Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2013 i ELLE DECOR

Having barely survived my own recent bout of bathroom renovation, I would suggest that a more apt metaphor is warfare. As with war, much planning is required. But no matter how well you strategize, no matter how detailed your battle plan, a few things always blow up in your face. Inevitably there are unexpected skirmishes—between designer and contractor, designer and homeowner, homeowner and contractor. Invariably there are refugees (all the bedroom furniture that sits in the middle of the living room for weeks, then months). And no campaign, no matter how strategically it is worked out on paper, proceeds without at least a few breakdowns in the supply chain (where the hell is that showerhead?). Experienced hands know you may have to lose a few battles in order to win…

With the release of The Next Day, his first album in 10 years, David Bowie is having a moment. An exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum surveys the original starman's career as fashion revolutionary, from his over-the-top stage costumes—including the glam bodysuits worn by his androgynous alien personas, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane—to his later collaboration with Alexander McQueen (www.vam.ac.uk). David Bowie Is, the show's lush catalogue, unearths rare photos and artwork from the musician's own archives (abramsbooks.com). Meanwhile, with the '70s revival in full swing, you can spy Bowie's legacy in Raf Simons's shimmering spring 2013 collection for Christian Dior (dior.com) and designer Kristine Johannes's space-age iridescent clutches (rauwolfnyc.com). what we love EIGHTY YEARS AGO, FINNISH ARCHITECT ALVAR AALTO DESIGNED A SEAT WITH THREE CURVED-WOOD LEGS. THE SIMPLE…

BANK HOLIDAY Located in the heart of the newly revitalized Upper King district in Charleston, South Carolina, the Ordinary is anything but. Housed in a 1927 bank building, the restaurant and oyster bar is helmed by James Beard Award–winning chef Mike Lata, who serves a menu of fresh, regional seafood. Tall Palladian windows flood the space with light, and the walls are lined with quirky marine-life installations by Becca Barnet, a former exhibit maker at New York City's American Museum of Natural History (eattheordinary.com). TOWER OF POWER In Building Seagram (Yale University Press), architect Phyllis Lambert narrates the construction of a New York City landmark from the inside: At the age of 27, the author helped her father, Seagram founder Samuel Bronfman, choose Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson…

MOUNTAIN HIGH ESTABLISHED IN 1861, THE BEAU-RIVAGE PALACE HOTEL IN LAU-SANNE, SWITZERLAND, WITH ITS SPECTACULAR VIEWS OF LAKE GENEVA, REMAINS THE HEIGHT OF OLD-WORLD EUROPEAN STYLE. THE LIST OF FAMOUS GUESTS RANGES FROM CHARLIE CHAPLIN TO EMPEROR HIROHITO. TREATIES WERE SIGNED IN THE PUBLIC ROOMS, AND THE WOOD PIER—ONCE USED AS A STEAMBOAT DOCK—IS STILL IN PLACE. NOW THE GRAND HOTEL IS GETTING A REFRESH IN THE HANDS OF DESIGNER PIERRE-YVES ROCHON, WHO HAS MADE OVER SUCH CLASSIC INSTITUTIONS AS THE GEORGE V IN PARIS. EACH NEW SPACE HAS TRADITIONAL FLORALS, A SOOTHING COLOR PALETTE, AND MAXIMIZED VIEWS OF THE MOUNTAINOUS SWISS COUNTRYSIDE. FIFTY ROOMS REOPEN THIS MONTH, WITH FIFTY MORE TO FOLLOW NEXT YEAR (BRP.CH). ALL THAT JAZZ Will Gatsby be great once again? The 1974 film version of…

Fifty years ago, a 28-year-old Frenchman named Manuel Canovas started a fabric company in Paris. For his designs, he would take things he found during his travels and rework them in a distinctly French way, giving them a modern yet elegant feel. One of Canovas's favorite destinations was India. It is a favorite of Canovas's current design director, Ariane Dalle, too, ever since her first trip in 1998. "Everything is inspiring there: the people, the streets, the gardens," she says in the company's cheerful studio in the heart of Paris, which she has run since 2009. "They have maintained the savoir faire of 18th-century embroidery, and they have an extraordinary, intuitive sense of color. There is an authenticity in India that we have lost in our own modern countries." Dalle…

