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MARCH 2006 VOLUME 17 NUMBER 2
On the Cover
Cindy Crawford in the family
room of her home in Malibu.
“Beauty and the Beach,” page
94. Photography by Simon
Upton; hair by Richard Marin
for Cloutier/Redken; makeup by Carol Shaw for Lorac;
fashion styling by Rita Rago for
Rouge Artists; peasant top by
Somi, available at Madison, Los
Angeles. Far left: Vintage finds
in John Derian’s Lower East
Side apartment. Below: Landscape designer Mario Nievera’s
Manhattan pied-à-terre.
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28 Editor’s Page
By Margaret Russell
30 Mailbox
Our readers write
33 What’s Hot!
Dispatches from the world of design.
38 Bergdorf Goodman domesticates glamour. By Vicky Lowry
40 Williams-Sonoma Home hits the street. By Christy Hobart
42 Charlotte Moss celebrates her muses. By Kathleen Hackett
44 A Hollywood hotel gets a nip and tuck. By Tara Mandy
48 News flash
50 Trend Alert
Mocha has its moment; black and white unite. By Anita Sarsidi
54 Art
Kehinde Wiley mixes hip-hop with history. By David Colman
58 Designer’s Dozen
The 12 things Frank Gehry can’t live without.
By Julie V. Iovine
62 Truth in Decorating: The Ten Most Elegant Étagères
Designers Susan Forristal and Steven Gambrel check out how
the latest crop of freestanding shelves stack up. By Julie V. Iovine
66 Great Ideas
Sunrooms bring great style to light
68 Daniel’s Dish
A French classic rises to the occasion. By Daniel Boulud
80 ELLE DECOR Goes to Philadelphia
The City of Brotherly Love is undergoing a resurgence, with an
influx of young residents and cultural cachet. By Julie V. Iovine
150 Resources
Where to find it. By Molly Sissors
156 Etcetera
Cool coatracks take a strong stand. By Alison Hall
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Features
93 ELLE DECOR Style
94 Beauty and the Beach
Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber unite the casual with the
chic in their new Malibu house. By Catherine Ettlinger
106 Lord of the Fleas
John Derian finds inspiration—and the artful furnishings for his
Lower East Side flat—at the flea market. By David Colman
114 Bold Strokes
Updating an old-world Upper East Side townhouse, Miles
Redd makes glamour work for a young family. By David Colman
124 Shopping: Making a Statement
Graphic wallpapers endow any room with color and pattern,
not to mention attitude, on a large scale. By Anita Sarsidi
130 In a New Light
For a New York gallery owner and his family, country living
means a perfect union of art and nature. By Vicky Lowry
138 Small Change
Landscape designer Mario Nievera’s Manhattan pied-à-terre
is as ingenious as any of his grand gardens. By Nancy Hass
142 Clearing the Way
Peter Pennoyer and Katie Ridder restore a Park Avenue classic by reducing it to its essence. By Melissa Barrett Rhodes
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Clockwise from above: A
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a Park Avenue apartment
renovated by designer
Katie Ridder and architect Peter Pennoyer.
Roland and Kathleen
Augustine’s house in upstate New York. The
living room of a Manhattan townhouse decorated by Miles Redd.
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editor’s page
Designer Nate Berkus and
Ellen Rakieten, executive
producer of The Oprah
Winfrey Show, with me at
ELLE DECOR’ s Dining by
Design gala in Chicago.
Whydo so few people ever really
live in their living rooms or dine in
their dining rooms?
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set high above the Pacific, with all the rooms literally opening onto a deck or terrace, or focusing on
the breathtaking ocean views. Cindy describes her
family’s life there by saying, “We live outdoors as
much as in, and it’s always casual.”
But there’s hope even for those of us in an environment that’s not as easygoing and barefoot as the
beach. At her glamorous Upper East Side townhouse, young mother Liz Weinstein lives up to her
words: “I don’t believe in saving rooms for special
occasions.” As far as I’m concerned, she wins Wife
of the Year award as well. Because by installing the
pool table her husband, Steve, loved, in their loftlike drawing room, she practically guaranteed that
it would become everyone’s favorite hangout.
Don’t fret. I doubt regulation-size pool tables will
become the next must-have accessory, but I’m
crazy about Liz’s relaxed attitude and freewheeling spirit. And there’s no better trend than that.
Margaret Russell, Editor in Chief
[email protected]
ROBERT CARL
It’s insane: These areas are rarely small, and almost always have the most interesting and appealing art and
furniture in the house. I used to be guilty of this as well,
for when I was growing up, my family barely set foot in
the living room except to practice the piano or, during
the holidays, to gather around the tree. The dining
room fared even worse—it was shunned completely
save for Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas dinner.
In truth, my mother and father were somewhat to
blame, being keen on cool, spare, ’60s-modern furnishings (suitable strictly for perching, not napping)
instead of the cabbage-rose–covered, down-filled
sofas and chairs that every other house in our Connecticut town seemed to have. And although I appreciate the sleek chic of our furniture now, I truly
loathed it back then. But my parents loved it, so the
wasteful, pristine state of those cavernous spaces
was not a question of comfort, but a reflection of the
formality and custom of the time.
Sad, no? Yet the practice continues, with untouched,
uptight rooms spread across the country in houses
that grow bigger every year. So you can imagine
my delight when I visited the Malibu compound of
Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, where there
isn’t a corner that’s not put to use. It’s a magical place,
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Class Act
Wonderful article and pictures of the chic Park Avenue apartment designed by its owner (“In the Clear,”
December). Susan Chalom has an amazing eye: Her
place is minimal, yet warm. And her simplicity is classic. What an inspiration! Thank you for including a
feature for nonprofessionals such as myself.
Lyn Segal, Aspen, CO
Spelling It Out
From top: The living
room of Susan Chalom’s
Manhattan apartment.
The December cover.
The photographs of the American ambassador’s
residence in Helsinki (“Northern Exposure,” December) look great, but the distinguished architect you
refer to is Harrie T. Lindeberg, not Harry T. Lindberg,
as you had it. A copy of Domestic Architecture of
H.T. Lindeberg sits above my desk and has inspired
my work. As a librarian’s child, I cannot help but
comb texts with an editor’s eye.
Andrew Tullis, via e-mail
Village Vamp
Your feature on Candace Bushnell’s Greenwich Village apartment in the September issue (“Love at
First Sight”) was gorgeous. Her space exudes a sexy
and feminine character that I’d love to bottle and
bring to my apartment in Philadelphia.
Tracy Mack, Philadelphia, PA
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Greetings from Greece
I cherish the interiors you feature on your pages. I
would even call you a long-distance university of
good taste. Congratulations on a wonderful job.
Papasifakis Panagiotis, Athens, Greece
Holiday Blues
How sad that references in your magazine to the
holiday season have been reduced to one article
about shopping (“Frozen Assets,” December). Gone
are the days when shelter magazines celebrated
with beautiful spreads depicting families gathered
in celebration of Hanukkah and Christmas. The holidays have now been reduced to a few material trinkets that may be purchased to celebrate what?
The article doesn’t even say. I assume that you have
made a decision that it is politically incorrect to
write about such things.
Lisa Montague, via e-mail
Not at all. Until very recently, ELLE DECOR has been
published eight times a year, with a December/January issue, and few things are sadder than a Christmas tree cover in January. Our increase in frequency
to ten issues allows for a separate December publication; look for a more festive celebration of the
holiday season next year.
The Gift of Giving
Send Mailbox your letters—but keep them short and to
the point (we reserve the right to edit for length, clarity, and
style). The address: Mailbox, ELLE DECOR, 1633 Broadway, 41st
floor, New York, NY 10019; e-mail: [email protected].
I was extremely touched by your Editor’s Page in
November. I am the head of the President’s Club
of Vista Del Mar, a 98-year-old orphanage in Los
Angeles, and grew up in a truly charitable family that
taught me what you give comes back in so many
ways. I respect you for a fabulous magazine.
Janis Black, via e-mail
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FROM TOP: JOSHUA MCHUGH; SIMON UPTON
MARCH 2006
I want to express my deep admiration for ELLE DECOR,
my favorite design publication. You have such great
style! You consistently present top-quality articles
on decorating, furnishings, and architecture, and
the stories are always well written and photographed.
I very much like the genuine care and depth of feeling you show for the people featured, be it the designer or a client, and their homes. The blend of the
personal and professional is present, too, on the
Editor’s Page. It is exemplary and rare, and one more
reason why I keep reading your magazine. There
is much more to praise, but I’ll conclude by thanking you for your integrity. It is very much needed,
and welcome, these days.
Michael Feeley, via e-mail
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What’s Hot!
Dispatches from the world of design
Text by Julie V. Iovine
Produced by Anita Sarsidi
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Blue Plate Special
Ceramic artist Robert Dawson takes a
tried-and-true Wedgwood china pattern
and makes it new again by blowing up details and placing them off center around
the plates, adding dimension, depth, and
drama to this historic chinoiserie design.
The After Willow dinner plate costs $40,
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1 Back Splash
Don’t put this chaise longue against the
wall; it’s a standout. Designed by Richard
Frinier for Century Furniture, it evokes
shoji screens, raku pottery, and Frank
Lloyd Wright designs. Part of the 12-piece
Kyoto Leisure collection, it has a castaluminum frame with an aged finish;
measures 32" wide, 75" deep, and 34.5" high;
and costs $3,200 as shown. Call 800-8525552; centuryfurniture.com.
2 Light Work
Not since Jean Cocteau designed the ones
for his classic film La Belle et la Bête has
a sconce possessed such poetic flair. The
gold-plated, cast-bronze Appliqué Iris by
Objet Insolite resembles stylized plant
stalks, and measures 18.5" tall and 16.75"
wide. It costs $832 at Distant Origin. Call
212-941-0024; distantorigin.com.
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3 On a Roll
The Angel table by Mary Forssberg updates Deco and puts it on wheels. Sheathed
in hand-stained leather and inset with
shagreen, the diminutive table will elegantly
work in any room. Available at a height
of either 24" or 27", it has a 13" diameter,
comes in 15 colors, and sells for $4,100.
Call Bergdorf Goodman, 800-558-1855; or
Førssberg studio, 305-856-9590.
4 Pattern Play
Famed fabric house Boussac has found ingenious new ways to spread its patterns
around, including laminating some onto
lightweight plastic trays. Here, it’s Paloma,
designed by Jacques Grange in tribute to
Picasso and his daughter. The company’s
new home-accessories collection also
includes curtains, cushions, and serving
pieces in a variety of patterns and colorways. The tray is available in red and white
versions as well, and comes in two sizes,
15.75" by 20.5" for $130 and 10" by 15" for $95.
For store locations, call 212-213-3099.
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1 Lighter Brighter
Blu Dot, the Minneapolis-based furniture
firebrand, makes goods that have an immediate impact but also work hard. The
plywood-topped metal Strut table is typical—it’s as lean as a line drawing, but
has the tensile grace of a kite in flight.
Powder-coated in glossy red, the table
measures 90" long, 29" high, and 34.5"
wide, and costs $1,199. (A slightly smaller
size is also available.) Go to bludot.com.
2 Mirror Illusion
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What might appear to be the curvy
wrought-iron frame on a simple mirror
turns out to be loops that are hand-carved
out of mahogany. Designed by Anne-Marie
Midy for Casa Midy, the Loop mirror is 36"
high by 28" wide and sells for $1,610 at
Room. Call 212-226-1042; roomonline.com.
3 To Dye For
Rug and textile designer Madeline Weinrib
has always had a passion for old weavings. Now she’s investigating the possibilities of the ancient process of dyeing
yarns before weaving them, called ikat.
She has merged the traditional technique
with a sophisticated modern palette
in her new line of pillows, handwoven in
Uzbekistan. Each 12"-square cushion
costs $400 at ABC Carpet & Home. Call
212-674-1144; madelineweinrib.com.
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Transparency brings more to light, so why
not a lamp made entirely of clear glass,
including the shade? The Conran Shop
offers handblown lamps with one, two, or
three bubbles. The two-bubble version, far
left, is 20.5" tall and costs $525; the onebubble version stands 27.5" tall and is $325.
Call 866-755-9079; conran.com.
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top floor
Bergdorf Goodman
rethinks luxury for the home,
with new shops
and a magical restaurant
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BG, the new
restaurant designed by
Kelly Wearstler
on Bergdorf
Goodman’s
seventh floor.
A display of
innovative
table settings.
A new boutique with
items from Deyrolle
in Paris and decoupage platters by John
Derian. See Resources.
Vintage hotel
tableware and
serving pieces.
FROM TOP: ANNIE SCHLECHTER; JOSHUA MCHUGH (3)
The most dramatic dining room to open recently
in Manhattan bucks a trend—and might just create a new one. BG is neither in a swank hotel nor in
a fringe neighborhood that’s suddenly hot, but rather
on the seventh floor of Bergdorf Goodman, which
has been a mecca for luxury shopping since 1899.
In fact, the whole floor, which is devoted to the home,
just got a serious refresher with an injection of new,
high-end furnishings from around the world—proving that fashion stores are no longer just selling
clothes; they’re selling a lifestyle.
For her first project in New York, L.A.-based interior designer Kelly Wearstler gave BG, the restaurant which overlooks Central Park, a decidedly
residential feel by creating a series of salons rather
than one huge room. It’s a nod to the Beaux Arts building’s heritage: The Goodmans used to live two floors
above in a 16-room apartment. With a refined palette
of ivory, black, and gold, Wearstler has enlivened
the setting, which includes a swank bar, using hits
of unusual color: Leather-covered canopy bergères,
modeled after ones she saw in a Christie’s catalogue, are robin’s-egg blue; turquoise silk from De
Gournay, embellished with a chinoiserie design,
covers some walls; and avocado and mustard make
appearances, too. “We wanted to be true to Bergdorf
Goodman aesthetically, and we knew this wasn’t
going to be a minimal, white box,” says the store’s
CEO, Jim Gold. Adds Wearstler, “I wanted it to feel
fresh. It’s a room for people of all ages.”
The rest of the floor is divided into small boutiques
where the unusual reigns, with one-of-a-kind objects like perfectly preserved ostriches and peacocks from Deyrolle, the famed Parisian taxidermist;
whimsical, hand-painted stationery from Bernard
Maisner (with calligraphers on hand to address invitations); vintage books and entomological prints
from Jane Stubbs; exquisitely embroidered bedding by Leontine Linens; and a stash of vintage hotel
silver. “We want the floor to have a sense of discovery,” explains Gold, “as if you are shopping the stalls
of a luxury flea market.” Vicky Lowry
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A dining table
and chairs, and a
selection of tabletop accessories.
Suede, tweed, and cashmere in a living room
vignette at the new
Williams-Sonoma Home
store in Los Angeles.
Leather-upholstered seating
and ottomans.
See Resources.
A bedroom tableau.
The exterior of the store
on Beverly Boulevard.
Outof the Kitchen
After a mere 18 months, the Williams-Sonoma Home catalogue now
has a pop-up edition, a new shop in West Hollywood where all the
wares on its pages—and more—have sprung into three dimensions.
Located on Beverly Boulevard, just a stone’s throw from the Pacific
Design Center and around the corner from Robertson Boulevard’s upscale boutiques, the store is the first of a projected total of seven that
the company will have opened around the country within the next year.
