In this issue PARTY HOUSE On the Spanish island of Ibiza, the site of an iconic boutique becomes a fun-focused family home. By Andrew Ferren Designed by Casa Muñoz LOVE NEST How a former clandestine retreat in an ancient fortified house in northern Italy was reborn as one couple’s weekend sanctuary. By Laura May Todd Designed by Paolo Castellarin and Didier Bonnin

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WINTER 2024
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ARE YOU BEING
SERVED?
Showcased à table, our favorite
jewels of the season take fine
dining to new heights. Bon appétit!
By Sean Santiago
74
LOVE NEST
How a former clandestine retreat
in an ancient fortified house in
northern Italy was reborn as one
couple’s weekend sanctuary.
By Laura May Todd
Designed by Paolo Castellarin
and Didier Bonnin
80
SOCK IT TO ME!
A onetime Laugh-In comedian
gets a Technicolor Aspen home
that’s sure to bring a smile.
By Camille Okhio
Designed by Patrick Mele
88
WAVE HELLO
On a family property on Long Island,
Aerin Lauder oversees a new
modernist guesthouse that takes
full advantage of the views.
By Max Berlinger
Designed by Daniel Romualdez
THE ESCAPES ISSUE
The primary bedroom
of a New Zealand home
decorated by Jenni
Kayne for her parents
(page 62). Light fixture
by Rose Uniacke.
56
PARTY HOUSE
On the Spanish island of Ibiza, the
site of an iconic boutique becomes
a fun-focused family home.
By Andrew Ferren
Designed by Casa Muñoz
62
EDGE OF THE
WORLD
Lifestyle guru Jenni Kayne
turns her parents’ New Zealand
vacation home into a refuge
of nature and neutrals.
By Lauren Mechling
Designed by Jenni Kayne

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A tranquil loggia at the
vacation home of Paolo
Castellarin and Didier
Bonnin near Piacenza,
Italy (page 74).
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EDITOR’S LETTER
27
GIFT GUIDE
Our annual compendium of
design-minded presents for
beating the winter blues
32
THE AGENDA
Four new hotels we can’t wait
to visit this season
36
FASHION +
FURNITURE
The best beds and bedding to
help you get a good night’s sleep
(our favorite escape of all)
38
HAUTE TAKE
Ralph Lauren’s New York City
fashion show mixes denim and
diamonds to dazzling effect
40
SHORTLIST
Buzzy stylist Beverly Nguyen
shares eight things that entertain
and inspire her
43
POINT OF VIEW
For a war correspondent, a
Paris apartment provides a safe
harbor, and moments of grace.
By Janine di Giovanni
46
HOUSE CALL
In an excerpt from the new book
Mountain House: Studies in
Elevated Design, we visit a lodge
in the French Alps owned by the
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FAR LEFT: A wall of vases in the stair hall of a
family’s pied-à-terre on the Spanish island of
Ibiza, designed by Casa Muñoz.
LEFT: The study of an Aspen home by
ELLE DECOR A-List designer Patrick Mele.
Photograph (far left) by Matthieu Salvaing
Styled by Amaya de Toledo Gonzalez-Green
Photograph (left) by Miguel Flores-Vianna
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The living room
of a family home
on Ibiza, Spain,
designed by Casa
Muñoz (page 56).
OUR ANNUAL ESCAPES ISSUE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO
indulge in this magazine’s abiding love for fantasy—
whether one dreams of the ultimate party house on Ibiza,
Spain; a color-drenched sanctuary amid the plains and peaks
of western Colorado; or a onetime secret love nest set along
the rolling hills of Italy’s Emilia-Romagna countryside. But
on a deeper level, this edition of ELLE DECOR is about the
simple yet powerful escape that good design offers, at every
scale and wherever you are. Our gift guide is one way to
beat the cold and dark of winter, and proof that there’s joy
to be found in an object as small as a candleholder or a vase.
In a moving essay for this month’s Point of View col-
umn, war correspondent Janine di Giovanni reflects on the
THE
ESCAPES
ISSUE
anchoring presence of her apartment in Paris and the furni-
ture, family photographs, and decorative objects that
ground her in a life dedicated to reporting on global conflict.
Also in this issue, we recommend our favorite products for
the best escape of all, a good night’s sleep; explore exciting
hotel launches in four buzzy winter travel destinations; and
serve up the season’s latest high-jewelry designs, each one
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By Parker Bowie Larson Photographs by Esther Choi Styled by Jocelyn Cabral
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G I F T G U I D E
The Optimist
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Lacquer Twist Candles (red and light blue), $42, set of 2; and Lacquer Taper (green), $30; bespokedesigns.com. Taper Candles by Dusen & Dusen (orange and lime), $35, set of 4;
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$750; bluecarreon.com. Spin Yo-yo, $345; armani.com. Blocks Bag, $635; isseymiyake.com.

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G I F T G U I D E
The Homebody
FROM TOP: Abstrakt Blanket by R+D Lab for Commune Design, $625; communedesign.shop. Berken Throw Blanket, $1,500; ralphlauren.com. Avalon H Club Blanket, $3,600;
hermes.com. Damier Throw Blanket, $950; l-objet.com.

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D E S I G N D I S C OV E R I E S
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FROM
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CÉSAR
BÉJAR;
JOHN
ATHIMARITIS.
OPPOSITE
PAGE,
FROM
TOP:
CL
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SIMON
L
ANGLOIS;
SIMON
WILSON
THE
AGENDA
Four new hotels we
can’t wait to visit.
Plus: What to read
over winter break.
The Guards Bar at
Raffles London at
the OWO has an
entrance facing
Buckingham Palace.
LONDON
Built of 26,000 tons of Portland stone,
London’s Old War Office has a history
as monumental as its massive foot-
print: This is where Winston Churchill
holed up during World War II and
intelligence officer Ian Fleming was
inspired to create the character of
James Bond. Now the 1906 building
has been reborn as Raffles London
at the OWO, a hotel complete with
a ballroom, nine restaurants, and a
Guerlain spa; it took eight years to
restore historic features like the mar-
ble staircase and mosaic floors.
Meanwhile, the spectacular project
was one of Thierry Despont’s last—the
late designer oversaw the decor of the
public spaces and 120 guest rooms
and suites. Now visitors can make
like Daniel Craig in Skyfall and head
to the OWO’s roof—or descend
to the basement’s Spy Bar for a
cocktail, shaken, not stirred.
—Ingrid Abramovitch raffles.com
MEXICO
Otro Oaxaca is the latest project from
Grupo Habita, the hospitality firm behind
such design-driven Mexican destinations
as nearby Hotel Escondido and the capi-
tal’s Condesa DF. This 16-room boutique
property in Oaxaca City was designed
in collaboration with a local architect,
João Boto Caeiro of RootStudio, with
a focus on regional materials including
brick, limestone, and reclaimed wood.
If bouncing between the underground
spa and rooftop pool isn’t your cup of tea,
perhaps the cuisine, much of it prepared
over charcoal by chef Saúl Carranza,
will stoke your interest.
—Sean Santiago otrooaxaca.com
The rooftop terrace
at Otro Oaxaca,
a boutique hotel
in Mexico.

