Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2017 i ELLE DECOR

CLOSET ENVY Large or small, a stunning walk-in closet is a room all its own. California Closets creates custom closets and organizational systems throughout the home. Chic and timeless with rich, Italian-inspired finishes and elegant displays, these sophisticated closet designs beautifully highlight dream clothing, shoe and handbag collections. For more ideas and inspiration please visit CaliforniaClosets.com. THE HEARST DESIGN GROUP AND THE MINE HOST LEGENDS KICK-OFF COCKTAIL PARTY To celebrate LEGENDS 2017, The Mine and The Hearst Design Group hosted an exclusive cocktail party at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles. Over 100 top interior designers and industry influencers joined the party to toast design on The Terrace overlooking West Hollywood. themine.com B&B ITALIA INTRODUCES SAKé BY PIERO LISSONI B&B Italia adds to its collection of high-end furnishings with…

ELLE DECOR AND THE SHADE STORE CELEBRATE THE A-LIST IN LAS VEGAS ELLE DECOR celebrated the new A-List Issue with The Shade Store at their new Las Vegas showroom. Editorial Director Newell Turner and The Shade Store CMO Michael Crotty welcomed local interior designers who enjoyed daytime cocktails, seasonal hors d’oeuvres, and a colorful candy bar inspired by The Shade Store’s fabric collections. Special guests A-Lister Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent stopped by to join the celebration. ROCHE BOBOIS OPENS NEW U.S. SHOWROOMS Roche Bobois, the leading luxury French furniture brand, has just expanded to 29 U.S. showrooms. This summer, the third NYC showroom has opened in the heart of the Upper West Side while the fourth South Florida showroom has recently opened in the bustling Miami Design District. roche-bobois.com…

“I’m a professional dreamer,” says Philippe Starck. “My goal is to live in a permanent state of creativity where anything can happen.” Indeed, the French designer’s ingenious and cheeky furnishings and objects—a desk-style lamp larger than a human, a stainless steel kitchen knife imprinted with wood grain, headphones that react to bodily movements—bring a dose of imagination to the everyday. The son of an aircraft engineer, Starck rose to stardom in the early 1980s when he remade a private suite at the French presidential palace. Since then, he has brought postmodern playfulness to hotels (including Paris’s LeMeurice and the SLS in Beverly Hills) and restaurants (such as the recently opened Miss Paradis in New York’s SoHo). Lately, he says, he’s been experimenting with “immateriality,” exemplified by a new line of…

JULIAN CHICHESTER A sensual boomerang shape gives the Deneuve Cabinet from Julian Chichester a sophisticated and sculptural edge. Shown here in high-gloss lacquered teal vellum, it is also available in black or ivory as standard options. julianchichester.com KERRY JOYCE TEXTILES Kerry Joyce Textiles introduces his new Performance fabric, the ethereal Odetta Sheer. It is woven in 100% solution dyed polyacrylic and is available in 3 exquisite colors. Perfect for indoors and out. kerryjoycetextiles.com MOLTENI&C INTRODUCES THE D.156.3 ARMCHAIR— A DESIGN MASTERPIECE BY GIO PONTI The ergonomically correct Gio Ponti D.156.3 Armchair, originally designed in 1956 by the master himself, has been remade by Molteni&C and introduced at this year’s Milan Design Fair. With a quilted cushion available in three textiles and three leathers, the piece can be customized upon request.…

MINDORO COLLECTION: 100% HANDCRAFTED WALLCOVERING Hand-dyed sheets of papier-mâché are assembled in a random board-game layout revealing the marks of their geometric designs. elitis.fr/en BRUNSCHWIG & FILS Brunschwig & Fils’ Le Parnasse collection evokes the romantic spirit of French poetry. Traditional yet whimsical patterns, created with an artist’s touch, enchant and intrigue in these luxurious fabrics. brunschwig.com LIAIGRE ROBINSON CHAIR Exquisitely made of carved wood, this brushed oak side chair is rounded into a graceful, perfectly proportioned shape contrasting with the luxurious, subtly stitched leather upholstery. liaigre.com PIERRE FREY The MAOMING collection of vividly colored embroideries, ikats, and batiks coordinates perfectly with the GUIZHOU wallpapers and wallcovering collection from Pierre Frey. pierrefrey.com MANUEL CANOVAS Manuel Canovas introduces exotic and luxurious fabrics in its celebrated palette. Signature Manuel Canovas offers the…

Escapes are essential—to repair, rejuvenate, or simply relax. For French designer François Catroux and his wife of 50 years, former Yves Saint Laurent muse Betty Catroux, those moments come on weekends from Easter to late October at Les Ramades, their 16th-century stone house outside of Lourmarin, a village in Provence’s Luberon region. François leaves his latest projects—such as Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg’s estate in Connecticut or Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece’s townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side—at his Paris office, jumps on a high-speed train with Betty, and heads south for a couple of days of “complete farniente,” as he puts it. “I drink rosé and gaze at the beauty,” Betty says. And François? “I dream.” It’s easy to see why. Set on 10 acres—half of which is a…

MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Christian Astuguevieille, whose two apartments in Bayonne, France, appear on page 164, dabbles in nearly every facet of the design world, from ropewrapped furniture to costume jewelry to perfume. This fall, Astuguevieille will add ceramist to his already overflowing résumé. “I’ve always been a lover and collector of pottery,” he says about his latest endeavor, which has been years in the making. Inspired by an imaginary civilization, his new collection of sensuously shaped clay vessels—available in a range of earthy shades that are painted or carved with graphic patterns—will debut at his Paris gallery in September. As for the future, Astuguevieille remains coy: “We have a lot of projects going on, but they’re all secret for now!” IN FULL BLOOM French garden designer Louis Benech, who…

1 SUBCONTINENTAL Paris-based designer Usha Bora looks to the handweaving and block-printing techniques of her native eastern India to create vibrantly patterned cushion covers, bags, and scarves for her Jamini brand. Ashu in Blue, left, and Ashima in Red are shown. The cotton pillow covers come in several additional colors. 16• h.x 26• l., $133 each. jaminidesign.com 2 CURVE APPEAL The Lloyd chair, by Baltimore design firm Crump & Kwash, is a contemporary update of the traditional corner chair. Its seat is available in a variety of oil-finished woods and metals, including Walnut with Bronze vertical rungs, shown. 27• h.x 23• w. x 21• d., $1,500. crumpandkwash.com 3 TABLE ART Marco Lorenzetto, an Italian painter living in Los Angeles, pays homage to the colorful ceramics of his hometown of Faenza…

Jacques Jarrige has fashioned sleigh-like sofa frames out of rebar, made monumental screens with abstract cutouts from lacquered medium-density fiberboard, and used twisted aluminum to create gleaming chandeliers. Just don’t call him a designer. A Parisian who resides in the Marais district and works in a studio near Versailles, Jarrige briefly studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts before switching to the design program, and even then he was restless. “Architecture was not direct enough. I had to work with my hands,” he recalls. “But design is an awful word for me, too, since I don’t rely on drawn-out plans.” For years, he didn’t dare call himself a sculptor, or an artist, either, although now he admits with a laugh, “I’m very full of myself.” That hardly seems true. For…

Designer Christian Astuguevieille is constantly in need of space. “Like many people who create things, I have the problem of where to store them,” he says. The solution he has found is to have not one, but two apartments, two doors apart, in the city of Bayonne in southwestern France. In both spaces, paintings are propped against walls, shelves are massed with an accumulation of objects, and entire rooms have been set aside to house his archives. Even a bathroom wall is lined with bookshelves. Astuguevieille is a man of many talents. He is creative director of Comme des Garçons Parfums (his latest scent, Concrete, recently launched in the U.S.). He paints, sculpts, and designs everything from jewelry to furniture; fans of the latter include architect Peter Marino and interior…

Amini Carpets looked to modernist Italian painter Manlio Rho’s abstract geometries and soft palette for the Composizione 57 12 rug. Made of hand-knotted Tibetan wool, it measures 8′2″ x 9′10″ and is also available in custom sizes. amini.it. 2 Jan Showers’s Riviera credenza was inspired by a 1970s piece she found in Paris. Measuring 78″ w. x 18.5″ d. x 35″ h., it’s crafted of maple and hand-cut reverse-painted glass panels with brass detailing. Shown in polished merisier, it also comes in custom finishes and sizes. janshowers.com. 3 Richard Ouellette and Maxime Vandal of Montreal’s Les Ensembliers have partnered with Brunschwig & Fils on a collection of fabrics and trimmings. Shown, from left, are La Pagode in Navy, Le Ikat tape in Petal and Red, and Les Riziere in Citron.…

It stands to reason that a man who dedicates his life to gardening would also be a lover of plants. But the way Louis Benech handles them—the way he talks about plants, places them, and plays with them—reveals a passion for botany that runs deeper. “I’m mad about plants They’re never far from my mind,” says Benech, who, before gaining fame as one of the world’s great landscape designers, worked and studied for three years in the greenhouses of England’s famous Hillier nursery. There, to the surprise of his more scientifically minded colleagues, the law-school graduate regularly scored highest on the weekly plantidentification quizzes, he says. “The others were sort of amazed. That’s kind of a tricky thing, and yet I could do it more or less blind.” Nearly three…

Built on the order of Louis XIV, Place Vendôme, in the center of Paris, was created to celebrate glory on the battlefield. Although the victories proved fleeting, the city square itself—an emerald-cut marvel of urban design—shines just as brightly today as the home of many of the world’s greatest jewelers: Cartier, Boucheron, Chanel, Lorenz Bäumer, and Van Cleef & Arpels (which also supports a jewelry-making school; see below). Behind the tall Baroque facades, jewelry designers and stone setters, many of whom spend their entire careers perfecting the style of a single legendary house, create adornments of stunning invention and beauty. Class Act At l’École, Paris’s School of Jewelry Arts, students learn the rudiments of making fine jewelry—how to select precious stones, draw designs, sculpt wax models, and set and polish…

Pl us ça change, plus c’est la même chose”: The more things change, goes the old French saying, the more they stay the same. Trends may come and go—in politics, fashion, food, decor, you name it—but the fundamentals of life are dependable, rooted as deeply as an ancient oak. Designer Garance Aufaure’s home, a stately, late-18th-century house she shares with her 92-year-old mother in the northern French town of Compiègne, has of course changed over time as it has passed down through their family. Each generation has contributed to the modernization of the home—the attached stables were transformed into a loft that Aufaure now uses as a design studio; a little room where flowerpots were once stored has been refurbished into a new entryway. And the decor has been enhanced,…