For American Style Icon Jenna Lyons, Creating Original Combinations Is Second Nature. Her Manhattan Apartment Shows How She’s Still Creating A Stir
Jenna Lyons feels as if she’s almost come full circle – in terms of New York neighbourhoods, anyway. She’s back where she started out in the city, living in a SoHo loft. But this time she’s setting her own style rules. ‘I wanted to create something warm and intimate within its open-plan frame,’ she says. Forget the archetypal New York loft look of echoey spaces and clanging metal doors. Instead, this home that Jenna shares with her son, Beckett, is a deeply personal place, richly layered with brass, velvet and marble – and the kind of vintage finds that Jenna adores.
It’s a far cry, she says, from loft living first time around in the Nineties. Back then, she shared a place ‘with white walls and not many doors’ just as she was beginning her dramatic ascent in the fashion world. She joined US brand J.Crew as a junior designer and swiftly rose through the ranks, revolutionising the label’s fortunes along the way. In 2017 Jenna decided it was time to step away from her role as president – and the fashion world gasped.
This apartment is where Jenna bided her time before deciding on her next style adventure and it’s been the perfect place to gather her thoughts. It’s very different from her previous home, the Brooklyn brownstone that Livingetc featured in 2009. ‘That house was very pretty, but it wasn’t cosy. And all those stairs – they drove me insane!’ she laughs. ‘Moving here, I think it was the first time I wanted to create something cosy and close.’
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة April 2019 من Living Etc Magazine.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك ? تسجيل الدخول
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة April 2019 من Living Etc Magazine.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك? تسجيل الدخول
modern extensions
WITH STRIKING USE OF COLOUR, MATERIALS AND SHAPE, THE LATEST DESIGNS ADD SO MUCH MORE THAN AN EXTRA ROOM
think like a pro
It's not just interior designers who are skilled at picking the perfect palette architects are in on the act, too, and Richard Parr knows just how to get the ideal shade
colour decoded
As with all successful schemes, there's much more going on beneath the surface of this space than first appears -Livingete's colour expert Amy Moorea Wong reveals all
enduring style
B&B Italia has pioneered modern Italian furniture design since 1966 - but its latest collection feels as fresh as ever
TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED
Seventeenth-century origins meet vibrant contemporary design in a cleverly reimagined Amsterdam canal house
ROCK OF AGES
The owners of a Menorcan home have made a stylish yet sustainable retreat using the island's signature stone
FORCE OF NATURE
An unexpected flood into what was already a dark basement flat prompted a new vision, full of light, natural materials and foliage
TOP OF THE WORLD
High above the busy streets of Bangkok, two talented designers have created a tranquil retreat that nods to chic 1970s style and makes the most of the views
A PLACE IN THE SUN
An apartment within a former luxury hotel celebrates - and updates - the style of France's Côte d'Azur
OUTSIDE IN
The design of this modernist bungalow in South Africa was dictated by the trees on the plot and the desire for an indoor-outdoor flow