Innholdsfortegnelse for November - December 2015 i Vogue Living

It took several years, and the help of a shaman, for Dutch fashion designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren to conquer their Viktor & Rolf label’s imposing Amsterdam headquarters: a 17th-century former mayor’s residence looking over Herengracht (Lords’ Canal). The impressive property, with its seven-window-wide façade and Doric-style entrance, stands on the canal’s Golden Bend, one of the city’s oldest and most prestigious districts, immortalised in Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde’s 1684 painting of the same name in the nearby Rijksmuseum. Now, eight years after the designers and their staff moved in, they’ve managed to clear the historical cobwebs and confidently — but respectfully — make the space their own. Visitors are welcomed into the elegant reception hallway on the ground floor, off which branches the boardroom-cum-showroom and a meeting room overlooking…

Parisian designer Dorothée Meilichzon may be the name behind some of the French capital’s hippest addresses — including the Beef Club and Mojo — but in truth she’s an Anglophile at heart, forgoing the pillars of French aesthetics for the eclectic, welcoming style of the Brits. “From the age of eight, I’d go to London with my mum to buy fabrics she couldn’t find in Paris, so my sisters and I grew up in a very British atmosphere with lots of colours and different fabrics,” says Meilichzon. “I love English style; it’s very homey, and you can lie on the couch and relax.” The designer launched her Chzon agency in 2009, establishing a name for herself with restaurant and bar projects such as Mojo in Paris and Experimental Cocktail Clubs…

TAKE US TO YOUR LEADER: Ross Gardam’s ‘Aura’ desk lamp nostalgically nods to the flying saucer — a simple form that filled the space-scapes of 1950s sci-fi cinema. Featuring a tilt-shade that orbits around a cylindrical base, this precision-milled aluminium piece in anodised gold, $2850 in a limited edition of 25, projects both personality and directional light. Details, last pages. UNIVERSAL DOMINION The interior of ZAHA HADID’s newly completed Dominion Tower (right) in Moscow has the Escher-like interconnectivity of a futuristic space ship. The project crowns a career-defining year in which Hadid was honoured with the 2016 Royal Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects; the first sole female recipient in the award’s 167-year history; zaha-hadid.com. GET READY FOR TAKE-OFF INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER MARC NEWSON REFERENCES THE SPACE AGE…

Flower Addict By SASKIA HAVEKES (Lantern, $80) Florist Saskia Havekes’s latest book reflects her intense passion for nature: “I have an obsessive desire to be submerged in blooms.” Photographed by Nicholas Watt, its pages reveal immense floral installations created for events and editorials (including a Vogue Living shoot) and beautiful scenes of her Grandiflora store in Sydney’s Potts Point, dubbed her “floral cave”. Birdland by LEILA JEFFREYS (Hachette Australia, $50) A sensitive and rare portrayal of our feathered friends, this book by Sydney photographer Leila Jeffreys aims to engage readers with birds and inspire concern for their wellbeing. It’s a delightful portrait series of native species that will bring a smile to your face. Do It Yourself by THOMAS BÄRNTHALER (Phaidon, $40) This is a how-to of designs by 50 of the globe’s…

WHO IS AKAR DE NISSIM? Where is he from? These are the questions on visitors’ minds as they peruse the luxury brand’s new shop in Singapore’s quaint Duxton Hill enclave. With an aesthetic that can be described as modernoriental, the consoles, armchairs, lamps and coffee tables on display are presented in a manner that is both romantic and refined. Akar de Nissim is a muse created by the brand’s CEO and founder, Richard Le Sand. He is illustrated as a moustachioed debonair, and described by Le Sand as “a mysterious gentleman born at the crossroads of Europe and Asia as a modern man while keeping and combining the cultural heritage that lies between the two continents.” In many ways, creator and muse are alike. Le Sand himself is dapper, articulate…

North of the Seine, in a dress-circle locale overlooking the 8th arrondisement’s exquisite Parc Monceau is where style arbiter Emmanuel de Bayser has his Parisian pied-à-terre. De Bayser lives in the same building as his parents. In fact, they are his part-time next-door neighbours — part-time because he divides himself between the French capital and Berlin, where he and partner Josef Voelk run The Corner, one of the city’s most tasteful concept stores. Credited with introducing Berliners to designers such as Stella McCartney, Isabel Marant and Rick Owens, the pair’s selection of men’s and women’s fashion and accessories, beauty products, vintage design, contemporary art, homewares, books and music is thoughtfully curated and consistently chic. In their search for emerging trends and beautiful new pieces for The Corner’s three boutiques, de…

