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60
ALESSIA IN
WONDERLAND
In the Italian ski resort of
Cortina d’Ampezzo, a Milanese
architect and her sister build
a chalet with fantastical flair.
By Christopher Garis
Designed by Natalia Bianchi
and Alessia Bianchi Bormioli

66
MIAMI?
MINIMAL.
How one designer made
fabulous unfussy in a
South Florida pied-à-terre.
By Chantel Tattoli
Designed by Martin Brûlé

72
IT’S HUMAN
NATURE
Sheila Bridges draws from
Vermont’s history to bring
warmth and character
to a sprawling new home.
By Camille Okhio
Designed by Sheila Bridges

80
AROUND
THE HOUSE
Instacart the hors d’oeuvres,
darling. Holiday hosting is
all about the bubbles—and
the jewels.
By Sean Santiago

84
VIENNA WAITS
FOR YOU
Does a vibrant English sensibility
work in a classic Austrian
townhouse? See for yourself.
Written and designed by
Ben Pentreath

90
STEPHEN KENT JOHNSON

SNOW IN
A Hans Wegner chair and
EVERY WINDOW
In Montana’s Big Sky country,
ottoman sit in a corner Commune delivers a West
of the primary bedroom Coast groove to match the
of a Big Sky, Montana, pristine views.
house designed by By Amanda Fortini
Commune (page 90). Designed by Commune

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26 40 48
EDITOR’S LETTER ROOM SERVICE POINT OF VIEW
Your next out-of-office email Swap out the curtains, put up new
29 could be sent from one of these wallpaper. It’s your home after all,
ultrachic hotel rooms so own it—even if you really don’t.
THE GIVER’S By Sadie Stein
ALMANAC 42
Our annual guide to the very 51
best gifts this holiday season THE RIGHT
ADDRESS BUILDER
How do you live like Armani? Bathtubs continue to evolve, but
A new 12-story tower in here’s why they’re as much a
Manhattan offers a blueprint luxury now as they’ve ever been.
By Tim McKeough
44
SHORTLIST
Everyone wants to copy
Sofia Coppola’s style. Here’s
how to do it in eight items

The dining room of

a vacation house in
Cortina d’Ampezzo,
Italy, designed by
Natalia Bianchi and her
BASTIAN ACHARD

sister, Alessia Bianchi

Bormioli (page 60).

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56
POP UP
Cinemas were once dazzling
architectural statements. Today,
glamour at the movies is back.
By Alice Rawsthorn

96
RESOURCES
100
BIOGRAPHY
OF A ROOM
Isabel and Ruben Toledo’s former
penthouse is now a dream studio
for designer Alfredo Paredes.
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LIGHT
IN
AUGUST
“YOU WON’T REALLY UNDERSTAND THE HOUSE,” THE WONDERFUL
caretaker told me when I arrived at dusk on the Greek island
of Sifnos, “until the morning.” The sunrise woke me, streaming
through the bedroom window. That light followed me around
all day. “It’s in the east, from Delos,” was how its calming effect
on me was explained, the magic of that ancient site mutually
understood. “Mrs. Sarantitis designed the whole house
around it.” Malvina Sarantitis, owner of Malvez interiors, is a
friend who invited me to stay at this quaint house high above
Chrysopigi. I came to Sifnos for the food—lunch at Cantina,
dinners at Omega3 and Pellicanos, a feast at Tsapis Taverna
The Manhattan studio after an afternoon swim—but I will return for the light. You
of Alfredo Paredes.
ABOVE: A house on
can too. The house is now available for rent. (DM @malvez_
Sifnos designed by for the details!)
Malvina Sarantitis of This issue of ELLE DECOR offers tours inside other homes
Malvez interiors.
that provide refuge and escape. We take you to Cortina
d’Ampezzo, Vienna, Miami, Vermont, Montana, and a new
movie palace in Paris. We also, as we enter a new year, debut a
FROM TOP: NIKOS ALEXOPOULOS (4); FR ANK FR ANCES

column that will be the closing chapter of every issue. We are

calling it Biography of a Room, a chronicle of the many lives
lived within four walls. Every room has stories to tell.
We begin with the studio of ELLE DECOR A-List designer
Alfredo Paredes, an iconic New York space that was once the
home of Isabel and Ruben Toledo. Those, as they say, are good
vibes. Let’s take them into 2025 together, shall we? ◾

@stellenevolandes

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Authentic Wood Veneer Wallcovering
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S E IZ E T H E DAY
Twenty-four hours in the life of good gifts.

7:00 a.m.
Mornings
for an early
riser will be
wholeheartedly
enriched when
OJ comes with
Hermès.

Dior Maison Message

Carafe, $600, and
Water Glass, $210;
dior.com. Tressages
Equestres Salad Bowl,
$835; hermes.com.
Le Creuset Shallow
Fry Pan, $150;
williams-sonoma.com.
ADDITIONAL MARKET WORK BY HELENA MADDEN

Photographs by Adam Friedlander Produced by Will Kahn St yled by S elena Liu

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9:00 a.m.
Some will receive this as an invitation to
work out, some to time out. To either, the
correct response? “You’re welcome.”

RM 65-01 Split-Seconds
Chronograph Watch,
$380,000; richardmille
.com. Armani/Casa Pump
Hand Weights, set of two,
$1,255, and Pump Jump
Rope, $490; available
at select boutiques.

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THE QUINTESSENTIAL KITCHEN OFFICINEGULLO.COM
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11:00 a.m.
For some, being busy
is a status symbol.
Offer them other
suggestions.
Cup and Saucer, set of
two, $485, and Cup Louis,
$775; louisvuitton.com.
Reverso Classic
Duetto Watch, $37,900;
jaeger-lecoultre.com.
AJ Table Lamp, $1,315;
louispoulsen.com.
Globe in Krion and
Walnut, $2,650;
brunellocucinelli.com.
Fjerdingstad Coffee Pot,
$4,500, and Mood
Coffee Rose Gold
Espresso Spoon, set of
six, $795; christofle.com.
Vitra Nelson Night Clock,
$660; dwr.com.

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5:00 p.m.
There are drinks and
there are cocktails, but
we present here the
ingredients for an apéro.
Say the Bottega
playing cards insisted.

Harcourt Candlestick,
$125; baccarat.com.
Montgomery Cocktail
Shaker, $295, Olive Tray
and Pick Gift Set, $275,
and Stirling Double-
Old-Fashioned Gift Set,
$165; ralphlauren.com.
Playing Cards with Clutch,
$750; bottegaveneta
.com. Marilyn Ceramic
and Diamond
Bracelet, $36,500;
monicarichkosann.com.
Chess Set by Gianfranco
Frattini, $299; cb2.com.

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7:00 p.m.
Dinner with Elsa?
It’s an invitation no
one will ever refuse.

Elsa Peretti Split Cuff in

Yellow Gold, $36,000,
Candlestick, $1,050,
Padova 32-Piece
Flatware Set, $5,180,
Thumbprint Salt and
Pepper Shakers, $385,
and Snake Necklace
in Yellow Gold,
$72,000; tiffany.com.

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9:00 p.m.
For anyone exhausted
by reality: the elements
of sweeter dreams.

Acanthus Lampstand,
$1,032; houseofhackney
.com. USM Valet Tray,
$890; bernardjames.com.
Iconica Necklace, $67,900,
and Bracelet, $42,000;
pomellato.com. Dream
Sleep Mask Set, $200;
frette.com. Detangling
Comb, $48; labonnebrosse
.com. Narcissus Bowl,
$700; buccellati.com. Ivy
Candle, $120; loewe.com.

