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108
KEVIN WENDLE’S
HOUSE ON THE
RHODE ISLAND COAST.
100
A MARCEL BREUER–
DESIGNED HOME IN NEW
YORK’S HUDSON VALLEY.

22 Editor’s Letter
24 Object Lesson
On its 50th anniversary, Verner Panton’s
eponymous chair still feels ahead of the curve.

29 Discoveries
Anna Karlin creates the atelier of her
dreams in New York’s Chinatown . . . Bill
Ryall devises an eco-friendly house that
can withstand the worst . . . Inside Amanda
Brooks’s charming Cotswolds boutique . . .
The best outdoor furniture, accessories,
and entertaining essentials . . . Textile designer

FROM TOP: STEPHEN KENT JOHNSON; FRANÇOIS DISCHINGER; BJÖRN WALLANDER

Zak Profera’s new studio . . . Suzanne Kasler’s
latest for Hickory Chair . . . Fort Street
Studio’s limited-edition carpets . . . and more!

72 Rock Star
Designer Jamie Bush reimagines a coastal
California landmark as a dazzling home for
a young family. BY MALLERY ROBERTS MORGAN

82 New York Story

Liev Schreiber enlists Ashe + Leandro to
turn his old bachelor pad into a home for
him and his two sons. BY MARK ROZZO

88 Petal Pusher
Flowered fabrics and floral paintwork
bloom inside a Nantucket retreat cultivated
by Markham Roberts. BY MITCHELL OWENS
116
DELAVAN LAKE
IN WISCONSIN.
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88
A SNAPPY SITTING ROOM
IN A HOUSE ON NANTUCKET.

100 History Boys

Marcel Breuer fanatics Ken Sena and
Joseph Mazzaferro revive a little-known gem
in upstate New York. BY BARRY BERGDOLL

104 Confronting the Past

In Montgomery, Alabama, a new memorial and
museum bear witness to the brutal legacy of
racial injustice in America. BY FRED A. BERNSTEIN

108 Sea Change

Designer Giancarlo Valle rejuvenates
a New England mansion for the family of
entrepreneur Kevin Wendle. BY MAYER RUS

116 Scout’s Honor

An energetic Chicago couple transform
a woebegone Wisconsin Boy Scout camp
into the ultimate getaway. BY SHAX RIEGLER

124 Resources
The designers, architects, and products
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126 Last Word

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1. DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN; 2. MARTYN THOMPSON; 3. STEPHEN KENT JOHNSON; 4. FRANÇOIS DISCHINGER; 5. MAX LAKNER/BFA/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; 6. NELSON HANCOCK
1. THE BUTTERFLY
HOUSE IN CARMEL, CA;
2. THE ZAPF-JOSEPHSON
HOUSE IN ORIENT, NY;
3. A VIEW OF THE BEACH
IN WATCH HILL, RI;
4. A MARCEL BREUER
HOUSE IN CROTON-ON-
HUDSON, NY; 5. AT AN NYC

“I know of a cure for EVENT; 6. BEDROOM WITH

A VIEW IN NANTUCKET.

everything: saltwater…
sweat, or tears, or the
salt sea.” —Isak Dinesen 4

Although we edit each issue of AD with a contemporary creations by of-the-moment 5

distinct preference for a lot of visual variety, designers Faye Toogood, Rick Owens,
in the June edition (themed “country houses Apparatus, and Dimore Studio. We visit a
and weekend escapes”) I really just want once-neglected Marcel Breuer masterpiece
to see water—water everywhere. I know I’m with sweeping Hudson River views that
not unique in this summertime desire, so has been lovingly restored by the new
the exceptional houses featured this month owners. (The architect, who considered
deliver glorious aquatic views and, accord- it one of his finest works, would approve.)
ingly, Dinesen-esque catharsis for their Elsewhere, a traditional shingled beauty
fortunate owners and our readers. But H2O at the edge of a salt marsh in Nantucket
is where the similarities end, as each of these is surely one of the prettiest houses AD
residences is wholly sui generis. Perched on has ever photographed; and we wrap up
a rocky outcropping in the Pacific in Carmel, our tour at a onetime Boy Scout camp on
California, architect Frank Wynkoop’s 1951 a Wisconsin lake that’s now the dreamy
Butterfly House marries classic midcentury getaway for one lucky Chicago family. But
modernism with completely current interior if you prefer to stay on dry land, step into
design. A grand 1903 “cottage” on the the loft of television’s favorite fixer, Liev AMY ASTLEY
Atlantic in historic Watch Hill, Rhode Island, Schreiber, and experience old-school New Editor in Chief
is now laden with an unexpected trove of York City—a totally different kind of cure. @amytastley

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 object lesson THE STORY BEHIND AN ICONIC DESIGN

VERNER PANTON’S
SWOOPING SEATS
MEET RUGGED STONE
WALLS AT ARCHITECT
LUCA ZANAROLI’S
HOUSE IN PUGLIA.

HENRI DEL OLMO/ELLIA ASCHERI/BASSET IMAGES

One Fell Swoop

On its 50th anniversary, Verner Panton’s eponymous
plastic chair still feels ahead of the curve
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 object lesson 1

1. PANTON CHAIRS OF PANTONS

SURROUND A BRIGHTENS THE
REFECTORY TABLE BREAKFAST ROOM
IN BROOKLYN. OF ASH AND
2. THE DESIGNER IN NIROUPA SHAH’S
1994. 3. A PANTON LOS ANGELES
CHAIR BY VITRA. HOME, DECORATED
4. A PANOPLY BY LAURA ADAMS.

t was postwar Europe, and a new world power had emerged

I on the scene that would change the way people lived: plastic.

1. PAUL RAESIDE; 2. HEINER SCHMITT, CH-BASEL/COURTESY OF VERNER-PANTON.COM; 3. COURTESY OF VITRA; 4. TREVOR TONDRO/OTTO
Experimental Danish designer Verner Panton—fascinated with
the progressive polymer that could be molded into any shape and
mass-produced—set his sights on a fantasy: a chair made in one
piece. The challenge? Finding someone who could produce it.
“Fifteen to 20 manufacturers have tried it but have all rejected
the project for different reasons,” Panton told Rolf Fehlbaum, of
Swiss manufacturer Vitra, in 1963. They agreed to take on the task.
Four years and ten prototypes later, a limited run of what became
known as the Panton chair—a cantilevered seat in laminated, fiber-
glass-reinforced polyester—was debuted at the Cologne Furniture Fair.
Though the chair became an immediate icon, its composition 3
was never static. Panton and Vitra tirelessly experimented with new
materials in pursuit of utmost durability and simplicity of production,
oscillating from polyurethane foam to polystyrene (it was thinner but 4
required ribs under the seat for support), back to polyurethane foam,
and finally to today’s most popular rendition—a flexible, durable, but
more matte polypropylene, which hit the market in 1999, just a year
after Panton’s death. A new polypropylene version goes for $310;
the polyurethane foam, $1,675. Through November, in honor of the
design’s 50th anniversary, Vitra has released it in chrome ($2,375)
and glow-in-the-dark ($2,125).
“Big quantities were produced from the beginning,” explains Eckart
Maise, the chief design officer at Vitra. “It’s not a chair that will cost
four or five digits.”
But that makes it an interesting acquisition for buyers of all budgets,
who can seek out strange hues or early, clunkier editions that boast
serious cred despite slight material disadvantages.
“I try to find the odd ones,” says Niklas Maupoix, a Swedish collector
and photojournalist who lives with nearly 1,500 Panton works (includ-
ing nine Panton chairs) and is a connoisseur of seats made before 1999.
“Ones that are shiny, thick, or in strange colors like beige or dark green
are more desirable.” vitra.com —HANNAH MARTIN

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

AT HER NEW CHINATOWN

SPACE IN MANHATTAN,
DESIGNER ANNA KARLIN
PERCHES ON A HAND-
MAKEUP BY NATALIA LÓPEZ DE QUINTANA

CARVED BENCH BENEATH

SCULPTURAL GLYPH
LIGHT FIXTURES.

In Her Element
New York–based designer Anna Karlin designs the
atelier and showroom of her dreams in Chınatown
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 DISCOVERIES
3
4

5
2

1. KARLIN’S DIMPLE
LAMP. 2. A SPEAR “I needed someplace where I could communicate what’s
LIGHT HANGS ABOVE going on inside my head,” says Karlin, whose practice now
1 A STEEL DINING TABLE
AND STOOLS IN THE ranges from big-picture branding and interior-design initiatives
SHOWROOM. 3. A to the fine jewelry that she launched last year.
BRASS CANDLEHOLDER.
4. CURVED-STEEL The Chinatown space needed work, but the self-taught
CHAISE. 5. SHELVES OF designer took the gut reno in stride, refreshing the bones while
MATERIAL EXPERIMENTS
IN THE STUDIO. adding touches of her own like a plaster banister and her dream
English country kitchen. “I’m finishing up these lamp shades,”
she says, gesturing to a cluster of ceramic flush mounts.
Marked only by a brass A embedded into a concrete step,
the deep-plum-lacquered storefront now welcomes visitors
tepping into a vacant storefront in Manhattan into a space that Karlin describes as “wabi-sabi meets Shaker.”