36. NEW ZEALAND
Known for her relaxed aesthetic, the lifestyle entrepreneur Jenni Kayne is increasingly taking a
hands-on approach to interior design—in this issue, she unveils her decor for her parents’ home
in New Zealand (see page 62). Now she has taken the leap into the hospitality sector with
Te Arai Links, a new hotel on a golf course owned by her family, Tara Iti, on New Zealand’s
North Island. The hotel features a series of low-to-the-ground structures designed by Studio
John Irving Architects to blend seamlessly with their surroundings on the sand dunes of the
island’s east coast. Kayne oversaw the interiors, whose neutral furnishings—like her home
collection—have an understated poise. The property also has a restaurant outfitted like a
modernist hay barn, along with 48 suites, 19 two-bedroom cottages, and six four-bedroom
villas. Call it paradise for the pared back, Kiwi style. —Camille Okhio tearai.com
A guest room at
Te Arai Links, a
New Zealand
hotel designed
by Jenni Kayne.
One of eight new
treehouse accom-
modations at Twin
Farms in Barnard,
Vermont.
Livable Luxe
In her first book, Los Angeles–
based ELLE DECOR A-List
designer Brigette Romanek
introduces readers to her
high-low aesthetic, which
she calls “Gucci meets Gap.”
She shares interiors that
bear her trademark: a mix
of luxury and comfort. She
also credits the style influ-
ence of her mother—a single
parent who sang with Aretha
Franklin and David Bowie.
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Our Way Home
In this literary deep dive,
ELLE DECOR A-List design duo
Heide Hendricks and Rafe
Churchill share their journey
restoring Ellsworth, their
1870s Connecticut farm-
house. The narrative shows
how the couple’s own house
serves as the creative heart
of their firm. rizzoliusa.com
Now You See Me!
This eye-opening tome by
British journalist Charlene
Prempeh chronicles a cen-
tury of Black design. She
highlights the transformative
and often overlooked work
of creatives in fields ranging
from fashion (Dapper Dan)
to architecture (Diébédo
Francis Kéré) and dozens of
other pioneers who changed
the way we see the world.
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Timeless by Design
Boston-based Nina Farmer
invites readers into the joyful,
colorful homes she has
designed—from a Martha’s
Vineyard beach bungalow
to her own Beacon Hill
brownstone. She enriches the
monograph with essays that
explain her design process
and where she finds her
inspiration. rizzoliusa.com
—Bebe Howorth
PAGE
TURNERS
VERMONT
At Twin Farms, a hotel and spa in Barnard,
Vermont, the concept of being one with
nature has been taken to new heights.
Opening this month on the historic 300-acre
property once owned by Sinclair Lewis, the
Treehouses at Twin Farms allow guests to
live luxuriously 20 feet above the forest
floor. The eight treetop accommodations—
designed by Michaelis Boyd—complement
the existing farmhouse and cottages, which
have interiors by the legendary Jed
Johnson. The treehouse interiors are deliber-
ately wabi-sabi: “Perfection in the imperfect
is what nature represents,” says Rina Kukaj,
a director at Michaelis Boyd. Each one
features a curved balcony and a soaking
tub with prime views of the natural environs.
And as with other contemporary hotel
treehouse offerings—from Chewton Glen
in England to Nayara Bocas de Toros in
Panama—it seems living and sleeping
way up in the elements can these days
be the height of luxury. —Charles Curkin
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made bed.

41. E L L E D E C O R
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H AU T E TA K E
CLOCK
WISE
FROM
TOP
LEFT:
COURTESY
OF
R
ALPH
L
AUREN
(2);
NOE
DEWIT
T
(2);
COURTESY
OF
R
ALPH
L
AUREN
CLOCKWISE FROM
TOP LEFT: Ralph Lauren’s
spring 2024 show in
Brooklyn featured
models with the new
RL 888 handbag.
A denim runway look.
Noble Estate dining
chair from Ralph Lauren
Home. Adrianna chande-
liers from Lauren’s home
line decorated the dinner
space. Christy Turlington
closed the fashion show.
JUST ADD
CHANDELIERS
A fashion show in New York City
mixes denim and diamonds for a
rough-hewn-meets-high-glam affair.
IN SEPTEMBER, A CADRE OF CELEBRITIES—DIANE KEATON,
Julianne Moore, and Gabrielle Union among them—settled
into Louis XV–style seating at Brooklyn’s historic Navy Yard
for a front-row glimpse of a most unusual catwalk. For his
New York Fashion Week presentation, Ralph Lauren unveiled
his spring 2024 collection in a barnlike setting with details—
crystal chandeliers hanging from twine cords, draped swaths
of canvas, rustic wood floors—evoking an artist’s loft. Soon,
a fleet of models appeared in stunning updates on Lauren’s
signature motifs of western denim (this time with rhine-
stones and feathers) and black-tie elegance (Christy
Turlington closed the show in a gold lamé Grecian gown).
The collection is about “a new kind of romance—cool and
sophisticated,” Lauren explains. Afterward, a banquet of Polo
Bar classics was served at tables set with dishes, silver bowls,
and hurricane lamps on a floral cloth. Like the chairs and
chandeliers, it was all from Lauren’s home and fabric lines, for
a total immersion in American style. —Ingrid Abramovitch

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43. E L L E D E C O R
40
S H O R T L I S T
As told to Sean Santiago
PORTR
AIT:
SEAN
ROBERTSON;
BECKHAMS:
GET
T
Y
IMAGES;
HAND
PILLOWS:
JOHN
SOHN
5. Maple
Wallpaper
The lavender colorway
has been hung in every
iteration of my store.
superflowerstudio.com
1.
Lampampe
Lamp
Lighting makes
a space, which
is why this
lamp is so
important to me.
ingo-maurer.com
6. Polaroid Camera
I was at a dinner that used instant
photos as place cards—a practical,
chic, and very Warhol idea.
retrospekt.com
3. Chanel
Lip Balm
There’s really
only one
word that can
sum up this
makeup bag
go-to: wow.
chanel.com
7. John Sohn Pillows
I love John’s hand-shaped pillows
so much that I commissioned him to
make feet for the new store.
beverlys.world
4. Magniberg Bedding
In winter I’ll be switching out my
linen duvet for a colorful poplin
one from this Swedish brand.
magniberg.com
8. Office by
Lars Tunbjörk
A good reference
book is a must. All
of mine are riddled
with Post-its.
abebooks.com
BEVERLY
NGUYEN
With the opening of her new
homewares shop, Beverly’s,
in New York City, the buzzy
stylist is ready to divulge what
entertains and inspires her.
2. The Beckhams
I’m obsessed with them at the
moment because of the Netflix
documentary series. I want more.
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48. E L L E D E C O R 43
P O I N T O F V I E W
By Janine di Giovanni Photographs by Matthew Avignone
CLOTHING
BY
ANIK
ALENASK
ÄRSTRÖM,
ANIK
ALENA
.COM
For a war correspondent, a Paris
apartment provides a refuge, and
moments of grace.
E
verything in my home is a treasured memory, a road
stretching back to my intricate, woven past. The
broken blue and yellow Iraqi tile above my fireplace
reminds me of the day I found it, after the bombing of a Shia
shrine in Baghdad. The Ivory Coast chair that Bruno, the
father of my child, bought for me in 2001 when we were
living in Abidjan. A tattered Afghan prayer rug found on
Chicken Street in Kabul. Detailed wooden boxes from
Aleppo, Syria. These things divide the chapters of my life.
For many years, I roamed the earth as a war reporter.
These days I direct a war crimes unit called the Reckoning
Project inside Ukraine. My apartment in Paris, which is
very close to the Luxembourg Gardens, is more than just a
CLOCKWISE FROM
FAR LEFT: Journalist
Janine di Giovanni in
her Paris apartment.
An Ivory Coast
chair is surrounded
by objects and art;
the drawing is
by Cecil Beaton.
Books unpacked
from storage.
home. It is a nest, an escape, a place for solace and healing.
My home restores calm after the chaos of war.
Bruno and I bought the fourth-floor home in the sixth
arrondissement in 2006. An elderly woman who lived there
for decades had died; there were family quarrels, so the sale
went through a notaire. The minute I walked in carrying
our baby on my hip, I knew: We will be happy here.
We got a good deal, but the place needed to be gutted.
The electricity and plumbing were ancient. There were four
dark bedrooms, one bathroom. A winding staircase led to a
former maid’s room two floors up.
It took a year to knock down walls to get two large bed-
rooms and two bathrooms with American plumbing. The
WeWillBe
HappyHere

