Innholdsfortegnelse for Summer 2021 i domino

As we sit here writing this letter, virtually our entire team is settling into a new normal on some level—between us, we’ve moved apartments (Associate Style Editor Julia Stevens, Contributing Editor Julie Vadnal, Chief Creative Officer Kate Berry) and across boroughs (Photo Director Linda Denahan) and state lines (Executive Editor Alex Redgrave, Digital Strategy Director Sophie Miura), as well as just across the hallway in search of better light (Editorial Director of Home Lindsey Mather). A few people have taken the plunge and purchased a first home (Design Director Brit Ashcraft, Deputy Photo Editor Andie Diemer) or a weekend retreat (Editor at Large Jessica Romm Perez, Style Director Benjamin Reynaert). Turns out, Associate Editor Lydia Geisel was in her happy place all along. Of course, we’re always sending one another…

The original plan was always Palm Springs. But after months of fruitless searching for a venue that would fit 112 of their nearest and dearest for an entire weekend, Melissa Shelton, president of Swiss furniture brand Vitra, and her fiancé, Tyler Baker, an intellectual property attorney, switched their focus to New Orleans, Shelton’s hometown. There they would exchange vows in a restored historic church and decorate the day with rich velvets and jewel tones. But before they had signed on the dotted line, to their surprise a new hotel opened in Palm Springs “like a mirage,” says Shelton. The dreamy desert destination was the place where the Brooklyn-based pair fell in love, so they immediately knew the Sands Hotel & Spa was meant to be the setting for three days…

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1. Arranging Things The shop’s founders just get me, tastewise. They have great art books, a smattering of vintage, hats with dryly funny slogans, and independent Scandinavian designers who walk the line between playful and sophisticated. 2. Casa Shop The best where-did-she-find-that vintage collection, contemporary designers no one else has, and a growing collection of in-house glass objects. 3. Bi-Rite Studio A great place to shop for kids’ stuff! 4. Coming Soon The ultimate selection of things you’re actually going to buy—as opposed to things you’d window-shop. 5. Mociun The owner, Caitlin Mociun, has by far the best ceramics; all the good BaleFire glass; plus some brands that are harder to find, like Mazzotti and Stories of Italy.…

1. Turquoise + Magenta “It sounds hyperbolic, but being able to glance up and see these bright hues together brings me a rush of joy.” Going matte with the kitchen cabinets and glossy with the tile lets both shades have a moment to shine. 2. Hot Coral + White “I never see a bright coral like this in New York City. It reminds me of the tropics and ripe fruits; it’s bursting with life.” Setting the bedroom’s radiator against a stark, neutral wall ensures the color really pops. 3. Apricot + Cobalt “There’s something glamorous and old-world about the library’s parrot wallpaper; it makes me feel decadent and fancy—like I ought to be holding an exquisite crystal glass, wearing something diaphanous, laughing, and entertaining friends.” The blue of the molding…

Day one post-renovation: a smear of red lipstick on the brand-new cream bouclé sectional. Susan Woo momentarily reconsidered the black and white palette in her upstate New York getaway. “I did not hide my heart palpitations,” jokes the mom of two and founder of General Issue, a men’s line of casualwear. It was admittedly a risky choice. Woo and her husband, Jeff Mayer, who works in hotel finance, share the Cape Cod–style cottage in Clinton Corners with their two children, Jackson (5) and Evan (2). But the young parents, whose primary home base is Dumbo, Brooklyn, are modernists at heart—they were willing to deal with the spills for a tone-on-tone look. When the couple purchased the home back in 2018, it had charming curb appeal—the shingled house is perched up…

1. Color Charts Studying how colors affect one another and how they are used through time is something that nearly overwhelms me with happiness and keeps pushing me in new directions. 2. Japan I love pretty much everything Japanese; I’d even say visiting the country made me love brown. They make everyday life look amazing, like an old plastic bucket with a plant outside a home. It’s the balance between messy and super-structured that I’m obsessed with. 3. Klara Lilja This young artist’s ceramic work is heavily inspired by alchemy, Japanese pop culture, horror, and computer games. It’s a visual fantasy world that is super-relatable to me. And her Instagram feed is an art piece in itself. 4. Fredrik Paulsen I would almost call his style New Postmodern. His carefree…