S last fall, Anna Karlin saw pure potential. Forget

that the Chinatown space had fire damage, bad
plumbing, and no proper electricity; she zeroed
in on what it could become. “I’ve learned to
trust my instincts,” the English-born designer
reflects just six months later as she puts the finishing touches
on her tailor-made new studio and showroom.
A simple maple bench sits below organically shaped lights
(sculpted in clay, cast in bronze) that hang on coat pegs. In
the studio, dining tables serve as desks for her team, and
open shelves are filled with material tests. “It’s like a painter’s
palette,” she explains of the geometric wooden totems, slumpy
bits of ceramic, and blown-glass orbs.
Back in the showroom, realized furnishings in brass,
It was impulse, after all, that drove Karlin to quit her first marble, and glass mingle with a sprinkling of Gustavian
1., 3. & 4.: COURTESY OF ANNA KARLIN

job, at a big-time London design firm in 2006, just two days in; antiques from nearby gallery Dienst + Dotter. Karlin is keen
impulse that, four years later, nudged her across the Atlantic to partner with other designers and dealers to showcase
to Manhattan to set up her own art-direction firm; and impulse works alongside her own. “It’s a way to say to our clients,
that prodded her to create a line of furniture in 2012. Each ‘This is our taste,’ ” she explains. You could say that’s some-
risk produced reward: Her art-direction business has landed thing she’s finally starting to hammer out. After dabbling
clients like Adidas, Lululemon, and Fendi. And her product in a mix of silhouettes and styles, Karlin’s come to a place
line—which started with sleek glassware, a hoop-shaped light, that is honed and mature. “I feel like I’m truly learning what
and some chess-piece stools—has captivated the design world. my voice is,” she says. “It took years to create, but now I
Soon her starter studio downtown was bursting at the seams. have this world of my own.” annakarlin.com —HANNAH MARTIN

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Rise and Shine 2

On a waterfront stretch of
Long Island, architect Bill Ryall
devises an elegant, eco-friendly
house to withstand the worst

W
hen a New York couple—she’s
an arts entrepreneur; he’s a
high school counselor—bought
15 waterfront acres on the
North Fork of Long Island,
they envisioned a single-story
house with outdoor access from every room. But 1. ELEVATED ABOVE
their architect, Bill Ryall of Ryall Sheridan Architects, THE FLOODPLAIN,
THIS LONG ISLAND
wanted to protect the house from the next Sandy-like HOUSE, BY
storm and to give the couple expansive views of RYALL SHERIDAN
ARCHITECTS, IS
nearby waterways and islands. “So I ordered a 12-foot PROTECTED FROM
ladder from the hardware store and had it delivered STORM SURGES.
2. THE POOL SITS
to the site,” says Ryall. When his clients climbed up WITHIN A MEADOW
and saw the newly revealed vistas, they were, as the OF NATIVE GRASSES.

32 A R C H D I GES T.CO M P HOTOGRAP HY BY GI EV ES A N DE R S O N

DISCOVERIES architecture

1. FLOOR-TO-
CEILING WINDOWS
BATHE THE
KITCHEN WITH
NATURAL LIGHT
WHILE FRAMING
SCENIC VIEWS;
WOLF RANGE.
2. WILDFLOWERS
AND GRASSES
FLOURISH ON
THE 15-ACRE
PROPERTY.

“If a house is going to relate to the site, it can’t be a

formulaic box that you plop down.” —Bill Ryall
2

husband puts it, “blown away.” They gave him the

go-ahead to raise much of the house on stilts.
Longtime North Forkers, the couple chose Ryall
after seeing the house he designed for himself
and his husband, Barry Bergdoll, the architectural
historian and MoMA curator. Ryall’s projects aren’t
pristine forms; they seem to be organized informally.
“If a house is going to relate to the site, it can’t be
a formulaic box that you plop down,” says Ryall.
What he built for the couple is far from symmetrical.
Its form follows interior functions—and captures
the best views.
But if there’s a casual quality to Ryall’s design,
there is nothing nonchalant about the detailing of
the house. Ryall dropped the sills of the sliding glass
doors below the floor level, so from inside “you’re
just seeing glass, not a window frame. It feels like
you’re just floating in the landscape.” A spectacular
skylight turns a shower into an otherworldly aerie,
INTERIOR: TY COLE

all the more so with its walls painted a yellow used

by Le Corbusier. “I like bright colors but in confined
spaces,” says Ryall, who otherwise worked with white
oak and gray concrete. And even though he elevated
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FEELING THE PULLS

Balancing old and new has long been
a forte of designer Richard Mishaan,
who has now partnered with SA
Baxter to create his first line of
architectural hardware. Inspirations
range from Art Deco cuff links to
ancient Chinese cloisonné. Says
Mishaan, “The process reminded
me of Florence, with all the jewelers
working by hand on the Ponte
Vecchio.” sabaxter.com —ELIZABETH FAZZARE

THE ELEVATED STRUCTURE WAS BUILT USING

EUROPEAN PASSIVE-HOUSE TECHNIQUES.

the house, he didn’t shortchange its connection to its

setting, regrading the property just enough to let each
of the guest bedrooms open directly into the garden.
The screened porch—Ryall always includes one if
he can—measures about 275 square feet and contains
a fireplace that makes it usable much of the year.
A student of passive-house standards, the European
ways of keeping energy use to a bare minimum,
Ryall applied their lessons to the house: He specified
1. COURTESY OF RICHARD MISHAAN; 2. & 3. GEORGE ROSS

3
triple-glazed windows and installed a high-tech
building wrap beneath the wooden sheathing. (He
compares the insulation to athletic clothes that
breathe while keeping moisture out.) And he installed
a system that in winter exhausts air from the house,
uses it to heat up fresh air, then pumps that outside 1. A FLORIDA HOME
air into the house—doing the same with cool air in BY RICHARD MISHAAN.
2. & 3. HIS NEW SA
summer. Thanks to constant circulation, “it’s never BAXTER DOORKNOBS
stuffy, even with the windows closed,” says Ryall, WITH TURN KEYS IN
BRASS WITH DIAMOND
noting that the system uses far less energy than KNURLING AND
conventional climate control. But he wasn’t trying AMETHYST CABOCHONS
(LEFT) AND NICKEL
to prove a point with the green features. “It’s just WITH HUNTER-GREEN
the way every house should be.” —FRED A. BERNSTEIN ENAMEL (RIGHT).

36 A R C H D I GES T.CO M
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1

P
eople kept saying, ‘Write
a book,’ but I still didn’t
know anything about
anything,” says Amanda
Brooks, the former Barneys
New York fashion director
who married an Englishman in 2001 and,
17 years and two children later, immersed
herself in her husband’s native Cotswolds.
“I had no focus other than my Instagram
[@amandacbrooks].”
Today Brooks, known as Amanda
Cutter in her Manhattan days, is passion-
ately, proselytizingly rural. Out this
month is her book Farm from Home: A
2 Year of Stories, Pictures, and Recipes from
a City Girl in the Country (Blue Rider
Press). Think A Year in Provence sans
espadrilles. There’s a brick-and-mortar
component, too: Cutter Brooks, a smart
little style Mecca, opens this month in
a 16th-century building in Stow-on-
the-Wold, not far from Fairgreen Farm
(AD, September 2016), the romantic

HAIR BY RACHAEL CAPOCCI; FLOWERS BY SILKA RITTSON THOMAS OF THE TUKTUK FLOWER STUDIO; BOOK: COURTESY OF PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
demesne that has been in her husband,
Christopher’s, family for generations.
“This is the first I’m really working
full-time in years, and it feels great,”
Brooks says, adding, “I’ve always wanted
to run a clothing shop. Cutter Brooks
has an English theme but no Wellies—
everyone here owns those in spades.”
Instead she’s got 1940s Fair Isle sweaters,
inviting installations with cottage-chic
dinnerware (“I love setting tables”),
and contemporary fashion brands
3 (Le Monde Beryl shoes, LSJ recycled
5 vintage clothing, Loretta Caponi night-
gowns) edited for country life. “When
I moved here I was a total tomboy, but
Country Girl now I’m in skirts and dresses.”
The entrepreneurial Brooks is tapping

American expat Amanda Brooks brings into a Cotswolds renaissance that has
led wits to dub the region (80-some miles
her singular style to the Cotswolds northwest of London) “Poshtershire.”
Michelin-starred restaurants like The
Wild Rabbit in Kingham attract road-
4 tripping Londoners, as do Lady Bamford’s
1. AMANDA BROOKS
IN THE OFFICE AT HER Daylesford Farmshop & Café and Soho
NEW COTSWOLDS
BOUTIQUE. SHE WEARS
Farmhouse hotel and private club.
A HESPERIOS DRESS “It is so worth coming up on the
AND CABANA X LE
MONDE BERYL SHOES;
train for a day or a long weekend,”
ATELIER VIME WICKER says Brooks, noting that she’d happily
PEDESTAL AND VASE.
2. HER LATEST BOOK.
travel hours to see a smart shop. Soon
3. VLADIMIR KANEVSKY there’ll be even more of a reason to hang
FLOWERS; ROYAL
TUDOR WARE BOWLS.
out at Cutter Brooks: a garden café
4. HER COUNTRY-CHIC where, she says, “You can get a really
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BY LUKE EDWARD HALL. cutterbrooks.com —MITCHELL OWENS

