Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2025 i Architectural Digest

Musically speaking, a counterpoint is the juxtaposition of instruments that are harmonically dependent on one another but distinct in their rhythm and melody. You can hear the technique in everything from Bach’s fugues to Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android.” Now Hermès and Nigel Peake have formed a chorus, rendering the concept in a 33-piece array of porcelain tableware. On plates, trays, spoons, bowls, and more, the Irish artist has created concentric borders reminiscent of tennis bracelets and tantric mandalas. Like his past projects for the luxury brand, the line—titled Hermès En Contrepoint—pairs playful flourishes with geometric forms to symphonic effect. “I like seeing how things talk when you put one beside another,” explains Peake, who found inspiration for this new tableware service in the borderlines of old nautical cartography. “The way they…

It all started with a spring. In the early 1930s, the English automotive engineer George Carwardine came up with a mechanism featuring tightly wound coils of wire that could suspend objects in space. Then he had an epiphany: Why not fix a bulb to one end, creating a flexible task lamp? When he showed the design to manufacturer Anglepoise (then called Herbert Terry & Sons), they agreed to produce it. The resulting model 1208—an armlike system that used two of those springs at the elbow and two at the base—emitted directional light. “It solved a problem,” says brand director Simon Terry, the fifth-generation custodian of Anglepoise. “It put light exactly where it was needed.” A plus? With reduced glare, it was better for people’s eyes. The originals went to work…

When arriving at San Vicente West Village, any guest of a member is promptly handed two stickers, one to cover the camera on the back of their cell phone, the other its front lens. Photography is strictly forbidden and privacy sacrosanct inside this exclusive club, which in the span of months has outpaced its many peers in terms of intrigue and buzz. Rooms that might have otherwise flooded social media therefore remain shrouded in secrecy—a fate quite befitting their understated author, the London-based AD100 maestro Rose Uniacke. Mystery is valuable currency in the age of oversharing, and few designers have banked more than Uniacke. The antiques dealer turned decorator has built her name (pronounced you-nee-ack) creating pared-back, atmospheric interiors where timeworn pieces, muted tones, and soft lines commune in quiet…

ACE HOTEL & SWIM CLUB ATHENS Set in a Brutalist building, this Aegean newcomer harks back to the 1970s heyday of the Athens Riviera, with interiors by the French studio Ciguë that put a fresh twist on Greek beach chic. Think a front desk hewn from Dionysos marble and sconces in the shape of harpies. From $350; acehotel.com AVANTGARDE REFINED CAVES OF CAPPADOCIA | TÜRKIYE In the land of cave dwellings, this cliffside sanctuary raises the luxury bar with accommodations by Studio Efe Aydar. Sinuous light fixtures, modeled after the topography, shine in shipshape rooms that, though modern, feel quintessentially of the place. From $345; avantgardecollection.com BANYAN TREE VEYA, VALLE DE GUADALUPE MEXICO Following the path of the sun, architect Michel Rojkind integrated this 16-acre wellness complex (complete with a…

We all like to think we are in charge of our lives—that we make changes and choices, and the future is in our hands. Then fate steps in. In the case of AD100 designer Corey Damen Jenkins, it was a series of events both mundane and monumental that transformed his life. For years, he based his firm just outside Detroit, eventually opening a Manhattan outpost in 2018. He might well have continued that dual existence but for an unexpected development: Within a year of arriving to the Big Apple he met Adam Wasserman, a business and marketing executive, and the man he would marry. And then COVID struck. The lease on Jenkins’s Michigan office would soon come to an end, so he made a major decision and shifted his life…

FOR MORE GREAT FINDS VISIT ARCHDIGEST.COM/SHOPPING NEW ORDER Grecian gowns usher in a fresh wave of neoclassical rigor COLOR THEORY Bold hues and dynamic combos forge fresh rainbow connections HERBES DE PROVENCE Chic jacquards and elegant passementerie make for stunning odes to the French countryside…

Acne Studios, the Stockholm-based fashion brand known for its off-kilter minimalism and avant-garde denim, had long kept several satellite offices around Paris’s Le Marais district. This allowed the label to be more plugged into the international fashion scene—and made it easier to stage its ready-to-wear shows locally twice a year. But dashing from one building to another for meetings wasn’t a terribly efficient way of working. Finally, company cofounder and creative director Jonny Johansson decided it was time to bring everything under one roof. In 2022, after much searching, he found the perfect site in the 10th arrondissement: a historic mansion that had been home to the Prevets, a French industrialist family. Attached to the back was the 1930s laboratory where, for 50 years, they made Gomenol, a medicinal oil…

“No room is off-limits,” says Paul Arnhold, leaning back on a butterscotch-gingham silk taffeta sofa, of the Upper East Side apartment that he shares with his husband, fashion designer Wes Gordon, and their two young children. “The kids know that there are nice things here, but those things were made by people with a lot of love. And we treat things that were made with love with love.” Sitting side-by-side in the sunken living room, Gordon, creative director of Carolina Herrera, and Arnhold, founder of an acclaimed glassware company, share the backstory of finding and designing the home over the cheerful din of an active household. Elsewhere in the apartment, their son, Henry, four, is having a chess lesson while their daughter, Georgia, two, is playing with Arnhold’s dad, John.…

AS MY HUSBAND, JORDAN, has become more himself, he has transformed our lives. Our initial home’s aesthetic could best be described as muscular: wood, steel, straight lines, chic but careful. Closets filled only with dark Prada suits and crisp white shirts. But then Jordan grew his hair, painted his nails, jettisoned the suits for dresses. Couture conquered careful. And now our new home is the physical manifestation of Jordan’s full-throttle freedom, bravery, artistry, creativity, and abundant love. Full disclosure: After house-hunting together, once we chose this house, I didn’t return till the day we moved in three years later. I tell all our visitors: I had nothing to do with anything you see. When friends hear that we hadn’t worked together on our house project, they commend us, saying, “Our…

For more than a decade now, Hugo Sauzay and Charlotte de Tonnac of Paris-based interiors studio Festen have been quietly reshaping the European hotel landscape, bringing a spare, sensual elegance to properties like Splendido Mare in Portofino and the newly revived Hôtel Balzac in Paris. Even before they became the It couple for stylish stays, one of their early projects captivated American fashion entrepreneur Yael Aflalo. She was staying with her family at Les Roches Rouges on the Côte d’Azur, and felt immediately at home at the resort’s boho-modernist rooms. “What drew me in was the sense of ease and individuality,” says Aflalo, founder of the era-defining Reformation, and more recently, an eponymous ready-to-wear line. “Their spaces felt thoughtful but unforced, with unique pieces that made me think of an…