Innehållsförteckning för September 2016 från Architectural Digest

INSTAGRAM I could relax there. @LISAROBINJEWELRY Magic! @WELLTRAVBRIT Pool goals! @MEGGIELIZZIE Basically obsessed. @JENNIFER. LASKI OMG. A dream. @DIANNE_NANCY Fantastic image! @DAVIDLAUREN Breathtaking. @PRETTYCOASTAL Love this pool! @CHARLESBERGTX Stunning. @CLINTORMSBUCKLES Now that is a classic, timeless pool! @DAVEN39 Different & beautiful. @PEPE_MONSERRATE Magnificent! @TRAN_SLATOR FACEBOOK ERICA HINEAWE Perfect. JEFRY LOMBOK The sandstone-paved pool looks cool. SCOTT WOOLRIGHT FOLLOW ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST Contact us via social media, email us at letters@archdigest.com, or write us at Letters, Architectural Digest, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. Correspondence may be edited for length, clarity, and style and may be published or otherwise reused in any medium.…

The most important thing is the edit,” says Vanessa Traina, the tastemaking stylist turned e-commerce entrepreneur. “You want to create a sense of discovery.” Dressed in a swingy Proenza Schouler skirt and pert Atlantique Ascoli blouse, she is surveying the latest offerings at the New York City outpost of the Apartment by the Line, the lifestyle brand she cofounded in 2013. All around her are pieces that, in her words, “rise above,” from a squiggle-printed frock by J. W. Anderson to a Poul Kjærholm dining table to a cashmere throw by Tenfold, a new label exclusive to the Line. So what makes the cut in her own life? Here, Traina shares some of her obsessions.…

Bottega Veneta’s creative director, Tomas Maier, is less a zeitgeist surfer than an aesthetic anthropologist, alighting on rich—at times obscure—design movements and immersing himself in the work of their avatars. The objects of his intellectual inquiry do not hew to any one time or place. He is as fluent in the Palm Beach estates of Addison Mizner as he is in little-known gems of Japanese modernism. These days Maier’s discerning gaze is focused somewhere roughly between Florida and Japan—specifically Southern California’s early-20th-century Spanish Colonial Revival pleasure domes. “Decades ago I developed a passion for midcentury masters like Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, and Craig Ellwood,” says the German-born, Florida-based designer, who has been visiting the West Coast for more than 30 years. “But I later became intrigued by the work of…

Necessity, as that age-old proverb goes, is the mother of invention. When Laure Heriard Dubreuil, a fashionable young Frenchwoman working for Yves Saint Laurent, was traveling to New York on business in December 2006 and made a last-minute side trip to Art Basel Miami Beach, she showed up with only the winter clothes she had packed for Manhattan. A shopping expedition for summery yet sophisticated clothing yielded nothing. So two years later, to coincide with the annual art fair, Heriard Dubreuil launched the Webster—an über-chic shop, stocked with the likes of Alaïa, Lanvin, and Miu Miu, that has turned Collins Avenue into a true fashion destination. That year she also met her future husband, the charismatic artist Aaron Young. As her business grew—there are now two Florida boutiques, another one…

“Few things are more fascinating than the opportunity to see how other people live during their private hours.” —Diana Vreeland In this simple sentence the legendary Ms. Vreeland deftly summarizes the secret to the enduring allure of interiors photography. Her words serve as a sort of mission statement for me in my new role here at Architectural Digest, as we strive to beguile our readers both with exceptional spaces and with the exceptional people who have created them. The fashion world provides a particularly rich cast of characters from which to draw, and our annual Style issue is loaded with the unexpected: Who knew unapologetic bad boy Marc Jacobs would choose to live in an impeccably tailored townhouse, where the only thing unrestrained is his wild art collection? Or that…

1 Dolce & Gabbana gives the iconic Smeg FAB28 refrigerator an eye-popping upgrade with Italian-heritage– themed patterns. Each unique unit in the limited run of 100 is hand-painted by Sicilian artists; price upon request. smegusa-.com, 212-265-5378 2 A painterly hunt print is one of several sporting scenes offered in a series of limited-edition cashmere blankets by Loro Piana. The 55" x 75" throw is shown in the Desert Dune Colonial colorway; $5,450. loropiana.com, 212-980-7961 3 Bring Christian Lacroix’s colorful style home with the 16.5" striped Maison Lacroix Cube tables ($999 each) for Roche Bobois or the 18"-dia. cotton Jungle King pillow ($155) for Designers Guild. roche-bobois-.com, 212-889-5304; designersguild.com, 212-967-4540 4 Boasting red upholstery on its mod varnished-steel frame, Trussardi Casa’s Wint outdoor armchair by Carlo Colombo is a bold addition…

