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92
A BEDROOM IN A
HISTORIC SAN FRANCISCO
RESIDENCE REVAMPED
BY PETER MARINO.

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The names to know now:
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all the most mod living rooms. design returns with 22 first-
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33 Discoveries 92 Bay Watch

AD visits Giancarlo Valle’s Peter Marino teaches a historic
Manhattan atelier... Our favorite San Francisco residence
flatware and placemats for dreamy new tricks. BY MITCHELL OWENS
A SAN FRANCISCO HOME’S tablescapes... Glass maestro
COURTYARD. “BAY WATCH,” Alison Berger’s collection for
PAGE 92. PHOTOGRAPHY BY
DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN. RH... and more!

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116
A PATMOS GETAWAY
SPEARHEADED
BY JOHN STEFANIDIS.

106
THE ALCOVE OFFICE
IN A PARIS APARTMENT
DESIGNED BY PIERRE
YOVANOVITCH.

106 Living Legend

Pierre Yovanovitch gives Jean-
Michel Frank’s former apartment
a spectacular new lease on life.
BY DANA THOMAS
FOLLOW @ARCHDIGEST

116 Rainbow Connection

John Stefanidis revives a once-
neutral retreat on Patmos with a
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1. FRANÇOIS HALARD. 2. SIMON UPTON. 3. STEPHEN KENT JOHNSON. 4. COURTESY OF NEW STORY CHARITY.
2
3
1. THE TERRACE OF A PARISIAN
FLAT ONCE INHABITED BY JEAN-
MICHEL FRANK AND UPDATED BY
PIERRE YOVANOVITCH. 2. A BED-
ROOM DECORATED BY JOY MOYLER
IN AN ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE
KNOWN AS “THE OLD BARN.”
3. A SPARE SHOWER DESIGNED BY
STUDIO SHAMSHIRI WITH ARCHI-
TECT MARMOL RADZINER. 4. A VIEW
OF THE NEARLY COMPLETED AD
VILLAGE IN HAITI, BUILT WITH
SUPPORT FROM OUR HONOREES.
5. IN THE DALLAS SHOWROOM OF
AD100 DESIGNER JAN SHOWERS.
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“Jean-Michel Frank was the apostle of minimalism.

He was an authority who broke many barriers,
changed the aesthetic, and still inspires many
80 years on—including me.” —Pierre Yovanovitch
Meriting a spot on the annual AD100 list is an intensely desired honor among archi- 4
tects, interior designers, and landscape designers. I contend that whether a profes-
sional lands on it once in their career or several times, it is like being an Oscar winner:
Once AD100, always AD100. No one can—or should!—win every year. The editors of
AD worked more purposefully than ever on our 2021 list. We keenly felt that this year’s
list should reflect the depth and diversity of talent in the U.S. and internationally.
I hope that readers will find it inspiring and full of the sense of promise and discovery
that talents both familiar and fresh bring to our industry. Familiar is Hall of Fame
architect/designer Peter Marino, who orchestrated a sensational update of a storied
San Francisco mansion, while sensitively preserving features like the extraordinary
courtyard pictured on our cover. “My philosophy is original plus modern,” says Marino
pithily of his style, which might also describe AD100 talent Pierre Yovanovitch’s
approach to the challenge of tackling the onetime home of legendary French designer
Jean-Michel Frank. “I had to find the essence of Frank’s
5
work, yet make it actual,” he says. “To respect the history,
yet evolve.” Speaking of merging past and present, interior
designer Joy Moyler (making her AD100 debut) did so
with great skill in a grand British residence once decorated
by Renzo Mongiardino. “My brief was simple: to freshen the
place up for a young family but to retain the essence of an
English country house,” says Moyler modestly. Nothing speaks
to the awesome power of our esteemed AD100 more than the
AD Village, pictured, nearing completion in Haiti. Produced in
partnership with New Story, with donations from so many,
including generous honorees, this community will shelter 100 AMY ASTLEY
deserving families. Congratulations to four decades of AD100 Editor in Chief
luminaries, making the world more beautiful in every way. @amyastley

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THE BEST IN SHOPPING, DESIGN, AND STYLE EDITED BY SAM COCHRAN

AD100 DESIGNER
GIANCARLO VALLE WITH
MODELS OF CURRENT
PROJECTS AT HIS NEW
YORK CITY STUDIO;
THE WALL PANELS ARE
DEDAR VELVET.

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Studio Craft
From his Manhattan atelier, AD100 designer
Giancarlo Valle carves out his own niche
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 DISCOVERIES 1

1. VINTAGE FRENCH ELM CHAIRS MINGLE WITH

VALLE’S TABLE STOOL AND VISO ROOM SCREEN.
2. MINI FURNISHINGS AT ARM’S REACH.
3. CAST-BRONZE EXPERIMENTS; THE LINEN-WRAPPED
COCKTAIL TABLE ONCE BELONGED TO MARIO BUATTA.

S
tepping inside Giancarlo Valle’s Manhattan stu-
dio, one can feel a bit like Alice in Wonderland.
A quick look around the Chinatown loft reveals a
spellbinding cache of tiny furniture and homes—
models for the AD100 designer’s impressive
slate of current work. A maquette for a West
Village town-house renovation shows an exquisite bathroom
wrapped in end-grain oakwood. A rustic structure captures
the country-home concept he is hatching with Green River
Project. And a cylindrical model hints at the daring powder
room he’s creating for a ground-up Craftsman-style cottage in
Carmel, California, his most significant commission to date.
“We carve out all the windows, all the human-scale elements, 3

all the furniture,” explains Valle, noting that the architecture

program at Princeton, where he got his master’s, emphasized
model making. “When you see everything in context, you
realize if something doesn’t make sense. There’s a fluidity “There’s a fluidity between
between the architecture and the furniture.” the architecture and the
furniture.” —Giancarlo Valle
That it’s-all-connected approach has become a calling card
for his namesake studio, which he founded in 2016 after stints

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1. ARCHITECTURAL MODELS (AMONG THEM A CYLINDRICAL POWDER ROOM DESTINED FOR CALIFORNIA) AND FURNITURE PROTOTYPES
FILL THE WORKROOM. 2. VALLE’S PUFF CHAIR AND STUMP SERIES; THE VASE IS BY MATT MERKEL HESS.

at SHoP and Snøhetta. “A house is a city, and a city is a house,”

muses Valle, paraphrasing the Dutch Structuralist architect
Aldo van Eyck. “I like the idea that there’s a scaleless-ness to
the way we approach design.” In the spirit of legends like
Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe,
Valle layers his spaces with sculptural, often sinuous furniture
of his own design, realized versions of which fill his atelier.
Chunky perches like his velvet-and-brass Stump series, crowd-
pleasing Smile seats, and wood Folk dining chairs capture his
evolving point of view, an aesthetic that feels simultaneously
postmodern and primitive, playful and pared-back.
Thanks to the support of clients like artist Marilyn Minter,
hotelier Kevin Wendle, and fashion designer Joseph Altuzarra,
Valle’s young practice continues to expand, allowing him to
collaborate with master artisans on increasingly ambitious ideas.
For that Carmel cottage, he commissioned a Swedish ceramist
who specializes in traditional tiled stoves to create a pizza oven.
For a pavilion in Mexico City, meanwhile, he tapped the local
design duo Tezontle Studio to cast exterior columns in a stone-
concrete mixture inspired by vernacular architecture. “I think
a lot about Pierre Chareau and Jean Lurçat,” says Valle, noting
that the French designer and tapestry artist collaborated
frequently in the early 20th century. “That is what I look for.
People who have a specialization, a point of view, but are open
to doing something new.” giancarlovalle.com —HANNAH MARTIN

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Glass maestro Alison Berger
lights a bold new path with her
first collections for RH

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lot of what I do is a leap of faith,” says Alison Berger, a
celebrated Los Angeles–based artist known for manipu-
lating glass into one-of-kind lighting, furnishings, and
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recently, is uncharted creative territory. Berger is now debuting a series
of collections for RH—arguably her most ambitious project to date and
a radical departure from her atelier practice.
“I had never seriously thought about not making something in my
own studio,” recalls Berger, who has created bespoke pieces for the
home-furnishings company Holly Hunt for more than 20 years. In 2017,
however, a chance encounter with RH chairman and CEO Gary Friedman
at a West Hollywood café sent her gears turning. In the months that
followed, the two visited each other’s workspaces, eventually leading
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—Alison Berger
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ity of frozen slabs. “Glass,” Berger emphasizes,

“is so chameleonlike.”
Science and spirituality also reverberate
through the collections. Riffing on scales and
harmony, Fulcrum lighting features large cloches,
inside of which nest cylinders, with spheres below

INTERIOR: TY COLE. ALL OTHERS: COURTESY OF RH.

mirrors elicits equal awe. She likens them to apertures, whose frame-
works each bear a glass lens that pivots on its axis, as if some telescopic
device. Look closely, she notes, and you can see space reflected. “It’s
another opening, a room within a room.”
All the pieces, in fact, were conceived to support one another,
working in concert as individually resolved works to achieve a larger
4 equilibrium. And like sculptures, they are meant to be experienced
from multiple perspectives, as well as throughout the day, their innate
qualities seemingly shifting hour to hour. “At some moments the sun
will hit them and they’ll glow, and at others they’ll recede,” says Berger.
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 In the world of design and architecture,
no list is held in higher esteem than the
AD100, now entering its fourth decade.
This year, 22 firms from around the
globe make their first appearances here.
These are the names to know now!

Terremoto LOS ANGELES AND SAN FRANCISCO

Principals David Godshall and Alain Peauroi founded their
burgeoning landscape-design firm with a simple premise:
“We wanted to create projects that are about ideas and
philosophy—gardens as an expression of culture,” explains
Godshall, who oversees the company’s Los Angeles operation
in Echo Park while Peauroi directs the San Francisco office.
Terremoto is currently working its magic at California’s famed
Sea Ranch Lodge, Two Bunch Palms in Desert Hot Springs,
and The Native hotel in Malibu. On the residential side, they

2021
are creating gardens for Mandy Moore, Devendra Banhart,
YE RIN MOK

and a host of other boldface names. terremoto.la

Terremoto principals David Godshall and Alain Peauroi

(center) with their team at Platform Park in Culver City,
one of the firm’s recent projects.
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Joy Moyler Interiors

NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK
PORTRAIT: COURTNEY YATES. CUP: NICK CARTER.

