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WHAT’S NEXT The 8x8 house. SQUARE DEAL A small-scale home by an iconic French designer gets a second look The annual Design Miami fair celebrates the new and the ground- Prouvé at home in Nancy, France, breaking, but the centerpiece this year might just be a 69-year- circa 1963. ©CENTRE G. POMPIDOU, PARIS, BIBLIOTHÈQUE KANDINSKY, FONDS JOLY-CARDOT old house. Galerie Patrick Seguin of Paris, largely responsible for FROM TOP: COURTESY OF GALERIE PATRICK SEGUIN; PIERRE & VERA CARDOT bringing the work of Jean Prouvé back to the public’s attention, is exhibiting—and offering for sale—a prefabricated house by the mid- century architect and designer. Prouvé had been experimenting for two decades with sheet metal to create everything from sleek office furniture to vacation cottages when he won a commission in 1944 to design temporary housing for those displaced by World War II. The wood and metal parts that made up the structures could be sent to locations in need and assembled by three people in a day. The project didn’t get much past the planning stage, but Prouvé went on to use the same design to fashion prototypes for more permanent homes. Only a few examples of his “8x8” houses (each is eight square meters, or roughly 86 square feet) were created, and one of only two existing models will be on display in Miami; it was purchased by the Seguin gallery 10 years ago, after having been used as a warehouse. (The other stands on the property of Prouvé’s home in Nancy, France.) With its simple clothespin-shaped internal support and an innova- tive bay window, the 8x8 is as elegant—and efficient—today as it was during Prouvé’s lifetime (December 4–8; patrickseguin.com). PRODUCED BY PETER TERZIAN

WHAT’S NEXT ART MARKET GAGOSIAN GALLERY IS RENOWNED FOR ORGA- NIZING MUSEUM-CALIBER EXHIBITIONS (PICASSO, BASQUIAT). NOW IT HAS LAUNCHED A MUSEUM- CALIBER DESIGN SHOP ON NEW YORK’S MADISON AVENUE. SELLDORF ARCHITECTS FASHIONED THE SLEEK WHITE-WALLED SPACE, WHICH SHOWCASES A TROVE OF ARTIST-MADE DESIGNS, JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAY GIFT-GIVING SEASON. CINDY SHERMAN’S WHIMSICAL MADAM DE POMPADOUR TEA SET NODS TO TRADITION—BUT FOR THE INCLUSION OF HER TRADEMARK SELF-PORTRAIT. URS FISCHER’S DRYWALL WALLPAPER MIMICS SHEETROCK. AND, FOR THE BUDDING PHOTOG- RAPHER, WHAT COULD BE MORE APPROPRIATE THAN A LIMITED-EDITION, LEATHER-CLAD LEICA COMBINING LASER-SHARP LENSES WITH GERMAN CRAFTSMANSHIP (GAGOSIAN.COM)? THROWING A CURVE On the outside, the Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame looks like a minimalist, modern box, with horizontal louvered panels that create alternating patterns of sun and shade. But on the inside, the walls, ceilings, and stairwells swoop and curve like a mash-up between an ancient cave dwelling and a futuristic space outpost. The New Orleans–based architecture firm Trahan Architects was inspired by the geology of the Cane River Waterway, which flows just past the museum through the historic town of Natchitoches. Project engineer David Kufferman describes the cast-stone surface as “a 1,051-piece 3D jigsaw puzzle that weighs about 700 tons.... The puzzle can only be properly assembled if all the pieces are nearly perfectly made.” The museum unites two of the state’s prized collections, one for- merly displayed in a state courthouse, the other in a university coliseum, in a daring work of architecture that looks to the future (lasportshall.com). RARE DEVICES The German artist Isa Genzken has spent the past decade making slyly witty assemblages—a slot machine covered in photos of herself, friends, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: ©GAGOSIAN GALLERY. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBERT MCKEEVER; COURTESY and strangers; a tableau of suitcases THE ARTIST AND GALERIE BUCHHOLZ, COLOGNE/BERLIN ©ISA GENZKEN (2); TIM HURSLEY and flying astronauts; or her 2008 Memorial Tower (Ground Zero), right, an oddly touching proposal for an addition to the Manhattan skyline. “Isa Genzken,” a compre- hensive retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, looks back at her endlessly inventive career through nearly 150 paintings, sculp- tures, films, and photographs, including her X-ray self-portraits from 1991, above (November 23, 2013, to March 10, 2014; moma.org). 58

