Innehållsförteckning för March 2019 från ELLE DECOR

CLAUDIA MATA GLADISH Contributor “The beauty of living in Northern California is my proximity to amazing local getaways. This spring, I’m looking forward to a scenic drive down the coast to a retreat in Big Sur.” VERTLY LIP BUTTER “I am a big proponent of CBD and never leave the house without my Vertly CBD–infused lip butter.” $22. vertlybalm.com ESALEN INSTITUTE “In March, my husband and I are planning an escape to Esalen—it’s the perfect place to practice my New Year’s resolution to meditate daily.” Workshops from $420. esalen.org BRENT NEALE PENDANT “I love the hippie vibe of this pendant. And what better to bring to a wellness retreat than a mushroom?” $3,950. barneys.com MICHAEL PATTI Art Director “After a rainy and cold New York City winter, I’m ready for…

EAT HERE Spago at the Bellagio Designer Gelila Puck—Wolfgang’s wife—created an alfresco dining experience at Spago, where guests can practically touch the Fountains of Bellagio. bellagio.com DRINK HERE Rosina This intimate cocktail bar is full of Art Deco influences like mirrored surfaces and crystal pendants. The drinks menu is delightfully retro, too. venetian.com STAY HERE NoMad Las Vegas Designer Jacques Garcia’s third iteration of NoMad hotels delivers a touch of old-world European glamour to the Strip. nomadlasvegas.com EAT HERE Sadelle’s SoHo’s popular eatery now has a Bellagio outpost. The Ken Fulk–designed space captures an upscale vintage vibe, and the menu features all-day eats. bellagio.com CHILL HERE Spa at the Waldorf Astoria A respite from the hustle and bustle, the spa serves up relaxing treatments that combine ancient and contemporary techniques.…

Los Angeles designer Jeff Andrews’s new monograph, The New Glamour ($45, Rizzoli), comes with a subtitle—Interiors with Star Quality—that is as literal as it gets. Andrews, whose clients include reality-TV celebrities Kourtney Kardashian and her mother, Kris Jenner; Ryan Seacrest; and the Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco, who wrote the book’s foreword, creates decadent worlds: bathrooms where semiprecious-stone pendants dangle over a soaking tub; a kids’ room furnished with a horn chair, a black and white–striped tepee, and a bust of Nefertiti. The dining room gracing the cover, with its limestone mantel and muted palette, belies the bold, operatic spaces within.…

MARY TA FELL IN LOVE WITH SWAROVSKI IN 2003. AT THE time, she was establishing the first store for Italian furniture maker Minotti in Los Angeles and found herself in Milan for the annual Salone del Mobile trade show, where participating brands vie for attention by designing dramatic experiences. For Ta, the clear winner was Swarovski’s Crystal Palace installation, which introduced to the world high-concept chandelier pieces like the legendary Cascade, designed by Vincent Van Duysen. “It was monumental,” she says. “Not just the product, but the presentation.” Now, more than 15 years later, Ta is working with Swarovski to re-create that emotional resonance with a sweeping exhibition, “The Brilliance of Design,” opening February 20 at Mass Beverly, the experiential L.A. showroom she cofounded in 2014 that represents a wide…

Ten years ago, Penny Morrison opened a home-furnishings store in a village near her house in Wales. The interior and fabric designer, a native of South Africa, soon vowed it would be her last retail experience. “Local people, they would want to swap a leg of lamb for a lampshade,” recalls Morrison, who divides her time between the Welsh border region and an apartment in London. “After that, I said, ‘Never again.’ But never say never.” Indeed, Morrison has transformed a terraced house in London’s Chelsea neighborhood into a chic emporium with the look and feel of a private residence. Occupying four floors, the shop’s rooms are filled with textiles and wallpapers from Jennifer Shorto, Anna Spiro, and Walter G—and, of course, Morrison’s eponymous line of hand-printed linens and cottons.…

CHAD STARK HAS A LOT TO LIVE UP to. At 29, he is the senior vice president of Stark, the New York–based fabric-and-rug empire his grandparents founded some eight decades ago, as well as the president of Scalamandré, the blue-chip American textiles brand that merged with Stark in 2017. Along with his cousin Ashley Stark-Kenner, the company’s vice president of design, Stark represents the future of the company. But he’s also making an effort to stand out on his own. What better way to do that than to renovate his first apartment? For his one-bedroom in Manhattan’s East Village, Stark set out to design a space that would ref lect his personality while showcasing fabrics, rugs, and wallcoverings from his family’s portfolio. He enlisted the help of another young talent,…