49. E L L E D E C O R
44
P O I N T O F V I E W
old kitchen in the back became the primary bath; the claw-
foot tub is from a salvage store. We furnished the home in
muted, beachy colors, with cushy sofas and a long oak table
with plenty of chairs for kids, friends, and raucous dinner
parties. I hung my collection of black-and-white
photography, gifts from photojournalists I had worked with
in war zones.
My son, Luca, came late in my life, and when he did,
I cherished him as a kind of redemption from all the dark-
ness I had seen. Our home was full of laughter and visitors
bringing stories and presents from Afghanistan and Iraq.
Carrie Fisher signed a menu for Luca when he was obsessed
with Star Wars; an Afghan horseman gave him a tiny
wooden horse. There were train sets, Christmas trees with
Austrian glass ornaments, birthdays with chocolate cake.
It was painful to leave Paris, but I wanted my French
boy to attend high school in my native United States. When
Luca started college last fall, I returned to Paris alone.
Bruno lived nearby—we had separated years before while
raising our son together as a team. But now, with a cat and
17 boxes of books, I needed to carve a new chapter. From
storage came precious things: dusty Limoges teacups, my
grandmother’s crystal wineglasses, my grandfather’s brass
bottle opener from Naples, Italy. I pored over photo albums
I had not seen in five years.
I’ve discovered that design decisions can be hard, so I
turned for guidance to Tycen Hauser, a boutique real estate
agent in Paris who has beautiful taste. Down came the war
photos. I wanted clean lines, soft colors, and natural light.
I took down the velvet curtains and picked out a Nordic
Knots rug in lavender edged with green vines. A hand-
blown glass lamp from Seville, Spain, now hangs in the
hallway, illuminating the Tree of Life Armenian tiles I
bought in the Old City of Jerusalem while on a reporting
assignment during the first intifada.
The art I collected throughout the years in Russia,
London, Jerusalem, Egypt, Syria, and at estate sales in the
U.S. was hung on freshly painted walls. My favorite is a
primitive 1880s oil painting of kids skating, which reminds
me of my own childhood winters in Caldwell, New Jersey.
But the happiest moment was when I got my piano.
During Covid, I started taking piano lessons for the
first time since I was nine. When I moved to Paris, I prom-
ised myself that my life would include music. A friend
loaned me a lovely upright, and I now have my piano.
The move back to Paris was deliberate. I desperately
needed a refuge from my work. New York did not calm me;
Paris always does. The Luxembourg Gardens have always
been my Valium. Walks in the park kicking leaves, the small
cinemas where I can escape for the afternoon, the cafés
where I love to sit with a Perrier Menthe writing, dreaming.
What else calms me here? The beauty department at Le Bon
Marché; strolling along the Rue du Cherche-Midi; yoga
classes at Rasa Studio. And an apartment painted in soft
pastels, a pale-pink sofa, a lavender rug, a brand-new
bibliothéque that fits all my books.
We started refurbishing in July to meet my goal of
having the apartment done by Thanksgiving. Every year
since I moved abroad—first to London, then Paris—I have
hosted Thanksgiving dinners. We’ll cram up to 40 people
around my long oak table. Friends bring chairs and French
attempts at pumpkin pie. Like my lovely apartment,
American Thanksgiving grounds me.
I write this on assignment in Ukraine. My flat is not
quite finished, but Tycen assures me it will be done by the
holidays. He sends photos and measurements. I realize this
is the first time I will live in an apartment that is utterly
me—my selection of colors, fabric, and design—and not the
choice of a husband, child, or boyfriend. Soon I will be on
the road again to another war, knowing how fortunate I am
to be able to retreat back to my safe haven.
I’m saving up for handmade linens from a shop in
Vienna. They are exquisite, delicate, and more than I can
afford. They aren’t the kind of thing you’d sleep in if your
kid was climbing into your bed—as mine did—with grubby
hands, covering you in kisses. I miss those days desperately.
But those sheets are a gift to myself for Christmas. ◾
Janine di Giovanni is an author and the executive director of
the Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies.
The author’s
vintage teacups.
“My home is a nest,
an escape, a place for
solace and healing.”

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51. 46 E L L E D E C O R
H O U S E C A L L
FROM
MOUNTAIN
HOUSE:
STUDIES
IN
ELEVATED
DESIGN
BY
NINA
FREUDENBERGER.
©
2023
BY
NINA
FREUDENBERGER.
PHOTOGR
APHS
©
2023
BY
CHRIS
MOT
TALINI.
PUBLISHED
BY
CL
ARKSON
POT
TER,
AN
IMPRINT
OF
R
ANDOM
HOUSE,
A
DIVISION
OF
PENGUIN
R
ANDOM
HOUSE
LLC
WHERE DOYOU WINTER?
The family of design icon Charlotte Perriand still escapes to this
French Alps idyll, seen here in an exclusive new book excerpt.
I
n 1940, shortly after the German occupa-
tion of Paris, Charlotte Perriand left France
to work in Japan, returning home six years
later after a detour through Vietnam, where
she waited out the war. Once back in France,
she set to work on an ill-starred resort in the
village of Méribel, spending two full years
designing its interiors. When the British
developer ran out of money, he offered to pay
Perriand with a piece of land. She chose a plot
in a meadow sheltered by firs and aspens and
bounded by a mountain stream. More than a
decade later, in 1961, she finally built her
refuge in the woods, a delicate compromise
between tradition and modernity, between
community and isolation—a pure expression
of her singular aesthetic.
Though Perriand’s initial design involved
an inclined roof covered in vegetation—
a gesture adapted from her first hotel designs,
themselves inspired by traditional Norwegian
houses—local ordinances required gabled
roofs, the typological precedents of the
Savoie. “After the project was rejected, she
went for walks in the villages of the region,”
says Pernette Perriand, Charlotte’s daughter.
“She took the architecture of those houses and
barns and farmsteads and combined that
with bare stone walls where you could see
the structure.”
Excerpted from
Mountain House: Studies
in Elevated Design by Nina
Freudenberger, with photo-
graphs by Chris Mottalini
and text by Michael Snyder.
ABOVE: On the house’s
wood-paneled upper level,
tatami-mat floors gesture
toward Perriand’s time work-
ing in Japan during World
War II, as well as to the
haylofts that traditionally
occupied the upper eaves
of Savoyard houses.

53. H O U S E C A L L
CLOCKWISE FROM
ABOVE: The lower-level
living room, centered on a
stone hearth, is filled with
furnishings of Perriand’s
design. Double-paned
windows under the gabled
roof draw in the sometimes
scant Alpine sun to warm
the house’s interior:
a modern technology
incorporated into the
vernacular form of
local barn houses.
The kitchenette harks
back to Perriand’s early
designs for prefabri-
cated mountain shelters.

