Sofía Sanchez De Betak, in an Equipment Shirt, Peers Into the Mirror-Paneled Lounge of the Home She Shares with Her Husband, Alexandre

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19 MAKING AN IMPACT Designer Yinka Ilori gives new life to old furniture . . . THIS LAMPSHADE IS Olafur Eliasson’s solar MADE FROM UPCYCLED T-SHIRT FABRICS. lanterns illuminate ORALU SHADE BY the globe . . . the World ASHANTI DESIGN; $350. ASHANTIDESIGN.COM. Monuments Fund protects FOR MORE PRODUCTS architectural vestiges THAT MAKE AN IMPACT, of the Civil Rights TURN TO PAGE 19. Movement . . . Dirk Vander Kooij transforms trash into treasure.

28 IN THE LIGHT After working under the radar for more than 50 years, 56 Mary Corse emerges from the art-world shadows INSIDE A COLORFUL with back-to-back museum NEW YORK CITY APARTMENT DESIGNED and gallery openings. BY MURIEL BRANDOLINI. By Sam Cochran

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12 OBJECT LESSON: PALACE REVOLUTION The story behind Pierre Paulin’s avant-garde Alpha collection. By Hannah Martin

16 DEALER’S EYE: STELLA RUBIN As quilts make a comeback, the D.C. dealer sheds light on the traditional craft. By Hannah Martin

94 RESOURCES The designers, architects, and products featured this month.

96 LAST WORD: HOTBED OF CREATIVITY The Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery captures the ethos of Burning Man. By Sam Cochran

ON OUR COVERS RICKY MARTIN AND JWAN YOSEF, WITH MATTEO SOFÍA SANCHEZ DE AND VALENTINO, IN THEIR BEVERLY HILLS HOME. BETAK, WEARING AN MARTIN WEARS AN ARMANI SHIRT AND CANALI EQUIPMENT SHIRT, IN HER JOGGERS. YOSEF WEARS A LOUIS VUITTON NEW YORK CITY LOFT. SWEATER AND SHOES AND ARMANI TROUSERS. “NAUGHTY BY NATURE,” MATTEO AND VALENTINO WEAR ARMANI JUNIOR PAGE 62. PHOTOGRAPHY TROUSERS. SCULPTURE ON LEFT BY LARRY BELL. BY FRANÇOIS HALARD. “DOMESTIC BLISS,” PAGE 48. PHOTOGRAPHY BY STYLED BY MICHAEL TREVOR TONDRO. STYLED BY MICHAEL REYNOLDS. BARGO. FASHION STYLING FASHION STYLING BY DOUGLAS VANLANINGHAM. BY MARTI ARCUCCI. FROM TOP: COURTESY OF ASHANTI DESIGN; CHRISTOPHER STURMAN; ON RICKY MARTIN COVER: © 2018 LARRY BELL/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK BELL/ARTISTS © 2018 LARRY COVER: STURMAN; ON RICKY MARTIN OF ASHANTI DESIGN; CHRISTOPHER COURTESY FROM TOP:

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LOUIS VUITTON ARTISTIC DIRECTOR NICOLAS GHESQUIÈRE HAS A PAIR OF ORIGINAL PIERRE PAULIN SOFAS IN HIS PARIS APARTMENT.

Palace Revolution How Georges Pompidou’s attempt to reinvigorate the French furniture industry rendered one of today’s most coveted design trophies—Pierre Paulin’s avant-garde Alpha collection

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object lesson 1 РЕЛИЗ hen Georges Pompidou and Jean ПОДГОТОВИЛА Coural—head of the Mobilier ГРУППА VK.COM/ National, an agency of the French Ministry of Culture—vowed to WSNWS jump-start the nation’s suffering W design industry in the late 1960s, they knew just what would get the world’s attention: a buzzy redo of the president’s Élysée Palace apartment by the young French talent Pierre Paulin. Paulin delivered. Plopped in his out-of-this-world rooms were sculptural sofas and chairs molded from strips of wood wrapped in foam and upholstered in leather. In no time, visiting dignitaries were ogling the French furnishings of the future. A testament to Paulin’s forward thinking, the series—known to most as Élysée—didn’t gain a cult following until the early 2000s, when it reemerged at New York gallery Demisch Danant. “People knew Paulin, but they didn’t know about the French production,” explains Suzanne Demisch. “They were hard to find, even then.” Louis Vuitton’s Nicolas Ghesquière snapped up some of the first pieces to resurface. “The sofa is a beautiful addition to my personal collection,” he says. The fashionable world soon followed suit. While the rare originals—put into a brief production by French manufacturer Alpha that ended around 1973—didn’t immediately invigorate the nation’s furniture industry, the renewed interest in the series has spawned some of the desired 2 effect: Paulin democratized the design in 2007, when he devised an easier-to- 4 manufacture version of the chair called Pumpkin for French maker Ligne Roset (ligne-roset.com). And just last year the Paulin estate reissued the designs (now called Alpha and available at gallery Ralph Pucci), following the original specifications and made-in-France mandate. As for a contemporary collaboration with France’s 3 new first in command? “We are in talks with [Emmanuel] Macron,” reveals Paulin’s son Benjamin. “I hope it will be a good ending.” ralph pucci.net —HANNAH MARTIN

1. A PUMPKIN SOFA—AN OFFSHOOT REDESIGNED BY PAULIN AND PRODUCED BY LIGNE ROSET IN THE 2000S—IN FLEUR DELESALLE’S PARIS HOME. 2. PUMPKIN CHAIR IN BLUE. 3. ALPHA CHAIR. 4. A MAGENTA

PUMPKIN ELECTRIFIES DAVID OLIVIER’S MADRID APARTMENT. 4. RICARDO LABOUGLE OF ARCHIVES PAULIN; 3. COURTESY 1. VINCENT LEROUX; 2. LIGNE ROSET;

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dealer’s eye WHERE ART MEETS COMMERCE

Stella Rubin As quilts make a comeback, 2 the D.C. dealer sheds light 3 on the traditional craft

SPECIALTY: Nineteenth- and early- 20th-century American quilts. STITCH IN TIME: The earliest date back to the 1700s, but most American quilts were made between the 1850s and 1870s. QUILTING CAPITALS: Baltimore and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. “They were settled early by people who were wealthy enough to have the luxury of time,” Rubin says. EARLY ACQUISITION: An 18th- century quilt made from block- printed Indian palampores. Now it’s at the International 5 Quilt Study Center & Museum in Nebraska. LOOK FOR: Circles and points. “It’s very difﬁcult to get edges sharp. There’s a pattern heavy in both called New York Beauty 4 1. LONE STAR QUILT, that is very unusual.” CIRCA 1880. 2. CIRCA- RARE FIND: “This wreath quilt [see right] is one of the few 1880 FRIENDSHIP SAMPLER QUILT. pieces in my collection we’ve been able to trace back to 3. CIRCA-1890 the actual maker. We connected the signature to a mother ALPHABET QUILT. 4. FLORAL WREATH and daughter in Vermont, which isn’t known for having QUILT, 1860. 5. TRIP a prevalence of quilters.” AROUND THE WORLD QUILT, CIRCA 1880. HUNTING: Baltimore album quilts, “which were created between 1845 and 1855 and are known for complex appliqué patterns.” POPULAR REQUEST: Patriotic quilts. “They were not made continuously—only at times of war or when a state was coming into the Union—so they’re hard to ﬁnd.”

stellarubinantiques.com —HANNAH MARTIN OF STELLA RUBIN (5) STEVE GOLDBERG/COURTESY

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Rescue Mission 2 The British-Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori gives new life to old furniture 3

1. DESIGNER YINKA ILORI IN HIS LONDON STUDIO. 2. & 3. UPCYCLED CHAIRS FROM HIS 2017

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Yinka Ilori can’t turn away a stray. “I see a chair by the road and hear it shouting, ‘Pick me up! There’s more in me!’ ” jokes the British- Nigerian designer, who began upcycling discarded seats while studying at London Metropolitan University. This past fall, he burst onto the scene at London Design Festival. Collaborating with Restoration Station, a not-for-proﬁt that teaches recovering addicts to repair furniture, Ilori gave bright new futures to some broken-down chairs. 2 Frames were restored, then painted in happy hues, and seats were covered in Dutch wax prints. Outside CitizenM hotel, meanwhile, Ilori 1 created a playground of Technicolor slides and swings. That, too, is getting repurposed, having found a home among Bow Arts’ affordable studio spaces at Royal Albert Wharf. yinkailori.com —HANNAH MARTIN

1. & 2. MORE OF ILORI’S COLORFUL CHAIRS.

3. OLAFUR ELIASSON AT WORK IN HIS COPENHAGEN STUDIO. 4. LITTLE SUN DIAMOND, THE NEWEST ADDITION TO HIS SERIES OF SOLAR LANTERNS. 5. A GROUP OF LITTLE SUN ORIGINALS.

