Innehållsförteckning för Jan/Feb 2020 från ELLE DECOR

WELCOME TO A NEW DECADE OF DESIGN! AS WE BEGIN 2020 and reflect on the last 10 years, it’s easy to see that the 2010s were a time of huge disruption and change in our industry (and every industry). Yet they were also a period when design became more integral than ever before. As Milton Glaser, the esteemed 90-year-old legend (he designed both the I♥NY logo and one of my favorite restaurants in New York, Trattoria Dell’Arte), recently told me in his office: “There isn’t anything that is not designed. Picking your lunch is an act of design. Design is having an objective and moving toward it—to change the existing condition into a preferred one.” I’ve taken that idea to heart in my nearly three years at the helm of…

AT MADHAVENDRA PALACE, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Jaipur, India, the sculpture park opened on a cool December evening in 2017. Dozens of contemporary works were set against the dramatic backdrop of the 19th-century palace, which was built as a retreat by a bigamist king, with nine identical suites for each of his queens. The suites’ courtyards and terraces sit next to one another in an interlocking grid, and now sculptures have been installed in every room and on each terrace. “Madhavendra was considered to be modern when it was first built and is now an integral part of Jaipur’s architectural legacy,” says sculpture park director Noelle Kadar. “By exhibiting contemporary sculpture, we want to establish how today’s art is tomorrow’s legacy.” The park (thesculpturepark.in), which was founded by…

TWO YEARS AGO, THE APARTMENT OF Filipa de Abreu’s dreams nearly slipped through her fingers. She had underbid both the asking price and an aggressive French overbidder on a century-old four-bedroom rental in Lisbon’s coveted Lapa neighborhood. Its 12-foot-high ceilings, crown moldings, and boiserie-detailed walls had been meticulously restored; the large windows and bougainvillea-covered terrace had an uninterrupted view of the Atlantic Ocean. Still, de Abreu informed her real estate agent, “I have a feeling the apartment is going to be mine.” She promptly headed off to India—but not before sending a letter to the apartment’s owner promising to cherish the space. Sure enough, upon her return, the apartment was hers. De Abreu quickly settled in with her three children—sons Louis, 15, and Antoine, 10, and daughter, Maria, 14—and the…

EVER SINCE ITS OPENING IN 1983, THE JULES VERNE restaurant on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower has been the ultimate affirmation of the real estate maxim “location, location, location.” Very few structures on earth are as iconic and as visited as Paris’s Iron Lady. So imagine Aline Asmar d’Amman’s response when she was commissioned to overhaul the storied fine-dining mecca, which sits hundreds of feet above Paris. “The tower is a symbol of innovation and boundless imagination,” says the Lebanese architect and interior designer. In other words, the stakes were high. But this isn’t Asmar d’Amman’s first historically sensitive project. Having art-directed the four-year renovation of the Hôtel de Crillon, the legendary Paris hotel that reopened in 2017, she and her firm, Culture in Architecture, quickly became the…

Maison&Objet January 17–21; Paris Lighting designer Michael Anastassiades, best known for his technically advanced geometric fixtures, will be honored as designer of the year at the January edition of this biannual design fair, where, for the first time, he will showcase all 16 of his Mobile chandeliers together. maison-objet.com Mario Buatta: Prince of Interiors January 23–24; New York City Nearly 1,000 pieces from the estate of the late decorator will be auctioned at Sotheby’s following an exhibition that opens on January 16. The lots encompass furniture, paintings (including Buatta’s beloved dog canvases), and objets d’art. sothebys.com Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution February 1–April 30; Ghent, Belgium This major exhibition of works by Flemish Renaissance painter Jan van Eyck at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent will include such major…

TURKEY Merve Kahraman “I’m very nostalgic, which is perhaps why I was inspired by the Cassini-Huygens probe mission to Saturn when designing this lamp. I love working with natural and sustainable materials. Their defects are so beautiful.” Cassini lamp, $3,500. mervekahraman.com NIGERIA Tosin Oshinowo “I look to celebrate my Yoruban heritage in all my work, and I am constantly looking for ways to update classical aesthetics to make them modern.” Àdùnní chair, $1,390. ile-ila.com BRAZIL Carol Gay “You can always find new ways to work with glass, which nowadays is my material of choice.” Onda amplifier, $600. carolgay.com.br DENMARK Hilda Hellström “The opposing ideas of control and chance are at the core of my work. With every choice I make, I also bow to the will of the materials and…

Trahan Architects COCA-COLA STAGE AT ALLIANCE THEATRE, WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER • ATLANTA Once more for the cheap seats! Can you imagine a theater where that tired joke couldn’t land? That’s just what Trahan Architects achieved with their newly finished 650-seat Coca-Cola Stage. The New Orleans–based firm sought to create a chamber with a strikingly modern aesthetic of sinuous strands of reclaimed oak while also making a performance space that is truly democratic, where all sounds—spoken words and musical notes alike—can be heard with the same intensity from any seat in the house. “We wanted to make everyone in the audience feel accepted and celebrated,” says Trey Trahan, the company’s founder. “Architecture should play a role in creating spaces that remind us to be, on the most basic level, kind to…