54. E L L E D E C O R 49
THIS
PAGE,
CLOCK
WISE
FROM
TOP
LEFT:
CHRIS
MOT
TALINI;
PERNET
TE
PERRIAND,
ARCHIVES
CHARLOT
TE
PERRIAND;
FROM
MOUNTAIN
HOUSE
.
OPPOSITE
PAGE,
CLOCK
WISE
FROM
TOP:
CHRIS
MOT
TALINI
(2);
FROM
MOUNTAIN
HOUSE
CLOCKWISE FROM FAR
LEFT: A nook for reading
and sleeping. Architect
Charlotte Perriand, 1987.
A daybed doubles as a
sleeping area for guests,
and a movable wooden
box serves as a first tread
in the staircase connecting
the house’s two levels. ◾
The house is a
pure expression of
Charlotte Perriand’s
singular aesthetic.

56. E L L E D E C O R 51
B U I L D E R
By Tim McKeough
STEPHEN
KENT
JOHNSON
THERE’S ATV
HIDDEN HERE
Designers are pulling off sneakily
innovative solutions for obscuring
screens, wires, and appliances
at home. Here’s how.
Can you guess where
Ashe Leandro hid the
TV in this Park Avenue
living room? Answer:
Behind a custom mirror
with a hinged panel
that rotates open.

57. E L L E D E C O R
52
B U I L D E R
FROM
TOP:
STEPHEN
KENT
JOHNSON
(2);
ISABEL
PARR
A
W
e love the entertainment provided by screens
and stereos and the convenience of cutting-
edge appliances and devices—but let’s be
honest, we hate seeing all those ugly boxes and cords out in
the open. That’s why architects, designers, and homeowners
alike have been working to conceal home technology for
nearly as long as we’ve had electricity.
“It is a battle because we want to keep the architecture
pure,” says Crina Arghirescu Rogard, a New York City– and
Paris-based architect whose artfully minimalist interiors
are packed with covered-up tech, from imperceptible mag-
netic access panels to barely-there roller shades. “There are
many ways to camouflage things from a distance.”
At the top of the list of offenders is the television, which
only seems to grow in scale every year. “It’s always an
eyesore, especially when it’s in a living room,” says Jarvis
Wong, a New York City–based interior designer. But there
are numerous methods for making it disappear. Wong has
cached enormous TVs within custom built-in cabinetry and
once replaced a unit with a projector that descends from
a ceiling soffit on a motorized lift. Rogard has used
mechanized hoists that stow under a bed when the televi-
sion isn’t being watched, as well as mounts that slide a
screen sideways out of a wall.
But not every gadget-stashing solution needs to be
so high-tech; ELLE DECOR A-List Titan Juan Montoya
frequently deals with screens in a more playful manner. At
his country house in Garrison, New York, he devised what
he calls a guillotine—a wooden panel raised by rope and
pulley that conceals a TV right beside the fireplace. Other
times, he has simply used a curtain on a rod. “It gives you
the sense of a window,” he says.
Montoya also loves filling rooms with music but
doesn’t like seeing speakers everywhere. As a solution, he
has recessed them behind ceiling treatments, including
a dining room where he covered the expanse in straw.
Rogard often uses speakers from Stealth Acoustics and
Sonance that get plastered directly into walls so they’re
completely invisible.
In kitchens, hidden appliances have been trending for
years, as food-prep spaces blend into living spaces, which
has encouraged manufacturers to invent products that are
stealthier than ever. “The biggest change has been in hoods,”
which are no longer necessary, says Piotr Paradowski,
who runs Poland-based Paradowski Studio with his wife,
Zuza Paradowska.
In a New York City
bedroom, designer
Crina Arghirescu
Rogard crafted a cus-
tom window treatment
featuring a discreet
slot for roller shades.
Workshop/APD and Todd
Raymond designed
custom folding panel
doors to hide the ovens,
coffeemaker, and refriger-
ator—and even the sink—in
a New York City kitchen.
Open Closed

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Subtle kitchen ventilation started with pop-up down-
draft hoods but has moved on to extractors that remain
flush with the countertop, Piotr says. The Paradowskis have
also tucked wall ovens behind access panels that slide into
the wall to reveal the appliances only when needed. “We
didn’t want it to look like a kitchen,” Zuza says, “so during
the day, you’re not bothered by any of the mess.”
There is also, of course, the continual struggle with
cord and charger clutter. That’s where more intelligent
solutions are required. When Wong designed a handsome
custom desk for a home office, for instance, he didn’t want it
ruined by bundles of computer cable. “We added a remov-
able panel under the desk,” says Wong, where connections
can be made to concealed wires, after running cables
through a slot in the desktop. “If you want to be really
meticulous, you tape the wires behind the monitor stand,”
he says. To minimize visibility of living room lamp cords,
he routinely uses floor outlets paired with custom rugs that
have slots for passing cords through, resulting in light fix-
tures that appear totally untethered.
But all the time spent on conjuring such illusions leaves
Rogard asking a larger question: “Why doesn’t technology
respond to the demands of architecture and design?” It
seems obvious that since the entire point of camouflaging is
to create something aesthetically pleasing, why not just
keep that in mind before a piece of tech is even created? “If
we design products better,” she says, “they might actually be
a pleasure to look at.” ◾

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61. By Andrew Ferren Photographs by Matthieu Salvaing
Styled by Amaya de Toledo Gonzalez-Green
On a site once occupied by
the influential boutique Paula’s
Ibiza, Casa Muñoz creates a
fun-focused family pied-à-terre.

62. E L L E D E C O R 57
The ground-floor living room of a 1970s
Balearic-style townhouse in Ibiza, Spain,
designed by Casa Muñoz. Custom sofa and
ceramic lamp; armchair by Darro; tapestry
by María Asunción Raventós; artwork by
John Isaacs. For details, see Resources.

63. E L L E D E C O R
58
esign firms are rarely commis-
sioned to create an actual fun
house—not an amusement park
attraction nor a McMansion
dedicated to making content for
TikTok, but rather a family
home meant for socializing in
style. But that was precisely the
brief given to Mafalda Muñoz
and Gonzalo Machado, the duo
behind the Madrid-based inte-
rior design studio Casa Muñoz, for a four-story townhouse
in the old port of Ibiza, Spain.
The clients, a Spanish-English couple with teenage chil-
dren, have owned a larger home on a seaside corner of the
Balearic island on which they’ve summered for nearly
20 years. For this centrally located pied-à-terre, they were
after a completely different vibe, a chic bolt-hole where their
kids could pile in with friends after a night out without any-
one having to drive. It would provide the parents peace of
mind and a place to come off-season for sunny weekends
without the hassles of opening a larger house.
What’s more, the house sits on seriously hallowed
ground, occupying the space of the iconic shop Paula’s Ibiza,
the cradle of Ibiçencan hippie-chic style in the 1970s (and
current inspiration for fashion designer Jonathan Ander-
son’s annual line of beachy accessories for the Spanish
luxury brand Loewe). The property had been completely
gutted when the owners found it. “It had already been
ripped apart and was being rebuilt,” says Muñoz. “We halted
that project and did a complete 180-degree change for the
layout, even rebuilding the staircase so the home would
flow exactly as we envisioned it.”
The home’s roughly 3,000 square feet are spread over
four floors. One enters from the street directly into a bar
and a comfy, loungelike living room, which feels wholly
appropriate in a party destination like Ibiza. In a nod to the
island’s humble and practical construction traditions, the
room features built-in concrete sofas and end tables painted
white. The home, just steps away from the city’s port,
includes decor that incorporates nautical elements like ship
lamps and brass bathroom fittings.
Then there are the intensely sea-blue floors, clad in
lushly glazed lava tiles set into the crisp white concrete that
seems to wash down the staircase and throughout every
floor of the home like seafoam. The choice of flooring was
an homage to Muñoz’s father, legendary Spanish interior
designer and furniture entrepreneur Paco Muñoz, who in
the late 1960s built himself a chicly spare seaside home
on Mallorca with blue floors and terraces that melded into
the Mediterranean beyond. It was widely published and
became an icon of Balearic modernism just as Spain slowly
began to emerge from decades under an oppressive
dictatorship.
Here, Casa Muñoz has taken that sense of freedom
even further. Because the clients planned to fill the house
with family and friends, their sole mandate was to provide
the maximum number of beds possible. Beyond that
stipulation, the designers had free rein. (Casa Muñoz had
previously designed the family’s Madrid apartment, so the
clients knew they were in capable hands.) The second floor
thus includes two bedrooms but eight beds, four of which
are tucked into a wall of navy-style bunk beds behind shel-
tering linen curtains.
The third floor is given over to the primary suite, the
focal point of which is a sunny seating area surrounding a
fireplace; the hillside site allows for a small plaza off the
bedroom’s second entrance. There’s also a “work” space that
looks more like an art gallery than a home office, with a
stunning 1950s Audoux Minet desk and a Bent Møller
Jepsen chair nestled beneath a display of curvy ceramics.
The top floor houses the dining area and the kitchen, a
simple setup with built-in concrete cabinets fronted by gold-
hued Mediterranean pine doors and the same blue lava tiles
on the countertops; a dumbwaiter services the three floors
below. “The top two floors are essentially a separate apart-
ment, so that parents and kids can exist in their own spaces
and on their own schedules,” Machado notes.
Since the house was intentionally designed with no quar-
ters for housekeeping, the family comes to live a less encum-
bered life, cooking for friends and just hanging out. “It really
is a party house,” Muñoz says. “[The homeowners tell me]
they feel they lead different lives there, more fun lives.” ◾

