Innholdsfortegnelse for March/April 2021 i Vogue Living

Philippa Moroney FASHION STYLIST In preparation for a shoot in her role as senior fashion editor and market director at Vogue Australia, Philippa Moroney will have every look planned and fitted beforehand so she knows exactly how everything will play out. Not so for the story she collaborated with photographer James Tolich and Vogue Living’s style editor Joseph Gardner (page 29). “James, Joseph and I all worked together on the looks and how they would work back with the furniture pieces on the day,” she explains. “It was a true melting pot of spontaneous creativity, I loved it.” The other big difference? The amount of clothes and accessories packed. “I took way more looks as options than I ever would’ve on a Vogue shoot, and that’s saying something!” Moroney has…

There is something innately comforting about a curve. That gentle and organic concave, perhaps realised in a body, structure or sculpture, is intimate, inviting and pleasing to the eye. Curves have intrigued Valentina Guidi Ottobri for as long as she can remember. “I’ve always found female bodies very interesting and beautiful. My grandmother used to have this Fernando Botero painting at home and I remember that I was fascinated by the curves,” Ottobri says. So it comes as no surprise that sensuous lines have a presence in Ottobri’s home and gallery space in her beloved hometown and capital of Italy’s Tuscan region, Florence. A fiercely proud Florentine native, Ottobri’s curiosity with art and aesthetics has led to her becoming a curator and creative director of art and design. After seven…

Offer any mother the Albert Schweitzer insight that happiness belongs to those who have found how to serve and get ready for the ensuing rant. The bare truth of it, as recently told with biting reality, is that women still bear the brunt of household hardship and have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. The notion of serving, in this gender regressive moment, seems more rooted in perpetuating patriarchy than the pursuit of happiness, which makes this project all the more deserving of scrutiny. Not because it’s an object lesson in how to redress period architecture for 21st-century living but because it enshrines the discretion, humility and quiet strength of two women who live by the Schweitzer maxim. One does so with a design vigour that seeks to elevate the…

We try to make our kitchens not feel like kitchens. Usually they are within a larger space and we treat them as beautiful objects. We might turn the island bench into something special and make the rest disappear, showing only what we feel works within the greater concept of the architecture.MADELEINE BLANCHFIELD, MADELEINE BLANCHFIELD ARCHITECTS We are inflflfluenced by hotel bathrooms. People want that level of luxury, and they are increasingly looking for escapism. They want the ‘feel’ of a hotel bathroom they’ve loved; the translation is never fully literal but we might use a similar light fifixture or a tap.Gillian Khaw, Handelsmann + Khaw When we design an interior, we try to give plenty of space to the bathrooms. If you can make them a bit bigger, you can…

I love to contrast and layer – a handmade tile with a rich, deep colour in the shower, followed by a leathered stone flfloor in the shower onto a smooth honed fifinish in the bathroom. It’s lovely to approach the tactility of materials in a bathroom. I will always tend to lean to a warmer palate with rich colours.David Flack, Flack Studio I prefer colour to be in furnishings and things you can change easily. I think it’s very easy to get sick of strong colour. We tend to play with it through artwork and furniture. Our architecture is usually in quite muted tones and we want the kitchen or bathroom to fit within that.MADELEINE BLANCHFIELD, MADELEINE BLANCHFIELD ARCHITECTS My dream bathroom includes a fireplace, pink marble, tactile plaster walls…

One conversation with artist and milliner Maryam Keyhani and you’ll be prepped and empowered to take on anything. “I just bought, for the first time ever, jewellery for myself,” she says. “Fuck it! I deserve a diamond ring shaped like a dessert!” It elicits the same sort of emotions you’d imagine would ensue dancing with Beyoncé during Destiny Child’s ‘Bootylicious’ video. Suddenly you’re a new woman, whooping with gleeful abandon, taking on the world one fabulous hat at a goddamn time. Keyhani has lived and worked in her Berlin apartment intermittently for seven years, having found her home and workspace while renting a neighbouring unit. It’s a sprawling space of interlinked rooms, with four bedrooms, three bathrooms, numerous living-cum-family rooms and a gloriously paint-splattered, hat-adorned, light-drenched studio. A feeling of…