“Classic and crisp with a modern vibe” is Moyler’s take on the

chic style that she’s developed after working in the offices of
John Saladino and Thierry Despont, as well as what she calls
“Ralph Lauren University.” The multi-hyphenate (artist, designer,
activist, columnist, and host of the Instagram talk show “High
Tea With Joy: Brew It. Pour It. Spill It.”) counts socialite Pia Getty,
actor Leonardo DiCaprio, and chef Thomas Keller among her
clients, and she’s also responsible for the resplendent decor of
the Raevo Golf & Country Club, just outside Moscow. A tabletop
collection is scheduled for 2021. joymoylerinteriors.com

Joy Moyler at home in New Rochelle, New York. Moyler’s Beresford cup and saucer; $67. joymoyleratelier.com

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 DEBUT 5 Sólidos See page 72.
Adjaye Associates LONDON, NEW YORK, AND ACCRA, GHANA
Highlight: Sir David Adjaye will be awarded the 2021 Royal
Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
adjaye.com
Amy Lau Design NEW YORK In the works: Two wall-covering lines
for Fromental; bespoke carpets with Kyle Bunting; a luxe
cashmere collection for Azadi Fine Rugs. amylaudesign.com
The Archers LOS ANGELES Projects: A Brentwood residence
inspired by Henri Samuel; a Hollywood Hills guesthouse
furnished in “1980s neo-Pompeiian style.” team-archers.com
ASH NYC NEW YORK In the works: The firm’s fourth hotel,
in Baltimore. ashnyc.com
Ashe Leandro NEW YORK In the works: New furniture for
WORKac NEW YORK Ruemmler; a monograph; homes in CT, Martha’s Vineyard,
Research, social engagement, and optimism are all at the heart of this progressive and East Hampton. asheleandro.com
studio, founded by husband-and-wife partners Dan Wood and Amale Andraos. Atelier AM LOS ANGELES Projects: Restoring a Frank Gehry
“Architects are uniquely capable of tackling today’s most pressing issues,” notes house in Malibu, a 1940s Georgian in Dallas, and a 1930s
Andraos, dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, French Norman manse in the Hamptons. atelieram.com
and Preservation. In Miami, the firm’s façade for a parking garage doubles as an
interactive work of art. At RISD, their 2019 renovation of the student center features DEBUT Atelier Masōmī See page 52.
a gender-neutral bathroom, among the first of its kind. In New York City, their Backen & Gillam Architects ST. HELENA AND SAUSALITO, CALIFORNIA
collaborations with the Edible Schoolyard Project have helped introduce organic Projects: An eco-sensitive resort in Northern California; the
farming to local students. Projects in the works include the Brooklyn Public Library’s revamp of Napa Valley’s Meadowood Resort & Spa; new Soho
first new branch in more than 35 years. Says Wood: “Architects in the future will House locations around the Golden State. bgarch.com
again reengage with cities, especially now, when the issues facing the world are Beata Heuman LONDON Coming soon: Every Room Should Sing,
so big.” work.ac to be published by Rizzoli in March. beataheuman.com
BIG—Bjarke Ingels Group COPENHAGEN, LONDON, BROOKLYN,
AND BARCELONA Current: Projects around the world—and on the
moon. Highlight: Ingels’s own Copenhagen houseboat was
published in AD’s November 2020 issue. big.dk
Billy Cotton NEW YORK Projects: Residences from New York to
California. Notable clients: Artists Cindy Sherman, Lisa
Yuskavage, and Carol Bove. billycotton.com
DEBUT Bories & Shearron Architecture See page 68.
Cafiero Select NEW YORK Highlight: David Cafiero’s work on
TV impresario Ryan Murphy’s NYC town house was published
in AD’s June 2020 issue. cafieroselect.com
DEBUT Casiraghi Architecture d’Interieur See page 54.
DEBUT Charlap Hyman & Herrero See page 70.
Charles & Co. NEW YORK Projects: Hotels in Las Vegas and
the French Alps; a Wall Street restaurant in New York City;
several Brooklyn brownstones. charlesandco.com
WORKAC: JEREMY LIEBMAN. KRAVITZ: SIMON UPTON.

Kravitz Design NEW YORK

Lenny Kravitz is as passionate about design as he is about music. Since founding
his namesake creative studio in 2003, the rock legend has applied his Midas touch
to a broad array of stunning homes and hospitality projects around the world, each
one meticulously keyed to the exigencies of site and context. His product designs for
corporate clients on the order of Steinway & Sons (AD, November 2020), Dom
Pérignon, Leica Camera, and CB2 likewise embody the musician’s signature aesthetic,
which fuses the gravitas of historical archetypes with rhapsodic contemporary
glamour. Are you gonna go his way? kravitzdesign.com

From top: Amale Andraos and Dan Wood of WORKac at one of their commissions, the Kew Gardens
Hills Library in Queens, New York. Lenny Kravitz in his self-designed compound outside Rio de Janeiro.

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The frameless insulated sliding doors by Swiss manufacturer Sky-Frame blend naturally
into their surroundings, creating a seamless continuity between indoors and outdoors and
blurring the line between where the living space ends and the view begins. SKY-FRAME.COM
 Charles de Lisle SAUSALITO, CALIFORNIA Ethos: “We love a
good story and always want all of our projects to be about
experience.” charlesdelisle.com
Clements Design LOS ANGELES Projects: Renovations of a
Atelier Masōmī 1930s Wallace Neff home in Beverly Hills and a 1940s
Cliff May house in Pacific Palisades. clementsdesign.com
NIAMEY, NIGER Commune Design LOS ANGELES In the works: Hotels in Honolulu,
Sustainability is the guiding principle behind Atelier Masōmī, Seattle, and Poughkeepsie, NY. Highlight: Publication of
an architecture firm based in Niamey, Niger, that focuses Design Commune (Abrams). communedesign.com
on progressive community-minded projects. For the Niamey DEBUT Corey Damen Jenkins & Associates See page 64.
Cultural Center, founder Mariam Kamara—a protégée of
Sir David Adjaye through a fellowship sponsored by Rolex— Dan Fink Studio NEW YORK Projects: Homes in New York City,
is prioritizing ecological solutions such as local materials, Westport, CT, and San Francisco, as well as the redesign of
rainwater harvesting, and solar energy. She aims to promote several of the famed private apartments within NYC’s
the long-term socioeconomic health of the populations legendary Carlyle hotel. danfinkstudio.com
for which she designs, keeping in mind individuals’ privacy, Daniel Romualdez Architects NEW YORK Known for: Timeless
livelihood, and safety. “Architects have an important role architecture and interiors for glamorous clientele around
to play in creating spaces that have the power to elevate, the world. 212-989-8429
dignify, and provide a better quality of life,” Kamara says.
ateliermasomi.com Darryl Carter Inc. WASHINGTON, D.C. Known for: Warm neutrals,
vintage and antique finds, sophisticated and welcoming
spaces. Products: Lines with Baker furniture and the Urban
Electric Co. darrylcarter.com
Deborah Berke Partners NEW YORK In the works: New commissions
for Brown University, the University of Virginia, and private
residences in New York City, the Hamptons, and across the
Northeast. dberke.com
Diller Scofidio + Renfro NEW YORK Recently completed:
U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs.
In the works: The Tianjin Juilliard School, Tianjin, China;
Columbia University business school, New York City; V&A
East Collection and Research Centre, London. dsrny.com
Dimorestudio MILAN Projects: The Arts Club Dubai; Villa
Sheherezade, Dubrovnik, Croatia; Langosteria Cucina, Milan;
an apartment in New York. dimorestudio.eu
Drake/Anderson NEW YORK Projects: Homes ranging from New
York City apartments to a modernist house in Deer Valley, UT.
Products: Hardware for SA Baxter. drakeanderson.com
Elizabeth Roberts Architects BROOKLYN Projects: Renovations
of historic homes in and out of New York City. Products: Mohair
rugs and furniture with Radnor. elizabethroberts.com
DEBUT Elliott Barnes Interiors See page 54.
DEBUT ETC.etera See page 58.
Fox-Nahem Associates NEW YORK Ethos: “Listen to your clients,
but don’t be afraid to expand the dialogue and approach the
unexpected.” foxnahem.com
Francis Sultana LONDON Projects: Residences from New York
to the French countryside; a London jewelry shop; a company
headquarters in Monaco. francissultana.com
Frank de Biasi for Odeon Decoration NEW YORK AND TANGIER,
MOROCCO In the works: Residences in New York City, Palm Beach,
Southampton, New York, and Tangier. frankdebiasi.com
G.P. Schafer Architect NEW YORK Projects: Residences
from San Francisco to Block Island, RI, in collaboration
with designers Thomas Jayne, Rita Konig, Miles Redd,
Tom Scheerer, and Bunny Williams. gpschafer.com
ATELIER MASŌMĪ

Atelier Masōmı̄ principal Mariam Kamara at her home in Providence.

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O t ti Chaises shown with Zigis, 9’ Oc tagonal Umbrellas

and Rover Umbrella Stands. Cushions and umbrellas by Perennials.
sutherlandfurniture.com | perennials fabric s.com
 Elliott Barnes Interiors PARIS
An American in Paris, Barnes honed his craft with the late design legend Andrée
Putman, serving as director of the firm before founding his own office in 2004.
The Cornell University graduate deftly balances residential work with hotel projects,
from The Ritz Carlton to classical Parisian maisons to the home of Argentine
soccer star Javier Pastore. His next unveiling will be a reimagining of Paris’s chic
jewel auberge Hôtel Daniel. Barnes describes his refined, worldly style as “the
elegant handling of light and unexpected and noble materials, which confers upon
unique and exclusive spaces an innovative approach to luxury.” ebinteriors.com

Casiraghi Architecture d’Intérieur PARIS

Since cutting his teeth at Dimorestudio in Milan, the Italian-born, Paris-based
Fabrizio Casiraghi has crafted an intoxicating body of work that manages to both

BARNES: DIDIER DELMAS. CASIRAGHI: CERRUTI DRAIME. BROOKS: KEVIN MIYAZAKI.

respect and rewrite history: stores for fashion brand Kenzo and candlemaker Cire
Trudon, a masterly renovation of Paris’s famed Drouant restaurant, and boutique
hotels in jet-set locales. A grand Parisian apartment he appointed with skirted
yellow sofas and bronze painted-filigree plasterwork set the internet in overdrive
(AD, June 2020). Casiraghi likens his style to “a bewitching harmony tinged
with African and Asian references.” And there’s more on the horizon: A furniture
collection will debut early this year. fabriziocasiraghi.com

Tiffany Brooks Interiors CHICAGO

“If you ever want design advice, don’t ask your neighbors,” designer Tiffany Brooks
says. The suggestion, by someone who possesses a personal preference for
rooms that are “classic with a twist,” indicates Brooks’s well-earned confidence.
It makes sense. The Illinois-based designer, who studied business administration
and worked in high-end residential-property management, juggles running her
own business with frequent appearances on HGTV. (Interestingly, Brooks got her
2013 start on the network by winning HGTV Design Star.) Flash-forward to today,
and Brooks’s growing roster of clients includes the likes of LeBron James and other
superstar celebrities. tiffanybrooksinteriors.com

Clockwise from top left: Elliott Barnes and Fabrizio Casiraghi at projects they spearheaded in France.
Tiffany Brooks in her Chicago-area studio.

