Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2016 i Architectural Digest

OUT AND ABOUT With summer in full swing, there’s no better place to enjoy art than out in the open. Don’t miss our list of outdoor exhibitions and installations around the world. archdigest.com/outdoorart DAZZLING DISPLAY In honor of Independence Day, we’ve rounded up some of the best spots to see fireworks across the country—from the slopes of Aspen to Nashville’s riverfront. archdigest.com/fireworks STAYING PRESENT Our favorite designers and tastemakers shared their go-to summer hostess gifts— take a look at their picks to find the perfect something to show your appreciation. archdigest.com/hostessgifts LIKE US ON FACEBOOK facebook.com/architecturaldigest TWEET WITH US ON TWITTER @archdigest PIN WITH US ON PINTEREST pinterest.com/archdigest FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM @archdigest…

Anyone who has ever delighted in a love affair with their home can appreciate the impulse to break into swooning rhapsodies that might otherwise seem hyperbolic or saccharine. Chalk it up to the power of place. So when Jamie McCourt, former CEO and co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, describes her dazzling John Lautner beach house in Malibu as “a living organism” and “one of my closest friends,” she can hardly be faulted. After all, most disciples of great design would give their eyeteeth to have such a friend. “This house breathes with me,” muses the high-octane entrepreneur, whose career has encompassed real-estate development, investing in tech start-ups, and tending the Napa Valley vineyard she purchased in 2013. “The trees, the boulders, the water—they keep me grounded,” she continues. “You…

Even minimalists can get the urge to downsize. Two decades ago architect Steve Mensch designed a clean-lined, Zenlike house for his family next to a waterfall on 25 acres near Rhinebeck, New York. Over the years the property grew to include another half-dozen pavilions on some 600 acres. When the nest began to empty out, however, Mensch got the chance to completely reimagine the way he wanted to live with his partner, Greg Patnaude. Clean lines would stay in the picture, just fewer of them. “The main reason to move was that it was too much property, too many buildings, with only the two of us knocking around it. But that wasn’t really the whole story,” Mensch says. “I was beginning to feel like it was my final resting place,…

There’s a spot about ten miles outside the village of Aspen, Colorado, some 9,400 feet up, where the skies seem a brighter blue and the mountain views are almost surreal in their majesty. A nearby stream rushes with a dulcet murmur, and herds of elk roam amid slender white aspens whose leaves turn magnificently gold each autumn. It was here that a Hong Kong businessman bought a 24-acre plot several years ago, determined to create his ideal refuge. The log cabin–style house that occupied the site was not what he had in mind, however. So he enlisted a local firm, Studio B Architecture + Interiors, to draw up concepts for a new home, while the existing dwelling was removed and donated to Habitat for Humanity. A divorced father of one…

In the dizzying world of real estate, one man’s dream house is another man’s teardown. At least that’s often the case, whether you’re talking about a modest Craftsman-style bungalow in a Midwestern suburb or architect Bruce Goff’s fabled Bavinger project in Oklahoma, an award-winning modernist masterpiece that was recently demolished. This issue of Architectural Digest, though, features a homeowner who took an inspiringly different tack. The owner, a Hong Kong–based businessman, had purchased a glorious mountain parcel in Colorado, complete with a log cabin whose rugged looks were a far cry from the sleek, low-slung house of his dreams. But instead of reducing the unwanted building to a pile of kindling destined for the nearest landfill, he donated it to Habitat for Humanity to be repurposed elsewhere. This cabin, which…

Bora-Bora $50 MILLION When cosmetics mogul François Nars purchased the private South Pacific island of Motu Tane, 16 years ago, there wasn’t even any electricity or running water on the property. A total overhaul by designer Christian Liaigre transformed the ten-acre isle (just a five-minute boat ride from the Bora-Bora airport) into an enchanting retreat, with a constellation of thatched-roof bungalows housing sleeping quarters for up to 20 people, plus a photography studio. Parisian landscape guru Pascal Cribier, meanwhile, planted 1,500 coconut palms and swaths of other native flora, conjuring a gardenlike respite from the tropical sun. contact: sothebysrealty.com; +689-40-50-11-11 Vero Beach, Florida $7.5 MILLION Crafted by AD100 firm Jacobsen Architecture, this award-winning 2013 compound—situated in the exclusive oceanfront community of Windsor—combines the studio’s signature minimalist aesthetic with Caribbean Colonial…

After passing through the unpretentious wood gates at South Carolina’s Mulberry Plantation, not too far from Charleston, visitors will find themselves navigating a straight-shot drive that slices through jungly Low Country landscape. Magnolias and palmettos fringe natural swamps as well as drainage canals from Mulberry’s days as a rice plantation. Miles on, at a bend in the road, shimmers an eight-acre lake that was once a rice field. Then the drive makes its way toward a 35-foot-high bluff, twisting, turning, and climbing through a cathedral of gnarled oaks, their great branches draped with resurrection ferns and Spanish moss. Finally, the bluff comes into view, and there, overlooking the winding Cooper River, sits a house unlike any other. The site, originally part of a 12,000-acre land grant to 17thcentury baronet Sir…

One of the challenges of a long-held family vacation home is that as time passes and the number of occupants grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to squeeze everyone in. Such was the case for Bobbie and Lew Frankfort, who spent many summers with their three children in a much-loved house in Sagaponack, New York. “The family grew up,” explains Lew, the chairman emeritus of Coach. “Kids got married and had children of their own, Bobbie’s mother moved in with us, and the property just wasn’t sufficient anymore.” So the couple set out to get something bigger—but they came to realize that would mean building something new. Learning that a 20-acre tract of the historic Topping farm in Bridgehampton had just come on the market sealed the deal. And it helped…

“Maine. The way life should be,” say the state’s official highway welcome signs. For Georgia natives Courtney and Paul Amos, the slogan took on a life of its own one frigid November day nine years ago as they walked the breathtaking land—equipped with a pair of tumbledown yet charming cottages—they would eventually purchase on Maine’s storied mid-coast. “It was the dead of winter! We couldn’t begin to imagine how gorgeous such a place would be in July and August,” Courtney says of the former saltwater farm. But they had an inkling. Both had enjoyed idyllic childhood summers in New England, far from the Southern heat: She at her grandparents’ lakeside cottage in Vermont and at a house they bought later on a remote Down East island, and he at a…

WHAT COULD BE MORE ENTICING IN SUMMER THAN A SWIMMING POOL RIPPLING GENTLY IN THE AFTERNOON BREEZE? While every pool is refreshing, a well-designed one can also bring drama to the landscape, which may be why they have played such memorable roles in cinema. In The Graduate, for example, when young Ben (Dustin Hoffman) wasn’t meeting Mrs. Robinson in hotel rooms, he whiled away the days on a float in his parents’ rectilinear suburban pool. In the James Bond film Skyfall, a fit Daniel Craig swims laps at night in a striking Shanghai rooftop pool. For the recently released A Bigger Splash, a glittering tiled pool on an Italian island captures the sexy, indolent mood of vacationers played by Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes. The enduring allure of a pool…

“I’ve been inspired by butler’s pantries in house museums throughout Europe for a long time. I often think backof-house spaces are more compelling than formal rooms.” —Designer Steven Gambrel “You could fill ...... vases from the gardens during the summer and the property would still be filled with flowers.” –Landscape architect Edmund Hollander…