Meeting interior designer Ellen Hanson at her home in New York’s Upper East Side not only afforded an opportunity to see her inimitable style up close but was also a chance to visit a Manhattan apartment building straight out of Central Casting. The awning over the street, a stone’s throw from the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, the completely marbled foyer and the two liveried doormen did not disappoint. Nor did Ellen Hanson. It is impressive to see interior design at its peak; a finely tuned exercise in colour, texture, vintage and bespoke furniture pieces and art, all coalescing seamlessly. “To me, beauty is not about the pretty; I never try for pretty,” the designer says. “I try for rich and layered and unique, sometimes even a little bit odd.”…

CHEF SAM MILLER SETS DOWN a plate with a fish carcass stripped of flesh, deep fried and re-dressed with its own salted and smoked meat, topped with creamed Pacific oysters and beach herbs that smack of Sydney’s coastal air: beach cabbage, young shoots of bladderwort, samphire and warrigal. Miller, a Yorkshireman, has arrived in Sydney following five years as executive sous-chef of Noma in Copenhagen (under co-founder René Redzepi). When he joined, the kitchen was number 32 on the San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. It swiftly moved up to number three, then number one. Silvereye, which opened in September in Chippendale, is his first solo restaurant. It’s part of the redevelopment of the former Clare Hotel and Carlton & United Breweries administration building by Unlisted Collection, owned by…

MOOR TO LOVE Amanjena has reopened after a three-month update by Reda Amalou. The French architect has added new restaurants, lounges and accommodation to Aman’s Moroccan resort, set between Marrakech and the Atlas Mountains, without sacrificing any of the romantic allure of its original Moorish architecture; aman.com. LIGHT AS AIR Step off your flight looking flawless by popping La Prairie Skin Caviar Concealer Foundation SPF 15 into your carry-on and applying before landing. Available in 12 skin tones, $250; laprairie.com.au. Dressed to impress It’s time for the Smith Hotel Awards again, with Vogue Living editor-in-chief Neale Whitaker one of the judges for the Best Dressed category. The VL team’s votes went to (clockwise from below) Pretty Beach House, New South Wales; Fogo Island Inn, Canada; and Portrait Firenze, Italy; smithhotelawards.com.…

1. BILL HENSON UNTITLED #15 I have always been drawn to Bill Henson’s work; he is one of the world’s great photographers. He understands the drama of light and shadow — he’s a master of the under-lighting. 2. TEXTILES I adore them and have been collecting on and off for years. I grew up with Afghani and Persian rugs, so my favourites are old family treasures from the 1960s and ’70s. 3. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES I am a visual person, so I have a wonderful library of reference books and every kind of magazine — for example, this amazing recent issue of Vogue Italia. 4. INDIA We’ve become obsessed with India over our last couple of trips. It is completely magical and intoxicating, and it’s impossible to imagine how old…

“I’m also interested in the Australian spirit of the design” — Alberto Alessi “ WHEN I EVALUATE A NEW CONCEPT, the first thing I look for is poetry. I want to understand if the designer has been able to smell the spirit of the times,” says Alessi president Alberto Alessi. For almost a century, the ability to tap into the zeitgeist has been the Italian brand’s stock-in-trade. How else to explain its rollcall of iconic, era-defining designs from some of the world’s leading designers, including Ettore Sottsass, Richard Sapper, Michael Graves and Philippe Starck? The Vogue Living Alessi Design Prize is now in its second year and, to better reflect the breadth of Australian design talent, it has evolved to offer prizes in two discrete categories. The invitation-only Alessi Design…

“My everyday was exotic and while I may think I design intuitively, I can read Mum and Dad in all of this” IF PEDIGREE IS ANYTHING to go by, then Fred Ganim was predestined to become a designer. His parents were active aesthetes who built up a niche clothing business to become a globally coveted brand in the 1980s. His late dad, Anthony, was a savvy entrepreneur, while his fashion designer mum, Rae — the label’s namesake — radicalised printed textiles with a sophisticated ‘kook’ element that pre-empted the patterning of Italian brand Marni by more than a decade. “I guess all of that seeped into my psyche,” Ganim muses, deadpanning about a childhood filled with handpainted sofas and edgy Milanese design. “I thought it was situation normal, but my…