1 The breakfast area of a Nantucket beach house, updated by architect Rebecca Ascher with Joshua Davis, features a custom-made banquette upholstered in a Holly Hunt leather and Saarinen chairs by Knoll around a Catherine Memmi oak table; painted wood paneling and weathered floors nod to the home's seaside locale. 2 For the eat-in kitchen of a Manhattan apartment, decorator Muriel Brandolini covered the walls in a Holland & Sherry felt playfully adorned with hand-beaded lyrics from Lou Reed's 1972 song "Perfect Day." The table, by Piet Hein Eek, is made of reclaimed stainless steel, the plaid chairs are 1950s Italian, and the photograph is by Martin Parr. 3 Fashion designer Andrew Gn decorated the breakfast nook of his Paris apartment with a sampling from his vast ceramics collection, including…

1 Known for its exquisite silk rugs, Fort Street Studio is launching its first wool collection. One of the designs, Flats, incorporates flat-woven sections that evoke the carvings on antique sword handles. It measures 12' l. x 9' w. and comes in two colorways, including salt, shown. Custom sizes and colors are also offered. 212-925-5383; fortstreetstudio.com. 2 Madeline Stuart's brass-and-glass Claude cocktail table recalls the high-style masters of the 1970s. The piece is 50" w. x 34" d. x 17" h.; custom sizes can be ordered. 310-278-2456; madelinestuart.com. 3 For his cheerful Thomas linen, Michael Devine replicated the pattern of a linoleum block print. Tangerine, left, and indigo are among the seven colors available. 518-758-1355; michaeldevinehome.com. 4 McKinnon and Harris looked to American Federal–style furniture for the graceful curves of…

Imagine being handed the keys to a vintage Case Study house. How best to decorate those long, low, empty shelves? For starters, you might consider the pottery of Harrison McIntosh. Its simple lines, earthy-bright pigments, and rhythmically patterned surfaces make it a perfect embodiment of classical California modernism. But look closer and it becomes clear that a McIntosh vessel is much more than a period-perfect decorative accent—indeed, that the works of McIntosh, who turns 99 this year, transcend the limits of West Coast provincialism altogether. Guided throughout his life by a powerful, intuitive artistic vision, McIntosh made pots that have found permanent homes in such decidedly un-modernist settings as Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. "His work embodies…

In my book Letters to a Young Chef, I wrote about how aspiring professional cooks are often asked not for their résumé, but rather to prepare an omelet on the spot. By this I mean a French omelet, which must be perfectly folded and so evenly cooked that it almost resembles a baby's skin. Making one can be intimidating and stressful. You need a high level of skill to pull it off, and, in truth, many people cooking at home in France don't have the patience. At home I like to make a flat omelet, which is almost like a frittata in its simplicity but has the lightness of the traditional French preparation. What is wonderful is that it is a zero-stress dish: an open-faced omelet that one starts on…

Growing up in Corsicana, an old gun-slinging town about an hour south of Dallas, Susan Hable Smith fantasized about pursuing a career in art and design in New York City. Her parents were concerned. "They wondered how I would support myself," she says. Hable Smith eventually moved to Alabama for college and then to California, where she worked as a fashion and accessories designer, but she never lost sight of New York. At last, in 1999, the timing felt right. But then, shortly before her move, she met her future husband, the attorney Peter W. Smith, who was based in New York. Coincidentally, he was ready to leave the city and offered to join her in California. "If you want to be with me," she recalls telling him, "then you…

When Cynthia Frank convinced her husband to buy a seven-bedroom house a block from the ocean in Southampton, New York, their children braced for the onslaught of 18th-century French furniture. "They refer to me as 'the mother who buys chairs that no one wants to sit in,'" Frank says. "A lot of our homes have been very formal—very behind the silk rope." With her white-blonde coif, couture outfits, and arms stacked with vintage French gold bangles, Frank could be mistaken for a lady who mostly lunches. When she was a young woman in the early 1960s, her parents certainly urged her to take that route. Instead, this indefatigable stylesetter has worked for more than five decades as a magazine editor—first as an assistant to the fabric and fur editor of…

Java* by Raoul Textiles; raoultextiles.com. Tiger* by Fabricut; fabricut.com. Arches* by Trina Turk for Schumacher; fschumacher.com. OD Leaves* by Clarence House; clarencehouse.com. Achiea by Janus et Cie; janusetcie.com. Santorini* by Donghia; donghia.com. Pastiglia* by Pindler & Pindler; pindler.com. Merton Stripe Prism* by Kravet; kravet.com. Velluto by Chella Textiles; chellatextiles.com. Diamond Vista* by DwellStudio for Robert Allen; robertallendesign.com. Lyford Background* by Quadrille; quadrillefabrics.com. #15508* by Duralee; duralee.com. *Available to the trade only. See Resources.…

