Innholdsfortegnelse for July - August 2015 i Vogue Living

Steven Chee A photographer for over a decade, Sydney-based Melburnian Steven Chee shot Yaya Deng modelling print fabrics for ‘Tribal Rhythms’ (page 41). Chee, who says he’s inspired by “getting up every day and calling my hobby a job”, relished this opportunity to combine his fashion and beauty work with his passion for interiors. “I loved working with the fabrics in a structural sense,” he says. “David [Novak-Piper, stylist] did a great job wrangling the materials.” Karen McCartney Belfast-born, Sydney-based editorial director, author and curator Karen McCartney loved whizzing around New York in yellow taxis for the profile on Lindsey Adelman (page 90) and our feature on the NYC x Design festival (page 95). McCartney is also curating the Superhouse exhibition at the Museum of Sydney (featured on page 108).…

Wherever my imagination finds itself, that’s where my room begins,” says a passionate Anouska Hempel. This is how she marries purity of line, scale and symmetry with a fabulous flair for the dramatic, often informed by her love of the East, particularly the people, places and cultures along the old Silk Route. Self-taught and extraordinarily driven, the interior designer is, at 74, busier than ever, almost impossible to pin down between flights to New York and LA, or escapes to her home in the British countryside or aboard her Turkish gulet (a traditional wooden yacht). Her only limits are time and her imagination. “My own mind keeps me going; the hardest part is always deciding what I’m going to do next,” she says with a laugh. Hempel — or Lady…

PHOTOGRAPHED EXCLUSIVELY FOR VOGUE LIVING IN MALIBU, CALIFORNIA. KELLY WEARSTLER surveys the pristine waters of the Pacific Ocean from the sunken living room of her Malibu home and smiles. “It’s like living on a boat sometimes; when the tide is in, the ocean comes right up underneath the house, and you can feel it move,” the designer says, adding that dolphins and seals regularly swim by the house. “We keep the living room doors open and you can hear the ocean, which is just so soothing and relaxing. You can decompress and let go; it’s a bit like heaven here.” Indeed, Wearstler, who runs a wildly successful global luxury lifestyle brand out of Los Angeles — her business incorporates everything from interiors, fashion, jewellery, furniture, lighting, and commercial and residential…

1. This mesmeric ‘Nebulae’ rug is by Déjate Querer, part of the México Territorio Creativo exhibit at Wanted Design Manhattan. Each felt facet is hand-sewn into the pattern, the restrained tones making it all the more impactful; dejatequerer.mx. 2. WITH CHARMING NAMES LIKE ‘OSPREY’, ‘OYSTER CATCHER’ AND ‘AMERICAN ROBIN’, THE NEW WALLPAPERS SHOWN BY PAPER MILLS AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE FAIR (ICFF), COMBINE THE SHEEN OF LUXURY WITH A SPLASH OF THE ACCIDENTAL; PAPERMILLS.NET. 3. One of the most creatively stimulating stands at ICFF was that of New York-based Apparatus Studio, making its first foray into furniture with Portal, a collection of tables (dining table pictured) that “feel modern with a taste of the ancient”. New lighting included this ‘Link’ porcelain pendant, a collaboration with ceramicist Alice Goldsmith; apparatusstudio.com.…

“I WANTED SOMETHING FRESH FOR THE HOUSE. IT IS LIKE A GARDEN OF COLOUR IN THE DESERT” Designer Agnès Emery has created an extraordinary courtyard garden behind the thick, earthen walls of her Marrakech home. Part of its delight comes from the orange and lemon trees contained within this secret hideaway, along with the pools and birdsong. Yet Emery’s garden is also composed of verdant colours and rich patterns derived from nature itself, which introduces flowers, branches and wildlife into her sanctuary, along with an array of sky-blues and vivid greens. It feels a world away from the relentless hustle and bustle of the medina (old city). “Marrakech is known as the Red City and it can sometimes feel like a desert, because there are no plants and the walls…

“The house was never going to be about minimalism, more an unbridled eclecticism” — architect Iain Halliday The commission to re-dress this boom-time Victorian ‘palazzo’, in a quiet patch south-east of Melbourne, came with considerable historical baggage. Or so recalls the property’s co-owner, a media-shy, buoyant brunette whose fundraising activities swing from state opera companies to off-shore orphanages (read: her home is the stage for charity spectaculars). First, there was the design provenance, she informs, showing a bronzed Heritage Victoria plaque that dates the classical Italianate structure back to 1857 and the office of Lloyd Tayler — co-architect of South Australia’s Houses of Parliament. Secondly, there was the pre-existing relationship with project designer Iain Halliday, the Sydney-based director of BKH, who had previously styled her family into “fabulous Sydney apartments”.…

