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editor’s letter

“In the middle of the night, you’re surrounded by the soundtrack of Jamaica—a million cicadas and birds and crickets and always dancehall beats drifting in from miles away.”—Diplo There is nothing more satisfying and inspiring for this editor than a house that defies and exceeds expectations—it always reminds me to keep an open mind. It was intriguing to learn that Grammy-winning superstar DJ and music producer Diplo had created a Brutalist concrete retreat in the jungle of Jamaica, but the epic scope of his ambitious undertaking and the sheer sophistication of the project surprised and impressed us all, as did his deep passion for the place. “For a little island, this country has had such a powerful cultural impact around the world. There’s magic here,” says the musician, who acquired 50…

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In Le Corbusier’s 1923 manifesto Towards an Architecture, the Swiss-French architect called the home “a machine for living in.” But what did that mean for the furniture? Corbu, as his friends called him, addressed the issue with a series of sketches—nine ways of sitting—that he, alongside collaborators Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret, would use to inform a series of radical new furnishings debuted in 1929 at Paris’s Salon d’Automne. One drawing, which depicted a woman stretched out in full recline, would inspire the 4 chaise longue à réglage continu or continuously adjustable lounge chair (you might know it as the LC4 but, recently, to honor all three creators, that naming convention has been changed). Looking at references that ranged from the mechanized Surrepos du Docteur Pascaud, a sort of primitive La-Z-Boy,…

For a modern-minded woman like Angie Hranowsky, Charleston, South Carolina might not seem like the optimum location, architecturally. “I’ve always lived in older houses,” admits the interior designer, a Holy City resident for decades. “I like rooms to feel collected, to have texture and history, a mixture of contemporary and classical. They’re always the most interesting spaces.” A decade ago, though, she went in search of a new place and found nothing that turned her head. A friend suggested that she just build a house, but all that work, Hranowsky recalls, “didn’t appeal to me either.” Until suddenly it did. “It would be my own house and exactly what I wanted.” After acquiring a deep lot near downtown, Hranowsky—collaborating with architect Johnny Tucker—achieved just that: a boxy, low-slung house with a…

When Harvey Probber began designing furniture in the late 1930s, at just 16 years old, a sofa tended to look a particular way, with two arms, a back, and a fixed configuration. But the Brooklyn-born designer questioned that convention. Inspired by the rectilinear buildings of Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert and abstract paintings by the likes of Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger, he began experimenting with modular seating systems that allowed for a range of layouts. “The key to salvation was in bits and pieces of plane geometry,” Probber mused. “They were meaningless alone, but when fused to conventional shapes, profoundly altered their character.” Today, three of his groundbreaking designs have returned to the retail market thanks to RH, the present-day arbiter of sectional style. The 1972 Deep Tuft series exudes…

Bicoastal Living

More than 20 years ago, AD100 designers Todd Nickey and Amy Kehoe met cute in typical New York City fashion, seated next to one another at a dinner party. “We fell for each other that night,” Kehoe recalls, clarifying, “platonically.” At the time, she was working in historic preservation at Beyer Blinder Belle; he was in creative services at Ralph Lauren. That evening, they bonded over their shared knack for ushering the past into the present. Then in 2004, after each moving to Los Angeles, they joined forces—first launching a design firm and later the furnishings emporium that has grown into the tastemaking brand Nickey Kehoe. Now they’re back in the city where it all started, setting up a second shop in a historic Greenwich Village town house. Kehoe calls the…

Bicoastal Living

Figuring It Out

An art fair in Basel, Switzerland, is not the first place you’d expect to find a figure stretched out, catching some rays. But that’s where Sunbather, Barbora Žilinskaitė’s first outdoor piece of functional sculpture, is making its debut. “I imagined a reclining form in a garden next to a house,” the Brussels-based talent explains of the leggy bench, on view from June 10 through 16 at Design Miami/Basel as part of Friedman Benda gallery’s booth. The piece marks a turning point for Žilinskaitė’s ongoing series of anthropomorphic works, typically made by smearing a mixture of sawdust, glue, and pigment over a plywood skeleton. To equip Sunbather for the elements, she cast its body in pale yellow concrete, using an earlier work from her recent solo show “Chairs Don’t Cry” to create…

