Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2019 i ELLE DECOR

Vera Paints a Scarf At the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan, this exhibit of the work of artist turned textile designer Vera Neumann (above) shows why her printed scarves and boldly colored floral textiles for home and fashion made her an American design icon in the 1950s and ’60s. Through January 26, 2020. madmuseum.org Venice Glass Week A festival celebrating the art of glassmaking, Venice Glass Week encompasses more than 180 events—from exhibitions and guided tours to film screenings and receptions—across Venice, Murano, and Mestre in Italy’s Veneto region. The festival features local artisans, including Amy West, who will be performing live glass-printing demonstrations and offering hands-on workshops. September 7–15. theveniceglassweek.com Correspondences by François Halard A look through interiors photographer François Halard’s lens (below) at Christian Liaigre’s Paris…

THOSE FAMILIAR WITH Jason Wu’s glamorous, highly feminine fashion designs might expect the pieces in his latest furniture collaboration to be all soft, voluptuous curves. His fall 2019 collection, for one, features tiers of ruffles and diaphanous pleats reminiscent of rose petals. But a quick glance at the restrained lines of Wu’s creations for the direct-to-consumer home-furnishings company Interior Define confirms that such assumptions are ill-founded. “I love the era of midcentury design,” says Wu, who worked on the design of his TriBeCa apartment with Andre Mellone (the New York–based Brazilian designer also created Wu’s shop at Saks Fifth Avenue). “In my clothes, you see the influence of 1950s corseting and lingerie-inspired details. When it comes to furniture, I put a different spin on it.” Wu, who also has a…

ELLE DECOR CELEBRATES THE 2019 A-LIST ON JUNE 5, ELLE DECOR HONORED THE A-LIST 2019 DESIGNERS with a cocktail soiree at One57 West 57th Street with spectacular views overlooking New York City. Following, over 150 guests enjoyed a champagne toast and desserts held at Central Park Tower Sales & Design Gallery. ELLE DECOR gives special thanks to our sponsors, CENTRAL PARK TOWER, EXTELL, ARTORIGO, BENJAMIN MOORE, FIANDRE AND MANSOUR, for their continued support of the design community. LATER THAT EVENING, ELLE DECOR COHOSTED AN INTIMATE ROOFTOP DINNER IN CELEBRAT ION OF THE NEW MANSOUR SHOWROOM IN NEW YORK AND THE LATEST MICHAEL S. SMITH RUG COLLECT ION FOR MANSOUR. 30 YEARS OF STYLE. DESIGN. CULTURE.…

SERVES 8 FOR THE CAKE 1 cup egg yolks1¼ cup sugar1 tsp salt⅔ cup Greek yogurt2 oranges, zested and cut into slices1½ cup all-purpose flour1¼ tsp baking powder½ cup melted butter1 T orange marmalade FOR THE TOPPING ¼ cup chopped pistachios6 figs, split in half lengthwise1 T turbinado sugar 1. Preheat the oven to 300°F. 2. Using an electric mixer with the paddle attachment, cream the egg yolks, sugar, and salt together, then add in the yogurt and orange zest. In a separate bowl, combine the flour and baking powder, then slowly incorporate into the liquid. Once all is incorporated, stream in the melted butter. 3. Grease a loaf pan with nonstick spray or butter. Pour in half of the batter, then spread the orange marmalade on top. Cover with…

JOAN SMALLS’S DECORATING EUREKA MOMENT CAME AT A fashionable dinner party. The supermodel was seated next to designer Jeremy Scott, whose clothes for both Moschino and his own eponymous label are known for their color and camp. “I asked him, ‘Is your place decorated in the same style?’” Smalls recalls. “And he said, ‘Absolutely not. It’s extremely white and clean.’ You wouldn’t expect it from him, but I can understand why. He wants that contrast between what you do and how you live, which I love.” With that in mind, Smalls had a clear idea of how she wanted her new Miami vacation condo to feel: breezy, cool, and comfortable—the opposite of her peripatetic lifestyle, which has her jetting from her home in New York to fashion weeks in Milan…

THE GREAT AMERICAN PAINTER JOHN Singer Sargent, with his tremendous sensitivity to style, had found the perfect element for his art. It was a large cashmere shawl from India, cream-colored with an oversize paisley pattern in muted browns and grays, that was elegant, poetic, and very exotic. Sargent asked his niece Rose-Marie Ormond to pose for a series of works enveloped in the scarf. In his 1911 watercolor The Cashmere Shawl, now at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Rose-Marie stands in a pale taffeta gown with a lilac head scarf, the cashmere wrapped around her waist and draped over her full-length skirt. For Two Girls in White Dresses, 1909–11, a painting in the collection of the English country manor Houghton Hall, Sargent imagined mirrored images of his niece…

