Innholdsfortegnelse for January/February 2019 i Vogue Living

Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Contributors

Tamsin Johnson DESIGNER For this issue, Johnson takes us on her Tuscan holiday with longtime friend, designer Lucy Folk (page 145). With a background in fashion design in Melbourne and London, the Sydney-based interior designer finds her creative process fuelled through trips overseas. “I find that travelling really helps me to develop new ideas,” says Johnson. “It is an important part of my process. My eyes are more open so I am able to push myself into new territory.” Another source of inspiration for this talented creative? Her husband, fashion designer Patrick Johnson. “It’s tempting to replicate something you have done before, because it’s been a success, but there are so many exciting new ideas to explore,” Johnson says. “He’s forever pushing the envelope.” Alicia Ridley DESIGNER, VOGUE LIVING Having worked…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Over the rainbow

She’s credited with bringing pink back into interiors via her heavily Instagrammed Sketch gallery-restaurant in London. But India Mahdavi is no one-Pantone pony. She used what an executive called “spinach green” all over the walls of a Ladurée tearoom, and her Chez Nina nightclub installation at Nilufar Gallery in Milan this year made rainbow velvet a thing to covet. She has said she wants to “bring sunshine into a space” and that is exactly what she does via her Don Giovanni lamps. Like the giant flowers on a Wizard of Oz set, they’re a bit ’30s, a bit Mod, but with jelly mould-like Murano glass globes and gelato scoop-stack colour mixes, they are mostly just Mahdavi. Luckily for us, the Don Giovanni lamp is now available in Australia via Alm.…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Nick Cave

We are living in challenging times, and that’s putting things mildly. Trump in America, Brexit in the UK, Nauru in — or rather, conveniently outside of — Australia. These are the times when the world needs art. It needs art to elevate and educate, to expose and to provoke discussion. African-American artist Nick Cave is not afraid to confront the cultural discourse; in fact, he has made it his life’s work. Right now at Carriageworks in Sydney’s Eveleigh, he has populated the expansive space with his celebrated work Until. It’s heaven and hell and all the brutal truth that lies between, and it’s never been more relevant. When Until first launched into the world at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in 2016, the delicate equilibrium of American culture was…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Out of the box

The idea of blurring indoor and outdoor spaces has been a recurring theme in architecture and interiors. Having the comfort of the indoors while being immersed in the great outdoors is the stuff dreams are made of. I mean, who doesn’t want to have their cake and eat it too? Perhaps it’s our collective fatigue from the fast pace of urban living, the saturation of screen culture, infinite new technologies or a combination of all three, but we’re definitely seeing a rise in projects that really push these boundaries. A superb example comes in the shape of a holiday house in a forest at the foothills of a mountain in Monterrey, Mexico. Designed by acclaimed Mexico-city architect Tatiana Bilbao, Los Terrenos (The Terrain) appears as a mesmerising illusion made up…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Martyn Thompson

The magical, mystical, multi-faceted Martyn Thompson is taking breakfast in a Collingwood cafe and recounting how he came to own a garden in the Catskills wilds of upstate New York. Divulging its charms from the long distance of Melbourne, where the National Gallery of Victoria recently invited him to compete in their triennial Rigg Design prize, the expat Aussie photographer effuses about the “openness” of Australia’s southern city and his want to spend more time working there. This desire, explains Thompson — who is famous for investing imagery and interiors with an emotional resonance — is both a function of his age and lack of family moorings in Manhattan, where he has lived for the last two decades. “New York started drumming into me that it was not my place,”…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Walk this way

In a city that’s been dug up, redrawn and redeveloped as often as Sydney has, there are few landmarks that have survived to tell their tale. Certainly, in the highly volatile bricks-and-mortar retail market, there’s even less longevity and certainty, which is why David Jones’s celebration of 180 years of trade is such an achievement. And with 91 of those years established at the brand’s beloved Elizabeth Street address, what better way to future-proof one if its most iconic stores than by giving it a grand old facelift? The international interdisciplinary design firm Benoy was granted the mammoth task, and they were acutely aware the job meant tinkering with a living artefact. “David Jones Elizabeth Street is an architectural and social icon of Sydney that holds wonderful memories for countless…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

A new arch

The search for a small holiday home in Puglia, Italy, was scratched at the sight of a multifaceted former tobacco factory with Gothic-like interiors. Italian diplomat Giovanni Favilli and his Vietnamese wife, Giang, were looking for a modest retreat for their family of five when they got a tip-off from a friend. “I’d read about Salento — that you could find charming and well-priced places compared to Tuscany,” says Giovanni. The couple felt the 400-square-metre property at Masseria Diso farm was too good an opportunity to miss. A low-rise, rectangular stone building at the end of an avenue of tall Mediterranean pines, its front walls are sun-bleached peachy pink featuring faded signage that gives away its previous life. Originally built in the 1930s under the Mussolini administration, the tobacco factory…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

