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CONTENTS february 76 AN ART-FILLED APARTMENT IN PARIS DESIGNED BY LUIS LAPLACE AND CHRISTOPHE COMOY. VIOLA DAVIS (WEARING A 14 Editor’s Letter The Colony Hotel in Palm ALICE MESGUICH VALENTINO OUTFIT AND MISHO Beach... Graphic lampshades... EARRINGS) AND JULIUS TENNON AT 16 Object Lesson Studio Gang’s radical extension HOME IN L.A. “DOUBLE FEATURE,” at NYC’s American Museum PAGE 48. PHOTOGRAPHY BY FRANK The figurative seating of of Natural History... David FRANCES. INTERIOR STYLING John Risley. BY HANNAH MARTIN Yurman’s 2023 Crystal Crossover BY AMY CHIN. FASHION STYLING BY collection... Foam furniture by ELIZABETH STEWART. 19 Discoveries Luam Melake... Giancarlo Valle’s rugs for Nordic Knots celebrate 6 ARCHDIGEST.COM AD visits the captivating Scandinavian craft. home of Peggy Hsu and Chris McCullough in LA... Fresh 34 Crowning Glory takes on neoclassicism... Tosin Oshinowo designs a community John Maniscalco Architecture for displaced people in Nigeria... teams up with The Archers to New lighting from Workstead... fashion a San Francisco home Wallpapers in bloom... Celerie built for delight and stimulation. Kemble leads a refresh of BY MAYER RUS
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editor’s letter 2 3 1. A NACHO CARBONELL LIGHT SCULPTURE ERUPTS IN A SAN FRANCISCO HOME. 2. VIOLA DAVIS AND JULIUS TENNON IN THEIR HOME GYM, WHERE MUHAMMAD ALI PROVIDES INSPIRATION. 3. A SUBTERRANEAN POOL IN LONDON. 4. A CYLINDER-SHAPED ROCKY MOUNTAIN SKI HOUSE DESIGNED BY MacKAY-LYONS SWEETAPPLE ARCHITECTS. 5. A PARIS APARTMENT BY LUIS LAPLACE AND CHRISTOPHE COMOY. 6. CERAMISTS TATIANA BAIBABAEVA AND TYSON STRANG OF TERRA COLL HOME IN MALLORCA. 1 4 “When people come to the house, I want them to walk into our lives. And our lives are much more expansive than just an Oscar or a Tony.” —Viola Davis Independent thinkers, innovators, game changers: This issue is full of them, from adventurous homeowners to daring architects and designers. Take our cover couple, actor-producers Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, founders of JuVee Productions, whose credits include the acclaimed recent film The Woman King, starring Davis in yet another tour de force performance. When the power pair need to escape the Hollywood grind, they retreat to their LA residence. “Our definition of home is a sanctuary, and this is definitely a sanctuary,” says Davis, adding that it is the place where “we talk, we laugh hysterically, we reconnect.” And perhaps plot their next bold move. 1. SAM FROST. 2. FRANK FRANCES. ART: ANDY WARHOL/FLAVOR PAPER. 2. HENRY BOURNE. 4. JENNA PEFFLEY. 5. ALICE MESGUICH. 6. SALVA LÓPEZ. A peek into the extraordinary San Francisco dream home of tech titans Ruchi Sanghvi and Aditya Agarwal reveals a meeting of multiple creative minds unafraid of taking risks, including architect John Maniscalco, AD100 design firm The Archers, and landscape designer Bernard Trainor. “We want people to know about our culture when they enter our home,” says Agarwal. “Ruchi had a clear idea of a jungle house in the city,” Maniscalco recalls. He designed a structure that not only unites the indoors and the out but allows for the dining room, shown above, to sprout a dazzling Nacho Carbonell light sculpture that Agarwal likens to “a tree, a beautiful organism growing inside our house.” 6 With additional stops in Mallorca, Paris, London, and the Rocky Mountains this month, AD visits several other next-level homes where passionate architects, designers, and clients have refused to play it safe. Here’s to thinking outside the box. AMY ASTLEY 5 Global Editorial Director and Editor in Chief, AD U.S. @amyastley 14 ARCHDIGEST.COM
