Indholdsfortegnelse for August 2017 i Architectural Digest

THE STORY BEHIND AN ICONIC DESIGN I n 1947 the French designer Jean Royère redecorated his mother’s Paris apartment. The star of his grand redo? A rotund sofa called Boule, covered in a deliciously fuzzy velvet that would later inspire the design’s charming nickname, Ours PolaireÑÒpolar bear.” The unusual shape—created with a wooden interior skeleton similar to those used in Louis XVI sofas—sent shock waves through Paris when Royère displayed it in Art et Industrie’s exhibition “La Résidence Française.” But soon enough, the orders flew in. Two chair versions were commissioned for the office of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs in Helsinki; the Shah of Iran snapped up several for the dining room and bar of his daughter Shahnaz’s home in Tehran. Royère, who began his career in furniture-making…

SIGHTS Celebrated landscape architect Miranda Brooks calls the Shisen?d? garden, located at the Edo-period temple, one of her favorites in the world. Don’t miss the H?shun?in temple and elegantly landscaped garden, and Shunk??in, a 1590 temple where Confucian themes are painted on sliding doors. Head to the famed Nishiki Market to sample sushi-quality fish and stock up on miniature “sushi” candy. SHOPS Creative director and event designer Alexandre de Betak and his fashion-consultant wife, Sofia, are so fond of Japanese ceramics that he designed a tatami room with built-in sake bar in their New York City loft and outfitted it with wares from Konishi Pottery Exporting Company near Kyoto. Les Ateliers Courbet?fs Melanie Courbet works with several Kyoto artisans: Asahiyaki for pottery; Nakagawa Mokkougei for woodcrafts;Kanaami.Tsuji, which creates teaceremony accessories;…

Pierre Sauvage is a floor guy. “I like classical structures and strong-looking floors, like you see in the work of David Hicks in the ’70s,” says Sauvage. The evidence is all around us in this grand, light-filled apartment on Paris’s rue de Varenne. Sauvage and his partner moved here three years ago from an apartment up the street that dated from a gaudier, more show-offy century. It was nice, says Sauvage, but it just wasn’t the century where his head was at “We had no particular reason for moving,” says Sauvage with a small shrug. “The other place was very 19th century, which is quite comfortable for a country house but a little out of date for an apartment. The 18th century goes much better with contemporary style. And then…

WHERE ART MEETS COMMERCE SPECIALTY: Majolica, relief-molded earthenware decorated with vivid lead glazes, mostly dating from 1850 to 1900. GENESIS: Herbert Minton and his art director, Leon Arnoux, debuted the ceramics at London’s 1851 Great Exhibition. LOOK FOR: Pieces that are sharply molded. “If it’s a bird or a squirrel, you want to see the feathers or the fur,” says eminent dealer Nicolaus Boston. NAMES TO KNOW: Minton, Copeland, Wedgwood, Royal Worcester, and George Jones, who embellished the underside of his designs with a green-and-brown mottled pattern. FABULOUS FIND: “On my way to a Bruce Springsteen show I found a Jones plate in a junk shop for £1,” Boston says. “Never seen another one—a nineinch plate with a big chestnut leaf in the middle. I held it under my arm…

ON THE COAST OF CYPRUS is a freshwater pool called Fontana Amorosa. “They say it’s where Aphrodite went to find eternal love and youth,” explains Cypriot lighting designer Michael Anastassiades, whose latest collection—which debuted at Milan’s Nilufar gallery—is named for the mythical site. “I see them as a series of fountains and fireworks,” the dashing talent says of fixtures with names like Manneken-Pis, Wishing Well, and Bellagio. (Some of that work will soon appear at the Future Perfect in New York.) In Palm, shown here, spindly metal arms cascade into hand-blown orbs of light. Noteworthy is Anastassiades’ use of color—a first for the master of restraint. However, the crimson hue applied to the collection is no standard paint or powder coat, but a brass patina. Says Anastassiades: “I did not…

Milan is reawakening,” says Derek Castiglioni over a Sunday lunch in early April. The city’s fashionable young garden designer is taking in the view from Ceresio 7, the rooftop restaurant of menswear label Dsquared2 and the latest Milan hot spot devised by several of the city’s leading design talents. His pals at Storage Associati masterminded the architecture, friends Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci of Dimore Studio created the decor, and Castiglioni handled the plantings. “This is a city that is constantly changing,” he continues. “And right now you can breathe the enthusiasm.” New construction has changed the skyline. Generali Tower, one of Dame Zaha Hadid’s last works, twists to the heavens alongside Arata Isozaki and Andrea Maffei’s Allianz Tower, and Daniel Libeskind’s leaning tower (Milanese call it Il Curvo) is…