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ART SHOW My Blue Heaven, 2013. JULIA DAULT This young Brooklyn artist devises complex systems for her paintings and sculptures, but the subtly beautiful results are not at all predictable. BY ARIELLA BUDICK Julia Dault’s art threatens to explode with contained passion. Her competing urges to expose and conceal might have something to do sculptures—shiny acrylic sheets that have been bound and bun- with her stint as an art critic for Canada’s National Post. For a few dled—seem on the verge of coming uncoiled. For her vigorously years, she led a double life, making art in secret while publicly pass- COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND GALERIE BOB VAN ORSOUW, patterned paintings, she masks bright industrial colors with quiet, ing judgment on the artists she privately considered her peers. She ZURICH, PHOTO: DANIELE KAEHR; SEE RESOURCES regular strokes. (“There’s something so satisfying about parallel describes herself as having been a “closeted artist” until she finally lines,” she says.) But titanic internal forces erupt through her power- “came out” in 2006. She then moved to New York and got an MFA at ful need for order, as she judiciously peels back the obscuring layer Parsons. “I completely overhauled my life,” she says. It seems to have to reveal the glow underneath. worked out: In 2012, the Guggenheim bought one of her paintings. The 35-year-old, Toronto-born Dault squirms at the idea of psy- Each of Dault’s paintings is a palimpsest, coyly divulging its previ- chological explanations of her work, but she acknowledges that her ous iterations. She typically covers a canvas with a lush layer of 78 ELLEDECOR.COM

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ART SHOW Electric Youth, 2012. Untitled 27, 11:15 AM–2:00 PM, January 23, 2013. Final Fantasy, 2013. color or a swatch of bright fabric. Then she stretches a sheet of clear can see that.” Katherine Brinson, an associate curator at New York’s vinyl over that foundation and smears pigment on top. Finally, she Guggenheim Museum, sees Dault’s self-discipline as indistinguish- PHOTO: DANIELE KAEHR; COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND JESSICA BRADLEY, TORONTO, PHOTO: MYRIAM BABIN; COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND JESSICA BRADLEY, TORONTO, PHOTO: TONI HAFKENSCHEID performs a kind of archaeological striptease, strategically scrap- able from and entwined with her creative liberty. “The thing that CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND GALERIE BOB VAN ORSOUW, ZURICH, PHOTO: MYRIAM BABIN; COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND GALERIE BOB VAN ORSOUW, ZURICH, ing away the topmost layer with a squeegee, a comb, or some other drew me into Julia’s work from the outset is its embrace of internal improvised implement. The tracks left by the tool give the viewer an tensions and contradictions,” Brinson says. “She sets up these very instant grasp of both process and effect. careful systems and constraints at the same time that she invites The technique, Dault says, “captures the choreography of my moments of chaotic slippage and fragility into her process.” movement across the painting’s surface—you can trace the steps.” Dault wants viewers to weigh a work’s cost in sweat and blisters, For Elective Surgery, she shrouded a colorful underpainting in dark even if the final product expresses only itself. “You don’t have to faux leather, which she then sliced with a knife. Whether in two know me, Julia Dault, born in blah blah blah, to understand