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Contents
An antique Biedermeier
chest and muted colors
bring a sensuality to
Sandra Nunnerley’s bedroom
in an East Side townhouse (p. 42).
52 A Family Affair
In a Park Avenue apartment that once
belonged to Barbara Walters, a young
family’s urbane taste creates a very
contempory-looking classic.
60 Rustic Hideaway
Juan Montoya’s Dutchess County retreat
encompasses 110 acres, lake included.
FEATURES
34 Nine is Enough
Robert and Cortney Novogratz, along with
their seven kids, have moved more than
15 times, renovating and flipping
properties in the city. Their 100-year-old
country farmhouse is a keeper, though.
48 Small is Beautiful
Russell Bush has lived in a tiny, one-bed-
room, prewar apartment for more than 30
years. The size hasn’t stopped him from
collecting all of his favorite things.
in the shops
10 Decked Out
This season’s fresh crop of outdoor furnishings.
By Marianne Rohrlich
Collecting
14 Staged, Startled and Photographed
A selection of current photo gallery shows, including edgy
newby Hasted Hunt in Chelsea. By Alex Taylor
real estate
18 When All the World’s Real Estate Is Staged
Not content to ask clients to use their imaginations when
viewing their empty new buildings, developers employ
professionals to create super-model apartments.
By Chloe Malle.
on the shelves
24 Zaha’s Aha! Moments
A review of Zaha Hadid Complete Works.
By Chloe Malle
in the neighborhood
80 Mucho Musto
2408 Main Street, bridgehampton, ny 11932 The dean of downtown nightlife lives—who would have
631.537.1032 guessed?—in Murry Hill. By Annie Kelly
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Showcasing Our Flooring and Beams
Modern Wing
A folding bird feeder of
white painted steel is $50
at MoMA. Momastore.org,
800-851-4509; 81 Spring
Street (at Crosby Street),
or 44 West 53rd Street. Faux Fleurs A 10-inch square
patch of fake green grass,
with or without flowers, is
$20 at CITE. Citenyc.com,
866-764-0888; 131 Greene
Street (at Houston Street).
Decked Out
With longer days and warmer
nights, the desire to stay outside Shine a Little Light
can be downright overwhelming, Solig, a set of three 2-inch-wide,
just like when we were kids, battery-operated LED lights are
ignoring our mother’s call to come $2.99 (they shine for about 90 hours
home. The new crop of colorful and are not rechargeable) at Ikea
stores. Ikea.com or call 800-434-
furnishings for outdoor living
4532 for store locations.
provides the perfect excuse to stay
out after dark, light up the barbecue
and check out the night sky.
by marianne rohrlich Perch
The Shadowy Chair by Tord
Boontje is made in Senegal of
woven nylon cord on a steel frame
and goes for $2,898 at Anthropolo-
gie. Anthropologie.com or call 800-
309-2500 for store locations.
A Seussical Pot
Sky pots hold plants upside down
and have an internal reservoir for self-
watering. In three sizes: small, $55;
medium, $75; and large, $95. At Flora
N.Y. Florany.com or call 212-274-1887;
85 Franklin Street (at Church Street).
Baby Bar-B
Bodum’s 15-inch barbecue
Sunshine grill is $55 at Mxyplyzyk.
A string of eight Mxyplyzyk.com or call 800-
solar-powered LED 243-9810; 125 Greenwich
globe lights will stay Avenue (at 13th Street) or
lit for about nine 10 Columbus Circle (Time
hours when fully Warner Center).
charged; $19.99 at
Ikea stores. ikea.com
or call 800-434-4532
for locations.
Salad Days
A large plastic bowl shaped like a lettuce leaf
is $9.99 (a small one is $4.99) at Tarzian West.
Tarzian-west.com or call 718-788-4213; 194
Seventh Avenue (at Second Street) Brooklyn.
2010
Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club Decorator Show House, originally scheduled
for April 30 - May 28, has been postponed until Fall 2010.
