Indholdsfortegnelse for April 2017 i ELLE DECOR

WHAT’S IN STORE AT PEACOCK ALLEY Peacock Alley shines among makers of fine linens for bed and bath. See its signature understated style in go-to neutrals at its newest store in Austin, Texas, or visit peacockalley.com. 800.275.0784 OCHRE Ochre celebrates 10 years in SoHo with a renovated showroom on Broome St. Ochre continues to stay true to its underlying principles: the use of high quality materials and flawless craftsmanship to create beautiful, innovative design for a worldwide stage. Visit ochre.net. LORI WEITZNER FOR SAMUEL & SONS PRESENTS THE REGATTA COLLECTION Regatta is a collection of performance trimmings woven with solution-dyed acrylic yarns and ombré techniques, in hues that reflect the ever-shifting colors seen in all facets of the natural world. Visit samuelandsons.com. ELLE DECOR AND BAKER FURNITURE AT ART BASEL…

HIDDEN ASSET In a world of oversharers, secrecy seems to have gone the way of the phone booth. But all is not lost: A new crop of home accessories, each equipped with a hidden chamber, celebrates the sly pleasures of privacy, from Fort Standard’s gleaming copper spheres with secret storage inside (thefuture perfect.com) to James Killinger’s brass Cache candlestick with a hollow stone base (rollandhill.com) and Apparatus’s sculptural brass capsules held in crystal (apparatusstudio.com). Clearly, they’re more than meets the eye BLUE BLOODS Chatsworth, home to the Cavendish family and the dukes of Devonshire since 1549 and one of the grandest English country houses, has seen more than its share of fashionable women, among them Georgiana Spencer, the free-spirited ancestress of Princess Diana; Adele Astaire, Fred’s sister; Deborah Mitford, of…

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The image is simple—a bird in flight and a burst of black and orange flames—but it lingers in complicated ways. There’s an electric jolt from the ball of fire, and then, as the eye takes in the desolate black field behind it, a haunting emptiness sets in. At once voluptuous and bleak, Enrique Martínez Celaya’s wall-size The Burning (Mandelshtam) could technically be called a landscape painting—but it feels more like a premonition. You don’t know whether to be excited or scared. Martínez Celaya’s work—in addition to painting, he also creates sculptures and installations—draws on easily recognizable images and scenes, which the artist renders in ways that make them appear strange and uncanny: In The Guest, a colorfully dressed matador stands incongruously alone on a tree stump against a stark mountain…

A garden is more than trees, shrubs, and flowers— it needs a place for visitors to sit and take in the beauty around them. “It’s hard to enjoy a garden without an inviting place to pause,” says Katie Lydon, an interior designer based in New York. When choosing a bench, the best place to start is with the lay of the land: “Before you pick what bench you want, you have to decide where to put it. The plan is important,” says Brian Sawyer, a New York interior and landscape designer. Next, select a style. “If the garden is rural and open, I keep the bench simple and earthy, in natural materials and organic shapes,” Lydon says. A bench can create the feeling of a room, and it can draw…

SPLASH OF COLOR Mixed in small batches to maintain precision, Benjamin Moore’s new Century line of paints features highly saturated hues (and no whites) that dry to a specially developed Soft Touch Matte finish with the feel of fine leather. The palette of 75 colors includes, from top left, Madder Red, Larimar, Thistle, Yarrow, Amethyst, Realgar, Travertine, and Privet. The paints cost $125 per gallon. experiencecentury.com HAUTE CUISINE Cesar’s Unit kitchen system includes the lacquered aluminum Island, measuring 95″ w. x 51″ d. x 35.5″ h., with a marble countertop and brass handles, and the Tall Unit cabinet with a walnut finish, 95″w. x 26″ d. x 63″ h. Systems start at $35,000. (Sink and fittings are sold separately.) cesar.it THREE IN ONE The versatile Gina coffeemaker by Goat Story…