FOR MARY CELESTE BEALL AND HER FIVE children, Blackberry Farm will always be home. Her late husband, Sam Beall, who died three years ago in a skiing accident, transformed his parents’ little inn at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains into a sublime destination. Guests—including stars such as Kelly Clarkson and model Lily Aldridge—might spend the morning fly-fishing or learning to make cheese before heading to an intimate Emmylou Harris concert or a meal by guest chefs like Grant Achatz and Alain Ducasse. This year, the agro-elegant resort expands with the 5,200-acre Blackberry Mountain, which combines private residences, land conservation, and a luxe 36-room lodge. Mary Celeste and Sam built a traditional farmhouse residence on-site in 2008, but it’s another project, a midcentury Knoxville estate completed just months before…

THE ESTEEMED INTERIORS EDITOR AND ONE OF my publishing mentors Senga Mortimer once told me the ingredients for a perfect house: “An Italian architect, an English gardener, a French chef, and an American wallet.” I would add an American decorator, as you will see in this issue, which celebrates great renovations in the United States from coast to coast. When redecorating a house these days, we tend to go in one of two directions: We either aim for a Marie Kondo–approved austere white box with sleek furniture and abstract art, like the inside of a tony gallery, or we turn up the maximalism to 11, to the point where we might forget what the color white actually looks like. As editor in chief of ELLE DECOR, I see the beauty…

Hubert Le Gall New York City’s Twenty First Gallery presents the first U.S. retrospective of Hubert Le Gall, the acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the recently published Rizzoli monograph Hubert Le Gall: Fabula, whose whimsical work toes the line between art and function. Through March 29. 21stgallery.com Casa Perfect x Andy Warhol The Future Perfect in Los Angeles presents a glimpse into Warhol’s personal life through a rare collection of photo-booth strips, silver gelatin prints, and short films. Through March 22. thefutureperfect.com Franz West British artist Sarah Lucas curated this retrospective at London’s Tate Modern of the work of her friend, the late Austrian artist Franz West. Nearly 200 works are on view, including several of his abstract papier-mâché sculptures designed to be touched by viewers. Through June 2.…

Are chandeliers the first thing you pick for a room or the finishing touch? RYAN KORBAN: It’s always the first thing I consider. The deciding factors are the style direction you want to go in and how much attention you want to bring to lighting as a statement. I remember this one project I did that had a double staircase. It seemed obvious that the space needed a chandelier! But then I took it out because it was too expected. If you had an apartment that looked very French with beautiful original moldings, it’s nice to complete the look with a chandelier. DANIELLE COLDING: As the furniture plans evolve and you figure out the functionality of the space, that’s when the chandelier can be considered. An entryway or a dining…

PICKLED, OILED, HARD-CONTOURED, OR SCRAPED. Pale as the planking in a Gustavian ballroom or as intricate as the parquet in St. Petersburg’s Pavlovsk Palace. Whatever your fancy, wood floor options are endless these days—a fact that became abundantly clear when I recently restored the 130-plus-year-old surfaces in my Brooklyn home. The yellow-pine flooring was one of the original details that seduced me into buying my family’s duplex in an Italianate brownstone in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood, just a few blocks from where Moonstruck was filmed. Maybe, like Cher urges Nicolas Cage in the film, I should have just snapped out of it: The floors had what some might call patina and others would dub problems (tons of holes and gaps between boards). But I’m glad I didn’t—reclaimed-wood floors have since…

FROM THE OUTSIDE, NO. 850, a new 23-room hotel in West Hollywood, looks quaint, clean, and Victorian via Cape Cod. The hotel’s facade dates back to 1918; in its past life, the edifice was divided into bungalows that housed the workers who were building a railroad between Hollywood and Santa Monica. When the bungalows went on the market in 2013, Jeff Klein, the hotelier famous for the sleek Sunset Tower Hotel nearby, seemed an unlikely buyer—the decaying assemblage of buildings bore little resemblance to his fashionable landmark a few blocks east. But he had a vision, and he hired architect Marc Appleton, known for his restorations of properties such as Santa Barbara’s San Ysidro Ranch, to turn the bungalows into an in-the-know hideaway. “The big guys are getting beat up…

TO SPEND AN AFTERNOON TÊTE-À-TÊTE WITH Jerrod Blandino and Jeremy Johnson, the cofounders of the California-based cosmetics brand Too Faced, is to understand that their phenomenal success in the beauty industry is as much a matter of a heartfelt ethos as it is a result of innovative products. This may sound obvious to some (many consumers, millennials in particular, are known to put their dollars where their mouths and hearts are) and silly to others (is a lipstick not a lipstick by any other name?), but it goes a long way toward explaining how they built Too Faced from a start-up offering 10 eye shadows, 10 lipsticks, and eight nail polishes into a powerhouse that was purchased in 2016 by Estée Lauder for $1.45 billion—the most expensive acquisition in the…