64. ABOVE: Lava stone
tiles cover the floor and
countertops in the fourth-
floor kitchen. Bench
cushions in a Dedar fabric;
vintage Pastrana chairs
by José Luis Picardo
for Darro; artwork by
Grillo Demo.
RIGHT: A bar at the
ground-floor entryway
welcomes visitors.
Pastrana barstools by
Darro; artwork (left)
by Jorge Méndez Blake.
OPPOSITE: All of the
furniture on the fourth-
floor terrace was designed
in the 1970s by Darro and
restored by Casa Muñoz.

65. E L L E D E C O R
60
“Parents and kids can exist in their own
spaces and on their own schedules.”
–Gonzalo Machado
ABOVE: The primary suite
occupies the home’s third
floor. Bed and cushions
in a Dedar fabric; brass
sconces by Rose Uniacke.
OPPOSITE: The third
floor’s dedicated work-
space features a desk by
Audoux Minet and a chair
by Bent Møller Jepsen.

68. E L L E D E C O R 63
By Lauren Mechling
Photographs by Simon Wilson
In seaside
New Zealand,
Jenni Kayne
turns her
parents’ new
vacation home
into a refuge
of nature and
neutrals.
The great room of a house
in Mangawhai, New Zealand,
that was designed by Fearon
Hay Architects and decorated
by the lifestyle entrepreneur
Jenni Kayne for her parents,
Ric and Suzanne Kayne.
Alvar dining table by Joseph
Dirand; custom chair slip-
covers by Jed Lind. For details,
see Resources.

69. E L L E D E C O R
64
efore she founded her eponymous fash-
ion brand at 19, Jenni Kayne had a yen
for playing house. “When exams would
come up, I’d hear her rearranging her
bedroom,” her mother, Suzanne Kayne,
recalls with an audible cringe. Her
knack for redecorating took a back seat
in her early adulthood as she focused
on building her lifestyle label, now
known for its Instagram-ad domination
as well as its less-can-be-so-much-more approach to basics
and neutrals. Give Kayne the most ordinary and humble
element—say, a pocket tee—and watch her elevate it to the
most covetable version of itself.
It’s a sneaky superpower, one that Kayne’s parents were
wise to tap into when it came to bringing their coastal com-
pound in New Zealand to life.
From her base in Beverly Hills,
their daughter had just launched
Jenni Kayne Home—a collection
of furniture and housewares
that encapsulate her signature
cozy California aesthetic.
On the other side of the
Pacific, positioned astride dra-
matic sand dunes, the New Zea-
land house is a new construction
designed to do anything but
stand out. To hear the family tell it, it is the natural culmina-
tion of two of her father Ric Kayne’s greatest passions: New
Zealand and golf. The Los Angeles–based billionaire investor
had first visited the country in 1996, on a golfing trip. Instantly
besotted, he wasted no time bringing his family to experience
the landscape for themselves. Then Ric got wind of a plot
of land in the beach town Mangawhai. There, he built Tara Iti,
a world-renowned golf course, a 48-room hotel whose
interiors Kayne also designed, and finally the main house that
would become her family’s center of gravity.
Jeff Fearon of the Auckland- and Los Angeles–based
firm Fearon Hay led the architecture. Kayne was responsi-
ble for the interiors, a task that involved filling out a disarm-
ingly large and angular shell in a way that communicated
warmth and coziness. Another thing to consider was recon-
ciling the tastes of her mother, who grew up in the Ameri-
can South and veers classical; her father, who loves
anything ultramodern; and her own clean and snuggly vibe.
Landscape designer Suzanne Turley was brought on to
infuse the property with a blend of native vegetation. “I’m
not someone who comes in at the end and puts geraniums
in the planters,” Turley says. She imbued three interior
courtyards with lush, soft plantings and came up with
an exterior design involving a gradation from browns at
the center of the home to greens stretching toward the lawn.
The furnishings are a mix of Kayne’s own designs,
antiques, and commissioned pieces. A great deal of the
paints and fixtures come from Jenni Kayne’s partner brands
Portola Paints, Waterworks, and Plain English. On the
whole, the scheme was more of a gut-instinct production.
“My mom really let me kind of run with it,” Kayne says.
Mother and daughter were in constant communication,
reviewing floor plans and considering furniture pieces.
Kayne’s airy, uncluttered bent complemented the
natural setting. Large untreated windows open onto the sea or
massive sand dunes. “When you’re looking out at these huge
hills of sand, it can feel a bit like Star Wars,” Kayne says. The
natural surroundings are a perfect companion to Kayne’s
interiors, which don’t rely on gimmicks. She sees sticking to
neutrals, as she has done for the past two decades, as a chal-
lenge. “I think that you can have
a lot of fun with materials and
texture, and bring in pops of
color with art,” she says. “I get
sick of things if they’re too bold.”
The custom pieces that she
incorporated hew to her rule
book. A dining table by Pari-
sian designer Joseph Dirand is
made of white oak and adds a
quiet shot of drama to the great
room. “That’s probably my
favorite part of the house,” Kayne says. “The doors are
always open. I always take my shoes off, and I don’t put
them back on until it’s time to fly home.” ◾
“When you’re looking
out at these huge hills
of sand, it can feel a
bit like Star Wars.”
–Jenni Kayne

70. In the outdoor living room,
with landscape design by
Suzanne Turley, the wall
cladding is Alaskan yellow
cedar. Custom sofa in
a fabric by Janus et Cie;
stools by Tréology.
OPPOSITE: Jenni Kayne
(right) with her mother,
Suzanne Kayne.

72. E L L E D E C O R 67
OPPOSITE, TOP: In the
pool area, the chaise
longue is by Sutherland.
OPPOSITE, BOTTOM: In
the guest bedroom, the
custom Jed Lind bed is
covered in fabric by de Le
Cuona. Custom ottoman;
lights by Rose Uniacke;
bedside table and rug by
Jenni Kayne Home.
The gray limestone kitchen
island is paired with bar-
stools by BDDW. Pendants
by Rose Uniacke.