The 18,500-square-foot space is laid out like a rambling but opulently luxurious traditional home. Two inviting leather stools sit in front
of a working fireplace, with highball glasses and a cut-crystal decanter
positioned nearby. All that’s missing is a dram of Scotch. And up the
large, gracious stairway, a bedroom is subtly evoked, right down to
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the Art Deco–style alarm clock perched on a bedside table. “We wanted
to create a store that was friendly, casual, and comfortable,” says Dave
DeMattei, president of emerging brands for the San Francisco–based
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. “Chuck Williams, founder of the company, welcomed people into the kitchen with a spirit of hospitality. We want to
welcome them into the rest of the house in the same way.”
The store is the ultimate reassurance for anyone who might hesitate
before phoning in an order for a sofa. See that same item at the store—
and try it out—and it’s far easier to commit. “You can come in and sit
in a leather chair while you flip through the catalogue and see what that
same chair will look like in plaid or linen,” says DeMattei. “The catalogue,
the store, and the website all work as one.” Christy Hobart
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With its first home store, Williams-Sonoma
brings its reputation for style to the rest of the house
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Far left: Charlotte Moss in her
East Hampton home, with fabrics and upholstery from her
premiere collection for Brunschwig & Fils. The Alice slipper
chair is upholstered in Monticello, and her evening coat and
the curtains are of Digby’s
Tent. Fabrics include, clockwise from left, Monticello in
two colors, Creek in two colors,
Daphne’s Mystery, and Vanessa’s Folly. See Resources.
Pattern Play
Moss’s study,
with walls and curtains in Zarafa.
From top: Moss’s new
wall coverings include
Daydream, shown in
two colors, Emily’s
Journey, and St. Barts.
The living room has a
sofa and a Lola chair
covered in Digby’s Tent.
In the dining room,
the walls, curtains,
and tablecloth are of
Daphne’s Mystery,
and the chairs are slipcovered in St. Barts.
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Picasso had Marie-Thérèse Walter, Andy Warhol had
the denizens of the Factory, and Marc Jacobs has
Sofia Coppola. Charlotte Moss, who has forged a
reputation for richly layered rooms long on both elegance and comfort, has a veritable salon of muses—
Edith Wharton, Jane Digby, and Lola Montez, to
name a few. In her first collection of upholstery, fabrics, and wall coverings for Brunschwig & Fils, Moss
honors the women, both famous and infamous, who
inspire her to, as she puts it, “live life large.”
“Edith Wharton ran upstream,” says Moss. “She
worked when it was unfashionable for women to do
so.” Her homage in fabric, Edith’s Reverie, evokes
the chinoiserie so popular in Wharton’s beloved
Paris. The Josephine sofa is named for the wife of
Napoleon, and the Sarah skirted armchair for Sarah
Bernhardt. Moss so loves the pattern of Digby’s Tent,
named for the 19th-century aristocrat who married
a Bedouin sheik, she had a coat made from it.
Moss has had a busy year, with the publication of
her latest book, Winter House, as well as the launch
of her new lines. But then, the Southerner has always
intertwined life and work. Her subtle wovens are
inspired by and named for the creeks, mountains,
and beaches she loves. A faux-bois pattern recalls
the alpine ridges of Highlands, North Carolina, while
Monticello, a damask of oak leaves and acorns,
reminds her of the hills around Thomas Jefferson’s
home in her native Virginia. Though she looks to the
past, her color wheel is decidedly current. Curry, sage,
aubergine, and citron predominate. “I strive to create emotion, passion, and atmosphere in a room,”
she says, “by borrowing from the past and pushing
to the future.” Kathleen Hackett
STILL LIFES: LEN LAGRUA; ALL OTHERS: JOSHUA MCHUGH
To inspire her first collection of furniture and fabrics,
Charlotte Moss looks to the women she admires
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Clockwise from left: The fabled Art Deco Sunset Tower
Hotel in Los Angeles, built
in 1929. Piero Morovich,
chef of the hotel’s Tower Bar
restaurant, with owner Jeff
Klein in the lobby. The
restaurant. See Resources.
A faded Deco beauty gets an extreme makeover and emerges as the Sunset Strip’s hottest venue
Jeff Klein has had a thing for hotels ever since
he was a child, when he would skip sightseeing tours with his family to wander such iconic
properties as the Ritz in Paris or Venice’s Cipriani. It fits, then, that the hotelier’s most recent acquisition is a Hollywood Art Deco icon
that looms over Sunset Boulevard. “When I
first saw the hotel, its architecture and history romanced me,” he says. “It wasn’t for
sale, but my business partner contacted the
owner and made it happen.”
Last fall, 18 months and $25 million later, the
hotel, which had been known for more than
a decade as the Argyle, reopened under its
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original name, Sunset Tower. And sightings
of everyone from Steven Spielberg and Sofia
Coppola to Oscar de la Renta and Anna Wintour
in the hotel’s walnut-paneled lobby and restaurant attest to its instant success.
Built in 1929 by architect Leland A. Bryant,
Sunset Tower was home to Howard Hughes,
Bugsy Siegel, and John Wayne, who kept a pet
cow in the penthouse. Liz Taylor, Frank Sinatra,
and Marilyn Monroe were also regulars. The
glamour lasted until the early ’70s, when the
property slipped into disrepair. In the late ’80s,
it was renovated, reopening as the St. James
Club. “They really messed up with all this
CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM: TIM STREET-PORTER (2); ROGER DAVIES
Hollywood Heights
A recently renovated guest room.
The living area of a
guest suite, with floorto-ceiling windows.
The Tower Bar.
A penthouse
bathroom.
The dining
room of the
Tower Bar.
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The reception area
of the hotel’s Argyle
Spa. See Resources.
fake Deco,” Klein says with a cringe. “They put
a Jetsons canopy on it and built these weird,
UFO-like cabanas. The real travesty, though,
was all the fake marble, the fake Erté. I knew
I’d have to rip everything out.”
Enter L.A.-based designer Paul Fortune, who,
after working on Marc Jacobs’s Paris apartment, was looking for a job closer to home. He
was drawn to the hotel: “Despite its amazing
location and history, the building had never
been a great jewel. I felt I could make it what
it always should have been.”
Klein wanted the place to be grown-up yet
sexy. “I also wanted it to feel clean and modern,”
he says. “The worst thing to me about something feeling old is it often feels dirty.” The collaborators drew inspiration from historic spots
such as Hollywood’s Musso & Frank and the
Hemingway Bar at the Ritz in Paris—as well
as the heyday of the hotel itself. Bugsy Siegel’s
ground-floor apartment, in what is now the
Tower Bar restaurant, was sheathed in walnut
inlaid with brass, so Fortune started with that.
“I used this great paneling salvaged from an
Amex boardroom,” he says.
From the beginning, there was pressure to
match the hotel’s wedding-cake exterior. “People kept saying, ‘You have to make it Deco,’”
Fortune recalls. “But to me, a Deco vibe can
come from colors and materials. I found a dustyrose fake suede for $19 a yard.” Swirling wood
grain, limestone floors, and Tibetan wool rugs
round out the look. Guest rooms feature baths
with vintage-style fittings and original floor-toceiling windows with bronze details. The spa
showcases a large terrace and a spacious
white marble hammam.
What’s immediately noticeable is a potent
sense of timelessness. Fortune feels it most
in the 80-seat restaurant, where chef Piero
Morovich serves up Italian-accented contemporary bistro cuisine. The place became a
power-dining scene within weeks of its opening. “Tom Ford and I are always fighting for the
same little banquette,” Fortune jokes. “The
piano player is right there, tinkling away—you
could be on the Normandie sailing across the
Atlantic or in L.A. in the ’40s.”
Klein sees his Sunset Tower as a response
to trendy boutique hotels. “I wanted to create a sense of permanence here,” he says.
“This place not only has history, but now has
the glamour of a Hollywood landmark without the formality and stuffiness. You don’t need
a dinner jacket to have a drink at the bar,” he
adds with a smile. Tara Mandy
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1 Dog Days
As much animal trainer and wit as artist,
William Wegman made Man Ray and Fay
Ray, his Weimaraners, nearly as famous as
their namesakes. But his 40-year retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum proves
he has lots more than one trick up his
sleeve. Man Ray Contemplating the Bust
of Man Ray. From March 10–May 28. Call
718-638-5000; brooklynmuseum.org.
2 Celtic Cool
Philip Treacy is known for his over-thetop hats, worn by everyone from Mick
Jagger to Camilla Parker Bowles. Not surprisingly, his first interior, the G hotel in
Galway, is as exuberant as a feathered
headdress, with 101 luxurious rooms done
up in bold hues and vivid patterns. Call
011-353-91-865-200; monogramhotels.ie.
3 Room Service
Worldware, a San Francisco fixture for
home furnishings, has moved to larger
quarters that allow for 14 room vignettes
stocked with global finds—from Chinese
lamps to furniture by Alexa Hampton.
At 301 Fell St. Call 415-487-9030.
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5 Desert Drama
Spectacular residences and gardens are
the focus of Marrakech: Living on the
Edge of the Desert (Images, $65), whose
lush color photographs capture one of
the world’s most magical places.
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4 Alpine Allure
Mountain-deprived Manhattanites can
now get cozy at Aspen, a new restaurant
and lounge where Lucite deer heads and
barn-wood paneling give the place the
look of a hip lodge. The menu warms
things up with fondue and bison sliders.
At 30 W. 22nd St. Call 212-645-5040.
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1 Marmotte silk twill jacket and
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Louis Vuitton from spring 2006.
2 Nouvelle Texture* cottonwool-viscose-polyester by
Stroheim & Romann. 3 Rural*
linen from Travers. 4 Velours
Bonaparte* polyester-cotton by
Nobilis. 5 Profilia* cottonviscose by Zimmer + Rohde.
6 Harris* viscose-cotton-linen by
Sanderson. 7 New Khmer* silk
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Urn steel lamp
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shade by
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Ellipse* polyestercotton by Pierre Frey.
Simplicity
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Chevron Print*
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Broadgate Stripe cotton
by Ralph Lauren Home.
Mandarin Flower
cotton-fleece
blanket by
Designers Guild.
Mystical Zebra
rug by Karastan.
Black +
White
The contrast of dark and light
has always been powerful, but
there’s no reason it can’t also
be pretty. Designers are reinventing the classic combo in
everything from delicate prints
to decorative flourishes, giving it a retro edge that evokes
1940s glamour. All that’s missing is a pair of kidskin gloves.
Radetzcky lacqueredwood screen
by Armani Casa.
Black and White
tole hatbox set
by Jane Gray for
Stray Dog Imports.
*Available to the trade only. See Resources.
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Kira jacquard-knit
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and giant-polka-dot
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from spring 2006.
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Kehinde Wiley’s fresh
take on history painting,
The Chancellor Seguier
on Horseback, 2005,
after a Charles Le Brun
classic. See Resources.
KehindeWiley
In his paintings, art history meets the street,
and classic poses take on provocative new meanings
The annual international art-fair spectacle known as Art Basel Miami
Beach established once and for all this past December that the tricky
intersection of art and commerce has become a 12-lane, six-way L.A.
freeway interchange complete with triple overpasses and doublecloverleaf ramps. Any minute now, we’re expecting a 37-car pileup.
In the current go-go climate, artists have responded with inflationary
tactics. Not just prices, but visuals—oversize glossy photographs, absurdist installations, cartoon-bright colors and graphics, all of which
seem to mimic the balloonacy of today’s market. With the money pouring in, few are willing to venture anything remotely close to a pinprick.
So Kehinde Wiley, whose paintings manage to comment on the
sticky issues of money, power, and status while maintaining a sublime
sense of history, mystery, and beauty, is a very welcome exception—
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which is why it’s so gratifying to see him also become the art world’s
latest sensation. With his most recent installation, “Rumors of War,”
which opened at New York’s Deitch Projects shortly before Miami Basel,
Wiley continued his practice of reconfiguring famous historical portraits. In these, he replaced the august subjects of Peter Paul Rubens’s
Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma and Jacques-Louis David’s
Bonaparte Crossing the Alps at Grand-Saint-Bernard with young,
urban black men, complete with football jerseys, Timberlands, and
baggy jeans. The scenes are embellished with beautiful decorative
patterns that fall, intriguingly, somewhere between historic rococo and
tacky aspirational wallpaper. Wiley even painted the gallery in the Grand
Salon colors of burgundy and deep teal (again raising the question of
proper versus tacky) and set up a faux gentleman’s club.
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST/DEITCH PROJECTS
By David Colman
Clockwise from top left: The artist
with his work at Deitch Projects.
Assumption, 2003. Napoleon
Leading the Army over the Alps,
2005, after Jacques-Louis David.
Female Prophet Anne, Who
Observes the Presentation of
Jesus on the Temple, 2003.
Immaculate Consumption, 2003.
St. John the Baptist Preaching,
2003. See Resources.
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As the show beautifully demonstrated, Wiley isn’t
afraid to tackle issues of class and race, carrying
on the tradition of other brilliant African-American
artists like Robert Colescott, Jean-Michel Basquiat,
and Fred Wilson, all of whom have managed to combine witty and plangent commentary with arresting
imagery. Wiley certainly has rights to the imagery he
uses, having grown up in South Central Los Angeles
in the ’80s, when gang violence and hip-hop music
were erupting into touchstones of American culture,
forging vital new models, good and bad, for powerstarved, status-hungry urban youth. Wiley was fortunate enough to have a mother who got her son into
free art classes, and even an art camp
in Russia sponsored by Michael Milken.
Wiley’s pedigree (a.k.a. his street
cred) has endeared him to the press
and collectors alike. But having grown
up in a world where status and wealth
were so clearly double-edged swords,
Wiley is as leery of success today as
when he was a youth. “We’d like to believe that art has no relationship to
commerce,” says the artist, 29, in his
busy Williamsburg studio. Attending
the frenzied Miami Basel fair, he explains, “really laid bare that these are
high-priced luxury goods for wealthy
consumers.” With rare candor, he
adds, “I think it’s very important that
artists recognize their position in society and incorporate that into the
conceptual fabric of the work. There’s
a specific vocabulary concerning power. I’ve not only reproduced it, but in
some sense I am critical of it, and complicit.”
If all this suggests that Wiley’s work is social commentary dressed up in pretty clothes, think again.
These are far from two-dimensional images. What
is affecting about the pictures is not merely how incongruous the young men are, but how alive, real,
poignant, and in an odd way, how natural.
While elements of his works are copied, his subjects are painted from life—Wiley trolls Harlem for
what he calls “guys with a kind of alpha-male sense
of style”—and it shows. The models, armed with
Wiley’s art history books, pick the portraits in which
they want to be reproduced (and for the opening
they were chauffeured to the gallery in limos).
The resulting works are more intimate than grandstanding, invoking the specters of ambition, achievement, and aspiration that bedevil everyone—black
and white, rich and poor. So if you’re in a position
to buy one, beware: The subject’s eyes tend to follow you around the room.
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1. ELLE DECOR’S DINING BY DESIGN SAN FRANCISCO
ELLE DECOR's Dining by Design San Francisco, presented by GE, was a fitting
finale to 2005's multicity event tour. With the San Francisco Bay as a backdrop, the
Fort Mason Center radiated glamour as guests dined and danced in support of
DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS).
Photo, from left: Michelle Crowe, senior writer, Banana Republic; Margaret Youngblood, senior creative
director, Banana Republic; Lisa Gotts, northwest sales manager, ELLE DECOR.