Thank you for your continued support of this time-honored tradition and important
fundraiser. The Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club Decorator Show House raises critical
funds for the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, which provides much needed afterschool
and enrichment programs for 13,000 children throughout the Bronx.
Sponsored by:
collecting
Ryan McGinley
“Staged and Started” as a glossy, plus-size print.
at Team Gallery
Also included in the show are a series of contrastable When the book is written on the
works by Eggleston and Friedlander, both masters whose youth craze in contemporary
subject may be fairly termed the nova of everyday but of art, the 32-year-old McGinley
wildly different temperaments. Eggleston is a Southern bred may well merit a chapter. (His
friend, the artist Dash Snow, who
raconteur in love with the lush, dye-transfer color. Fried-
died last summer at the age of
lander is a rigorous formalist (he works in black and white) 27, merits a chapter, too, albeit
who works with a swiveled rhythm and hipster humor. In a cautionary one.) Since his debut at the Whitney Museum seven years
New York City (1966), the artist appears, as a hovering shad- ago, with photos of young downtown types caught in exquisite states of
ow, on the back of a woman’s coat. A photograph by Fried- stupidity, McGinley has had a much-in-demand career as the chief life-
lander of, say, a dense street scene, rarely gives itself up for style photographer of youth. Since then he’s shot assignments for Vice
and The Times. This latest show, of black-and-white nudes, stretches his
Courtesy HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER/NYC; Courtesy David Zwirner, New York; Courtesy Team Gallery and Ryan McGinley;
first impressions. Come to think of it, neither does life.
range. It will be interesting to see how McGinley develops from here.
Most of the works in “Staged and Startled” fall within “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” continues through April 17 at Team
the documentary tradition of photography. An exception Gallery, 83 Grand Street, Soho, 212-29-9219, teamgal.com.
is a photograph of the celebrity couple Angelina Jolie and
JoAnn Verburg
Brad Pitt by Steven Klein, the newest in the show. Titled at Pace/MacGill
Case Study #13 no. 18 (2005), the photo recycles Bonnie and In 2007-2008, Verburg had a mid-ca-
Ledge, 2009: Copyright JoAnn Verburg, Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Clyde–style glamour—Pitt points a handgun; Jolie bares reer survey at MoMA and the Walker
a tattooed arm and mugs for the camera—in a stripped- Art Center in Minneapolis that covered
down, blank setting that may either be a cheap motel suite a career that’s moved from early, con-
ceptually under documentary images of
or, more likely, a set for a shoot. It’s anyone’s guess. This is
the American West to immersive, multi-
photography surrounded by invisible quotation marks—a paneled triptychs of Mediterranean olive
distinctly 21st-century picture coming out of the image trees. Her recent work from the ancient
glut and indistinct memories. Haven’t we seen this before? Italian hill town of Spoleto is among her
Haven’t we seen everything before? That is one of those best. Her multilayered photos of the city
capture it’s narrow streets, angled al-
questions photography will have to answer as it heads into
leyways and classically decrepit stucco
a unnerving new decade. fronts. These images are, on the surface,
materially minded. They tell a deeper story about the time lapsing and the
“Great Photographs of the 20th Century: Staged and Startled” movement of time, as do portraits of certain Spoleto citizens.
continues through May 1 at the Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, 537 W. “Interruptions” continues through May 1 at Pace MacGill, 32 East 57th
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The Mighty
Starchitects
By Tim Street-Porter
“Starchitects Conquer New York” is the title of
a recent, well-researched blog post on Curbed
NY’s Web site. (For the uninitiated: This is an
indispensable source for architecture and real
estate news and gossip.) The piece’s New York Jean Nouvel conquers New
Post–style heading spells out the state of play York. Below: Frank Gehry
between the city’s major developers and the addresses the faithful.
and Meuron, et al.—were all of Trump Palaces that line an from all the starchitects wafting grandly around
to be seen disembarking at interminable stretch of the up- the receptions with their entourages. As a foot-
Kennedy, brandishing plans. per West Side Highway. note, I asked a very dignified James Stirling, a
The results of this enlight- “Starchitects,” though? senior British A-lister, if he ever signed auto-
ened business activity can be Isn’t this a vulgar way to talk graphs. “I don’t do those,” was his pointed reply.
