Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2020 i ELLE DECOR

Your new documentary, Hollywood’s Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story, aired in February on PBS. How long did you spend on it? RR: Quite a few years. The enthusiasm was incredible. Every person who heard Paul’s story stopped and listened, and their eyes lit up. In 1923, Paul Revere Williams had the distinction of being the first black architect to gain membership in the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Would you say the industry has improved in terms of representation since then? RR: Yes, but only slightly. It’s something that the industry is finally waking up to. The percentage of African American members of the AIA is very low, but they are taking steps to address it with membership and mentoring programs. They helped to support this documentary along with…

SOANE BRITAIN’S LATEST FABRIC collection, a team effort with the Nigerian-born, London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu, is the result of a fortuitous Instagram fluke. “I walked past Soane one evening in Pimlico, and they had this beautiful window [display],” Olowu recalls. “I took a picture, posted it, and got so many likes.” Lulu Lytle, the cofounder and creative director of the 23-year-old British home-furnishings brand, noticed and responded with a thank-you message. Soon, a plan was hatched for Olowu to collaborate with Soane on his first home-fabrics line. Olowu’s “irreverence for any rules, incredibly bold use of color, and combinations of patterns have always appealed to me,” Lytle says. For his part, Olowu was drawn to Soane’s layered English-country styles, replete with antique motifs, florals, and botanicals. “It’s very classic,…

HOME TO NO FEWER THAN EIGHT EARLY CHRISTIAN UNESCO-designated monuments, the city of Ravenna in northeastern Italy is the unofficial international seat of the art of mosaics. It was the capital of both the Western Roman Empire and of Byzantine Italy in the fifth and sixth centuries, and as such, the glasswork techniques of these cultures flourished there. Among the examples of exquisite craftsmanship at this UNESCO World Heritage Site are the Arian Baptistery and its golden rendering of Christ and the Apostles, and a circa-547 portrait of the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I in the Basilica of San Vitale. While created far more recently—and sans religious iconography—the decorative faces of Harry Winston’s new Premier Precious Micromosaic and Peacock Automatic collections of timepieces also hail from this same Italian artistic…

Delft Influence Floor-to-ceiling Dutch earthenware in a kitchen designed by Rhoda Burley Payne proves that blue and white never goes out of style. Penny Wise The walls of Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan’s New York bathroom are anything but basic and clad in cobalt penny tiles. Free Forms Abstract tiles add a dose of whimsy to this master bath designed by Caitlin and Samuel Dowe-Sandes of Popham Design. Moor Is More Traditional Moroccan zellige tiles bring pattern to this master bath by Commune Design. Neo Geo Diamond-pattern black-and-white floors imbue old-world elegance into this study designed by Lorenzo Castillo. Viva Retro Seductive shades of red and pink in a bathroom designed by Julia Rouzaud recall classic 1940s glamour.…

Items pictured but not listed are from private collections. EDITOR’S LETTER PAGE 26: Custom closet: The Container Store, containerstore.com. Master bath countertop: Caesarstone, caesarstoneus.com. Fittings: Brizo, brizo.com. Wall tiles: The Tile Shop, tileshop.com. Doors: LaCantina Doors, lacantinadoors.com. Range: Dacor, dacor.com. Island countertop: Caesarstone. POV PAGES 31–32: Sasha Bikoff, sashabikoff.com. Swivel chairs and barstools: Elle Decor Collection, elleboutique.com. Sofa: Universal Furniture, universalfurniture.com. Rug: The Rug Company, therugcompany.com. Side table and chairs: Calligaris, calligaris.com. Curtains fabric: Vervain, vervain.com. Curtain installation: The Shade Store, theshadestore.com. TALENT PAGE 42: Duro Olowu, duroolowu.com. Lulu Lytle, Soane Britain, soane.co.uk. SHOP TALK PAGE 44: Yuttana Abkornburee, Thomas Goode & Co., thomasgoode.com. TRUTH IN DECORATING PAGES 46–48: Suzanne Tucker, Suzanne Tucker Home, suzannetuckerhome.com; Ellie Cullman, Cullman & Kravis, cullmankravis.com; Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Martyn Lawrence Bullard Design, martynlawrencebullard.com; Daniel Martin, thewallgroup.com. TOOLBOX PAGE…

EVER WONDER WHAT ELOISE would be like as a 30something in New York City? Still living at the Plaza hotel, in a room on the “tippy-top floor,” no doubt. This question was foremost when designer Sasha Bikoff was chosen by ELLE DECOR to reimagine the iconic Rose Club, which overlooks the Plaza’s lobby and has been a venue for performances by the likes of Bob Hope and Liza Minnelli. The pop-up ELLE DECOR Café is where a grown-up Eloise might come for drinks with her friends. “This is where she’d be hanging out,” Bikoff says of the café, which debuted in December and will be open through March 31. Bikoff, a Manhattan interior designer who landed on ED’s A-List for the first time last summer, grew up going to the…

“Home Stories” Through August 23; Weil am Rhein, Germany The Vitra Design Museum presents “Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors.” Through a series of iconic interiors by architects and designers such as Adolf Loos, Finn Juhl, and Elsie de Wolfe, visitors are transported back in time to explore the evolution of the contemporary private interior. design-museum.de “Eileen Gray” Through July 10; New York City Renowned architect, designer, and artist of the 20th century Eileen Gray was best known for her avant-garde furniture in lacquer and tubular steel frames. The exhibition, now on view at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, showcases nearly 200 of Gray’s works and, in five thematic sections, parses the pivotal moments of her career. bgc.bard.edu “Harper’s Bazaar: First in Fashion” February 28–July 14; Paris The Musée…