Spiritually charged with sophistication, France has long been a bastion of classical style. Louis XIV laid the cornerstone in the 17th-century and inspired a global mania for all things French, from the gilded courts of the ‘Greats’ — Peter, Catherine and Frederick — right through to the Maison Jansen-draped White House of Jacqueline Kennedy. Few deviations were made from this blueprint of elegance although it has not remained entirely static, as evidenced more recently in the oeuvre of Andrée Putman. “Having been born into what is convenient to call the cradle of good taste, I felt very early on a desire to fight against that old French conception of the ideal, which seems much like a teddy bear worn out by affection,” wrote Putman in her preface to the tome…

My parents came to Australia from South Korea in the late 1970s. My mother passed away when I was 19. They didn’t want me to know anything of their experience. I realised how ignorant I was of their background when as a child I asked my mother, “How was the boat, coming to Australia?” and she looked at me blankly and said, “We came on Cathay Pacific.” I studied law and worked briefly as a solicitor. That’s another part of the immigrant story. If you get the marks at school then it’s almost expected that you study medicine or law — I didn’t feel I had an option. But my earliest memories are of making art. I remember as a child making a mural in different colours with my hands…

When the Belgian architect David Van Severen and his wife, Swedish photographer Martina Bjorn, first came across their future home in Brussels, they were fascinated by the breathtaking grandeur of the 19th-century property located in a quiet, leafy residential area south-east of the city centre. “It faces an avenue with gardens at the front. When we first saw it we had one of those ‘this is too good to be true’ feelings because of its generous open spaces and a big, wild garden at the back,” says Bjorn. “We also loved the neighbourhood. It’s known locally as Little Paris because of the many Parisians living here.” A Beaux Arts-style mansion, the interiors displayed all the typical characteristics of that era: soaring ceilings, elegant tall windows that streamed an abundance of…

Tamu McPherson’s journey from Kingston, Jamaica, to the heart of Milan just goes to show that you can’t always pin your destination in advance. After leaving the Caribbean as a child for the artistic enclave of Nyack, New York, she eventually moved to the Big Apple to study at Fordham Law, where she fell for an Italian student. Once each had graduated, Milan was the clear place for them to build a home and, in McPherson’s case, a hit lifestyle website. There the two had a son, and McPherson, with a trove of design at her fingertips, launched online forum All the Pretty Birds in 2008, capturing the fashion world’s attention. And now, even amid the pandemic, the style-setter has continued to tell uplifting bold and brilliant fashion stories. Her…

In most of our bathroom projects, we try to achieve a sense of tension in the space. I like opposing fifinishes — something high-octane with something humble; we love this sense of contradiction. Alexandra Donohoe Church, Decus Interiors I love a living finish like unlacquered brass. I find that the oxidisation process over time adds to the beauty, with its unknown patina that will continue to change through the years.ATHENA CALDERONE, EYESWOON I love materials that age gracefully for a kitchen – marble, aged brass, mottled nickel and solid timber. It’s really about high functioning materials that will stand the test of time, are easy to maintain and, most importantly, are rich in detail and colour.David Flack, Flack Studio All the water from my tub feeds directly into the garden,…

When Louis Vuitton, long-time lauded purveyor of refined luxury, stepped into the realm of the home with its Objets Nomades collection a few years ago, traditional craftsmanship, heritage and timeless style were at the core of the offering. The maison turned to innovative Japanese artist and designer Tokujin Yoshioka — whose recent work includes a pair of pandemicimpacted projects: designing the Tokyo 2021 Olympic lantern and cauldron, and a free template to create a face shield — to produce the Blossom stool. Inspired by the fashion maison’s petal monogram, four ash plywood ‘petals’ lined with buttersoft calfskin seemingly fold into one another in a transfixing swirl, turning a simple stool into a beguiling objet d’art sitting prettily on its own. The form emulates that of a bud coming into bloom,…

