September/October 2021

Vogue Living

The art of living.

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Contributors
PHOTOGRAPHER For Milan-based creative Francesco Dolfo, photography has been a part of life since childhood. “It was handed down to me by my grandfather through my father and uncle,” says Dolfo. Born in north-east Italy during a notorious earthquake w
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Rebecca Caratti EDITOR editor@vogueliving.com.au ACTING EDITOR Jake Millar CREATIVE DIRECTOR Natasha Allen DEPUTY EDITOR Verity Magdalino STYLE EDITOR Joseph Gardner ACTING CHIEF COPY EDITOR Virginia Jen MELBOURNE EDITOR & FEATURES WRITER Annemarie K
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Editor’s Letter
There’s just something about Italy. When I started telling people this issue would be dedicated to Italian design, they all had pretty much the same reaction. “Ah,” they said, their eyes growing distant as their minds turned to thoughts of sightseein
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Return To Form
For 60 years the Milan Furniture Fair has held firm as the centre of the design world. If 2020 was effectively a leap year — the Salone first postponed then cancelled outright — this month, it’s back with a vengeance as what organisers are calling Su
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Take The Tour
Working with Nicolò Bini of Line Architecture, English model-turned-actor CARA DELEVINGNE has crafted a joyous ode to fun and frivolity in her LOS ANGELES HOME. Complete with a ball pit, tented POKER ROOM and attic party bunker, the white brick 1941-
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Lights Camera Milan In Action
Hermès’s latest collection explores texture with bold, organic furniture by Studio Mumbai, enamelled copper centrepieces (right), and a playful tea service titled Hippomobile (left and centre). Italian artist Gianpaolo Pagni took inspiration from the
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The Best Of Both Worlds
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The Italian Eye
After early training in Spain, Massimo Adario completed his studies at Sapienza University of Rome before founding his agency in 2007. Elegant, refined and ultra-sophisticated, his interiors are punctuated with references to big Italian design names,
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Eternal Muse
Rome’s historic Spanish Steps are famed as a meeting place for Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in the 1953 classic Roman Holiday. They’ve been name-checked in songs by Bob Dylan and Van Morrison, in F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1933 novel, Tender is the Nigh
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Paul Hecker
It is morning tea served with sticky cake and sardonic commentary in the cosy kitchen of designer Paul Hecker’s Melbourne home — a semi-detached Federation dwelling in which storm-dark walls draw eyes to a wealth of Wiener Werkstätte gems and jolly a
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Chilled Luxury
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Elsa Peretti
The year of 1968 marked a major turning point for Elsa Peretti. She moved to New York to further her modelling career and then with the money she scraped together, bought her first home in the largely abandoned Catalan village of Sant Martí Vell. Thi
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La Grande bellezza
The small city of Noto, found stepping up the sun-soaked coastline of the Syracuse province in Italy’s southern island Sicily, is an unspoiled jewel of the late baroque that savvy travellers dare not share for fear it be corrupted and commodified by
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Express Yourself
The home of Francesco Risso, creative director of Italian fashion house Marni, is in a handsome early-20th century Milan building located in the city’s centre. The facade is an elaborately embellished succession of decorative walls and columns, and o
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A Moveable Feast
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At First Blush
Greg Natale has built an entire career on his penchant for bold motifs — he’s so enamoured he even produced a book, The Patterned Interior, a few years ago. So when the Sydney-based designer met Angela Delic — the pioneering owner and director of a l
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Lindsey Adelman
Lindsey Adelman recalls her heart “leaping” when she flipped the switch and her very first Branching Bubble chandelier lit up. “I made it using industrial parts I’d sourced from various places and hand-blown glass bulbs a friend had made,” she says.
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The next Frontier
It’s a journey Tamsin Johnson has taken many a client through: sell the apartment, find a family home with rambling gardens and an open fireplace, and furnish it with an eclectic sprinkling of art, top-of-the-line appliances and family heirlooms to t
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Ponti in The Air
It’s a well-worn cliché that Milanese interiors are mannered tributes to their northern Italian metropolis — aged monumentality integrating with mid-century modernism in an ambient tension of high and low. This is true of the Milano Centrale apartmen
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The Complete Cooking Experience
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Keeping in character
Wandering under the historic threshold of creative Barnaba Fornasetti’s home in Milan’s Città Studi quarter, you might be forgiven for thinking you are entering into the looking glass of Alice herself, such is the juxtaposition of normality outside a
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Kitchen Perfection
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Natural Art
Australian singer-songwriter Tina Arena teamed up with French-Moroccan architect and designer Jamal G, founder and managing director of creative studio Frenchitecture, to transform a Victorian terrace in Melbourne into Arena’s vision of a “dreamy hol
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Next Level
The elegantly curved Patricia Urquiola-designed bath may be the leading lady of this compact Sydney bathroom created by Fiona Lynch but the supporting acts are no less impressive. The graphic contrast of the scarlet-toned towel heater with cool grey
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Paris, Je T’aime
Inspired by a modern Paris apartment, the brief for the kitchen in this four-bedroom home in Perth’s Salter Point was for an open, comfortable yet sophisticated space where a family can easily gather — and where the everyday mess of mealtime can be c
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Future Vision
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