True romance

“I didn’t know this feeling I have now because I’d never EXPERIENCED it. If I had I’d have done this thing sooner”KIM MCKAY, HOMEOWNER There is more than a single story of metamorphosis to be told here. One is that of the home. The other is that of the home’s unsuspecting mistress, who had not entered into this agreement expecting to find a new love. Over the years, plenty have experienced real estate romance; they fall in love at first sight, are swept off their feet, just have to have the home in question. Not so Kim McKay. She was a stranger to the notion of ‘home’ and what it meant when she first viewed the top-floor apartment named in a Spanish mission-style building in Sydney’s Bellevue Hill, and so…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

SOCIAL

HP launch Global tech giant HP is leading a renaissance in 21st-century laptop design with the launch of the world’s first leather-bound convertible PC, the HP Spectre Folio. Sydney’s stylish Beta Bar provided the backdrop for the Australian debut of HP’s newest laptop innovation. Blending luxurious handcrafted leather finishes with the latest smart technology, a key feature of the HP Spectre Folio is its clever, seamless convertible design that allows users to maneuver the ultra-thin, super-lightweight laptop between three different positions. Guests at the launch in Sydney hosted by Vogue Living editorial director Edwina McCann included Harvey Norman CEO Katie Page and HP’s global head of design Stacy Wolff. A three-course menu by Vue de Monde creative director Shannon Bennett featured dishes celebrating seasonal Australian produce, from wagyu beef with…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

POSTSCRIPT

GAUDION French fashion designer Christian Lacroix never disappoints with his extravagant creations, which enhance rather than dominate a space. His exotic Bagatelle Réglisse wallpaper is a work of art that represents the Parc de Bagatelle, a gathering place for popular festivities in the Directoire era on the outskirts of Paris. gaudions.com.au FANULI The elegant Sveva armchair is luxury redefined. The brainchild of Italian architect and designer Carlo Colombo, the Sveva is upholstered in sumptuous saddle hide while the seat and backrest cushions are filled with soft goose down, making it comfortable but supportive. The cast aluminium swivel base comes in several metal finishes to suit all style requirements. fanuli.com.au SMEG The Mediterranean is coming to a kitchen near you, thanks to a collaboration between couture designers Dolce & Gabbana and…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Take the tour

She may have swapped her native Brazil for the blissful SANTA MONICA sun, but supermodel ALESSANDRA AMBROSIO has managed to bring a hint of South American ease into the home she shares with her two young children. Enlisting the help of design guru MARTYN LAWRENCE BULLARD, the former Victoria’s Secret model has decorated her 1920s-era house in BRAZILIAN-MEETS-CALIFORNIAN-BOHO style. For more celebrity house tours and styling inspiration like this, visit VOGUELIVING.COM.AU. Vogue Living @vogueliving Vogue Living @VogueLiving vogueliving.com.au…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Fabrizio Casiraghi

“I understood that [the brick rooftops were] the colour of the ISLAND and began imagining an ATMOSPHERE full of warm TONALITIES”FABRIZIO CASIRAGHI Inspiration for the Ftelia Beach Club in Mykonos came to its designer, Paris-based Italian architect Fabrizio Casiraghi, the first time he flew over the island. He was surprised to see that the church rooftops were painted in a brick-like colour and not in blue, the colour usually associated with Greece. “I understood that this was the colour of the island and began imagining an atmosphere full of warm tonalities,” says Casiraghi, who describes the palette as the most powerful aspect of the project. It packs some subtle punch: varying shades of red, yellow and burnt orange play contrast against the stark white of the vernacular architecture and the…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

We are family

Hotel life has always been a family affair for Kit Kemp, the award-winning design director of Firmdale Hotels. For three decades, with her cofounder husband, Tim, she has blazed a revolutionary trail across the London and New York boutique hotel scene since opening Dorset Square Hotel in 1985. Now, their youngest daughters, Willow, 31, and Min, 28, have joined the family foray (eldest daughter Tiffany, 32, is based near the family home in Hampshire). With backgrounds in art and design, architectural graduate Willow, working with her mother since 2012, has an innate feel “for scale and dimension”, says Kemp; Min, a graphic designer, on the team since 2014, “is fiery and colourful, often much more than me”, she laughs. Both daughters contribute in myriad ways: Min loves to seek out…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Studio Mr Smith

Design is in the DNA of Anthony Spon-Smith, creative director at Australian furniture company Coco Republic. Sleekly groomed and sipping a coffee at his instore cafe in Sydney’s Alexandria, Spon-Smith effusively describes his lifelong obsession with design and the consequent launch of Coco Republic’s Studio Mr Smith. “I want to introduce a global INFLUENCE and interpret it for the Australian LIFESTYLE” Named after his father’s original business, Mr Smith Interiors, the studio satisfies Spon-Smith’s long-held wish to expand into product design. He was, after all, born into a family business that specialised in furniture. This might be the last frontier for a company already offering interior design services and a popular design school along with its 16 stores nationwide. “Studio Mr Smith’s ethos is based on heritage and rebirth,” says…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Jacques Garcia