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ELLE DECOR co-hosted “Haute Hospitality,” an evening with interior designer
Dodd Mitchell, at the Ann Sacks showroom in Dallas. Mitchell was on hand to share
tips and trends inspired by the hospitality industry for your home decor.
Photo, from left: Evelyn DeWitt, administrative assistant; Pam Garnett, manager; Dana Weir, sales associate;
Nancy Judy, sales associate; Eddie Bickers, sales associate; all from Ann Sacks.
3. LEWIS MITTMAN SHOWROOM EVENT
Editor in Chief Margaret Russell and Steven Mittman, president of Lewis Mittman,
co-hosted a cocktail reception at the Lewis Mittman showroom in Manhattan to
celebrate the launch of Jamie Drake's new furniture collection.
4. DONGHIA WAREHOUSE SALE
ELLE DECOR co-hosted an exclusive preview of the much-anticipated annual Donghia
Warehouse Sale, which offered a wide array of furniture, as well as decorative and
upholstery fabrics, at the Puck Building in SoHo.
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Prince Louis-Albert de Broglie at the opening of the Deyrolle boutique at Bergdorf
Goodman, the first U.S. outpost of the famous one-of-a-kind taxidermy and curiosities
shop from Paris.
Photo: Prince Michael of Yugoslavia and Françoise de Broglie.
6. ddc HOLIDAY EVENT
ELLE DECOR guests mixed and mingled amid innovative furniture and accessories
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34th St. and Madison Ave. in New York.
Photo, from left: ddc partners Seemak Hakakian, Daniel Hakakian, and Babak Hakakian.
UPCOMING EVENTS
CLARKE’S SUB-ZERO WOLF “FREEZE” EVENT February 9
ELLE DECOR and Metropolitan Home present a design seminar hosted by Metropolitan
Home merchandising editor Jo-Anne Pier at the Boston Center for the Arts.
RECEPTION FOR THE BOMBAY SAPPHIRE ® GLASSWARE EXHIBIT AT THE
BOSTON DESIGN CENTER March 9
The U.S. winner of the Bombay Sapphire® Glassware Competition will be announced
at a special reception at the Boston Design Center. Visit designerglasscompetition.com
for more details.
ELLE DECOR’S DINING BY DESIGN NEW YORK
March 11–13, 2006
ELLE DECOR's signature program gears up for its ninth year with a weekend of events
in New York City. We're excited to announce GE as the presenting sponsor for the
second year, Lexus as the automotive sponsor of Dining by Design New York, and a
new venue: The Waterfront at 224 Twelfth Ave, between 27 th and 28th Streets.
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Frank
Gehry
12 things he can’t live without
By Julie V. Iovine
2. Falcon jet.
4. Vase for Tiffany & Co.
1. Jacob van Ruisdael’s The Jewish Cemetery, at
the Detroit Institute of Arts.
2. Falcon private jets. I wish someone would
ask me to design one.
3. Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. I
read it, I listen to it on tapes—it’s my bible.
4. My new pieces for Tiffany.
5. Drawing with a Pilot Extra Fine Point pen
on a Seth Cole Bristol two-ply plate pad.
5. Pilot pen and
Seth Cole pad.
6. Free weights. As long as they’re set up by
T.R., my trainer for the past decade.
7. Soba noodles.
7. Soba noodles, even though they’re not on
my diet.
At 77, Frank O. Gehry is at the top of his game. His acclaimed design
for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, not only altered the
economy of an entire city but also triggered a museum building boom
the world over. For the past decade, he has easily maintained his status as the world’s most renowned architect by topping one innovative
building with another, from the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles
to the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago’s Millennium Park and, currently
under construction, the Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance.
Yet he still worries about what’s next in his own life, and praise makes
him nervous. In fact, Gehry has always preferred the role of struggling
artist to that of celebrated genius. Perhaps as a result, he can now add
something entirely different to his repertoire: jewelry and tabletop designs, with six collections for Tiffany & Co. about to debut. “I never in
my wildest dreams thought I’d be working for Tiffany,” he admits, “but
once I got started, it was so seductive. Now I’m up to my eyeballs.”
The pieces are the result of a two-year exchange with Tiffany’s artisans, the kind of hands-on collaboration that Gehry values most. “At
this point in my life, I didn’t expect it to be so exciting,” he says. Experimentation and working with others, it turns out, are essentials for
the architect. Plus a pad and a pen for sketching ideas.
9. Sculpture
by Ken Price.
8. The FOG hockey team.
8. The FOG hockey team: What started out as
our office team is now semiprofessional, and
I’m not good enough to play on it anymore.
9. Ken Price sculptures.
10. The Hereditary Disease Foundation in
Santa Monica, founded by my former therapist and old friend, Milton Wexler.
11. Classical concerts, especially by Emanuel
Ax, Mitsuko Uchida, and Hélène Grimaud.
12. Worry—especially about my kids. I worry
so much, I must like it.
11. Classical music
by Emanuel Ax.
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The10Most Elegant Étagères
Susan Forristal and Steven Gambrel take stock of the latest
freestanding shelves to see how they stack up
Text by Julie V. Iovine · Photography by William A. Boyd Jr. · Produced by Alison Hall
The very word sounds so continental, so suave, so Marie Antoinette
at Le Petit Trianon. But what exactly is an étagère? In French, it simply means shelf. And for such a ubiquitous and popular piece, it actually doesn’t have much of a historic pedigree. The great American
doyennes of fine furnishings, Edith Wharton and Elsie de Wolfe, had
barely a word to say about these open-sided shelves. There is no “correct” way to use them, but that only makes them more liberating and
versatile. They seem to come in every size and style (the images on
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the next page are not to scale), so be sure to measure where you’re considering placing one, whether it’s in the dining room to showcase a collection of objects, to store stacks of towels in a guest bath, or as a pair
to flank a doorway. Susan Forristal, an interior decorator who likes
furniture with strong, graphic shapes, and Steven Gambrel, a designer with a penchant for elegance energized with strong color, size
up ELLE DECOR’s selection of étagères that can stretch space and
add a dash of concentrated style like no other piece of furniture.
HAIR AND MAKEUP: MAYSOON FARAJ FOR YVES DURIF SALON
Designers Steven Gambrel and
Susan Forristal measure the
merits of étagères by Councill,
left, and Stickley. See Resources.
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1 ÉTAGÈRE BY JOHN
BLACK FOR COUNCILL
“Nice spirit!” exclaims
Gambrel. “The construction is
so fine it looks custom made.
In a bold color, it could add a
real hit of energy.” Forristal
also likes its sturdiness, but
sees it more in a supporting
role. “I’d put one on either side
of a door and paint them the
color of the walls to add architectural interest,” she says.
2 TALESAI STORAGE
ÉTAGÈRE
BY BERNHARDT
3 SHEFFIELD SHELVING
UNIT FROM
THE CONRAN SHOP
“This one may be huge,” says
Forristal, “but it doesn’t clobber you on the head with its
Asian look. It even guides
you on how to arrange whatever goes into it.” Gambrel
prefers it in a hallway rather
than in a central place,
adding, “Imagine the impact
if it held a single collection.”
“What’s not to like!” proclaims
Forristal. “This is a classic,
ideal for a loft or home office. It
could take a lot off your desk.”
Gambrel calls it “seriously
industrial,” with its rubber
wheels, sturdy shelves, and
easy-to-clean surfaces. “It’s a
real working piece,” he adds,
“great for a stylish kitchen.”
Height: 79.5"; width: 32"; depth:
18"; material: maple in oyster finish (other finishes available) with
brass drawer pull; delivery: 10–12
weeks; price: $2,660
Height: 76"; width: 55"; depth:
18"; material: hardwood in blackcurrant finish with antique-brass
hardware; delivery: 3–6 weeks;
price: $1,200
Height: 71"; width: 39"; depth:
16"; material: stainless steel with
rubber wheels; delivery: 5–7 days;
price: $1,250
6 ANGLED ÉTAGÈRE
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INSPIRED ÉTAGÈRE BY
CAROLE GRATALE
8 METROPOLITAN
FIVE-TIER ÉTAGÈRE
BY STICKLEY
“As sculptural as a pedestal,”
says Gambrel. “A pair would
look amazing in a dining
room with bowls or platters
that contrast with the dark
wood.” Forristal sees it as
more rustic: “I’d love it overflowing with ferns. To me, it’s
pure English country house.”
“The essence of classic modern,” declares Forristal. “It’s
so understated even a pair
wouldn’t overwhelm a room.”
Gambrel raves as well:
“Exactly what I think of when
I think étagère. Its height
and scale, the brass and
mahogany, make it a useful
and glamorous piece.”
“Its diminutive scale says
upstairs,” says Gambrel. “Perfect for a bedroom or bath.
And I love the nickel socks.”
Forristal points out that
though it might be too small
for a grand room, “it has a
show-off finish and would be
stunning in a dressing room.”
Height: 72"; width: 24.5"; depth:
24.5"; material: solid beech in
aged European-umber finish with
brushed-nickel sockets; delivery:
4–6 weeks; price: $1,750
Height: 96"; width: 36"; depth:
14"; material: polished-brass
frame with mahogany shelves
(other materials available); delivery: 10–12 weeks; price: $12,600
Height: 52.5"; width: 19"; depth:
13"; material: solid cherry with
walnut inlay in Saratoga finish
(other finishes available) with
nickel sockets; delivery: 4 weeks;
price: $1,212
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BY ROOM & BOARD
5 TWIG ÉTAGÈRE
BY CRATE & BARREL
“Delicate without being dainty,” Forristal pronounces. “It
has a nice depth to it, which
makes it practical.” Gambrel
finds the generous spacing between shelves ideal
for electronics, but also suggests, “The price is so low,
why not buy a few, coat them
in auto paint to make them
pop with color, and use them
to hold the kids’ treasures?”
“I like this one’s weathered
look,” says Gambrel. “Try
putting it where it will be an
inspiration, like in a teenager’s bedroom, hung with jewelry.” Forristal appreciates its
scale. “It’s just the thing for
a tiny apartment. It can jazz
up any small space,” she
says. “Loaded with plants, it
can even turn a kitchen corner into a slice of sunroom.”
Height: 72"; width: 24"; depth:
15"; material: steel with clearlacquer finish; delivery: 3 weeks;
price: $299
Height: 68.5"; width: 18.5"; depth:
18.5"; material: wrought iron in
painted-rust finish; delivery: 1–2
weeks; price: $299
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BY PIERCEMARTIN
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BY PLEXI-CRAFT
Forristal terms this one
“definitely a statement piece.
It’s like an Industrial Age
antique. The iron posts look
as strong as trees.” Gambrel
agrees. “This has a handwrought look perfect for the
country,” he says. “And the
tall middle section is spacious enough to hold a television set, which is rare.”
“It’s small but it’s snappy,”
jokes Gambrel. “So small
that I see it floating on a wall,
perhaps in a children’s room
above a chest of drawers
and stocked with a collection
of Nancy Drew or Hardy
Boys books.” Forristal prefers
it in another room: “It would
be perfect in an entry or a
bathroom. It’s meant to hold
a lot of stuff and disappear.”
Height: 82"; width: 42.5"; depth:
24"; material: hand-forged iron in
rust finish (other finishes available) with glass shelves; delivery:
4–6 weeks; price: $6,520
Height: 50"; width: 18"; depth:
8"; material: acrylic; delivery: 3–4
weeks; price: $340
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GOAT CHEESE SOUFFLÉ WITH DRIEDFRUIT MARMALADE
An individual goat cheese soufflé, served
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For the soufflé:
8 T unsalted butter, softened
1/4 cup bread crumbs
1/4 cup finely grated dry-aged goat cheese
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
11/2 cups milk
1 tsp. salt, plus a pinch
1/2 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
Pinch of cayenne pepper
Freshly ground black pepper
6 eggs, separated
2 cups fresh goat cheese
2 egg whites
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A cheese soufflé, that classic of French cuisine,
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For all its drama, making a soufflé is a relatively simple process, though a bit of a fearful
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the egg whites at the last minute. Butter the
baking dish well and cover it thickly with bread
crumbs, which helps the soufflé rise. Baked
in individual dishes, it will rise even higher. But
even if a soufflé falls, it will still be delicious.
Soufflés can be made with all kinds of cheeses, but I particularly like this goat cheese one.
My family owned 60 goats, so I practically grew
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top of the soufflé with a bit of grated Comté or
Gruyère just before baking.
For an accompaniment I suggest a mélange
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of endive, radicchio, frisée, and escarole, fortified with croutons, toasted walnuts, and perhaps some apple and pear slices. I’ve supplied
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Proud of its historic past, but no longer bound by outmoded traditions,
the city is experiencing a renaissance of creativity and entrepreneurial energy
If you haven’t been to the City of Brotherly Love lately, it’s time to recharge
your impressions. There’s far more to the city than the elementaryschool trip with pit stops at the Liberty Bell and Ben Franklin’s digs
would indicate, or even a pilgrimage to see the Postimpressionists at
the Philadelphia Museum of Art (the country’s third largest). The serious history and art are all still there, of course, but today Philadelphia
is percolating with a more youthful sensibility that’s both cosmopolitan
and neighborly. It’s a welcome paradox: a kind of Madrid on the Delaware
River, rich in history but liberally sprinkled with outcroppings of experimental new culture, ambitious student life, and cunning luxury-condo
developers poised to profit from the city’s new energy.
For far too long Philadelphia was the East Coast’s shrinking violet.
Proud of its Founding Fathers legacy but plagued by a more recent
reputation for urban malaise (notoriously capped by the bombing of a
houseful of radicals in 1985), Philadelphia has struggled to rise above
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York. But the truth that Philadelphia is a most livable city in its own right
has dawned on a new generation of enthusiastic transplants, both emptynesters relocating from the suburbs and artists fleeing New York prices.
Call it newly hip or historically revolutionary; just don’t call it the sixth
borough of New York City. Last summer, The New York Times published an article noting “Philadelphia’s Brooklynization,” and local hackles were raised. “We’ve spent a long time in the shadows,” says Hilary
Jay, director of the Design Center at Philadelphia University, which exhibits and supports local talent, including graduates of the city’s seven
design schools. “But Philadelphians are beginning to understand we
have our own particularities, our own gems, and our own style.”
The winds of change are definitely in the air. Gary Rivlin, owner of
the upscale furnishings store Usona, arrived from Russia 18 years
ago. “In the past seven years,” he says, “everything has really
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The interior of the
furniture and design store Usona.
A lunch counter
at the Reading
Terminal Market.
The Presidential
suite at the
Rittenhouse hotel.
Eighteenthcentury rowhouses
on Society Hill.
Verizon Hall at the
Kimmel Center, designed by Rafael Viñoly.
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changed. Back then, downtown was tough, and nothing was open
after 6 P.M. Now it’s a real 24-hour city.”
Visitors would do well to start in Washington Square or nearby Rittenhouse Square, two of the five original urban parks created by city
founder William Penn to reflect the city’s aspirations to become a new
urban arcadia. Their mature trees, wrought-iron fences, and stately
mansions reek of historic glory while still reflecting Philadelphia’s new
vitality. In other words, many of those old piles contain hip new stores,
like the 1896 Beaux Arts stunner at the corner of Walnut and 18th
streets, the former home of financier Alexander van Rensselaer, now
the flagship of the bohemian clothing chain Anthropologie, with much
of the original interior detailing quirkily restored. Then stop in at La
Colombe. The mood of the 12-year-old café and roaster (which supplies beans to Manhattan’s Le Bernardin and restaurant Daniel) is
cosmopolitan and upbeat—call it noninvasive Euro-chic.
