Innehållsförteckning för March 2021 från Architectural Digest

For her own home in Bellport, New York (page 21), interior designer Michelle R. Smith set the mood by lining the stair hall in Hamilton Weston’s Charlecote Trellis—a pretty, pared-back wallpaper that’s equal parts charm and sophistication. Looking to make a similarly polished statement? Here are some favorite patterns that sing just so…. STROKES OF GENIUS PAINTERLY AND PASTEL, WONDER WALLPAPER FROM CALICO’S REVERIE COLLECTION LEAVES US IN AWE. CALICOWALLPAPER.COM ISLAND BREEZE STYLIZED FRONDS LEND LOVELY RHYTHM TO SERENA & LILY’S GRANADA MOTIF IN BURNT ORANGE/SAND. SERENAANDLILY.COM SPRING FORWARD THE FLORAL SPRAYS OF RIFLE PAPER CO.’S HAWTHORNE PATTERN IN ROSE FEEL TIMELESS YET FRESH. RIFLEPAPERCO.COM IN FULL BLOOM VOUTSA’S ANTOINETTE WALLPAPER IN METALLIC WHITE IS PLAYFUL BUT POLISHED, ENLIVENING ANY ROOM. VOUTSA.COM FOR MORE SMART IDEAS VISIT @GETCLEVER ON INSTAGRAM…

Covering up a window, forgoing proper kitchen cabinetry, painting shutters to match the clapboard façades.… Such notions are, to the pearl-clutching decorati, anathema. But designer Michelle R. Smith has never been one to abide by convention. Case in point: the 1857 house that she recently transformed in Bellport, New York, a charm-filled village on the south shore of Long Island. Over a matter of weeks, this rising star updated the Greek Revival residence into an eclectic nest for her young family, cleverly challenging the rules of good taste along the way. The four-bedroom property, though historic, had languished on the market on account of its formal interiors and outdated systems. “There was no air-conditioning, no laundry room,” she recalls. “It seemed overwhelming to a lot of people, but I was…

Sleeping in a tree house above roaming elephants and lions might not seem like a dream night’s rest. Unless, that is, you’re beneath a canopy of stars at the Baobab, a three-story, open-air lodging at the newly refreshed Xigera Safari Lodge in Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Rising 33 feet above the ground (and safely out of reach), the striking structure mimics the branching form of its namesake deciduous African tree, with steel limbs that will rust over time, blending into the bush while nodding to the landscapes of legendary South African painter Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef. This off-thegrid sleep-out is just a quick mokoro, or canoe, ride, from the main lodge, itself a gallery as much as a resort. Transformed by architect Anton de Kock and architectural designer Philip Fourie, the property…

All products have been identified by the designer of each residence. Items similar to vintage and antique pieces are often available from the dealers listed. Contact information was up to date at time of publication. GLAM SLAM PAGES 56–63: Interior design by V Starr; vstarr.com. Landscape design by Lucido & Assoc.; lucidodesign.com. PAGE 56: White Falda porcelain tile by Pental Surfaces; pentalonline.com. PAGE 58: Beat pendants by Tom Dixon; tomdixon.net. Amp pendants by Simon Legald; normann-copenhagen.com. PAGE 59: Bespoke neon sign; manhattanneon.com. Granite Stone-Platino wall covering; phillipjefries.com. Chair; famaliving.com. Gem velvet in Lapis; brentanofabrics.com. PAGE 60: In kitchen, Aquitaine pendant; rh.com. Appliances; officinegullo.com. Litze sink fittings; brizo.com. Calacatta Nuvo countertop; caesarstoneus.com. PAGE 61: In gallery, KAWSxCampana chair; friedmanbenda.com. PAGE 62: Custom shelving; graftonfurniture.com. On terrace, Havana lounge chairs and Marbella…

“The circle is a powerful symbol of unity, a line that never ends, so we decided going forward that it would become our messenger, carrying our vision of inclusivity, wholeness, and hope,” says jewelry designer, sculptor, and philanthropist David Yurman, recalling a creative process that took place during a highly tumultuous 2020. What resulted is the new Elements collection, conceived with his painter wife, Sybil, cofounder and co-CEO of the eponymous Manhattan-based company that they established as newlyweds 41 years ago. (Son Evan is chief creative officer.) Expanding on the brand’s hallmark cable motif, Elements’ unisex gold or silver hoop necklace can be left unadorned or hung with reversible pendants fashioned of malachite, mother-of-pearl, tigereye, and other semiprecious stones, as well as pavé diamonds. The effect is transportingly classical—one can…

When the U.K. is safely abuzz with revelers once more, there will be no cozier spot for a nightcap than NoMad London, American hotelier Andrew Zobler’s new British outpost. Occupying the looming old Bow Street Magistrates’ Courts, where Oscar Wilde was tried for “gross indecency” in 1895, it features a lush bar and dining space called the Fireplace Room. Located off the jungle-like atrium (the former police yard) and wrapped with a blossoming Zuber wallpaper, “it is a jewel of a space, an interpretation of a garden that you enter from a real garden room, stepping from something grand into something that’s almost a whisper, which is a guiding principle of our work,” says Robin Standefer of AD100 firm Roman and Williams, which blended bleached English oak, blue velvet, and,…