LIFE UPHOLSTERED Award-winning Croatian furniture brand Prostoria has landed in Australia. The ‘Monk’ (above, left) and ‘Polygon’ armchairs, ‘Cloud’ sofa and ‘Oblique’ coffee table can be found at the Meizai Melbourne flagship and new Sydney space. Details last pages. WOVEN STORIES These colourful Alvaro Catalán de OcÓn ‘Abyssinia’ PET pendant lamps, made from hand-woven textile and recycled plastic water bottles, shine a light on the creativity of marginalised Ethiopian women. Available as a single lamp or in multiples, from $1210, at Spence & Lyda. POLISHED BEAUTY MELBOURNE DESIGN STUDIO LIGHTLY HAS RELEASED A LIMITED-EDITION SERIES OF HANDCRAFTED PIECES IN MARBLE WITH BRASS INLAY DETAILING, FROM $55, AS PART OF ITS BOLDLY ELEGANT INFINITUDE COLLECTION. FEIT ACCOMPLI Luxury footwear retailer Feit has opened a second storefront in New York. Display areas…

Adrive through the tree-lined avenues of Melbourne’s upper-crust Toorak affirms the belief of the late architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable that every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes. The length of the suburb’s premier boulevard, where cross-gabled Tudor Revivalism rubs up against farmhouse French Provincialism and Parthenon pastiche, is testament to her point. Conformity could be declared officially dead in these coveted parts were it not for a single street in which the building stock has remained resolutely Georgian Revival since the 1930s; as per this grand old dame — one of 20 houses resulting from the 1934 carve-up of an estate owned by architect Arnaud Wright, who sold to the social elite, who engaged the society architects, who shared an interest in formal classicism —…

The name of Josephine Perry’s new bistro in Sydney’s Potts Point is rather telling. ‘Missy French’ conjures an image of a young woman who’s confident, chatty, positive and resilient. It’s probably no coincidence that these are the qualities Perry believes are essential to succeed in hospitality. And it bodes well for her debut venture that the budding restaurateur possesses them in spades. Of course, Perry’s background is a huge asset too. The daughter of chef Neil Perry, one of Australia’s most accomplished restaurateurs, she was folding napkins at Rockpool at five, running food at Spice Temple at 14; hosting and training staff by 16; and at her father’s side for five restaurant openings. The experience has taught Perry, now 21, some valuable lessons. “Kindness and patience is key in our…

It can be just a nook, part of the kitchen or a separate room, but wherever your laundry is in the house, it needs to be both functional and beautiful. While kitchens and bathrooms get a lot of attention, it can be easy to overlook one of the hardest-working rooms – the laundry. To make short work of caring for your clothes and give any laundry space a serious style boost, Fisher & Paykel has recently launched a new line of 7kg and 8kg top load washers that match the 8kg condenser and 6kg vented dryers in the range. GET SMART In a move that will be applauded by those who need to make the most of their laundry area, the latest top load washers have a generous 8kg load…

Celebrating life’s magical moments in a stylish, glamorous way is at the heart of renowned Champagne house Moët & Chandon’s brand philosophy. To highlight the Grand Vintage Collection, Kerrie McCallum, delicious. editor-in-chief, and Neale Whitaker, Vogue Living editor-inchief, hosted a reader dinner at Sydney’s Rockpool est. 1989. Chef Neil Perry’s team created the menu and dishes were paired with luxe Champagnes – Moët & Chandon Impérial, Grand Vintage 2006 and Grand Vintage Collection 1999. DELUXE DETAILS During the evening, Kerrie and Neale both reflected on special moments and magical times in their lives and how they marked them with Moët & Chandon vintage Champagne. They also revealed their signature tips on entertaining at home, such as Neale’s advice that “creating the scene is as significant as what’s served” while Kerrie’s…

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IN A MOVE that both marks his maturity as an art curator and flips the bird to those prophesying the death of the bricks-and-mortar white cube, Geoff Newton opened a second Neon Parc gallery in Melbourne and slammed the naysayers. “If you start to pander to the whims of the market, either your business will be contracted and dulled by commerce or you will just end up showing the same work all the time,” Newton says of his decision to give his small city gallery with the big attitude a new sibling in Brunswick. “There is no excitement, risk, challenge or gain for me in doing 12 art fairs a year,” he declares. “I prefer to have the interaction with people and the art. Yes, it’s very old fashioned, very…

BEYOND THE BLUE HORIZON Aaron Kinnane imbues his paintings with emotion from the very first swipe of his palette knife. The Sydney artist is known for painting to a background of selected musical pieces, and the kinetic energy of his work is almost palpable. His exhibition at Sydney’s Arthouse Gallery, Winter Passing, Milk Moon Rising, delves deep into themes of the anarchic subconscious with works like East (2015, pictured). Runs 12–28 November; arthousegallery.com.au. HEY, MAMA The latest addition to Australia’s cultural landscape, Mama (Murray Art Museum Albury), has opened with three inaugural exhibitions. Works on show at the former Albury Regional Art Gallery include Nicole Foreshew’s Remain (2015, above) and Karla Dickens’ Brand the Help (2015, right). Until 29 November; mamalbury.com.au. Sands of time Photographer Aimee Jones captures the power…

