Architectural Digest

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Architectural Digest

EDITOR’S LETTER

Desk Jockey • Maurice Calka’s sculptural 1969 worktable feels as futuristic now as it did then

Fresh Air • From her Rio de Janeiro studio, artist Adriana Varejão forges new connections to nature and the wider world

Personality Studies • This holiday season, dazzle your loved ones with the latest treasures in our favorite moods of the moment

Flair for the Dramatic • Artist Francesca DiMattio’s exuberant new designs for Calico Wallpaper redefine everyday theatrics

Fluid Meaning • At the legendary Vitra Campus in Germany, a winding open-air pavilion realizes a poetic vision by the late great B.V. Doshi

Lay of the Land • Working from England’s Jurassic Coast, designer Jess Wheeler proves what grows together goes together

Rare Form • A new show at the Art Institute of Chicago spotlights the bold buildings and personal pastimes of American iconoclast Bruce Goff

Symbolic Power • Blending traditions in furnishings of uncommon beauty, Mehdi Dakhli unpacks complex cultural narratives

Breathing Exercise • Updating a historic New York town house, Andre Mellone and Jean-Gabriel Neukomm give the art ample air to shine

COLLECTIVE VISION • With help from designer Fernando Santangelo, filmmaker Fabiola Beracasa Beckman fashions a family-friendly showcase for a lifetime’s worth of art and objects in her Greenwich Village town house

DESIGN NOTES • DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK

ART APPRECIATION • For collectors Jen Rubio and Stewart Butterfield, a historic Hamptons house with interiors by Jake Arnold is the perfect canvas

HUNTING & GATHERING • In the Missoni clan’s longtime Alpine retreat, family matriarch Rosita’s love of foraged mushrooms, folksy flea market finds, and, of course, bold colors and patterns lives on

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE • Working with landscape designer Dennis Schrader, artist Ugo Rondinone crafts a meditative Long Island garden where bold sculptures mingle with moss

EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED • FROM HIS NEW STUDIO IN BROOKLYN, ARTIST JAMES CHERRY IS HONING HIS MATERIAL LANGUAGE TO SCALE UP HIS HANDMADE LOW-FI LIGHTS—ONE COMMISSION AT A TIME

THEN MEETS NOW • Rescued by a group of artists and restored with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Nina Simone’s childhood home reemerges as a beacon of Black cultural memory

GRAND ILLUSIONS • Architect Luca Bombassei has created a synthesis between ancient and modern, art and life, on a piano nobile of a palazzo on Venice’s Grand Canal

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