Innholdsfortegnelse for July/August 2019 i Vogue Living

Paul Barbera PHOTOGRAPHER AND DIRECTOR This year marks Barbera’s decade-long association with Vogue Living’s Salone del Mobile coverage. “Working with VL gives you an all-access pass to the fair, but the size of the event is overwhelming,” he says. “The team does a great job delivering a highly curated story. The hardest part is editing 6000-plus images down to 60!” This Australian native has traversed the globe for editorial and advertising work, from Melbourne and Sydney to Singapore and Amsterdam, before settling in New York, where he is now based. His own passion project, Where They Create, has produced two acclaimed books. For his second book, “I got to travel around Japan and I spent a few hours in the studio of Tadao Ando,” Barbera says. His current work in…

La famiglia. It’s as much a part of brand Italia as pasta, Ferrari and Negroni. Italian clan names echo across the ages, from the embattled Renaissance nobility of Orsini, Cesarini and Medici to 20th-century royalty like Versace. Even Hollywood antiheroes like Vito Corleone and his rambunctious brood serve to reinforce the legendary stature of the family in Italian culture. Italy’s design industry is no different. While globally venerated for its rich history, ceaseless innovation and ongoing industrial vigour, its true X factor is family. It’s the roots of the genealogical trees that allow the new branches to flourish, at the same time anchoring an industry that still holds sway around the world today. By transmitting knowledge from one generation to the next, Italian brands mapped out modernism, charting a path…

“I have two kids, a 6-year-old and a 10-year-old. They’re really the STRENGTH of my life. As leaders we have to give space to women. We can’t just wait for the system to change; each of us can really make a DIFFERENCE”SARA FERRERO Sara Ferrero opens the door to her Milanese apartment sporting a rumpled T-shirt, burnt orange velvet trousers, sneakers and no make-up. “I left my make-up behind last night. It was our opening party,” she says referring to the relaunch of luxury accessories brand Valextra’s Milan flagship, which — to coincide with the city’s Fuorisalone this year — has undergone an interiors refresh by British architect John Pawson. With a background in investment banking, Ferrero is quite possibly one of the most effortlessly cool CEOs you’re likely to…

Like many a romantic success story, Giorgio Armani, the founder of the Armani fashion empire, rose to international acclaim from humble beginnings. Born in 1934 in Piacenza, a small town outside of Milan, Armani grew up in war-torn poverty. It wasn’t until he was in his 20s when his younger sister, Rosanna —a successful model and actress at the time — introduced him to Milanese high society that he began his journey into the world of fashion. The son of a shipping manager, Armani dropped out of medical school to work as a window dresser then a menswear sales associate at high-end department stores La Rinascente. From here he went on to Nino Cerruti to train as a designer and it was not long after, in 1966, that he met…

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When Margherita Maccapani Missoni Amos discovered she was pregnant with her first child, there were two things she was sure of: one, the time had come to put down roots; and two, there was no other place in the world she’d rather do that than in Varese, a lakeside city 50 kilometres from Milan. Heir to the Missoni Italian fashion label, Missoni Amos took over as creative director for the M Missoni line last year, but since marrying entrepreneur and pilot Eugenio Amos in 2012, she has craved a decidedly quieter life. “I like life in the country,” says Missoni Amos. “Being in the fashion world, there was never a doubt in my mind that when the time came to raise kids, living immersed in nature would be the healthiest…

A midst the world’s stormy chaos of fast fashion and mass production, the Veneto region of northern Italy is a sort of microclimate of highly skilled artisans taking their time and using their hands. At its centre is an 18th-century former granary in the village of Pieve di Soligo, a home and showroom for Paolo Tormena, chief executive of high-end Italian furniture brand Henge. Over the course of a year, he and his partner (in life and work) Isabella Genovese employed numerous artisans within a 30-kilometre radius of the village to help them bring to life their bespoke accommodation within an extraordinary old warehouse. “It is a prolific area of craftsmanship,” explains Tormena, “and we have a long relationship with many of them, from carpenters to steel- and marble-workers.” They…

