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SUMMER IS THE SEASON that seems to inspire more fantasies than any other—as Hollywood will attest. Recently, I was on my way to Los Angeles for the round of activities and parties in the La Cienega Design Quarter known as Legends of La Cienega. At the same moment, a colleague was headed to Venice for the Biennale. On the flight, it occurred to me that both destinations are, in a way, fantasy towns—places that thrive because of the dreams they purvey. For centuries Venice was a maritime force, a global center for commerce that used art and architecture to assert its importance and prestige. The city Randy Kennedy recently described in the New York Times as “the West’s watery mall for the exquisite and the exotic” has always traded as…
Mieke ten Have got what she calls her “lucky break” when ELLE DECOR hired her in 2010 as an associate editor, a job she held until 2013. After a two-year interlude at Vogue, she returns to ELLE DECOR as design editor at large. “It feels like coming home,” she says. “I’m gearing up for an exciting shoot for our October fashion issue and looking forward to producing stories on two gorgeous French country homes whose owners direct heritage fabric and porcelain brands.” Ten Have—left, with her dog, Hank—says her passion for design is genetic. “My first obsession was the Zuber panoramic wallpaper in my grandparents’ dining room. I’m a collector of silhouette portraits, verre églomisé, jasperware, Astier de Villatte, Fornasetti—I firmly believe one can never have too many plates.” IN…
RUBBER SOUL LAST YEAR, KARL LAGERFELD STARTED A CRAZE WHEN HIS MODELS TRADED STILETTOS FOR CHANEL TWEED-COVERED TRAINERS. NOW THE HUMBLE SNEAKER IS THE FASHION CROWD’S LATEST FETISH ITEM. COMME DES GARÇONS RECENTLY BROUGHT ITS HEART LOGO TO A COLLABORATION WITH CONVERSE, AND COLOR-BLOCK KICKS PUNCHED UP BURBERRY’S RUNWAY. THIS FALL, MARKUS LUPFER OFFERS CRIMSON EMBROIDERED SNEAKERS, AND JEREMY SCOTT, ON THE HEELS OF HIS UNISEX PERFUME FOR ADIDAS, REINTRODUCES HIGH-TOP WEDGES FOR MOSCHINO. THE ATHLETIC SHOE’S STATUS AS CULTURAL ICON IS CONFIRMED WITH “OUT OF THE BOX: THE RISE OF SNEAKER CULTURE,” AN EXHIBITION OF 140 PAIRS—1980S HIP-HOP AND HAUTE COUTURE INCLUDED—AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM (JULY 10– OCTOBER 4; BROOKLYNMUSEUM.ORG). AS CURATOR ELIZABETH SEMMELHACK WRITES IN THE SHOW’S CATALOG (SKIRA RIZZOLI), “A PICTURE MAY PAINT A THOUSAND WORDS, BUT…
CAMP FOLLOWER The classic camp bed has been given a glamorous upgrade by Bottega Veneta, turning the summertime staple into a striking occasional piece for indoors. The bed’s woven surface is inspired by the company’s signature intrecciato technique; it folds down the middle and comes complete with a pillow. Linen with a leather border on a brushed steel frame, front, costs $15,100; suede with a bronze-finished frame costs $16,900. A black leather version is also available. Each measures 78.5″ w. x 27.5″ d. x 16.5″ h. 646-292-5817; bottegaveneta.com 1 / TOUJOURS PROVENCE French fashion designer Inès de La Fressange brings the clear colors of her beloved Provence to a rug for Toulemonde Bochart. Made of hand-tufted cotton, it measures 2′4″ x 3′9″ and costs $839; a 5′7″ x 7′10″ version…
Born wealthy, the artist Gustave Caillebotte amassed a top-notch collection of paintings by his peers that he later bequeathed to the French government. These works, which now form the core of the Musée d’Orsay’s Impressionist holdings, included Renoir’s 1876 panorama of one of Paris’s premiere pleasure gardens, populated by dancing lovers and finely dressed conversationalists. The same year, Caillebotte painted The Pont de l’Europe, a strikingly different view of the newly modernized capital. On a baldly sunny day, pedestrians cross an imposing iron bridge over a railway yard, their preoccupied, distant gazes never meeting. One figure—possibly Caillebotte himself— is a model of the idle flaneur; another leans on the guardrail, looking bored and fatigued. For nearly a century after Caillebotte’s premature death in 1894, his work was typically derided or…
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