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["FOR THE TERRAIN, which was also a mess, Sauvage called on ABOVE THE PRIMARY BEDROOM\u2019S CHINOISERIE WALLPAPER AD100 Hall of Famer Louis Benech. \u201cThere were massive ONCE BELONGED TO LEGENDARY TASTEMAKER PAULINE DE plantings dividing the two properties, and trees growing in the ROTHSCHILD. FOUR-POSTER BED BY FRANZ POTISEK; RUG BY ANTOINETTE POISSON FOR CASA LOPEZ. OPPOSITE IN THE PRIMARY BATH, A NAPOL\u00c9ON III CHANDELIER HANGS ABOVE A CAST-IRON TUB FROM LE MONDE DU BAIN WITH FITTINGS FROM LA ROBINETTERIE DE PARIS. pond,\u201d Benech recalls of his initial visit. He walked through the manse and, as Sauvage notes, \u201clooked at the views from all Austin, \u201cso Pierre can grab the secateurs and cut a bouquet.\u201d the bedrooms to see the light and the plantings.\u201d He cleaned Benech restored the existing pond and created a new one. up the pastures and linked the medieval tower (\u201c\ufb02oating by The farm is also home to sheep, two donkeys that Sauvage itself in the park,\\\" Benech says) to the buildings with a row of rescued from the slaughterhouse, and nine horses. \u201cIt\u2019s a real trellised linden trees. In addition, he \u201cplanted roses everywhere,\u201d country house where he can live year-round,\u201d Benech asserts. including in two formal gardens\u2014one with ancient repeat- Sauvage concurs. \u201cIf I organize myself well, I can even work \ufb02owering roses, and another with English roses from David here,\u201d he says. Which would be quite a noble existence indeed. ARCHDIGEST.COM 91","design notes THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK ONDINA NAPKINS; $25 EACH. A GUEST ROOM\u2019S YANNICK CASALOPEZ.COM LESBATS BED IS CURTAINED IN WARNER HOUSE\u2019S TREE OF LIFE, WHICH ALSO COVERS THE WALLS. The house is far from the road, FALINE BED; isolated from the noise. Everywhere FROM $6,150. we look is green.\u201d \u2014Pierre Sauvage OLYSTUDIO.COM 18TH-CENTURY FRENCH AUBUSSON VERDURE TAPESTRY; GRENADE; FROM $25. $38,000. 1STDIBS.COM CASALOPEZ.COM CADAQUES NIGHTSTAND; $2,135. CASALOPEZ.COM CARMINA RUG; $1,986. INTERIORS: AMBROISE T\u00c9ZENAS. ALL OTHERS COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES. CASALOPEZ.COM SIGNATURE SOFA; PRODUCED BY MADELINE O\u2019MALLEY FROM $6,835. GEORGESMITH.COM 92 ARCHDIGEST.COM","CASA LOPEZ TABLEWARE It\u2019s a real country SETS THE MOOD FOR AN house where he could live year-round.\u201d OUTDOOR LUNCH. \u2014Louis Benech BIZET CHANDELIER BY WAVE MURANO GLASS; $6,100. ARTEMEST.COM MADINA LINEN BY MANUEL CANOVAS; TO THE TRADE. COWTAN.COM BAMBOO FLATWARE; $150 FOR A FIVE-PIECE PLACE SETTING. AERIN.COM STRAWBERRY BREAD PLATE; $16. CASALOPEZ.COM CHANDIGARH LAMPSHADE; $228. CASALOPEZ.COM ATLANTA CHAIR; $7,800. ORIORFURNITURE.COM IKAT GARDEN A GUEST BATH IS SWATHED FABRIC; IN MADINA BY MANUAL CANOVAS. THE CUSTOM $140 PER METER. RUG MIMICS THE PATTERN. CASALOPEZ.COM","A TRUEING STUDIO JOE GARNERO; HAIR BY GRAHAM NATION USING TANGLE TEEZER AT THE WALL GROUP; CHANDELIER HANGS ABOVE MAKEUP BY KELSEY DEENIHAN USING BARE MINERALS AT THE WALL GROUP A MARTIN MASS\u00c9 DINING TABLE WITH JULIANA LIMA VASCONCELLOS CHAIRS ON A COMMUNE CARPET FOR CHRISTOPHER FARR. SCULPTURE BY JOE GARNERO. OPPOSITE EMMA CHAMBERLAIN, WEARING A DIOR JACKET AND SKIRT, CARTIER JEWELRY, AND JEFFREY CAMPBELL SHOES, IN THE GARDEN. FASHION STYLING BY JARED ELLNER. \u2605 EXCLUSIVE VIDEO EMMA CHAMBERLAIN AT HOME, ARCHDIGEST.COM.","Working with Proem Studio, internet sensation Emma Chamberlain crafts a deeply personal Los Angeles home that re\ufb02ects her fresh, unpretentious spirit TEXT BY MAYER RUS PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRISTOPHER STURMAN STYLED BY LISA ROWE SOCIAL STUDIES","B y the time Emma THE KITCHEN IS BATHED IN SOOTHING TONES OF Chamberlain was old GREEN. TILE BY BEDROSIANS; BLUESTAR OVENS AND enough to vote, she was already a certi\ufb01able COOKTOP; WATERSTONE FIXTURES. social media phenome- non. Venerable journals Today, at the ripe old age of 21, Chamberlain is reveling of the old school\u2014the in act two of her brilliant career: focusing on her top-rated same ones that faced Anything Goes podcast; building her signature Chamberlain an existential crisis Coffee business; promoting her brand partnerships with Louis Vuitton, Cartier, and Levi\u2019s; and a host of other ventures over the emergence of that leverage the power of her extraordinary popularity. If anyone is curious about the secret to Chamberlain\u2019s success, new media\u2014were trip- the answer lies in the rapturous comment threads appended to her online postings and press, where certain words\u2014funny, ping over themselves authentic, candid, relatable, real\u2014crop up time and again. to shower the teenage Those same qualities emerge in three-dimensional form in Chamberlain\u2019s new Los Angeles home. Designed in collabo- internet superstar ration with Ashley Drost and Marie Trohman of Proem Studio, the house deftly mirrors its inhabitant\u2019s chill, laid-back vibe with breathless paeans. and intriguing sensibility, which privileges the unexpected and idiosyncratic over predictable design trophies and tired signi- The New York Times \ufb01ers of luxury. \u201cI work from home, so I wanted to create some- thing completely personal and comfortable,\u201d Chamberlain says described her as \u201cthe funniest person on YouTube,\u201d someone of the endeavor. \u201cI brought in references from many decades and design eras, and I tried to meld them into something that who \u201cchanged the world of online video.\u201d The Atlantic dubbed feels not only cohesive but new. It wasn\u2019t about following the rules or sticking to one aesthetic. I tried to approach it all with Chamberlain \u201cthe most talked-about teen in\ufb02uencer in the a lightheartedness and an open mind.\u201d world.\u201d Time magazine placed her on its 2019 list of the 25 Most In\ufb02uential People on the Internet, alongside folks like rapper Lil Nas X, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. 