPKER MATCHED THE RELAXED LINEN ROMAN SHADES TO THE WALLS, LINING UP THE PATTERN OF THE WOOL CREWELWORK. PARTING WISDOM A BEDROOM FEATURES SWAGGED CURTAINS IN A SISTER PARISH PRINT, WITH CUSTOM CLAREMONT TIEBACKS AND CONTRASTING LINING TO ENLIVEN THE VIEW FROM OUTSIDE. NEUTRAL STANCE FOR THE LIVING ROOM, TUPKER CHOSE SIMPLE YET TAILORED ROMANS IN A SUBTLE PRINT SO AS NOT TO DETRACT FROM THE SCENIC VISTAS OF THE HARBOR BEYOND.…

Want to know the secret to giving a tiny apartment a big personality? Crowd it with objects, splash it with color, and pile on the patterns, an equation that distracts the eye as much as it delights the soul. At least, that’s the philosophy of Carlos Mota, the fast-talking, globe-trotting stylist turned decorator and consultant with four inspiring books to his name (including his new hit, G: Forever Green, published by Vendome Press) and a new fabric collection called Verde, the first step in a home-furnishings line branded Casamota. “I never plan anything,” the AD100 designer says of the swashbuckling approach. “I just hope it works—and if it doesn’t, I’ll just sell it.” His latest domestic scenario is a new Manhattan home base, a 700-square-foot flat in a voluptuous Beaux…

Jessica Goldman Srebnick loves art and architecture. Since joining the family business, Goldman Properties, in 1997, she has made a career of fusing the two. Her late father Tony Goldman named her as CEO in 2012, and she has simultaneously carried on her father’s legacy and grown the company into a modern force that has changed the look and feel of the built environment—starting with the ongoing curation and development of Goldman Properties’ iconic Wynwood Walls. The urban art project first launched in 2009, and was an immediate success and instant magnet in its namesake up-and-coming Miami neighborhood. Jessica is now the lead curator for Wynwood Walls, working with a who’s who of both emerging and established artists to create and paint unique experiences on walls under the Miami sun.…

NEW YORK Where others have zigged, Andre Mellone has zagged. In recent years, as professional peers have thrilled to maximalist fervor, punchy patterns, and Memphis nostalgia, the Brazilian-born designer has chosen the path of understated refinement. “Every project starts with simplicity and common sense,” reflects Mellone, who launched his Manhattan-based firm in 2012. “We can create the most intricate and layered interiors starting there.” Spanning residential, retail, and hospitality projects—among them Carolina Herrera’s New York flagship and a new lobby for 50 Rockefeller Plaza—his work foregrounds subtlety and sophistication through texture, materiality, and precision of form. (Current projects range from a Madison Avenue boutique to a ground-up house in Florida.) “Design is as much about emotion as it is about style and look,” says Mellone, whose formidable pedigree includes stints…

Jamie Bush + Co. LOS ANGELES Philosophy: “Less focus on a specific ‘style’ and more on location and context, texture, form, contrast, focal points, natural materials, and visual delight.” Highlight: Bush’s update of a historic LA house was featured on the cover of AD’s July/August 2022 issue. jamiebush.com Jeffrey Bilhuber BAYVILLE, NEW YORK Signature: Timeless rooms with classical foundations that embrace modern sensibilities. Products: Tabletop, furniture, and lighting for The Lacquer Co.; broadloom carpeting for Stark; fabrics for Le Gracieux; architectural hardware for P.E. Guerin; upholstery and case goods for Dowel Furniture. jeffreybilhuberllc.com Jeremiah Brent Design LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK Philosophy: “Design is about crafting environments that evoke a feeling and invite you to keep coming back.” Highlights: Brent’s family home was featured on the cover of AD’s October 2022…

BROOKLYN Founded by husband-and-wife team Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu, this Brooklyn studio has paved the way for a new generation of architects, challenging the status quo in enigmatic buildings of all kinds. In Brooklyn, their design for the Amant arts complex combines textured expanses of brick, concrete, and aluminum into a dynamic sequence of spaces. A Long Island house assembles gabled volumes into a poetic cruciform layout. And their transformation of Site Verrier de Meisenthal, a historic studio-glass center of France, unites three neighboring institutions with an undulating addition that frames a public plaza. “We are both locally rooted and nationless,” they reflect of their wide reach and diverse team, whose origins imbue SO-IL projects with “global narratives and perspectives.” At the core of their practice, however, is commitment to…

