Indholdsfortegnelse for January 2025 i Architectural Digest

“I’ve spent my life growing up on sets. So I like a bit of dazzle. Give me a show.”—Kelly Ripa Producing the January issue, which celebrates the AD100, our list of the year’s definitive talents in the design industry, always demands a bit of showmanship on our part. If I may borrow a sentiment from Kelly Ripa, whose glamorous New York City town house is included in the visual delights this month—we seek to awe and entertain you! The editors spend months—even years—tracking extraordinary projects, and there are quite a few star turns on these pages. The cover story, on an exceptional compound of chalets in Gstaad, Switzerland, involved an international list of luminaries, including AD100 Hall of Famer Francis Kéré and AD100 landscape architect Sara Zewde. Kéré was the…

“What ideas emerge when you bring together a lot of strong voices?”—Nachson Mimran “Everyone involved knew that this wouldn’t just be a private residence for a few people—it would be a place to host some of today’s greatest minds.”…

“I like the fun of the 1970s; they knew how to party,” Hugo Toro admits, explaining the loungey vibe he created. In recent times, the AD100 French Mexican architect Hugo Toro has taken the approach of an auteur, working on a carte blanche basis to realize his commissioned projects down to the last exacting detail. For the Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme’s new crown jewel, restaurant Pur’, home to Michelin-starred chef Jean-François Rouquette, Toro conceived everything, even the napkin rings and the staff uniforms. Currently, he is putting the final touches on La Minerva hotel in Rome, the Orient Express’s five-star accommodation just steps from the Pantheon, which will be a complete embodiment of his architectural vision. For his latest residential project on Paris’s Left Bank, a 1911 mansion comprising more than…

When the father and son design duo Philip and Kelvin LaVerne began developing bronze tables in their New York City studio in the late 1950s, they wanted to achieve the look of the centuries-old artifacts from Europe and the Far East that they had long admired. Their clever solution? Bury them. “I call it the LaVerne patina,” says Evan Lobel of Lobel Modern, who has sold these works since 1998, and who recently authored Alchemy (Pointed Leaf Press), the first monograph on their oeuvre. “They found a soil from Africa that would accelerate the aging process on the bronze if they kept it nearly freezing.” So, after Kelvin engraved the metal, pieces would be submerged in a giant vat of dirt and excavated on a designated date before being cleaned…

Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 novel Treasure Island has long captivated audiences with its tales of swashbuckling pirates, maritime travel, and lavish loot. Leave it to Van Cleef & Arpels to make that seafaring saga glitter in our imaginations as never before. For its 2024 High Jewelry Collection, the esteemed French maison has reinterpreted the iconic story in the form of its own gem-encrusted wonders—from necklaces inspired by forceful waves and boating knots to clips modeled after turtles and shells. Unrivaled among these beauties is Onde Mystérieuse, a decorative box that surfaces under-the-sea drama through timeless craft. The latest in Van Cleef & Arpels’s historic line of precious decorative objects, this one-of-a-kind piece is at once a feat of artisanal savoir faire and a flourish of figurative artistry. Swimming across its…

From editor-in-chief Amy Astley and Architectural Digest, AD at 100 celebrates the most incredible homes of the past century, showcasing the work of top designers and offering rare looks inside the private worlds of artists, celebrities, and other fascinating personalities. Featuring Barack and Michelle Obama, Frank Gehry, Truman Capote, David Hockney, Marc Jacobs, Jennifer Aniston, Diana Vreeland, India Mahdavi, Peter Marino, Kelly Wearstler, Oscar Niemeyer, Axel Vervoordt, Frank Lloyd Wright, Elsie de Wolfe, Jacques Grange, Rose Tarlow, John Lautner, Renzo Mongiardino, and many more. abramsbooks.com/AD100…

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Lorenzo Hadar speaks about the inspiration and influence of Japan with an almost religious reverence. The Los Angeles style czar began making regular pilgrimages to the Asian archipelago more than two decades ago, searching for Japanese design talent to stock the avantgarde H. Lorenzo fashion boutiques that have been a staple of the LA scene from the time he and his wife, Sharona, opened their first location in the early 1980s. “Those trips changed me fundamentally, my personality, the way I think, my aesthetic,” Hadar avers. “I started to love their culture, the minimalism, the attention to detail, and the emphasis on quality.” It was during those sojourns that the fashion impresario first became acquainted with the work of architect Tadao Ando, sparking a profound fascination that culminated, years later,…

