Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2017 i Architectural Digest

“If I weren’t in fashion, I would have gone into real estate or architecture. I love talking to architects.” —Franca Sozzani On December 22, 2016, as the AD staff was finishing up this issue and vacating our New York offices for the holiday week, we received the sad news of the untimely passing of Franca Sozzani, the legendary and longtime editor of Italian Vogue and our colleague at Condé Nast. We had included Franca’s Paris townhouse in this, our Star Power issue, because she embodied the word star—she was magnetic, powerful, luminous, rare. Franca’s beloved son, Francesco Carrozzini, who this past fall debuted his touching documentary Franca: Chaos and Creation, with his mother at his side on the international red carpets, encouraged us to publish the home as a tribute…

Guests at the Off?White runway show in Paris this past September left with more than your typical fashion memento: Many purloined the blue?foam cubes they had been seated on. (Colette’s Sarah Andelman called the next day to secure 20.) The pillaging was more than welcome as far as Virgil Abloh was concerned; it was an affirmation. The lightweight seats were the seeds of his latest project, a furniture collection he would debut at Design Miami two months later. Best known as a fashion designer, DJ, and right hand to Kanye West—the millennial definition of a Renaissance man—Abloh holds an architecture degree from Chicago’s Illinois Institute of Technology, where he studied in buildings designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. “It inspired my way of thinking,” says the native Illinoisan. So…

tommy and dee hilfiger’s castle sits atop a high hill in Greenwich, Connecticut, with views stretching all the way to the Long Island Sound. In fact, from Tommy’s third-floor office, in what was once the billiard room, the quintessential American designer can even see New York City. “The immediate landscape is very rural—we feel like we’re in the English countryside—yet the city is so close,” says Tommy, who is sitting in the home’s wood-paneled entryway, lacing his sneakers in preparation for a game of tennis with his wife on the sunken court that lies just beyond a magnificent lawn dotted with quirky cone-shaped boxwoods; Miranda Brooks masterminded the landscape. Behind him a dramatic staircase climbs to a second-floor landing outfitted with Flemish still-life paintings and a pair of stag antlers…

in trim pencil skirts, chic cardigans, and kitten heels, her long, wavy, golden locks framing her glowing aquamarine eyes, Franca Sozzani, the longtime editor of Italian Vogue, was always the picture of perfection. The Milan-based editrix, who passed away just before Christmas, adopted a similarly uniform look for her homes, which she bought and flipped like a savvy Las Vegas card dealer. In each residence— her former New York townhouse, the Milan apartment, a family getaway in Portofino—Sozzani’s take on interiors was rigorously reductive. Stern black and white lines created a spotless and fuss-free gallery-like aesthetic in all her domestic surroundings (except for a riad in Marrakech, decorated some 30 years ago in a slightly more unbuttoned bohemian style and kept that way). “If I weren’t in fashion, I would…

not long after my mother died, her best friend became a real-estate agent. Dorothy had enjoyed a successful career as a psychologist, but losing my mother made her too sad to take on additional depressed patients, she explained; what she had liked best about her work was snooping through the lives of strangers and helping solve their problems, and she figured she could do so equally well in this new career. When I returned to New York in the summer of 1992 from South Africa, where I had been reporting on the end of apartheid, I had a phone message from Dorothy, saying, “I’ve found the house you’re going to live in for the rest of your life. Call me as soon as you can.” I told her I wasn’t…

For the 1965 Salon de la Jeune Peinture in Paris, French artist François-Xavier Lalanne wanted to make a statement. “If you come with a snail as big as a thumb, nobody notices,” he said. “You have to go with something immodest and slightly embarrassing.” His idea? Twenty-four sheep. Lalanne fashioned the faux livestock in the living room of the Paris apartment he shared with Claude, his wife and artistic partner. Four sculptures received impassive faces of patinated bronze while the others remained headless; all were swathed in fluffy sheepskins. Les Lalannes then trotted the surrealistic herd off to the storied Palais de Tokyo exhibition hall, where the moutons—making their grand debut as art furniture, complete with casters in their hooves for easy mobility—were placed prominently at the salon’s entrance. Le…

When Nathalie Farman-Farma purchased a ravishing 19th-century Russian fabric in 2000, her first thought was a rather practical one: to make pillows. “Objects become so much more interesting when they’re put to use,” says the French-raised, London-based collector and designer, who recently moved into a charming new Chelsea studio. “The problem with old textiles is that after six months of people sitting on them, they fray; the fiber is too dry.” Farman-Farma’s solution: Reimagine them. Since 2010 she has been printing enchanting fabrics inspired by her favorite folk traditions from Eastern Europe and northern Asia—Turkmen robes, Russian pinafores, Slavic embroidery—under the moniker Décors Barbares. For the Andrinople print, she had elements of that crimson Russian pattern redrawn and transferred onto a cotton that was then dyed Turkey red using an…