96 ARCHDIGEST.COM","THE GARDEN FEATURES RH OUTDOOR SEATING AND CONCRETE MUSHROOMS BY FLAT EARTH DESIGNS. LANDSCAPE BY SARITA JACCARD DESIGN.","THE LIVING ROOM IS OUTFITTED WITH A STAHL + BAND SECTIONAL AND MOVING MOUNTAINS LOUNGE CHAIRS, ALL IN SCHUMACHER FABRIC, AND A CUSTOM RAINBOW ONYX COCKTAIL TABLE. THE CHAISE IS VINTAGE MILO BAUGHMAN, AND THE PAINTING IS BY EMMA\u2019S FATHER, MICHAEL CHAMBERLAIN. BELOW BY THE POOL, RH LOUNGERS AND CORNCOB STOOLS BY THIRD DRAWER DOWN. THE EXISTING HOUSE provided plenty of inspiration. Built in 1955 and clad in cedar shake shingles, the structure reads like an alien hybrid of Northern California hippie modern and Topanga Canyon Birkenstock bohemian, with a dash of Adirondack charm (think cozy \ufb01replaces crackling beneath beamed ceilings). \u201cIt almost felt like a summer camp, so we leaned into that mood. We described it as Wet Hot American Summer meets Troop Beverly Hills. Emma said, \u2018I love that idea, but I have no clue what you\u2019re talking about,\u2019 \u201d Drost recalls, laughing at the generational reference gap. \u201cHonestly, it\u2019s not a perfect house, and it\u2019s never going to be. But it has tons of personality and great energy, and the imperfections only add to the narrative we developed with Emma,\u201d Trohman says. The interiors\u2019 earthy-with-a-twist ambience is buoyed by an array of artisanal, organic materials and surface treatments: expanses of raw copper; custom free-form plaster \ufb01replace surrounds; walls and ceilings lined in cork; slabs of honey onyx; and a wall covering of braided bacbac (banana-tree bark) with a subtle metallic shimmer. \u201cI want the materials to make a statement. I like things that feel like an art piece, like a 98 ARCHDIGEST.COM","MICHAEL CHAMBERLAIN RIGHT LINED IN CORKHOUSE WALL TILES, A GUEST BATH HAS A LINDSEY ADELMAN SCONCE, A MATERIAL LUST CHAIR FROM JF CHEN, AND AN ONYX SINK WITH WATERMARK DESIGNS FIXTURES. \u201cI want the materials to make a statement,\u201d Chamberlain says. \u201cI like things that feel like an art piece, like a painting, in and of themselves.\u201d ARCHDIGEST.COM 99","\u201cI\u2019m a mood board type of girl. I scoured every corner on the internet, every weird, deep hole on Pinterest.\u201d painting, in and of themselves,\u201d Chamberlain says of the blocks inspired by the deconstructed brick desk of the late seductive palette. As for the eclectic assemblage of furnishings, fashion designer Willi Smith in the astonishing WilliWear the archetypal in\ufb02uencer naturally looked online to \ufb02esh of\ufb01ce designed by SITE in the early 1980s. \u201cIf we came to out her vision. \u201cI\u2019m a mood board type of girl. I scoured every Emma with a weird idea, she\u2019d say, \u2018Go for it.\u2019 She trusted us. corner on the internet, every weird, deep hole on Pinterest,\u201d So we pushed ourselves to be a bit more out of the box,\u201d she explains. \u201cI \ufb01nd inspiration for the home everywhere, the Trohman recalls. \u201cShe\u2019d also push back if there was something same as fashion. It\u2019s all one in my mind.\u201d she wasn\u2019t into. Emma knows what she wants, and she has a maturity beyond her years,\u201d adds Drost. GROOVY VINTAGE TREASURES\u2014including an Ettore Sottsass mirror and a Milo Baughman chaise longue\u2014and a selection of \u201cThey didn\u2019t just take what I sent them. They built upon it. work by contemporary designers on the order of Faye Toogood My brain moves very fast. I\u2019m kind of loud, and I have a lot and Material Lust create a decorative mix elastic enough to to say. Even if my ideas were all over the place, in the end it all incorporate some genuinely quirky items, like a boxy vintage feels connected, one story,\u201d Chamberlain says of the collabora- television set hollowed out for a cat bed, and a series of corncob tion. Assessing her \ufb01rst full-scale exercise in home design, the stools arrayed by the pool. One of the highlights of the home young phenom remains sanguine: \u201cI don\u2019t really care if people is a custom Proem Studio console of irregularly stacked glass don\u2019t like it. I\u2019m the one who lives here, so I have to love it. And I do.\u201d 100 ARCHDIGEST.COM","OPPOSITE THE PRIMARY WATERMARK DESIGNS BEDROOM IS FURNISHED WITH FIXTURES, VINTAGE RAAK A CUSTOM BED IN DEDAR SCONCES, AND DALTILE GLASS FABRIC, VINTAGE RON REZEK TILES. RIGHT CHAMBERLAIN TABLE LAMPS, A GLOBE LIGHT WEARS A VINTAGE FROM JF CHEN, AND A BZIPPY COURR\u00c8GES COAT COURTESY PLANTER. BELOW THE CEDAR- OF ARALDA VINTAGE PANELED POOL BATH HAS AND CARTIER JEWELRY. RIGHT A BAS VAN PELT ARMCHAIR, AN ANDRIANNA SHAMARIS COCKTAIL TABLE, A GOFFREDO REGGIANI TUBULAR FLOOR LAMP, AND A PATRICIA URQUIOLA SIDE TABLE FOR GLAS ITALIA REST ON A MOHAIR RUG FROM WOVEN IN A SITTING ROOM. THE CUSTOM PLASTER FIREPLACE SURROUND WAS INSPIRED BY THE WORK OF VALENTINE SCHLEGEL.","design notes THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK CERINE TRIPLE ELONGATED CHANDELIER; $31,800 AS SLABS OF HONEY ONYX CLAD THE SHOWN. TRUEING.COM SHOWER ENCLOSURE IN THE PRIMARY BATH. SCONCE BY LINDSEY ADELMAN; GLASS TILE BY DALTILE. CHROME-PLATED METAL VASE BY DISCIPLINA STUDIO; $600. 1STDIBS.COM DOUBLE TIER HEX SIDE SETA WICKER TABLE; $2,970. TABLE LAMP; $349. CRATEAND BZIPPYANDCOMPANY.COM BARREL.COM HARMONY CORK WALL TILES BY JELINEK CORK GROUP; FROM $13 PER TILE. CORKHOUSE.COM 3 ORBIT TABLE LAMP BY RON REZEK FOR BIEFFEPLAST; $2,650. 1STDIBS.COM WIDE CORDUROY DAISY SCONCE; INTERIORS: CHRISTOPHER STURMAN. ALL OTHERS COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES. FABRIC; $140 PER $1,800. ENYLEE YARD. MAHARAM.COM PARKER.COM CRAWL CHAIR; PRICE UPON REQUEST. I wanted to let it be MATERIAL-LUST.COM fun, to let it be me.\u201d \u2014Emma Chamberlain 102 ARCHDIGEST.COM CHAMBERLAIN COFFEE MANGO MATCHA; $23. CHAMBERLAINCOFFEE.COM PRODUCED BY MADELINE O\u2019MALLEY","CHAMBERLAIN\u2019S DRESSING SHIMMER SIDE ROOM HAS AN ETTORE TABLE BY PATRICIA SOTTSASS MIRROR AND URQUIOLA FOR CABINETRY BY WOODHARMONIC. GLAS ITALIA; $2,495. DWR.COM ULTRAFRAGOLA MIRROR BY ETTORE SOTTSASS JR. FOR POLTRONOVA; $11,950. THEFUTURE PERFECT.COM TWIST MM I have a \ufb01le cabinet HANDBAG; $5,000. in my brain of everything LOUISVUITTON.COM I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d CHAMBERLAIN RETAINED THE ORIGINAL SINK AND MIRROR IN A POWDER ROOM. THE BRAIDED BACBAC (BANANA-TREE BARK) WALL COVERING IS BY SCHUMACHER. GIRAFFE DINING CHAIR BY JULIANA LIMA VASCONCELLOS; $1,590. 