Bright Ideas 5 IT’S BEEN NEARLY 15 YEARS since Olafur Eliasson’s career-catapulting installation The Weather Project, wherein the artist transformed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into its own radiant atmosphere, conjuring sun and sky. These days he continues to spread light, albeit on a global scale. Launched in 2012 with engineer Frederik Ottesen, his nonprofit Little Sun Foundation helps bring electricity to the billion-plus people living without it, distributing solar-powered LED lanterns and chargers throughout the world. This past September, the initiative launched its third device, the gem- like Little Sun Diamond (available through MoMA Design Store; momastore .org). For every device sold, another is made affordable to those in need, the impact of which is manifold. “The trickle-down effect is real,” Eliasson says, referring to the myriad educational, economic, and health effects. Access to light, he explains, allows students to study after sundown. Light improves safety, and the lamp reduces a household’s need to burn firewood or kerosene, ameliorating air quality and living conditions. Moreover, charging a lamp alerts people to their own footprint. “If you can show people what energy is, you can make them understand consumption,” says Eliasson. So far, he estimates, Little Sun has touched the lives of more than one million people, among them thousands of recent hurricane victims in littlesun .com —SAM COCHRAN Puerto Rico. Talk about lighting the way. WEILL; 4. KRISTIAN ROSÉN; 5. RASMUS WENG KARLSEN 1. AND 2. DAN

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1. THE BARBERSHOP AT BEN MOORE HOTEL IN MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, A FAVOR- ITE MEETING SPOT OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND HIS FELLOW ACTIVISTS. 2. DR. KING LEADING A MARCH FROM SELMA TO MONTGOMERY IN 1965.

Forward March 2 The World Monuments Fund steps up to help protect Alabama’s architectural vestiges of the Civil Rights Movement

he buildings are humble, functional. There are sturdy, redbrick churches and modest houses with deep porches beneath overhangs that ward T off the heavy Southern heat. There’s even a barbershop, its row of seats where customers wait like a congregation kneeling before an altar. Seemingly unremarkable pieces of 20th-century America, other places on the 2018 Watch are a 12th-century minaret these structures are in fact quite the contrary: extraordinary in Mosul, Iraq, and the Jewish Quarter in Essaouira, Morocco. artifacts of the Civil Rights Movement, places where Martin Joshua David, WMF’s president and CEO, says the Alabama Luther King Jr. preached, where Freedom Riders found shelter locations ﬁt into an evolving mission to recognize “places from mobs, and where social-justice activists huddled to that reﬂect the most treasured human values. strategize their nonviolent quest for human rights. More than “We tend to know this part of American history through a dozen such structures in Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, individuals—Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks—or particular have now been placed on the 2018 World Monuments Watch, actions, like the voting-rights march and bus boycott,” says a biennial list of cultural sites at risk of decay or destruction. David. “We have less of an understanding of the community The World Monuments Fund (WMF), which administers in which they took place. To see the physical context of these the Watch, is most often associated with preserving places lives and this movement is incredibly engaging and inspiring.” of undisputed beauty, like the Taj Mahal, or archaeological Valda Harris Montgomery, daughter of prominent local

signiﬁcance, such as Machu Picchu. Indeed, among the 24 leader Dr. Richard H. Harris Jr., remembers when King, VIA GETTY IMAGES 2. STEVE SCHAPIRO/CORBIS 1. WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ;

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1 DISCOVERIES PLASTIC ARTS “I want to create furniture without guilt,” says Dutch designer Dirk Vander Kooij, whose custom robots can squeeze thick strings of plastic into a chair, bench, or chandelier. The ingredients? Discarded refrigerators, garden chairs, CDs, and more. “Anyone can make a beautiful object out of bronze,” he notes. “The real challenge is to turn garbage into a museum piece.” dirkvanderkooij.com —H.M. 1. MONTGOMERY’S DEXTER AVENUE KING MEMORIAL 2 BAPTIST CHURCH. 2. BROWN CHAPEL A.M.E. CHURCH, IN SELMA.

then the new pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, moved into 3 the parsonage just doors down from her childhood home in 1954, and when 33 Freedom Riders, protesting segregation on interstate buses, were attacked in 1961. “The National Guard brought them here to our home, all bloodied and beaten,” she says. “My family housed and fed them. My daddy was a pharmacist, so he could provide medicine.” The young activists stayed for several days, during which 3. MELTINGPOT BISTRO King and fellow leaders Ralph Abernathy, James Farmer, TABLE. 4. CHANGING John Lewis, and Diane Nash gathered to pray and strategize, VASE. 5. MELTINGPOT SIDE TABLE. ALL eventually deciding to continue with the dangerous mission. AVAILABLE FROM THE The house, the parsonage, and the church are now on the FROZEN FOUNTAIN. FROZENFOUNTAIN.COM Watch list, as are other churches and houses, in addition to the Ben Moore Hotel, where black travelers found respite at a time when whites-only hotels turned them away. Several of the sites already have landmark status, but with 4 government funding for preservation uncertain, community organizers hope that the Watch designation will help attract philanthropy. “These sites are very important not just to African-American history but to American history and the history of nonviolent social change,” says Andrea L. Taylor, president and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. The Alabama consortium’s nomination predated the August rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the death of a counterprotester. But as the nation delves deeper into a debate over the legitimacy of Confederate monuments, it is impossible to ignore the symbolism of the WMF’s memori- 5 alizing sites where civil-rights crusaders lived and worked. “Even with all the victories of the Civil Rights Movement, the legacies of slavery and racism continue to play a deﬁnitive role,” David says. “We need to look at all of the sites related to this part of American history—its most troubling and —JULIE L. BELCOVE inspirational hours.” IN CAROL M. HIGHSMITH'S OF ALABAMA PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION LANDEGGER F. 2. THE GEORGE 1. WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ; KOOIJ DIVISION; 3., 4., AND 5. DIRK VANDER PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF CONGRESS, AMERICA, LIBRARY

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DISCOVERIES THE FAÇADE OF MARY CORSE’S L.A. STUDIO FEATURES HER 2016 INSTALLATION UNTITLED (WHITE LIGHT BANDS). BELOW THE ARTIST.

estled in a canyon on the outskirts of Los Angeles, artist Mary Corse’s house and studio are a short drive—but a world away—from the city’s hustle and bustle. Cell service cuts out en route to her home, which is reached N via a single-lane bridge and winding dirt road. Neighbors are few and far between, affording Corse ample room to paint in private. Which is what she’s been doing— quietly, steadily—for more than five decades, building an important body of work while innovating on pace with established pioneers of the Light and Space movement. This May, however, she will take an overdue step center stage, with a long-term installation at Dia:Beacon and a debut show at London’s Lisson Gallery, followed by her first solo museum survey at the Whitney in June. “Mary’s work eschews easy categorization,” says Alexis Lowry, an associate curator at Dia. “As early as 1966, she was making light-based work that was as advanced as anything by more recognizable figures like Doug Wheeler or James Turrell. But she was also radically different, using paint to harness light and make space within her paintings that extends beyond the physical.” The art world, Lowry notes, is only now giving In the Light Corse the attention she has long deserved. “A lot of Dia’s recent focus has been looking at work made by women in the sixties After working under the and seventies that has been underappreciated.” Born in Berkeley, California, Corse started painting at the radar for more than 50 age of five, finding teenage inspiration in the abstract work of years, Mary Corse emerges Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann, and Willem de Kooning. In 1964, she moved to L.A. to study at the Chouinard Art Institute, now from the art-world shadows CalArts, where she began using white to express light while experimenting with abstract-shaped canvases. Early all-white with back-to-back museum paintings encased in Plexiglas (so as to create pockets of space)

and gallery openings eventually gave way to illuminated boxes that employed ANGELES LOS GRIFFIN CORCORAN, AND KAYNE OF THE ARTIST STUDIO/COURTESY EXTERIOR: FLYING THOMPSON FOR JK ARTISTS; KAT MAKEUP BY

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fluorescent lights, then argon-filled neon tubes. Eager to do away with wires, she enrolled in physics classes, engineering her own high-frequency generators using Tesla coils. Her eureka moment came in 1968, when Corse observed reflective road markings and realized she could use the same glass microspheres found in highway paint. “I was able to put light in the painting, not just make a picture of light,” she recalls. Incorporating the prismatic material in bands and arches, she has since created nuanced abstract fields that shift depending on ambient light and the position of the viewer. “I want to express an experience, a moment of truth,” she says. “Perception needs to be in the painting.” The technique has arguably defined her practice ever since, sparking evolutions in primary colors and—using acrylic squares—black, as well as forays into ceramics. This past “I was able to put light in the painting, not just make a picture of light.” —Mary Corse 1 September, her latest paintings debuted in New York and L.A., with simultaneous shows at Lehmann Maupin 2 1. A 2013 PAINTING IN HER STUDIO. and Kayne Griffin Corcoran galleries. The latter 2. AN ARRAY OF BRUSHES, WHICH CORSE CUSTOMIZES. 3. CORSE’S exhibition featured a light box placed in a refrigerated HAND REACHING INTO A BUCKET room, one of several ambitious projects, long gestating, OF HER SIGNATURE ACRYLIC SQUARES. 4. UNTITLED (DNA that she is now realizing. “The cold heightens your SERIES), 2017, INSTALLED AT L.A.’S consciousness,” explains Corse, who also completed her KAYNE GRIFFIN CORCORAN first outdoor installation, a 2016 composition of bands GALLERY THIS PAST SEPTEMBER. on the exterior of her studio. “You can see the focused progression of her work,” says Lowry. “There is a vocabulary of forms and a means of applying paint that she is able to revisit, rethink, and 3 reframe.” Underpinning Corse’s practice is a desire to escape the ego and the tyranny of relentless thought. “All my work is really about inner vision, about going inside yourself,” she notes. “For me, painting is about the human condition. I paint so I can experience that.” —SAM COCHRAN

