Innehållsförteckning för August 2016 från Architectural Digest

Anchors Aweigh Our look back at the most luxurious yachts ever featured in Architectural Digest— designed by the likes of Christian Liaigre, Lee F. Mindel, and more—will have you feeling sunny skies and salty air. archdigest.com/bestyachts Deep Background Can’t get enough of our cover star, journalist Anderson Cooper? Head online for more exclusive content, including his personal summer reading list and a roundup of his favorite hot spots in Brazil. archdigest.com/andersoncooper Lounge Acts Kick back and relax with our picks of the most stylish outdoor chaise longues—perfect for adding panache to your poolside or sunning with a drink in hand. archdigest.com/outdoorchaises Bold Thinking If you’re inspired by all the vibrant interiors in this issue, don’t miss our instructive guide to decorating with color—from tastemakers’ preferred shades of paint to a…

“The new furniture we created had to be sympathetic in form and feeling to the antique pieces we had collected,” says designer Wilbert Das. “I like to feel rooted wherever I happen to be,” Anderson Cooper says, “so I prefer pieces that reflect something about the local history and style.”…

“I’ve loved baths since childhood—I remember soaking in Vitabath,” Nancy Hoguet says. “I asked for a freestanding tub overlooking the garden—my green world.” “We kept some fabrics and added more, to give the living room a very personal atmosphere,” notes designer Daniel Sachs. “We like it when patterns fit together in unconventional ways.”…

BACK IN THE 19TH CENTURY, the rugged hills around the city of Campinas, northwest of São Paulo, became an important center of Brazil’s booming coffee trade. Vast plantations and small farms alike sprang up amid cool, fertile highlands considered to be among the world’s top coffee terroirs. These days, the beans are no longer grown and harvested in the region at the scale they once were, so many of the area’s historic ranches and farmhouses have taken on new life as weekend getaways for well-heeled Paulistanos. In less than two hours by car, denizens of the sprawling, crowded metropolis can find themselves surrounded by the highlands’ big-sky vistas and rolling fields. One still-vibrant coffee plantation, Fazenda Guariroba, dating from 1865, is now the country retreat of a prominent but low-key…

“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.” —John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice Allow me to introduce myself. I have just stepped ( joyfully!) into the editor in chief role at this marvelous and legendary magazine. As there is nothing that delights me more than a riot of vivid pattern and hues, it is serendipitous that my entrance happens to coincide with the issue annually themed “Living with Color.” Victorian essayist John Ruskin’s quote is provocative, especially given the current vogue for decorating in “high hotel” style—that is, a luxurious yet generic minimalism. Also provocative are the wild interiors of Paris-based maestro Mattia Bonetti, an enfant terrible of the 1980s whose haute-primitive designs with his then-partner Elizabeth Garouste earned the duo the moniker New…

Oakley, Utah $9 MILLION Anchoring a secluded 114-acre ranch 20 miles outside Park City, this rustic 2004 dwelling (Architectural Digest, June 2005) by architects Mark Rios and Kurt Dubbe takes its cues from the traditional farmhouses of the American West. Reclaimed 19th-century barn wood lines both the exterior and interior of the five-bedroom residence, which encompasses 12,000 square feet but nonetheless feels intimate as a result of its cleverly divided volumes (the most stunning being the silolike tower crowned by an open-air hot tub). The estate also has a horse stable, guest apartment, and infinity pool. CONTACT: sothebysrealty.com; 435-901-8808 Stichtse Vecht, the Netherlands $5.2 MILLION The late postmodern master Michael Graves playfully adapted the local architectural vernacular for this 2004 riverfront property on the outskirts of Amsterdam (AD, May 2008).…

How many synonyms are there for the word color? If one has an abhorrence of repetition, it’s probably best to consult Mr. Roget before attempting to describe the Greenwich Village triplex of Ginevra Caltagirone, cofounder of the start-up production company BlushCo Films, and her four teenage and 20something children. From the rose-tone dining room to the yolk-hued library to the master bedroom bathed in an intense shade of blue, casa Caltagirone is as polychromatic as a box of Ladurée macarons. “I wanted to be bold,” the producer says, referring to not only the vibrant palette but also her decision to decamp from New York’s Upper East Side after 30 years. “I’d always lived within a 20-block radius, perhaps because of inertia. My last home, where my children grew up, was…

Mattia Bonetti has spent more than 40 years thumbing his nose at all things bourgeois—and quite proudly, mind you. “I don’t have good taste, and I don’t pretend to,” the Swiss-born, Paris-based designer of madly inventive, wildly hued furnishings observes before going on to passionately denounce beige color schemes and residential interiors that are inspired by trendy hotels. “I have my taste, that’s it.” Call it Bonetti Bodacious. Since the 1970s he has created such irreverent pieces as a side table that resembles a stack of iridescent whoopee cushions and a tall display cabinet encased with savage gold-plated-brass spikes that bring to mind a shark’s gaping jaws. Then there is the faux-tribal chair fringed with raffia and named for France’s Prince Imperial, slaughtered by Zulu warriors in 1879. That last…

Set on three and a half acres of rolling grounds amid the winding lanes and grand estates of Long Island’s North Shore, the rambling six-bedroom house would be a wonderful place to raise a family. Nancy Hoguet fell in love with it, and after purchasing the home in 1990, she and her husband soon added children—first a daughter, then two sons. As the kids grew up, there were little dogs underfoot, miniature horses in the small barn out back, and, for a brief stint, pet peacocks—acquired impulsively— preening about the yard. “One day they just up and flew away,” Hoguet says. The tiny horses were even allowed inside the residence on big occasions; on more ordinary days Hoguet would hook them up to a cart (or a sled in winter)…

When it comes to crafting a home, few relationships can be more critical than the one forged between designer and client. Such was certainly the case for paper magnate Drew Aaron and his wife, model Hana Soukupová. Nearly a decade ago the two set out to find someone to help them overhaul a recently purchased apartment in one of Manhattan’s shimmering glass towers. A single name rose to the top of their list: Mark Cunningham, a designer who’d honed his eye at Ralph Lauren. “Mark took us to see some homes he’d done, and they weren’t just beautiful, but each was completely different from the other,” Aaron recalls. Adds Soukupová, “Right away he got us— what we wanted, who we are, and how we live.” Years later, as the couple…

Driving down a narrow lane in the English county of West Sussex, passing clouds of cow parsley, one can easily overshoot the entrance to Malthouse Farm, home of Helen and Richard Keys. It pays to be eagleeyed, though, because the couple has coaxed a remarkable oasis, filled with subtle but magnificent surprises, out of the area’s heavy clay soil over the past 16 years. When the Keyses moved in, Malthouse Farm was largely one massive empty paddock—opera star Dame Josephine Barstow once raised Arabian horses here—with a huge hornbeam hedge slicing through the property. “Giving that madly overgrown feature a major haircut was my first step,” Helen remembers. Since then the acreage has slowly grown in complexity. Steps lead down from the pretty brick-and-tile Victorian farmhouse into the garden, an…