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CELEBRITY FEARLESS Julianne Moore talks middle FACTOR age, nudity and her new psychological thriller, Chloe . . 62

FASHION NUDE Blushing (but not bashful) party AWAKENING dresses by Donna Karan New York, Valentino and Elie Saab bring the chic for spring. . . . . 66

THEORY OF ￿is season, Gucci, Prada, DEVOLUTION Maison Martin Margiela and more break it down with deconstructed looks that rock! ...... 74

HOME BUILT TO LAST From new High Line condos to Andre Kikoski’s LED mania to a chair created to look like bone structure, a look at how design and are coming together all over the city . . . . .84

HOME WORKS ￿e lives, likes and impossibly posh homes of Manhattanite designers Yoshiko Sato and Michael Morris of Morris Sato Studio and Kristina O’Neal, a founding principal at AvroKO, and her husband, developer Adam Gordon ...... 90 66

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MAGIC BREW Sato and Morris love their morning caffeine ritual but brew “As , we’re not involved with faux contextualism or hindered by a review board.” only with their Hario –Michael Morris vacuum coffeemaker, which Sato carried back from Tokyo. The stacked glass beaker employs a two-step process in which it siphons the water up to the coffee Corian is the grounds when the flame surfacing is lit, and forces the coffee back down when material of it’s finished. harioglass choice for their mod kitchen. Morris and Sato THEIR BIBLE Down the love to cook road from the YN-13 are three modernist homes and entertain, built by the and they spent Norman Jaffe in the early last year on a ’70s. Morris Sato used the cluster of houses Jaffe raw-food diet. designed as inspiration, and like Jaffe, the couple have customized existing systems to their own quirky specifications.

century spec houses. So with a strategic master plan in mind, they Fantasy Island divided up a two-acre plot they purchased in 2005. ￿e YN-13 house was completed last fall. “Soothing” is how they describe THE TEAM Yoshiko Sato, ￿roughout the week, architects Yoshiko Sato and Michael Morris the construction of beveled horizontal and tongue-and-groove Michael Morris and doggy live—but mostly work—on the isle of Manhattan. Island life suits vertical-siding, made of Western red cedar that’s been bleached. make three. The sparse décor in their Shelter the pair; Morris spent summers in Ireland, and Sato grew up in Every detail of the pristine 6,000-square-foot complex is perfectly

SATO Island home is a mix of Japan. It’s no coincidence, then, that on weekends they escape synchronized, from the iPod surround-sound system to the Lutron reproductions of furniture to Shelter Island, to their dream house overlooking Gardiner’s motorized solar shades. Built to house a large clan, the structure from the 1950s and ’60s Bay. Partners in work and in life, the two met in the 1980s while includes six bedrooms and six bathrooms, plus two half-baths. ￿e OF MORRIS designed by the Milanese architect Luigi Caccia studying at the Cooper Union’s School of Architecture and project remains a testament to the duo’s creativity—as well as their Dominioni, like the casaccia eventually formed Morris Sato Studio in 1996. “As architects, nerve—and the architects feel confident that their investment will

COURTESY wood end table, juxtaposed with contemporary pieces, we’re not involved with faux contextualism or hindered by a review pay off. Morris has suggested they publish a monograph of their and the white leather board,” notes Morris as the Issey Miyake–clad couple discuss their work as a sales strategy; meanwhile, they are happy to invite friends PHOTOS Facet sofa and armchair, relentless search for the perfect site on which to build two 21st- and clients to come visit their new launch pad. by French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. EXTERIOR

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