Sommaire pour July/August 2017 de ELLE DECOR

CATTELAN ITALIA INTRODUCES NORMA COUTURE Paolo Cattelan has designed NORMA COUTURE, a padded chair that embraces quality and glamour. The seat structure is upholstered in synthetic nubuck Leathertex or in leather. The quilted rear of the backrest lends great appeal and elegance to this model. INTRODUCING THE NEW CENTURY PAINT COLLECTION FROM BENJAMIN MOORE To celebrate the launch of the new CENTURY paint collection, The Hearst Design Group—ELLE DECOR, HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, VERANDA—and Benjamin Moore hosted an exclusive designer dinner in New York City. The CENTURY paint collection is a testament to the 100-year history of Benjamin Moore innovation and color leadership developed with the creative desires of designers in mind.…

LIGHTER THAN AIR Designers since ancient Egyptian times have known that when drama is required, nothing does the job like feathers. For fall 2017, fashion houses including Balenciaga and Prada sent models down the runway swathed in weightless, feathery creations. And there were precious accessories to match: Verdura’s Tiara Feather gold-and-diamond bracelet is inspired by a tiara worn by Betsey Whitney, one of the famous Cushing sisters, when her husband became American ambassador to the Court of St. James in 1956 (verdura.com); Tiffany & Co.’s Blue Book collection features both an exotic bird brooch encrusted with diamonds, sapphires, an emerald, and a spinel, and a bracelet of lush diamond-and-gold feathers (tiffany.com). The feather trend takes wing at home as well, thanks to striking new wallcoverings from Schumacher made of feathers…

JUNIOR LEAGUE A great children’s room proves color is a kid’s best friend and that you can be chic at any age In a bedroom at fashion stylist Meredith Melling’s family retreat on Martha’s Vineyard, which was designed by Ariel Ashe and architect Reinaldo Leandro, the bunk beds and walls are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Fairy Tale Blue, the throws are from Pottery Barn Kids, and the rug is Moroccan. 1. For the children’s bedroom in a turnof- the-century summer house near Stockholm, a Swedish couple chose whimsical cowboy-themed wallpaper by designer Cath Kidston; the lamp is an Isamu Noguchi design. 2. In the Paris apartment she shares with her partner and their children, French fashion designer Alix Thomsen arranged a collection of vintage and contemporary toys and superhero figures…

SHORE ON PICTURING AMERICA In the 1970s, when most art photographers were still working in black and white, Stephen Shore captured America in eloquent, nuanced color. On cross-country driving trips made over a decade, Shore used a large-format camera to shoot revelatory images of what we see every day but rarely pay close attention to—a cat’s cradle of power lines, a plate of diner pancakes, a shuttered drive-in theater. Uncommon Places, a 1982 sampling of this work, became one of the most influential photo books of all time. For the recent Selected Works, 1973–1981 (Aperture), Shore, who directs the photography program at Bard College in New York’s Hudson Valley, asked 15 admirers—including filmmaker Wes Anderson, artist Ed Ruscha, and photographer Thomas Struth—to dive deeper into his archive of those seminal…

At this time of year, American farmers’ markets overflow with eggplant, that staple of Mediterranean cooking. These two simple recipes give the endlessly versatile vegetable the chance to shine. Sweet and sour–glazed eggplant is a popular menu item at my DBGB restaurant in downtown Manhattan and stars the long, pinkish-purple Japanese variety. Italian eggplants, the larger, dark purple variety, are grilled and topped with a lightly sautéed mélange of tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, and onions that evokes the iconic Provençal ratatouille. Either dish makes an ideal accompaniment to an alfresco meal of grilled fish or meat and a salad of peppery greens. If you’re a real eggplant lover, serve both as part of a meze-style spread. Complement them with a pitcher of sangria made with dark berries and deep purple plums—not…

DESIGN IS SOMETIMES DISMISSED, by those who take themselves quite seriously, as unimportant or trivial. And certainly the industry does have its frivolities and fripperies. You could even argue—if you don’t care about living with beauty, joy, or ingenuity and are willing to dispense with a major form of selfexpression— that design is superfluous. But one argument nobody can make is that the design industry is not generous. That generosity is manifest throughout the year, but it becomes especially evident in the spring and summer. For me, the most vivid example is Design on a Dime, a major fund-raising event held each spring for Housing Works, which provides housing, health care, and advocacy for homeless people living with HIV and AIDS in New York City. Over the past decade, I have…

BEAUTY MARKS Two new collections of glazed porcelain dinnerware by Paris design studio Jaune de Chrome—the blue-tinted Song Ocean and green-hued Song Amande—bring soft pastel colors and an irregular speckled pattern reminiscent of Japanese ceramics to the table. Clockwise from top: Dinner plate, $128; salad bowl, $69; dinner plate, $112; dessert plate, $96; mug, $100; salad bowl, $100; and mug, $100. devinecorp.net. Background: Fluid Tones Japanese paper wallcovering by Porter Teleo. porterteleo.com 1 /MIDDLE EASTERN MODERN Handmade in Iran, Nasiri’s Persian Pelas flatweave wool rug bears a subtly colored plaid modeled after a 50-year-old pattern. Shown in Brown with Red and Blue accents, it is available in custom colors and sizes. 9•4• x 12•11•, $15,000. nasiricarpets.com 2 / SOFT TOUCH Paris-based designer Gabrielle Soyer unites the vibrant geometries of her…

