Designed by NYC-based Peter Stamberg & Paul Aferiat of Stamberg Aferiat Architecture, the hotel is a re-vamped a three-story Holiday Inn from 1977, re-imagined in serious Technicolor. The color palette reflects the vibrancy of the Southwest, in hues derived from 14 indigenous flowers of the Mojave Desert.

Guest rooms boast multicolored striped bedding, orange furniture, a bubble gum pink accent wall, and royal purple carpeting. A wood table and chairs and black and white images by Palm Springs photographer Jim Cornett ground the rooms with a bit of natural realism.

There are 245 rooms, a second floor public space with a wild red Bird-of-Paradise wallpaper on the ceiling, an expansive pool in a lush courtyard complete with a cabana pool bar, a spa, and two restaurants by Iron Chef Jose Garces, one with a tequila bar, the other with a wine bar.

The Saguro Palm Springs, 1800 East Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, California.

Working with architect Mark Ferguson of Ferguson & Shamamian , in 2008, the couple overhauled a seven-floor townhouse that had been subdivided into 12 separate apartments. On the website for Delphine’s interior design business, Pamplemousse Design, she refers to it as “a mansion on the Upper East Side.”  I also included a few rooms with similar pieces she designed for clients with a triplex on the Upper West Side.

In the living room, Alexander Calder’s 1971 mobile Two Black Discs and Six Othersfloats above a Jean Ary sculpture, André Dubreuil candelabras, and a Guy de Rougemont coffee table.

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A corner of the airy living room features a screen by Serge Roche.

An alternate view.

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The cubey painting is Black and White VII by Al Held in front of which is Marc Newson’s 1986 Lockheed Lounge chaise.  She seems to have also secured a similar Al Held painting for a client.

Delphine designed this living room in an Upper  West Side triplex, complete with Al Held painting similar to her own. I love that sculpture on the coffee table too.

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The upstairs sitting room features a mirrored mantel by Serge Roche, circa 1930, which he made for his own private residence. The pillows are Emilio Pucci.

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The master bedroom. The Art Deco vanity is by Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann and the 1920s-era bed by Jean-Michel Frank. The table is by Marc Newson. Claude Lalanne’s La Pomme Boucheapples are on the mantel.

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In the sitting room, the walls are decorated with Allan McCollum’s abstract installation Plaster Surrogates. Joris Laarman’s silver Bone chair sits in the foreground.

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Delphine leans against a 1930s Serge Roche table. In the background is Frank Stella’s 1974 painting Concentric Squares. The sconces are by Maria Pergay.

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From another angle. Great staircase; let’s see more of it . . .

One could almost call this nook cozy. Almost. If not for the mirrors, it could also seem like it was an area for storing overflow furnishings.

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The library, with a Tiffany lamp over a long table and a Marc Newson chair in the corner, is transformed into a 16-person dining room for dinner parties.

Another shot of the library, sans Delphine.

She created a library dining room for her Upper West Side triplex clients too. I’ve always loved bookshelves surrounding a dining table.

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An eat-in-kitchen with an oh-la-la dining table setup.

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The master bathroom? Looks like the powder room at a fancy department store. Odd.

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Delphine and Reed’s daughter’s room, from several years ago (I’ve forgotten which publication). I still love the curvy sconce over the bed (so sophisticated for a little girl, but pretty), the dual colored ottomans, and the Saarinen side table.

She hung a similar sconce above the Upper West Side client’s bed.

Photos 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 , 8, 9, 13  by Douglas Friedman  for Harper’s Bazaar

This is the entryway. Wang’s wearing a Rick Owens vest and skirt and her own Ann Demeulemeester boots. The bag is Hermes, the watch Rolex.

The back of the house, complete with covered patio and pool.

Can you believe Wang is 62-years-old? Insane. She says in the article she’s not the type to wear heels with her swimsuit. But when you’re posing for a fashion mag, you kinda have to. The swimsuit is Eres and the bustier over top is Alexander Wang. The heels are Manolo Blahnik, of course.

I didn’t even realize until I read the caption that this is the kitchen. Talk about sleek. Wang’s dress is Azzedine Alaia and the Mary Janes are Giuseppe Zanotti.

The dining area.

The living room. The TV doesn’t look half bad over the fireplace.

The walk-in closet she shares with her husband, Arthur Becker. Love the cowhide cubes. She should probably add some color to her West Coast wardrobe.

Above photographs by Douglas Friedman for Harper’s Bazaar

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Below photos are from Hermann Design

The house, which Lauder bought in 2009, was relatively new. She hired architect/interior designer Daniel Romualdez, who also did Tory Burch’s Manhattan apartment, to customize with a bit of character. Every room is painted white, but walls lined in reclaimed cypress boards and wire-brushed oak. Danish modern and solid American chairs, appropriately draped with fur throws, mingle with glossy George Nakashima tables.

