Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2016 i Architectural Digest

MICHAEL S. SMITH Los Angeles–based AD100 designer Smith is an Obama family favorite, having elegantly updated the White House private residence (“Executive Order,” page 78) and refreshed the Oval Office. He is currently revamping Shutters on the Beach, the beloved Santa Monica, California, hotel. CAROLINA IRVING “Going to the White House [for ‘Executive Order’] was obviously the highlight of all my styling jobs,” says the New York– and Paris-based owner of Carolina Irving Textiles, who is also the creative director for Oscar de la Renta’s home line. “I was struck by the humanity of it all. The staff members were incredibly gracious, especially since I was asking them to do things like move a cushion half an inch counterclockwise.” BARRY BERGDOLL The Columbia University art history professor trekked to Brazil…

Iconic designs by renowned artists John Currin (top) and Laurie Simmons make a splash on cotton beach towels, $95 each. The 60" x 70" pieces are manufactured by Art Production Fund, which supports public art projects, in partnership with Kohler. worksonwhatever.com, 212-966-0193 1Italian iconoclasts Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari have teamed with Seletti to make dinnerware featuring their playful pictures. Each 10.5" porcelain plate is $75. gagosian.com, 212-796-1224 2Bomber puts graffiti artist Keith Haring’s signature imagery onto its Artist Series skis. Shown in the new Bright Vibes style, they cost $2,500 per pair. bomberski.com, 212-980-2442 3 Designed in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the hand-knotted-silk Marilyn 1967 rug by Henzel Studio Heritage comes in ten colorways; $17,111 for the 99" x 118" size. henzelstudio.com, 323-450-9660…

Arles has never been at the top of the list for tourists visiting Provence. Certainly the ancient French city, situated near the mouth of the Rhône, has enough charm—and good light—to have inspired artists. Van Gogh spent a manically productive 15 months there, painting more than 200 works (but losing an ear). Picasso frequented the bullfights and made portraits of his second wife, Jacqueline, in Arlesian costumes. Still, it has always lacked the languid romance of those picture-perfect villages in the South of France. “Arles has remained more or less the same—open in the summer but rather shut down in the winter,” muses Maja Hoffmann, an art-world power broker who grew up in the nearby Camargue region and went to school locally. Now Arles is fast becoming a popular year-round…

For nearly 30 years philanthropist Beth Rudin DeWoody has lived in a gracious prewar apartment so close to Manhattan’s East River that yachts were once moored outside the building. Over time DeWoody, an heir to her family’s realestate fortune and a longtime trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art, has filled the 12-room home— renovated by architect Alan Wanzenberg in 1988—with a spectacular and ever-growing accumulation of art and objects. Delectable midcentury European furnishings reside cheek by jowl with Pop Art icons, drawings, sculptures, and a seemingly endless array of conceptual contemporary work. When the voracious collector married Iranian-born, Los Angeles–based photographer Firooz Zahedi in 2012, the decision to buy a West Coast apartment together provided a perfect opportunity to put more of her vast treasure trove on display.…

One could write a book about the meticulous four-year renovation and decoration of art collectors Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr.’s triplex penthouse on Park Avenue. And, in fact, their interior designer, Amy Lau, produced a coffee-table tome as a gift for the couple, chronicling their collaboration with many of the artisans responsible for the apartment’s custommade rugs, lighting, and furniture. Curled up barefoot on the 1960s Brazilian sofa in the leather-swathed library, Clarissa has a laidback demeanor that belies her formidable role in New York cultural life as a vice-chairman of Carnegie Hall, a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, and cochairman of the Guggenheim Museum’s Latin American Committee. (She also practices photography and creates a sought-after line of jewelry.) The six-bedroom apartment, she explains, was conceived as an…

(T) means the item is available only to the trade. CONTENTS PAGE 18: Cumberland soup cup, lid, and saucer by Nymphenburg; kneenandco.com. Lapis lazuli–and–blue sapphire ring and antique Roman Soldier pendant by Elizabeth Locke; neimanmarcus.com. Africa necklace by Marco Bicego; marcobicego.com. Cloche and Alchimie dessert plate by L’Objet; l-objet-.com. Oyster Perpetual Pearlmaster watch by Rolex; rolex.com. Oriente Italiano Citrino Potiche vase by Richard Ginori; barneys.com. Kürbisflasche vase by Theresienthal; marymahoney.com. Louis XV chest from Côté France; cotefrance.com. Velluto Dante fabric by Clarence House (T); clarencehouse.com. WORLD OF: LAUREN SANTO DOMINGO PAGES 60–62: Moda Operandi; modaoperandi.com. Floral arrangements by Saipua; saipua.com. PAGE 60: Drum table by Samuel Amoia; samuelamoia.com. On Santo Domingo, sling-back flats by Paul Andrew from Moda Operandi; modaoperandi.com. PAGE 62: In jewelry salon, Earlham chinoiserie silk wallpaper and…

