Innholdsfortegnelse for July/August 2019 i Architectural Digest

Known for her use of graphic patterns and eye-popping colors, designer Ellen Van Dusen has finished her most ambitious project yet: an ingenious, upbeat update to her Brooklyn brownstone. “Everything in this house kind of looks like a cartoon,” says Ellen, founder of the fashion-and-furnishings brand Dusen Dusen. “And I love it.” Here she spills some advice for renovating and decorating—from creating her kitchen from scratch to making a DIY hearth. dusendusen.com FOR MORE SMART IDEAS VISIT @GETCLEVER ON INSTAGRAM OR ARCHDIGEST.COM/CLEVER…

In March, the eyes of the design world descended upon Manhattan’s West Side for the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) annual fundraiser, Dining By Design. DIFFA’s annual signature event saw many of the industry’s top designers, architects, and manufacturers collaborating on an array of elegant and thought-provoking dining installations to raise much-needed funds to provide education and services for people living with HIV and AIDS. The five-day event was open for public viewing and bookended by the opening-night celebration, Cocktails By Design, and concluded with a Gala Dinner. A new feature of the event brought together over 40 artists and photographers offering their works as part of DIFFA’s silent auction. Visit diffa.org to learn more. DIAMOND SPONSORS Gensler + Knoll + Evensonbest in conjunction with Miller Blaker | Patrick…

“I like that there are all these different areas for people to congregate,” says Lippes. Modern stuff I just don’t understand,” fashion designer Adam Lippes says over coffee in the sun-splashed living room of his Brooklyn Heights apartment. “It’s just ugly.” So, defiantly, he surrounds himself with the atmospheric opposite. A Victorian-style borne settee centers the space like a white-and-blue water lily, and a Russian Empire mahogany bookcase stretches across one wall and nearly to the ceiling. The master bedroom’s main event is a custom-made canopy bed that channels the nutty Chinese Chippendale pagoda daybeds at England’s Stanway House, and Gustavian chairs ring a Biedermeier pedestal dining table. A Kentia palm—an arboreal accent beloved by another boldface fashion designer, namely Christian Dior—sprouts from a ceramic cachepot in the living room,…

Glamorous Milanese designer Gabriella Crespi contemplated an age-old decorating dilemma in the mid-1970s: How could she bring the restorative warmth of the sun indoors? Her answer came in the form of Rising Sun, a radiant lighting collection made from an unusual pair of materials: brass and bamboo. The latter, she observed, “combines force and flexibility, the warmth of color and a capacity to let light through.” Of Rising Sun’s rare designs—few were ever produced—one has recently proliferated: the Fungo lamp, which features a swooping brass base and bamboo shade that gives it a mushroom-like silhouette. The lamp “embodies Crespi’s talent to produce objects of great perfection,” says agenda-setting dealer Nina Yashar, who showed an original Fungo alongside other Rising Sun pieces at Nilufar gallery (nilufar.com), her Milan showroom, in April.…

When searching for inspiration, ceramic artist Makoto Kagoshima turns to flowers. From their brilliant blooms to their curlicue tendrils, everything about them fascinates him. “I am always mesmerized by the intricate sense of purpose I observe within the natural world,” Kagoshima says. “I draw flowers in anticipation of those who will behold them.” Based in the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka, Kagoshima has honed his spirited breed of earthenware for more than 15 years, developing fresh twists on traditional techniques. He applies his botanical motifs using a wax-resist glazing method called rounuki, adding texture to the clay with the kakiotoshi etching process. Painted designs—done at various stages of the firing process, depending on the desired effect—are applied freehand, often in exuberant pastels. For some pieces, he creates cheerfully hued underglazes…

Loosely translated, the French term appartement de réception means an apartment for entertaining. It’s a description that fits designer Tom Scheerer’s new Paris home to a tee. With its expansive layout and dreamy perch overlooking the Seine on fashionable Île Saint-Louis, the Haussmann-era aerie can happily accommodate a crowd. “When I first walked into this dining room, with its many windows and an apse, it instantly reminded me of a family sunporch from my childhood,” says Scheerer, who discovered the two-bedroom apartment for rent three years ago. Never mind that he already kept a house in the Marais, with four apartments that he alternately rented out and used for himself. “It was too good an opportunity to miss.” Scheerer, a peripatetic traveler possessed by wide-ranging curiosity, has a knack for…