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When Can
We Move In?
Your next out-of-office
email could be sent from
one of the world’s most
beautiful hotel rooms.
Go ahead, sign off early.
By S ean Santiago

The Manner in
New York City,
designed by
Hannes Peer with
Verena Haller.

NEW YORK CITY CABO SAN LUCAS

The Manner Four Seasons

An A-List suite in the Resort at
cobblestoned heart Cabo Del Sol
of downtown. A family-friendly idyll
Creature comforts are refined with new residences.
at the Manner, a 97-room
luxury retreat in Manhattan’s Mexico’s Baja Peninsula now
SoHo from Standard boasts the Meyer Davis–
International, the team designed Four Seasons Resort
behind the Standard and & Residences at Cabo Del Sol.
Bunkhouse hotels. Verena Inspired by the hotel’s setting
Haller, chief design officer on an old agave farm,
for the company, tapped cofounders Will Meyer
ELLE DECOR A-List architect and Gray Davis worked with
and designer Hannes Peer for EDG Design to incorporate
the project, his first hotel. The indigenous materials like
interiors feature bold strokes ojinaga limestone, parota
like Brutalist-leaning light fix- wood, and Mexican alder
tures and a sumptuous palette throughout the rooms and
of jewel tones alongside work public spaces. The result A room at the Four Seasons Resort at
by artists including Ben feels ”like entering a friend’s Cabo Del Sol, in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico,
Medansky and Alex Proba. vacation home,” Davis says. with design by Meyer Davis.
themanner.com fourseasons.com

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 The penthouse
at Rosewood
São Paulo,
designed by
Philippe Starck
and Jean Nouvel.

MIAMI
Let’s Dish!
Treat yourself to an
haute cuisine
experience at La Mar
at the Mandarin
Oriental, Miami,
where executive chef
Diego Oka will be
hosting AMANO by
Oka through the end
of May 2025. The
culinary project sees
a unique eight-course
tasting menu served
with ceramic table-
ware (pictured above)
that the chef hand-
crafted on-site.
mandarinoriental.com

A guest
bathroom at
the LaFayette
SÃO PAULO SAN DIEGO in San Diego,
Rosewood The LaFayette restored by
Post Company.
São Paulo Hotel & Club
A prizeworthy penthouse An exuberant oasis
with a rooftop pool. with social capital.
While Rosewood opened its doors The LaFayette, the first
in Brazil’s bustling financial center hospitality venture from CH
OPPOSITE PAGE, FROM TOP: CHRIS MOT TALINI; THE INGALLS

in 2022, this year saw the property Projects, the company behind
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debut its wellness concept, Asaya buzzy local restaurants like

Spa by Guerlain, as well as a Youngblood and Born &
luxurious penthouse suite, designed Raised, is a Colonial-style
by Philippe Starck and the Pritzker hotel and club that sits on two
Prize–winning French architect and a half acres in San Diego’s
Jean Nouvel. The residential-style North Park neighborhood.
suite offers 12,000 square feet of Built in 1946, the property,
living space as well as a hidden which has hosted the likes
rooftop garden with an infinity pool of Lana Turner and Frank
overlooking Avenida Paulista. If the Sinatra, has been restored by
view doesn’t sate your wanderlust, Brooklyn’s Post Company. It
turn your attention to the walls, now boasts 139 rooms, six
where you’ll escape to a world of dining options, and a bowling
fine art by local talents like Tércio alley; producer Swizz Beatz
Teixeira, Lúcio Consul, and Oscar even created its soundtrack.
Niemeyer. rosewoodhotels.com lafayettehotelsd.com
THE RIGHT ADDRESS

The new Armani/Madison

flagship features a floor
of Armani/Casa designs,
like a Morfeo bed in the
line’s Vienna velvet. LEFT:
The Art Deco – inspired
limestone facade.

CIAO, MADISON
A new 12-story building offers a
blueprint for how to live like Armani.

W
hen you a re a CookFox Architects, is a uni-
90-year-old fashion verse where you can dress,
and design icon, the eat, and decorate like Armani,
only way to take Manhattan is and even move into a condo
to do it your way. In October, branded by the Italian legend.
Giorgio Armani arrived in the The flagship showcases his first
Big Apple to plenty of fanfare, eponymous restaurant in the
from his first fashion show in United States, complete with a
the city in 11 years to the reveal Champagne bar, plus a two-
of his new 12-story tower at story boutique of men’s and
Madison Avenue and 65th Street. women’s fashions and artisanal
That corner has long been asso- pralines, panettone, and jams
ciated with Armani: His former flown in from Milan.
f lagship, designed in 1996 by The Armani/Casa home col-
ELLE DECOR A-List Titan Peter lection has an entire f loor to
Marino, sat on the same spot. play with. The 3,000-square- Club Cocktail
Cabinet Clad
TOP LEFT AND RIGHT: DANILO SCARPATI

But the Milanese designer has foot space displays the line’s in Valparaiso
since embraced the power of a luxe, minimalist furnishings Silk
armani.com
total lifestyle brand, with pio- and home accessories, along
neering moves into everything with fabric and wallcovering
FOR BEEHIVE STUDIO

from furniture to hospitality. collections. For the total Armani

Indeed, behind the f luted look, there are even tic-tac-toe
limestone facade of 760 Madi- sets. How do you say “XO” in
son Avenue, desig ned w ith Italian? —Ingrid Abramovitch

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5. Pukka Night Time Tea

1. Nail Polish I drink this before I go to bed and
Le Vernis Incendiaire is a bright bring it with me on the road.
orangey-red that I like for pukkaherbs.com
my toes when I’m on vacation.
chanel.com
6.
Floral Essence
2. Baignoire This face spray was
Watch made for the spa
I put this on my at our family resort in
Christmas list! The Belize. I like to apply
miniature model it on the plane or
is so pretty and chic. after a day in the sun.
cartier.com monasterymade.com

7. Boxer Pants
Whenever I’m trying
to unwind, I throw
on these striped
pants and pair them

SOFIA with a T-shirt.

commesi.com

COPPOLA
The director has one of the most
imitated aesthetics on earth.

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It might be impossible to break
3. Bottled Cocktails
I live near Via Carota, in
it down in eight items, but that
New York City, and love to serve
their classic Negroni at home.
won’t stop us from trying.
drinkviacarota.com As told to Ingrid Abramovitch

4. Murano Glass
A small family business
in Venice makes the most
colorful Murano glassware.
lagunab.com

8. Makeup Pouch
The compartments are great for traveling—it even has
a separate section for brushes.
us.anyahindmarch.com

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HUNTER DOUGLAS
Custom window covering company Hunter Douglas celebrated
ELLE DECOR’s 35th anniversary with a stylish event at King
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vases hand wrapped in Hunter Douglas' exclusive Alustra Woven
Textures fabric, casting a warm ambiance.
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PORADA OPENS IN NEW YORK

After London, Milan and Paris, Porada is opening its first American
direct flagship store in New York. Located in the NoMad Design
District, on Madison Ave. at 34th St., it brings the taste of the Italian
contemporary home to the Big Apple. Explore the beautiful products
from Porada’s latest collection and more at this new location.
185 Madison Ave. at 34th St., NYC
porada.it

BRIZO
Every choice, intentional. Every nuance, deliberate. Brizo ® kitchen
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to craft a life of beauty, on your own terms.
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E L L E D E C O R L I FE

C R AF TI NG LUXU RY

BAMBOO MOOD,
Collection

BAMBOO MOOD
The Roche Bobois collection, crafted by Franco-Chinese artist Jiang Qiong Er, ingeniously captures
and redefines traditional Chinese values and symbolism through an artful and imaginative lens.
Named “Bamboo Mood,” the collection draws inspiration from bamboo—a potent emblem of
integrity, flexibility, simplicity, and harmony in Chinese culture. With a whimsical yet sophisticated
approach, Jiang Qiong Er crafts a comprehensive suite of designs including sofas, folding screens,
consoles, rugs, and ceramics. The collection seamlessly integrates vibrant Chinese colors such as
celadon green and imperial coral red, creating a visually stunning and timeless narrative.
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“The concept explores the dialogue between