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object lesson THE STORY BEHIND AN ICONIC DESIGN People Pleasers John Risley’s figurative, welded-metal seats have garnered a cult following A fleet of women with perfect posture. A happy couple, arm in arm. A lounging lady, legs stretched out in grace- ful recline. These are just a few of the characters that populated Jack Risley’s childhood home in Middletown, Connecticut, where his artist parents, John and Mary Risley, made everything, from the furniture to the flatware. John, who honed his modernist style at the Rhode Island School of Design, at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and in the office of industrial designer Russel Wright, began making these so-called People chairs in the early 1960s. Meticulously hand-welded from thin steel rods and spray-painted black, they worked indoors and out. They were humorous, yes, but at the 1 core these figurative seats were about 2 simplicity of line and formal principles of design and craft, not unlike the work of his contemporaries such as Alexander Girard or Charley Harper. One-off pieces spurred a 1963 production line for Raymor, sold at department stores, which makes up most of what people see on the market today, like the lady rocker in Lena Dunham’s Connecticut home. But Risley made People chairs until the end of his life, getting more fanciful with age. Later ones were often commis- sions, incorporating such novelties as 1. LELANIE FOSTER. 2. PHILLIP HARRINGTON/ALAMY. 3. CHARLIE SCHUCK. 4. FERNANDO MARROQUIN. a handbag (for magazines) or the client’s dog. In the ’90s some rabbit seats were called in for a photo shoot at Prada. These days, both models have been cropping up on the secondary market and in the pages of magazines, often incorrectly called “nun chairs,” 3 or repainted in bright colors. (Risley exclusively used black.) Keep an eye out for “in the style of” copycats, but even authentic ones might not bear a signature—Risley only began adding his initials in the ’90s. Not surpris- 4 ingly, designers are smitten with these people. Luis Laplace set one sea gazing in a Mexico bedroom where, he says, “it brings a smile.” Meanwhile, Adam Charlap Hyman, who sprinkled some around an LA home, shown in Sight Unseen’s new book, Living With Objects (Clarkson Potter), praises their “slippery relationship to modernism—they both fit within that history and sit outside of it.” His favorite detail, though, is something more subtle: “the shadows they cast on gravel or grass.” —HANNAH MARTIN 1. LENA DUNHAM’S LADY ROCKER IN CONNECTICUT. 2. RISLEY WITH HIS COLLECTION FOR RAYMOR, 1963. 3. OUTDOOR SPACE AT THE L.A. HOME OF YORAM HELLER AND ELEANOR WELLS, DESIGNED BY CHARLAP HYMAN & HERRERO. 4. ONE OF THE CHAIRS IN A MEXICO HOME BY LAPLACE.
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DISCOVERIES 1. IN THE LIVING ROOM, A STEEL-AND-BLACK-WALNUT SHELVING SYSTEM ACCOMMODATES 10,000 RECORDS. 2. EXTERIOR WALLS COVERED IN CHARCOAL STUCCO CONTRAST WITH THE WHITE-OAK CEILING ON THE MAIN LEVEL. 3. A BRISE-SOLEIL OF WESTERN RED CEDAR SHIELDS THE STREET-FACING FAÇADE. 1 A sk most Angelenos about Fossil Ridge Park and they’ll probably draw a blank. The paleontological site, named for its abundance of fossilized marine life dating back some 10 million years, is tucked in the mountains above Sherman Oaks, off the beaten path and familiar largely to people who live, work, or go to school in the vicinity. Peggy Hsu and Chris McCullough, principals of the LA-based architecture firm Hsu McCullough, are fortu- nate to have a front-row seat on the natural wonder. They designed their two-story house to frame particular vistas not only of Fossil Ridge but also of the San Gabriel Mountains and the San Fernando Valley floor. “We wanted to live in a hillside community with views,” explains Hsu, a native of Taiwan who moved to LA in her high school years. “We went 2 3 through hundreds of floor plans to maximize sight lines.” DAN ARNOLD. JOE FLETCHER. ART: CHRIS MCCULLOUGH. Their house is something of a “business in the front, party in the back” affair. The business part of the equation involved the need to foster privacy on the street-facing façade, which the couple addressed with a dramatic brise-soleil of western red cedar cut into 15-foot-tall boards. Detached from the main body of the house, the screen element makes room for a cloistered exterior entry stair off the driveway while allowing natural light to penetrate into the interior. The full volumetric brio of the architectural composition reveals itself at the back of the house, where pocketing glass walls on the first level and floor- to-ceiling glazing on the second open the structure to the landscape in a generous embrace.
