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Whitney Cummings: Tour Her Remote, Mountain-Set Home Just Outside L.A. | Architectural Digest
It was the soothing, monumental landscape that ultimately swayed Whitney Cummings to buy her home just outside L.A. “I spent a lot of my childhood in Virginia and West Virginia, where the medicine is the mountain,” recalls the comedian and actor, whose many talents include writing, directing, producing, and podcasting. “I wasn’t anxious or stressed when I was there, and I always had perspective. I want to be in the middle of nowhere.” The house’s original interiors, which ventured into nightclub territory, according to Cummings, were less engrossing. There was a dark, steampunk aura to them, punctuated by glam gold elements, crystal chandeliers, and a glass fireplace of various colors.…
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Tour an Iconic Midcentury-Modern L.A. Home That’s Surrounded By Nature and Filled With Light | Architectural Digest
Before Joachim Rønning’s film Kon-Tiki was nominated for a Golden Globe and Academy Award, before he directed the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean, even before he married the activist Amanda Hearst, the Norwegian-born director had set his sights on a very different career path. “I was in my late teens when I first came across John Lautner’s work in a coffee table book and it completely fascinated me,” Rønning says. “In fact I was so taken by his designs that before I was bitten by the movie bug, I was thinking of becoming an architect.” It would take a few more decades before Rønning and his wife would come across…
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Step Inside the Tour de Force New York Home of a Carnival Cruise Scion | Architectural Digest
Despite its enviable position just north of Tribeca, SoHo’s far west side has always felt like a bit of an afterthought. Gritty and industrial—a warren of warehouses and manufacturing facilities—the area now known as Hudson Square has little of the heavy foot traffic or fancy retail crowding of other nearby areas. But for Cassie Arison, the Miami-born, Tel Aviv–raised, creatively-inclined publisher and philanthropist, Hudson Square’s sheer authenticity has always held personal appeal. “I lived in a loft on far west Broome Street when I first moved to New York a decade ago,” Arison says. His grandfather, Ted Arison, established Carnival Cruise Line in 1972. “I loved being able to sit…
