Innehållsförteckning för March/April 2021 från Veranda

“You have to be patient in a garden— something I don’t have a lot of.” DESIGNER BUNNY WILLIAMS’S CONFESsion, divulged in a new Bunny Williams: Not a House but a Home documentary about her brilliant career 1, rang true with me, conjuring shameful memories of false starts in the garden with everything from shrubbery to simple herbs. (My husband teases me about wanting to want to garden more than actually wanting to garden.) But spending the last year firmly planted at home has given me nothing if not time. Time to observe, plan, grieve, and be…outside. On daily walks, I watched spring’s extraordinary purple-red bloom yield to a sea of green in the summer, then fall’s golden rush. We bought a telescope and picnicked under the stars. One night, my…

SOME AROSE QUITE LITERALLY FROM THE EARTH: troupes of curious, well-articulated statuary pulled from the Roman ruins. The most precious quickly found their way into homes, but early gardeners saw an opportunity for the overflow outdoors, along garden paths, mingling among the plants. There is a certain irony in using inanimate objects to rouse the living, and nowhere do art and paradox more beautifully intertwine than the garden. Since the Romans first trotted out their new (though fundamentally old) garden dwellers, ornamentation has rooted itself deep in the well-designed landscape. More than decoration, its role ranges from invitation to navigation, scaffolding for climbers to moments of permanence in a place of eternal change. A sense of frivolity, too, blossoms, turning tended plots into Mother Nature’s stage.…

IN FROCK COATS and hoop skirts, eager throngs packed London’s Crystal Palace, a cavernous glass-and-iron hall, to view the wonders of industry and design on display at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Among the marvels at that first-ever world’s fair (folding pianos, expanding hearses, and giant steam-powered hammers) were several pieces of colorful pottery produced by Minton & Co., one of England’s leading ceramics manufacturers. Herbert Minton’s vivid lead-based glazes and inventive three-dimensional designs stood in dazzling contrast to the drab houseware widely used in middle-class homes at the time. That it was also affordable made the luminous earthenware soon to be known as majolica (in a nod to the refined tin-glazed maoilica of the Italian Renaissance) all the more appealing. Spurred by that successful debut, Minton and competing English…

VILLA D’ESTE Tivoli, Italy The famed water garden named for the 16th-century cardinal who presided over it rises from the hillside in spectacular fashion and, with it, a show of sylvan reds, coppery browns, and emeralds as masterful as a Masaccio painting. JAPANESE TEA GARDEN San Francisco Created for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition, landscape architect Makoto Hagiwara’s garden shines forth like a siren in Golden Gate Park, its lacquered reds, muted blacks, and bonsai greens forming a mighty—and unmistakable—tribute to the city’s long and storied connection to the Japanese people and culture. KIRSTENBOSCH NATIONAL GARDEN Cape Town, South Africa Behold the eternal spring of Cape Town’s Grootte Schuur Estate, where a botanic garden blooms with purple, yellow, and orange wildflowers under blue skies. The century-old garden was designed…

BUYING AND RENOVATING A HOUSE typically entails making numerous either/or choices: Either a residence will be fancy or at ease, vivid or serene, intensely private or neighborly. But in Bronxville, New York, one young family has dodged such dilemmas entirely, combining a range of seemingly contrary objectives into one cohesive whole. Even their choice of designers was a both/and decision: Jesse Carrier and Mara Miller, the principals behind Carrier and Company, are a husband-and-wife team. Not only do the designers bring graceful smarts (and surprise) to every project, they’re also parents and know what it takes to make a showstopper house work for everyday, how to create a place where their clients can host formal, often glamorous, holiday celebrations for 25 members of extended family and settle in for relaxation…

IT WAS THE INTRICACIES OF FABRIC that first stirred painter Marie Daâge’s emotions for pattern. “As a child, I spent days and days in showrooms with my mother, a lover of decoration,” says the Paris-based porcelain visionary, who recently reinterpreted 18th-century gouache ikat paintings (like the sketch on the yellow dish) into decadent dessert plates. “I love the soft Baroque colors of silk and taffetas used in the Marie Antoinette period,” she notes of a palette that unfolds across the four dishes in the set. Like all her hand-painted designs, no two dishes are alike. “It’s nice when plates can tell a story around the table, answer each other,” she adds. “For me, creativity is about translation. The fabric artist had a loom, and I have brush.” mariedaage.com…

Such was the springtime cry through the paths and parterres of King Louis XIV’s palace grounds after their designer, André Le Nôtre, mobilized an army of his own: wood-paneled planter boxes to make the king’s precious orange trees and other tropicals portable and easily scuttled off to the south-facing orangery for the winter. Today, we prize caisse de Versailles (“crates of Versailles”) for the spirit in which Le Nôtre created them, as an enduring sense of freedom in the garden.…

FINE MAJOLICA FOR THE CONNOISSEUR At the May 29 auction in Wolcottville, Indiana, look for rare pieces from all over the world, including a 30-year assemblage that features work by Minton and George Jones. strawserauctions.com ANT IQUES FROM TRILOGY A wonderland abounds in Wanda Matthes’s Dallas shop. Asparagus plates, pineapple pitchers, and shell compotes make delightful displays out of riches from land and sea. emajolica.com LINDA HORN The Upper East Side shop owner and author of Inspiration: My Love Affair with Majolica has a soft spot for the showstoppers, from Minton monkey teapots to a medallion-studded neoclassical cachepot. lindahorn.com NICOLAUS BOSTON MAJOLICA A premiere expert on 19th-century pottery, the London-based dealer is a go-to for serious collectors seeking rarities (i.e. statuesque garden figures, rare woodland tureens). 011-020-7629-7034 GILDED AGE ANT…

