Innehållsförteckning för November 2023 från Architectural Digest

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On a recent night at Lal Kothi, the Delhi farmhouse of textile and fashion designers Peter and Cecile D’Ascoli, candlelight and the full moon glowed together as guests gathered sur l’herbe for dinner. “It’s like dining at an Indian Versailles,” remarked author William Dalrymple over masala aubergines sprinkled with gunpowder Sri Lankan pepper. In this verdant corner, tucked away from the city’s hustle, the couple has realized something quietly remarkable: a creative tour de force in the jostling landscape of a country highly attuned to its cultural heritage. Peter, an American expat, began his love affair with his adopted homeland four decades ago, during a business trip to the Punjabi city of Amritsar, among other sites. “We stayed in the pilgrims’ quarters at the Golden Temple and ate at long…

Jamb, the British purveyor of antique and reproduction chimneypieces, lighting, and furniture, appreciates a good patina. So naturally its new line of mirrors had to shine just so. Set in aged frames—some based on early-19th-century English examples, others after Queen Anne originals—the glass has been distressed to replicate the mottled foxing of timeworn panes. Above a mantel, they’ll sparkle all the brighter. jamb.co.uk…

“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them,” Sylvia Plath wrote in The Bell Jar. Granted the writer was hardly the Gwyneth Paltrow of her day, but in this case her wellness tip bears out—a good bath is indeed good for the soul. Just ask Ashley Hicks, the puckish designer, artist, and son of the legendary arbiter elegantiae David Hicks. At his home in Oxfordshire, England, hard by the famous garden his father cultivated on the family’s country estate, Hicks has crafted an idiosyncratic marvel of ablutionary splendor. The walls of the hexagonal room, formerly a storage space, are wrapped in the designer’s own hand-painted mural depicting figures from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling. (Seen here are the Delphic Sibyl…

“Even as we put our own stamp on it, we wanted the house to remain as it has always been.”—Jane Keltner de Valle In an issue packed with young, forward-thinking homeowners (several of whom are themselves cutting-edge talents leading the way in architecture and interior design), it may come as a surprise that a sense of history pulses so strongly through these pages. Indeed, November’s theme is “Reinventing Tradition,” and, far from being a conventional affair, our featured spaces exude an exciting energy and a decidedly contemporary blend of old and new. Consider the 1863 Connecticut house on the cover, the retreat of influential AD100 designer Giancarlo Valle and his wife, Jane Keltner de Valle, a former AD editor. “The house was well-loved, and you could feel the good energy,”…

Featuring Barack and Michelle Obama, Frank Gehry, Truman Capote, David Hockney, Marc Jacobs, Jennifer Aniston, Diana Vreeland, India Mahdavi, Peter Marino, Kelly Wearstler, Oscar Niemeyer, Axel Vervoordt, Frank Lloyd Wright, Elsie de Wolfe, Jacques Grange, Rose Tarlow, John Lautner, Renzo Mongiardino, and many more. abramsbooks.com/AD100…

During their first winter in the Cotswolds, Miranda Brooks and Bastien Halard were met not by glittering hoarfrost and scenic drifting snow but by one of the wettest seasons on record. Rain poured, their 17th-century stone house was damp, and the freshly graded landscape (a former dairy farm) was mud as far as the eye could see. Despairing that spring would ever come, the AD100 Brooklyn expats—he a French-born designer, she a Hertfordshire lass turned garden guru—fashioned a creative escape: conjuring up flowered fabrics that would be used on their own outdoor furniture. “I figured that chintz would give me an instant garden whilst waiting for everything to grow,” says Brooks. What they intended for their own use, though, is now being introduced to the public under the couple’s Catswood…

