Innehållsförteckning för June 2019 från Architectural Digest

“We wanted a place to watch our kids play and grow up. This is our dream house!”—Jessica Alba This issue is full of blissful peeks into various people’s happy places—often summer retreats but in the case of cover star Jessica Alba, her family’s main residence in, astoundingly, L.A. (Her pool, garden, and vast canyon views do not scream city living at all!) Actually, many of the featured homeowners use similar phrases (often dream house) and emotions (certainty!) to convey their feeling of love at first sight. Alba, for example, says she “walked in and knew within 20 minutes this was exactly what we were looking for.” Mieke ten Have, one of AD’s trusted photo stylists, treasured for her excellent eye, writes of her Dutchess County, New York, barn: “Ownership of…

Edmund de Waal made his first pot at age five. Now 54, the ceramic artist (and best-selling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes) estimates that he has turned out tens of thousands, along the way achieving renown for his large-scale installations at historic houses and museums around the world. In de Waal’s latest intervention, “Elective Affinities,” at New York’s Frick Collection, nine hauntingly subtle site-specific pieces temporarily displace Renaissance bronzes and French porcelains. The elegant Englishness of the museum’s dining room “makes me want to break things,” de Waal writes in the exhibition catalogue. To represent that urge, the pair of vitrines standing in front of two Gainsborough portraits in the room hold paper-thin sheets of porcelain leaning against booklike steel boxes filled with shards of the fragile yet…

The architect Roger Ferris is known for designing modern, statement-making homes. But his latest project, a waterfront poolhouse in Westport, Connecticut, is magnificently minimalist in form, its single story concealed beneath a verdant berm out of deference to the landscape. Save for the skylight that runs the length of its green roof, the building is hardly visible as you approach it. Even the entrance—a sloping lawn down to the front door, between two angled retaining walls—looks more like sculpture than structure. “I just wanted this gentle rise, with as little of the building showing as possible,” Ferris recalls of the project, designed for Fiona Garland, an avid swimmer, and her husband, Andrew Bentley. “The poolhouse is something you should discover.” Inside, elegant concrete walls bookend a 75-foot-long pool and, on…

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it sounds clichéd, but we wanted to build our dream house,” says this mother of three, an author, about her place in Southampton. She and her husband had spent years summering in the area, always shacking up at his parents’ house. But when they found a large, park-like four-acre plot, set back from the ocean (but still close enough to catch its breeze and soothing soundtrack), they knew it was time to establish a place of their own. Their dream? A house that was anything but cliché. “I knew I didn’t want the typical shingled Hamptons house,” the homeowner explains. “I wanted something I built from the ground up.” They called on local architect James Merrell, known for his modern Hamptons homes, to realize a structure with strong lines, spacious…

Pretend you’re designing for Donatella Versace.” That was the brief lighting designer Lindsey Adelman gave herself ahead of New York’s 2006 ICFF, where she planned to show her Branching Bubble chandelier for the first time. “I was trying to make a shows-topper,” she explains of the now iconic, wildly influential system of Y connectors, tubes, and glass orbs. So, to achieve the desired bling, she had all the metal parts plated in 24K gold. Shortly after the debut, orders started rolling in, though most customers opted for a finish of nickel or brass. Now, more than a decade—and countless sales—later, Adelman reports, “It’s because of the Branching Bubbles that a company happened.” On its momentum, her studio has grown to 35, that initial design has given way to ten more…

Some furniture designs become so ubiquitous that their creators get relegated to the footnotes. Such is the case of the Butterfly chair, originally called the BKF or Hardoy chair after the trio of Le Corbusier alums—Grupo Austral’s Antonio Bonet, Juan Kurchan, and Jorge Ferrari Hardoy—who created it in Buenos Aires in 1938. “Most people don’t know it’s Argentinean,” says Barry Bergdoll, MoMA’s former chief curator of architecture, of the modern adaptation of Joseph Beverly Fenby’s 19th-century campaign-style Tripolina. “But if we went into the design department and looked at a lineup of chairs, it would be the single most recognizable Latin American design.” It was another erstwhile MoMA curator who solidified that fate. Back in 1940, after the seat was exhibited in Buenos Aires, the industrial-design curator Edgar Kaufmann Jr.…