Items pictured but not listed are from private collections. MASTHEADS PAGE 26: Beatrix oak armchair with cushion, $2,175, by Mr. Brown London (mrbrownlondon.com). Aura teak chaise, $2,985, by Fred Spector for Lane Venture (laneventure.com). Emmanuel wool rug, in Stone, $15,120 for 9′ x 12′, by Christina Tullock for Woven (woven.is). PAGE 28: Wallis silk and velvet–appliqué pillow, $950, by Jayne Design Studio (jaynedesignstudio.com). Tabloid wicker lounge chair, in Blue/Emerge Indigo, #8041036, $999, by Stori Modern (storimodern.com). Bessho glass carafe, #BSCA01, $110, and tumblers, #BSTB02, $100 for a set of two, by Fferrone, from Kneen & Co. (kneenandco.com). TREND ALERT PAGE 56: Exotic Butterfly linen fabric, in Multi, #176181, by Josef Frank, to the trade from Schumacher (fschumacher.com). Tian iPhone case, in Beige/Ebony, #425069 K0L00 8919, $260, by Gucci (gucci.com). Issoria…

before I began to realize what a garden is. When I was growing up, outside meant either a backyard or the wilderness. The backyard was a circumscribed area, never very large or interesting, that contained a tree or two, a swing set, a tetherball, maybe a picnic table. It was where families would converge for cookouts, where grass had to be mowed and garages had to be cleaned out. The wilderness was a vast expanse of towering trees, deep shadows, dead leaves and twigs that would crunch underfoot, and animals and birds that would make strange and scary sounds. I was never much of a nature boy, and neither held much appeal for me. The former signified enforced fun, the latter was too muddy and dark for comfort, full of…

IN A NEW LIGHT Eric Roinestad left a career creating iconic album covers for Capitol Records to become a full-time ceramist, fashioning vessels that recall both his Scandinavian heritage and the folk-inspired work of Southern California’s midcentury designers. His new pendant lamps, which juxtapose playful shapes, are handmade of ceramic stoneware. Each one-of-a-kind piece incorporates multiple LEDs. From left, Lamp 2: 16• dia. x 32• h.; Lamp 1: 17• dia. x 26• h.; pendant rod made to order; $12,500 each. thefutureperfect.com 1 / TRUE BLUE Danish artist Cathrine Raben Davidsen employed Japanese glazing and firing techniques for the slender ceramic base of her sapphire-tinted Blue lamp. 9.5• dia. x 24• h., $2,600. cathrineraben davidsen.com 2 / SWEET AND LOW The Lexxy bench by Century Furniture features forged metal legs in…

Toyine Sellers refers to the richly textured fabrics she creates as her babies. “Each one is like a kid to me,” she says. “It’s got a piece of my soul.” Many of them eventually end up in the hands of the world’s greatest interior designers: Sellers’s clients include Peter Marino, William T. Georgis, and Chahan Minassian. “There’s nothing else on the market that’s even close,” says New York–based decorator Jeffrey Bilhuber, another fan. “It’s craftsmanship at its finest. The South African–born Sellers discovered a love of crafts while working as a designer in Marino’s office in New York City. In 2010, she set up her own company and now divides her time between her home in Stockholm and her atelier in the French town of Romans-sur-Isère, south of Lyon. The…

A couple of years ago, Minnie Driver sold what she calls the “big old Spanish-style house in the hills,” where she’d lived for 18 years, and bought a 1940s ranch house, also in the Hollywood Hills, with less square footage but a larger garden and a pool. She would soon begin filming the ABC comedy series Speechless, in which she plays a feisty mom of three, including a teenage boy with cerebral palsy. (The show debuted to raves and has been renewed.) Driver knew she wanted to enlist a designer to help with her new home. “I simply didn’t have the time to do it myself,” she says. “But I had a clear idea of what I wanted.” Her mother, English interior designer Gaynor Churchward, suggested she look through decorating…