NEW YORK “Any project is an opportunity to create unrepeatable spaces,” reflects Josh Greene of his collaborative, highly tailored approach. “I aim for environments that balance functionality, warmth, refinement, and comfort.” Well, mission accomplished. In the four years since launching his eponymous Manhattan based firm, the California native has demonstrated wisdom that only comes from experience—in his case, a nearly two-decade-long career that includes stints at Michael S. Smith, Ralph Lauren, and Sawyer|Berson. Residential projects like his Hamptons home for fashion designer Joseph Altuzarra (AD, September 2022) reveal the impressive breadth of his decorative comfort zone, while his hit product collections showcase an intuitive understanding of what fellow designers want and need. That includes the versatile pedestals from his 2020 line for Dowel Furniture and the eye-catching wood-framed medicine…

“This project had all the green lights. The owners were supercool. The building had good vibes, good bones, and a good location. It was what you call a no-brainer.” —Pierre Yovanovitch At AD we perpetually celebrate architects and designers—they are our rock stars—but we do so with particular intentionality in our annual AD100 issue, which includes our much-anticipated list of the most exciting talents in the world. The exceptional projects featured this month have been in the works for many years, and AD has often been tracking them for a long time prior to publication: It’s a process! However, no one has more patience, faith, and vision than the homeowners themselves, without whom these inspirational, ambitious spaces would obviously not exist. An especially warm relationship between client and designer is…

It’s a crisp day in Manhattan and Miranda Brooks is talking plants. “Euthamia, or goldenrod, is from Long Island,” notes the AD100 landscape designer. “This is a Rhus, which turns a lovely reddish color in the autumn. The Clematis paniculata will have tiny little white flowers in the late summer.” These mostly native species have found a happy home on the rooftop of the new Hermès flagship at 706 Madison Avenue. Accessible to all shoppers, the garden is a calm reprieve from the streets below—and particularly on the occasion of our tour, as sidewalks were being painted, stages installed, and food trucks lined up to fete the store’s opening. Later that night, an Hermès musical would unfold inside the boutique and around the block. “This wasn’t going to be just…

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Respect, you might say, forms the roots of Hamza Kadiri’s creative practice. “He has a reverence for raw, natural materials and a mastery of wood,” reflects Melanie Courbet, whose Manhattan gallery, Les Ateliers Courbet, will open his first solo show on January 12. Experimenting with rare and often hard-to-manipulate species of trees, the Moroccan artist arrives at his final forms painstakingly, following the onetime veins of sap to carve a trunk of ash or applying thin sheets of Royal Laos Ebony veneer. Intriguing, eye-catching, and at times a tad unsettling, the highly coveted results all prove it pays to go against the grain. ateliercourbet.com…

“I wanted to make each Cartier project a universal and timeless place by referring to the local context of each city.”Laura Gonzalez Designer Romance, curiosity, beauty, innovation—the history of Cartier is multi layered and ever evolving. But the Maison’s creative core has always been craftsmanship, an unparalleled savoir faire that continues to unfurl like a signature red ribbon. Since its founding by Louis-François Cartier in 1847, the French jewelry house has built its name on pieces that stand the test of time, from iconic wonders passed down through generations to one-of-a-kind treasures on museum display. Today the brand’s rich artisanal traditions are taking center stage at its Paris, London, and New York flagship boutiques, a holy trinity that has dazzled visitors for more than a century. Dramatically transformed by world-renowned…

NEW YORK When Young Huh met an interior designer at a cocktail party in 2001, it was an aha moment for the Fordham University School of Law grad who knew, deep down, she didn’t want to be a lawyer. She enrolled in Parsons School of Design and established her own New York–based firm in 2007. Today her projects range from a historic Tudor in Illinois to a 19-th-century country house in Dutchess County, New York, and a resort in Turks and Caicos. Her forthcoming product lines include tile for AKDO, hardware for Modern Matter, and wall coverings for Fromental. The common thread is a look that tempers classic references with contemporary finesse. Case in point: her blockbuster 2019 artist’s loft for the Kips Bay Decorator Show House, where she mixed…

PECONIC, NEW YORK Hadley Wiggins’s artistry with pattern, color, and material has long been whispered among the cognoscenti of Long Island’s North Fork, where the intrepid interior designer has plied her trade since establishing her namesake firm in 2012. That well-earned reputation exploded on the international scene with the publication of an astonishing home that she orchestrated for an art-world potentate with dazzlingly idiosyncratic tastes (AD, December 2021). It was the kind of project that set tongues wagging, but for all its eye-popping drama, the house represented only one facet of the young designer’s approach, which privileges the unique requirements of context and client over strained exercises in style with a capital S. The full scope of the designer’s talents—including her mastery of quiet, elegant charm—emerges in the broad array…