4 5 4. THE COMPRESSED KITCHEN IS WRAPPED IN A CHARCOAL STUCCO CEILING AND WALLS OF BLACK-PAINTED RECLAIMED WOOD. 5. McCULLOUGH’S PIXELATED PORTRAIT OF THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. COMMANDS THE DINING AREA; CUSTOM BRASS TABLE AND LOG BENCH. 6. A WET ROOM FEATURES BRASS WALLS AND FLOORS OF INDIAN BLACK SLATE. The brawny materiality of Hsu McCullough’s composition buttresses the all-important indoor-outdoor connection, with certain elements (flooring of irregular Indian black slate, a spine wall of seeded stucco) slipping inside to out. Throughout the house, moody materials—such as black brick, tile, and painted boards of reclaimed wood—are juxtaposed with planes of white oak, walnut, unfinished sheet brass, and slabs of Calacatta Viola marble. “We weren’t afraid of dark moments to underscore the moments of dramatic natural light,” McCullough says of the architectural chiaroscuro. “We use creative daylighting to nurture different kinds of experiences from one area to the next.” McCullough’s audiophile propensities come to the fore in a series of artworks and built-ins, including a shelving system of cold-rolled steel and black walnut for thousands of records in the living room; a pixelated portrait of The Notorious B.I.G. he created with 1990s MiniDiscs in the dining area; and another portrait, this one of James Brown, crafted from hundreds of old cassette tapes. Like Hsu McCullough’s architecture, the meticulously fabricated artworks have a playful edge that invites and rewards close inspection. The couple’s home eloquently affirms the last of Vitruvius’s three virtues for every well-designed building: delight. —MAYER RUS 6 ARCHDIGEST.COM 21
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DISCOVERIES GOOD WORKS 1 Home Again In rural Nigeria,Tosin Oshinowo offers a bold proposal for rehousing the displaced I n 2014, Boko Haram terrorists razed the village of Chibok, Nigeria, displacing3 countless families and abducting 276 female high school students, of whom more than 100 still remain missing. Nearly a decade later, the region’s fight against jihadist insurgents is far from over, and thousands of people are still living in camps. But the United Nations Development Programme is helping to rebuild communities like Chibok so that internally displaced persons (IDP) can return home. This past October, 2,500 residents moved into a new settlement in Ngarannam, a three-hour drive northeast of Chibok. The community’s architect, Tosin Oshinowo, refers to the homes as “house proud,” noting that they’re self-sufficient, familiar, 2 4 and safe. “It was very important to give people a comfortable place to rebuild their lives,” says the Lagos-based principal of cmDesign Atelier. Responsible for both the master plan and the design, Oshinowo held several meetings with future residents, toured regional buildings and IDP camps, and convened with government stakeholders, as well as curatorial leadership from the Borno State Museum. Those conversations informed her radial site plan, which includes more than 500 homes plus a health clinic, a community center, a shaded market- place, and a police outpost. (Phase two will add 140 more houses.) Built of sandcrete brick and topped by aluminum roofs, the houses evoke tradi- tional earthen structures, with outdoor kitchens, willow–reed ceilings, Kanuri cultural reception rooms, and land on each plot for auxiliary structures. Yellow, green, PORTRAIT: SPARK CREATIVE. LANDSCAPES: UNDP/TOLULOPE SANUSI. and royal blue seen in Bama cap patterns add pops of color to shared facilities. Cross ventilation, solar-powered streetlights, and rainwater harvesting keep the community energy efficient, while local materials minimize the embodied carbon footprint. Security, too, has been incorporated: The town is surrounded by a trench and 10-foot- tall berm, with military towers at the edges and checkpoints on access roads. The new Ngarannam village is the first architect-designed UNDP project 5 and offers a case study for others that the humanitarian agency is building across Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria. “Recruitment to violent extrem- ist groups happens in areas where you have a high level of deprivation,” explains Mohamed Yahya, UNDP Nigeria’s resident representative. Providing comfort-driven, culturally sensitive, and aesthetically pleasing living spaces, he says, causes “real changes in people’s lives.” —ELIZABETH FAZZARE 1. A COMMUNITY GATHERING CENTER AT NGARANNAM VILLAGE IN NIGERIA. 2. A VIEW INSIDE A HOME. 3. THE PROJECT’S ARCHITECT, TOSIN OSHINOWO. 4–5. THE COMMUNITY CURRENTLY COMPRISES 576 UNITS, WITH MORE TO COME. 24 ARCHDIGEST.COM
