Innehållsförteckning för November 2020 från Architectural Digest

no Twitter, no Instagram, no TikTok, no Fortnite. No viral videos, no FaceTime follies, no tedious group texts, no apps of any kind. For those addicted to social media, the prospect of disconnecting entirely may seem daunting, even nightmarish. But for anyone who ever dreamed of Walden Pond—or simply crawled under the covers at the thought of a Zoom bar mitzvah—the allure of director Anthony Russo’s off-the-grid cabin in the Angeles National Forest is undeniable. “The place is less than an hour from my office downtown, but you feel like you’ve traveled far, far away from Los Angeles. It’s a radically different reality,” says Russo, who, along with his brother Joe, has directed four installments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including Avengers: Endgame and Captain America: Civil War. “The cabin…

While interned in Idaho at Camp Minidoka during World War II, Japanese-American architect George Nakashima met master Japanese carpenter Gentaro Hikogawa. Using wood scraps and desert plants, they worked together to improve their stark living conditions. Nakashima, who had studied architecture at MIT and worked for Czech-American architect Antonin Raymond, also learned some traditional Japanese techniques, such as selecting timber and using butterfly joints. “He learned to improvise,” says his daughter, Mira Nakashima, who still has a small toy box he made for her at the camp. “You couldn’t draw something and then go buy materials. It was the other way around; the material came first.” That resourcefulness laid the groundwork for a prolific practice in New Hope, Pennsylvania. (Raymond, who owned a farm there, took the Nakashimas in after…

Even as the world shut down, Waterworks kept pumping. This September the luxury kitchen-and-bath brand cut the ribbon on its newly expanded New York City flagship, a three-story showcase with 4,000 additional square feet. Customers will now find lighting and surfaces intuitively arranged by color, workstations for designers to meet with clients, 12 streamlined metal finishes, and a range of new products, like the Dash and Foro faucets. Of course, at 12,500 square feet total, the space offers plenty of room to socially distance. waterworks.com…

GREAT DESIGN: KITCHENS/SETTING THE MOOD PAGE 42: Fabrics row 1, from left: Roumania Lace linen; arjumandsworld.com; Little F Tutti Thimble Print Linen by Howe; 36bournestreet.com; Artemis linen; susandeliss.com. Fabrics row 2, from left: Ashoka Stripe linen; robertkime.com; Zelda linen; raoultextiles.com; Cordoba linen; bennisonfabrics.com. Fabrics row 3, from left: Sandobar linen; namaysamay.com; Chintamani linen; ottoline.co.uk; Mayfields fabric; sisterparishdesign.com. THE LIFE AQUATIC PAGES 58–69: Architecture by BIGBjarke Ingels Group; big.dk. PAGE 58: Palissade dining bench by Hay; dwr.com PAGES 60–61: In the living area, curtains of Kvadrat fabric; maharam.com; on Frameless Sliding Doors by Sky-Frame; sky-frame.com. Cork Family stools by Jasper Morrison for Vitra; vitra.com. Hanging Egg Chair by Nanna Ditzel; sikadesign.com. Brick sofas by KiBiSi for Versus; kibisi.com. Bathyscafocus Hublot suspended fireplace by Focus; focus-fireplaces.com. On floor, Marokk concrete tile; marokk.com.…

When you’re tired of London, you’re tired of life.” So says Luke Edward Hall, the British artist, interior decorator, newspaper columnist, and designer of unisex jerkins, echoing another creative multi-hyphenate, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Georgian man of letters. Still, Hall’s partner, creative consultant and designer Duncan Campbell, chimes in, “There comes a point where you want a different pace, to be closer to nature, to have a different kind of socializing.” The bright young things toured the countryside in search of an impractical folly where they could spend weekends and even briefly considered shuttling idiosyncratically between two gatehouses before reason led them to something more usual. “It’s a kid’s drawing of a house,” Hall explains of the three-bedroom old farmer’s cottage that they found on a Gloucestershire estate. “A gable, four…

“People had warned me that living on a houseboat was simultaneously the best and worst thing. When it’s great, it’s epically great.”—Bjarke Ingels earlier this year, Darwin Otero Ingels, the son of Bjarke Ingels and Rut Otero, said his first word: agua, or “water” in his mother’s native Spanish. That he should have H2O on the brain is no surprise. For much of his existence, this intrepid toddler, now almost two, has dropped anchor in Copenhagen’s harbor, cohabitating on a houseboat with his two architect parents. Imagine, among your earliest experiences, the sight of ducks swimming past porthole windows, the thrill of friends arriving by kayak, and the constant, calming churn of the tides—that’s just an average day for young Darwin. But life aboard the SS Ingels has not always…

Lenny Kravitz is often thought of as the ultimate guitar guy. From the bombastic riffs of “Are You Gonna Go My Way” to the opening of “American Woman,” guitar arrangements have always anchored Kravitz hits. “But the piano was actually the first instrument I ever played,” he notes, reflecting on his long-standing love of the instrument. Some five decades, 11 studio albums, and four Grammys later, Kravitz still has his childhood piano. Now he has parlayed that passion—along with his experience designing both furniture and interiors—into a limited-edition version all his own, collaborating with the venerable piano manufacturer Steinway & Sons. A visual tour de force, his concept marries elements of the Art Deco and Art Moderne styles with nods to African art, mixing rich woods and metals. Hand-painted geometric carvings…

“In my personal decorating,” notes Ashley Stark Kenner, “I go for textures, layers, wood grains—an organic feel.” “I had this vision of a black-and-white playroom. There’s so much color in all of their toys, I wanted it to be really clean and bold.”…

Ten years ago, this Antwerp-based artist, then working in fashion, took a drive to Perignem, an erstwhile ceramics factory outside Bruges. He and his partner, both collectors of Belgian pottery, were hoping to get a 1960s vessel authenticated by the factory that produced it. Inside, Elisabeth Vandeweghe, who had inherited the atelier, encouraged her visitors to give things a try, so Bouterse dusted off the materials and tools. Over the course of repeat visits, he would steadily teach himself how to throw and build, all through trial and error. “I think the fastest way to learn something is to just do it and see what happens,” Bouterse says. “If it doesn’t work, you do it again.” Since 2015, when he officially traded cloth for clay, he has unveiled vases adorned…