the pas- dimensions or three, her goal, she says, is “transparency”—work sion in the form,” she says. ◾ that explains how it came to be the way it is. Dault has staked a middle ground between what she derides as “emotional outpourings” of improvisational, expressionistic art and the cold impersonality of minimalism. She strikes this balance by setting rules for herself. No. 1: Fashion each sculpture in situ, on the spot where it will be shown. No. 2: Steer clear of trickery and illu- Scan the image at left to view sion. To construct her sculptures, Dault wrangles panels of Plexiglas more of the and Formica into cylinders, ties them up, piles them vertically, and artist’s work hitches the stack to the wall. She labels each according to when she made it and how long it took: for example, Untitled 19, 3:00 PM–8:30 PM, February 4, 2012, shown last year at Manhattan’s New Museum. “I don’t use glue because you can’t see it,” she explains. “I don’t bend the forms in advance because you wouldn’t see that. They’re all Elective Surgery, tethered in place by cords or wraps and anchored to the back—you 2012. 80 ELLEDECOR.COM



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DESIGN SOLUTIONS The library of a Manhattan duplex designed by Alessandra Branca for ELLE DECOR’s Designer Visions showhouse, a project overseen by Alana Frumkes. The armchair by Anthony Lawrence- Belfair behind the desk and the ottoman are uphol- stered in fabrics from Branca’s new collection for Schu macher; the leather armchair is 1940s French, and the armchair next to the desk is Regency. The light fxture is by Jamb, the painting is by Athos Zacharias, and the photograph is by Candida Höfer; the wallcovering is a Branca fabric, and the rug is by the Rug Company. See Resources. REACHING NEW HEIGHTS For ELLE DECOR’s Designer Visions showhouse, in a converted 1920s Manhattan office tower, designer Alessandra Branca conjures the ultimate urban family duplex ELLE DECOR: Who were your imaginary clients for this apartment? Antiques. Then they went to some nearby galleries and gathered some new artwork for the next chapter in their lives. ALESSANDRA BRANCA: They’re not really imaginary. They’re actual clients of mine who live on the Upper East Side, a family of four: two ED: Can you describe the layout of the apartment? adults, a son about to go off to college, and a daughter in high school. AB: It’s a duplex that faces south and stretches from east to west, I thought, What if they were to move downtown and embrace a new with views on all three sides. The main floor has a large living room life in Chelsea? They didn’t get rid of everything, keeping their most with a kitchen and dining room off one side and a library off the personal pieces, their inherited furniture, and antiques from their other. A master suite and a guest suite are at opposite ends of favorite shops like Gerald Bland, Maison Gerard, and David Duncan the first level, and there are two additional bedrooms on the INTERVIEW BY MICHAEL LASSELL / PHOTOGRAPHY BY DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN / STYLED BY CYNTHIA FRANK

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second. There are terraces on the south and west sides of the apartment. ED: How do you start a project that’s this big? AB: Well, the apartments are brand-new, even though the building is old. It’s a wonderful Art Deco landmark from 1929 that has been developed by JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group. It’s by one of the period’s best architects, Ralph Thomas Walker, which is why it’s now called Walker Tower. The units have unusually luxurious finishes, so we didn’t even consider changing the layout or altering the kitchen and bathrooms. And it’s been installed with state-of-the-art technology thanks to Audio Command Systems and Crestron. California Closets came in to fit out the walk-in closet as a dressing room for the lady of the house, but that was the only real “construction.” ED: Why did you go with dark floors? AB: I like their reflective quality. People think that dark floors make rooms look darker, but the opposite is true—they reflect more light, which makes rooms look bigger. ED: Did you consider trying to camouflage the support column in the middle of the living room? AB: All over Manhattan, people are bringing in- dustrial elements to apartments that don’t have them. Here we have an authentic one that recalls the origins of the building. With a simple coat of paint, it became sculptural. I particularly like WHAT THE PROS KNOW ƒ #P?LA? CKNJMVCB ? S?PGCQV MD N?GLQ QCAFLGORC GL QFC ?N?PQKCLQ *L QFC DMVCP FC RCB #CLH?KGL .MMPC AMJMP QM APC?QC FCP GEL?QRPC QPGNC 3FC B?PICP F?BC A?JJCB ŽQMLC )C?PQF AMLQGLRC ML QFC ?BH?ACLQ JGSGLE PMMK T?JJ FC RCB QFC JGEFQCP F?BC ŽQC?K ML QFC ACGJGLE ?LB QPGK QFPMREFMRQ KMQ MD QFC PCQ MD QFC ?N?PQKCLQ ƒ ŽFC RCB ? FGEF EJM ‹LGF ML QFC JGSGLE PMMK T?JJ DMP PCŒCAQGML ~6FCL VMRP JGEFQ MRPAC G ?JJ DPMK MLC CLB MD ? PMMK ? GQ G FCPC VMR ECQ ? QRLLCJ CřCAQ  FC ?V ~2CŒCAQGSC T?JJ KMSC QFC L?QRP?J B?VJGEFQ BCCNCP GLQM ? PMMK  ƒ *L QFC ERCQ PMMK TFGAF #P?LA? CLSGGMLCB ? ? J?AORCPCB @MU FC RCB MLC MD FCP D?SMP GQC AMJMP 3TGJGEFQ DPMK #CLH?KGL .MMPC| \"BS?LAC JGLC ~* RCB ? SCPV Œ?Q TFGQC DMP QFC *L QFCJGSGLE?PC? QFCACLQCPQ?@JC G QPGK ?LB ACGJGLE  FC ?V ~QM AMLQP?Q TGQF  &LEJGF 2CECLAV QFC Q¼QC ³ Q¼QC G QFC T?JJ ?LB REECQ QP?BGQGML?J NJ?QCPTMPI  ARQMK ?LB QFC @?LORCQQC SGLQ?EC -MRG 75*yQVJC @CPEºPC ?LB ARQMK QMMJ ?PC ƒ *L QFC JGSGLE PMMK ?LB K?QCP @CBPMMK FC RNFMJQCPCB GL #P?LA?| ŽAFRK?AFCP D?@ PGA 3FC NFMQMEP?NF G @V -?TPCLAC #CAI ?E?GL GLSMICB NJ?QCPTMPI @V N?GLQGLE QFC QFC GBC Q?@JC G @V \"PQCPGMP QFC JGEFQ $PVQMP?K? ŒRF KMRLQCB ACGJGLE ‹UQRPC ‹UQRPC G @V $PVQMP?K? ?LB QFC T?JJ ?PC TFGAF AMKC GL ? B?PI KCQ?JJGA ‹LGF GL N?GLQCB GL FGEF EJM #CLH?KGL .MMPC \"BS?LAC GL ŽQMLC )C?PQF ŽCC 2CMRPAC QFC ?KC Mř TFGQC ? QFC AMřCPCB ACGJGLE

DESIGN SOLUTIONS the way it plays against the Regency center table. ED: What is it that appeals to you about these kinds of juxtapositions? AB: I love to mix things up: high and low, old and new, matte and high gloss. One of the purposes of design is to make you see in new ways; anytime you juxtapose two things that you normally don’t see together, you create an energy that makes you look at each of the things differently. That’s why the por- celain bedside lamps in the daughter’s room have velvet shades. It’s all about surprise. CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Napoleon III–style chairs from ED: How did you arrive at the furniture arrange- the 1890s surround a custom ment in the living room? dining table; the lamp is custom made, the barware is from AB: I believe rooms are to be lived in. That means Arteriors, the flatware is by Christofle, and the sisal rug is by they have to be practical. Rooms are not trophies. Stark. French steel stools from the 1970s, an ice bucket They’re personal spaces that serve the people who by Christofle, and a vintage use them, and it’s my job to make them work. My console table from Maison Gerard in the mudroom, which feeling is that any time you can bring people to a is upholstered in a Moore & room for multiple purposes, you’ve succeeded. Giles leather. An 1820s French So the main seating area in the corner allows for chair in the entry is uphol- stered in a Branca cotton by relaxed yet elegant entertaining. An antique table Schumacher; the walls are painted Benjamin Moore Ultra surrounded by taborets offers a place to play cards Spec 500 in Steam with or have an intimate dinner. I considered placing a stripes of Aura in Stone Hearth, piano in the corner, but then I thought, How lonely the console table is by the Alpha Workshops, the gold is that? Only one person can sit there. So I brought bowl is by Aerin, and the stool is by Tucker Robbins. in my tête-à-tête daybed and imagined people talk- See Resources. ing or reading a book, or teenagers texting. I felt I had to orient as much of the seating toward the windows as possible, because the views are phenomenal. The living and dining areas and mas- ter suite look south, all the way to the Statue of 86 ELLEDECOR.COM

