Innholdsfortegnelse for November/December 2019 i Vogue Living

FISHER & PAYKEL BEAUTIFUL DESIGN AND SMART USE OF SPACE BRINGS FORM AND FUNCTION TO THIS STUNNING WAREHOUSE CONVERSION. Interior designer Carole Whiting is known for creating refined, sophisticated spaces with incredible materiality. Her own apartment is no exception, with the crisp, monochromatic palette of materials and tones establishing a unique, minimalist aesthetic. The existing kitchen was dark and awkward, with a heavy marble bench that divided and crowded the space, and cabinets that inhibited movement through the space. Whiting removed this island, replacing it with a lightweight, freestanding trestle-style table. She placed cabinetry around the walls to open up the room to natural light and the rest of the apartment. To maintain the clean aesthetic, Whiting hid the dishwasher behind one of the white larch cabinets, and a slim,…

Hemingway once said that if you are lucky enough to live in Paris in your youth, it stays with you wherever you go for the rest of your life. This has been true for me — my time living in the world’s most beautiful city continues to inspire me in myriad of ways. French but particularly Parisian culture remains intimately entangled with the global design scene not only as inspiration but also as the source for some of the industry’s biggest players. Known as both the City of Light and the City of Love, Paris has long enticed creatives, artists and designers to its cobblestoned streets, Haussmannien buildings and open garden parks. Design, and an appreciation of it, is part of the very fabric of Paris. As Ian Phillips states…

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It’s no surprise Edo Mapelli Mozzi is in the headlines. On the social pages, the entrepreneur has been spotted out and about with Princess Beatrice, but it’s on the design scene, since founding his property development company Banda in 2007, where he has been making the biggest waves. At only 35, Mapelli Mozzi has spent the past decade or so giving property development his own distinct twist. With “young, aspirational owner-occupiers” in mind, Banda has taken old buildings around London — from former breweries and bakeries to an old Art Deco garage — and not only redesigned them with generous lateral living spaces and all the latest mod cons; but, more crucially, committed to revealing complete homes only when the very last finishing touches, right down to the coffee mugs…

“What do I love about Paris? It’s Paris! It’s utter perfection,” says actor Melissa George of her lifelong love affair with the city she and her two French-born sons, Raphael and Solal, call home. “I have been coming to Paris since I was 18. I would make several trips a year to shop for antiques and fashion and be inspired. My first home in LA was full of finds from Paris back in 1998.” George, whose recent roles include TV series The First in which she plays opposite Sean Penn, is currently filming The Eddy, a new Netflix series about the jazz world of Paris, directed by Alan Poul, Houda Benyamina and Oscar winner Damien Chazelle of La La Land fame. “Paris is elegant, chic, buttoned-up, tasty, seductive,” says George.…

Gaelle Le Boulicaut PHOTOGRAPHER This French native has the pleasure of splitting her time between Paris and Vannes, an ancient walled town on the north-west coast of France. She brilliantly captures the home of designer Sandra Benhamou (page 116) in this issue. Her creative process is at its best, she says, when she has a coup de coeur for a project — the literal translation doesn’t do it justice but she likens its meaning to ‘crush’. When shooting this apartment on Paris’s Right Bank, Le Boulicaut had a crush on “the colours, the collections of Italian design and straightaway I got on like a house on fire with Sandra. She’s very welcoming and fun”. Le Boulicaut is currently working on a book about architectural collectors around the world. @gaelleleboulicautpics Melissa…

Designed by the Danish starchitect Bjarke Ingels, The XI is one of the most spectacular real-estate projects currently under construction in Manhattan. Located directly on the Hudson River, it will consist of two twisting towers that look as if they’re engaged in a majestic mid-air dance. When completed, they will house not only the first Six Senses hotel in an urban setting, but also a plethora of luxury residences. Interestingly, only one of the three teams working on the interiors is American, the others are both French — Gilles & Boissier and Pierre Yovanovitch. The allure of Parisian interior designers is nothing new, but in recent years their success has become almost stratospheric. Yovanovitch currently has some 30 projects on his drawing board, among them the extension of The Berkeley…

There is one object that French designer Mathieu Lehanneur would’ve liked to have created: the airbag. As a teenager, he was a passenger in a car accident and owes his very existence to one. “It’s composed mostly of air and appears for a tenth of a second to save your life,” he asserts. “You can’t really do better than that.” Now 45, Lehanneur is a particularly erudite and fascinating interviewee. His conversation covers the realms of astrophysics, metaphysics and philosophy, and a constant in his work is the belief that objects should bring some kind of benefit to the user. “Beauty,” he insists, “is a necessary but insufficient ingredient.” His output is perhaps unique in terms of its diversity. His projects to date have included everything from an asthma treatment…

When Karl Lagerfeld was in charge, he would spend time here soaking up her inspiration — in her home, one can absorb her When I think of Coco Chanel, I think of a staircase — more specifically, the mirrored staircase that winds through the centre of her home like a glittering spinal cord. Each vertical pane is set at a different angle so that when she sat on the fifth step from the top (number five, of course) as the models trod past, she could scrutinise her clothes from every angle. Also, during showings, she could witness her clients’ reactions — without being seen — as they sat downstairs. There could be no mistakes. One enters Chanel’s abode at 31 rue Cambon, Paris, just off the fashion epicentre that is…