4 4. FLYING STUDIO/COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND KAYNE GRIFFIN CORCORAN, LOS ANGELES LOS GRIFFIN CORCORAN, AND KAYNE OF THE ARTIST STUDIO/COURTESY 4. FLYING

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MODERN FAMILY A couple and their seven children put down roots in a historic English manor

TEXT BY JANE KELTNER DE VALLE PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICARDO LABOUGLE STYLED BY CAROLINA IRVING A CUSTOM TABLE ANCHORS THE DINING ROOM OF BROOKE AND JULIAN METCALFE’S OXFORDSHIRE HOME. A NEEDLEPOINT RUG LIES ATOP A SISAL CARPET THAT BROOKE PAINTED WITH STRIPES. 1920S PALM-TREE LAMPS FLANK A PAINTING BY ALBERT LOUDEN; FLOWERS AND GLASS VASES FROM FLOWERBX; TIFFANY & CO. PLATES. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.

ARCHDIGEST.COM 35 riter Brooke Metcalfe has deco- youngest daughter of George Curzon, former Viceroy rated many beautiful homes over of India, and a high-society heartbreaker par excel- the years—in New York, Buenos lence—once had a weekend place. Among charming Aires, London, and beyond—but thatched cottages lay a stately 17th-century manor, when she met her future husband, right next to the parish church. As Brooke recounts, Julian Metcalfe, ten years ago, her “We stood up on the wall, looked in, and thought, primary concern wasn’t restoring Oh, my God, it’s perfect. Imagine if it were for sale.” a crumbling palace to pristine It wasn’t—but somehow a tour of the house was condition. It was creating a sanctuary for what would arranged. “It was just so beautiful, I couldn’t stand wbe their own Brady Bunch: “We had seven children to it,” Brooke says, giddy at the memory of the rooms’ make feel at home immediately,” she explains. perfect William and Mary proportions and elegant The couple wanted a weekend place that wasn’t woodwork. “I thought, This is so nice, I’m going too far from their primary residence in London to die. And suddenly Julian said to me, ‘We have to or the children’s boarding schools. And it had to be have this.’ We put an offer in right then and there.” in a setting that wouldn’t feel too rural or desolate. The house was turnkey ready, which left only the “Neither of us rides horses or actually even owns task of decorating. “Time was really important,” says a pair of Hunter boots,” quips Brooke. “So as much Brooke. “We had to create bonds between our kids and as we like to think we’re going to the country, it’s our families. That was more important than anything, really a rather urban escape.” But a necessary one so we decorated the place in literally about four nonetheless, particularly for Julian, a cofounder of months.” They had the luck of starting with lovely the fresh–fast food chains Pret A Manger and Itsu. light and good bones: high ceilings, original mantels “My husband is very involved in his work, and when and cornices. Beyond that, she says, “we threw out we’re in London, every corner he turns he sees one all rules. Because we both like an eclectic look, of his shops,” Brooke continues. “So staying there on there was nothing we could do that would go wrong, a weekend was not his idea of fun.” because nothing had to ﬁt any pattern or mood.” The Metcalfes had placed a bid on a property Off they went—pooling art and furniture from when Julian suggested an impromptu drive through previous homes and scouring auctions, ﬂea markets, the South Oxfordshire village of Great Haseley, and “maddeningly expensive” London shops. where his grandmother—the alluring Baba Metcalfe, “There’s no law or rhyme or reason to it, which was

36 ARCHDIGEST.COM BROOKE ARRANGES HYDRANGEAS ON THE BOFFI KITCHEN ISLAND BENEATH DISCO BALLS. A MODEL OF THE TITANIC SITS ATOP THE CABINET; FLORENCE BROADHURST WALLPAPER COVERS THE REFRIGERATOR DOORS. OPPOSITE THE REAR OF THE 17TH-CENTURY HOUSE.

IN THE SITTING ROOM, GEORGE SMITH SOFAS, ONE UPHOLSTERED WITH PAKISTANI MARRIAGE QUILTS (LEFT) AND THE OTHER A BRUNSCHWIG & FILS VELVET, FACE AN OTTOMAN CLAD IN A JOSEF FRANK FABRIC. THE TRI-ARM FLOOR LAMP AND FLOWER LAMP ARE LONDON ANTIQUES- MARKET FINDS; PAR PUZZLE ON BACK TABLE; PAINTINGS BY TADASHI KAWAMATA, AXEL KULLE, AND BILLY METCALFE.

ARCHDIGEST.COM 39 The gardens are severe, “but it means that we aren’t fussing over dead ﬂowers,” Brooke explains.

AN ANTONY GORMLEY SCULPTURE FACES THE POOL, WHICH IS FRAMED WITH SLATE. LANDSCAPE DESIGN BY CHRISTOPHER BRADLEY-HOLE.

“We threw out all rules,” Brooke says. “Nothing had to fit any pattern or mood.” LEFT IN A GUEST ROOM, CUSTOM MIRRORS WRAPPED IN WALLPAPER FLANK really liberating,” Brooke explains. “We’ve got disco A LINEN-COVERED FOUR-POSTER. VINTAGE balls in the kitchen and fake rhinoceros heads that CHESTS, JAPANESE come from the set of the original Jumanji. In the LAMPS, AND NEEDLE- POINT RUG. ABOVE THE past, I studied things more,” she adds. “For my first PARISH CHURCH RISES New York apartment, I bought a mirrored dining BEYOND THE POOL. table, and it took me a year to find the right chairs for it, so we sat on nothing until then.” With stints at Sotheby’s and Vogue and traveling in a glamorous circle of style cognoscenti, many of whom Brooke has documented in her Bright Young Things tomes about the homes of the chic and stylish—a third edition is on its way—she possesses a well-trained eye. There’s an artful insouciance in what she might call haphazardness. In the dining room, which is painted a pale blush, a dozen “nothing chairs” (her words) are draped with linen slipcovers of varying confectionary hues. When the family dogs urinated on the room’s sisal carpet, Brooke painted over the stains with chocolate-brown and hot-pink stripes. A faded needlepoint rug is layered on top, too, and the resulting effect is so dreamy, you can’t help wanting to thank the offending pups. The family-friendly nature of the house reflects the values that Brooke and Julian hold dear. With its

ARCHDIGEST.COM 43 ABOVE BLUE BRAZILIAN MARBLE AND SHEEPSKIN RUGS GLAMORIZE THE MASTER BATH. OPPOSITE BROOKE’S CHILDREN ISABEL, INES, AND MARINA LOUNGE ON THE SOFA BENEATH OIL PAINTINGS BY GRACE PAILTHORPE. WARREN PLATNER FOR KNOLL COFFEE TABLE.

squashy sofas, and oversize ottoman covered in Still, the heart of the Metcalfes’ home remains vintage Josef Frank fabric, the sitting room is the indoors. “Much of the weekend is based around perfect place to sit around a cozy fire with a book, meals,” Brooke explains, noting that she and the play Legos, or work on a puzzle. Brooke is partial kids often gather in the kitchen, which acts as a test to the hand-carved thousand-plus-piece examples lab for concoctions for Julian’s culinary ventures. from Par Puzzles that date back to her own child- “We spend a lot of time in there watching him mix hood and take months to finish. A painting by Billy and make potions, whether it’s flavors for popcorns Metcalfe, her stepson, hangs there alongside works or yogurt-pot combinations or green smoothies.” by Tadashi Kawamata and Axel Kulle. (Having already swept London, Itsu opens its first Outside, the kids amuse themselves with soccer, New York outpost this spring.) biking, hide-and-seek, and capture the flag amid As for the dining room, “it’s where we all sit, all grounds that are green as far as the eye can see. ages, and everything is shared,” Brooke observes. The Metcalfes enlisted English landscape designer “I think that’s really where the tying together of the Christopher Bradley-Hole, who had worked on a family has happened, at the dining table.” She fondly restoration of the property for its previous owner. recalls one Christmas morning when Julian and For his new clients he planted a dramatic allée of the children raced their new Segways around the linden trees—not for nothing is one of Bradley-Hole’s table with the dogs chasing behind them. books called The Minimalist Garden. The Saturday after I visited Brooke, I receive an “It’s quite severe and architectural,” Brooke email with a picture of a finished puzzle, the same admits of the paucity of blooms, “but it means that one that had lain in disarray on a table in the sitting we aren’t fussing over dead flowers.” Now more time room some months before, when AD had photo- can be spent in the stone-edged lap pool, presided graphed the house. There was no body text. The over by an Antony Gormley sculpture. subject line simply stated: Puzzle complete.

44 ARCHDIGEST.COM design notes THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK

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I love the fact “that it feels very comfortable but holds an aesthetic structure.”

