Innehållsförteckning för June 2016 från ELLE DECOR

Don’t miss six homes that capture the essence of easy summer style: • The verdant Hamptons garden of acclaimed chef and author Ina Garten. • Performance artist Martin von Haselberg’s quirky pool house, inspired by country chapels, in the Hudson Valley. • A refined take on the Connecticut country home by designer Carol Egan. • The rustic-chic Southampton, New York, cottage of retailer Mona Nerenberg and garden designer Lisa Bynon. • A beach house in Sag Harbor, New York, with a contemporary update by architect David Mann. • Style mavens Bruce Glickman and Wilson Henley of Duane Modern bring high style to a rural Connecticut home. Plus, architect Annabelle Selldorf on building with elegance, a fruity summer cake by chef Daniel Boulud, and a roundup of inviting pools.…

DO THE LOCOMOTION “We want people to fall in love with fabric,” says Sabine Rothman, who helms the Hearst Design Group’s market department. Rothman teamed up with ELLE DECOR’s design director, Florentino Pamintuan, to create the exuberant Inspiration feature that begins on page 76. The pair share an affection for Wes Anderson’s 2007 film The Darjeeling Limited and designed a set modeled after the opulently decorated compartments of an Orient Express–style railroad snaking its way across India. Pamintuan and Rothman covered the walls (actually foam panels) with 25 fabrics in contrasting patterns and colors, mixing in accessories, jewelry, and furnishings. “Some of the fabric designs are old, such as an Ottoman motif from a late-19th-century English country house, and some are contemporary,” says Rothman. “We wanted the set to be…

The National Park Service was founded 100 years ago, just as cameras were becoming cheaper and easier to use. Photographers both amateur and professional—Ansel Adams at Yosemite, Eliot Porter at Glen Canyon—heightened the public’s awareness of these natural treasures. “Photography and America’s National Parks,” an exhibition of more than 170 works at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, ranges from classic shots by Eadweard Muybridge, Edward Weston, and others, to the cheeky collages of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, who combine fragments of vintage images with views of the contemporary landscape (June 4–October 2; eastman.org). THE POET OF PRAGUE Were it not for his misfortune, Josef Sudek might never have become a photographer. Barely out of his teens, the young Czech lost an arm in World War I.…

Known for luxurious interiors with a zing of color (most frequently purple), Jamie Drake hasn’t maintained his place atop the design world by sticking to the tried-and-true. “I believe in evolution,” says the vivacious New Yorker, who is currently working on homes in London, Texas, and midtown Manhattan, and whose many collaborations include rugs for Stark and bath fixtures for THG. Drake, who counts Madonna and Michael Bloomberg as clients, recently embraced change by launching Drake + Anderson with rising talent Caleb Anderson. “Caleb is passionate about antiques, while I’m a modernist,” he explains. “The combination is very now.” 1 /DINNER AT IL CANTINORI I go to this Tuscan favorite in downtown Manhattan as much for its sense of home as for the pappardelle alla buttera. 2 / MIRRORS BY…

RISING TO THE SURFACE Known for its durability, Dekton—a versatile surface material composed of quartz, porcelain, and glass—is now available in an array of new patterns and finishes. Trilium, center, evokes the look of weather-beaten metal. Tundra, top, and Glacier, bottom, resemble polished marble, with a high level of shine and reflection. The material can be used for countertops, walls, flooring, and even exterior facades. It comes in 56″ x 126″ slabs in three thicknesses and costs $85 to $110 per square foot. dekton.com CREATING A STIR Jesse James and Kostas Anagnopoulos found vintage cooking utensils at flea markets and recast the forms in handsome and durable solid brass for their housewares line, Sir/Madam. From left, a skimmer, $15; serving ladle, $42; colander ladle, $36; slotted spatula, $15; wok spoon,…

Items pictured but not listed are from private collections. MASTHEADS PAGES 28–30: Primary acrylic tables, in Pink and Orange/Yellow, from $799, by Gabriela Noelle, from B. Pila Design (bpilabespoke.com). Queen cotton-and-linen quilt, $575, by Louise Gray (louisegray.com). Uragano chair by Vico Magistretti, in Bleached Beech, $2,368, from DePadova (depadova.com). TREND ALERT PAGE 58: Flow silk blend, in White/Charcoal, #2556, by Harlequin, to the trade from Zoffany (stylelibrary.com). Surge LED pendant by Tech Lighting, $1,154, from Lamps Plus (lampsplus.com). Loopy over-the-door metal hook by Umbra, $29, from Amara (us.amara.com). Block-print cotton tea towel, in Green Stripe, #37987567, $16, from Terrain (shopterrain.com). Waves brushed silver–and-glass cocktail table, $500, from Lamps Plus (lampsplus.com). Vadim cabinet, in Black Vellum and Firmdale Grey Oak, $10,238, by Julian Chichester (julianchichester.com). Wave Asian Stripes wallpaper, in Red/White,…