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 DISCOVERIES showrooms

The Whole
Nine Yards
Textile designer
Zak Profera and his
trusty canine
Shinji settle into a
smart new studio
1 in Manhattan

W
hen Zak Profera left his day paint covered the bronze moldings; bleached pine
job to launch a fabric business floorboards hid turn-of-the-century herringbone
in 2012, he did what many parquet; and the drop ceiling concealed a large
self-employed New Yorkers do: skylight. Renovation done, Profera rolled in racks
turned his apartment into an of his globally inspired textiles—from ocher-hued
office. “The biggest work space linens printed with Tibetan dragons and Japanese
I had was my queen-size bed,” he recalls with a laugh. obi-inspired geometrics to luxurious new additions
“I’d sit among a pile of fabric swatches, writing all in velvet, alpaca, and mohair. Shelves are filled with
the product info on the back of each sample.” lively, patterned cushions, and his new wool throws
Six years later, the rising textile talent behind (wittily named Yak + Fox) are stocked by the sofa.
Zak + Fox—which he runs with his Shiba Inu, Shinji— Profera also put his auction-shopping habit to
hit the real estate jackpot, moving into the top floor good use, sprinkling the place with blue-chip vintage
of a glamorous early-20th-century savings-and-loan furniture, including Gio Ponti sofas and Lehr and
1. TEXTILE
DESIGNER ZAK
building on Park Avenue South. “I can’t believe I Leubert chairs that he’s dressed up in his own textiles.
PROFERA (WITH come to work here every day,” he says of the building, Elsewhere are exotic trinkets from his travels, such
HIS SIDEKICK,
SHINJI) DESKSIDE
which boasts an old-school gilded elevator (with as an Igbo spirit-dance costume and an assortment
AT ZAK + FOX’S operator), a spiraling iron staircase, and a rooftop of exotic masks. The best part? It’s all for sale.
NEW SHOWROOM.
2. A PINBOARD
space that Profera can’t wait to get his hands on (an At 25th Street, the showroom—not unlike its
SHOWCASES outdoor fabric collection is reportedly in the works). contents—feels like the perfect middle ground
SOME DESIGNS
FROM THE LATEST
Of course, like most buildings with rich histories, between the uptown and downtown design worlds.
COLLECTION. it needed a little TLC. Five decades of thick white As a testament to that, Profera’s clients, which run

48 A R C H D I G E S T.CO M P HOTOGRAP HY BY GI EV ES A N DE R S O N
 DISCOVERIES showrooms
1

1. TEXTILE RACKS BY
MATT McKAY STAND AMID
REUPHOLSTERED VINTAGE
FURNISHINGS, ALL FOR
SALE. 2. ROTO COTTON.
3. AMITAN JACQUARD.

2. & 3. COURTESY OF ZAK+FOX, CHAIR: ENRICO UMMARINO/COURTESY OF LOUIS VUITTON MALLETIER; PORTRAIT: ODILE LE MOAL/COURTESY OF LOUIS VUITTON MALLETIER
the gamut from hip new firms like Damon Liss Design
to decorating legend Cullman & Kravis Associates, 2
have already popped in. “We want it to be a one-stop
shop,” he explains. “I think the collection is robust
enough that you can at least find something here,
if not a whole room.”
The only thing that isn’t for sale in the nearly
3,000-square-foot space? Profera’s hulking copper
partner’s desk. Which is understandable, considering
that it once belonged to revered furniture designer
3
Edgar Bartolucci. “It was the first thing I got when
I signed the lease,” Profera says, adding with a laugh,

THINK PIECE

CURVES AHEAD
For the latest addition to its covetable
Objets Nomades collection, Louis
Vuitton tapped Hong Kong designer
André Fu. His Ribbon Dance chair
features an infinity-loop frame
of leather-wrapped wood that seats
two people in conversation. “It’s
important to me to create forums
LOUIS VUITTON’S for people to gather and interact,”
NEW RIBBON
DANCE CHAIR BY
says Fu. Mission accomplished.
ANDRÉ FU (RIGHT). louisvuitton.com —JANE KELTNER DE VALLE

50 A R C H D I GES T.CO M
 DISCOVERIES debut 1

M
ost people go on trips and bring
back souvenirs. Suzanne Kasler
comes home with ideas. “I love
flea markets, especially spotting
a random piece of furniture that
could be translated for a room
today,” says the Atlanta-based AD100 interior
designer, whose latest range of home furnishings
for Hickory Chair is born from a deep dive into
some of her favorite flea markets, notably Paris’s
sprawling Marché aux Puces de Saint-Ouen. As for
her use of the word random, the designer cautions
that it doesn’t mean thoughtless.
“To me, random means a mix, with stained-wood
pieces, overscale sofas, a curious little chair,” Kasler
explains, noting that her Hickory Chair collection
has been christened The Paris Apartment for that
very reason. Its eclectic, easygoing spirit references
the chic if improvisational decors that have been
concocted by French aesthetic movers and shakers
she admires, creative types who have eschewed
formulaic, follow-the-leader rooms in favor of the
quirky, the wonderful, and the individualistic. That,
she points out, is how many homeowners on this
side of the Atlantic are decorating today.

1. PRADO BOOKCASE, PIEDMONT DINING TABLE, AND

LAURENT COUNTER STOOLS FROM SUZANNE KASLER’S
PARIS APARTMENT COLLECTION FOR HICKORY CHAIR.
2. WORTH DINING TABLE AND WILLOW ARMCHAIR.
3. LOIRE CHAIR. 4. ASTOR SCULPTURAL BOOKEND.

1. & 2. EMILY JENKINS FOLLOWILL/COURTESY OF HICKORY CHAIR; 3. & 4. COURTESY OF HICKORY CHAIR
2

Playing Favorites
Paris flea-market treasures
inspire Suzanne Kasler’s
latest for Hickory Chair
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—Suzanne Kasler

1. & 2. EMILY JENKINS FOLLOWILL/COURTESY OF HICKORY CHAIR; PORTRAIT: COURTESY OF HICKORY CHAIR
“People want furniture with style,” says the author of
the September-release book Suzanne Kasler: Sophisticated
Simplicity (Rizzoli), “but they also want to pick and choose
to make a decor that’s their own.”
In one flea-market booth in Paris, Kasler spotted a
vintage parchment-covered cabinet with funky horn-
shaped feet. By the time her reinterpretation of it emerged
from Hickory Chair’s workshops, it had been reduced in
Fine stonework to enhance height and stretched in width to become a sideboard that
your home and garden stands on tapered feet, an edit that gives the storage unit
a bit of Jean-Michel Frank chic. The collection’s dozens
of other desirables include an unusual high-backed bench
in Sweden’s Gustavian style that delighted Hickory Chair’s
1. NORMANDY
woodworkers, a pair of arguably 1960s gondola-back game
KING BED, MONACO chairs, and a cocktail table with Arts and Crafts attitude.
CHESTS, AND
JOSEPHINE WING
“Everything in The Paris Apartment has a story,” Kasler
CHAIR. 2. WIMBERLY explains. Best of all, she points out, everything works
BENCH, IVY SIDE
TABLE, AUBURN
with the story you’re already creating. hickorychair.com;
SMALL STOOL. suzannekasler.com —MITCHELL OWENS
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assion has always been the driving end or the beginning,” Provisor says of their improvi-
force for Brad Davis and Janis Provisor, sational process, the results of which are eight new
the husband-and-wife duo behind hand-knotted silk carpets.
Fort Street Studio. Twenty years ago, Titled Progetto Passione, Italian for “passion
a trip to Hangzhou, China—a center project,” the limited-edition collection debuts this
of the silk industry—led them to design month at Fort Street Studio’s Manhattan gallery.
their own floor covering. That whim has since grown The exhibition is mounted in collaboration with
into a global carpet empire, with showrooms from Sotheby’s—a fitting partner for makers whose work
New York to Hong Kong. straddles the art-design divide. In perhaps the
Today the couple continues to travel the world, most painterly carpet, splashes of pink—interwoven
most recently finding inspiration in Roccantica, Italy, with rosy threads of copper—pop against a creamy
JOHN BIGELOW TAYLOR

a hilltop community some 40 miles northeast of Rome. background. Another rug features jewel-tone X
After wandering quaint streets, Provisor painted a shapes repeated in a grid, their lines bleeding into
series of abstract watercolor vignettes, which Davis a deep gray. Says Davis, “We just felt we wanted to
has subsequently scanned and developed as weavable do something different, free from any constraints yet
patterns on a computer. “The watercolor can be the still recognizably us.” fortstreetstudio.com —CARLY OLSON

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rock star

Designer Jamie Bush reimagines

a coastal California landmark as
a dazzling home for a young
family transplanted from London
TEXT BY MALLERY ROBERTS MORGAN
PHOTOGRAPHY BYDOUGLAS FRIEDMAN
STYLED BY MICHAEL REYNOLDS
t he first time Londoner Hannah
Comolli (then Hannah Broke-Smith)
visited Northern California, she
fell in love with the rugged beauty
of the coastline. A few years later,
still living in London, she would fall
in love again, this time with Kevin
Comolli, an American businessman
based in the British capital. They
quickly discovered a shared passion
for the Golden State, and as luck
would have it, Kevin’s technology–
venture capital firm had a Palo Alto
office he visited often. “Each time
we would add a few extra days to
explore the area,” Hannah recalls.
“Increasingly we found it hard to leave.”
Eventually the Comollis decamped from London
for a new life in Carmel, hard by the Pacific. “We
wanted to raise our children outside the noise of
big-city life in an area that feels both invigorating
and nurturing,” Hannah explains, adding, “There is
something about the particularly golden light and
blue sky and the smell of the ocean and cypress trees
that just fills my soul. Although I was born and raised
in England with English parents, California—and in
particular Carmel—feels like my true spiritual home.”
The couple had long admired architect Frank
Wynkoop’s 1951 Butterfly House, so named for the
structure’s signature winged roof design. Perched
atop a rocky coastal outcropping, the residence was
one of only a handful of oceanfront properties in the
area. “I never imagined it could be a family home,”
Hannah says of its relatively compact footprint of
approximately 3,000 square feet. “But the moment
we walked into the house I felt overcome with excite-
ment. We knew immediately it was a treasure,” she
says. “It feels like you’re living in the most fabulous
aquarium, in harmony with the ever-changing
seascape and the extraordinary array of marine life
just beyond the doorstep.”
Determined to respect Wynkoop’s original vision,
the Comollis set about finding a designer attuned to
the idiosyncratic architecture and spectacular setting.
“We interviewed a lot of candidates, but when we met
Jamie we were blown away,” Hannah says, describing
the couple’s first meeting with Los Angeles–based
designer Jamie Bush.

