Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2019 i Architectural Digest

When Manhattanites are looking for a weekend home, they typically go one of two directions: Jump into the high-octane social swirl of the Hamptons or head for the hills upstate. Born and bred in the former camp, Evan Yurman wanted a little quiet escapism when the time came to plant roots of his own. “There are a lot of people that you know here,” the chief creative officer of David Yurman says of the historically artistic Catskill Mountains where he and his wife, Ku-Ling, retreat with their three children. “But you never see them.” The couple spent years house-hunting before they happened upon the perfect spot: an old bluestone quarry (Evan quips that it wasn’t a very productive one) perched on the side of a mountain with nearly 200 acres…

The Manhattan offices of AD100 designer William Sofield are a calculated seduction, a deep immersion in le style Sofield, with all its arcane historical allusions, eccentric details, unexpected material juxtapositions, and spellbinding beauty. Part workspace and part Wunderkammer, the expansive loft is chockablock with art, furniture, and curiosities, all tracing Sofield’s peregrinations through the worlds of architecture and design over the past quarter century. It’s no wonder that tastemakers on the order of Tom Ford and Richard Buckley, artists Brice and Helen Marden, Ralph and Ricky Lauren, and Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy have called on Sofield to help forge their particular visions of domestic bliss. Fittingly, Studio Sofield is located in an idiosyncratic New York City design landmark, the Schermerhorn Building, a Romanesque Revival structure built in 1889 by…

STUFF OF LEGEND Luke Edward Hall has a mania for Greek mythology. “The stories are full of love, revenge, and magic,” explains the British artist and designer, whose illustrations often incorporate Olympian motifs. Hall’s latest thematic exploration is the Viaggio di Nettuno tableware collection for Richard Ginori, the venerable Italian porcelain studio. Espresso cups, dinner plates, a candleholder, and more feature naively drawn deities amid Greekkey and Vitruvian-wave borders, coral branches, and scallop shells, all set against backgrounds of orange, pink, and turquoise. Hall found ideas in Ginori’s archives, too. “I saw an urn and thought, Wouldn’t it be fun to make handles that look like mermaid tails?” Something old has become new again. richardginori1735.com…

Sylvie Johnson’s atelier brims with books—more than 700, by her estimate. There’s a 19th-century technical guide to weaving, and reference books that range in subject matter from Japanese textiles to Donald Judd. She credits such volumes—and the mentorship of a haute couture weaver—with teaching her a new craft when she left the art world some 15 years ago. Studying complex techniques, then experimenting on a small hand loom, she eventually created samples that could be produced at large scale by a team of weavers. AD100 maestros like Lee Mindel, Annabelle Selldorf, and Jacques Grange took notice, becoming loyal clients. And just last year, the rug company Merida tapped her as its creative director. “Without the technique, you don’t have freedom,” says Johnson, who has impressed the artisans at Merida’s Massachusetts…

Some Instagram feeds are superior to others—and for good reason. Take @miguelfloresvianna, a diary of exquisite houses and ancient sites snapped by Miguel Flores-Vianna, a noted photographer for AD and other publications. “But for Instagram, I use my iPhone,” the globe-trotter chats via WhatsApp from a car zipping across Turkey. More than 200 of those images, from a friend’s home in London to a palace in Turkey, make up his new book, A Wandering Eye: Travels with My Phone (Vendome Press, $45), which promises to be the season’s ultimate escape.…

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When Parisian collectors suggested wood paneling for the master bedroom of their hôtel particulier, AD100 designer Pierre Yovanovitch proposed something radical—enlisting Tadashi Kawamata to create a site-specific installation. Over the course of three weeks in 2017, the Japanese artist meticulously assembled hundreds of unfinished planks into a wood cocoon aptly titled Nest in Bedroom. “While the building is classic, the work itself is simple and unpretentious,” notes Yovanovitch. “I very much like to play up this tension.” Accented by a bespoke chimneypiece, Campana Brothers lounge chairs, and a midcentury Severin Hansen floor lamp, the never-before-published space is a standout from Yovanovitch’s eagerly anticipated first monograph, Pierre Yovanovitch: Interior Architecture (Rizzoli, September). As he puts it: “History-laden places are just waiting to be revived by a contemporary spirit.”…

“This was the chance to build our dream sister house. Miraculously, we are still talking.”—Poppy Delevingne The fascinating and fashionable characters featured in our annual Style issue are all wildly different from one another, and the resulting mix of homes feels to me a lot like a fun-filled dinner packed with surprise guests. Our cover siblings, It Brits Cara and Poppy Delevingne, share a new and seriously sassy Los Angeles residence that can only be described as a party palace. Meanwhile, Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece returned to her Manhattan roots, moving her large family into the majestic 1913 town house on the Upper East Side that her parents had bought in the late 1980s and hired Renzo Mongiardino to decorate. Referring to the Italian maestro’s signature rich velvets, major…

When Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry, artistic directors of Hermès Home, paid a studio visit to Milan-based artist and designer Nathalie Du Pasquier, they fell in love with a series of collages and drawings inspired by simple embroidery techniques. “They immediately understood that it was possible to transpose those ideas onto throws,” says Du Pasquier, the French-born founding member of the Memphis Group whose graphic compositions have been applied to a range of mediums, from textiles and furniture to painting and sculpture. In no time, she scaled the works on paper up to blanket size (55˝ x 79˝) and had them sent off to India, where master artisans have turned her creations into two handmade Mongolian-cashmere patchworks, one glistening with tiny beads. Now highlights of Hermès’s new home collection,…

On the Left Bank of the Seine stands Lapérouse, a three-story labyrinth of rococo dining rooms and Proustian petits salons that in its 19th-century heyday was a favorite of literary lions like Émile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, and Victor Hugo. In the 1990s, it became a late-night hangout for John Galliano, Kate Moss, and their fashionable retinue. They loved lolling about in its decadent, désuet atmosphere. Now, after a four-month renovation guided by French designer Laura Gonzalez, Lapérouse is enjoying a well-deserved renaissance. The restaurant’s romantic murals have been restored and its salles swathed in Pierre Frey silks. Topping the tables, meanwhile, are cheerful settings conceived by Dior Maison creative director Cordelia de Castellane—perfect complements to Apicius chef Jean-Pierre Vigato’s neoclassic French cuisine. “It’s like waking up Sleeping Beauty,” says new…

Whether you’re hosting a formal dinner party or enjoying a casual meal at home, you can rely on Benjamin Moore® paint engineered with Gennex® Color Technology to set the mood. Choose from over 3,500 one-of-a-kind hues, like Limelight 2025-40 (shown), to deliver the perfect tone and exceptional durability, ensuring it will last for years to come. For more information, go to BenjaminMoore.com MORE IS MORE PILE ON THE COLOR AND PATTERN FOR MAXIMALIST EXCITEMENT. SHOWN IS THE ITALIAN HOME OF MARGHERITA MACCAPANI MISSONI AMOS. SITTING PRETTY KEEP IT CLASSIC WITH FEMININE FLORALS, DELICATE GLASSWARE, AND MORE TRADITIONAL TREASURES. SHOWN IS CHRIS BURCH’S DINING ROOM IN SENLIS, FRANCE. TIPS FROM THE PROS 1. “I display my everyday dishware on one of Cosmo Fry’s plate racks, which have so much style.” —Amanda…

A memorable perfume advertisement from the 1970s enticed consumers with the indelible tagline “If you want to capture someone’s attention, whisper.” Johnson Hartig is having none of it. The founding force behind the Libertine fashion line prefers riots of color, pattern, and eccentric appliqués—nothing coy about it. Hartig has now translated his signature aesthetic into a line of jubilant fabrics and wall coverings for Schumacher that draws inspiration from sources as diverse as Renaissance drawings, Ming vases, Indian batiks, and World War I British warship camouflage. One fabric, originally designed for a recent Libertine collection, transcribes a Robert Burns poem in graphic letters. “I’m much more of a traditionalist than people might think,” Hartig insists. “It’s the color and scale in the Schumacher products that make them feel so modern.”…

The new wallpaper collaboration between Emily Satloff, founder of the jewelry house Larkspur & Hawk, and decorative painter Melissa White unravels like a dream, with a fantastical garden of animals—among them avian gem thieves. Fitting, then, that the idea was born as Satloff slumbered at The Soho Hotel in London, where White’s scenic motifs enlivened the Kit Kemp–designed room. “Luck favors the prepared mind,” says Satloff, whose Georgian-esque pieces are worn by the likes of Oprah and Karlie Kloss. “You never know what something is going to lead to.” In this case, their partnership has also spawned Larkspur & Hawk Staffordshire-revival bookends and candleholders, note cards with Dempsey & Carroll, and more rich fodder for Satloff’s latest jewelry collection. larkspurandhawk.com…