Should you have the chance to dine at La Sastrería, a seafood-centric restaurant in Valencia, Spain, you’ll experience next-level piña coladas; exquisite anchovies; and, most notably, a kaleidoscope’s worth of tile combinations. More than 15 different patterns cover the walls, window trim, and countertops, estimates Christophe Penasse, one of the principals at Masquespacio, the design firm behind the interior. The exuberant mashup, which was inspired by the detailed facades that define the beachfront Canyamelar-Cabanyal neighborhood, seems complicated at first sight, but look a little closer and you’ll see that simple shapes are at the core of it all. Each arrangement is made up of only squares and rectangles. The slightest shape shuffle, change in colored cube–to–white subway ratio, or alternation in scale gives classic stripes and trendy checkers new life.…

After three months of fruitless searching for the right sofa—low slung, streamlined, and anything but neutral—for their new Nairobi home, Ulrich “Uli” Jänen and Judith Odhanjo took matters into their own hands. “We needed a spot where we could chill,” says Jänen. After moving from Germany in January of last year, the couple was starting from scratch on the furniture front—which was fine by them. They had taught themselves how to build pieces for their former place through good oldfashioned trial and error. “We can’t say we knew everything we wanted to put into our designs right away,” admits Odhanjo. “We were just asking people to make stuff for us and didn’t really like how it turned out.” Kenyan decor tended to be a bit too dark and heavy for…

Julia Rouzaud’s threestory Napoleonic hunting lodge is a real-estate unicorn. “It was the size that blew us away,” she says. In particular it was the amount of space (3,200 square feet) in proximity to Paris that was the selling point for Rouzaud and her husband, Julien. The 19th-century gem is in Rueil-Malmaison, a suburb located roughly 20 minutes by car outside the city, which is best known as the site of Joséphine Bonaparte’s first home. For someone who mood-boards for a living—Rouzaud is the founder of Goodmoods, the first freely accessible trend book–slash–creative agency that tailor-makes shoppable, digital collages—dreaming up a vision for the ranch-like estate wouldn’t be a challenge. Still, the majority of the couple’s budget went toward purchasing the property, so they had to keep the renovations light.…

Shanan Campanaro and Nick Chacona aren’t the types to freak out over a small thing like meager square footage. “It’s energetically spacious,” argues Chacona of the 720 square feet he and his partner (in business and in life), Campanaro, share in East Hampton, New York. The two wave chasers’ attitudes are just as easy and fluid as Campanaro’s painterly, Rorschach-style designs, which appear on the wallpapers, tile, textiles, and rugs for sale at their Williamsburg, Brooklyn, store, Eskayel. During a Zoom call in their neighboring apartment, which is, funny enough, larger than their Hamptons surfer retreat, the married pair exude chill: Campanaro speaks in unhurried sentences, and Chacona wears a beanie, the unofficial uniform of a cool creative (and because it’s cold outside). The go-with-the-flow duo knew there was no…

1. Layer Up A floating oak vanity and dove gray, super-white marble countertop add texture to the otherwise stark main bathroom without overpowering it. Underfoot, a vintage Turkish rug warms up the chunky terrazzo aggregate floors, literally and figuratively. 2. Make Moves The Moroccan zellige tile backsplash in the kitchen has a glossy, uneven surface that bounces light around, giving the black and white space an inviting glow. Roth’s team designed it to be flush with the drywall so the eye can focus on the material’s metamorphosis. 3. Get Back to Nature Black-painted shingles and bleached wood floors could easily feel cold, but linen slipcovers, rattan lampshades, and raw wood stools (a nod to the natural materials found just outside the sunroom) soften the palette.…

When Jonathan Glatt cofounded O&G Studio in 2009, he had one mission: “To make people stop and look at the Windsor chair again,” explains Glatt, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate. It’s not that the 18th-century style—recognizable for its spindle-lined back and presumably named after the British town where it was first traded—had disappeared, but over the years new seating options (from the likes of Eames and Starck) took its place in the canon. And even though O&G now makes dressers, tables, and light fixtures, it’s the traditional chairs that will always demand the rawest talent because, as Glatt puts it, woodworking a Windsor requires “the eye of a sculptor and precision of a cabinetmaker.” While O&G’s handcrafted versions are nods to the Windsor’s history—George Washington was apparently a…