As an aspiring aesthete and latent Francophile, one of the most unforgettable memories from my younger, globetrotting days was arriving at the Hotel Costes in Paris in the summer of 1997. It was the era of minimalism: fashion-wise, the heyday of Prada and Jil Sander — think Tilda Swinton in I Am Love — and the cleanlined interiors of Philippe Starck, Andrée Putman and Christian Liaigre. (Even Anouska Hempel, queen of the ‘boutique’ hotel, was abandoning the extravagance of Blakes for her new, white brand of Zen at The Hempel.) Passing through the front doors of the Costes, however, was an altogether different experience. As my eyes adjusted to the low-lit interior, I was immersed in the buttoned and bullion-fringed world of Napoleon III. A series of small but opulent…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Marjolaine Leray

“It’s not about a certain pricepoint, luxury materials or designer names. It just has to be unique” It’s a kind of love story, the way I found Sydney,” says Marjolaine Leray, the French-born owner of Alm, Sydney’s newest and arguably most colourful destination for inspirational one-off art and homewares. “My daughter wanted to study here and after visiting I fell in love with the city.” It wasn’t too long after that initial visit that Leray took a lease on a retail space in leafy Woollahra, had it painted watermelon pink — a reference to the Wes Anderson film The Grand Budapest Hotel — and moved, along with her daughter, from her home in the South of France. She’s now on the lookout to buy a house in the neighbourhood surrounding…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Worth the wait

If you’re an architect looking to work with Deborra-lee Furness, you’re going to need nerves of steel. “I’m a bit of a perfectionist and a commitment-phobe, which is not a great combination,” she smiles over a grilled chicken salad and a Diet Coke — “my one vice” — at the Kit Kemp-designed Crosby Street Hotel in New York’s SoHo. That suite of personality traits might explain why the East Hampton holiday home that Furness and her husband, Hollywood megastar Hugh Jackman, had bought for the summer months remains in the design phase almost four years on. The couple and their children, Oscar, 18, and Ava, 13, along with pooches Dali and Allegra have all cosied up in the property’s guesthouse instead. “[The main house] has taken so long to build…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Scene change

It figures that the holiday home of Italian actor Luca Barbareschi and his interior designer wife, Elena Monorchio, is likened to a theatrical production. Located on the Aeolian island of Filicudi, geographically near yet distinctly removed from Sicily, the combined houses on the couple’s property tell a story of historical and local intrigue, set against a cinematic backdrop. Throughout Monorchio has created areas of mise en scène, but never to the point of upstaging. “I was careful to show off the scenography as discreetly as possible,” she says, “because here nature is the real protagonist.” Monorchio’s mind was full of theatrics when she arrived in Filicudi to project-manage the interiors of their newly renovated house. She and Barbareschi had just completed “the most exhilarating and emotion-packed experience of [her] life”…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Editor’s letter

As we ease into a new year, I just can’t help but feel excited for the holiday season and the long summer ahead. We Australians love summer so we’ve produced an issue that re-creates that warm summer feeling and the sense of freedom that comes from spending time with loved ones during this special time of year. It’s a season when we savour the outdoors, so on page 32 in ‘Sunny Outlook’ we round up the most sophisticated outdoor loungers and recliners, produced by our style editor Joseph Gardner. We’ve asked Anthony Spon-Smith, creative director of Australian furniture retailer-turned-maker Coco Republic, to give us an exclusive look at his new outdoor range in ‘Studio Mr Smith’ (page 64), which he describes as furniture with a “global influence” interpreted for the…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Aerin Lauder

For Aerin Lauder, scion to her grandmother Estée’s empire and fortune, home is where the heart is. “This is where I can entertain and be with family and friends, or sit on the couch, lie back and relax,” Lauder says, gliding in her favourite signature ballet flats around the generously proportioned apartment, overlooking Park Avenue in Manhattan. Not much has changed in the 19 years since Lauder and her financier husband, Eric Zinterhofer, teenage sons Jack and Will, and the family’s three dogs, Biscuit, Schatzi and Disco, moved in. Interior designer Jacques Grange helped to transform the space into a multi-tasking, happy family home. She was drawn immediately to the apartment’s shadow play of sunlight streaming through the tall steel casement windows, which reminded her of New York’s glamorous Gilded…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Nomades land

