Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2018 i Architectural Digest

People tell me I move quickly, but I don’t notice,” Liz Swig says from her new Manhattan apartment, which she and her designer, Robert Stilin, furnished in just two months. A few efficient shopping trips were all it took to round up the necessary pieces—among them an Ingo Maurer light fixture, Mattia Bonetti dining chairs, and an ABC Carpet & Home sectional—to complement her playful art collection. (“Speed decorating,” Stilin calls it.) For her, everything comes down to a simple mantra: “I see something, I focus on it, and I bring it to life.” Making things happen, often at lightning speed, is what Swig does best. Through her creative matchmaking company, LIZWORKS, she has persuaded Jeff Koons to do a porcelain collection, Vik Muniz to design sunglasses, and a dream…

Call it an occupational hazard: What sold Misha Nonoo on her Greenwich Village duplex was the cavernous master closet. “I was like, ‘Dream!,’” the bubbly blonde Brit says of the space, designed by former owner Nate Berkus (AD, November 2012). Nonoo purchased the pad in 2013 with husband Alexander Gilkes, founder of Paddle8. When their marriage ended, she resolved to start fresh. “I wanted to clean house, breathe new energy into the place, and make it my own,” she explains. She began by hiring decorator and friend Andre Mellone. “I love what you do,” she told him, meaning midcentury, masculine decors for the likes of Thom Browne and Jason Wu. Another touchstone was the minimalist work of designer Axel Vervoordt, to which Mellone diplomatically responded, “Let’s find your own way…

Techo-Bloc is breaking the mold and transforming the way we have traditionally thought of outdoor design. Game-changing textures, a rich color palette, and unexpected plays on scale afford the opportunity to create stonework patterns with a clearly custom look—from checkerboard to herringbone to free-flowing mosaics. With Techo-Bloc, artists and creatives of all types have the materials they need to remodel regular outdoor spaces into exciting, out-of-the-box, design-driven environments. For more inspiration, visit techo-bloc.com VIEW THESE AND OTHER PRODUCTS AT ARCHDIGEST360.COM…

The growing trend towards game rooms as the social center of the home (or hotel or luxury apartment building) continues to bring families, friends, and colleagues together for fun, quality bonding time. Blatt Billiards specializes in luxury pool tables of all sizes and styles, exotic wood poker tables, and custom tavern-style shuffleboard tables. Each custom table takes hundreds of hours of meticulous master carpentry. No corners are cut, and time and care are taken to make sure all wood grains match, the slate sits perfectly level, and the table meets all professional tournament standards. For generations, celebrities, moguls and enthusiasts alike have turned to this family-owned-and-operated billiards business to create their custom gaming havens. From design to construction to installation, Blatt offers an unparalleled experience and dedication to quality. If…

“I found the LOVE sign in a New York shop, it’s from an old movie set,” says Delevingne. “It just makes me happy.” “We wanted to continue the Memphis vibe in the kitchen, so we did a pink terrazzo counter,” notes Bartlett.…

Inveterate design dealers Michèle Van Hove and Nicolas Vanderbeck, the owners of celebrated Barcelona antiques gallery Fins de Siècles, started buying furniture and objects for their fantasy Catalan country house some 18 years before they found the house itself. The Belgian couple moved to Barcelona in 2002 and two years later opened a new gallery in their adopted city. Their specialty—pieces from the 1920s to 1960s, with a notable emphasis on Art Deco—stands out in a city where most dealers focus on Art Nouveau (the style of Gaudí) or more recent Scandinavian furnishings. They wanted a place in the country as well but never found anything that persuaded them to buy. “Many properties were easy to dismiss based just on the realtor’s listing photos,” says Van Hove, noting that most…

Not only did Toogood create the house’s serene, monochromatic interiors, she made significant tweaks to the building itself. the British designer Faye Toogood has no interest in leaving well enough alone. A one-time editor at The World of Interiors, she left magazines in 2007 and set up her own studio the next year, designing installations (for Comme des Garçons and Tom Dixon, among others), then furniture and interiors. In 2013 she added fashion to her portfolio, when she and her sister Erica founded Toogood, which produces clothing inspired by traditional tradesmen’s garments. (Like Toogood’s furniture, the clothes are made in the U.K.) More recently, the 2018 AD100 inductee has designed ceramics for the British company 1882 Ltd. and wall coverings for the New York–based Calico Wallpaper, and she’s been making…