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When Venetian aristocrat Nicolò Venier commissioned the construction of a new palace on the Grand Canal in the mid-18th century, he could never have imagined its colourful fate. To begin with, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni was never completed and the part-built structure, initially designed to tower over its neighbours as a monument to family greatness, forms the only single-storey palace on the canal today. Then, forgotten to a century-and-a-half of decay, it was brought back to life by three extraordinary women. The first to take up residence was the Marchesa Luisa Casati, the enormously wealthy, and equally eccentric, Italian aristocrat who fashioned herself into a ‘living work of art’ towards the end of the Belle Époque. The next was Lady Doris Castlerosse, a London socialite who, freshly divorced and…

Fashion designer Carla Zampatti’s signature aesthetic — an elegant balance between refined beauty and streamlined function — is most apparent in her home in Sydney’s Woollahra, an exquisitely secluded four-bedroom Italianate-style building surrounded by a lush garden scattered with sculptures. Zampatti’s intuitive play on Italian romance and Australian pragmatism feels intrinsic to the award-winning designer’s world, from how she chooses to live to who she is as a person. She’s svelte, sophisticated and characteristically chic in her tinted black glasses and trademark blonde bob, but with an endearing warmth and underlying strength of character that may perhaps stem from her country upbringing and a backstory that can only be described as pioneering. The woman sometimes referred to as ‘the Coco Chanel of Australia’ grew up on a farm in postwar…

For Pasquale Natuzzi Junior, creative director of his father’s eponymous furniture company, looking back to look forward is something he does often, for both work and home. Take the renovation of his trullo house in Santeramo in Colle, for example, in an area surrounded by canyons and sea caves, artisans and vineyards, just under an hour’s drive from Bari, the capital of Puglia. “I wanted to use the philosophy of less is more,” he says, “remaining loyal to the traditional cone-roofed architecture of the trulli houses in the area but internally trying to redesign its shapes through very contemporary materials and elements.” Born and raised in the Apulian region — his father, Pasquale, first established the business as a small workshop handcrafting sofas in 1959 — Pasquale Junior maintains that…

Ini Archibong’s designs for Sé at Rossana Orlandi Galleria. Vogue Living travelled to Milan with Qantas; qantas.com “Salone has evolved from being a very specific moment related to a very specific industry to an immense occasion covering a large range of different topics in the last 10 years. The number of events is growing year after year and design is everywhere. It’s becoming so important for everyone, including people who are not working within the industry. It’s a unique opportunity to show ideas, launch new products or just host clients and friends”Emanuele Farneti, editor-in-chief, Vogue Italia LA BELLA VITA Eight designers at the intersection between fashion, art and interior design crafted working spaces of pure delight for Life in Vogue, the Vogue Italia installation in partnership with Nemo lighting (available…

Looking down from the mezzanine level of Milan’s La Pelota cavernous events space into the Hermès Maison exhibition was more than a little surreal. Visitors moved through a dimly lit labyrinth of dry-stone walls, which skilfully guided them on a mysterious journey of discovery — around each corner, exquisitely crafted pieces from Hermès’ new home collection were cleverly revealed, each representing the brand’s spotlight on raw, natural materials. Watching the attendees wind their way through the fence-height walls was mesmerising enough; actually navigating the maze to savour the details of each design up close, juxtaposed against this earthy setting, was borderline magical. Ed Barber (on left) and Jay Osgerby of Barber & Osgerby were among the artisans at Hermès this year, showcasing two contrasting lamps: the delicate Halo, made of…

This issue’s celebration of Italy, family and design is a subject close to my heart. My grandparents emigrated to Australia from Italy in the 1950s — and I grew up with that hard-working migrant sensibility. I can honestly say that I’m where I am today because of what I’ve learnt about the bonds of family, which, as everyone knows, provides the foundation of Italian culture. When I arrived in Sydney from Perth as a fresh-faced and utterly naïve 21-year-old, I got my first job through a family connection — designer Carla Zampatti, my grandfather’s beloved cousin. Carla was not only instrumental in nurturing my love of fashion, which led to a career in publishing, but she also welcomed me into her home and took care of me the way Italian…