Although we don’t get a glimpse of these, there are baskets of shearling slippers from L.L. Bean around the house and guest beds are outfitted with plain white linens from Calvin Klein. Again, no kitchen or dining shots, but we’re told her tableware is rustic white china from Calvin Klein as well as pieces from her secret source in Austria. Napkins  are country-style—sage greens, cream, rough linens—which complement the big wooden bowls she buys at Privet House in Warren, Connecticut. Perfection.

Aerin Lauder, the epitome of cozy cool, in Daryl K leather pants, chunky cable-knit Burberry sweater, and shearling-lined L.L. Bean style duck boots.

 Jean-Michel Frank sofa, Hans Wegner hoop chairs
Cashmere-lined coyote- and fox-fur rugs made for Lauder by Pologeorgis are generously thrown over chairs and sofas;

George Nakashima table

The semi-covered deck, furnished with David Sutherland teak lounge chairs and coffee table with provisions for hot chocolate, overlooks Aspen Mountain.

the library, immaculately arranged with books, resembles a giant cigar box with breathtaking views for whoever is sitting at the desk.

low oak bed with an Andreas Gursky photograph  The bedrooms have specially made low oak beds

Rift-cut white-oak walls meet cedar marble in a bathroom.

her sons, twelve-year-old Jack and eleven-year-old Will,

Even the mud room reflects her cozy glamour. Oh, the furs.

Photos: François Halard

Jeff’s loft isn’t large, but he makes great use of the space. And  he as an amazing eye, mixing old and new, high and low. He had to do some serious editing to make it work. He gave all his old furniture to his brother, who lives in Maine.

Photo: Josh Kuchinsky

In the main living space, the television blends right in with the art. The ebony, bamboo-topped coffee table by Gervasoni from Showroom in Boston has simple lines, with an Asian feel. The rug is Italian, made from linen and wool. The sofa, upholstered in linen, is Flexform, from Showoroom in Boston. Owner Doug Gates is his best friend.

Photo: Josh Kuchinsky

The vintage Louis Vuitton trunk was a gift from Osborne’s parents. The painting of man on left is a self-portrait by Cyrille Conan from a local Boston art gallery. The smaller piece on the right was painted by his grandfather. It’s a cottage on Ballston Beach on Cape Cod, that has since washed away. Underneath, on the white lacquer Poliform shelf, is a whaling-ship propeller that he found at a Boston antiques show.

The smaller ceramic bowl on the far left is by Tim Christiansen, purchased from The Society of Arts & Crafts on Newbury Street. (Christiansen and Osoborne went to boarding school together.) The larger one is from Norway from his parents, who collect ceramics and art.  “They have fantastic taste,” he says, “They downplay it, but it’s been a huge influence on my work.” Both bowls sit on wood blocks from West Elm.

The artwork is hard to see here. The vertical is a drawing of a nose that he bought when he studied abroad in Florence; it’s a local contemporary artist but in an antique French frame that he bought it from a store called Flair. Next to it is a print from Paris of hats flying off people’s heads by Charlotte Reine.

On the bottom shelf are Chinese bronze animal bells from Intarwut in Cambridge.

Two aluminum frame full-length mirrors from IKEA are propped up behind the Flexform stainless steel and rope folding chairs.

Photo: Josh Kuchinsky

The bed is beyond the main living space, in a south-facing, floor-ceiling-windowed nook. The bed (high) is upholstered in white leather and covered in gray houndstooth linens. The nightstands (low) are from West Elm. The industrial-style lamps are from Casa Design in SoWa. The chair in the foreground, upholstered in striped chenille, is Flexform.

A trio of postcards depicting Greek ruins were discovered in a junk shop in Provincetown.

Photo: Josh Kuchinsky

The kitchen is standard issue from the building. The wrapped countertop is bisque-colored speckled Caesarstone, the applicance Viking, and cabinetry Wenge wood. Osborne added the three silvery pendant light fixtures from Casa Design over the bar. And note the Alessi juicer next to the bowl of oranges.

The entry is lined with family photos and artwork.

The new glass tower on the Upper West Side, The Aldyn (click through to the article on Curbed NY; it’s pretty funny) has invited designers to decorate a series of rooms on its 14th floor for a CFDA charity showhouse.

Tours of the rooms opened to the public today. Admission is $25 and benefits the CFDA Foundation.

Diane von Furstenberg living room.

Diane von Furstenberg bedroom.

DVF place settings, part of the DVF Home collection, will available next February.

