Indholdsfortegnelse for May/June 2023 i Vogue Living

OLGA ANTIPINA Artist and photographer Olga Antipina captured her friend Gaetano Pesce at home. “What Gaetano does best is to avoid anything empty, beauty for the sake of beauty without an idea underlying everything,” she says of the design icon (page 39). As to her own creative practice, “the real magic of photography is that it concentrates on the essence of things, our world, but its side is not visible to the eye.” SEAN FENNESSY “An absolute hidden oasis” was Sean Fennessy’s first thought of A-esque founder Amanda Briskin-Rettig’s home (page 74). “I felt I could have been in Milan or Mexico City. Amanda has created a truly unique home.” Having studied journalism, Fennessy’s “real passion” was photography “and its power as a narrative medium. I’m addicted to visual documentation.”…

It’s Thursday afternoon in New York City, early Friday morning in Melbourne as the mutually agreed-upon Zoom date with design great Gaetano Pesce drops into the chasm of daylight saving. NYC has just ‘sprung forward’, causing a fold in time, which Pesce’s people promptly iron out with a wickedly early ‘wake-up’ text: “Gaetano is ready now.” It’s a fitting prelude to a pow-pow with the 83-year-old New York-based Italian artist, architect and industrial designer who, for more than six decades, has messed with the fluidity of time in boundary-straddling works that declare war on conformity and count in the permanent collections of the world’s best museums. Minutes and hours are the metaphorical and material measure of all that he makes, and in this moment, they are as slippery as hell.…

You two should know each other. You have so much in common.” It was this typical friend’s refrain that set things in motion. Los Angeles gallerist Shulamit Nazarian first met designer Pamela Shamshiri at the suggestion of creative director Michael Reynolds. Reynolds’ instincts proved providential — Nazarian and Shamshiri did in fact have much in common. Both were independent women of Persian descent, born in Iran and transplanted to LA with their families in the wake of the Islamic Revolution. Both were divorced mothers raising sons. And both owned architecturally significant houses designed by mandarins of Southern California modernism. At the time, Shamshiri inhabited Rudolph Schindler’s 1948 Lechner House, while Nazarian occupied A Quincy Jones’s Smalley House (1969–73) in Holmby Hills, one of the architect’s largest single-family residences. “We were…

Without bogging down in the debate about architecture constituting art, the Fairlie apartment building — on the blue-chip boundary of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria — is a tightly held tower that, true to all best creative endeavours, buries the aspirations and anxieties of its age in a technical bravura. The building was designed in 1961 by the vibe-masters of Melbourne modernism Yuncken Freeman Brothers, Griffths & Simpson, who innovated with a fine modular concrete frame floating over fully glazed curtain walls. It messages a moment when the veil of civic order held in tight tension with a fast-changing world and the want for greater transparency and freedoms — think Melbourne women getting first access to the contraceptive pill as censors ban the sale of D H Lawrence’s steamy classic…

An apartment may seem like an odd choice for gallerist François Laffanour to call home, considering the larger residences he has had. But when the founder of Galerie Downtown in Paris came upon this timeless space within a quintessential Haussmann building, the decision to call it home was an obvious one. And as it is the base for a key figure in the art world, the abode lends itself to being a showcase of his curator’s eye for spontaneity, timeless quality and original spirit. Laffanour chose the district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, just a few steps from Café de Flore, where the atmosphere is completely different from his previous homes. “My existence has always been punctuated by moves and as many new houses. Each of them was the mirror of the period…

How do you want your home to feel?” It was one of the first questions back in 2017 posed by the team at architectural firm Carter Williamson to their clients, who now call this reinvigorated heritage-fronted Sydney harbourside dwelling home. The clients also shared further desires among others: “A house built for entertaining. Social.” “High end, but not unapproachable or unwelcoming.” “Light and bright wherever possible.” “Our brief was to celebrate the past but look to the future, to create something that was a connected, contemporary space,” says owner Tara. “Timeless and enduring like the original cottage, but distinctly imaginative.” Translating and expressing this comprehensive list through design were Carter Williamson principal Shaun Carter, design director Ben Peake and senior associate Julie Niass. The collaboration between the team and its…

I have been a fan of GAETANO PESCE for as long as I can remember. I recently purchased his Up Series chair as a Christmas gift to myself last year, after lusting after it for years. My daughters have so much fun playing on it and its this pure joy that I love most about his iconic designs, conversation starters that have always blurred the boundary between FURNITURE AND ART. The Italian master’s work epitomises what I love most about design — purpose-driven thinking that becomes part of everyday life forming lasting memories of home. Across six decades, Pesce has shocked, delighted and pushed the realms of architecture, urban planning, interior and industrial design. With his work set to be part of Neon Parc’s display at Melbourne Design Fair, Vogue…

The Italian-Brazilian designer Lina Bo Bardi called it the “historical present”. In architecture there is no past, she said. “What still exists today, and has not died, it is the historical present. On an architectural restoration project you have to be creative and rigorous in choosing what to preserve,” she explained. Everything in this statement rings true in the work of gallerist Luis Sendino, founder of Side Gallery, and his vocation to show the universe of decorative arts, to make experimental design more visible, and establish a dialogue with the contemporary realm on a global scale. A few years ago the opportunity to open a second workspace in Barcelona presented itself in Poblenou, in an industrial building that had housed the Maggi pasta factory at the beginning of the 1900s.…

It was perhaps a matter of destiny or fate when multidisciplinary creative Arik Levy and fellow artist and wife Zoé Ouvrier’s long hunt for a countryside escape to establish a sculpture park south of Paris was over. “We had to be in Saint-Paul-de-Vence for an art event and then all the stars aligned,” says Levy, best known for his sculptures but also pursues design, engineering and video art endeavours. “We contacted an estate agent and asked to be shown several places, including this house that Zoé spotted long ago, but could not afford at the time. When we entered the place, it was clear it was for us, we felt it instantly and went for it. It had everything we were looking for and beyond.” Situated on the Cote d’Azur,…

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