Innehållsförteckning för September 2022 från Architectural Digest

In the complexity-and-contradiction department, Frances Merrill of Reath Design has joined forces with Michaele Simmering and Johannes Pauwen of Kalon Studios on a capsule collection that marries the AD100 designer’s signature aesthetic of giddy color and pattern with Kalon’s exquisitely distilled furniture forms. Finding harmony in tension, Merrill has reimagined three pieces from Kalon’s planar Rugosa line with collaged upholstery treatments utilizing, among other fabrics, a 1960s Alexander Girard stripe, a 1930s Rose Cumming chintz, and a late-19th-century floral print from Claremont’s Warner Textile Archive collection. “The original inspiration for Rugosa was my family’s summer house in Rhode Island, a place that evolved organically over years, with lots of seemingly discordant styles, colors, and ideas,” explains Simmering. “Frances’s fabric treatments dovetail neatly with that story and underscore our belief that…

Loretta Pettway Bennett belongs to a legendary group of makers in Boykin (a.k.a. Gee’s Bend), Alabama, where locals have assembled fabric scraps into improvisational quilts for generations. But on a not too distant evening, her work laid the foundation for community some 800 miles north. At Detroit’s Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum, a space dedicated to African culture, seven of her quilts were draped across outdoor tables, their geometric patterns perfect complements to the mosaic façades of the campus’s N’kisi House. Cinder blocks hand-painted by museum founder Olayami Dabls doubled as vases, mixing with 18th-century silver platters from Bolivia and Peru as well as everyday lawn chairs and drinks coolers. That banquet is one of 18 superlative scenes created for At the Artisan’s Table (Vendome Press), a visually transporting forthcoming…

When actor Sienna Miller first saw a 16th-century thatched-roof cottage in Buckinghamshire, England, she fell for it hard. “It was a time when there was a lot of press attention on me, and I wanted somewhere to escape. I bought the house on a whim—it offers a sanctuary. I also wanted somewhere where family and friends could gather. It has a nurturing feeling; it is a home with a heart,” she says. When she isn’t starring in films and television series or onstage (including a role in the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations, set to debut next year), Miller, her daughter, friends, and family spend glorious times at the house. And for more than a decade she left the faded chintz-filled interior with its engineered flooring pretty much untouched. During the…

The first thing you see upon entering Stacey Bendet’s home is a stupendous portrait of her three daughters, painted by family friend Julian Schnabel. But look down and you will notice baskets on the floor in front of this magnificent work of art. Each is labeled with the name of a family member—there are even receptacles for Blue the dog and Princess the cat—and meant to hold those things (Crocs, socks, etc.) that are the fabric of everyday life. Such is the delightful paradox of Bendet’s apartment—stunning and palatial, for sure, but also a living, breathing family refuge. Bendet, a fashion designer and the founder of the clothing company Alice + Olivia, and her husband, film producer and investor Eric Eisner, along with daughters Eloise Breckenridge, 13, Scarlet Haven, 11,…

“You can easily change the perception of your own house,” explains Elvira Solana, a Spanish architect and decorative painter based in Santoña, a seaside town near Bilbao. She has recently given her apartment (pictured) what she calls a “virtual extension,” using brushstrokes to add the clever illusion of curtains, a colonnade, a terrace with an ocean view, and another room. “Sometimes you don’t need to walk into it; you just need to know that it exists,” she muses. “Just sit down and watch your new horizon.” Solana was working as an architect when the 2008 financial crisis prompted her to try something new. She doesn’t recall exactly why she began painting on walls, only that paper felt too small. (“I was looking for the scale that I was used to…

Nathalie du Pasquier, the French-born, Milan-based painter (you know her as a founder of the irreverent 1980s design movement the Memphis Group), has now taken her superb sense of color and composition to a surprising staple: coat hooks! In a new collaboration with the Danish brand Raawii, she tapped European artisans to realize wooden wall-mounted racks in three sizes and color combos. Jackets everywhere rejoice. raawii.eu…