“We’re always working with different people, in different places. No two days are ever the same” — Lucinda Bell Johnson BECOMING ONE OF LONDON’S most sought-after florists was never on Simone Gooch’s agenda when she decamped from an extended holiday in southern Italy to the British capital. “I’d gone to chill out on an olive farm in Molise at Christmas and, a couple of months later, realised I wasn’t ready to return home to Australia,” says Gooch. “Moving to London was spontaneous, but it felt good.” Nine months on, her Fjura floral styling studio is taking the town by storm. Operating from a friend’s houseboat on the Thames, Gooch has teamed up with Lucinda Bell Johnson — who also worked at Sydney florist Grandiflora — and together they are bringing…

RUSSELL PINCH & OONA BANNON /Pinch “It was our 10th wedding anniversary last year and we were going to have a big party, but we didn’t end up doing anything,” begins Russell Pinch, co-founder with his wife, Oona Bannon, of British furniture maker Pinch. “So for our 11th anniversary we thought, ‘Why not put our money into doing something we never usually do?’ ” That’s how ‘Nim’ was born — a limited-edition coffee table crafted from Jesmonite (a composite of gypsum and acrylic resin) and hand-painted with a design inspired by the patterns of lava strata, stone and stormy weather. It’s is a dramatic departure for a brand known for refined pieces crafted meticulously in oak, ash and walnut.“We’d been thinking about designing a new coffee table but didn’t want…

“I grew up with period furniture and a father who loved the lavish European sensibility”— owner John Albrecht As the managing director of Leonard Joel — the near century-old Melbourne auction house that is the haunt of new-age hunters and collectors — John Albrecht banks on yesterday’s good taste tipping into today’s sale rooms. No risks there; history affirms that design spins on a cycle of relish, reject and rediscover. But in these fast-shifting digital times, when the collectible index of a key period can suddenly plummet, the auction houses have had to diversify. And the more nuanced that diversification, the better; as borne out by Leonard Joel’s successful forays into such niche genres as vintage fashion and 20th-century design. “All anyone has talked about for the last decade is…

Francesca, my Italian-born meditation teacher, is gently intoning the Gayatri mantra. My left brain mischievously conjures visions of mobile phones and email screens. Right brain responds with an intense feeling of calm and wellbeing. Be silent, left brain. Succumb to the rhythm of Como Shambhala Estate. It’s a quirk of travel writing that, occasionally, only clichés suffice. When I write in my notes that at the Balinese resort, “a veil of warm, fragrant dusk descends slowly”, it’s because that’s exactly how it is. The only word missing is “magical”; there’s no point searching for synonyms. Our expansive suite in the Bayugita residence is a graceful blend of traditional Balinese and Dutch colonial style. With views of rice terraces and jungle-covered slopes, it feels luxuriously private and remote, despite being just…

Star chef James Viles, of Bowral’s Biota restaurant, shares recipes and wisdom with a holistic, sustainable approach in his first book, Biota: Grow, Gather, Cook ($60, Murdoch Books). Spectacular images of his food (such as pigeon cooked in maltstock with prunes, above, right) and the local area are peppered with thoughtful advice on growing, foraging and preparing produce. The equally brilliant minds behind Gelato Messina, Nick Palumbo and Donato Toce, share their legendary concoctions (including Juliette cake, above, left) in their second book, Gelato Messina: The Creative Department ($55, Hardie Grant). Ready to serve THE LATEST COLLECTION FROM DINOSAUR DESIGNS, CELEBRATING ITS 30TH YEAR, INCLUDES LARGE-SCALE PLATTERS, BOWLS AND SERVERS THAT REFERENCE THE MOISTURE AND BRIGHT COLOURS OF THE RAINFOREST. STRIKE A CHORD Beans and Jazz is a new online…

for Lancôme’s decadent 80th birthday celebration at The Langham, Sydney the space is decorated with roses en masse, which is fitting, considering the beauty brand’s motif — and identity — is inspired by the classic flower. Bouquets and petals in lipstick-rich shades of vermillion, magenta, lilac and cerise are strewn generously over every available surface at the hotel. “The vision had to warrant a showering of cascading blooms,” explains Saskia Havekes, florist and founder of Grandiflora, who was behind the bounty of blossoms — which added up to more than a thousand stems. “Conversations with our growers begin months in advance to source the exact quality and amount, and to ensure that they would open in perfect timing for the event.” As guests — 180 of the country’s magazine mavens,…