CHANEL Lion Imperial watch with a cultured-pearl band and diamonds set in 18K white gold. chanel.com CARTIER High Jewelry secret watch of 18K white gold with a lacquered cover and rubellite and diamond stripes. cartier.us VACHERON CONSTANTIN Kalla Haute Couture à Pampilles watch made of diamonds and 18K white gold. vacheronconstantin.com BULGARI Serpenti secret watch in 18K white gold with diamonds, sapphires, and lapis lazuli. bulgari.com HARRY WINSTON Rosebud timepiece with diamonds set in 18K white gold on a black satin strap. harrywinston.com HERMÈS Médor watch with a diamond-set steel case and smooth black alligator strap. hermes.com BREGUET Secret de la Reine watch of diamonds and 18K white gold with a cameo floral cover and a black leather strap. breguet.com…

Location, location, location—increasingly it’s the hottest thing in fashion as luxury brands adopt icons of architecture and urbanism as backdrops for their new collections. In early May Chanel models sashayed along Havana’s Paseo del Prado, using the historic avenue as a blocks-long runway. Weeks later Louis Vuitton sent its wares down the sinuous red access ramp of Rio de Janeiro’s Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, a UFO-like extravaganza by Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer. And on May 31 Dior beauties paced the parquet at Blenheim Palace, the Oxfordshire seat of the dukes of Marlborough. In every case Instagram went wild as international editors, tastemakers, and celebrities, many flown in by the brands, posted away, as awestruck by the settings as by the clothes. “As a privately owned home with little external funding,…

British architect David Adjaye, born in Tanzania to Ghanaian parents, was already in his 20s when he visited the U.S. for the first time. But he now has a key role in conveying the American story. On September 24 in Washington, D.C., he will unveil his highly anticipated addition to the National Mall—the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). On a recent tour of the building he noted that its location,at the center of the mall, has views of Washington’s most iconic monuments, among them the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials. “To an architect,” he says, “a site like this is humbling.” Adjaye has worked hard to create a building worthy of that setting. In 2009 his firm, Adjaye Associates, led the design team (which included Philip…

Los Angeles real-estate agents like to spin fantastic yarns, and if they’re to be believed, every house in town boasts a captivating pedigree—some titan of the cinema or stage inevitably lived there, slept there, carried on an affair there, or perhaps just overdosed there. Whether those tales are factual or apocryphal is usually beside the point. But no such vagaries surround the dreamy Hollywood abode of fashion photographer, decorator, and antiques dealer Matthias Vriens-McGrath and his husband, yoga teacher Donovan Vriens-McGrath. Once the home of silent-film star and legendary decorator William Haines, the stately residence represents a genuine piece of Los Angeles design history, soaked in Tinseltown lore and well documented in period photography. “Donovan and I started looking at L.A. houses online when we were living in Berlin and…

Second acts are difficult to resist. Disgraced CEOs resurface as the leaders of respected charitable organizations, and politicians kneecapped by scandal reinvent themselves as elder statesmen. And once upon a time— 1963, to be precise—a world-famous photographer whose icy celebrity portraits and dramatically lit fashion images had fallen out of favor found himself on Long Island’s East End, aiming his Rolleiflex at an unexpected subject: the interiors of a particularly plush Southampton house, where bergères that once belonged to Marie Antoinette met gilded boiseries, Aubusson carpets, and bowls of carnival-color tea roses. That Vogue assignment—snapping the summer retreat of octogenarian Consuelo Balsan, the Vanderbilt railroad heiress and ci-devant duchess of Marlborough—put the 50-something Horst P. Horst back on top, reports Around That Time: Horst at Home in Vogue (Abrams), a…

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. EDIFICE COMPLEX Photography credits for page 84: Niterói: Fernanda Calfat/Getty Images; Trevi Fountain: Victor Boyko/Getty Images; Westminster Abbey: Karwai Tang/WireImage; Palais Bulles: Valery Hache/Getty Images; Shangri La: Linny Morris/Courtesy of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art; Golestan Palace: Sorush Angabini/Courtesy of UNESCO; Katsura Imperial Villa: Glowimages/Getty Images. PRINCE OF THE CITY PAGES 118–29: Marc Jacobs; marcjacobs.com. Interiors by Paul Fortune Design Studio; paulfortunedesign.com; Gachot Studios; gachotstudios.com; and Thad Hayes Inc.; thadhayes.com. PAGES 118–19: Vintage Philip and Kelvin LaVerne cabinet from Donzella 20th Century Gallery; donzella.com. Vintage Jansen mirror from Bernd Goeckler Antiques; bgoecklerantiques.com. Vintage Alberto…

