Innehållsförteckning för Nov-15 från Architectural Digest

As one of the world’s leading purveyors of wall tile, flooring, and assorted kitchen and bath fixtures, Porcelanosa knows a thing or two about orchestrating a space with flair. So when the Spanish company set out to create its first Manhattan flagship, the top priority was finding a location with character. On that score, it could hardly have done better, securing a 1918 landmark by architects Ely Jacques Kahn and Albert Buchman that faces the Flatiron building and overlooks Madison Square Park. After buying the six-story edifice in 2012, Porcelanosa tapped Pritzker Prize–winning architect Sir Norman Foster and his firm, Foster + Partners, to reimagine it as a sleek, forward-looking showcase for the brand’s myriad offerings. “We knew Lord Foster would be the perfect choice to marry the historic exterior…

Rarely is an art form singlehandedly resuscitated by one person, but in the case of straw marquetry, you could make a strong argument that Lison de Caunes has done just that. The Paris-based artisan first took up the specialty in the mid-1970s, a time when it interested few. “I thought I’d never manage to save it from oblivion,” she says of the labor-intensive centuriesold technique, which was used to sumptuous effect in the Art Deco era. It involves cutting open blades of rye straw, then flattening and adhering them—often in dazzling patterns—to surfaces ranging from small boxes to cabinets to entire walls. Not only did Caunes help rescue straw marquetry, she helped make it chic again. Today, clients of her Left Bank studio include such interiors stars as Jacques Grange,…

1 Haute Déco’s Bark collection of hardware in nickel-plated bronze lends an air of natural beauty to doors, cabinets, and drawers. Shown are a selection of levers, knobs, and handles from the Cedar, Marquetry, and Alder series; prices upon request. hautedeco.com, +44-207-736-7171 2 The Vipp kitchen system, by the Danish design house Vipp, showcases the company's stylish, streamlined aesthetic. Pictured in white powder-coated steel with stainless-steel counters, the modular unit is equipped with shelves, drawers, and cabinets, as well as an integrated sink. Customizable from 50" to 238", it is also available in black; from $50,000. vipp.com, 917-580-2148 3 GE Appliances’ Café Series French-door refrigerator with a Keurig K-Cup brewing system will turn your kitchen into an in-house coffee bar. The stainless-steel fridge measures 35.75" w. x 70" h. and…

Museum fundraisers can be staid affairs—all black gowns, gray suits, and polite conversation. Not so, however, when it comes to the Aspen Art Museum’s ArtCrush extravaganza, a rollicking three-day production that animates the Colorado resort community each summer. For the past nine years, megacollectors Amy and John Phelan have gotten the party started by hosting WineCrush, a ticketed tasting event, at their home— always a highlight of the festivities. Last July, Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner and Adam Weinberg, director of the Whitney Museum, could be seen mingling alongside artists Mickalene Thomas, Will Cotton, and Lorna Simpson, who was the year’s special artist honoree. Multiple courses and pairings later, the crowd took to the dance floor, where Amy shimmied through the sea of guests. She may have been dressed in black,…

Before-and-after projects are some of the most inspiring, idea-packed features in Architectural Digest, but typically each of those makeovers directly affects only the people living in the home. This month, though, we report on a renovation that will impact thousands: the new headquarters of God’s Love We Deliver (GLWD), a New York–based charity that provides nutritious, high-quality meals to low-income individuals suffering from a wide variety of debilitating illnesses. The nonprofit had operated for decades out of an antiquated two-story building, which had become increasingly cramped as the number of people depending on the group’s programs kept growing. A few years ago, a capital campaign to fund a bigger, better, more soulful replacement was launched. Today GLWD occupies six floors of sun-drenched spaces, among them a commercial-grade kitchen, sleek offices…

1 French porcelain company J. L. Coquet’s classic Hemisphere line gets a fresh update in chic marineblue for Michael C. Fina. Shown are the solid presentation plate ($195) and, from left, the striped soup bowl ($109), dinner plate ($125), dessert plate ($107), and mug ($135). michaelcfina.com, 800-289-3462 2 AD100 architect David Adjaye devised his laminated-wood Prism chair for Knoll in a sculpted geometric form that is as comfortable as it is striking. Part of the Washington collection, the 33.25" w. x 31.5" d. x 31.5" h. chair comes in black, white, and red; from $9,860. knoll.com, 212-343-4190 3 In Marco Bicego’s seductive Pezzi Unici earrings, faceted emeralds are cradled in handcrafted 18K-yellow-gold settings and embellished with pavé diamonds to accentuate the gems’ unique organic shapes. Measuring 2.75" long, they cost…

To think, it all began with a black nylon bag. Since launching in 1993, the lifestyle brand Kate Spade New York has slowly but steadily expanded from a simple line of fashion accessories to encompass everything from stationery to tableware to bedding. And its latest debut may just be its most ambitious yet: a broad collection of home furnishings. Comprising three complementary collaborations, the range includes furniture produced with E. J. Victor, lighting made with Visual Comfort, and carpets realized with the rug firm Jaipur. The line’s inspiration, says Kate Spade New York president and creative director Deborah Lloyd, is “interesting people leading interesting lives. I imagine these pieces in the homes of Karlie Kloss, Iris Apfel, Audrey Hepburn. . . .” Available online as of October 15, the collection…