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DISCOVERIES LIGHTING 2 Rods and Cones “I went down a complete Alexander Calder rabbit hole,” says Workstead’s Robert Highsmith, reflecting on the genesis of the AD100 firm’s new lighting collection, Pendolo. “Looking at his mobiles, looking at his two-dimensional forms, I began to explore the distillation of movement,” he continues, wondering aloud, “How do you create implied kineticism?” Pendolo explores that tension in adjustable fixtures that honor Workstead’s long-standing interests in flexibility and tactility, all the while branching out to a bigger scale. Available in three sizes and wrapped inside and out in burlap or linen, the shades come as large as 18 inches high, requiring an embedded wire structure to maintain the illusion of weightlessness. “The cone is a very monumental form, but it’s also very hollow,” Highsmith reflects. “We wanted the shades to have real presence but also a very delicate quality.” (Impressively, that’s true whether 1 they are upright or at a 45-degree angle.) Offered in brass, bronze, or nickel, the series includes stand-alone pendants, 4 flush mounts, and sconces, as well as dynamic assemblages of multiple shades—the last allowing for especially flexible constellations. “We are constantly rearranging objects in our homes, but to be able to reconfigure your light fixtures is a unique aspect of our work,” notes the designer. For Workstead, which recently relocated its fabrication to a robust facility in Virginia, Pendolo kicks off a banner year of product launches. In other words, expect more balancing acts to come. workstead.com —SAM COCHRAN 1. & 4. PENDOLO PENDANTS IN 3 LIGHTING: JEFF HOLT. SHOPPING: COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES. BRASS WITH A SINGLE SHADE AND HOTELS: 1. LESLEY UNRUH. 2. CARMEL BRANTLEY. FINISHING TOUCHES: 3. TIM SMYTH. ALL OTHERS COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES. A TRIO OF SHADES. 2. & 3. PENDOLO SCONCES AND FLUSH MOUNTS IN BRASS AND BRONZE. SHOPPING FLOWER POWER Rooms come into bloom with three favorite wallpapers of the moment VOUTSA PLAID BLOOMS TECHNICOLOR IKSEL-DECORATIVE ARTS RENAISSANCE COLE & SON ALLIUM WALLPAPER; TO THE WALLPAPER; $350 PER ROLL. VOUTSA.COM HERBIER WALLPAPER; TO THE TRADE. IKSEL.COM TRADE. LEEJOFA.COM —MADELINE O’MALLEY
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DISCOVERIES ARCHITECTURE Tectonic Shift At Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History, Studio Gang conjures a bold new forum for discovery 1 W hen the Richard Gilder Center for punctuate the stone, while a five-story glass curtain wall frames Science, Education, and Innovation opens the pièce de résistance: a canyon-like atrium constructed on February 17, the 230,000-square-foot with shotcrete. addition will both expand upon New York’s “Instead of just a decorative building, it’s about the essence American Museum of Natural History of structure,” firm principal Jeanne Gang reflects of the mate- (AMNH) and further reveal it. The project rial, wherein concrete is sprayed onto rebar, dried in place, and ARCHITECTURE: 1. OLIVIA JOAN. 2. & 3. TIMOTHY SCHENCK/© AMNH. JEWELRY: COURTESY OF DAVID YURMAN. includes new galleries dedicated to insects; a permanent smoothed by hand. First invented by Carl Akeley—a naturalist butterfly vivarium; classrooms; a research library; and a state- and taxidermist who pioneered habitat dioramas, including of-the-art theater-in-the-round. But the Gilder Center also those at the AMNH—the technique is widely used in swimming strategically foregrounds vast holdings of scientific material pools and infrastructure projects. While researching it, Gang that have long been out of view. In the five-story collections and her team toured subway tunnels, observing shotcrete’s core, which is outfitted with floor-to-ceiling vitrines, visitors dynamic texture and curvilinear applications. will discover the smallest and largest connections in our At the Gilder Center, the vaulted form helps bear the load biological world. for five floors of education and gallery spaces. Large skylights The project’s architect, Studio Gang, has achieved all this bring sun into the cavernous atrium, which is crossed by by conceiving of the Gilder Center not as a carefully crafted pedestrian bridges on the third and fourth floors. Glass is fritted architectural landmark—which it certainly is—but as a void for avian safety, a cause close to Gang’s birder heart. “What within the museum’s campus. From the outside, the center you’re seeing is the structure itself,” the architect continues. resembles a monumental rock formation, its seemingly eroded “That’s why it’s so exciting.” exterior clad in the same Milford pink granite as the AMNH’s That thrill extends to the visitor experience. Over AMNH’s Central Park West façade. Organically shaped windows nearly 150-year-old history at its Upper West Side location, 28 ARCHDIGEST.COM