“Art is the proper task of life.” —Friedrich Nietzsche In a sense, every issue of AD really is the Art issue, as most of the houses we feature boast a collection of some sort, whether photography, ceramics, Old Masters, or contemporary works. But the editors take particular care to curate this specially themed annual issue, and the creative variety contained on the pages reveals so much about each of the homeowners: The art they choose, and how they choose to live with it, silently tells their story. Thanks to decorator Michael S. Smith, AD presents an exclusive tour of the White House’s private quarters, where President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama reside in casual splendor among pieces both traditional and challenging, some of which have been borrowed from Washington,…

So many shops are just about putting as much product as possible in front of your eye—it’s the same experience as when you go to a grocery store,” says Lauren Santo Domingo. “That’s not what we’re trying to replicate here.” Situated in a historic townhouse on a residential Upper East Side block just off Madison Avenue, Moda Operandi Madison is a beacon of 21stcentury civility. “High tech, high touch,” Santo Domingo calls it. E-commerce software allows the luxury fashion retailer—once an online-only destination—to know a customer’s sizes and style whims before she walks in the door, so the entire space can be curated just for her. And what a space it is: Santo Domingo decorated it herself, splashing the walls in flattering shades of peach and emerald, and drawing from…

CREATIVITY UNLEASHED In the 1990s David Hockney—pictured in his Los Angeles studio at the time—captured his two dachshunds, Stanley and Boodgie, in dozens of paintings. “These two dear little creatures are my friends,” he once stated, also admitting they made for somewhat fidgety models. As one of the most prolific artists of his generation, Hockney can certainly appreciate a reluctance to sit still. His vast body of work is surveyed in the giant new limited-edition tome David Hockney: A Bigger Book (Taschen, $2,500). Its release anticipates his 2017 retrospective at Tate Britain, debuting February 9 and later traveling to the Centre Pompidou and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fans on both sides of the Atlantic should wag their tails.…

ALL ABOUT YVES The surprisingly humble beginnings of Yves Klein’s ultrafashionable cocktail tables French provocateur Yves Klein—he of the paintslathered models rolled across canvases—tried his hand at a new medium in 1961: the cocktail table. He made two prototypes, sprinkling pigments into wood tops, but never got around to installing the protective glass. In 1963, after the artist’s death, at 34, his widow produced the patented acrylic tables now beloved by everyone from Stella Schnabel to Sting. Filled with radiant pigment—International Klein Blue or hot pink—or crumpled gold leaf, they are available through Artware Editions. (A new Table Bleue sells for $21,000.) “ It is the ultimate abstract art piece, and completely functional.” Chalk it up to Klein exhibitions in the early 2000s or wild auction prices, but everyone wants…

There are artists whose stamp is unmistakable— Jackson Pollock’s splatters, for example, or Yayoi Kusama’s polka dots. Kathryn Andrews has no such obvious signature. Over the past decade the Los Angeles–based sculptor has created a diverse body of work that explores issues of authorship, mixing found pictures and artifacts (political, pop cultural) in highly polished, meticulously produced pieces. “How do we create associations with what we’re seeing? How do those associations become a crutch, stopping us from looking in an engaged way?” she asks, walking through her Highland Park studio. “A lot of what I make deals with these questions.” For one series Andrews juxtaposed graphics from 19th-century presidential campaigns with actual superhero costumes from Hollywood blockbusters. For a separate installation she hung a mirror opposite a work by John…

Known for its crops of grapes, wheat, and corn, the bucolic township of Buchanan, in the southwestern corner of Michigan, is an unlikely spot to find a Surrealist garden. But that is precisely what Alan Koppel, a Chicago art dealer, and his wife, Sherry, an interior designer, have conjured on the acreage surrounding their weekend house. “If you know something of Surrealism, the garden means more to you,” Alan explains. “But you can enjoy it even if you know nothing.” Hidden among towering trees is a custom-made carvedwood horse head that refers partly to René Magritte’s 1926 collage The Lost Jockey and partly to a 1940s Alexander Calder chess set. Tall carved-wood spindles known as bilboquets—Alan, influenced by other Magrittes, designed them to resemble elongated pawns— are tucked amid the…

Dorothy Berwin fell in love with the trees. “I found our house,” the filmmaker told her partner, Dominique Lévy, 12 years ago, as she described the property she had located in Bridgehampton, New York. “But you’re not going to like it.” The structure was an unremarkable shingled saltbox. To the left of it, however, three giant Japanese cedars were swaying in the breeze, and at the back of the house stood a towering white birch. Despite Berwin’s dire prediction, Lévy—a formidable art dealer with galleries in New York and London—was smitten even before she reached the end of the driveway. Wetlands stretched along one side. “I think the magic is, you don’t see neighbors,” she explains. The couple took the plunge. At the time they were looking for a retreat…