Architectural Digest May 2022

TREAD LIGHTLY THE ENTRY’S PAINTED STAIRS NOD TO ONES TOM SCHEERER DESIGNED FOR HIS OWN MOTHER. “TOM IS THE MAYOR OF DECORATING IN LYFORD. YOU HAVE TO PAY RESPECT.” GOLD STANDARD “YELLOW WITH BLUE IS ONE OF THE PRETTIEST COLOR COMBINATIONS,” NETTO MUSES. CASE IN POINT: THIS BESPOKE BATHROOM VANITY, WHICH POPS AGAINST THE ZIA TILE. FROM SEA TO SEA FOR THE SHUTTERS, NETTO OPTED FOR A CUSTOM-MIXED SHADE OF GREEN THAT HE MODELED AFTER A PROJECT IN GREECE BY AD100 HALL OF FAMER JOHN STEFANIDIS. ANCHORS AWEIGH “A TINY ROOM SHOULD FEEL MYSTERIOUS,” NETTO EXPLAINS OF A GUEST BEDROOM’S DEEP-BLUE PAINT JOB, WHICH RIFFS ON THE NAUTICAL PAINTINGS ON DISPLAY. “IT WAS LIKE PUTTING THE SHIPS IN WATER.” FOR MORE SMART IDEAS VISIT ARCHDIGEST.COM/AD-IT-YOURSELF…

A home of one’s own: It’s a universal dream, but one tragically and unfairly out of reach for so many human beings worldwide. The editors at AD produce features on the most inspiring residences imaginable, yet even as we feel privileged to share the fantasy with our readers, we as a team comprehend how many people are in need of comforting shelter, and we strive to help where we can. In 2017, AD teamed with the Atlanta-based nonprofit New Story to raise $650,000 to build a new community in Titanyen, Haiti, for families still displaced by the 2010 earthquake. The design world—and especially the illustrious members of the AD100—immediately understood the mission and rallied to support this epic project. We are so proud and happy to share the miraculous result in…

When Louis Bernard Woeste and William A. Stephens filed a patent for a so-called myriad reflector in 1916, the dawn of disco was still decades away. But their glittering mirror ball—destined for ballrooms, nightclubs, dance pavilions, and skating rinks—was made with revelry in mind. Shiny orbs hovered over bandstands hosting jazz musicians in the 1920s, twinkled above dancers in Casablanca (1942), and dazzled a club scene in Some Like It Hot (1959). By the 1970s, when that super-glam, sparkly club culture—disco!—at last arrived, the mirror ball fit right in, a silvery staple of underground New York dance spots like The Loft, The Gallery, and, later, legendary nightclub Studio 54, where revelers grooved beneath its disorienting shimmer. (Studio 54’s was made by Omega National Products in Louisville, Kentucky, famous today for crafting…

To say that Andrea Molteni was born into the design world would be an understatement. As the scion of the furniture dynasty founded in Giussano, Italy, by his grandparents Angelo and Giuseppina Molteni in 1934, Andrea has been fully immersed in the grand tradition of Italian design his entire life. Today, as the vice president and director of product development for Molteni&C | Dada, he is not only safeguarding his family’s legacy but also forging new avenues of experimentation and innovation for the company and its affiliate brands. “I was raised in the design industry, so the importance of quality is part of my DNA,” he says. “It’s more than just a question of style. I like things that are well made, products with inherent integrity and craftsmanship.” The Milan apartment…

Lately I’ve been thinking about how to sculpt in a feminist way,” says the Danish artist Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen, who has been mining the work of scholar Donna J. Haraway for inspiration. “I’m drawn to her way of playing around with new words, of looking at things and fabulating.” Pedersen is channeling that meandering, speculative approach into “Tentacular Thinking,” a solo show of freshly fired work that will inaugurate the new Tribeca outpost of the Manhattan gallery Hostler Burrows on April 28. “It matters what shapes I put together to tell a story,” says Pedersen, reflecting on her sculptural mash-ups. Unnerving, vaguely anthropomorphic forms (lips, tongues, intestines) mix with depictions of everyday objects, like tables and vases. One piece, in which a humanoid child seems to drink from a vessel,…

Sandwiched between mountains and sea on Mexico’s Oaxacan coast, Hotel Terrestre, a new property from Grupo Habita, is designed with one thing in mind: the environment. From the moment you arrive, you sense it—the sand underfoot, the breeze, the reception’s timber chairs and earthy palette. Even the brutalist buildings, which mimic ancient ruins, fold seamlessly into the natural surroundings, a mix of existing vegetation and indigenous additions like copal trees and orchids. Tasked with designing the buildings and the landscape was celebrated Mexico City–based architect Alberto Kalach. As Carlos Couturier, cofounder of Grupo Habita, explains, “Kalach is officially an architect, but his soul is about developing landscapes.” Essential to the experience is a connection between the terrain, the buildings, and the sky, which can be appreciated from the open-air showers…