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 Gachot NEW YORK In the works: The first Pendry Hotels location
in New York City; a town-house bar near Rockefeller Center;
residences throughout downtown NYC; and additions to the
firm’s collection for Waterworks. gachotstudios.com
DEBUT Hood Design Studio See page 66.
DEBUT Höweler + Yoon Architecture See page 64.
Jan Showers & Associates DALLAS Highlights: Showers
published her third book, Glamorous Living (Abrams);
cochaired the inaugural Kips Bay Decorator Show House
Dallas; and prepared her second fabric collection for
Kravet Couture. janshowers.com
Jeffrey Bilhuber NEW YORK Products: Printed fabrics with
Le Gracieux; decorative hardware with P.E. Guerin; lighting
and accessories with The Lacquer Company; and a
forthcoming collection of rugs for Stark. bilhuber.com
Joseph Dirand Architecture PARIS In the works: Converting
the former U.S. Embassy in London’s Grosvenor Square—
originally designed by Eero Saarinen—into a luxury
Rosewood hotel in collaboration with David Chipperfield.
josephdirand.com
DEBUT Joy Moyler Interiors See page 48.
Julie Hillman Design NEW YORK Projects: Residences throughout
Manhattan, a Miami waterfront home, a yacht, and many
more. juliehillman.com
Kelly Behun Studio NEW YORK Ethos: “Always listening, learning,
evolving.” Products: Rugs for The Rug Company; lighting for
Hudson Valley Lighting; outdoor furniture for The Invisible
Collection. kellybehun.com
Ken Fulk Inc. NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO Products: Collaborations
with Pierre Frey, The Rug Company, and the Urban Electric Co.;
a capsule collection of hats with Nick Fouquet; one-of-a-kind
Sheila Bridges Design NEW YORK pieces with artist Ashley Longshore. kenfulk.com
“Good design should tell a story,” Bridges explains. Thus, her portfolio of personal Kéré Architecture BERLIN In the works: Goethe-Institut in Dakar,
narratives for living: eclectic and worldly rooms that are also “thoughtful, timeless, Senegal; the new National Assembly building for Benin.
and functional.” An alumna of Brown University, Parsons School of Design, and Italy’s kere-architecture.com
august Polimoda fashion school, the Philadelphia native and part-time Reykjavík DEBUT Kravitz Design See page 50.
resident has put her stamp on products, too, notably Harlem Toile, a hallmark pattern
that puts a bracing African American twist on the traditional French fabric and Laplace PARIS Recently completed: A café in Montreal’s Holt
has been transmuted into wallpaper, fabric, and clothing, notably an October 2020 Renfrew Ogilvy department store; the renovation of Lévy
collaboration with Converse and Union Los Angeles. sheilabridges.com Gorvy’s gallery in Paris’s Marais. Coming soon: Two projects
for Hauser & Wirth, a branch on Menorca, Spain, and a farm
shop in Somerset, England. luislaplace.com
DEBUT Leyden Lewis Design Studio See page 62.
Madison Cox Associates NEW YORK Projects: Landscapes for
Delphine Arnault and Xavier Niel, Diane von Furstenberg,
Henry and Marie-Josée Kravis, Stavros Niarchos, Ian Schrager, PORTRAIT: FRANK FRANCES. BENCH: COURTESY OF THE INSIDE.
and Mark Fletcher and Tobias Meyer. madisoncox.com
DEBUT Mark D. Sikes See page 72.
Mark Hampton LLC NEW YORK Ethos: “To make interiors that
reflect my clients’ interests, facilitate intelligent living, and
amplify their pleasure in being at home,” says Alexa Hampton.
Products: New furniture for Theodore Alexander and bedding
for Eastern Accents. alexahampton.com
Markham Roberts Inc. NEW YORK Highlight: Publication of
Markham Roberts, Notes on Decorating (Vendome Press)
this past September. markhamroberts.com
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From top: Sheila Bridges at a residence she designed in Bedford, New York. Bridges’s X Bench
in her Envy Harlem Toile de Jouy; $329. theinside.com

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 Patrick Mele
GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT
“Buy what you love. Look to the past,
not to trends. Take risks, and have fun
along the way.” These are just a few
guiding design principles of the Ralph
Lauren alum, whom clients adore for his
dizzying mash-ups of color and pattern.
Think: a leopard-print sofa set against a
wall sheathed in burgundy damask. With
an eye to the great decorators of yore,
Mele brings his happy-go-lucky touch to
a range of residential projects that
include a family home in Connecticut,
a stone-and-shingle barn in the Hudson
Valley, and a 1950s home in Palm Springs.
Mele also runs a home goods shop in
Greenwich, Connecticut, and has a new
line of ceramics and tableware with
potter Nicholas Newcomb. Collections
with Adelphi Paper Hangings and
Rosebank Fabrics are in the works.
patrickmele.com

MELE: ELLEN MCDERMOTT. ETC.ETERA: HAMISH ROBERTSON.

ETC.etera LOS ANGELES

Partners Sally Breer and Jake Rodehuth-Harrison are leading
the charge in the youthquake transforming design culture
in Los Angeles. Their credo—“We are serious about our work,
but not ourselves!”—hints at the playful, irreverent spirit that
animates their interiors for private residences and boutique
hospitality venues across Southern California, including
homes for the likes of Donald Glover, Katy Perry, Justin Lin,
Zooey Deschanel, Martha Plimpton, and Alan Yang. “Any
truly successful design,” they say, “is equal parts form and
function—and hopefully a little bit of magic.” etcforshort.com

From top: Patrick Mele at his shop in Greenwich, Connecticut. ETC.etera’s Jake Rodehuth-Harrison
and Sally Breer pictured at Breer’s own home in L.A.

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 Martin Brudnizki Design Studio LONDON AND NEW YORK
Projects: Fortnum & Mason’s new Hong Kong outpost; a Paris
restaurant; Brudnizki’s own country house in West Sussex,
England. mbds.com
Martyn Lawrence Bullard Design LOS ANGELES In the works:
Residences for RuPaul, Gwen Stefani, Ellen Pompeo, and
Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber. Products: New collections
with The Shade Store, Ann Sacks, and Hudson Valley
Lighting. martynlawrencebullard.com
MASS Design Group BOSTON Known for: Powerful and humane
architecture that pays attention to the cultural context and
social needs of the local communities. massdesigngroup.org
Michelle Nussbaumer Design DALLAS Ethos: “To create
authentic interiors based in history and research that are
functional and livable for the modern world.”
michellenussbaumer.com
Miranda Brooks Landscape Design NEW YORK Projects:
Residences in Wiltshire, England; Martha’s Vineyard; and
Ojai, CA. mirandabrooks.com
Monique Gibson Interior Design NEW YORK In the works:
Revamping an apartment for an NBA player first done
20 years ago; a renovation for an empty-nester rock star
and his wife; a Wyoming ranch for a bachelor and his dog.
moniquegibson.com
Nate Berkus Associates CHICAGO, LOS ANGELES, AND NEW YORK
A roller-shade collection for The Shade Store.
In the works: Berkus’s return to television; a new Nate + Jeremiah
for Living Spaces collection. nateberkus.com
DEBUT Nicole Hollis See page 68.
Oliver M. Furth Design & Decoration LOS ANGELES
In the works: Some 20 residential projects in L.A. and beyond.
Highlight: Furth’s work with artist Mary Weatherford was
published in AD’s December 2020 issue. olivermfurth.com
Olson Kundig SEATTLE Highlight: Principal Tom Kundig’s latest
monograph, Working Title (Princeton Architectural Press),
published last June. olsonkundig.com
DEBUT Patrick Mele See page 58.
Peter Pennoyer Architects NEW YORK AND MIAMI Projects: A new
residential apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper East
Side; a horse farm in Kentucky; the restoration of a historic
Victorian villa on the North Shore of Long Island. ppapc.com
Pierce & Ward LOS ANGELES AND NASHVILLE Highlight: A Tale of
Interiors (Rizzoli) showcases work for clients like Brie Larson,
Leonardo DiCaprio, Josh Brolin, Kate Hudson, Karen Elson,
and Dakota Johnson (AD, April 2020). pierceandward.com
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ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES

Rafael de Cárdenas Ltd. NEW YORK News: Cárdenas joined

the board of the Design Leadership Foundation, a new
nonprofit seeking to address systemic inequities within the
field of design, with a particular focus on supporting design
IN TOP FORM education for young people of color. rafaeldecardenas.com
DEBUT Reath Design See page 70.

Dawn 2 rug by Deborah Berke Partners for Warp & Weft (price upon request; warpandweft.com); Walter
chair by Vincent Van Duysen for Molteni&C ($3,970; molteni.it); Cartagena fabric by Michelle Nussbaumer
for Clarence House (to the trade; clarencehouse.com); Oscar cigarette table by Jan Showers Collection
(to the trade; janshowers.com).
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Design Studio BROOKLYN
Leyden Lewis has “a passion for creating
theater for living,” as the designer puts it.
That’s no huge surprise, given that the
Brooklyn-based Parsons School of Design
alum is something of an aesthetic-world
triple threat: Trained as an architectural
designer, the decorator also has a proven
track record as a fine artist. It’s that latter
pursuit that contributes to his general
appreciation for contemporary paintings
DAVID A. LAND, ARTWORK: CLARITY HAYNES.

and sculpture, which is a consistent, and

occasionally colorful, thread throughout
his interiors. With his slew of New York
projects on the horizon—from a Crown
Heights home to a Meatpacking District
duplex—the city’s five boroughs are a
perfect canvas on which Lewis can realize
his vision of creating “fluid integration
between life and art.” leydenlewis.com

Leyden Lewis in his Brooklyn loft.

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& Associates
BIRMINGHAM, MICHIGAN, AND NEW YORK
Corey Damen Jenkins fashions rooms for exuberant living—
tantalizing colors, playful patterns, a magpie mélange. “I
would define my design philosophy as new maximalist: a bold,
Continental mix of elegance and modernity,” says the Detroit
native. “My ultimate goal is to ensure that my clients’ homes
are always classic, livable, and without an expiration date.”
Damen Jenkins’s own success story is made for television: He
landed his first project after going door-to-door in Michigan
during the recession of 2009 (“I literally knocked on 779 doors
in the dead of winter”). Upon posting the completed photos
to his website, he was recruited by HGTV, where audiences
voted him winner of the network’s design competition series.
His expansive body of work will soon be celebrated in the
monograph Design Remix: A New Spin on Traditional Rooms,
to be published by Rizzoli this spring. coreydamenjenkins.com

Höweler + Yoon Architecture

BOSTON
“We strive to do work that is formally and technologically
innovative, socially engaged, and conceptually rigorous.”
So say Eric Höweler and J. Meejin Yoon, the husband-and-
wife duo behind this cutting-edge architecture practice and
creative studio. (She is also the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean JENKINS: MEGHAN MARIN. HÖWELER + YOON: TONY LUONG.

of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University.) “Our

projects ask how design fits within contemporary culture,
how it can affect behavioral and social norms, and how it can
produce a sense of place or create environmental awareness.”
Last year, they completed the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers
at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville—a ring of granite
that invites gatherings and reflection while paying homage
to the estimated 4,000 enslaved persons who built and worked
on the campus. Like many of the firm’s projects, which range
from public parks to private residences, it was designed
in collaboration with the local community. “We seek to enable
public participation and engagement as a form of collective
practice, and expand the scope of design beyond traditional
disciplinary boundaries.” howeleryoon.com

From top: Corey Damen Jenkins in a living room he conceived in Summit, New Jersey. Eric H2weler
and J. Meejin Yoon with the exterior panels for a new apartment building they designed in Boston.

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 Redd Kaihoi NEW YORK Coming soon: New collections for
Schumacher, the Lacquer Company, and Ballard Designs.
Projects: Residences in Palm Beach, Florida; Tuxedo Park,
New York; Los Angeles; Monaco; and the Bahamas.
Hood Design Studio reddkaihoi.com
Robert Stilin EAST HAMPTON AND NEW YORK Projects: A modernist
OAKLAND farm in Connecticut; a shingle-style house in the Hamptons;
an executive office in Seattle; an oceanfront estate in Palm
Hood Design Studio’s artful landscapes for underserved
Beach, Florida; a Tribeca penthouse; and a contemporary
communities and venerable cultural institutions, including the
compound in Los Angeles. robertstilin.com
Cooper Hewitt and the Broad Museum, are deeply researched—
speaking to the history and topography of the site, as well as Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors NEW YORK
the people who visit and inhabit it. While site sensitivity is Highlight: The firm’s transformation of the British Galleries at
always top of mind, creative director and founder Walter Hood New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in March
isn’t afraid to introduce playful surprises, whether through to widespread acclaim. romanandwilliams.com
conversation-starting public artworks or unexpected forms. Romanek Design Studio LOS ANGELES In the works: Houses for
The 2019 MacArthur Fellow “Genius Grant” and Dorothy and Gwyneth Paltrow in Montecito, California; Demi Moore in
Lillian Gish Prize recipient coauthored the groundbreaking new Idaho; Molly Sims in the Hamptons; music exec Ryan Press
book Black Landscapes Matter (University of Virginia Press). in Chatsworth, California; and Kelly Rowland in L.A.
On the horizon? Hood is contributing a newly commissioned romanekdesignstudio.com
work to Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in
America (opening at MoMA in February) and his revamp of the RP Miller NEW YORK Projects: Residences in Ontario; Aspen and
grounds at the Oakland Museum of California will be unveiled Snowmass, Colorado; and Ojai, California. News: The firm
later this year. hooddesignstudio.com ran an AGO Projects & Friends pop-up last summer in Aspen.
rpmillerdesign.com
S.R. Gambrel Inc. NEW YORK Product: Ongoing collaborations
with the Urban Electric Co. and the Lacquer Company.
Projects: Residences in London; Miami; Martha’s Vineyard
and Nantucket, Massachusetts; Montana; Wisconsin;
and Malibu, California. srgambrel.com
Sawyer | Berson NEW YORK Projects: A town house in NYC;
an 1850s flat in London; a modern take on a traditional
Adirondack camp; an island oasis in Bermuda; a French-style
villa in Atlanta. sawyerberson.com
Selldorf Architects NEW YORK Recently opened: A new building for
Hauser & Wirth gallery in New York. In the works: The installation
design for The Frick Collection’s temporary move to NYC’s
iconic Breuer building; the renovation of the Museum of
Contemporary Art San Diego. selldorf.com
DEBUT Sheila Bridges Design See page 56.
SheltonMindel NEW YORK Work: Residences from New York
to California. Products: Lee F. Mindel is preparing a collection
for Ralph Pucci. sheltonmindel.com
Stephen Shadley Designs NEW YORK Highlight: The publication
of Designing Hollywood Homes: Movie Houses (Rizzoli),
featuring Shadley’s work for clients like Diane Keaton,
Robert Altman, Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Modine, and
Ryan Murphy (AD, June 2020). stephenshadley.com
Stephen Sills Associates NEW YORK Highlight: Sills’s work on
the NYC apartment of Wes Gordon and Paul Arnhold was
published in AD’s September 2020 issue. stephensills.com
Steven Harris Architects NEW YORK Work: Projects ranging
from a 19-story luxury apartment building on New York’s
Upper East Side to a garage and “man cave” in Burbank,
California. stevenharrisarchitects.com
Studio Gang CHICAGO, NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, AND PARIS
Highlight: Studio Gang: Architecture (Phaidon), published last
spring, is the first book-length review of the firm’s 20-year
KAMERON RICHIE