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DESIGN SOLUTIONS ED: You also have great affection for chinoiserie. WHAT THE PROS KNOW AB: I like the fantasy and the colors. It’s exotic and chic. You’ll find it in the living room and the master ƒ Branca upholsters walls to create a cocoon- ƒ #ranca lined the paisley curtains of the like feel, as in the library. Upholstered daughter’s room with an oversize tartan, suite, which is meant to recall the way Asian design walls are a luxury, she concedes, but are both from her Schumacher line. “That’s was brought into a European context. I used the “a great place to splurge for the result about playing the graphic against the Anna Damask from my Schumacher fabric collec- you get.” They’re also low-maintenance. organic,” she says, “and mixing cultures, tion and a Chinese-inspired four-poster by Michael “I’ve had the same fabric on my bedroom the Indian and the European.” Taylor that he originally created for Nan Kempner. wall for 25 years,” she says. “You just need ƒ 3FC BCGELCP had the Sferra bed linens in to vacuum them from time to time.” the guest room embroidered with her I had the two hand-painted silk wall panels next to the bed made up by Fromental several years ago. I ƒ -eather walls, too, are practical, she own initials. “Monograms are a great way never had the right place to use them until now. says. She created an elegant version of to add a visual element to linens. If your Again, it’s about mixing, not matching. Often, a mudroom in the apartment’s back room is generally graphic—striped, for entrance, which is lined with red leather example—you can go with a more ornate people are afraid to put personal things into their from Moore & Giles. “You have to keep monogram. If the room has organic pat- homes. Life is about accumulating pieces that re- it from drying out,” she says, “so it needs terns, like this one, go for something bold flect your interests, your experiences and travels, to be waxed occasionally, but it will last and simple. If you put flowers on flowers your idiosyncrasies. A space shouldn’t look pre- forever and acquire an incredible patina.” on flowers, your eye just stops noticing.” packaged. It shouldn’t be so designed that you can’t add anything to it or change it as you change. Liberty. You don’t get windows like this every- ED: You turned the designated dining room into a where. Some great residential buildings in this library. Why? city have tiny windows. AB: My clients are not formal dining room types. ED: You’ve used a lot of red, which is one of your I upholstered the wall in a faux-bois fabric that hallmarks. What is it you love about that color? looks like paneling because I liked the visual pun. The husband went to Oxford, so I set the tone of AB: It feels very much like home to me, although I this small, modern library with a huge Candida don’t have it in my place in Rome, which is where Höfer photograph of the great old library at Trin- I was born. So much of color is about place. Red ity College in Dublin. Then I mixed in a couple of seems to suit an urban environment, especially fabrics from my new Schumacher collection: an one with a frequently gray climate like New York overscale tartan and an embroidered toile. I’m or Chicago, where I live. And it’s prominent in big on texture and objects that are made by hand. every culture, from Asia and Africa to South America and the Mediterranean. ED: So where does the family eat? FROM TOP: The master closet was ftted out by California Closets; the clothing is by Roberto Cavalli, and the stool is by Carol Egan. Christopher Spitzmiller lamps and 1960s Maison Jansen side tables sit on either side of a canopy bed in the teenage daughter’s bedroom; the coverlet and cur- tains are of Branca for Schumacher linen, the photograph is by Reinhard Görner, and the walls are painted Benjamin Moore Aura in Coachman’s Cape. See Resources. Scan this image for a video tour of the apartment 88 ELLEDECOR.COM