Just east, closer to the Delaware River, are the oldest parts of the
city, including Society Hill, Independent National Historical Park (an
L-shaped swatch of green chockablock with landmarks), and Old City
itself. The whole area, where the city grid is squeezed between the
Schuylkill and the Delaware rivers, is a dream for wanderers. Cobbled
streets are lined with narrow redbrick houses stitched together with
back alleys and the occasional carriage house. On corners here and
there are old storefronts converted into BYOB restaurants, simple but
crowded little eateries without liquor licenses, where ambitious chefs
experiment. In Old City, Third Street is lined with design shops selling
everything from wares by local artisans to the latest in Italian minimalism. History is always just around the corner, whether it’s the Free
Quaker Meeting House at Fifth and Arch streets, built in 1783, where
Betsy Ross meditated (on alternate flag motifs, perhaps) or the lovely
moss-and-stone Christ Church burial ground, Ben Franklin’s last stop.
On certain Fridays, Old City is anything but sleepy, however. First
Fridays have become a popular tradition. Some 40 galleries, shops,
and restaurants throw open their doors, serve drinks, play music, and
otherwise turn the streets into a sprawling cocktail party. Nearby at 138
Market Street, the Continental Restaurant and Martini Bar, a Sinatraesque lounge located in a former diner, is always thronged. It was the
first of many scene restaurants opened in the city by Stephen Starr,
Philadelphia’s answer to Manhattan’s Jeffrey Chodorow. The Continental was an instant hit in 1995, credited by many as a turning point
for Old City. “I have this big bang theory about what’s happening in
Philadelphia,” says Starr, who grew up in South Jersey but visited the
city often (“A lot more interesting than hanging out in Asbury Park,” he
jokes). “When the condos started to explode, it created motivation for
people like me to make the next move. The city has the same DNA as
New York, the same well-traveled people with money who are hungry
for new experiences. For a long time there was a void where it should
have been fun. Then things started to happen. And now the city feels
fresh.” So fresh, in fact, Starr is exporting two of his most popular Philadelphia restaurants, Morimoto and Buddakan, to Manhattan.
But it takes more than a hot meal to make a city hum, and in other
regards Philadelphia has also kept pace. Not only does the public transportation system run smoothly and extensively, but the city has brought
back one of its 1940s trolley lines. Even more ambitious and hightech, plans are in the works to make Philadelphia the nation’s largest
citywide wireless Internet zone. On the cultural front, there’s plenty
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Raise a toast to First Fridays. Once a
month, Old City holds a community
cocktail party as 40 galleries and shops
open their doors and serve refreshments
to celebrate the neighborhood’s comeback (625-9200; oldcityarts.org).
Paddle your own canoe, or at least drive
along the Schuylkill Expressway, to get the
money shot of Boathouse Row, the cluster
of Victorian structures just north of the
equally romantic Fairmount Water Works,
an 1815 dam dressed as Grecian temples.
Visit the Reading Terminal Market
(922-2317; readingterminalmarket.org),
with some 76 vendors, offering Fisher’s
soft pretzels, pork sandwiches, raw
oysters, and organic produce. Open
every day but Sunday.
Stroll Rittenhouse Square, one of five
squares designated by city founder
William Penn. Don’t miss the Mütter
Museum of medical curiosities nearby.
Smell the flowers. The famed
Philadelphia Flower Show (988-8899;
theflowershow.com), America’s largest,
takes place March 5–12.
What to See
Barnes Foundation, 300 N. Latch’s Ln.,
Merion, 610-667-0290; barnesfoundation.org: See this eccentric “teaching”
collection, loaded with masterworks, in
its original house setting, before it
moves to Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Christ Church, 20 N. 2nd St., 922-1695;
oldchristchurch.org: Ben Franklin and
four other signers of the Declaration of
Independence are buried in the churchyard of this gloriously plain chapel.
Eastern State Penitentiary, 2124
Fairmount Ave., 236-3300; easternstate.org: Once a model of Quaker-style
reform through architecture, it’s now
everyone’s favorite ruin and a setting for
new art installations.
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The Fabric Workshop and Museum,
1315 Cherry St., 568-1111; fabricworkshopandmuseum.org: New textile
works by artists such as Anish Kapoor,
Robert Kushner, and Mona Hatoum.
Franklin Court, 316–322 Market St.,
597-8974; nps.gov/inde/Franklin_Court:
Ben’s house is gone but memorialized
by a “ghost house” and an underground
museum designed by Robert Venturi.
Franklin Institute, 222 N. 20th St., 4481200; sln.fi.edu: Science and technology
made accessible with interactive displays such as a walk-through heart.
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts,
260 S. Broad St., 790-5800; kimmelcenter.org: The city’s answer to New York’s
Lincoln Center, designed by Rafael
Viñoly, includes an all-wood concert hall
in the shape of a cello.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, 118 N. Broad St., 972-7600;
pafa.org: The country’s oldest art museum; American masterpieces in a
famed Frank Furness building.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600
Benjamin Franklin Pkwy., 763-8100;
philamuseum.org: One of the great
American museums. Its holdings range
from rare Asian artifacts to Duchamp’s
shocking Étant Donnés.
Richards Medical Research Building,
3700 Hamilton Walk: An early work of
Philly native Louis Kahn, ironically his
only building in the city.
Where to Stay
Alexander Inn, 301 S. 12th St., 923-3535;
alexanderinn.com: Located in a historic 1901 building, with 48 rooms that
evoke an Art Deco ocean liner.
Four Seasons, 1 Logan Sq., 963-1500;
fourseasons.com: Reliable luxury, centrally located and recently renovated in
an updated Philadelphia Federal style.
The Rittenhouse, 210 W. Rittenhouse
Sq., 546-9000; rittenhousehotel.com:
This is where Tom Hanks stayed while
filming Philadelphia; it has the largest
rooms in town, a spa, and the Lacroix
restaurant, with modern French food.
The Ritz-Carlton, 10 Ave. of the Arts,
523-8000; ritzcarlton.com: In the heart
of Center City, this stately landmark has
299 tasteful rooms and all the amenities.
Thomas Bond House, 129 S.
2nd St., 923-8523; winston-salem-inn.com/philadelphia: The 12 rooms
in this restored 1769 townhouse in Old
City feature Chippendale furniture.
Where to Eat
Amada, 217–219 Chestnut St., 6252450; amadarestaurant.com: Tapas,
a wide range of cured meats, and
even garlic dulce de leche, all served
in a minimalist setting.
Barclay Prime, 237 S. 18th St., 7327560; barclayprime.com: A mod steak
house with a cozy bar. Try the two-bite
Kobe sliders or veal porterhouse.
Dmitri’s, 795 S. 3rd St., 625-0556:
One of the city’s first BYOB restaurants, beloved for its grilled octopus
with green olives.
Fork, 306 Market St., 625-9425;
forkrestaurant.com: The menu at this
relaxed American bistro changes
daily, but the sophisticated take on
Continental cuisine remains consistent.
La Colombe, 130 S. 19th St., 563-0860;
lacolombe.com: A popular café off
Rittenhouse Square, where the coffee
is as good as the people-watching.
Matyson, 37 S. 19th St., 564-2925;
matyson.com: One of the few BYOB
spots open for lunch, with seafood stew and homemade ice cream.
Mercato, 1216 Spruce St., 985-2962:
This neighborhood favorite with an open
kitchen serves steak and pasta classics.
Morimoto, 723 Chestnut St., 413-9070;
morimotorestaurant.com: Famed “Iron
Chef” Masaharu Morimoto left New
York’s Nobu to serve oyster foie gras
and tempura in Gorgonzola sauce here.
Tria, 123 S. 18th St., 972-8742; triacafe.com: Beers and ales from around
the world are a specialty of this casual
café, which is popular with the locals.
Where to Shop
Belle Maison, 4340 Main St., 482-6222;
bellemaisononline.com: A wide range
of vintage and new French imports, including painted armoires, wrought-iron
benches, and colorful enamelware.
Flotsam + Jetsam, 149 N. 3rd St., 3519914; flotjet.com: An idiosyncratic mix
of antiques and contemporary works.
Foster’s Urban Homeware, 124 N. 3rd
St., 267-671-0588; shopfosters.com:
High and low, and a bit of everything in
between, from Iittala to local artisans.
Gallery 339, 339 S. 21st St., 731-1530;
gallery339.com: Contemporary photography by new talents from Europe
and Japan, and even Philadelphia.
John Alexander, 10–12 W. Gravers Ln.,
242-0741; johnalexanderltd.com: A stellar collection of British Arts and Crafts
and Aesthetic Movement furniture.
Joseph Fox Bookshop, 1724 Sansom
St., 563-4184; foxbookshop.com: The
archetypal independent bookstore,
known for its art and architectural tomes.
Matthew Izzo, 1109 Walnut St., 8290606; matthewizzo.com: Midcentury
furniture and chic women’s fashions.
Moderne Gallery, 111 N. 3rd St., 9238536; modernegallery.com: Postwar
marvels, strong on George Nakashima
and Wharton Esherick pieces.
Petulia’s Folly, 1710 Sansom St., 5691344; petuliasfolly.com: Inside the carved
African doors, trendy fashions (Hollywould
and Nicole Farhi) mix with housewares.
Usona, 113 S. 16th St., 496-0440;
usonahome.com: Two floors of sophisticated contemporary furniture and
tabletop accessories, plus artworks.
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sliding doors transform the Manhattan pied-àterre of landscape designer Mario Nievera.
Roland and Kathleen Augustine find the challenge in building a country house is achieving
the perfect balance of walls and glass. Katie
Ridder and Peter Pennoyer rescue a grand
Park Avenue apartment by taking it back to its
roots, while Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber
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BEAUTY AND
THE BEACH
WITH THE HELP OF DESIGNER MICHAEL SMITH, CINDY CRAWFORD
AND RANDE GERBER CREATE A HOUSE IN MALIBU
THAT MERGES HIS PENCHANT FOR PURITY WITH HER LOVE OF TRADITION
TEXT BY CATHERINE ETTLINGER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY SIMON UPTON
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Facing page: Rande Gerber and Cindy
Crawford in their Malibu, California,
home, designed by Michael S. Smith;
the architect is Oscar Shamamian of
Ferguson & Shamamian Architects.
This page: The infinity pool overlooks
a private beach and the Pacific; the
landscape design is by Rios Clementi
Hale Studios. See Resources.
In the living room, custom-made teak sofas
upholstered in Jim Thompson’s Thai Silk IV flank
a pair of tables by Charles Jacobsen; above
the fireplace is a photograph of Crawford by
Herb Ritts. The Kay floor lamp is by Christophe
Delcourt from Ralph Pucci International, the
Evreux pendant lights are by Vaughan, and the
bamboo matting is by Patterson, Flynn & Martin.
Facing page: The 1860s Anglo-Indian armchair
in the hall, which is paved with Turkish travertine,
is from Ann-Morris Antiques. See Resources.
After they married seven years ago, Cindy Crawford and
Rande Gerber settled into her Manhattan apartment, then
moved to her house in Los Angeles. His bachelor pad in
Malibu became a weekend retreat. But now they’ve decided to live at the beach full-time. “This is the first place
we’ve done together,” she says. “This is our married house.”
It’s perched on a precipice overlooking the Pacific, and
though the property, which slopes down to a private beach,
is grand even by Hollywood standards, the house, the result
of five years of planning, building, and decorating, exudes warmth and welcome. “We wanted to live like we
were at a resort, so we tried to think of everything we love
about our beach vacations,” says Crawford, barefaced
and barefoot, in jeans and a T-shirt.
Their life is focused on the outdoors, and so is the house.
All the principal rooms have pocket doors that remain
open, weather permitting, leading to ample decks and an
infinity pool. “When you live on the beach, you use it,” explains Crawford, who sets up there for the day with Gerber
and their children, Presley, 6, and Kaia, 4. “We feel like
we’re on a perpetual vacation. Our kids are in the pool five
times a week. We live outdoors as much as in, and it’s always casual—we are a no-coaster household.”
Gerber, who owns restaurants, clubs, and bars, has an
office nearby, and Crawford works from home. In fact, she
rarely makes the hour drive into Los Angeles more than
twice a week. They have everything they need in the house,
from a fully loaded gym to a screening room and a basement “club” for entertaining. “Rande wants our house to be
the place where everyone, including our kids’ friends,
wants to come,” says Crawford, who loves to cook and have
friends for dinner. “We have drinks around the fire pit on the
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In the cabana, a 19th-century Chinese lantern
purchased at auction, rattan lounge chairs by
Bielecky Brothers, and a Ming cocktail table
by Michael S. Smith Reproduction Furniture.
Facing page, clockwise from top: Crawford
and her daughter, Kaia, by the pool. The
1850s Chinese bookcase in the entry is from
Belgium, the 19th-century Chinese blacklacquer scroll table is from J. F. Chen, and the
Moroccan wool rug is from Mansour. The
front door, which is flanked by hand-carved
Moroccan mahogany panels, is reached by
walking over a shallow pool. See Resources.
The Evan armchairs in the dining room are
by Michael S. Smith Reproduction Furniture,
the circa-1820s British copper ball lantern
is from Ann-Morris Antiques, and the ceiling
is papered in white-gold leaf; the multimedia
work, Scholars Rocks, is by Nancy Lorenz.
Facing page: The family room’s Bond Street
sofa by Donghia is upholstered in a John
Robshaw cotton-linen, the 18th-century
Lombardian mirror is from Amy Perlin
Antiques, and the Tribeca fan is by Hunter
Fan Co.; the Industrial light pendants and
the Cargo fixtures above the kitchen island
are by Urban Archaeology. See Resources.
“WE FEEL LIKE WE’RE ON A PERPETUAL VACATION,” SAYS
CINDY CRAWFORD. “OUR KIDS ARE IN THE
POOL FIVE TIMES A WEEK. WE LIVE OUTDOORS AS MUCH AS
IN, AND IT’S ALWAYS CASUAL—
WE ARE A NO-COASTER HOUSEHOLD”
deck, and if it’s warm enough, we eat outside. If not, we
move to the dining room. But we always end up out by the
fire. We want people to feel like they don’t want to leave.”
Yet Crawford and Gerber came to the project with very
different ideas. “Rande is edgy, modern, and Armaniesque, and I prefer a cozier, more romantic feeling,” says
Crawford. “He hates the traditional Oriental rugs I love, and
would have just carpeted the whole place. We each had
to step out of our safety zones and find something we both
liked.” For help they turned to interior designer Michael S.
Smith, an old friend of Crawford’s who had collaborated
with her on her previous places. He helped reconcile their
tastes and had a few opinions of his own, too.
He put the couple in touch with architect Oscar Shamamian,
who came up with a structure that Crawford characterizes
as “like a sugar plantation in the tropics,” part Colonial
(classic proportions, clean lines), part Caribbean (indooroutdoor living, tropical materials). What draws the two
styles together, according to Shamamian, is the use of simple elements—dark wood, light plaster walls, and stone
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The mid-20th-century rugs by
the Beni Ouarain tribe in the
master bedroom are from
Brooke Pickering Moroccan
Rugs, and the curtains are of
Rural linen from Travers; the
bed is dressed with linens by
Nancy Koltes. See Resources.
