Indholdsfortegnelse for May/June 2022 i Vogue Living

Felix Forest PHOTOGRAPHER It’s no surprise that Felix Forest’s home is an elegant, artful and tranquil space, considering the images he creates. As he invites us into the home he shares with his family (page 88), you’ll spot a honed collector’s eye at work in a covetable selection of furniture and artworks. From an early career highlight being assigned to AD Spain while living in Paris to a decade immersed in our local style and design scene, creativity has long inspired Forest. “The pieces in our home have been collected over the past 15 years, he says. “We have always gravitated towards unusual design pieces, one-off freeform ‘experiments’ and organic shapes and colours; a celebration of timeless design.” Art is a key element of the space. “I don’t think one…

What’s the collective noun for an assembly of Annas? The question issues across the Zoomiverse to architect Anna Ciliberto and her client Anna-Wili Highfield, the Sydney-based artist whose ability to summon a murder of crows or a parliament of owls from inert paper has garnered commissions from Hermès and international coverage. The pair sit at Highfield’s dining table, in the house Ciliberto designed for her, silhouetted by a webbed curtain of silk that invites inquiry. “That is what happens when you take your laptop to the local café,” says Highfield of purchasing a military-issue parachute on eBay while sipping her morning coffee. “It’s from the Korean War. I thought that light filtering through it would be so beautiful.” And it is, prompting the suggestion that something designed to slow movement…

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What do you do if, after living abroad your entire adult life, you decide you want to start an artist residency in your home country? Why, set it up in your family’s 13th-century palazzo, of course. It may not be an option for many, but luckily enough for curator, collector and self-proclaimed “art cowboy” Edoardo Monti, it was. In 2017 he established Palazzo Monti in Brescia, northern Italy. A string of artists and designers followed, contributing to the spaces with crafty hands and canny eyes, helping to form what must be one of the most beautiful artist residencies, frankly, anywhere. So what drove Monti to create something so monumental at the tender age of 25? “I was working for Stella McCartney in New York, in communications, but I was invested…

The heady days of escaping to take pause in a place of total (optional) isolation, with an expanse of clear blue sky overhead as pristine waters gently lap at the shore feel like a distant memory. But Coqui Coqui’s Nicolas Malleville and Francesca Bonato want us to return to those calmer times, and their latest residential stay in Bora Bora is just the ticket. Coqui Coqui was established in 2003 when Malleville, a model, landscape designer and perfumer, was drawn to the incredible scope of flora, distinctive scents and history of ancient Mayan medicine on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. “This was a land of spontaneity and gave us the possibility to create our sensorial world,” he says. A focus on research and dedication to utilising the full realm of lush, tropical…

Finding your DREAM home is rare, especially in a specific architectural style. So when creative director PERNILLE TEISBÆK and husband Philip Lotko, cofounder of outerwear brand Rains, discovered an elegant 1875-era West Copenhagen house with ORNATE DETAILS intact, they jumped. The WHIRLWIND RESTORATION’S guiding principle? Embrace the unexpected. “I love it when things contradict each other, that’s what makes it interesting,” says Teisbæk. For the full house tour, visit VOGUE.COM.AU/VOGUE-LIVING. Vogue Living @vogueliving Vogue Living @VogueLiving vogue.com.au/vogue-living…

Javier S Medina While a collaboration with luxury house Loewe thrust Javier S Medina firmly into the spotlight, it doesn’t rank as his highest career thrill. “Working with Loewe has been a dream and an honour, especially being a Spanish brand and the big support it brings to craftsmanship,” says the Madrid-based artisan. “But honestly, the biggest highlight is being able to live off my work with crafts — not easy these days — and keep creating what I imagine.” A self-taught craftsman, Medina bends and weaves bamboo, wicker, rattan or fibre by hand at whim to create mirrors and animal heads, but his creativity also takes ancestral root. His grandfather spent his days at the Spanish National Railway Network, “but after work, he used to braid esparto [grass] and…

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Just a few strides from the bustle of Brick Lane in London’s East End — where the sweet, spicy scent of the street’s famous Bangladeshi curry houses fills the air — hides a gorgeous Georgian-era gem of a house that interior designer Sophie Ashby and her husband, fashion designer Charlie Casely-Hayford, share with their daughter Gaia and Casely-Hayford’s daughter Rainbow when she comes to stay on weekends. Having outgrown their one-bedroom apartment in West London, the family rented this place in February 2020, just before the world went into lockdown. “We could have bought a house, but I knew it wouldn’t have been one I was happy to live in for the next 10 years,” Ashby says. Instead, she and Casely-Hayford decided to “sit tight, plot and plan,” while testing…