1STDIBS.COM VINTAGE OUSHAK RUG; PRICE UPON REQUEST. WOVEN.IS CHERRY WOOD BOWLS; FROM $34. NICKEYKEHOE.COM","CLASSIC","APPEAL THE LIVING ROOM WALLS WERE HAND-PAINTED AND STENCILED BY ARTIST DELPHINE N\u00c9NY. CURVED JANSEN-STYLE SOFAS IN SCHUMACHER VELVET FACE OFF ACROSS A LOW COCKTAIL TABLE INSET WITH AN ANTIQUE CHINESE COROMANDEL LACQUER PANEL. SWEDISH NEOCLASSICAL GILT- BRONZE-AND-CUT-GLASS HANGING LANTERN; 17TH-CENTURY GILT-WOOD OVERMANTEL MIRROR; ANTIQUE LOUIS XVI\u2013STYLE FIREPLACE; CUSTOM RUG BY ALEX PAPACHRISTIDIS FROM BEAUVAIS CARPETS. In a Greenwich Village town house for a young family, Alex Papachristidis offers up lessons in old-school elegance TEXT BY MITCHELL OWENS PHOTOGRAPHY BY NGOC MINH NGO STYLED BY MIEKE TEN HAVE","RIGHT SAMANTHA RUDIN EARLS IN THE LIVING ROOM. CUSTOM SKIRTED SOFA IN CLARENCE HOUSE FABRIC WITH EMBROIDERED DETAILING BY PENN & FLETCHER. OPPOSITE AN 18TH-CENTURY CHAIR IN SCALAMANDR\u00c9 FABRIC OFFERS A PLACE TO PERCH IN THE ENTRY HALL. PORCELAIN FLOWERS BY VLADIMIR KANEVSKY STAND ATOP A CUSTOM SERGE ROCHE\u2013STYLE CONSOLE TABLE BY VICTORIA & SON. R ule number one: \u201cI love old black-and-white movies and reading about the Neutrals are always Carnegies and the Rockefellers, the history of great houses, the safest choice and all the people who lived in them,\u201d says Earls. That being said, the couple\u2019s aesthetic trajectory has been an evolution, when it comes to one that they have eagerly followed. \u201cOur \ufb01rst apartment was a dress rehearsal,\u201d he continues, recalling a largely quiet decor. color schemes. Next came a Manhattan \ufb02at that was all jewel tones, sapphire here and amethyst there, and a safari\u2019s worth of animal prints. Rule number two: This time around, he describes the results as a \u201cdream state, a perfect balance.\u201d Antiques have no The residence that the Earlses and their 10-year-old place in 21st-century daughter, Elle, call home is part of a sprawling redbrick edi\ufb01ce that was formerly the historic Saint Vincent Catholic Medical life. Rule number Centers. Composed of several early- to mid-20th-century structures, the health care behemoth has been reborn over the three: Fine fabrics last few years as Greenwich Lane, deluxe residential units created in collaboration between Rudin Earls\u2019s legendary family should never be deployed in a house with children, however of real estate developers (in partnership with the Ofer family\u2019s Global Holdings Management Group), the Manhattan archi- well behaved. Rule number four: Traditional elegance has tecture \ufb01rm FXFowle (now known as FXCollaborative and nothing to do with the way we live now. But tell all that to real estate executive Samantha Rudin Earls and her husband, David Earls, cofounder of a private investment \ufb01rm as well as Subject Matter, an organization that helps fund documentary \ufb01lms focused on social issues, and you\u2019ll just get furrowed brows. Given the soign\u00e9 good looks of their West Village town house, the effervescent young couple clearly did not get their generation\u2019s denialist style memo.","\u201cThough it references a moment in time in old-school decorating... there are contemporary elements.\u201d \u2014Alex Papachristidis located in Brooklyn), and interior designer Thomas O\u2019Brien. style that operates at the highest aesthetic.\u201d So instead The couple snapped up one of the development\u2019s town of avoiding the past, like so many members of the modern- houses and then tapped their favorite decorator to out\ufb01t for minded jeunesse dor\u00e9e, they have embraced it with an it for them: Alex Papachristidis, the author of The Elegant enthusiasm that might easily puzzle their contemporaries. Life: Rooms that Welcome and Inspire (recently published by Thus, the shapely Venetian-inspired chairs by 1930s British Rizzoli with text by myself ), who also happens to be Rudin decorator Syrie Maugham, the gilt-bronze tables by 1950s Earls\u2019s adored uncle and a tastemaker to both sides of the French arbiter elegantiarum Georges Geffroy, the dining table young family. He worked on the town house with Fairfax & with a parquet de Versailles top that was made by legendary Sammons, a New York City and Palm Beach architecture Paris design \ufb01rm Jansen, and the brace of meltingly romantic \ufb01rm known for its chic classicism. 18th-century Venetian landscapes by the mysteriously named Master of the Langmatt Foundation Views. Impressive, yes, \u201cSince childhood, I\u2019ve lived in Alex\u2019s creations, which but the layers of history and blue-chip provenance are leavened means I\u2019ve grown up a bene\ufb01ciary of his incredible talent,\u201d by freshening \ufb02ashes of mirrored glass and herbaceous-border Rudin Earls explains, noting that her husband\u2019s family live shades such as pale green and sharp blue. in Papachristidis environments too. \u201cHis is an old-world ARCHDIGEST.COM 107","ELLE EARLS IN HER ROOM. THE CUSTOM-MADE LIT \u00c0 LA POLONAISE WAS CREATED BY VICTORIA & SON. THE SAME FERRAN TEXTILE FROM JOHN ROSSELLI & ASSOC. COVERS THE WALLS AND DRAPES THE BED.","\u201cSince childhood, I\u2019ve lived in Alex\u2019s creations, which means I\u2019ve grown up a bene\ufb01ciary of his incredible talent.\u201d \u2014Samantha Rudin Earls ABOVE A 19TH-CENTURY CARVED WOOD BACTRIAN CAMEL KEEPS WATCH IN THE DINING ROOM. 20TH-CENTURY DINING TABLE WITH PARQUET DE VERSAILLES TOP BY JANSEN; LOUIS XV\u2013STYLE DINING CHAIRS UPHOLSTERED IN A LEE JOFA FLAMESTITCH; CURTAINS OF COWTAN & TOUT FABRIC WITH SAMUEL & SONS TRIM; CUSTOM HAND-STENCILED WOOD FLOOR BY BOXTON DESIGN GROUP. LEFT IN THE KITCHEN, A FAUX- BAMBOO GILDED CHANDELIER FROM KRB WITH CUSTOM LAMPSHADES BY BLANCHE P. FIELD HANGS ABOVE A CUSTOM DINING TABLE DESIGNED BY FAIRFAX & SAMMONS AND LIZ O\u2019BRIEN EDITIONS CHAIRS. PAPACHRISTIDIS DESIGNED THE CUSTOM DOG BED. ARCHDIGEST.COM 109","A CHELSEA TEXTILES LINEN ENVELOPS THE PRIMARY BEDROOM. PAPACHRISTIDIS-DESIGNED BED UPHOLSTERED \u00a9 THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS \/ ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), IN A DEDAR DAMASK; CHRISTOPHER SPITZMILLER TABLE LAMPS ON CUSTOM BEDSIDE TABLES BY VICTORIA & SON. NEW YORK \/ RONALD FELDMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK \u201cTHE THEME WAS A GARDEN,\u201d Rudin Earls says, noting that the Trelliswork, an element encountered in historic European town house has a lush private garden and several terraces, and gardens, lines the entry vestibule, and ravishing porcelain that she and her husband\u2014he calls their tastes \u201cwonderfully \ufb02owers, custom-made by artisan Vladimir Kanevsky, \ufb02ourish complementary\u201d\u2014wanted their rooms to have the atmosphere on tabletops throughout the house. of perpetual springtime. Setting the tone is a Gracie wallpaper that rises \ufb01ve stories from the entrance hall to the top-\ufb02oor \u201cThough it references a moment in time in old-school landing, its silver ground covered with \ufb02owering trees in classic decorating and is furnished with primarily antiques and vintage Chinese Export style. Earls calls it \u201can incredibly powerful pieces, there are contemporary elements,\u201d Papachristidis decision, but you can\u2019t deny the impact.