history of innovative work. studiogang.com

Walter Hood on the grounds of the Oakland Museum of California.

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 Nicole Hollis SAN FRANCISCO
Hollis’s preference is for the boldly spare rather than the
overdressed, conjuring rooms that are “all about form, light, and
shadow.” That doesn’t mean monastic modernism, though. Her
projects can celebrate Moroccan-inflected furniture as much as
luxurious paneling. And custom-made accents that “channel the
spirit of collaboration” are crucial aspects of the designer’s work,
too. See it all in her recently released monograph NicoleHollis:
Curated Interiors (Rizzoli). nicolehollis.com

Bories & Shearron

Architecture NEW YORK
“Good proportion, suitability, and a sense of invention” is the
credo of architect Richard A. Bories and designer James Shearron.
The classically grounded but modern-minded couple have brought
their unerring taste and inspired renovation talents to bear on
memorable projects from a 1930s David Adler masterwork in Lake
Bluff, Illinois, to a 1970s ranch house in Montecito, California,
and a 1901 beach getaway for tastemaking Manhattan shopkeeper
Kate Rheinstein Brodsky (AD, April 2020). boriesandshearron.com

Vincenzo De Cotiis MILAN

Following in the footsteps of Italian maestros like Gio Ponti and
Carlo Scarpa, the Politecnico di Milano–educated De Cotiis works
at the nexus of architecture, interiors, and furniture design, prizing
top-level craftsmanship above all else. His sculptural furnishings
(sold at Carpenters Workshop Gallery) often set the tone for his
interiors, the latest of which include residential projects in Ibiza,
Paris, St. Moritz, and Cyprus, two yachts, and several retail jobs.
When it comes to finding inspiration, De Cotiis says, “I consider
myself omnivorous. I feed on many different stimuli.” decotiis.it

HOLLIS: LAURE JOLIET. BORIES & SHEARRON: LEE BEY. DE COTIIS: OBERTO GILI.

Counterclockwise from top left: Nicole Hollis at home in San Francisco. James Shearron and Richard A. Bories
at the folly they designed for the 2020 Lake Forest Showhouse in Illinois. Vincenzo De Cotiis at one of his
projects outside Milan.
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off. A few years after graduation—Charlap Hyman had worked for Ralph Lauren; Herrero for SANAA, David
Chipperfield Architects, and SO–IL—the interior designer and the architect joined forces. Gallery-design jobs
for Salon 94, Nina Johnson, and Leila Heller led to retail projects (Aesop, Moda Operandi, MZ Wallace) and a
handful of private residences. The duo also curate exhibitions, design opera stage sets, and release product
lines, taking an academic approach to every job and extracting gems of inspiration from dusty corners of
aesthetic history. From a specific room by Jean-Michel Frank to the grotto scene in Luchino Visconti’s 1973
film Ludwig, Charlap Hyman told AD, “our ideas come from all different places.” ch-herrero.com

CHARLAP HYMAN & HERRERO: MARTIEN MULDER. LANTERN: COURTESY OF CHARLAP HYMAN & HERRERO. REATH: LAURE JOLIET.
Reath Design
LOS ANGELES
Firm principal Frances Merrill takes
a narrative approach to design.
“The ultimate goal of every project is
to tell the unique story of the people
who inhabit the space,” says the Los
Angeles–based designer. Her work
is typically characterized by audacious
yet controlled layering of pattern and
color. Rather than artificial bombast,
she strives for warmth, elegance, and
personality. “If a project can hit those
marks and also have a little sense of
humor, all the better,” she insists. Merrill
is currently applying that philosophy
to a Fantasia-inspired remodel of Igor
Stravinsky’s erstwhile L.A. home, as well
as a 1912 beach house in Gloucester,
Massachusetts. reathdesign.com

Clockwise from top left: Adam Charlap Hyman and Andre Herrero with a selection of their
designs for Schumacher. Charlap Hyman & Herrero’s Funghi lantern ($5,800; ch-herrero.com).
Reath Design’s Frances Merrill at her L.A. home.
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City and Litchfield, Connecticut; a boutique hotel in
France. giancarlovalle.com
Studio KO PARIS AND MARRAKECH Work: A brutalist villa in
Casablanca; an apartment in Paris; a penthouse in Hong
Kong; chef Cyril Lignac’s new Paris restaurant. studioko.fr
Studio Peregalli MILAN Projects: Residences in New York City,
London, and Paris; a chalet in Gstaad; villas on Lake Como
and the Mediterranean Sea. studioperegalli.com
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5 Sólidos MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA Studio Volpe SAN FRANCISCO Signature: Inspired environments
that feature significant, cohesive collections of art and design.
The numerical designation in the firm’s name signifies the young Colombian designers’ Coming: A monograph on Steven Volpe’s work from Rizzoli
holistic approach, encompassing interior design, architecture, branding, project this fall. stevenvolpe.com
management, and furniture design. Within each arena, the three principals—Elisa DEBUT Terremoto See page 47.
Ortega, Daniel Correa, and Maria José Fernandez—adhere to a philosophy they describe
as “simplicity and elegance with an edge.” Incorporating the work of local craftspeople DEBUT Tiffany Brooks Interiors See page 54.
alongside that of avant-garde international talents, their projects maintain a distinctly Toshiko Mori Architect NEW YORK Highlight: Mori was honored
Latin identity with boundary-breaking global appeal. Among their clients are reggaeton with the 2020 Louis Auchincloss Prize, presented annually
stars J Balvin (AD, July/August 2020), Nicky Jam, and Tainy. cincosolidos.com by the Museum of the City of New York. tmarch.com
Veere Grenney Associates LONDON Ethos: “Beauty and comfort
should collide.” veeregrenney.com
Victoria Hagan Interiors NEW YORK Projects: Multiple residences
in Palm Beach, Florida; several Los Angeles homes;
an oceanfront compound in the Hamptons. victoriahagan.com
Vincent Van Duysen ANTWERP, BELGIUM Work: Residences in Paris,
Megève, France, and Los Angeles; projects for Loro Piana
in New York City and Milan. Products: Ongoing collaborations
with Molteni&C, Flos, Sutherland, and Serax.
vincentvanduysen.com
DEBUT Vincenzo De Cotiis See page 68.
Virginia Tupker Interiors DARIEN, CONNECTICUT Known for: Pretty,
inviting spaces that draw inspiration from a wide range of
decorative-arts touchstones. virginiatupker.com
Waldo’s Designs LOS ANGELES Signature: High-design yet livable
residences. waldosdesigns.com
WHY LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK Notable clients: Asian Art Museum,
San Francisco; American Museum of Natural History
and Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; Academy Museum
of Motion Pictures, L.A.; Tchaikovsky Academic Opera and
Ballet Theatre, Perm, Russia. why-site.com
DEBUT WORKac See page 50.
5 SÓLIDOS: CAMILO ECHEVERRI. SIKES: JEFF JONES.

Mark D. Sikes LOS ANGELES

Starchy gingham-covered rooms; chunky spongeware; a crisp, striped cushion on a wicker
chair. With his just-so brand of preppy casual, Sikes has become a standard-bearer for
great American design, winning over clients like Reese Witherspoon and Nancy Meyers.
He has injected his signature style (and many a blue-and-white color scheme) into homes
from Nashville to Napa (right now he’s working on projects in Palm Beach, Little Rock,
Dallas, and more), as well as countless product lines. His latest debuts include furniture
for Chaddock Home, lighting for Hudson Valley and Troy, fabrics for Schumacher—and a
new book, More Beautiful: All-American Decoration (Rizzoli). markdsikes.com

From top: Maria José Fernandez, Elisa Ortega, and Daniel Correa of Medellín-based firm 5 Sólidos.
Mark D. Sikes in the room he created for the 2020 Kips Bay Decorator Show House in Dallas.

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 SOUTHEAST ASIAN SCULPTURES ARE DISPLAYED
IN THE COURTYARD OF A 1916 SAN FRANCISCO
HOUSE RENOVATED BY PETER MARINO ARCHITECT.
FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
THE MOROCCAN-STYLE
LOUNGE AT THE REAR OF
THE HOUSE FEATURES
HAND-CARVED WOODWORK,
LEATHER AND STUCCO
PANELS, ZODIAC MIRROR
AND WHITE CHAIR BY
MARK BRAZIER-JONES,
AND BERBER CARPETS.

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96
elieve it not, Peter Marino is an
unabashed romantic. Yes, that
Peter Marino: the AD100 Hall of
Fame architect and designer,
he of the artfully inked epider-
mis, shiny Harley-Davidsons
and Ducatis, and black leather,
biker-chic ensembles. Give the
maestro a historic property
with a star-studded backstory,
and he turns to putty.
“You just sort of gulp,” Marino explains of projects like the
sprawling 1916 San Francisco mansion that he labored on for
more than three years, overhauling its nearly two dozen rooms
for effervescent East Coast transplants with three teenagers,

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two French bulldogs, and a passion for pedigreed real estate.
The husband and wife also possessed phenomenal sangfroid,
accepting with barely a blink the seismic requirements that
demanded gutting the house and driving concrete pilings 30
feet into the ground. “It was a Herculean task,” Marino contin-
ues. “There was no roof, the exterior walls were under board-
ing, and there were no floor slabs. It all looks so pretty now,
but it was painful.” And, he quips with a laugh, “if there’s an
earthquake anywhere in North America, from Vancouver to
Teotihuacán, for God’s sake run here.”
Not only is the house in the city’s Pacific Heights enclave,
one of the most theatrical residences ever conceived by the
genius society architect Willis Polk, the Spanish Renaissance
Revival palacio—wrapped around a two-story courtyard
crowned with a vast glass roof—had long been home to one
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© DAMIEN HIRST AND SCIENCE LTD.
THE MAIN STAIRCASE IS
CROWNED BY A LIGHT
INSTALLATION COMMISSIONED
FROM JOHANNA GRAWUNDER;
A DAMIEN HIRST MEDICINE
CABINET HANGS ON THE
LANDING. OPPOSITE ANOTHER
HIRST HANGS IN THE DINING
ROOM; 18TH-CENTURY
AUSTRIAN FLOOR.

