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“My great indulgence was the living room floor,” writes textile designer @carolinairving of decorating her romantic retreat in the Alentejo region of Portugal. “I chose hexagonal, handmade emerald-green tiles from a traditional workshop called Azulejos de Azeitão. I went and chose the exact shade of green, my favorite color. All the tiles are made by hand, so I had to wait a long time for them, but it was worth it. With that grounding, the rest of the room could be simple and rustic: whitewashed walls, a long built-in banquette with cushions of Majorcan ikats, Spanish and Portuguese ceramics, Mexican terra-cotta plates on the chimneypiece, a simple wood table covered with a black-and-white Portuguese rug.” Take a tour of the home featured in the new book “Near & Far: Interiors I Love” by @lisafinetextiles (@vendomepress) via the link in our profile. Photo by @miguelfloresvianna; text and styling by @carolinairvingThe Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C., is known for its elegant homes—the Obamas moved in post–White House—but even among the rarefied real estate here, there is one house that has no equal. The Berman family home was originally located in Danvers, MA, and, with a build date of 1754, it is the oldest home in all of D.C. “Robert ‘King’ Hooper, a merchant who was loyal to the British, built it and eventually loaned it to General Gage, a British general and governor who used it as his headquarters for about six months during the Revolutionary War,” says author Alice Berman (@alicecanaryplum), who splits her time between the home here and New York City. “That’s how the musket hole ended up in the front door: Someone shot at him.” The house was saved from complete demolition by George and Miriam Morris, who dismantled the whole property, numbered each piece, and had it shipped to D.C. on railcar in the 1930s. Discover the interior of the restored home through the link in our profile. Photo by @stacyzaringoldberg; text by @julietizonFor @annehathaway and husband Adam Shulman’s California country house, #AD100 designer @pamelashamshiri of @studioshamshiri used the 1906 Swiss chalet–style architecture as a jumping-off point for the fanciful, decades-spanning interiors. “We were dealing with a California fantasy of a Swiss chalet, built as a hunting lodge and a winter getaway, so we looked at a lot of historical Swiss imagery,” she explains. The dreamy breakfast room, detailed with a scenic wallpaper set into the board-and-batten architectural details, features a set of spruce modern chairs by the midcentury Italian designer Carlo di Carli. Shulman sums up the vibe, here and throughout the home, in one word: “Gemütlich.” Take a tour of the house through the link in our profile. Photo by @stephenkentjohnson; text by @mayer.rus; styled by @michaelreynoldsnycAs the creative director of @gq for more than 30 years, @jimmooregq has been the filter, decider, and guiding hand for much of U.S. menswear during that time. This fall, a measure of that influence will be on display in “Hunks and Heroes: Four Decades of Fashion at GQ” (@rizzolibooks) featuring a few hundred photographs Moore has curated for GQ’s pages. Among those are shots of celebrities (like John Hamm) that took place at Moore’s vacation home, a glass-walled Donald Wexler modernist masterpiece that sits on an arid patch of sun-scorched earth in Palm Springs, CA. Built by Wexler in 1962 (original price: $13,000–$17,000), it’s one of seven all-steel prefab houses—a collaboration with U.S. Steel—that were eventually supposed to number 107, until the price of steel rose and the project was abandoned. Moore purchased the home from the architect in 1993, and as Wexler’s status as one of modernism’s unsung heroes became acknowledged, the house is on the National Registry of Historic Places and is class-one historical landmarked. Take a look inside the home via the link in our profile. Photo by @danchavkinphoto; text by @jortvedAfter falling in love with the Alentejo region, a remote stretch of Portugal’s west coast, textile designer @carolinairving purchased a plot of land to build her own retreat there. She writes about the experience in our latest issue: “The laws being very strict, we had to heed—to the inch—the footprint of the previous house, which was just under 1,000 square feet. (Annoyingly, there were satellite images dating from the ’70s documenting the original size.) But it has been a real lesson in respecting the genius of this place. I had to edit, be rigorous, and focus on the essential—and that wasn’t easy for me, someone who loves a profusion of fabrics and color. My great indulgence was the living room floor, for which I chose hexagonal, handmade emerald-green tiles from a traditional workshop called Azulejos de Azeitão. I went and chose the exact shade of green, my favorite color. All the tiles are made by hand, so I had to wait a long time for them, but it was worth it. To be honest, the tiles were more expensive than anything else in the house!” Visit the link in our profile to see more of the home from @lisafinetextiles’s new book “Near & Far: Interiors I Love” (@vendomepress). Photo by @miguelfloresvianna; text and styling by @carolinairvingIn the October issue, globe-trotting textile designer @carolinairving writes about her romantic retreat on a remote stretch of Portugal’s west coast: “Six years ago I fell in love with the Alentejo, a region in south central Portugal at once austere and poetic, planted with umbrella pines and cork oaks, and graced with a pristine coastline—a sandy, secluded beach that stretches for miles along the Atlantic. I owe this to my friend Christian Louboutin, who in the spring of 2013 said to me, ‘Get on a plane and meet me in Lisbon. I’m going to take you to a magical place.’ I was instantly captivated by the landscape, the savanna-like aspect of fields with just a few sculptural trees silhouetted against the intensely blue sky, the rolling hills covered with beautifully twisted cork oaks. The ‘road’ was dotted with just a few humble houses with thatched roofs, cactus hedges everywhere in the sand. After a few miles, we arrived at a three-acre plot with a crumbling ruin on it. The view was breathtaking, extending across rice fields and a lagoon teeming with birds to the sea in the distance. It was love at first sight, and I knew I had to buy this heavenly place and make it my own.” Above, an outdoor dining table is decorated with a @carolinairving_and_daughters tablecloth and candlesticks. Take a tour of the home featured in the new book “Near & Far: Interiors I Love” by @lisafinetextiles (@vendomepress) via the link in our profile. Photo by @miguelfloresvianna; text and styling by @carolinairvingIt’s hard to call “François Halard: A Visual Diary” (@rizzolibooks) a book. Yes, it has pages and a spine, but its contents are not typed words. It’s truly a visual diary, as its title declares, of the work of @francoishalard—a bound collection of his images interspersed with the occasional handwritten note that provides the name of a subject. The legendary French photographer is renowned for his investigations of artists, designers, and architects, from today and from the past, and some of his latest works are included here. “The book is about artists and photography. I am looking to establish new relationships between them,” Halard told art historian Bice Curiger in an interview about the tome. “I’m not just photographing the studios and homes of artists; I want to appropriate these interiors and interpret them through the medium of photography.” Above is a photograph of painter James Brown’s studio in Merida, Mexico by Halard. Learn more about the book through the link in our profile. Text by @stefaniewaldekActress @annehathaway and her husband Adam Shulman describe the allure of their picturesque 1906 Swiss chalet–style California home in terms of a love affair. “The minute we came up the driveway and saw this incredible panoramic view unfold in front of us, we were hooked,” Shulman recalls. Says Hathaway, “It was the ideal combination of romance and great design. Our initial instinct was that this was going to be a very important place in our lives. I could really see raising a family here.” For #AD100 designer @pamelashamshiri of Los Angeles’s @studioshamshiri, the fairy-tale architecture provided a jumping-off point for the fanciful, decades-spanning interiors. “We were dealing with a California fantasy of a Swiss chalet, built as a hunting lodge and a winter getaway, so we looked at a lot of historical Swiss imagery,” she explains. See inside the home through the link in our profile. Photo by @stephenkentjohnson; text by @mayer.rus; styled by @michaelreynoldsnycThe California country home of Oscar-winning actress @annehathaway and her husband, jewelry designer Adam Shulman, has an intriguing narrative. In the backstory they imagined for their enchanting 1906 Swiss chalet–style residence, Yves Saint Laurent once owned the property before director Wes Anderson moved in and put his own hipster-twee spin on the house. The fictional origin tale also includes something about Anderson and David Bowie cohosting an annual New Year’s Eve party there. That’s a lot of imagery to process, but Hathaway, Shulman, and their partner in drama, #AD100 designer @pamelashamshiri of Los Angeles’s @studioshamshiri, embraced the challenge with gusto. “Pam really leaned into it,” Hathaway says of the extraordinarily collaborative process of renovating her historic home, which was designed by architects Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey, authors of the San Marino residence of Henry and Arabella Huntington (now the main art gallery of @thehuntingtonlibrary) and other prominent Southern California landmarks. In the kitchen, above, vintage copper pendants and @deborahehrlich lights from above and the range is by @lacornueofficial. Take a tour of the rest of the home via the link in our profile. Photo by @stephenkentjohnson; text by @mayer.rus; styled by @michaelreynoldsnyc“I think it’s all right to break the rules, if you do it with love,” says @bruce.irwin of his home, a five-story Georgian terrace built in 1735 on one of Hampstead’s loveliest streets, where he lives with his husband, architect Pedro Font-Alba. The building’s Heritage Grade II listing brings with it innumerable rules regarding what one can and can’t do on the premises, and drawn-out approval processes. Irwin used that extra time to educate himself, visiting Georgian buildings and meeting experts. “I had to learn enough to find the right people,” he says, “from structural engineers to traditional plasterers.” The lower ground floor was once the domain of the servants, with a kitchen and washing room, or “scullery.” Irwin recentered the home by moving the kitchen to the upper ground floor, where it now sits beside the dining room. To keep the inspectors happy, Irwin had the sleek white kitchen hung from a steel frame that sits just in front of the antique wood paneling. Take a tour of the home through the link in our profile. Photo by @annieschlechter; text by @katejacobsinteriorsnutWhen architect @bjarkeingels was tapped by a design-savvy entrepreneur in Latin America to craft his private house, practicality was especially important given that “the plot of land was not an easy one,” says the client. Long and wedge-shaped, with houses on either side, and a steep drop into a forested gorge, the site demanded innovative solutions—all the more so since two mature palm trees already inhabiting the lot needed to be preserved. Ingels was game. “What you think would be the ideal situation but is actually the worst situation is a complete tabula rasa,” he says. “Here there were so many constraints. Those larger-than-life influences provide character.” Inside and out, Ingels has choreographed a range of thoughtful experiences. The three terraces frame unique views—all garden at the bottom, all gorge at the top. A single, straight-shot staircase, meanwhile, cleaves the interiors in half, like a fault line, allowing him to split each of the top two stories into staggered planes. “You hardly notice, but the stair is always bridging these changes,” says Ingels, noting that these slight shifts create varied ceiling heights and a greater sense of transparency between floors. “You end up with a house that has three-dimensional complexity.” Learn more about the superstar architect’s first private home via the link in our profile. Photo by @paulraeside; text by @samuelcochran; styled by @tessawatsonBy the time he hit 40, Danish-born architect @bjarkeingels had already undertaken the sorts of commissions that Pritzker Prize–winners have waited lifetimes to tackle—towers, cultural centers, city parks, you name it. But he had never built a house. “In architecture you can quickly become specialized,” reflects Ingels. “If you do one skyscraper, you are a skyscraper expert. If you do one hospital, you are a hospital expert. And then you become that architect. Because we had never done a private house, no one asked.” That is, until a design-savvy entrepreneur cold-called @big_builds hoping to commission, as Ingels suggests, a Danish house in Latin America. Visit the link in our profile to see more from our October issue cover story. Photo by @paulraeside; text by @samuelcochran; styled by @tessawatson
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