Innehållsförteckning för November 2018 från Architectural Digest

“The OLED TV provides brilliant image quality and looks just like a picture hanging on the wall.” THROUGH THOUGHTFULLY SELECTED MATERIALS, EXCELLENT WORKMANSHIP, AND AWARD-WINNING DESIGN, THESE FOUR LG SIGNATURE PRODUCTS SATISFY DISCERNING CONSUMERS WHO ALWAYS EXPECT—AND DEMAND—THE BEST. LGSIGNATURE.com…

I wonder if we can make a chair out of just this board?” That was the simple prompt that inspired sculptor Ben Bloomstein and painter Aaron Aujla—at the time assistants to Robert Gober and Nate Lowman, respectively—to consider a new creative calling: seating. Cut and assembled into an angular armchair that evoked Donald Judd’s experiments in functionality, the 12-foot piece of pine did, in fact, yield a rather striking perch. “We’re taking a fine-art practice and saying, ‘How can we make it usable?’” explains Aujla of their new approach, which the duo turned into a full-time gig in October 2017 under the name Green River Project LLC. At Bloomstein’s family farm in Hillsdale, New York, on the banks of the Green River, they set to work, quietly taking commissions for…

Before there was the High Line, the Standard, or the new Whitney Museum, Manhattan’s beau monde flocked to the then still-gritty Meatpacking District to cozy up at Pastis—Keith McNally’s much-missed bistro (1999–2014) at the intersection of Ninth Avenue, Gansevoort Street, and Little West 12th. Just beyond the restaurant’s signature red awning, Sarah Jessica Parker held her baby shower, Liv Tyler wed Royston Langdon, and Diane von Furstenberg feasted on couscous. But on a steamy night this past September, that storied address filled up with a new generation of boldface names for the opening of RH’s sprawling Manhattan flagship, a 90,000-square-foot space spread across an impressive six floors. Here, among the brand’s signature pieces and latest introductions, the likes of Karlie Kloss, Sofía Sanchez de Betak, and Maria Sharapova could be…

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“The house is part of me. It’s who I am and what I like.”—Alessandra Ambrosio “I’ve slept in fabulous hotels all over the world, but there’s nothing like coming home.”…

As the saying goes, it’s the journey, not the destination. But for Athena Calderone, the domestic goddess behind lifestyle site EyeSwoon, and husband Victor, music producer and techno DJ, their journey brought them to a superb destination: a 25-foot-wide Greek Revival townhouse in historic Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Rewind to 1996 and The Limelight, New York’s legendary nightclub, housed in a Gothic-style deconsecrated church, where Victor first laid eyes on Athena, then a young bartender. A basement apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, set the stage for the next phase of courtship, quarters so cozy they shared a twin Murphy bed. “That’s love,” Athena jokes. By 1998 the two were engaged and exploring Dumbo, then an undeveloped neighborhood with not so much as a grocery store. “People thought we were crazy,” she says.…

Ask any gardener: If you’re looking for instant gratification, look elsewhere. Unless, that is, you’re a client of Harrison Green—the New York landscape firm that specializes in lush city terraces, allées, and rooftops for the likes of Marc Jacobs, The Row, and even MoMA. “You can create an outdoor room in a day,” says Jacqueline Harrison, who founded the company with her husband, Damien, in 2013. As a design/build firm, Harrison Green prides itself on nurturing urban plots from inception to installation and then some, with regular maintenance as part of the package. For Manhattan’s Baccarat Hotel, the team installed great spheres of boxwood in Versailles planters and a three-story ivy treillage to evoke the formality of 18th-century France; for Jacobs, they marshaled ferns, hosta, ivy, viburnum, and a noble…

In 1958, Mary Grace Quinlan’s parents began construction on a house in Door County, Wisconsin, which is located on 11 acres on Lake Michigan—one acre for each of the family’s 11 children. Many years later, it would serve as inspiration for Quinlan’s own home on the same property: The Pleated House. Today, Quinlan and her siblings have built their own homes on the property, making what they like to think of as a “generational compound.” Quinlan brought in Brian Johnsen of Johnsen Schmaling Architects for the build and asked him to take cues from the original house built by her father, including an open-concept floor plan with a fireplace in the middle of the living area. But she wanted to add a more contemporary aesthetic with modern lines and materials.…

Founded by renowned rug historian and artist John Kurtz, New Moon is known for its vast collection of rugs, painstakingly created in the age-old tradition of Tibetan weaving. With the help of his wife and daughters, who design and oversee the production of the masterpieces, Kurtz continues to innovate and elevate New Moon’s designs. Why do you use traditional Tibetan “crossed” weaving? Unlike the vast preponderance of rugs now coming from Nepal, New Moon continues the age-old traditions of true Tibetan weaving—one of mankind’s oldest art forms. In New Moon’s “crossed” weaving, each successive row of knots is locked into place by pulling alternate rows of warps forward on the loom, passing the weft between the separated warps and pounding down tightly. This is more difficult and more time-consuming, but…