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So what if it’s a rental? Swap out
the curtains, put up new wallpaper,
go crazy. It’s your home after all,
so own it—even if you really don’t.
By Sadie Stein

I
’m writing this on the cusp of sweater weather, already
wearing one of sky blue that says NOT MY FIRST RODEO in
white letters. This morning, I switched from my summer
perfume to Ffern’s new seasonal scent and have written out
a comprehensive list of the changes that will need to be
made to my rented apartment in order to get it ready for the
colder weather. It’s a semiannual ritual.
Of course we’ll change the bedding from linen to percale;
and of course I’ll swap out the f loral candles for a hit of
ecclesiastical French smoke. I’ll switch the soap in the
bathroom—I like fig for October and the first two weeks of
November—and get asters and dahlias and Seckel pears to
display on the table and a couple of quinces to put on the
mantel, the best home fragrance of all. I like to order fresh
walnuts from a farm in California so I can put out a bowl,
with a bizarre nutcracker embossed with Shakespeare’s
head, for my guests.
But before that, we’ll need to take up the scallop-edged
jute matting and lay down the Nichols rugs that have been
rolled up all summer in the coat closet, their faded jewel
tones hopefully protected from moths by the presence of a
bunch of Santa Maria Novella potpourri, on the long-ago
advice of a Zitomer saleswoman. Then we’ll have to take
down the light muslin summer curtains so as to hang the Recently I read Little House in the Big Woods, for the first
heavier velvet drapes—a two-person job—and finally, I’ll time in decades, to my four-year-old son, and I was again
pull the sea-green canvas slipcovers (made by the peerless enchanted by the changes the seasons wrought on their TINA BARNEY PHOTOGR APH COURTESY OF PAUL K ASMIN GALLERY

United Decorators of Coney Island) off the sofa and the two cabin, the transitions from airy to cozy that lent their chal-
big chairs from the Long Island tag sale, and they’ll be a lenging life order and reassurance and a measure of control.
rosy velvet again. The cushion covers, the piles of wool We aren’t precarious homesteaders on the wrong side of the
throws, and the changing of lampshades is the fun part. postbellum law; we buy fresh fruit all winter, and by city
“Isn’t that a lot of work?” asked a nonplussed colleague law our building will go tropical at the end of October,
when I detailed these thrilling weekend plans. global warming or not. But these stories—of lives governed
I guess so, kind of. I didn’t grow up like this; my family’s by sheer willpower, of spring cleanings and winter bunker-
home was lively and chaotic, and I longed for the seasonal ing and an impractical urge to beauty—formed me, and I
order I read about in books like Tasha Tudor’s A Time to can’t change now.
Keep and Betsy-Tacy. I learned the term house-proud from Home is my refuge. I’ve always brought an intense
The Borrowers, and at once I loved that notion of pride degree of interest to my surroundings—my freshman
even in impermanence. dorm room was a source of bafflement for my roommates,

48 ELLE DECOR
 I LAY DOWN
SQUARES OF
SPECKLED PINK
LINOLEUM EVEN
KNOWING THE
BUILDING WILL
RIP THEM UP
THE MOMENT
I MOVE OUT.

Jill and Polly in the

Bathroom (1987),
by Tina Barney.

and the maximalism of my desks has raised the eyebrows winter, and so it feels vitally important that we mark the
of every coworker I’ve ever had. passing of the seasons, even if nature no longer can.
The apartment where I live with my husband and our After the last summer decor shift, I made an Instagram
son isn’t palatial; it’s got good New York City prewar bones post detailing the seasonal changes I’d undertaken. Until
and decent light and enough space for a respectable Brio then, I don’t think I’d realized that it was an especially
train track, but it’s not full of quirky charm or period detail. unusual thing to do. And when I was asked to write about it,
We don’t own it and never will. it started what Barbara Pym calls “a landslide in the mind.”
But I have managed to make it deeply singular. I hang real Was this about control in a world where we have so little of
wallpaper; I replace doorknobs with the white marble orbs I it, or an imposition of some nostalgic idea of seasonality?
find at the flea market that feel so satisfying in the hand; Maybe both. Maybe that’s fine. What I do believe is that
I lay down squares of speckled pink linoleum even knowing there is great power in not just accepting the reality of your
the building will rip them up the moment I move out. I need life, but in finding great pleasure there too.
my family to imprint on these spaces; that’s what makes a Just don’t expect to ever see that security deposit again. ◾
home, and that’s also what makes friends feel welcome.
We don’t have a second home: This is it, summer and Sadie Stein is a writer and editor living in New York City.

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The ancients invented them, the Enlightened
brought them home, and the Victorians gave
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as much a luxury today as they’ve ever been.
By T im Mc Keough

Consider a statement
chair like this vintage
French shell, but have it
recovered in a robust If you live in a French manor
performance velvet. house, you’re going to want a
classic cast-iron claw-foot,
like this one by Margot.

F
or centuries, a warm bath modern architectural marvels like W i n ston Chu rch i l l wa s so The primary
has remained one of life’s Peter Zumthor’s Therme Vals in enamored with bathtubs that he bathroom of
Robert
great luxuries. From the Switzerland, the reassuring com- routinely took two baths per day Couturier’s
SYLVIE BECQUET

e a rl iest ex a mples of bat h i n g fort provided by a deep soak has (with the water temperature set at former manor
house in
facilities at the Palace of Knossos long been treated as nothing less a precise 98 degrees) and made Normandy,
on the Greek island of Crete to than sacred. many of his most important France.

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decisions while submerged, even

when England was under attack
during World War II. Although
few of us have the time to follow
Churchill’s example today, as we
speed through showers to rush to
mor n i n g me et i n g s , bat ht u bs
haven’t lost their allure.
“Bat ht ubs a re t he u lti mate
at-home self-care indulgence,”
says Noz Nozawa, founder of Noz
Design in San Francisco. That was
true in the past, but it’s especially
true today as we wrestle with our
time-constrained, productivity-
obsessed lives. “Showers are a
modern invention that principally Busca, the U.S. creative director of ABOVE: For Usually, that means adding a
the primary
help us save time in our bathing the Italian company Scavolini. “It’s bathroom of
dramatic chandelier or light fix-
routines,” she says. “But having more like your sanctuary. Espe- a house in ture, as in one bathroom where
a bath is about taking time back cially after Covid, the meaning Montauk, Lawrence mounted a custom Seed
New York,
for yourself.” Nozawa practices of the bathroom has completely Rafael de Cloud installation from Ochre
what she preaches: “I’m infamous changed.” Cárdenas w it h dozens of i l lu m i nated
chose a tub
among my loved ones for being Now many designers are using and fittings bronze-and-glass droplets over-
able to out-soak anyone.” sculptural tubs as the centerpieces by Cocoon. head. The bathtub is also an ideal
In recent years, many home- of spa-l i ke bath rooms. “ T hey BELOW LEFT: place to admire the intricacies of
owners tore out bathtubs during become t h i s i ncred ible foca l In a chalet special stone and tile up close. In a
in Utah
renovations to make way for more point,” says Gary Eisner, founder designed by townhouse on the Upper East Side
elaborate walk-in showers, priori- of BuiltIN Studio in New York Electric of Manhattan, Lawrence placed
Bowery, the
tizing quick spray-downs over City. “When we have space for a cedar tub is the tub in a niche with a back wall
time-consuming steeping. But the big moment, an amazing bathtub paired with formed by book-matched slabs of
Waterworks
trend of deleting bathtubs gradu- provides a sense of grandeur.” fittings.
Cloud onyx. “It creates this inter-
ally stalled and then reversed. In one Manhattan apartment, esting almost whirlpool of stone,
“The bathroom is no longer just Eisner elevated a curvaceous free- with so much movement,” he says.
a place to brush your teeth and get standing tub on a teak platform in Such touches help fuel another
ready for the day,” says Daniele front of a marble wall with inte- dream: that the bathtub can serve
grated lighting to celebrate it. In as an escape from the quotidian
another, he placed a tub on a stone right within your home. The key,
pedestal directly in front of a win- once you’ve splurged on that bath-
dow with an expansive view of the tub you’ve always wanted, is to
city (prying eyes be damned!). make sure you commit to it, just
T he New York Cit y–ba sed like Churchill did.
ELLE DECOR A-List designer Rod- “People in the industry joke
ney Lawrence frequently takes a that most people use a bathtub
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around the tub. “Because people move out,” Eisner says. But ignor-
don’t actually use the bathtub all ing all the other days in between,
the time, we display it like a piece any dedicated bath-taker will tell
of sculpture,” Lawrence says. “But you, means you’re simply missing
then we also think about being in out. As Busca puts it: “The bath is
the tub when you’re reclining, for that moment when body and
looking up.” soul get restored.” ◾