TRUTH IN DECORATING PAGES 48–51: Ryan Korban, ryankorban.com; Danielle Colding, Danielle Colding Design, Inc., dcdny.com. ANATOMY OF A HOUSE Interior design: Sasha Bikoff, sashabikoff.com. PAGES 66–67: Armchairs and ottomans: Scalamandré, scalamandre.com. Armchairs and ottomans upholstery: Lelievre, lelievreparis.com. Cocktail table: Vladimir Kagan, vladimirkagan.com. Rug: Stark, starkcarpet.com. Side chairs upholstery: Scalamandré. Wallpaper: Scalamandré. Wallcovering: Scalamandré. Bed upholstery: Lelievre. Dining chairs upholstery: Scalamandré. Dog portrait: Newel, newel.com. ED DESIGN HOTELS PAGES 69–70: Interior design: Rita Konig, ritakonig.com. Architect: Marc Appleton, Appleton Partners LLP–Architects, appleton-architects.com. Hotel: No. 850, number850.com. DANIEL’S KITCHENS PAGES 72–73: Daniel Boulud of Restaurant Daniel, danielnyc.com. A PERFECT PALETTE Interior design: Mary McDonald, marymcdonald.com. Architect: John Ilkcagla, EBTA Architects, ebta.com. PAGES 76–77: Wallcovering: de Gournay, degournay.com. Chandelier: Dimitri Stefanov, rockcrystal chandeliers.co.uk. Desk chair: De Sousa Hughes, desousahughes.com. Chairs: Mass Beverly, massbeverly.com. Sconces: The Urban…

IT’S A MYSTERY HOW A CITY LIKE LAS Vegas, which has its own massive replicas of the Eiffel Tower, the Rialto Bridge, and the Trevi Fountain, could take so long to lure in hoteliers with a refined (more César Ritz, less Joe Pesci) take on luxury. Enter the Sydell Group, which recently debuted the 293-room NoMad Las Vegas hotel there. As at its sister properties in Manhattan and Los Angeles, the hotel’s interiors, by French designer Jacques Garcia, bring velvety grandeur to Glitter Gulch. “NoMad has always been at the intersection of old-world style and service, with a modern sensibility and fun,” says Andrew Zobler, CEO of the Sydell Group. With a restaurant helmed by Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park and a new pool whose cobalt color scheme is…

IT WAS A SLOW FRIDAY. I WAS SNEAKING a nap when the call came in. “Aesthetic Investigations,” I barked, a little too loudly. “You got the crime, we got the time.” The voice on the line was low and muffled. An anonymous tipster. Apparently, some guy at the White House was ranting about tearing down the J. Edgar Hoover Building on Pennsylvania Avenue. The poor FBI can’t catch a break this year. I opened up a new case file, poured myself another snifter of Cognac, and leaned back in my chair. It’s a funny thing, Brutalism. People either love it or hate it, like cilantro. But I’ve been tracking the beat since it first came on the scene in the 1950s, and I’m here to tell you that Brutalism is…

WHEN EVAN YURMAN was growing up in the early 1990s, the parameters that defined the kind of jewelry contemporary American men wore on a daily basis were narrow at best. The first piece he designed, a pair of silver cuff links at age 14, was a natural choice because, as he puts it, “That’s how men wore jewelry: They wore a wedding ring and cuff links.” Since joining his parents’ New York–based company, David Yurman, in 2003, the younger Yurman has helped transform this category from a sidenote into a robust business. Today, men walking into the brand’s stores can express their style with anything from pavé–black diamond dog-tag necklaces to cuff bracelets crafted from forged carbon and covered in gold wave motifs inspired by Japanese wood-block prints. Yurman’s interest…

FOOD IS A WAY OF LIFE in Singapore. Merging influences and ingredients from Malaysian, Chinese, Indian, Thai, and Cambodian kitchens, indeed from all across Southeast Asia, theirs is a vibrant cuisine made with great care and expertise. I have a restaurant in Singapore and have been visiting the country regularly for more than a decade. There are always new spots to try, but when I go, I don’t want expensive meals. I rely on my friends to take me to the many food markets and hawker stands, where you find cooks who focus on one or two dishes and do them very well. It’s hot there, but they love their soups, and the first one I always return to on my visits is laksa. It’s pungent, spicy, sour, and sweet…

In ancient Roman wedding ceremonies, a wheat or barley cake was cracked atop the bride’s head for good luck. These days, couples have more decorative—and delicious—baked options with which to celebrate their matrimonial bliss. Take this intricate creation by the Hong Kong–based restaurateur and designer Bonnae Gokson, who was inspired by the classic Chinese cheongsam. “My mother was immaculately dressed with her cheongsams when I was growing up,” recalls Gokson, who owns the chic, Calvin Tsao–designed Sevva restaurant in Hong Kong and recently published her second book, Weddings, Butterflies & the Sweetest Dreams. “It is one of the most elegant ways to dress.” You may be tempted to match your gown—or decor—to your dessert. msbscakery.hk…