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editor’s letter

“I don’t know what I like until I see what I don’t, so I can do the opposite. I had seen too many old houses with great wood get taken down to the studs and turned into a white box.”—Lauren Santo Domingo Social and fashion force Lauren Santo Domingo, widely known by her Instagram handle @thelsd, is one of those authoritative international tastemakers (she is the cofounder of Moda Operandi and artistic director of Tiffany Home) who can change the direction in which people and trends are headed with a single post, a pithy quip, or a widely documented outfit. I expect that her wise words above will be read and contemplated by many as they reconsider their own generic white environments, and she will have done her part to…

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Breaking the Mold

It was the end of 1945 and Evans Products Company—a plywood supplier mostly working with aircraft, auto, and rail industries—was hoping to diversify. They’d already collaborated with Charles and Ray Eames, the California based designer couple, on a molded plywood leg splint. Now that the war was over, they wanted to try something different: furniture. So at the Barclay Hotel in New York City, Evans presented prototypes the pair had been developing, among them, the now iconic Lounge Chair Wood or the LCW. Using a homemade machine charmingly dubbed the Kazam! the Eameses had figured out how to use heating elements and a bicycle pump to create molded plywood seats with complex curves. But this was no sustainable means of fabrication—they wanted to mass-produce high-quality, low-cost furniture. Evans, they hoped,…

Breaking the Mold

Starting From Scratch

The brick wall was exposed, so it all felt very blank and architectural,” says designer Shawn Henderson standing in his one-bedroom Manhattan apartment. “I had this fantasy of moving in and not doing anything—just a mattress on the floor.” At that, the AD100 talent laughs. Far from the minimalist aesthetic he initially envisioned, the decidedly layered interiors unfold with the type of contemporary creative alchemy on which he has built his namesake firm of more than two decades. The specific ingredients of that signature style are, he admits, difficult to pin down. “I’m just not that way,” Henderson reflects on trademark stamps. It was only when laying out his first monograph, subtitled Interiors in Context (Phaidon, 2021), that his distinct approach to color, texture, and scale came into focus. “Whether…

Starting From Scratch

FOR THE NEW ENGLAND MAXIMALIST Upbeat patterns, bold hues, and sly shapes put some pep and prep in your step; shown is a Massachusetts house by the AD100 firm Reath FOR THE COTTAGECORE CONVERT Treasures from near and far channel classic English-country charms; shown is the Cotswolds home of Plum Sykes FOR THE DECO DEVOTEE Fine metals, bold motifs, and savoir faire blend art and industry; shown is the Paris home of AD100 talent Hugo Toro FOR THE ISLAND HOPPER Tropical touches in ocean hues break out of their shells; shown is a Bahamian home by AD100 talent David Netto FOR THE POSTMODERN SAVANT Candy colors and kooky forms stoke the flames of Memphis mania; shown is a Los Angeles project by AD100 Hall of Famer Kelly Wearstler…

Ahead of the Curves

How do you design a house that feels at once foreign to and completely of a place? That was the challenge posed by a husband and wife eager to break convention in Silicon Valley. “They wanted a home that felt like it had landed from somewhere else but also like it had always been there,” recalls Craig Dykers of the global architecture firm Snøhetta, whose unexpected updates to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the French Laundry had caught the couple’s attention. Outside-the-box ideas were exactly what they had in mind. “These clients had an intuitive sensitivity to shape and line,” says Dykers. “They were hoping for a house that wasn’t just about plain modularity or a rectilinear plan.” To meet the multilayered mandate, Snøhetta first undertook a…

Ahead of the Curves

Outside the Box

In the Miami Design District—where brands like Bvlgari, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Tiffany & Co. have planted their luxurious flags—fine jewelry is often kept behind glass. But this December, a fleet of supersized baubles will take to the streets in the form of an interactive installation by Nicole Nomsa Moyo. “They’re places for people to sit, for them to gather,” says the Zimbabwe-born, Toronto-based architectural and urban designer. “It’s really about place making, having spaces for people.” Titled “Pearl Jam,” her project marks the 10th iteration of Design Miami Curatorial Lab’s annual neighborhood activation, timed to the city’s famous fairs. Moyo, who prioritizes cultural sustainability in her work, tapped women from the Southern African Ndebele tribe to create more than 1,000 spheres—she calls them “pearls”—encrusted with beads. The richly…

