Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2023 i Architectural Digest

At her Malibu retreat, Sarah Paulson shows that in design, as in acting, there are no small roles (page 76). With the help of design firm Nickey Kehoe, the scene-stealing thespian packed personality, wit, and functionality into every inch of her 500-square-foot beach house. So what can you take away from her decorating script? We learned a few lines…. FOR MORE SMART IDEAS VISIT ARCHDIGEST.COM/AD-IT-YOURSELF PULLING UP A CHAIR IN THE MULTIPURPOSE MAIN ROOM, STONE COUNTERS SNAKE AROUND TO FORM A CLEVER DINING PENINSULA, BIG ENOUGH TO FIT TWO STOOLS. CURTAIN CALL A CURTAIN OF SUSAN DELISS FABRIC FROM NICKEY KEHOE TAKES THE PLACE OF A DOOR, FREEING UP FLOOR SPACE THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE ACCOMMODATE ITS SWINGING RADIUS. TIGHT SQUEEZES GIVEN THE KITCHEN’S MODEST DIMENSIONS, PAULSON WENT WITH COMPACT APPLIANCES…

By the time Poorna Jagannathan was 24, she had lived in 15 places. Born in Tunisia to an Indian diplomat, she spent her early years moving between homes in India, Ireland, Pakistan, Argentina, Brazil, and the United States, all pre-furnished. “We slipped into other people’s aesthetics,” reflects the actor, best known for her roles in Netflix’s Never Have I Ever and HBO’s The Night Of. “I never had the chance to figure out my own design sensibility.” Nor did she have a chance to lay roots. In 2008, however, she and her husband, Azad Oommen, cofounder of the nonprofit Global School Leaders, purchased a home on the Westside of Los Angeles. “The minute we walked in, we knew it was ours,” she recalls. For her, its industrial vibe stirred happy…

“Portraiture can serve as a record for people’s families, dynasties, and cultures,” reflects artist Ebitenyefa Baralaye. Following the racial reckoning of 2020 and the death of his father that same year, the Nigerian-born, Detroit-based sculptor has embraced figuration while contemplating his own identity. Two new bodies of work riff on the 19th-century face jugs created by enslaved people in the American South, particularly the work of David Drake, a.k.a. Dave the Potter. “There’s a duality,” Baralaye explains of the objects, which served both practical and spiritual purposes. “It speaks to the pain and agony of enslavement—the objectification of Black people—but it’s also a vessel for poetic expression.” Finished in a black satin glaze, his Akanza series mixes his and his father’s abstracted facial features. Meanwhile, his All My Relation series…

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At Pierre Yovanovitch’s 17th-century Château de Fabrègues, change is a constant. “To bring new life, it’s important that things are ever evolving,” the AD100 designer says of his Provençal estate, home to an ongoing series of artist residencies and site-specific commissions. “I didn’t want creative input to stop once our initial renovations were done. I view the property as a platform for expression.” Following in the footsteps of Claire Tabouret, Johan Cretan, and Alicja Kwade, painter Matthieu Cossé has now left his mark, transforming one of the estate’s four distinctive turrets into a sylvan panorama. Inspiration came from Fabrègues’s own grounds, masterfully transformed by AD100 Hall of Famer Louis Benech (AD, April 2018). Executed over the course of three weeks in a traditional fresco technique, Cossé’s exuberant brushwork depicts the…

I love their body language,” said Lukas Gschwandtner at Design Miami late last year, referring to his recumbent art-historical muses: the canonical statue Sleeping Ariadne, Antonio Canova’s Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix, and Titian’s Venus of Urbino. At the time of our conversation, the Vienna-based artist was seated on one of his canvas-covered chaise longues for Fendi’s booth. Behind us, projected images of those inspirations flashed across a wall. Gschwandtner wondered aloud to what extent the sitters chose their poses themselves. The positioning of a body—the ideas and emotions it conveys—is a subject that has long fascinated Gschwandtner. For his collaboration with the Italian luxury brand, the artist devised what look like five avant-garde jackets, each of which, when used with any of the three daybeds, can coax its occupant…