Architects delight in constraints. A sheer cliff, an enormous boulder, some mature trees; every challenge is an opportunity, every obstacle a eureka moment — just ask John Lautner, Oscar Niemeyer and Lina Bo Bardi. Where others might see cumbersome red tape in the form of setback requirements and height restrictions, architects see puzzling frameworks within which to work their creative magic. Enlisted by a creative couple to update their Manhattan townhouse, designer Giancarlo Valle found no such conditions to navigate. Recently constructed and lacking in character, the five-storey downtown dwelling was just box rooms, white walls and soulless developer details — an aesthetic vacuum, for all intents and purposes. And so, deprived of any natural jumping-off points, Valle created his own. “A project like this, it’s a blank canvas,” he…

Design OBJECTIVE GALLERY “Objective Gallery is a pioneer in bringing world-class design to the Chinese market and promoting new Chinese talent to the international stage. It unifies designers and artists in creating a collection of functional yet elegant furniture, lighting, art, and lifestyle objects.” objectivegallery.com GALLERY SOHE “Gallery Sohe is a design gallery based in Hangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing. In Shanghai it’s located in a historical building on the Bund and specialises in authentic pieces from modernist masters such as Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier and Jean Prouvé, to name a few.” gallerysohe.com Art LONG MUSEUM WEST BUND “Long Museum is one of the most successful privately owned museums in the West Bund art precinct. It arranges China’s most prestigious and anticipated exhibitions featuring Chinese and contemporary art, including…

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The best thing about this issue is how hard it was to make. As a celebration of the next generation of talent, you might think that finding candidates who fit the bill would be a piece of cake. After all, we are living in a golden age of design, a time when exciting new creatives are constantly popping up, here in Australia and everywhere. But that’s just the point. With so much brilliance around, where do you start? And when you’re so spoiled for choice, how do you whittle that selection down to fit inside a magazine? Luckily, we’re a ruthless bunch at Vogue Living. And I’d like to think that what we’ve managed to capture in these pages is a snapshot of the design world today, and what makes…

A fascination with history — of time-honoured techniques, cultural heritage and storytelling — makes up the very fabric of designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla’s creations for the eponymous menswear label she founded in 2016. Vintage and deadstock textiles inspire or are actually woven, patchworked and embroidered into her whimsical one-of-a-kind pieces. She believes that, in fashion, as she told US GQ, “there are so many different ways of calculating a sustainable approach. To me, it’s beyond the fabric and the materials and reuse. It’s also about sharing knowledge.” Bode Aujla’s preoccupation with the past and her ‘“preservation of craft”, as she once described it, marry into her own life story. The fashion designer’s upbringing in Atlanta, Georgia, where visits to vintage stores and summers spent in New England quilting or…

Over the years, there have been a handful of outlier architects whose edificial conjurings appear as plucked from the prehistoric or ancient worlds as they might have been from a far-off planet in Star Wars. The Flintstones-like homes designed by Jacques Couëlle on the Côte d’Azur in the 1950s are one example. The cave-to-spaceship designs of his Californian contemporary John Lautner are another. And the fantastical work of Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill is yet another. But what makes Bofill so compelling, alongside the work itself, is that, unlike his peers who worked and thrived in free and culturally flourishing environments, he did so from under the repressive thumb of Spain’s Franco dictatorship. The eclectic oeuvre of Bofill, who died in January at the age of 82, brought new sui generis…

Back in 2015, Edwina and Felix Forest found their dream home. Both fans of early Art Deco architecture, they discovered a true gem of an apartment tucked away inside a 1917 building in Sydney’s Elizabeth Bay. Filled with both the natural light and authentic charm they were looking for, it boasted all the finest hallmarks of the period, with its high ceilings, wide corridors and large windows. But when Edwina fell pregnant with their daughter Freïa Moon in 2019 and their family was set to expand, the couple knew their living space would need to follow suit. As luck would have it, there was a solution right next door. The apartment adjacent to theirs had previously been on the market, but when it ultimately failed to sell, the couple decided…

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It’s back to the future with the leather upholstered cocooning seat of the Bibendum sofa. The creation of talented English designer Lucy Kurrein for Italian leather specialists Molinari Design, Bibendum nods to the ’60s with clean lines punctuated by geometric forms. The quality hide with which Molinari has built its three-decade heritage is brought into the now and beyond, cupped snugly by a contemporary polyurethane shell. Working both as an occasional chair or in a feature set, the sofa seats harness adaptability, ideal for our ever-pivoting lifestyles. And the Bibendum shares more than just its moniker with its jovial Michelin Man namesake: there’s the stacked structure, sure, but also a willingness to be guided by the finer things in life. And, really, there’s no better plan for the future.…