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AN AXEL KULLE PAINTING IS DISPLAYED 1941-01C CHAIR IN ON A REDUNDANT DOOR; A PAR PUZZLE POLAND PEONY; IN PROGRESS ON A TABLE WITH A $2,170. LEE BRUNSCHWIG & FILS FABRIC TABLECLOTH. INDUSTRIES.COM

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DOMESTIC BLISS Globe-trotting superstar Ricky Martin trades in his nomadic existence to set up house in Beverly Hills with artist Jwan Yosef and their twin sons

TEXT BY MAYER RUS PHOTOGRAPHY BY TREVOR TONDRO STYLED BY MICHAEL REYNOLDS

IN THE SUNLIT LIBRARY, A POUL KJÆRHOLM–STYLE DAYBED, ARMCHAIRS IN A KNOLLTEXTILES FABRIC WITH PILLOWS BY COMMUNE DESIGN, AND A VINTAGE RATTAN CHAIR. CANDLE BY BAOBAB COLLECTION ON KRAVET TABLE; RUG BY RH. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES. “Even though the house had been greatly expanded over the years, we still wanted to respect its original vision,” Martin says. SABBAN FOR MS MANAGEMENT MAITAL GROOMING BY ARMY; JOEY NIEVES FOR PHOTOGENICS HAIR BY ABOVE FURNITURE BY TEAK WAREHOUSE, CUSHIONED IN A SUNBRELLA FABRIC, SITS POOLSIDE. CONCRETE CYLINDERS BY RH. CANDLES BY BAOBAB COLLECTION. RIGHT THE PATH TO THE FRONT DOOR. OPPOSITE THE FAMILY GATHERS IN THE ENTRY. MARTIN WEARS A SHIRT, SWEATER, AND TROUSERS BY CANALI AND SHOES BY GIORGIO ARMANI; YOSEF IS IN A JIL SANDER SHIRT AND GIORGIO ARMANI TROUSERS; MATTEO (NEAR LEFT) AND VALENTINO BOTH WEAR ARMANI JUNIOR. FASHION STYLING BY DOUGLAS VANLANINGHAM.

ARCHDIGEST.COM 51 o say that the 40-something Ricky Martin Today, however, the family’s concept of home has an maintains a boyish appeal may be the under- actual address, specifically in Beverly Hills. “We were statement of the year. The Puerto Rican considering living in London or New York City, but then we superstar seized the spotlight as an angelic decided to rent in Los Angeles for a month, to get a feel for 12-year-old phenom in the boy band Menudo, the vibe. L.A. totally caught us off guard—we loved it. By the beloved by teenyboppers and grandmothers end of the month, we knew we wanted to be here,” Yosef alike. He has rarely been out of the public recalls. After a marathon three-day house-hunting expedi- eye since. Fresh off a blockbuster 2017 resi- tion, the couple settled on the first place they had scouted, dency at the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino a serene, modernist residence with a surprising architectural in Las Vegas, Martin’s latest star turn has him pedigree. At the core of the 11,000-square-foot dwelling was portraying Gianni Versace’s boyfriend Antonio a 3,000-square-foot home designed by acclaimed midcentury D’Amico in producer Ryan Murphy’s The Assassination architect Gregory Ain for psychiatrist Fred Feldman and of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, on FX this January. his wife, Elaine, in 1953. Yet for all his success, Martin’s greatest joy lies in the “Even though the house had been greatly expanded over thappy home life he has built with fiancé Jwan Yosef, a Syrian- the years, we still wanted to respect its original vision—the born Swedish artist, and their nine-year-old twins, Matteo and clean lines, the openness, and the sense of calm,” Martin says. Valentino. The couple met two years ago in London, where With less than two months from purchase to move-in, the Yosef was living at the time, and spent the next twelve months couple enlisted AD100 designer Nate Berkus, whom they had traveling the globe on Martin’s One World Tour. The children met through mutual friends, to facilitate the process. were with them for the entire ride. Fortunately for everyone involved, Martin and Yosef neither “Tino and Matteo were born on the road. They’re used to required nor desired a miraculous makeover. spending two weeks in one place and then moving on,” Martin “We weren’t interested in a completely decorated home says. “Our kids are stable when we are together. Wherever with a specific look done to the last detail. We wanted to we happen to be, that’s home.” get the basics covered so it would be comfortable for us and LEFT A DAYBED BY BASSAMFELLOWS SITS ADJACENT TO AN EAMES CHAIR IN THE MASTER BEDROOM. CERAMIC VESSEL BY ERIC ROINESTAD FOR THE FUTURE PERFECT; SHAG RUG BY WOVEN. FAR LEFT ARTWORK BY KERRY SKARBAKKA HANGS ABOVE THE RH BED. FLOOR CUSHIONS BY ADAM POGUE FOR COMMUNE DESIGN; PENDANTS BY TOM DIXON.

the kids, but we left plenty of room for the house to grow trophies of contemporary acquisition in favor of intriguing, and evolve in the years to come,” Yosef explains. lesser-known young artists’ creations. Berkus seconds the notion. “Ricky and Jwan are both “I’m a young artist myself, and it’s fun to live with work artists, and they have very particular ideas about how they created by my friends and fellow artists,” says Yosef, whose want to live,” the designer observes. “Ultimately, I helped own compelling paintings and prints are displayed to great give them a solid, neutral foundation that they can cultivate advantage on the crisp white walls. Meanwhile, Martin’s together to make the home truly theirs. The sense of place musical background is reflected in a series of black-and-white is all about the future of their family.” photographs of legendary singers on the order of Janis Joplin, The foundation that Berkus and his clients laid relies David Bowie, John Lennon, Louis Armstrong, and Frank heavily on classic modern designs of the 20th century— Sinatra. The idiosyncratic assemblage also includes a few blue- including signature pieces by Ray and Charles Eames, Milo chip pieces, such as a recently acquired sculpture by Larry Baughman, and Hans Wegner—invigorated by an array of Bell and a fantastic canvas by Cuban artist Wifredo Lam that spruce contemporary furnishings by the likes of BassamFellows Martin purchased in 1998, when he began collecting Latin and Tom Dixon. The mix also encompasses a few sentimental American art in earnest. favorites, among them the long wood dining table, an erstwhile The home’s former yoga room has now been converted desk that Martin acquired in 1996. into an artist’s atelier for Yosef, and Martin has plans to “It was my first real piece of furniture, and it works per- build a recording studio on the property. As for Matteo and fectly here,” the singer says. “Jwan has impeccable taste, so I Valentino, the kids are looking forward to serious playtime give him most of the credit for how good everything looks,” in a tree house that has yet to be installed amid the branches he adds. “My main concern was for comfort and practicality, of one of the gorgeous specimens that dot the estate. and I think we’ve accomplished that.” “There’s so much potential for crafting a vibrant, creative One of the delights of moving into their new home was environment for our family,” Martin says. “You can never the ability to incorporate works from the couple’s nascent but be sure what the future will bring, but I can’t wait to growing art collection, which largely eschews the predictable find out.”

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CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE BISTRO CHAIRS BY TEAK WAREHOUSE SURROUND A CUSTOM CONCRETE TABLE BY JAMES DE WULF. IN THE LIVING ROOM, A WIFREDO LAM PAINTING HANGS OVER A CHAISE LONGUE BY RH MODERN; FLOOR LAMP BY AERIN; STOOL BY NOIR. HANS WEGNER CHAIRS IN THE DINING ROOM; RUG BY WOVEN. A LAMP BY SCHOOLHOUSE ELECTRIC & SUPPLY CO. AND A GLASS SCULPTURE BY JOHN HOGAN FOR THE FUTURE PERFECT TOP A VINTAGE MAISON RAPHAEL CONSOLE IN THE ENTRY; PAINTING BY CORYDON COWANSAGE. PREVIOUS SPREAD: © KERRY SKARBAKKA/COURTESY OF GALLERY FIFTY ONE, ANTWERP; CURRENT PAGE: © 2018 LAM/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS © 2018 LAM/ARTISTS FIFTY ONE, ANTWERP; CURRENT PAGE: OF GALLERY SKARBAKKA/COURTESY PREVIOUS SPREAD: © KERRY

54 ARCHDIGEST.COM “We weren’t interested in a completely decorated home with a speciﬁc look done to the last detail,” Yosef explains.

ABOVE IN THE BOYS’ BEDROOM, A FLATWEAVE RUG BY RH COVERS THE FLOOR. BUNK BED BY RH TEEN; HANGING CHAIR BY PIER 1 IMPORTS WITH SHEEPSKIN THROW BY CB2.

★ EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: RICKY MARTIN AT HOME, ARCHDIGEST.COM. BOLD CHOICE Designer Muriel Brandolini gives a classic New York apartment a colorfully modern makeover

TEXT BY VICKY LOWRY PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRISTOPHER STURMAN STYLED BY MICHAEL BARGO

IN THE DEN, TWO GIANFRANCO FRATTINI ARMCHAIRS SIT ASTRIDE A WOOD-GRAIN COCKTAIL TABLE BY LUDWIG & DOMINIQUE. CHANDELIER BY GINO SARFATTI; ÉRIC GIZARD SOFA IN A SAHCO FABRIC; ARTWORKS BY SCOTT PETERMAN (LEFT) AND MILTON AVERY. FABRIC BORDER, IVORY #15 BY MURIEL BRANDOLINI FOR HOLLAND & SHERRY. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES. ARCHDIGEST.COM 57 irds of a feather,” as the saying goes, “flock together.” But when opposites attract, the relationship can be downright electrifying. AD100 interior designer Muriel Brandolini—an ardent enthusiast of arresting colors and madcap patterns— couldn’t be more different in temperament ABOVE A FABRIC BY HARLEQUIN COVERS AN OFFICE/GUEST from one of her longtime New York clients, BEDROOM. CORK BED BY CITY JOINERY; CUSTOM PILLOWS BY a cerebral, business-minded woman who BRENDA COLLING IN HOLLAND & SHERRY CORDUROYS; RUG BY FEDORA DESIGN. LEFT ARTWORKS BY ALLAN MCCOLLUM initially discovered Brandolini’s work in a magazine and picked HANG IN A FOYER. STAIR RUNNER (EXECUTED BY STUDIO bup the telephone. “I’m a very analytical, linear thinker,” says the FOUR NYC) AND RUG BY FEDORA DESIGN. client, who asked the Manhattan-based decorator to revitalize an Upper West Side apartment she and her husband had bought a few years ago. “Muriel leads with passion and feeling. I wanted husband, has a strong collection of art, including works by to ask questions, and she would just say, ‘It’s beautiful. I can’t Agnes Martin, Milton Avery, Fay Ray, and Caio Fonseca. “But tell you why it will work, but it will.’ ” we thought we could make it distinctive with Muriel.” The couple’s duplex apartment, on high floors in a hand- Bold, eclectic interiors are the calling card of the designer, some prewar redbrick building—boldface residents have the daughter of a French-Venezuelan mother and a Vietnamese included Harrison Ford and Georgina Bloomberg—boasted father. She was raised in Saigon and then on Martinique, studied fantastic views and abundant light. Darkness, in fact, was fashion in Paris, and married a debonair Italian financier,

the primary reason they vacated their previous Brandolini- Nuno Brandolini. She didn’t train to be a decorator, so she’s not FINE ART AND JACKSON OF THE ARTIST 2005/COURTESY designed apartment, which they had shared with their children beholden to some set formula about furniture placement or for 15 years. But the rooms in the new place generally were how high artworks should hang on a wall. She does, however, small (except for the sprawling second-story master bedroom), have a prescription for rooms lacking volume: “When a ceiling and the coffered ceilings throughout, while classically elegant, is low, if you don’t create busyness, you see misery.” were low. The clients considered undertaking a major renova- One thing decorator and client do have in common is an BASIN 1, BAD WATER tion—to take down some walls and better reconﬁgure the allergy to beige, monochromatic interiors. “My husband and I spaces—but ultimately chose a more cosmetic approach. “The like things to be interesting and energetic. We like furniture interiors were very traditional and not really our style—we and design that make you think,” says the wife. In her ofﬁce/ PREVIOUS SPREAD: FABRIC BORDER: COURTESY OF HOLLAND & SHERRY; ARTWORK: ARTWORK: OF HOLLAND & SHERRY; BORDER: COURTESY PREVIOUS SPREAD: FABRIC prefer things more modern,” explains the wife, who, with her guest bedroom, one wall is covered in red felt, another in a PETERMAN, SCOTT RIGHT A VLADIMIR KAGAN CHAISE JOINS A CONSOLE BY HERVÉ VAN DER STRAETEN IN A COLORFUL BEDROOM. ON WALLS, HAND-STITCH FABRIC BY QUADRILLE. BELOW BRANDOLINI TOOK INSPIRATION FROM SRI LANKAN CANDLESTICKS FOR THE DINING ROOM’S STRIPED COLUMNS. TABLE BY CITY JOINERY; CHAIRS BY ROLAND RAINER; DINNERWARE BY L’OBJET; NAPKINS BY SFERRA.

painstakingly hand-painted in stripes—every one a different width and hue. “If I didn’t go for it enough with color, she would say, ‘Go for it more,’ ” Brandolini recalls. For the couple’s first apartment collaboration, the designer took her client to Milan to scour the design boutiques and vintage shops. “She wanted to see every inch of the city,” Brandolini remembers. “She was always, ‘What’s next? What’s next?’ ” This time around the women dug deeper, visiting warehouses and garages in Milan and Turin that held furnishings from 1900 through the midcentury that would eventually get scooped up by dealers. They weren’t shopping for expensive pieces, just ones with good bones—such as 1960s floor lamps, a 1950s French desk—amid the broken chair legs and frayed fabrics. “They’re common things that come from the grandmother, or an uncle who has passed,” Brandolini says. “Italy is so secret. I go to these dark, out-of-the-way warehouses and I wonder if I’m not going to be murdered,” she observes with a laugh. But it was while simply walking on a street in Milan that the two women spied through the door of an architectural firm a 1960s light fixture made of various white-glass shapes dangling at different lengths. It was exactly what they wanted for the apartment’s central stairway. So they entered the office, Brandolini negotiated with the owner, and a week later it was on its way to New York. During the process the husband had few requests, just large leaf-pattern print, and the bedspread is a busy stripe. that the seating be comfortable and the apartment feel homey. Matchy-matchy it is not. The husband’s office features “We wanted furniture that you could put coffee cups on—not three different corduroy wall coverings, and the moldings precious or delicate—and Muriel totally embraced that,” says have three shades of paint, while a lemon-yellow quilted the wife. “I’m laughing,” she continues, “because my husband wall cocoons that massive master bedroom. And forget about was not very involved, and the decor would have ended up making the dining room’s four decorative columns, installed 80 percent the same even if I wasn’t involved. This is how it by previous owners, disappear by, say, painting them the works with Muriel. She immerses herself in a project and same bronze color as the walls. Inspired by wood candlesticks moves very quickly. Yet she is very deliberate. She trusts her she had seen in Sri Lanka, Brandolini had each column eye, and we trusted it too.”

ARCHDIGEST.COM 59 MURIEL’S SPARK Whatever the space, Brandolini brings her signature mıx of pattern and color

MURIEL BRANDOLINI. FABRIC BORDER, WHITE #27 BY MURIEL BRANDOLINI FOR HOLLAND & SHERRY.

A SOPHISTICATED PAIRING OF GEOMETRIC AND FLORAL IN A NEW YORK CITY HOME.

RIGHT IVORY #16 COTTON BY MURIEL BRANDOLINI FOR HOLLAND & SHERRY. TO THE TRADE. HOLLANDSHERRY.COM.

BELOW WHITE #22 COTTON BY MURIEL BRANDOLINI FOR HOLLAND & SHERRY.

ABOVE SILK MATKA #7 BY MURIEL BRANDOLINI FOR HOLLAND & SHERRY. A BIRD SOARS ACROSS THE WALL OF A 51ST-FLOOR APARTMENT IN A MIDTOWN MANHATTAN HIGH-RISE.

IN THE KITCHEN OF BRANDOLINI’S MANHATTAN TOWNHOUSE, VINTAGE CZECH CHAIRS SURROUND A JEAN DUNAND TABLE. RANGE BY VIKING.

A RICH GREEN CEILING ENLIVENS THE LIVING ROOM OF BRANDOLINI’S HAMPTONS BEACH HOUSE. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: FERNANDO BENGOECHEA; BJÖRN WALLANDER; PIETER ESTERSOHN; BJÖRN WALLANDER; WALLANDER; PIETER ESTERSOHN; BJÖRN WALLANDER; BJÖRN FERNANDO BENGOECHEA; LEFT: FROM TOP CLOCKWISE OF HOLLAND & SHERRY COURTESY MEIER. FABRICS: RAYMOND

ARCHDIGEST.COM 61 SOFÍA SANCHEZ DE BETAK, IN AN EQUIPMENT SHIRT, PEERS INTO THE MIRROR-PANELED LOUNGE OF THE HOME SHE SHARES WITH HER HUSBAND, ALEXANDRE. VINTAGE CABINET, TABLE, AND SOFA. OPPOSITE LINEN-COVERED SOFAS BY ALEXANDRE DE BETAK ENVELOP THE TATAMI ROOM. VINTAGE JAPANESE MONSTER FIGURINES ARE DISPLAYED THROUGHOUT THE SPACE. FASHION STYLING BY MARTI ARCUCCI. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES. Naughty by Nature

For Alexandre and Sofía Sanchez de Betak, an old-school SoHo loft provides the perfect lab for creative living and unconventional style

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ARCHDIGEST.COM 63 Take one step inside the Manhattan loft of Alexandre de Betak and his wife, Sofía Sanchez de Betak, and you know you’re not in Kansas anymore. The epic social/ entertaining space at the heart of the home—“living room” doesn’t begin to describe it—feels like a set for a Pina Bausch performance or some outré production of an Ionesco or Pirandello play. Among the dramatis personae are postmodern chairs by Peter Shire and Marinus A. Vljim, freestanding chain lamps by artist Franz West, pyramidal light sculptures by André Cazenave, and a Louis Durot seat in the form of a woman’s upturned torso and legs. There’s also a Vespa parked by one of the columns and a swing hanging from the ceiling. The mise-en-scène is redolent of drama and possibility. Given the homeowners’ résumés, the eccentric milieu should come as no surprise. Alexandre built his reputation