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DESIGN SOLUTIONS TERRACE DAUGHTER’S BEDROOM HALL DINING ROOM TERRACE TERRACE FAMILY KITCHEN ROOM LIBRARY MASTER BEDROOM MASTER GUEST BATHROOM BEDROOM HALL MASTER CLOSET FOYER AB: I used the space adjacent to the kitchen and tried to make it as multipurpose as possible. I wanted a space that would be used by the whole family—not just for meals but also for hanging out, doing homework, playing games. You can do just about anything on the lacquered table. The room is tented with draperies, so the kitchen can be closed off while you dine. The furniture, the fabrics, and even the marbled-silk chandelier are neutral. The idea was that the clients could CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: In the dress it up or down for casual or formal dining and guest room, a sofa by Branca is upholstered in a Schumacher make a color statement with the table settings. velvet, the chandelier is by Crysto- rama, the photograph is by Erik ED: You’ve used a wide variety of rugs in the Madigan Heck, the lamps are by apartment. What guides your choices? Arteriors, the midcentury cocktail table is French, and the rug is by AB: I like natural fibers, and the simple edge- the Rug Company; the circa-1900 Louis XVI–style armchair and the bound sisals are a nice contrast to antiques and lampshades are covered in Branca floral fabrics. I live in bare feet, so I care about the for Schumacher fabrics. The floor plan. The custom headboard way things feel. Wool is great to walk on. And rugs is upholstered in Schumacher fabrics, the bedding is by Sferra, are a great place to introduce color and pattern. and the walls are painted high- The Bessarabian under the daybed in the living gloss Benjamin Moore Advance in room is more like art on the floor. Twilight. See Resources. ED: Are there any rules about using antiques? AD: No. The key is to have a mix. I don’t like a room that has only antiques, and I don’t like a room that doesn’t have any. I am drawn to functional, practi- cal forms, which is why I like the Louis XVI period so much. I like neoclassicism, but a bit modern- 90 ELLEDECOR.COM

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DESIGN SOLUTIONS The walls of the master bed- room are sheathed in a Branca for Schumacher damask linen, and the bed by Michael Taylor Designs is dressed with Sferra linens; the side tables are by Arteriors, the sofa is uphol- stered in Schu macher satin and velvet, and the 1950s cocktail table is French. See Resources. ized. That’s why there’s a lot of white space in the with the Branca stripe in the same colors that I toile and the chintz I designed for Schumacher. used in the living room. I find stripes relaxing, White space, or empty space, is extremely impor- like the chorus in a musical composition. tant. You need to let things breathe. Modern is not The foyer sets the tone for what you’ll see always about sharpness. It’s also about openness. throughout the apartment. There’s a modern The classic four-poster lit à la polonaise in the faux-ivory console table from the Alpha Work- daughter’s room is not hung with fabric, which the shops that echoes the lines of the Adam-style original would have been, but minimally dressed in mirror from Jamb. There’s an antique fauteuil our L’Indienne paisley linen, so you see the archi- covered in my Elizabeth chintz. There’s the pop tecture of the white bed against the dark walls. of red on the African-inspired Tucker Robbins stool, the metallic accents, and the juxtaposition ED: One of your go-to fabrics is what you call the of natural elements with great handiwork. “Branca stripe.” Where does that come from? ED: What role do these recurring motifs play in AB: From the rooms of the ladies-in-waiting