Innehållsförteckning för June 2021 från Architectural Digest

At their home in New York’s Hudson Valley (page 58), Mary Nelson Sinclair and Matty Cruise enlisted a fellow artist, their friend Happy Menocal, to create a one-of-a-kind mural for the guest room. Over the course of a weekend visit, the illustrator enlivened the walls with exuberant botanicals and, along the molding, a whimsical dotted border. The site-specific work is just one of many ways that paint helped to transform this 18th-century house from floor to ceiling…. FOR MORE SMART IDEAS, VISIT @GETCLEVER ON INSTAGRAM OR ARCHDIGEST.COM/CLEVER…

On a bright morning in upstate New York, an engaging toddler named Mary Augustine Cruise is making eggs—over easy. Mid-flip, the frying pan clatters to the floor, though thankfully the yolks in question are of the wooden variety, as is the miniature stovetop. Her mother, painter Mary Nelson Sinclair, has meanwhile just pulled scones out of the life-size La Cornue oven, plating them on vintage faience dishes before hand-whipping cream to accompany them. Beside the farm table, Pippa, the family’s Yorkshire terrier, perches on a camelback loveseat, waiting patiently for any crumbs to fall. It was the kitchen that underwent the most dramatic transformation a few years back, when Sinclair and her husband, sculptor Matty Cruise, set about renovating their 18th-century Colonial farmhouse in a quiet hamlet of Columbia County.…

Napoléon Bonaparte missed out on being a Louis Vuitton client—the French leather-goods firm launched in 1854, long after the end of his reign—but the new lanterns in the brand’s Objets Nomades line of travel-inspired home products would have met with the emperor’s approval. Modeled after the honeycombs constructed by bees, the Bonaparte symbol, young Treviso-based product designers Giorgia Zanellato and Daniele Bortotto have tucked a rechargeable LED inside a mouth-blown glass vessel and then wrapped that illuminated core in an elegant network of openwork leather straps. As with previous Objets Nomades offerings, from a hammock by Atelier Oï to a mirror by Marcel Wanders, every element is handmade by European artisans. Zanellato/Bortotto also built brand echoes into their glowing concept: The handle recalls those used on the firm’s legendary bags,…

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Ace Hotel Brooklyn BROOKLYN Atelier Ace reunited with AD100 firm Roman and Williams on the hip hotel group’s latest stronghold, a ground-up building in downtown Brooklyn where industrial details blend with artisanal touches. From $289; acehotel.com Camp Sarika CANYON POINT, UTAH Glamping at Amangiri—what else is there to say? Flawlessly outfitted, the 10 canvas-topped pavilions at this extraordinary camp (a short drive from the main resort) are each an ode to the extraordinary desert surroundings. From $3,500; aman.com Commodore Perry Estate AUSTIN Transformed by the AD100 designer Ken Fulk, this historic Austin mansion (now an Auberge Resort) brims with color, pattern, and glamour galore, from the lemon-hued lounge chairs and umbrellas that ring the pool to the Pierre Frey fabric that cocoons the showstopper LaVerne suite. From $529; aubergeresorts.com DumaTau…

Renaissance woman in the truest sense, interior designer Sheila Bridges has hosted a TV show, published two books, and created the now-iconic Harlem Toile pattern every socially aware aesthete loves. The AD100 talent talks fast—ideas whirling out of her mind and mouth—and it can be tough to keep up. Searingly quick-witted, she somehow manages to balance charm, warmth, and humor without sacrificing her exacting eye. As layered as her interiors, this gracious spirit has used design as an avenue for experimentation and discovery for the last 30 years. “One of the things I really try to do in my interiors is to not use the same thing twice,” she says. There’s certainly no fear of repetition in a recent large project she completed in Bedford Hills, New York. Set on…

“If the world around you isn’t in order, it’s hard to get your brain in order. When we’re in our home, the world just makes sense.” —Ashton Kutcher It took a bit of coaxing to persuade our cover couple, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, to open the doors of their sustainable, solar-powered, cornfield-planted, six-acre Los Angeles property—cutely dubbed KuKu Farms—to AD. But once the determinedly private pair agreed, they really opened up about their painstaking process to West Coast Editor Mayer Rus, who describes them as “design-obsessed.” For their five-year passion project, a home that Kutcher imagined would “look like an old barn, something that had been here for decades, but also feel modern and relevant,” the Hollywood power duo chose two AD100 talents: architect Howard Backen and interior designer…

At the turn of the 20th century, Mikhaïl and Ivan Abramovich Morozov were names to know on Moscow’s art scene, as the brothers assembled hundreds of works by the likes of Monet, Degas, Van Gogh, and Cézanne. The impressive trove—later divided among the Tretyakov Gallery, the Hermitage, and the Pushkin museum—has never left Russia since. But coming soon to Paris’s Fondation Louis Vuitton, “The Morozov Collection” will reunite some 200 works in one sweeping show, with Matisse’s Moroccan reveries and Picasso’s nightlife scenes displayed alongside paintings by such Russian greats as Repin and Serov. For any art lover, it will be an exhibition to remember. fondationlouisvuitton.fr…