\u201d observes, pointing out the creature-comfort velvet sofas in the living room, a variety of toothsome cocktail tables, and the Other botanical \ufb02ourishes include the dining room\u2019s kitchen upholstery, which has been smartly laminated to make re\ufb02ective \ufb02owered pilasters that were painted by decorative it as family-friendly as possible. Still, what impresses the artist Delphine N\u00e9ny\u2014she also extravagantly stenciled the couple the most is the decor\u2019s level of craftsmanship\u2014and how living room walls\u2014and the kitchen\u2019s rose-and-tulip-splashed their appreciation of the same has led them to rooms that fabric. The textile lavishes side chairs that reproduce a suave look like no others. mid-20th-century Frances Elkins design, counter stools that Papachristidis adapted from an 18th-century Swedish chair, \u201cAlex is always lamenting, with good reason, that top-\ufb02ight and the wall-size window that opens to the breakfast terrace. craftsmanship needs patrons for it to stay alive,\u201d Earls says, adding with a laugh, \u201cI think we\u2019ve done our part.\u201d 110 ARCHDIGEST.COM","THE PLAYROOM IS SWATHED IN A MANUEL CANOVAS WALLPAPER. SOFA IN PIERRE FREY FABRIC; WINDOW SHADE, OTTOMAN, AND SLIPPER CHAIR ALL IN COWTAN & TOUT FABRICS. AREA RUG BY BEAUVAIS CARPETS.","INTO THE WOODS","ART: PETER CUSACK On the banks of Connecticut\u2019s Housatonic River, designer Bastien Halard conjures a timeless residence for longtime client Dee Salomon TEXT BY PAGE DICKEY PHOTOGRAPHY BY NGOC MINH NGO STYLED BY MIEKE TEN HAVE FRAMED IN CURTAINS OF A ROGERS & GOFFIGON FABRIC, THE SITTING ROOM WINDOWS LOOK OUT ONTO THE LANDSCAPE. A 1960s CHAIR IS PULLED UP TO A 1940s OAK TABLE; PAINTING BY PETER CUSACK; CERAMIC STOVE (AT RIGHT) BY LA CASTELLAMONTE. OPPOSITE HOMEOWNER DEE SALOMON.","IN THE SITTING ROOM, A GEORGE SMITH OTTOMAN COVERED IN CLARENCE HOUSE\u2019S DAHLIA STANDS IN FRONT OF A SOFA UPHOLSTERED IN A ROGERS & GOFFIGON FABRIC. THE STRAW STOOL IS FROM CABANA; PAINTING BY SHAWN DULANEY. LEFT CLAD IN LIMEWASHED BRICK AND BLACK- STAINED WOOD, THE HOUSE WAS DESIGNED BY BASTIEN HALARD AND BUILT BY AMBER CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN. It all started with a chandelier. \u201cpiles of tear sheets\u201d illustrating the couple\u2019s insouciant Not any chandelier, but a mixture of contemporary artifacts with French textiles and playful carved wooden one antiques. More recently, she became taken with the aesthetic reminiscent of an 18th-century of their grandson, designer Bastien Halard, whose more theater prop, created by the current, pared-down style is nonetheless deeply in\ufb02uenced by eminent French interior their eclecticism. Young Halard lived with his wife, Miranda designers Michelle and Yves Brooks, and their two daughters nearby in Brooklyn, and in Halard. Dee Salomon happened 2011, Salomon wrote to him to ask if he would consider to be in Paris in 1999 on the helping her with a small renovation. Halard came to visit, saw last day that the Halards\u2019 shop, his grandparents\u2019 iconic chandelier, and knew he was in the Maison Yves Halard, was open, company of a kindred soul. and she ordered this irreverent Seven years ago, Salomon called upon Halard once again light \ufb01xture to be made and shipped to her home in Brooklyn. for help. She and her longtime boyfriend, Rob Norman, Salomon, with a business background in publishing and had purchased a 15-acre property on the Housatonic River in fashion, had for years admired the Halard style, treasuring northwest Connecticut and wanted to talk to Halard about","ART: SHAWN DULANEY, COURTESY OF SEARS-PEYTON GALLERY designing a house for them there. \u201cI want something that Housatonic, and inspired by them, as well as \u201cthe horizontal no one has seen before, but looks like it\u2019s always been here,\u201d language of the river,\u201d he designed a long structure of limed Salomon told him. brick elegantly graced by a series of \ufb02oor-to-ceiling windows facing the river. Halard refers to it as \u201cthe mill house.\u201d In Halard was bowled over by the site and its \u201cextraordinary\u201d contrast, what appears from the front of the house to be an land. \u201cYou arrive and the whole world vanishes.\u201d From the oversized dormer of black-painted cedar expands in the back road, a narrow driveway descends through steep, fern-littered into a striking barnlike structure that pierces the center of oak forest. A rocky stream tumbles down the hillside on one the long \u201cmill house,\u201d providing space for an upstairs library side of the drive toward its destination into the Housatonic. and the couple\u2019s bedroom and bath. This contrasting second Here, by the wide river, the precipitous woodland suddenly story Halard aptly calls \u201cthe tree house,\u201d as most of its windows gives way to a level expanse of sunlit terrain\u2014the obvious look out over the steep wooded hillside. location for the new house. Dee Salomon and Rob Norman are thrilled with the design, The tension between the dramatic woodland and the as it is unique in its appearance yet certainly suits the place. powerful water made an impression on Halard. \u201cI knew I \u201cIt\u2019s timeless,\u201d Halard says about the house, \u201cnot totally modern\u2014 couldn\u2019t do a pastiche; I wanted something solid, something there\u2019s a traditional touch to it.\u201d He felt that the architecture earnest.