CULTURE travels At the 1889 Universal Exhibition in Paris, while the French were unveiling the Eiffel Tower, the Portuguese were presenting feats of a considerably more compact variety. The country’s pavilion made dramatic use of azulejos, the glazed ceramic tiles that have been a hallmark of Iberian craftsmanship for five centuries. Today the art form remains a source of national pride and delight, as evidenced by a recent trip to Lisbon, whose steep streets reveal stunning examples at every turn. And thanks to two recently unveiled local projects, traditional tilework is getting a bold new spin. This past October the city welcomed its largest expanse of azulejos—an 11,625-square-foot mural by artist and nightlife impresario André Saraiva, who was commissioned by MUDE, the local museum of design and fashion. (He has…

Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein are architecture’s boy wonders—but it took a while for the world to notice. In 2002, at ages 31 and 30, the duo won a competition to expand the Swiss National Museum, a beloved institution in the heart of Zurich. Seven years later they won a second major competition, this time to add a new building to their hometown’s Kunstmuseum Basel, one of the world’s great collections of contemporary art. (In winning the commissions, they beat out the likes of Rem Koolhaas, David Chipperfield, and Zaha Hadid.) With these victories, they were on their way to stardom. Funding controversies, however, delayed the completion of the Zurich building, which resulted in both projects opening last year. “It was a thrill and, frankly, also a relief,” says Christ…

ÒWe wanted to achieve that look of layering you would see in an old estate,” says designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard “The screening room is a real Turkish salon,” says Bullard. “The divans are copied from a beautiful 18th-century house on the Bosporus.”…

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. MINDING THE MANOR PAGES 86–97: Interiors by Martyn Lawrence Bullard Design; martynlawrencebullard.com. Architecture by Andre Tchelistcheff Architects; tchelistcheff.com. Landscape design by Miranda Brooks Landscape Design; mirandabrooks.com. PAGE 86: Antique A.W.N. Pugin oak side chairs from James Graham- Stewart; jamesgraham-stewart-.com. Window curtains of Pasha Paisley wool by Martyn Lawrence Bullard for Schumacher (T); fschumacher.com. PAGE 87: Nymph fountain by Phillip Watson Designs; phillipwatsondesigns-.com. PAGES 88–89: In garden, stag statues from La Maison Française Antiques; lmfantiques-.com. PAGES 90–91: Gothic Revival library table from James Graham-Stewart; jamesgraham-stewart.com. Stools by Martyn Lawrence Bullard Atelier; martynlawrencebullard.com; upholstered in Mughal Flower…

L ight has always played a defining role in the work of Richard Meier, whose white, rigorously geometric buildings seem to harness the sun— reflecting its rays and guiding them to cast dynamic shadows. And yet lighting is a category that has eluded the Pritzker Prize winner, with no such product bearing his name. At the urging of his daughter, furniture designer Ana Meier, that’s about to change. Launching March 14 at New York’s Ralph Pucci showroom is Richard Meier Light, an array of refined fixtures created by the two in collaboration with lighting master Hervé Descottes, cofounder of L’Observatoire International. “We were thinking about how light gives volume to planes, how it can dramatize forms,” explains Ana, who shepherded the sculptural collection—all white, naturally—as its creative director. The Cycladic…

SIGHTS The Portuguese capital lacks not for cultural attractions, from the cloisters and vaulted ceilings of the Jerónimos Monastery (mosteirojeronimos.pt) to the wondrous ruins of the Carmo Convent, now adjoining an archaeological museum (museuarqueologicodocarmo. pt). Architecture lovers will delight in the two-year-old National Coach Museum, designed by Pritzker Prize winner Paulo Mendes da Rocha to display 70 carriages (museudoscoches. pt). And across town Santiago Calatrava’s Oriente train station stuns with its lacy canopy. RESTAURANTS “It’s the ultimate throwback,” artist André Saraiva says of his favorite haunt, Gambrinus, a wood-lined eatery that’s been serving up traditional Portuguese cuisine for more than 78 years (gambrinuslisboa.com). Iberian flavors get fresh twists at Bairro do Avillez, the latest hot spot from local chef José Avillez of Michelin-starred Belcanto fame (joseavillez.pt). Set inside a restored…

pierre Yovanovitch apologizes as he hurries into the small sitting room where I’ve been asked to wait. The interior designer recently moved his firm into this grand 18th-century hôtel particulier in Paris’s Sentier neighborhood, and the floors are still cluttered with cardboard and bubble wrap, not to mention a Georg Baselitz painting or two waiting to be hung. Meanwhile, Yovanovitch is looking to open offices in the U.S., where an increasing number of his residential clients live. (“Americans give you a kind of fuel the French don’t,” he notes. “They say, ‘Whoa, my house is going to be the best house in the world’—even if it’s not true.”) The future New York offices will also serve as a showroom for his own furniture, like the plump Ours chair. (Once I…