Inhaltsverzeichnis für June 2018 in ELLE DECOR

ONE OF THE BEST, BUT certainly not only, times to pick up a decorating magazine is when you renovate your home. There’s an impossible number of choices out there, which is why you turn to ELLE DECOR for inspiration. I’m not one of those people whose style stays consistent—I used to joke that I was John Pawson in the morning, Miles Redd at lunchtime, and Madeleine Castaing in the afternoon. The thing is, I love them all equally. When I was deciding what style to renovate my own apartment in, this issue’s cover star, David Kaihoi, told me something that changed my view of New York interiors forever: “Manhattan is the only place in the world where you can embody any style,” he said. Where else do you see high…

SARA GILBANE “The Cape Cod watch with Double Tour has an absolutely perfect face, and the tan leather strap works well with a stack of bangles and bracelets.” FRANK DE BIASI “I have three Hermès watches, my absolute favorite being the Cape Cod with a Double Tour strap. I love all the divine colors it comes in.” KELLY BEHUN “I wear a Kelly watch with the Double Tour because it feels more like a charm bracelet than a watch, and I like it when things aren’t what they appear to be.”…

What do you get when you combine French modernism, the musings of an anonymous traveler, and social-media savvy? The debut furniture collection from Los Angeles design firm Consort. Founded in 2012, Consort is the brainchild of Mat Sanders, a former editor, and Brandon Quattrone, who previously worked at ED A-List architecture firm SHoP. In six years, their covetable Calicool interiors and millennial-friendly branding have helped them attract an impressive clientele of celebrities (Jessica Alba, Jimmy Kimmel), businesses (WhoWhatWear, Revolve), and laypeople (100,000 Instagram followers). With stores in New York and L.A., the Consort team decided it was time to expand with their own line. “We wanted a comprehensive collection of everything that we love,” Quattrone says. So the pair, both fiends for French modernism, headed to Paris to find inspiration.…

MARK TWAIN LOVED BERMUDA. So did Georgia O’Keeffe. It has long been a magnet for intellectuals, artists, and other bon vivants for its picturesque pink sand beaches, dramatic coastline, and architectural vernacular, which includes bright pastel buildings with stepped roofs. All of this beauty and tradition has remained blissfully intact, but there is also change afoot; design-led hotels and restaurants, mini concept shops, and world-class art collections are cropping up and adding to the island mix. One of the things that sets this British territorial paradise apart—besides the fact that it is literally 600 miles from the nearest point of land, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina—is the warmth, pride, and diversity of Bermudians. The population of 65,000 is a welcoming, eclectic mélange—many of African, Caribbean, Portuguese, Native American, and English descent—and…

Hunt Slonem has been painting in a prolific outpouring since the mid-1970s. A Southern spiritual kin to Andy Warhol, he is perhaps best known for his repeat paintings of rabbits and birds. Slonem has also turned his eye to the revivification of historic properties. Unsurprisingly, his restorations have been on a grand scale, including three plantations in Louisiana, two houses in New York, and a mansion in Scranton, Pennsylvania. A recent endeavor—a 100,000-square-foot armory also in Scranton—is the subject of the Assouline book Gatekeeper: World of Folly, out in June. Slonem has transformed the former home of the Pennsylvania National Guard into a magical kingdom brimming with chandeliers, portraits, and a conservatory worth of plants. “My mother said, ‘Well, you’ve wanted a castle since you were a little boy,’” he…

I don’t know what I was expecting when Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch visited the ELLE DECOR offices to talk ceramics. Going into the meeting, I had that infamous scene from Ghost stuck in my head: Demi Moore’s spinning pottery wheel, Patrick Swayze’s glorious coif, the Righteous Brothers’ song. So imagine my surprise when the venerable duo behind New York City’s Roman and Williams design studio compared a gilded vase to the music of Rudimentary Peni, the British anarcho-punk band. With that, it became clear that I was entering a bizarre new world—one made of hardened clay. “There is a new appreciation of ceramics,” Standefer told me. “It’s having a kind of renaissance.” Last December, the couple opened Roman and Williams Guild, which is as much a museum as it…

