Architectural Digest USA - May 2022

SPANNING MULTIPLE BUILDINGS AND 12 ACRES, THE ELLEN DeGENERES CAMPUS FOR THE DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND WAS DESIGNED BY MASS DESIGN GROUP.



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grew out of their work building a hospital in northern Rwanda. The firm, which maintains a base in Boston, now has an office in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, with more than 100 employees (the majority Rwandan) and close ties to the 13-year-old program at the University of Rwanda School of Architecture and Built people Environment. Several of its graduates worked on the DeGeneres campus along with MASS design director Emily Goldenberg. “They’re training a new generation of architects; we’re training a new generation of scientists,” says Stoinski of the similarities between MASS and the Fossey Fund. “We love that they’re a day nonprofit and that they want their projects to have a larger social impact.” The design collaboration was so successful, Stoinski reflects, “that we went all in.” That meant hiring two relatively new divisions of the architecture firm, MASS.Build and MASS.Made, to construct the campus and create its furniture and fixtures. Those tasks employed some 2,300 workers, 99 percent of them are permitted to trek into the mountain gorilla habitat in Rwandan. At the end of their employment, many received Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park. But for those who do, “it’s certificates listing the skills they learned. “The quality of the the most life-changing experience,” says Ellen DeGeneres, construction is second to none,” says Murphy. who first visited the region in 2015. Visitors aren’t allowed to DeGeneres, a design lover known for her spectacular homes approach the animals, but a silverback (mature male) once in Southern California, did make a few suggestions. One was bumped into her sister-in-law by accident. “I was so jealous,” that the complex include a market for local artisans. Another DeGeneres recalls. “It’s thrilling to be that close to them but was that the roofs be lushly planted, to complement their knowing they don’t want to hurt you.” surroundings. Ten x Ten, a landscape- Now a 60th-birthday present from architecture firm in Minneapolis, her wife, Portia de Rossi, has helped collaborated with MASS’s own land- underwrite what is known as the Ellen scape team on the grounds and green DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey roofs, which together required some Gorilla Fund: a 12-acre complex dedi- 250,000 plants (all native). Other cated to gorilla conservation. It is named green moves included a rainwater- for both the TV star and her idol, harvesting system, a constructed the self-taught naturalist, who may have wetland for wastewater treatment, single-handedly saved the mountain and the use of mainly local materi- gorillas from extinction before she was als, such as the volcanic stone that murdered in 1985. DeGeneres has clads exterior walls. “It’s something considered Fossey a hero since child- farmers have to get out of their fields,” hood, when she saw her on the cover notes Goldenberg. “It’s considered of National Geographic. “Now my name a nuisance.” is next to Fossey’s and I have a legacy To some people, the buildings, that to me is more important than with their thick, curved roofs and anything I’ve done in show business.” circular skylights, suggest pebbles in Before DeGeneres and de Rossi a river; to others, clouds gathering stepped in with what DeGeneres calls around the peak of a volcano, or the her “most expensive birthday present volcanoes themselves. But whatever ever,” the Fossey Fund staff worked out they evoke, if they help save gorillas of makeshift quarters, including a kitchen doubling as a lab. from disease, poaching, and habitat loss, they will be among Today there’s housing and a fully equipped laboratory, class- the most important buildings in the world. Says DeGeneres, rooms for visiting students, and a museum complete with a who is ending her long-running TV show this year: “As soon 360-degree theater. Designed by MASS Design Group, the as I tape my last program, I’m headed to Rwanda. I’m sure complex, which is anchored by three main buildings, is more there will be some tears.” than just efficient. People who see the campus think “the place looks important, so what they’re doing must be important,” OPPOSITE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT AN AERIAL says Tara Stoinski, president, CEO, and chief scientific officer VIEW OF THE CAMPUS REVEALS THE BUILDINGS’ GREEN ROOFS; for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. “The architecture will elevate the whole field of conservation.” SUNLIGHT FLOODS A DINING AREA; CIRCULAR SKYLIGHTS FORM A UNIFYING DESIGN ELEMENT AMONG STRUCTURES; THE ENTRANCE. ABOVE GORILLAS IN THEIR NATURAL HABITAT. ARCHDIGEST.COM 103

CARIBBEA Working with architect Kiko Sanchez, designer David Netto crafts a marvel of relaxed beachy chic for a young family in the Bahamas TEXT BY DAVID NETTO PHOTOGRAPHY BY GIEVES ANDERSON

N DREAM THE LIVING ROOM IS OUTFITTED WITH LOUNGE CHAIRS BY THE WICKER WORKS (LEFT) AND ISAMU KENMOCHI (RIGHT), A HUGO FRANÇA CHAISE LONGUE, AND ROUND JUTE RUGS BY SERENA & LILY. IN THE DINING AREA (REAR), BIELECKY BROTHERS CHAIRS SURROUND A JEAN-MICHEL FRANK TABLE BY ECART ON A BEAUVAIS ABACA RUG. PAINT THROUGHOUT BY BENJAMIN MOORE. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.