64 ARCHDIGEST.COM THE MASSIVE KITCHEN ISLAND WAS MADE TO ALEXANDRE’S EXACTING SPECIFICATIONS. SINK FITTINGS BY CHICAGO FAUCETS; ÉTIENNE FERMIGIER BARSTOOLS. SOFÍA WEARS A VALENTINO DRESS AND GOLDEN GOOSE SNEAKERS; ALEXANDRE WEARS A SAVE KHAKI UNITED SHIRT. OPPOSITE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE PINNED UP IN A CORRIDOR. A VINTAGE THROW FROM OPPOSITE A WELDED PAULA RUBENSTEIN LTD. STEEL LAMP BY FRANZ COVERS AN ALEXANDRE WEST STANDS IN THE DE BETAK BED. PIERLUIGI MAIN LIVING AREA. GHIANDA CHAIR; STOOL THE FLOORING IS BY LOUIS DUROT. WEATHERED BARN WOOD FROM CREATIVE FLOOR SOLUTIONS. transgressing the boundaries between the worlds of fashion, build an apartment from scratch and not make a secret room,” art, and design. His namesake firm, Bureau Betak, has pro- Sofía explains matter-of-factly. duced some of the most indelible fashion shows, events, and The fun continues in the bedrooms of Alexandre’s two exhibitions of the past three decades—with the impresario teenage sons, Amael and Aidyn. One room is tucked discreetly himself taking on the roles of art director and designer. His in a loft space above the mirrored bar; when the kids are in Argentine-born wife, the former Sofía Sanchez Barrenechea, residence, the stripper pole becomes more of a fireman’s pole, plotted her own trajectory through the beau monde as a perfect for fast escapes. The other bedroom is constructed high-profile art director, travel guru, and fashion maven. The of metal scaffolding, Erector Set–style, with platform beds and couple’s 2014 wedding in Patagonia featured ushers sporting an integrated desk below. “This was my dream when I was a Darth Vader helmets and a giant blow-up of the Star Wars kid,” Alexandre muses. As for the child he and Sofía are expect- villain—a bit of cheeky pop culture to leaven the glamour of ing, he says they’ve considered setting up a baby tent in the the bride’s Valentino couture gown and the resplendent middle of the loft. natural beauty of the setting. For gastronomic pleasures, Alexandre created the ultimate Playfulness and humor are clearly essential parts of the chef’s kitchen, centered on a monumental stainless-steel island de Betak program. Witness the tatami room in their Manhattan that is the ne plus ultra of bespoke cookery. “The kitchen was loft, which includes three types of sake on tap, a video projec- custom fabricated, cabinet by cabinet, by a Chinese metalwork- tor, and a hydraulic table that rises mysteriously from the floor ing shop in Brooklyn. I spent a year with those guys, driving for casual dining. Or the proliferation of vintage Japanese toys them nuts,” he recalls. Predictably, the couple enjoys entertain- throughout the home. “I have a big family of robots. They’re ing, and the kitchen allows them to do so on a grand scale, my little friends, my little monsters,” Alexandre says of his long- whether that means cooking pasta for 100 for a book launch or time collecting obsession. For more adult divertissements, making paella for a throng of fashion-forward guests. there’s a handy stripper pole in a hidden, mirror-paneled lounge But for all of its sybaritic bells and whistles, the apartment where guests retire for postprandial high jinks. “You can’t hews more closely to the rough-and-ready SoHo artists’

ARCHDIGEST.COM 67 “The loft has a minimalist feel, raw but warm,” Alexandre says.

LOUIS DUROT’S SCULPTURAL SAINT-SIÈGE CHAIR IS A FOCUS OF THE LIVING AREA, WHICH ALSO FEATURES A SUITE OF UPHOLSTERED ARMCHAIRS AND A SOFA FROM GALERIE BERGER. CASHMERE THROW BY GABRIELA HEARST ON SOFA; ANDRÉ CAZENAVE PYRAMID LAMPS.

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT SOFÍA IN THE MAIN LIVING AREA, WEARING A LINGUA FRANCA SWEATER, RE/DONE JEANS, AND GOLDEN GOOSE SNEAKERS. ALEXANDRE WEARS A SAVE KHAKI UNITED SHIRT AND SAINT LAURENT JEANS. SAKE TAPS IN THE TATAMI ROOM. GAETANO PESCE CHAIRS AT A WORKTABLE IN THE MAIN ROOM. TUB BY DRUMMONDS.

dwellings of the 1960s and ’70s than it does to today’s so- called luxury lofts. The deliberately unfussy materials palette includes weathered ﬂoorboards reclaimed from an upstate New York barn; cabinetry of brushed oak with linen-backed copper grilles; and stainless steel for a dash of early-1980s high- tech realness. Pipes and radiators are largely left exposed, as are the original wood columns and beams. The layout of the space has a similarly old-school loft vibe, particularly in the open-plan core, where one could easily picture the mandarins of Abstract Expressionism performing their alchemy on heroically scaled canvases. “We wanted to respect the history of this place and not try to make it something that it isn’t,” Alexandre says. “The huge room is incredibly versatile, not just for entertaining but also for mounting installations and playing around with different elements from the shows I design. It’s the kind of space that begs for creative experimentation.” Which brings us back to the swing dangling from the ceiling between the living and kitchen areas. For this whimsi- cal amenity, Sofía has a perfectly rational explanation: “It’s very important to have a swing nearby when you feel like swinging.”

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ARCHDIGEST.COM 71 design notes THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK

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I found the French sofa in “the bedroom on Instagram. I’d much rather look at furniture SOFÍA’S WALK-IN WAS DESIGNED than see what people ate that BY CALIFORNIA CLOSETS. morning,” notes Alexandre.

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72 ARCHDIGEST.COM I’m a travel freak. Every trip I take“ expands my view of the world and feeds my soul,” says Sofía.

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ike a character in a fairy tale, during a 2000 trip artist So much so that she had her first attempts—fabricated Rachel Feinstein fell under the spell of Bavaria’s in foam for a 2014 fashion portfolio in Garage, the biannual picturesque towns, sublime landscapes, fantastical art-and-fashion magazine—destroyed. “The big question for L castles, and rococo churches. Further enchantment me was, How can they really be like ceramic?” ensued in Munich at Nymphenburg, the legendary The problem of fabrication continued to haunt Feinstein porcelain factory on the grounds of the royal family’s once- until one day this past July, while working in her Maine studio, upon-a-time summer palace. There she succumbed to her own she suddenly thought, Why can’t I just do them the way maladie de porcelaine, the fabled “porcelain sickness” that Nymphenburg does? and shot off a note to the factory’s general possessed so many aesthetes in the 18th century. email address. Even though Nymphenburg has a record of Feinstein, whose work has included architectural stage flats, collaborating with contemporary artists, she was still surprised period room–inspired installations, and immersive environ- when a response came that same night. “I nearly fell off my ments, found herself drawn to the exuberant figurines modeled seat,” she recalls. By summer’s end she had shipped her models by Franz Anton Bustelli in the 1750s. But rather than the to Germany, and she made her first working trip in September. graceful, colorful characters themselves, the swelling, curva- Crafting and firing such large-scale ceramic pieces presents ceous pedestals upon which they stood were what moved her. many technical issues. Feinstein credits Ingrid Harding, a “What’s so fabulous is how one curve gives into another,” Kentucky native who now heads the production department notes Feinstein, who envisioned replicating Bustelli’s organic at Nymphenburg, for committing to the vision. While four of forms at life size. “They practically killed me, because every these pieces will be on view this month at Gagosian Gallery in time I would get something perfect from one side, I’d go to Los Angeles, Feinstein has big plans for further work, includ- the other side and find it didn’t look right and have to fix the ing a piece that will measure some 12 by 15 feet: “As long as whole thing. I became obsessed with getting it perfect.” Ingrid is into it, I have tons of crazy ideas.” OBSESSION In November 2000, sculptor Rachel Feinstein began a journey that changed her art—and her life

TEXT BY SHAX RIEGLER PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARKUS JANS

LEFT THE ARTIST WORKING AT NYMPHENBURG. BELOW OTTAVIO, GLAZED AND AWAITING SHIPMENT TO THE GAGOSIAN GALLERY IN LOS ANGELES, WHERE IT’S ON VIEW THROUGH

FAR RIGHT: SORIN MORAR/PORZELLAN MANUFAKTUR NYMPHENBURG SORIN MORAR/PORZELLAN MANUFAKTUR RIGHT: FAR FEBRUARY 17.

OPPOSITE RACHEL FEINSTEIN IN NYMPHENBURG WITH THE PIECE CALLED OTTAVIO AFTER IT EMERGED FROM ITS FIRST FIRING IN THE KILN. BELOW SHE SHAPES A PAIR OF SHOES ALONGSIDE ONE OF FRANZ ANTON BUSTELLI’S COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE FIGURES, WHICH INSPIRED THE PROJECT.