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My Life With the Power Brokers
New York’s
into a pothole, sold a single duplex at 834 Fifth
Avenue four times—first for $225,000; then
to John DeLorean; then to Reginald Lewis, the
first African-American allowed into a so-called Source
Good Building; then to Carl Icahn’s old chief
investor, who paid $33,444,500.
“They lie, the brokers—they lie to brokers,
for Custom
they lie to clients. There’s lying. Lying,” Linda
Stein, probably the first New York celebrity
and Ready Made
real estate agent, told me in the spring of 2007.
“There is no high except the money, which is
Lampshades
extremely taxable.” She was found murdered
by her assistant that October.
And Edward Lee Cave was the pristinely
genteel agent whose eponymous brokerage 21 Spring Street
was taken over last year by Brown Harris Ste- New York, NY 10012
vens. “When I first started, all the doormen had
(212) 966-2757
white gloves,” he sighed then. “And they don’t
anymore. It’s called change.”
—Max Abelson w w w. j u s t s h a d e s n y. c o m
on the shelves
Zaha’s Aha!
Moments
By Chloe Malle
“Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase is Zaha
Hadid’s grandmother.” So declares Aaron Betsky,
director of the Cincinnati Art Museum, and au-
thor of the recently released edition of the ac-
claimed Anglo-Iraqi architect complete works.
Like Duchamp’s Nude, Hadid’s work is
collage-like, planar, multi-faceted—and so is this
book; a complex layering of plans, photos and
ideas, often one indiscernible from the other.
As renowned for her unbuilt designs as for her
built ones, this sharp-cornered coffee table
tome makes little distinction between the two,
seamlessly—and confusingly—weaving between
the built and the abstract. While organized
chronologically by project with Hadid’s formu-
Above: Plans for
laic descriptions of each project, this is not a
the London Aquatic
handheld tour through the architect’s work, but
Centre for the London
2012 Olympic games.
rather a montage of what inspired it and what
Left: Hadid with de- it, in turn, inspired. With photographs of the
Zaha Hadid Complete Works
signer Karl Lagerfeld. models—or, gasp, finished buildings—the excep-
by Zaha Hadid
tion to the rule, the book is more a collection of
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In collaboration with abstract paintings and drawings than traditional
Patrik Schumacher: blueprints and architect renderings.
below left, Icone Bag Her paintings and drawings are angular, post-
(Louis Vuitton), and impressionist works with deftly woven architec-
below right, Melissa
tural tilts. Her drawings imagine the aftermath
shoe.
of the explosion—or implosion—of a modernist
Utopia where only fragments remain; mobile,
definitive, the only narrative today’s urbanism
can provide. Her drawing titled New York, Man-
hattan: A New Calligraphy of Plan is a somber
take on Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie, this one
with large swatches of black space and curled,
diagonal lines creeping through.
Flipping through the pages of abstracted
paintings and Futurist renderings, one thing
becomes clear: Zaha Hadid builds flows motion.
