January/February 2020

Vogue Living

The art of living.

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Vogue Living
Rebecca Caratti EDITOR editor@vogueliving.com.au CREATIVE DIRECTOR Natasha Allen DEPUTY EDITOR Verity Magdalino STYLE EDITOR Joseph Gardner ACTING CHIEF COPY EDITOR Virginia Jen DESIGNER Alicia Ridley MARKET EDITOR Anna Delprat MELBOURNE EDITOR & FEA
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Contributors
The illustrious photographer captured Tommy Hilfiger’s exuberant beachside home in Miami exclusively for Vogue Living this issue (page 88). Stepping behind the lens since his teens, Abranowicz started his career after trusting his instincts and leavi
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Take The Tour
An artful new breed of BOUTIQUE HOTELS is sweeping across BALI, breathing fresh energy into the much-loved Indonesian hotspot. Legendary architect Rem Koolhaas’s latest project, a hotel at the DESA POTATO HEAD complex in Seminyak, features pieces fro
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Editor’s Letter
I recently had the pleasure of meeting our cover stars Tommy Hilfiger and Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger at a cocktail event aboard a fabulous yacht cruising Sydney Harbour. The couple were charming and playful as we relaxed in the sunshine, with the eventual
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Art And Soul
What role does art play in the home? It plays no role unless you assign it one: to memorialise a face or a place, to semaphore success, to offset tax or a damask-covered couch, to console for the endless pressure to acquire, to politicise, to exhilar
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Here Comes The sun
TURN UP THE HEAT WITH THE LATEST OUTDOOR FURNITURE AND ACCESSORIES THAT ECHO HOLIDAY RESORT APPEAL AND ENCOURAGE LONG BALMY DAYS BY THE WATER. THE OUTDOOR ESSENTIALS: A GENEROUSLY SIZED BEACH UMBRELLA, A STATEMENT CHAIR OR LOUNGER TO RECLINE IN STYLE
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Fletcher Art
In evolutionary terms, Sarah Fletcher is a hardy species who shifts her behaviour and bearings with a Darwinian instinct for survival. As the former co-owner and founder of Franque — a seductive intersection of art, luxury retail and the long lunch i
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Fresh Vision
Two water bottles, a portable speaker and a pocket-sized device that holds a re-usable shopping bag are the Australian designs that could become the newest stars in Alessi’s world-renowned collection of home accessories. Famous for its playful, vibra
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LIFE Of The PARTY
The caviar party was one of the first big ones,” says Laurent Buttazzoni, sitting on a vintage Eero Saarinen Womb chair in his art-filled apartment in Paris’s Marais district. “It was for Marc Newson — we have the same birthday. A Russian client brou
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Tricia Guild
From the moment Tricia Guild OBE founded Designers Guild in 1970, her life and work have been all about art and colour. “My first Indian block-print-inspired collection, Village, was maybe the reverse of everything I was seeing around me in the early
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Jacques Couëlle
Architecture as sculpture is nothing new. Shapely and thought-provoking edifices have adorned the planet since the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt. More recently, as though the sky god Horus had returned to shake things up across the earthly pla
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SPARKLE & POP
When it came to redecorating their modernist Miami mansion, fashion designer couple Tommy Hilfiger and Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger let their wild art collection take centrestage — and the result is eye-popping. “We wanted it to be really kind of crazy, like
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presence OF MIND
In the hinterland of the French Riviera between Monte Carlo and Marseille, the villa in the Domaine du Muy sculpture park glistens in the Mediterranean sun. Painted matt silver, like many of the artworks installed in the surrounding 10 hectares of pi
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Playful ABANDON
The conditions that chiselled Victorian-era housing into an analogue of Greek antiquity differ wildly from the concerns that now shape contemporary residences into concrete boxes. Both architectural orders mirror the aspirations of an age and their a
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CREATIVE pursuits
Lorraine Tarabay’s eyes shine when the conversation turns to art and the design provenance of her heritage-listed home overlooking the diamond sparkle of the harbour in Sydney’s Point Piper. Tarabay, along with husband Nick Langley, is the owner of o
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Out And about
Thomas Siffer and his wife Els Lybeer live very full lives. The couple have travelled extensively, including a stint spent sailing around the world on an adventure that spanned three years. After very successful careers — Siffer in television, media
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Wine Country
We’re sitting in a grand lounge. Smartly dressed waiters are shaking martinis behind a brass-topped bar while quiet groups sit attentively atop pale green sofas nibbling cucumber sandwiches, listening to the captain with his charming Normandy accent
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The Extra Nile
The world’s most storied river is in many ways unchanged from the days when Cleopatra sailed down it on her barge. In Agatha Christie’s famous murder mystery, Death on the Nile, the assorted characters first gathered at the Old Cataract Hotel at Aswa
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Next-level Cruising
Crystal Endeavor, which will be the largest, most spacious purpose-built polar class expedition yacht in the world, celebrates its inaugural season from August 2020 to December 2021 with a maiden exploration of Russia and the Far East, a 17-night rou
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The Mekong, Three Ways
The Mekong’s newest ship, Avalon Saigon, and her sister ship, Avalon Siem Reap, follow the Mekong all the way from Siem Reap to Ho Chi Minh City (or the reverse), rather than coach passengers to the dock, a point of difference from other cruises. Eac
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Raffles Redux
When it opened in 1887, Raffes was a 10-room bungalow hotel on the Singapore waterfront. One hundred and thirty-two years later, that modest bungalow is inarguably the most famous hotel in Asia, a rare colonial-era gem and listed National Monument th
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Home stretch
The Mekong river flows from the Tibetan plateau, through Yunnan province in China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia to Vietnam, a journey that goes through the heart of many striking landscapes and cultures. In the Mekong Delta alone, where the r
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Sense Of Place
Hotel restaurants must be one of the most challenging gigs in interior design. Somehow, in one space, a designer must create an environment befitting long lunches, indulgent special-occasion dinners and rambunctious late-night cocktail parties as wel
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Social
The aptly titled Wisteria Room at the Centennial Homestead in Sydney’s Centennial Park was the setting for the launch of Vogue Living’s fragrance-filled design partnership with Palmolive on a new indulgent range of limited-edition foaming hand washes
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Partners In Design
Palmolive and Vogue Living have collaborated to create hand-wash designs that would complement any basin around the home. Inspired by Palmolive’s fragrances, the Vogue Living design team has introduced millennial pink and mint green tones with beauti

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