“It’s the most beautiful house

in America,” the owner declares of
her young family’s 1916 mansion.
 ABOVE THE UPPER LEVEL OF THE
COURTYARD. RIGHT THE BUTLER’S
PANTRY, WHERE THE CABINETS
ARE BACKED WITH METAL MESH.

PETER MARINO
AD100 HALL OF FAME

“My philosophy
is original plus
modern,” Peter
Marino says
of his aesthetic
approach.
 ABOVE A WENDELL CASTLE SCULPTURE, DEEP IN THE WOODS, IS FLANKED BY SOUTHEAST ASIAN SCULPTURES IN THE LIVING ROOM;
PHILIPPE HIQUILY SIDE TABLES; ROLAND MELLAN STOOL; CARPETS CUSTOM-MADE BY PETER MARINO ARCHITECT.

of Marino’s friends, Georgette “Dodie” Rosekrans. She was living room’s elegant neoclassical paneling, which looks
a tiny, couture-clad movie-theater heiress, while her husband, straight out of a French hôtel particulier. The only space that
John, was a Spreckels sugar–fortune scion who also manufac- the owners regret having had to deep-six was the Rosekranses’
tured, of all things, Hula Hoops and Frisbees. As for the four- smoking room—concocted by AD100 designer Michael Taylor
story house where they lived from 1979 until their respective and dappled with African sculptures—because the grass-cloth
deaths (his in 2001, hers in 2010), it’s been described, with good wall covering had grown too brittle to salvage.
reason, as the most beautiful house in America. “My philosophy is original plus modern,” says the architect,
comparing his design philosophy to mixing a martini that
PORTRAIT: AMY LOMBARD

THE NEW OWNERS snapped it up nine years ago and then looks classic but isn’t. “The tradition is the gin, the completely
handed it over to an agog Marino, who had also decorated modern touches are the vermouth, and the spice, often the
their former Manhattan residence. Sensitive to the San art, is the olive, a little piquant thing but the thing most people
Francisco structure and its history, Marino carefully preserved notice.” Consider the so-called loggia, a library where Polk’s
the courtyard and other exceptional original features that deeply coffered ceiling—its zodiacal motifs sensitively refreshed—
would be reused in the reconstituted floor plan, including the spans a space that Marino equipped with fungus-like chairs

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IN THE GUEST SUITE, A
TURQUOISE-BLUE OVAL SITTING
ROOM, DAPPLED WITH LINE
VAUTRIN MIRRORS, OPENS TO
A PURPLE-DAMASK BEDROOM
THAT IS ANCHORED BY AN
ANTIQUE ANGLO-INDIAN BED.
ONE OF THE HOUSE’S NEW
SPACES IS THE WIFE’S BATH,
WHICH MARINO CLAD IN WHITE
CLOUD ONYX AND STRIPED
WITH MIRRORED PILASTERS;
THE VANITY IS SURFACED
WITH SILVER LEAF.
 ABOVE THE LIVING ROOM IS SHEATHED IN NEOCLASSICAL BOISERIE; THE PAINTING IS BY GILBERT & GEORGE,
AND THE CUSTOM SOFA IS UPHOLSTERED IN A PRELLE FABRIC; MARIA PERGAY COFFEE TABLES.
OPPOSITE ANTIQUE ANTON LORENZ CHAIRS AND A VINTAGE JACQUES ADNET FLOOR LAMP IN THE FAMILY ROOM.

by Marjan van Aubel and James Shaw, a long metal table in “The entire back of the house is open,” Marino says. “It’s
high-gloss brick-red, two 1960s Hans-Agne Jakobsson chande- insane.” Entertaining spaces, both grand and glamorous, now
liers, and towering industrial-strength shelving custom-made face the water. One is a sun-splashed dining room where a giant
of textured cast bronze. It’s an envelope that references the Damien Hirst dot painting meets a graphic 18th-century inlaid
past but employs eye-popping, utterly unexpected furnishings wood floor that once paved an Austrian schloss. (The architect
that catapult the atmosphere into the future. will place antique parquet floors in the Long Island museum
that he’s currently planning for his own art collections.)
ESPECIALLY DARING is Marino’s treatment of the mansion’s Another is a Moroccan-style after-dinner fantasia that was
north façade. In Polk’s day, sweeping views weren’t so prized inspired by a 19th-century French mantel in the Orientalist
by owners or architects as they are now, so that side of the style. Marino complemented the mantel with walls of inky
building possessed only a smattering of windows, just enough woodwork that were carved in Marrakech by the same
for light and ventilation. Today that insular, impassive stucco artisans responsible for the Moroccan Court at the Metropoli-
plane has been replaced with four stories of glass that take in tan Museum of Art. The paneling was then shipped to San
a cinematic view of San Francisco Bay, with the Golden Gate Francisco to be installed (“by men in white lab coats,” the wife
Bridge, Alcatraz Island, and a panoply of landmarks. recalls in a tone of delighted disbelief ) and inset with large

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 ABOVE FABRIC RIBBONS CANOPY THE OWNERS’ BED; MARC CHAGALL PAINTING, MARIA PERGAY DAYBED.
OPPOSITE CUSTOM-MADE BRONZE SHELVES LINE THE LOGGIA; ORIGINAL CEILING.

MARC CHAGALL © 2020 ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK / ADAGP, PARIS
panels, some made of finely handwoven black leather and offices in the Bay Area and Milan, created the undulating light
others fashioned of textured stucco that is composed of resin, installation that roofs a staircase like overlapping silver scales.
wax, and plaster. The same craftsmen also devised the room’s Yet another talent works on Marino’s staff; call her the
opulent carved ceiling and the shimmering brass bar. marble whisperer. “She’s a quiet, unsung young woman who
photographs every slab and spends hours arranging the images
“I SO BELIEVE IN BRINGING artists into projects because they before the stone is installed,” the architect says admiringly.
have a different vision; nobody thinks like they do,” Marino That includes the white cloud onyx that was hand-selected for
continues. For the San Francisco house, the talent pool that the wife’s bath, a snow-and-silver space where mirrored
Marino called on is particularly impressive. Among it pilasters pour down the walls like rivulets of mercury.
is the French superstar Jean-Michel Othoniel (inventor of Locals still refer to the mansion as the Rosekrans house,
acclaimed works for Marino’s Chanel boutiques as well as which is fine with the current owners. “I think of Dodie all the
Château de Versailles and the Paris Métro). He conjured up time,” the wife says of the reinvigorated, reconfigured, but, in
the guest suite’s surreally overscale mantel, which was made many ways, strangely unchanged premises. “I always imagine
by another of Marino’s essential sources, Venice’s Venini she’s up in heaven, drinking martinis and looking down at us.
glassworks. Johanna Grawunder, a designer and artist with I hope she’s happy, because we love it as much as she did.”

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 LIVING
LEGEND

CAMILLE HENROT © 2020 ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK / ADAGP, PARIS
 In the hands of Pierre Yovanovitch, the
Paris apartment that iconic designer
Jean-Michel Frank once called home gets
a spectacular new lease on life
TEXT BY DANA THOMAS PHOTOGRAPHY BY FRANÇOIS HALARD

THE LIBRARY’S OAK SHELVING

DATES TO THE TIME WHEN
JEAN-MICHEL FRANK LIVED IN
THE APARTMENT. CHAIRS BY
FRITZ HANSEN AND PIERRE
YOVANOVITCH; CERAMIC
COCKTAIL TABLE BY ARMELLE
BENOIT; C. 1925 PLEYEL PIANO.
OPPOSITE C. 1958 PATINATED
IRON CHAIRS BY PHILOLAOS
TLOUPAS SURROUND
THE YOVANOVITCH-DESIGNED
BLACKENED-OAK DINING
TABLE. ANTIQUE SWEDISH
HANGING LIGHT. FOR DETAILS
SEE RESOURCES.
In the mid-1920s, young French
interior designer Jean-Michel
Frank moved into an 18th-
century apartment on the rue
de Verneuil, a short, narrow
street on the Left Bank. He
tackled its renovation as he
would the homes of his haute societé clients, such as the
Vicomte and Vicomtesse de Noailles and the English writer
Nancy Cunard, respecting the original construction but
banishing the froufrou. It was the Roaring Twenties—the
decade of excess—but for Frank, spartan was modern.
Frank instructed his workers to strip the paint off the Louis
white marble with dark gray streaks in the bath to the leather
sofa, even the sheet Frank threw over the Louis XIV dining
table. He left the Versailles parquet floors bare, and art and
bibelots were verboten. So denuded was the home, when
Jean Cocteau visited, he reportedly quipped, “Charming young
man; pity he was robbed.”
Frank gave up the apartment in 1940, moved to Buenos
Aires, and, tragically, during a trip to New York in 1941, was
seized by depression and committed suicide. The rue de
Verneuil duplex has since changed hands and been redone
many times—including by the maximalist Jacques Garcia—
and much of Frank’s imprint has been erased.
But not all, as Paris-based designer Pierre Yovanovitch
XVI oak paneling, leaving the wood pale and raw. With his discovered when he took on its most recent redesign for
friend, and later business partner, the cabinetmaker Adolphe a French family. The unfinished oak paneling and bookcases
Chanaux, he created a decor so spare it could rival a monastery. remained, as did the pale-pink marble in the entrance
The predominant palette was of the palest neutrals, from the hall. For Yovanovitch, this was enough to fulfill the clients’
 FAR LEFT IN THE LIVING
ROOM, A C. 1960 FLOOR
LAMP BY TAPIO WIRKKALA
STANDS NEXT TO A
DAYBED DESIGNED BY
YOVANOVITCH. STONE
COCKTAIL TABLE BY
MATTHIAS KOHN. LEFT IN
THE ENTRANCE HALL, A
CIRCULAR YOVANOVITCH-
DESIGNED BENCH SITS
IN FRONT OF A PAINTING
BY JÉRÉMY DEMESTER.
C. 1942 CHANDELIER OF
ZANFIRICO GLASS AND
BRASS BY CARLO SCARPA.

wish to return the home’s atmosphere “to something more convivial now,” he observes. “It’s really a room where the
Jean-Michel Frank—something more contemporary,” he says. family lives.” He turned the former kitchen into a guest bath
The assignment was quite humbling, and an immense and a powder room, and the dining room into a guest room.
challenge. “I had to find the essence of Frank’s work, yet make it “I often work on 17th- and 18th-century houses, but I
actual,” says Yovanovitch, who consulted the esteemed Comité believe they must live in our time,” Yovanovitch avers. “Today,
Jean-Michel Frank during the project. “Doing a pastiche didn’t kitchens are more important. Family rooms are more impor-
interest me. Otherwise, we are frozen by the period. We wanted tant. Women have more clothes than before, so need bigger
to respect the history, and yet evolve—that’s what’s interesting. closets. We are more material and accumulate more stuff. That
To create an apartment that is not too decorated or overdone. forces us to approach decor differently.”
Something simple, and sophisticated. The flat of Jean-Michel Once the flow was sorted, Yovanovitch played with the apart-
Frank, but in the 21st century.” ment’s unusual design features, such as the small, round tower,
Yovanovitch began by rearranging the floor plan of the where he put the wife’s home office, outfitted with a crescent-
2,500-square-foot duplex. He kept the two main salons as they shaped desk; the windowless staircase to the second floor, for
were, but most everything else changed. He moved the kitchen which he commissioned a delightful fresco evoking windows
from the back corner—as was the case in old grand Paris apart- and moldings; and the 650-square-foot terrace—a rarity in
ments, “because families had staff,” he explains—to a more Paris—which he tied to both the living room and the dining
central location, and added an island with barstools. “It’s very room, allowing, as he puts it, “an in-and-out that is very fluid.”

