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CHANGE IS A CONSTANT, but does there have to be so goddamn much of it? Seasons change, styles change, administrations change, even the climate changes. Families grow and expand. Children grow up and leave home. Death and divorce reshape our lives. We move, we lose jobs, we get new ones, we retire. During all this we are expected to remain flexible, resilient, open to possibilities, and welcoming to all that is different and disruptive. Frankly, it’s downright exhausting. We can’t control what happens in the world, but we can (landlords and limited budgets aside) take charge of our surroundings, which is undoubtedly one reason why renovations, the focus of this issue, are so popular. Whatever the circumstances that inspire us to revamp and revise, there is something eminently satisfying about…
HOTHOUSE FLOWERS Twelve years ago, landscape designer Marcello Villano, who created the garden of the Palm Springs house on page 130, turned his weekend hobby into a career, specializing in desert environments. “I use plants that actually like the heat: Washingtonia palms that give authority to a garden, yucca rostrata, with its beautiful silver-tone leaves, and grasses that turn colors with the seasons,” he says. TIME OUT Los Angeles–based Trevor Tondro, whose images of a house in Palm Springs appear on page 130, photographs luxury products and polished interiors. But in his free time, he enjoys forays into gritty photojournalism in Central and South America, as well as a recent project that took him inside centuries-old farmhouses in New England, published in A Simpler Way of Life (North Country Books).…
COSTUME BALL A devotee of Oscar Wilde—and described by Vogue as “London’s most outrageous dresser”—artist and model Daniel Lismore creates densely layered interpretations of cultural archetypes (lady-inwaiting, geisha) using a fashion encyclopedia’s worth of fabrics and trimmings, like chain mail, Mongolian goat fur, feathers, flight attendants’ uniforms, African tribal masks, and top hats by Vivienne Westwood. In the wake of his eye-opening exhibition last year at Atlanta’s SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, Lismore has released Be Yourself, Everyone Else Is Already Taken (Skira Rizzoli), a lush album of 32 of his extravagant costumes, modeled by the artist and photographed by Colin Douglas Gray (@daniellismore on Instagram). OFFICE ATTIRE Remember when desktop referred to a piece of furniture? A sleek new generation of accessories brings back the glory days…
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS American designer Michael Van Beuren studied at Germany’s Bauhaus and then settled in Mexico in 1937, where he helped introduce modernist furniture to midcentury homes. Luteca’s reissue of the neglected master’s designs includes, from left, the Miguelito armchair, of teak with brass details; the Line lounge chair, shown covered in Pierre Frey’s Gaspard velvet; and the Miguelito barstool, of walnut with palm-leaf wrap. Armchair: 27.5• w. x 29• d. x 30.5• h., $6,750, also available in walnut; lounge chair: 24• w. x 34• d. x 31• h., $4,051, other fabrics available; barstool: 16• w. x 16• d. x 30• h., $1,840. luteca.com Background: Élitis’s Ardoise Travertin vinyl wallcoverings in VP 633 10, left, and VP 633 05. elitis.fr 1 / PIECE WORK Vanderhurd’s Patchwork embroideredlinen pillows are handmade…
In the decades prior to the Civil War, professional artists in America tended to look down on working with watercolors— a medium already popular in England, thanks largely to J.M.W. Turner—as a lowly pastime for women, children, and amateurs. It wasn’t until the founding of the American Watercolor Society in 1866 that the fluid and spontaneous expression made possible by easy-to-use water-based pigments found widespread favor. The group’s annual exhibitions in New York City drew such talents as Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and John La Farge and helped launch a taste for watercolors among collectors and the public that remains strong today. “American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, assembles more than 150 works representing a stunning variety of styles and formats…
JO MALONE LONDON MERRY MISCHIEF HOLIDAY PARTY On December 6, ELLE and ELLE DECOR partnered with Jo Malone London for a “Merry Mischief” holiday event hosted by celebrated interior designer Ken Fulk at the Jo Malone London Brookfield Place boutique in New York City. Ken signed copies of his new book, Mr. Ken Fulk’s Magical World, and guests were treated to an evening of cocktails and treats among the scented world of holiday wonder. CHRISTOPHER GUY CELEBRATES 10TH ANNIVERSARY WITH BRAND NEW SHOWROOM AT 2017 APRIL HIGH POINT MARKET Christopher Guy (CG) celebrates its 10th anniversary by unveiling its 20,000-square-foot state-of-the-art showroom at April 2017 High Point Market, in partnership with IMC. CG will host several spectacular events at the new showroom during Market Week. christopherguy.com 800.476.9505 INTRODUCING JEWELRY FOR…
