Innehållsförteckning för May 2018 från ELLE DECOR

ABOUT SIX YEARS AGO, I was on assignment in Italy, working on a story about bronze sculptor and jewelry designer Osanna Visconti di Modrone’s sprawling palazzo in Milan. It wasn’t my first time in the city, but I had been there only a handful of times and it was still a mystery to me. Paris, its closest match (as far as design and fashion are concerned) and where I had lived for a time during high school and college, this wasn’t. The Brutalist architecture was forbidding, the restaurants were hidden, and despite one grand hotel (the Principe di Savoia), everything except the boutiques that lined Via Montenapoleone, Milan’s answer to Madison Avenue, seemed closed off to tourists. Far from the Baroque splendor and dolce vita that is Rome, as I…

Let’s get lyrical. Mixing the old and the new isn’t exactly novel, but to look modern and cool, the balance has to be right. Consider the contrast between old-world grandeur and sculptural, contemporary pieces—it creates an irreverent glamour that is oh so covetable. The pop of a graphic, minimal chaise longue or the punch of an evocative modern art piece loosens up a potentially stuffy (yet majestic) interior. It’s like wearing jeans with your Chanel jacket or a T-shirt with diamonds: The combination of their opposite natures creates a new, highly individual look that provides the perfect blend of then and now.…

If there were a senior-year-book superlative for Hermès, it would be “most inquisitive.” Even something as seemingly straightforward as the French luxury house’s logo, created in the 1960s, becomes an intellectual exercise: Its depiction of an empty duc carriage flanked by a groom is both a nod to the brand’s roots as a saddlery company and a symbol of anticipated movement. It’s an acknowledgment that one must always be prepared to journey into an unknown future. This preoccupation with temporality is something Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry, the co–deputy artistic directors of Hermès Maison, entertain every day. As Perelman puts it on a sunny winter day in Paris in the company’s 8th arrondissement showrooms: “We have to be in sync with our times but also have a relationship with…

As a 22-year-old student at the Academy of Art University in her native San Francisco, Claiborne Swanson Frank took her first and only photography class. For her final exam, she styled and took portraits of 10 of her friends. “It’s funny because that final is what I do now,” says Frank, a portrait photographer who has created advertising images for Michael Kors and Salvatore Ferragamo and published two books with Assouline, American Beauty and Young Hollywood. This April, she releases her third tome, Mother and Child, a series of studies of women and their progeny. The challenges of shooting children proved to be eye-opening: “I realized that the most beautiful moments happen organically and are totally out of your control.” 1 HENRI MATISSE His use of color is genius. 2…

WE WERE HIGH-SCHOOL FRESHMEN in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when Ariel Ashe first allowed people a glimpse into one of her singular visual worlds. The designer and co-founder, alongside architect Reinaldo Leandro, of design firm Ashe + Leandro, was a relatively shy, self-contained kid, so it was a surprise to learn she’d written a play, which she planned to direct herself. “Of course I remember The Fashionate Kiss!” exclaims Ashe’s sister, Alexi Ashe Meyers. “It was a completely original idea based off of a book she had read, and also her love of fashion and set design.” Though Alexi can vividly recall the anthropomorphized characters (there were a bee and a cheetah, among others) and the distinct way that each one moved (Ariel collaborated with her classmate Jillian Peña, now an…

IRAKLI ZARIA Zaria recently visited Morocco’s “blue city” of Chefchaouen, and the hue is prevalent in a London apartment he designed (page 116). But it’s the daughter’s pink bedroom that he loves the most: “There’s something wonderfully naive about it.” LIZZY GOODMAN Writer Goodman speaks with her longtime friend Ariel Ashe about her home in Connecticut on page 148. “I’m taken by how thoughtful her style is,” Goodman says. “She makes fun of me for having too much useless stuff!” JACOBA URIST Writer Urist was impressed by designer Timothy Corrigan’s approach to the art-filled home on page 140. “Often, collectors feel they must mimic a whitebox gallery,” she says, “but Corrigan has designed the antithesis of that.” LINDSEY ADELMAN Adelman’s lighting designs are both industrial and organic, and her Brooklyn…

London In March 2016, Elle Decoration Middle East showed us the living room of art dealer David Gill and designer Francis Sultana’s apartment in the famed Albany House, in which artworks by Richard Prince and Paul McCarthy converse with an Emilio Terry chair. Pune Kunaal Kyhaan Seolekar designed the 7,000-square-foot parkHaus—including this custom modular seating system—in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, as seen in Elle Decor India in October 2017. Puglia Elle Decoration France’s June 2017 issue looked at British designer Andrew Trotter’s first architectural project, the whitewashed Masseria Moroseta hotel in Italy, which riffs on both Pugliese aesthetics and anciennes fermes while remaining modern. Okavango The Sandibe Safari Lodge, deep in Botswana’s nature reserve, was designed by architect Nick Plewman, who envisioned it as an animal’s carapace in…

In New York City, there are hotels, and then there is the Carlyle. That’s not to say that there aren’t other viable options in which to spend time in Manhattan. It’s just that the Carlyle has, since it opened in 1930 with decoration by Dorothy Draper, checked all the boxes: the perfect bar with the perfect wallpaper (a mural by Ludwig Bemelmans of Madeline fame); rooms to love with views of the park; impossible discretion; and, most importantly, the honeysuckle soap in the bathrooms that I love to steal (you know what I’m talking about). This year, in addition to the release of a new documentary about its storied past, Always at the Carlyle, the hotel is set to undergo a renovation by Tony Chi. But don’t fret: The Renzo…