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 ABOVE THE TERRACE
FEATURES A MOSAIC
FRESCO BY DELPHINE
MESSMER (DETAIL
AT RIGHT). ARMCHAIRS
AND SOFA BY PAOLA
NAVONE FOR GERVASONI;
CERAMIC COCKTAIL
TABLES BY PAOLA LENTI.

PIERRE YOVANOVITCH
AD100

“I had to find the essence

of Frank’s work,” says
Yovanovitch. “Doing a pastiche
didn’t interest me.”
BELOW A CERAMIC-PANEL BACKSPLASH BY ARMELLE BENOIT ADDS COLOR TO THE KITCHEN.
GLASS CABINETRY FACING BY ATELIER EMMANUEL BARROIS; BLOWN-GLASS PENDANT LIGHTS
BY JEREMY MAXWELL WINTREBERT; BASSAMFELLOWS STOOLS.

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 “We wanted to respect the history,
and yet evolve....To create an apartment
that is not too decorated or overdone.”
ABOVE THE GREEN ZHIVAGO MARBLE-CLAD POWDER ROOM FEATURES A PALISSANDRE MARBLE
BASIN WITH DORNBRACHT FITTINGS. MIRROR AND SCONCES DESIGNED BY YOVANOVITCH. RIGHT LIAS STONE
DEFINES THE BATH. DORNBRACHT TUB FILLER. C. 1925 JEAN-MICHEL FRANK COATRACK.

112 A RCHDIGE ST. CO M

 RIGHT A FRESCO BY ALEXANDRE
BENJAMIN NAVET EMBELLISHES
THE STAIRCASE. C. 1950 PENDANT
LIGHT BY LISA JOHANSSON-PAPE.
FAR RIGHT IN THE OFFICE, A C. 1960
ESKO PAJAMIES CHAIR SITS AT A
YOVANOVITCH-DESIGNED DESK. FLOOR
LAMP BY YOVANOVITCH; C. 1945
PHILIP ARCTANDER CLAM CHAIR.

FOR THE DECOR, Yovanovitch embraced “le style Frank” as

much as possible, including the placement of a few choice
Frank originals in key spots: a short bookcase and two bedside
tables in the main bedroom, a reed-thin chair for madame’s
desk, and the coatrack in the main bath. To maintain an air of
today, Yovanovitch hired a clutch of artists and artisans to
create new pieces and works. Notable additions are Delphine
Messmer’s charming mosaic of naïf animals on the terrace and
Alexandre Benjamin Navet’s fresco in the staircase. Yovanovitch
met Navet at the Villa Noaille’s annual design festival on the
Côte d’Azur; Navet had several pieces on show, and Yovanovitch
liked how the artist’s work “has a 20th-century spirit but
remains very contemporary.”
To tie the Frank era to the art commissions, Yovanovitch
incorporated a mix of vintage furnishings by such icons
as Fritz Hansen, Philolaos Tloupas, Elis Bergh, and Svend
Hammershøi, alongside new design and art from the Campana
Brothers, Ida Tursic, Jérémy Demester, and Wilfried Mille
and others—as well as several of his own sought-after pieces.
He believes this “eclecticism gives the apartment a certain
elegance”—an apt précis for all Frank-designed homes.
“Jean-Michel Frank was the apostle of minimalism,”
Yovanovitch declares. “He was an authority who broke many
barriers, changed the aesthetic, and still inspires many 80
years on—including me.”

FRANKLY SPEAKING
A mini portfolio of some of the
French interior designer
Jean-Michel Frank’s greatest hits
2

1. FRANK, IN THE 1930s: BANKING HEIR TURNED TASTEMAKER.

2. MIRRORED SCREEN WITH LEATHER PANELS. 3. MARY AND
NELSON ROCKEFELLER’S FIFTH AVENUE LIVING ROOM, DECORATED
IN THE LATE 1930s; CHRISTIAN BÉRARD CARPET.
1
 4 4. FRANK’S SHOP AT 140 RUE DU FAUBOURG SAINT-HONORÉ OPENED
IN 1932. 5. A PARCHMENT-COVERED OCCASIONAL TABLE. 6. STRAW
MARQUETRY LINED THE SMOKING ROOM OF FRANK’S PARIS APARTMENT,
1938; THE SCREEN HIDES A PIANO.
1. ROGI ANDRÉ 2. WILLIAM GRIGSBY 3. RICHARD CHAMPION 4. FRANÇOIS KOLLAR

6
5. COMITÉ JEAN-MICHEL FRANK 6. LE DÉCOR D’AUJOURD’HUI.

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RAINBOW
CONNECTI
Tasked with a California
family’s historic getaway on
Patmos, John Stefanidis gives
the once-neutral house a
vibrant polychrome presence
TEXT BY MITCHELL OWENS PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIGUEL FLORES-VIANNA
 A TERRACE TAKES IN THE AEGEAN SEA
AT A PATMOS HOUSE RENOVATED
AND DECORATED BY JOHN STEFANIDIS.
FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.

ON
 BOUGAINVILLEA FRAMES
THE STREET ENTRANCE TO
THE HOUSE, WHICH OPENS
TO ONE OF THE PROPERTY’S
SIX TERRACES.
THE SITTING ROOM’S
ANTIQUE PATMIAN BENCH
IS FLANKED BY JOHN
STEFANIDIS PHOTOPHORES
AND A YELLOW TABLE
BY THE DESIGNER;
TURKISH LANTERNS.
THE ENTRANCE TERRACE FEATURES CAMPAIGN CHAIRS AND JOHN STEFANIDIS TABLES;
HE ALSO DESIGNED THE INLAID PAVING. OPPOSITE A WOLF RANGE IN THE KITCHEN; JOHN STEFANIDIS TRAYS.
P atmos has been in my mind
since I was a little kid,” says
Kevin Brine. One of his family
friends was Time art critic
Alexander Eliot, a passionate

for many years, only female

senior editor. Another Time colleague had been Robert Lax,
who went on to become an acclaimed poet and settled on the
island in the early 1960s and whose niece happened to be a

Ashton Hawkins, the former executive vice president of the

Metropolitan Museum of Art—announced that he would be
selling his Patmos getaway, furnished and located right below
the Byzantine monastery of St. John the Theologian, what
else could the Wall Street executive turned scholar, artist, and
writer do?
he found a letter on the desk that had been written by Eliot
to Lax and, to his surprise, mentioned Brine’s mother.
Many escapes to Patmos followed for the new owner and
his companion and now wife, Jessica Smith, a painter. (Based
in Montecito, California, they have four sons, the eldest 12
Hellenophile who had worked and the youngest born last year.) Not long ago, the couple pur-
with Brine’s mother, Ruth chased an adjacent cottage, formerly occupied by a shepherd
Brine, the magazine’s first and, and his donkey, with the intention of incorporating it into their
home. An island friend mentioned that one of their neighbors
could probably do the job—and that neighbor turned out to be
John Stefanidis, the Egyptian-born, London-based AD100
interior designer and uncrowned king of Patmos, socially and
friend of Brine’s. So some 20 years ago, when another friend— aesthetically, for decades.
“He created the Patmian style,” Brine explains, adding that,
given all the strange but happy coincidences thus far, he and
his wife chose to simply put the house into the master’s hands
and let him work his hallmark magic. “You don’t tell Picasso
how to do a painting.”
Stefanidis says the shepherd’s house “was in appalling
“I said I’d buy it,” Brine explains, adding that he had only condition, but they thought it could give them four more bed-
seen photographs of the place. A multilevel villa (featured in rooms. It also gave them the opportunity to uplift the house
the August 1992 issue of AD), it had been created by com- and the terraces.” Five terraces had been designed for Hawkins
bining two modest two-story cottages, one built in the early by landscape architect Bruce Kelly (Central Park’s Strawberry
17th century and the other in the 1850s. When Brine went to Fields) and planted with orange bougainvillea given by Prince
Patmos in 2005, to take possession of his new hillside retreat, Amyn Aga Khan and installed under the watchful eye of Felicia
he was curious to see Lax’s apartment. Though the poet had Bernstein, the actress wife of conductor Leonard Bernstein;
died several years before, the place was still intact, and there a sixth was added during the renovation.

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 RIGHT LATTICEWORK
DOORS ADD VARIETY
TO THE MAIN BEDROOM;
JOHN STEFANIDIS BED
AND CHAIR, RIFAT OZBEK
CUSHIONS, COGOLIN
MATTING. BELOW A
BOOKCASE CONTAINS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
PRESS’S LOEB
CLASSICAL LIBRARY.
RUSH-SEATED STOOLS
AND A BANQUETTE
CUSHIONED WITH BUTTON-
TUFTED CANVAS
SURROUND A CUSTOM-
MADE STONE TABLE.
The house is now as lively,
chromatically speaking,
as the family that lives there.
IN THE BREAKFAST ROOM, CANE SEATING BY BONACINA 1889
JOINS A JOHN STEFANIDIS TABLE AND FABRICS.
STAIRCASES LINK THE
VARIOUS SECTIONS OF
THE HOUSE AND ITS
TUMBLE OF ROOFTOP
TERRACES. OPPOSITE
ONE END OF THE
SITTING ROOM, WITH
JOHN STEFANIDIS
FABRICS AND TABLES;
RIFAT OZBEK CUSHIONS.

“You don’t tell Picasso how to do a

painting,” Kevin Brine says of giving
John Stefanidis carte blanche. JOHN STEFANIDIS
AD100 HALL OF FAME

Previously neutral in tone, the smartly renovated and deftly Cane furniture outfits the breakfast room, while colorful
enlarged house is now as lively, chromatically speaking, as the canopy beds are hung with filmy white fabric that stirs with
family that lives there. Sybaritic en suite baths with louvered every sea breeze. Classic Stefanidis designs abound, from
walls have been added, as well as a sun-splashed kitchen with printed fabrics to the iconic Malcontenta chair, a spare seat
a heroic marble hood. “I revolutionized the house and made that seems to have leaped from an Attic vase. Some of the
it 100 times nicer,” Stefanidis says, adding with a chuckle that antiques, though, have been in the house since Hawkins’s time,
Brine “did say I’m a genius.” among them a carved and painted bench; its mate, Brine says,
Painted effects brighten the white-walled rooms, from is in Athens’s Benaki Museum. Campaign chairs beckon on the
the beamed ceiling in the living room that was once natural terraces, one of which has a built-in sofa that’s about six feet
brown and is now glossy scarlet to woodwork—doors, window deep. “You can live there all day with an iPad, a book, and coffee
frames, even the balustrade of an exterior staircase that links or just nap,” Stefanidis says of the tree-shaded perch.
one level of the house to another—that has been brushed with Low-key pursuits, in fact, are the household rule: sailing,
a tender shade of Aegean blue. In a lobby off the library, a swimming, learning Greek, reading, making pottery, lunching
brilliant blue bookcase stretches to the ceiling and spans one at the marina, and dining at home with friends. “Then we go
wall, its shelves hosting one of Brine’s favorite reads: Harvard to church on Sunday,” Brine says. “We’re not Greek Orthodox,
University Press’s Loeb Classical Library of ancient-world but Jessica had a dream that the boys had been baptized in the
texts that have been translated into English, the 500 volumes local church.” Since then, the elder three have been, and the
bound in red and green. Stefanidis points out, approvingly, youngest will have his turn this year; all have Patmian godpar-
“That’s a nice thing to have on a Greek island.” ents. Says Brine, “We’re truly connected to the island.”
 JOY

Marmol Radziner and Studio Shamshiri

design an animated, light-filled home that
reflects the gleeful spirit of its owners
TEXT BY MAYER RUS PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEPHEN KENT JOHNSON STYLED BY MICHAEL REYNOLDS
DIVISION
LOUISE BONNET, THE SHOWER, 2016, COURTESY OF NINO MIER GALLERY.