BROOKLYN AND THE COTSWOLDS As design pedigrees go, Bastien Halard’s is tough to beat. The French-born founder of Halard-Halard Design is the son of decorator Florence Chabrières, the grandson of interior designers Yves and Michelle Halard, and the great-grandson of Adolphe Halard, founder of the venerable French fabric and wallpaper house Nobilis. He’s also the nephew of esteemed interiors photographer François Halard and the husband of landscape designer Miranda Brooks, a fellow AD100 honoree. But all those august relations notwithstanding, Halard has carved out his own place in the broad cosmography of design, gaining acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic for an approach that, in his words, “emphasizes the harmony between classical language and contemporary sensibilities.” His mastery of scale, proportion, and finely wrought architectural detail extends from ground…

AD welcomes four visionaries to this all-star group of design legends 2023 DEBUTS Deborah Berke dberke.com Madison Cox madisoncox.com Alexa Hampton alexahampton.com Stephen Sills stephensills.com Sir David Adjaye adjaye.com  Tadao Ando tadao-ando.com  Howard J. Backen bgarch.com  Diller Scofidio + Renfro dsrny.com  Jamie Drake drakeanderson.com  Kengo Kuma kkaa.co.jp Lee F. Mindel sheltonmindel.com Toshiko Mori tmarch.com Renzo Piano rpbw.com  Daniel Romualdez 212-989-8429  Annabelle Selldorf selldorf.com  Louis Benech louisbenech.com Robert Couturier robertcouturier.com  Ilse Crawford studioilse.com  Ellie Cullman cullmankravis.com Thierry Despont despont.com Mica Ertegun Sir Norman Foster fosterandpartners.com Jacques Garcia studiojacquesgarcia.com  Frank Gehry foga.com  Jacques Grange +33-1-55-80-75-40 India Mahdavi india-mahdavi.com Peter Marino petermarinoarchitect.com Juan Pablo Molyneux molyneuxstudio.com Jean Nouvel jeannouvel.com Michael S. Smith michaelsmithinc.com William Sofield studiosofield.com John Stefanidis johnstefanidis.com Robert A.M. Stern ramsa.com Rose Tarlow rosetarlow.com  Axel Vervoordt axel-vervoordt.com Kelly Wearstler kellywearstler.com Bunny…

It started with a typical friend’s refrain: “You two should know each other. You have so much in common.” Los Angeles gallerist Shulamit Nazarian first met AD100 designer Pamela Shamshiri at the suggestion of Michael Reynolds, the estimable design-world creative wizard and matchmaker. Not surprisingly, Reynolds’s instincts proved providential—Nazarian and Shamshiri did in fact have much in common. Both were strong, independent women of Persian descent, born in Iran and transplanted to LA with their families in the wake of the Islamic Revolution. Both were divorced mothers raising sons. And, not least of all, both owned architecturally significant houses designed by mandarins of Southern California modernism. At the time, Shamshiri inhabited Rudolph Schindler’s 1948 Lechner House, while Nazarian occupied A. Quincy Jones’s Smalley House (1969–73) in Holmby Hills, one of…

Italian maestro Gio Ponti wore many hats. And one oft-forgotten entry on the architect’s lengthy CV was his work as art director of FontanaArte, a decorative branch of the Italian glassmaker Luigi Fontana. The brand is best known for lighting, but one design has proved a sleeper hit: a curved brass mirror that has infiltrated today’s interiors. “It’s a keystone,” says Ponti scholar Brian Kish of the reflector’s unusual shape, which resembles some of the architect’s designs for porcelain brand Richard Ginori and his 1950s Lotus chair. “This is the Ponti method—he’s looping architectural features into design objects and abstracting them. Often he’ll take one idea and move it into another material—glass, silver, porcelain, or even the contours of furniture.” In the 1950s, when versions of this mirror were hung…

On a quiet stretch of Tribeca, in Lower Manhattan, an industrial redbrick façade now gives way to a world of glamour, where the Belle Époque meets the Big Apple. Welcome—or rather, bienvenue—to the Hotel Barrière Fouquet’s New York, the first US property of the beloved French hospitality group. Designed by AD100 superstar Martin Brudnizki, the new outpost exudes the same spirit and sophistication as the original Fouquet’s, on the Champs-Élysées, first opened in 1899 and a favorite of tastemakers to this day. Brudnizki, known for bridging the past and present, describes the Manhattan property as “a marriage of Parisian opulence and Tribeca panache.” An abstract diptych by artist Nir Hod hangs above the front desk, clad in antique mirror; an Art Deco–style chandelier dazzles over the steel-trimmed staircase; and the…

