Issue July/August 2016 - ELLE DECOR (2024)

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PROMOTIONHAPPENINGSCOUNTRY FLOORS HOSTS FIRST INAUGURAL TILE DESIGN CHALLENGEThe talk of Chelsea was Country Floors’ Tile Design Challenge Awards Ceremony with ELLE DECOR. On April 27th Country Floors hosted over 150 guests in their gorgeous New York showroom to announce the winner, Mariana Macedo Ribeiro. For more information visit countryfloors.com.NATUZZI DESIGNS FOR HOUSING WORKSFurnishings generously donated by Natuzzi were featured in a colorful vignette created for Housing Works’ Design on a Dime event. Featured pieces included the brand’s Avana sofa, Zerotondo clock, Wisdom lamp, and Museo rug among others. For more information visit natuzzi.us.LEE INDUSTRIESELLE DECOR recently partnered with Lee Industries and the Witford Showroom in the San Francisco Galleria for an exclusive designer dinner hosted by ELLE DECOR Editor in Chief, Michael Boodro. The showroom just completed a major remodel…1 min

DEPARTMENTSI AM A DISASTER AT SUMMER.I have never learned how to play tennis. I have no interest in baseball, either as a participant or as a spectator. I can barely swim. (I am pretty good at long walks on the beach, though I tend to burn, causing my skin to peel so much that it soon looks like birch bark.) I’m hopeless at Frisbee, I find it impossible to get comfortable in a hammock, and my garden is a source of continual guilt over the flourishing weeds and devious critters I can never quite get under control.So why is summer my favorite season? The light and the weather, of course, are huge factors. And though the long days are no longer quite so languorous for most of us—we seem to be spending less and less…2 min

DEPARTMENTSSCENE + HEARDARTFUL EYENancy Kintisch began her career as a decorative painter. “I started out as an assistant,” she says, “and I soon found that I have an innate ability to create pattern. I’ve painted, stenciled, and polychromed every surface you can imagine—frescoes, murals, furniture, ceilings, and floors. I used to call myself an ‘artist in residence’ because once I installed myself in a person’s home; I was as artful as the situation demanded.” The Los Angeles–based designer recently launched Texstylish, her own line of wallcoverings and fabrics with whimsical patterns and bright colors. Using Texstylish materials in Martin von Haselberg’s poolhouse, featured on page 84, has been a career highlight. “I have some clients, like Martin, who know how to use my talents and are willing to go there with me,”…5 min

DEPARTMENTSSTYLE SHEETEVER FRESHWho says florals have to be feminine? A new generation of English and Irish artisans are bringing a tough edge and an urban aesthetic to flowers. Descended from Polish flower cultivators, Marcin Rusak casts blossoms in black resin, slices the material to reveal cross-sections of flower heads and stems, then shapes it into lamps, tables, and screens (marcinrusak.com). Fellow Londoner Rachel Dein makes plaster and concrete casts of plants, herbs, and vegetables, from small tiles of a single specimen to larger panels that conjure ghostly gardens (racheldein.com). And Sasha Sykes creates clear resin furniture encased with nests, ferns, and blossoms she finds near her home in rural Ireland (farm21.co.uk). Her work can be seen this summer at Manhattan’s Voltz Clarke gallery (July 15–August 31; voltzclarke.com).HOLLYWOOD MOMENTShe’s descended from Hollywood…2 min

DEPARTMENTSWHAT’S HOTFRENCH IMMERSIONJean-Louis Deniot brings the classic Parisian chic and updated luxe that characterize his interiors to a new line of furnishings for Baker. The collection of 80 pieces includes, from left, a waterfall-style dresser with geometric-patterned resin drawer fronts accented with bronze, a sculptural resin-and-bronze table lamp, a scallopedresin pedestal, and an upholstered chair with gilded steel front legs.From left: Labradorite dresser, 53• w. x 20• d. x 32• h., $10,000; Chalcedony table lamp, 16.5• w. x 16.5• d. x 22• h., $2,500; Heliodor pedestal, 16• dia. x 43• h., $1,600; Jasper side chair, 21• w. x 28• d. x 42• h., $4,485; multiple colors and finishes are available. bakerfurniture.com1 / ALL SQUARED AWAYThe interplay of colors in the paintings of Josef Albers inspired French designer Hervé Langlais’s Homage to…3 min

DEPARTMENTSWESTWARD EXPANSIONIn the paintings of Ed Ruscha, gas stations in superhero reds and blues are backed by Technicolor sunsets. Los Angeles street names are emblazoned over mountain landscapes. (The mountains are “just something to put words on,” Ruscha has said.) Coyotes, tepees, and other cowboy-movie tropes are silhouetted against a sepia nothingness.Ruscha moved to Los Angeles to attend art school in 1956, and his intoxication with the city’s sprawl and excess was immediate. He has lived and worked in Southern California ever since; his massive body of paintings, prints, and photographs add up to a catalog of the region’s symbols, signifiers, and sites, from empty parking lots to down-at-heel apartment buildings. “Ed Ruscha and the Great American West,” a new exhibition at San Francisco’s de Young Museum, features 99 of the…1 min

Issue July/August 2016 - ELLE DECOR (2024)

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