Outside the Box

From the top floors of Shenandoah Mansions—the latest Ash hotel, opening next year in Richmond, Virginia—you can glimpse the mountains that enclose the Shenandoah Valley, so named for the Algonquin word meaning “daughter of the stars.” According to legend, celestial bodies would gather there in awe of the river below. Now the shimmering motif has inspired a new carpet, designed with Swedish rug maker Nordic Knots for the lodgings’ eight suites. “I wanted to draw the cosmos converging on this open body of water,” Ash creative director Xavier Donnelly says of the floor covering—a star turn if ever there was one. Available in two sizes; nordicknots.com…

In the early 20th century, when a rural Pennsylvania arboretum found itself destined for the lumber mill, business mogul Pierre Samuel du Pont stepped in to purchase the property and save the historic trees. In the decades since, he and his philanthropic successors have continued to add to its grounds, creating Longwood Gardens: 1,100 acres of meadows, woodlands, fountains, and conservatories displaying all manner of rare and exotic plants. That legacy of preservation now underpins the institution’s latest chapter, a 17-acre transformation designed by the architecture firm Weiss/Manfredi in collaboration with landscape studio Reed Hilderbrand. At the heart of the project, debuting November 22, is a new 32,000-square-foot conservatory, overlooking the Brandywine Valley and seemingly immersed in a reflecting pool. Unlike existing masonry buildings, the asymmetrically pleated edifice will provide…

Raising the Bar

Go big or go home. That was the directive given to Hannes Peer when designing The Manner, a new Manhattan hotel and the first outpost of an ultra-luxurious concept from the hospitality group Standard International. Working closely with Verena Haller, the brand’s chief design officer, the Milan-based architect took that mandate and ran with it—transforming an existing SoHo building into a bold oasis of glamour. The 97 guest rooms range from standard accommodations to a duplex penthouse, all sharing a visual language, with custom glass-and-steel chandeliers, warm color palettes, and lacquered headboards as common threads. Haller cheekily compares the accommodations to “your best friend’s home—but a best friend with exquisite taste.” Even in shared spaces, however, a sense of privacy abounds, as in The Apartment, the guest-only living room adjacent…

Raising the Bar

Top of the Heap

You see marble at luxury distributors where it looks polished and special, but here, in the dust, you realize it’s part of the earth,” reflects Dushyant Bansal, gazing out at a quarry in the rural landscape of Makrana, India. Throughout the northwestern state of Rajasthan, where he and Priyanka Sharma run their design firm Studio Raw Material, locals have long harvested stone—from the white variety that built the Taj Mahal to colorful specimens now commonly used for flooring. Pointing toward a stack of offcuts, Bansal continues: “Seeing it like this cracks open the mystery.” The material serves as a jumping-off point for their research driven practice that investigates, documents, and reinvents craft and building methods of the country’s western plains. Upon completing their studies at London’s Royal College of Art…

Top of the Heap

A CENTURY OF STYLE

Featuring Barack and Michelle Obama, Frank Gehry, Truman Capote, David Hockney, Marc Jacobs, Jennifer Aniston, Diana Vreeland, India Mahdavi, Peter Marino, Kelly Wearstler, Oscar Niemeyer, Axel Vervoordt, Frank Lloyd Wright, Elsie de Wolfe, Jacques Grange, Rose Tarlow, John Lautner, Renzo Mongiardino, and many more. abramsbooks.com/AD100…

A CENTURY OF STYLE

NO chalet clichés!” That was the first thing that came to Lauren Santo Domingo’s mind when she began envisioning her dream ski house in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The ultimate New York City style setter, cofounder of online fashion emporium Moda Operandi, and artistic director of Tiffany Home already had a list of decor don’ts: “No fur, no bison heads, no stone mantles, no cowboy hats, no fluffy rugs….” Lauren and her husband, Andrés Santo Domingo, the cofounder of indie music label Mexican Summer, envisioned a version of rusticity that was more masculine, midcentury, contemporary—more Frank Lloyd Wright than ski bunny. Cowboys out, Le Corbusier in. “I don’t know what I like until I see what I don’t, so I can do the opposite,” says Lauren, who is widely known by…

“Lauren’s a master editor. She made me think of things I hadn’t thought of.”—Andre Mellone “I don’t know what I like until I see what I don’t, so I can do the opposite.”—Lauren Santo Domingo…

From the time Kenny Scharf emerged on New York City’s down town art scene in the 1980s, his elastic, fantastic practice has encompassed painting, sculpture, video, fashion, performance, and installation art. To these various disciplines one can now add landscape design. The garden at his Los Angeles home is, predictably, bonkers—a giddy wonderland of palm trees, cacti, and succulents mixed with decades-spanning artworks, ad hoc Day-Glo interventions, and plenty of Flintstones iconography. Like everything he creates, the garden proffers an invitation into the world of Kenny Scharf and his fractured fairy tale of cartoon-inspired surrealism and zany delight. A native Angeleno, Scharf returned to his hometown in 1999 after heeding the siren call of Gotham in the late 1970s, and living in Brazil and Miami in the 1980s and ’90s,…