When I became editor of Vogue Living, I made it clear that celebrating and recognising women in design was an important objective for the magazine. I wanted to showcase female creatives who had talent, passion and perseverance, as well as a different perspective in a traditionally male-dominated field. The #MeToo movement was in full swing when my first women’s issue went on sale and, three years on, I’m still as passionate as ever to shine a light on and provide a stage for the amazing women who continue to break new ground in the design realm. Some of my favourite Australian design leaders feature in this issue including the trailblazing Jodie Fried of ethically conscious company Armadillo (page 62) and the distinctive Yasmine Ghoniem of YSG Studio (page 56). In…

Visit the website of YSG, the Sydney studio stamped with the initials of its principal Yasmine Saleh Ghoniem, and a lush oasis opens up in the desert of internet design. No spartan typeface attaching to image scrolls in a void of white, but a rock-and-roll assault on graphic convention and the flashing claim in bold caps declaring “The magnetism is in the mix.” It is spicy, trippy and flagrantly flips the bird to any prescripts on the use of pattern and proportion in both the production of its content and the constructed interiors it frames, and, it sucks the viewer right into its vow of summoning all senses. But if doubt nags that it’s all just a digital mirage, a visit to the Four Pillars Laboratory in Sydney’s Surry Hills…

For multidisciplinary artist Sarah Coleman appropriating luxury products boldly emblazoned with logos and reworking them into everyday objects from folding chairs to pill bottles is not only about elevating the ordinary but also about injecting fun, playfulness and a left-field sense of irony into something familiar and overlooked. So what happens when the tables are turned and a luxury fashion house — in this case, Fendi — comes knocking with a request to rework one of its most popular handbags? Manhattan-born-and-bred Coleman, who got her first job with architect Peter Marino where she helped to design stores for Chanel before making art full-time in 2019, takes it all in her stride. “I’m so in love with Fendi and have been looking through its history in my own way for such…

It is emotion that informs the output of Paris-based architect Marine Bonnefoy. “I create my architectural projects around memories and the atmosphere within those memories,” she says. “It’s about what I feel.” An elegant dream-like ambience permeates the spaces she creates, none more acutely than in her latest project, an apartment in Paris’s beating heart — the first arrondissement — in the shadow of the Palais-Royal, round the corner from the Musée du Louvre. Bonnefoy has completely transformed the two-bedroom apartment, set within a Directoire building typical of the city’s late-18th century architecture, by splicing through the centre of it with a 20-metre-long wall. Constructed from chestnut wood — “I like its hue and veining,” she says — and snaking through the space, it has changed a standard-issue layout into…

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The bathroom is a place reserved for relaxation, rejuvenation and true peace. Design plays a crucial role in making the connection with the human spirit in this intimate, private space.MARCEL WANDERS A beautiful freestanding enamel cooker, like an Aga or La Cornue, is a way to make a contemporary kitchen look slightly more traditional.Tamsin Johnson Hands down, our favourite hardware and pulls are from Nanz. The quality is exceptional — they are the Bentley of hardware.Alexandra Donohoe Church, Decus Interiors I am a big fan of a heated towel ladder to keep your towels warm and toasty all year round.DAVID FLACK, FLACK STUDIO Australian tapware is really ahead of the game, in terms of the range and the finishes.Gillian Khaw, Handelsmann + Khaw…

Hobart Fico Mediterranean influences meet local produce at this Hobart mainstay. Save room for a scoop of bee-pollen gelato. ficofico.net Dier Makr This is degustation done right: precise flavours, superlative seafood and lots of vegetables. The wine list is adventurous and, naturally, Tassie-centric. For further fervent detours into wine territory, pay sister bar Lucinda a visit. diermakr.com Gold Bar Tasmanian spirits are the focus at this friendly bar in an old flour mill on the waterfront. You’ll find almost every local maker of gin and whiskey represented. goldbarhobart.com.au New Norfolk The Agrarian Kitchen Eatery The setting — a former psychiatric hospital — may be unconventional, but the food is quintessentially Tasmanian, made almost entirely with produce from a nearby farm. theagrariankitchen.com Bruny Island Bruny Island Cheese Co. The state’s most…