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CONTENTS november 112 THE KITCHEN AREA AND WISTERIA PERGOLA (BELOW) AT A CONNECTICUT HOUSE DESIGNED BY BASTIEN HALARD. 26 Editor’s Letter NGOC MINH NGO 28 Object Lesson T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings’s Mesa table. BY HANNAH MARTIN 33 Discoveries AD visits AD100 designer Mandy Cheng in L.A.... Arine Aprahamian is Rolex’s newest architecture protégé... Kukje Gallery extends its Seoul campus... Cartier’s NYC flagship reimagined... Roman and Williams celebrates its 20th anniversary... ASH NYC’s new hotel in Baltimore. 59 Great Design Awards From must-have accessories to innovative appliances to utterly fabulous fixtures, what’s trending for kitchens and baths now. PRODUCED BY MADELINE O’MALLEY 16 ARCHDIGEST.COM

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DISCOVERIES “I don’t want anybody’s home, including my own, to look like a showroom. Having an array of things, new and old, adds layers that make the house feel like it came together naturally.” —Mandy Cheng 1. IN THE FAMILY ROOM, A SAMSUNG FRAME TELEVISION AND A DISPLAY OF BLUEPRINTS THAT CHENG FOUND ON EBAY. 2. CHENG AND HUSBAND RORY REYNOLDS IN THEIR YARD, WHERE TIERED TERRACES FOLLOW THE SITE’S STEEP GRADE. 1 2 I n the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, organic defines the modus operandi of everyday life—not only in the abundant juice shops and health food stores but in the hilly landscape where houses are tucked among lush palms and cypress trees. So when AD100 designer Mandy Cheng and her husband, architect Rory Reynolds, set out to overhaul one such home as their own, the vistas from the backyard provided a natural point of departure. “We wanted it to feel like a tree house, or like being under the canopy,” Cheng recalls of the renovation, which began a little more than two years ago and unfolded as a fully hands-on process. Early on, the DIY-savvy couple knocked out the wall separating the enclosed kitchen from the living room, then peeled back the ceiling to reveal the gabled roof. Exposed red- wood joists are now complemented by white-oak engineered- hardwood floorboards, a wall of ash cabinets, and the pendant of handwoven date branches that anchors the open-plan space. Reflecting on her unconventional mix of different woods, Cheng says, “In nature, all the different trees look very beauti- ful together.” Reynolds installed insulation between the joists to improve the home’s energy efficiency and tiled the kitchen backsplash in zellige, while Cheng painstakingly coated walls with limewash, applying construction techniques she learned as a Hollywood 34 ARCHDIGEST.COM

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DISCOVERIES 1 1. THE COUPLE’S CB2 BED IS DRESSED IN LINENS BY PARACHUTE; WINDOW TREATMENT BY THE SHADE STORE. 2–3. BESPOKE CABINETRY BY CHENG REVEALS A MURPHY BED IN THE GUEST BEDROOM, WHICH DOUBLES AS A WORKSPACE. production designer—a former life spent “hauling two-by- fours and sheets of plywood.” Though the couple don’t formally collaborate, both treated the house as a case study for ideas clients might not typically choose, among them forgoing a dining table in favor of a generously sized kitchen island. “I would never propose omitting your dining room,” says Cheng, “but we can work here, and whenever guests come everybody always hangs out in the kitchen.” The guest room offers additional workspace when the custom Murphy bed is tucked into the wall. Today, the couple’s vision of a tree house resounds in rooms that combine sylvan colors (the evergreen of cabinets in the kitchen, the sage hue of built-ins in bedrooms) alongside that diverse variety of woods. In the backyard, an outdoor living room doubles as a comfy home theater, while a network of 2 timber-framed gathering spaces cascade down the hillside. 3 The overall mood is one of tranquil minimalism, albeit warmed by contrasting ochre touches and artworks infused with their personal histories. Hanging in the guest room is a large-scale calligraphic poem, written by Cheng’s grandfa- ther’s best friend, that her grandparents brought from Hong Kong when they immigrated to the United States with their children in the 1970s. In the living area, meanwhile, is a series of framed vintage blueprints for Sears, Roebuck and Co. houses. And elsewhere are sculptures collected during trips to China and Mexico. “More than anything,” Cheng says, “I don’t want anybody’s home, including my own, to look like a showroom. Having an array of things, new and old, adds layers that make the house feel like it came together naturally.” —JANELLE ZARA