Totally détruit!” is how Jacques Grange, the AD100 designer, describes the dilapidated Majorca property he was asked to transform into a hotel for Juan Picornell, the dashing young Anglo-Spanish entrepreneur who owns the island’s popular Cappuccino Café chain. “It was just a façade!” Today, what had been an empty shell facing Palma de Mallorca’s historic Plaza de Cort recently opened as Hotel Mamá, a 32-room, four-story destination that is the Balearic speck’s hippest new hostelry. And a wildly pretty one, too: Garden-fresh fabrics bloom with pink geraniums and purple lilacs, and floors are paved with geometric tiles in a panoply of blues, all mixed up with kicky stripes, grotto-style tables, chairs with come-hither Victorian silhouettes. Jade-green trelliswork frames the bar, orange-and-white zigzags race across a beamed ceiling, and art by…

For certain TV fanatics, the mere mention of Cleveland calls to mind that 30 Rock episode where Liz Lemon visits Ohio and envisions a better life. “We’d all like to flee to the Cleve,” her boss tells her back in New York. And when better than this summer, when the city will inaugurate Front International, a new triennial for contemporary art? On view July 14 to September 30, the extravaganza will activate sites all across town, displaying work by 70-plus artists while spotlighting the city’s architectural history. The Cleveland Public Library’s main branch will welcome a Yinka Shonibare installation of 6,000 books, each bound in wax cloth bearing the name of an American immigrant. Down Superior Avenue, the Italian Renaissance–style Federal Reserve Bank will showcase a 24-channel video piece by…

Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams introduces its Spring 2018 collection of classic modern and new traditional silhouettes, punctuated by a vivid and uplifting mix of colors, textures, patterns, and prints. You’ll find unconventional forms and sculptural shapes, as well as familiar designs updated for today’s living. Join the Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Comfort Club, a complimentary loyalty program that offers 20 percent savings every day, with exclusive access to special offers and services. Visit mgbwhome.com to learn more about Comfort Club, view the entire collection, peruse the online catalog, and find a store near you. VIEW THESE AND OTHER PRODUCTS AT ARCHDIGEST360.COM…

Jacques Grange celebrates his 74th birthday next month, but take note: He’s no lion in winter. “There is no wrinkle in my work. I’m like a good wine,” laughs the silver-tressed French interior decorator, whose Instagram handle—to take the vintage metaphor one step further—happens to be @beaujolais1944. “The more it ages,” he continues, “the better it is.” Case in point? A rambling, Depression-era stucco villa in Palm Beach that’s absolute olé!—barrel tiles, cinquefoil arched windows, wrought-iron balconies, coats of arms both carved and painted, and polychrome tiles that were sourced on trips to Seville and Barcelona. Architects John L. Volk and Gustav Maass conjured it up for two rich, young Chicago snowbirds, Florence and Harry Thomas, a restaurant heiress and a stockbroker. Volk was especially proud of what he called…

friends from Switzerland first persuaded Patrick and Valentine Perrin to bring their four children—Paul, Louis, Marie, and Athina (now 21, 19, 15, and 8)—to Comporta, the surprisingly low-key jet-set resort town an hour south of Lisbon. The two families regularly met up on the slopes of Gstaad in the winters and decided to gather for a two-week summertime retreat back in July 2011. “I did not know Comporta at all,” recalls Perrin. “But coming from the Landes region of southwest France, I fell madly in love with the rugged landscape here—the sun, the sand, the endless beach.” Seduced, the Perrins started looking for land. Within a few months they secured a nine-acre parcel bordering a pine forest that ultimately provided their place with its name: Quinta dos Pinheiros (“pine farm”).…

La vita is certainly bella at Villa Sola Cabiati, a neoclassical stunner overlooking Lake Como, where rooms unfold in a tapestry of frescoes, terrazzo, and gilded treasures. Last year, the estate’s noble owners partnered with nearby Grand Hotel Tremezzo to open the home for tours and events, all the while embarking on updates so that guests might spend the night. As of this spring, the property is officially sleepover ready, with modern amenities installed and six bedrooms refreshed. (Rates start at $8,000 per night for the run of the place.) Still, there’s one bed that’s off-limits: Displayed in the villa’s on-site museum is a priceless antique where Napoleon once laid his head. grandhoteltremezzo.com…