CYNTHIA FRANK Cynthia Frank, whose Hamptons home appears on page 192, started in magazines in the 1960s. Photographer Slim Aarons recruited her to work at Town & Country. That's her, above, styling a 1984 Aarons shoot in Florida, left. "There was a frost, and we had to glue-gun bougainvillea to the columns," she recalls. Frank has produced many ELLE DECOR stories, including Ivanka Trump's apartment and the one shared by her son James and his wife, photographer Claiborne Swanson Frank. CLIFFFONG Decorator Cliff Fong first met Ellen DeGeneres when he was 19 years old. Since then, he's helped her design 14 homes—but only a mere five or six, he says, for DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi. (Their most recent project, a ranch in Hidden Valley, California, begins on…

GILDED AGE North Carolina artisan Tommy Mitchell fashions intricate tole flowers from hand-hammered copper, brass, and steel, adding a gilt finish and painted highlights. From left, the 22" h. foxglove costs $1,100, the 7" h. lily of the valley is $600, and the 14" h. primula is $1,100. 919-732-8664; tommymitchellcompany.com 1 / TONE POEM Inspired by midcentury design, the husband and wife behind Two Tone Studios apply vivid colors to their handblown glassware. The Jewel Tone cups are 5" h. and cost $65 each; a matching pitcher, which comes with a stirrer, measures 13" h. and is $250. The pieces are available in ruby and saffron, shown, purple, gray, olive, and gold. 206-937-8237; twotonestudios.com 2 / BALANCE OF POWER Hudson Valley Lighting's Deyo lamp…

EDIBLE ARRANGEMENT A long-running hit in London, the Frieze Art Fair finally made its debut in New York City last year, and it proved to be such a success that it's back for an encore. Held again on Randall's Island, in the acclaimed white-tent structure designed by Brooklyn firm SO–IL, above, this year's edition will feature more than 180 galleries, site-specific installations, and, best of all, a tribute to Food, the legendary artist-run restaurant that opened in SoHo in 1971. Conceived by Tina Girouard, Carol Goodden, and Gordon Matta-Clark, left, Food became not only an artist's hangout but a scene, and helped transform the warehouse area into a neighborhood of galleries and lofts, and finally the tourist mecca it is today. In Frieze's version, a different artist will cook each…

NATURAL SELECTION THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FIRM NELSON BYRD WOLTZ DOES MORE THAN JUST MAKE PRETTY VISTAS. ITS DESIGNS HAVE BROUGHT BACK DESICCATED PROPERTIES AND REVIVED INDIGENOUS PLANT LIFE. NELSON BYRD WOLTZ: GARDEN, PARK, COMMUNITY, FARM (PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS) TAKES A CLOSE LOOK AT 12 PROJECTS—THREE IN EACH OF THE TITLE'S CATEGORIES—FROM THE LAST DECADE AND A HALF. AMONG THEM ARE A LUSH TOWNHOUSE GARDEN ON MANHATTAN'S UPPER EAST SIDE, A PUBLIC PARK IN THE MIDDLE OF ST. LOUIS, AND THE RESTORATION OF ORONGO STATION, SHOWN, A 3,000-ACRE SHEEP AND CATTLE RANCH ON THE NORTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND. A USEFUL APPENDIX DETAILS THE SPECIFIC WAYS THE FIRM EMPLOYS WATER, PLANTS, STONE, AND WOOD. THE RISE OF EMPIRE The shining cities of New York and Rome have each laid claim to…

French furniture designer Salomé de Fontainieu always knew she wanted to do something creative for a living. But that desire didn't sit so well with her conservative family. She studied business, but as soon as she completed her masters in economics and her business internships in the late 1990s, she said, "Enough!" She has since embarked on a career in furniture design so successful that she is now a resource for such top interior designers as India Mahdavi, Peter Marino, and François Catroux. Which is surprising, given that Fontainieu is more or less self-taught. She first launched herself into painting, then went to Venice to learn ancient techniques for finishing walls in lime wash. She gradually began experimenting with concrete, designing consoles in her atelier overlooking the Père-Lachaise cemetery in…