ARCHITECT KIKO SANCHEZ OF FGS DESIGN AND DESIGNER DAVID NETTO ADDED A DISCREET SECOND STORY TO THE EXISTING HOUSE AS WELL AS A NEW OCTAGONAL POOL PAVILION/ GUEST COTTAGE. LANDSCAPE BY FERNANDO WONG OUTDOOR LIVING DESIGN. POOL CHAISE LONGUES BY JANUS ET CIE.

“We created a very subdued color palette consisting of different shades of green in order to keep the pool as the focal point.” —landscape designer Fernando Wong

L ike many of the most beautiful locations in the world, the Bahamas can be a difficult place to pull off a decorating job. This project—one of the prettiest houses on one of the loveliest sites in one of the nicest spots in the Caribbean, the Lyford Cay Club—is a case in point. During more than two years of construction we had obstacles involving shipping, weather, communications, and travel logistics. But let’s focus on the opportunities. After all the work was done, and all the customs duties were paid, and all the LED bulbs were color-corrected with acetate gels, and all the high-gloss paint that turns matte because of the humidity was reapplied, what we ended up with is a dream villa, and a dream is worth any amount of work. Everyone on the design team fell in love with this place, as did the owners, who dubbed their new home Hideout. Design projects are all about taking aim. If one decision counted here, it was the first one—to save the existing building, adding on to it strategically rather than tearing it down. This elegant but compact villa had a position in the hearts of the community. Its previous owners were well-liked, and many neighbors shared happy recollections of dinner parties there. But it was a one-story house made for a couple, not a family with four kids. Architect Kiko Sanchez and I huddled and agreed that, despite the reality of the expanded program, the last thing we wanted for these clients was a mansion. “The house looked and felt like a cottage, so the challenge was to make it big enough to hold a family but still feel like a cottage,” the architect explains. Kiko is a great design partner. He and I added a second floor, but made it barely visible. We expanded the living room to more than twice its original size, but not as one big, undifferentiated room. The new space, with its various ceiling heights and coquina columns, instead resembles a covered porch that had been enclosed at some BURK UZZLE point. In short, we invented a narrative for the new house in which things had been added on to it over time. Without expanding the scale of the entry façade, we also decided to add a few formal details. “The front door now has the sort of stonework 108 ARCHDIGEST.COM

“After all the work was done, what we ended up with is a dream villa, and a dream is worth any amount of work.” —designer David Netto IN THE KITCHEN, AN ATELIER VIME PENDANT LIGHT HANGS ABOVE A JEAN PROUVÉ DINING TABLE BY VITRA AND DRUCKER CHAIRS. STOOLS BY THE CITIZENRY, WOLF RANGE, WATERWORKS FIXTURES, AND HOOD BY VENT-A-HOOD. OPPOSITE A LIVING ROOM VIGNETTE FEATURES A DINING TABLE BY JACQUES ADNET AND MAURICE SAVIN, A BEADED NIGERIAN CHAIR FROM RAOUL TEXTILES, AND NICHES LINED IN TILES FROM EXQUISITE SURFACES.



OPPOSITE A LIVING ROOM SEATING AREA HAS A VINTAGE FAUX-CORAL MIRROR, MIMI LONDON WALNUT COCKTAIL TABLES, LOUNGE CHAIRS BY THE WICKER WORKS, AND SERENA & LILY JUTE RUGS. OPPOSITE, BELOW THE BUNK ROOM IS FURNISHED WITH CASA KIDS BEDS AND AN AREA RUG BY MILES REDD FOR PATTERSON FLYNN. RIGHT A GUEST COTTAGE BEDROOM FEATURES CHELSEA EDITIONS FOUR- POSTER BEDS. CURTAIN AND PILLOW FABRIC BY FANNY SHORTER. BELOW A MECOX CHANDELIER CROWNS A BATHROOM WITH A WATERWORKS TUB AND FIXTURES. TILES BY ZIA TILE. one would find on a distinguished Georgian house in the West Indies. But the back is more relaxed. Ultimately, we wanted to create a fun house for kids,” Kiko says of our shared mission. That was the plan outside. The biggest decision on the inside came to me as I looked around and saw all these elegant people enjoying their lives in their beautiful homes—Lyford Cay is a community that really gets behind hospitality and style. But while there’s plenty of luxury, it all feels very grown-up. I wanted to make this the first fancy house here that looks like it actually belongs to young people. Taking aim, remember? The most direct line of attack seemed to be to remake the ubiqui- tous tile floors—the thing that’s visible everywhere in a tropical house—in some mischievous, unexpected material. So I proposed electric blue terrazzo, really selling it by saying, “What can I tell you, I love an Italian bus station.” (Sometimes you have to make it sound worse to look better.) I know the architect was skeptical, and the owners might have been as well, but this is my fourth house for them, and they expect a risk or two. ARCHDIGEST.COM 111

