Innehållsförteckning för January/February 2017 från ELLE DECOR

If you are born in Sweden, is it fated that you will own a farmhouse painted a traditional rich red? If you are French, do you have an extra gene that endows you with innate chic? If you are German, did you grow up with a Bauhaus dollhouse, and do you now have a conditioned response that makes you salivate at clean lines and curvy chrome? Nothing is that simple, or that clichéd. But nonetheless, the rooms we live in are shaped by any number of factors beyond our own tastes, and there are numerous reasons that interiors look different in different countries. Obviously, we can’t replicate in the U.S. the conditions that make an intricately carved marble table feel so elegant in a palace in Rajasthan, or the gray…

GRAND GESTURES William Yeoward’s Leicester mirror for Jonathan Charles recalls the formality and grace of the 18th century, but is of a scale ideal for the contemporary home. The hand-carved oak frame, shown in a distressed Venetian White finish, is also available in a Sunwashed Mahogany. 30″w. x54″h.,$1,785. jonathancharles.com 1 / EMERALD CUT Two squares of richly colored tempered glass are suspended via gleaming brass legs in Wade Allyn Home’s Matthew cocktail table. Shown in Emerald, the glass is also available in Sapphire, Ebony, Ruby, and Smoke. The table also comes in two larger sizes. 36• sq. x 18• h., $3,750. hallockdesigngroup.com 2 / COLOR WHEELS For its new Byzance bone-china dinnerware, Wedgwood delved into its archives and English architectural details, updating geometric designs in four deep jewel tones (blue…

For the dining room of a vacation house in Aspen, Paris-based designer Caroline Sarkozy lined the walls in a grid of birch veneer and split branches. The Hans Wegner chairs are from the 1950s, the table base and chandelier are by Christian Astuguevieille, and the rug is by FJ Hakimian.…

After becoming director of London’s Design Museum in 2006, Deyan Sudjic transformed the small but scrappy institution into one of the city’s most vital attractions. An eclectic roster of exhibitions—on such subjects as architect Zaha Hadid, British road signs, and shoe designer Christian Louboutin—has drawn both crowds and accolades. The indefatigable Sudjic has been a critic and magazine editor and is the author of 14 books on design (“I write them to relax in the evenings,” he says wryly), including last year’s The Language of Cities. Now he has shepherded the museum from its previous home in a former banana warehouse on the River Thames to a midcentury landmark building in Kensington, restored by architect John Pawson to accommodate three times as much gallery space. “Thirty years ago, you could…

LOVE STRUCK “Its arms are thin, its legs a bit bloated, its feet big.” That’s how one contemporary critic harshly described French sculptor Edme Bouchardon’s 1750 marble statue of Cupid (above), a shockingly lifelike rendition of the adolescent god of love captured just at the moment he decides to craft a bow and fling an arrow at Hercules. Fortunately, many of Bouchardon’s compatriots were entranced by his skill at breathing beauty, charm, and everything but an actual pulse into solid stone: Cupid eventually went on view at the Louvre. That critic did have a point, though: Bouchardon, caught up in the rage for all things Greek and Roman then sweeping Europe, hewed closely to classical conventions. Yet he was also an astute observer of nature and often worked from live…

ELLE DECOR AND AG ELLE DECOR partnered with AG in celebration of the October Fashion Issue. Editor in Chief Michael Boodro hosted the exclusive dinner at il Buco restaurant. Guests included tastemakers Veronica Swanson Beard, Aerin Lauder, Douglas Friedman, Brittany Bromley, Richard McGeehan, DD Allen, Emma Jane Pilkington, Carlos Otero, and Reinaldo Leandro. agjeans.com CRYSTORAMA LIGHTING For more than 55 years, Crystorama has designed and manufactured decorative lighting fixtures. Pictured is the Luna chandelier; a grand geometric design with interacting and intersecting lines of steel. The stylish Luna strikes a delicate balance between traditional and modern design. Combining a two-tone frame of English Bronze and Antique Gold, this collection conveys a feeling of delicate beauty. For more information, call 800.888.4470 or visit CRYSTORAMA.com. EXQUISITE SURFACES FLAGSHIP SOHO SHOWROOM OPENING ELLE…

WALL OF FAME Katy Skelton’s plug-in brass wall lights require no permanent wiring. The Jones Single Sconce has a powder-coated steel shade available in black, far left, and white, far right ($695 for 33.5″ h. x 13″ w. x 6″ d.; $675 for 27.5″ h. x 13″ w. x 6″ d.; a double sconce is also offered). The Linear Light comes in three sizes: the 52″ and 22″ lengths, shown, cost $635 and $595, respectively. All come with black or gray cords. katyskelton.com IN HIGH REGARD The clean lines and soft edges of the Astoria Vanity by Lapicida evoke Art Deco glamour. Carved of Carrara marble with inlays of brushed brass, the washbasin measures 35″ h. x 27.5″ w. x 16″ d. and costs $10,875. Custom sizes and materials are…

