Innehållsförteckning för February 2021 från Architectural Digest

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Life before the pandemic sure was hectic, wasn’t it? My schedule was packed and our office was bursting, with 20 people, including six full-time interior designers. It was a battle to just contain everyone’s stuff. But we had a lot of fun—brainstorming new designs or celebrating whenever somebody got their architecture license. And then on March 15, as the city shut down, we gathered around the conference table and I told everyone to take their workstation home. We have yet to all reunite in one room. (Though we did meet for a late-summer picnic in Prospect Park.) Home is where my practice started. For many years, the business operated out of the fourth floor of my Clinton Hill town house, where my son would run around naked after baths and…

“I love traditional architecture because it has proved, over and over again, that it works,” explains the Haitian-born architect Elizabeth Graziolo, who launched her own Manhattan-based practice, Yellow House Architects, last February. And she should know what works. After graduating from Cooper Union and spending a few formative years at Cicognani Kalla Architect, Graziolo clocked two decades at the AD100 firm Peter Pennoyer Architects, one of the city’s leading classicist voices, where she became a partner. Since going out on her own, she has been busy designing a number of projects, among them a mid-rise tower on Madison Avenue, a town house on the Upper East Side, and a ground-up pavilion bar for a home in the Caribbean. Carrying a historicist torch into the present day, she aims to design…

“How does one heal a city? How does one maintain ‘homeostasis’ in a house, a family, or a community?”—Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee New York City has long proved a fertile stomping ground for AD. The magazine has devoted scores of pages and sometimes entire issues to the Big Apple, documenting the grand and the gritty, the traditional and the unconventional: penthouses, town houses, industrial lofts, elegant apartments, and unrenovated artists’ studios alike. Each of these quintessentially urban spaces is ultimately a backdrop for the main attraction—New Yorkers themselves, the denizens of that great melting pot of talented, idiosyncratic humanity. In the wake of a pandemic that has dealt a particularly brutal blow to our beloved city, the editors agreed that visits to some committed locals in their exceptional habitats might provide…

MY father was chaste in his clothing choices (white, beige, cream), but he could not resist the tug of a deep crimson shawl. I remember it as a family relic, packed with mothballs and stored away in a steel trunk every summer. A richly embroidered pashmina from Kashmir, the shawl was one of the few things that had traveled with his family during the furious conflagration of Partition in 1947, when East and West Bengal were split into two halves. My grandmother had packed that same trunk and left with her four children in tow. The overnight train had borne the family to a newborn India, torn into two, like a scrap of paper. Their adoptive city, Kolkata—once the most luminous of jewels in the crown of England’s colonial cities—was now…

There are few things more synonymous with New York City than the Tiffany & Co. flagship: the American jeweler’s iconic Cross & Cross–designed home at the corner of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, where it has resided since 1940. Lesser known, however, is the fact that the building’s eight-foot-tall statue of the Greek mythological figure Atlas—shouldering the clock that graces its west façade—predates the location by nearly 100 years. Commissioned by Charles Lewis Tiffany from Henry Frederick Metzler, an artisan friend who crafted ship figureheads, the wooden statue (painted to resemble bronze) was initially mounted above the entrance to Tiffany’s third store, at 550 Broadway, and traveled flagship to flagship thereafter. While we don’t anticipate his making moves anytime soon—OMA, the architecture firm cofounded by Rem Koolhaas, is currently undertaking…

Imagine a New York where the climate crisis has intensified so much so that the government has limited human mobility in order to curtail emissions—where Black coders have in turn taken over the MTA, commandeering its subways and trains for the disenfranchised. This is the poignant, dystopian reality conjured by the Brooklyn-based artist Olalekan Jeyifous for the Museum of Modern Art’s upcoming show “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America,” opening February 20. Blending analog and digital collage, Jeyifous has created Frankencityscapes, often piled high beyond comprehension, twisting what we know into what could be. “Digital media are very quick, but analog and collage add dimensionality to the work,” he explains. “It comes back to the hand and the eye, which evoke a labor of love and craft.” For the exhibition,…

“I’m a gardener, and Diego is a Mexican man, so we love color, though he has real discipline. I’m a maximalist.”—Grace Fuller Marroquin Seven years ago, when Grace Fuller, then a jewelry editor at Vogue, met Diego Marroquin, the Mexican American financier and art collector lived in a SoHo loft that, he offers with a self-deprecating laugh, “Grace would categorically describe as a bachelor pad.” There he paired a 1980s Joe D’Urso rolling table with the original Knoll sofa that had been created to exhibit alongside it. Marc Newson chairs surrounded a Martin Szekely dining table, joined by Maarten Van Severen bookshelves and a Kuramata feather stool. “It had a very distinct postmodern design aesthetic,” Marroquin notes. “But it wasn’t a family home.” Fast-forward a few years, and the newlyweds were…

New York is known for bright lights, fast walkers, loud horns, and tall buildings. But out on the skinny Rockaway peninsula that dangles off Queens like a loose thread, it’s another world. Down a dirt path just steps from Jamaica Bay (and only a short bike ride from the subway), a young photo agent has set up house in an unassuming clapboard bungalow. Here, he knows his neighbors. He rises early for a sail, a surf, or maybe just a long swim. “It’s brilliant to live in Rockaway,” says the Brooklyn-raised homeowner, who lived in Williamsburg for 14 years before snapping up the seaside spot in 2013. “You have access to everything the city offers, but you live in this beach community.” He slowly transformed the place (when he moved in—just…

there are views. And then there are views. After two decades working at the tippity top of the New York design world, Monique Gibson figured she had seen them all. But three years ago the AD100 designer walked onto the terrace of this penthouse apartment in Tribeca and her jaw dropped in amazement. “You know what it’s like when you walk into a great cathedral and you’re suddenly struck silent?” recalls Gibson. “It was like that! I just stood there, dumbfounded,” she says. “I daresay this apartment had the best view of the city I had ever seen.” Perfectly centered on New York’s east-west axis, the duplex takes in panoramic views from the East River to the Hudson and, on clear days, sight lines north all the way to Central…

GOTHAM GLORY PAGES 32–43: Interior design by Studio Volpe; stevenvolpe.com. PAGES 32–33: Sofa (at left) by Studio Volpe; stevenvolpe.com, in fabrics; handweaves.anamar.us, and; chapastextiles.com. Detroit cocktail table by Fredrikson Stallard; davidgillgallery.com. Gio Ponti chandelier; galeriekreo.com. Diego Giacometti armchairs; jacqueslacoste.com. Wendell Castle table (at right); r-and-company.com. Rugs; vsoske.com. PAGES 34–35: Sofas by Joaquim Tenreiro; nilufar.com, in silk; prelle.fr. Side table by Vincenzo De Cotiis; decotiis.it. Nuage cocktail table by Guy de Rougemont; galeriedupassage.com. Adaptation chair; jorislaarman.com. Table lamps; nachocarbonell.com. Curtain silks; claremontfurnishing.com. PAGE 36: In living room, Tunisie bookshelf by Charlotte Perriand; jacqueslacoste.com. In child’s bath, Luna quartz; compac.es. Vaia shower fittings; dornbracht.com. In closet, custom bench; georgespencer.com. Cashmere carpet; marknelsondesigns.com. Burnished nickel hardware; htheophile.com. Vintage chandelier; seguso.com. PAGE 37: Linens on custom bunk beds; dporthaultparis.com. Pierre Paulin chair; 1stdibs.com, in…