Innehållsförteckning för January 2016 från Architectural Digest

COMING ATTRACTIONS AD spotlights the architectural gems slated for completion in 2016, from Santiago Calatrava’s World Trade Center transit hub to Snøhetta’s expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. archdigest.com/2016buildings LIKE US ON FACEBOOK facebook.com/architecturaldigest TWEET WITH US ON TWITTER @archdigest PIN WITH US ON P INTEREST pinterest.com/archdigest FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM @archdigest AD100 EXTRAS The top architects and interior designers honored in this year’s AD100 (page 98) are a fascinating group of talents. Visit us online for extended profiles, slideshows, and more. archdigest.com/2016ad100 ALL UP TO DATE In celebration of the new year, we’ve found chic calendars and day planners to keep you on schedule in the months ahead. archdigest-.com/calendars PHYSICAL THERAPY Whether you’re already a fitness buff or just trying to ramp up your routine, get…

Peruse the auction records of late and it’s clear that everyone who’s anyone can’t get enough of modern and contemporary art and midcentury furniture. Jean Prouvé tables and pairs of Arne Jacobsen floor lamps now trade hands for around a million dollars, while one of Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog sculptures holds the auction record for a living artist at $58.4 million. And this obsession with modern, contemporary, and midcentury—call it M.C.M.—shows few signs of letting up anytime soon. “Basically 90 percent of everything mankind has created over the centuries is being overlooked,” grumbles one antiquaire who wishes to remain anonymous. And with the big money focused on marquee names, the ranks of the underappreciated are expanding to include all manner of desirables, among them African masks, antique French papiers peints,…

Lee and Stuart Rolfe are Seattleites with deep and expansive roots in the Emerald City. Both were raised in the area in large close-knit families—hers built the Space Needle, while his once owned the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. After marrying, the couple reared their own children in an early-1900s Craftsman house in Madison Park, a leafy neighborhood on the shore of Lake Washington. The place was a lodestone for friends and relatives, and Lee’s memories of it have an almost Rockwellian glow: “A giant yard with kids running around, wonderful carnivals in our garden, Saturday morning pancakes. . . . It was just one of those homes where the cookie jar was always full.” Still, when Lee and Stuart—who is the president of Wright Hotels, a company that manages and develops properties…

For any couple, the process of combining households can be a challenge, especially if one person is moving into a space already occupied by the other. It’s even more complicated, though also potentially more rewarding, when both people are designers, as is the case with Vicente Wolf and Matthew Yee. For several years, the men—each of whom heads his own Manhattan interiors firm—have spent weekends and summer holidays at the dramatic cliff-top beach house Wolf has owned in Montauk, New York, since the mid-1980s. But it was only when they launched a recent renovation and redecoration of the home that Yee says he began to feel as if he truly belonged there, explaining, “The house got a whole new personality.” Adds Wolf, “It was a melding of our aesthetics”—and, he…

An Architectural Digest mainstay since 1995, the AD100 list of the world’s best designers and architects just got more competitive, as our biennial compilation will now be presented on an annual basis. In another exciting new development, AD has partnered with the online auction house Paddle8 on a sale of treasures from the personal collections of ten AD100 honorees. These are objects that represent our belief in interiors that are as inspiring as they are influential; you can view and bid on the items at paddle8.com/ad100 from December 1 through 17. In truth, though some designers on the list are minimalists, each recognizes the importance of idiosyncratic artworks, furniture, and accessories in establishing a feeling of warmth and a dash of flair. This month’s features include a London townhouse decorated…

With her dark tousled hair, her fondness for Lanvin and leather, and a design style that relies on a moody mix of black and brass, Kara Mann is accustomed to being called edgy. But she doesn’t quite agree. “I think of my work more as youthful and fresh,” she counters. “I’m constantly looking for something new and invigorating. I’m like Madonna—I always want to reinvent myself.” Reinvention was exactly what the venerable furnishings company Baker had in mind when it tapped the Chicago- and New York–based designer to inject new life into its casual, more accessible Milling Road brand. Kicking off a complete relaunch, Mann has devised 54 pieces of furniture for the line, available for purchase starting in January. Defined by crisp, bold silhouettes, metallic accents, and earthy stone,…

PETER MARINO DIDN’T BECOME PETER MARINO BY SHYING AWAY FROM BOLD GESTURES. In countless homes and retail stores for some of the world’s most discerning clients, the habitually provocative Manhattan architect has demonstrated a genius for conjuring grand coups de théâtre that resonate with eloquence and clarity. The sensational Rocky Mountain retreat he designed for himself and his wife, Jane Trapnell Marino, is no exception—it’s a knockout. The three-story residence’s distinctive silhouette, Marino explains, was inspired by a trip he took with his daughter, Isabelle, to the Galápagos Islands, where they observed the flight rituals of the indigenous waved albatross. “The birds walk to the edge of a cliff, stick their noses out, and then let the breeze carry them,” he says. “It’s quite compelling to watch.” The house, too,…

A COMPELLING TWIST After seeing the incredible spiral staircase on the November cover of Architectural Digest, I had to cheat a bit and go directly to the article featuring this fabulous townhouse [“Return Engagement”]. I also thoroughly enjoyed the “before” and “in progress” photos of the homes and would love to see more of these in the future. SHANNON O’MALLEY New York City DIPLOMATIC TIES Thank you for the article on the renovation of the American ambassador’s residence in Madrid [“Artful Diplomacy,” October]. It had special meaning for my wife and me because we were married there in 1970, when we were both serving in the embassy during the tenure of Ambassador Robert C. Hill. I must say that the decor is far richer, less bland, and more pleasing than…

4 BEDROOMS 4.5 BATHS 4,900 SQ. FT. $6 MILLION Stewarts Point, California There’s not a single other house in sight at this 1992 home, which anchors 218 prime acres on Sonoma County’s Pacific coast. Architect Joan Hallberg drew inspiration from the parcel’s past as logging land, modeling the structure’s long, skinny silhouette after the sawmills that once dotted the region and cladding its interiors in rustic timber. Comprising three interconnected pavilions, the industrial-chic residence is crowned by a soaring corrugated-steel roof. CONTACT: Sotheby’s International Realty, 415-519-6091 7 BEDROOMS 6 BATHS 2 HALF BATHS 9,800 SQ. FT. $7.9 MILLION Newport, Rhode Island In 1903—several years after coauthoring The Decoration of Houses with his client Edith Wharton—design legend Ogden Codman Jr. left his sumptuous mark on this Italianate villa, now known as…

London may be famous for its palaces, monuments, and museums, but the city’s soul is found in its terraces—the distinctive, narrow 19thcentury rowhouses lining residential streets, usually within spitting distance of a park or communal garden. Brilliant urban planners, the Victorians were inspired when it came to big projects that required complex engineering and believed that what the ordinary family needed, over and above generous amounts of sunlight or elegant proportions, was to be sheltered efficiently. Thus, the typical Victorian city residence tends to have lots of small rooms on top of one another, with no one space big enough for serious entertaining. So what does a London couple with five children do when they live in a terraced house in a neighborhood they love but want more space, more…