THE THAI GLASS ARTIST YUTTANA “TEE” Abkornburee is a soft-spoken man whose gentle demeanor belies the fact that his exquisite creations are collected by the likes of Sir Elton John and members of the British royal family. For the past 11 years, he has hand-painted his delicate flora and fauna on glassware—everything from Champagne flutes to cake stands—at Thomas Goode & Co., the legendary tableware shop in a redbrick Victorian building in London’s Mayfair neighborhood. Thomas Goode’s commercial director, Andrew Guest, was introduced to Abkornburee in Thailand in the early aughts. Abkornburee was then working in calibration at General Motors, but he had developed a reputation as a talented artist. Guest invited him to paint on-site at the Thomas Goode store in 2009. Known for his flora and fauna, Abkornburee…

THE BEST PAELLA I’VE EVER HAD was one my friend Eric Ripert, the co-owner and chef of Le Bernardin, and I made together. It’s not every night you have the chef of a three-Michelin-star restaurant preparing a paella for you, so it was very special. Eric is well known among friends for his paella-cooking skills. He grew up in Andorra, an independent principality situated between France and Spain, and has a natural familiarity with the cuisine of both of these neighbors. His paella included a bit of everything—chicken, mussels, garlic, saffron, and delicious Spanish shrimp. The rice was just perfect—caramelized and crunchy on the bottom, but not burned. As Eric says, paella is the most convivial dish to cook: Dinner guests can pitch in to help—or just have a drink…

IT MUST BE WRITTEN SOMEWHERE THAT TO LIVE ONE’S best life in and around Los Angeles, one must first find the perfect modernist house. It’s an axiom that TV star Sophia Bush is adhering to, having just lovingly renovated a 1,600-square-foot 1950s bungalow in the Hollywood Hills. “Restoring this house and bringing it back to its midcentury splendor has been such a joy,” she says. The house is next door to the home she resides in, making it a familiar setting for the star of the early-aughts teen drama One Tree Hill and the upcoming Disney+ series Love, Simon. Her former neighbors had purchased the land in the 1950s and built the house for themselves, which, for her, gave the property an added feeling of authenticity and familiarity. She simply…

MARC GLIMCHER AND FAIRFAX DORN, A PROMINENT ART-world couple with two highly developed aesthetics, never imagined they would be the kind of people who would buy a spec house. But when plans to build their own summer home in the Hamptons fell through in 2017, they decided to check out a newly developed 11-bedroom property in Sagaponack, New York, that Dorn had seen online. “I just fell in love with it,” says Glimcher, president and CEO of Pace Gallery. Pace was founded 60 years ago by his father, Arne, who put it on the map by persuading the sculptor Louise Nevelson to take a chance on an unknown gallerist. Working alongside his father for decades, the younger Glimcher is now leading the powerhouse gallery into the future with his multidisciplinary…

Contemporary Greek painter Konstantin Kakanias works in an idiosyncratic style, infusing his illustrations with both a sense of charm and accessibility. Mrs. Tependris, a tongue-in-cheek character he invented in the 1990s, makes frequent appearances in his work. A composite of sorts, this heroine is inspired by a myriad of real-life people he has known. “She is a caricature with a history,” the artist explains. This hand-painted ceramic plate pays playful homage to the famous Horst P. Horst image of Baroness Pauline de Rothschild—the American-born writer, fashion designer, and wife of Baron Philippe de Rothschild—in one of the bedrooms of her French wine estate, Château Mouton. The best part: Although it’s painted by hand, the dish need not be hand-washed. So go ahead, give Mrs. Tependris a run through the dishwasher.…

British designer Julian Chichester injects a delightful Alice in Wonderland topsy-turvy spirit into this whimsical Rosa Trolley cart, shown in a Teal Vellum finish. As sweet and irresistible as candy—without the calories or toothache—these Thomas Fuchs Creative drinking vessels are handblown by glass artisans in Murano, Italy. A winged piece of saddle hide wraps around the back of this jacquard-upholstered Angie armchair from Minotti, reminiscent of the cinched, sculpted form of a corset. Scalloped black lines and gold-leaf accents give this white ceramic Faith table lamp from Mitzi by Hudson Valley Lighting an Art Deco glamour. A trip to Rajasthan prompted Italian designer Matteo Cibic’s new collection of rugs, entitled Wunderkammer (a reference to mid-16th-century cabinets of curiosities), for the socially minded Indian brand Jaipur Rugs. The wool-and-viscose hand-tufted carpets…

“Vanities are not extravagant or unnecessary, but tremendously functional pieces of furniture.”SUZANNE TUCKERINTERIOR DESIGNER “Use a dressing table to introduce color and pattern into a space.”ELLIE CULLMANINTERIOR DESIGNER “Consider them temples of personal luxury, not just for getting-ready tasks.”MARTYN LAWRENCE BULLARDINTERIOR DESIGNER “It is a ritual space, a personal area where you can have time just for you.”DANIEL MARTINMAKEUP ARTIST “My favorite type of vanity is one that can multitask—a total command center.”CULLMAN “Every dressing area needs two things: perfectly balanced lighting and a comfortable chair.”BULLARD…

CERAMIC TILE HAS A SPLIT personality. On one hand, it is a product of utilitarian performance—a hard-wearing, impervious, hygienic surface that has become the cladding of choice for the most demanding environments, from hospitals to subway tunnels, public restrooms to prisons. On the other, it is an artistic product of the highest order, one that has communicated stories of culture, artistic achievement, and decorative flair for centuries. Over the last decade, the utilitarian aspects of tile appeared to win out, as plain white subway tiles became de rigueur in kitchens and bathrooms. But the functionalist reign is coming to an end. Tile trends are now moving in a maximalist direction as designers and manufacturers embrace more creative designs once again. “I see a wave of people going for pattern, color,…