Innehållsförteckning för February 2019 från Architectural Digest

Pedicured toes are officially back in the sand on St. Barts, where beloved waterfront hotels have reopened after Hurricane Irma damaged the island in 2017. This past October, Hotel Le Toiny unveiled a complete restoration, with eight additional villas and a spectacular new pool at its secluded beach club (letoiny.com). Le Sereno, meanwhile, has debuted its own makeover, including rebuilt modernist bungalows, a new spa and fitness center, and a reimagined restaurant that practically extends to the water’s edge—barefoot dining encouraged (serenohotels.com). And more transformations await, with the grand reveals of Cheval Blanc—currently accepting a limited number of guests—and Eden Rock scheduled for the fall.…

“Jeanette wanted everything relaxed, usable, and very beautiful,” Crawford says. “Spaces have to prioritize the human,” the designer avers.…

My first thought was that it was ugly. And wrong. The house was ugly and wrong. Six years ago, standing on the curb, a baby on each hip, a ten-year-old by my side, in the shade of a FOR SALE sign, all I could think was: What an ugly, wrong house. A rambling 8,400-square-foot behemoth the color of pea soup, it was a mess, an illogical pairing of design styles. The front had a Santa Barbara mission façade, complete with hulking dark-wood balconies. The back was light, distinctly Italian with ornate archways and carved stone. It was as if the powers that be had, on a whim, sliced two different homes down the middle and glued opposing halves together. The result was too off-kilter to be considered quirky and too…

Like so many devoted cinephiles, Italian architect Renzo Piano began his love affair with the movies as a child. Born in Genoa not long before World War II, he remembers the films of his youth as a beguiling distraction and a beacon of optimism in the postwar years. “From where I stood, there were two avenues of escape, two frontiers to cross—the sea and the cinema,” recalls the 81-year-old Pritzker Prize winner. Today, as his dazzling design for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles nears completion, Piano’s belief in the power and magic of cinema remains resolute. “Moviemaking is the most complete, truly contemporary art form,” he avers. “It brings narrative, acting, scenery, lighting, sound, and music together into the most marvelous machine for emotion.” Piano’s enthusiasm…

There is a warm, tactile sensibility that stops the house from feeling merely like a collection of important design and art. With her unquenchable thirst for knowledge, Eiesha Bharti Pasricha must have been an excellent student. On a bright and breezy morning, sitting in the living room of her Notting Hill house, she casually lists the many valuable life lessons she has picked up so far. She learned about business and philanthropy from her father, telecom magnate Sunil Mittal, and about hospitality from her husband, Sharan Pasricha, founder of the Ennismore group, which owns the Hoxton hotels brand and the Gleneagles resort in Scotland. A year spent as a sales assistant at Louis Vuitton in Paris taught her about customer service, and her investment in Roksanda, the London-based fashion label,…

Derian’s peculiar alchemy defies easy classification—there’s no foolproof how-to guide for the Derian look. Anyone can deploy a desiccated leaf as a table decoration. But John Derian always seems to have the perfect dead leaf, heroic in scale, robust in form, with an exquisite craquelure to betray its delicacy. It’s also completely commonplace to leave a bunch of flowers to wilt on a mantel. But Derian, the beloved New York design maestro and duke of decoupage, appears to command his floral beauties to wither and die with sublime poignancy, like operatic divas trilling sweetly as they waste away from consumption or melancholia. The unsurprising truth, of course, is that no one does John Derian quite like John Derian. Consider the wonderland of tender beauty that unfolds in Derian’s own East…

“I think what makes a great hotel is what makes a great community—people from different backgrounds using the space in different ways,” says Christine Gachot of Gachot Studios. It’s little surprise, then, that Detroit’s new Shinola Hotel, designed by the firm alongside Shinola creative director Daniel Caudill, offers much more than just a place to lay your head. In keeping with Shinola’s proudly proclaimed Detroit heritage, the 129-room hotel (spread across three new buildings, two historic structures, and a conservatory-topped addition) prioritizes community interaction through warm, welcoming interiors that feel like stepping into a familiar home—one with a Nick Cave painting and bespoke furnishings at that. “We wanted to make sure it was friendly, engaging, and had something for everybody,” Gachot says of the public areas, which include event spaces…