REDEFINING BEAUTY Was there an artist who captured the in-your-face glamour of the 1970s and ’80s quite like Antonio Lopez? The Puerto Rican–born illustrator quickly rose to the height of the fashion world, sketching fiery, flamboyant pencil, charcoal, and watercolor portraits of models, musicians, and scenesters for Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, Vogue, and other publications, as well as collaborating with and inspiring such designers as Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent. Combining elements of fantasy art and street style with a tropical sensibility, Lopez rendered his muses—Grace Jones, Jerry Hall, Jessica Lange—in kinetic streaks of vibrant color, all while pushing against race and gender boundaries. “Antonio Lopez: Future Funk Fashion,” a new exhibition at El Museo del Barrio in Manhattan, pays tribute to the prolific creator, who died in 1987…

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Most people have favorite words that summon, for them, a special story. Summer afternoon, say. Christmas morning. For Los Angeles–based designers Waldo Fernandez and Tommy Clements, that word is pied-à-terre. And they’ve made the story that word evokes flower at the elegant eastern edge of New York’s West Village. Havana-born Fernandez is a design star of four decades’ standing, with a client list that includes Hollywood royalty, while Clements, who works with his mother, Kathleen, is the designer of choice for certain stars whose first names say it all. The two men are partners in life who love Manhattan, looked around, and got lucky, though the six rooms they found in an 1840s townhouse needed work. “A complete gut job,” Fernandez says, “but anyone with vision could see it could…

It is ironic that the activities that elicit this adjective are often those requiring the most rigorous training, the most exhausting effort, and the most extreme discomfort—a ballet dancer performing endless pirouettes, a diver executing a flawless triple flip off the platform, a gymnast pulling off a perfect dismount from the parallel bars. It is the triumph of artistry that the sweat never shows. Brilliant performers understand that the less they reveal about how hard they are working, the more appreciation and awe their moves will evoke. What designers do may involve less sweat (usually), but in some ways it is not that different. Often the rooms that seem the most pleasant and relaxing—the ones where we feel at home and want to linger—have involved the most thought and planning.…

WALKING ON AIR The sublime skies of Baroque frescoes and Dutchmaster paintings inspired German rug designer Jan Kath’s Heiter Bis Wolkig (“partly sunny”) collection, made from hand-spun Tibetan wool and Chinese silk. A detail of Cloud 1 is shown in the window; the more elaborate Ferrara Cloud Special Rocked is on the floor. 1 / EXPANDING HORIZONS Toronto-based designer Colleen McGill’s Bryson desk, part of her Plum Furniture line, pairs a brass-plated base with an extendable top covered in black Italian leather. 2 /ON THE GRID The 190-year-old French porcelain house Deshoulières brings a playful twist to Limoges china with its Graphique tableware, featuring punchy colors set against a gold lattice. 3 /BALANCE OF POWER Made of marble and covered with a veneer of semiprecious stones, such as malachite, shown,…

WILLIAMS ON A DESIGNER’S EDUCATION “You can never go inside enough rooms,” says Bunny Williams. A lifelong student of design, the Virginia native moved to Manhattan in the 1960s and was hired by legendary decorators Sister Parish and Albert Hadley. Williams founded her own firm in 1988 with a pioneering approach rooted in striking the perfect balance, whether between traditional and modern, indoors and out, or casual and elegant. Along the way, she has written several books—including A House by the Sea (Abrams), out this fall—and started her own furniture line. Today, she creates collections for such firms as Lee Jofa and Ballard Designs and is working on projects ranging from a Georgian home in Ohio to an office building in Mexico City. She also tends to the Connecticut house…

When the season begins to turn warm, my thoughts and culinary impulses almost always turn to Provence. More than just a tourist destination, the region embodies a state of mind. It is about shopping for fresh ingredients each morning at wonderful local markets, returning home with baskets of just-picked vegetables and herbs, and creating light and tasty meals of simply prepared antipasti. Last summer, my family and I rented the former home of cooking instructor Simone Beck in Valbonne. She was Julia Child’s coauthor on Mastering the Art of French Cooking and, in fact, Julia and her husband lived next door for many years. During our vacation, we enjoyed many picnics and light lunches consisting of vegetable-based hors d’oeuvres, such as the three effortless recipes included here. I always aim…

An interior designer’s goal is to make each project unique—a reflection of the client’s distinctive character, rather than a reiteration of the decorator’s own tastes and tics. But for Alex Papachristidis, the stakes may be higher than for others in his field. That’s because so many of his clients spend time in one another’s houses. Take David Earls and Samantha Rudin Earls, for example, whose Upper East Side Manhattan apartment he recently completed: Her parents and her brother and sister-in-law live in homes designed by Papachristidis as well—as does the designer himself, who happens to be Samantha’s uncle. Moreover, until recently, all of these apartments were in the same building. No wonder, he says, “In our family, everybody has their own individual look.” For Papachristidis, the injunction against repeating himself…