Greenwich, Connecticut A GRAND, FRENCH-STYLE home sat peacefully enough overlooking Greenwich Harbor—until landscape designer Kathryn Herman pulled the two-acre grounds into an enchanting exchange with the house and water. “We created a garden that was both French and American,” explains Herman, who built a series of outdoor rooms along the rear and sides of the house with all the signature Franco elements like tuteurs, hornbeam hedges, and rows of linden trees. “That formality is a direct response to the house,” says the landscape designer. She then broadened the view to the water with a newly leveled 10,200-square-foot back lawn that “gives the house a plinth to sit on, a place for children to play, and an open expanse for entertaining,” she says. Moving away from the house and lawn, Herman…

Like a modernist escapee from Gaugin’s tropics, Alison Pickart’s Sapling Light is pure splendor. The interior designer worked with techsavvy artisans to handcraft the five-foot-tall light’s hammered bronze stem and petaled canopy with resin stamens that glow in lush hues. The luminous sculpture is as well-suited to terraces and patios as it is on entry tables. “I imagine it sitting at the edge of a pool somewhere,” Pickart says, “floating on a hillside.” Price upon request; alisonpickart.com.…

J. RANDALL POWERS The Houston designer’s debut collection of woven window and wallcoverings is a clever, clean reboot of traditional plaids using updated grids of irregular pencil stripes. 1 2 JG Plaid shade and wallcovering, to the trade; hartmannforbes.com. ANNA BRAUND Modernized with custom finishes and a metal rod and chain mount, the Georgia native’s hand-carved mirrors draw on elements of antiquity, from the classic English study to architectural moldings. 3 Kipling mirror, to the trade; hollandmacrae.com. BEN SOLEIMANI Soft Belgian linens, Italian alpacas, a sumptuous mohair bouclé: The luxury goods powerhouse’s new by-the-yard fabrics arrive in ultra-refined shades of parchment, sand, truffle, and lead. 4 Performance Gem fabric, $64 per yard. 5 Artemis barrel chair, $3,586, in Alpaca fabric, $176 per yard. 6 Alpaca Tweed fabric, $188 per yard; Performance Gem, $64 per yard; Basketweave Linen, $88 per yard; bensoleimani.com.…

JOY MOYLER: It’s a pleasure to meet you. I’ve enjoyed your work for many, many years. KAZUMI YOSHIDA: Thank you so much. JM: You’re celebrating a milestone anniversary—congratulations! What does that mean to you? KY: It’s the 60th anniversary of Clarence House, and almost 40 years there for me. Time has flown like crazy. JM: Did you ever imagine becoming a creative director for a textile company? KY: No, I was going to school in London to study architecture, but I didn’t finish because I was so restless and anxious to get to New York, because everything was happening here—Keith Haring, downtown…I was introduced to a decorator, David Barrett, and ended up meeting Robin Roberts [founder of Clarence House], who was David’s best friend. That’s how I discovered the fabric…

Buy Well, Buy Once It’s worth repeating. Investing in high-quality fabrics and furnishings is wildly resourceful over the long-term, saving time and expense in replacements and volumes in the landfill. Seek sourceable, well-crafted materials designed for generational use—the antithesis of socalled fast-fashion, which works like a running faucet of newly produced, and often unsustainable, goods. Shop the Antiques A rustic French linen for re-covering a sofa or a vintage kilim cloaking an ottoman… Some of the most exceptional and original textiles on the market live in antiques shops around the globe. And regardless of material, mixing in these out-of-circulation fabrics ticks nearly every environmental box. Shop for them by the bolt or in remnants and as enduring mementos of faraway travels. Recycle Your Cast-Offs Look for life after first uses:…

INSTANT HEIRLOOM Page 15 Stinton drinks table: Revival Home; revivalhome.com. Steel casement window: Seekircher Steel Window; seekirchersteelwindow.com. CULT FOLLOWING Page 46 Oyster plates: Antiques from Trilogy; emajolica.com. Gilded Age Antiques; gildedageantiques.com. Linda Horn; lindahorn.com. Madelena; madelena.com. Majolicadreams; 1stdibs.com. Weston Table; westontable.com. LANDMARK COLOR Page 58 Antique tile: Architectural Heritage; architectural heritage.com. Page 61 Speckled bowl: EL Designs; etsy.com. Artwork: Bryan McCormick; gallerybry.etsy.com. OUTDOOR LIVING AWARDS Page 64 Architecture: Jesse Castaneda Architect; jessecastaneda.com/public_html. Page 66 Installation: Siteworks Landscape; siteworkslandscape.com. Page 67 Senior landscape architect: Elizabeth Hendrickson, Kathryn Herman Design; kathrynhermandesign.com. Installation: Luppino Landscaping and Masonry; luppinolm.com. ESCAPE TO EDEN Interior design: Summer Thornton Design; summer thorntondesign.com. Architectural design: Kukk Architecture; kukkarchitecture.com. Pages 74–75 Chair fabric: Lisa Fine Textiles; lisafine textiles.com. Lantern pendant: The Urban Electric Company; urbanelectric.com. Sconce: David Duncan Studio;…