Imagine living in a place surrounded by bamboo and lemon trees—tranquil gardens that feature a standout piece of art by award-winning sculptor David Harber. Now picture it oceanside, with stunning views of the Atlantic Ocean, Intracoastal Waterway, and endless sandy beaches. This vision is coming to life in 2020, when 2000 Ocean, a 64-beachfront residential complex, opens in Hallandale Beach, Florida. This marvel of architecture and interior design is the brainchild of KAR Properties and architecture firm TEN Arquitectos. A residential enclave that is going to elevate the playing field of all luxury communities going forward, it is a striking 38-story tower with floor-to-ceiling glass and expansive east and west terraces. KAR Properties enlisted renowned Italian design brand Minotti to outfit the interiors. All the furnishings for the residences are…

“If I can tell a story about craft, then I am happy,” reflects Paris-based designer Raphael Navot, who has translated his love of bespoke construction and finely tailored details into a new furniture collection for Roche Bobois. Whereas one table reveals a patchwork top of meticulous oak parquetry, another bears a sculptural form hand-coated in concrete. Side chairs, meanwhile, sport backs in different heights, silhouettes, and fabrics, encouraging mix-and-match schemes. And a curvaceous chaise has been upholstered as tightly as a tennis ball—a flourish sure to bring a smile to Navot’s face. roche-bobois.com…

Gesine Pogson Doria Pamphilj quickly learned to peep through keyholes at home before she scurried from one room to another as a child. Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, the 1,000-plus-room family seat in Rome, has long doubled as a museum, peppered with treasures such as Diego Velázquez’s peerless circa 1650 portrait of her ancestor Pope Innocent X—the same work that inspired Francis Bacon’s equally renowned screaming popes. “Most of the paintings were collected during the artists’ lifetimes,” Doria observes. “You would say, ‘I want a Madonna,’ and he would say, ‘I’ve got this one.’” She and her husband, art scholar Massimiliano Floridi, have shuttled for years between their primary residence in the Italian ski resort of Campocatino and the Roman palace, where her brother and his family also live. Yet another Doria…

Jeanette Mix admits that she had lost that loving feeling, residentially speaking: “I had been disappointed with my home for five or ten years.” The redbrick Stockholm mansion, completed in 1916 and her nest since 2002, was, she says, “beautifully decorated with antiques and contemporary furniture but always felt a bit too formal.” She and her husband, Harald, an investor and philanthropist (who most recently funded research to combat advanced ovarian cancer with immunotherapy), and children Carl Johan, Alexandra, and Christian, gravitated to the kitchen, leaving the main rooms largely uninhabited. Ironically, the Mixes own Ett Hem, Swedish for “at home,” an Arts and Crafts townhouse three blocks away that Jeanette transformed into a 12-room hotel renowned for its hygge chic since it opened in 2012. So she posed the…

If a room is done with pieces all of the same period, it just feels flat and monotone."—Charles Mellersh “I wanted everything you touch to feel good.”—Eiesha Bharti Pasricha…

Marino is a modernist who has demonstrated over and over again that the words simple and sumptuous are not antithetical. When clients come to AD100 architect Peter Marino, they usually know what to expect, but they can never quite tell exactly what they will get. Marino is a modernist who has demonstrated over and over again that the words simple and sumptuous are not antithetical. His ability to conjure luxury without excess has made him the architect of choice for developers and luxury brands, including Chanel, Louis Vuitton, and Fendi, for whom he creates shops so dazzling in their details, so sensual, and so spatially compelling that no website can compete, no matter how much free shipping is thrown in. And when he agrees to design a private home, the…