Innholdsfortegnelse for May/June 2020 i Vogue Living

Lisa Green WRITER AND EDITOR Green began her career as a newspaper journalist but has spent the past 20 years editing food, fashion and home magazines. “The early years honed my news sense; the latter allowed me to indulge my love of design and encourage more sustainable consumer habits. Crucial!” she says. For this issue Green utilised this garnered experience and expertise to write about the stunning art-filled Sydney home of Boris and Naomi Tosic (page 100). Her creative process, she says, is to deep dive into research and then ponder a while. “The important things float to the top and that’s when it’s time to knuckle down and write,” she says. The Sydney-based creative recently founded GreenScenes Media, which has allowed her to work with new and long-time collaborators…

The answer was ‘no’ whenever cousins Agnes and Rhoda Garrett tried to persuade an architect to take them on as apprentices in London during the 1860s. The reason was, predictably, their gender. An architect friend, John McKean Brydon, eventually agreed to hire them in 1873 on the condition that they would go nowhere near dirty, unladylike building sites. About a year later, the Garretts cofounded A&R Garrett House Decorators, London’s first firm of female interior designers. As well as designing what they called “solid and unpretentious” interiors, in stark contrast to the fussy decor of the day, they published a book, Suggestions for House Decoration in Painting, Woodwork and Furniture, and travelled throughout Britain as star speakers in the fledgling women’s suffrage movement. Friends since childhood, the cousins relished their…

Food writer and journalist Nigel Slater’s cookbook Greenfeast: Spring, Summer is a vibrant and joyous collection of food for the end of the day. There are more than 110 beautiful recipes, each with suggested variations and most can be on the table in 30 minutes. This book is perfect for people who want to eat less meat, but don’t want to compromise on flavour and ease of cooking. From roast spring vegetables with peanut sauce to rice, broad beans and asparagus, or peaches with blackberries and ice-cream, Greenfeast: Spring, Summer is for everyone who wants daily inspiration for quick plant-based meals.…

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Collaboration may be the buzzword du jour — all those shared secrets, strange bedfellows, and celebrity co-designs redressing weary culture — but no matter how fresh and fabulous the sell, it’s still just hoary old commerce cloaked in sparkly new costume. What distinguishes the following joint efforts and identities from the business-as-usual blend of minds and money is a willingness to cross-pollinate knowledge and networks; a want to throw personal practice into the vast, non-commercial vortex of collective debate, development and even potential deconstruction for the full surrender of one’s ‘true’ self to the other. Vogue Living salutes these defiant co-respondents – the collaborators who embrace risk, rope their egos to the post of collective pursuit and run the gauntlet with the rules. They are the new braves, the quiet…

The narrow pathway that leads to the Sydney home of celebrated Australian author Markus Zusak is discreet and low-key. There’s a palpable sense of discovery as the quiet side alley unfolds to reveal a tall front door. Through an elegant covered entry hall, a warm walnut timber kitchen glows with the afternoon light that spills from a window across a patinated brass countertop. It’s here that Zusak, author of international bestselling novel The Book Thief — which in 2013 was adapted into a film starring Geoffrey Rush — likes to immerse himself. “I love sitting at my spot at the kitchen table because, now that the walls [between the kitchen and the ground-floor living areas] have come out, I can see into the other rooms,” he says. “Combined with the…

With Christian Dior’s home on your résumé, doors can really open. For Atelier Cos and Yves de Marseille, the doors in question were at the end of a long driveway in Champagne and opened up to the refurbishment of Moët & Chandon’s world-famous but fiercely private Château de Saran. The two studios were handed the reins of the five-year project after their triumphant collaboration to restore Christian Dior’s Provençal retreat La Colle Noire, for which Marseille decorated the suites in honour of their namesake artists. There are 11 themed suites at Saran, too, each paying homage to figures, eras and places that have contributed to Moët & Chandon’s storied past. There’s the Louis XIV suite, Imperial and Japanese, Hollywood and, go figure, the Christian Dior suite. Marseille must have felt…

It only seems like yesterday that I was sitting at my computer contemplating what to write, as Australia was experiencing one of its worst bushfire seasons on record. Now, once again, I’m struggling to find the words as we face a global health pandemic with COVID-19. This is a difficult time for everyone as we face an unparalleled threat that has already changed how we go about our lives. Some of us may be lucky enough to be working from home, creating makeshift offices at dining tables and fielding conference calls while juggling homeschooling children or running a household. Here at Vogue Living, we feel particularly for our vibrant creative community, both local and global, made up of talented individuals and small businesses all now going through unprecedented challenges in…

HERMÈS For the new Passifolia collection, Benoît-Pierre Emery, the brand’s creative director of tableware, wanted to explore “a lush tropical nature that is very rich and colourful, with a great diversity of plants, foliage and flowers, which are wild and fragile”. Working with French artist Nathalie Rolland-Huckel, the feel of the Passifolia range lies somewhere between the artist’s idea of fact and fiction: flora such as orchids, anthuriums, passionflowers, hibiscus and birds of paradise dreamily collide in an overlapping sea of variegated tiger-striped and iridescent green leaves, enveloping cups, plates, teapots and bowls, both inside and out. “Nathalie has subtlety and precision, taking time to draw each small detail from a flower or leaf,” Emery says of the 2000-plus hours it took Hermès’ atelier of engravers to break down Rolland-Huckel’s…

I love entertaining,” says Parisian footwear designer, Christian Louboutin. “I was brought up with musical comedy, dance halls and the circus. I guess I’m trying to express that same sparkling side of life with my shoes.” Nowhere is this approach more striking than at L’Exhibition[niste], Louboutin’s new exhibition in his hometown of Paris, curated by Olivier Gabet, director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Set across a series of 11 rooms on the first floor of the Palais de la Porte Dorée in the city’s 12th arrondissement, where the designer was born and grew up, L’Exhibition[niste] is not so much a retrospective as a deeply intimate, unfettered stream of Louboutin’s autobiographical consciousness. “I reveal a lot of myself, of my inspirations, of my creative processes — what is inside my…

The Schouwenhoek Penthouse on Amsterdam’s Apollolaan comprises elements that shouldn’t work together: rustic timber ceilings canopying pale French oak parquetry floors and, in between, boxy mid-century furnishings set against black mesh shelving, plush fur rugs and solid Brutalist concrete. It’s a lot, and yet it feels completely calm and centred as one piece of design. Trust the Dutch to get it right. The apartment was designed and completed between 2017 and 2018 by Amsterdam’s Framework Studio. It is located on the fifth floor of an original 1916 apartment building designed by architect Philip Anne Warners, Holland’s forefather of thoughtfully designed multiple-occupancy housing. “Warners was the first to make ‘modern’ apartment buildings in Holland,” says Thomas Geerlings, Framework Studio’s creative director and the designer on this project. “He was one of…

In 2014, Gwyneth Paltrow broke the internet when she posted a statement on her Goop website announcing that she and her husband, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, were not getting divorced. No. Instead, they had decided to “consciously uncouple”. Paltrow explained, “We have come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much, we will remain separate.” By using the word ‘uncoupling’ rather than ‘divorce’, Paltrow aimed to cast their decision in a more positive light; ‘conscious’ would better communicate respect, amiability and self-reflection (to avoid repeating mistakes). It’s this ‘conscious’ concept that an exclusive new corporate retreat near Byron Bay has embraced, catapulting it high above the standard Australian conference venue. The home page of The Beach House leads with the words conscious conferencing in capital letters. It…