Figuring It Out

Group Mentality

How do you build a sense of belonging?” That, in the words of architectural designer Tei Carpenter, was the prompt for her and Chris Woebken’s collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art. Launched on behalf of the Ali Forney Center—the largest provider of shelter for unhoused LGBTQ+ youth—the project was more of an inquiry than an assignment. “We began with value-storming exercises,” says Woebken, an interactive designer and researcher focusing on participatory futures, recalling workshops with AFC clients and staff. Conversations on identity affirmation and safety led to design sessions as ideas took hold. Notes Carpenter, principal of the firm Agency—Agency, “it could have become so many things.” The results blend glamour, gusto, and social glue. At AFC’s Manhattan drop-in center, clients can now receive beauty and hair treatments in an…

Group Mentality

Pleasure Principals

It’s a sunny summer day in Fire Island Pines, New York’s fabled gay getaway, and the boardwalk is a parade of Speedos, bare chests, hungry eyes, and mischievous grins. Noam Dvir and Daniel Rauchwerger, founders of the Manhattan-based architecture studio BoND, blend right in. But though they’re dressed for the beach, these emerging stars are bound for work, visiting their myriad projects underway along a stretch of sand that, for them, is both playground and laboratory. The couple, born and raised in Israel, first met in 2011 as journalists for the newspaper Haaretz, falling in love at first sight. Career shifts led them to graduate school at Harvard, where Dvir studied urban design and Rauchwerger the history and philosophy of design. After completing their master’s degrees, each eventually landed in New…

Pleasure Principals

SWEDE TOOTH Scandi touches, brass accents, and mellow yellows delight the senses; shown is Adwoa Aboah’s London kitchen by AD100 star Beata Heuman. FARM TO TABLE Earth tones, rugged materials, and refined silhouettes update classic country charm; shown is AD100 titan Giancarlo Valle’s Connecticut home. INTO THE BLUE Space Age swagger, icy hues, and sculptural forms add elegant edge; shown is AD100 maestro Bryan O’Sullivan’s London kitchen. INTERIOR: SIMON UPTON. ALL PRODUCTS COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES. INTERIOR: STEPHEN KENT JOHNSON. ALL PRODUCTS COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES. INTERIOR: JAMES MCDONALD. ALL PRODUCTS COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES.…

“For a little island, this country has had such a powerful cultural impact around the world. There’s magic here,” says Diplo. The preeminent German poet-philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe famously described architecture as “frozen music,” opining that “the state of mind produced by architecture is similar to the effect of music.” Over 150 years later, Frank Zappa—a somewhat less august personage, perhaps, but nevertheless prescient—reframed Goethe’s meditation on the corporeal and the ethereal: “Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance space is sculpted into something,” Zappa professed. One wonders what type of music might be frozen in the bold volumes and interwoven planes of the Jamaican pleasure dome created by Grammy-winning celebrity DJ and producer Thomas Wesley Pentz, better known as Diplo. Given his penchant…

More than 15 million spectators are expected to descend on Paris for the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer, and they won’t be there to see only sporting events. As always, the city’s world-class cultural institutions and monuments will be a draw, while serving as elegant backdrops for television broadcasts worldwide. To make sure Paris sparkles, France’s Ministry of Culture, among other agencies, launched initiatives to buff up its landmarks, including the Palais Garnier opera house, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, and the Grand Palais. Working tirelessly behind the scenes has been Ateliers De France, a consortium of 50-plus artisan firms that specialize in restoration of architectural heritage. “Our mission is to preserve patrimony,” said the group’s president, Antoine Courtois, during a visit to one member: Atelier Mériguet-Carrère, a 64-year-old…

