6) Urs Fischer’s Culinary Studio
In December 2019, West Coast editor Mayer Rus traveled to artist Urs Fischer’s private Arcadia, situated in East L.A. Rus described the room seen above as a “giddy, polychromatic discipline of encaustic tiles that varieties the ground of his voluminous mad scientist-meets-gourmand kitchen.” The Swiss sculptor added, “Some rooms, just like the kitchen, you need to make you are feeling up and excited… Different rooms, like the lounge, you need to decrease your coronary heart charge.” On the bigger of the 2 tables pictured, chairs by Hans J. Wegner supply perches on which to sit down. The colourful cement flooring tiles had been made utilizing an encaustic, or scorching wax, paint technique. Followers of Fischer’s work could also be reminded of a few of his most well-known items, that are constructed out of wax, and soften into newly deformed shapes as soon as their wicks are lit.
7) Anne Hathaway’s Swiss Imaginative and prescient
No, this kitchen, revealed in a fall 2019 problem of AD, shouldn’t be set someplace within the French countryside. As an alternative, it’s situated in Southern California, and is inhabited by none aside from actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, Adam Shulman. Impressed by Swiss ski retreats, it was created by AD100 designer Pamela Shamshiri of L.A.’s Studio Shamshiri. “Pam actually leaned into it,” Hathaway instructed AD at one level. As for Shamshiri, the designer displays, “We tried to take care of the sweetness that made the home so particular whereas including new layers of shade, texture, and furnishings from completely different eras that mirror the evolution of the house over time and the nice and cozy, beneficiant spirit of Annie and Adam.” Elsewhere, a white La Cornue vary matches the Rohl farm sink. Copper pots play properly off of classic copper pendants, that are interspersed with lighting fixtures designed by Deborah Ehrlich.