In fact, perhaps in deference to this, the entire
volume seems to be in flux, a compendium
of dynamics and motion. Even the
Walter Benjamin quotation about the
invention of film changing the very
nature of time that prefaces Betsky’s
introduction is in sharp italics, zealously
pushing the eye to the next page before we have
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as his creation of the legendary Domus A sense of joie de vivre infused ev-
The lobby of the Hotel Parco
magazine in 1928, which he continued erything Ponti turned his attention to,
dei Principe in Sorrento.
to produce, on and off, until his death. and this alone makes Gio Ponti irresist-
Besides the multitude of photographs of ible. Which is just as well: Much of the
Ponti’s productions, there are his draw- writing is difficult and vague. Italian
ings; he drew ceaselessly and captivat- commentaries and postulations on
ingly throughout his life, demonstrating design tend not to make much sense,
further his stylistic genius as a form- emanating as they do from the opaque
maker. Ponti also served as a university cauldron of Milanese intellectualism.
professor, and was the author of nu- Which reminds me of an article I once
merous books and innumerable articles. wrote for Domus that was translated
He created costumes for La Scala opera and published in Italian, and then re-
and designed his own clothes, even ap- translated into English at the back of
pearing on Italian best-dressed lists. the magazine for English-language
He was a prolific product designer, and readers. When I read the latter, I was
drew an automobile for Alfa Romeo. As surprised to find that my straightfor-
a furniture designer he was already es- ward text, with its carefully constructed
tablished in the 1920s, featuring motifs analogies, had emerged from the blend-
that anticipated those of the 1940s, and er wonderfully atmospheric and poet-
his vibrant ’50s collaborations with For- ic—I remember wishing I could write
nasseti are especially notable. like that—but making no sense at all.
Modern Gardening
By Nancy Butkus elements like low stone walls, fields of tall switch
This book invites you to take a spin around 25 grass and an isolated tree or three; the overall
of the most luxurious contemporary gardens in effect is breathtakingly beautiful, with a decidely
America—courtesy of veteran garden photogra- Shaker appeal. She wants the visitor to become
pher Roger Foley. His cinematic photographs aware of “the bark on a tree, to just stop a sec-
capture the distinct beauty of each garden, from ond.” These 12 acres, void of all ornamention,
the soft blur of seaside grasses in a Long Island just shimmers with its quiet beauty.
meadow to the man-made limestone grottoes of The garden at Mount Sharon in Virgina
a Coral Gables extravaganza. The acompanying pulls out all the stops. Designed by Charles
A Clearing in the Woods: text, also written by Foley, lays out the design Stick for a private client, it incoroporates four
Creating Contemporary Gardens brief and the guiding inspiration and mentions terraces of formal parterres, gushing fountains,
by Roger Foley, many of the primary plants and trees utilized, rose-smothered pergolas, Italian statuary and
The Monacelli Press
but more on this a bit later. clipped hornbeam trees à la Française. Because
$50
Edwina von Gal, a gardening superstar whose the property also encompasses long views of
clients include Calvin Klein and Steven Spiel- the rolling Virginia hills, it achieves the perfect
berg, created a minimalist landscape for her own yin-yang of garden design—wide open areas
home in East Hampton. She relied on simple complemented by manicured and detailed in-
J J J
Tim Geaney
By Sara Vilkomerson
But the New England home, which the family uses year-
round and occasionally rents out to help fund family vacations,
is a constant. “It could be we only spend two nights, or three
weeks, but we feel recharged when we come back to the city.
We eat so healthily—in the summertime everyone has gor-
geous gardens,” Ms. Novogratz said. “We constantly just kind
of relax when we’re up there.” Except when it’s time to pack
up 7 kids to go skiing. “For me to take seven kids out West?
Forget it,” she said. “[Up in Great Barrington] it’s just five min-
utes from our house—I can get [the kids’] boots on in the car.”
She paused for a moment. “It can be a little overwhelming, but
we know how to manage it.”
By Annie Kelly
It must seem a long way from New Zealand for Sandra Nun- Noland painting from that period hangs in her living room to-
nerley, who has followed a gently winding path around the day.) “I really loved the art world,” explains Nunnerley, “espe-
world to find herself in New York as a successful decorator. cially during the 1980s, with the photorealists like Don Eddy.”
