Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2017 i ELLE DECOR

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…

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…

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TODAY’S LIGHTING CLASSICS Savoy House lighting is creative, beautiful, and perfectly suited for today’s stylish interiors. After all, lighting is the jewelry of the home, so make your home sparkle with Savoy House. savoyhouse.com 800.801.1621 ELLE DECOR CO-HOSTS DESIGN ON A DIME MIAMI KICKOFF PARTY ELLE DECOR partnered with Housing Works, Design Within Reach (DWR), and Movado to host the Design On a Dime Miami Kickoff Party at the DWR Miami Showroom. Proceeds from a raffle with a prize of a Sayl® Task Chair from DWR and two Movado Edge watches benefited Housing Works. THE ULTIMATE LUXURY EXPERIENCE The Neorest® 750H provides an unparalleled sense of relaxation, delivering TOTO innovation to you in the most comforting and refreshing ways possible.…

NOW SURFACING For its Vetrite collection of large-format surfaces, Sicis sandwiches fabrics, mirrors, colored metals, and textured leathers between sheets of clear glass. Slabs can be ordered in sizes up to 110″ x 47″ and in thicknesses of ¼″ or ½″. From top, Corteza Brown, Bucolico Black Bo-Grey, Aluminium, Pergamino Gold, Dust Gold, Fuliggine, Suede Cream, and Tanso Bronze are among the 53 patterns. Prices range from $49 to $383 per sq. ft. sicis.com HANDLED WITH GRACE Fabric house Holland & Sherry has teamed with Brooklyn’s DLV Designs to create a range of hardware for drawers and cabinets. Knobs and rectangular toggles, fashioned of bronze, brass, or nickel and finished in eggshell lacquer, abalone shell, or wenge, are priced from $208 to $338; handles of bronze, gunmetal, oak, and enameled…

“I will say, Francis is not my typical client,” says Stephan Jones, the decorator behind art dealer Francis Mill’s new loft in San Francisco. The pair met 15 years ago, when Jones was looking for midcentury Bay Area Figurative Movement artworks for a project. That just happens to be a specialty of Mill’s, a partner in the Hackett/Mill gallery, which recently moved to the same block as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The two men instantly realized they were kindred spirits (both were trained as visual artists—Mill also has a degree in architecture) and became friends. So when Mill bought a space in the South of Market neighborhood, a former warehouse district that has evolved into an enclave of loft conversions and tech start-ups, Jones was his natural…

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).…

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…

When she was younger, Lindsey Adelman found herself going to parties and standing in kitchens with fluorescent lighting. “I would be trying to find a dimmer switch, or looking for candles,” she says. “I thought, I should just turn this into a career.” Adelman worked alongside fellow Rhode Island School of Design alumnus David Weeks for nearly a decade before opening her New York studio in 2006. Today, her instantly recognizable chandeliers and sconces—which combine elements of the organic, mechanical, and celestial, with metallic limbs arranged into cages, vines, and starbursts—are owned by such fans as Cate Blanchett and Kara Walker. Adelman’s projects continue to grow bolder: She’s working on a five-story fixture for the staircase of a Tokyo department store. “I get excited by spaces that are empty—ceilings and…

ELLE DECOR: Where in Paris is your new apartment? PAULA NATAF: It’s in the 17th arrondissement, right behind the Parc Monceau. The area is part of the Haussmann redevelopment of the 19th century, so it has all the charm of old Paris, with a local market, good restaurants, and nearby galleries. It’s the opposite of where I live in Los Angeles, which is on the beach in the Marina Peninsula. ED: What made you choose this particular apartment? PN: It’s on the top floor of the building, which I wanted, and was built as an artist’s studio. It’s about 1,000 square feet, with two en suite bedrooms—one downstairs, which I use as the master, and the other up a spiral staircase to a loft with windows that overlook the living…