at the your design aesthetic? palaces in Potsdam, in Prussia. I love that some- thing so humble can be so chic. AB: Design is like music or poetry—it has patterns. It’s part of the whole composition. Look, nobody ED: Is the Branca stripe the pattern that’s on the needs interior design. We need food on the table. foyer walls? Design is entertainment, and I like to keep it enter- AB: Yes. When you walk into the apartment you taining. The same principles apply whether you’re ABOVE: A Waterworks tub and fttings, are almost immediately in the living room. So I working at a luxury level, like this apartment, or custom mirror, and Sferra towels in the master bath; the tree-trunk table wanted the foyer to be a place where you stop and shopping at Ikea. If I’m doing my job, a home is just is by Arteriors. See Resources. look. I wanted it to be a bit irreverent. We went as practical as it is pleasing to the eye. 92 ELLEDECOR.COM



TRUTH IN DECORATING Scan this photo for a behind-the- scenes video Designers Evette Ríos and Barry Dixon with swivel chairs by, from left, Thayer Coggin and Moroso. See Resources. THE TOP 10 SWIVEL CHAIRS THE EXPERTS EVETTE RÍOS Designers Barry Dixon and Evette Ríos go for a spin with these fresh takes The Brooklyn-born designer on an American classic that will keep the conversation moving has developed a second career as a television person- For those occasions that require a little extra move- functional, or allowing two spaces to communicate ality. She is a correspondent for ABC’s The Chew and ment, a swivel chair can be a godsend. Thomas Jef- with each other.” We like to “rock and roll” in our host of CBS’s Recipe Rehab. ferson, the inventor of the rotating seat, sat in one seats, she adds. “They make you feel powerful. You evetterios.com while drafting the Declaration of Independence. feel like a badass in a swivel chair.” But even if your ambitions aren’t any loftier than Designer Barry Dixon says he likes to put rotat- BARRY DIXON kicking back on a lazy Sunday, there are plenty of ing chairs “wherever there’s a television.” He notes Virginia-based Dixon brings Southern sophistication reasons to introduce swivel chairs into a room. that many have a hidden mechanism, so they pass to homes in places from the HAIR AND MAKEUP BY MAYSOON FARAJ “People mostly think of them as office furniture,” as conventional chairs. “Then you sit down and Caribbean to Beijing. His new says designer and television host Evette Ríos. “But immediately realize you’re in control,” he says. “I collections include accessories they’re ideal for making any kind of space multi- love that little surprise.” for Arteriors, fabrics for Ver- vain, and paint colors for C2. TEXT BY TIM McKEOUGH / PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID A. LAND / PRODUCED BY ORLI BEN-DOR barrydixon.com 94 ELLEDECOR.COM

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TRUTH IN DECORATING 2 / STOCKHOLM SWIVEL EASY CHAIR BY IKEA “This chair is small,” says Ríos, “so it doesn’t take up a lot of space. The velvet upholstery makes it tactile and sexy, and the color is phenomenal— yellow is one of my favorites.” Dixon would place two along- side a cocktail table in lieu of a larger chair, or four around a gaming table. “If you’re playing cards for a long time, you can adjust yourself easily.” Also available in Beige and Green. 26″ w. x 30″ d. x 30″ h.; $399; ikea.com 3 / MEMOIR SWIVEL CHAIR BY BARBARA BARRY FOR HENREDON Dixon praises this chair’s femininity. “It even resembles a lovely lady, with its pleated skirt, drawn waist, and subtle curves,” he says. “It’s prim without being too traditional.” Shown in linen and offered 1 / EVIN SWIVEL CHAIR BY BAKER in other fabrics and fnishes, it’s Evette Ríos admires the traditional, clean-line shape, which can be ordered in any the ideal vanity chair, says Ríos. Baker fabric or leather, or c.o.m.: “It’s great for a living room,” she says. “I’d do a “The hidden mechanism gives pair in a bright print to add some fun.” Barry Dixon raves about the chair, which he it softness and polish.” 