DAVID ADJAYE adjaye.com ALIDAD alidad.com AMAN & MEEKS aman-meeks.squarespace.com ASHE + LEANDRO asheleandro.com ATELIER AM atelieram.com NEAL BECKSTEDT nbeckstedtstudio.com KELLY BEHUN kellybehun.com SIG BERGAMIN sigbergamin.com.br NATE BERKUS nateberkus.com JEFFREY BILHUBER bilhuber.com ALESSANDRA BRANCA branca.com SHEILA BRIDGES sheilabridges.com THOMAS BRITT BROCKSCHMIDT & COLEMAN brockschmidtandcoleman.com MARIO BUATTA MARTYN LAWRENCE BULLARD martynlawrencebullard.com CARRIER AND COMPANY carrierandcompany.com DARRYL CARTER darrylcarter.com LORENZO CASTILLO lorenzocastillo.org FRANÇOIS CATROUX CHAMPEAU & WILDE champeau-wilde.com COMMUNE communedesign.com PALOMA CONTRERAS palomacontreras.com TIMOTHY CORRIGAN timothy-corrigan.com BILLY COTTON billycotton.com ROBERT COUTURIER robertcouturier.com ELLIE CULLMAN cullmankravis.com MARK CUNNINGHAM markcunninghaminc.com FRANK DE BIASI frankdebiasi.com ERNEST DE LA TORRE delatorredesign.com JEAN-LOUIS DENIOT deniot.com DRAKE ANDERSON drakeanderson.com PETER DUNHAM peterdunham.com DAVID EASTON MICA ERTEGUN maciidesign.com WALDO FERNANDEZ waldosdesigns.com CHARLIE FERRER ferrer.co THOM FILICIA thomfilicia.com DAN FINK danfinkstudio.com FISHER WEISMAN fisherweisman.com KEN FULK kenfulk.com STEVEN GAMBREL srgambrel.com GRANT…

Alisa Bloom isn’t your typical decorator. She has always been a chameleon. In the early aughts, when most of Chicago’s fashionable set were buying loft warehouse conversions with exposed pipes in the West Loop downtown (as the editor in chief and publisher of Chicago magazine, I’ve observed the city’s real estate trends from an insider’s perch), Bloom did the exact opposite, moving into a 1920s gem on the city’s storied Gold Coast. After a stint as a vintage jewelry collector and seller (she is legendary around town for snatching a 17-carat yellow diamond ring at auction in the middle of an especially frigid winter, a feat she managed while clad in moon boots and a parka), she made a complete career switch and recast herself as a general contractor, albeit…

Items pictured but not listed are from private collections. MOOD BOARD PAGE 62: Sofa: Moissonnier, moissonnier.com. Brooch: Tony Duquette, tonyduquette.com. Watch: Harry Winston, harrywinston.com. Bracelet: Roberto Coin, robertocoin.com. PAGE 64: Bracelet, necklace, and brooch: Tony Duquette. Watch: Rolex, rolex.com. Fabric: Tony Duquette for Jim Thompson, jimthompsonfabrics.com. Sofa: Liz O’Brien Editions, lizobrien.com. Lamp: A Modern Grand Tour, amoderngrandtour.com. SHORTLIST PAGE 102: Hunt Slonem, huntslonem.com. ED DESIGN HOTELS PAGES 106–110: The Gritti Palace, thegrittipalace.com. TRUTH IN DECORATING PAGES 118–124: Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch, Roman and Williams, romanandwilliams.com. D.B.E.D. PAGES 126–128: Daniel Boulud of restaurant Daniel, danielnyc.com. THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS PAGES 136–143: Figurines: Doob, doob3d.com. WESTERN CIVILIZATION Interior design: Ken Fulk, kenfulk.com. Architecture: Ken Linsteadt Architects, kenlinsteadt.com. Custom metal fabrication and lighting: Mary Revelli, One Off Furniture, maryrevelli.com. Construction: Van Acker…