3 JEWELRY 1. ARCHITECT JEANNE CRYSTAL VISION GANG IN THE ATRIUM OF THE AMERICAN Linking the Gilder Center MUSEUM OF NATURAL to the AMNH’s Halls HISTORY’S NEW RICHARD GILDER CENTER FOR of Gems and Minerals, the SCIENCE, EDUCATION, new Yurman Family AND INNOVATION. 2. THE GILDER CENTER 2 AS SEEN FROM THEODORE ROOSEVELT Crystalline Pass showcases, PARK. 3. STUDIO GANG among other treasures, gems USED SHOTCRETE that father-and-son jewelry TO FORM THE ATRIUM. titans David and Evan discovered at the Zigras mine in western Arkansas. That trip now serves as the inspiration for David Yurman’s 2023 Crystal Crossover collection, with hunks of raw mineral wrapped in the brand’s signature cable and diamonds. davidyurman.com —MADELINE O’MALLEY 1–2. DAVID YURMAN’S NEW CRYSTAL CROSSOVER NECKLACE AND EARRINGS. the museum has undergone multiple expansions by different 1 architects, yielding some inevitable dead ends in terms of its circulation. “You couldn’t make these continuous loops, which 2 are so fundamental to a good museum experience,” Gang explains. With the Gilder Center, there are now some 30 links to the museum’s existing buildings, each juncture having been meticulously mapped out in collaboration with executive architects Davis Brody Bond after careful study of the muse- um’s original master plan, among other documents. As part of the project, the landscape studio Reed Hilderbrand is also updating Theodore Roosevelt Park with more pathways, open spaces, and trees. A complement to the wood-paneled rooms found through- out the rest of the museum, the Gilder Center delivers on its promise as a welcoming, light-filled place for discovery. At a construction tour this past fall, museum scientists buzzed with excitement for the new concepts they could share within its windowed walls. Gang was equally as delighted. “As someone who loves science and nature,” she says, “it was so rewarding to be able to make a building that would make both accessible.” amnh.org —ELIZABETH FAZZARE
1 2 3 2. THE ARTIST, PERCHED ON HER Social Studies than if you are five or six feet away,” explains the designer, who studied architecture at UC Berkeley and later packed Luam Melake’s foam her brain taking night classes in weaving, woodworking, furniture wants to bring 3D rendering, and more. people back together In 2018 she designed the Listening Chair, which can L uam Melake’s mother hated when her family be used by one or two people for enhanced communication. would migrate to the living room as soon For the latter arrangement, one individual is placed in an as a meal was over. People talked more in upright position while the other reclines, like a psychoanalyst the dining room, she observed. These days and their patient. It doesn’t look like a typical chair, but that was the point. “I want people to feel it out with their bodies Melake gets it. “Dinner is really impor- PORTRAIT: MIRANDA BARNES. WORKS: JOE KRAMM/R & COMPANY. and try different things.” tant for a family bond, but it’s not That piece and eight others—including just about the food, it’s about the furniture,” a chair for cuddling, a modular love seat, and a hybrid table and chairs that allows for various explains the New York–based designer. “If configurations—will star in Furnishing Feelings, you’re sitting at a dining table, you can easily Melake’s first solo show with R & Company gallery in Manhattan, opening February 3. talk to everyone, you can see everyone— She realized the supple, geometric forms out of foam that has been coated in urethane and it’s the perfect situation.” colored with translucent dyes. It’s a process developed out of limitations. (“I didn’t have a The way furniture can reposi- lot of space or money.”) But it’s also a nod to tion people to better understand the radical furniture of the ’60s and ’70s, another era in which bold minds pushed one another is something Melake, design to effect meaningful change. Just as they did, she asks, “How can I find who worries about Americans’ the social problems and align them with what I’m doing?” luammelake.com growing sense of alienation, —HANNAH MARTIN thinks about a lot. “There are 4 studies that say if you’re sitting three feet away from someone, you might interact differently 30 ARCHDIGEST.COM
A CENTURY OF STYLE FROM LEFT: ANTHONY COTSIFAS; JASON SCHMIDT; OBERTO GILI From editor-in-chief Amy Astley and Architectural Digest, AD at 100 celebrates the most incredible homes of the past century, showcasing the work of top designers and offering rare looks inside the private worlds of artists, celebrities, and other fascinating personalities. Marc Jacobs, Jennifer Aniston, Diana Vreeland, India Mahdavi, Peter Marino, Kelly Wearstler, Oscar Niemeyer, Axel Vervoordt, Frank Lloyd Wright, Elsie de Wolfe, abramsbooks.com/AD100
