Innehållsförteckning för May 2020 från Architectural Digest

Jet-setters may have once dismissed Zurich as just a stopover en route to Art Basel or the Alps. But reinvigorated by creative spirit, this Swiss city has reestablished itself on the map, enticing world travelers with bold new restaurants, exhibition spaces, and lodgings. “Zurich is once again being recognized as a hub for European culture, just as it first was during the mid–20th century, when Le Corbusier, Picasso, and Chagall were all regulars,” notes AD100 designer Martin Brudnizki, who recently updated the brasserie and bar at Baur au Lac, an iconic hotel overlooking the emerald lake. “The evolving art scene seems to have turbocharged in the last 10 years or so.” Just as global powerhouse Hauser & Wirth brought fresh energy with its Annabelle Selldorf–designed gallery, local institutions are now…

Tiles look beautiful on a fireplace in a living room, on the walls of a kitchen, in a vestibule,” reflects Kelly Wearstler. “You could skin an entire room. There are truly no limitations with such gorgeous material.” Except, perhaps, when demand exceeds supply. On a trip to Lisbon, the AD100 designer fell in love with a collection of vintage Portuguese tiles at the family-run boutique Cortiço & Netos. But because each of the azulejos was available only in limited quantity—barely enough for a backsplash, let alone a whole wall—she had to get creative. “Many patterns had only 10 tiles,” recalls Wearstler, who set about assembling the array into a floor-to-ceiling mosaic at The Peacock, a restaurant at Proper Hotel’s new Austin outpost. First using digital modeling, then working hand in…

Few residential developments can boast the kind of romantic mythology that surrounds Sea Ranch, the quietly radical planned community that sprang up in the mid to late 1960s along the Pacific coastline roughly 100 miles north of San Francisco. Buoyed by a barrage of international press, Sea Ranch sparked the imagination of a generation of design aficionados with its vision of humble wood dwellings—spare, hybrid forms that integrated vernacular and modernist architectural idioms—nestled peaceably within the natural splendor of its oceanfront site. “I remember seeing it in the magazines my mother had on the coffee table when I was a kid in the mid-’70s,” recalls AD100 designer Charles de Lisle. “We lived in a saltbox in Massachusetts, so the pictures of Sea Ranch looked totally magical and far out.” When…

there’s no point in beating around the bush. Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent want you to know they’re embarrassed. Chastened. “Humiliated!” says Berkus. Seated in a pair of armchairs in front of a blazing fire in their new West Village town house, the married designers look content and perfectly at home—if a little sheepish. After all, it seems like just yesterday when they moved into what was supposed to be their dream home, a nearly 9,000-square-foot Spanish colonial in Los Angeles. Fans of their TLC show, Nate & Jeremiah by Design (and readers of AD’s January 2018 story), witnessed the couple gushing over the house’s sun-drenched rooms, wrought-iron balustrade, and 200-year-old oak tree in the backyard. The house, they proclaimed, was where they and their then-two-year-old daughter, Poppy, would “put…

Young Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto were considering a design directive far ahead of their time back in 1929: wellness. Alvar—who worked closely with his wife—had won a commission to create a tuberculosis sanatorium in Paimio, Finland (a project that would usher their name onto the world stage), and they would craft every detail, from door handles to sinks to seating, to benefit body and mind. One chair in particular—the bent-plywood Armchair 41, nicknamed the Paimio, which was lined up in long rows in the common room—gained praise outside the sanatorium when it was shown at Milan’s 1933 Triennale. A collaboration with manufacturer Otto Korhonen, it featured a seat that gently curled at head and foot, positioning patients at an angle to promote easy breathing. (For healthy individuals, it…

“At the heart of what I do is photographic transformation,” explains artist Daniel Gordon. “What happens when you put this color with that color? How does the camera capture depth?” A visit to his Brooklyn studio, filled with paper sculptures and scraps, reveals just some of the tricks up his sleeve. “It’s circular,” Gordon reflects of his unique process, which entails sourcing images online; using them to form paper objects; arranging those to create elaborate still lives or portraits; and then photographing, printing, and manipulating those tableaux again and again. “I am not trying to re-create the real. I’m interested in formal challenges.” For his upcoming show at New York’s Yossi Milo Gallery, Gordon further honed his technique to create monochromatic works in red, green, or blue. He’ll display them…