Cabarita Beach, on the New South Wales north coast, is the kind of quintessential Australian seaside town that is hard to find these days. A pristine headland dotted with pandanus juts into the Pacific, gifting the hamlet its storied surf break and sheltering the golden, largely empty beach. As they once did along most of Australia’s east coast, Norfolk pines rather than skyscrapers signal that just beyond the dunes lies a town. And unlike its neighbours to the north and south, Cabarita Beach consists of little more than a collection of shops, a surf club and, until recently, a solitary run-down motel. “We have nine children between us and we bought The Hideaway motel with the idea that we would turn it into our family beach house,” says Siobhan Bickle,…

AT JUST 29, BRITISH CHEF NELLY ROBINSON has opened Nel, a degustation restaurant in Sydney’s Surry Hills and it’s making a big impression with its epicurean creativity as it bends the traditional rules. Effusive, with a Northern English accent, Robinson is adamant about two things. The first is that his food is not British. While there are nods to his heritage — Eccles cakes dotted with currants soaked in English breakfast tea, and pressed pork croquettes with green-pea puree — he prefers for it to be simply called modern food. “Right now I’m serving a treacle and soy-cured tuna with yuzu snow, edamame and sesame,” Robinson says. “It’s not British. I don’t want to close avenues by saying it’s British. I want to use yuzu, and local Australian ingredients like…

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MOVING ON UP Alexander Lotersztain’s QTZ limited-edition collection of chairs, unveiled at Milan Design Week in April, was inspired by the naturally occurring geometric forms of quartz. As a result of his successful showing in Milan, Brisbane-based Lotersztain will now be exclusively represented by the prestigious Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan; derlot.com. Communal success Eclectic influences, from the Vienna Secession to Milanese modernist design, make Commune’s ‘Triple Dome’ chandelier for Remains Lighting (above) a joy to behold; communedesign.com. INSPIRED DWELLINGS Examples of sublime residential architecture can be admired at Superhouse, curated by Karen McCartney, at the Museum of Sydney, 29 August–29 November; sydneylivingmuseums.com.au. In The Family RECENTLY LAUNCHED AT NYC X DESIGN, THE ‘PARTRIDGE’ CHAIR (LEFT), BY AUSTRALIAN STUDIO DESIGN BY THEM BALANCES THE WARMTH OF TIMBER WITH AN INDUSTRIAL…

Good taste or no taste, that works well. Everything in between is difficult,” says Thomas Geerlings of Framework Architects, who, together with interior designer Sascha Faase, refurbished this 120-year-old penthouse property in Amsterdam-Zuid, one of the city’s most desirable boroughs. Thankfully, their clients — a couple in their forties with a passion for collecting art — “have taste and know what they want”. The collaboration between the design duo Geerlings and Faase commenced with the full refurbishment of the property. The renovation and redesign of the penthouse took one year to complete, and they started by stripping the building of all its existing fixtures and fittings. Only the shell of the original building was left intact, with all the walkways and architectural and decorative elements specially designed and made for…

Beautiful Sicily is separated from Italy’s mainland by the narrow Strait of Messina, but it feels wilder, more remote. Touched by three seas and blessed with diverse vistas — from rugged coastlines, crumbling castles and Greek ruins to farmland, citrus groves, vineyards and seascapes where volcanic islands glow with lava in the middle of an azure sea — it’s an island that leaves few unmoved and many who visit it utterly smitten. If ever there was a place that should be experienced through your stomach, it’s Sicily. Volcanic Mount Etna provides rich soil for the island’s produce, such as thick-skinned lemons and grapes for wine, while its seas yield abundant seafood. The cuisine is wonderful, from grilled sardines to specialities such as caponata (eggplant stew) and cassata (a sponge, ricotta…

POUCH SURFING Christian Louboutin’s ‘Aliosha’ pouch (pictured below in Toile Loubi Black) makes for one of the more stylish ways for today’s busy jetsetter to pack their essential travel toiletries, $1195; (02) 8355 5282. Tap into luxury The site of a famous 19th-century thermal bathhouse and a nightclub for the A-list in the ’70s, Paris’s Hotel Les Bains has been reborn as a chic Design Hotel. It now boasts 39 rooms and suites, a restaurant (left), and bars and lounge designed by Vincent Bastie, Tristan Auer and Denis Montel; 7 Rue du Bourg l’Abbé, Paris; designhotels.com. BEACH ESCAPE TAKE A WINTER BREAK AT JONAH’S WITH A MIDWEEK NIGHT IN AN OCEAN RETREAT ROOM, THREE-COURSE DINNER, BREAKFAST AND PALM BEACH COLLECTION CANDLE FOR $719 PER NIGHT PER COUPLE, UNTIL 31 AUGUST.…

Each Milan Design Week I have attended is tagged in my memory. There was the ‘cloud year’ (2007), when designer Tokujin Yoshioka created a three-dimensional cloudscape for Italian manufacturer Moroso from more than three million plastic straws. There was the ‘stranded year’ (2010), when the unpronounceable volcano erupted in Iceland and brought Europe to a halt. This year will be ‘lighting year’, with my enduring memories being brass and etched-glass lights by Apparatus — both industrial and refined — at the studio’s pop-up showroom in Milan’s 5 Vie district; and fellow New Yorker Lindsey Adelman’s ethereal ‘Cherry Bomb’ lights at the Nilufar Depot. Frenetic schedules prevented Vogue Living’s creative director Jack Milenkovic and me from meeting Adelman in Milan, yet just a few weeks later, writer and author Karen McCartney…