\u201d He researched the historic brick mills of the ARCHDIGEST.COM 115","SCOUT, A SCHNAUZER, SITS ON A CHAIR UPHOLSTERED WITH A ROSA BERNAL COLLECTION PRINT IN THE BATH. ENGLISH GOTHIC REVIVAL TOWEL STAND; DANISH ARMOIRE PURCHASED ON 1STDIBS; TUB BY THE WATER MONOPOLY WITH A LEFROY BROOKS FILLER.","The interior details are a happy collaboration between Salomon and Halard, achieving a look Salomon describes as \u201ccontemporary and at the same time playfully romantic.\u201d CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT TOWELS. A FLOS GLO-BALL LIGHT HANGS ABOVE A THE KITCHEN SITTING AREA CUSTOM KITCHEN ISLAND FEATURES A GEORGE NELSON DESIGNED TO LOOK LIKE A COCKTAIL TABLE AND RALPH PIECE OF FURNITURE. A VIEW LAUREN HOME CHAIRS WITH OF THE HOUSATONIC RIVER. CUSHIONS MADE OF TURKISH ARCHDIGEST.COM 117","LEFT IN THE PRIMARY BEDROOM, THE CURTAINS AND HEADBOARD ARE MADE FROM THE SAME ROSA BERNAL COLLECTION PRINT FOR CLAREMONT. WALLS PAINTED IN DOMINGUE ARCHITECTURAL FINISHES LIME PAINT. ABOVE ANTIQUE PENDANTS PURCHASED ON 1STDIBS HANG IN THE PORTICO. should be redolent of the local vernacular in its attention to Miranda Brooks, the AD100 landscape architect and ART: \u00a9 2022 JENNY HOLZER, MEMBER ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK detail and use of natural materials\u2014brick, sheet metal (the wife of Halard, came to \u201csettle the house in its space.\u201d With roof ), cedar\u2014but simpli\ufb01ed, stripped down, with more of a her trademark clusters of boxwood \u201cclouds\u201d set seemingly minimalist approach. at random on the lawn, she effectively framed the house in front, then made a small orchard and a pergola at right angles INDOORS, ON THE GROUND FLOOR, an en\ufb01lade of rooms to the structure. A terrace of granite slabs extends out from from kitchen to hallway to living room are lit by the graceful the living room, with an arbor and table for dining in view of series of nine-foot-tall windows, some opening to a terrace, the river. Pairs of sugar maples line the approach to the house, the panes of each unusually divided by delicate mullions and in the back, Brooks planted the hillside with \ufb02owering merely at the top and bottom. The interiors are a happy shrubs: witch hazel, viburnum, dogwood, and lilac, threaded collaboration between Salomon and Halard, achieving a look through with a path. Salomon describes as \u201ccontemporary and at the same time playfully romantic.\u201d Says Halard, \u201cWe got on so well. Dee is In 2019, Salomon and Norman moved to their Connecticut knowledgeable and experienced and has a huge heart.\u201d home full-time. Norman, an advertising executive, works Salomon found tiles for the kitchen, for example, \u201call subtle from home, and Salomon is immersed in woodland restoration, shades of white,\u201d sourcing them in Holland; unknown to her, spending her time removing invasive species and nurturing Halard had already ordered a shipment for another client native plants and trees. The couple walk up their drive and on from the very same manufacturer. Halard\u2019s careful selection trails in their woods every day with their dog, Scout. of hinges, door handles, and moldings perfectly suited Salomon: \u201cintricate but not fussy.\u201d As for that old chandelier? It now hangs from a rope in the hall, lighting a table where Salomon gathers branches, nests, and acorns from her beloved woods. 118 ARCHDIGEST.COM","A TABLE DRAPED IN LES INDIENNES FABRIC IS SET FOR AN ALFRESCO LUNCH ON THE TERRACE. AD100 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT MIRANDA BROOKS DESIGNED THE GARDENS. \u201cIt\u2019s timeless,\u201d Halard says about the house, \u201cnot totally modern\u2013there\u2019s a traditional touch to it.\u201d","GAM DESIGNED BY K\u00c9R\u00c9 ARCHITECTURE, THE KAMWOKYA COMMUNITY PLAYGROUND IN KAMPALA, UGANDA, IS ANCHORED BY A MULTIPURPOSE ATHLETIC FIELD, WITH AUXILIARY STRUCTURES FOR CLASSROOMS, AN INTERNET CAF\u00c9, A GYM, AND MORE.","E CHANGE Designed by Pritzker Prize winner Francis K\u00e9r\u00e9, a multipurpose playground in Kampala, Uganda, fosters creativity and community for a neighborhood in need TEXT BY PHILLIP DENNY PHOTOGRAPHY BY IWAN BAAN","THE SCULPTURAL WATER TANK IS CLAD IN BAMBOO. RIGHT AN AERIAL VIEW OF THE SITE. BELOW THE COMMUNITY HALL. T5H8PZ0 It startedoutasastraightfor- of Gando in Burkina Faso, he developed an ear for listening to ward idea to build a new others, and shared their worries and their dreams. With the playground in Kampala, support of his family, he went to Germany in 1985 on a scholar- Uganda. And then architect ship to study carpentry. He settled in Berlin soon after and Francis K\u00e9r\u00e9 got involved. pursued a degree in architecture, returning home whenever Completed this past summer, possible. While still a student, he made a contribution to his with an of\ufb01cial inauguration village: a primary school, built by hand from clay-and-cement on October 14, the project has brick and sheet metal with the help of neighbors and friends grown to include open-air and completed in 2001. That structure, and the many others in areas for gathering, multipur- West Africa that have followed, was sparked by a dialogue with pose rooms for workshops the people who would live with it. For K\u00e9r\u00e9, every commission and night classes, a small gym, starts with a conversation, and Kampala was no different. an internet caf\u00e9, a music \u201cThe key was being introduced to the community,\u201d K\u00e9r\u00e9 studio, restrooms, and a multisport pitch. Nestled in the heart says of the project, the brainchild of Nicole Miescher, of Kamwokya, a poor urban district on the margins of the city, cofounder of the Ameropa Foundation. Open meetings were the site is a pocket of public space carved from a thicket of convened in Kamwokya in 2016, and the public\u2019s wish list dilapidated houses and zigzagging alleys. for the playground coalesced quickly. \u201cYou have a diverse K\u00e9r\u00e9, who is based in Berlin and was awarded the Pritzker neighborhood,\u201d he re\ufb02ects. \u201cYou realize you don\u2019t just build Prize for architecture this year, has a preternatural sense for a community center. You are trying to create it depending the pulse of communities. Growing up in the remote village on the residents\u2019 needs.