Indholdsfortegnelse for July 2015 i Architectural Digest

QUICK GETAWAYS When it comes to summertime vacations, short can still be sweet. Check out our spotlight on five American destinations that make for unforgettable weekend escapes. archdigest.com/go/weekendtrips ON THE HUNT Looking for that perfect vintage treasure to complete your space? Don’t miss our lineup of the best flea markets, antiques fairs, and bazaars across the U.S. archdigest.com/go/fleamarkets SCENIC FARE Few pleasures can top a memorable meal at the shore. We’ve compiled a list of some of the world’s most spectacular waterfront restaurants, where the views are as sublime as the cuisine. archdigest.com/go/waterfrontdining MOVABLE FEAST Add panache to your picnics with our roundup of stylish essentials for dining en plein air. archdigest.com/go/picnic SUMMER IDYLL Grab an iced tea and unwind with our slide show of gorgeous porches, sure to get…

It’s hard to believe that, as a child, artist Clifford Ross was terrified of going into the ocean. Numerous times over the past two decades, he has ventured chest-deep into roiling surf off East Hampton, New York, camera in hand, to create his mesmerizing black-and-white photographs of hurricane waves. “I realized the only way to convey that power and lyricism was to put the audience closer,” says Ross, who began the series in the late ’90s. “You don’t fight that ocean, you just become part of it.” The uncompromising Ross—whose work is the subject of multiple shows this summer, most notably a midcareer survey at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts—thrives on tackling challenges both creative and technical. Starting in 2002, he engineered and patented his own camera, which uses…

11 BEDROOMS 9 BATHS 2 HALF BATHS 16,000 SQ. FT. $15.5 MILLION Quogue, New York PEDIGREE: Rose Manor, a 1906 Long Island estate attributed to architect Stanford White, has a fresh new look after a meticulous three-year renovation. Among the interventions are the faithfully re-created Ionic columns that distinguish the clapboard exterior and a handsomely updated kitchen. PROPERTY VALUES: Gracing the 3.5-acre grounds are a saltwater swimming pool and a new carriage house with guest quarters. TALKING POINT: Previously home to Eileen and Jerry Ford—founders of the Ford Modeling Agency— the dwelling has hosted such iconic beauties as Lauren Hutton, Beverly Johnson, and Jerry Hall. CONTACT: Douglas Elliman, 516-695-3433 8 BEDROOMS 6 BATHS 4 HALF BATHS 5,900 SQ. FT. $3.7 MILLION Pézenas, France PEDIGREE: Neoclassical elegance abounds at this 19th-century…

The master bedroom enjoys pride of place in most homes—typically larger and more generously appointed than the children’s quarters or guest accommodations. But as popular culture keeps reminding us, families today come in all shapes and sizes, and their residences often bear little resemblance to longstanding archetypes. Consider the Bridgehampton, New York, retreat conceived by the Manhattan architecture, interiors, and landscape firm Sawyer|Berson and New York decorator Randi Puccio of LRS Designs—the delightful weekend escape boasts not one master suite but four. “Our firm has done many houses on Long Island, but this project was unique,” architect John Berson says of the 8,700-square-foot home, which is a short walk from the beach. The clients are, unusually, four adult relatives. “We genuinely love to be together, but we didn’t want to…

nantucket! Take out your map and look at it,” wrote Herman Melville in Moby-Dick. “A mere hillock, and elbow of sand; all beach, without a background.” It is the rare civic document that begins as lyrically as this Melville quotation that introduces the design guidelines manual of the Nantucket Historic District Commission (HDC), which has for decades governed construction on the Massachusetts island to help preserve its salty New England charm. Unlike many of the East Coast’s illustrious summer colonies, Nantucket did not become fashionable until well into the 20th century, sheltering it from the Gilded Age mansion-building boom that stretched from Bar Harbor, Maine, to Palm Beach, Florida. In fact, for a good hundred years after the mid-19th-century demise of the whaling industry, Nantucket stayed pretty much as it…

ANTICIPATION is one of the signal pleasures of visiting Maine. It’s a state tucked so deeply into the farthest reaches of the American Northeast that getting there can feel like an old-fashioned journey, even in this age of planes, trains, and automobiles. That feeling is amplified when the final destination is not just Maine but Skylands, Martha Stewart’s summer place on remote Mount Desert Island, where my son, Christoph, and I spent a long weekend last summer. Completed in 1925 for the visionary automotive executive Edsel Ford by architect Duncan Candler, the broad-shouldered house sits high on a hill that looks over Seal Harbor, so as you motor along the languid road that follows the rugged coastline, you keep glancing up to find it. Eventually the road branches off and…

One of design’s truisms is that behind every impossibly pretty old farmhouse is an owner with a vision, someone who had the imagination—and ambition—to take it from sad-sack to spick-andspan. That is certainly the case with Clove Brook Farm, in New York’s Hudson Valley, where a sugar cube of a house is skirted by an emerald lawn, breezes carry the gentle clucking of Buff Orpington hens, and a stream that gives the nearly six-acre retreat its name gurgles softly. Completed in the 1830s, the Greek Revival dwelling had fallen into serious disrepair when it was discovered nine years ago by Christopher Spitzmiller, the Manhattan-based lamp designer whose hand-thrown ceramic creations illuminate many a highprofile room (not least President Obama’s Oval Office, prompting the artisan’s playful Instagram hashtag #pottertothepresident). “It looked…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Store’s Iznik bowls will liven up your table with swirling arabesques and florals redolent of the Silk Road. From left are the 9.75"-dia., 11.75"-dia., and 6"-dia. models ($65–$325 each). store.metmuseum.org, 800-662-3397 The rhythmic stripes of Larsen’s Selby linen-blend fabric were inspired by the bold abstractions of Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp. The pattern is pictured in gray/blue, black/white, and yellow/black; available to the trade at Cowtan & Tout. cowtan.com, 212-647-6900 A must-have for the modern jet-setter, the polychromatic Escale Time Zone watch by Louis Vuitton counts the hours and minutes of 24 regions simultaneously. As pictured, with a blue alligator band, the timepiece is $7,700. louisvuitton.com, 866-884-8866 With a branch-shaped base of wrought iron finished in antiqued gold leaf, Casamidy’s Hiver pedestal table looks at once…

Long before vineyards and villas transformed Napa Valley, the celebrated stretch of California wine country was studded with traditional farm buildings, some of which still stand and are still used for their original function. It was to this agricultural past that Hugh Newell Jacobsen and his son Simon—who together head the Washington, D.C., firm Jacobsen Architecture—looked when they accepted a commission to design a house there. Consulting archival images from the Library of Congress, they found the early-20th-century Napa vernacular to be particularly consonant with their signature pared-to-the-essence structures. Their client, it turns out, was way ahead of them. Jeff Atlas, founder of the San Francisco–based Involved Media Group, which specializes in partnerships between nonprofits and corporations, had acquired the property chiefly to realize a dream he’d had since boyhood:…

Building a home can sometimes be like going on an extended journey without an itinerary— scary perhaps, but filled with the promise of great rewards. Such was the case for one Boston-based couple when they planned their ideal seaside residence. The pair envisioned a house somewhere along that storied strip of New York coastline known as the Hamptons, a place they’d summered many years before and where they could avoid the nonstop social commitments they’d encounter in Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard. The dwelling needed to be large enough to accommodate them and their three grown children, and they wanted it to have the look of an English-style cottage on the outside but with easygoing rooms inside—“a place where my kids could just arrive, kick off their shoes, and run into…