73. E L L E D E C O R
68
By Sean Santiago Photographs by Cody Guilfoyle
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79. By Laura May Todd Photographs by Francesco Dolfo
A former clandestine retreat
in an ancient fortified house
in Italy is reborn as a couple’s
weekend sanctuary.

80. E L L E D E C O R 75
The living room of Paolo
Castellarin and Didier
Bonnin’s vacation home
near Piacenza, Italy.
Vintage walnut and velvet
armchairs and settee;
custom crystal cocktail
table; 19th-century French
chandelier; handmade
Moroccan rug; framed
herbarium art collection.
For details, see Resources.

81. E L L E D E C O R
76
t’s early fall in northern Italy, and designer Paolo
Castellarin and his husband, Didier Bonnin, an
executive at a French luxury brand, have just set the
table for lunch. We’re sitting under the terra-cotta-
tiled roof of what several hundred years ago would
have been an outdoor kitchen, one of numerous
stone-walled buildings in the complex making up
their weekend home in the hills near Piacenza. It’s
that sweet spot in the season when a daytime breeze
still warms the skin.
As Castellarin doles out stuffed pasta cooked in
butter and sage onto illustrated Richard Ginori plates, he
explains that long ago this house was a thriving agricultural
center. He learned that it was constructed in 1182 as a
casaforte—a fortified mansion—on the ruins of a Roman
fort. In the intervening centuries, it had turns as a convent
and a partisan stronghold during the Second World War. A
previous owner, some decades ago, had even unearthed
neolithic pots and a millennia-old graveyard, the mummi-
fied remnants of which now reside in a nearby archaeologi-
cal museum. More recently, it was the hidden love nest of a
prominent local businessman, who would escape here for
weekends with his mistress and also hold illicit parties
undetected by his family.
According to Castellarin, he and Bonnin found the
property in 2018. They had been searching for a getaway
within an hour or so of Milan, where they live—somewhere
they could easily escape with friends on the weekend to
wander in the countryside or take a dip in the pool when
temperatures soared. “We bought a house this big because
it’s impossible to host in Milan,” Castellarin says, lamenting
the city’s notoriously tiny apartments. “We usually come
with 12 or 13 people.”
Luckily, the six-bedroom country house needed very
little in terms of restoration. So he left the plaster walls
their natural white and filled the rooms with ornate furni-
ture found at auction houses and antiques markets or
brought over from Bonnin’s childhood home in Bordeaux,
France. The stables, which would have stored livestock for
centuries, were transformed into a high-tech home gym,
while the former hayloft is now an open-air dining area that
can seat roughly 100 people. And all along the jumbled brick
and stone facade, the outer limits of meter-thick walls, fra-
grant jasmine vines and baseball-size roses now climb
toward the beating sun.
In decorating the house, Castellarin endeavored to
retain the home’s historical aura while injecting his own
eclectic style. The designer, who worked for years as an
oral surgeon before turning his sights to interior decora-
tion, has an uncanny knack for teasing out the soul of a
space in entirely unconventional ways. His and Bonnin’s
home in Milan, for example—featured on the cover of this
magazine in April 2022—is a blast of vibrant color with a
cherry red and turquoise paint job and a vast collection of
Italian design pieces. While in their Venice pied-à-terre, set
within a Baroque palazzo, he installed mirrored walls that
multiply the frescoed ceilings like a rococo kaleidoscope.
Here in the countryside, among the ancient carved
wood tables and vintage Persian rugs, Castellarin sprinkled
in more recent finds. “We wanted to put modern elements in
every room,” he says, “as well as antiques.” For example: a
LessLess table by Jean Nouvel for Molteni in the dining
room, paired with cantilevered plastic Panton chairs from
Vitra. Or a Cloud sofa designed by Marcel Wanders for
Moooi in 2012 that he placed in front of the carved stone
fireplace alongside a set of bergères from the early 1900s.
However, once the house was finished, things didn’t go
quite as planned. When the Covid pandemic broke out in
Italy, the couple ditched the city and spent the quarantine
period entirely alone at the house, planting tomato vines in
the garden and amassing a collection of heirloom fruit trees.
Then, as the country began to open up, their friends flocked
back. “Now they phone up and say, ‘I’m coming. Is my room
available?’” jokes Castellarin, as he mimes a call.
And, of course, it always is. Many of the bedrooms have
been lovingly appointed with a certain occupant in mind.
For his cinephile mother, a suite with a projector and a
floral-painted queen bed; for his sister’s young family,
a lofted room with two separate sleeping areas. So it’s no
surprise that they keep returning to relish in the couple’s
hospitality and soak up the countryside calm. “There’s
something about this house,” Castellarin says, “that always
puts you instantly at ease.” ◾

82. In the courtyard, the
stone facade of the
building is original.
OPPOSITE: Paolo
Castellarin (left) and
Didier Bonnin in the
living room. 1850s
armchairs; vintage
candlesticks; 1600s
oil painting.

83. LEFT: Antique mirror
and sconces in the guest
bathroom. Fittings by
Fir Italia; shower curtain
of a linen by Natalia Pepe.
BELOW LEFT: A pair
of 1930s walnut beds in
a guest bedroom. Linens
by Hermès; vintage
Persian wool rug.
BELOW: A view of
the countryside from
a guest bedroom.
Antique French
waterfall chandelier.

84. E L L E D E C O R 79
In a guest bedroom,
the 1850s painted
steel bed is covered
in linens from India;
the lamp and French
chandelier are antique.
“We bought a house this
big because it’s impossible
to host in Milan.”
—Paolo Castellarin

85. E L L E D E C O R
80
By Camille Okhio Photographs by Miguel Flores-Vianna Styled by Amy Chin
For a onetime Laugh-In comedian,
Patrick Mele creates a Technicolor
Aspen home sure to bring a smile.

86. The living room in the Aspen
home of Sarah Kennedy Flug,
which was designed in the
1980s by SOM and recently
renovated by Patrick Mele and
architect Mark Noel. Custom
sofa in a Schumacher linen
velvet; 18th-century armchairs
from Newel Antiques in a
Jim Thompson silk stripe; pair
of woodcuts by Donald Judd;
painting by Günther Uecker;
ceiling mural by Matthew
Tyrrell. For details, see
Resources.