DISCOVERIES DEBUT Swede Dreams Giancarlo Valle’s new rugs for Nordic Knots celebrate Scandinavian crafts of yore S ince the Middle Ages, when trade routes brought Eastern textiles and artisanal know-how to Northern Europe, Swedish craftspeople have been weaving colorful carpets distinguished by regional folkloric imagery. That rich history was the first place AD100 designer Giancarlo Valle looked for inspiration when he teamed up with Nordic Knots, the venerable Stockholm-based rug 1 1. GIANCARLO VALLE’S HANDS AND LOOPS RUGS maker. “The Swedish rug tradition FOR NORDIC KNOTS, DISPLAYED ON THE TABLE AND FLOOR AT OL-ANDERS HÄLSINGEGÅRD, A CENTURIES is one of my favorites,” says Valle. OLD FARM IN SWEDEN. 2. THE AD100 DESIGNER. 3. LOOPS RUG IN GREEN. 4. BUDS RUG IN FALU RED. “We wanted to tap into that and do 2 some storytelling.” At the time of our conversa- tion, he was fresh from a visit to Ol-Anders Hälsingegård, a group of centuries old farmhouses, located in northern Sweden, where his 3 debut line of floor coverings had been installed. With their painted walls and folk woodwork, the homes epitomize the whimsical country style Valle hoped to capture in his own lighthearted creations. “We were almost trying to throw design out the window,” explains Valle, an avid doodler who, thumb- 4 1 & 2. MAGNUS MÅRDING. 3 & 4. COURTESY OF NORDIC KNOTS. easygoing designs. of copper mining. its simplest form.” nordicknots.com —HANNAH MARTIN 32 ARCHDIGEST.COM
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A HEROICALLY SCALED NACHO CARBONELL LIGHT SCULPTURE PENETRATES THE CEILING PLANE AND GROWS INTO THE HOUSE’S SECOND LEVEL. VINTAGE CARLO DI CARLI CHAIRS SURROUND A CUSTOM ETIMOE WOOD DINING TABLE SET ON MARBLE PLINTHS. FIBERGLASS PLATTER BY MINJAE KIM. ART: © ZHU JINSHI/BLUM & POE, LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK/TOKYO
CROWNING GLORY John Maniscalco Architecture teams up with The Archers to fashion a San Francisco home built for delight and stimulation TEXT BY MAYER RUS PHOTOGRAPHY BY SAM FROST STYLED BY MICHAEL REYNOLDS
if there’sanupsidetoSanFrancisco’s famously labyrinthine bureaucracy for securing construction permits, it’s that the process affords plenty of time for homeowners to change their minds. Ten years ago, when Ruchi Sanghvi and Aditya Agarwal— two software engineers and venture investors with serious tech-titan credentials—embarked on a journey to find the perfect lot to build their dream home, the couple had no children. By the time they were ready to stock the cupboards and fill the refrigerator, they had three. Somewhere along the way, Sanghvi underwent a complete volte-face on her aesthetic predilections. “I was an extreme modernist when we started. I imagined a house with a perfectly symmetrical, rectilinear plan, and very little ornament,” recalls the Silicon Valley pioneer, whose résumé lists her tenure as the first female engineer at Facebook. “But after spending months living in Bali after my time at Dropbox, my perspective changed. I went from being a minimalist to a maximalist,” she declares.
THE LIVING ROOM IS OUTFITTED WITH A BDDW SOFA, VINTAGE LOUNGE CHAIRS BY FINN JUHL (WITH OTTOMAN) AND KAARE KLINT, A MISHA KAHN SIDE TABLE, A DOSHI LEVIEN FLOOR LAMP, A GAE AULENTI TABLE LIGHT, A CARPET BY THE LATE ARTIST JAMES HD BROWN THROUGH RALPH PUCCI, AND A CUSTOM COCKTAIL TABLE. OPPOSITE RUCHI SANGHVI (STANDING) AND ADITYA AGARWAL. ARCHDIGEST.COM 37
RIGHT AND OPPOSITE THE WALLS OF THE KITCHEN ARE SHEATHED IN CUSTOM BRUNO GRIZZO HAND- PAINTED BOTANICAL TILES. JOSEF HOFFMANN COUNTER STOOLS THROUGH DESIGN WITHIN REACH. Ultimately, the home devised by the couple and their he moved frequently, alighting in Cameroon, Malaysia, design team—architect John Maniscalco, AD100 interiors firm Singapore, Indonesia, China, and other countries. “I lived in The Archers, and landscape maven Bernard Trainor—brokers 14 different houses before the age of 18, so I got really good a nuanced rapprochement between the twin poles of taste, at not holding on too dearly to the places where we lived or conveying a sense of modernist rigor leavened by seductive the things we lived with. It’s a stark contrast to Ruchi, who colors and decorative flourishes that draw strength from diverse grew up in one house. She understood how to mold this space traditions, eras, and artistic registers. “We want people to and tailor it perfectly to our family,” says Agarwal, who, like know about our culture when they enter our home,” Agarwal his estimable spouse, has a few Facebook firsts of his own. says of the polyglot decor. “But we also want to express the spirit of our family, the things we hold most dear.” Maniscalco designed the house in a modernist language of crisp planes animated by the rich materiality of western SANGHVI WAS BORN IN LONDON but raised in Pune, India, a red cedar and split-faced limestone on the exterior and, for the cultural and industrial hub roughly three hours from Mumbai. interior, floors of travertine and walls faced in American Her husband had a more nomadic childhood—born in India, walnut. “This isn’t look-at-me architecture. The design defers to the site’s assets to frame particular views and experiences,” ARCHDIGEST.COM 39
“We love hanging out in the family room,” says Ruchi Sanghvi. “You feel like you’re sitting outside while you’re inside.” THE FAMILY ROOM IS CENTERED ON A CUSTOM CIRCULAR SECTIONAL SOFA COVERED IN A MAHARAM WOOL VELVET AND A CUSTOM COCKTAIL/STORAGE TABLE OF OAK AND LEATHER, ALL SET ON A CLAUDY JONGSTRA CARPET OF WOOL FELT. PILLOWS BY CHARLAP HYMAN & HERRERO AND PAT McGANN.
