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Tour a Brutalist Home in Milan With Ties to Ettore Sottsass | Architectural Digest
Buzzing up to architect Luca Cipelletti’s latest residential project in Milan, it’s impossible not to notice two other names on the door: Nathalie Du Pasquier and George Snowden. The designers (who happen to be husband and wife) were founding members of the 1980s radical design movement, the Memphis Group. And when Cipelletti first set foot in the Porta Nuova building’s windowless, L-shaped attic space, which he’d had been hired to make more habitable, the door was labeled with the names of the movement’s founding father, Ettore Sottsass, and cofounder Marco Zanini. “They were the first radicals,” Cipelletti says of the group, known for their irreverent use of zany shapes and…
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Tour a Craftsman Minneapolis Home That’s All About Mix and Match Style | Architectural Digest
In Minneapolis’s historical East Isles neighborhood, there’s one item getting passed around more often than a casserole dish: a burly and solid wood upright piano incapable of holding a fine tune. After being decommissioned from a restaurant in nearby Kenwood years ago, the antique piece—decorated with hand-carved motifs, no less—has been carefully transferred from household to household. “It’s a terrible piano, but I loved the fact that it’s a neighborhood fixture,” says its current owner, interior designer Victoria Sass, who proudly displays the instrument in her home studio. “Someday maybe I’ll move and pass it on to another neighbor.” Until then the piece remains in a house that—much like the…
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Practical and pretty yards star in the Portland Landscape Architecture + Design Tour on July 16
Has your yard lost its allure? Find inspiration as six stellar outdoor spaces, from robust to refined, will be showcased on the 2022 Portland Landscape Architecture + Design Tour on Saturday, July 16. Ticket holders ($30 each or two for $50, mads.media/2022pdxoutdoor) will meet landscape designers and builders ready to talk about creating a great first impression with classic to contemporary elements in the front yard, or an inviting al fresco dining area or a culinary garden in the backyard. Hear how overgrown weeds can be replaced by a quiet, shady retreat or group-friendly fire pit area. Are you weary of not watering the same old drought-tolerant plants? Landscape designer…
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Home Depot Photo Tour Explains Success
The parking lot was busy on a Tuesday afternoon, and as I walked in I noticed a sign directing curbside pickup customers. Mary Meisenzahl/Insider Many retailers, including Home Depot, added or expanded curbside offerings that experts credit with helping them survive the pandemic. ALEX EDELMAN/AFP/Getty Images Source: Insider Walking up to the store, I was struck by how much greenery was everywhere, from flowering plants to vegetable seedlings. Mary Meisenzahl/Insider Home Depot, at least at my location, essentially doubles in size in the spring, when the nursery spills outside into a large uncovered area, plus the gardening section and in front of the store. Mary Meisenzahl/Insider Home Depot is typically…
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Tour an Upper West Side Home That’s Been Injected With Downtown Cool | Architectural Digest
It’s a classic New York story: A young family is moving some 80 blocks north but doesn’t want to sacrifice downtown cool for the change of address. That was the brief for Manhattan-based interior designer Neal Beckstedt, when a pair of clients called on him to decorate their new place: A 1928, three-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side with high ceilings and leafy views of Central Park. It needed to be, in Beckstedt’s words, “Young and fun and cool while still respecting uptown. Bringing the downtown element to them—that was the challenge.” Luckily, he and his clients—a real estate developer and a learning specialist—had instant chemistry: “Neal understood that…
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Tour this LA home combining British and Californian design
Paying homage to the original 1930s architecture of Paul Williams, who created homes for Hollywood stars, including Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball, was the intent of British-born, LA-based interior designer Jake Arnold when tasked with remodelling this Spanish Revival property in LA, one of the world’s best homes. Jake, whose clients are just as illustrious – John Legend, Aaron Paul and Sophia Bush, to name a few – is known for his effortless integration of the timeless, traditional design aesthetic of his London upbringing with the more laid-back Californian lifestyle he has embraced for the past 10 years. For this family home, he wanted, he says, to create ‘high impact…
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