Vienna, the picture-perfect capital of Austria, bears all the imprints of its long history, including its time as the seat of the great empire that enveloped Prague, Budapest, and Milan. Medieval churches such as the glorious Stephansdom mix with Secessionist landmarks like Otto Wagner’s Jugendstil Postal Savings Bank (now the Wagner: Werk– Museum Postsparkasse), while a grand procession of Hapsburg-era palaces, theaters, and government buildings weave along the 150-year-old Ringstrasse. The city’s museums hold riches worthy of a metropolis many times its size, and everywhere there are references to the composers, thinkers, writers, and artists—from Gustav Mahler to Sigmund Freud to Stefan Zweig to Egon Schiele—who have made it a cultural epicenter. But Vienna today is about much more than its glorious past; think cosmopolitan hipster rather than Mitteleuropean dowager.…

Honestly I had no intention of buying a house that day. I had told my real-estate broker I needed to put my search for a Santa Barbara getaway on hold while my husband, writer Steve Oney, was away at Harvard on a five-month fellowship. It didn’t seem like a good idea to purchase a home in his absence. But she sent an email with images just enticing enough for me to call a friend whose family has lived in the area for generations and ask him to go on a scouting mission. His report was decisive: “You must come and see this house.” I made the hour-and-a-half drive up from Los Angeles the very next day. I found the house and location so beguiling that I made an offer on…

Nowadays when booksellers make headlines, it’s far too often bad news. So it was last year when the Rizzoli bookstore in Manhattan, long a beloved destination for art, architecture, and design titles, announced it was closing its historic space on 57th Street after losing the lease. In this case, however, the story has a happy ending. In July Rizzoli unveiled a new flagship some 30 blocks south that is every bit the gem its predecessor was. Situated on Broadway just west of Madison Square Park, the 5,000-squarefoot store is on the ground floor of the St. James building, an 1896 Beaux Arts tower by eminent architect Bruce Price. “Rizzoli has always been in dramatic, architecturally significant spaces,” says Cynthia Conigliaro, a veteran bookseller (she founded the much-mourned uptown shop Archivia)…

Stepping into the fifth-floor Manhattan offices of interior designer Brian J. McCarthy, having left behind the cacophony of midtown below, one immediately feels transported to a calming world of order and grace. Grandly scaled, with nine rooms set within 3,500 square feet, the suite is an apt stage for the genial AD100 talent, who creates refined interiors for a devoted roster of international clients. “It has that wow factor,” he says, recalling his excitement upon first seeing the space six years ago. Its pièce de résistance is a conference room with 22-foot ceilings and a double-height bay window that juts out over West 57th Street. There’s also a supersize fireplace, constructed in situ by the Paris studio Atelier Mériguet-Carrère with mirrored marquetry inspired by Jean-Michel Frank. “This space is all…

Few places conjure more romantic visions of cooking and eating than Italy, a country synonymous with delicious tangles of pappardelle, savory hunks of Parmigiano-Reggiano, and, of course, glasses upon glasses of Montepulciano. The nation’s culinary traditions are certainly near and dear to the Coppola family, whose members have long called Bernalda, a hill town in the southern Basilicata region, home. Several years ago Donato Coppola—a Londonbased artisan known for bespoke architectural surfaces—and his wife, Elizabeth, set about renovating their 19th-century Bernalda residence, Palazzo Appio. Naturally, they wanted a top-notch kitchen where they could gather and cook with their large network of friends and relatives. (Donato’s filmmaker cousin Francis lives next door.) To realize a space that would be truly special, the couple turned to kitchen designer Mick De Giulio. The…

Park City, Utah “I’m interested in mystery and wonder,” San Diego architectural designer Wallace Cunningham once told AD. So much is abundantly clear from this intriguing 2013 estate, which he designed for a five-and-a-half-acre plot in a private community. A fanlike zinc roof crowns the sinuous structure, which has walls of Italian stone— both inside and out—and broad expanses of glass that frame scenic vistas of the Wasatch Mountains. Devised with large-scale entertaining in mind, the futuristic, dynamically angled rooms open onto a network of inviting terraces, complete with several fire pits and a hot tub. CONTACT: Rising Star Realtors, 435-200-4959; Rodeo Realty, 310-717-5522 Lake Forest, Illinois In 1916, shortly after launching his own practice, architect and urban planner Edward Bennett built this French Renaissance–style manor as a summer home…

When architectural designer Stephen Lee first saw the triplex penthouse that his sister, Nancy Lee, wanted to buy, in a prewar building overlooking Manhattan’s Central Park, he was reminded of a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces. The apartment, which had last been redone in 1970, was a warren of cramped, cluttered spaces. “The rooms were chopped up and isolated,” he says. And the configuration—a full floor sandwiched between two partial floors on opposite sides of the building, with everything connected by spiral staircases—was clumsy. To complicate matters, the elevator went only as far as the home’s first floor, but the main entrance was on the second. To get there, Stephen recalls, “you walked up the fire-exit stairway and across the landing into a three-foot-wide hall that felt like a black…