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CATTELAN ITALIA INTRODUCES NORMA COUTURE Paolo Cattelan has designed NORMA COUTURE, a padded chair that embraces quality and glamour. The seat structure is upholstered in synthetic nubuck Leathertex or in leather. The quilted rear of the backrest lends great appeal and elegance to this model. INTRODUCING THE NEW CENTURY PAINT COLLECTION FROM BENJAMIN MOORE To celebrate the launch of the new CENTURY paint collection, The Hearst Design Group—ELLE DECOR, HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, VERANDA—and Benjamin Moore hosted an exclusive designer dinner in New York City. The CENTURY paint collection is a testament to the 100-year history of Benjamin Moore innovation and color leadership developed with the creative desires of designers in mind.…
DESIGN IS SOMETIMES DISMISSED, by those who take themselves quite seriously, as unimportant or trivial. And certainly the industry does have its frivolities and fripperies. You could even argue—if you don’t care about living with beauty, joy, or ingenuity and are willing to dispense with a major form of selfexpression— that design is superfluous. But one argument nobody can make is that the design industry is not generous. That generosity is manifest throughout the year, but it becomes especially evident in the spring and summer. For me, the most vivid example is Design on a Dime, a major fund-raising event held each spring for Housing Works, which provides housing, health care, and advocacy for homeless people living with HIV and AIDS in New York City. Over the past decade, I have…
DOWN TIME “Writing is like solving a puzzle,” says ELLE DECOR senior editor/ writer Peter Terzian. “I love pushing words around, trying to figure out the exact way to say what I want to say.” In this issue, Terzian writes about an East Hampton house (page 90) and interviews influential photographer Stephen Shore (page 62). On weekends, the Brooklyn resident—right, with his dog, Toby—likes to visit what he calls “the two Mets”: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the new Metrograph cinema. “I’ve only been a few times,” he says of the latter, “but it’s already one of my favorite places.” WEEKEND FLING New York–based designer Ellen Hamilton returned to Pennsylvania to work on the house featured on page 98. Here, her favorite things to see and do in her…
LIGHTER THAN AIR Designers since ancient Egyptian times have known that when drama is required, nothing does the job like feathers. For fall 2017, fashion houses including Balenciaga and Prada sent models down the runway swathed in weightless, feathery creations. And there were precious accessories to match: Verdura’s Tiara Feather gold-and-diamond bracelet is inspired by a tiara worn by Betsey Whitney, one of the famous Cushing sisters, when her husband became American ambassador to the Court of St. James in 1956 (verdura.com); Tiffany & Co.’s Blue Book collection features both an exotic bird brooch encrusted with diamonds, sapphires, an emerald, and a spinel, and a bracelet of lush diamond-and-gold feathers (tiffany.com). The feather trend takes wing at home as well, thanks to striking new wallcoverings from Schumacher made of feathers…
BEAUTY MARKS Two new collections of glazed porcelain dinnerware by Paris design studio Jaune de Chrome—the blue-tinted Song Ocean and green-hued Song Amande—bring soft pastel colors and an irregular speckled pattern reminiscent of Japanese ceramics to the table. Clockwise from top: Dinner plate, $128; salad bowl, $69; dinner plate, $112; dessert plate, $96; mug, $100; salad bowl, $100; and mug, $100. devinecorp.net. Background: Fluid Tones Japanese paper wallcovering by Porter Teleo. porterteleo.com 1 /MIDDLE EASTERN MODERN Handmade in Iran, Nasiri’s Persian Pelas flatweave wool rug bears a subtly colored plaid modeled after a 50-year-old pattern. Shown in Brown with Red and Blue accents, it is available in custom colors and sizes. 9•4• x 12•11•, $15,000. nasiricarpets.com 2 / SOFT TOUCH Paris-based designer Gabrielle Soyer unites the vibrant geometries of her…
NATURAL INCLINATION Abstract Landscape, 1951, oil and charcoal on canvas. “I could say that nature has very little to do with my pictures,” stated Helen Frankenthaler. “And yet I’m puzzled; obviously it creeps in!” Frankenthaler was a key second-generation Abstract Expressionist whose pouring of paint directly onto unprimed canvas launched the Color Field movement in the 1950s. She worked in the studio, but her veils of vibrant saturated colors, and the broad horizontal reach of much of her art, evoke roiling skies, earthy expanses, or misty mountains. The 12 paintings, dating from the 1950s to the 1990s, in “As in Nature,” at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, link her to the great American landscape tradition and are supplemented by 17 of her innovative woodcut prints (July 1–October 9;…