87. E L L E D E C O R
82
he Aspen house known as Happy Hill
is exactly as the name suggests—a
joyful respite from the world, with
enviable views. It’s here that Patrick
Mele, an E L L E DECOR A-List
designer, recently outfitted a home
for his client Sarah Kennedy Flug. A
resident of Aspen for 27 years, the
former actress bought the Skid-
more, Owings & Merrill–designed house in 2020.
She brought on Mele, on the advice of a mutual friend,
together with architect Mark Noel. “I was looking for a dec-
orator passionate about color who knows all the rules—and
how to break them,” Flug says. She and Mele clicked. Soon
they were laughing at each other’s jokes and finishing one
another’s sentences.
In the 1970s and ’80s this petite blond dynamo was a
performer with comedic flair, a
regular on Rowan & Martin’s
Laugh-In and The Tonight
Show Starring Johnny Carson.
With her acting career behind
her, Flug is today involved in
numerous causes, from animal
rescue to a local children’s hos-
pital. “She lives with such full-
ness,” Mele says. “Every person
who walked into this house—
contractors, electricians,
carpenters—was treated with
so much love and respect that they ended up obsessed with
her and the project.”
She bought the home five years after the death of her
husband, the entrepreneur Marty Flug. Built in the 1980s, the
13,000-square-foot residence—the design resembles inter-
locking A-frame barns—was once a guardhouse for a Saudi
prince who at the time lived next door. Though only 15 min-
utes from Aspen’s downtown, the house’s 10 unspoiled sur-
rounding acres and majestic views are reminiscent of Flug’s
native Oregon. Every day, a herd of wild elk appears in her
back garden. “I have a dialogue with them,” she says.
Flug’s friends call her “Pinks” because she famously
loves a rosy palette (even her emails are written in Barbie’s
favorite hue). Until this project, she expressed her love of
color at home mainly through the art she collected. With
the help of the New York gallerist Leo Castelli, she and her
first husband, Edwin Roth, amassed a collection that
includes works by Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein,
Willem de Kooning, and Fernando Botero. But if her earlier
homes tended to be more muted, this time she had only
herself to please. “You’re always compromising,” she says.
“In this house I was able to do everything I couldn’t before.”
She wanted a backdrop drenched with color; Mele
plucked hues from the large-scale masterworks in her
collection. In the double-height living room, she got her
wish—a Florentine pink on the walls paired with a cloudlike
ceiling by decorative artist Matthew Tyrrell. The soaring
library—which also serves as her dining room—is painted a
rich red and crammed with books, chandeliers, and mix-
and-match chairs. “Sarah entertains nonstop,” Mele says.
“It’s a really joyful, fully utilized home.”
The primary bedroom exudes Auntie Mame, with
decorative flourishes straight from Renzo Mongiardino’s
playbook (a tented ceiling, a hand-painted mantel). Across
from Flug’s bed is a Joan Miró sculpture, standing sentinel
like a chic version of E.T. The piece was once owned by
Flug’s collecting mentors, Shirley and Miles Fiterman. She
spotted it in an auction catalog
several years after they died.
Throughout the yearlong
renovation, Mele negotiated
the project like a tightrope
walker, pushing decor to the
limit without ever taking a
false step. “We wanted nuance
and layers, a mix of old and
new, crude and refined,” he
says. The ebullient results fully
reflect the home’s larger-than-
life occupant. “Sarah is tiny,
but she loves big, sumptuous furniture,” Mele notes. For
Flug, her home feels like a true expression of who she is.
“This house is a celebration of my journey, my life,” she
says. “I choose happiness daily.” ◾
“I was looking for a
decorator who knows
all the rules—and
how to break them.”
–Sarah Kennedy Flug

88. In the dining room, which
doubles as a library,
the 19th-century English
chair and French chaise
longue are in a Pierre
Frey fabric with Houlès
trim. Mirror from
Michael Trapp; wall
brackets by Creel
and Gow; custom rug
by Patrick Mele.
OPPOSITE: Sarah
Kennedy Flug in the
back garden, with
its view of Colorado’s
Elk Mountains. Lisa
Corti table linens from
John Derian.

89. E L L E D E C O R
84
OPPOSITE, LEFT: A
Polly Apfelbaum tapestry
in the study. Artwork
(on desk) by Louise
Bourgeois.
ABOVE: A trio of
19th-century chandeliers
hangs above the custom
table in Egyptian yellow
marble in the dining area.
OPPOSITE, TOP: A custom
loveseat faces a John
Dickinson cocktail table
by Sutherland in the living
room. Artwork by Robert
Rauschenberg.
OPPOSITE, RIGHT: In the
study, a James Rosenquist
painting is positioned
above a custom sofa.
Pendants by Jorge Pardo.

92. E L L E D E C O R 87
The primary bedroom
has a tented ceiling with
a hand-painted mantel and
wall finishes by Matthew
Tyrrell. Canopy bed by
Mimi London; antique
urns, Michael Trapp;
sculpture by Joan Miró.

93. E L L E D E C O R
88

94. By Max Berlinger Photographs by Read McKendree Styled by Howard Christian
On a family property on Long Island,
Aerin Lauder oversees a new
modernist getaway that takes full
advantage of the views.
A guesthouse on a
beachfront property
on Long Island, New
York, belonging to
the Lauder family,
with architecture by
Stelle Lomont Rouhani
Architects and interior
design by Daniel
Romualdez. For details,
see Resources.

95. E L L E D E C O R
90
n 2012, a small cottage in the Hamptons owned by the
Lauder family—descendants of the pioneering cos-
metics entrepreneur Estée—was tragically destroyed
by Hurricane Sandy. It left a void, to be sure, but also
presented an opportunity to build something entirely
new. Now they’ve constructed an unassuming aerie
along an enchanting stretch of beach nestled between
the ocean and a saltwater pond.
“It’s really this magical indoor-outdoor beach
pavilion,” says Aerin Lauder, style and creative director
of Estée Lauder and founder of the luxury lifestyle
brand Aerin, speaking on behalf of the family. “It’s a jewel
box,” she adds, a touch dreamily. “A jewel box in the dunes.”
The replacement is elegantly restrained, just a
1,300-square-foot, low-slung, single-story, modernist struc-
ture. The facade is composed of sleek glass and vertically
placed slats of sapele mahogany, which doubles as a rain
screen. Despite the simplicity of form, there’s a quiet splen-
dor and romantic gravitas to the finished property, in no
small part thanks to the way it embraces and integrates the
untamed beauty of its natural surroundings. “It’s arguably
one of the nicest locations on eastern Long Island,” says archi-
tect Michael Lomont, of the firm Stelle Lomont Rouhani, who
designed the project with the family. “It’s just spectacular.”
It was impossible to compete with the view, Lomont
adds. So he didn’t. In fact, certain logistical requirements
encouraged him to take maximum advantage of those med-
itative vistas, like updated flood codes that called for all
livable space to be built at an elevation, resulting in ideal
sight lines for the main living floor, which features 10-foot-
tall floor-to-ceiling windows.
This also means the home sits perched at dune level,
cantilevered upon a base that serves as an entrance stair-
well and as storage, with the main living space located
above, exposed to the north and south. In this way, once
inside, one has the sensation of being completely sur-
rounded by creamy sand hillocks and undulating waves.
The cherry on top, quite literally, is a roof deck edged in
glass panels, affording unobstructed 360-degree views.
For the Lauders, the home serves as both a guesthouse
and a family outpost for casual gatherings—a luxurious
cabana in which to have a snack or a break from beach
activities (storage downstairs is perfect for surfboards and
other water sports accoutrements). As such, the layout is
quite lean: just one bedroom and bathroom, plus a kitchen,
all centered on a welcoming and well-appointed den and
decks in front and back. “We were inspired by the elements
around us,” Lauder says. “The seagrass, the flowers that
grow on the dunes.”
The palette was chosen to evoke driftwood and the
flaxen beige of the sands. If there’s a lighter touch here than
in Lauder’s other homes, like her nearby Greek Revival
passed down from her grandmother Estée or her homes in
Aspen and Palm Beach, it’s intentional. “It’s a different expe-
rience,” she notes. “The idea is you’re nestled in this beach.”
Inside, Lomont wrapped the wall that anchors the
living room in the same mahogany slats as the outside for
visual continuity and added sliding panels for versatility;
now the entertainment center can be hidden from sight
with the wave of a hand, revealing in its stead a pair of
recessed shelves. He loves adding “surprises” to his projects,
and here they’re all about the view. First there’s the lower
entrance hall. “It’s quite monastic, with these Venetian plas-
ter walls,” he says. “You don’t quite know where you are.”
Approach the top of the stairs, however, and a glass
column is suddenly visible, spilling across the roof and
highlighting the view. “It’s like framed art, with the sky
and the clouds above you,” the architect says. “It really
brings you into the space and changes your context of the
site.” Additionally, he loves the skylight in the calm bath-
room, which he likens to a James Turrell piece.
For the interiors, Lauder worked with Daniel Romualdez,
a friend and collaborator for the better part of two decades.
(He charmed her at a dinner thrown by Anna Wintour when
he reminded Lauder that they had been in the same step
aerobics class.) Romualdez is no stranger to Hamptons
design, working with the likes of Tory Burch and Ina Garten
as well as recently on Lauder’s Aspen abode.
“The nice thing about design,” Romualdez says of this
particular project, “is that when you have constraints, it
forces you to make more of an effort to be thoughtful.” For
example, a lot of energy goes into thinking about bringing
in texture, or the way certain colors will look in the very
bewitching light as it’s reflected off the water. “A lot of times
the constraints make the design better,” he adds.
Together Lauder and Romualdez worked on infusing
the space with an organic, inviting élan that emphasizes
comfort and warmth, a contrast with Lomont’s striking,
aerodynamic architecture. In many cases, Lauder notes,
she was able to pull pieces from an archive of objects
collected over the years, like the earthy ceramic vases in
the living room that she likes to fill with beach grass.
Allusions to the seascape are deftly tucked into every
corner of the guesthouse, whether on the vintage lamps in
the bedroom that resemble coral, the pieces of driftwood
that Lauder found on the shoreline and then placed
on bookshelves, or the pillows that recall fishermen’s nets
nestled on the white linen sofas. “We really wanted to just
achieve this kind of very natural, easy, effortless, comfort-
able environment,” she says.
But, as everyone involved notes, when Mother Nature
blesses you with a panorama like this one, the job is to get
out of its way. “When the view is that good,” Romualdez
says, “you just have to have the humility to cool it.” ◾