\u201d","THE LIGHTING SYSTEM ALLOWS FOR NIGHTTIME SOCCER GAMES. \u201cYou realize you don\u2019t just build a community center. You are trying to create it depending on the residents\u2019 needs.\u201d \u2014Francis K\u00e9r\u00e9 AFTER FOUR YEARS OF PLANNING and two years of construction, In describing the type of hospitable architecture that the \ufb01nished complex is a \ufb01ne-tuned piece of social infrastruc- he envisions, K\u00e9r\u00e9 often invokes the \ufb01gure of the palaver tree. ture that affects local life at all levels. Though enclosed on all In West African communities such as his hometown, villagers sides by walls\u2014blank canvases for local graf\ufb01ti artists who convene under the palaver to discuss public matters, do busi- have already begun to leave their mark\u2014the space, its multi- ness, or socialize. The tree and its shade are essential architec- sport pitch in particular, nonetheless remains open and ture for village life: a place for everyone, with room for all. inviting, even inspiring. \u201cIt\u2019s the place to go now,\u201d K\u00e9r\u00e9 says \u201cA tree is a gathering space,\u201d K\u00e9r\u00e9 explained, offering in French, with pride. \u201cThe kids want to play soccer at the national level!\u201d \u201cun arbre \u00e0 palabres.\u201d Low-slung pavilions \ufb02ank the \ufb01eld, all covered by his signa- ture butter\ufb02y roofs. These sheet-metal canopies, raised on Even an architect as diligent as K\u00e9r\u00e9 can be surprised by delicate supports, provide a barrier against a punishing sun the ways that people, and especially children, make use of while improving ventilation (a tried-and-true, low-tech means his work. \u201cThey take over and play games you never thought of thermal comfort in a tropical climate). On the west side possible,\u201d he says. On a recent visit to the site, Andrea Maretto, of the pitch, a covered area offers shade for watching a match, an architect in K\u00e9r\u00e9\u2019s practice, discovered local kids laughing resting, eating, or dancing. Across the \ufb01eld, a brick building as they ran, jumped, and slid across the building\u2019s smooth houses spaces for learning and exercise. Kamwokya Christian terrazzo \ufb02oors. \u201cWe were planning playgrounds for them,\u201d Caring Community, a local nonpro\ufb01t that partnered with Maretto notes. \u201cBut the simplest thing, a polished \ufb02oor, that\u2019s Ameropa Foundation, will oversee management of the site. what they love the most.\u201d To K\u00e9r\u00e9, it was gratifying. That ad K\u00e9r\u00e9 donated design services. hoc recreation meant they had begun to make the project their own. \u201cPeople,\u201d K\u00e9r\u00e9 notes, \u201ctook ownership of the space.\u201d ARCHDIGEST.COM 123","casting","Ben Pentreath fashions a bewitching abode for publisher Elisabeth Krohn in London TEXT BY MITCHELL OWENS PHOTOGRAPHY BY BEN PENTREATH a spell THE DRAWING ROOM IS CENTERED AROUND THREE TABLES: A WOOD DESIGN BY JOSEF FRANK FOR SVENSKT TENN, A SLIT TABLE BY HAY, AND A MARBLE-TOPPED ONE. BESPOKE SOFA BY HOWARD & SONS IN A PRELLE TOILE; ELISABETH KROHN\u2019S OWN CANE ARMCHAIRS; WALLS PAINTED IN FARROW & BALL\u2019S SHADOW WHITE.","THE ENTRY HALL WAS PAINTED IN A DRAMATIC MALACHITE FINISH. 18TH-CENTURY-STYLE LANTERNS; MIRROR AND DEMILUNE CONSOLE FROM KROHN\u2019S COLLECTION; PAINTED CHIPPENDALE SPIDER BACK CHAIRS; PARQUETRY FROM CHAUNCEYS TIMBER FLOORING.","E lisabeth Krohn did not want to change LEFT OPEN SHELVING AND A LACANCHE RANGE ANCHOR A anything at her recently acquired \ufb02at WALL IN THE KITCHEN. JOSEPHINE CHAIRS FROM GAVIN in Regent\u2019s Park in London. Her brief HOUGHTON. ABOVE A MADELEINE CASTAING FLORAL PRINT to designer Ben Pentreath was that FROM BRUNSCHWIG & FILS ENVELOPS THE GUEST ROOM. he should work with what was already in place. Namely, the Versailles-style that Pentreath calls home. She also had a fondness for what she already owned, meaning that Pentreath would be aug- neoclassical interior architecture, all menting her existing possessions, among them ground-hugging vintage Brazilian club chairs that she found at the legendary good quality and which had been com- Al\ufb01es Antique Market as a college student and for which she recalls spending far more than her father expected. \u201cEverything missioned in the 1990s by Francophile in my former \ufb02at was low and horizontal, but Ben was quite good at making my things work in a completely different residents. \u201cShe told us, \u2018I don\u2019t want to space,\u201d Krohn says. \u201cHe was happy to keep my old things, so the \ufb02at doesn\u2019t feel completely new.\u201d rip it all out.\u2019 That had my full respect,\u201d Pentreath explains. Designed by George IV\u2019s court architect, the genius John Still, he was not a fan of the striving envelope\u2014\u201cI kept my trap Nash, in the early 1820s, the terrace was originally composed of dozens of town houses joined by an integrating fa\u00e7ade shut\u201d\u2014\ufb01nding the atmosphere fussy and, in the case of the that gave the impression of an urban palace, replete with a regal central pediment and a forest of \ufb02uted columns, here kitchen molding, \u201ca bit busy.\u201d The effect was too formal, in his soaring Ionic, there hardy Greek Doric. The structure was redeveloped in the early 1970s, retaining the historic frontage mind, for the 30-something Krohn, a fashion journalist who while the innards were recon\ufb01gured into lateral \ufb02ats. \u201cIt\u2019s an unusual vibe for London,\u201d Pentreath explains. Says Krohn, is the founder, editor in chief, and creative director of Sabat, \u201cFor a moment, I nearly made an offer on a little chocolate box of a house in Islington, with small rooms on three \ufb02oors, but an award-winning zine for modern young witches. Yes, witches, no views.\u201d or what she once described as \u201cthe darker side of femininity.