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cinema complex
in Paris, designed
by Renzo Piano.
RIGHT: Its 1929 Belle
Époque – style facade.

DOES
ANYBODY
REMEMBER
DRAMA?
Cinemas were once
dazzling architectural
statements. Now, after
decades of the pictures
literally getting smaller,
there’s a renewed appetite
for Golden Age glamour.
By Alice Rawsthorn

W
hen Parisians flocked to the corner of Boule- television age. But the building (or most of it) survived, and
vard des Capucines and rue de la Chaussée- it reopened this summer as the seven-screen Pathé Palace
d’Antin on November 24, 1927, for the opening after five years of restoration and reconstruction led by
of what was billed as their city’s most spectacular new Renzo Piano, the acclaimed Italian architect of Centre
movie theater, the Vaudeville Paramount Palace, they dis- Pompidou in Paris. He and Pathé, one of Europe’s biggest
covered that its Belle Époque facade housed a sumptuous film companies, strove to retain the charm of the original
Art Deco interior. Gold paint glistened on the ceiling of the interior while reinventing it as a luxury lair. As well as
1,920-seat auditorium as the Paramount Orchestra played watching films, visitors can see plays and concerts, quaff
the overture to Wagner’s 1867 The Master-Singers of wines from the famous Parisian restaurant Le Taillevent,
MICHEL DENANCÉ

Nuremberg in a prelude to the movie, the Oscar-nominated and down cocktails in a bar designed by Jacques Grange,
documentary Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness. grandee of French interiors whose clients have included
Like so many once-glamorous early-20th-century movie Sofia Coppola and the late Yves Saint Laurent.
theaters, the Vaudeville Paramount Palace faded during the Not that the Pathé Palace is alone. After decades of

56 ELLE DECOR
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LEFT: The Pathé BELOW LEFT: One BELOW: The Odeon

Palace’s Art of seven new movie Leicester Square in
Deco–style bar theaters within London, designed by
was decorated by the Pathé Palace Harry Weedon in the
Jacques Grange. complex. Art Deco style in 1937.

Theatre in Hollywood. The boxing promoter Sid Grauman

spent $800,000 on constructing a movie palace emblazoned
with faux-Egyptian hieroglyphics, friezes, and columns.
The Egyptian opened in 1922 with the world’s first movie

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AL AMY STOCK PHOTO. OPPOSITE PAGE: NEEL AM: EDMUND SUMNER; GR AUMAN’S EGYPTIAN:
premiere—and first red carpet—for Robin Hood, starring,
written, and produced by the dashing Douglas Fairbanks.
The delighted Grauman lavished $2 million on his next
major investment, the nearby Chinese Theatre, which, as the
name suggests, was a spectacle of chinoiserie. After opening
in 1927 with Cecil B. DeMille’s The King of Kings, it scored
another coup by inviting movie stars to leave their hand-
prints and footprints on the concrete sidewalk, which is now
adjacent to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Among Grauman’s admirers was Oscar Deutsch, the
decline, when first television and then streaming stole their enterprising son of a British industrialist. Convinced that
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audience, historic cinemas are now being lovingly restored there was an appetite for equally flamboyant cinemas in Brit-
across the globe, in the hope of transforming them into ain, he commissioned the architect Harry Weedon to build
places we will yearn to visit again. them across the country, inspired by the Art Deco curves of
One of the earliest cinemas, the Orpheum in Haverhill, ocean liners and airplanes. Deutsch opened 258 cinemas, all
Massachusetts, opened in 1907 after a hasty conversion from named Odeon (allegedly an acronym of “Oscar Deutsch
a burlesque theater by a local scrap metal dealer, Louis B. Entertains Our Nation”), between 1934 and his death in 1941.
Mayer (later, the second M in MGM). But the first example of Dynamic though he and Grauman were, architectural
truly ambitious cinema design was Grauman’s Egyptian purists tend to prefer the subtle rationalism of the Cinéac

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chain, designed in the 1940s and ’50s by the Russian-born as carpentry, weaving, and ceramics, and imaginatively
architect Adrienne Górska and her French husband, Pierre restored cinemas.
de Montaut. Most Cinéacs were in France and Belgium, but This is why Netflix spent $70 million transforming the
one of the finest was Le Palmarium, which debuted in 1951 Egyptian into an opulent screening venue, and why the
in the Tunisian capital, Tunis. Equally chic were the Jagat, Neelam is being renovated in the redevelopment of Sector
Neelam, and KC, designed by the Indian architect Aditya 17. A similar spirit prompted Quentin Tarantino to renovate
Prakash, as part of the epic project led by Le Corbusier in two vintage cinemas in Los Angeles, the New Beverly in
the 1950s and early ’60s to build a model modern city, Fairfax and the Vista in Los Feliz, and has fueled the suc-
Chandigarh, in northern India. Prakash executed all three cess of the Metrograph repertory cinema in New York City.
cinemas in Le Corbusier’s utilitarian style in Chandigarh’s As for Paris, the excitement over Piano’s opulent Pathé
cultural hub, Sector 17. Palace will be followed by the reopening of La Pagode on
Sadly, the Neelam Theatre is the sole survivor of the rue de Babylone in 2025. A Japanese pagoda that was
three. Most of the Cinéacs have disappeared too, as have shipped to Paris from Tokyo in 1895, the theater functioned
many of Deutsch’s Odeons. But in recent years, movie pal- as an indie cinema from 1931 until its closure in 2015 and is
aces have staged a renaissance. A perversity of the digital now another neglected gem poised for revival. It is unlikely
age is that our immersion in screens has made us crave to be the last, as the zest for reinventing historic cinemas
human contact, kindling a surge of enthusiasm for public shows no signs of stopping, though nor does our love of
speaking and other forms of live performance, crafts such staying at home to binge movies on Netflix. ◾

ABOVE: The Neelam RIGHT: The

Theatre, a modernist rehabilitated interior
cinema designed by of Grauman’s
Aditya Prakash in Egyptian Theatre,
Chandigarh, India, which originally
dates back to the opened in Los
1950s. Angeles in 1922.
ALESSIA in
WONDERLAND
IN THE ITALIAN SKI RESORT OF CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, A MILANESE HOMEOWNER
TAPS HER ARCHITECT SISTER TO BUILD AN ALPINE CHALET WITH FANTASTICAL FLAIR.