In April of last year, the cherry trees were blooming as Tory Burch and Robert Kime arrived in Tokyo in search of inspiration. In the days that followed, the duo would scour the country for antique textile samples, the basis of their new collection, all the while visiting some of Japan’s famed temples and shrines. Twelve months later, that kind of enriching travel may feel like a faraway memory, as COVID-19 restrictions have settled in worldwide. However, the fruits of that foray—11 fabrics and two wallpapers—are now poised for the comfort of your home. The two met several years ago when Burch, a self-professed Kime fangirl, called the AD100 Hall of Famer for help “warming up” her now-husband Pierre-Yves Roussel’s manor house in Normandy. “It was an immediate connection,” the…

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. FRESH DIRECT PAGES 70–83: Kate Brodsky of KRB; krbnyc.com. Architecture by Bories & Shearron Architecture; boriesandshearron.com. Landscape design by Nancy Goslee Power & Associates; nancypower.com. Paint consulting by Eve Ashcraft; eveashcraft.com. Upholstery throughout by Luther Quintana Upholstery; lqupholstery.com. PAGES 70–71: On sofa and armchairs, Hollyhock linen by Lee Jofa (T); kravet.com. On pillows, Semis Montrichard cotton by Claremont (T); claremontfurnishing.com. On ottoman, Sifton linen, in moss, by Claremont (T). Mario floor lamp by Todd Alexander Romano for Schumacher (T); fschumacher.com. PAGES 72–73: In sunroom, painted floors by Chris Pearson; chrispearsonfloors.com; of Onyx White paint by Benjamin Moore; benjaminmoore.com;…

When Emily Adams Bode and Aaron Aujla first moved into their downtown Manhattan rental, it was just an empty white box—no kitchen, no walls, barely any electrical wiring. But the one winning feature, a wood-burning stove, was enough to spark their imagination. “When friends come over, they don’t understand we built all this,” Bode says on a recent visit to the apartment. Almost entirely clad in African mahogany and coffee-stained Douglas fir, the home now has the patina of a space that’s been there awhile. And that, Bode says, “was the goal.” Over the last few years, she and Aujla, who met in 2010, have crafted separate businesses around that very idea: giving new things a sense of history. Bode’s eponymous menswear line recalibrates American textile traditions into patchwork jackets…

“I loved the idea of sitting down with a block of wood and letting my mind wander,” says designer Josh Greene, reflecting on the origins of his first product collection, created in collaboration with Dowel Furniture. Inspired by the likes of Perriand and Springer, the 23 pieces include sculptural seats, tables, and pedestals—versatile crowd-pleasers all. dowelfurniturecompany.com…

Mix Pleasure With Business According to AD100 architect Bjarke Ingels, going green isn’t just serious business—it can also be fun. In Copenhagen, the Danish wunderkind and his firm, BIG, recently completed a waste-treatment facility that converts trash into energy while also luring thrill seekers. Its 107,640-square-foot green roof doubles as a hiking trail and year-round ski slope; a façade reveals a climbing wall; and two bars provide rooftop or après-ski libations. “The project is a crystal-clear example of hedonistic sustainability, the idea that a sustainable city is not only better for the environment, it is also more enjoyable for the lives of its citizens,” says Ingels, who sees addressing the climate crisis as a design challenge, not simply a moral imperative. Though the plant does important work for its city,…

Architectural and interior designer Ferris Rafauli describes the crazysexycool interiors as “modern Art Deco.” Remember the chintzy, pimped-out McMansions that were a staple of the long-running MTV series Cribs? The Toronto home of mega recording artist Aubrey Drake Graham is something else altogether. Measuring 50,000 square feet, with amenities such as an NBA regulationsize indoor basketball court crowned by a 21-foot-square pyramidal skylight, Drake’s astonishing domicile certainly qualifies as extravagant. But instead of vast expanses of cheap drywall and mountains of ungainly furniture upholstered with a hot glue gun, stately Drake Manor, as envisioned by Canadian architectural and interior designer Ferris Rafauli, is a marvel of old-world craftsmanship, constructed of limestone, bronze, exotic woods, and other noble materials. Every detail of the sprawling property has been meticulously conceived and executed.…