IN THE LIVING ROOM, A RATTAN

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HANGS OPPOSITE A DE SEDE
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AR C H DI G E S T. CO M 75
 CLOCKWISE FROM
TOP LEFT HANNAH,
KEVIN, AND POODLE
PADDINGTON ON THE
FRONT DECK. IN THE
DAUGHTER’S BEDROOM,
A PENDANT BY CHRISTY
MANGUERRA HANGS
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76 A R C H D I G E S T.CO M
“I wanted the interiors
to celebrate the
irregularities of pattern
and texture in nature.”
—Jamie Bush

ABOVE A BRUTALIST TABLE FROM GLOBAL

CERAMIC WALL BY VIEWS; TEAK LOUNGES
ARTIST STAN BITTERS BY RODA. LEFT THE SON’S
ENCLOSES THE BEDROOM FEATURES
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PATIO. RATTAN POUFS PBTEEN WITH CUSHION
FROM BONACINA 1889; AND PILLOW IN A ROBERT
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BY LIKA MOORE PAPER BY POTTOK;
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MARBLE COCKTAIL DECORATIVE CARPETS.
 LEFT TWO PENDANTS OPPOSITE ON THE
BY APPARATUS HANG FRONT DECK, A
IN THE DINING ROOM. BENCH AND STOOL
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ZAK + FOX LINEN. BENNETT. GREEN-
STAINED CONCRETE
CHAIRS BY
DESSIN FOURNIR.

Bush likens the restoration to an archaeological

dig, with myriad discoveries both good and bad. Along
with complex structural issues, the designer uncov-
ered the home’s original steel beams, which had been
hidden under drywall. Rather than entombing them
again, Bush left the steel members exposed, treating
them with a new waxed finish. He also deployed
materials that could move seamlessly from indoors to
out, including wire-brushed teak and hand-molded
bricks chosen both for their aesthetic qualities and for
their ability to withstand the coastal climate. Oversize
quartzite flagstones were meticulously pieced together
to create floors that flow from the interiors through
the pool courtyard and onto the driveway.
Since the family was downsizing from a much
larger home in London, clever planning was essen-
tial. “It was like designing a boat—every space had to
be considered and used to its maximum potential,”
says Kevin. Bush seconds the notion: “We designed
an incredible amount of built-ins, hidden drawers,
cabinets, and bookcases, every piece elaborately
detailed. That kind of craftsmanship takes a lot of
time, precision, and, most important, patience.”
The interiors are outfitted with hand-troweled
plaster walls, carved-stone sinks, custom bronze
hardware, and hemp-and-silk rugs, all joined by
“It feels like you’re living pedigreed vintage furnishings as well as site-specific
commissions from contemporary artisans such as
in the most fabulous renowned California ceramist Stan Bitters. “Jamie’s
great success was marrying midcentury with a
aquarium, in harmony contemporary sensibility and the practicality of
a family home,” says Hannah. “He also managed
wıth the seascape.” to indulge our passion for luxurious furnishings.”
“I really love that the house is so compact and
—Hannah Comolli very transparent. Sitting at my desk I can see the kids
playing in the garden—it creates an intimate family
experience,” Kevin notes. Hannah adds, “Our son’s
favorite spot is the hanging chair in the great room.
“It’s a magical house in a magical spot,” Bush says The pool is in use almost daily, and the addition
of the landmark architectural gem. “When you’re in of the hot tub is especially appreciated after surfing
the living room, you feel like you’re standing on the in the chilly Pacific.”
prow of a ship, with fog rolling in, seals swimming by, Ultimately the Comollis look back on their
whales breaching, and pelicans alighting on the rocks. transatlantic and transcontinental shift with deep
It’s mesmerizing.” Bush says his design concept was satisfaction. “This house is so hugely different from
based on bringing the rugged, organic, even brutal the homes we created in London and the English
quality of the shoreline into the look and feel of the countryside. The project had many challenges and
interiors. “The essence of midcentury design is about bumps along the way, but the end result speaks to a
effortless indoor-outdoor living,” he explains. “I complete and unwavering commitment to quality and
wanted the interiors to celebrate the irregularities preservation,” says Hannah. “We feel very fortunate
of pattern and texture in nature. Hannah and Kevin to live here. To us the Butterfly House is a treasure.
really understood the power of that idea.” We feel honored to call it home.”

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AR C H DI G E S T. CO M 81
SCHREIBER, WEARING
A RAG & BONE SWEATER
AND JEANS, IN THE
KITCHEN OF HIS NOHO
LOFT. DOUGLAS-FIR
AND BLACK LACQUER
CABINETS BY ASHE +
LEANDRO; BLACK
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AREA, A BOOKCASE
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FOR DETAILS
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TEXT BY MARK ROZZO PHOTOGRAPHY BY DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN STYLED BY MICHAEL REYNOLDS
C
lient-designer communication job was on set at SNL, and her brother-in-law is Seth
can be a delicate thing. It doesn’t Meyers. Suffice it to say, she has a sense of humor.
typically involve quoting “Sprockets.” More to the point, Ashe and Leandro’s work has an
But in 2016, when Liev Schreiber easygoing cool to it; it’s rigorous, but it’s also relaxed,
decided to retool his triplex apart- not unlike the duo themselves. So, you don’t want
ment in Manhattan’s NoHo district, “Sprockets”? OK, no “Sprockets.” Put into practice at
the Saturday Night Live reference Schreiber’s apartment, the Ashe + Leandro approach—
just seemed right. The initial brain- modernist yet utterly livable—has yielded something
storms yielded proposals that that all three agree is rare in the age of too-tall, too-
struck the actor as “uncomfortably skinny condo towers and Edison-bulbed brownstone
Teutonic,” he says, recounting renos. “We wanted it to feel like a real New York
his lively give-and-take with Ariel space,” Leandro says. And it does.
Ashe and Reinaldo Leandro, the Schreiber knows from real New York spaces.
30-something principals who head up the AD100 He grew up virtually around the corner, spending a
New York design firm Ashe + Leandro. “Like, ‘I chunk of his boyhood at the corner of 1st and First.
know you want to touch my monkey.’ ” “This reminds me of my friends’ lofts down in SoHo
Schreiber, of course, nails this line—the accent, the when we were kids,” the actor says, settling his six-
inflection—with diamond-laser accuracy. He couldn’t foot-three frame into one of the living room’s outsize
have found a better audience for it. Ashe’s first design sofas, which Schreiber already owned. (During the
 OPPOSITE IN THE LIVING
ROOM, A CUSTOM SOFA
AND OTTOMAN BY ASHE +
LEANDRO IS UPHOLSTERED
IN HOLLAND & SHERRY
FABRICS. ABOVE FIREPLACE,
PAINTING BY JAN FRANK.
RIGHT VINTAGE ITALIAN
LEATHER AND LACQUER
CHAIRS COMPLEMENT A
TABLE BY BCMT CO. IN THE
DINING ROOM. PENDANT
BY ASHE + LEANDRO.

nine-month renovation, this specimen, too big to get ten and nine.) Still, the couple got the itch for a new
out the door, was wrapped and lashed to the ceiling.) home. And in 2012, they found digs farther down-
“That, for me, felt like home—something that had town, hiring Ashe and Leandro to do the job (AD,
art in it and had that kind of rawness and openness.” March 2016). When Schreiber and Watts separated,
Schreiber’s place has all of that, in spades. in late 2016, he was determined to create something
The space itself has some backstory: Starting in the new from his beloved old NoHo apartment. He felt
late ’90s, Schreiber cobbled together the three-level, a real rapport with the designers, so he enlisted them
three-bedroom apartment from a couple of units in to update the space for his life now. “Liev was very
this circa-1880, redbrick, Neo-Grec industrial building. clear that he didn’t want a bachelor pad,” Leandro
The Yale Drama grad’s career had taken off following says. “He wanted a real home, one that catered to
a breakthrough role in Nora Ephron’s Mixed Nuts. family and kids.”
Soon enough came Scream (and Scream 2), and an eye- So, with no shortage of punchy back-and-forth
opening turn as Hamlet in 1999 at the Public Theater, between client and design team, the bachelor pad
just a few blocks away. The bachelor pad, tricked out grew up. As Schreiber puts it, “They’d do things, and
with help from his older brother, a stonemason, served I’d say, ‘You know, I’m not as butch as you think I am!
Schreiber well. Warm it up!’ ” Ashe admits that the bestubbled actor,
After he partnered up with Naomi Watts, in 2005, with his hulking presence and flair for hard-bitten
the place became the stage for a whole new produc- roles, did seem, at first, “sort of terrifying.” But, she
tion: family life. (Their sons, Sasha and Kai, are now says, she managed to emerge victorious: “We’d bring