During the first eight years of her business, Joy Cho was constantly on the move. The Oh Joy! founder and creative director’s headquarters started out in the living room of the Los Angeles apartment she shared with her husband, Bob, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon. At some point she shifted operations to the dining space, where she could spread out, before switching to a quieter spare bedroom. As her company evolved from a graphic design studio into a lifestyle brand that has partnered with the likes of Target, Keds, and Band-Aid, she eventually set up her growing team in a less-cramped remote office. But six years ago, when the pair purchased a plot of land in the hills, she decided it was time to go back to her work-from-home roots. More…

In 2013, when Jill Singer and her husband, Brad Schneider, toured their East Hampton, New York, vacation home for the first time, they noticed the knobs on the kitchen cabinets were shaped like tiny rabbits. Then the animal appeared again, mid-leap, in the creamcolored ceramic tile in the living room fireplace. A stone bunny sat perched at the bottom of the stairs. In the main bedroom, the critters multiplied further, cavorting in the woods in a mural splashed across an entire wall. “It may not have been decorated exactly to our taste,” Singer says of the 2,500-square-foot space. “But it had nice bones, a great layout, and beautiful light. As soon as we walked in, I knew I didn’t need to see any other places.” The couple, who divide their…

Megan O’Neill wore a neon green veil to her 2015 wedding. In other words, she has forever been drawn to the idiosyncratic. It would make sense, then, that she was convinced to buy a three-story Brooklyn brownstone four years later after seeing a decrepit basketball hoop in the backyard. “It just felt so cool and urban,” says O’Neill. “I loved it.” Some might be deterred by a house’s quirks. But O’Neill, the senior beauty editor at Goop, and her husband, Jesse Bull, president of an immersive video game startup, saw their potential. The exposed brick and wood beams; the airy, loftlike layout; and the painted-over window that later turned out to be a skylight all attracted the couple to the 1910 property in Bushwick, the neighborhood O’Neill has called home…

Eat Because Campanaro and Chacona don’t have the room for a dining table inside, they enjoy their meals alfresco on a powdercoated steel table that can withstand the elements. “There’s this really nice indooroutdoor connection,” says Chacona. Play The pair bought outdoor furniture before anything else. “If we have people over, it’s outside,” says Campanaro. The weather-resistant West Elm sofas provide a comfy place to wind down at the end of the day or, after an early surf, take an afternoon snooze. Love This summer the couple plans to extend the fence to quadruple the area around their swimming pool, then expand the deck and add a vegetable garden.…

Born and raised just outside of Copenhagen—one of the more minimal realms in the world of design—Céline Hallas is as rebellious as Danes come. “My bedroom was very colorful as a child,” she shares. “My parents did not understand! As soon as I moved away, they were like, now we are going to paint Céline’s room white.” She treats her own prismatic family apartment as a laboratory, and works out her ideas and aesthetic experiments in real time. With her husband, Daniel (a web designer whom she met at a local disco almost 20 years ago), Hallas improvises as she goes, dreaming up new wall colors pretty much as soon as the paint on their most recent project dries. It’s their catharsis; it’s their fun. Even more so because the…

Fruit Trees Unusual varieties of yuzu, cocktail grapefruits, limes, Meyer lemons, and mandarin oranges are taking root in the backyard for both beverages and baking. (The terraced plot is the perfect sun-dappled spot for them to flower before the winter harvest.) In the summer, cherries, mulberries, nectarines, and persimmons make up her bounty. All the Vegetables Sherman harvests tomatoes, artichokes, cornichon cucumbers, unusual herbs like holy basil and pineapple sage, and more than 10 kinds of lettuce from a hügelkultur (a raised garden bed of mulch, fallen branches, compost, and soil) for her photo-worthy salads. Tea Leaves Sherman plucks lemon verbena from the backyard, but lemongrass, mint, calendula, and chamomile all come from pots in the front, where there’s the most light. She serves her own infusions of herbs and…

Back in the 1980s, New York was such a different place. It was much less business oriented, much smaller—everyone knew one another in the artist community. My parents moved to the U.S. from Japan separately in the late ’60s, then met in the city through a friend they had in common. They got married and had two American (much to their dismay!) kids. By then my father was a graphic designer and my mother was working with avant-garde Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, who was building his brand in America (she’s been with the company full-time ever since, even though she’s now in her 70s). Growing up I was surrounded by cool creatives. My dad collaborated with Irving Penn, and my parents were friends with model Grace Jones. She has…