Innholdsfortegnelse for Spring 2020 i domino

While staying at the lovely and delightful Chiltern Firehouse in London’s Marylebone neighborhood to shoot and interview Alexa Chung for our spring cover, the early-February winter backdrop was decidedly gray and bleek (our friends at Farrow & Ball call it Mizzle—a combo of mist and drizzle). But inside André Balazs’s cozy property, color, plants, and patterns are layered to feel fresh and welcoming. It’s the kind of place you never want to leave, no matter the season. Likewise spending the day with Chung and her team at her office gave us a chance to explore the quaint and very London-y De Beauvoir Town in Hackney, just north of booming Shoreditch. With its Georgian townhouses and cute coffee shops, it’s essentially a little village tucked away in a big city. The…

“It’s magic to combine the right colors together. It’s the influence of the city and the light here,” says Laurence Leenaert. The Belgium-born creative, who grew up in the foggy Flemish countryside, uprooted her life five years ago and moved to Marrakech on a whim, following a monthlong trip to the M’Hamid El Ghizlane desert. She had just launched LRNCE, a now Instagram-famous line of textiles, rugs, home goods, clothing, and artwork that comes in a palette of vibrant cobalt, mustard, rust, and dusty peach. From its new home base, the brand has quickly expanded to nine employees (and 179,000 loyal followers), as well as more than 35 artisans around the region who help produce sculptural ceramic vessels and hand-braided tapestries, to which Leenaert then applies her curvy shapes. “I’m…

Over the past 20 years, I have owned and renovated eight homes. Yes, I am the rare bird who moves every two to three years and thoroughly enjoys every bit of it! Some may find the thought of ping-ponging around to be unsettling. But for our family of three, it just feels natural and exciting. My houses have become my design laboratory. I have always been intrigued by the behind-the-scenes: how things (seem to) magically come together and the spark that incites a journey. In my work, I continually ask other creatives to pull back the curtain on their design practices: How do you achieve the right balance of scale, texture, patina, and layering? Is it the mix of materials, periods, or styles? Is it the blend of high and…

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A deep believer in the magical healing powers of aesthetics, color, and sound (and something of a shaman), Ivy Ross is not your typical tech executive. But her spiritual approach is not some woo-woo fantasy either. From her office at Google’s Design Lab in Mountain View, California, the company’s coolheaded vice president of hardware design means business. There, she steers her team of 150 in making some of today’s most standout gadgets, from phones to smart speakers. Since first unveiling its line of hardware in the fall of 2016, Google has quickly gained a reputation for creating soft, simple, and remarkably attractive products that sensitively combine color (often pastel-y, some that pop), material (most notably textiles), and form (nature-inspired) to surprisingly pleasurable effect. Forget shiny, hard black boxes. Ross and…

A few humble pine planks were all Donald Judd needed to create a chair that is now considered the essential pared-down seat. Although the legendary 20th-century American artist and pioneer of minimalism (a term he nevertheless strongly disliked) considered his art and design as separate, it’s not hard to see his furniture as a functional expression of his approach to form—using the same attention to proportion, scale, and geometry as in the famed metal, Plexiglas, and concrete works that defined his career. Rather than being pegged to any particular era, the pieces have been an inspiration to artists and designers over the past 50 years. But if Judd were ever to have a moment, it’s now. This March New York’s Museum of Modern Art launches a major retrospective, gathering his…

Tree trunks engulfed in lush emerald vines, a crystal-clear cerulean sea, a flower’s mauve-tinged petals—nature’s handiwork is the original color inspiration. How do you bring some of that magic back home, beyond the pale pink seashell or crimson leaf pocketed along the way? Turn it into a paint shade, for one. Beginning March 2, Farrow & Ball is launching a competition to create five brand-new hues inspired by families’ explorations around the world, celebrating Mother Nature’s most striking flora and fauna. To kick things off, we asked six photographers to spotlight (and name!) their favorite color moments discovered in the wild. Share your own natural wonders at farrow-ball.com. Faded Lilies By Andrea Gentl of Gentl and Hyers I was in Varanasi, India, with my husband and friends, and I went…