A Hoffmann-designed living room, circa 1902. Jacket and miniskirt by Louis Vuitton from spring 2013; louisvuitton.com. 24:7 Square ring by Solange Azagury-Partridge; solange.co.uk. Breton* viscose blend by Sanderson; zoffany.com. Checkerboard bag by Marni; marni.com. Magic sequin-embroidered pump by Louis Vuitton; louisvuitton.com. Frame Ink rug by DwellStudio; dwellstudio.com. Era round armchair by Thonet from Design Within Reach; dwr.com. Dress by Louis Vuitton from spring 2013; louisvuitton.com. Smooth Cube bracelet by Eddie Borgo; eddieborgo.com. Bleecker* linen by Celerie Kemble for Schumacher; fschumacher.com. Mosaic Plush* viscose blend by Pollack; pollackassociates.com. Stripedot* linen-cotton by Studio Bon; fschumacher.com. Tama-ichimatsu glass by Kimoto Glassware; easternaccent.com. Perforated table by Kelly Wearstler; kellywearstler.com. Dakota* embroidered linen by Boussac; pierrefrey.com. Caribbean Check* poly propylene by Zimmer + Rohde; zimmer-rohde.com. *Available to the trade only. See Resources.…

Back when Tom Thayer was studying painting at Northern Illinois University in the early 1990s, he hosted parties that weren't your typical keggers. Sure, there was loud music, even some alcohol— this was college, after all—but the guest list was limited to a few close buddies, and "hooking up" wasn't the goal. For 12 hours or, sometimes, for a full weekend, the friends would "play" broken instruments and wordlessly improvise games and gestures. One time, a guy broke a bottle, inspiring the rest of the group to smash their own bottles—and every other piece of glass they could find in the apartment. Then they pushed all the shards into a heap. "I had glass in my feet for a year," Thayer remembers. "A lot of times the police were called,"…

The folding screen's glamour tends to overshadow its practicality. Coco Chanel famously decked the walls of her Paris apartment with antique Coromandel screens, and many designers of her day—including Eileen Gray and Jean Dunand—created exquisite examples of their own. But for centuries, the screen played an important dual role: "to conceal, and to trap heat," explains designer Nate Berkus. Today's homes may be less drafty, but the piece still has many applications. "A screen adds instant architecture to a space," says Berkus, who often places one behind a bed or sofa for a layered look. "A good interior should feel as though it has been assembled over time." Decorator Lilly Bunn Weekes points to classic uses—partitioning a room or filling a dark corner—as well as more unusual ones, such as…

The birthplace of pizza and limoncello, neoclassicism and Enrico Caruso, the rugged port city of Naples has been called a "paradise inhabited by devils." Guidebooks written for the Grand Tourists who flocked here after the rediscovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii—the nearby ancient cities buried by volcanic Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.—labeled the place dangerous and diseased; they dismissed its lazzaroni, its poor inhabitants, as lazy "macaroni eaters." In his journal, the German writer Goethe quoted a local saying, "See Naples and die." But tales of swindlers and thieves, of chaos and filth, kept all but the brave and the very curious away through the subsequent centuries. Over the past decade, however, this sleeping beauty has awakened. Considered by some to be the least American city in Italy, Naples boasts one…

It didn't take Portia de Rossi long to discover Ellen DeGeneres's passion for decorating. "I got a very thorough education in mid-20th-century French furniture within the first weeks of our dating," she says with a grin. Indeed, there's nothing the television star and comedian loves more than designing a house. "Ellen has moved more times than any person I know," says Los Angeles designer Cliff Fong, her decorating accomplice. The goal, however, is not to flip her homes. "I can only change the furniture so much and I get bored," DeGeneres says. "Then I need a new structure to work on." In 2009, the couple bought a property that De Rossi believed would keep DeGeneres occupied for some time: a ranch north of Los Angeles with multiple structures, including eight…

Manhattan has plenty of residential buildings where a well-known minimalist designer like S. Russell Groves might feel at home. After all, he cut his teeth in the offices of Richard Meier, whose name is synonymous with stark architectural simplicity, and then with Peter Marino, creator of stores for Louis Vuitton and Chanel. So why not mosey over to one of Meier's glass towers on Perry Street and create a pad for himself so coolly Zen it hurts? But Groves's taste, it turns out, is more complex and diverse than can be summed up in a shiny new white-on-white aerie. Instead, he decided to bring his unique take on pared-down design to one of the city's most vaunted addresses, a 1931 Bing & Bing edifice in the West Village by the…