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In a guest bedroom, panels of Jasper
hemp by Michael S. Smith frame a view
of the ocean; the chair is antique, and
the 19th-century inlaid dresser is Indian.
Facing page, clockwise from top left:
Umbrellas by Santa Barbara Designs
and X chairs by McGuire on the terrace. The master bathroom’s Town bath
and sink fittings are by Michael S. Smith
for Kallista. In another guest room,
a rope bed by John Himmel has shams
and a coverlet by John Robshaw; the
Slatted Ships bedside table is by Michael
S. Smith Reproduction Furniture. A Peter
Beard photograph dominates a wall of
the sitting room; the vintage cocktail
table is from ABC Carpet & Home, the
Kolom hanging light is by Kevin Reilly
from Holly Hunt, and the bisque-porcelain
vases are by J. F. Chen. See Resources.
floors—in intimate rooms that stand in contrast to the
larger-than-life ocean views they emphasize. As soon
as the front door opens, you can see through the doubleheight entry to the sea and sky beyond. “We had the
house feng shui’d,” says Crawford, “and it turned out
that the good that came in flowed right out the other side.”
So now a round table, originally from Crawford’s New
York apartment, stands sentry in the hall.
“This house is a hybrid,” says Smith. “Cindy’s need for
warmth and comfort permeates the place, but Rande’s
need for drama and sequence makes it memorable.”
The challenge was to convey spareness and simplicity
while keeping the design earthy and romantic. Smith accomplished this by limiting the use of patterns, choosing
quality pieces versus “fancy stuff,” and allowing the architectural details to speak for themselves. In the living room,
for example, the recessed squares in the stone around
the fireplace add an elegant element, as do shuttered doors
in the bar and the carved moldings in the master bath. A
white-gold–leaf ceiling in the dining room and bamboo
shades in nearly every room let light play capriciously.
The house reveals itself over time. “It may seem like a
one-note idea of a wood-and-white,” says Smith, “but it’s
not. It’s complex and sophisticated. You’re forced into
taking a second look.” Each time you do, you discover
another layer—subtly textured fabrics or Venetian plaster on a wall that adds a quiet sheen, an earthy color on the
ceiling, unusual Moroccan rugs that have a sense of history
but are still beach-appropriate, curtains that can transform a sunny room into a virtual tent. “The house is bigger than the sum of its parts,” concludes Smith.
“We all nudged, pushed, fought, and inspired each other,” says Crawford of the three-way collaboration. “And
the house is so much better for our family because of it.”
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The living room of decoupage
artist John Derian’s Lower East
Side apartment; a vintage boat
fender is used as an ottoman,
and the sisal rug is from ABC
Carpet & Home. The large
mirror is early-20th-century
French from Rooms & Gardens,
and the photograph, Golden
Screen, is by Derian’s friend
Jack Pierson. See Resources.
LORD OF
THE
FLEAS
FOR JOHN DERIAN, FLEA MARKETS
AREN’T MERE DIVERSIONS—THEY SHAPE HIS WORK AND
LIFE, INCLUDING HIS APARTMENT
WHERE, LITERALLY, NOTHING IS NEW
TEXT BY DAVID COLMAN · PHOTOGRAPHY BY WILLIAM WALDRON
PRODUCED BY ANITA SARSIDI
During the late-1990s tech boom, when fortunes
were made speculating that people would shop
online only for name-brand merchandise, many
sneered at eBay, the auction website, dismissing it
as nothing more than a dubious schlockfest for the
gullible, the sentimental, and the taste-challenged.
We all know what happened there. But the greater
irony is that, because of the way eBay is set up—
you have to search for items using words more than
eyes—name-brand merchandise is, in fact, the easiest kind to find and one of the fastest-growing categories on the site. If you don’t know what you’re
looking for, you’re better off at the flea market.
If the apartment of New York decoupage artist John
Derian is any indication, you’re better off at the flea market anyway. Derian has never been on eBay—“I wouldn’t know where to start,” he says. A born aesthete, he
has been hitting flea markets since he was a teenager,
initially with his sister and then with a favorite eccentric
aunt (“She had hassocks,” he recalls, “and orangepainted garden furniture”). And some of his best memories from his days at the Massachusetts College of
Art in Boston are of cutting class to scour thrifts and
fleas on the North Shore with his first boyfriend.
A career of truancy doesn’t usually pay off, but it
has proven not to be the worst course of study for
Derian. Over the past two decades he has gradually
turned a life spent puttering around flea markets and
his own art studio into one of the more charming,
idiosyncratic visions on the design scene. His decoupage plates, lamps, and paperweights, all featuring
various lovely and/or witty 19th-century ephemera
and artwork, are increasingly sought after by people
wearying of floor-to-rafters modernism.
And his small, warm gem of an apartment—the only
place he’s lived since moving to Manhattan 13 years
ago—is a demonstration of how slow and steady not
only wins the race but looks pretty good doing it. A
one-bedroom on the Lower East Side, Derian’s pad
boasts not a single designer object, and even the
stove is an antique. “I’m not sure if it’s safe to use the
oven,” he admits. The whole place sounds a little
wobbly, but it’s almost a relief for a visitor accustomed
to generating an automatic checklist of musts—
Prouvé desk, Nakashima table, Sub-Zero fridge—
within seconds of entering any fashionable interior.
The well-worn modern chairs around the dining table?
Derian doesn’t know who designed them.
You heard right. He doesn’t know. It’s still possible.
What he does have is an entry papered neatly with
pages from some of the antique books he bought
more than 20 years ago—the first sign that Derian’s
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Facing page, clockwise from top left: John Derian outside his store, a few blocks from his apartment. An
1860s American cupboard in the dining room holds organic treasures and pieces of mercury glass. The foyer
is papered with pages from old books, applied with
Elmer’s glue and water; the 1850s American tilt-top table
holds an anonymous 1870s oil painting, Sand Dunes.
This page: A 1907 folding metal camp chair, an antique
Dutch burlap-upholstered chair, a 1930s French park
chair from Rooms & Gardens, and an array of folk art in
the living room; the fin de siècle shipping barrel is from
John Derian Co. See Resources.
time machine looks backward, not forward. In the
dining room, a rustic and narrow X-base table sits
squarely atop two Oriental carpets. A small crystal
chandelier and a paper lantern (minus the paper) hang
overhead. Three handsome shelves made of massive antique floorboards hold the old art books and
magazines he leafs through for inspiration. A supermodel-thin antique cupboard—a dealer at the flea
market knew Derian would want it, and he did—is
full of rocks, shells, crystals, and whatnot. Old amber
beads, a find in Marrakech, hang on its latch. Nearby,
what looks like either a nasty mass of twigs or a very
expensive artwork is in fact an arrangement of dried
vines by his friend Christopher Bassett.
Derian has an eye, that’s for sure, and it’s most often
searching for pieces with a little personality and a
lot of history. A mirror eaten away by time; a pink
photograph by Jack Pierson (a longtime friend and
the apartment’s former tenant); anonymous paintings and bits of Americana, gifts from friends; a tray
of broken sticks of sealing wax (who knew it was so
hard and brittle?). If some of today’s interiors feel
like nautilus shells, crafted with a precision and purity
that is practiced only by univalve mollusks and highly
cerebral architects, Derian’s place feels as though
it were lovingly assembled by a highly aesthetic but
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In the dining room, an 1820s American table
holds a Spider Web platter by the homeowner; the shelves were made from antique
floorboards, the1920s Italian sconce is
from Joanne Rossman, and the circa-1900
mirror is from Paula Rubenstein. Facing
page: Derian’s cat, Skip, in the kitchen. A
lamp found at the Clignancourt flea market
in Paris hangs beside vintage animal cutouts. The stool is antique, and the handmade
vase, pitcher, and plate are by Astier de
Villatte from John Derian Co. See Resources.
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not terribly orderly squirrel, an effect enhanced by
the fact that, as cracks have appeared in the plaster over the years, Derian has patched them, but
not repainted. While some people work on making their homes more and more perfect, Derian
prefers his to become less and less so. “I love that
wrecked, ruined, and decaying look that you can’t
get immediately,” he says. “Now, after all this time,
it’s starting to look like that.”
Indeed, whether it’s by the hands of time or the hands
of whoever made it, Derian insists on finding things that
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look and feel “touched,” as he puts it: a stack of bird
nests, or a little tree festooned with flower buds made
of shells. One only has to look at the pink wing chair
in the living room, whose fringy upholstery has been
so finely shredded one would think it had been produced by the workroom of a Paris couturier.
In fact, it was done by his cat.
You can’t buy that kind of handiwork. As Derian’s
apartment demonstrates, you can only keep your
eye out for beauty, be open and patient, and hope.
And having a cat can’t hurt.
The antique iron bed is dressed with a vintage ticking pillow from Paula Rubenstein
and an Elsa C. quilt from John Derian Co.
The sea sponge was a gift from Derian’s
sister, and the photograph is by David
Armstrong; a curtain of French fabric from
the 1930s hangs at the bedroom entrance.
Facing page: Cards, notes, and inspirations from friends are posted in the dining
room; Derian jots the phone numbers of
favorite restaurants, the building superintendent, and the dry cleaner directly on
the wall. See Resources.
The living room of Liz and Steve
Weinstein’s house on the Upper
East Side, decorated by Miles
Redd. The sofa is upholstered
in Lee Jofa’s Rochelle Velvet,
and the side chairs are covered
in a custom-embroidered soutache by Penn & Fletcher. The
painting was inspired by a favorite Franz Kline. See Resources.
BOLD
STROKES
A NEW YORK COUPLE TURNS TO DESIGN
WUNDERKIND MILES REDD TO UPDATE A GRAND
TOWNHOUSE FOR THEIR YOUNG FAMILY.
HIS SOLUTION? DITCH THE FORMALITY WITHOUT
LOSING ANY OF THE GLAMOUR
TEXT BY DAVID COLMAN · PHOTOGRAPHY BY SIMON UPTON
PRODUCED BY ANITA SARSIDI
Before you decide to decorate a house, a word of
advice: Take a good, long look in the mirror.
Liz Weinstein did, and wasn’t pleased by what she
saw. “I didn’t like it,” she said. “But Miles convinced
me to go with it, and as usual, he was right.”
A word of explanation. Weinstein wasn’t scrutinizing her own reflection. Rather, she was looking at a
towering wall of smoky, antiqued-mirror panels that
presided over the west side of the living room of
the Manhattan townhouse she and her husband,
Steve, had purchased. At first, and even second,
glance, the panels seemed like an eyesore—a sad
yet sweet remnant of the way people used to live
and decorate, joining such erstwhile luxuries as the
butler’s pantry and formal dining rooms on the list
of what people would just as soon do without today.
But Miles Redd, the young designer whom Weinstein charged with redoing the place, looked at the
expanses of silvery, obsolescent iridescence and
saw two things. First, as decor’s boy wonder is wont
to do, he saw himself, and second, he saw his client.
“They’re one of my favorite things about the house,”
he says of the panels, “and I didn’t even install them.”
Redd and Weinstein ended up not just keeping the
mirrors but, in a way, channeling their old-school
Hollywood glamour for the rest of the house, nimbly demonstrating Redd’s central design philosophy: Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
All too often, people come to a renovation with the
words gut job fixed in their minds—not only can you
start fresh and erase everything that went before,
but you can also get exactly what you want.
In theory, that is. But Weinstein likes to embrace
the past—this is a woman who, the last time she
went apartment shopping, ended up buying the
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The custom-made Venetian-style sofa is
upholstered in Lyons silk velvet by
Decorators Walk; the Loop armchairs by
Frances Elkins were bought at auction,
the cocktail table is by Matthews &
Parker, and the print is by Chuck Close.
Facing page, from top: Liz Weinstein and
her three sons, Matthew, William, and
George. Nineteenth-century Chinese ancestral portraits flank the fireplace,
which is topped with a Georgian giltwood mirror and a pair of horns, both
from John Rosselli International; the
19th-century Minton garden seat is from
Niall Smith Antiques. See Resources.
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In Steve’s study, the Climate sectional sofa by Dune is topped with
pillows covered in Clarence House’s
Labyrinth silk, the Pacific Airline
cocktail table is from Hinson &
Co., and the French leather-andpalisander armchairs date from
the 1940s; a collection of figurative
and abstract drawings hangs on
walls lacquered chocolate brown.
Right: The clamshell is from C. J.
Peters, and the 1980s watercolor
by Vojtech Kobylka is from Sentimento Antiques. See Resources.
very same Upper East Side apartment she had
grown up in. But as her family expanded to include
three sons, William, Matthew, and George, it became clear that an upgrade was in order. She nearly
bought a completely modernized townhouse—just
add toothbrushes—but its lack of personality ultimately left her cold. “It seemed to have no character,” she says, “just a lot of marble.”
Instead, the couple opted for a quirky townhouse
complete with elevator, solarium, and formal dining room, the grand residence of an older couple
with no children. On the advice of a friend, Weinstein
went to see Redd at his NoHo townhouse. “As soon
as I met Miles, I loved him,” she says. “He’s so personable, and I knew instantly that we have virtually the
same aesthetic. I love painted wood floors; he had
painted wood floors. I love animal prints and ponyskin and chinoiserie; he had it all.”
But as much as Weinstein wanted a house with
character, she didn’t want a traditional interior. “I
don’t believe in saving rooms for special occasions,”
she says. For Redd, the trick was reworking the
old-fashioned way the house had functioned for
its previous owners while keeping its great bones.
For example, the garden level was completely
rethought: The formal dining room, with its ruchedfabric ceiling, and the industrial catering kitchen
both got the heave-ho; in their stead is a mudroom
for coats and bikes; a breakfast nook with a rich
leather banquette; a warm, kid-friendly kitchen; and
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Nineteenth-century hall chairs from Amy
Perlin Antiques and a Radial mahogany dining table by Oscar de la Renta for Century
Furniture in the family/dining room; the bookshelves were designed by Redd, and the
cocktail table is from Amy Perlin Antiques.
Facing page, from top: A powder room
sheathed in glass mosaic tiles by Ann Sacks;
the sconces are by Ann-Morris Antiques. In
the entrance hall, the 19th-century English
pine console is from Sentimento Antiques, the
1920s serpentine mirror is from John Rosselli
International, and the 1960s rock-crystal lamp
is from Liz O’Brien; original architectural renderings of the house are displayed above the
staircase, and the floor has been faux-painted
to resemble travertine. See Resources.
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In the master bedroom, the bed was
designed by Redd, the St. Antoine wallpaper is by Farrow & Ball, the lamps
are from Capitol Furnishings, and
the doors, dressed in a Brunschwig &
Fils fabric, lead to a tented solarium.
Facing page: The tufted chaise by
Oscar de la Renta for Century Furniture
is upholstered in Ralph Lauren Home’s
Shelbourne Woven, the floor lamp
is by Visual Comfort, and the porcelain
garden seat and rococo-style mirror are from Treillage. See Resources.
a dual family/dining room painted a deep red that’s
both elegant and relaxed. The upstairs rooms were
likewise done up in old-world fabrics and finishes
that convey both glamour and fun, including Steve’s
modern chocolate-brown study and the charmingly
tented solarium off the master bedroom. “A lot of the
bolder things I wasn’t sure about,” Weinstein admits. “But I trust Miles. And at the end of the day,
he’s always right.” Redd considers the place one of
his most gratifying projects, because Weinstein let
him spread his wings with a freedom that few clients grant—or ultimately appreciate.