96. BELOW: A vintage Jean
Royère desk and chair
in the primary bedroom.
Landscape design by
James C. Grimes.
A Valentine Schlegel
puzzle table is surrounded
by Charlotte Perriand
Bauche chairs in the great
room. Kitchen island by
Boffi; bowl by Aerin;
photograph by Tina Barney.
“We were inspired by
the elements around
us: the seagrass, the
flowers that grow on
the dunes.”
–Aerin Lauder

97. E L L E D E C O R
92

98. OPPOSITE: The south deck
overlooks the dunes and
surf. J. Edlin tablecloth
in a Décors Barbares
fabric; custom bench by
Inscape Design; flatware
by Aerin; plates and
pitcher by Cabana.
The walls of the primary
bedroom are sheathed
in tadelakt plaster. Bed
linens by E. Braun & Co.;
lamps by Barracuda
Comporta; rug by
Patterson Flynn.

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Items pictured but not listed are
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CONTENTS
PAGE 12: Bed, bedding, bench:
JenniKayneHome,jennikayne
.com. Light fixture: RoseUniacke,
roseuniacke.com.
POINT OF VIEW
Design consulting: Robert
Tycen Hauser, rthauser.com.
PAGE 43: Blouse and skirt:
Anikalenaskärström,anikalena
.com.
PARTY HOUSE
Interior design: Casa Muñoz,
casa-munoz.com.
PAGES 56–57: Artwork:
JohnIsaacs,johnisaacs.net.
PAGES 58–59: Bench cushions:
Dedar,dedar.com. Artwork:
JorgeMéndezBlake,mendezblake
.com.PAGES 60–61: Bed and cush-
ion fabric:Dedar. Brass sconces:
RoseUniacke,roseuniacke.com.
Blanket: PEZ,pez-pez.es. Flowers:
FlorandoAndo,@florandoando.
EDGE OF THE WORLD
Interior design: Jenni Kayne, jenni
kayne.com. Architecture: Fearon
Hay Architects, fearonhay.com.
Landscape design: Suzanne
Turley, suzanneturley.co.nz.
PAGES 62–63: Dining table:
JosephDirand,josephdirand.com.
Chair slipcovers: JedLind,jedlind
interiors.com.PAGE 65: Sofa fab-
ric: JanusetCie,janusetcie.com.
Stools: Tréology,treology.co.nz.
PAGES 67–68: Chaise longue:
Sutherland,sutherlandfurniture
.com. Bed: JedLind. Bedding:
deLeCuona,usa.delecuona.com.
Lights: RoseUniacke,roseuniacke
.com. Rug: JenniKayneHome,
jennikayne.com. Barstools:
The swimming pool
at the vacation home
of Paolo Castellarin
and Didier Bonnin
near Piacenza, Italy
(page 74).
BDDW,bddw.com. Pendants:
RoseUniacke.
ARE YOU BEING SERVED?
PAGE 70: Bread bag: Porta,
porta-nyc.com.
LOVE NEST
PAGE 78: Fittings: FirItalia,fir-italia
.it. Curtain linen: NataliaPepe,
nataliapepe.com. Bedding:
Hermès,hermes.com.
SOCK IT TO ME!
Interior design: Patrick Mele,
patrickmele.com. Architecture:
Mark Noel, mnarchitect.com.
PAGE 81: Sofa fabric: Schumacher,
schumacher.com. Chair fabric:
JimThompson,jimthompson.com.
PAGES 82–83: Table linens: Lisa
Corti,johnderian.com. Chaise
fabric: PierreFrey,pierrefrey.com.
Trim: Houlès,houles.com. Mirror:
MichaelTrapp,michaeltrapp.com.
Wall brackets: CreelandGow,
creelandgow.com.
Rug: PatrickMele,patrickmele
.com.PAGE 85: Tapestry: Polly
Apfelbaum,pollyapfelbaum.com.
PAGES 86–87: Canopy bed:
MimiLondon,mimilondon.com.
Urns: MichaelTrapp.
WAVE HELLO
Interior design: Daniel Romualdez.
Architecture: Stelle Lomont
Rouhani Architects, stelleco.com.
Landscape design: James C.
Grimes, nativeplants.net.
PAGE 91: Kitchen island: Boffi,
boffi.com. Bowl: Aerin,aerin.com.
Photograph: TinaBarney,tina
barney.com.PAGES 92–93: Bed
linens: E.Braun&Co.,ebraunnew
york.com. Lamps: Barracuda
Comporta,barracuda-interiors
.com. Rug: PattersonFlynn,
pattersonflynn.com. Tablecloth:
J.Edlin,jedlininteriors.com.
Flatware: Aerin.Plates and
pitcher:Cabana,cabana
magazine.com.

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101. E L L E D E C O R
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35 Y E A RS O F E L L E D E C O R
TIM
STREET-
PORTER
1990
This photograph by Tim Street-Porter was featured in the August 1990 issue
of ELLE DECOR, during the magazine’s first year, under the editorship of Louis
Oliver Gropp, who died this fall. The joyful image captures both the mission and
the spirit we have had from the start: to inspire our readers by presenting homes
that delight and surprise. This unforgettable shot depicts the dining room in the
weekend home of architect José de Yturbe, a protégé of the Mexican modernist
icon Luis Barragán. Behind the table, de Yturbe has created a simple yet spec-
tacular floral display—a stepped stucco altar covered in a mass of potted red
geraniums that ascend beyond a skylight. In this way, regardless of what is being
served during the meal, the room itself is always a visual feast. —Charles Curkin
In celebration of ELLE DECOR’s 35th anniversary, throughout the year
we’ll be highlighting some of our favorite images from our archives.
Each photograph proves the lasting power of great design.
The dining room
of architect José
de Yturbe’s week-
end home in Valle
de Bravo, Mexico.