Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2016 i ELLE DECOR

WHAT IS THE IMPULSE THAT KEEPS US SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING BETTER—IMPROVING, REFINING, REVISING? IT’S A DRIVE THAT TRANSCENDS STYLE, AND IT APPLIES WHETHER YOUR TASTE IS TRADITIONAL, ECLECTIC, OR RIGOROUSLY MINIMAL. THAT’S OUR FOCUS IN THIS ISSUE: DESIGNERS AND HOMEOWNERS WHO NEVER CEASE IN THEIR QUEST FOR THE BEST…

The People & Places Behind the Stories BEST OF NEW ENGLAND Boston-based designer Heather Wells, whose New Hampshire lake house is seen on page 206, is currently at work on a house in Big Sky, Montana, and she recently returned from a trip to Denmark to buy flooring. On days off, you’ll find her hunting for antiques in her own backyard. • “I just got back from Antiques Week in Manchester, New Hampshire. The focus is on New England Americana—painted furniture, tramp art, signs, game boards, and so on. I go every year and always find goodies, either for myself or clients. I know the dealers now. A few of my favorites are American Garage, which hails from Los Angeles; Steve Smoot Antiques from Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Cherry Gallery,…

In a shop window photographed by Eugène Atget, a row of corsets resembles a host of wingless angels. A sequence of images by André Kertész, shot from high above, records the effort to upright a fallen horse on a cobblestone street. A spirited girl slides down a banister, a moment of graceful whimsy documented by her young cousin, Jacques-Henri Lartigue. In these and other indelible scenes, the photographers of early-20th-century France chronicled everyday life with a passionate appreciation of the oblique angle, the uncommon juxtaposition, and the offhand gesture that pulls back the curtain on the human condition. Drawing its title from a quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson, “Live and Life Will Give You Pictures: Masterworks of French Photography, 1890–1950” is the first exhibition of the medium at Philadelphia’s Barnes…

For the long entrance hall of a Paris apartment, designers Anne Geistdoerfer and Flora de Gastines of Double G framed panels of Cole & Son’s Hicks’ Hexagon wallpaper with striking black trim; the Copper Shade pendants are by Tom Dixon.…

FRESH BAKED Harrison Ovens brings retro style to outdoor cooking with its custom-made Classic collection, designed and built by hand in London by craftsman Daniel Thumwood. The stainless steel cabinet houses a 2′ h. x 2′ w. charcoal- and wood-fired oven, with settings for convection, conduction, and direct-heat cooking. It comes in six colors, including Kale, shown, as well as a stainless steel version and costs $6,300. harrisonovens.london MINIMAL EFFORT Boffi’s streamlined Open Hood by Piero Lissoni combines a kitchen vent with suspended shelves—perfect above an island. The stainless steel and wired-glass unit comes in lengths between 3′ and 6′, and the chimney module ranges from 2.5′ to 5′ in height. A custom unit, fitted with LED lighting and a rail for hanging pots, starts at $15,000. boffi.com LIGHT TOUCH…

WHAT’S NEW GOOD VIBRATIONS Seoul is buzzing with creative energy. As the Korean Wave has engulfed all of Asia, making international superstars of K-pop bands and Korean soap actors, the country’s ancient capital is emerging as a thriving center of design, fashion, and architecture, and it has spawned a culinary scene as inventive as those in Tokyo and Hong Kong. Suddenly, one of the region’s most unassuming cities is Asia’s new capital of cool. DESIGN CENTRAL It makes sense that a city as design-obsessed as Seoul would have an architectural statement like the $450 million Dongdaemun Design Plaza (ddp.or.kr), built by Zaha Hadid and opened in 2014. With its sprawling, curvy shape and translucent walls that emit light from within, the complex looks like a spaceship plopped down in…

