May/June 2023

Vogue Living

The art of living.

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REBECCA CARATTI EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ART DIRECTOR Sandy Dao DEPUTY EDITOR Virginia Jen STYLE EDITOR Joseph Gardner MELBOURNE EDITOR & FEATURES WRITER Annemarie Kiely DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL STRATEGY AND E-COMMERCE Francesca Wallace HEAD OF DIGITAL CONTENT AND
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Contributors
Artist and photographer Olga Antipina captured her friend Gaetano Pesce at home. “What Gaetano does best is to avoid anything empty, beauty for the sake of beauty without an idea underlying everything,” she says of the design icon (page 39). As to he
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Vl Online
Most art collections require years of dedicated acquisition. But for one family of four, the purchase of an apartment in Lower Manhattan’s tallest residential skyscraper, 30 Park Place, was too great a opportunity to resist. Curator Barbara Cartategu
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Editor’s Letter
I have been a fan of GAETANO PESCE for as long as I can remember. I recently purchased his Up Series chair as a Christmas gift to myself last year, after lusting after it for years. My daughters have so much fun playing on it and its this pure joy th
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PHOTOGRAPHER: FRANÇOIS COQUEREL. STYLIST: SARAH DE BEAUMONT. STYLE ASSISTANT: CLÉMENT BELLANGER ■
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INSIDE Gaetano Pesce’s WORLD
It’s Thursday afternoon in New York City, early Friday morning in Melbourne as the mutually agreed-upon Zoom date with design great Gaetano Pesce drops into the chasm of daylight saving. NYC has just ‘sprung forward’, causing a fold in time, which Pe
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True Colour
What’s in your bag? It’s the question behind Vogue’s serial interrogation of identity and celebrity through the everyday stuff it totes around. Today, it targets Melbourne’s Amanda Briskin-Rettig, design-founder of stealth accessories label A-esque,
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Like A Charm
In his beloved masterpiece The Little Prince, author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” This is the passage Alessandro Filippo Ficarelli and Francesco Terzo
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On Full Display
You two should know each other. You have so much in common.” It was this typical friend’s refrain that set things in motion. Los Angeles gallerist Shulamit Nazarian first met designer Pamela Shamshiri at the suggestion of creative director Michael Re
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Traditional Values
An apartment may seem like an odd choice for gallerist François Laffanour to call home, considering the larger residences he has had. But when the founder of Galerie Downtown in Paris came upon this timeless space within a quintessential Haussmann bu
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Still Life
The Italian-Brazilian designer Lina Bo Bardi called it the “historical present”. In architecture there is no past, she said. “What still exists today, and has not died, it is the historical present. On an architectural restoration project you have to
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Dramatic Twist
Without bogging down in the debate about architecture constituting art, the Fairlie apartment building — on the blue-chip boundary of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria — is a tightly held tower that, true to all best creative endeavours, buries the
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Creative Purpose
How do you want your home to feel?” It was one of the first questions back in 2017 posed by the team at architectural firm Carter Williamson to their clients, who now call this reinvigorated heritage-fronted Sydney harbourside dwelling home. The clie
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Faceted View
It was perhaps a matter of destiny or fate when multidisciplinary creative Arik Levy and fellow artist and wife Zoé Ouvrier’s long hunt for a countryside escape to establish a sculpture park south of Paris was over. “We had to be in Saint-Paul-de-Ven
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History Lesson
As far as glow-ups go, the transformation of the 1915 Department of Education building into Capella Sydney is one for the history books — and buffs. But while its newest chapter offers 192 spectacularly appointed rooms and suites, the building’s stor
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The Holiday Edit
PHOTOGRAPHER: MATTHIEU SALVAING. ROCKGROWTH 134 (2020) SCULPTURE BY ARIK LEVY ■
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