Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2022 i Architectural Digest

TREAD LIGHTLY THE ENTRY’S PAINTED STAIRS NOD TO ONES TOM SCHEERER DESIGNED FOR HIS OWN MOTHER. “TOM IS THE MAYOR OF DECORATING IN LYFORD. YOU HAVE TO PAY RESPECT.” GOLD STANDARD “YELLOW WITH BLUE IS ONE OF THE PRETTIEST COLOR COMBINATIONS,” NETTO MUSES. CASE IN POINT: THIS BESPOKE BATHROOM VANITY, WHICH POPS AGAINST THE ZIA TILE. FROM SEA TO SEA FOR THE SHUTTERS, NETTO OPTED FOR A CUSTOM-MIXED SHADE OF GREEN THAT HE MODELED AFTER A PROJECT IN GREECE BY AD100 HALL OF FAMER JOHN STEFANIDIS. ANCHORS AWEIGH “A TINY ROOM SHOULD FEEL MYSTERIOUS,” NETTO EXPLAINS OF A GUEST BEDROOM’S DEEP-BLUE PAINT JOB, WHICH RIFFS ON THE NAUTICAL PAINTINGS ON DISPLAY. “IT WAS LIKE PUTTING THE SHIPS IN WATER.” FOR MORE SMART IDEAS VISIT ARCHDIGEST.COM/AD-IT-YOURSELF…

To say that Andrea Molteni was born into the design world would be an understatement. As the scion of the furniture dynasty founded in Giussano, Italy, by his grandparents Angelo and Giuseppina Molteni in 1934, Andrea has been fully immersed in the grand tradition of Italian design his entire life. Today, as the vice president and director of product development for Molteni&C | Dada, he is not only safeguarding his family’s legacy but also forging new avenues of experimentation and innovation for the company and its affiliate brands. “I was raised in the design industry, so the importance of quality is part of my DNA,” he says. “It’s more than just a question of style. I like things that are well made, products with inherent integrity and craftsmanship.” The Milan…

Sandwiched between mountains and sea on Mexico’s Oaxacan coast, Hotel Terrestre, a new property from Grupo Habita, is designed with one thing in mind: the environment. From the moment you arrive, you sense it—the sand underfoot, the breeze, the reception’s timber chairs and earthy palette. Even the brutalist buildings, which mimic ancient ruins, fold seamlessly into the natural surroundings, a mix of existing vegetation and indigenous additions like copal trees and orchids. Tasked with designing the buildings and the landscape was celebrated Mexico City–based architect Alberto Kalach. As Carlos Couturier, cofounder of Grupo Habita, explains, “Kalach is officially an architect, but his soul is about developing landscapes.” Essential to the experience is a connection between the terrain, the buildings, and the sky, which can be appreciated from the open-air showers…

There’s an element of spectacle and obsession, perhaps even a bit of madness, in the work of Astrid and Eddy Sykes, founders of the multidisciplinary Mexico City–based firm wrinkleMX. Tucked discreetly behind the historical façade of an early-20thcentury building on the outskirts of the Mexican capital, the duplex apartment that the designers crafted for a young family is a tour de force of materials exploration and sculptural brio, astonishing and completely sui generis. The kitchen alone, with its folded planes of brass and a marble island that reads like a Mayan sacrificial altar, is worthy of a dissertation on eccentricity, experiential design, and structural derring-do. In short, there’s nothing quite like it. “It took us three months just to make the dish rack. We obsess over everything that people touch,…

All products have been identified by the designer of each residence. Items similar to vintage and antique pieces shown are often available from the dealers listed. Contact information was up to date at time of publication. FRENCH BEAUTY PAGES 66–77: Architectural renovation by Philippe Pastre; philippe-pastrearchitecte-blog.tumblr.com. PAGES 66–67: Vico Magistretti chairs and Cork lamp for Design M by Ingo Maurer; 1stdibs.com. Stromboli table by India Mahdavi from Ralph Pucci; ralphpucci.com. PAGES 68–69: Raf Simons for Calvin Klein Gaetano Pesce Chair by Cassina; 1stdibs.com. Wicker chairs by Tito Agnoli; bonacina1889.it. PAGE 71: Sofas; caravane.co.uk. Vintage shearling-covered Clam chairs by Philip Arctander; 1stdibs.com. Carpet; manufacturecogolin.com. PAGES 72–73: In kitchen, cabinetry; devolkitchens.com. Range by Wolf; subzero-wolf.com. In guest room, bed; ensemblierlondon.com. Fabric on bench cushion; florasoames.com. PAGE 74: Hanging light; ateliervime.com. PAGE 75:…