THE LIVING ROOM HAS A CUSTOM

GEORGE SMITH SOFA AND LOUNGE
CHAIRS WRAPPED IN ROSEMARY
HALLGARTEN BOUCLÉ, AN AMADI WOOL
RUG, A CAMPANA BROTHERS FAVELA
CHAIR FROM JF CHEN, AND A VINTAGE
LUIGI BANDINI BUTI FLOOR LAMP.
ARTWORK BY LOUISE BONNET THROUGH
NINO MIER GALLERY. FOR DETAILS
SEE RESOURCES.
P amela Shamshiri, design
principal of the AD100 firm
Studio Shamshiri, wants you
to know one thing about the
creative Hollywood couple who
commissioned this enchanted
ground-up home in Los Angeles.
“They’re happy people,” she
insists. “I don’t know how else
to put it. They just radiate joy
and positivity.” Architect Ron Radziner, design partner at the
AD100 firm Marmol Radziner, seconds the notion. “These
clients are incredibly kind and generous people, happy people,
and they wanted us to create a house like themselves—
a welcoming space with zero pretension, where they can
entertain friends and family or simply enjoy each other’s com-
pany,” he says.
Bonhomous clients are always a blessing, especially since
most designers are all too familiar with the challenges of
working with people who are, shall we say, less happy. Another
godsend for design professionals is a spectacular site, which
this project had in spades. Tucked in a private urban canyon,
the property—comprising a main house and two independent
office/guesthouse pavilions—feels blissfully removed from
the surrounding city, as if it existed in some distant wilderness.
“We wanted a house that felt organic to the woodsy
landscape but still represented the modern and contempo-
rary design elements we are into,” the homeowners explain.
SAKARI KANNOSTO © 2020 ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS),
NEW YORK / KUVASTO, FINLAND
 BDDW STOOLS PULL UP TO A BLUESTONE-
TOPPED ISLAND WITH WATERWORKS
FITTINGS IN THE KITCHEN. OPPOSITE THE
PANTRY IS OUTFITTED WITH DINESEN
OAK CABINETRY, A VINTAGE SWEDISH
FLATWEAVE RUNNER, LINDSEY ADELMAN
SCONCES, AND WATERWORKS FITTINGS.

“We created a Pinterest board that was a mile long and full of composition of the interior, where the rugged, dark redwood
images of rooms with giant windows, rustic wood, concrete, is joined by ceilings and floors of more refined Dinesen oak.
industrial details, and big, inviting, open spaces.” “We still wanted to bring the charred redwood inside because
The Marmol Radziner and Shamshiri teams gave them just we thought the clients’ art collection, which is very active
that, delivering a crisply detailed, modernist house wrapped and full of vivid colors, would show best against a dark back-
in burnt redwood siding, with a standing-seam zinc roof and ground. It’s much quieter than showing the art on typical
strategic elevations constructed of shot-blasted concrete white gallery walls. The blackened redwood really grounds it,”
block. “The house reaches out to engage the surroundings. Shamshiri says.
We tailored the eaves and overhangs to accommodate At the heart of the home is the lofty living room, which
the native sycamores and oaks, and designed the house with exemplifies the ambience of comfort and coziness with a
massive window walls and skylights. Everywhere you look, generous helping of groovy. Shamshiri outfitted the space with
nature beckons,” Radziner observes. plush, overscaled swivel chairs, a BDDW live-edge wood
In a bit of architectural chiaroscuro, light-wood window slab cocktail table with an integrated record player, a Campana
frames on the exterior of the house hint at the materials Brothers Favela chair, and a meshuggeneh Bless indoor

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 PAMELA SHAMSHIRI
AD100

“We thought the

clients’ art collection
would show best
against a dark
background,” says
Pamela Shamshiri.
“The blackened
redwood really
grounds it.”
ABOVE A GINO SARFATTI PENDANT
HANGS ABOVE A CUSTOM DUSK
TABLE IN THE LIBRARY. MANSOUR
CARPET; FRANK GEHRY STOOLS.
LEFT THE HOUSE IS WRAPPED IN
BURNT REDWOOD BY DELTA
MILLWORKS. OPPOSITE IN THE
LIVING ROOM, A BLESS HAMMOCK
IS JOINED BY A CUSTOM BDDW
COCKTAIL TABLE WITH AN
INTEGRATED RECORD PLAYER.
© KEITH HARING FOUNDATION

ARCHD I GE ST.CO M 133

 IN THE DINING ROOM, A
STUDIO GIANCARLO VALLE
CHANDELIER HANGS ABOVE
A GEORGE NAKASHIMA
WOODWORKERS TABLE
AND CHAIRS SET ON A
CHRISTOPHER FARR JOSEF
HERMAN CARPET.
 A MASSIVE PIVOTING DOOR OPENS ONTO AN OFFICE PAVILION CLAD IN ZINC.

hammock that looks and feels as if it were made from woven articulated with zinc siding, while the recessed lower level
puffy jackets. is constructed of concrete block. The second office, fully clad
One side of the living room opens to the communal half in zinc, is a rectangular box with a mammoth tilt-balance
of the kitchen for ease of entertaining and socializing. A wall garage door. Shamshiri dressed both spaces in the same spirit
of metal-framed glass seemingly bisects a solid volume of she applied to the main house, where warm, modern furnish-
cabinetry to separate the public kitchen from the pantry that ings—notably a Mira Nakashima dining table and chairs—
mirrors it. A jewel box of fine dovetail joinery, the pantry are joined by companionable contemporary creations. “The
ushers in natural light from cliff-facing windows, further clients got into the idea of supporting young artists. We were
illuminating the sun-soaked living room. able to commission really special things, like the Giancarlo
Valle parchment-and-bronze pendant above the dining table.
THE ENTIRE UPPER FLOOR of the 4,000-square-foot house is It makes the room,” the designer says, citing additional
given over to the couple’s bedroom suite. “The bedroom itself contributions by the likes of Chris Wolston, Max Lamb, and
is pretty modest in size, but it’s pushed up against the glass, so DABSMYLA, the wife-and-husband artist duo who painted
you feel like you’re completely engulfed in the trees. The space a dreamy mural in a small powder room.
expands into the landscape,” Radziner notes. In the bathroom, “Building a house from scratch allowed us to think about
where the oak cabinetry echoes the kitchen’s dovetail joinery what kind of home would really fit our lifestyle,” the home-
detail, a heated pebble-tile floor adds a bit of pedal luxury (i.e., owners conclude. “It’s full of furniture that is comfortable and
foot massage) to the ample visual beauty. relaxing, art that makes us happy, and big windows that we
The larger of the two office pavilions is a two-story, hardly ever close and make us feel like we live in the middle
pitched-roof structure where the upper level is individually of a forest.” Who could ask for anything more?

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 LEFT THE PRIMARY BATHROOM
HAS PEBBLE-TILE FLOORS BY
ZEN PARADISE, WATERWORKS
FITTINGS, A CUSTOM MARBLE
TUB, AND LIME PLASTER WALLS.
BELOW A MURAL BY DABSMYLA
ENVELOPS A POWDER ROOM.
WATERWORKS FITTINGS; RICH
BRILLIANT WILLING SCONCE.

MARMOL RADZINER
AD100

“The bedroom itself

is pretty modest in
size, but it’s pushed
up against the glass,
so you feel like
you’re engulfed in
the trees,”
Ron Radziner notes.
136 A RCH DIGES T.COM
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THE PRIMARY BEDROOM

FEATURES AN APPARATUS CLOUD
FIXTURE, A UNIQUE BDDW LOUNGE
CHAIR, AN AMADI RUG, ROSE
TARLOW WAXED LINEN CURTAINS,
AND A NICKEY KEHOE QUILT.
 design notes THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK

WIGGLE STOOL BY FRANK

GEHRY FOR VITRA; $670.
STORE.MOMA.ORG

ORGY COFFEE TABLE #2 BY CHRIS

WOLSTON; PRICE UPON REQUEST.
THEFUTUREPERFECT.COM

A GUESTHOUSE LIVING ROOM IS

OUTFITTED WITH A STUDIO SHAMSHIRI
RUG FOR CHRISTOPHER FARR, A CHRIS
WOLSTON COCKTAIL TABLE, AND GREEN
RIVER PROJECT STOOLS.
SHOGUN TABLE LAMP
BY MARIO BOTTA
FOR ARTEMIDE; $5,400.
1STDIBS.COM

AT THIS MOMENT
PAINTING BY DABSMYLA;
PRICE UPON REQUEST.
DABSMYLA.COM

The site really shaped the design,” Ron Radziner observes.

“The clients wanted to feel close to the landscape.”

IL BUCO VITA
TERRA-COTTA
PITCHER; $325.
ILBUCO.COM

ATELIER MVM
SHROOM LAMP;
$3,500. NICKEY
KEHOE.COM
 We commissioned FAVELA CHAIR BY
FERNANDO AND
some incredible pieces,” HUMBERTO CAMPANA
FOR EDRA; $5,962.
Pamela Shamshiri notes. 1STDIBS.COM

“But there’s nothing fussy

or unapproachable.”

BALI FABRIC BY SAHCO; TO THE

TRADE. KVADRAT.DK

PYRAMID DECO RUG BY STUDIO

SHAMSHIRI FOR CHRISTOPHER FARR;
$11,400. CHRISTOPHERFARR.COM

THE HELIO
IN A GUEST ROOM, CHAIR BY
METREO; $6,200.
PHILIPPE MALOUIN FOR SCP;
GALANTERAND
LAMP BY MARIO BOTTA.
JONES.COM
INTERIORS: STEPHEN KENT JOHNSON. LAMP: © 2020 THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM, NEW YORK /
ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK. ALL OTHERS COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES.

AKARI BB1-30DD LIGHT;

$750. SHOP.NOGUCHI.ORG

GROUP COCKTAIL
CHAIR BY PHILIPPE
MALOUIN FOR SCP;
$4,845. THEFUTURE
PERFECT.COM

HENRY GOOSENECK
LAVATORY FAUCET; $1,585. ON THE GUESTHOUSE DECK, LUTECA CHAIRS SURROUND
WATERWORKS.COM A RECLAIMED-REDWOOD DINING TABLE BY DUSK.

