Innehållsförteckning för June 2017 från Architectural Digest

This issue is all about finding your summer bliss, wherever that may be. I think that the genuine smiles on all the power people on this page are evidence of the real joy they feel in their personal “getaway” environments—even if, as in the case of Gwyneth Paltrow, it is the office. The airy and idyllic Goop headquarters in Santa Monica, which includes a chef’s kitchen and none of the typical decorative trappings of a digital start-up, was recently reimagined to striking effect by RH. “We spend crazy amounts of time here. Since we think of Goop as a family, we wanted everyone to feel at home,” says Paltrow, sounding like the best boss ever. I was especially pleased that the discreet and wildly stylish Manhattan architect/designer Daniel Romualdez, known…

THE BEST IN SHOPPING, DESIGN, AND STYLE EDITED BY JANE KELTNER DE VALLE I love the idea of having living, breathing organisms around,” says Moda Operandi cofounder Lauren Santo Domingo, who raised eyebrows last fall when she banned cut flowers at the new Manhattan showroom of her luxury e-tail boutique. Instead she has accented it with bonsai from Saipua, the hip Brooklyn florist. “All the money we were spending on flowers seemed wasteful,” she says, noting that she also has given the miniaturized trees as Christmas gifts. Jewelry designer Delfina Delettrez Fendi isn’t much of a flower person anymore either. Her Rome apartment, which is filled with midcentury Italian furnishings, is forested with furry cacti and a wall of shy mimosa, a creeper whose leaves retract when touched—which happens a…

“If we are going to make this work,” India said of the house, “there’s going to have to be a lot of compromise.” although India and I have lived in the West Indies for more than 20 years, time finally came to have a home in our native England. Our children had grown up barefoot, chasing snakes up coconut trees and playing pirate with machetes, so we decided to civilize them with British sports and Anglocentric history. What British mother’s heart does not soar when her son can recite the batting order—“divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived”—of Henry VIII’s wives? For a decade we crisscrossed the Atlantic, trying to make sure that hardly a weekend went by without the boys’ seeing at least one of us. During this time we…

THE STORY BEHIND AN ICONIC DESIGN Those less familiar with the Arts and Crafts– style manor houses of Sir Edwin Lutyens have probably spotted at least one design from the English architect’s oeuvre: a carved oak bench. The eight-foot-long Thakeham bench— named for the 1902 West Sussex estate he designed it for—cropped up in several influential projects across England, from Sissinghurst, in Kent, to Hestercombe, in Somerset. Years later, it would be referred to by many as simply the Lutyens bench. But aside from the surviving pieces themselves—many of which remain, now ashy gray, where Lutyens installed them—there are no records of the design, or how he arrived at it. “There’s a similar one that he must have seen at a [Christopher] Wren building in London,” muses his granddaughter Candia…

Oscar de la Renta, the late fashion designer, loved distant lands and exotic textiles. Ditto Carolina Irving, known for the souk-chic fabrics she creates under her own name as well as boho furnishings and tableware for Irving & Morrison and the rani-ready tunics she once created for Irving & Fine. So her serving as the creative director of the Oscar de la Renta Home Collection has been a happy marriage of like minds, as evidenced in her debut textile collection for the house in partnership with Lee Jofa. “The new range is quite faithful to what Oscar liked,” Irving explains of the prints and weaves that launched this May—and, she notes, how he lived. Las Palmas, a 19th-century-inspired palmfrond- printed linen, is her subtle hat-tip to de la Renta’s estate…

RACHEL DEIN It’s a cold day in March, and Rachel Dein has spring fever. “I hope it speeds up,” says the London-based artist, understandably im patient. Once the seasons change, she’ll have a brief window to forage for her favorite material—wildflowers. “I don’t take too many,” she says. “Just a few weeds and daisies, bluebells, or yarrows.” Dein then acts fast, gently pressing the fresh blooms into clay, removing them to create an impression, and pouring plaster into the mold to make panels that seem to freeze the plants in time. Of course, she’s found ways to keep herself busy all year, like casting a 30-foot-long branch in concrete. Other recent commissions include small panels for the shop at London’s Chelsea Physic Garden that were made using medicinal herbs grown…