It has been almost 600 years since glassmaker Angelo Barovier made Murano, an island in the Venetian Lagoon, famous for its glass. He had developed a glass so perfect, so clear in comparison to the brown- or green-tinged glass that came before, that he made the island famous, with orders tumbling in from the world’s most prestigious families. The island went into shutdown — glassmakers were forbidden to leave its shores, and if the secret formula for the new cristallo glass was given up, the penalty could be death. Since then, Venice’s glassmaking industry has boomed and troughed, but the name Murano has always meant quality, and Venetian glass considered the best. Of all institutions, it seems surprising that the National Gallery of Victoria would hold one of the world’s…

To reach the pinnacle of any life experience is all the more exhilarating for its approach — the ups and downs, the ins and outs, the odd tantalising tease — and that could be said for mountain climbing, bedtime frolicking or, in this case, architecture. “I don’t like the phrase ‘wow-factor,’” says Italian-born, Sydney-based architect Renato D’Ettorre, who, when engaged to design a family home on a north-east-facing site along one of the Eastern Suburbs’ most popular coastlines, resisted the urge to sketch a glass box. Not only would the home be victim to glare and heat for much of the year, but the climax of its 180-degree panoramic ocean view would be reached too early — and where would be the fun in that? Instead, D’Ettorre — inspired by…

FOR THE TRADE Seneca seneca.co.nz EDITORIAL Agence de Parfum agencedeparfum.com.au Alex and Trahanas alexandtrahanas.com Alex Eagle Studio alexeagle.co.uk Ali Hassoun enquiries to Saatchi Art; saatchiart.com Alm studioalm.com Altai altai.it Andrea Branzi andreabranzi.it Artek artek.fi Artemest artemest.com Atelier atelierstudios.com.au Batch Ceramics batchceramics.com.au Becker Minty beckerminty.com Bemboka bemboka.com Bianca Spender biancaspender.com Bitossi bitossiceramiche.it Boff boff.com Carla Zampatti carlazampatti.com.au Caroline Walker carolinewalker.org Conley & Co @conleyandco Criteria criteriacollection.com.au Cult cultdesign. com.au David Jones davidjones.com Dedece dedece.com Ferm Living fermliving.com Fibonacci Stone fibonaccistone.com.au Fleurette fleurette.co Flos flos.com Fornace Brioni fornacebrioni.it Galleria Rossana Orlandi rosannaorlandi.com Gino Donvito ginodonvito.it Great Dane greatdanefurniture.com Hacienda Ltd @hacienda_ltd Herman Miller hermanmiller.com Hermès hermes.com In Bed inbedstore.com Inderjeet Sandhu inderjeetsandhu.com James Dunlop Textiles jamesdunloptextiles.com Janus Et Cie janusetcie.com Jardan jardan.com.au Kat Evans katevans.org Long Courrier longcourrier.com.au Loom Rugs loomrugs. com.au Lucy Folk lucyfolk.com LuMu Interiors lumuinteriors.com Made By Choice madebychoice.com Maison et Jardin maisonetjardin.com.au Martine Emdur enquiries to Olsen Gallery; olsengallery.com Matches Fashion matchesfashion.com Mud Australia mudaustralia.com Natuzzi natuzzi.com.au Ondene ondene.com.au Opinion Ciatti opinionciatti.com Peter’s of Kensington petersofkensington.com.au PGH Bricks & Pavers pghbricks.com.au Poliform poliformaustralia.com.au Poltrona Frau poltronafrau.com Richard Ginori richardginori1735.com Riedel riedel.com Sarah Ricciardi sararicciardi.org Space…

Salone has evolved from being a very specific moment related to a very specific industry to an immense occasion covering a large range of different topics in the last 10 years. The number of events is growing year after year and design is everywhere. It’s becoming so important for everyone, including people who are not working within the industry. It’s a unique opportunity to show ideas, launch new products or just host clients and friends. And it’s no longer just about the furniture — it’s about creativity in general. It’s super interesting for all the fashion brands, not only to show, but also to do research here. This is happening more and more. For me, being surprised is the most interesting aspect of the week. My favourite way to enjoy…