If Louis Vuitton designed an Australian home, a modernist dream of open spaces, light-washed timber floors and floor-to-ceiling glass overlooking the diamond sparkle of Sydney Harbour is perhaps just what you’d imagine. And this scene was exactly what guests took in as the French luxury lifestyle house celebrated the arrival of designs from its Objets Nomades collection, as well as the new Les Petits Nomades line of decorative objets and accessories, to Australian shores recently. In a highly exclusive, invitation-only curated installation, the maison presented its refined take on life at home, from furniture and artworks to jewellery and exceptional handbags, in the particularly contemporary and evocatively Australian setting of a Sydney waterfront mansion. Titled the Louis Vuitton Beach House, this concept has been translated into similarly localised, immersive experiences…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Jansen and the Beasts

“We need the balance between imagination and reality to make life bearable” Theo Jansen loves to fool people. Back in 1980, not long after the Dutch artist quit his physics degree studies in search of more creative pursuits, he launched a four-metre-high, helium-powered flying saucer into the hazy skies over the Delft (near the North Sea, where he was born and lives to this day). Much like Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds radio broadcast over 40 years before, Jansen’s project caused a local sensation: the public, the police and the press all swallowed the bait; ‘ufo spotted over delft’, one newspaper headline blared. “People really believed there were aliens landing on the earth,” Jansen muses now, “which is of course worrying, but at the same time it’s a relief…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Royal Copenhagen

I t makes sense that Copenhagen, one of the happiest cities in the world, is also the source of some of the most renowned feel-good designs. Porcelain maker Royal Copenhagen is a leading light in Denmark’s long history of design perfection — and it’s now available in Australia. The basics For lovers of heritage, hygge and all things Danish, Royal Copenhagen is the ultimate in handcrafted porcelain. Founded by Denmark’s Queen Juliane Marie around the same time Captain Cook was traversing Botany Bay, the 244-year-old company is officially setting up shop in Australia — thanks to a new partnership with department store David Jones. Why Australia? Apparently Australians know more than most about Danish culture. Blame our love affffffair with its modernist furniture and lighting (thank you Arne Jacobsen and…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Darn right

Our focus on colour started as a sort of surprise,” says Carole Baijings, one half of design duo Scholten & Baijings. The Dutch practice is celebrated for an oeuvre that spans concept cars for BMW, porcelain for Japanese firm Arita and, most recently, a line of modular furniture for Herman Miller and a new textile range for US-based textiles company Maharam. Baijings and her partner in design and life, Stefan Scholten, launched their practice in 2000; since then, the Amsterdam-based couple has built a reputation for a highly individual take on colour. It’s a signature that began with a failed textile sample, which, after compliments from friends, was developed into a blanket that today remains a bestseller. “It taught us that something that in our eyes was a total failure…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Heart and sole

If it weren’t for a shared love of ’60s music and ’50s furniture, fashion photographer Andrea Maino and his friend, interior architect Giacomo Totti, might not have survived their otherwise impassioned collaboration in northeast Italy. The old journey-destination adage is infinitely more true for creative souls, so when Maino chose his good friend Totti to help him transform an old shoe factory into his home, he ensured a roller coaster ride. Says Totti: “Andrea and I chose all the furnishings and artworks together, and every single piece was a motive for endless dialogues and comparisons, sometimes even arguments.” Maino knew this place was worth fighting for. Built around 1910, it had been restored by a local architect in the ’50s and exemplifies the retroindustrial aesthetic that characterises Maino’s personal taste.…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Under the Tuscan sun

September is the perfect time to visit Tuscany,” says interior designer Tamsin Johnson, who, with her longtime friend and creative collaborator, accessories designer Lucy Folk, took time out from recent work trips spanning London, Paris and Morocco to holiday with friends and family in the Italian locale famed for its idyllic rolling landscape, heritage hilltop villages and insanely good food and wine. “Tuscany is about spending quality time with dear friends and eating our way through the day,” says Folk. “Tam and I love to challenge each other creatively and talk business while drinking spritzes, making pasta and walking through the historic towns of Tuscany. It’s the ultimate work-life balance.” Here, the creative duo share their favourite finds from this quintessential of Italian regions. SLEEP IN THE VILLA OF YOUR…

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Vogue Living|January/February 2019

Danish delight

“I believe that my aesthetic expression derives from mixing MATERIALS, tactility, colours, periods and places of origin” Just when you think you have Scandinavian style down pat, Tina Seidenfaden Busck comes along to change your perception. She imbues her own distinctive version of Danish design with bold colour, tactile pattern and a touch of folk sensibility. Her vision is a kaleidoscopic collection of juxtaposed design and her philosophy is intensely personal — a true curator if ever there was one. With a discerning eye and an illustrious career at galleries including Andersen’s Contemporary and auction house Sotheby’s behind her, Seidenfaden Busck founded The Apartment in Copenhagen in 2011. Her ‘shop the home’ concept of carefully curated art, design and furniture was a revolution in retail — much admired, and emulated,…

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