“Do not accuse me of exaggerating when I tell you, very simply, that my two hours at your house were among the best that I have spent in Paris and France, even in Europe.” So Yeshwant Holkar, dapper maharaja, wrote to Jacques Doucet, haute-couture grandee, on October 22, 1929, shortly before boarding a train to India. The latter had jettisoned his ancien-régime antiques to become a pioneering Art Deco patron, and the 21-year-old subcontinental aesthete had gone to pay wide-eyed homage—just in time, too, because the elderly Doucet died a few days later. “Those precious memories I will guard jealously and keep forever,” Holkar continued. This was followed by a compliment (“Your comments and tips have not been less valuable”) that indicates the maharaja had discussed with Doucet his own…

Around 1935, Spanish artist Salvador Dalí saw something special in the face of movie star Mae West: an apartment. In a watercolor, he turned her blonde curls into portières, her eyes into paintings, her nose into a fireplace, and her lips into a divan. The last was a furnishing so provocative that British arts patron Edward James requested a three-dimensional version. Dalí set to the task. The client deemed his first try, wrapped in pink satin, “too showy.” James preferred the next two, realized in 1938 by London decorators Green & Abbott in red and green felt with black fringe. The pair—one is at the V&A; the other failed to sell at Christie’s in June—were made for Monkton House in West Sussex, a classical Edwin Lutyens mansion that James recast…

Leave it to Versace to bring back the beanbag. The Italian fashion house has unveiled The Bag, a flamboyant spin (and its first ever) on the classic boho chair, as one of 100 new additions to its fun-loving furniture line. Inspired by prints in Versace’s spring/summer 2019 collection, the upholstery fabric mixes neoclassical motifs with a patchwork of Miami Beach colors. Molto alla moda! $3,300; versace.com…

What do the homes of Kourtney Kardashian, Giovanna Battaglia Engelbert, and Maja Hoffmann have in common? The iconic teak chairs that Swiss architect Pierre Jeanneret made in the 1950s for Chandigarh, the utopian Indian metropolis masterminded by his cousin Le Corbusier. Later discarded by locals, the seats were swept up by French dealers in the early aughts and rebranded as objects of desire. Today, originals sell for tens of thousands of dollars at auction. But vetted reproductions of two caned seats, a leather-clad armchair, and a dining table are now finally being made by Cassina, which has worked hand in hand with the Fondation Le Corbusier and Jeanneret’s heirs to revive the cult classics in not only teak but also oak. From $2,100; cassina.com…

Six years ago, designers Christian Swafford and Lauren Larson—then employees at Studio Sofield and Victoria Hagan, respectively—started using their nights and weekends for their own creative pursuits. They made sculptural coatracks that were inspired by a 1920s Man Ray photograph and chairs that bore pagan symbols, along the way leaving their day jobs to launch their own studio, Material Lust. Ever since, the couple has steadily built a portfolio of objects that hover between art and design, supplementing their income with anonymous commissions for other brands. Now the duo has turned that insider knowledge into their own collection of products for a more mass market. “After working in the design world, we knew what our peers were looking for,” Swafford explains of Orphan Work, their new array of lighting and…

“We gave a great deal of consideration to bringing in handmade touches wherever possible.”—Ulla Johnson “Town houses can be quite heavy, so bringing in light was very important to us.”…

Shortly before Marie-Chantal Miller met Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, on a blind date in 1992, the young duty-free heiress and recent New York Academy of Art student had moved back home with her parents to a majestic 1913 town house near the Frick that the Millers had just finished transforming with the legendary Italian decorator Renzo Mongiardino. Rich bordeaux and emerald velvets draped the walls, and heavy wood furniture cast an imposing air. One of the rooms was lit by candles alone. “We called it the dark ages because there was no light,” says the blonde beauty today, leading the way into the domed foyer. When Marie-Chantal—now a mother of five and the eponymous founder of a childrenswear brand—and Pavlos, who married in 1995, decided to relocate their family…

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. BROOKLYN BOHÈME PAGES 98–109: Ulla Johnson of Ulla Johnson; ullajohnson.com. Interiors by Alexis Brown; alexisbrowninteriordesign.com. Architecture by Elizabeth Roberts Architecture & Design; elizabethroberts.com. Landscape design by Miranda Brooks Landscape Design; mirandabrooks.com. PAGES 98–99: Fog pendants by Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert; jeremyglass.com. On custom Rino dining table by Arthur Casas for Etel; etel.design; bud vases by Astier de Villatte; astierdevillatte.com. Sink fittings in unlacquered brass by Vola; vola.com. On kitchen island, vintage Arne Bang ceramic vase from Freeforms; freeformsnyc.com. PAGE 100: Teka 174 outdoor table and Harp 349 outdoor dining chairs by Roda; rodaonline.com. PAGE 101: Custom mirror by Rogan Gregory;…