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“I love pieces that bring a sense of joy and playfulness to a room.”—Kelly Behun “We’re a fun-loving family,” says the homeowner. “We were all for things that would make our house unique.”…

Designer Markham Roberts’s neighbors were very curious when he started renovating the carriage house that sits across the road from his weekend retreat in upstate New York. “It’s a small town,” says the ebullient AD100 talent of his Dutchess County hamlet. “So, you know, when you start something, everyone wants to know what you’re doing.” Even so, this level of interest was greater than anything Roberts had experienced in the seven years since the Manhattan-based designer and his partner, art-and-antiques dealer James Sansum, had purchased the six-acre property. Basically, everybody wanted to know if the rumors they had heard from parents or grandparents were true: Had the carriage house’s hayloft really been used as a speakeasy in the 1920s? Sure enough, there was a 10-foot-long bar right in the middle…

“I mean, it’s literally everywhere,” says the 32-year-old British designer James Shaw, describing plastic, a material now ravaging the earth. “It’s in our clothes; in our teeth. And it’s a genuine problem that we need to sort out.” For his 2013 graduation project at London’s Royal College of Art, he called attention to the issue with a wonky machine that turned landfill-bound plastic waste into thick, gooey strands that he then molded into a delightfully globby side table. For a young designer starting off, the substance had another advantage: He could get tons (actual tons) of it for free. Six years later, Shaw has used leftover polyethylene from a nearby recycling factory to create sculptural tables, door handles, tureens, fountains—even a ladder. “The thing about plastic,” he explains, “is it…

Robert Highsmith, Stefanie Brechbuehler, and Ryan Mahoney—cofounders of the design studio Workstead—know how to build buzz. In Brooklyn, their industrial-inspired scheme for the Wythe Hotel put Williamsburg on the map for world travelers. In Charleston, their update of a 1960s federal office building into the Dewberry reenergized sleepy Marion Square. And their eminently Instagrammable (and inviting) rooms for Rivertown Lodge made Hudson, New York, a pilgrimage site for aesthetes in the know. Now design lovers have another reason to head upstate. This spring, the trio opened a studio for their product designs in a 19th-century house at the heart of Hudson’s historic district. “We always had a feeling Hudson would be a community into which we could integrate creatively,” explains Highsmith, who lives upstate with Brechbuehler (his wife) and their…

I don’t think of myself as an irrational person, but when I first pulled up to this converted 18th-century barn on a drab December morning, I was overcome with possessiveness. “What are they doing here?” I snarled at my husband, Tyler, when I spotted another couple and a broker walking the grounds. Even before we had reached the front door, the wild, almost accidental-looking allée of willows that guided us down the meandering driveway convinced me this was the place we had been looking for. It was the glorious, ancient beams, though, each carved with Roman numerals by the Dutch settlers who built it, that made my pulse quicken. Our ownership of this house was a fait accompli the minute I walked through the door. Nestled in the pastures of…

in January 2019, Jessica Alba, the actress and cofounder of the eco-friendly megabrand The Honest Co., threw a 40th-birthday bash for her husband, Cash Warren, producer and cofounder of lifestyle brand Pair of Thieves. Throughout his 30s, she’d organize an over-the-top pajama party every year—blowouts that would include beer pong, Twister, charades, and even a corn-hole toss. But this year, because they had recently moved into a home perched on the edge of a scenic, leafy canyon in Beverly Hills, she decided to combine the birthday with a housewarming. And after their beautiful, new, expansive backyard—a hot commodity in this part of town—had been mauled by tents, bars, and wild corn tossers at the extravaganza, she decided to retire the tradition. “He’s in his 40s now, so he can do…

“We went from white Sheetrock to pattern on pattern on pattern.”—Rodman Primack “It really does have this goofy, wonderful farm-house look.”—Emily Bingham “Rodman made use of a lot of things we already had.”—Stephen Reily…