22″ w. x has used multiple times: “It’s comfortable enough to relax in, yet supportive 25″ d. x 32″ h.; $2,775; barbara enough to work on a laptop.” 31″ w. x 40″ d. x 34″ h.; $3,549; bakerfurniture.com barryhenredon.com 4 / TAKE A LINE FOR A 5 / GIANT TUB SWIVEL WALK CHAIR BY ALFREDO CHAIR BY MILO BAUGHMAN HÄBERLI FOR MOROSO FOR THAYER COGGIN For Ríos, this chair’s leather “This is big enough for two upholstery outlined with people to watch a movie,” says visible stitching exudes sex Dixon. “It’s like a swiveling appeal: “It’s very Sharon love seat.” A round chair like this Stone in Basic Instinct,” she can take the angle out of a says. Dixon would use it in bedroom corner, he adds. “It’s a family room as a TV-viewing the kind of chair you want to chair. “It’s contemporary— snuggle up in with your morning yet you could interject it into coffee,” adds Ríos. Shown a colonial tableau, next to a in Nava Red, it comes in other traditional freplace, to stir fabrics and c.o.m.; a matching things up.” Available in other ottoman is available. 46″ w. x colors. 32″ w. x 35″ d. x 43″ h.; 43″ d. x 30″ h.; $3,456; $4,180; morosousa.com propertyfurniture.com The opinions featured are those of ELLE DECOR’s guest experts and do not necessarily represent those of the editors. All measurements and prices are approximate. 96 ELLEDECOR.COM



TRUTH IN DECORATING 7 / CHIARA CHAIR BY BERNHARDT DESIGN “This is what you think of when you think of a swivel chair,” says Ríos. “It’s very 1960s, very Pop.” She admires its self-returning swivel: “The room never looks disheveled.” Dixon loves the shape—“it has more of that Sputnik, space- age feel to it.” He envisions the chair in a sleek, urban glass tower, “so I could turn to the spectacular panorama.” Avail- able in other colors or c.o.m. 30″ w. x 29″ d. x 29″ h.; $1,823; bernhardt design.com 8 / NICO SWIVEL CHAIR BY MITCHELL GOLD + BOB WILLIAMS “This one looks good from any angle,” Dixon says. “With the cutout in back, it would be great in front of some groovy wallpaper.” Ríos fnds it pro- vides comfort at a great price: “Perfect for a family room— 6 / PALOMA LOWBACK LOUNGE CHAIR BY GREGORIUS PINEO what better spot to play video “This chair could be the modern element in a traditional room, or the traditional games?” Shown in Gilmore item in a modern room,” Dixon says. “It’s like the intriguing guest you want to Charcoal, it comes in any of the sit next to at dinner.” Ríos calls it “the Cadillac of swivel chairs—it’s a beauty.” Made frm’s fabrics and leathers or to order with c.o.m., it’s grand enough for a city home and casual enough for a c.o.m. 31″ w. x 29″ d. x 27″ h.; vacation cottage, she says. 28″ w. x 36″ d. x 37″ h.; $5,183; gregoriuspineo.com $1,860; mgbwhome.com 9 / RATTAN SWIVEL STOOL 10 / BEEKMAN CHAIR BY BY PALECEK JAMES HUNIFORD “You’re not going to watch “This is very comfortable,” TV in this one,” says Dixon. says Ríos. “You sink right into “Instead, it would be fantastic it. The arm height is nice— around a farmhouse table in you have room to maneuver. the country or at the beach— And it’s easy to incorporate you can tuck them underneath into any space.” She visualizes when you’re done.” The natu- it in either a traditional living ral material has texture and room or a casual family area, interest, says Ríos. “It looks or even in a sunroom. “This like you’ve got a basket in chair relaxes anywhere,” says the corner, and it turns out to be Dixon. “It’s kinetic and fun, a comfortable chair.” Shown the classic ’50s tub chair in Bracing Blue, it comes updated and scaled for today.” in a range of colors. 26″ dia. x 32″ w. x 36″ d. x 31″ h.; $4,200 18″ h.; $592; zincdoor.com c.o.m.; hunifordcollection.com The opinions featured are those of ELLE DECOR’s guest experts and do not necessarily represent those of the editors. All measurements and prices are approximate. 98 ELLEDECOR.COM