SIMON UPTON Photographer, “Protean Tools,” p. 160 ON THE GO: “Recently I have been to both Russia and Poland. Otherwise I’m spending an unusual amount of time in the U.K., where I’m based.” FAVORITE PLACE: “My office. It’s filled with objects from my travels. I love to visit it—and to leave it, too.” DAVID KAIHOI Designer, “East Side Story,” p. 152 MORNING RITUAL: “I make a cup of coffee and walk around my apartment with a watering can, whispering sweet nothings to the plants.” CHILD’S PLAY: “My kids inspire me. They have an outlook on life that is contagious if you slow down to see it like they do.” SUSANNA HOMAN Writer, “Protean Tools,” p. 160 WIDE EYES: “Alisa Bloom designed her own cabinet hinges for the kitchen. I would…

This month’s Mood Board is dedicated to Tony Duquette, the prince of extravagant glamour, a fearless lover of color, and the ultimate insider. A Hollywood darling who worked on stage and screen designs; a favorite decorator (as well as jewelry and furniture designer) of 20th-century high-society citizens—including J. Paul Getty and the Duchess of Windsor—the world over; and a protégé of famed decorator and actress Elsie de Wolfe, Duquette created over-the-top mise-en-scènes that exuded pure joie de vivre. His was a decadence done with humor and joy. As legendary Vogue editor in chief Diana Vreeland once said, “The eye has to travel.” Entering one of Duquette’s rooms, you did indeed travel to another world, one in which he made his own rules and his creativity knew no limits. Today, nearly…

As Harper Pitt, a lapsed Mormon married to a closeted gay husband, the Irish actress Denise Gough grapples with emotional devastation and drug addiction in the current National Theater revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Needless to say, when Gough retreats to her dressing room in Broadway’s Neil Simon Theatre, she needs comforts of the aesthetic and creature varieties. “I know I’m not going down a mine, but I have to break my heart every night in front of 1,400 people, so it’s nice to come here and chill out,” says Gough, who originated the role in London (she won a 2018 Olivier Award for her performance), where she has lived since leaving Ireland at age 15. She enlisted designer Mike Harrison, who…

COLLECTORS CONCESSIONS collectorsconcessions.com RAISON D’ÊTRE: Purchase works by established artists like Cindy Sherman and Chuck Connelly directly from collectors. FIND: Unexpected treasures that are quite affordable. FYI: Imagine a yard sale thrown by experienced collectors who need wall space. You’ll discover work that has been vetted, but not in such a large volume that you feel overwhelmed. THE RUB: There’s no way to negotiate—the “Buy now” button means what it says—so research the artist before you commit. VALUE: A bottle or two of Clos de la Roche 1999. AUC ART aucart.com RAISON D’ÊTRE: Bid on works by new talents and students like Kris Tralewski, Chloe Abrahams, and Iona Mitchell. FIND: The next Damien Hirst. FYI: Started by a young Brit, this is a digital auction house with a small inventory,…

Jean-Louis Deniot In November 2013, we visited a palatial, neoclassical home in New Delhi that the French designer built from the ground up. The floor of its stunning foyer was made of local marble. Emma Jane Pilkington The decorator fashioned an old European–style country house with a healthy dose of antiques in her hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut, as seen in our June 2015 issue. She upholstered the headboard of this Directoire daybed in blue linen, and the cushions and bolsters in mohair. Jeffrey Bilhuber Using the color and romance of traditional English rooms as a starting point, the designer poured on the charm in a New York townhouse. Consider the pairing of Queen Anne– style chairs with Peter Fasano wallpaper, shown in our June 2015 issue. Commune Design Pamela Shamshiri,…