LEFT THE FAÇADE IS WRAPPED IN A COMPOSITION OF FOLDED CEDAR PLANES SET ATOP A SANDSTONE BASE. BELOW AND RIGHT CUSTOM ROSEWOOD SIDE TABLES WITH MAX INGRAND LAMPS FLANK A SAVOIR BED IN THE PRIMARY BEDROOM. THE WALL OF TEAK MARQUETRY WAS CRAFTED BY GREG ZALL. CUSTOM RUG BY TAI PING.
“We wanted to express the spirit of our family, the things we hold most dear,” says Aditya Agarwal. RIGHT, ABOVE AND BELOW A CHILDREN’S BEDROOM HAS BESPOKE BEDS, A CUSTOM RUG BY TAI PING, AND CHARLOTTE PERRIAND SCONCES BY NEMO LIGHTING. IN THE KIDS’ CLOSET, A JENS RISOM CHAIR SITS IN FRONT OF CUSTOM LAMINATE INTARSIA CABINETRY. 43
THE THIRD-FLOOR LIVING ROOM IS FURNISHED WITH A GIO PONTI LOUNGE CHAIR WITH CUSTOM INDIAN EMBROIDERY, CHARLOTTE PERRIAND RUSH CHAIRS, A SIDE TABLE BY BERNARD DUBOIS AND ISAAC REINA, AND A YUKIKO NAGAI MOSAIC TILE POUF. SWING-ARM LIGHT BY DIMORESTUDIO; TABLE LAMP BY CARMEN D’APOLLONIO. the architect explains, describing the structure’s meticulously a beautiful organism growing inside our house,” Agarwal says plotted forms and siting. “We tried to exploit the connection of the spectacular fixture. to the outdoor spaces wherever possible. Ruchi had a clear idea of a jungle house in the city,” he continues, again citing Petit describes the experience of working with his clients Sanghvi’s sojourn in Bali as a major influence. as something of a revelation. “Tech is a whole other world. Engineers are like aliens, but they are amazingly creative THE COUPLE COMMISSIONED designer Richard Petit and his people. I was fascinated by their process of problem-solving team at The Archers “specifically to soften the architecture and decision-making. It’s not all that different from the way and introduce elements with a handmade quality,” Sanghvi we approach design,” he avers. “Ruchi and Aditya were super says. Petit obliged with a gloriously freewheeling, time- engaged. They pushed us really hard, but in the end we were traveling decorative scheme that marries vintage classics, bold able to create something that feels genuinely fresh and new.” contemporary pieces, and subtle nods to the homeowners’ Indian heritage in textiles, colors, and artworks. The stars of Sanghvi is quick to return the compliment: “Yes, we are the show are a series of phenomenal custom creations that strong, opinionated people, but when we decided to have kids, give individual areas their unique sense of place: a massive we decided to establish a common set of family values—things Claudy Jongstra carpet of saffron-hued wool felt in the family like intellectual curiosity and kindness. Richard is one of those room, hand-painted botanical tiles by Bruno Grizzo in the designers who don’t apply the same rinse-and-repeat process kitchen, a wall of avian-themed teak marquetry crafted by to every house. He knew how to translate our values into this Greg Zall in the primary bedroom, and, most dazzling of incredibly warm, inviting space,” she insists. For Agarwal, the all, a monumental light sculpture by Nacho Carbonell that project provided an object lesson in the power of home: “I crowns the dining area and breaks the ceiling plane as it really didn’t get it before, the ways in which a house affects you balloons into the floor above. “The light reminds us of a tree, and your family in such a profound way. Your physical abode ends up being a critical part of your human experience.” And that, after all, is the magic of great design. 44 ARCHDIGEST.COM
GEDDES ULINSKAS ARCHITECTS DESIGNED THE POOLHOUSE. OSCAR NIEMEYER CHAISE LONGUE BY ESPASSO.