Items pictured but not listed are from private collections. WELCOME PAGE 24: Beloved India Jacquard, #211002M01, to the trade by Hermès (usa.hermes.com). Loredan, #07597-004, to the trade by Rubelli (rubelli.com). TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 38: Earrings, with pâte de verre, $950, by Loulou de la Falaise from Creel and Gow (creelandgow.com). MASTHEADS PAGE 40: Maxine wall sconce, in Pastel Turquoise/Polished Brass, #UE-1602, $1,022, by Michael Amato for The Urban Electric Co. (urbanelectricco.com). Indigo serving platter, $270, by Brigitte de Bazelaire for Gien, from Bering’s (berings.com). Twig chest, $4,050, by Hancock & Moore (hancockandmoore.com). PAGE 42: Catene porcelain bowl, $450, by Richard Ginori from Gump’s (gumps.com). Reclaimed wood and cast-iron Ping-Pong table, $6,995, by Jayson Home (jaysonhome.com). Euphonie wool rug, $102/sq. ft., by La Manufacture Cogolin (manufacturecogolin.com). EDITOR’S PAGE PAGE 46:…

I am impressed with a new book edited by Carl Dellatore, Interior Design Master Class: 100 Lessons from America’s Finest Designers on the Art of Decoration. It’s a handful of a title, and a hefty piece of work. Both fascinating and informative, it contains far more than pretty pictures. I’m not qualified to expound on Restraint, Integrity, Exuberance, or Nuance, which are among the topics addressed in the book. But when it comes to some more practical aspects of design, I have learned a thing or two. Here are a few: • IF IT ISN’T QUITE RIGHT, IT’S TOTALLY WRONG. Years ago, we needed a lamp for our bedroom, one to read by while sitting in our club chair. For some reason this proved to be elusive, and, after months,…

OLD FRIENDS Loulou de la Falaise, the Paris model and designer whose bohemian elegance epitomized Left Bank style, was both a muse to Yves Saint Laurent and a collaborator with the designer before her death in 2011. Now, thanks to her friend Ariel de Ravenel, editor of the biography Loulou de la Falaise (Rizzoli), the famed beauty’s jewelry designs are being reissued both in faithful reproductions and gently updated versions sold at Creel and Gow. Once again, de la Falaise’s layered, tasseled, and beaded creations, which incorporate colored pâte de verre and semiprecious stones, can be paired with a gold lamé turban or multiple silk headscarves, just as the muse herself might have done (creelandgow.com). PULLED TOGETHER Artist Adam Hale scoops up the free magazines given away at London’s subway…

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MICHAEL ARAM Experience the Artistry. The new Dogwood collection combines hand cast oxidized brass branches and enameled petals with clean modern vessel shapes. Exclusively at NM and neimanmarcus.com. MEET THE SMARTEST SONIC TOOTHBRUSH Designed by FOREO, the ISSATM Electric Toothbrush combines Sonic Pulse Technology with a gentle silicone brush head for a completely ultra-hygienic oral-care solution. Brush smarter and discover more at foreo.com. Also available at Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Sephora, and Barneys New York. ARTICULATED BY BRIZO® The Articulating Kitchen Faucet by Brizo® is designed to bring greater versatility to common kitchen tasks. Inspired by interviews with highprofile chefs, this new architecture has been incorporated into two of Brizo’s most distinctive kitchen collections: Artesso® and Solna®. For more information, visit brizo.com/articulating. Featured: The Solna® Articulating Kitchen Faucet in Matte Black…

THE FIRST STEP WAS A NO-BRAINER. The previous owners had inhabited the apartment for more than half a century, “so it was demolished to the exterior walls,” says Thad Hayes, who oversaw its redesign for longtime clients. The rooms were then reconfigured almost exactly as they had been, with only a handful of minor modifications. Yet what a difference! From the inside out, the roughly 3,000-squarefoot residence on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was reborn. Gone were a room done up like an English library, a bathroom dressed in dark stone with gold fittings, sketchy wiring, and wonky pipes. In their place: functional, beautiful rooms enveloped in plaster, silk, or cerused oak panels; floors of wide-plank oak or poured-in-place terrazzo; and everywhere, spaces that breathe with clarity, efficiency, and openness. “People…