My head is full of ideas,” reflects designer Jean-Philippe Demeyer, speaking via Zoom not long ago. “It is a cupboard with a million drawers that I open and take out my fantasies.” And what utterly wonderful dreams those are, as AD readers know from the showstopping Comporta holiday home he shares with his partners in business and in life, Frank Ver Elst and Jean-Paul Dewever (AD, June 2022). For Gigi restaurant at the historic heart of Ghent, the AD100 designer has likewise pulled out all the decorative stops, blending a surprising array of visual ingredients into a delightful feast for the eyes. The brief from his young client, Willem Deketelaere, to whom he was introduced through mutual friends, was simple: Italian escapism. Demeyer took that mandate and ran wild, wrapping…

BROOKLYN Many designers have a project or client that ushers them into the next phase of their career. For Brooklyn-based Alexis Brown it was her neighbor and friend, the fashion designer Ulla Johnson. Brown, who grew up in DC and got her master’s in interior design at Pratt, had been working in the office of AD100 titan Peter Marino for more than a decade when she began designing Johnson’s stores and, soon, her homes (AD, September 2019 and July/August 2022). She officially launched her own firm in 2017, focusing on residential projects—there’s a contemporary Palm Beach family home in the works—as well as commercial ones, like the flagship LA store she is designing for fashion brand Cult Gaia. In every interior, Brown aims to mix in fine art and handmade,…

NEW YORK It was his family’s gut renovation of their Ohio farmhouse that ignited Neal Beckstedt’s fire for design at the tender age of seven. “Since then I’ve been drawing floor plans,” says the New York–based talent, who went on to study architecture at Ball State University and cut his teeth in Miami with architecture firm Arquitectonica and in New York with John Keenen and Terence Riley. After honing his skills for a decade in the office of designer S. Russell Groves, Beckstedt launched his own firm in 2010 with a major project—the residence of fashion designer Derek Lam (AD, September 2015). Business has been booming ever since for the designer, whose knack for laid-back luxury has garnered a serious following (IRL and on Instagram). These days, he’s bringing timeworn…

BRUGES, BELGIUM Although his interiors are chockablock with joyful eruptions of color, pattern, and whimsy, Jean-Philippe Demeyer never strives for purely theatrical effect—there’s a method to his seductive madness. “My ideas come from gut feelings—first about genius loci, then about architectural structure. From there I can start layering and storytelling,” says the Belgian talent, who oversees his Bruges-based practice alongside his two business/domestic partners, Frank Ver Elst and Jean-Paul Dewever. (The trio’s Portuguese getaway was published in AD’s June 2022 issue.) Fearlessly blending bold fabrics, outré decorative flourishes, and idiosyncratic artworks with eclectic furnishings, both contemporary and traditional, Demeyer conjures magical environments alive with unapologetic beauty and delight. He applies this winning formula to residential and commercial projects, including popular restaurants and clubs in Paris, Lisbon, Lille, and Ghent. His…

LONDON Rita Konig is “one of the people who have most transformed the quality of my life,” wrote tastemaker Deborah Needleman in a charming essay about her own beloved home in upstate New York (AD, April 2022). “That is what a great decorator can do.” In fact, Konig’s “invisible powers,” as Needleman put it, best encapsulate her mission as a designer. “I love decorating an environment,” the London-based designer notes. “But what I really enjoy most about it is doing the detective work and understanding how my client wants to feel in their home, and creating a home that truly belongs to them.” In the 10 years since she founded the firm, Konig’s ability to empathize with and materialize the substance of homeowners’ visions has garnered a roster of devoted…

“We wanted something elegant but not at all fussy.”—the homeowner “Blue almost acts as a neutral in this house; it kind of works with everything.”—Virginia Tupker…

“The problem with New York City apartment buildings is that you go from the street immediately into these dark corridors,” notes Florian Idenburg of the Brooklyn based architecture studio SO-IL. “What if you make that a journey through light, air, and community?” The AD100 newcomer and his team have done just that at 450 Warren, pioneering a new model for multi-unit housing that privileges engagement with outdoor space and your fellow neighbors. Residents can meander to their front doors through fresh air—traveling from the sidewalk, across a covered but otherwise open lobby, and up the central staircase to a series of skywalks. In place of traditional walls or guardrails, SO-IL opted for a cloak of stainless-steel mesh that maintains sight lines while allowing people to step right up to the…