COVID brought us together," says designer Muriel Brandolini of her friendship with fashion designer Amanda Ross Bacon. "We had these homes near each other in the Hamptons and because of the six-feet-apart rule, we worked out together on my tennis court with a trainer." The two former stylists found they shared a love of fashion and color, and eventually their conversations turned to decorating. Ross Bacon had been struggling to add her own personality to the nearby late-19th-century Arts and Crafts-style cottage her husband, Zack Bacon, purchased in 2012, two years before they met.
"The place was very masculine," remembers Ross Bacon. "I needed some help to make it more feminine, to add personality." And so she peppered Brandolini with decorating questions, and soon they were working together. But for Brandolini, this job remained like a conversation between friends more than a formal contract between decorator and client.
"I told Amanda, 'I'm going to teach you how to do a house. I will lend you my eyes and you will have to chase people down to get the job done," says Brandolini, whose signature mix of bohemian fabrics, bold colors, and unique artwork graces several Hamptons homes. "It was not really a typical job for me. It was more like shopping with my girlfriend during COVID, to teach her." Brandolini immediately fell in love with the aura of the shingle-clad house with its overhanging eaves, ribbon windows, and Edwina von Gal-designed parterre gardens.
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Elements of Style - Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry celebrate 10 years of artistic exploration at Hermès
Last March, Hermès brought its home universe to life in eye-popping fashion at a one-night-only extravaganza staged at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. The lavish performance featured dozens of dancers showcasing the French luxury house's furniture, tableware, textiles, and decorative objects in elaborately choreographed vignettes that seemed to riff on the unboxing ritual so popular on social media-a supersized spectacle of conjuring magic from ordinary crates. The event also coincided with the 10th anniversary of Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry's tenure as artistic directors of the Hermès home division.
SEA CHANGE
Trading Manhattan for Brooklyn, designer Robert Stilin soaks up new scenery indoors and out
HELLA, YES
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GREEN GODDESS
From her perch in Lloyd Wright's 1927 home and studio in West Hollywood, Vicki von Holzhausen is spreading the gospel-and refining the science—of eco-friendly, plant-based materials
BOTH SIDES NOW
Celebrated for his fantastical, genderfluid fashions, designer Harris Reed brings the same rule-flouting approach to a petite London apartment
shades of eden
In her magical LA garden, artist Mimi Lauter contemplates the cycle of life and the rapturous power of color
CHARM SCHOOL
In the hands of Ashe Leandro, a historic New York City house gets a delightful makeover
mother nature
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Finnish Lines
Resurfaced by Hem, a postmodern Nordic icon is back on the shelves
Changed for Good
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