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 “Liev was very clear that he didn’t
want a bachelor pad,” says Reinaldo
Leandro. “He wanted a real home,
one that catered to family and kids.”
new stuff over, and he’d be like, ‘No. Hate it.’ And I’d Schreiber’s own quarters are a low-key affair, with
say, ‘Call me in three days.’ ” one indulgence: a walk-in closet, which prompts him
The actor may play tough on TV, but we’re talking to exclaim, “This I thought I would never have!” Up
about a fellow who’s been known to dip into Seneca on the top floor, there’s a glassed-in mini gym flooded
and Montaigne, who spends quality time with the with light. “This is the room Ray Donovan built,”
novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, whose IMDb listing he jokes. It doubles as a meditation room. (Schreiber
oozes quality, and who is a familiar presence around spent part of his childhood at an ashram school.)
the neighborhood, walking Woody, his very cute For an apartment overrun by two growing boys,
Hurricane Harvey rescue dog, or cycling with his boys. there’s a lot of calm and order. Schreiber likes it that
With his mix of well-honed urbanity and street savvy, way. “I learned all about order, I think, from playing
Schreiber is every bit a New Yorker’s New Yorker. football in high school,” he says, referring to his days
So is the apartment, with its distressed-oak floors, on the team at Brooklyn Tech. That touch of gridiron
steel staircases, wide-open flow, and old-school discipline morphed into the focus Schreiber brings
galley kitchen with new-school black stone counters to his craft, his career, his family life, his living space,
and sleek Miele appliances, where Schreiber might and his friendships, including the one—powered by
offer a visiting friend fresh-baked banana bread and a “Sprockets” jokes and mutual admiration—with Ashe
cup of PG Tips tea. It’s also where he gathers his sons and Leandro. The process of working to create these
for meals, for their presence is unmistakable here, reborn digs, comfortable and familiar and yet all new,
from the bedrooms outfitted with Prouvé and Eames brings Schreiber back to the excitement of having
chairs and Harry Potter wands to the board games scored the place 20-some years ago. What he thought
and the student nylon-string guitar propped up in the then is just as true now: “I never dreamed I would
living room. own a place like this.”

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CLOCKWISE FROM
OPPOSITE IN THE
MASTER BEDROOM, ART
BY RICHARD FISHMAN
HANGS ABOVE AN ASHE
+ LEANDRO BED.
SCHREIBER, WEARING
AN ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA
SHIRT AND RAG & BONE
PANTS, WITH SONS
KAI (LEFT) AND SASHA.
BARDIGLIO MARBLE
SHEATHES THE MASTER
BATH; JEAN PROUVÉ
CHAIR BY VITRA. IN ONE
OF THE BOYS’ ROOMS,
RH BED LINENS COVER
A DOUGLAS-FIR BUNK
BED BY ASHE + LEANDRO.

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 PETAL
PUSHER
SYMMETRY RULES
IN THE ENTRANCE
HALL, WHERE A PAIR
OF DELFT-VASE LAMPS
AND OBJETS D’ART
SIT ON AN ANTIQUE
TABLE FROM JOHN
ROSSELLI ANTIQUES.
OPPOSITE PAINTED
PANELS BY BOB
CHRISTIAN HANG IN
THE LIVING ROOM.
FOR DETAILS
SEE RESOURCES.

Flowered fabrics and floral paintwork

bloom inside a Nantucket retreat cultivated
by Markham Roberts
TEXT BY MITCHELL OWENS PHOTOGRAPHY BY NELSON HANCOCK
CUSTOM DINING CHAIRS
ARE SLIPCOVERED IN
A NO. 9 THOMPSON
LINEN. PAINTED FLOOR
BY BOB CHRISTIAN.
OPPOSITE IN THE
PANELED LIVING ROOM,
A MIX OF PATTERNED
AND PRINTED FABRICS
COVERS THE CUSTOM
SOFA AND PILLOWS.
ANTIQUE QUILT.
o n the hook-shaped
Massachusetts isle of
Nantucket, at the edge
of a wind-ruffled salt
marsh that fades away into
the rolling Atlantic, sits a
house of flowers. Not an
address literally embow-
ered by blossoms, mind you
(the acreage is still a work
in progress), but a smartly
shingled affair with rooms
that bring to mind a few
high-summer herbaceous borders turned outside in.
Colorful buds bloom on finely pleated lamp shades and atop
a chubby little Napoléon III rope-twist stool. Flowering vines
unfurl across the dining room’s crisp box-pleated slipcovers
and the living room’s plump skirted sofas. Florets of undeter-
mined origin sprout on walls, ramble up curtains, coil around
cushions, effloresce on quilts, and unfold on a boldly stenciled
floor. In a guest bedroom, a screen is inset with images of
shaggy pink and red chrysanthemums, the polychrome prints
taken from the 1890s One Hundred Chrysanthemums series
by Japanese master Hasegawa Keika.
As in any fertile demesne, there are butterflies (printed),
birds (carved, gilded, painted), and even a frog (sculpted).
Given Nantucket’s seafaring industries, there is a fishmonger’s
worth of artful shellfish and crustaceans, such as the 19th-
century Palissy-ware variety that scramble up the powder-
room walls like a catch on the loose. Then there are the
baskets—dozens of them, it seems—exquisitely woven rattan
and cane receptacles that have been an island tradition since
the 1830s, many of them fashioned by Susan Chase Ottison,
scion of a generations-old hand-weaving dynasty.
“Location matters—it matters a lot” when it comes to
decorating, the house’s Southern-belle occupant says in
a bourbon-and-branch drawl. As for the vintage residence
she purchased a few years ago, it was precisely what she,
a Nantucket regular since a newlywed trip took her there
in the late 1960s, had always desired. “I walked straight
through the front door, out into the yard, looked at that marsh,
and told my son, ‘This house is perfect.’ ” One exquisitely
timed pause later, she deadpans, “Then I knocked it down.”
AD100 interior designer Markham Roberts explains,
“She lived in it for a summer and realized it wasn’t perfect at
all.” So his client proceeded to build something authentic,
still shingled in the island vernacular, but with two scoops of
Southern soul—plus dead-level floors and impressive sound-
proofing, which the earlier house signally lacked.
“A book about Furlow was the inspiration,” she says. That
would be Georgia aesthete Furlow Gatewood and One Man’s
Folly, a 2014 celebration of rural charm. His signature wood

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ABOVE A STONE PATH ABOVE THE GUEST
LEADS TO A MARSH. BATH’S KALDEWEI TUB.
ABOVE RIGHT A FLOCK LEFROY BROOKS TUB
OF PAINTED-WOOD FILLER; STAR LANTERN
SHOREBIRDS BY PAT BY VAUGHAN.
GARDNER PERCH

When it comes to
decorating, the lady
of the house drawls,
“location matters—
it matters a lot.”
ABOVE BLUES—FROM
THE CURTAINS OF AN
AMANDA NISBET DESIGN
LINEN TO THE ELIZABETH
EAKINS CARPET—SET
THE TONE IN AN AIRY
BEDROOM. 19TH-CENTURY
AMERICAN GILTWOOD
CORNUCOPIA; ANTIQUE
TRUNK. RIGHT A CUSTOM
RUG BY HILLARY ANAPOL
ADDS A POP OF COLOR
TO A CHILD’S BEDROOM.
SMALL CIRCA-1910
ORKNEY CHAIR. LEFT AN
ANTIQUE EAGLE WATCHES
OVER THE SITTING ROOM.
CURTAINS OF A LES
INDIENNES FLORAL
COTTON; 18TH-CENTURY
ENGLISH DESK; JOHN
FOWLER RUG.

AR C H DI G E S T. CO M 93
 “I wanted this place to feel
like my grandmother’s
house, which had beadboard
everywhere.”

ABOVE A JOHN ROBSHAW ROBERTS DEPLOYED

TEXTILES LINEN COVERS THE SAME BENNISON
THE MASTER BATH’S FLORAL CHINTZ ON THE
VAULTED CEILING. VINTAGE WALLS, CURTAINS, LAMP
CHAUFFEUSE. RIGHT IN SHADES, PILLOWS, AND
THE MASTER BEDROOM, VANITY SKIRT.

