Architectural Digest March 2022

WHEELS IN MOTION EVEN IF A BESPOKE SOLID-STONE BAR IS NOT IN THE CARDS, YOU CAN STILL TOAST IN STYLE WITH A CLASSIC BAR CART. OUR LATEST FAVE IS THIS SHAGREEN STUNNER BY RH (RH.COM). BREATHS OF FRESH AIR DECANTING IS A LOST ART—AND A CHIC WAY TO REDUCE THE VISUAL CLUTTER OF BOTTLES. LET’S BRING IT BACK WITH VESSELS LIKE THIS ONE BY RICHARD BRENDON (GOOP.COM). PIERCING EYE IN BARWARE, AS IN LIFE, THE DETAILS MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE. HUDSON GRACE’S STAINLESS-STEEL COCKTAIL PICKS ELEVATE ANY MANHATTAN (HUDSONGRACE.COM). THE GOOD STUFF EVERYTHING TASTES BETTER IN ARTISANAL GLASSWARE. THESE DAYS WE’RE ESPECIALLY LOVING THE CUT-AND-POLISHED WORK OF HARUYA HIROSHIMA (RWGUILD.COM). FOR MORE SMART IDEAS VISIT ARCHDIGEST.COM/AD-IT-YOURSELF INTERIOR: YOSHIHIRO MAKINO. ALL OTHERS COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES.…

“The kids were much younger when I embarked on this project, and I wasn’t married to Brad, so I was ideating for a future self that didn’t exist yet.”—Gwyneth Paltrow Star power comes in many forms at AD, and this issue celebrates mega-talents from many fields of expertise—entertainment, sports, architecture, interior design. Hollywood heavyweight Gwyneth Paltrow spent six years building her dream house from the ground up in beautiful Montecito (“our sweet gem of an escape”). Collaborating with an AD100 dream team of Roman and Williams and Romanek Design Studio, Paltrow successfully transformed a teardown on a generous lot (“It was like Grey Gardens. There were wild animals living there and swarms of bugs, but I fell in love with the land and the views,” she says) into her specific vision of…

In the 1960s, avant-garde artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude began wrapping monuments around the world in fabric and rope. A sculpture in the garden of Rome’s Villa Borghese (1963). A gilded statue on Paris’s Place du Trocadéro (1964). The monument to Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan’s Piazza del Duomo (1970). The arresting visuals gave Italian architect Cini Boeri an idea: Why not wrap a sofa? (Christo and Jeanne-Claude had wrapped furniture too, for what it’s worth, but they didn’t exactly prioritize function.) Boeri did. In 1968 she began experimenting with simple molded-polyurethane forms that could be encased in removable quilts, almost like her children’s sleeping bags. The so-called Strips series, a name derived from that easy-to-undress design, was practical as ever: “The shell can be slipped off, washed, changed, put back…

A famous beauty spot since the 19th century, the glacial fjord Carlingford Lough cuts deep into the eastern coast of Ireland midway between Belfast and Dublin, marking the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. At its inner end is the village of Omeath. Here, overlooking the lough and the cloud-swept Mountains of Mourne, is what looks like a simple woodplanked fisherman’s shack. Step inside, though, and you enter an entirely different world. For this is the home away from home of Ciaran McGuigan, creative director of Irish furniture company Orior, and his American wife, Logann. “I just love the space here,” McGuigan says, “the energy you get from walking out of the door, being right on the waterfront and seeing that amazing view.” It’s a view he grew up with…

Kompa means ‘together,’” explains designer Peter Mabeo, who is based in Gaborone, Botswana. To demonstrate that holistic idea, Mabeo interlocks his fingers, creating a circle with his hands. The word, which Mabeo learned from an artisan in the nearby village of Hukuntsi, is the name of his newest furniture collection: 10 pieces made in collaboration with Italian fashion brand Fendi and unveiled at Design Miami. “I wanted to bring together different elements, different materials, and different people,” says Mabeo. Since founding his namesake studio in 1997, he has been teaming up with a range of Botswana-based makers, among them master woodworkers, potters, basket weavers, and metalsmiths. For Kompa, he canvassed the country by car, tapping those same experts to test the limits of their mediums. In the community of Mmankgodi, woodworkers…