Innehållsförteckning för September 2020 från Architectural Digest

“I’m not a huge party person. There aren’t a lot of ragers going on here. I like turning on music, lighting the fireplace and candles, and watching NBA games with my friends.”—Kendall Jenner The AD team spends a year planning our September Style issue. No sooner is one closed than we are thinking about how to top it the following year. Seriously! It was satisfying to see the true sophistication with which 24-year-old supermodel Kendall Jenner approached her understated, lovely L.A. house and art collection. (That’s a James Turrell light sculpture on the cover.) “I like a house that has character. When I walked into this place, I was immediately drawn to the peaceful Spanish-y, farmhouse-y vibe,” says Jenner, accurately describing the cozy allure of what she calls “the first…

Sam Moyer has long found energy where edges meet. “Bringing two things together, creating a vibration—that vibration is the art,” says the Brooklyn-based artist, best known for her mesmerizing compositions of shaped paintings and jagged stone pieces, which she fits together tightly like puzzle pieces. Now, in collaboration with Public Art Fund, Moyer is generating that same creative friction on an urban scale. On September 16, she’ll unveil a monumental new work on Doris C. Freedman Plaza, at the southeast corner of Central Park. Comprising three portals, each fitted with a door, the installation both finds and creates meaning at the intersection of two worlds. “It’s this place where the industrial matter that is Manhattan ends and a controlled but natural environment begins,” explains Moyer, who quickly became interested in…

Stamps are tools that allow me to draw and compose endlessly,” explains Italian artist Gianpaolo Pagni, who uses the age-old printing implements to arrange punchy patterns. “First I create a personal, graphic vocabulary made up of shapes, lines, and materials. Then these elements are turned into stamps.” Over the years, with the help of French luxury brand Hermès, his compositions have been splashed across beach towels, blankets, scarves, and wallpapers. Now he and his longtime collaborator have transformed his art into rugs. Titled Escalator and Tremplin, the two new designs (part of Hermès’s Cordélie collection, available this month) feature architectural motifs that nod to escalators and diving boards. Hermès realized Pagni’s designs using a technique never before applied to rugs, in which fine cotton cords are embroidered atop a strong…

Kendall Jenner’s design team—the mother-and-son duo Kathleen and Tommy Clements, plus the inimitable Waldo Fernandez—didn’t know quite what to expect from their 24-year-old superstar client. “Her taste was surprising, more bohemian and funky than the rest of her family. The mood she described was totally understated and down-to-earth,” Tommy recalls of the team’s initial meetings with Jenner, reportedly the highest-paid model in the world. “Being who she is, we thought Kendall might gravitate toward something more flashy, more va-va-voom. I think we were all thrilled to discover that she has taste beyond her years,” adds Kathleen. Fernandez punctuates the sentiment: “There are plenty of people we know who have traveled extensively and been exposed to so much but don’t absorb anything. Kendall is different. She takes everything in and is…

in the course of his long and extraordinary life, the protean Federico Forquet has enjoyed successful careers as a designer of fashion, interiors, and gardens, and enjoyed another fruitful vocation as a discriminating collector of rare and beautiful objects, furnishings, and pictures that all somehow conspire to evoke the flamboyant classicism of his native Naples, where he was born in 1931. In 1954, the young aesthete met Cristóbal Balenciaga and so impressed the great couturier that he was invited to work alongside him in his Paris atelier for several seasons. A few years later, with the master’s blessing, Forquet returned to Italy, where he held design positions with a couple of high-profile firms in Rome before establishing his own maison de couture in 1961. From his elegant salons, Forquet dressed…

Before I reach the door to Wes Gordon and Paul Arnhold’s West Chelsea apartment, the couple’s dog, Bird, bounds down the hall to greet me. It is just a few days since Gordon, the lauded young creative director at Carolina Herrera, presented his latest runway collection. And hours later, he and Arnhold, a real estate developer and celebrated glassblower, will zip off to Puerto Rico for a well-deserved getaway—Bird in tow. COVID-19 is still but a faint concern. Inside their entry hall, a symphony of serene and joyous colors draws the eye in. Straight ahead, the High Line’s allée of trees reveals itself through floor-to-ceiling casement windows—a lush green canopy under which the couple sip coffee on their terrace in the mornings. An elegant blush hue coats the walls and…

Perhaps no stretch of pavement feels more ideally suited for the monumental murals honoring Black Lives Matter that have appeared around the world than the corner of 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, in the heart of Harlem. There, in the shadow of the historic Hotel Theresa—once known as the Waldorf of Harlem—eight local artists came together this summer to transform the movement’s now-iconic 16 letters into a grandly meaningful artwork nearly two blocks long. The mural’s design is as precise as it is powerful. “Each of the letters is perfectly aligned and stands exactly 21 feet tall,” explains artist and curator LeRone Wilson, who worked with Harlem Park to Park and Got to Stop on the project. “It was crucial that nothing felt uneven or out of…