Summers may be short in Scandinavia, but the days are long, and architect Ninni Ryott wanted to enjoy every hour of the season. The diminutive country cottage she designed for her family— husband Iohn, an entrepreneur, and their five-year-old twins, Julie and Fred—celebrates tradition. The house, on an island about 30 miles southwest of Stockholm, is stylistically rooted in Sweden’s rustic vernacular. The property was once owned by the beloved Swedish folk singer Evert Taube and his wife, artist Astri Bergman Taube, who built a Bauhaus-style retreat here in 1937. That house was tragically burned to the ground in 1969 by a mad fan of the singer. When Iohn’s parents, Ulla and Stefan, bought the land in the 1990s, there was nothing left but the foundation and Astri’s tiny art…

POWER FLOWERS Dries Van Noten’s spring 2017 presentation in Paris was decidedly chilly—models walked the runway flanked by blocks of ice filled with frozen flowers. The creator of that spectacular installation, Tokyobased Azuma Makoto—known as fashion’s florist— has also worked for Fendi and Hermès. But his ambitions are larger: In 2015, he piled 10,000 delicate heliconia plants on a raft off the Philippine coast, sacrificing them to the hot sun, and he once launched a Japanese bonsai pine via helium balloon into the stratosphere (azuma makoto.com). NEW ROMANTICS In the age of Tinder, it seems quaintly Victorian to keep a reminder of one’s love close to the heart, but jewelry designers have fallen hard for the romance of the locket. Mark Armstrong Peddigrew transforms 19th-century aide-mémoire diaries—many still bearing notes…

Lamps shaped like scoops of ice cream. A chronograph watch with grandfather clock–style hands. Tables and stools that resemble abstract Winnie-the-Pooh characters (sweaters included). The ingenious designs of Nendo spring from the mind of founder Oki Sato, who reimagines everyday objects with charm and wit. “Sometimes when you make something too minimal, it becomes a little cold,” says Sato, who juggles hundreds of ideas at once. “I like my designs to be friendly.” Sato trained as an architect but longed to “transcend genres.” Lately, he has returned to largescale projects, including a train station near Kyoto, Japan, which opens this spring. The workaholic designer says he finds inspiration in routine: “If you repeat things every day, you notice the small differences.” 1 / CAMPER SHOES I’ve worn these since I…

My friend Vik Muniz is a Brazilian artist whose work at times incorporates food. He made a big portrait of me using sugar and chocolate, which hangs in my home, and a series of framed photographs of wine-stained napkins, which line the walls of Bar Boulud. A couple of years ago, I was asked to cook a candlelit dinner in Vik’s honor for 650 guests at New York’s Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. Vik and I have shared many Brazilian meals together over the years, and I knew right away what to prepare for the party: moqueca, a delicious seafood stew (my version comes from the northeastern state of Bahia). Over the course of the evening, several Brazilian guests remarked that my recipe perfectly re-created the delicious moquecas they…

“I LIKE A WHITE WALL,” says Paul Mathieu. It’s a surprising statement for the French-born designer, who is known for his luxurious and meticulously wrought furniture and lighting. One signature project: the striking liturgical furniture he created for the 17thcentury Église de la Madeleine church in Aix-en-Provence, France, including a 12-arm chandelier handblown in Murano glass. Given his penchant for sinuous lines, plain white walls might not seem quite his style. But consider the ones in the Indian haveli that he restored in Udaipur. Local stone was swabbed with multiple coats of machine-ground lime left to cure for three months, then brushed with a milky layer of limestone, rubbed with coconut oil, and finished with agate—a process that was anything but simple. “I didn’t go so far as to have…

Items pictured but not listed are from private collections. MASTHEADS PAGE 16: Aplomb Large pendant, in Concrete Grey, $1,115, by Lucidi Pevere for Foscarini (foscarini.com). T95 cocktail table, in Oxidized Brown, $2,894, by Gamma Arredamenti (gammarr.it). Maven two-seat sofa, in Malachite, $4,362, by Amy Somerville, for Dering Hall (deringhall.com). PAGE 18: Dovecote dhurrie, in Gray/White/Navy, $120 for 2• x 3•, by Block Shop (blockshoptextiles.com). Stargazer candleholders, in Verde Guatemala, left, and Verde Antico, $520 each, by Lara Bohinc for Lapicida (lapicida.com). Ronin chair, $1,100, by Frederik Werner and Emil Lagoni Valbak, from L’Appartement Store (lappartementstore.com). TREND ALERT PAGE 40: Cherry Bomb Fringe chandelier, price upon request, by Lindsey Adelman Studio (lindseyadelman.com). Beaded-fringe jumpsuit, in Yellow, $13,955, for spring 2017, by Naeem Khan (naeemkhan.com). Ball/Chain Bull metal fringe, in Bronze, #T30463-44,…