Spring was a recurring source of inspiration for Edvard Munch, whose vernal landscapes offered hopeful counterpoints to anguished icons like The Scream. But this spring marks an especially fresh start for Norway’s most famous painter (1863–1944). Along the radically transformed Bjørvika waterfront, finishing touches are being made to the new Munch museum, an eagerly anticipated showcase for the artist’s legacy. The striking structure—13 stories tall, with a cranked silhouette that bows to the city center—replaces the museum’s longtime home, where cramped quarters did inadequate justice to a painter in thrall to light and nature. Designed by the international architecture firm Estudio Herreros, the new museum features 11 exhibition halls of varied ceiling heights and square footages, offering diverse and dynamic showcases for a collection that comprises some 42,300 personal objects,…

I’m always resistant to the idea that my studio has a specific style,” says AD100 talent Rafael de Cárdenas. “But Ulla definitely does.” He is referring to the fashion designer Ulla Johnson, whose brand of refined bohemian garments is now celebrating 22 years in business. And what better way to mark the occasion than with a new private showroom for her downtown Manhattan headquarters—a place for collaborators and VIP guests to connect. Johnson, of course, is well known for her spaces, whether her exquisitely crafted boutiques or her blush-toned Brooklyn brownstone (AD, September 2019). “We have a well-articulated point of view, but we always want to evolve,” she says. “It’s important to challenge ourselves, work with new people, have different conversations.” Part of what drew her to de Cárdenas was…

Three years ago, Jerome Byron, a young architectural designer in Los Angeles, got a call from landscape designer David Godshall of the AD100 firm Terremoto. He and his colleague Diego Lopez were in the midst of designing a client’s backyard in Los Feliz, and their plans included a blank box labeled “guesthouse.” Would Byron come meet the clients and take a look at the site? The grounds were rather bare—big and open, with a stepped lawn and a few low shrubs—but they would soon be a veritable jungle, teaming with agave, cacti, palms, ferns, and other native plants. At the rear was the designated plot, some 13 by 18 feet, on which a structure would rise. “At some point I realized, ‘Oh, wow, I’m doing my first ground-up structure,’” reflects…

Raw. Imperfect. Gestural. Emotional. These are words Megumi Shauna Arai uses to describe textiles that inspire her—whether traditional Japanese boro, 19th-century American crazy quilts, or patchwork marvels by the women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. But this self-taught artist could just as well be describing her own make-do confections, hand-stitched in her Brooklyn studio using vintage fabrics, rough-edged scraps, and colorful silks. (She dyes them herself with natural agents like logwood, indigo, and cochineal, jars of which fill her shelves.) Arai’s intuitive, pieceworked technique turned heads last fall at the 1955 Eliot Noyes House in New Canaan, Connecticut, where one of her tapestries was spread across the bed as part of an exhibition by Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM, and Object & Thing. This spring, she’ll infiltrate our imaginations and…

In the midst of building her own chalet in the French Alps, in the early 1960s, the endlessly innovative designer Charlotte Perriand needed a small lamp for reading in bed that wouldn’t irritate her husband. She placed a wall-mounted bulb behind a simple aluminum shutter that could swivel to send light up or down, varying in brightness. The so-called applique à volet pivotant, or wall lamp with swivel shutter, is a perfect example of what Perriand’s daughter, Pernette Perriand-Barsac, calls “architect’s lighting, which plays with volumes and proportions as an architectural element to make space sing,” a common theme in Perriand’s projects. It did, indeed, make the room sing. And not just her own. In the 1970s the appliques were installed in the living quarters of the Perriand-designed ski resort…

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Susan Clark understands how things are made. Over the years, she has studied glassblowing, metalwork, weaving, and architecture. But what really excites this Nashville-born polymath, who launched the furniture brand Radnor in 2016, is collaboration. “I knew I wanted to bring my own work forward, but I didn’t want to be isolated in my own making,” says Clark, who named the company after the Tennessee nature preserve where her father first took her hiking. “I wanted to create more of a collective.” Today, her own works and those by like-minded, craftaholic friends fill a new 4,000-square-foot apartment on the Upper East Side—the latest of what Clark, who cut her teeth in sales at The Future Perfect, calls “experiential showrooms.” (The first took place at the David Chipperfield–designed condo building The…

It's yet another cozy Sunday afternoon during quarantine, and Serena Williams is lounging in her newly decorated home office on Zoom with her big sister Venus. It’s just two months after the tennis titans went toe to toe at the Top Seed Open in Kentucky, which was their first time back on the court since the forced hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The world-famous pair, who have played many roles in each other’s lives in the 23 years since their first match against each other—best friends, former teammates, competitors, and longtime roommates—are giggling as they reflect on the five-year journey of collaborating on their greatest joint effort yet: designing Serena’s dream home. After co-owning a Palm Beach Gardens property where the Grand Slam duo lived together on and off…

It all began at Karl Lagerfeld’s Left Bank apartment in 1997. The award-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando was invited to dinner, and when he arrived, he met, there in the 18th-century entrance hall, the French financier François Pinault, a noted collector of contemporary art. “Was he aware that I would be there?” Ando muses now. “I am not sure. I sensed that Mr. Pinault might have asked Mr. Lagerfeld to introduce me to him, to understand what kind of person and architect I was.” Pinault obviously was impressed: Over the last 20 years, he has enlisted Ando to design a suite of major art centers, including the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, and now the Bourse de Commerce–Pinault Collection, a private museum situated in the former commodities exchange in central Paris.…