Each month, ELLE DECOR asks an artisan to create a unique item for us. At the end of the year, these pieces will be auctioned off to benefit the charity of each maker’s choice. As a textile designer, Lori Weitzner has a knack for creating wall-coverings made of surprising materials. Take, for example, her Nimbus paper, handmade from the bark of a South American fig tree. The latticelike design is also versatile: It has been used on lampshades, sandwiched between panes of glass for a translucent textural effect, and now, employed on a pair of high heels. Weitzner teamed up on this custom sartorial statement with her longtime friend, Manhattan-based shoe artist (and clairvoyant) Llorraine Neithardt, whose designs inspired the cobbler subplot in the movie P.S. I Love You. Like…

EACH SEPTEMBER, THE STYLE WORLD DESCENDS ON New York, London, Milan, and Paris for fashion month. Despite the changing retail landscape, runway shows remain one of the most important ways for luxury brands to communicate their stories. The late Karl Lagerfeld understood the power of this messaging: Just look at the fantastical backdrops he created for Chanel at Paris’s Grand Palais—a tradition that continues with his successor, Virginie Viard, who showed the fall/winter couture show inside a three-story circular library set resembling the British Museum’s original Reading Room. Meanwhile, Louis Vuitton unveiled its cruise 2020 show inside an architectural treasure: Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport (now a hotel), and Fendi set its last couture show amid the ruins of Rome’s Colosseum. The clothes, too,…

WHEN HATMAKER Nick Fouquet acqui red his Buckm in - ster Fuller – esque geodesic-dome home, he had a fleeting moment of buyer’s remorse. But this modern milliner—whose celebrity clientele includes Pharrell Williams and Lady Gaga—has always been drawn to the unexpected. He grew up in Palm Beach, but after attending high school in Connecticut, he spent several years as a nomad, moving from Patagonia to Australia to New York before settling in Los Angeles. “I’ve led an unconventional life,” he says. “I like things that are different.” So it came as no surprise when he bought his hillside pad nestled on a one-acre plot on the western edge of Topanga Canyon, California. He calls it “an architectural gem”—an apt description, since its gemlike facade consists of dozens of perfectly…

Wes, have you ever owned an armoire? WES GORDON: Yes, I had a beautiful little apartment in London when I went to Central Saint Martins, and since old London flats lack closet space, it came furnished with an armoire. It was very traditional, with a hanging rod inside and a mirror on the door. When is an armoire better than a walk-in closet? CHIARA DE REGE: When it doesn’t make sense architecturally to carve into a room to make a closet. For me, they’re a go-to in loft areas. WG: When you don’t have a walk-in closet! Otherwise, I think it’s a great way to infuse personality and character into a newly built space. What’s your advice for making the most of an armoire, storage-wise? CDR: I love when an…

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AERIN LAUDER FIRST SAW PARIS AS A FIVE-year-old, with her grandmother, the cosmetics legend Estée Lauder, in 1975. “We stayed at the Plaza Athénée hotel, went to the Relais Bar restaurant, and had the most amazing roasted chicken and French fries,” Lauder recalls, sitting on the Jean Royère sofa of her family’s Left Bank pied-à-terre on a bright summer morning. “I was so excited to be here. I was excited by all the beauty.” She still is. Several times a year, Lauder jets to Paris for her beauty, home-decor, and fashion company, Aerin, or for a holiday with her family. But no Plaza Athénée suite is needed. In the early 1990s, her parents, Ronald and Jo Carole Lauder, purchased a three-bedroom apartment across from Les Invalides. “They fell in love…

FASHION DESIGNER NEIL BARRETT HAS A VERY particular approach to color. From one collection to another, he dyes certain garments the exact same tone. “You can have things from 15 years ago, and they’ll always match my latest pieces,” he explains. The hues in his Milan apartment are similarly studied. Almost everything in it is either white or some shade of brown, even the dining and living room walls, although they may initially appear black. “I like the idea of contrast,” he says of the bichromatic scheme. “Everything I do is quite graphic.” The apartment is just a 10-minute walk from Milan’s cathedral and close to the remains of an ancient Roman arena. “There’s so much history in the area, and the buildings are stunning,” he says. The neighborhood also…

WHEN THE LEGENDARY FRENCH fashion house Louis Vuitton tapped six contemporary artists to design special-edition handbags for its latest collection, Artycapucines, the label searched as far away as South Africa to find the perfect collaborators. But at the recent global launch of the collection in Beverly Hills—and the debut of Louis Vuitton X, a 22,000-squarefoot exhibition of the brand’s history on Rodeo Drive—one person in particular seemed to embody the spirit of the occasion: Alex Israel, the Los Angeles artist whose pop-culture tropes and Malibu-sunset palette epitomizes California cool. In true Hollywood fashion, Israel proved elusive. I had arrived from New York for a few nights of festivities to launch Artycapucines, which also includes limited-edition handbags by Urs Fischer, Tschabalala Self, Nicholas Hlobo, Jonas Wood, and Sam Falls. Fashion and…