ABOVE THE GUEST COTTAGE LIVING ROOM INCLUDES A VIOSKI SOFA IN RAOUL TEXTILES FABRIC, A CHARLOTTE PERRIAND COCKTAIL TABLE BY CASSINA, A FRANK GEHRY DESK CHAIR FOR KNOLL, AND A SIDE TABLE BY HOLLYWOOD AT HOME. OUR BIG BREAK OCCURRED when the lot next door became available. These clients, “The challenge always supportive, understood the point we made that more land would actually was to make mean less house. The expanded lot gave us room for a poolhouse, which doubles as a guesthouse as well as an escape for the homeowners, who rarely get a moment to it big enough to themselves. Kiko and I designed the structure as an octagonal pavilion, inspired by hold a family the 1936 gem architect Maurice Fatio designed for artist Bernard Boutet de Monvel in Palm Beach. Now, with two buildings and a master plan, we had an opportunity but still feel like for a real garden, and the immensely talented Fernando Wong and his partner, Tim a cottage.” Johnson, came aboard to give the property just that. Fernando brought huge value to the project by creating outdoor rooms along the road, and by opening the view of —architect Kiko the golf course to make it seem like it belongs to this house. Around the pool, his Sanchez approach was subtle. “We created a very subdued color palette consisting of different shades of green in order to keep the pool as the focal point,” Fernando says. “The one strategic pop of color comes from the purple bougainvillea framing that idyllic porch—the place the family eats, plays ping-pong, and organizes flashlight tag on the golf course after dinner. The color tells you you’re going to have fun there.” All projects have their heroes. This one has two. Lily Dierkes, the decorator who assisted me, has an instinct with color and pattern that gives the interior the joyfulness it has. The second is Annie, the housekeeper who has long worked there. Annie made us feel welcome throughout construction, no matter what she may have thought about what we were doing to her house. She and I have also stayed friends, and I think everybody, homeowners included, would agree that there is more than one First Lady of Hideout. 112 ARCHDIGEST.COM

THE PRIMARY BEDROOM HAS A CUSTOM CANOPY BED COVERED IN PHILLIP JEFFRIES RAFFIA, BEDSIDE TABLES BY CHRIS LEHRECKE FOR RALPH PUCCI, AND AN RH JUTE RUG. PILLOW AND SOFA FABRIC BY PENNY MORRISON.

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THE GUEST COTTAGE’S PRIMARY ASPA EAU DE NIL LINEN BY SARAH BEDROOM HAS A MECOX BED, CANOPY VANRENEN FOR PENNY MORRISON; AND PILLOW FABRIC BY FANNY $205 PER YARD. PENNYMORRISON.COM SHORTER, AND A ROSE TARLOW MELROSE HOUSE NIGHTSTAND (LEFT). FIG CUSHION; $170. BRIGHTON FANNYSHORTER.COM ÉTAGÈRE; $2,499. AMANDA LINDROTH.COM We invented a narrative for the house in which things had been added on to it over time.” TILES BY ZIA TILE COVER THE FLOOR AND SHOWER IN A BATHROOM. HAMPER AND FIXTURES BY WATERWORKS. WALL SCALLOP; $225. REBECCADERAVENEL.COM HAT TRICK CHAIR BY FRANK GEHRY FOR KNOLL; $2,484. KNOLL.COM NOVA TILE; PRICE UPON REQUEST. ZIATILE.COM ARCHDIGEST.COM 115

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one to watch Jolie Ngo Jolie Ngo was still an undergrad at the Rhode Island memory-palace vessels, after the mnemonic device in School of Design when her digitally savvy ceramics— which visualization of a familiar environment enables 3D-printed in SweeTart-colored porcelain—started information recall. Pieces usually receive multiple firings getting likes on Instagram. Buzz continued to build IRL to bring out the color, followed by ornamental glazing, at Design Miami in 2020 and 2021. And now the 26-year- with added “gloops,” or ceramic “stickers,” applied old rising star, who is just wrapping up her master’s in by hand. Fellow ceramists will find inside jokes, like the ceramic art at Alfred University, will take center stage in wiggle-wire pattern (a production pottery trope) she her first solo show, opening at New York’s R & Company incorporates into the bases of her works. “They’re gallery on April 28. Her latest creations revisit the future forms that hold memories or ideas of past craft pixelated landscapes of video games like Super Mario traditions,” she explains of her hybrid approach. Bros. and Pokémon, which she played growing up in “There’s an intimacy and sensitivity with the material, Philadelphia. “The works are heavily influenced by my even though for half of the process I’m not directly early digital world,” says Ngo, who refers to them as engaging with it.” ngojolie.net —HANNAH MARTIN 118 ARCHDIGEST.COM PHOTOGRAPHY BY GUARIONEX RODRIGUEZ JR.

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