It’s husband, businessman Michael Berman, were looking for an hardly news when a historic Palm Beach estate undergoes an extensive restoration, unless of course, one of the design world’s leading dignitaries is reimagining the residence as a retreat for her own family. AD100 designer Victoria Hagan and her airy beach house when Hagan fell for a 1920s Tudor whose hectic layout lacked finesse. “It was dark and needed work, but I loved how it sat on the property; it stretched from East to West and had a beautiful pitched roofline,” says Hagan. While Berman didn’t see the appeal, he trusted that Hagan’s unshakable aesthetic of perfectly scaled, tranquil interiors would turn what appeared to be an insurmountable task into an opportunity. Obsessive research into the house’s history served as a spiritual…

“Designing is not a static process. It’s very dynamic and I’m always pushing things forward, finding new ideas.”—Victoria Hagan“It isn’t really a beach shack, but it functions like one with its seamless movement from inside out.” INTERIORS: SIMON UPTON. ART: TODD MOSSMAN/SWOON. PORTOFINO CHAIR: ANTOINE BOOTZ. ALL OTHER PRODUCTS COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES.…

Few modern artists have enjoyed as meteoric a rise as the Ghanaian sensation Amoako Boafo. Less than a decade ago, he was desperate to sell his work and struggling to make a name for himself. Today, he is renowned for his mesmerizing, finger-painted portraits of Black figures and widely regarded as one of the most significant artists of his generation, with sold-out shows, a wildly successful Dior Men’s apparel collaboration, and a record-breaking auction price. He’s even achieved intergalactic status. In 2021, a trio of his portraits, painted on the fuselage of one of Jeff Bezos’s rocket ships, were launched into space. But while he’s now enjoying stratospheric visibility and international gallery exhibitions with the likes of art world powerhouses Mariane Ibrahim and Gagosian, Boafo remains committed to staying close…

Just as Athena sprang from the head of Zeus completely grown and armed, Giampiero Tagliaferri has emerged on the international design scene as a full-fledged phenomenon—an instant superstar leading a team of 10 from his twin offices in Los Angeles and Milan. Barely two years since the launch of his namesake practice, the dashing Italian-born talent already boasts a roster of major architecture and interior design projects that would be the envy of any industry veteran: the renovation of a Venetian palazzo for a prominent art collector; an LA house for Brunello Cucinelli’s daughter Carolina and her husband, Alessio Piastrelli; a remodel of a prominent Japanese-inspired house in Beverly Hills for jewelry designer Anita Ko; a series of cafés and restaurants for Sant Ambroeus; and other residential commissions in Paris,…

passion project

Right here,” declares Adam perch in the Massachusetts Berkshires home he has painstakingly refined over the last two decades. Tucked into a pile of needlepoint pillows beside a crackling fire, three doting labradoodles stirring at his feet, the fashion-designer makes it easy to understand why. In 2004, having recently resigned as global creative director of Oscar de la Renta, Lippes was looking for a bucolic retreat outside New York City. After spending endless work-adjacent weekends in the Hamptons, which left him “shell-shocked,” he says, finding “a place of peace, not a place to socialize” was a top priority. He was preparing to put in an offer on a fallingdown 300-acre working farm in the Hudson Valley when a friend in the Berkshires encouraged him to consider looking a bit farther north;…

passion project

“Auctions are my weakness because auctions allow you to dream for a while.”—Adam Lippes“Everywhere I travel, I will suss out antique shops and things of that nature.” INTERIORS & EXTERIOR: ISABEL PARRA. ALL PRODUCTS COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES.…

That’s a Wrap

Even the most adamantine minimalists and modernists would be hard-pressed to resist the seduction of de Gournay’s new Los Angeles residence. The house’s various rooms are enveloped in an array of hand-painted papers and hand-embroidered fabrics that collectively immerse visitors in the British wall-covering purveyor’s intoxicating world of fantasy and beauty. A pied-à-terre for the family of Claud Cecil Gurney, de Gournay’s founder, the Hollywood Hills abode is open by appointment to select clients—more like a living portfolio than a pedestrian showroom. The company’s own design team calibrated the interiors to reflect the light and landscape of Southern California, pairing stellar selections from the de Gournay repertoire with sympathetic furnishings that allow the backgrounds to sing. The dining room walls (pictured) are wrapped in Mughal Trees, a verdant wall covering…

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