After moving to New York City in her mid-20s, Gloria Steinem made a list of the things about it that scared her. One of those things was dining—specifically, the fact that people in New York tended to sit down for meals rather than stand in front of an open refrigerator. Now 90, Steinem still prefers grazing to cooking. And given the length of her overstuffed CV, the tireless feminist, journalist, activist, and advocate for all manner of disenfranchised people makes a solid case for skipping out on seated dinners. Still, she keeps a colorful cache of kitchen magnets in her longtime apartment on the Upper East Side, from Frida Kahlo and Susan B. Anthony to Wonder Woman and the Mona Lisa. A few years ago, it fell to the interior…

There’s a glamorous chaise longue smack in the middle of Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’s bathroom. With its tufting and plush white upholstery, it’s the kind of piece you’d imagine a femme fatale lounging on in a 1940s MGM picture—and in fact that was sort of its inspiration. “You know the movie Mommie Dearest?” says Ripa, who since April 2023 has cohosted ABC’s morning show Live with Kelly and Mark with her husband, Mark Consuelos, after her more-than-two-decade run with previous cohosts. “There’s an amazing scene where Faye Dunaway playing Joan Crawford is lying on a white satin chaise in her dressing room, putting lotion on her elbow.” To demonstrate, she daintily raises her left elbow and, with the pointer finger of her opposite hand, mimics Dunaway’s lotion-applying gesture with…

In pre-Darwinian times, illustrations of exotic fauna were often based on written descriptions, resulting in depictions of otherworldly composite creatures. It should come as no surprise that Markham Roberts has a soft spot for those antique prints. An animal lover and an eclectic at heart, the AD100 designer has built his name blending the unexpected, eschewing strict period decorating to create an inimitable signature style. Nowhere is it more pronounced than the Manhattan duplex he shares with his partner, the furniture and art dealer James Sansum, and their two dogs, Huckleberry and Harriet. “There’s stuff from all over,” the designer muses of their heady mix of furnishings, dispersed among four commodious principal rooms, flanking a central stair hall in an 1880s edifice on the Upper East Side. “But if you…

It looks like the bones of a fish,” muses Danae Dasyra, examining a chair in progress at the Athens studio she shares with business partner Joe Bradford. The piece is one of several that the creative duo, who go by the name Astronauts, just debuted in Miami at Alcova, the experimental-design fair concurrent to Art Basel. “They’re all a bit water-themed,” she says of that mix, which included vases, a mobile sculpture, and more—all made using hydroforming, an industrial process wherein pressurized water inflates metal like a balloon. The pair—who caught the design world’s attention last summer as finalists at Design Parade Hyères—first met while studying at Bath Spa University in England. After graduation, they worked independently of each other (he for Tom Price in London and Mallorca, she for…

A pool is a forgotten canvas,” says Alex Proba, a New York City– and Portland, Oregon–based artist and designer known for her use of naive abstractions. Like Pablo Picasso and David Hockney before her, she has painted swimming pools with site-specific murals, her vibrant compositions glistening beneath the water. Now, thanks to a private client in Miami, Proba has taken things a step further—realizing one such tableau in custom glazed tiles. Working with Cerámica Suro, a manufacturer in Guadalajara, Mexico, Proba translated a puzzle of idiosyncratic shapes into tiles that wrap the bottom of the pool. “Everything I do starts from the same place—florals, nature, color,” she explains, noting that her own upbringing was conspicuously devoid of those things. (“Growing up, everything in my house was black and white.”) It…

Lip Service At restaurant Bisous in the De Pijp neighborhood of Amsterdam, AD100 designer Jean-Philippe Demeyer has once again donned his magician’s cloak to conjure a delirious, madcap interior alive with color, pattern, and myriad cultural references. The walls of the lofty space are wrapped in a Mondrian-like fabric that pays homage to the preeminent Dutch artist, while illuminated concrete lip sculptures on the walls make explicit reference to the French eatery’s name, which means kisses. Against that zany backdrop, Demeyer—never one to skimp on theatrical effect—added red velvet curtains with golden tassels worthy of an opera house, cut-mirror columns that sparkle like disco balls, and unapologetically démodé stair runners stitched together for banquette upholstery and carpets. “The owners wanted a restaurant with a nightclub feeling, as many do now,…