WHAT’S YOUR GLAMOUR?
Something evocative of Old Hollywood, à la Paul Revere Williams, perhaps? Something glitteringly modernist (think Gio Ponti)? Or outlandish and singular (I’m looking at you, Kelly Wearstler)? Glamour is most commonly associated with the ornamented, the gilded, and the reflective. As a Leo and a city kid, I dig that. But in these anxious times, I’ve lately found myself reaching for a kind of swaddling glamour, one that envelops even as it dazzles. Take, for instance, our cover story, the drop-dead-gorgeous family home of Hollywood power couple Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil, designed by Tiffany Howell of the studio Night Palm. In her piece, writer Marjon Carlos and Brock Akil talk about the power of glamour to bring joy, fun, and centeredness into moments of despair and chaos in the world—and…