MAIL Your March issue is absolutely dizzying. Even some of your ad pages are visual stunners. Love it! Herman Vyncke, Dorval, Quebec I am a 17-year-old exchange student from Germany living near Wichita, Kansas. I discovered your magazine because it is so eye-catching. I'd like to work as an interior designer in the future, and ELLE DECOR has been an inspiration. Pia C. Stahmann, Eastborough, KS I look forward to receiving my copy of ELLE DECOR each month. The homes featured always have a lot of character, and no two are alike. I live in an area that's not known for good interior design, and I depend on national and international publications for inspiration. Francesca Connolly's home in your March issue ["Outside Influences"] really played to my senses. I would…

There may be no Italian designer of the 20th century more influential than Gio Ponti—and there was certainly none as prolific. He was protean, designing hotels and office towers in addition to tables, chairs, and shelving units; he was a professor and the founding editor of the pioneering design magazine Domus, even as he created elegantly whimsical ceramics and silverware that have become collector's items. So it has always been a bit difficult to grasp the full range of his work. Now, "Vivere alla Ponti," at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, provides a starting point. The exhibition includes sketches and historic photographs, including one of a geometric wall unit for a home library, right. The show also marks Italian furniture company Molteni's launch of a new range of…

INSIDE EDITION Ronda Rice Carman's lifestyle blog, All the Best, gives its readers entrée into the homes of today's tastemakers. In her debut book, Designers at Home: Personal Reflections on Stylish Living (Rizzoli), 50 of the decorating world's top players share their design philosophies and the stories behind the book's chic spaces, such as a bath in Ashley Hicks's English country home, below. PRIORITY MALE "A MAN NEEDS TO BE REASSURED, TO BE HEARD, TO GET STRAIGHT TO THE POINT," SAYS LANVIN'S FASHION DESIGNER ALBER ELBAZ. HIS RESPONSE: A GLAMOROUS MEN'S FLAGSHIP STORE—LANVIN'S FIRST IN THE U.S.—ON NEW YORK'S MADISON AVENUE. LOCATED IN A TOWNHOUSE, THE THREE-STORY BOUTIQUE WAS DESIGNED BY ELBAZ WITH ARCHITECT DAVID MANN. HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE A BESPOKE DEPARTMENT AND A SALON FURNISHED WITH A FIREPLACE (LANVIN.COM). L.A.'S…

"It is a little like moving from couture into prêt-à-porter," says acclaimed Parisian interior designer Jean-Louis Deniot of his new line of furniture, tailored specifically to the American market. The range, produced in collaboration with Los Angeles–based design showroom Jean de Merry, originated as commissions for some of his many residential clients. But recognizing that what works in, say, the 3rd arrondissement might not be suited to Third Avenue, Deniot has adapted his original designs—for example, the elegant Eylau cocktail table, with its off-center starburst in walnut veneer, started out as a "quite impractical" tripod affair in a French apartment. Since establishing his interior design company in 2000, the École Camondo graduate has brought his own brand of refined eclecticism to residences not just in France but across the globe,…

Mark and Maggie de la Vega, the husband-and-wife team behind the Brooklyn design firm DLV, know how closely entwined risk and reward can be. In February 2012, a few months shy of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, they pulled out a credit card and took a $30,000 gamble: They would kick their three-year-old fabrication studio into high gear and create a collection of furniture and accessories to debut that May. As Maggie, the business manager, recalls, "It was a total leap of faith." They may have been short on time, but the results were far from slapdash. The mahogany Abuelo chest of drawers, modeled after one Mark inherited from his Mexican grandparents, featured saddle-leather panels and inlaid brass. The cast-bronze Giacometti chair showed off their sculptural skills. And a mirror…

It's fitting that Barbara Barry lives in Beverly Hills, since this California designer infuses everything she touches with a sense of classic Hollywood chic. She is best known in the decorating world for her elegant products for the home—from the dressy furniture she designs for Baker, to her luxurious bedding for Bloomingdale's, to her painterly fabrics for Kravet. Her prodigious output has been picking up speed: She recently launched a line of outdoor furniture for McGuire, and lighting for Boyd; meanwhile, her interior design office is buzzing with projects, including a "big and jazzy" home in Hawaii and an oceanside residence she is designing from the ground up in Corona del Mar. "I live for beauty, and I think everybody needs it," Barry says. "It's healing, restorative, and essential to…

