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IN SUMMER, THE WORLD of design can be divided into two camps: people with vacation homes and people who are houseguests. I have fallen into both at various points in my life. In 2013, my partner, Marc, and I purchased an old farmhouse in East Hampton and, with the help of a neighbor (who had great taste), furnished the place. We painted the walls in Farrow & Ball’s St Giles Blue, Arsenic, and Yellowcake, and decorated with a mix of RH, Restoration Hardware and Beall & Bell antiques from the North Fork, along with white-linen sofas and beds. Instead of extensive renovations, we splurged on Hermès towels, Society Limonta bedding, Round Swamp Farm food, and a new garden to make it cozy. We drank Aperol spritzes and went swimming every…

Slim Aarons depicted a world that wasn’t just about gorgeous homes and people—it was about a life well lived. His photos captured summer. The season is about slowing down and simple pleasures: A few swimsuits and a fabulous straw hat are all you need. And there is nothing more restorative than the palette of blue and sun-bleached white from a Grecian landscape, one you can easily replicate in your own interiors. Wicker furniture adds an unexpectedly chic, relaxed look. And really, what could be more classic than the monogrammed needlepoint chairs in Yves Saint Laurent’s Marrakech oasis? Seating cards need not apply.…

Cape Cod We visited San Francisco–based decorator and ED contributing editor Ken Fulk’s meticulously restored Victorian cottage in Provincetown, Massachusetts (above, and on previous page), in July 2015. Southampton “I wanted this house to feel easy,” ED contributor Cynthia Frank told us in May 2013 of her Hamptons home, whose loggia features antique armchairs upholstered in Pierre Frey fabrics, a vintage Lucite-and-metal cocktail table, and checkered marble flooring. Palm Beach In October 2013, fashion-and-beauty-powerhouse couple Harry and Laura Slatkin (pictured with their daughter, Ali) invited us to their vacation house. The pool and garden are enclosed by topiary hedges of Florida boxwood, cut into the shape of gumdrops. Fasano “We live outdoors from May to October,” architect Pino Brescia explained to Elle Decoration France in May 2017 about his breezy,…

A decorator walks into a bar, the bartender turns and asks, “What’ll it be?” “A prettier stool,” the decorator says before being forcibly ejected. I can’t say seats are top of mind when I’m choosing a place to drink. I’ll sit on an egg crate as long as I’m served a well-mixed Gibson (or three) and I hear at least one upbeat Cure song per hour. For Anishka Clarke (far left) and Niya Bascom, of Brooklyn’s Ishka Designs, standards are much higher. “Barstools are a deal-breaker,” Clarke says. “I will leave if they don’t look good.” Bascom agrees, insisting that stools should be made with equal attention to form and function. Ishka specializes in interiors for hospitality projects, so finding the perfect stool isn’t new to them. Even a sketchy…

In trade and conquest, religion and nutrition, life in Greece has long emerged from the sea. It seems fitting, then, that it was from the Aegean that I first set eyes upon the humble one-room house on Serifos that I would end up buying and transforming into a retreat for my family. My wife, Helen, and I had been vacationing in the Cyclades for many years and had fallen in love with Serifos, home to a creative community of artists and writers. That summer, we were renting an apartment in Chora, the ancient fortified town built to repel marauding pirates in medieval times. One day, we chartered a yacht and set sail around the island. Squinting in the midday sun, I noticed the unassuming structure on a rise above the…

KERRY JOYCE TEXTILES Kerry Joyce Performance introduces its new Capri Sheer. The large handsome stripes with double width weaving can be used horizontally or vertically. Constructed of 100% solution-dyed fiber, it will never fade, and is the perfect for indoors and out. Available in five soft colors: taupe, aqua, fog, marine, and sparrow. kerryjoycetextiles.com TROY LIGHTING Silhouette traces geometries of negative space around a gloss opal diffuser, available in sphere and cylinder shapes. Hand-applied gold or silver leaf finishes the faceted frame, suspended on aircraft cable. troylighting.littmanbrands.com NEW LOOK FOR BELOVED FLOORS A wood floor is a living piece of art that you can transform to suit your personal style. Revive, Restore or Refinish™ your wood floor to change the impression of an entire room. US.bona.com/contractor.html VISPRING UNVEILS THE MOST…