Exploration has always been at the heart of the Banana Republic brand. Founded in 1978, the fashion label got its start reimagining expedition staples as everyday attire, later evolving into the ready-to-wear wardrobe of choice for stylish professionals. Today, the company is expanding upon that peripatetic legacy with the launch of BR Home, a new furnishings line that celebrates natural materials, a global spirit, and local handcraft. Tactile wool rugs, for instance, are knotted by weavers in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Sculptural teak furniture is carved by woodworkers on the Indonesian island of Java. And handsome upholstered seating is made by expert artisans in North Carolina and Virginia. Styles, all the while, range from clean-lined and modern to refined and traditional. “We have vast archives of ideas and influences,”…

When Hugo Toro first saw his new apartment in eastern Paris, close to the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, he immediately realized its potential. He had been looking at buildings from the 1960s and ’70s, and he was drawn to the floral pattern on the floor in the entrance of this unit. As soon as he saw it, Toro decided to turn it into a motif for his personal project: “I used a geometric version of the checkerboard in the hall, choosing red and white travertine to retain the building’s period feel, and then I repeated the pattern throughout the apartment.” As with other apartments he has designed, this one was conceived as a warm, welcoming hotel suite. “For me, there’s nothing better than a hotel room where you feel good,” Toro…

Milanese industrial designers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni liked to reduce an idea to the very basics. So in 1958, the premise for the brothers’ new table lamp was radically simple: to turn a ceiling fixture upside down, like a salad bowl, and set it on a base. It took some experimentation to make it work. Their original concept for a plastic bowl melted under the intense heat of the incandescent bulb. Instead, they remade it in blown Murano glass and placed it on a column-like cylinder. That aluminum base component, similar to a car radiator cover, prevented overheating from the light. The bowl, which wasn’t fixed to the base, could be turned in any direction, its light reflected by a concave aluminum disc fitted on top like a lid.…

Japanese woodworker Toshio Tokunaga likes to say that if more people practiced Kanna, a traditional carving method, it would bring world peace. “When a maker understands the wood and makes things with love, it’s contagious,” his daughter, Yuriko, explains of the slow process, which involves using handmade iron planes, avoiding power tools and sanding of any kind. Historically, Kanna was employed to finish the pillars of temples and shrines, but for the past 15 years, her father has been harnessing the technique to create exquisite pieces of furniture. In one series, he has reimagined a ritual chair from Kyoto’s Imperial Palace using black persimmon logs so precious that they were available only to the emperor’s own family during the eighth-century Nara period. Meanwhile, a medallion-back chair, reminiscent of the Louis…

It was in 1948 that a snake first slithered around Bulgari’s elegant wrist, appearing in the Serpenti collection of jewelry watches. Later interpretations followed, often marked by increasingly intricate and stylized feats of craft. Today, in celebration of the motif’s 75th anniversary, the Italian luxury brand has released a series of new Serpenti treasures, among them this glittering bracelet in pink gold, diamonds, and emeralds. Price upon request; bulgari.com…

We treat everything here with the same respect—or lack of respect,” says Kostas Lambridis, describing the assorted stuff filling his Athens studio. On a given day that might include chairs scavenged from the city streets, hunks of Pentelic marble, and a piece of a beat-up car, all sitting alongside the stained glass and handmade ceramic mosaics that his team painstakingly produces in-house. This nonhierarchical approach is central to Lambridis’s art and design practice, in which odds and ends plucked from across the value spectrum coalesce into functional sculptures. One new table, for example, started with slabs of Greek and American walnut but grew to incorporate, among other timber flourishes, the decorative base of a lamp, the top of a kitschy cocktail table, and a handful of finials. “I wanted to…

I sensed it the moment I crossed the threshold. The soaring archways and streaming light reminded me of the architecture of Tunisia, where my father is from, and it immediately felt like home. Jon and I had been looking to buy our first place for months. We’d seen close to 70 properties, but none fit our specifications of a space where we could both live and create. Jon needs the freedom to explore making sounds and congregate with fellow musicians. As a writer, I need total silence and solitude. Touring the 1890s Brooklyn Italianate, I saw that the thick walls and large, atmospheric rooms could hold both. I called Jon, who was on the road, to say I’d found the One. In a leap of faith, he made an offer,…