ELLE DECOR: What prompted you to make a new kitchen for yourself after all this time? DANIEL BOULUD: Well, I am a person of change. We change things in the restaurant all the time, and there were some major changes in my life, so I decided to renovate the whole apartment, to make it more modern—it hadn't been touched since I moved here in 1998. ED: What did you want from your new kitchen? DB: First, I wanted more space. The old one was about 150 square feet. It was difficult for my partner, Katherine, and me to cook in it together, and there was a wall between the kitchen and the dining room. Like most people who entertain, I don't like to be cut off from my guests when…

JONAS ON UPHOLSTERY When Michael S. Smith needed sofas for the Obama Oval Office, he turned to Steven Jonas, the president of an upholstery and curtains firm dating from the 1920s. It was founded by his great-uncle Samuel Langer, an Austrian émigré who had worked with such artisans as Josef Hoffmann. Langer left the business to his nephew Ronald Jonas, a Holocaust survivor and Steven's father. Today, the Manhattan workroom—whose clients have included the Rockefeller family, Jackie Kennedy, and the late decorator Albert Hadley—still creates furniture entirely by hand in the traditional manner. His down-and-horsehair sofa can run about $15,000, but Jonas believes it's worth the investment. "We see our furniture pull in big dollars at auction," he says. "I'm of the school that one should acquire less and keep…

ESSENTIAL NAPLES The country code is 39. Walk the waterfront. Follow the shoreline promenade from the chic Riviera di Chiaia shopping street to the elegant Posillipo district. En route, you'll pass homespun votive shrines, fishing boats off-loading octopus, Roman ruins, vintage bathing clubs, and secluded villas, including the pagoda of Villa Roccaromana. Dig into history. Visit the ruins of the ancient cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii, where excavations have been ongoing for more than 200 years. Herculaneum is intimate and suburban, while Pompeii is expansive, urban, and popular with tourists. Go to church. Neapolitans take their religious festivals seriously and are alert to outsiders with cameras. But sit through a service at Gesù Nuovo or San Gregorio Armeno and you'll be rewarded by glimpses of the locals as well as…

For most people, relocating from a 19th-century London mews house on a cobblestone cul-de-sac to a high-rise apartment in Washington, D.C., would require a leap of faith—not to mention a discerning interior designer to ease the transition. When David Baumunk, an American business consultant who had lived abroad for almost three decades, looked around the loftlike condominium he bought in 2009 in the capital's historic-turned-hip U Street Corridor, he felt overwhelmed. The long, expansive spaces, 10-foot-high ceilings, exposed ductwork, and floor-to-ceiling windows were nothing like the small, cozy rooms in the two-story house near Hyde Park where he had lived for the previous 12 years. "I had this huge space that didn't lend itself to the way everything was arranged in my little mews house," Baumunk says. "I just didn't…

TALENT PAGE 60: Jean-Louis Deniot for Jean de Merry (323-655-9193; jeandemerry.com). PAGES 64–66: Fabrics by Manuel Canovas, to the trade from Cowtan & Tout (212-647-6900; cowtan.com). PAGES 70–72: Salomé de Fontainieu (fontainieu.com). Furniture available at Gallery Diane de Polignac (011-33-1-83-98-98-53; dianedepolignac.com). PAGE 74: DLV Designs (917-621-7274; dlvdesigns.com). TREND ALERT PAGE 88: Jacket and miniskirt, price upon request, from spring 2013, by Louis Vuitton (866-884-8866; louisvuitton.com). 24:7 Square ring, $2,328, by Solange Azagury-Partridge (011-44-20-7792-0197; solange.co.uk). Breton viscose blend, in pewter, #DARLBR316, by Sanderson, to the trade from Zoffany (212-319-7220; zoffany.com). Checkerboard bag, $1,850, by Marni (212-343-3912; marni.com). Magic Square sequin-embroidered pump, $1,230, by Louis Vuitton. Frame Ink rug, 5' x 8', $495, by DwellStudio (877-993-9355; dwellstudio.com). Dress, price upon request, from spring 2013, by Louis Vuitton. Smooth Cube…