BUDDING INTERESTS It seemed fated that playwright Jack Staub, above, would write about gardens. His partner, Renny Reynolds, is a renowned florist and plantsman, and together they manage Hortulus Farm, a historic garden in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, that covers 100 acres and received more than 5,000 visitors last year. “Renny bought it two months before we met, 38 years ago,” he says. “I started writing about gardens when I started gardening.” Staub, who visits a lush Coral Gables, Florida, garden on page 134, is now the author of seven books, including Private Gardens of South Florida (Gibbs Smith). COUNTRY LIVING Art dealer Kris Ghesquière and his partner, artist Eva Claessens, maintained separate homes in Belgium and France before settling together in Uruguay, in the house featured on page 152, near…

ALL THAT JAZZ Nearly a century ago, a hot new sound inspired a revolution in the arts Syncopated rhythms, melancholy blues, and brassy riffs: Those were the keynotes of jazz, the style of music and dance that emerged from the streets of New Orleans and conquered the Western world in the early decades of the last century. But what did jazz look like? In April, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York conjures the era’s joyous, racy zeitgeist in “The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s,” an exhibition of 350 furnishings, fashions, and product designs, many produced in the workshops of newly cosmopolitan America. It was a time when word of Paris trends and the discovery of breathtaking antiquities in Egypt—which inspired a wave of Orientalism—traveled with…

Despite her love of silly home videos and Napoleon Dynamite dance moves, El len DeGeneres has very sophisticated taste and knowledge when it comes to home furnishings. Over the past two decades, the talk-show host has become known for her obsession with architecture and interiors, having renovated and sold a string of multimillion-dollar houses around Los Angeles, often fully furnished down to the Serge Mouille lighting, antique Persian rugs, and Louis XVI bergères. And two years ago, DeGeneres introduced her own lifestyle and fashion brand, ED Ellen DeGeneres, offering bedding, barware, and home accessories. While that might have been enough for other design-obsessed stars, for DeGeneres it was just a warmup. This spring, she launches new collections of furniture, rugs, and tableware produced in partnership with Thomasville, Loloi, and Royal…

Growing up in a small Brazilian town, Sig Bergamin redecorated his bedroom in fabric imprinted with bold blue and green flowers. He’s never looked back. Now based in São Paulo, the ELLE DECOR A-List designer brings flamboyant patterns, hot hues, and audacious artworks to the homes of his fashionable patrons. “I adore my job,” he says. “The only problem is, I want to put colors everywhere, and the clients say no, no, no.” Bergamin is currently working on a house in Lisbon, and apartments in Miami and Manhattan. “Modern, antique, Mexican, Indian— I love it all,” he says. “I’m completely eclectic.” 1 / RANGE ROVER VOGUE SUV It has a lot of space, so my husband and I can bring our three French bulldogs when we take weekend trips to…

Jeanne Gang’s buildings beguile with their composed, confident beauty. But the Chicago-based architect, who won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2011, also has a deep commitment to empowering citizens and protecting the environment. The rippling facade of her 82-story Aqua Tower, completed in 2010, features staggered balconies that reduce the effects of heat and wind while encouraging human interaction. A boardwalk at the Lincoln Park Zoo has turned an aging man-made pond into a thriving ecosystem, while dramatic new boathouses on the Chicago River are resurrecting a neglected waterway. In 2014, Studio Gang opened a Manhattan office to accommodate a widening range of projects that now include an expansion of the American Museum of Natural History, a mixed-use tower on the High Line, and a fire-rescue center in an impoverished Brooklyn…

“IT WAS SORT OF A JOKE,” explains art dealer Kris Ghesquière about going to live in Uruguay with his partner, painter Eva Claessens. “It might as easily have been Zimbabwe, another country with wide-open spaces and few people.” These two Belgians clearly love a challenge. Exiting their respective homes— his a minimalist white box in Ostend, hers a rambling medieval castle in the south of France—turned out to be the easy part. The couple, with no Uruguayan connections or knowledge of the quiet country between the chaotic giants of Argentina and Brazil, fell in love with a landscape and, fatefully, with a rural ruin and folly that was not remotely a house. Ultimately, they ended up bringing with them their combined books, art, furniture, three cats, and a basset hound…