I have a routine when I go to Venice. Usually it’s after a business trip to Milan, where I stay at the Excelsior Hotel Gallia, which sits directly in front of the city’s masterpiece train station (I always request a room with a view to it). Then I board the train (taking a plane to Venice is so prosaic) and arrive at Venice station, greeted by a boat that whisks me down the Grand Canal to the Gritti Palace. There, I walk the plank to the Riva Lounge terrace, and I read—a lot of!—John Ruskin. And Thomas Mann. And Donna Leon. It’s just that the city has had such an impact on artists and writers (Monet and Hemingway among them) that it’s hard not to want to get their take.…

Ask great chefs what they’re making for dinner at home on a Sunday night. The answer is nothing fussy or fancy: We do that all week long. Cooking for loved ones and ourselves, what we crave is food that’s familiar, elemental, homey. The thing we want, in other words, is a roast chicken—with nothing more complicated than a creamy gratin on the side and a decent glass of wine to complete the picture. Because the magic of a perfect poulet rôti is the art of the classic. When I think of the satisfying pleasures of roast chicken, I think of lunches with my late friend Paul Bocuse. Paul was a legendary chef and restaurateur, the king of Lyon, whose three-star l’Auberge du Pont de Collonges has been a high temple…

1 Much like the high notes to which its name refers, the hardwood-and-bronze Treble side chair from DeMuro Das— rendered here in a Warwick velvet in Mystere Gold and featuring arresting tripod legs—is a showstopper. 2 Do you fancy déjeuner sur l’herbe? Christofle’s egg-shaped Mood Nomade, a stainless steel, walnut, and leather capsule, holds six silver-plated table settings, perfect for an Impressionistic restaging of a picnic en plein air. 3 Somewhere between an elegant birdcage and a Rubik’s Cube lies the made-to-order Crosby Library. Built of powder-coated steel (shown here in blue, but available in any color), the rotating parts of Crosby Studios’ piece can be perfectly aligned or staggered for a sculptural effect. 4 Artist and designer John Pomp encapsulates the aesthetic of a water puddle in his Tidal…

Georgia O’Keeffe’s floral paintings are synonymous with the Southwest, but the artist drew from many locales, including Hawaii, where she spent nine weeks in 1939. From May 19 through October 28, the New York Botanical Garden pays homage to her visit with “Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of Hawai‘i.” Tableaux of tropical plants such as frangipani and bird of paradise evoke the inspiration behind 20 of O’Keeffe’s paintings from the trip. “One of the questions I asked myself was, Did she assimilate enough in order to paint a world that was not her own?” says curator Theresa Papanikolas. The strength of the resulting images speaks for itself (nybg.org).…

Call me a heretic, but my favorite summer days are the rainy ones. Our Berkshires house is cloaked in a canopy of soaring oaks and pines, and as the rain hits their branches, then plops down to the roof of our porch, I sit contentedly beneath. All the wet and woodsy aromas crescendo during a rainstorm, and there is nothing quite as intoxicating as a hike in the forest right afterward. I’ve always been drawn to earthy scents. I don’t necessarily mean patchouli, but ones that smell like, well, my favorite hike in the forest. Provision’s Las Flores fragrance, a mix of orange flower and woodsy poplar bud, was actually inspired by a hike, albeit one in the less woodsy Malibu, California, canyons. I usually overdo it with Rahua shower…

In the world of mechanical watches, a little whimsy can go a long way, and the reimagined Carré H, the latest collaboration between Hermès and furniture designer and architect Marc Berthier, is a perfect example. While the original Carré H, released in 2010, was monochromatic and minimalist, this year’s models are playful, juxtaposing hard and soft geometries to dramatic effect. The steel case looks square from the top, but actually tapers and curves to better fit the wrist. Likewise, the square dial contains a circular track of numerals, which in turn houses a pattern of crossing lines placed to maximize reflected light from all angles. “The approach to designing something, whether a watch or a building, is always the same,” Berthier says. The function might be different, but in the…