“Construction was organic,” says Danny. “Walls went up, came down, and were rebuilt.”…

For the past 17 years, RxArt has been helping kids heal, enlisting artists to create projects for pediatric hospitals. This past winter, the nonprofit debuted its most ambitious project yet—an immersive mural by Dan Colen for the 2,500-square-foot recreation room at St. Mary’s in Queens, New York. “Nothing was easy about this space,” says RxArt founder Diane Brown, describing the curved walls. “The mural had to be mapped out to the millimeter,” Colen explains. For patients, the installation (an oversize take on the artist’s “confetti” paintings) offers an exuberant backdrop for playtime and visits. “I hope it creates a sense of wonder,” Colen reflects. Of that Brown seems sure. As she puts it: “The room is complete joy.”…

WHERE ART MEETS COMMERCE SPECIALTY: Twentieth-century Scandinavian design with a dash of contemporary HISTORY LESSON: The golden age of Swedish design was the 1920s and ’30s, while Denmark’s was the ’40s and ’50s. ONE OF A KIND: Josef Frank’s first Flora cabinet, covered in pages from a botanical reference book. It was commissioned by a Swedish entomologist to house his collection of butterflies and beetles. SURE SALE: “Works by Peder Moos, because he carved everything by hand and his pieces rarely come up at auction,” says Andrew Duncanson. In 2015, a 1952 Moos dining table sold for more than $913,000, setting the world auction record for Nordic design. CONTEMPORARY OBSESSION: “The Denmarkbased ceramist Sandra Davolio. I contacted her after buying a piece at auction to ask if we could represent…

WHERE TO GO, WHO TO KNOW, WHAT TO SEE The numbers alone are daunting: 55,000 architectural drawings, some 300,000 sheets of correspondence, close to 125,000 photographs, 270 film reels, two dozen models. Those are just the largest categories in the Frank Lloyd Wright archive, amassed over a seven-decade career that yielded more than 500 buildings (some 400 still standing, hundreds of others never realized), not to mention furniture, stained glass, and textiles. With the architect’s 150th birthday upon us—he was born June 8, 1867, though he often fudged the date—a team and I have spent countless hours combing through the trove, which was transferred to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Columbia University five years ago. The result of our digging debuts on June 12 in the new exhibition…

When Italian architect Ettore Sottsass launched the controversial collection of furnishings known as Memphis at the Milan Furniture Fair in 1981, the design world was shocked. “It appalled some and amused others but put everyone attending the fair in a state of high excitement,” Suzanne Slesin wrote in The New York Times after the debut of the colorful, photogenic pieces designed by Sottsass and a group of young talents including Alessandro Mendini, Michele De Lucchi, and Nathalie Du Pasquier. Seemingly overnight, the extravagant furnishings flew into the private collections of David Bowie, Karl Lagerfeld, and other international tastemakers. Suddenly, Sottsass— then 64 years old and more than three decades into his career—became synonymous with the radical Memphis ethos and the movement’s poster child, his ecstatic, anthropomorphic Carlton room divider. Sottsass…

Items pictured but not listed here are not sourceable. Items similar to vintage and antique pieces shown are often available from the dealers listed. (T) means the item is available only to the trade. SEA FOR DAYS PAGES 98–109: Interiors by Daniel Romualdez Architects; 212-989-8429. Landscape design by Miranda Brooks Landscape Design; mirandabrooks.com. PAGE 100: On sofa (left), bench cushion by Charles H. Beckley Inc. (T); chbeckley.com, with pillows by Yastik by Rifat Ozbek; yastikbyrifatozbek.com; and Irving & Morrison; irvingandmorrison.com. Table lamp from Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler Antiques; 1stdibs.com. Antique bowls (on table next to sofa) and antique Indian bracelets (on bench in foreground), all from Dario Bome; +34-971-133-4833. Circa-17thcentury chaise longue, from Yew Tree House; yewtreehouseantiques.com; with pillow in a Robert Kime fabric; robertkime.com. PAGE 104: On table,…