LIVING THE DREAM

One of the most romantic town houses in London—the kind that resembles an aristocratic dwelling straight out of a Jane Austen novel—stands solemnly on a sun-dappled corner of Cheyne Walk overlooking the glittering River Thames. Visitors approach the house exactly as they would have done when it was built circa 1770, passing through a tall wrought-iron gate flanked with imposing square gateposts, iron railing, and rambling hedging. A short walk along a worn stone path leads to a Georgian six-panel front door, painted a formal, glossy black with a decorative fanlight above framed by an extravagant stone arch. These gracious features are in distinct opposition to the age-blackened brickwork of the building and set the tone for a home that is one of brilliant contrasts: It is striking yet correct,…

LIVING THE DREAM

“The architectural vernacular here is Vogue Regency, so the house takes white and gilt without feeling pretentious or uptight.”—Veere Grenney “Pete and I started our careers together; our taste has grown simultaneously and we never disagree.”—Whitney Bromberg Hawkings…

Walton Ford’s town house, in the meandering heart of Greenwich Village, is the one with the lion’s-head knocker on its front door. Of course it is: For decades now the artist has made a subject of animals, the more ferocious-looking the better, the ones people go on safari to ogle through binoculars. As depicted by Ford, these beasts are so close you can count the hairs on their knuckles. In his recent show at The Morgan Library & Museum, a monumental watercolor portrays a salivating male lion lounging by a swimming pool in the moonlight. There’s a story behind the painting, needless to say, and another behind Ford’s stout little house. The two-bedroom residence was built in the Federal style in 1830, a time when New York City was carving…

On April 15, 2019, the unthinkable happened: Notre-Dame de Paris caught on fire. More than 400 firefighters battled bravely into the night. When, after 12-plus hours, officials declared the blaze extinguished, the French Gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, dating back some 850 years, was still standing, its famous windows, bell towers, and organ all intact. But the roof had caved in and the interior had been gutted. That morning, President Emmanuel Macron vowed that Notre-Dame would be rebuilt in five years—no small feat, given that the original construction took nearly two centuries—and it would be “more beautiful than before.” His pledge fulfilled, the world will soon see the results of the herculean effort when the cathedral reopens on December 7 and 8 with a consecration Mass said…

Visitors to Dia Beacon have always left with lasting impressions, be it of Richard Serra’s monumental steel curves, Dan Flavin’s fluorescent revelations, or Louise Bourgeois’s arachnid homage to mom. What they’ve never left with, however, was a proper sense of the grounds to the museum’s south. Spanning eight acres, the riverfront plot has long centered on a broad swath of flood-prone lawn, submerged during Super storm Sandy. “It’s been a frustration for our team to have a landscape that you could look onto but not access,” reflects Jessica Morgan, Dia’s Nathalie de Gunz burg Director. “Wouldn’t it be lovely to invite people outside?” Three years ago, that ambition led the museum to landscape architect Sara Zewde, an AD100 talent known for creating green spaces that are at once culturally affirming,…

When he’s out in Bridgehampton, New York, about once a week the artist Daniel Arsham tends to his Zen garden first thing in the morning. “I rake left to right, creating waves around the impediments–the mounds of moss planted with trees, the rocks, the sculpture,” he says, explaining a ritual he learned from monks in Kyoto. “One of the beautiful things about these gardens—some of which have existed for hundreds of years—is that they are actually remade every day.” It’s an idea Arsham often contemplates in his work, pains takingly remaking icons from past and present—a Porsche, a Pokémon character, a bust of Apollo—in a way that strips them of their time and place. Consider Bronze Eroded Bust of Melpomene, the sculpture that emerges from that garden. It’s one of…

Root and Branch

“I’m a big nature fanatic,” confesses architect Jeanne Gang, an avid hiker and the genial founding partner of the award-winning firm Studio Gang. Her outdoorsy predilections, not to mention her knack for balancing flair and function, reveal themselves fully in a new project, the Populus hotel in Denver. Spanning 13 stories and 265 guest rooms, the building takes direct inspiration from Colorado’s native Aspen trees, with fiberglass-reinforced concrete panels the color of bark, street-level columns reminiscent of trunks, and fenestration that invokes the dark markings left by shed branches. “With a hotel, the main thing are the windows,” explains Gang, who first developed the concept in the quiet of an alpine forest. Above each opening, streamlined “eyelids” provide relief from the harsh mountain sun, helping to reduce solar gain inside…

Root and Branch

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