WR ITTEN AND PRODUCED

BY CHRISTOPHER GARIS
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
BAST I A N ACH A R D
 The dining room of a
vacation house in
Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy,
designed by Natalia
Bianchi for her sister,
Alessia Bianchi Bormioli,
and her husband,
Francesco. Custom dining
table; 18th-century Italian
painted armoire; sconces
by Paola Napoleone. For
details, see Resources.

ELLE DECOR 61
 nlike many ski destinations around captivated by its mountain views. Alessia, on the other
the world where resort towns were hand, was initially crestfallen. The existing structure had
p u r p o s e - b u i l t , I t a l y ’s C o r t i n a originally been a semidetached farmhouse that had burned
d’Ampezzo is a small village with a down in the 1940s and been rebuilt as a ho-hum inn.
centuries-old history tucked between It wasn’t until she saw a photo of the house from before
the confines of the Venetian and the fire that Alessia got excited. She told her husband that
Holy Roman Empires. Though still in he could proceed with the purchase on the condition that
the Veneto region, its capital, Venice, she could “start from zero.” She then called her sister, the
is a two-hour drive down winding acclaimed Milanese architect Natalia Bianchi, to see if she
mountain roads, while the German-speaking South Tyrol would help her tackle this ambitious build. She agreed at
feels much closer; even Austria is just under an hour’s drive once. “In a way, her hands are my hands,” Natalia says. “She
over the valley pass. The town—which hosted the Winter has a strong aesthetic sensibility, and I found ways to create
Olympics in 1956 and will co-host the next edition with the space for her to decorate.”
Milan in 2026—has long been a favorite destination for the A big draw for the sisters is that the region is still home
international jet set, lured by both its world-class ski runs to many artisans. “The local know-how is very high,” Nata-
and its appearances in the 1963 Pink Panther and the James lia observes. For this project, almost everything was made
Bond classic For Your Eyes Only. or restored within 15 miles of the house—from iron door
Despite those star turns, Cortina retains a traditional handles to pine beds and wood-burning stoves. This level of
f lavor with its alpine architecture and mix of locals and craftsmanship allowed them to explore various mountain
vacation homeowners from across Italy. The town has styles within the context of the local vernacular. Through-
always had an allure for a couple from Milan, Alessia out the house, they played with a rough grain render often
Bianchi Bormioli and Francesco Bormioli, who spent holi- used in the area as an exterior wall treatment. The textured
days here as a child when he was growing up in Parma. It finish, a mixture of cement and limewash, was a perfect
was Francesco, a business executive and entrepreneur, base for layers of painted decoration. This technique is used
who found a property in the town’s Chiave district and was to its full effect in the entry, where, without moldings or
corners, the room feels as though it was excavated from the
hillside. Painted rosettes, inspired by St. Basil’s Cathedral in
Moscow, envelop the room, while ebonized wood paving
blocks line the floor.
This striking space leads into the living room and its
adjoining piól, a traditional balcony made from a salvaged
flat-sawn balustrade, with views of the surrounding moun-
tains. Natalia insisted that both the entry and all the social
rooms of the house—the living and dining rooms and the
stube, a Tyrolean wood-paneled room—would occupy this
story, the center floor of the four-story house.
A curved staircase links this entertaining level to the
rooms upstairs and the floor below, which accommodates
more bedrooms and a light-flooded kitchen that opens onto
a wide deck where the family gathers for lunch in warm
weather. Further downstairs, the family has recently added
a spa and gym. “My rule is that you cannot leave dead space
in a house,” Natalia says. “Every room needs to have a use.”
This winter, when the Bormiolis and their three children
are joined by Natalia and her family, long days on the slopes
will culminate in nights of entertaining. There will be
drinks and dinner with friends and late-night campfires
ablaze in the iron cauldron kept by the side of the house.
“Our goal was to create a house with spirit, made on a
human scale and imbued with local craftsmanship,” Natalia
says. “And,” Alessia adds, looking around the imaginative
rooms they have together designed, “plenty of beauty.” ◾
Bianchi found salvaged OPPOSITE: The walls in the
elements of a former kitchen are coated in
stube —a Tyrolean whitewashed render, a
wood-paneled room— textured finish of cement
and rebuilt it on-site and limestone, and the
as a study. A high door is of reclaimed
shelf holds a collection pine with hand-forged
of Czech glass. iron hardware.

ELLE DECOR 63
ABOVE: The walls of the OPPOSITE, TOP LEFT: The OPPOSITE, TOP RIGHT: For OPPOSITE, BOTTOM LEFT: OPPOSITE, BOTTOM
entry were sheathed in daughter’s bathroom has a son’s room, Alessia The hand-painted RIGHT: The daughter’s
render and hand-painted walls lined in salvaged commissioned built-in beds decoration in the primary bathroom has a sink by
with decorations inspired wood and an English with play lofts inspired bedroom was based on the Devon & Devon and tiles
by those at St. Basil’s claw-foot tub, and the by a design she spotted embroidery on a vintage by Riccardo Barthel.
Cathedral in Moscow. curtains are of a lace in an old photograph. Russian blouse. Custom
Dresser by Flamant. found in Parma, Italy. Custom chair in an headboard and ottoman
Andrew Martin fabric. in Andrew Martin fabrics.

64 ELLE DECOR
 MIAMI?
MINIMAL.
DESIGNER MARTIN BRÛLÉ MAKES FABULOUS
UNFUSSY IN A SOUTH FLORIDA PIED-À-TERRE.
BY CH A N T EL TAT TOLI PHOTOGR A PHS BY A DR I A N GAU T
 The dining room of
a holiday apartment in
Surfside, Florida, in a
Richard Meier –designed
building with interiors
by Martin Brûlé Studio.
Pendant by Patrice Dangel
for Galerie Alexandre
Biaggi; tapestry by Emilio
Terry; travertine surfboard
by Reena Spaulings;
custom dining table; rug
by Diurne; plates by
Matthieu Cossé.

OPPOSITE: In the
entrance hall, the vintage
rope chairs are by
Christian Astuguevieille.
Custom ceramic sconces
by Jean Roger. For
details, see Resources.