ARCHDIGEST.COM 75 ROOM WITH A VIEW KATHRYN HERMAN’S BEDROOM OVERLOOKS A DRAMATIC GARDEN ROOM HOSTING COLOR- THEME PERENNIALS. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES. NGLO ATTITUDE AGarden star Kathryn Herman’s Connecticut demesne reﬂects her passion for classic British landscapes

TEXT BY MITCHELL OWENS ABOVE THE HERMANS’ HOUSE IS A FORMER GROOM’S COTTAGE AT CONNECTICUT’S LEGENDARY PEPPERIDGE FARM. OPPOSITE A STONE WALL, GARLANDED WITH CHINESE WISTERIA, ENCLOSES THE DISCREET SWIMMING POOL.

early two decades ago, Kathryn Herman—a you have?” A tall beech hedge defines Herman’s garden high-flying American landscape designer with room, which has been subdivided by flying buttresses, also of round-the-world clients—spent a transforma- beech, into compartments that shelter flower beds. The dense tive week in England’s Somerset County, taking greenery, sheared once a year to keep it tidy, recalls similarly N in the genius of husband-and-wife horticul- architectonic enclosures at Staffordshire’s Biddulph Grange turalists Sandra and Nori Pope, creators of the and Warwickshire’s Coughton Court. acclaimed gardens at Hadspen House. Referencing the Popes’ thematic plantings, eight of Herman’s “They are colorists, and I was hugely impressed by the subtle compartments are each dedicated to a single color: white, pink, gradations they had established,” Herman recalls. “And I said, purple, blue, yellow, chartreuse, apricot, and black (really dark that’s what I’m going to do for myself when I get the opportunity.” maroon). Here froth leopard lilies, Buckeye Belle peonies, Gold The Popes had transformed 18th-century Hadspen House’s Bullion cornflowers, and much more: 150 different varieties and huge, dilapidated potager into dynamic color-themed gardens counting. “As new plants strike my fancy,” Herman says, “I work that bedazzled novelist and gardener Jamaica Kincaid, who them in.” The two remaining compartments are “still moments,” once wrote, “Nothing matched in a way that I understood.” she says, “filled with one really large boxwood surrounded by But after the Popes decamped to their native Canada in 2005, Alchemilla mollis.” their landlord bulldozed the couple’s Arcadia to make way The perennial garden was planned to be the first thing for a new garden—which, ironically, was never planted. that Herman and her financier husband, Ron, would see every Hadspen’s glories may be gone, but an echo can be found morning from their second-floor bedroom. “I don’t have to at Herman’s Connecticut residence, the remodeled groom’s walk through it to enjoy it,” the designer explains. The garden cottage of a 1920s estate. There the designer has installed room is also on axis with the living room’s bay window, which “a garden that is as true to an English-style garden as I can frames another entrancing view. “I think hard about the inside make it.” That would be a 114-foot-long garden room, packed and the outside,” Herman says. “It’s important to make a with perennials and backed by mature trees, among them the connection between them.” pepperidge trees that gave the property—and original owners Though the garden’s polychrome delights last but from Margaret and Henry Rudkin’s famous bread business—its name. spring to fall, Herman notes that its cold-weather countenance, “A garden room is a wonderful thing—it’s embracing, it’s when the beech leaves turn a fawn color and hang on nearly all structure,” says Herman, who tours English gardens every year winter, pleases too. “After all the perennials fade away, what’s with James Doyle, her coprincipal at Doyle Herman Design left is the structure—beech hedge and rounded boxwood,” she

Associates, for ideas. “And if you don’t have structure, what do says. “No matter what, it’s a really pretty garden.” SPREAD: NEIL LANDINO JR. HERMAN; FOLLOWING KATHRYN NEIL LANDINO JR.; OPPOSITE PAGE: HERMAN; THIS PAGE: OPENING SPREAD: KATHRYN

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“A garden room is structure,” Herman says. “And if you don’t have structure, what do you have?” THE GARDEN’S FLORAL COMPARTMENTS ARE SEPARATED BY FLYING BUTTRESSES OF SHAPED BEECH. PRIDE OF PLACE A new generation of architecture and landscape visionaries is showing how design can make a difference in New York City— one library, one park, and one housing complex at a time. Meet today’s public defenders.

TEXT BY SAM COCHRAN

BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group —DRYLINE Charged with protecting ten miles of Manhattan’s waterfront in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, AD100 architect Ingels (right) has envisioned a ribbon of community and cultural spaces that would both engage the public and withstand future floods. Nicknamed the Dryline, his forthcoming park—winner of the local Rebuild by Design competition— will combine a raised landscape of protective berms and resilient plants with re creational features such as skate parks, undulating double benches, and winding bicycle paths. In the event of rising waters, art walls deploy as shutters, serving as an emergency barrier. Rain or shine, the Dryline promises to do the city proud.

WORKac —KEW GARDENS HILLS LIBRARY As part of New York’s Design and Construction Excellence program—an initiative to improve public architecture— Amale Andraos and Dan Wood (above) recently completed a sculptural update and extension to this Queens public library, attracting some 2,000 visitors to its opening this past September. Topped by a sloping green roof and clad with a rippling GRFC façade, a faceted envelope now frames the library’s original footprint, creating light-filled reading rooms for adults, children, and teens. “Libraries are places where everyone feels at home,” says Wood, noting that the building has become a beloved gathering spot for the neighborhood’s diverse population— including immigrants and youth who can now make use of the branch’s English-language courses, tax-preparation seminars, and after-school programming. “It’s not a given that a city would show this interest in design,” says

Andraos. Adds Wood, “What they found is that it doesn’t cost much more to build something good.” HARRIS/TRUNK ARCHIVE GREGORY JEREMY LIEBMAN; OPPOSITE PAGE: THIS PAGE:

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Nelson Byrd Woltz —NAVAL CEMETERY LANDSCAPE Thanks to Thomas Woltz (above), what was once a cemetery on the outskirts of the Brooklyn Navy Yard now serves as a verdant park along the Brooklyn waterfront’s network of bike paths. “Because this was sacred land, one of the stipulations was to not disturb the ground—no heroics of earthmoving,” says Woltz, who was enlisted by the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative and collaborated with Marvel Architects. “Restrictions lead to innovation.” Studying the ecological and cultural histories of the site, he tailored his scheme to achieve maximum fecundity. Added cherry trees nod to a long-gone orchard; an elevated timber walkway echoes the sinuous creek that once rippled through wetlands; and grasses and pollinator plants draw bees, birds, and bats from the neighborhood, this lush meadow changing season to season. “What we commemorate is the human condition, these cycles of life and death,” says Woltz. “People have

really responded to this tiny, low-budget park. It slows down your heart rate. It calms you.” RUBIN; J RANDY PHOTOGRAPHY; BAAN; JOHN MOORE, CIRCULAR SPACE IWAN FROM TOP: CLOCKWISE JEREMY LIEBMAN; OPPOSITE PAGE: THIS PAGE:

84 ARCHDIGEST.COM Adjaye Associates FOR THE GREATER GOOD —SUGAR Just three of the many more local additions having an impact

HILL Cornell Tech Campus, underserved youth. On any Architecture by HANDEL given day, these kids can PROJECT ARCHITECTS, MORPHOSIS, be found practicing their As one of the most sought-after and WEISS/MANFREDI backhand or perfecting their architects of his generation, AD100 Master Plan by SKIDMORE, footwork alongside other honoree Sir David Adjaye (below) has OWINGS & MERRILL members of the local com- designed homes for the likes of art stars Landscape Design by munity. In the center’s first and celebrities. But in the case of this JAMES CORNER FIELD year alone, some 7,000 chil- 2015 complex, he created shelter for OPERATIONS dren and 1,000 adults used some of New York’s poorest and most the facility, with 6,000 hours vulnerable citizens. Distinguished by of court time provided to sculptural setbacks, daring cantilevers, youth in need. Now that’s and concrete façade panels embossed what we call a strong serve. with floral patterns, Sugar Hill comprises — 124 subsidized apartments, with New York City irregular windows that frame sweeping AIDS Memorial, city views. “My primary consideration has been dignity,” Adjaye says of public Architecture by STUDIO AI housing. “Too often, generic design ARCHITECTS has created isolating and dehumanizing Only a couple of years ago, environments.” In a further departure, there was no permanent trib- the project features a range of public ute to AIDS victims, care- programming, with a children’s museum givers, and activists in New and an early-childhood center. “The hope York, a city that has lost more is that it can provide a model for a more At the graduate school’s than 100,000 people to the integrated approach,” explains Adjaye. new eco-friendly campus on disease and which birthed Roosevelt Island, unveiled the activist movement. This this past September, buildings memorial filled that void. not only support one another, Completed in December 2016, they bolster the city at large. More than 2,000 photovoltaic panels crown the Morphosis- designed academic center (above) and Weiss/Manfredi– designed innovation hub, with power generated from both channeled toward the center, helping the building reach its ambitious net-zero goal. A residential tower by Handel Architects, meanwhile, boasts ultralow energy consumption. The goal for the campus is to help reestablish New York as a center of the tech industry, melding entrepreneurship and academia on this green (in every sense) stretch of city. the striking steel canopy wel- — comes visitors to St. Vincent’s Cary Leeds Center Triangle, opposite what was for Tennis & Learning, the hospital with Manhattan’s Architecture by GLUCK+ first AIDS ward. An installa- Tennis lovers of all back- tion of pavers by artist Jenny grounds converge at this Holzer, meanwhile, reveals socially conscious Bronx the engraved words of Walt complex, comprising 22 Whitman’s beloved poem courts and a glass-and-steel “Song of Myself.” All offer a clubhouse. Terraced into the vivid reminder not just of the earth, the center operates toll taken by the epidemic, but as the flagship for New York also the work still to be done. Junior Tennis & Learning— a nonprofit offering free lessons and tutoring to UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN A pink-walled former convent becomes a boho-chic family getaway for Jacaranda Caracciolo di Melito Falck and her rollicking clan

TEXT AND STYLING BY HAMISH BOWLES

PHOTOGRAPHY BY FRANÇOIS HALARD MONFREDO ANTONIO PRODUCED BY JACARANDA CARACCIOLO DI MELITO FALCK’S HOUSE WAS DECORATED WITH TOMMASO ZIFFER. MADELINE WEINRIB RUGS, CUSHIONS OF GREEN DEDAR VELVET. OPPOSITE PINK ROSES TUMBLE OVER A STONE WALL. FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.

