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An inside look at the homes of today’s top stylesetters and tastemakers: • Fashion designer Andrew Gn’s new Paris apartment, a precisely appointed ode to midcentury glamour. • The colorful and quirky weekend escape of fashion maven Amy Fine Collins on Fishers Island, New York. • Two very different getaways, in East Hampton and Sun Valley, Idaho, for Ralph Lauren creative force Buffy Birrittella. • The cozy and cool cottage Los Angeles fashion designer Rozae Nichols crafted for her family. • Giovanna Randall’s bohemian-chic Greenwich Village apartment. Plus, Tomas Maier’s new direction, the young retailers changing the way we shop, the top 10 demilune tables, fall’s best style books, and much more.…
When does modern become antiquated? When I was 12, I asked for a typewriter for Christmas (yes, I was a nerd, as my sisters will readily attest). And I got one—a sleek, pale gray German model with its own carrying case. With the aid of a manual, I taught myself how to type on that machine. It is hard now to fathom how important typewriters were for more than a century. They revolutionized business and transformed the lives of millions of women. They built fortunes for companies such as Underwood, Remington, and Smith Corona. And they became objects of beauty and great ingenuity. I still remember the excitement over the IBM Selectric, the technological marvel that did away with the carriage return in favor of a moving type ball that…
LIGHT BOX “Clear, poetic, and studied expressions of space, color, and materiality,” is how Annie Chu defines the aesthetic of Chu + Gooding Architects. In addition to designing the Los Angeles home of photographer James White (see page 198), the firm has built a series of airy residences in Southern California—such as the L.A. guesthouse above—that exemplify what Chu calls “a continuous flow between architecture, interior, and landscape.” Up next? The interior of the expanded Los Angeles Convention Center and the design of artist Rodney McMillian’s solo exhibition at New York’s Studio Museum in Harlem. DANCE CARD Roslyn Sulcas, left, whose feature about a Marrakech home begins on page 176, came to design writing in a roundabout way. Born in South Africa, the former dancer moved from Paris to New…
COLLECTIVE DESIGN As a sponsor of the 2015 New York Collective Design Fair, Calvin Klein Home designed and furnished the Fair’s main lounge area in which visitors were able to attend a series of Collective Conversations with great designers. In the ELLE DECOR lounge area, created by Natuzzi, Editor in Chief Michael Boodro engaged design icon Vladimir Kagan on the subject of his iconic mid-century modern and contemporary furniture designs. MADELINE WEINRIB AT COLLECTIVE DESIGN Textiles designer Madeline Weinrib used the occasion of New York’s third annual Collective Design fair to unveil her “Sand Collection” of new carpets and fabrics. The exhibition of handwoven carpets, silk ikats, and hand-blocked fabrics represents Weinrib’s own version of sand paintings, inspired by the great Spanish abstract expressionist painter and sculptor Antonio Tàpies. For…
India is clearly having an international moment. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London launches its India Festival in October, including a major exhibition devoted to the colorful and opulent handmade textiles produced on the subcontinent— everything from dyed cottons to muslin embroidered with beetle wings to mirrorbedecked clothing to a spectacular 18thcentury tent. In November, it will present the only thing possibly more dazzling—Indian jewelry. The 100 pieces on view from the private Al Thani collection include precious gems collected by Mughal emperors in the 17th century; stones extracted from the famous Golconda diamond mines; a jewelencrusted, jadehilted dagger that belonged to Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal; and elaborate 20thcentury pieces created by Cartier for India’s royal families (vam.ac.uk). In New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art…