TOM DIXON 12 THINGS HE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT Growing up in early 1980s London, Tom Dixon was energized by the try-anything spirit of punk. When a motorcycle accident cut short a budding music career, he learned to weld, fashioning more than 100 fantastical chairs out of scrap metal over a year. The self-taught designer has since brought his boundless imagination to lighting, office furniture, and hotel design, not to mention sex toys and sneakers. His S-Chair for Cappellini, modeled in 1986 from a doodle of a chicken, and his globe lamps, inspired by astronaut helmets, combine industrial chic and bling, chunky forms and shimmering surfaces. This year brings a foray into textile design and a collaboration with Ikea. But his commitment doesn’t stop at the drawing board, he says: “From…

As Theodore Roosevelt wrote, “What true American does not enjoy a rocking chair?” Unlike, say, an elegant bergère or a dignified wingback, this New World invention is easygoing and unintimidating, solid yet kinetic— a chair for those who don’t like to sit still. “I grew up in Vermont, where there was a rocker on every porch, and I still love to see a row of them looking out at a view,” says New York designer Billy Cotton. But a rocking chair can also be refined enough to command space indoors. An upholstered version that’s strong and shapely—like Vladimir Kagan’s design from 1953—can easily anchor a living room. And, of course, the gentle to-and-fro of a rocker is a must for households with small children. “Pick one comfortable enough to fall…

So strongly does a stripped-down, finely wrought New England aesthetic blow through Connecticut’s Litchfield Hills, tucked in the northwest corner of the state along the border of Massachusetts, that only those with truly fearless taste seem able to stand up to it—to decorate in counterpoint. Only the bold manage to reference the grace of the area’s centuries-old winding roads and well-preserved late-Colonial architecture while also going blithely off the rails. Exhibit No. 1: the early-19th-century cottage on eight acres owned by textile designer John Robshaw. Instead of outfitting the weekend place he shares with his girlfriend, photographer Rachel Schwarz, in American and English antiques and gently worn fine carpets, as is the custom in these parts, Robshaw— a brawny six-foot-two charmer with a Byronesque tousle of hair and an aw-shucks…

Items pictured but not listed are from private collections. MASTHEAD PAGE 20: Tropical Foliage melamine plates, $12 each, by Terrain (shopterrain.com). Nautic cotton beach towel, #899604, $150, by Yves Delorme (yvesdelorme .com). Agata lamp, $1,060, by Lorenza Bozzoli for Roche Bobois (roche-bobois.com). TREND ALERT PAGE 46: Tanzania silk fabric by Charles Faudree (vervain.com). Cheetah pillow, $275, by Jayson Home (jaysonhome.com). Limerick ottoman, $1,470, by Taylor King (taylorking.com). Corbett linen-cotton, #HB415-1, by Hill Brown (clarencehouse.com). Leopard flatware, #33, $69 for a four-piece place setting, from Sabre (sabre.fr). Playing cards, #550897, $485, by Peep’s Paper Products (modaoperandi.com). Waverly sofa, #HOH-10305, $7,053, by House of Hackney (houseofhackney.com). Panthère white-gold earrings, #CRHP800671, price upon request, by Cartier (cartier.com). Bagatelle Spot wallpaper, #NCW4026-02, by Nina Campbell (osborneandlittle.com). SL 102 sunglasses, $350, by Saint Laurent (barneys.com).…

DOWN TIME “Writing is like solving a puzzle,” says ELLE DECOR senior editor/ writer Peter Terzian. “I love pushing words around, trying to figure out the exact way to say what I want to say.” In this issue, Terzian writes about an East Hampton house (page 90) and interviews influential photographer Stephen Shore (page 62). On weekends, the Brooklyn resident—right, with his dog, Toby—likes to visit what he calls “the two Mets”: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the new Metrograph cinema. “I’ve only been a few times,” he says of the latter, “but it’s already one of my favorite places.” WEEKEND FLING New York–based designer Ellen Hamilton returned to Pennsylvania to work on the house featured on page 98. Here, her favorite things to see and do in her…

In art lingo, the terms emerging artist and young artist are often used interchangeably. So when the New York gallery Canada, known for identifying fresh talent, mounted a show last year featuring moody canvases of swimmers awash in luminous purples and blues and heavily indebted to abstraction, more than a few onlookers were startled to learn that the breakthrough works were painted by a 73-year-old grandmother. But then Katherine Bradford, their gray-haired—with a shock of hot pink—creator, has never adhered to a traditional timeline. She didn’t pick up her first paintbrush until she was a wife and mother living in Maine, where she’d moved with her young family in 1969 and fell in with a group of artists. “The way they lived their lives and questioned the system appealed to…

ELLE DECOR AND DESIGN ON A DIME Reprising its role as National Media Sponsor of Design on a Dime NYC, ELLE DECOR helped Housing Works raise more than $1 million from the sale of fine home furnishings offered at “compassionate” prices. Guests shopped 60 fanciful room vignettes created by renowned interior designers. In its own vignette, ELLE DECOR created a bohemian apartment that reminded the romantic in all of us that “we’ll always have Paris…”…

OVER THE COURSE of their 13-year partnership, interior designers John Kureck and Doug Jones have reconfigured and refurbished glam New York City townhouses, a mod mountaintop house in the Hudson Valley, and a Victorian hotel at the heart of a small Pennsylvania town. For a young couple—a husband in the financial industry with traditional tastes, and a wife who inclines toward the modern—the design duo made over a Greek Revival townhouse in Greenwich Village, keeping the original details but incorporating an energetic mix of contemporary furnishings. The result so pleased the homeowners that, not long after their city house was completed, they rehired Kureck and Jones to renovate their recently purchased cottage in East Hampton. But the couple—who have twins, now eight years old, as well as a five-year-old—soon realized…