ELLE DECOR 67
 glows like a fistful of light. In Surfside, Brûlé’s serenely
sophisticated touch also favors ceramic, raffia, and stone:
A surfboard leans against a wall in the dining room, but it’s
a sculpture, carved from tonal orange-red travertine as if in
observance of the natural cadence of sunrise and sunset.
An adjacent Emilio Terry tapestry records the meander-
ing forms of red coral and green seaweed in a frame of
white shells. “There’s actually no art that can be affected by
the sun,” he says, stressing just how carefully he dialed
down into “unfussy” design.
The galley kitchen had no windows and glossy white
cabinetry that the clients opted to retain: Brûlé prescribed
custom tiles hand-painted by the Parisian artist Matthieu
Cossé, whose minimalist brushstrokes effect a horizon
scene on the walls and ceiling in which mer meets terre
under a cloud-tufted sky. (Cossé, who has created frescoes
for the Hermès flagship on Paris’s rue de Sèvres, and whose
n a gray afternoon in Paris, the Montreal-born interior work recalls the “tattoos” wrought by Jean Cocteau on the
designer Martin Brûlé—who keeps offices in Brooklyn and walls of his villa on the Côte d’Azur, also produced a series
here, just off the Tuileries Garden, in a neighborhood of of dinnerware drawn with marine life for the project.)
fine art and antiques galleries—studied photographs on his “Lightness of being is what that is,” Brûlé says.
phone of a recent project in Surfside, Florida. “The sun!” The bedroom may be the lightest of all. Oak wainscoting
Brûlé says with a little laugh and a small sigh. rises just above a headboard covered in a raw silk-cotton
His clients had come to him with an apartment in one fabric by Jim Thompson in a shade between aquamarine
of the two residential towers added in 2017 to the city’s and seafoam. Brûlé covered the wall above the wainscoting,
historic Surf Club, which opened nearly a century ago. which is encrusted with a ceramic installation by Cocobolo,
Richard Meier, the architect of the towers, delivered a in the same dynamic blue-green.
pitch-perfect update to the club’s Mediterranean Revival The color reflects in the mirrors of the vanity nook oppo-
style a nd cou ntr y-club-on-a-beach sensibility, says site the bed, which Brûlé converted from a closet, and
Brûlé, and the long and open layout of the original rhymes with the water that constantly, visibly laps the
three-bedroom residence, which the renovation saw con- beach below the living room, a space the designer fitted
verted into a one-bedroom pied-à-terre with an office and a with vintage rattan club chairs by Henry Olko and a low
yoga room, wasn’t anything either the owners or Brûlé had travertine table like a full moon, an allusion that Brûlé
a mind to change. barely acknowledges, perhaps because it’s so obvious.
“It’s a quite casual apartment,” says Brûlé. “It’s like a very This building and this sixth-floor pied-à-terre are “pro-
big hotel suite. That’s what the clients wanted.” (The Surf grammed for water and sky,” he says, gesturing again at the
Club’s residential towers are serviced by the Four Seasons.) ocean view out the windows and off the expansive terrace,
Because this was to be such an easy-breezy place, a utili- which he furnished with aluminum tables and chairs by
tarian address at which the owners wished not to entertain McKinnon and Harris, finished with bespoke cushions.
but to unbutton, Brûlé instated just enough color and “I want the clients to lounge about and enjoy that view.
texture to reach an at-home register. “Usually, I’m layering Everything is simply about that view.” ◾
and layering,” says the designer, who has a penchant for fur-
niture and objects from the 1930s and ’40s. “But here there’s
an intentional spareness,” a “boat vibe,” he says. He paneled
half of the apartment, including the family room, in oak “IT’S A QUITE CASUAL
shiplap, the wood pickled and wire brushed into a state of
perfect relaxedness. APARTMENT…LIKE A VERY
He set that room with a television and a custom sofa, BIG HOTEL SUITE.”
club chairs, and an ottoman, all of which he draped in
a striped wool Raf Simons for Kvadrat fabric. There is a – M A R T I N B R ÛL É
discreet Cogolin rug and, smartly, not much else: a crystal
teal vase and an Art Deco scallop-shaped sconce, which

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 The kitchen’s
backsplash and
ceiling tiles are
custom-painted by
Matthieu Cossé.
Cabinetry by Boffi;
custom runner
by Cogolin; fittings
by Rubinetterie Stella.
 In the family room, the
custom sofa, club chairs,
and ottoman are covered
in a Raf Simons for
Kvadrat fabric. Rug by
Cogolin; TV by Samsung;
side table (at left)
by Cocobolo.

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 A Jim Thompson
fabric covers the walls
and headboard in the
bedroom. Ceramic
wall sculpture by
Cocobolo; table lamps
by Collier Webb;
bedspread by Frette.

A home office is
outfitted with a vintage
Roger Sprunger desk.
Floor lamps by Nicolas
Cesbron; table lamp
by Isamu Noguchi;
silk wallcovering by Pierre
Frey; photograph by
Larry Sultan.

Pierre Legrain sconces

flank a custom mirror
in the primary bathroom.
Extension mirror
by Waterworks; stool
by Holly Hunt.
 SHEILA BRIDGES DRAWS FROM VERMONT’S
HISTORY AND WILDERNESS TO BRING LIFE AND
CHARACTER TO A SPRAWLING NEW HOME.
BY CAMILLE OKHIO PHOTOGR APHS BY FR ANK FR ANCES S T Y L E D BY E LV I S M AY N A R D
In the great room
of a Vermont house
with architecture by
TruexCullins and
interiors by Sheila
Bridges, vintage chairs
in a Schumacher ikat
surround a games
table from John
Rosselli & Associates.
Wallpaper by Morris &
Co.; Roman shade of a
Castel Maison fabric.

OPPOSITE: A vintage
pine hutch stands next
to a dining table by
Atelier Démiurge. For
details, see Resources.

ELLE DECOR 73
 ermont has attracted the strong, silent rugged central Vermont in one whirlwind weekend, visiting
type for centuries. The New England ski 10 properties in two days. T hey chose an unspoiled
capital is known for maples, mountains, and 240-acre plot with unobstructed views in every direction, a
minding your own business, and its historic stunning, romantic piece of earth. But, as one might expect,
houses follow suit—sturdy barns and Greek it was not without some issues. “There was no road into
Revivals dot the hilly landscape, interwoven with trails, the house site. We had to park at the edge of the road and
lakes, and valleys that add to the state’s charm. With all the hike up,” the wife says. “But the minute you clear the bend,
natural splendor and architectural heritage Vermont has to the whole world opens up before you. My husband was com-
offer, building a new house there is an intimidating proposi- pletely enraptured.”
tion. One New York City couple was undaunted by the chal- The Greek Revival house follows the form of traditional
lenge after hiring Sheila Bridges to decorate the interior. 19th-century New England connected farms. A central, rect-
It was the New York City–based ELLE DECOR Titan angular structure houses the husband’s library, an office,
designer’s skill with layering and texture that made her and a parlor for the wife, with four bedrooms above. Ini-
the best choice to bring warmth and character to an tially intended as an occasional landing for ski trips, the
8,000-square-foot house built by the Burlington, Vermont– house has now become a regular retreat, with friends and
based architecture firm TruexCullins in 2023. “I fell in love adult children populating the bedrooms. T here is a
with Sheila’s work after seeing it in ELLE DECOR ,” the wife double-height, barnlike space (the only room with undeco-
says. “Her use of pattern and color is very appealing.” rated walls) used for larger gatherings, and to the right is
After the husband had f loated—and subsequently the great room and kitchen, where the family spends most
kiboshed—buying a ranch in Montana, the couple scouted of their time, with the primary suite above it.

74 ELLE DECOR
In the barn, two Nickey OPPOSITE, LEFT: A OPPOSITE, RIGHT: The
Kehoe sofas in a Rogers & vintage Kaare Klint settee kitchen cabinets and island
Goffigon fabric flank an in a Scalamandré velvet are painted in Farrow &
ottoman in a Schumacher sits in the entry. Demilune Ball’s Calke Green. Oak
ikat. Madeline Stuart table, John Rosselli; light barstools by Sawkille Co.;
armchairs; chandelier fixtures by the Urban fittings by Waterworks;
by Ralph Lauren for Circa Electric Company; vintage pendants by the Urban
Lighting; curtains by the rug; walls painted in White Electric Company; range
Shade Store. Dove by Benjamin Moore. and hood by BlueStar.
 Bridges’s design concept began with an unexpected The depictions of winter sports and forest fauna disappear
source of inspiration. “It started with the Vermont license in the wife’s parlor, where the focus shifts to trees and foliage
plate,” she says. Its distinct leafy-green hue, reflected in the with two botanical prints mounted on an earthy chinoiserie
Morris & Co. Blackthorn Autumn wallpaper, covers the grass-cloth toile by Scalamandré. In the pattern-light, green
kitchen cabinets and extends into the great room. “I’m primary suite with the best views in the house, peace is the
always inspired by nature,” says Bridges, who keeps horses premise. “Though this was a new build, I still wanted it to feel
and homes in the Hudson Valley and in Iceland. “I visited like it had a sense of history that isn’t just about humans,”
Vermont a lot throughout my childhood. When you think Bridges says. “History is also rooted in nature. After all, this
of the state, you think of the foliage, so it follows that this was all forest at one point.” ◾
home is very rich and reflective of nature.”
A flora and fauna theme permeates every room of the
house, with barn swallows flying on the walls of one down-
BELOW LEFT: The patio of OPPOSITE: The parlor
stairs powder room and vines and butterf lies adorning the barn overlooks the walls are covered in
another. Even the custom Roman shades in the great room 240-acre property, with an embroidered
landscape design by Scalamandré toile.
were designed with animal motifs at their center. Upstairs Wagner Hodgson. Custom skirted sofa in
are two more cheeky prints, with prancing deer on the a Lee Jofa fabric; Iatesta
BELOW RIGHT: Wallpaper Studio steel and glass
walls of one bedroom while skiers zoom down slopes in by Timorous Beasties creates cocktail table; rug by
another. “I start every job fresh,” Bridges says. “In 30 years, drama in the barn powder Stark Carpet.
room. Concrete sink by Kast;
I have tried not to use the same pattern or textile twice.” fittings by Waterworks;
Bridges goes beyond bespoke. antique mirror.