Jonathan Adler children’s room. Happy, happy.

Sitting area by Nicole Miller.

Lambertson Truex study.

Lambertson Truex, which just launched a bag line for Tiffany, uses the famous robin’s egg blue boxes at each place setting.

Elie Tahari’s sumptuous fur-covered bed.

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Images via Racked NY

Filed under: . REGULAR FEATURES, Design Diary, Fashion, Rooms ]]> http://stylecarrot.com/2010/09/21/design-diary-cfda-does-the-aldyn/feed/ 1 stylecarrot Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4 Picture 5 Picture 6 lt dr tahari http://stylecarrot.com/2010/07/26/design-diary-tommy-hilfigers-nyc-apartment/ http://stylecarrot.com/2010/07/26/design-diary-tommy-hilfigers-nyc-apartment/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:40:34 +0000 StyleCarrot http://stylecarrot.com/?p=7035 Continue reading →]]> Harper’s Bazaar shot Tommy Hilfiger, his wife Dee and baby Sebastian at the family’s newly re-furbished duplex at The Plaza. They purchased it in 2008, and tried to sell it last year – for a mere $50 million – but now seem thrilled with the space, which the designer describes as”old-world atmosphere complementing the old-world Plaza.”

The condo, perched on the 18th and 19th floors, replaces Hilfiger’s Greenwich mansion, which he sold recently for $20 million. He still has his Mustique getaway and they’ve also purchased a smaller weekend retreat in another Connecticut suburb. After all, all the other kids (he has 4, she has 2) are either grown or at boarding school. Hilfiger describes this palace-like apartment as “cozy.”

The decor incorporates 20-plus Warhols, a Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Harry Benson photographs of Truman Capote’s 1966 Black and White Ball, which took place at The Plaza, and counted Babe Paley, Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra as guests. There’s also the original New York Times sign in the study, furniture that once belonged to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and a crystal sailing-ship chandelier in the nursery.  It’s all so very grandiose.

Photos by Douglas Friedman

The refinished façade of the 1870s Second Empire house.

It was an absolute wreck. Have a look at the “before“pictures. The two units will be sold separately, at an affordable price. The original shingles were replaced with fiber cement siding, and the dilapidated slate roofing (which was salvaged) was replaced with recycled rubber architectural shingles.

The crew restored the hand-carved wood banister and newel post in the entryway.

These plaster ceiling medallions throughout the house were either be restored or replicated.

The rooms all have Tricia’s spare, sophisticated touches, like muslin covered furnishings.

The artwork over the sofa, which looks like a tie dye scarf, is actually beaded porcelain on rice paper by Dharma Strasser MacColl from Walker Contemporary in Boston.

The crew was able to salvage the original marble fireplace surround. They removed it for cleaning and repairs, then reinstalled  it.

It’s absolutely gorgeous. I love the subtle color from the silver cups and plant.

The dark walls make the room look rich and cozy. Love how the white shapes of the furniture pop against it too.

A gleaming white kitchen. The original kitchens were on the second floor; the new ones are in the center of the units’ first floors.

Love the nailhead detail on the bed and muslin upholstery.

The old millwork of the window casings and panels were replaced with replicas featuring the same dimensions and profiles. There were ugly dropped ceilings that were removed. Now the rooms have an airy, lofty feel.

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All photos by CASEY Photography.

John Derian lounges against antique grain sack pillows on his porch. The swathe of red on the right are two14-foot vintage Chinese life saving boat oars.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

The shingled home is a restored 1789 sea captain’s house on Commercial Street in Provincetown’s West End. The Greek Revival columns were added in the early 19th century.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

The white sofa is Derian’s “Geranium,” a design inspired by Hepplewhite-style antiques of the late 16th century. (Locally, Lekker in the South End carries Derian’s line of upholstered pieces.)  The worn pedestal table holds a Chinese lacquered box, a trough filled with carpet balls, and a stone lamp from France. The duo of framed birds above the sofa are ink drawings.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

In the cozy kitchen, a 19th-century round butcher block table is used as extra counter space. The fixture hanging above is a Robert Ogden mirror shade made by Mennonites in Pennsylvania. The 19th-century sofa is covered in antique grain sacks.

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Photo: Vogue Living

A tattered chair and a stump sea made from a 19th-century beam. The print on the large pillow echoes that of the wallpaper.