A home of one’s own: It’s a universal dream, but one tragically and unfairly out of reach for so many human beings worldwide. The editors at AD produce features on the most inspiring residences imaginable, yet even as we feel privileged to share the fantasy with our readers, we as a team comprehend how many people are in need of comforting shelter, and we strive to help where we can. In 2017, AD teamed with the Atlanta-based nonprofit New Story to raise $650,000 to build a new community in Titanyen, Haiti, for families still displaced by the 2010 earthquake. The design world—and especially the illustrious members of the AD100—immediately understood the mission and rallied to support this epic project. We are so proud and happy to share the miraculous result…

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There’s nothing accidental or arbitrary about the work of architect Lee Mindel. Describing his new collection of furnishings for Ralph Pucci International, the erudite AD100 Hall of Famer traces an elaborate web of influences and inspirations, both legendary and arcane: Jean-Michel Frank, Georges Jouve, Pol Chambost, Serge Roche, Isamu Noguchi, Henry Moore, Vallauris, Gustavsberg. “You look, you study, but you never copy. The point of this or any design exercise is to make something new, relevant, beautiful,” Mindel professes. Working alongside Pucci’s own master sculptor, Michael Evert, Mindel spent months during the pandemic experimenting in the company’s studio in Manhattan, developing a design language attuned to the possibilities of Pucci’s proprietary Plasterglass material. “You have to ask the material what it wants to be in terms of form, structure, and…

Bangladeshi architect Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury of studio URBANA has turned several old boats into floating hospitals so that the humanitarian group Friendship can reach populated islands in that country’s rivers. Now he has completed his first hospital on land, though water is still very much a feature. A canal zigzags like a lightning bolt through a collection of small buildings that constitute the 80-bed Friendship Hospital in Shyamnagar—a rural area about 200 miles southwest of Dhaka. The canal’s serene beauty was reason enough to build it. (Chowdhury believes that a pleasing environment facilitates healing.) But the canal—a dividing line between the hospital’s inpatient and outpatient facilities—serves several practical purposes: It collects rainwater from surrounding plazas and rooftops that is stored and used for irrigation, and it creates a microclimate, cooling…

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Jolie Ngo was still an undergrad at the Rhode Island School of Design when her digitally savvy ceramics—3D-printed in SweeTart-colored porcelain—started getting likes on Instagram. Buzz continued to build IRL at Design Miami in 2020 and 2021. And now the 26-year-old rising star, who is just wrapping up her master’s in ceramic art at Alfred University, will take center stage in her first solo show, opening at New York’s R & Company gallery on April 28. Her latest creations revisit the pixelated landscapes of video games like Super Mario Bros. and Pokémon, which she played growing up in Philadelphia. “The works are heavily influenced by my early digital world,” says Ngo, who refers to them as memory-palace vessels, after the mnemonic device in which visualization of a familiar environment enables…

When Louis Bernard Woeste and William A. Stephens filed a patent for a so-called myriad reflector in 1916, the dawn of disco was still decades away. But their glittering mirror ball—destined for ballrooms, nightclubs, dance pavilions, and skating rinks—was made with revelry in mind. Shiny orbs hovered over bandstands hosting jazz musicians in the 1920s, twinkled above dancers in Casablanca (1942), and dazzled a club scene in Some Like It Hot (1959). By the 1970s, when that super-glam, sparkly club culture—disco!—at last arrived, the mirror ball fit right in, a silvery staple of underground New York dance spots like The Loft, The Gallery, and, later, legendary nightclub Studio 54, where revelers grooved beneath its disorienting shimmer. (Studio 54’s was made by Omega National Products in Louisville, Kentucky, famous today for…

Lately I’ve been thinking about how to sculpt in a feminist way,” says the Danish artist Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen, who has been mining the work of scholar Donna J. Haraway for inspiration. “I’m drawn to her way of playing around with new words, of looking at things and fabulating.” Pedersen is channeling that meandering, speculative approach into “Tentacular Thinking,” a solo show of freshly fired work that will inaugurate the new Tribeca outpost of the Manhattan gallery Hostler Burrows on April 28. “It matters what shapes I put together to tell a story,” says Pedersen, reflecting on her sculptural mash-ups. Unnerving, vaguely anthropomorphic forms (lips, tongues, intestines) mix with depictions of everyday objects, like tables and vases. One piece, in which a humanoid child seems to drink from a vessel,…

“Everything starts with a historic reference,” says AD100 architect Elizabeth Roberts, New York’s preeminent town house whisperer. So when fellow Brooklynites Calico Wallpaper asked her to collaborate, the proud preservationist immediately looked to the past. With the help of a Cambridge-trained historian in her office, Roberts delved into the scenic patterns of yesteryear, especially the hand-drawn tableaux of faraway landscapes that predated repeat-print technology. To put a personal spin on that tradition, she looked to her own proverbial backyard: Prospect Park. A 1910 postcard of the iconic urban landscape has now given way to a made-to-order wallpaper, first realized as a 20-foot-wide ink drawing using her signature drafting techniques. (Titled Scenic, the motif is available in eight colorways.) “It’s a fresh take on something that has hundreds of years of…