\u201d Overlooking The Regent\u2019s Park, the windows of the abode, to her delight, frame verdant acres as well as a glittering lake. That being said, Krohn\u2019s own world is a bit sunnier than They also admit what Pentreath describes as \u201can almost Scandi light,\u201d which neatly complements Krohn\u2019s Norwegian origins might be suggested by the outr\u00e9 publication that grew out of her 2016 master\u2019s thesis at the London College of Fashion. Many a day she lingered outside Pentreath & Hall, the shop that the designer owns with his business partner, Bridie Hall, and spent quality time scrolling through his Instagram. \u201cBen\u2019s style is quite playful,\u201d says Krohn, former occupant of a midcentury glass penthouse on the same Bloomsbury Square ARCHDIGEST.COM 127","LEFT A TUB AND FITTINGS FROM THE WATER MONOPOLY STAND IN THE PANELED PRIMARY BATH. ABOVE GUCCI\u2019S HERON PRINT WALLPAPER ADDS A TOUCH OF WHIMSY TO THE GUEST BATH. ANTIQUE MIRROR; HECTOR FINCH SCONCES; DRUMMONDS SINK. frame the pale living room beyond, coaxing visitors onward. \u201cYou\u2019re literally walking into the light,\u201d Pentreath says of the transition, the experience ampli\ufb01ed by the fact that the doors also frame an immense giltwood mirror mounted above an and sense of order. If she acquires a new gadget for the kitchen, ennobling neoclassical marble chimneypiece that was among which has been remodeled with open shelving (\u201cI\u2019m short, Pentreath\u2019s improvements. so I can never reach into wall cabinets\u201d) and quieter millwork, \u201cNorwegians tend to like clean lines, but we like maximal- one will likely be jettisoned in order to maintain visual seren- ism too,\u201d Krohn allows. \u201cBut you don\u2019t just add layers and ity. The photographs in this article, for instance, depict the layers unless they have been carefully thought through.\u201d Some \ufb02at precisely as Krohn lives in it. Nothing was styled, primped, of her decisions, however, were entirely instinctual and or otherwise tinkered with by outside hands. \u201cShe\u2019s highly nose-thumbingly startling, given the calculated tranquility of curated,\u201d the designer says admiringly. \u201cThere are no weeds in the main living spaces. The guest bath sports a pink Gucci her garden.\u201d Krohn admits, \u201cI\u2019m more meticulous because wallpaper printed with a \ufb02ock of white herons. \u201cOther people my parents were a bit random.\u201d Both were lawyers, so her child- would have told me, \u2018No, no, no!\u2019 but Ben said, \u2018That\u2019s cool.\u2019 hood home, she recalls, was always littered with case \ufb01les. We had very good synergy.\u201d Krohn\u2019s bedroom is dressed in a fantastically \ufb02oral chintz pattern created in the 1850s and BY CONTRAST, KROHN\u2019S FLAT\u2014center hall, kitchen, main rendered in ink blue and salmon pink. \u201cI\u2019m not a big fan of bedroom, main bath, guest room, and guest bath, plus an blue,\u201d she says, \u201cbut the pattern has so much interest.\u201d She L-shaped room that combines drawing room, dining room, brought in the room\u2019s rosy opaline table lamps, which resem- and library\u2014is blissfully organized. But it is not without ble genies\u2019 bottles, and crowned them with lampshades dyed drama. When it became clear that the paneled central hall an even paler shade of pink. Imagine a classic country-house would always be a dark cave with off-center openings and no bedroom shaken up by some \ufb02ea-market foraging. windows, Pentreath and his team came up with the idea of \u201cThat way the room doesn\u2019t look like a time capsule,\u201d re\ufb01nishing the gray woodwork in overscale faux malachite Krohn observes, proudly reporting that she located similar and, for good measure, replacing the stone \ufb02oor with polished lilac-colored lamps for the new country retreat that she\u2019s parquet. Krohn jumped at the bold prospect, which Pentreath out\ufb01tting in the Cotswolds. As she says, with a bewitching describes as \u201can early bonding moment.\u201d Glazed French doors smile, \u201cI like a bit of camp.\u201d 128 ARCHDIGEST.COM","\u201cNorwegians tend to like clean lines, but we like maximalism too,\u201d says homeowner Elisabeth Krohn. JEAN MONRO\u2019S ROSE & FERN HAND-BLOCK-PRINTED FABRIC DEFINES THE PRIMARY BEDROOM. KROHN\u2019S OWN BED, NIGHTSTANDS, AND LAMPS.","LIGHT T Settling into his new home in Lower Manhattan, star stylist Colin King unpacks his broad ethos surface by surface, piece by piece TEXT BY SAM COCHRAN PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICH STAPLETON STYLED BY COLIN KING","OUCH AT KING\u2019S TRIBECA LOFT, THE BEDROOM IS PAINTED IN FARROW & BALL\u2019S DEEP REDDISH BROWN. VASES BY KING FOR MENU; PAINTING BY MALCOLM T. LIEPKE FROM GALLERY DOBRINKA SALZMAN. OPPOSITE CUSTOM DOORS BY DORI DOORS MIMIC THE APARTMENT\u2019S WINDOWPANES. HARDWARE BY IZ\u00c9; PIERRE JEANNERET STOOL FROM MDFG.","KING SEATED AT THE 1970s TRAVERTINE TABLE THAT FEATURED PROMINENTLY IN HIS \u201cSTAY HOME STILL LIFE\u201d SERIES. C olin King is a man on the move. At the time of our meeting, the Manhattan-based interior stylist had just returned from three weeks of whirlwind travel, having zigzagged from Northern California to Ghent to Mexico on assignment. The month before, he spent just four days in his new Tribeca apartment. So he\u2019s determined to make every minute in the comfort of home count. \u201cWhen I\u2019m here it\u2019s about reconnect- ing with myself and my people,\u201d re\ufb02ects King of the light- \ufb01lled loft. \u201cThis is a place to nurture my hub.\u201d We are sitting at the custom-made ash dining table that doubles as ground control for his rapidly evolving operation. It\u2019s been here that, most recently, he\u2019s conceived new collec- tions for Beni Rugs, the hit company where he serves as artistic director at large; here that he\u2019s designed an expanding array of objects for the Danish studio Menu; and here that he\u2019s pored over thousands of images from past shoots for his \ufb01rst book, Arranging Things, coming out in March 2023. (Full disclosure: It was written with yours truly.) As we chat, sun streams through the undressed windows, washing over vignettes of assorted treasures, accentuating the patina, glaze, and grain of each surface. Outside the city churns but inside, thanks to King\u2019s meticulous renovation, the rooms whisper.","Outside the city churns but inside, thanks to King\u2019s meticulous renovation, the rooms whisper. THE LIVING AREA GROUPS A BESPOKE DAYBED AND SLIPCOVERED SOFA WITH A MARIA PERGAY LOW SEAT FROM DEMISCH DANANT, A GEORGE NAKASHIMA LOUNGE CHAIR FROM GALLERY DOBRINKA SALZMAN, AND A GERRIT RIETVELD CHAIR BY CASSINA; THE WALLS AND CEILING WERE PLASTERED BY KAMP STUDIO. ARCHDIGEST.COM 133","RIGHT KING\u2019S OFFICE FEATURES CUSTOM BOOKSHELVES, A \u00a9 BEATRICE CARACCIOLO. COURTESY PAULA COOPER GALLERY, NEW YORK. NOGUCHI PENDANT, AN 18TH-CENTURY SWEDISH TABLE FROM DIENST + DOTTER ANTIKVITETER, AND A REN\u00c9 PROU CHAIR FROM MDFG. BELOW THE KITCHEN DISPLAYS GLASSWARE AND TABLEWARE FROM ROMAN AND WILLIAMS GUILD ALONGSIDE ASSORTED VINTAGE AND ANTIQUE FINDS. That\u2019s precisely the vibe\u2014calm, unstudied, anecdotal, inviting\u2014that has made King such a hit with brands on the order of West Elm, Zara Home, and Anthropologie, not to mention top designers and magazines like AD. Styling was not, however, a lifelong professional goal. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a career that seemed real, let alone possible,\u201d says King, who grew up in rural Ohio and cut his creative teeth studying ballet. He eventually abandoned dreams of the stage but credits dance with his intuitive understanding of line, form, and space. A series of jobs followed, among them a London stint as a personal trainer for Gwyneth Paltrow, Stella McCartney, and Victoria Beckham. Back in the States, since stumbling into his \ufb01rst styling gig at the urging of the artist Jack Ceglic, it\u2019s been a nonstop blur of high-pro\ufb01le commissions. \u201cFriends joke I\u2019m a mover with an eye,\u201d says King, who surrounds himself at home with tokens from past projects and reminders of his upbringing. The open kitchen\u2019s \ufb02oating shelves, for instance, display tableware and glassware from Roman and Williams Guild, whose photographic narrative he has helped conceive through recurring shoots. The vast living area, meanwhile, features pieces from other favorite New York City sources, including Gallery Dobrinka Salzman, MDFG, Demisch Danant, and Dienst + Dotter Antikviteter. Rocks add a tectonic leitmotif, appearing as sculptural objects on shelves and sills, as well as the base of his homemade cocktail table. Each harks back to a childhood spent collecting stones, which he would smash open in search of geodes. \u201cI\u2019ve always believed in the mystical power of objects,\u201d King notes, adding, \u201cI\u2019ll always be that kid on the farm at heart.\u201d Nature, dance, collaboration\u2014all form the foundations of King\u2019s multihyphenate practice, the tenets of which reveal themselves in his Tribeca loft. The narrow palette spans his signature range of neutrals. (\u201cFriends tease I dream in 50 shades of brown.\u201d) Materials tend toward the timeworn, foregrounding texture, imperfection, and age. And those bare windows re\ufb02ect his fascination with shadow and light, both of which he treats as objects unto themselves. MOST FUNDAMENTAL TO KING\u2019S BROAD ETHOS, however, might be a spirit of trial and error. On set, King often experi- ments with compositions again and again and again to determine, as he puts it, \u201cwhat the moment isn\u2019t, until I \ufb01nd what the moment is.\u201d That fumble-forward strategy played out over the course of his renovation. Only after sanding what had been dark-stained \ufb02oors, for instance, did he discover the beautiful pine. \u201cThat was my \ufb01rst Easter egg,\u201d he jokes of the surprise discovery, one of many. King proceeded to update every detail bit by bit\u2014plaster- ing the walls and ceiling at the suggestion of Kamp Studios; living with 15 paint colors before settling on a custom shade of beige; and installing bespoke doors, air-conditioner covers, gallery rods, and more. Only upon moving the furniture from his previous apartment in Brooklyn Heights did he realize it","IN THE DINING AREA, A CUSTOM TABLE, ETCHING BY AMEDEO MODIGLIANI, FINNISH T-BACK CHAIRS FROM GALERIE HALF, AND A PIERRE JEANNERET CABINET FROM MDFG. would all look dollhouse scale in his new aerie. To anchor the vast living area, King designed an oversized daybed and sofa, both of which had to be constructed on-site. Among the pieces that followed him to Tribeca, however, was the travertine pedestal table that served as the stage for his pandemic photo series, \u201cStay Home Still Life.\u201d Con\ufb01ned to his Brooklyn apartment during lockdown, King composed whatever items he could \ufb01nd (eggshells, scissors, a glass of milk) into poetic tableaux, the success of which made him an overnight Instagram sensation. Today, that table remains a laboratory for arranging, albeit increasingly with objects of the more rare\ufb01ed variety. At the time of our visit, pieces from his new Menu collection mingled with a range of unique \ufb01nds, from Japanese vessels to an Allmoge box to a Gae Aulenti lamp. \u201cThere\u2019s so much sentiment there,\u201d he says of the table. \u201cIt will always be with me.\u201d Well, in spirit at least. Next week he\u2019s off to Los Angeles for four more shoots. ARCHDIGEST.COM 135","grand \ufb01nale DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN Fantastic Voyage When designing for nightlife, Martin Brudnizki explains, it\u2019s not just about setting the mood, \u201cit\u2019s about establishing a powerful sense of place.\u201d The AD100 talent has threaded that nocturnal needle in hot spots around the world, from Annabel\u2019s in London to the Britely in Los Angeles. And now he\u2019s deftly done so at the private nightclub of Costa Palmas, a luxury development on the East Cape of Mexico\u2019s Baja California Sur peninsula. Here he collaborated with the artist Celso to conceive an immersive mosaic, with astrological and zoomorphic motifs inspired by Mexican alebrijes folklore. Notes Brudnizki, \u201cWe wanted to create something that had a very strong local identity in terms of color and pattern.\u201d That kaleidoscopic corridor ushers revelers from bar to dance floor to lounge, its star-shaped sconces bouncing light across the glass fragments. Brudnizki calls the effect \u201calmost psychedelic,\u201d comparing it to the hallucinogenic properties of Mexico\u2019s hikuri, or peyote plant. Well, Martin, you\u2019re making us high. costapalmas.com \u2014SAM COCHRAN","","\u00a9 2 0 2 2 WAT E R W O R K S I S A R E G I S T E R E D T R A D E M A R K O F WAT E R W O R K S I P C O M PA N Y, L L C","FINDLAY GALLERIES est. 1870 | THREE CENTURIES IN ART Gordon Onslow Ford (1912-2003) | Untitled (1013), c.1950 | casein on mulberry paper mounted on canvas | 36 x 71 in. 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