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 “IN 30 YEARS, I HAVE
TRIED NOT TO USE
THE SAME PATTERN OR
TEXTILE TWICE.”
–S H E I L A B R I D G E S

ABOVE: A Lee Jofa forest OPPOSITE: In another

pattern depicting deer guest room, the bed is in
covers the walls of a a Schumacher fabric.
guest bedroom. Antique Antique nightstand; lamp
side tables; sconces by by Circa Lighting; Serena &
Circa Lighting. Lily bedding; wallpaper
by Pintura Studio; rug by
LEFT: In the primary Stark Carpet.
bathroom, a Catchpole &
Rye copper tub has a prime
mountain view. Fittings
by Waterworks; pendant by
Remains Lighting Company;
curtains by Emma J Shipley;
marble floor tiles, TileBar.
ELLE DECOR 79
AROUND
the HOUSE
INSTACART THE HORS D’OEUVRES,
DARLING. HOLIDAY HOSTING
IS ALL ABOUT THE BUBBLES—
AND THE BIJOUX.

BY SE A N SA N T I AGO
PHOTOGR APHS BY CHELSIE CR AIG
STYLED BY ALICE MARTINELLI
 Van Cleef & Arpels
Traversée Mystérieuse
bracelet in rose gold with
sapphires and diamonds.
vancleefarpels.com
THIS PAGE: ST YLED BY LÉA MA Z Y

OPPOSITE: Cartier
Nature Sauvage
necklace in white gold
with diamonds, onyx,
and chrysoprase.
cartier.com

All prices upon request.

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David Yurman Lumina
drop earring in
yellow gold with
imperial topaz
and diamonds.
davidyurman.com

OPPOSITE: Hermès H
Booming bracelet
in yellow gold with
black jade.
hermes.com
 VIENNA WAITS
WRITTEN AND
PHOTOGRAPHED BY
BEN PEN TR EATH

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FOR YOU
DESIGNER BEN PENTREATH RECOUNTS
HOW HE BROUGHT A VIBRANT ENGLISH
SENSIBILITY TO A QUINTESSENTIAL
AUSTRIAN TOWNHOUSE.

The drawing room of a

1917 home in Vienna
originally designed by
Anton Schnell and recently
renovated by Ben
Pentreath. Mantel by
Jamb; artwork by Hans
Kupelwieser. For details,
see Resources.
“Can you do a
house in Vienna?”
The unexpected inquiry came in one day from a young
Austrian couple who had lived in London for years and
discovered my shop, books, and studio along the way. They
were returning home and had bought a remarkably
untouched 1917 villa in Vienna’s handsome Dornbach dis-
trict, where the beautiful urbanism of this remarkable city
gives way to vineyards and to the open country beyond.
They came to the office and explained the issue. Every
Viennese designer they spoke with had a modernist
approach involving white walls, black furniture, and occa-
sional red accents. That was not their look at all. Their
sensibility, learned and fine-tuned in England, leaned
toward a layered, colorful approach to life. They were seek-
ing to draw out and enhance the character of the old house,
removing modern changes, restoring period details, and
bringing to the fore a sense of energy.
I know we don’t like to talk about the pandemic, but it
was a background to the story. We first met in the depths of
the London lockdown, and my only visits to the house were
virtual. It was also an extraordinarily swift project. Local
firm Moser Architects was appointed, and builders were
starting on-site. My colleague Leo Kary and I had the
briefest of moments to intervene on the architectural frame-
work of the house. We toured the various details—the
fantastic moldings, the facade, the views from the upstairs
rooms—via iPhone. We pored over the original, beautiful
architectural drawings signed by Anton Schnell.
We then set to work designing fireplaces, helping on the
restoration of architectural elements, and guiding swiftly,
at a distance, the design of a new kitchen, dressing rooms,
and other features. Our clients were adamant about certain
things. The stone f loor that ran through most of the
ground-floor rooms was to be retained. I did not understand
why until I finally experienced the house in person. I

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 An Eero Saarinen table
is surrounded by antique
chairs in the dining
room. Rug, Guinevere;
wallcovering, Adelphi;
artworks by Robert
Schaberl (left) and
Hanakam & Schuller (right).

OPPOSITE: In the entry, the

wainscoting and staircase
are painted in Farrow &
Ball’s Lamp Room Gray.
The family’s Yorkshire terrier, Leon,
relaxes on a Howard & Sons sofa in
a Romo fabric. Custom ottoman’s
needlepoint border by Hunt &
Hope; walls painted in Farrow &
Ball’s Shaded White; artwork (left)
by Tomo Campbell.
arrived last summer to take photographs of the
completed project. It was a sweltering, sultry
weekend that felt distinctly (to my naïve mind)
un-Austrian. The stone floors brought a coolness
to the interior that was astonishingly welcome.
I understood the brief a little better that day.
From the start, the clients knew they wanted
vibrancy and color. We dove into a palette of
rich, saturated hues; I introduced the clients to
Adelphi wall hangings and to Morris & Co.,
Hamilton Weston, Howard & Sons, and Soane
Brita i n. T hey i ntroduced us to bri l lia nt
Viennese dealers like Michael Schwab, who
provided much of the furniture, and to a net-
work of excellent local craftsmen. I have longed
to decorate in regal purple for years; it’s not
many clients who boldly go for that shade
on the main sofa. But then to combine it
with a stunning needlepoint ottoman by
London-based Hunt & Hope, custom-made to
our own design—intense!
Antique heirlooms weave through the narra-
tive. Grandfather clocks, dining chairs, silver,
In the bar,
and glass were combined with an eye-popping custom cobalt
collection of contemporary art and sculpture walls contrast
with a turquoise
assembled by our clients. I don’t mind admit- ceiling and
ting that I had no say in these choices, because curtains in a
this was one of those dynamic relationships Pentreath
pattern for
where our ideas bounced around and against Morris & Co.
each other like atoms fizzing around a science
experiment. Of course, there are elements of The primary
bedroom is
calm too. Every drama needs its moments of covered in a
gentle pace; our clients, carrying on from their patterned silk
house in London, were set on the idea of a by de Gournay.
Chair by
de Gournay wallcovering in the bedroom. The Rose Uniacke.
one selected provides the room with a serene,
airy simplicity. The stair hall has simple white
walls and soft gray on the woodwork. It’s
always, in life, a question of balance.
And so here we find ourselves on a hot mid-
summer’s evening, on the weekend that Leo
and I took these photographs, sitting in the
scented garden enjoying fantastic company,
delicious wine, and remarkable food. An eve-
ning that started with a degree of formality
descends into brilliant laughter, stories, and a
sense of glamour—tales told long into the
night. Never has a setting felt more right for its
happy, vivacious, thoughtful yet carefree
owners—perfect collaborators on our adven-
tures together. ◾