She first studied architecture in Sydney, but soon became fas- But then she started thinking about decorating as an inter-
cinated with the art world, eventually moving to New York via esting career move, “It wasn’t an option in New Zealand when
Europe, to work at the legendary Marlborough Gallery in the I was growing up,” she says. A large Manhattan corporate de-
landmark Fuller Building on the Upper East Side. Here, Nun- sign firm (now closed) proved an ideal learning environment.
nerley promoted the Color Field painting school (a Kenneth Soon, Nunnerley was heading their special projects depart-
Small Is
Beautiful
Russell Bush has lived in this prewar
jewelbox for more than 30 years, proving
small spaces can deliver big statements.
The front door opens directly to the someday. Years later he spotted a bed
main living space, passing a small kitch- in a friend’s apartment that he recog-
en, masquerading as a built-in cupboard. nized as being from the Beaton estate.
In his home office space, Bush has set Somehow he persuaded the owner to
up a long table that doubles as a dining part with it. So now, even though the
table, draped in an olive-green felt cloth purchase of Ashcome House escaped
cut with a decorative edge. Books are him (it was bought by Madonna in 2001
everywhere, in towering stacks at the for a small fortune), at least he sleeps in
entrance to the room, filling the book Cecil Beaton’s bed. Today it is covered
shelves, and even cleverly concealed in a leopard print bedspread and over-
behind the four screens in each corner looked by a portrait painted by Law-
upholstered with “Les Colonnes” from rence Mynott of Beaton’s great friend,
Braquenie (found at Pierre Frey fabrics). “Screens make great Stephen Tennant.
storage spaces!” exclaims the decorator. What’s next for this cultivated decorator? More personal
One of a pair of treasured 19th-century chairs from the projects. Bush has always been fascinated by 19th-century
great French decorator Madeleine Castaing sits near the table. photography and has started to try “almost everything from
“I would visit her at her store in the sixth arrondissment ev- daguerreotypes to digital, wet-plate collodian images, hand-
ery time I went to Paris,” explains Bush, “ and I saw them in a painted silver gelatin prints using oil paints, and polaroid lifts
storage room. Of course, nothing was ever really for sale unless and transfers,” says the designer. He especially loves to print
she liked you.” After expressing a wary interest in them during in the traditional silver gelatin way, providing the same type of
several trips to Paris, the purchase was negotiated, and today reseach challenge that he invariably undergoes for each deco-
they add a touch of exoticism to the small space. rating project.
When Bush was growing up in the Pennsylvania coun- This charming little apartment shows that if space is lack-
tryside, he was inspired by a Vogue magazine story on Cecil ing, style becomes the essence. Beaton and his friends would
Beaton’s two houses and vowed that he would live like that have approved. —A.K.
Back in 2005, New York decorator Timothy Whealon got a call nearby office to take a look, Whealon realized that not much
from a stylish couple in their mid-30s who needed help with a rearranging was needed—the three main rooms lined up in an
new apartment. “They heard about me from a mutual friend, attractive enfilade, and three of its four bedrooms had great
and they liked a published house I decorated,” he explains. The views over Park Avenue.
couple were moving from a downtown loft, but didn’t want to “The big changes were really cosmetic, “ explains Wheal-
sacrifice their hip urban lifestyle in the transition to their new on’s assistant, Sarah Klug, “but we totally redid the kitchen,
Upper East Side apartment, with its formal and conventional bar and bathrooms. Every room in the apartment has new wall
layout. After all, it did once belong to Barbara Walters, who is treatments which include decorative painting, combing and
from quite another generation. When he walked over from his wallpaper.” This is obvious right from the entry, which has
been hand-stenciled in a dramatic tree pattern, based on 18th- comfortable armchairs upholstered in Lee Jofa’s Herbert’s
century wallpaper in Sweden’s Drottningholm Palace, the cur- Carnation Weave, which flank a sturdy brown corduroy-vel-
rent home of the Swedish Royal Family. The main dining and vet sofa. Whealon brought the formality of the room down
living rooms lead off to the right, where Whealon has given with a rustic abaca rug, and gave the walls a pale cream yellow
the couple a fresh contemporary style of decorating that suits treatment to keep it fresh. This room leads onto a comfortable
their new uptown lives. Especially as they have now had two library with reclaimed pine paneling, designed by architect
children in quick succession. “Their mother kept the original Leonard Woods; it includes bookcases full of books and baby
guest bedrooms as they were, she just gave them children’s pictures. A cowhide ottoman holds piles of magazines and
beds and added her own personal touches,” adds Whealon. flowers, and a round table by the window struggles to support
The dining room came together all at once when the couple mounds of books.