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 ABOVE A RAOUL TEXTILES LINEN COVERS THE SEATING AT THE KITCHEN TABLE. CUSTOM POT RACK BY ANN MORRIS.
OPPOSITE A PAIR OF 19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH ARMCHAIRS IN A GP & J BAKER STRIPE COZY UP TO THE LIVING-ROOM FIREPLACE.
ANTIQUE NEOCLASSICAL MIRROR OVER MANTEL; ANTIQUE FRENCH ROPE STOOL; CUSTOM RUG BY MARKHAM ROBERTS.

walls, puzzled together in ways that recall homespun farm- “Better than owning a fashion-victim purse—who buys all
houses and dependencies, struck the owner and Roberts as that whoop-de-do?” the client tartly states, observing that
eminently desirable as the new house got under way. Ditto her own handbags tend to be serviceable “because I’m boring.”
Gatewood’s chalky painted finishes (decorative artists Bob Spread across the sitting-room floor is a leafy blue-and-
Christian and Harry Lendrum channeled them for the green carpet that the late, great British tastemaker John Fowler
Nantucket project), which look “as if they had been there conjured up in the 1960s for Bunny Mellon’s Manhattan dining
forever,” she recalls. room. In a guest bath, plants are tucked into a rafraîchissoir,
“I wanted old, I wanted detail, I wanted this place to feel one of those French tables that have integral metal buckets for
like my grandmother’s house, which had beadboard every- keeping bottles of wine cool. Painted-wood shorebirds by
where,” she continues. “Well, had I known what it was going Nantucket legend Pat Gardner preen on plainspoken brackets
to cost”—cue a barely imperceptible arch of one eyebrow— that have been grouped, here and there, to form flocks.
“I might not have done it.” Roberts did more than just arrange and augment, of
To fill the new yet old-fashioned envelope, she delivered course. An old-school decorator at heart, despite his youthful
decades of belongings into her decorator’s eager hands. From demeanor, he trimmed, mixed, matched, commissioned, and,
a romantic Chinese Export painting of sailing ships that frankly, enjoyed himself. He designed dining chairs, colorful
references Massachusetts’s seafaring history (“I took it from quilts, even mitered cushions in the living room. Striped
my son because he didn’t like the frame—oh, deliver me, red-and-white fabric was cut up and reassembled into soft
deliver me”) to round trivets (“I have a million of them”), her paneling for the dining room, where Christian painted
lifetime of oddments now commingle with fetching auction giant daisylike quatrefoils on the floor, a kicky combo that
finds as well as captivating punctuations, among them the everyone agrees is a terrific success. “Not every client’s
entrance hall’s Julia Condon mandala paintings, which she going to indulge your creativity,” Roberts admits. To which
snapped up from the astute art-and-antiques dealer James this particular patron instantly responds, “Honey, that’s
Sansum, Roberts’s companion and office mate. why everything’s so vanilla.”

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IN CROTON-ON-HUDSON,
NEW YORK, THE MARCEL
BREUER–DESIGNED 1953
NEUMANN HOUSE FEATURES
A CURVY LOW STONE
WALL AND ARCHITECTURAL
PLANES IN BLUE, RED,
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 HISTORY BOYS
Marcel Breuer fanatics Ken Sena and Joseph Mazzaferro revive a
little-known gem by the modern maestro in upstate New York
TEXT BY BARRY BERGDOLL PHOTOGRAPHY BY FRANÇOIS DISCHINGER STYLED BY MICHAEL REYNOLDS
M arcel Breuer’s architecture
is enjoying a renaissance
in popularity, enhanced by
the rebranding of the
Whitney Museum’s former
inverted-ziggurat home as
the Met Breuer. But what
of the modest houses that
marked Breuer’s rise to fame in the 1950s as he provided a
vision of suburban life outside neocolonial saltboxes? Even as
the Hungarian-born, Bauhaus-trained architect has reentered
the spotlight, the overheated real estate market has still
spawned towering or sprawling extensions to his generally
compact single-story houses, often overshadowing their
Mazzaferro, an executive creative director in advertising,
had spent more than a decade reviving two of the multiple
residences—both in Litchfield, Connecticut—that Breuer had
designed for one of his most faithful clients and friends, Rufus
Stillman. Building on archival evidence and hours of conversa-
tion with Stillman himself, the couple peeled away awkward
additions to the 1950 Stillman I house, bringing it back as close
as possible to its original state. After selling the property to
faithful recruits, the couple then embarked on a similarly scru-
pulous pruning of the cottage that Stillman had modeled, with
Breuer’s blessing, after the architect’s own Cape Cod getaway.
But even before Sena and Mazzaferro could complete this
smaller project, they found themselves adopting yet another
Breuer house in need: the 1953 Neumann House in Croton-on-
signature juxtapositions of glass planes with stone walls. Hudson, New York. The architect considered this residence,
Last year I encountered repeat Breuer-house owners with set on a commanding hilltop with views up and down the river,
an opposite strategy—historians doubling as activists or one of his finest; its colored floor plan hung on his office wall
perhaps activists as historians. At the time I had been procras- for years. Vera and George Neumann were both clients and
tinating over a book of essays on Breuer, since published collaborators. She was famous for her graphic textile designs
by Lars Müller. The same Google alerts that pinged me daily (beloved by no less than Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe) and
about tubular steel Cesca chairs on eBay alerted me to the had worked with Breuer on her of-the-moment showrooms,
existence of two fellow Breuer fans, if hardly fellow procrasti- notably on Fifth Avenue. In the case of her home, the architect
nators. Ken Sena, an equity research analyst, and Joseph conceived planes of white, red, and signature blue that extend
RIGHT THE TERRACE
TAKES IN SWEEPING
HUDSON VALLEY VIEWS.
CHAIRS BY JULIA VON
SPONECK. BELOW A
17TH-CENTURY PAINTING
AND CONTEMPORARY
FURNISHINGS BY RON
ARAD, DROR BENSHETRIT,
AND NADA DEBS
DECORATE THE READING
ROOM. OPPOSITE VINTAGE
SEATING BY FRANK GEHRY,
CHARLOTTE PERRIAND,
AND GERRIT RIETVELD
FLANKS THE LIVING ROOM’S
SCULPTURAL FIREPLACE.
MILO BAUGHMAN FOR
THAYER COGGIN COCKTAIL
TABLES; ARTWORK BY
MARK LUYTEN.

Breuer considered this

residence, set on a hilltop
commanding views up
and down the Hudson,
one of his finest.
buying a neighboring house and demolishing all but its
chimney, and tearing down trees and power lines to capture
a panorama worthy of a Hudson River School painter.
To have lunch with these modernism devotees, nestled
between the sculptural fireplace and breathtaking vista,
is also to commune with Breuer and Vera Neumann. We fell
into conversation about their designs—patterns and motifs
that repeated—while comparing notes on who among us had
traveled the farthest to see a Breuer building: I to Bismarck,
beyond the house to hover, literally, over the landscape, into North Dakota, to dine with the nuns at Annunciation Monastery;
which Breuer introduced an uncharacteristically sinewy low they on a fruitless quest to see Breuer’s late Koerfer House
stone wall. overlooking Lake Maggiore in Switzerland. (Alas, you need a
When Sena and Mazzaferro bought the property in 2014, boat—the home is invisible from the road.) So what’s the next
the only addition—a 1970 wing with an indoor swimming Breuer they long to nurse back to health? “Broadly speaking,
pool—had been made by Breuer’s own office for the Neumanns I tend to be most attracted to the scale and floating cantilevers
themselves. Still, many of the features that wed the house to in Breuer’s earlier homes,” Sena told me. To which Mazzaferro
its extraordinary plot had been obscured by years of inatten- quickly added, “I tend to prefer Breuer’s more experimental
tion. Plunging into the archives and interviewing anyone with uses of concrete, stone, and steel that come in the later work.”
firsthand knowledge of the house, the couple rebuilt interior For them, Breuer’s designs were the products of convergences
walls; replaced floors where radiant heating had failed with among architect, clients, and artist friends—and they remain
matching bluestone; and artfully fit thermal-pane glass into the engrossed in exploring them. “The stories around the architec-
floor-to-ceiling sliding doors that link the rooms with views. ture are always expanding,” Sena noted. “But what helps
The couple spared no time in taming the overgrown landscape, preserve those stories is keeping the architecture pure.”

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In Montgomery, Alabama,
a new memorial and museum
bear witness to the brutal legacy
CON
of racial injustice in America
TEXT BY FRED A. BERNSTEIN PHOTOGRAPHY BY WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ
 EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
(EJI) CONCEIVED THE NEW
NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOR
PEACE AND JUSTICE.

FRONTING
THE PAST
THE MEMORIAL’S WOODEN PATH UNEXPECTEDLY SLOPES SO THAT VISITORS
EXPERIENCE THE HANGING COLUMNS FROM BELOW. EACH CORTEN-STEEL COLUMN
CORRESPONDS TO A COUNTY WHERE A LYNCHING OCCURRED.
 FAR LEFT EACH
COLUMN IS INSCRIBED
WITH THE NAMES
OF A COUNTY AND OF
KNOWN LOCAL VICTIMS.
LEFT THE MEMORIAL’S
SCULPTURE BY
HANK WILLIS THOMAS
WAS INSPIRED BY
MASS INCARCERATION.