In 2015, conceptual artist and designer Doug Meyer did an installation for the Italian furniture company Flexform’s space at the HIV/ AIDS fund-raiser DIFFA’s Dining by Design. He crafted three-dimensional handmade portraits of some of the earliest creative figures lost to AIDS—including designer Angelo Donghia and architect Alan Buchsbaum—and displayed them with their New York Times obituaries. The installation of 50 artworks traveled through New York, Miami, and Los Angeles and is now immortalized in the book Heroes: A Tribute (Tra Publishing). “It is my way of letting people know that these men and women existed,” says Meyer of the tome, available in three stamped, signed, and numbered limited editions (from $95; trapublishing.com).…

Vases have a function, but they can also be anything you want them to be—any shape, any material. Everything we’re working on at Tiffany has an interplay of extraordinary quality and refined design, but also an unexpected contrast between things like sterling silver and mouth-blown glass, or Nymphenburg porcelain and tougher, studded diamond points, or an airy, ethereal tube of glass and something artisanal. As for my favorite flowers, I prefer greens like branches or a plant like quince. I’m actually not a big fan of flowers.…

“NEARLY NEON CITRON ACCENTS BRING CONTRAST AND DRAMA TO A VERY ROMANTIC, TIMEWORN ROOM.” CONVENTIONAL cottons, silks, and wools once dictated how you could live in most rooms. They limited what you could and couldn’t do with upholstery and on windows. Now, with Sunbrella textiles, there’s no need to sacrifice beauty or elegance for the realities of everyday life, including kids and pets. With a surprising combination of durability and finesse, the latest collection of Sunbrella performance textiles takes the stress, and the risk, out of using upholstery everywhere—so you can live without boundaries. A myriad of textures and sophisticated colors lend themselves readily to use in even the dreamiest of interior rooms. “We used saffron as a neutral base on the sofa and paired it with patterns and colors…

I first met David Kaihoi almost a decade ago at his apartment in Manhattan. The occasion was a photo shoot for House Beautiful, where I worked as an editor at the time. The place was lavishly appointed, like the best Park Avenue pads: classic plantation shutters as foils to saturated lavender walls and entry tables; faded chinoiserie paper in the master bedroom; lacquered antique-style breakfronts for books and objets; and ebonized casings and doors. Did I mention that it was barely 400 square feet and in the East Village? Think of it as Holly Golightly by way of hippie Bloomsbury: a room and a bedroom kitted out in a kaleidoscope of colors, complete with a custom mattress for Mirabelle, Kaihoi and his wife Monique’s then-three-year-old daughter, that slid back under…

IN THE FILM WALL STREET, BUD FOX said that all of life comes down to a few moments. Checking into an Aman hotel is one of them, and Blue Horseshoe loves Amanyangyun. Located outside Shanghai in a man-made camphor forest, it’s the latest addition to the growing international collection of exclusive hotels and resorts. For the uninitiated, Aman Resorts’ dominion stretches from the canyons of southern Utah (Amangiri) to the Grand Canal in Venice (where my wife, Kate, and I spent our honeymoon) to the Bhutanese side of the Himalayas (Amankora). With more hotels under construction, including one in the Crown Building on Fifth Avenue in New York City, owner Vladislav Doronin’s expansionary vision shows no signs of flagging. Amanyangyun, which opened earlier this year, is the collection’s fourth property…

Each month, ELLE DECOR asks an artisan to create a unique item for us that literally has no price tag. At the end of the year, these pieces will be auctioned off to benefit the charity of each maker’s choice. John Derian doesn’t mind if you cut up his book. For the doyen of découpage, that shouldn’t be surprising. In February, on an episode of CBS Sunday Morning, Derian even encouraged viewers to go right ahead and do it, so the artist Donald Robertson obliged. He went to town on the John Derian Picture Book, creating a silk screen–and-collage print from its pages, arranged in the shape of puckered lips—one of his motifs—while adding his signature flair. donaldrobertson.com; johnderian.com…