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…

In the dressing room of his 1922 Mediterranean villa–style house in Los Angeles, decorator and TV personality Martyn Lawrence Bullard covered the walls with Darya Ikat, a fabric he designed for Schumacher. The island and flooring are walnut, and the pendant lights are by Restoration Hardware. 1. The lacquered dressing room of Jane and Michael DeFlorio’s townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, which was decorated by Celerie Kemble, features a marble-topped island. The painting is by André Dunoyer de Segonzac, and the light fixtures are by Visual Comfort. 2. At contemporary carpet dealer Pierre Sauvage’s Grand Siècle apartment on Paris’s Left Bank, interior designer Franz Potisek sheathed the dressing room walls in walnut paneling etched with a 1930s-inspired geometric pattern. The floors are parquet de Versailles, and the valet stand…

Last fall, after Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, a digital billboard above New York City’s Times Square flashed Milton Glaser’s trippy 1966 illustration of the musician’s rainbowhaired silhouette. Down at street level, “I♥NY” T-shirts and coffee mugs filled souvenir-shop windows, as they have since Glaser created the logo for a state tourism campaign in 1977. Glaser is one of the few graphic designers to achieve household-name status, and his striking, intelligent designs endure, from his original concept for New York magazine (he was a cofounder) to brand identities for Brooklyn Brewery and DC Comics to advertisements for the Broadway production of Angels in America and the final season of Mad Men. Glaser launched his career in the 1950s as part of the influential Push Pin Studios,…

The slender consoles that Carlo Enrico Rava designed in the late 1940s have carved sinuous forms, with curves so willowy that they appear to sprout from the floor like vines. “There is an organic linearity in these pieces that almost references Art Nouveau in a strange way,” says Domenico Raimondo, a senior specialist for design at Phillips auction house. But Rava’s creations were not always so delicate Studying his seductive midcentury output, it’s hard to comprehend that he first rose to prominence in the 1920s as one of the fathers of Italian Rationalism, a muscular, function-focused style of architecture that prized basic geometries stripped of all decoration. Born in 1903 in Cernobbio, Italy, near Lake Como, Rava was a fiercely brilliant intellectual, known as much for his writings as for…

Rachel Lee and Ara Hovnanian’s meticulously renovated townhouse in Manhattan’s West Village looks effortless, but the magic did not happen overnight. When the couple set out to transform the building, embracing and restoring the heritage of the landmarked Italianate gem while creating an exquisitely spare and strikingly pale interior, they had no idea the transformation would end up taking three full years. Granted, the couple—who have been married for three decades and have two children—had been down this road before. But the biggest apartment overhaul they had previously undertaken lasted a mere four months. It wasn’t that they needed a project to occupy their time. Indeed, both have their hands full with their careers: As president and CEO of Hovnanian Enterprises, Ara runs one of the largest home builders in…

It’s an age-old story: An ambitious young man, eager to enter the romantic world of fashion, moves to New York City and finds success. For Calhoun Sumrall, the path to an executive position in the womenswear division of Ralph Lauren began more than three decades ago, when he left Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to study at Manhattan’s Fashion Institute of Technology. New York was still a little rough around the edges, but exciting and affordable. “I lived on five dollars a day and ate yogurt for every meal,” Sumrall recalls. “You do what you have to do.” A few years later, he relocated from a share uptown to what he describes as a “shoe box–like studio” in a four-story walk-up in Greenwich Village. In the early 1990s, the neighborhood was a…

Items pictured but not listed are from private collections. MASTHEADS PAGE 34: Vico chrome lamp, in Black, #L502TNU, $1,150, by Victor Vasilev for Natuzzi Italia (natuzzi.us). Verra glass-and-nickel bar cart, in Aqua, #5640, $1,499, by Louis A. Lara for BDI (bdiusa.com). Aluminum-andoak table, $999, by Ross Cassidy for CB2 (cb2.com). TREND ALERT PAGE 60: Vertical Halo steel-and-acrylic chandelier, in Brushed Brass, $19,000, by Paul Loebach for Roll & Hill from The Future Perfect (thefutureperfect.com). Constellation matches, $5, from Jayson Home (jaysonhome.com). Dress and jacket, from fall/winter 2016, by Valentino (valentino.com). Taylor eggshell lacquer table by John Lyle, to the trade from John Rosselli & Associates (johnrosselli.com). Lunar Eclipse fabric, in Golden Coins, #2393-03, to the trade from Pollack (pollackassociates.com). Sunbeam wallcovering, #4-4080-091, to the trade from JAB Anstoetz (jab.de). Moon…