Designer Brady Tolbert knows how to spot a neutral. From the smartest white to a dare-to-do-it navy, he chooses colors that work with the light and create beautifully livable spaces. Here are his Benjamin Moore living room picks, linked by style, versatility, and exceptional quality. Gennex® Color Technology—the exclusive science behind the Benjamin Moore brand—delivers gorgeous hues and ensures exceptional durability, so each one-of-a-kind shade lasts and lasts. GRAY OWL OC-52 The perfect medium gray, this color chameleon has subtle undertones that read warm or cool in a room, depending upon the light. CHELSEA GRAY HC-168 If you are looking for a true “gray,” this hue’s for you. It’s a darker tone—not too cool, not too warm. Neutral nirvana! HALE NAVY HC-154 Go ahead—take the plunge into inky blue. This…

IN THE 1964 MOVIE THE VISIT, Ingrid Bergman plays Karla, a wealthy woman who returns to her impoverished hometown, from which she was unceremoniously exiled, seeking revenge. Bergman reportedly chose Bulgari jewels to telegraph her character’s affluence, picking out a platinum-and-diamond necklace with a 70.75-carat emerald cabochon and a gold-and-diamond parure from the brand’s Via Condotti store in Rome. This is just one link in the long chain that defines Bulgari’s love affair with film, a relationship the Italian house honors in its new high-jewelry collection, Cinemagia. Comprising 187 pieces, many of which took more than 500 hours to make, the line includes a mother-of-pearl, carnelian, chrysoprase, sugilite, lapis lazuli, ruby, pink sapphire, and diamond necklace whose fairy motifs were inspired by Tinker Bell. There is also a malachite, wood,…

FAR TOO OFTEN, THE GARAGE IS THE unkempt ruffian of the home—the bare-bones, big-mawed behemoth that functions as an unfortunate graveyard for flat-tired bicycles, halffull paint cans, and lawn mowers that gave up the battle against their eternal verdant foes. But it doesn’t have to be so. Many architects, interior designers, and homeowners—car collectors chief among them—are proving that our wind-in-the-hair romance with automobiles is still alive and kicking. They are creating garages with at least as much style as the rest of the house. “There’s overlap in the Venn diagram between an art gallery and a garage,” says the architect Steven Harris, an “obsessed” collector of vintage Porsches. Harris counts numerous collectors among his clients, including one in San Diego who now has a concrete garage with porthole windows…

GHERARDO FELLONI, creative director of the legendary French shoe brand Roger Vivier, can spot a trend at least a decade before anyone else. In his previous position as accessories designer at Miu Miu, he was the vision behind the iconic jeweled heels and shearling slides embellished with faux pearls that became instant hits. And last year, he introduced the first sneakers to be designed for Roger Vivier; they were soon bestsellers. But Felloni’s intuition isn’t restricted to shoes. The Paris-based designer bought himself a Gio Ponti bed from the Parco dei Principi Grand Hotel & Spa in Rome as his first piece of furniture. “That was over 15 years ago,” he says. At the time, the market for designs by the Italian architect had yet to heat up. “But I…

I‘M A BIG BELIEVER IN THE importance of sitting down for a proper meal with fami ly and friends, but I know there are times that don’t allow for it, days when you need to eat on the go. I have many days like this myself. But a busy day doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy something beautiful and homemade. September is la rentrée: back to school, back to work, and, for fashionistas, back to the hectic fashion-week circuit. Imagine packing lunch for your newly frantic schedule. What do you bring? You want to eat healthfully, but you might need a little sweetness in your day. September is also peak fig season; they’re ripe, supple, and looking ravishing in purple and green. I know you’re not the type to throw a…

A MERE FOUR MONTHS AFTER MEETING MY now husband, Jeremy, I found myself stomping through knee-deep snow to check out a big white house on a hill in Millbrook, New York. Boasting 100 acres of fields and woods, two ponds, a creek, and tons of furry residents, the property had a winter coat that left a lot to the imagination. But Jeremy and I were falling in love and feeling just a little bit crazy. I still don’t know why I didn’t immediately run back to my TriBeCa rental. But like all great love stories, the house, which we called Whiskey Ridge, required diving in blindly, headfirst. A blistering summer day six months later proved to be the end of the honeymoon, both for our relationship and our new home.…

A CENTURY HAS PASSED SINCE Samuel Untermyer set the audacious tone for a prize property in Yonkers, New York, with its monumental Hudson River views. “Make me the finest garden in the world,” he reportedly instructed landscape architect William Welles Bosworth—with the not-so-veiled subtext meaning “outdo John D. Rockefeller’s,” since Bosworth had created that acclaimed Gilded Age showplace just upriver. Untermyer wanted better and, in fact, best. East met West as a diverse sampler of classical history was erected: Two-thousand-year-old Roman marble columns were imported. A two-and-a-half-acre walled Persian garden was built with formal canals, intricate mosaics, and a Temple of the Sky, all watched over by Artemis and a pair of sphinxes. Across the property, a Temple of Love perched above a precipitous, man-made waterfall. Grand. The bold and…