STYLE SUMMIT

Lauren Santo Domingo enlists Andre Mellone to help fashion a sophisticated ski retreat that defies tired decorative tropes

- DEREK C. BLASBERG

No chalet clichés!" That was the first thing that came to Lauren Santo Domingo's mind when she began envisioning her dream ski house in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The ultimate New York City style setter, cofounder of online fashion emporium Moda Operandi, and artistic director of Tiffany Home already had a list of decor don'ts: "No fur, no bison heads, no stone mantles, no cowboy hats, no fluffy rugs...."

Lauren and her husband, Andrés Santo Domingo, the cofounder of indie music label Mexican Summer, envisioned a version of rusticity that was more masculine, midcentury, contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright than ski bunny. Cowboys out, Le Corbusier in. "I don't know what I like until I see what I don't, so I can do the opposite," says Lauren, who is widely known by just her initials-LSD-nowadays. (Her Instagram handle is @thelsd.) "I had seen too many old houses with great wood get taken down to the studs and turned into a white box. That's when I decided I wanted to lean the other direction."