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Photo: Vogue Living

The living room has its original wallpaper and a paint-splattered wood floor.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

The front bedroom, which is in the original part of the house, has a 19th century canopy bed. A 19th century Dutch seascape hangs above a marble-topped 19th century French cafe table. A Hugo Guinness drawing of a geranium hangs next to the fireplace over a French side chair.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

A guest room with a French iron bed covered in a 19th-century homespun sheet from Transylvania; a red Jeanette Farrier pillow adds color. A vintage insect chart, a style we’ve seen a lot of lately, leans against the wall next to the sink. The gold-painted empire mirror is from 1830.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

Left: An 18th-century chest holds a 19th-century French lantern bottle covered in fabric and a Boston School painting; , a Federal mirror hangs above.  Right: A Hugo Guinness linocut ‘‘Chrysanthemum’’ drawing hangs above an early 19th-century Amish dry sink, on which an enormous clam shell and a 19th-century candle holder rest.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

British-born artist Peter Gee‘s palette makes for great art. Gee owned and taught at the Hawthorne School of Art in Ptown before he died in 2005. (His work looks amazing . . . look for an ARTmonday post devoted to Gee later this summer.)

This duplex condo in a 19th century townhouse in Boston’s South End neighborhood is the home of restaurateur Matt Burns, a partner in The Aquitaine Group (Aquitaine, Gaslight, Union Bar & Grille). I visited to write  “The Italian Job” for the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. The interiors were designed by Meichi Peng, whose well-balanced work is flawless.

Meichi mixed Asian art and objects (some of which Burns already had, some of which Meichi found) with his existing contemporary contemporary Italian sofa and cane back chairs that he had purchased at Showroom in Boston.  Burns says, “I love modern Italian furniture, but when used exclusively, there’s not much personality.”

The coffee table, which Peng describes as “very sculptural,” is a new piece imported from South Asia that bridges the new furnishings with the antique elements. The floor lamp in the living room and pendant over the Saarinen dining table (a piece Burns plans to replace) are both by Anta, from Casa in the South End.

The large oil painting that hangs over the fireplace is by Chinese-born photo-realist painter Yingzhao Liu, from Newbury Fine Arts.

Peng punctuated the rooms with decorative Chinese antiques, such as the Qing Dynasty lions that guard the living room’s hearth, the 19th century lacquered food storage vessel on the table, and the mid-18th century Chinese pewter wedding containers on the marble mantle.

A pair of Japanese-style ink drawings (above and below) done by Rod House, a family friend, hang over Asian style chests which flank the fireplace.

All three decorative pieces are early 19th century rice cake molds that Peng found on a shopping trip to Taiwan. They would have been used in holiday ceremonies. They are in the shapes of a turtle, currency, and fish all of which symbolize longevity and prosperity. Today, such items are made from aluminum casings.

The Asian side table and cabinet are both from Danish Country, an antiques shop on Charles Street in Beacon Hill. The ink drawing depicts a Japan-ized coastal scene of Marblehead, Massachusetts.

A second oil painting by Yingzhao Liu, this one a still life, hangs behind the sofa, on the wall opposite the fireplace.

The throw pillows, both chosen by Peng, add warmth and texture to the room. The solid chocolate ribbed fabric is Glant, and the shimmery russet velvet, which takes color cues from the painting over the mantle, is Bergamo.

The walls are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Iron Gate — a gray-toned taupe that serves as a unifying background. “The statement here is the art,” Peng says. “We just tied it all together.”

A funny little sculpture in the living room.

Burns purchased these pre-Columbian (c. 1400) Bolivian arrowheads in Columbia. When he returned, he had them authenticated by a scholar in Cambridge and then framed.

The den is also done with a mix of Italian and Asian pieces. Peng re-decorated this room from top to bottom, choosing a Victor sofa and Happy chaise, both by Flexform from Showroom, and a Maxalto coffee table by B&B Italia from Montage in Boston.

The distinctive cast iron fireplace is original to the home, and one of Burns’ favorite features. He also loves the whimsical and “kind of evil” monkeys, found by Peng in Florence, which sit on the mantle. The silk rug is from Steven King at the Boston Design Center.

Burns’ Chinese artifacts include a dragon carving (above) and three imperfect Tang Dynasty pots (below), all of which he purchased from Asian Collections in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Burns says that apparently these pots, which he was told are Tang Dynasty, were found in a building found on a construction site in China, and were probably rejects, meant to be thrown out.

Detail of the evil-looking monkeys that sit on the mantle in the den.

The original art poster, bought at International Poster Gallery on Newbury Street,  is a piece that Burns had already. He says, “It doesn’t really have a place other than the color works well.”  He thinks it’s Swiss, from 1920s – 40s.

The embroidered tapestry fabric artwork over the bed is from Judith Dowling in Beacon Hill.  He had been looking for a long time and pestering Peng for something to go over the bed when he discovered this in the back room of the antique shop.

Photographs (as indicated) by Josh Kuchinsky.