Like many great stories, it all started with a glass of wine. Years ago, while enjoying a bottle of Casa Grande on vacation in Mexico, my clients joked that it would make a great name for a getaway. Little did they realize how true this moniker would one day become. I’ve known these clients for a long time, having first developed a friendship rooted in a shared understanding that life is short and how you live it really matters. When we undertook this project, we had already collaborated on one home and had shared a host of adventures that often led to dancing on tables into the wee hours. As a result, we had developed a shorthand that helped inform not only the look but also the feeling of this…

Perhaps Beata Heuman creates fresh, welcoming rooms because she hails from Sweden, a country that ranks ninth on the 2018 World Happiness Report. Maybe it’s because her former boss is Nicky Haslam, the AD100 stalwart celebrated for his nose-thumbing approach to life as well as interiors. Then again, it could be destiny—after all, her parents did name her Beata, Latin for “happy.” “I want to make people forget about the outside world a little,” Heuman explains as she strolls into the entrance hall of her vest-pocket house in Hammersmith, a sparky, Thames-side neighborhood that’s gratifyingly ungentrified and, she points out, has great Tube connections. The high, narrow space offers a zesty contrast to the prim bay-windowed, golden-brick countenance of the Victorian semidetached where she and her husband, John Finlay, an…

When Marie-Caroline Willms and Alejandro Gamazo Hohenlohe moved to his mother’s finca near Marbella, Spain, six years ago, it was encircled in thorny bushes so overgrown “even the dogs wouldn’t venture into them,” Willms says. Today the restored estate is home to the couple, their two daughters (Flavia, 6, and Milana, 2), and a supporting cast of animals, from four donkeys to those nine wary dogs. To the couple’s happy surprise, they unearthed centuries-old olive groves, which now produce an organic extra-virgin oil from varieties of trees so unique to the region that they have yet to be named. Willms, an Austrian-German interior designer who relocated to Spain after she met Gamazo Hohenlohe, was well suited to the job of bringing the property back to life. She had grown up…

Martin Brudnizki is the man of the interior-design hour, thanks to his raucous, rambunctious, and altogether ravissante £55 million makeover of Annabel’s, one of London’s hippest (and most exclusive) nightclubs since it opened in 1963. But if one can’t dash across the Pond just yet to join the dependably aristo revelers swanning around the hot spot, one can get a bit of its flair Stateside—and without passing muster with the membership committee. “Most of my jobs are entirely bespoke, and usually we start with lighting,” the suave Brudnizki says of his new illuminators for the Urban Electric Co., two supersmart fixtures—one flush-mount, one pendant—that are based on the signature lantern he created for Annabel’s dramatic Garden dining room and bar. “The right lighting is crucial to the success of any…

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In the age of the #MeToo movement, is it still kosher to describe a woman renowned across the globe for her beauty and allure as a Brazilian bombshell? When the subject is supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio, it just seems coy to use a more demure descriptor. Ambrosio has been ranked as one of the highest-earning fashion models for years, and her name routinely turns up in popular media on lists of the world’s sexiest and most beautiful women. She has walked the runway and appeared in advertisements for myriad titans of couture, and she has parlayed that success into business ventures of her own, including her Ále by Alessandra fashion and lifestyle brand. In 2017, she announced her retirement from the annual Victoria’s Secret fashion spectacle after lighting up the catwalk…

“We wanted to create a sense of ‘otherness’—an oasis in the Baja desert,” notes Fulk. “Handmade textiles found on travels throughout Mexico bring color and pattern to the rooms.”…

The relationship between designer and client, by any measure, can be defined as a romance that culminates, if all goes well, with putting a ring on it. “Twenty years ago, we fell in love with Vincent’s own home,” a Manhattan businessman explains, “and realized that he felt the same as we did, that he had the same desires: for more space, fewer objects, less color.” We are a financial-tech entrepreneur and a photographer, a dashing Belgian couple who settled in New York City not long ago. As for Vincent, that would be their landsman AD100 architect and designer Vincent Van Duysen, a maestro of decidedly under-decorated yet deeply sensual rooms. AD100 brethren Rose Uniacke, Ilse Crawford, and Axel Vervoordt count themselves members of the Antwerpian’s fan club. Ditto actress Julianne…

In 2009, while temporarily ensconced in a cozy 1860s farmhouse overlooking an empty bank barn on her family’s 130-acre property in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Mati Bonetti de Buccini was dreaming up a new permanent home for her family. Now a partner and director at Atelier Fine Art Services, a firm that stores some of the world’s top collections, Buccini had relocated to the Brandywine Valley from Manhattan with her husband, a real estate developer, and their three small children. The farmhouse was meant to be temporary. Her plan was to build a “proper house” on the land and reserve the farmhouse for guests; the barn would be for parties. To help them work it out, the couple had hired architect Pietro Cicognani, a former New York neighbor and close friend,…