That freedom is most gloriously demonstrated in
the house’s main floor, a 60-foot-long stretch. “You
usually don’t get that kind of loftlike space in a townhouse,” Redd says. He started with a bright red
Oriental carpet and then went on a color spree, mixing other reds with greens, including a striking viridian velvet sofa and, a holdover from the last owners
and Steve’s only request, a huge pool table.
“The pool table wasn’t my first choice,” she says.
“I wanted a big library table, but Steve really stayed
out of my hair during this, and Miles said, ‘Let’s give
it to him.’ And it’s fun. Steve will have a stressful day,
and he can come home and shoot a few balls. That’s
why we use the living room, because it’s there.”
The result, pool table and all, is a remarkable synthesis of old and new, grand and casual. It’s certainly
not futuristic. But it works very well in the present,
and that’s the only tense worth living in.
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From left: Edo by China Seas from
Quadrille. Arabesque by Ornamenta
from Stark Wallcovering. Gramercy by Waverly. Caterpillar Leaf
by Neisha Crosland. Woodstock
by Cole & Son from Lee Jofa.
Facing page, clockwise from top
left: Dalton by Jane Churchill from
Cowtan & Tout. Salisbury Mansion by Waterhouse Wallhangings
from Christopher Norman. Silvergate by Farrow & Ball. Edo Pines by
Studio Printworks. See Resources.
MAKING A STATEMENT
FORGET SUBTLE BACKGROUNDS. TODAY’S BEST
WALLPAPERS ARE BOLDLY PATTERNED, BIG, AND BEAUTIFUL
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANTONIS ACHILLEOS
PRODUCED BY ANITA SARSIDI
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From left: Imperial Trellis by Kelly
Wearstler for Decorators Walk. Pera
Trail by Osborne & Little. Flowering
Quince by Clarence House. Jersey
Lily by Osborne & Little. Joshua
Lawrence Chamberlin by Waterhouse
Wallhangings from Christopher
Norman. Indramayu by China Seas
from Quadrille. McCall Foulard by
Ralph Lauren Home. See Resources.
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From left: Baldwin’s Bamboo by
Scalamandré. Clacket Lane by Mibo.
Acorus by Alexander Beauchamp
from Stark Wallcovering. Mimosa by
Cole & Son from Lee Jofa. Berry
Flower by Neisha Crosland.
Facing page, clockwise from top
left: Nanou Rockery by Brunschwig &
Fils. Durbar Hall by Designers
Guild from Osborne & Little.
Cordoba by Zoffany. Kabloom by
Flavor Paper. See Resources.
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Facing page: The Augustine family
with their black Lab, Tree, in the barn
on their property in Dutchess County,
New York; the house and barn were designed by Cicognani Kalla Architects.
This page: In the entry, the walnutand-steel console and the wood
pedestals are by Chris Lehrecke; the
Albert Oehlen painting is titled
3rd Gear—It’s All Right, and the blackand-white painting, Untitled (The
Show Is Over...), is by Christopher
Wool; the bronze sculptures are
by Rachel Whiteread. See Resources.
IN A NEW
LIGHT
WHEN A MANHATTAN DEALER AND HIS
FAMILY MOVE FULL-TIME TO THE COUNTRY, THEIR
CHALLENGE IS TO ACHIEVE
A BALANCE OF ART AND NATURE
TEXT BY VICKY LOWRY · PHOTOGRAPHY BY WILLIAM WALDRON
PRODUCED BY ELIZABETH SVERBEYEFF BYRON
AND LILI ABIR REGEN
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In the living room, the sofas, covered
in Donghia’s Pluscious wool velvet,
and the stainless-steel cocktail tables
are by Chris Lehrecke from Ralph
Pucci International. George Condo’s
The Cocktail Drinker hangs above the
black slate fireplace surround, and
the sculptures include Chocolate
Silicon Blockhead by Paul McCarthy
and Martin Kippenberger’s Drunken
Lantern. Christopher Wool’s Mama Too
Tight is on the far wall. See Resources.
I
n life, there are always trade-offs. Building a country
house can be an especially challenging balancing
act. You may want a home large enough to entertain friends for the weekend, but too many bedrooms means constant upkeep. Or your taste might
lean toward rustic-cabin casual, but that doesn’t
mean you want to relinquish all high-tech amenities. It’s never easy aligning your dreams and desires with practical realities.
Roland Augustine, co-owner of Luhring Augustine
gallery in Manhattan, and his wife, Kathleen, a former
magazine editor, built a weekend house in upstate
New York a decade ago. But when they decided to
move to the area full-time with their two sons, Sam,
16, and James, 13, they felt they needed a better piece
of property. (The couple are avid outdoor types: Roland
likes to shoot sporting clays at a nearby preserve,
and Kathleen is a competitive tennis player.) “The
longer we were here,” says Kathleen, “the more we
cared about the land.” Seven years ago, together
with her parents, they bought a former dairy farm in
Dutchess County and both couples planned to build
houses on the property. Everyone agreed to use barnred clapboard siding and metal roofs as a nod to the
area’s agricultural traditions.
The real issue for the Augustines, though, was light.
They wanted as many windows as possible to take
advantage of the endless views of the Catskills from
the hilltop setting. But they also required large expanses of wall space for their extensive collection of
contemporary art. Renovating the original 1840s
farmhouse wasn’t going to solve the problem, and
in any case, it was a mess. “Raccoons were living in
it,” says Kathleen. Constructing a glass house, while
tempting, was also nixed. “Everybody wants light
and everybody wants wall space,” says Kathleen,
“and the two are difficult to achieve.”
For help, the couple turned to architects Pietro
Cicognani and Ann Kalla. Their solution was both ingenious and appropriate to the area: a barnlike
structure, based on a traditional Dutch design, with
clerestory windows tucked just below the roofline.
Light pours in while the walls are left unobstructed.
For the more private living quarters, the architects
created wings on either side of the central doubleheight space with enough glass for the family to
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The granite-top cherry kitchen island is by
Varenna, and the windows are by Marvin.
Facing page, clockwise from top: In the
dining room, midcentury Danish chairs surround a cherry table by Chris Lehrecke. The
photographs are Yasumasa Morimura’s
Vermeer Study and Joel Sternfeld’s McLean,
Virginia. The exterior of the house, with a
dining terrace off the kitchen. The range is
by Viking, and the photograph, Orange
Lion, is by Paul McCarthy. See Resources.
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survey their own 120 acres and the hills far beyond.
“It’s like a loft,” explains Kalla, “and everything else
is spirited away, above and below, with little hints
of their existence.” A wooden shutter above the
kitchen hides Roland’s home office; it can slide open,
says Kathleen, “when he wants to know what’s for
dinner.” Light from the boys’ bathroom shines into
the living room below, alerting the parents when the
kids are home. A circular stair allows the boys to unobtrusively hit the basement playroom.
Materials are simple—deep American walnut and
greenish-gray bluestone from a quarry near Albany—
and the walls, at least for now, are stark white. “I’m
thinking of finally painting the walls a color,” says
Kathleen. “By the time we got to the end of the project two summers ago, we painted them white just
to get it over with.” The furniture, too, is simple, though
deceptively so. Chris Lehrecke, a master wood craftsman who lives nearby, designed most of it, including a 14-foot-long cherry dining table, a steel-legged
walnut console with a sinuous edge for the entry,
and surprisingly comfortable minimalist sofas for
the living room. His designs are complemented by
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a few choice pieces with provenance: a Nakashima
sideboard from the 1960s, four Chinese chairs from
the late Ming dynasty, and two Chinese painting tables. “They kind of look like nothing,” says Kathleen,
“but it’s very rare to find a pair.”
The Augustines are constantly editing the artworks,
which include paintings by Christopher Wool and
George Condo. (A cleaning woman once put Cady
Noland’s basket of beer cans, prominently displayed
in the living room, on the curb for garbage pickup,
and workmen have occasionally tossed their own
empties into it.) Their 11-foot-wide Albert Oehlen
painting is out on loan for an exhibition, and a Martin
Kippenberger sculpture that Roland had coveted
for a decade is now wrapped in plastic in the basement. “We’re in détente,” jokes Kathleen. “It’s the only
piece we’ve ever gone to bat over.” For Roland, the
work, consisting of seven nesting tables made of
cheap particleboard, is seminal: “It’s a satire on domesticity.” For Kathleen, it’s an eyesore: “It sits in the
middle of the room, and you can’t put anything on it.”
“Collecting is very autobiographical,” admits
Roland. “It’s a pathology.”
In the master bedroom, the mahogany bed by Chris Lehrecke is
covered in a vintage suzani from
ABC Carpet & Home; the painting
is Albert Oehlen’s Alte Geweihe.
Facing page: The walnut cabinetry
in the bathroom was designed
by Cicognani Kalla Architects,
the tub is by American Standard,
and the fittings are by Waterworks. The countertop and tub
surround are of bluestone from
a nearby quarry. See Resources.
SMALL CHANGE
LANDSCAPE DESIGNER MARIO NIEVERA IS USED TO CONCEIVING GRAND
GARDENS, SO HE HAD TO SWITCH GEARS WHEN PULLING TOGETHER HIS NEW YORK PIED-À-TERRE. YET
HE FOUND THAT LESS SPACE YIELDED MORE CREATIVITY
TEXT BY NANCY HASS · PHOTOGRAPHY BY TIMOTHY KOLK · PRODUCED BY ANITA SARSIDI
To say that Mario Nievera is accustomed to working on a broad canvas would be an understatement. The celebrated Palm Beach landscape architect’s projects have included rambling terraced gardens for
the likes of the Lauder family, Jimmy Buffett, and socialite Terry Allen
Kramer, tropical paradises that seem to have no boundaries—and no
budget. “When you work in Palm Beach,” he says, “you can do things
on a very grand scale, which is really satisfying.”
Nievera and his partner, Robert Janjigian, the fashion editor of The
Palm Beach Daily News, own a home in Florida’s tony enclave as well
as a place in Southampton. But with a growing roster of clients who
want him to design not only their Palm Beach spreads but also their
Hamptons gardens and Manhattan terraces, Nievera now spends a
couple of days each week in New York. When he decided to buy a
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pied-à-terre on the Upper East Side, he knew he would have to think
small. “Part of the fun,” says Nievera, a slim, elegant man whose casual chic makes it easy to imagine how the Palm Beach denizens might
cotton to him, “was to take a modest place with good potential and
make it somehow just right. I needed somewhere that would be easy
to take care of, but also make me feel good when I walked in the door.”
He has turned the pocket-size space (at 650 square feet, it’s smaller
than some of his hibiscus beds) into a polished gem that combines
classicism, thrift-shop zaniness, and spare modernity. Originally a studio, the apartment has been transformed into a one-bedroom by an
ingenious set of sliding doors. During the day, the doors are left open,
giving the space an airy feel; at night, they slide shut to seal off the bedroom and reveal shelves that hold books and antique globes.
The living room of landscape architect
Mario Nievera’s New York apartment; it was
decorated with the help of his friend Bruce
Bierman. Mirrors custom made in Venice
hang beneath vintage wooden game boards
and a model of a fountain Nievera designed.
Facing page: The Regency-style commode
in the entrance hall holds a Grecian plaster
bust; the mirror, framed in crushed bamboo,
is from Mecox Gardens. See Resources.
Facing page, from left: Mario Nievera
in the living room of his Manhattan
apartment. Sliding doors, designed
by Bierman, can close off the bedroom, revealing shelves stocked
with antique globes, garden books,
and folk-art crucifixes. This page:
Custom-made bamboo end tables
by Scott Snyder flank the bed, which
has a headboard and skirt of
Bierman’s design. See Resources.
NIEVERA IS MORE INTERESTED IN COMPLEMENTARY SHAPES AND
SIZES THAN MATCHING PAIRS. “YOU ALWAYS WANT
TO MESS WITH PERFECTION,” HE SAYS. “YOU DECIDE TO CONVEY AN IDEA, THEN
DO SOMETHING TO THROW IT A LITTLE OFF”
Nievera’s unerring sense of proportion is evident everywhere. Rarely
are such idiosyncratic elements balanced with such delicacy. “As with
a garden,” he says, “you never want things to seem contrived or out
of scale.” On both walls that flank the large living room windows, for
example, is a vertical series of five items, including a Balinese finial and
a tiny watercolor. A prosaic eye might have chosen only matching pairs
of objects, or matching sets, to lend symmetry, but Nievera is more
interested in complementary shapes and sizes. “You always want to
mess with perfection,” he says. “You decide to convey an idea, then
do something to throw it a little off.”
Above a spare Walter Chatham console hangs a set of custom-made
Venetian mirrors and a pair of vintage wooden game boards. Crowning
the top of the arrangement is a plaster model of a fountain Nievera designed. In the entry, a mirror looms above a Regency-style commode;
nearby, amid photographs found in a Paris flea market, hangs Nievera’s
seventh-grade self-portrait. A geometric-pattern hooked rug—“I
can’t get enough of them,” he says—lends a modern counterpoint.
Nievera, who was helped with devising the layout and choosing finishes by interior designer and friend Bruce Bierman, has kept the palette
largely neutral, in subtle variations from mushroom to pumice, and the
furniture minimal. In such a setting, a shiny red vinyl cushion tossed on
an armless gray sofa speaks volumes. But whimsy emerges in the least
expected places: One living room wall is dominated by an enormous
painting of the Eiffel Tower. “Robert found it in the garbage somewhere,”
Nievera explains. “We had it restored and it’s perfectly weird enough to
work.” Outside the bathroom hangs a display rack of art postcards.
“You can change them constantly to keep yourself amused,” he says.
A row of 24 round Russel Wright clocks in shades of black, dusty mauve,
and split pea are the focus in the small, all-white kitchen. Above the
bed’s upholstered headboard, surrounded by a formal grouping of mirrors, hangs a thrift-shop landscape of waves crashing on a shore.
As precisely configured as the compact apartment may be, Nievera
never stops changing things. One moment, a Grecian plaster bust graces
the entry; the next, he has replaced it with a rustic wooden toy village
that had been hidden away. On a rattan stand near the front door is an
intricate collection of folk-art crucifixes; just days before, that choice
perch had been occupied by a volleyball-size sphere of seashells. “People
think that you’re limited when the space is small,” he says, “but I think
the key is seeing everything as somewhat in flux, never standing still,
always shifting, realigning. In a lot of ways, it’s like a garden.”
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CLEARING THE
FACED WITH AN OVERDESIGNED TESTAMENT TO ’80S EXCESS, DECORATOR KATIE RIDDER AND ARCHITECT
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The living room of a young family’s Manhattan apartment overlooking Central
Park. The design was a collaboration between architect Peter Pennoyer and
designer Katie Ridder. A unique print by
Andy Warhol, J.S. Flowers, and a painting by Jack Youngerman, Enigma, hang
above a sofa upholstered in silk mohair
by J. Robert Scott; the cocktail table by
Urban has a faux-parchment finish. The
carved Dutch Colonial Burgomaster
chair is 17th century, the 1940s gildediron table is by Raymond Subes, and the
drawing is by Alexander Calder. The
North Indian carpet from Beauvais dates
from the early 1900s. See Resources.