“Imagine New Year’s Eve with all your friends and family. That’s what Milan is for the design industry. Things end here, things start here. Resolutions are made and new friendships. It’s a wonderful week” MARCEL WANDERS, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, MOOOI FOR INTERVIEWS WITH MARCEL WANDERS, FRONT AND SONYA PLETES, VISIT VOGUELIVING.COM.AU. DAY ONE: MONDAY 13 APRIL “It’s going to be a beautiful, sunny week so everyone should be happy and positive. I think it’s going to be really cool,” says Marcel Wanders, co-founder and artistic director at Dutch brand, Moooi. “We’re excited. We have something really wonderful to share.” Wanders taps into the mood on the Milan streets. Day one is press preview day. Things are a little quieter. It all starts in earnest tomorrow. There’s a mood of anticipation and…

setting the SCENE “One of the memorable moments in my life was when I decided to leave London, lured by Sydney’s sunny shores and Australian magazines! That was in 1999, which coincides with one of the Moët & Chandon special Grand Vintage years.” NEALE WHITAKER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, VOGUE LIVING WHEN YOU’RE CELEBRATING ONE OF LIFE’S SIGNIFICANT EVENTS, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MOOD, MENU AND CHAMPAGNE. MOËT & CHANDON GRAND VINTAGE IS A LUXURIOUS CHOICE AS EACH VINTAGE REFLECTS THE DISTINCTIVE FLAVOURS OF A SINGLE YEAR’S EXCEPTIONAL HARVEST. Neale says IN THE MOOD “They say we eat with our eyes first and that’s not just about the food. Whether we’re entertaining at home or dining out, creating the scene is as significant as what’s served.” GO FOR GLAMOUR “I’m all about details,…

“Painting for me is about possibilities, trying ideas, seeing where they go and what happens on the way” FOR MELBOURNE ARTIST SIMON LLOYD, a prodigious maker of austere objects that revel in their materiality, painting is a new frontier. But why, after decades sculpting functional forms, is he now flattening them? “Mmm,” ponders the artist, who has always assumed an overtly graphic stance in his objects. “Painting for me is about possibilities, trying out ideas, seeing where they go and what happens on the way.” So for a designer whose slow-cook processes hinge on predictability, mustn’t the fickle fluidity of paint have induced panic? “Paint in many ways is no different,” insists Lloyd, “the way it might flow or gel on the canvas. I still have a lot to understand…

A CLASSIC REIMAGINED Kartell has unveiled a new flagship showroom in Sydney’s Chatswood Chase full of iconic pieces and future classics from the likes of Philippe Starck et al. The latest collection, Precious Metals, has revitalised existing designs such as Ferruccio Laviani’s ‘Fly’ pendant light, $765, in silver, gold and copper (above right). Level 2, 345 Victoria Ave, Chatswood; (02) 8399 7505; spacefurniture.com.au. CHANEL BY THE SEASIDE Chanel’s Ephemeral Boutique has taken up residence at La Mistralée mansion in Saint-Tropez for summer once again. Refreshed every year, its new sleek, floral-accented decor (left) lets the fashion, accessories and beauty products shine. 1 Avenue du Général Leclerc, Saint-Tropez; (+33) 4 9449 0747; chanel.com. Soft touch Just landed at Hub Furniture Lighting Living is Patricia Urquiola’s ‘Love (Me) Tender’ modular sofa for…

The three-bedroom flat is an exercise in controlled eclecticism and contrast Graduating with a degree in art and design from Politecnico di Milano, she studied decorative painting in Brussels before moving to London, where she married (and eventually divorced) British architect and designer Ashley Hicks. While raising their daughters, Angelica and Ambrosia, she set up a studio specialising in rugs, fabrics, furniture, home accessories, and eventually clothing. Given his bride’s aesthetic resume, Mottola happily bowed to her redecorating plans, even though the apartment, which he grew up in, held many memories. “I have free rein to express myself as I like,” says Hicks, whose husband admires her attention to atmosphere. “She is really particular about having dimmers everywhere,” teases the nobleman, who sailed for Italy in the 1972 and 1976…

1. FLOWERS are an important part of my DNA. When I was growing up, my grandmother and mother always had fresh arrangements in our home. When I design my collections, I often think about flowers and incorporate them into a print or an object like the AERIN peony [ornament]. 2. COFFEE-TABLE BOOKS I have piles of coffee-table books in my office and at home. I love to read through them on a quiet afternoon for inspiration. 3. THE SEA If I could be anywhere in the world, it would be somewhere by the sea. 4. ERES SWIMSUITS fit my personal style perfectly: classic, effortless and easy. 5. VINTAGE CHARM BRACELETS I love gold jewellery and have started collecting charm bracelets. It’s fun to think about the stories and history behind…