For AD100 designer Andre Mellone, there’s nothing worse than a indifferent consumer. “My greatest nightmare is an individual who says, ‘Carte blanche, do no matter you need, and I’ll see you on the finish,’” he says. “Some designers may like that to keep away from the friction in relationships, however for me that’s not the place I get impressed.” He met his match with Lauren Santo Domingo, cofounder of Moda Operandi and creative director of Tiffany House, who reached out to the designer about taking up her household’s ski home in Jackson Gap, Wyoming.
“Lauren actually understands fashion and has a viewpoint,” says Mellone, who anticipated Santo Domingo’s temper board to be reasonably “conventional, traditional, and stylish” and was left pleasantly shocked: “Her concepts and inspirations confirmed one other aspect to her,” he says. “They have been fashionable, masculine, and really midcentury design—all these references have been smack into what I like however coming from her.” The auspicious beginnings bred a ski home refined in fashion and missing of just about each, as Santo Domingo places it, “chalet cliché.” Right here, Mellone takes AD PRO behind the design of the mountain retreat, which graces the quilt of AD’s December subject.
Excellent Matches
For Mellone, a successful inside is “a steadiness of classic, customized, and up to date.” It labored out completely, then, that through the design of this residence, Santo Domingo ventured to Europe and paid a particular go to to classic design gallery Morentz within the Netherlands. “I mentioned to her ‘I can’t consider you’re there, that’s one in all my favourite locations too,’” says Mellone, including that Santo Domingo texted him a photograph of her daughter on the gallery sitting in an Ovalia egg chair by Thor Larsen for Torlan Staffanstorp with the observe: “We’re getting this.” The piece can now be discovered within the household room matching the uncommon Kvadrat-upholstered modular Novemila couch by Tito Agnoli for Arflex.
A shared fondness for Morentz was simply one of many serendipitous happenings. Each Mellone and Santo Domingo have been wanting to work with New York design studio Inexperienced River Undertaking, whose daybed upholstered in material from Bode lends a pop of blue to the lounge. However the anchor of this house is the Studio Mellone–designed L-shaped sectional, a reinterpretation of a piece by the late Italian architect and designer Gae Aulenti. “This room had funky proportions—it was very skinny, very lengthy—so it was necessary that this piece match completely,” says Mellone, who created the couch early within the course of and decided the remainder of the lounge’s design decisions round it.