WAY
PETER PENNOYER RESTORE AN UPPER EAST SIDE CLASSIC TO ITS ESSENCE
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THE WORD POTENTIAL was written
all over it. A sprawling prewar in a blue-chip building
not far from Central Park, the clients’ new apartment
had all the trappings of a truly elegant Manhattan
residence, with a private elevator entrance, sweeping views and light, and enough space for the young
couple to start a family, and then some. Except that
once you stepped off the elevator, there it was, confronting you like a cobra: The gaudy, heavy-handed
relics of ’80s architectural excess, a postmodern
statement on steroids. Clunky built-ins swallowing
the windows, mattress-width banquettes clinging
to walls like giant hovering parasites, massive dentil crown moldings fit for the Parthenon. It was the
horrifying equivalent of discovering old pictures of
your big ’80s hair—what was I thinking?—yet at least
it was somebody else’s interior design faux pas.
“It was a bit over the top,” says Peter Pennoyer,
the architect hired by the new owners. “There was
just too much architecture going on.”
“And on top of that,” jokes interior designer Katie
Ridder, Pennoyer’s wife and his design partner on
this and other projects, “the decoration was very
French–meets–American Southwest. Everything
was gilded, swagged, or sponge-painted.”
The owners, a business entrepreneur and his wife,
commissioned Ridder and Pennoyer to reclaim the
elegant bones of the apartment and make their new
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home into something more reflective of their own
style. “My husband and I didn’t want it to feel like a
classic uptown ‘serious’ apartment,” says the wife,
who was pregnant with their first child while the
renovation was under way. “I wanted to make our
home comfortable, colorful, and unexpected—but
most of all, fun,” she says.
The first step was to clean up the architectural
mess. “Making rooms simple shapes helps to display the gems,” Pennoyer explains. “When I work with
interior designers, it’s always about making what
they do look best.” To set the stage for Ridder’s creativity and the clients’ important postwar modern-art
collection, Pennoyer stripped and reconfigured the
long wall of windows in the living room. “Originally
there was cabinetry jutting out about three feet from
the windows, so there was no way to step up to the
beautiful view,” says Ridder. Pennoyer also redesigned the molding flanking the windows to incorporate mirrors that reflect more of the view and light
into the room. He and Ridder designed three fauxbois French doors to reorient the traffic flow and increase the light in the spaces that branch off the living room—foyer, library, and dining room.
Ridder worked closely with the clients to come up
with an informal furniture plan and whimsical touches. In the center of the living room, she placed a popup, pivoting TV cabinet so that the family can watch
The 1930s cabinet is by Jacques Adnet,
the 1961 painting, Lazy “S” Twist, is by
Leon Polk Smith, and a vintage Tommi
Parzinger side table holds a 1920s
Italian glass lamp. Facing page: Bronzeand-wood étagères designed by Peter
Pennoyer flank the dining room mantel,
the untitled 1962 painting is by Hans
Hoffman, the table is Biedermeier, and
the Chelsea tufted side chairs by Jonas
Upholstery are covered in Larsen’s
Memory cotton-linen. See Resources.
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The walnut breakfast table in the kitchen was custom made, and the maple
chairs by Ann-Morris Antiques were
painted in Farrow & Ball’s Picture
Gallery Red; the vintage French Pagoda
chandelier is from Florian Papp Antiques. Facing page, from top: The
circa-1910 Thonet stools in the entry
are from Karl Kemp, and the 1940s
lamps are from Buck House; the untitled lithograph is by Willem de Kooning.
In the library, a stool designed by
couturier Hubert de Givenchy is from
R. Louis Bofferding, the 1960s Muranoglass lamp is from Chameleon Fine
Lighting, and the Large Key carpet is
by A.M. Collections. See Resources.
television from any of three corners. “We wanted
to really live in this front room,” says the wife. “We
didn’t want the ‘hanging out’ to be in the back of the
apartment where the den traditionally is.”
The dining room, with its bright periwinkle walls, has
a similarly relaxed spirit. “My husband thinks a dining
table alone in the middle of a room is uninviting,” says
the wife. So Ridder placed a round Biedermeier table
near the windows and, against the long wall, a library table that works for both buffets or, with its
leaves unfolded, for large seated dinners. “We had
24 at that table last week,” says the wife. “We actually entertain a lot more than we expected to because
of the way Katie designed the room.” The mirrored
ceiling, inspired by the late Hollywood decorator
Tony Duquette, adds a bit of theater. “We love watching the upside-down reflection of the yellow taxis
zooming down the street,” the owner adds.
Italian glass light fixtures and couture-quality textiles give each room an exuberant flair, and the largerthan-life master bedroom headboard, a witty nod
to Albert Hadley, is as much at home as the chinoiserie chandelier in the kitchen. “When we look at the
things in this house,” says the wife, “we never think,
Oh, that’s just a table, or that’s just a lamp. There’s
always something more to it.” Says Ridder, “The design process is hard work, but in the end I want my
interiors to look inspired and relaxed, not studied.”
“The odd thing about our collaboration,” adds
Pennoyer, “is that Katie’s taste is more about eclecticism and whimsy than mine—I’m into a more
disciplined, classical architecture—but we both
have a good time working together. We pull each
other in different directions.”
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In a guest room, the bed is upholstered in
Manuel Canovas’s Chicago, and the linens are by
E. Braun & Co.; the Japanese brass pendant lamp
is midcentury. Facing page, clockwise from top
left: The bed in the master bedroom is by Charles
H. Beckley and is upholstered in Glace wool by
Donghia, the 1960s Italian glass lamps are
from John Salibello, and the English mahogany
bench dates from 1830. In the master bath, the
William IV rosewood table is from Cove Landing.
The Loire Canopy beds in the child’s room
are by Niermann Weeks; the duvet covers are of
Amijao linen by Raoul Textiles. See Resources.
resources
Items pictured but not listed are from private collections.
WHAT’S HOT! SHOPS
Page 38: Bergdorf Goodman (754 Fifth Ave., New York,
NY 10019; 800-558-1855; bergdorfgoodman.com; for
reservations at BG: 212-872-8977).
Page 40: Williams-Sonoma Home (8772 Beverly Blvd.,
West Hollywood, CA 90048; 310-289-2420; wshome.com).
WHAT’S HOT! PEOPLE
Page 42: Charlotte Moss of Charlotte Moss & Co. (for
information: 212-288-1535; charlottemoss.com).
Furniture, fabrics, and wall coverings by Charlotte
Moss, to the trade from Brunschwig & Fils (for showrooms: 800-538-1880; brunschwig.com). Winter
House by Charlotte Moss, $50, published by Clarkson
Potter (for information: randomhouse.com).
WHAT’S HOT! TRAVEL
Pages 44–46: Sunset Tower Hotel (8358 Sunset Blvd.,
West Hollywood, CA 90069; 800-225-2637; sunsettowerhotel.com.) Tower Bar (for reservations: 323-848-6677).
Argyle Spa (for reservations: 310-623-9000).
TREND ALERT
Page 50: 1 Marmotte silk twill jacket, $2,280, and skirt,
$1,212, with patent-leather trim, from spring 2006, by
Louis Vuitton (for information: 866-VUITTON; vuitton.com).
2 Nouvelle Texture cotton-wool-viscose-polyester, in
Spanish moss, #7105N-0854, to the trade from Stroheim &
Romann (for showrooms: 718-706-7000; stroheim.com). 3 Rural linen, in chocolate, #403790, by De Le
Cuona, to the trade from Travers (for showrooms: 212888-7900; traversinc.com). 4 Velours Bonaparte
polyester-cotton, #38010, to the trade from Nobilis (for
showrooms: 800-464-6670). 5 Profilia cotton-viscose,
#1936.855, to the trade from Zimmer + Rohde (for showrooms: 212-758-5357; zimmer-rohde.com). 6 Harris
viscose-cotton-linen, in moss, #DOPTPL306, to the
trade from Sanderson (for showrooms: 800-894-6185;
sanderson-uk.com). 7 New Khmer silk, in copper brown,
#139207, by Jim Thompson, to the trade from Jerry Pair
(for showrooms: 800-909-7247; jerrypair.com).
Page 52: Kira jacquard-knit jacket, $395, Giovanni
jacquard-knit skirt, $245, and giant-polka-dot knit top,
$155, from spring 2006, by Diane von Furstenberg (for information: 646-486-4800; dvf.com). Urn steel lamp, in cream
and black, #URN76R, $120, and silk drum shade, in black,
#LS-BLACK15, $145, by Worlds Away (for information: 901529-0844; worlds-away.com). Simplicity cotton, in ivory,
#669857, $29.99/yd., by Waverly (for information: 800-4235881; waverly.com). Ellipse polyester-cotton, in black and
anthracite, #F2494-001, to the trade from Pierre Frey (for
showrooms: 212-213-3099; pierrefrey.com). Chevron Print
cotton, in black, #2644034, by Decorators Walk, to the trade
from F. Schumacher & Co. (for showrooms: 800-332-3384;
fschumacher.com). Mystical Zebra rug, $299/6'x9', by
Karastan (for information: 800-234-1120; karastan.com).
Radetzcky lacquered-wood screen, $13,875, by Armani
Casa (for information: 212-334-1271; armanicasa.com).
Black and White tole hatbox set, #17HBBW, $485, by
Jane Gray for Stray Dog Imports (for information: 866-4787297; straydogimports.com). Mandarin Flower cottonfleece blanket, $145, by Designers Guild (for information:
908-238-9599; designersguild.com). Broadgate Stripe
cotton, in ebony, #LFY28903F, $189/yd., by Ralph Lauren
Home (for information: 888-475-7674; rlhome.polo.com).
ART
Pages 54–56: Kehinde Wiley (for information: kehindewiley.com) is represented by Deitch Projects (76 Grand St.,
New York, NY 10012; 212-343-7300; deitch.com).
DESIGNER’S DOZEN
Page 58: The Detroit Institute of Arts (5200 Woodward
150 ELLEDECOR.COM
Ave., Detroit, MI 48202; 313-833-7900; dia.org). Jewelry
and tabletop collections by Frank O. Gehry for Tiffany &
Co. (for information: 800-526-0649; tiffany.com). Pen by
Pilot Pen Corp. (for information: pilotpen.com). Bristol
two-ply plate pad by Seth Cole (for information: 800955-3729; sethcole.com). Sculpture by Ken Price of Ken
Price Studio and Gallery (for information: kenprice.com).
Hereditary Disease Foundation (for information: 310450-9913; hdfoundation.org).
THE TEN MOST ELEGANT ÉTAGÈRES
Pages 62–64: Susan Forristal of Forristal Smith Interiors
(for information: 917-968-7771; forristalsmith.com).
Steven Gambrel of S. R. Gambrel Inc. (for information:
212-925-3380; srgambrel.com).
Page 64: 1 Étagère, #2004-003, $2,660, by John Black
for Councill (for information: 336-859-2155; councill.com). 2 Talesai Storage étagère, $1,200, by Bernhardt
(for information: 866-273-3699; bernhardt.com).
3 Sheffield shelving unit, #883447, $1,250, from The
Conran Shop (407 E. 59th St., New York, NY 10022;
866-755-9079; conran.com). 4 Slim étagère, #415107,
$299, by Room & Board (for information: 800-486-6554;
roomandboard.com). 5 Twig étagère, #348287, $299,
by Crate & Barrel (for information: 800-996-9960; crateandbarrel.com). 6 Angled étagère, #19-900-1, $1,750,
from the Milling Road Collection by Baker Furniture Co.
(for information: 800-592-2537; bakerfurniture.com).
7 Billy Baldwin–inspired étagère, #5700, $12,600, by
Carole Gratale, to the trade from John Rosselli & Assoc.
Ltd. (for showrooms: 212-593-2060). 8 Metropolitan
Five-Tier étagère, #7798, $1,212, by Stickley (for information: 315-682-5500; stickley.com). 9 Iron étagère,
#8048, $6,520, to the trade from PierceMartin (for showrooms: 800-334-8701; piercemartin.com). 10 Étagère,
$340, by Plexi-Craft Corp. (for information: 212-9243244; 800-24-PLEXI; plexi-craft.com).
DANIEL’S DISH
Pages 68–70: Daniel Boulud of restaurant Daniel (for information: danielnyc.com).
Page 68: Incanto Flower dinner plate, $40, by Vietri
(for information: 800-277-5933; vietri.com). King
William sterling-silver soupspoon, $125, by Tiffany &
Co. (for information: 800-526-0649; tiffany.com).
Page 70: Incanto Baroque dinner plate, $40, by Vietri
(for information: 800-277-5933; vietri.com).
BEAUTY AND THE BEACH
Pages 94–105: Interior design by Michael S. Smith of
Michael S. Smith Inc. (for information: 310-315-3018).
Architectural design by Oscar Shamamian of Ferguson &
Shamamian Architects, LLP (for information: 212-9418088; fergusonshamamian.com). Landscape design by
Rios Clementi Hale Studios (for information: 323-6349220; rchstudios.com). All window blinds by Fashion
Tech (for information: fashiontech.com).
Page 94: On Crawford, top by Rozae Nichols.
Pages 96–97: In living room, custom-made Opium teak
sofas by Michael S. Smith Reproduction Furniture (for information: 310-315-3018), upholstered in Thai Silk IV, in
garnet, #190447, to the trade from Jim Thompson (for showrooms: 800-262-0336; jimthompson.com). Walnut-andmarble tables, to the trade from Charles Jacobsen Inc.
(8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069; 310-6521188; charlesjacobsen.com). Kay oak floor lamp by
Christophe Delcourt, to the trade from Ralph Pucci
International (for showrooms: 212-633-0452; ralphpucci.com). Evreux pendant lights, to the trade from Vaughan
(for showrooms: 212-319-7070; vaughandesigns.com).
Bamboo floor matting by Patterson, Flynn & Martin, to the
trade from F. Schumacher & Co. (for showrooms: 800-3323384; fschumacher.com). In hall, antique Anglo-Indian
armchair, to the trade from Ann-Morris Antiques (239 E.
60th St., New York, NY 10022; 212-755-3308).
Pages 98–99: On Crawford, top by Burning Torch and jeans
by Stitch’s. In entry, antique Chinese black-lacquer
scroll table, to the trade from J. F. Chen (for showrooms:
323-655-6310; jfchen.com). Moroccan wool rug from
Mansour (8600 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90069;
310-652-9999; mansourrug.com). In cabana, rattan
lounge chairs, #R9700, to the trade from Bielecky
Brothers (for showrooms: 212-753-2355; bieleckybrothers.com). Ming walnut cocktail table by Michael S. Smith
Reproduction Furniture (for information: 310-315-3018).
Pages 100–01: In dining room, Evan alder dining chairs
by Michael S. Smith Reproduction Furniture (for information: 310-315-3018). Antique British copper ball
lantern, to the trade from Ann-Morris Antiques (239 E.
60th St., New York, NY 10022; 212-755-3308). Scholars
Rocks, multimedia, 2005, by Nancy Lorenz from James
Graham & Sons (1014 Madison Ave., New York, NY
10021; 212-535-5767; jamesgrahamandsons.com). In
family room, Bond Street sofa, to the trade from Donghia
Furniture/Textiles Ltd. (for showrooms: 800-DONGHIA;
donghia.com), upholstered in an Ikat cotton-linen by
John Robshaw Textiles (for information: 212-594-6006;
johnrobshaw.com). Vintage red-lacquer elmwood
cocktail table, to the trade from Charles Jacobsen Inc.