Tapped by the British luxury bed maker Savoir, Francis Sultana dreamed big. “I didn’t want to design a standard headboard,” reflects the AD100 talent, who took inspiration from the stiff pleated collars of Elizabethan England. “A ruff adds a wonderful sense of fashionable opulence and drama,” says the Londoner. “I am slightly obsessed with 16th-century portraits by artists such as Nicholas Hilliard, Marcus Gheeraerts, and Isaac Oliver.” Using their goffered frills as aesthetic springboards, he concocted a winged silhouette that simultaneously evokes the sculptural shapes of the Art Deco period (another personal favorite). Christened Louis, the headboard, Sultana explains, “is named after both King Louis XIII of France, who wore the ruff with great aplomb, and Louis Majorelle, an Art Nouveau French furniture designer who devised some amazing beds for…

“The kitchen is the beating heart of the house. When people come to visit, they should feel like they’re invited into our heart,” Harbour says. It’s Harbour. Dressed in an intrepid pasticcio of chintz balloon a mad, mad, mad, mad world at the Brooklyn town house of Lily Allen and David shades, crystal chandeliers, pink silk, tiger-patterned textiles, and Mylar wallpaper, the home issues a full-throated rebuke to the current vogue for hushed good taste wrapped in a straitjacket of beige. With an able assist from AD100 designer Billy Cotton and architect Ben Bischoff of MADE, Allen and Harbour have conjured a familial fantasyland of daring beauty and individual connoisseurial vision. In short, it’s a knockout. “Lily is the one who really set the tone and drove the program. Every…

William Sofield is the designer equivalent of those extreme-sports adrenaline junkies who fly off mountain cliffs wearing nothing but a wingsuit, danger be damned. Over the past three decades, the AD100 Hall of Fame talent—whose client list includes titans of taste on the order of Tom Ford and Helen and Brice Marden—has happily embarked on his own perilous adventures, renovating a series of white elephants that mere mortals would not dare to touch. First there was the rehabilitation of Balcastle, an eccentric early-20th-century brick-and-limestone house with a crenellated tower improbably rising above a street of humble shingled cottages in the town of Southampton, New York. “It was a benign eyesore—Medieval Times meets South Fork swank,” Sofield says of the challenging property. Then came the precarious Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford…

Line Vautrin, the sculptor who dazzled 1930s Paris with her gilt-bronze buttons, jewelry, and other whimsies, is often called the poetess of metal. But her mirrors—one of Vautrin’s best-known bodies of work—were hewn from something far less traditional: an unusual amalgamation of resin and glass. It was a simple umbrella handle, embedded with mirrors, that may have served as the starting point for the novel technique called Talosel, which involved heating malleable cellulose acetate resin (similar to that used for sunglasses) in order to embed it with cut fragments of mirror and sculpt its shape. Vautrin dreamily described the trademarked process as “the union of fire (which melted the material) and water, as represented by the transparency of glass.” Her otherworldly looking glasses, often inscribed with poems or playful phrases…

Anytime Jake Arnold posts a room on Instagram, his many followers (314K and counting) have questions. What’s that paint color? What kind of wood is that bookshelf? Where’s that coffee table from? So when Sebastian Brauer, the senior vice president of product design at Crate & Barrel, slid into the AD100 designer’s DMs with a proposal to collaborate, it sounded like the perfect opportunity to give the people the look they love. “Finishes, materials, proportion, scale,” says Arnold, describing the building blocks of the new 50-piece collection, which spans lighting and furniture. Inspiration came loosely from 1940s and ’50s France—savvy eyes will spot a handful of Jean Royère references—but the idea was to create timeless pieces in refined materials that would fit seamlessly into a home of any size or…

30 Avenue Montaigne PARIS Christian Dior’s iconic Right Bank hôtel particulier—the brand’s Parisian home base since 1946—reopened its doors following a dramatic multiyear update by architect Peter Marino. Part boutique, part atelier, and part gallery, this legendary address is now a must-see primer in fashion history. dior.com Anahuacalli Museum Extension MEXICO CITY Originally envisioned by Diego Rivera and his friend Juan O’Gorman as a repository for the artist’s vast holdings of pre-Columbian artifacts, this arts center has been sensitively expanded by Taller Mauricio Rocha. Three new low-slung volumes rest on bases of volcanic stone, poetically perching above the site’s famous lava formations. Masonry latticework blurs indoors and outdoors. museoanahuacalli.org.mx Battersea Power Station LONDON Constructed piecemeal from 1929 to 1955, this landmark by J. Theo Halliday and Sir Giles Gilbert Scott…

“I like creature comforts. I like to be cozy and well fed.”—Lily Allen “We loved the idea of bringing the garden into the living room.”—Billy Cotton…