At Milan’s Eurodomus 3 trade show in 1970, Florentine manufacturer Poltronova unveiled Mobili Grigi, a far-out bedroom collection that had been designed by architect Ettore Sottsass. Fashioned from slick, vacuum-molded plastic and cast fiberglass, it was part of the brand’s mission to bring novel industrial materials—which had already revolutionized nautical and automobile design—into the home. The radical range was produced in a very limited edition, with one exception: the neon-lit pink mirror called Ultrafragola, or “the ultimate strawberry.” The thermoformed plastic reflector (which debuted a decade before Sottsass established the Memphis Group) celebrated femininity—the curves of a woman’s body; the waves of her hair; some other choice elements of her anatomy. Today we might call that objectification. But women the world over have embraced the mirror ($10,500; now available in…

“I was really interested in having East-meets-West spaces”—Nathalie Farman-Farma Ask Nathalie Farman-Farma to identify a few of her favorite things, and the founder of Décors Barbares, the little fabric studio with an AD100 cult following, responds with an idiosyncratic short list. Japanese baskets. Russian Arts and Crafts furniture. Oxford frames. Swedish flat-weave carpets. Eastern Orthodox icons. Add to that Lake Tahoe and its sweeping landscape of towering evergreens, spiky mountains, and shimmering water, a combination of elements that helped to foster her Russophile aesthetic. “The power of nature plus my reading of classic Russian novels—I just put two and two together in my head,” says Farman-Farma, who has spent many summers enjoying a California compound of wood cabins that has belonged since the 1960s to her American mother’s family. (Her…

“‘How does this make me feel?’ That is what people will ask themselves going forward. Not ‘Is this the latest trend?’” So says Christiane Lemieux, whose new furniture collection, Lemieux Et Cie, offers a harmonious marriage of comfort and high design. Launching at Anthropologie, the line ranges from plush bedding to swoon-worthy seats, all in mood-lifting fabrics and forms. anthropologie.com…

It’s a bit mix and match, but every piece has a story,” says Cordelia de Castellane of the eclectic assemblage of treasures inside her enchanting country house about an hour north of Paris. Although she hails from an aristocratic family that counts numerous statesmen and aesthetes in recent generations, the artistic director of Dior Maison and Baby Dior is anything but stuffy and old-fashioned. So it comes as no surprise to find that her personal retreat, festooned with climbing pink roses and chock-full of family heirlooms and flea-market finds, is a dreamy, effortlessly chic getaway. De Castellane has been steeped in the fashion world since youth. She went to work at 16, cutting her teeth with fashion legends Emanuel Ungaro and Giambattista Valli. “I started out as an intern, and…

“It was very much like a sitcom. But then the house’s problems beat me to the ground.” When Maggie Betts bought a multifamily town house in Greenwich Village 15 years ago, she did what any recent college grad would do: She invited her friends to move in. Barbara Bush settled into one unit. Model Jessica Joffe, restaurateur Kyle Hotchkiss Carone, and AD100 architect William Sofield rotated through others. Maggie herself occupied the garden duplex, playing landlady and hostess-in-chief. “It was very much like a sitcom,” she recalls. “But then the house’s problems beat me to the ground.” In 2015, the filmmaker—who was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and currently has projects in the works for HBO and Amazon—returned from a business trip in L.A. to discover that…

SITTING PRETTY PAGES 54–65: Interiors by Clements Design; clementsdesign.com; and Waldo’s Design; waldosdesign.com. PAGE 54: In the bedroom’s sitting room, custom sofa upholstered in a vintage linen from Brenda Antin Antiques; 323-934-5247. Antique silk pillows from Richard Shapiro Studiolo; studiolo.com. PAGE 55: In the art studio, 19th-century French chaise from Lee Stanton; lee stanton.com. 1930s French woodworker’s stool from Galerie Half; galeriehalf.com. Vintage adjustable painter’s easel and 1950s Industrial Clamp Lamp by Jean Louis Domecq for Jielde Lyon; both 1stdibs.com. Painted floor by Kaki Foley; instagram.com/kakifoley. PAGE 56: Kitchen cabinets painted in Benjamin Moore’s Garden Cucumber; benjaminmoore.com. Sink fittings in unlacquered brass by Waterworks; waterworks.com. Copper pots from Nickey Kehoe; nickeykehoe.com. Pierre Jeanneret bleached teak stools from Galerie Half; galeriehalf.com. PAGE 57: Custom sofas covered in Lee Jofa’s Jarah fabric…