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DISCOVERIES ARCHITECTURE Watch This Space Rolex taps Beirut-based Arine Aprahamian as its next architecture protégé T he architect Arine Aprahamian has recently witnessed what she describes as a series of life- altering events. First, rapid inflation catalyzed Lebanon’s economic collapse; then COVID hit; and in August 2020 an explosion devastated her hometown. “My entire outlook on life and on architecture changed,” says Aprahamian, who found herself asking: “How should we produce space? What does it mean to work locally?” 1 These are questions she can now pose to Pritzker Prize 2 winner Anne Lacaton, who has long championed adaptive reuse and design as tools for social change. The two have been brought together as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, launched in 2002 to foster cultural progress and intergenera- tional exchange in the fields of literature, dance, architecture, and more. “I consider it a kind of collaboration between people who have the same goals and same vision of things,” says Lacaton, who selected Aprahamian from a pool of finalists. “I have always considered teaching as a kind of exchange of knowledge. I also learn; I take experience from that situation.” Aprahamian’s practice is multifaceted. As an independent researcher, she takes inspiration from science fiction, anticipat- ing the problems of the future in order to arrive at solutions for 3. ROLEX/AUDOIN DESFORGES. 2. MÜLLER APRAHAMIAN. 3. MÜLLER APRAHAMIAN. 4. ARINE APRAHAMIAN. the present. Her master’s thesis at UC Berkeley, for 3 instance, envisioned monuments made of excess salt 1. ARINE APRAHAMIAN, THE ROLEX from desalination stations for ocean water. “California MENTOR AND PROTÉGÉ ARTS INITIATIVE’S NEW ARCHITECTURE already feels like the future, both in terms of its prob- MENTEE. 2–3. A RENDERING OF A FAMILY DWELLING AND A POLYCARBONATE lems and advances,” she reflects, citing homelessness, PARTITION AT BEIRUT’S POLYGLOT TECHNICAL COLLEGE, BOTH BY MÜLLER natural disasters, and technological innovations. APRAHAMIAN. 4. A MODEL STUDY FOR APRAHAMIAN’S UC BERKELEY THESIS. At her studio, Müller Aprahamian, founded in 2018 with Adrian Müller, she has undertaken a series of projects that shrewdly make do with what’s available. Their update to a technical school in Bourj Hammoud 4 (the Armenian enclave outside Beirut where she grew up) relied on affordable local materials out of necessity. An experimental dwelling, meanwhile, can be built in three phases, with the house inhabitable at each stage. As part of the Rolex initiative, Aprahamian follows in the footsteps of past architecture protégés like Gloria Cabral, Simon Kretz, and Mariam Kamara— now an AD100 talent—who were paired with the legendary Peter Zumthor, David Chipperfield, and David Adjaye, respectively. “The beauty of the prac- tice of architecture is that it necessitates collaboration,” notes Aprahamian. “I look forward to the opportunity to one day mentor and inspire the next wave of architects and designers.” rolex.org —SAM COCHRAN

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2 3 ART SCENE 1. KUKJE’S BO YOUNG SONG (RIGHT) WITH URBAN ARK PRINCIPAL PARTNER SUN HUR IN SONG’S HANOK OFFICE; THE FURNITURE IS BY TEO YANG AND THE PAINTING IS BY YOO YOUNGKUK. 2. PAINTINGS BY PARK 1 SEO-BO AND VESSELS BY KIL SUNG IN THE PRIVATE VIEWING ROOM. 3. THE HANOK BOOKSTORE, A PARTNERSHIP WITH RIZZOLI. 4. THE COURTYARD. Old Seoul a place for reading and studying—allows the gallery new 1, 3 & 4. INYEONG HEO/KUKJE GALLERY. 2. KUKJE GALLERY. opportunities to showcase the work of international artists Kukje Gallery transforms a such as Lee Ufan, Ugo Rondinone, and Roni Horn in a uniquely 1930s hanok into an intimate Korean context. extension of its arts campus To renovate it, Song called on architect Sun Hur of the local T his place shows how we can live within tradi- firm Urban Ark. Studying original plans, he stripped away an tion,” says Bo Young Song, vice president of unsightly 1980s addition, restoring pillars, beams, and rafters. Kukje Gallery, walking through a Korean hanok Any necessary interventions relied on age-old craft, with oil in Seoul’s Sogyeok-dong neighborhood. Inside, and lacquer applied to exterior red pine, traditional tiles to the Korean ceramics line walnut shelves; a moon jar roof, and durable hanji paper to the lattice windows. “This faces off with a rare Jean Prouvé daybed; and is contemporary architecture,” Hur emphasizes of the project. a Pierre Jeanneret seat mingles with furnishings by AD100 “The traditional hanok just created the atmosphere.” designer (and fellow hanok dweller) Teo Yang. It’s the antithesis of a white- Particular attention was paid to the outdoor areas, or box space. madang, which, Hur explains, “we regard as an interior— when we open up a window it becomes one space.” Within the Comprising a bookshop, a private hanok’s enclosed, granite-clad central courtyard, stone and viewing room, and Song’s own office, the newly revitalized 1930s house is the timber are the material protagonists, as latest addition to Kukje’s 40-year-old 4 they are in Gyeongbokgung, the nearby campus, which now includes, among other contemporary buildings, a 2012 royal palace of the Joseon dynasty. chain-mail-clad wonder by SO-IL. But As the international art world fixes the hanok—christened Song Hyun Jae, its gaze on Seoul on the heels of the city’s inaugural Frieze fair, Kukje is looking inward. “Korea is getting more interest from the outside world now,” Song explains. “This project shows how we’re changing and in what direction.” kukjegallery.com —HANNAH MARTIN 42 ARCHDIGEST.COM

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