“I was inspired by Japanese architecture and minimalist aesthetics,” Sharapova says of the spare, elegant design and decor.” ⋆ EXCLUSIVE VIDEO MARIA SHARAPOVA AT HOME, ARCHDIGEST.COM. talk to anyone who worked with Maria Sharapova on the design, construction, and decoration of her discreetly ravishing home in Los Angeles and their responses invariably follow the same themes: that the tennis star maintained a resolute vision of how she wanted the residence to feel and function from the earliest phases of the project; that she was one of the most intellectually curious and committed clients they’ve ever encountered; and that her style and spirit—as a supremely confident athlete, aesthete, and businesswoman—animate every inch of the property. In short, Maria Sharapova is a boss. “I was obsessed with the process of making this…

Jean-Louis Deniot’s travel schedule reads like the index of a world atlas. Since establishing his Paris-based architecture and interior-design firm at age 26, nearly two decades ago, the French native has risen to global design-star status. Known for luxurious and eclectic, yet decidedly contemporary interiors, the AD100 designer currently has projects on five continents, from Beverly Hills to Manhattan, London to Moscow, and in alluring destinations such as Hong Kong, Bangkok, New Delhi, and Chandigarh, as well as both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar, in Tarifa and Tangier. Given his far-flung exploits, Deniot’s Los Angeles getaway, nestled in the hills above Sunset Boulevard, serves as a well-earned retreat. “When the weather is nasty in Paris I jump on a plane and come to beautiful La La Land,” he says…

(T) means the item is available only to the trade. VISION QUEST PAGES 52–63: Interiors by Courtney Applebaum Design; courtneyapplebaumdesign.com. Architecture and landscape architecture by KAA Design; kaadesigngroup.com. PAGE 52: Reclaimed Douglas fir bench by Dos Gallos; dosgallos.com. Zambian bowl, used as vase, from Galerie Half; galeriehalf.com. PAGE 53: George Nakashima chairs from Galerie Half; galeriehalf.com. Pick Up Stick chandelier by Billy Cotton; billycotton.com. Custom oak dining table by Courtney Applebaum Design; courtneyapplebaumdesign.com; fabricated by Flour Powder Pollen; flourwood.com. PAGES 54–55: Willy Guhl Loop chair and table from Stardust Modern; stardust.com. PAGE 57: Tub, sinks, and fittings by Boffi; boffi.com. Jean Touret oak tripod stool from Galerie Half; galeriehalf.com. Antique rug from Lawrence of La Brea; lawrenceoflabrea.com. PAGE 58: George Nakashima chairs from Galerie Half; galeriehalf.com. Pick Up Stick chandelier by Billy Cotton; billycotton.com.…

When Cardinal Tolomeo Gallio commissioned architect Pellegrino Tibaldi to build a Lake Como retreat in the mid–16th century, the result was a summer house to rival all others: the sprawling Renaissance residence later christened Villa d’Este, on the coast of Cernobbio. Gallio would inhabit it for only 20 days, but the property (reborn as a hotel in 1873) has since become the go-to getaway for politicians, intellectuals, and style setters, among them the Loro Piana family of Italian cashmere fame. So when one of the grounds’ four private villas, the 1815 Villa Cima, found itself in need of a refresh, the hotel turned to Loro Piana to work its magic. The strategy was simple: Out with the old and in with the new. Unveiled this past spring, the airy update…

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Growing up in Los Angeles, JJ Martin was already a maximalist by the tender age of seven. “My room had crazy floral wallpaper and a yellow-and-white gingham bedspread with lace trim,” recalls the Milan-based designer, founder of the fashion-and-home brand La DoubleJ. “It was the ’80s. It was my moment.” The reigning principessa of pattern is now in the midst of another moment, having realized the grown-up bedding of her dreams with the Italian manufacturer Mascioni. During April’s Milan Design Week, Martin unveiled six La DoubleJ linen sets, with pillows, blankets, and pajamas to match. To display them, she outfitted eight mattresses in the new prints, piling them high atop a petit bed in her Navigli showroom. Instagram, not surprisingly, went wild. Like her beloved, exuberantly printed frocks, the bedding…

“Do we have the garlic? The anchovy paste? What about the Dijon mustard?” bellows a voice from the kitchen. A chorus of “Check! Check! Check!” echoes back. It’s 4:00 p.m. on a Tuesday, and cooking class is under way for four-year-old Gracie Durrett and a half dozen of her friends. The 17-foot-long Calacatta gold kitchen island is prepped with all the ingredients for a Caesar salad, and the junior chefs are just about to add the Worcestershire sauce when Sylvana Durrett—matriarch of the house and cofounder of children’s e-commerce boutique Maisonette—sweeps down the stairs and motions for me to join her one flight up on the parlor floor. “It’s mayhem down there,” she says, leading me into the decidedly more grownup living room where she sinks into a mustard velvet…