P R O DUC ED BY MAD ELI NE O’ MA LL EY ARCH DI GEST.COM 139

 brit
For a young Anglo-Italian family,
American designer Joy Moyler
breathes fresh air into an English
manse with a storied past
TEXT BY MICHAEL BOODRO PHOTOGRAPHY BY SIMON UPTON STYLED BY SARA MATHERS
 THE 17TH-CENTURY
HOUSE IS SET ON 43 ACRES,
AN IDYLLIC SETTING JUST
40 MINUTES FROM CENTRAL
LONDON BY CAR. FOR
DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.

ish accents
 THE LOUNGE IS SWATHED IN A LEE

w
JOFA FLORAL. BESPOKE CHAIRS
AND LOUNGES BY ARCHER & SMITH;
VINTAGE SOFA UPHOLSTERED IN A
RALPH LAUREN HOME LEATHER;
ANTIQUE OUSHAK RUG ATOP A STARK
CARPET. LEFT ANGELO AND NADIA
MORATTI WITH THEIR CHILDREN,
GRACE, ADAM, AND GIAN MARCO.

ith its chimneys thrusting into the Decades later, the scene in the Old Barn, as it is affection-
sky, its half-timbered brick façade ately known, was far more raucous when it belonged to music
and vast expanses of leaded glass, producer Robert Stigwood, manager of Cream and the Bee
the stately structure exemplifies the Gees. “The house was the scene of legendary parties,” says
moment when the English country- current owner Angelo Moratti. “It’s where George Harrison’s
house tradition met the wealth of the Industrial Revolution and wife and Eric Clapton started their romance. Elton John
the aesthetic of the Arts and Crafts movement. It’s not difficult stayed often. Virtually everyone who was important in the
to visualize swirls of cigar smoke rising to the rafters in the ’70s music industry was a guest here. There are so many
vast main hall, and brandy being served by liveried footmen. wonderful stories.”
Indeed, the estate was once owned by famed tobacconist Stigwood sold the place to Moratti’s father, Gian Marco,
Alfred Dunhill, founder of the eponymous luxury empire that in 1976, shortly before relocating to Bermuda. Gian Marco
still bears his name. Moratti, like his father before him, was head of one of Italy’s
largest oil companies—where Angelo Moratti himself works But over the years, the family’s connection to their country
today. (The family had also long been involved with Milan’s retreat weakened, and it was used only sporadically. “When
championship soccer team Inter Milan.) my father died two years ago, I inherited the house,” Moratti
“My father immediately hired Renzo Mongiardino, who says. By then, his own circumstances had changed as well.
had designed our home in Milan,” says Moratti, referring to Through his work with the Special Olympics International,
the legendary 20th-century Italian interior and set designer. he had met his wife, Nadia, whose son, Adam, now 10, has
Located on 43 acres, with two lakes, the property is only a disabilities. The couple had twins, Grace and Gian Marco, now
40-minute drive from central London, which made it an ideal 4. And the appeal of a home near London, where Nadia has
refuge for the family. “I was attending boarding school only family, only increased.
about a half hour away and would go to the house on weekends. It was then that Moratti turned to AD100 designer Joy
My family had an office in London as well, so they were often Moyler. If buildings come with diverse and fascinating histories,
there, and I still used it a lot when I was in my 20s and 30s.” so do designers. Moyler’s background includes stints with

A RCHD IGE ST. COM 143

“The house was the scene of legendary
parties,” says Angelo Moratti. “There are
so many wonderful stories.”
THE HOUSE’S PICTURESQUE TIMBERED EXTERIOR. OPPOSITE A LEADED GLASS WINDOW ILLUMINATES
THE STAIRWELL AND GREAT ROOM. THE BESPOKE SOFA WEARS A RALPH LAUREN HOME PRINT. VINTAGE
LEATHER CHESTERFIELD SOFA; LAMPSHADE BY ROBERT KIME; ON WALLS, FARROW & BALL PAINT.
ABOVE A LAKE ON THE PROPERTY. BELOW VINTAGE WICKER CHAIRS SURROUND AN ANTIQUE REFECTORY TABLE
IN THE DINING ROOM. A LEE JOFA PRINT COVERS THE WALLS. WOOL SISAL RUG.

PORTRAIT: NICK CARTER

 LEFT A VINTAGE LAURA
ASHLEY PATTERN DRESSES
ANOTHER BEDROOM’S
WALLS. BEDCOVER AND
CURTAINS OF A SCHUMACHER
COTTON AND LINEN STRIPE;
PENNY MORRISON CUSHION.
BELOW A WELCOMING
GUEST ROOM.

Thierry Despont Ltd., Ralph Lauren,

and Armani/Casa, giving her the “My brief was
widest possible range of style touch-
stones. Moreover, her years at Armani simple,” notes
had endowed her with the ability to
work with high-profile personalities, designer Joy Moyler,
“to freshen the place
JOY MOYLER
including Leonardo DiCaprio and AD100 DEBUT
John Mayer. “I’m so lucky to have
worked at so many firms,” she says. up and update it
for a young family. But to
“One thing I always wanted to take away was an open
mind. I am blessed not to be known for a particular style.”

retain the essence of an

And she and Moratti had worked together before. She
designed his first New York City apartment in 2008 and is
about to start work on their fourth project together, a get-
away in Portofino. “He’s like family to me now,” she says. English country house.”
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ABOVE A BRAQUENIÉ PRINT DEFINES THE PRIMARY BEDROOM. OPPOSITE THE SHOWER BOASTS
CUSTOM TILEWORK BY FANTINI MOSAICI. FITTINGS BY AXOR.
 “My brief was simple,” she adds, “to freshen the place up
and update it for a young family. But to retain the essence of
an English country house. When I first saw the place, I was
agape at the elaborate and fantastic timberwork. But I knew
immediately it all needed to be lightened up. I wanted to give
it the feel of a home.”

WHAT FOLLOWED WAS two years of frequent plane travel

and, after Moyler’s mother fell ill, hundreds of Zoom calls and
emails. “Fortunately, I know lots of European vendors,” she
adds. “I was coming off another London project, so I already
knew plenty of reliable artisans in England. In fact, I know
London almost as well as I do Manhattan.”
Moyler retained the home’s shell but filled the main spaces
and 11 bedrooms with lighter textures and textiles, many by
such British firms as Colefax and Fowler and Penny Morrison.
The carpets and rugs were pulled up, replaced by modern
neutrals by Stark and vivid antiques sourced by Joshua Lumley.
“I wanted to bring in even more color,” she acknowledges, “but
Angelo likes a muted palette. Fortunately, he approves of my
love of Ralph Lauren, and we brought in lots of their accesso-
ries. The timbers remained,” she adds with a laugh, “but the
surroundings changed.”
“It was essential to bring the house back to life,” says Moratti.
“Now it is a happy house, and most of all livable. Joy is amazing
at that. She added, took away, and brought back. The mantra
was to change but not to change. The house retains the legacy
of Mongiardino, but with the special touch of Joy.”

A RC HDIG EST. CO M 149

design notes THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK

VINTAGE WICKER
CHAIRS SURROUND
THE BREAKFAST-ROOM
TABLE. BASSELINK &
JONES FLOOR LAMP.

BATSFORD DISH LIGHT;

$4,480. JAMB.CO.UK

FAUX-BAMBOO
SOFA TABLE;
$1,000. CHELSEA
TEXTILES.COM

BLACKWATCH
FLANNEL; $216
PER YARD.
RALPHLAUREN
HOME.COM

HANDWOVEN
JUTE BASKET;
FROM $205. RH.COM

It was essential to bring

the house back to life,” says
Moratti. “Now it is a happy
house, and most of all livable.”

INTERIORS: SIMON UPTON. DISH LIGHT: JOHN HAMMOND. ALL OTHERS COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES.
ANTIQUE TICKING STRIPE FABRIC;
TO THE TRADE. FSCHUMACHER.COM

HOWARTH MANTELPIECE;
$17,250. CHESNEYS.COM

TORSADE VASES;
FROM $6,700.
BUCCELLATI.COM

DRYAD RATTAN FLETCHER CHAIR;

$3,625. SOANE.COM

PR OD UCED BY MADEL INE O’MAL LEY

 ADELYN HAND-BLOCK COTTON;
TO THE TRADE. LEEJOFA.COM

VINTAGE BAMBOO FURNITURE

IN THE PRIMARY SUITE’S FOYER.
STARK CARPET.

CHAMBERS TABLE
LAMP BY CHRISTOPHER
SPITZMILLER FOR
VISUAL COMFORT; $925.
CIRCALIGHTING.COM

PILLOW BY PENNY MORRISON; $197.

PENNYMORRISON.COM

I knew immediately it all needed

to be lightened up,” Moyler recalls.
“I wanted to give it the feel of a home.”

BRITISH COLONIAL-STYLE
FAUX-BAMBOO-AND-
TORTOISE DESK; $8,900.
1STDIBS.COM

ASHOKA STRIPE RK
FABRIC SHADE; $565.
ROBERTKIME.COM

A BATH CLAD IN CARRERA

MARBLE FEATURES CZECH &
SPEAKE FITTINGS.
A RC HDIG ES T. CO M 151
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identified by the designer of each delphinemessmermosaique.com. dinesen.com. Bubble sconces PAGES 140–51: Interior design
residence. Items pictured but Armchairs and sofa by Paola (on ceiling) by Lindsey Adelman; by Joy Moyler Interiors;
not listed here are not sourceable. Navone for Gervasoni; thefutureperfect.com. Henry sink joymoylerinteriors.com.
Items similar to vintage and gervasoni1882.it. Cocci ceramic fittings; waterworks.com. PAGES 140–41: Adirondack
antique pieces shown are often cocktail tables; paolalenti.it. PAGE 131: In kitchen, Square chairs; adirondack.co.uk.
available from the dealers listed. PAGE 111: Ceramic panel Guest stools; bddw.com. Henry PAGES 142–43: Walls, curtains,
Contact information was up backsplash; armellebenoit.fr. sink fittings; waterworks.com. upholstery, and lampshade all
to date at time of publication. Glass cabinetry facing; PAGE 132: Custom BDDW Althea by Lee Jofa; kravet.com.
atelierbarrois.com. Blown glass cocktail table with integrated Bespoke chairs and lounges;
pendant lights; jeremyglass.com. record player; bddw.com. archersmith.co.uk. On sofa, leather;
BAY WATCH
Tractor stools; bassamfellows.com. Custom sofa and lounge chair; ralphlaurenhome.com. Antique
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PAGE 112: Vaia sink fittings; georgesmith.com; wrapped in Oushak rug; joshualumley.com.
Architecture and Interior Design
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sconces; pierreyovanovitch.com. Favela chair by Campana Brothers; PAGE 145: On sofa, Angela Floral;
petermarinoarchitect.com.
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light and urn lamp; randafahmy
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mirror by Mark Brazier-Jones;
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Laurence Montano; galeriemougin
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Johansson-Pape; ericphilippe.com. Gehry; vitra.com. Custom carpet; bedcover and curtains of Antique
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floor lamp; pierreyovanovitch.com. redwood; deltamillworks.com. Schumacher; fschumacher.com.
by Johanna Grawunder;
Philip Arctander Clam chair; PAGE 134: Custom chandelier; Cushion by Penny Morrison;
grawunder.com.
1stdibs.com. giancarlovalle.com. Sunset dining pennymorrison.com. Vintage Laura
PAGE 99: Side tables by Philippe
table and Conoid chairs; nakashima Ashley wall covering;
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Roland Mellan; 21stgallery.com. RAINBOW CONNECTION
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northstarww.com. pierrefrey.com. In bathroom,
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Pebble tile; zenparadise.net. fantinimosaici.it. Axor Montreux
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simonecenedese.it. Custom bath johnstefanidis.com.
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of white cloud onyx; PAGE 121: Appliances; gaggenau
benjaminmoore.com. In powder & Jones; besselink.com. Seat
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dabsmyla.com. Henry sink fittings; On walls, White Tie paint;
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yasikbyrifatozbek.com.
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table; armellebenoit.fr hallgarten.com. Favela chair by Shogun table lamp by Mario Botta;
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Ido Yoshimoto working out of Blunk’s erstwhile studio, just across the street
from his own cabin. Instead of air-drying the raw timber, which
can take a year for every inch of thickness, Yoshimoto sometimes
“I grew up around sawdust and chain saws,” this experimental uses green lumber, allowing the finished piece to crack, warp,
artisan recalls of his childhood in Inverness, California, where his and change over time. Recently he carved a table from eucalyp-
father worked as an assistant to the legendary abstract sculp- tus, which he calls “the most unstable wood.” Such unpredictabil-
tor J. B. Blunk. Enchanted by the forest, Yoshimoto stuck around, ity is not for the faint of heart, but a suite of AD100 talents has
finding work as an arborist that allowed him to spend his days embraced his go-with-the-grain approach. For a Charles de Lisle
in the woods, getting to know nature. Decades of climbing and project in San Francisco, Yoshimoto created a patchwork façade
cutting trees taught him to decode their grain—what kind of soil in unfinished redwood that will silver with age. Fellow Californians
they grew in, how much rain they got, whether they were bat- Nicole Hollis and Commune Design have also taken note. Simply
tered by wind. He now uses that intimate knowledge to transform explained, Yoshimoto says, “I like to let the wood show its own
wood specimens into stools, tables, and functional sculptures, character.” instagram.com/ido_yoshimoto —HANNAH MARTIN

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