Special Edition I usually just leaf through design magazines, but not this time. The July issue of Architectural Digest simply took my breath away! I’ve carefully lingered over each page and will continue to do so for months to come. This one’s a keeper. Bravo! REBEKAH ADLER Austin, Texas Back in Style Kudos to Jamie McCourt and her team on the brilliant update of her wonderful John Lautner beach house [“Malibu Revival,” July]. They’ve turned a vintage 1980s home into a livable classic. The result is respectful, relevant, and artful. MARY ELIZABETH RYAN Seattle Living Large Everything about the Aspen getaway [“Natural High,” July] is stunning: the clean lines of the architecture, the materials, the elegant interiors—and most of all that view! Wow! However, if an 11,000-square-foot house isn’t meant…

It was with happy, if a tad bit hazy, memories that some 800 influential aesthetes awoke this past May, the morning after a Champagnesoaked disco hosted by Apparatus. The trendsetting design firm had just put the finishing touches on its new Manhattan headquarters (comprising a workshop, showroom, and offices), and the time had come to share it with friends. Next-day flashbacks called to mind gleaming expanses of mirror, plush white carpeting, and Apparatus cofounders Jeremy Anderson and Gabriel Hendifar dancing late into the night. The word that lingered on the brain was best—as in best crowd, best vibe, best design-week party in ages. “I was totally blown away,” says decorator Jamie Drake of the company’s new home base, a 10,000-squarefoot floor-through on West 30th Street. (Once part of a school,…

Decoupage master Jill Barnes-Dacey is hardly precious about the printed page. To create her kaleidoscopic, oneof-a-kind glass vessels, she might rip a picture from a vintage auction catalogue, anatomy book, or volume of botanical drawings. “Don’t tell anyone,” she jokes, acknowledging that her instinctive, often spontaneous approach might shock bibliophiles. At her studio in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France, up the coast from Nice, you’ll often find her surrounded by mountains of paper shreds. In decoupage, Barnes-Dacey notes, she has found a productive outlet for her impulsive side. “I drive like a lunatic, but my cutting is extraordinary.” The Connecticut-born talent has been making collages since her boarding-school days in England. But after a decade as an art dealer and two more as a full-time fine artist, she devised her own ingenious take…

REFLECT ON IT “A large dressing room can double as an office or salon—a place to sit, work, relax, even entertain a friend. In that case you want everything behind closed doors,” Wearstler says. “For a client in Los Angeles we used gilded wood and mirror for door fronts. Inside, there’s even more mirror so that you can get a 360-degree view if you open the doors just right.” Kelly Wearstler is known for injecting maximum glamour into every space she touches, but the AD100 designer is equally skilled at the art of organization. Nowhere is that attention to detail better exercised than the dressing rooms she devises for her fashionable (at times highly demanding) clients. “We approach closets like we would a boat,” she explains. “Every nook and cranny…

On November 4, 1966, Tuscany’s Arno River, swollen by days of rain, inundated Florence with the worst flood the city had seen in centuries. The raging waters caused catastrophic damage to cultural treasures—including priceless works of art—and efforts to save them have continued to this day. Now, thanks to a partnership between Italy’s National Trust and the fashion house Prada (a major arts patron in the country), one of the most challenging of these rescue missions is nearly finished. This October Giorgio Vasari’s late-Renaissance painting The Last Supper will return to view 50 years after the flood that almost destroyed it. “This is really a new page in the history of conservation,” says Marco Ciatti, head of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure (OPD), the Florence lab responsible for the groundbreaking…

“Look at these lettuces!” Nadja Swarovski exclaims. “They grow upward!” Swarovski is giving a tour of her garden, proudly showing off the tall, conical lettuce, thickets of kale, tomato plants, and tiny scarlet strawberries just starting to peek out from under their wide leaves. “It has exploded,” she says. “I want to spend all my time out here.” Tall, elegant, and whip-smart, Swarovski has a few other demands on her time, however. As one of the five Swarovskis who run the eponymous crystal business founded by her great-greatgrandfather in 1895, Nadja travels constantly, seeking out design talent for the firm to partner with. (The company’s latest venture, Atelier Swarovski Home, launched this past spring with pieces by Aldo Bakker, Daniel Libeskind, and the late Zaha Hadid, among others.) But since…

Transforming the gardens of Versailles in the late 17th century, landscape architect André Le Nôtre dreamed of adding a waterfall to the majestic axis that extends along the French property’s Grand Canal— a vision sadly left unrealized. Nearly 350 years later, however, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has completed his own surreal take on that scheme, conjuring a deluge seemingly out of thin air. On view through October 30, the installation is the showstopper in a wider exhibition of Eliasson’s work that includes an array of indoor interventions plus two additional outdoor sculptures, both water-themed. Suffice it to say the palace makes for fertile creative ground.…