I n the span of 16 days this spring, Kyoto unwittingly hijacked Instagram. First, at the city’s National Museum of Modern Art, Van Cleef & Arpels debuted the exhibition “Mastery of an Art: Van Cleef & Arpels—High Jewelry and Japanese Crafts” (through August 6). Then Louis Vuitton touched down in the region, along with a flurry of celebrities, for its cruise show, an hour’s drive away at the I. M. Pei–designed Miho Museum. Around the same time, tastemakers such as Garance Doré and Sofía Sanchez de Betak toured nearby sites, leaving a trail of “like”-able posts in their wake. Kyoto, which in recent history has been something of a sleeping beauty—the quiet counterpoint to younger, cooler Tokyo—is at the epicenter once again. “In Kyoto there is nature, serenity, history,” says…

Visitors to AD100 decorator Miles Redd’s new Manhattan office should prepare themselves for a serious jolt of extrastrength Redd-iness. The exhilarating 1,800-square-foot Chelsea work space— designed in collaboration with the architecture firm Bories & Shearron—functions as a three-dimensional calling card meant to demonstrate Redd’s adventurous decorative sensibility and to persuade his clients about the joys of living in glorious Technicolor. It is, in a word, a knockout. The fun begins, naturally, at the entrance, which opens to a tented vestibule of linen fabric printed with scenic branches and leaves, all outlined in black grosgrain ribbon. Two doors upholstered in black horsehair with lapis lazuli levers lead, respectively, to a coat closet and a dazzling powder room. The reverse of the bathroom door—sheathed in a Cubist-inspired collage of jewel-toned Prelle silk…

for all its gilded pomp and grand guests, the Hôtel de Crillon had started to feel like a museum by 2010, when the 18th-century property was acquired by a member of the Saudi royal family. Two years later it was announced the Crillon would close for an upgrade, which its competitors the Ritz Paris and Hôtel Plaza Athénée also did. If the decision wasn’t a surprise, the results—just unveiled—are. Unlike that of its competition, which hewed closer to preservation, the aesthetic here has gone from preserved-in-amber ancien régime to a streamlined opulence that feels very of the moment. When she was selected by the owner to direct the renovation, Aline d’Amman, of the Lebanon- and Paris-based firm Culture in Architecture, wasn’t a boldfaced name in the design world beyond the…

Items pictured but not listed here are not sourceable. Items similar to vintage and antique pieces shown are often available from the dealers listed. (T) means the item is available only to the trade. TRUE BLUE PAGES 48–61: Pierre Sauvage of Casa Lopez; casalopez.com. Architecture and interiors by Franz Potisek; franzpotisek.com. PAGE 48: On sofa, Apollon velvet, in écureuil, by Lelièvre for Scalamandré (T); scalamandre .com; with pillows by Casa Lopez; casalopez.com. Nickel floor lamp by Chehoma; chehoma.com. On walls, Bleu de Chine paint by Seigneurie; seigneurie.com. PAGE 49: On dining chairs, Bristol Weave viscose-nylon, in espresso, by Schumacher (T); fschumacher.com. Terre Mélee plates, linen place mats, and Pia rug by Casa Lopez; casalopez.com. PAGES 50–51: Vintage sofa from Arthur Bruet; +33-6-1323-7417. Sofa and chair upholstered in, and curtains of,…

For the past five decades, Turner Prize–winner Richard Long has been on the go—traveling to the far corners of the world to create works of land art that are meditations on the body’s movement through nature. Recently, his perambulations led him to Houghton Hall, the English estate designed for Sir Robert Walpole, Great Britain’s first prime minister, in the early 18th century. The results of Long’s solitary walks on the grounds appear in “Earth Sky,” a solo exhibition on view through October 26 (houghtonhall.com). Outside, he’s gathered pieces of Cornish slate into a monumental spiral; arranged tree stumps found on the property into a circle, their roots up; and amassed hunks of carstone into a nearly 100-yardlong line, among other spell binding feats. The exhibition continues inside, where small-scale works…