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IN MONTANA’S EXCLUSIVE
YELLOWSTONE CLUB, COMMUNE
DELIVERS A WEST COAST GROOVE
TO A HOME WITH PRISTINE
VIEWS OF BIG SKY COUNTRY.
BY A M A NDA FORT IN I
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
STEPHEN KENT JOHNSON

The great room of a

house in Big Sky,
Montana’s Yellowstone
Club by architect Reid
Smith, with interiors
by Commune. Sofa
by Arthur Espenet and
Tripp Carpenter with
Dedar faux-shearling
cushions; armchairs,
Espasso; lamp (front) by
Adam Silverman. For
details, see Resources.
In the kitchen, custom OPPOSITE: The dining
walnut cabinetry is room windows frame a
paired with honed green view of Lone Mountain.
slate counters. Bronze Table by BDDW; Kaare
stove hood by Amuneal; Klint chairs; custom
custom stools by Classic pendant by Paul Ferrante;
Design; pendant by candlesticks by Ted
Piet Hein Eek. Muehling.

hen Jennifer and Alec Litowitz first French boho ski chalet,” as she puts it, for the couple and
visited the scenic resort town of their four boys, ages 19 to 27—avid skiers all—that was ele-
Big Sky, Montana, in 2019, they fell gant and sophisticated yet unfussy.
in love with a view: Nearly 9,000 Enter Commune, a Los Angeles–based design studio
feet up, at the top of Andesite Ridge known for its California-cool style, whose projects have
in the private, gated Yellowstone ranged from the Goop store in Lower Manhattan to a beach
Club, was a gently sloped piece of land that peered out over house in Santa Cruz, California. For Jennifer, a fan of textile
the breathtaking surrounding mountains. There was, how- art, ceramics, and “good materials” no matter the style or
ever, one minor issue: Construction of a 10,000-square-foot, era, the Commune aesthetic felt right: timeless vintage
seven-bedroom limestone house was already underway on pieces, the “layered materiality” of its interiors, artisanal
the site. So, the pair, who are Chicago-area private investors furnishings and objects, and surfaces that patina over time.
and philanthropists, decided to buy it. “If we wanted that “It’s warm but very sensuous, without being slick,” she says.
view,” Jennifer says, “this is how we were going to get it.” Commune began to “transform the house in motion,”
Jennifer, no stranger to complex custom projects—she says principal Roman Alonso, who cofounded the studio
oversaw the build of their Edwin Lutyens–inspired home with Steven Johanknecht in 2004. The team redid the
in Glencoe, Illinois, and the transformation of a former interiors with an eye toward warming up the palette,
Boy Scout camp in Wisconsin into a charming family leaving white-oak f loors unstained, installing walnut
compound—“made a deal” with her husband, she recalls cabinets in the kitchen, and switching steel fixtures to
with a laugh. She promised Alec, who founded Magnetar lacquered brass and bronze. In the foyer, the split-level
Capital, that she wouldn’t “move any walls.” But she also staircase—leading to three en suite guest bedrooms
told him, “If we’re going to do this, I want to make it per- upstairs and, downstairs, a capacious game room, bunk
sonal.” She had in mind a winter vacation house, “a kind of room, and two more en suite guest rooms—was originally

92 ELLE DECOR
conceived with glass railings. Instead, Alonso redesigned above the dining table, or the many plaids throughout—a
it entirely in white oak and oxidized bronze. The sole ele- nod to horse blankets, lumberjacks, pioneers.
ment retained from the original design was multiple walls Downstairs hangs Richard Prince’s photograph of cow-
of tumbled limestone native to Montana. boys riding off into a crimson sunset—the decor’s only overt
The overarching aim was to avoid the ubiquitous “modern reference to the American West. The Litowitzes don’t have the
mountain” aesthetic, Alonso says. “Part of the brief was, ‘I wall space for large art in their traditional English manor–
don’t want antlers.’ ” Jennifer wanted the house to “feel like it style Chicago suburbs home, so this house offered an oppor-
was in Montana, but not overly so.” The color scheme was tunity to showcase their impressive art collection, which
derived from the local environment: earth tones; the blues of focuses on artists of color and includes works by Jean-Michel
the sky, mountains, and nearby Gallatin River; and the golden Basquiat, Jacob Lawrence, Theaster Gates, Toyin Ojih Odutola,
hues of hay fields and foliage in fall. “It comes from what you and Nick Cave. Jennifer “had been waiting for a house like
see outside the windows,” Alonso says. The Litowitzes’ inspi- this,” Alonso explains, “because she wants to live with the art.”
ration is immediately obvious: In the dining room, the colos- Ultimately, Jennifer says, the project was about “creat-
sal picture window frames the majestic Lone Mountain. ing space where experiences of togetherness can occur.”
The furnishings, nearly all of which were made by One look at the mudroom, with its sporty red lockers next
Commune artisans, also pay homage to the alpine character to where multiple pairs of skis rest, or the playful bunk
of the place, without being too on the nose—many of the room that comfortably sleeps four, with its denim walls and
rugs, for instance, were redesigned from colorful vintage flame-red bathroom tiles (Jennifer calls the bold choice “one
Swedish patterns. Yet the American West is subtly alluded specific place where I had to trust”), and it’s clear that this is
to in the materials employed (shearling, leather, wool, a house for family, for holidays, for relaxing by the firepit
alpaca, horsehair) and in the small but pointed flourishes, après-ski. “We’re not designing for Instagram,” Alonso says.
like the whipstitching on the Adnet-esque pendant light “We’re designing for living.” ◾

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The mudroom’s ski OPPOSITE: A guest bath’s
lockers have doors in walls are covered in Heath
red powder-coated Ceramics tile. Custom
and perforated walnut vanity; bath
metal. Bench by accessories by Commune
Summer Studio; for Remains Lighting;
runner by Commune towels by Commune for
for Christopher Farr. Hamburg House.
ELLE DECOR 95
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BE IT VIA GOSSIP GIRL, SEX AND THE CITY, OR REAR WINDOW,
we all have our fantasy versions of New York City. For many
design cognoscenti, their dreams took the shape of the late
fashion designer Isabel and artist Ruben Toledo’s penthouse
apartment, showcased in a 2006 New York magazine article
and dubbed by a New York City Landmarks Preservation
Commission chairwoman as a “little Parnassus in the sky”—
fitting, as Parnassus was the residence of the Greek muses.
Set atop Alfred Zucker’s late-19th-century Baudouine
Building, the penthouse is now home to ELLE DECOR A-List
interior designer Alfredo Paredes’s small but mighty studio.
Paredes, who worked at Ralph Lauren before opening his
eponymous firm in 2019, remembered the space fondly from
seeing it in print. When he heard it was available, he knew
he had to have it and moved there this past fall while still
several months away from the end of his previous lease.
Architecturally, Paredes changed nothing. What was
once the Toledos’ sleeping area is now a “war room” for the
studio’s designers, while Ruben’s main workspace is now a
sitting area that showcases a few of Paredes’s own designs:
a pink sofa and navy armchairs. The positive, creative Alfredo Paredes’s
spirit the Toledos imbued in the space lives on. “The most Midtown design studio
(shown here and above
beautiful rooms are the ones that have been there forever,” left) is in the former
Paredes says. We couldn’t agree more. —Camille Okhio penthouse loft of Isabel
and Ruben Toledo.
ABOVE: Paredes with
100 E L L E D E C O R a portrait of the couple.
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