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OUR HOMES SUPPORT THE STORIES WE TELL about ourselves. And if a strong narrative in a room is the goal, art is often the all-important punctuation. Take the New York City pied-à-terre on our newsstand cover, designed to perfection by ELLE DECOR A-List Titan Kelly Behun. The collection in this apartment includes a magnificent Nick Cave Soundsuit piece and an intricate tapestry by El Anatsui. Behun’s clients are comfortable living and entertaining alongside daring work—in fact, they thrive on it. That same fearlessness is on display in the other features in this issue, from two French estates with differing but equally enchanting takes on a life with art, to a painter’s residence in Rome that embraces a bold palette. I also want to highlight our special collector’s cover featuring a…
EXPLORE NOW YOU SEE IT Anyone who has played Pokémon Go knows how creative (and addictive) the location-based augmented-reality (AR) feature can be. Now the same technology is being used by Kinfolk—a digital platform dedicated to Black and Brown narratives—to display artist-made “monuments” on the streets of New York City. The artists include Hank Willis Thomas, Derrick Adams, and Pamela Council, as well as Tourmaline, whose virtual sculpture of Mary Jones, a trans woman in 1830s New York, aims to reexamine the onetime tabloid figure’s story; that artwork is visible in SoHo via Kinfolk’s app. “By cocreating monuments with artists,” says the group’s cofounder Idris Brewster, “Kinfolk is able to reimagine our public spaces.” —Ingrid Abramovitch www.kinfolktech.org VISIT LA VIDA MODERNA Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940–1980 at the Museum…
1. Enheduana I’m reading Sophus Helle’s translations from the original Sumerian. My favorite poem is “Inana and Ebih.” yalebooks.yale.edu 2. Black Tea I always keep bags of Taylors on hand in the kitchen. taylorsofharrogate.com 3. Skate Decks My collaboration with the Skateroom showcases photography by Juergen Teller. theskateroom.com 4. Chateau Marmont This is my go-to hotel when I’m visiting Los Angeles. chateaumarmont.com 5. East-West/West-East Richard Serra’s masterpiece of sculpture in the Qatari desert is a must-visit. qm.org.qa 6. Bronze Plates I set my table with these plates by my partner Rick Owens, candles, and linen napkins. rickowens.eu 7. Hunrod Gold Rat Rings This series I designed with Loree Rodkin features signs of the Chinese zodiac. carpenters workshop gallery.com 8. Lavascar The words of Etel Adnan that are on the…
THE 26-YEAR-OLD PARIS-AND VENICE-BASED INTERIORS AND furniture designer Edgar Jayet was already itching to be in proximity to beautiful craftsmanship by the time he started a school program learning about press relations for the Swiss manufacturer Vitra, at 13. A rigorous education in interior architecture and design at École Camondo, a sister institution to the Musée Nissim de Camondo, in Paris, followed. While still a student, Jayet was awarded the Grand Prix Van Cleef & Arpels for his and artist Victor Fleury Ponsin’s design of a “bedroom for naps,” inspired by the writings of Albert Camus. His Unheimlichkeit collection, presented last year at Sofia Zevi gallery, in Milan, evolved this marriage of historical reference and reinterpretation: the mortise-and-tenon-joined pearwood furnishings feature cotton-canvas paneling by textile designer Chiarastella Cattana, woven as…
Last fall, when the prestigious London gallery White Cube opened its first public space in New York City, it tapped a trailblazer with an unorthodox path in the industry. Growing up in Sri Lanka, Sukanya Rajaratnam didn’t consider art an obvious career choice. Instead, she studied finance at Cambridge and went to work in investment banking, specializing in underappreciated assets. Now, as global director of strategic market initiatives at White Cube New York, she’s leveraging her business background to shine the spotlight on unsung artists. Rajaratnam made the move from finance to the art world with an unpaid internship at Christie’s auction house, where she started by writing catalog copy for the evening sales. She went on to spend 15 years at New York’s Mnuchin Gallery, 10 as partner. “I…
In the Paris apartment of Valentin Goux, color, character, and culture are crammed into every corner. “I don’t do white walls,” Goux says. The scion and president of Rinck, who took the reins of the French design firm four years ago—and in January, celebrated the opening of Galerie Rinck on the Left Bank—Goux is a rare blend of youth and wisdom who, before assuming his current role, had stints as a menswear retailer and a journalist. His personal design philosophy is characterized by a deep-rooted connection to history with an eye to the future. The two-bedroom apartment he shares with his wife, Sabrina Medaghri Alaoui, in the 11th arrondissement, serves as a testament to his family firm’s 183-year history, with carefully placed pieces ranging from the reeditioned 1973 sofa to…
