Architectural Digest US
Pride of Place - Lucía Echavarría puts age-old Colombian craft to bold use
Echavarría explains over Zoom from her Bogotá studio as she holds up a striped werregue bowl, its fibers entwined so tightly the vessel could carry water. Her varied work (now realized with the help of more than 80 artisans) puts a contemporary spin on that and other timeless techniques while preserving the traditional colors, motifs, and construction methods. At Milan's Alcova fair, this past April, Echavarría filled the living room at Villa Borsani with slipper chairs upholstered in hammock fabrics, tables topped with eye-popping beadwork, and svelte side chairs sheathed in woven estera. Her solo exhibition, on view at London's Lamb gallery through November, showcases 12 methods practiced across 10 regions.
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September 2024
Architectural Digest US
Elements of Style - Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry celebrate 10 years of artistic exploration at Hermès
Last March, Hermès brought its home universe to life in eye-popping fashion at a one-night-only extravaganza staged at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. The lavish performance featured dozens of dancers showcasing the French luxury house's furniture, tableware, textiles, and decorative objects in elaborately choreographed vignettes that seemed to riff on the unboxing ritual so popular on social media-a supersized spectacle of conjuring magic from ordinary crates. The event also coincided with the 10th anniversary of Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry's tenure as artistic directors of the Hermès home division.
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September 2024
Architectural Digest US
Bare Bones
Elsa Peretti's candlesticks, a nod to simple, organic forms, still light our fire
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September 2024
Architectural Digest US
Travel Log
Banana Republic's updated Manhattan flagship celebrates the wider world
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September 2024
Architectural Digest US
NARRATIVE VOICE
At England's historic Houghton Hall, a major commission marks an artistic departure for Dame Magdalene Odundo
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September 2024
Architectural Digest US
Calm, Cool, Collected
Designer Julie Hillman transforms her workspace in a Manhattan brownstone into a creative crucible
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September 2024
Architectural Digest US
Root Source
Dating back hundreds or thousands of years, old-growth trees are more than just specimens of majesty and mystery.
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September 2024
Architectural Digest US
DRAMA QUEEN
Studio Shamshiri conjures an unapologetically lavish, multifunctional Greenwich Village town house for a theatrical producer and patron of the arts
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September 2024
Architectural Digest US
Driving Force
Channeling the beauty of cars, Ralph Lauren unveils furnishings for the fast lane
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September 2024
Architectural Digest US
PASSION PROJECT
At her home in Mumbai, Bollywood star Sonam Kapoor composes an ode to the decorative arts of India
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September 2024
Architectural Digest US
happy place
With help from her friend landscape designer Miranda Brooks, novelist Plum Sykes creates a flower-filled oasis in the Cotswolds
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September 2024
Architectural Digest US
Fortune Favors the Bold
For designer Alexis Tompkins of Chroma and her young family, an unlikely San Francisco listing was the key to indoor-outdoor bliss
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September 2024
Architectural Digest US
New Translation
Demisch Danant revisits wonders of postwar France at a historic Brooklyn home
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September 2024
Architectural Digest US
DREAM TEAM
For one lucky family, design stars Jeremiah Brent and Athena Calderone paired up to craft a chic beach retreat in Rhode Island
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September 2024
Elle Decor US
But This is My Home - One writer discovers that living in an architectural icon can be a blessing and a curse.
One writer discovers that living in an architectural icon can be a blessing and a curse. My husband and I moved into the Kallis House in Los Angeles six years ago. It was designed in 1946 by the modernist architect Rudolph Schindler, and it's believed by many, including Frank Gehry, to be among Schindler's best. The house is eccentric, perched on the lip of a hill, with a butterfly roof and a shaggy exterior made of grape stakes. The interior is an unfolding series of surprising angles, with a wonderful wide view of the San Fernando Valley.
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September 2024
Architectural Digest US
PLEASURE DOME
Superstar DJ and music producer Diplo assembles a team of visionary creatives to conjure a dreamlike compound in the Jamaican jungle
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June 2024
Architectural Digest US
VIVE LA FRANCE
In advance of this summer's Olympic Games, Atelier De France's expert artisans are working to make sure Paris landmarks shine as bright as ever
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June 2024
Architectural Digest US
light touch
To craft the perfect getaway for her family, designer Victoria Hagan breathes new life into a dark, old Palm Beach manse
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June 2024
Architectural Digest US
DOWN TIME
Near Accra, Ghana, art star Amoako Boafo fashions a restful retreat for himself and others
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June 2024
Architectural Digest US
DISCOVERIES Southern Charm
At her modernist home in historic Charleston, interior designer Angie Hranowsky writes her own rules
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June 2024
Architectural Digest US
A STAR IS BORN
Design phenom Giampiero Tagliaferri adapts an avant-garde Los Angeles home into a showstopping office and salon
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June 2024
Architectural Digest US
passion project
For fashion designer Adam Lippes, home is a bucolic retreat in the Berkshires filled with objects he has lovingly collected over the years
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June 2024
Architectural Digest US
Figuring It Out
Barbora Zilinskaitė's biomorphic wonders ask us to rethink objects and how we relate to them
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June 2024
Architectural Digest US
Bicoastal Living
California mainstay Nickey Kehoe plants its flag in the heart of New York City
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June 2024
Architectural Digest US
Gather Around
Revived by RH, Harvey Probber's modular seating innovates anew
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June 2024
Architectural Digest US
Unpacked Lore
Tapped by Louis Vuitton, OMA's Shohei Shigematsu creates an immersive retelling of the brand's venerable history
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May 2024
Architectural Digest US
outside the box
To design public spaces for communities in need, a collective of Mexican architects thinks on its feet
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May 2024
Architectural Digest US
Home at Last
It Brit designer Jermaine Gallacher brings off-kilter verve and expert craft to his first residential project
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May 2024
Architectural Digest US
Grecian Yearn
Designer Tino Zervudachi makes a highly personal (and inspiring) statement at his renovated jewel-box apartment in Athens
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May 2024
Architectural Digest US
ARTISTIC FREEDOM
In Lagos, Nigeria, Yinka Shonibare establishes a trailblazing creative retreat for himself and others
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