The Grown-Up Pastels In juicier tones, pink, coral, and lilac are no longer just for the powder room. The No-Rules Neutrals In the softest shades, any color combo goes, from blush and buff to cream and alabaster. The New Primaries Introducing the original trio’s edgier cousins: cobalt, goldenrod, and strawberry.…

In the 20 years since Alexa Chung—England’s cleverest trendsetter and best-dressed-list fixture—was discovered, she has spun a successful modeling career into being a sought-after presenter for radio and television programs on fashion and music; penned the book It; and continues to inspire designers worldwide with her uniquely British wit and style—a combination of crisp tailoring and rock-and-roll swagger, with a ruffle or kitten heel thrown in for good measure. In 2017, Chung launched her own label, AlexaChung, a tightly edited line that draws on her eclectic influences—from David Bowie to Victorian wallpapers to 1960s housewives—which she deftly distills down to singular looks everyone wants to be wearing. This spring Chung returns to TV as cohost of the new Netflix series Next in Fashion, alongside Queer Eye’s Tan France, a design…

On an otherwise typical Wednesday morning, Jordan Cluroe, one half of British design darling 2LG Studio, donned a bubblegum pink trenchcoat. That’s all it took for stranger after stranger to strike up a conversation. “Color can be quite revolutionary, can’t it?” muses Russell Whitehead, 2LG Studio’s other half. “It causes reactions in a world that can feel very lonely.” The duo’s home, a detached Victorian in southeast London that they lovingly revived from a “virtually derelict” state over the course of five years, has a similar effect. “When people come through the door, the color instantly opens up their personalities because they’re so surprised,” says Whitehead (above right, with Cluroe). Never formally trained in interior design (both started out as actors), the couple is happily unconstrained by rules. Any hue…

When London-based fashion creative Deborah Brett first saw her two-story, 1930s-era home-to-be, it wasn’t exactly love at first sight. “It seemed very grown-up,” she recalls. At the time, Brett and her husband, filmmaker Tom Edmunds, had just married, and buying such an expansive family property felt a little too soon—like they were speeding “two or three leaps ahead.” Still, there was something charming about the red-brick structure, with its sweeping front steps, big bay windows, and backyard that edged onto the bucolic woodland of Holland Park. The previous owners had lived there for 30 years and raised five children. “You could feel the love as soon as you walked in,” says Brett. She asked her father—who had been less than enthusiastic about the other potential candidates—for a second opinion. He…

When designer Raili Clasen signed on to renovate a 1927 Dutch Colonial on the resort-dotted island of Coronado in Southern California, she knew exactly where to start: a vintage piano, which she immediately painted a lacquered raincoat yellow. “It was sourced two houses down,” Clasen explains—from the home of the project’s architect Eric Olsen’s mother, to be exact. The small yet eye-catching nod to the past—which Olsen gifted to the family: Candice Kislack, her husband, Chip, and their two children, Evelyn (5) and Catcher (3)—set the tone for the remodel. At that point, in the fall of 2017, “the walls were torn apart by rats,” Clasen recalls—but all she saw was the staircase. Her goal: Save the good bones. In addition to repairing original features, like the serpentine handrail and…

Rhubarb Shrub Sparkler/Keeps Bones Strong Consider these elixirs the newest form of color therapy. Each brew has a different healing property that will have you feeling your best. Good vibes all around! Turmeric Tonic/Calms Inflammation Flower Water/Boosts Energy Rhubarb Shrub Sparkler Makes 1 serving It’s not just the prettiest thing you’ll find at the farmers’ market—in-season rhubarb is also high in calcium and vitamin K, two important nutrients for bone health. Another highlight: This fizzy refresher tastes like a spring celebration in a glass. ¼ cup rhubarb-fennel pollen shrub (see page 87 for the recipe)¼ cup honey, agave, or rhubarb fruit syrup½ cup sparkling water Pour ingredients into a glass over ice. Mix with a spoon and enjoy. Turmeric Tonic Makes 1 serving A little black pepper is key for…