bought a graphic painting by Hurvin Anderson, which an- The master bedroom is incredibly peaceful, considering it
chored the whole apartment, as it can be seen from all of the overlooks busy, traffic-filled Park Avenue, and Whealon deco-
main rooms. The living room is a fresh and pretty space, with rated it to be a calm space, adding the large comfortable bed.
“My client had a lot of interest in this room; she loved the
new Lulu DK fabric, which we used for the curtains and ot-
toman,” says Whealon. “I wanted to bring more geometry
into the room, so we added a blue-and-cream David Hicks
carpet.” Whealon painted the walls a pale blue, then de-
cided to give the woodwork a warm, cream-colored trim to
balance the cool hues of the room. He hung an early 20th-
century raw crystal chandelier to bring a bit of glamour and
reflected light into the space.
After months of work, this is now the sophisticated apart-
ment of a well-traveled couple who were lucky enough to
find the right decorator to help them create a family home in
enviable comfort and style. —A.K.
58
For the tranquil master
bedroom, Whealon designed
the bed and used Paradiso
fabric by Lulu DK for
the curtains and bench.
Designer Juan Montoya’s work—often seen in the pages of have work everywhere, and it is convenient for everyone if I
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has been a fixture on the New York night- kitch: palm trees, a doll collection and even a Britto, and another on a laminated tabletop (“It
life scene, faithfully recording the downtown working fountain.” doesn’t have legs; otherwise, I would love to eat
high life for his Village Voice column La Dolce The long living room, furnished with a com- on a painting of myself”) by Anthony Zito. When
Musto. Musto hasn’t strayed far from his child- fortable sofa, is perfect for entertaining. “Every he travels for his column, he visits places with a
hood Brooklyn home; he rented his first apart- two weeks, I host a movie club with four friends pecularly American sense of aesthetics—Miami,
ment in Manhattan after graduating in English where we watch really bad movies,” says Musto, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Atlantic City. “I love
literature at Columbia University in the late “like Jacqueline Susann’s Once Is Not Enough the casino culture, especially as I don’t gamble. I
1970s and now, many moves later, lives in what from the Joan Collins Video Selection, and my like the shows, the buffet tables and the glitz.”
he calls the “Switzerland” of New York, Murry personal favorite, The Ghost Goes Gear, from the Back home, he enjoys the empty spaces of his
Hill (for its neutral vibe.) “People always as- Spencer Davis Group.” apartment. When asked to describe his personal
sume I live downtown, not in a one-bedroom His bedroom has curtains that block out the style, Musto replies, “My taste is store-bought,
co-op in Murray Hill,” he explains, “ but when morning light, as Musto generally attends five to but the combination is very me and can’t be rep-
I leave the apartment, I am equidistant from six events a night, usually coming home around licated. I call it ‘Early Reign of Terror’!”
the midtown Broadway premieres and the Vil- 2:30 a.m. He owes his stamina to good habits—“I —A.K.
lage Voice downtown.” Musto has owned this don’t drink or do drugs, as I need to have a clear
apartment for two years, and it’s surprisingly head in the morning to write about what hap- Michael Musto’s upcoming book, Fork on the
empty of possessions. “During my last move, I pened.” Around the bedroom are various por- Left, Knife in the Back, is from Alyson Books.
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