ANISHKA CLARKE & NIYA BASCOM Designers, Truth in Decorating, p. 54 HQ: Brooklyn. FIRM: Ishka Designs. LIBATIONS: For Bascom, a Yamazaki 18-year-old whiskey, neat; for Clarke, if a spicy mescal cocktail isn’t on the menu, then Prosecco will do. GERT VOORJANS Designer, “Shantung & Cheek,” p. 92 HQ: Antwerp, Belgium. NO ONE KNOWS: “I’m a great chef. I cook Sicilianstyle.” BELGIAN FASHION? “In the ’80s the term seemed like a contradiction, but now, with the likes of Dries Van Noten and Ann Demeulemeester, that’s not the case.” FEDERICO DE VERA Designer, Not For Sale, p. 100 HQ: Manhattan. INFLUENCES: Surrealism and Wunderkammer. STRANGEST CREATION: “A sculpture with a large coral branch, an inverted Christ, and a bat skeleton. It’s sacred, profane, and ludicrous.” CLAUDIA MATA GLADISH Stylist, “Animal Charm,” p.…

ELLE DECOR CELEBRATES SALONE DEL MOBILE IN MILAN ELLE DECOR Editor in Chief Whitney Robinson and Associate Publisher William Pittel hosted a chic soirée at the Four Seasons Hotel Milano in celebration of Salone del Mobile. The fashionable guests were treated to Italian cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in the hotel’s spectacular garden. A GLOBAL VIEW AT WESTWEEK 2018 ELLE DECOR presented the opening keynote of WESTWEEK at the Pacific Design Center with Hearst Design Group Editorial Director Newell Turner and A-List interior designer Katie Ridder. Speaking to a sold-out audience, they discussed design as an international language that bridges travel, style, and home. pacificdesigncenter.com ELLE DECOR KEYNOTE AT LEGENDS X IN LOS ANGELES Editor in Chief Whitney Robinson moderated a premier panel with design’s next generation—Jeremiah Brent, Sally Breer, and…

You probably don’t think of New York City as a fisherman’s paradise, but if you know where to go—and have friends with a boat to get you there—you can do very well in the waters around the city. For a quick summer escape, I like to wake up early and drive out to Brooklyn to meet brothers Gary and Mark Sherman, friends of mine who keep a 20-foot boat moored on Gravesend Bay. City fishing means going for striped bass. Stripers are big and plentiful and, though we mostly do catch and release these days, they’re a great fish to cook with, too. Bass is a sportsman’s catch, so of course it’s good fresh out of the water and cooked simply in a cast-iron pan. I love to roast just…

GERT VOORJANS FIRST USED A JIM THOMPSON FABRIC 15 years ago, when he covered the walls of a London penthouse in an understated, textured silk called Mekong. “It was very plain, nothing exuberant,” recalls the Belgian designer of his choice. The same cannot be said of his own collection of textiles for Jim Thompson, which is available now and includes everything from opulent damasks to saturated linens and even passementerie. Voorjans is the first to admit that his designs, which take their inspiration from such far-reaching influences as Fauvist paintings and European folklore, are outside the traditional zone of Jim Thompson fabrics. But anyone familiar with Voorjans’s deeply patterned and layered aesthetic—he is perhaps best known for his work on fashion designer Dries Van Noten’s stores—would hardly expect simple silk…

Élitis brings the beauty of a beachcombing excursion to your walls with these one-of-a-kind Morotai tiles, comprising a mosaic of colored seashells inspiredby ones found in the Philippines. Sold as a set of nine 12″ square panels. Available to the trade. elitis.fr 1 Chanel’s new J12 Untitled watches feature bezels and dials covered in black-and-white ceramic marquetry bordered with 18-karat-white-gold threads. Set of 12 unique 38mm pieces, price upon request. chanel.com 2 The onyx, polished brass, and Moncervetto marble Reloj drinks table from the Laura Kirar Collection for Baker, available in October, evokes an Art Deco sundial. 16• dia. x 19• h., $4,485; also available in Ming Green. bakerfurniture.com 3 Hunter Douglas’s Vignette Duolite Modern Roman shades, available in multiple colors and fabrics, allow you to filter and block light…