B ryan Stevenson, founder

of the Alabama-based Equal
Justice Initiative (EJI), has
long demonstrated the power
of language—as a civil rights
litigator and the author of the
best-selling 2014 memoir Just
Mercy. But in 2013, Stevenson
says, when EJI erected physical
markers to the Montgomery
slave trade, he was “blown
away by their impactfulness.” So after the nonprofit
organization issued a report on lynchings, in 2015,
Stevenson and his colleagues set out to recognize that
bleakest of American tragedies in more than mere
words. That year EJI acquired six acres close to down-
town Montgomery on which to build a centralized
memorial to the 4,400-plus victims of lynching.
Unveiled on April 26, EJI’s National Memorial
for Peace and Justice now stands as a sobering
reminder of racial inequality in America, from slavery
has blemishes and streaks that will evolve in terms
of color and complexion,” says Stevenson. In the
park around the central memorial are 800 duplicate
pillars, waiting to be adopted by their respective
counties. Over time, absences will reveal which
communities have helped spread the memorial’s
moving message—and which have not.
The building that contains the hanging columns
was conceived in collaboration with Michael Murphy
of MASS Design Group, a Boston-based architecture
firm best known for its public-interest projects in
Africa and Haiti. In his 2016 TED Talk, viewed more
than 1.3 million times, Murphy says that he read about
EJI’s mission and was inspired to email Stevenson.
Soon he was on a plane to Montgomery. “Murphy
is an incredibly talented architect,” says Stevenson,
who nonetheless took care to ensure that visitors
“look beyond the architecture to the larger story.”
Indeed, as the scope of the project expanded, EJI
consulted writers like Toni Morrison and enlisted
artists like Hank Willis Thomas, who conceived a
to segregation to mass incarceration. The centerpiece sculpture inspired by police violence, and Dana King,
is a group of 800 pillars that, from a distance, appear who created statues dedicated to the women who
to be holding up a roof, Parthenon-style. Get closer carried out the yearlong Montgomery bus boycott
and the columns are revealed to be suspended from (1955–1956). And a few blocks from the memorial,
above, rather than supported from below. Hanging, the organization added the Legacy Museum, in
they represent the casualties of lynching, which a renovated building on the grounds of a former
occurred in some 800 counties from 1877 to 1950. slave warehouse. Taken together, the museum and
(Each column bears the name of a county and its the memorial cover the sweep of racial injustice
known victims.) The slabs are made of Corten steel, in the United States and offer a place, Stevenson
a material that will rust indefinitely. “Every piece says, for all Americans to “confront our history.”

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SONS ALEX AND DYLAN, IN BONPOINT
TUNICS, RUN THROUGH THE GARDEN
AT THEIR HOME IN WATCH HILL, RHODE
ISLAND. OPPOSITE THE 1903 MANSE
TAKES IN STUNNING OCEAN VIEWS.
FOR DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
 SEA
CHANGE
Designer Giancarlo Valle rejuvenates a stalwart
New England mansion on the coast of
Rhode Island for the family of high-flying,
high-style entrepreneur Kevin Wendle
TEXT BY MAYER RUS PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEPHEN KENT JOHNSON STYLED BY MICHAEL BARGO
N
early a century ago,
Jean-Michel Frank made
a compelling case for the
compatibility of the old and
the new. “The noble frames
that came to us from the past
can receive today’s creations.
The house that we build now
can welcome ancient things of
beauty,” the eminent French
designer wrote. Architectural
and interior designer Giancarlo Valle and his client Kevin
Wendle apparently got the message. On a bluff overlooking the
Atlantic Ocean in the coastal village of Watch Hill, Rhode
Island, the two have deftly brokered a rapprochement between
past and present, reimagining a stately 1903 “cottage” with
contemporary interiors laden with treasures of 20th- and
21st-century design.
First, a bit about the homeowner. A mandarin of the new-
media age, Wendle has carved an extraordinary career path
through the worlds of entertainment, technology, and design.
His wide-ranging résumé boasts a slew of tech start-ups along
with executive positions at CNET, Fox Entertainment Group,
and E! Online. In the early 2000s, after riding the wave of the
first internet boom, the trailblazing entrepreneur decamped
to Paris, where he immersed himself in French avant-garde
art, fashion, architecture, and design. During that time, Wendle
forged a fertile relationship with the then up-and-coming
French designer Joseph Dirand, first as a client and subse-
quently as a business adviser and investor. Wendle’s obsession

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 ABOVE A MOBILE CHANDELIER BY MICHAEL ANASTASSIADES HANGS OVER THE PIERRE JEANNERET DINING TABLE
AND CHAIRS. PICASSO OWL VASE ON TABLE. OPPOSITE THE SWIVELING ENTRANCE TO THE BOYS’ BEDROOM. VINTAGE RUG.
“Even though this was not an
orthodox restoration, we
wanted the interiors to project ABOVE AN 18TH-CENTURY
MANTEL CENTERS THE
LIBRARY. PAINTINGS (FROM

a level of authenticity in the LEFT) BY NATHALIE DU

PASQUIER AND LANDON
METZ; JEAN ROYÈRE

materials and construction.” ARMCHAIR; WILLY GUHL

CHAIR; GIANFRANCO
FRATTINI COCKTAIL TABLE;
—Giancarlo Valle JEAN PROUVÉ STOOL;
JORGE ZALSZUPIN SOFA.
OPPOSITE SEBASTIAN,
KEVIN, AND THE BOYS
PLAY CHESS AT A TABLE
SET WITH VINTAGE
ITALIAN GARDEN CHAIRS.
 was young, we’d spend weekends in Stonington, Connecticut.
I’ve always been enchanted with New England beach culture,”
Wendle explains. “Although Mexico is home base, I wanted
my boys to feel a connection to their identity as Americans,”
he adds.
Of course, the house itself—a 10,000-square-foot shingled
pile redolent of patrician East Coast style—exuded its own
allure. “It was magnificently handsome,” Wendle says, describ-
ing his initial reaction to the stately home, which he discov-
ered while vacationing at the nearby Ocean House hotel.
“The challenge was to bring it back to life in a meaningful
way—something stylish, yes, but more important, something
comfortable for my family, attuned to the way we like to live.”
Valle, too, was seduced by the home’s arresting mien. “I fell
in love with its proportions and its imposing cubic form. There
was a solidity to the structure that we wanted to maintain even
as we gutted the inside,” the designer says. He began by opening
walls on the main floor for an easier, more gracious flow from
with travel, design, and premium real estate coalesced in his room to room. He also streamlined the interior architectural
2014 purchase of the idyllic Hotel Esencia in Tulum, Mexico. details, eschewing elaborate crown moldings in favor of gently
It was there, in 2016, that the budding hotelier first met Valle, rounded coves and anchoring rooms with pared-down base-
at the wedding of fashion designer Jason Wu. “We sat next boards. “It was a reductive approach intended to instill a sense
to each other at one of the dinners and bonded over our mutual of softness. At the same time, we underscored the solidity of the
interests,” Valle recalls. In short order, Wendle engaged the architecture with thick, two-feet-wide passageways between
young, New York City–based designer to shepherd the trans- rooms, chunky inset bookcases, and fireplace mantels imported
formation of his recent acquisition, the great house on the from England. Even though this was not an orthodox restora-
picturesque bluff, into a summer home for himself, his partner, tion—frankly, there was nothing left to restore—we wanted the
Sebastian Uribe, and their two sons, Dylan and Alex. interiors to project a level of authenticity in the materials and
One might reasonably wonder how a globe-trotting entre- construction,” Valle explains.
preneur with distinctly progressive tastes, born and raised in “The best thing about buying a house this size is that I
and around New York City, came to be the steward of a historic was finally able to reunite furniture and art that I had stashed
manse in a secluded Rhode Island summer colony. “When I in storage lockers in Paris, the south of France, New York,

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 ABOVE ART BY PICASSO RIGHT AN AXEL EINAR
AND PIERRE LE-TAN LINES HJORTH DINING TABLE
THE STUDY, WHERE A WITH A CHARLOTTE
TAPIO WIRKKALA LAMP PERRIAND CHAIR AND
SITS ON THE AXEL EINAR CUSTOM BANQUETTE
HJORTH DESK; JEAN CREATE A KITCHEN
PROUVÉ OFFICE CHAIR. BREAKFAST NOOK. PHOTO-
GRAPH BY WIM WENDERS.

TOP LEFT: © 2018 ESTATE OF PABLO PICASSO/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK
and Los Angeles. Giancarlo and I assembled the best of the
best, and we recognized opportunities to fill in the collection
with new additions and custom-upholstered furniture,”
Wendle says. The resulting mélange encompasses a king’s
ransom in vintage furnishings by Charlotte Perriand, Le
Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Jean Prouvé, Willy Guhl, and
Axel Einar Hjorth, all paired with contemporary gems by
Faye Toogood, Rick Owens, Michael Anastassiades, Dimore
Studio, Apparatus, and others.
“The homes I designed with Joseph [Dirand] were
more black-and-white. Here in New England it’s all about
the sunshine and beach, so I wanted to bring in more color,”
Wendle notes. Valle obliged by juxtaposing monochrome
rooms with closets painted emerald green and burgundy,
a library in marine blue, and a pantry the color of radicchio.
“Giancarlo has incredible vision and taste,” Wendle says,
assessing the quality of the completed project. “I wanted
tradition and classic style enlivened with a contemporary
spirit and a slight edge. That’s a tricky line to walk, but he
pulled it off with real finesse. The house isn’t old and stodgy,
and it’s not defiantly new. It’s just ours.”

