Innehållsförteckning för July - August 2015 från ELLE DECOR

1. Delphine and Reed Krakoff enlivened their 1970s poolhouse in Southampton, New York, with a custom-made Pippa bench by Hermès, a cocktail table by Albrizzi, and a 1950s sofa by French designers Adrien Audoux and Frida Minet. Tord Boontje’s Blossom chandelier by Swarovski hangs overhead; the 1930s torchères are by Serge Roche, and the painting is by Friedel Dzubas. 2. Steven Gambrel modeled the neo-Regency poolhouse at his house in Sag Harbor, New York, after a 1930s outbuilding at the former Hollywood home of film director George Cukor. Overscale trelliswork adorns the walls, and the roof is of lead-coated copper. 3. An open-air poolhouse designed by Jeffrey Bilhuber in Bridgehampton, New York, is comprised of seating clusters, with slatted tables by Bilhuber and club chairs by Walters Wicker. 4. The…

The art market doesn’t always play nice. While some artists rise swiftly, like fresh Champagne bubbles, to prominence and prosperity, others, just as radiantly talented and productive, can toil for years without the recognition they deserve. Olive Ayhens falls in the latter category. The California-born, New York–based painter has been drawing her whole life (high-school biology class was fertile ground for early, inventive doodles). And while her résumé is top-loaded with awards, grants, and residencies, the artist remains an idiosyncratic, nomadic presence in her field. By the age of 18, Ayhens, who grew up in Oakland, knew she would be an artist and trained at the prestigious San Francisco Art Institute. At the time, she recalls, “the old-guard Abstract Expressionists were at war with the minimalists, and I was neither.”…

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With his Edwardian suits and bow ties, Ken Fulk may appear to be a throwback to an earlier era, but looks can be deceiving. The San Francisco–based decorator and event planner is very much a man of his time. He maintains a jet-setting pace catering to the needs of high-profile clients, a mix of Pacific Heights blue bloods and tech billionaires. A lavish entertainer, he drives his black Maserati around town and heads to his 76-acre Napa ranch on weekends. “I’m a fortunate fellow who lives a crazy, charmed life,” he says. Still, whenever he can, Fulk jumps at the chance to leave his extravagant California lifestyle behind in favor of a much simpler existence on the opposite coast. “I daydream about coming here,” he says, referring to the weathered…

Born wealthy, the artist Gustave Caillebotte amassed a top-notch collection of paintings by his peers that he later bequeathed to the French government. These works, which now form the core of the Musée d’Orsay’s Impressionist holdings, included Renoir’s 1876 panorama of one of Paris’s premiere pleasure gardens, populated by dancing lovers and finely dressed conversationalists. The same year, Caillebotte painted The Pont de l’Europe, a strikingly different view of the newly modernized capital. On a baldly sunny day, pedestrians cross an imposing iron bridge over a railway yard, their preoccupied, distant gazes never meeting. One figure—possibly Caillebotte himself— is a model of the idle flaneur; another leans on the guardrail, looking bored and fatigued. For nearly a century after Caillebotte’s premature death in 1894, his work was typically derided or…

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Nothing adds life to a room like a bar cart. Even when quietly tucked into a corner, a wheeled trolley laid with beautiful glasses, bottles, and an ice bucket sends a signal of promise. “It says your host knows how to live—and is ready to entertain at a moment’s notice,” explains designer Patrick Mele. Once a fixture of the American living room, the bar cart has made a comeback over the last decade. And while the influence of Don Draper has played a part, there are other reasons why the portable bar has become a necessary luxury. “It transforms any room into an entertaining space,” says designer Lindsey Coral Harper. “It can also display any number of things.” A cart can be repurposed as a bookshelf, a side table, even…

THE MOVIE VERSION of Michael Bruno’s life would open with him as a kid swimming back and forth in a pool—lap upon lap, fast enough to be an Olympic-level athlete. And as he swims, this quicksilver boy is envisioning the house he hopes to own one day: It’s brick, and grand, with a steep, gabled roof. Flash forward a few decades. Bruno and his partner, Alexander Jakowec, are living in a house in Tuxedo Park, New York, that he says is “pretty much identical to the picture I used to have in my mind.” The outside of it, anyway. The inside is something Bruno admits he never could have dreamed up on his own. Designed by Windsor Smith, it incorporates parts of the vast collection of objects and furnishings Bruno…

WHAT’S NEW TO THE TRADE—FABRICS, FURNISHINGS, AND FABULOUS FINDS 1 Oscillation, part of Patterson Flynn Martin’s Rhapsodic collection of abaca rugs handwoven in Indonesia, was inspired by the movement of waves. Custom sizes and colors are available; 9′ x 12′ is shown in Sea. 212-688-7700; pattersonflynnmartin.com. 2 The sleek Tazza Two-Tier chandelier by Zia Priven is made of steel and comes in a white, shown, or black powder coating or a range of other metal finishes. The fixture measures 48″ dia. x 52″ h. and can be outfitted with metal or glass shades. 818-765-2777; zia priven.com. 3 Florence Vermelle, artistic director of Misia Paris, has created a sumptuous new textured satin, Paco’s Suit, modeled after African statuary that once belonged to Ernest Hemingway. Sapphire and Jade, shown, are two of…

With a curvaceous wooden frame supporting a strong but springy cantilevered seat, the 1935 Air Line chair should have made Kem Weber an unforgettable figure of American modern design. It was a groundbreaking creation, gaining its strength from slender rails beneath the armrests that distributed stresses across the entire frame. More important, Weber designed it to be packed flat in a box and assembled at home without tools—a concept that wouldn’t be popularized by Ikea until more than two decades later. Today, Weber is relatively unknown outside collecting circles, but his chair is in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Nevertheless, it was a commercial flop—a story common to many of his most…

THE ALLURE of open fields and endless blue skies is especially intense for any transplanted Midwesterner. Nowhere else in the country offers up the same kind of largesse. So when Manhattanbased interior designer Timothy Whealon, who grew up in Wisconsin, first saw this light-filled penthouse apartment above Gramercy Park, with spectacular views, his visceral response did not surprise him. “It doesn’t matter how accustomed one gets to living in the city, the attraction to an expanse—any expanse—is profound,” he says. It didn’t matter that Whealon wasn’t even in the market for a new place when he spotted it. The minute he stepped out onto the honeycomb-tiled terrace that hugs three sides of the apartment, he was sold: “How could I resist the 80-year-old wisteria vines that were crawling everywhere?” He…

Here’s a novel way to complete a major home renovation: Talk about paint colors and room configurations every morning at the gym during workouts with your interior designer. That’s how Jamie Tarses, one of Hollywood’s most successful television producers, and designer Pamela Shamshiri, a partner in the Los Angeles–based firm Commune Design, often stayed on top of the details during the complete remake of Tarses’s 1920s Spanish-style onetime bachelorette pad in the Hollywood Hills into a larger, more livable house. The two women met because their kids go to the same school and have become close friends. They were exercise buddies before they started working together. “We would talk about the house while we were on the elliptical machine,” says Shamshiri. Tarses jokes, “Pam was trying to get a workout…