Nancy Lorenz expects accidents to occur. The New York City–based artist’s first commission, for interior designer William Sofield in 1996, was realized in especially complex conditions. Sofield had enlisted her to decorate the elevator doors at the Soho Grand Hotel, which she gilded with abstract motifs. The fact that the elevators were in use while she painted, however, was not optimal: “The doors were opening and closing the whole time,” Lorenz recalls. It’s easy to imagine that someone less patient might have considered calling it quits, but Lorenz emerged unfazed. Since the Soho Grand project, she has cultivated a career as a fine artist with projects as diverse as decorative boxes for Bottega Veneta and screens for Chanel’s Paris boutique. This spring marks a milestone for Lorenz with her first…

Artists often choose to live in softly neutral spaces with a soupçon of Zen, the better to swap new works in and out to see how they resonate and glow in a real setting. So perhaps it’s no surprise that such an approach has been embraced by lighting designer Lindsey Adelman, whose fixtures have, in the past decade, moved modern illumination into the territory of sculpture. She has turned the Park Slope, Brooklyn, townhouse she recently moved to with her husband, Ian—chief creative officer at New York magazine—and their 14-year-old son, Finn, into a subtly minimal background for a revolving array of chandeliers and sconces, many of them one of a kind. Some are displayed for weeks or months; others, only a day or two. “Changing out lighting all the…

Items pictured but not listed are from private collections. MOOD BOARD PAGE 50: Console and bench: Alfonso Marina, alfonsomarina.com. Fashion: Céline, celine.com; Givenchy, givenchy.com. Obelisk: Alexa Hampton for Maitland-Smith, www.maitland-smith.com. Candle: Cire Trudon, trudon.com. Urn: Jamb, jamb.co.uk. Coffee table: De La Espada, thefutureperfect.com. Brooches: S.J. Phillips, sjphillips.com. WHAT’S NEXT PAGE 52: Pool: Endless Pools, endlesspools.com. Sauna: Jacuzzi Saunas, infraredsauna.com. Swing bells: Nohrd, nohrd.com. SHOWCASE PAGES 72–78: Hermès, hermes.com. SALONE PREVIEW PAGES 92–94: Marta Ferri, martaferri.com. Molteni&C, molteni.it. SHORTLIST PAGE 98: Claiborne Swanson Frank, claiborne swansonfrank.com. Perfume: Chanel, chanel.com. Book: Assouline, assouline.com. Pottery: Calistoga Pottery, calistogapottery.com. Sheets: D. Porthault, dporthaultparis.com. Cream: Clé de Peau, clede peaubeaute.com. Jacket: Veronica Beard, veronica beard.com. ED DESIGN HOTELS PAGES 100–102: The Carlyle, rosewoodhotels.com. TRUTH IN DECORATING PAGES 104–108: Butter Wakefield, butterwakefield.co.uk. Fernando Wong, fernandowongold.com. Wallpaper:…

Each month, ELLE DECOR asks an artisan to create a unique item for us that literally has no price tag. At the end of the year, these pieces will be auctioned off to benefit the charity of each maker’s choice. The Heath Clay Studio clock by Heath Ceramics seems to slow down when life is at its peachiest. Conceived by studio director Tung Chiang and made with a multilayered glaze overlapping in different sequences, it captures both space and time—like an ancient navy blue discus that’s been hurled from Mount Olympus to the Milky Way. It gives new meaning to the aphorism “Time flies.” heathceramics.com…

CLAY GUY “It’s so much work finding lamps with charisma,” says designer David Netto, who combined his need for good lighting with his passion for 1950s ceramics when he collaborated with artist Jennifer Nocon in 2017 on a collection of table lamps whose handmade bases were inspired by Nigerian Kuba cloth. Their sophomore effort takes cues from Picasso’s pottery shapes and features extraterrestrial surface patterns. The resulting creations are sold numbered, edition-style, like the works of art they are. davidnettodesign.com…

Marta Ferri is a rising star in her native Milan for the couture clothing she designs for the city’s fashionable set. But at this year’s Salone del Mobile, Ferri—who also oversees fabric design for the Italian furniture firm Molteni&C—was asked to create styles of a different sort. To enliven a pair of Molteni closets designed by architect Vincent Van Duysen, who is also the company’s creative director, Ferri, the daughter of a fashion photographer and an interior designer, conjured up a capsule collection sewn out of upholstery fabrics from Molteni’s Gea textiles. “Vincent is a fantastic architect—he is very clean and minimalist—but we needed a little more warmth,” says Giulia Molteni, the granddaughter of the firm’s founder, Angelo Molteni, and its current head of marketing. Called the Styling Closet by…

“THERE’S REALLY NOTHING THAT IS MORE EMBLEMATIC OF ELEGANCE, HISTORY, ROMANCE, AND SCANDAL THAN THE CARLYLE.”—Vera Wang “STAYING HERE, YOU FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE MADE IT.” OFF CAMERA: “HAVE YOU STAYED HERE?” “I’VE NEVER STAYED HERE.” [SHAKES HEAD WITH A SMILE.]—Jon Hamm…

Diane Heller has been a serious art collector for more than three decades. From her first Jasper Johns to a Picasso and a Frank Stella phase, her blue-chip collection—a who’s who of modern masters along with some surprising new talent—has always dictated her home’s aesthetic. Born in northern Minnesota, Heller is wary of calling herself a Chicago native, but it’s more than fair for her to claim the title. She grew up in the city’s suburbs and studied art history at the Art Institute of Chicago before raising a family here with her late husband, David, who served for a time as governor of the Midwest Stock Exchange. Longtime philanthropists, the couple helped support the creation of the institute’s Renzo Piano–designed Modern wing, which opened in 2009. Until now, the…