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“The challenge was to bring the house back
to life in a meaningful way, attuned to
the way we like to live.” —Kevin Wendle

ABOVE IN THE LIVING ROOM, A PAIR OF ARMCHAIRS BY PIERRE JEANNERET, A ROLY POLY CHAIR BY FAYE TOOGOOD, AND A SOFA
BY CHRISTIAN LIAIGRE SURROUND A JEAN PROUVÉ COCKTAIL TABLE. SERGE MOUILLE FLOOR LAMP; AXEL JARL PAINTING.
 IN THE GREAT HALL,
A ROMAN THOMAS
CHANDELIER HANGS OVER
A MISCELLANY OF CHAIRS.
OPPOSITE THE IVY
FIGURES ON THE TENNIS
HOUSE’S WALLS WERE
COPIED FROM AN ANTIQUE
WEATHER VANE. FOR
DETAILS SEE RESOURCES.
 scout’s honor
An energetic Chicago couple transform a woebegone
Wisconsin Boy Scout camp into the ultimate getaway
TEXT BY SHAX RIEGLER PHOTOGRAPHY BY BJÖRN WALLANDER STYLED BY HOWARD CHRISTIAN
OPPOSITE CHAIRS BY SOANE IN FABRICS BY LE
MANACH AND HOLLAND & SHERRY SURROUND A
CUSTOM TRESTLE DINING TABLE. LIGHTING BY
ROMAN THOMAS. BELOW DELAVAN LAKE BY DAY.
RIGHT THE LITOWITZ FAMILY TAKES TO THE POOL.

h iking, canoeing, campfire sing-alongs—

generations of Boy Scouts visited these
25 wooded acres on a glacial lake in
Wisconsin. But one day in the 1980s
Camp Delavan, named for the lake on
which it sits, closed, then was divvied
up and sold off. Besides a few molder-
ing buildings and a landscape slowly
being overgrown, all that was left were
the memories of the boys who had
spent time there.
Until 2005, that is, when Jennifer Litowitz happened upon
a real estate ad. She and her husband, Alec, the founder of
Magnetar Capital, had harbored a fantasy of creating a bucolic
getaway for friends and family, including the couple’s four sons,
Jack, Luke, Nick, and Jude, now ages 12 to 20.
Seeing the ad rekindled that dream. So they strapped baby
Jude into his car seat, rounded up the other boys, and drove
an hour-and-a-half north to check it out. “This is it, this is
it!” Jennifer remembers thinking. “But Alec was somewhat
team in place: architect R. Michael Graham and designer
Bruce Fox.
Jennifer was determined to salvage as much of the camp’s
charm as possible. Everyone adored the huge dining hall, where
a massive stone fireplace rose nearly 20 feet. Unfortunately,
that whole building was structurally unsound and would have
to be taken down, then rebuilt. But not before they salvaged
the hearthstones, wall boards, beams, and trusses that gave the
space such personality. They performed a similar feat in the
building that once housed the camp’s crafts studio. After it was
enlarged to make a poolside game house, they reinstalled the
wall planks covered with decades of carved initials and graffiti
by the Scouts.
“Jennifer’s directive was ‘I want it to feel like Wisconsin
in the 1940s,’ ” recalls Fox.
“One of my inspirations was a childhood memory of going
to family lodges in northern Michigan in the summer,” says
Jennifer. “I had this idea of a Midwestern hodgepodge that
transcends time periods, a very comfortable aesthetic.”
Take the old dining hall, now reconstructed as the great
less enthusiastic. It was in rough shape—really, really rough.” room, for example. At 64 feet long by 38 feet wide, it’s the kind
Even so, they took the plunge. Luckily, having recently of space that can eat up furniture and still feel empty. So Fox
completed their main residence—a Lutyens-inspired manse imagined a room that might have been put together over several
in suburban Glencoe, Illinois—they already had a great design generations, where interesting vintage pieces sit alongside

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 ABOVE IN THE EAST CABIN BEDROOM, CUSTOM IKAT BENCHES SIT AT ANTIQUE BED FRAMES FROM CATHOUSE BEDS.
ROMAN SHADES OF A LE MANACH COTTON. OPPOSITE THE MASTER BATH FEATURES PEWABIC TILE AND A CAST-IRON TUB
BY WATERWORKS. CALACATTA MARBLE–TOPPED VANITY DESIGNED BY LIEDERBACH AND GRAHAM, ARCHITECTS.

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 the new. “Everything had to feel like it was found, but also
be comfortable for life today,” he declares.
At one end, an eclectic mix of seating is organized around
the fireplace. (“I definitely wanted a big fire circle,” says
Jennifer.) At the other sits a pair of dining tables that when
pushed together can seat up to 30 (not a rare occurrence in
this house). To keep the surrounding squadron of chairs from
creating the feeling of a conference table, Fox rhythmically
upholstered them in a mix of complementary fabrics.
Subtle variation governs the rest of the house, too. And
Fox made sure that fabric and color choices would reinforce
the theme. “If it didn’t look a little vintage, it wasn’t right,” he
notes. For example, he used a blue handwoven fabric on one
sofa because it felt old—“not dusty, but just like it’s been well
loved”—and he strategically deployed plaids because “a little

“I had this idea of a

Midwestern hodgepodge
that transcends
time periods,” says
Jennifer Litowitz.
plaid here and there feels retro.” For one room’s windows, he
had his curtain-maker unravel the edges of the printed cotton
to create a fringe out of the fabric itself. “I kept thinking, Oh,
Aunt Martha made those a long time ago,” he says. “I was just
going for that feeling.”
Fox also thoughtfully chose art and accessories to add to
the sense of history. He found a carved box with rope handles,
made by a Boy Scout, and had it mounted for use as a side
table. Another Scout piece depicting merit badges in carved
wood hangs over the sunroom fireplace, and antique game
boards decorate the game house. He and the clients also
gathered paintings by artists associated with Chicago’s famed
Art Institute. Inspired, the couple have added nostalgic pieces
by Norman Rockwell and Thomas Hart Benton.
Such a compound is always a work in progress. Since the
original purchase, the Litowitzes have acquired the once
subdivided lots to re-create the property’s original footprint.
In addition to turning a small cabin into an eight-bed bunk-
house and refurbishing the existing boathouse, the couple
have commissioned new buildings, including a couple of tidy
guest cabins. There’s also a notable tennis house, inspired
by the famous indoor court that architects David Adler and
James W. O’Connor designed in the 1920s for Chicago’s
stylish Blair family.
Whatever the season, there’s a lot to do at the new and
improved Camp Delavan. “In this day and age, everything’s so
fast-paced and everyone’s always online,” says Jennifer, who
delayed installing Wi-Fi and deliberately situated the few TVs
in out-of-the-way places. “People come up and they really
remember what it’s like to just have good old-fashioned fun
together. That’s what I wanted it to be all about.”

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AND CABINETRY WERE DESIGNED BY LIEDERBACH AND GRAHAM, ARCHITECTS. FAMILY TIME IN THE GAME HOUSE,
WHERE A CUSTOM POOL TABLE MEETS A VINTAGE TERMINATOR 2 PINBALL MACHINE.
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American art gallery specializing in quality American
lies Palmetto Bluff, the South’s
paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Questroyal’s extensive inventory of more than 500 best-kept secret. Gas lanterns
artworks includes important Hudson River School, adorn expansive porches and oyster
tonalist, impressionist, and modernist examples.
shell walkways guide you to
Contact the gallery to request a 96-page hardcover
catalogue, featuring 37 color plates. Highlighted winding rivers. Soft coastal breezes
Hayley Lever (1876–1958)
Fishing Boats, Sunrise artists include: Bierstadt, Blakelock, Burchfield, rouse a sense of possibility, while
Oil on canvas Gifford, Glackens, Hartley, Hassam, Lawson, Marsh,
20 1/4" h. x 24 1/4" w. quiet sunsets offer opportunity for
Palmer, Porter, Richards, and Wiggins.
Signed lower left: Hayley Lever reflection. Here, every home is in
To request a catalogue call 212-744-3586,
harmony with nature and every
email [email protected],
or visit questroyalfineart.com moment is laden with potential.
Southern hospitality beckons you
to appreciate the storied
MARVIN HARDWARE: architecture of Bluffton, South
THE GALLERY COLLECTION Carolina, steeped in rich history and
Explore the newly curated styles of The Gallery tradition. Stay for a little or stay for
Collection and unlock more design possibilities. a lifetime, it never leaves you.
Featuring selections from renowned hardware makers,
Marvin’s new hardware options provide the perfect Visit palmettobluff.com to join
complement to Marvin doors, while giving customers the mailing list, stay up to date
more ways to create something uniquely theirs. on events, and view available
Discover more at marvin.com/thegallerycollection home listings.

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Full Bloom
Gardens need structure. They also need structures, says AD100 landscape designer Madison Cox,
“a reason to experience a garden as opposed to just walking through it.” Case in point is the never-before-
published pavilion at his Marrakech home, Villa Oasis—the legendary house renovated by his late spouse,
Pierre Bergé, and Yves Saint Laurent in the 1980s. Eight years ago, Cox added an octagonal structure
of painted cedar, with French doors, a marble table, and chairs for which artist Lawrence Mynott devised
needlework upholstery. Executed by a charity for lepers, the fetching stitchery mixes Marrakech
scenes and botanical studies, plus a monogram or two. Now the one spot of the garden, Cox says,
that was “pretty much never seen” has become an enticing destination for l’art de vivre. —MITCHELL OWENS

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