design notes THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK ROUND CHANDELIER 2 BY NACHO CARBONELL; PRICE UPON REQUEST. CARPENTERSWORKSHOP GALLERY.COM Color was TEA HERB TILES BY MOTTLES MURALS number one on CERAMIC TILES, DESIGNS BY BAILEY DECAL Ruchi’s list. She LTD.; $47 FOR A SET OF SIX. ETSY.COM didn’t want a cold, contemporary house.” —Richard Petit HOFFMANN STOOL BY JOSEF HOFFMANN FOR TON; $895. DWR.COM PLAYFUL SLIDING DOORS DIVIDE LAMINAE I CARPET; INTERIORS: SAM FROST. ART: COLIN HUNT/HIRSCHL & ADLER MODERN, NEW YORK. FLOS LAMP: PIERO FASANOTTO. THE CHILDREN’S BEDROOM AND TO THE TRADE. PAT MCGANN PILLOW: DAN ARNOLD. GALERIE KREO LAMP: ALEXANDRA DE COSSETTE. MISHA KAHN SIDE TABLE: TIMOTHY DOYON. PLAYROOM. JOSEF FRANK RUG BY ALL OTHERS COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES. SVENSKT TENN. TAIPINGCARPETS.COM MULHOLLAND CANE CHAISE LOUNGE; $1,295. INDUSTRY WEST.COM GATTO PICCOLO LAMP BY ACHILLE AND PIER GIACOMO CASTIGLIONI FOR FLOS; $640. FLOS.COM FRANK NR. 7 RUG BY JOSEF FRANK; RIO TABLE BY $3,200. SVENSKTTENN.COM CHARLOTTE PERRIAND; $10,310 AS SHOWN. CASSINA.COM PRODUCED BY MADELINE O’MALLEY
LE CORBUSIER DOTS WALL THE KIDS’ BATH HAS A COVERING; TO THE TRADE. CUSTOM TILE PATTERN INSPIRED ARTE-INTERNATIONAL.COM BY ALEXANDER GIRARD USING McINTYRE TILE. WORLD-BRIDGE ROUND PILLOW; PRICE UPON REQUEST. CH-HERRERO.COM OBJECT OF DEVOTION MR. COLD SOAP LAMP BY DOSHI LEVIEN DISPENSER BY MASSIMO GIACON FOR GALERIE KREO; FOR ALESSI; $44. PRICE UPON REQUEST. ALESSI.COM GALERIEKREO.COM I like pieces that have a strong story behind them.” AFRICAN EMBROIDERY PILLOW; $1,250. PATMCGANNGALLERY.COM A GIUSEPPE RIVADOSSI CABINET STANDS AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS IN THE THIRD-FLOOR LIVING ROOM. OSCAR NIEMEYER CHAISE LONGUE BY ESPASSO. PAINTING BY COLIN HUNT. DRENTHE HEATH THROW BY CLAUDY JONGSTRA FOR MAHARAM; $4,800. 1STDIBS.COM UA1 (NARROW MISS) BY MISHA KAHN; PRICE UPON REQUEST. FRIEDMANBENDA.COM HONORE MEDIA CONSOLE BY ATHENA CALDERONE FOR CRATE & BARREL; $2,299. CRATEAND BARREL.COM AR C H DI G E S T. CO M 47
DOUBLE ART: KEFA MEMEH. HAIR BY JAMIKA WILSON AT EPIPHANY ARTIST GROUP, INC.; MAKEUP BY SERGIO LOPEZ-RIVERA AT CLOUTIER REMIX. FEATURE THE ENTRY TO THE HOME, WITH A PEEK AT THE AGOJIE WARRIOR SCULPTURE ACQUIRED IN CAPE TOWN. LANDSCAPE DESIGN BY RTR, RAY MARTINEZ, AND DESIGNERS VIEWS. OPPOSITE DAVIS (WEARING A TORY BURCH DRESS AND MISHO EARRINGS) AND TENNON IN THE GARDEN. FASHION STYLING BY ELIZABETH STEWART. ★ EXCLUSIVE VIDEO VIOLA DAVIS AND JULIUS TENNON AT HOME, ARCHDIGEST.COM.
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