ART Art Above, So Below MUSEUMS HELP ANOINT TWO NEW GLOBAL DESIGN DESTINATIONS. THE NORVAL FOUNDATION, CAPE TOWN Mention Cape Town as a travel hot spot, and people are likely to think of wine-country tours and the famed Table Mountain. But developments over the past year suggest its name should also call to mind art galleries and design studios. In fall 2017, the tubular Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa opened, crafted from a historic grain-silo complex, and the city was also named a UNESCO City of Design. This spring, the Norval Foundation launched; the site, designed by DHK Architects, boasts a stark building home to exhibitions on 20th- and 21st-century South African artists, a gorgeous sculpture garden, and the Skotnes Restaurant (named for South African artist Cecil Skotnes). There…

Hotels can be famous for a lot of things: The best service, for instance. A hangout pool. The most acclaimed restaurant, or a five-star spa. At Baur au Lac in Zurich, which has been owned by the same family and in continuous operation since 1844, there are certainly many of those (discreet and personal service, check; 119 guest rooms with glamorous interiors, check; a pop-up Matsuhisa restaurant, check). But for me, it’s the hotel’s location, with a private garden bordering Lake Zurich, that sets it apart from the rest. “It’s like a private park in the middle of Zurich. There is nothing else like it in the city,” proprietor Gigi Kracht tells me by phone from Switzerland. (Kracht’s husband, Andrea, is a sixth-generation direct descendant of the founder.) “People love…

WHILE many designers these days layer minimalist interiors with multicultural, globe-trotting touches—a colorful Rajasthani block textile here, an antique inlaid-mother-of-pearl commode from Thailand there—architect Shamir Shah comes to his complex and worldly modern style with a rare authenticity. Raised in Kenya by Indian parents who owned a coffee farm there, he studied architecture at Yale, then moved to New York. The cosmopolitan edge he brings to his architectural projects may be much in vogue, but he is the real thing. For five years, Shah and his partner, Texas-born artist Malcolm Hill, spent summers in the Pines on Fire Island, but eventually, they grew tired of the social whirl and the lack of a year-round getaway. So several years ago, they bought a weekend home in Cornwall, Connecticut. Few parts of…

Items pictured but not listed are from private collections. MOOD BOARD PAGE 28: Hat: Albus Lumen, net-a-porter.com. Slippers: Sanayi 313, sanayi313.com. Vase: Jonathan Adler, jonathanadler.com. Necklace: Kenneth Jay Lane, net-a-porter.com. Plate: Hermès, hermes.com. Swimsuit: Eres, net-a-porter.com. Watch: Cartier, cartier.com. Fabric: John Stefanidis, harbingerla.com. Earrings: Ileana Makri, ileanamakri.com. SHORTLIST PAGE 50: Camera: Canon, canon.com. Pajamas: F.R.S. For Restless Sleepers, forrestlesssleepers.com. Fragrance: Byredo, byredo.com. Bag: Valextra, valextra.com. TRUTH IN DECORATING PAGES 54–56: Anishka Clarke and Niya Bascom, Ishka Designs, ishkadesigns.com. D.B.E.D. PAGES 60–62: Daniel Boulud of Restaurant Daniel, danielnyc.com. ISLE BE BACK Interior design: Andrew Sheinman, Pembrooke & Ives, pembrookeandives.com. PAGE 65: Dining chairs: Guillerme & Chambron, 1stdibs.com. Le Corbusier sconces: Nemo, nemolighting.com. PAGES 66–67: Striped pillow fabric: Les Toiles du Soleil, lestoilesdusoleilnyc.com. PAGE 68: Sink and fittings: Boffi, boffi.com. PAGE 69:…

Each month, ELLE DECOR asks an artisan to create a unique item 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. To enter Federico de Vera’s world is to go through the Hermitage on an empty stomach. For decades, New York’s Viscount of Curios has traversed the globe in search of gorgeous things, from ivory carvings to Japanese antiques, which he then brings back to sell in his eponymous shop in SoHo. He’s also made a name for himself as a designer of visually arresting objects, like this untitled piece made from Mediterranean coral, Venetian glass, gilded avocado seed, and oxidized silver. Both bewitching and bizarre, it’s a paragon of the de Vera…