WHEN TWO PEOPLE FALL IN LOVE later in life and decide to make a home together from the studs up, it can be a jangling experience: clashing tastes and ingrained habits, the strain of never-ending construction, the friction of old memories resurfacing. Or, as in the case of an apartment on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue designed by the Australian-born Emma Jane Pilkington for her mother, Carolyn, and the elegant widower her mother married a few years ago, the process can instead be revelatory, as enlivening as a Verdi aria or the brushstrokes of the Franz Klines and Willem de Koonings destined to adorn the home’s walls. “It was a wonderful adventure,” Pilkington says. “It was watching the evolution of two people you care so much about.” The widower had had a…

Items pictured but not listed are from private collections. ANATOMY OF A HOUSE Interior design: Pat McGann, patmcganngallery.com. PAGES 44–45: Pillows: Pat McGann Gallery, patmcganngallery.com. Grain sack: Howe London, howelondon.com. Bedding and pillows: Pat McGann Gallery. Rug: Missoni, missoni.com. SAVAGE BEAUTY Interior design: Filipa de Abreu. Mural: Marie-Anne Oudejans, Marie-Anne Oudejans Design & Interiors, cargocollective.com. PAGES 46–47: Dress and glassware: Tory Burch, toryburch.com. Sofa: Ikea, ikea.com. Pillow fabric: Carolina Irving Textiles, carolinairvingtextiles.com. Pitcher: Bordallo Pinheiro, bordallopinheiro.com. PAGES 48–49: Sofas: Ikea. Love seat: Poeira Design, poeiradesign.com. Daybed and placemats: Marie-Anne Oudejans. Plates, stemware, and tureen: Tory Burch. Tablecloth: Festa Aluga, festaluga.pt. Rug: Salvesen Graham, salvesengraham.com. PAGES 50–51: Rug: Madeline Weinrib, madelineweinrib.com. Papier-mâché plates: John Derian, johnderian.com. HIGH ART Interior design: Emma Jane Pilkington, emmajanepilkington.com. PAGES 52–53: Sofa: Anthony Lawrence-Belfair, anthonylawrence.com. Sofa fabric: Pierre Frey,…

You were recently named the first winner of the Nomura Art Award, which comes with a $1 million check. How are you feeling? DS: It’s extraordinary to me that for the first time I will be able to make works that are important and ephemeral in remote, forgotten areas where art is most needed. Places like where? DS: Small towns in my home country, Colombia, where war has left the worst scars on its victims. Tell me about Quebrantos, your most recent work. DS: I invited 103 Colombian activists who’ve received death threats or survived attacks to write, using 21 tons of broken glass, the names of community leaders who have been assassinated since 2016. What project will you fund with the prize money? DS: I’m researching a piece in…

Inspired by horticulturist Robert Furber’s 1730 book Twelve Months of Flowers, the Charlotte Moss for Tommy Mitchell Flowers of the Month collection features handmade, one-of-a-kind copper, brass, and steel blossoms in acrylic wall studies and cachepots, like this January carnation. 8" w. x 3.5" d. x 13" h., also available in a cachepot, $975. bergdorfgoodman.com Background fabric: Palampore in Mezzeros. rivara1802.it…

For the architect Stephanie Goto, taking on a new client isn’t simply a matter of collaboration—it’s an act of artistic communion. “There has to be a connection and an understanding that coming together helps to create something extraordinary,” says Goto, who has worked for Rafael Viñoly and David Rockwell and founded her eponymous New York firm in 2004. “It’s like the pairing of a Champagne with food.” It’s apt that Goto employs a culinary analogy when speaking about her practice. Early in her career, she helped Tadao Ando design the restaurant Morimoto in New York, and she counts the chefs Daniel Boulud, Paul Liebrandt, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten as clients. Goto’s passion for the intersection of food and architecture was honed growing up with the dual exposure to New York’s buzzing…

I’M NOT A DECORATOR. I’M A DEALER,” SAYS PAT McGANN ABOUT the eclectic design of her home in the Hollywood Hills. McGann’s eponymous L.A. store began 25 years ago as an antiques destination; in recent years, it has garnered a following for textiles sourced from India, Mexico, and China. Her two-story 1932 Spanish-style townhouse, nestled in the historic Beachwood Canyon under the Hollywood sign, came with a pedigree. Owner Ramin Shamshiri, formerly of Commune and now at Studio Shamshiri, had recently renovated it, saving vintage details like arched doorways. “The house dictated the design,” McGann says. Upon moving in, she immediately had the yellowish-white walls repainted to Farrow & Ball off-whites—sandy-white Clunch in the downstairs rooms and Stony Ground for the master bedroom. She then quickly filled the house with…

Tyler Hays, founder of the Philadelphia-based design brand BDDW, has earned a cult following for his beautifully crafted handmade furniture, including walnutslab dining tables and credenzas featuring delicate hardware. Hays has also put his stamp on ceramics and clothing, and more recently he’s even ventured into jigsaw puzzles for his New York boutique, M. Crow. This unique Bather puzzle consists of nearly 500 hand-painted, cut, and shellacked wooden pieces that have been permanently affixed to a custom oak frame measuring 58 by 82 inches. Hays’s imagery pays homage to the 19th-century European artistic ideal of the bather, while its format coolly elevates the status of the common jigsaw puzzle into the realm of art. “When you cut something into a puzzle, you take away all the pretense, and I like…