Innholdsfortegnelse for September/October 2023 i Vogue Living

DAVE WHEELER “It’s rewarding to play a small, final part in bringing a project to life,” says photographer Dave Wheeler of a family home by Phoebe Nicol (page 90). “It can be a challenge to make sure that the original concept is translating well into the image, but that just makes it all the more rewarding when we get it right.” Of Nicol’s skill, “her spaces are pared back and almost minimal, yet they feel warm, complete and inviting”. ASHLEE BARRETT-BOURMIER Australian-born, London-based fashion editor Ashlee Barrett-Bourmier worked on our Paris decorative feature (page 30). “My styling isn’t usually very subtle so my challenge was to create a look that wasn’t overwhelming but that also popped enough on the page,” says the stylist and art director. As for the magic…

“Charlotte and I have a kind of allergy, vis-à-vis to the trends, or the fashion,” says Alexis Fabry with a laugh. Coming from any other head of a prestige name, this would sound contrary, even laughable. But from Fabry, curator, publisher and co-artistic director of the Hermès Maison universe, it lands differently. Together with architect Charlotte Macaux Perelman, the pair work with artisans, designers and craftspeople to create objects of unparalleled beauty and quality for the maison. We caught up with the Paris-based duo in Milan during Salone del Mobile to discuss their recent home collection and the elusive notion of timeless design. Vogue Living: Geometry is a huge part of this collection. What inspired this? Charlotte Macaux Perelman: When we first started working for Hermès we asked Pierre-Alexis Dumas…

Anyone can extol the aesthetic elements of a home, how the immeasurable quality of beauty can add to the pleasure of the everyday, but the instinctual feeling of home comes down to how it offers comfort and respite in a nurturing way. This support found beyond mere bricks and mortar was at the forefront of interior architect Phoebe Nicol’s design mind, as she started the careful revitalisation of this Vaucluse home. At the time, Nicol was newly pregnant with her first child, a journey echoed by her client, Georgia Williams, who was pregnant with her second. “We had the same OB, our children were born a week or two apart, and we were both hobbling around the site together,” Nicol says. “I pretty much worked on this project up until…

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The classically proportioned Haussmann apartment propped with gilded bergères is as clichéd a capture of French interior style as the Breton top is of French fashion, but for Rebecca Benichou, 36, and Florence Jallet, 29, co-principals of Paris-based Batiik Studio, such archetypes speak volubly about their country’s savoir faire. Yes, French style is “sober and polished, remains elegant and can sometimes be extravagant”, concur the buzzed-about pair who claim back-to-back entries (2020 and 2021) in Architectural Digest France’s definitive AD100 list of visionary design talents. But, as they explain, savoir faire and its inference of ‘knowing what to do’ relates more to an endemic culture of craftsmanship than any surface decorum of dress or room. “We like sobriety, but it’s also important to work on some more original and subtle…

Some homes are designed to first appeal to the eye. But for French tech investor Pierre Krings and his wife, fashion entrepreneur Nima, what mattered foremost for their centuries-old apartment on Paris’s Left Bank was how the home feels underfoot. Upon entering the 297-square-metre, four-bedroom apartment, redesigned by French designer Pierre Yovanovitch, guests are instructed to remove their shoes — a practice the Kringses adopted during their sojourns in Japan. He sold his company, PriceMinister, to Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten in 2010, and she is the founder of Nimette, a private retail space distributing apparel from independent fashion designers from Japan and other countries. As one moves from the entry’s waxed reclaimed-oak parquet to the cool Delphine Messmer mosaic flooring in the kitchen, the sense of touch is not only…

A Banda project comes with certain expectations: elegant interiors realised with quality materials and statement pieces, a palpable sense of calm that comes with polish and a welcoming embrace of space that immediately sets one at ease. Founder Edo Mapelli Mozzi has established Banda as a beacon of refined interiors across properties in the best zip codes in London and New York. The latest address to receive the coveted Banda treatment is an early 1900s pied-à-terre, with a postcard-perfect view of the Champ de Mars and Eiffel Tower, in Paris’s 7th arrondissement. “The epitome of French style is classical and tasteful, with an emphasis on quality and curation and this is what makes it so timeless,” Mozzi says when asked to describe the quintessential appeal of the Gallic aesthetic. “This…

I lived in PARIS in my early 30s when I was working in fashion. It was a city that I truly felt connected to, spending time wandering from one arrondissement to the next observing, watching and soaking in all the BEAUTY. And beauty was everywhere — there was a sense of style that was EFFORTLESS, timeless, opulent yet in a very refined, elegant way. This issue is a testament to French style and that particular refined elegance is celebrated in every feature. One luxury maison that harnesses the power of this aesthetic is HERMÈS. I was lucky enough to be a guest of Hermès at Salone Del Mobile and had the chance to meet Hermès Maison co-artistic directors Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry to discuss TIMELESS DESIGN and their…

Without making a clean sweep of the past, which, on the contrary, he sought to restore and refine, interior designer Rodolphe Parente highlighted the period details of this Haussmann apartment with subtle additions and a little bit of modern thinking. “Here we find the whole history of French craftsmanship, and this is what I tried to extend by bringing in several contemporary craftsmen,” he says. In the entrance, a delicate vertical band painted in fine gold brings geometry to the space, while in the dining room a fresco finish by the duo Redfield & Dattner adorns the curved wall designed to partition the kitchen with reflections. Parente played with the classic codes of the Parisian apartment by re-creating, in one instance, mouldings where they once were. While preserving the historical…

There is nothing ostentatious about Charles Zana’s work and, in fact, a certain sense of restraint dominates. For the past 30 years, the architect has been creating interiors in which every detail conveys elegance, fluidity and comfort. He applies a similar attitude to his own apartment located in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the Paris neighbourhood that’s been his favourite since his teen years. Zana set his heart on this pure expression of a Louis XVI apartment: “I love these aristocratic apartments which have a real history,” he says. “What I also admire are the proportions of the rooms, the enfilades, the high ceilings, the large windows, and the precision to the mouldings and the cornices. This isn’t the bourgeois pomp of the 19th century; it was the 18th that was…

In the renovation of historic homes, relevance is often the first casualty. It either buries under the assertive identity of a designer, the latest trend, budget cuts or just no bloody idea, says designer Hamish Guthrie of the test that typically whips the past into a heritage pastiche or wipes it out with clean-slate modernism. “The issue of relevance pertains to more than just the past,” Guthrie qualifies with nod to this two-level townhouse, one of four resulting from the carve-up of a significant ‘polychromatic’ brick mansion designed in 1864 by architect Joseph Reed and owned by the first Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Sir Benjamin Benjamin. “Any gestural insert should have a resonance with the existing architecture, but it must also relate to this time and the personalities living with…

It’s not all that surprising that lauded online marketplace Invisible Collection would find a home in Paris. After all, it was co-founder Isabelle Dubern’s desire for her dream Papa Bear armchair by French designer Pierre Yovanovitch that led her to establishing the online catalogue — alongside Anna Zaoui and Lily Froehlicher — of high-end, design-led collectable pieces. Invisible Collection is now a trusted arbiter of good taste, having physically manifested from a digital curation of covetable objects into real-life iterations in London and New York boutiques, and now finally in the City of Lights. Each flagship is a refined space, more residential setting than retail outlet in display and practice, and the Paris gallery is a standard-bearer of the highest order. A stone’s throw away from Les Invalides, Champ de…