“The floors weren’t great quality, and the plumbing was all shot, but it was still an amazing canvas to work with”BRYAN O’SULLIVAN A long-term client approached Irish-born, London-based interior architect Bryan O’Sullivan asking him to transform a grand Beaux-Arts mansion in the chic 16th arrondissement of Paris into a comfortable, good-looking family home. The architect’s biggest challenge? To avoid turning the house into a pastiche of its glamorous architectural past. Previously owned by LVMH fashion mogul Bernard Arnault, the home was bought by the current owners about eight years ago. By the time O’Sullivan came onboard three years later — after the owners had tried unsuccessfully to kickstart the renovation a number of times — the traditional rooms were still in place, but many of the original details had been…

The suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, on the western edge of Paris, is the French address of success. All fortress-walled privacy and privilege, it exudes the impenetrability of the beau monde, but its ordered classicism belies the many wild minds that have lived there. There’s the grand-daddy of Dada, Marcel Duchamp; the founder of French New Wave cinema, François Truffaut; the ‘Little Sparrow’, Édith Piaf; and former president Nicolas Sarkozy on the rollcall of residents who have distinguished this quartier as the quiet axis of liberal culture and political campaign. That esprit captures in the rich detail and rebellious decorative overlay of this Art Deco duplex — one of four residences resulting from the 1970s carve-up of a four-storey hôtel particulier built in the ’30s by a wealthy industrialist. The property stands…

RESTAURANTS GIRAFE There isn’t a visual moment at Girafe that disappoints. From the second you enter into its golden-toned folds, you are transported into a space that feels somewhere between theatre and fantasy. Sprung from the visionary mind of Joseph Dirand, the design is a considered revision of Art Deco tropes — brass tubing, low seating, softly dimmed lighting and linear motifs that track from the walls down to the backs of the chairs. It’s the sort of space that could only exist in an Old World metropolis like Paris, recalling revelries in the 1930s, cocktails sipped in corners, Agatha Christie and Tutankhamun. The restaurant is accessed through the Palais de Chaillot, home to the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, so was never going to have a laissez-faire attitude.…

Palmolive and Vogue Living have collaborated to create hand-wash designs that would complement any basin around the home. Inspired by Palmolive’s fragrances, the Vogue Living design team has introduced millennial pink and mint green tones with beautiful botanical elements that perfectly partner the luscious scents. The range is available at Coles and Woolworths. For more details, visit palmolive.com.au…

Contemporary vision and timeless craftmanship meet in this heirloom-worthy cashmere canvas, one of only eight made. Mexican artist Miguel Castro Leñero’s simple forms come to life with a cashmere appliqué block-printed horse motif and glass-bead embroidery.…

“I think my love for narrative and storytelling plays into my furniture in the same way it feeds my love for contemporary art”PIERRE YOVANOVITCH, DESIGNER…

In an era of statement furniture and lighting as sculptural spectacle, the work Paris designer and artist Éric de Dormael unveils on a rainy morning in a Milan gallery sparkles with a delightful jewel-like intimacy. His handcrafted lighting creations shine with the romance and golden luminosity of a Gustav Klimt painting and, like glimmering bijoux, these particular designs, two cordless table lamps in steel and brass, are small in scale, playful yet precise, fragile yet strong. Indeed, it was a piece of jewellery — an earring to be exact — carefully crafted by de Dormael in his Paris studio that first captured the imagination of Frédéric Winkler, cofounder of French high-end lighting and furniture maker, DCW Éditions. “When he saw the earring he said, ‘We should do a lamp like…

Having left Paris for New York in the mid-1990s to pursue a career in film distribution, Sandra Benhamou has come full circle, returning to her beloved City of Light with a little more than she left with: a family and a precious collection of art and design. In the universe of things, everything usually finds its place, and for Benhamou and her husband, that place is here in this Haussmannien apartment on Paris’s Right Bank. The space was entirely reworked by Benhamou to reflect their family lifestyle and treasured pieces of art, design and seminal 20th-century furniture from France, Italy and beyond. Back in 1996, Benhamou met and fell in love with her French-born husband in New York. The Paris expats began a family and an art collection with a…

French interior designer Rodolphe Parente has very clear ideas of what constitutes elegance. “It’s a skilful mix of grace, attitude and irreverence, which is not linked to the notion of good taste,” he asserts. In his own work, Parente always likes to shake things up a little. “I try to incorporate something a little different — an unusual element that provokes a dialogue,” he says. For the 2017 AD Intérieurs showcase event in Paris, Parente imagined a drycleaner with walls made from the metal cladding you more often find on construction sites. His dream kitchen, meanwhile, has a floor made from tarmac. But not all of his projects are quite so radical. This 309-square-metre apartment, a pied-à-terre for a French couple based in Singapore, is a perfect case in point.…

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