(8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069; 310652-1188; charlesjacobsen.com). Antique Lombardian
mirror from Amy Perlin Antiques (306 E. 61st St., 4th fl.,
New York, NY 10021; 212-593-5756; amyperlinantiques.com). Tribeca ceiling fan by Hunter Fan Co. (for
information: 800-4HUNTER; hunterfan.com). Industrial
pendant lights and Cargo light fixtures by Urban
Archaeology (143 Franklin St., New York, NY 10013;
212-431-4646; urbanarchaeology.com). Evan alder
barstools by Michael S. Smith Reproduction Furniture.
Pages 102–03: Moroccan wool rugs from Brooke
Pickering Moroccan Rugs (for information: 845-6879377; moroccanrugs.com). Curtains of Rural linen, in
cream, #403787, by De Le Cuona, to the trade from
Travers (for showrooms: 212-888-7900; traversinc.com). Bed linens by Nancy Koltes, available from
Nancy Koltes at Home (for information: 212-219-2271;
nancykoltes.com) and Scandia Down (365 N. Beverly
Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210; 310-274-6925).
Pages 104–05: In guest bedroom, curtains of Jasper hemp,
#JP1409, to the trade from Michael S. Smith Inc. (for information: 310-315-3018). On terraces, Santa Barbara
umbrellas, to the trade from Santa Barbara Designs (for
showrooms: 800-919-9464; sbumbrella.com). X oak-frame
chairs by McGuire (200 Lexington Ave., Ste. 101, New York,
NY 10016; 212-689-1565; 800-662-4847; mcguirefurniture.com). In master bathroom, Town hand-shower
assembly and basin set by Michael S. Smith for Kallista (for
information: 888-4-KALLISTA; kallista.com). Alabaster dish
light, #14, by Charles Edwards (for information: 011-44-207736-8490; charlesedwards.com). In guest room, Rope
bed by John Himmel, to the trade from David Sutherland Inc.
(for showrooms: 310-360-1777; davidsutherlandinc.com).
Mathura Vista Euro shams by John Robshaw Textiles (for
information: 212-594-6006; johnrobshaw.com). Mandu
cotton coverlet by John Robshaw Textiles is discontinued,
but similar coverlets are available. Slatted Ships oak bedside table by Michael S. Smith Reproduction Furniture (for
information: 310-315-3018). In sitting room, vintage
cocktail table from ABC Carpet & Home (888 Broadway,
New York, NY 10003; 212-473-3000; abchome.com).
Kolom steel hanging light by Kevin Reilly, to the trade from
Holly Hunt (for showrooms: 800-229-8559; hollyhunt.com).
Bisque-porcelain vases, to the trade from J. F. Chen (for
showrooms: 323-655-6310; jfchen.com). Antique AngloIndian mirror, to the trade from Ann-Morris Antiques (239 E.
60th St., New York, NY 10022; 212-755-3308).
LORD OF THE FLEAS
Pages 106–13: John Derian of John Derian Co. (6 E. 2nd
St., New York, NY 10003; 212-677-3917; johnderian.com).
Pages 106–07: Sisal rug by ABC Carpet & Home (888
Broadway, New York, NY 10003; 212-473-3000; abchome.com). Vintage French mirror from Rooms & Gardens (for
information: 202-362-3777; roomsandgardens.net).
Page 108: Vintage French park chair from Rooms &
Gardens (for information: 202-362-3777; roomsandgardens.net). Antique French shipping barrel from John
Derian Co. (6 E. 2nd St., New York, NY 10003; 212-6773917; johnderian.com).
Page 110: Spider Web decoupage glass platter by
John Derian Co. (6 E. 2nd St., New York, NY 10003;
212-677-3917; johnderian.com). Vintage Italian woodand-metal sconce from Joanne Rossman (6 Birch St.,
Roslindale, MA 02131; 617-323-4301; joannerossman.com). Vintage mirror from Paula Rubenstein Ltd.
(65 Prince St., New York, NY 10012; 212-966-8954).
Page 111: Vase, pitcher, and tableware by Astier de
Villatte from John Derian Co. (6 E. 2nd St., New York, NY
10003; 212-677-3917; johnderian.com).
Page 113: Vintage ticking pillow from Paula
Rubenstein Ltd. (65 Prince St., New York, NY 10012;
212-966-8954). Quilt by Elsa C. from John Derian Co.
(6 E. 2nd St., New York, NY 10003; 212-677-3917;
johnderian.com). Sea sponge from John Derian Co.
BOLD STROKES
Pages 114–23: Interior design by Miles Redd of Miles
Redd LLC (for information: 212-674-0902; milesredd.com).
Pages 114–15: Sofa upholstered in Rochelle Velvet
cotton-polyester, in cardinal, #34520/6043, to the
trade from Lee Jofa (for showrooms: 888-533-5632;
leejofa.com). Side chairs upholstered in customembroidered soutache by Penn & Fletcher Inc. (for information: 212-239-6868; pennandfletcher.com).
Pages 116–17: Sofa upholstered in Lyons silk velvet, in
celadon, #2640471, by Decorators Walk, to the trade from
F. Schumacher (for showrooms: 800-332-3384;
fschumacher.com). J.M.F. Waterfall mica cocktail table
by Matthews & Parker, to the trade from Christopher
Norman Inc. (for showrooms: 212-647-0303;
christophernorman.com). Print by Chuck Close from Pace
Prints (32 E. 57th St., New York, NY 10022; 877-440PACE; paceprints.com). Antique Georgian gilt-wood
mirror and pair of horns, to the trade from John Rosselli
International (for information: 212-772-2137). Antique
Minton garden seat from Niall Smith Antiques (306 E.
61st St., 5th fl., New York, NY 10021; 212-750-3985).
Pages 118–19: Climate sectional sofa by Dune Inc. (88
Franklin St., New York, NY 10013; 212-925-6171; duneny.com). Pillows covered in Labyrinth silk, in antique,
#34129-5, to the trade from Clarence House (clarencehouse.com). Pacific Airline cocktail table and vintage
French leather-and-palisander armchairs, to the trade
from Hinson & Co. (for showrooms: 212-475-4100).
Clamshell, to the trade from C. J. Peters (for information:
212-752-1198). Vintage watercolor by Vojtech Kobylka,
to the trade from Sentimento Antiques (306 E. 61st St.,
6th fl., New York, NY 10021; 212-750-3111).
Pages 120–21: In family/dining room, antique French mahogany hall chairs from Amy Perlin Antiques (306 E. 61st
St., 4th fl., New York, NY 10021; 212-593-5756; amyperlinantiques.com). Radial mahogany dining table,
#601-306, by Oscar de la Renta for Century Furniture (for
information: 800-852-5552; centuryfurniture.com). Ebonyand-nickel bookshelves by Miles Redd of Miles Redd
LLC (for information: 212-674-0902; milesredd.com).
Antique French wood cocktail table from Amy Perlin
Antiques. Antique English bronze lamp and antique
faux-tortoise wood mirror, to the trade from John Rosselli
International (for information: 212-772-2137). In powder
room, Zen Weave glass mosaic tiles by Ann Sacks (for information: 800-278-8453; annsacks.com). St. James
sconces, to the trade from Ann-Morris Antiques (239 E.
60th St., New York, NY 10022; 212-755-3308). In entrance
hall, antique English pine console, to the trade from
Sentimento Antiques (306 E. 61st St., 6th fl., New York,
NY 10021; 212-750-3111). Vintage gilt-wood serpentine mirror, to the trade from John Rosselli International.
Vintage rock-crystal lamp from Liz O’Brien (800A Fifth
Ave., New York, NY 10021; 212-755-3800; lizobrien.com).
Pages 122–23: Custom-made bed by Miles Redd of
Miles Redd LLC (for information: 212-674-0902;
milesredd.com). Sienne Scallops bed linens by
Schweitzer Linen Inc. (1132 Madison Ave., New York, NY
10028; 212-249-8361; schweitzerlinen.com). St. Antoine
wallpaper, #BP947, by Farrow & Ball (for information:
888-511-1121; farrow-ball.com). Paramount Lucite
lamps by Craig Van Den Brulle for Capitol Furnishings (259
Elizabeth St., New York, NY 10012; 212-925-6760; capitolfurnishings.com). Curtains of Satin La Tour cotton-silk,
in bleu, #34520.00/6043, to the trade from Brunschwig &
Fils (for showrooms: 800-538-1880; brunschwig.com).
Tufted chaise, #60-11-706, by Oscar de la Renta for
Century Furniture (for information: 800-852-5552; centuryfurniture.com), upholstered in Shelbourne Woven linen
blend, in cream, #LFY20740F, by Ralph Lauren Home
(for information: 888-475-7674; rlhome.polo.com).
Pimlico Tripod Boom Arm Pharmacy lamp, in polished
nickel, #CHA9151PN, by Visual Comfort (for information:
877-271-2716; visualcomfort.com). Porcelain garden
seat and rococo-style wood mirror from Treillage Ltd.
(418 E. 75th St., New York, NY 10021; 212-535-2288;
treillageonline.com).
MAKING A STATEMENT
Page 124: Dalton, in aqua, #J057W-05, by Jane
Churchill, to the trade from Cowtan & Tout (for showrooms: 212-647-6900). Salisbury Mansion, in blues
and green on white, #WH-241635, by Waterhouse
Wallhangings, to the trade from Christopher Norman Inc.
(for showrooms: 212-647-0303; christophernorman.com). Silvergate, #BP846, $220/11-yd. roll, by Farrow &
Ball (for information: 888-511-1121; farrow-ball.com).
Edo Pines, in robin’s egg, #SPW-1016-05, $119/5-yd.
roll, by Studio Printworks LLC (for information: 212-6336727; studioprintworks.com).
Page 125: Edo, in watermelon, #2220-21WP, by China
Seas, to the trade from Quadrille Wallpapers and Fabrics
Inc. (for showrooms: 212-753-2995). Arabesque, in
black on cream, #WORARB1107, by Ornamenta, to the
trade from Stark Wallcovering (for showrooms: 212-3557186; starkcarpet.com). Gramercy, in onyx, #5511090,
$35/4.5-yd. roll, by Waverly (for information: 800-4235881; waverly.com). Caterpillar Leaf, in mugha mud,
#WV4CAT-08, $81/11-yd. roll, by Neisha Crosland (for information: 011-44-20-7978-4389; neishacrosland.com),
available at Barneys New York (for information: 888-8BARNEYS; barneys.com). Woodstock, in pink/brown,
#69/7125, by Cole & Son, to the trade from Lee Jofa (for
showrooms: 888-533-5632; leejofa.com).
Pages 126–27: Imperial Trellis, in treillage, #2707212,
by House of KWID by Kelly Wearstler for Decorators
Walk, to the trade from F. Schumacher & Co. (for showrooms: 800-332-3384; fschumacher.com). Pera Trail,
#W5515/06, to the trade from Osborne & Little (for showrooms: 212-751-3333; osborneandlittle.com).
Flowering Quince, in brown, #6847-1, to the trade from
Clarence House (for showrooms: clarencehouse.com).
Jersey Lily, #W5452/04, to the trade from Osborne &
Little. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin, in multi with blue,
#WH-275330, by Waterhouse Wallhangings, to the trade
from Christopher Norman Inc. (for showrooms: 212-6470303; christophernorman.com). Indramayu, in French
blue, #653-210, by China Seas, to the trade from
Quadrille Wallpapers and Fabrics Inc. (for showrooms:
212-753-2995). McCall Foulard, in ebony/cream,
#LCW26279W, $49/5-yd. roll, by Ralph Lauren Home
(for information: 888-475-7674; rlhome.polo.com).
Page 128: Nanou Rockery, in reds, #69369-166, to
the trade from Brunschwig & Fils (for showrooms:
800-538-1880; brunschwig.com). Durbar Hall, in noir,
#P434/04, by Designers Guild, to the trade from Osborne &
Little (for showrooms: 212-751-3333; osborneandlittle.com). Cordoba, in brown/pink, #TOR07001, to the trade
from Zoffany Ltd. (for showrooms: 212-593-9787; zoffany.com). Kabloom, in fruit punch, $350/5-yd. roll, by Flavor
Paper (for information: 504-944-0447; flavorpaper.com).
Page 129: Baldwin’s Bamboo, in cream and red on
aqua, #WP81630-4, to the trade from Scalamandré (for
showrooms: 800-932-4361; scalamandre.com).
Clacket Lane, in gray, $85/11-yd. roll, by Mibo (for information: 011-44-87-0011-9620; mibo.co.uk), available
at Velocity Art and Design (2118 Second Ave., Seattle,
WA 98121; 866-781-9494; velocityartanddesign.com).
Acorus, in blueberry, #WABNHP1006, by Alexander
Beauchamp, to the trade from Stark Wallcovering (for
showrooms: 212-355-7186; starkcarpet.com).
Mimosa, in scarlet/silver/black, #69-8130, by Cole &
Son, to the trade from Lee Jofa (for showrooms: 888533-5632; leejofa.com). Berry Flower, in lemon curd,
#WV4BER01, $100/11-yd. roll, by Neisha Crosland (for
information: 011-44-20-7978-4389; neishacrosland.com), available at Barneys New York (for information:
888-8-BARNEYS; barneys.com).
IN A NEW LIGHT
Pages 130–37: All artworks are from Luhring Augustine
(531 W. 24th St., New York, NY 10011; 212-206-9100;
luhringaugustine.com). Architecture by Cicognani
Kalla Architects P.C. (for information: 212-308-4811).
Contracting by Wolcott Builders Inc. (for information:
845-876-6575). Curtain fabrication by Colette Maas of
Van Maassen Interiors (for information: 845-373-8400).
Pages 130–31: Wood pedestals and custom-made
walnut-and-steel console by Chris Lehrecke, to the
trade from Ralph Pucci International (for showrooms:
212-633-0452; ralphpucci.com). 3rd Gear—It’s All
Right, oil on canvas, 1998, by Albert Oehlen. Untitled
(The Show Is Over...), alkyd on rice paper, 1990, by
Christopher Wool. Untitled (Empty and Full),
bronze sculptures, 2000–2001, by Rachel Whiteread.
Pages 132–33: Stainless-steel cocktail tables by
Chris Lehrecke, to the trade from Ralph Pucci International (for showrooms: 212-633-0452; ralphpucci.com).
Custom-made sofas by Chris Lehrecke, upholstered in
Pluscious wool velvet, in pineapple, #10028-20, to the
trade from Donghia Furniture/Textiles Ltd. (for showrooms: 800-DONGHIA; donghia.com). The Cocktail
Drinker, oil on canvas, 1995, by George Condo.
Chocolate Silicon Blockhead, 1999–2000, by Paul
McCarthy. Drunken Lantern, steel, glass, and lightbulb,
1990, by Martin Kippenberger. Mama Too Tight,
enamel on aluminum, 1999, by Christopher Wool.
Pages 134–35: In kitchen, granite-top cherry kitchen
island by Varenna (for information: 877-VARENNA;
poliformusa.com). Windows by Marvin Windows and
Doors (for information: 888-537-8268; marvin.com). In
dining room, vintage Danish teak chairs from Classic
Modern Furniture (Rte. 22, Amenia, NY 12501; 845-3737238). Custom-made cherry dining table by Chris
Lehrecke, to the trade from Ralph Pucci International (for
showrooms: 212-633-0452; ralphpucci.com). Vermeer
Study (A Great Story Out of the Corner of a Small
Room), photograph on canvas, 2004, by Yasumasa
Morimura. McLean, Virginia, photograph, 1978, by
Joel Sternfeld. In kitchen, (continues on page 154)
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