Innehållsförteckning för April 2022 från Architectural Digest

For his latest collection for Arteriors, San Francisco designer Jay Jeffers took inspiration from midcentury light fixtures, honing the brand’s diverse materials palette and innovative production techniques to conjure classic pieces for the present day. “Lighting is everything!” he muses, citing versatility and mood enhancement as key goals. “It’s important to consider every factor.” arteriorshome.com…

The de Gournay showroom on the Left Bank of Paris has a small flat upstairs where the team meets with its clients. Traditionally, the space was decorated with wallpaper from the company’s existing collections—until a eureka moment a few years ago. “We realized it was a great place to do something different, a total departure from what people think is de Gournay,” says company director Hannah Cecil Gurney, the daughter of brand founder Claud Cecil Gurney. She decided to ask top creative talents to come up with fantastical, one-off tableaux that would, in her words, “celebrate our artistry, show what we are capable of doing, and allow a designer to create what he or she likes, with no commercial side to it.” Meaning it’s not for sale. “This is the…

“Michael is able to create spaces that I can write in. To me, that’s the ultimate compliment because writers are always looking for an escape from writing.”—Shonda Rhimes “I like things to look beautiful, but I also want them to be actually functional and comfortable too.”…

People often say that it’s best to decorate a house over time, rather than in one massive, professionally designed swoop—although the transformational power of “installation day” has always been a great fantasy of mine. Interiors that evolve, reflecting the lives inside them, with their accumulating layers and patina, are often the ones I am most drawn to, because of the intimacy and idiosyncrasy they possess. But that is not why my house developed over many years, and in fact, the idiosyncrasies it would likely have revealed, if left to my own devices, would have been those of a scattered mind, an inability to mix textiles and pattern, to place furniture, or to create a flow within rooms and between them. This house has built up slowly, initially because I had…

who says you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear? AD100 designer Charles de Lisle has performed just such a feat of alchemy, transforming a particularly porcine sow’s ear—a bizarre, dilapidated shack set in a garbage-strewn Sonoma County wilderness—into a vision of unpretentious, idyllic country charm. “It was like a satanist yoga den,” de Lisle says of the cabin’s crumbling structure and lunatic decor, which included black-painted walls, a giant red-and-black yin-yang symbol emblazoned on the floor, strange plastic Buddhas tucked in niches, and a janky DJ booth. Dirty mattresses strewn about, a rusted claw-foot tub, and old clothes stuffed into the walls and ceiling as insulation added another layer of Dickensian texture to the decrepit hippie hut. “There were a bunch of dudes sleeping there and…

During the pandemic, so many people didn’t have an opportunity to interact much with nature—with crisp green grass, with beautiful blue skies,” says Corey Damen Jenkins. “They were stuck in their gray and beige apartments the whole time, and they developed a whole new appreciation of color and pattern.” Say hello to Trad Nouveau, the AD100 designer’s debut collection of fabrics and wallpaper, which he created for Kravet’s luxurious Kravet Couture label. Ranging from a romantic floral to a jazzy geometric to a subtle strié, the 10 new patterns are offered in vibrant jewel tones—ruby, sapphire, emerald, gold, and more—as well as executed in velvet, embroidery, and chenille. There is even a digital-print-on-cotton-velvet texture that recalls hand-painted Venetian papers. “It speaks to where we are at today,” Jenkins explains, though,…

It’s an end table if you want, it’s a seat if you want,” muses Benjamin Critton during a recent visit to Marta, the Los Angeles gallery he founded with his partner, Heidi Korsavong, in 2019. “Those are the subjects we’re always interested in, functional things that can take various forms.” He’s referring to stools—the focus of Marta’s next exhibition, a collaboration with veteran L.A. design dealer Joel Chen and his daughter Bianca. Together they plan to display some 200 examples across their respective galleries. At Marta, which occupies a Sunset Boulevard storefront in Echo Park, Critton and Korsavong have already gathered a smattering of contenders. There’s an early-20th-century bentwood perch from Vienna, for instance, and a rosewood butterfly-shaped seat by Sori Yanagi, son of Soetsu Yanagi, one of the founders…

DESERT OASIS This mirage-like panorama features a verdant outcropping of palm trees, desert flowers, and other resilient plants—all thriving amid the picturesque peaks of generalized sand dunes. BRITISH COLUMBIA Rendered with painterly aplomb, snowcapped mountains, placid lakes, and dense evergreen forests capture the majesty of western Canada in this sylvan landscape, populated by bears and eagles. NARA Rendered against a slightly variegated neutral ground, this sublime botanical motif conjures the onetime Japanese capital with a fluid interpretation of flowering sakura branches; all prices upon request.…