INTO THE WOODS PAGES 48–57: Architecture by Backen & Gillam Architects; bgarch.com. Interior design by Charles and Co.; charlesandco.com. Landscape design by L.Z. Design Group; lzdesigngroupinc.com. PAGES 48–49: Sofa; ciscohome.net. PAGE 50: Custom sofa in Pindler outdoor fabric; pindler.com. PAGE 51: Sebastian Cox Kitchen by deVOL; devolkitchens.co.uk. Tim pendants; hectorfinch.com. Perrin & Rowe sink fittings; houseofrohl.com. Pendant above table; apparatusstudio.com. Floor tiles; tabarkastudio.com. In pantry, tile on walls; senecatiles.com. Floor tile by Tabarka Studio. PAGE 54: In primary bath, Tay cast iron skirted bathtub; drummonds-uk.com. Soho ottoman; georgesmith.com. Window sheers; coraggio.com. Custom silver throne chair purchased in India. In primary bedroom’s sitting area, George Smith sofa with cushions in Zak+Fox textiles; zakandfox.com. T chairs; stahlandband.com. Custom table; ciscohome.net. Sconce; alliedmaker.com. PAGE 55: In guest room, bed and ottoman; ciscohome.net. Bedside…

Architect Gio Ponti understood the hard truth about clients. “[It’s] the person without whom one cannot produce architecture, and with whom one cannot produce it either,” he once quipped, quoting a friend. But in Anala and Armando Planchart, the Italian star found an anomaly: patrons willing to let him build a house that he poetically described as “a large butterfly alighted on the hilltop.” Completed in 1957, Villa Planchart, perched on a rise as he imagined, overlooking Caracas, is a Gesamtkunstwerk of Ponti’s innovative ideas for lighting, tableware, and, of course, furniture. “Simplicity in production, simplicity of assembly and disassembly, simplicity of packaging” is how photographer and curator Salvatore Licitra—the maestro of Taschen’s new book Gio Ponti—explains his grandfather’s postwar aesthetic. Proof is the Round chair that Ponti used at…

Carmen D’Apollonio often works solo, but she never gets lonely in her Los Angeles studio, where she’s surrounded by ceramic lamps and vessels in progress, many of them people-size. “They become a bit human,” she says of her inanimate companions—some of them anthropomorphic, others vaguely figurative. “They’re like a little family.” Soon she’ll bid the gang farewell as pieces big and small get boxed up and shipped out to New York City, where they’ll star in her first U.S. solo exhibition, “Don’t Wake the Snake,” opening July 15 at Friedman Benda gallery. D’Apollonio’s ceramics practice began eight years ago, when she signed up for an introductory course in traditional Japanese raku pottery in her native Switzerland. After relocating to L.A. in 2014, she landed a high-profile commission: The French fashion…

Coco Chanel’s Paris apartment, famously situated atop her atelier on rue Cambon, was crawling with cats. “I’m a Leo and, like him, I show my claws to protect myself, but, believe me, I suffer more by clawing than being clawed,” the Mademoiselle once said. Notoriously superstitious, she kept a multitude of feline talismans close at hand—from a crystal ball balanced on the backs of two lions to the carved-marble figurine that sat beside a gilded-framed portrait of yet another majestic cat. While the fascination endured, it only intensified after Chanel fled to Venice following the death of her lover Boy Capel. She found strength and inspiration in the City of the Lion, qualities that are celebrated in the house’s latest high-jewelry unveiling, Escale à Venise. (Shown are the Lion Secret…

“They feel like something from an urban archaeological site,” says artist Cameron Welch of Relics, the new collection of mosaic-clad stools he created in collaboration with the design studio Konekt. “There’s something mythological about them, like they’ve had a life before you saw them.” Growing up in Indianapolis, Welch (now Brooklyn-based) was introduced to mosaic making by his grandmother, with whom he combined rocks, glass, ceramic, and concrete into an elaborate fireplace surround, among other household surfaces. Ever since, Welch has used this age-old medium to piece together thoughts about identity and cultural history, often in largescale panels and sculptures. With this latest collaboration—an update to Konekt’s Thing stools—he brings those ideas back to a domestic context. “I thought of the materials you often see in contemporary furniture and jumbled…

“They’re all one-liners in a way,” says designer Minjae Kim, referring to the quirky and totally bespoke furnishings that fill his live-work space in Ridgewood, Queens. A lacquered floor lamp sports a gauzy, skirtlike shade, while a petite fiberglass seat stands on a small podium, as if trying to gain an inch or two. All around are wooden chairs in various states, some with humorous designs drawn on in marker, waiting to be carved, others cut and stained. For the past three years, Kim, who grew up in Seoul and got his master’s in architecture at Columbia University, has honed his eye working for the AD100 design firm Studio Giancarlo Valle. But on the side, and more and more so during the pandemic, he has put his own spin on…