ARCHDIGEST.COM 87 alling between Florence to the north and Rome to the south, Maremma was once an impoverished hinterland, its Tuscan hills rolling down to malarial marshes. Mussolini may have had the swampland drained, but in the postwar period it was the country’s left-wing intelligentsia who discovered the humble houses, ripe for conversion, in the medieval hilltop town of Capalbio. An old convent crowning a nearby hill assumes special architectural prominence among the Fmodest farmsteads. Circled by groves of towering pines and citrus and olive trees, it caught the eye of a noble Italian couple (he was married, but not to her) who used it as their love nest after World War II. Then in 1960 it was acquired as a holiday retreat—the area is now considered the Hamptons of Rome—by Don Filippo Caracciolo, eighth Prince of Castagneto and third Duke of Melito. Today the terra-cotta-pink former convent makes a convivial setting for Don Filippo’s grand- daughter Jacaranda Caracciolo di Melito Falck, a dynamic journalist, television producer, and philanthropist, and her children, Alessandro, Soﬁa, and India Borghese. Jacaranda grew up in a “very cozy” Milanese house that her mother, Anna Cataldi, an associate producer of the movie Out of Africa, decorated with Renzo Mongiardino, layered with treasures brought back from India and Africa, where Jacaranda spent much of her childhood. When she married a Borghese prince and moved to Rome, she began to spend more time at the old convent, which she eventually inherited.

CLOCKWISE FROM FAR LEFT STUART BARFOOT DESIGNED THE GAR- DENS. JACARANDA, AT RIGHT IN MISSONI, STROLLS WITH HER CHILDREN ALESSANDRO AND INDIA, WHO WEARS PHILOSOPHY DI LORENZO SERAFINI. IN ALESSANDRO’S BATH, AN IKAT PRINT BY SWAVELLE/MILL CREEK FABRICS CURTAINS THE DEVON&DEVON TUB; CEMENT WALL TILES BY MOSAIC DEL SUR. IN A RAMONA SCANCELLA FOR MASSIMO SERINI USING ARMANI LIVING ROOM, BESPOKE SOFAS WEAR WILLIAM YEOWARD FOR DESIGN- ERS GUILD FABRICS. MARIO SCHIFANO PAINTING, MADELINE WEINRIB RUG. HAIR BY RICCARDO MONTELEONE FOR MASSIMO SERINI USING WELLA; MAKEUP BY FOR MASSIMO SERINI USING WELLA; MAKEUP BY MONTELEONE RICCARDO HAIR BY

“I like the buzz of the farm,” says Jacaranda, who claims to be practically self-sufficient.

ARCHDIGEST.COM 89 Jacaranda’s style owes something to the unpretentious chic of her American grandmother. A PORTRAIT OF JACARANDA’S GRANDMOTHER SURVEYS THE LIBRARY. TOM DIXON PENDANT LIGHT, TERRA-COTTA SCULPTURE BY NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE. OPPOSITE DACHSHUNDS ARTÙ AND NIKI STAND GUARD IN THE DINING ROOM, WHERE A MADELEINE CASTAING BY BRUNSCHWIG & FILS WALLPAPER BORDER CREATES A FRAME. ENGLISH REGENCY DINING TABLE AND CHAIRS, VOCATURI SCONCE. LEFT A GUCCI DRESS IS LAID ON AN ITALIAN EMPIRE BED OUTFITTED WITH ADA GIOVANNELLI LINENS. ANTIQUE ITALIAN ARMCHAIRS ARE CUSHIONED WITH A VINTAGE PRINTED COTTON; TUSCAN EMPIRE COMMODES. OPPOSITE IN A SALON, A BENCH AND ARM- CHAIRS ARE DRESSED IN A MANUEL CANOVAS VELVET. DOGS LOUNGE AMONG SILK CUSHIONS. MOROCCAN BRASS PENDANT, NEAPOLITAN TILE FLOOR.

When it came to fabrics, “the “I like the buzz of the farm,” the indefatigable funkier, the better,” Jacaranda says. Jacaranda explains—she claims to be practically self-sufficient and is cofounder of comfort was instilled in Jacaranda’s aunt Marella Agnelli, Wellbeing by Giaca, an organic-supplement company—but who deflated the splendor of her own world-class artworks by a path on the property leads to a wonderland that’s far from hanging them in roomscapes of wicker furniture and sprigged rustic. In 1979 her father, Carlo, and uncle Nicola gave the cotton. Similarly, Jacaranda and Ziffer sleuthed kinetic uphol- feminist artist Niki de Saint Phalle the land on which to realize stery fabrics (“the funkier, the better!” she declares) to dress a Tarot-inspired sculpture garden. (Its writhing wonders the commodious sofas and armchairs that came with the house. inspired Maria Grazia Chiuri’s spring 2018 Dior collection.) The most dramatic change, Jacaranda confesses, is the Jacaranda is continuing the family’s cultural philanthropy: garden. “It was fantastic but very claustrophobic,” she recalls. Last July she brought Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s itinerant “My father didn’t like to eat outside. A little bit of outside air to Ship of Tolerance sculpture, which has life-size sails painted have a drink, perhaps, and then he’d repair inside to play chess by local schoolchildren, to Maremma. “We want to keep our and watch videos.” Visitors bemoaned the want of a view, so hearts open to those who need to migrate now,” she says. Jacaranda fearlessly toppled stone walls and axed shadowing Urbane Roman decorator Tommaso Ziffer helped with the trees. “The first few months, it looked like a lunar landscape,” house, although the interventions are minimal. For inspiration, she recalls. “I thought I had made the biggest mistake on Earth.” Jacaranda assembled favorite images on a Pinterest board— Today the house commands a scintillating vista down the stripes, toiles de Jouy, and the daintily high-style interiors of hill to a World Wildlife Fund nature reserve and the azure the decorator Madeleine Castaing, who also celebrated the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea. (It’s not all sunbathing, though— unusual greens and blues in which Jacaranda delights. Artists a hip nightclub is being planned that will be a locus for the transformed the drawing room’s whitewashed walls with a region’s social life.) The refreshed garden, meanwhile, created eucalyptus wash and painted the library arsenic-green. The with landscape designer Stuart Barfoot, is already a mass of latter spot is filled with old bound volumes of the innovative crimson and blush-white roses. leftist newspaper La Repubblica and the weekly magazine “This open space changed our life,” says Jacaranda, survey- L’Espresso, both cofounded by Jacaranda’s father and famed ing her bucolic domain. “Because we have so many in the house for their powerful graphics. in summer, we always plan lunch and dinner for 25.” In the The house also owes something to the style of her American balmy heat of high summer, essential protection is provided by grandmother Margaret Clarke (born to a mayor of Peoria, a new pergola, tumbling with white wisteria and shaded by— Illinois), whose meltingly pretty debutante portrait hangs in the what else?—a jacaranda tree, its spreading branches engulfed library. The Midwestern princess’s taste for unpretentious by a cloud of flamboyant purple blossoms.

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Hotbed of Creativity Every August, some 70,000 creative souls descend upon Nevada’s Black Rock Desert for Burning Man, a week- long festival of self-expression, total inclusion, and communal living. Radical dwellings and infrastructure appear out of nowhere only to then be completely disassembled, vanishing without a trace. Those of us who have never had the pleasure—or perhaps courage—to go will soon have the opportunity to live vicariously at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C. Opening on March 30, its new exhibition “No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man” captures the experimental ethos through three stories of archival photographs, ephemera, jewelry, and costumes, as well as installations by the likes of Leo Villareal, Christopher Schardt, and Michael Garlington and Natalia Bertotti. (Pictured is Totem of Confessions, Garlington and Bertotti’s 2015 chapel of paper, plaster, and wood.) Seasoned Burners, meanwhile, can expect to find americanart.si.edu the same free spirit—just none of the dust. Through September 16; —SAM COCHRAN LONDON SCOTT

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