Of the getaway, Bosco Sodi says, “It’s a place for recharging energy with family and friends.” the Mexican artist Bosco Sodi and his wife, Lucia Corredor, first stepped foot on Folegandros, a quiet Cycladic island known for its windy climate and mountainous terrain, during a family sailing trip in 2017. Taken with the tough beauty of the isle (some believe its name is derived from a Phoenician word meaning “rock-strewn land”), they decided to dock the boat for an extra night. In the port the next morning, Sodi skimmed the real estate listings. “At the very end of the island there was a small bay with a beautiful church—nothing else,” he says, recalling the parcel of land that caught his eye. After a quick look, he didn’t hesitate. “I said…

“Rita has become one of my closest friends, and also one of the people who have most transformed the quality of my life. That is what a great decorator can do.”—Deborah Needleman “The pleasure of rooms comes from their comfort, from lighting that is soft but plentiful, from the fragrance of fresh air, fires, flowers, and cooking, and from having everything you might want on hand.”…

Set atop a protected mangrove forest on Mexico’s Mayan Riviera, Etéreo—the latest hot spot from Auberge Resorts Collection—draws its name from the Spanish word for “ethereal.” And there is fleeting beauty to behold, from dazzling surf to starry skies. Still, the spirit of this hotel, which comprises 75 guest accommodations, is rooted in lasting traditions. When conceiving the interiors, New York City–based design studio Meyer Davis looked to the artisanal heritage of Mexico (where firm principal Will Meyer’s family has a home). Complementing modernist architecture by Migdal Arquitectos, materials err on the side of local. Case in point: the chukum plaster and Tzalam wood. Installations, meanwhile, bear the stamp of Mexican artists, like Daniel Barreto, who conceived the mural in the cevichería, and Marcela Diaz, who made the reception area’s…

“It’s important to me to have rooms and spaces to sit and think, to have new places to move to just get my brain going sometimes.”—Shonda Rhimes for someone as busy as Shonda Rhimes, time and space are of the essence. The single mother of three strives to keep up with her children while simultaneously reigning supreme as one of Hollywood’s most successful and inspiring content creators. As the driving force behind television hits like Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Scandal, and How to Get Away With Murder, and, most recently, Bridgerton and Inventing Anna, Rhimes has dreamed up dozens of dynamic, diverse, and multi-dimensional female characters, shifting the narratives of women and their place in the world. Her work tells stories about lives that are complex, complicated, and culture shifting—just…

to rainbow of pastel hues. Originally built as workers’ cottages in on an idyllic street lined with quaint town houses painted in a understand the design sense of the Milanese architect Massimiliano Locatelli, all you need to do is look at his window. Not simply for the view, though that’s not bad, either. His house sits the late 19th century, the block resembles a quiet country lane swallowed up by the city. Try to ignore the surprisingly bucolic vista and instead direct your eyes toward the window frame and pull, which together represent a tidy example of Locatelli’s design ethos. The casing is formed of a stark, surgical-seeming aluminum, both sharply contemporary and ideal for regulating Milan’s varied temperatures, while the simple rounded brass pulls are vintage, designed in the…

All products have been identified by the designer of each residence. Items similar to vintage and antique pieces shown are often available from the dealers listed. Contact information was up to date at time of publication. CHARACTER STUDY PAGES 72–81: Interior design by Michael S. Smith Inc.; michaelsmithinc.com. PAGES 72–73: In dining room/library, custom, hand-painted wallpaper; designlab.sanpatrignano.org. Chandelier by Patrice Dangel; alexandrebiaggi.com. Jayne chairs and ottoman; lizobrien.com. Antique Khorasan run; minasian.com. PAGE 74: Austin sofa by Jasper; michaelsmithinc.com. PAGE 75: Nantucket dining table; keithfritz.com. Saddle chairs with arms; mattaliano.com, in Bella Pelle leather; jerrypairleather.com. PAGES 76–77: In living room, Abbotsford wallpaper; degournay.com. Antique regence giltwood mirror; stairgalleries.com. Custom Lido sofa by Jasper; michaelsmithinc.com, in Claremont in Off White; clarencehouse.com. Sofa pillow fabrics, from left: Granada by Fortuny; fortuny.com; Coromandel; claremontfurnishing.com; and…