Every December visitors flock to Miami Beach for its annual whirlwind of fairs and festivities. And every year those people leave asking the same question: Why don’t we visit more often? Though this coastal community can be chaos during Art Basel, it’s a refreshing splash of culture any other weekend, with world-class exhibitions, cutting-edge design, and ultra-luxurious accommodations. Last year, the Bass opened the doors to its updated building—reconfigured by architects David Gauld and Arata Isozaki—while the Institute of Contemporary Art cut the ribbon on its new home, the first U.S. project by Spanish firm Aranguren + Gallegos Arquitectos. Just across the street, finishing touches are being made to the Design District’s Museum Garage, an assemblage of daring façades by a dream team that includes WORKac and J. Mayer H.…

Austin is no stranger to strangers: Visitors overrun the town during festivals like South by Southwest. But for tourists, the city has become much more than a musical interlude, as chic boutique hotels and big-name art arrive at a rapid pace. This past February, the University of Texas debuted Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin, a minimalist temple of sorts with stained-glass windows in rainbow colors and geometric configurations. Pause there to reflect before checking out more of the school’s vast collection, including a new José Parlá mural. “So much is changing in Austin, but the city still has a strong local design sense,” says Liz Lambert, whose hospitality empire, Bunkhouse, recently gave the 1938 Austin Motel a groovy update. “We’re keeping Austin weird.” Next year, she’ll unveil a new property adjacent to…

Beautiful outdoor areas start with the right materials. Mbrico manufactures premium porcelain tile systems designed for wood-framed decks, hardscapes, and commercial flat roofs and raised floors. With a range of colors and textures, its Italian porcelain stoneware fits into a variety of aesthetic layouts. In addition to its superior form, Mbrico is also known for its extraordinary function. It is heat-, slip-, and frost-resistant, offering a durability that is unsurpassed. Plus, with near zero-maintenance and its easy installation by quality carpentry crews, Mbrico is a great choice when rethinking your outdoor space. VIEW THESE AND OTHER PRODUCTS AT ARCHDIGEST360.COM…

For six generations, Hästens has employed expert artisans who handcraft beds and mattresses from ethically sourced, natural materials: horsetail hair, cotton, wool, and flax. Genuine horsetail hair is allergen-free and lends a dependable durability, while cotton adds comfort and breathability. Add to that combination, the vibration-negating quality of flax and climate control capabilities and you are teed up for a perfect night’s sleep. VIEW THESE AND OTHER PRODUCTS AT ARCHDIGEST360.COM…

homebody isn’t the first word that comes to mind when describing Cara Delevingne. Since rocketing onto the scene as the It Brit model eight years ago, she has ricocheted across runways, tabloids, and silver screens with the voracity of the Energizer Bunny on steroids. Her refreshingly quirky Instagram counts more than 41 million followers and is a dizzying sight: Cara at Burning Man! Cara rocking a shaved head at the MTV Movie & TV Awards! Cara hanging out with lions in the Sahara! Cara hamming it up with Pharrell backstage at a Chanel show in Paris! Cara getting flags painted on her behind by Gigi Hadid at Taylor Swift’s seaside house! Downtime has been so rare that she was living with her London society–fixture parents until recently. But even the…

“Our goal was to find the right balance between the rough and the smooth, simplicity and refinement,” says Mérillou.…

“Jaipur is a small town in the provinces,” says Taillac. “Life here is simple.” french jewelry designer Marie-Hélène de Taillac discovered the magic of Jaipur and its jewel box of a hotel, Narain Niwas Palace, back in 1989 while traveling across the subcontinent with friends. She was charmed by the beauty of the city, with its pink-painted dwellings, as well as its abundant creativity. “There’s a great sense of decoration and of craftsmanship here,” she says. “Even the rickshaws are painted with motifs. People know how to design and make things, and everything is possible.” It took her a while to realize that she was indeed hooked on Jaipur, but once she did, she committed to it profoundly. In 1995 she sold her apartment in London, and with the proceeds,…