GEOMETRY CLASS Diamonds, squares, and offbeat perspectives merge with rich colors on Bottega Vignoli’s handmade majolica vases, inspired by the graphic arts of Rome and Byzantium. Shown, from left, are Palla a Parallelepipedi, Vasi, and Rombi Prospettici. From left: 14.5” h. x 16” dia., $2,300; 12” h. x 11” dia., $960; 16” h. x 7.5” dia., $980. artemest.com 1 /NOW SERVING Dior Maison turned to designer India Mahdavi for a line of glossy faience dinnerware with couture-inspired details such as lace rims and scalloped borders. The pieces come in, from left, Grey, Pink, and White. From left: 7.5” dia., $125; 11.5” dia., $170; 9.5” dia., $150. 800-929-DIOR 2 /RUSTIC MODERN The graphic punch of geometric abstraction meets the richness of traditional folk patterns in Tantuvi’s handwoven cotton dhurries. The rugs,…

So who exactly is Akar de Nissim, the shadowy presence behind the Singapore-based furniture brand of the same name? He’s a cosmopolitan figure of mixed Persian-Tibetan ancestry, a sophisticate, a global traveler—and an entirely fictional construct. “We wanted to create a character as a way of telling a story,” says the French designer Richard Le Sand, who established the label in 2012 with his wife, Marianne Fabre–Le Sand. The story in question was one of East meets West, of continents joined in elegant cross-fertilization—and it’s one that applies to the cofounders as much as to their dandyish figurehead. Le Sand studied product design at Institut Supérieur de Design in northern France (“Not sexy,” he says. “I spent two years designing a toothbrush.”) before relocating to Southeast Asia because so many…

Director-producer Lee Daniels says he stopped caring about what people think years ago. “I’ll take Archie Bunker over political correctness any day,” says the co-creator of Empire, the acclaimed TV drama about a hip-hop mogul and his dysfunctional family. The son of a police officer who was killed in the line of duty, the Philadelphia native has come a long way since he lived out of his car because he couldn’t make rent. Daniels dresses in Tom Ford, pals around with Oprah (whom he directed in The Butler), and swears he does his best work swinging from a fur hammock in his Manhattan loft. Still, he’s never forgotten his early struggles, which he has drawn upon for Star, a new series set in the music industry. “It’s about girls doing…

David Rockwell is an architect, but it might be more accurate to call him a designer of experiences. Based in New York with satellite offices in Madrid and Shanghai, his wildly creative firm, Rockwell Group, is recognized for designing hotels for brands like W, Andaz, and Edition, and restaurants such as Nobu. But earlier this year, Rockwell also won his first Tony Award for best scenic design of a musical for She Loves Me—one of the three shows currently on Broadway whose sets he has created. The rest of his portfolio reflects the diversity of some genius inventor’s workshop—a collapsible theater for TED; Imagination Playgrounds, with giant, curiously shaped building blocks; Brightline commuter trains for Florida; and the Shed, an arts institution for Manhattan with an enormous 120-foot-high retractable shell,…

When a young family from Nashville approached Markham Roberts to design their vacation home in Montana’s Rocky Mountains, he jumped at the chance. But that didn’t mean there weren’t challenges. For one thing, the couple—real estate developer Jay Turner and his wife, Christi—had very different conceptions of what their getaway should look like. He envisioned a house that leaned traditional, much like their antiques-filled 1930s Georgian Revival in Nashville. But she was in the mood for a significant style change and requested something sleek and ultra-contemporary. In addition to making both of them happy, Roberts had another concern: the even-greater-than-usual pressure to do something entirely new and unexpected. Because he’d long had connections to Nashville through an old friend, the designer has done several homes in the city, which is…