Call it the Battle of the Pinterest boards. “After we got this land, we went off and made our own Pinterest boards and then showed them to each other,” says Joseph Altuzarra, the acclaimed Paris-born, New York–based fashion designer. The project: building a dream getaway with his husband in the middle of protected farmland and at the end of a winding road in the heart of the hamlet of Water Mill in the Hamptons. “Mine was very Diane Keaton in Something’s Gotta Give. Gambrel rooflines! An ultimate kitchen! Hydrangeas!” “And mine was a black barn; I’m a minimalist,” the husband, real estate developer and financier Seth Weissman, says with a laugh. “These poor architects.” What could have led to marital discord ended in architectural harmony. “This is the love child…

“I didn’t want there to be dead precious space; everyone hangs out all over.”—Stacey Bendet “Yes, it’s an apartment in the historic Dakota in New York, but when you enter you travel somewhere else.”—Louise Kugelberg…

Tommy and Dee Hilfiger are no strangers to waterfront living. For years the designer couple took respite at a Golden Beach, Florida, home with 100 feet of ocean frontage, and they continue to retreat to a vacation home on Mustique, where the estate’s swimming pool laps up against the sands of the Caribbean. Still, when the duo decided to decamp from their residence in Greenwich, Connecticut (AD, March 2017), and make a full-time move to Palm Beach, Florida, last year, they pondered a new kind of frontier. “We fell in love with this home and the fact that it was on the lake and on the lake trail,” says Dee, referencing the west side of Palm Beach overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway, Lake Worth Lagoon. “We definitely wanted to experience something…

CRUISE 2016 MODELS STRUT THEIR STUFF AT BOB HOPE’S LEGENDARY PALM SPRINGS ESTATE, DESIGNED BY JOHN LAUTNER IN 1973. CRUISE 2017 A SCARLET RAMP SERVES AS THE PERFECT CATWALK AT OSCAR NIEMEYER’S 1996 NITERÓI MUSEUM IN RIO DE JANEIRO—NO NEED TO ROLL OUT A RED CARPET. CRUISE 2020 FASHION INSIDERS ARE TREATED TO A FIRST LOOK OF THE REVAMPED TWA FLIGHT CENTER, EERO SAARINEN’S ICONIC 1962 TERMINAL AT NEW YORK CITY’S JFK AIRPORT. CRUISE 2023 IN LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA, THE TRAVERTINE PLAZA OF LOUIS KAHN’S 1965 SALK INSTITUTE WELCOMES GUESTS OF THE FASHION HOUSE AS THE SUN SETS OVER THE PACIFIC.…

Italian Renaissance gardens swagger: bold architectonic hedges, cypress trees that tower like exclamation points, sparkling stone fountains that jet, spray, and splash. The jewelry fashioned by Bulgari possesses similarly dynamic qualities, which explains why the luxury brand’s colorful baubles have become badges of honor among women with an attitude, such as superstars Elizabeth Taylor, Gina Lollobrigida, and Sharon Stone. So it only makes sense that the legendary Rome-based firm, launched in 1884 by Greek-born master silversmith Sotirio Bulgari, would step outdoors for inspiration. Cultivated by Lucia Silvestri, the company’s award-winning creative director for high jewelry, Bulgari Eden: The Garden of Wonders is a dolce vita collection that fuses those aesthetic codes into a lapidary salute to Madre Natura, with artful evocations of everything from fruits to foliage to serpents. One…

“Designing this house with Seth and Josh taught me a lot about how to create warmth and comfort through color and texture.”—Joseph Altuzarra “This house is a haven of peace and calm. Being able to retreat every weekend to a serene, comforting, quiet place is invaluable.”…

They say nothing in life is more stressful than moving, home renovations, and childbirth. Naturally, my husband, Jonathan, and I embarked on them all at the same time—in the middle of a pandemic, no less. Then, after spending my third trimester shuffling back and forth between our temporary rental and the construction zone formerly known as our house, we both tested positive for COVID just days before moving back in with our newborn. We didn’t plan for events to unfold this way, but if 2020 taught us anything, it’s to surrender, buckle up, and enjoy the ride. Our bumpy adventures in nesting began peak pandemic when we abandoned plans for a formal wedding and got married on our Brooklyn stoop. Our pared-down ceremony represented a joyful graduation of sorts—from the…