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FRAME reveals its Madison Avenue flagship
Los Angeles-born label FRAME has ramped up its New York presence with a gallery-like flagship on Madison Avenue. The Upper East Side location—which joins outposts in Soho and the Meatpacking District—was conceived by co-founder and chief creative officer Erik Torstensson and Paris designer Flora Byk as an open-plan space, where a custom polished mirror table and expansive skylight are married with concrete floors and white walls. Along with FRAME’s laidback yet refined women’s and men’s ready-to-wear collections, the store is a trove of ever shifting design, art, and decorative objects curated by Torstensson that lends it a residential feel. A Gio Ponti enfilade beckons to customers at the entrance, for instance, and a Jean Royère living room vignette backdropped by sculptural pillars references the building’s 1930s origins.
Project Spotlight
Tina Ramchandani’s green room for Suffs is a cozy ode to women’s suffrage
Suffs, the Broadway hit produced by Hillary Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, Jill Furman, and Rachel Sussman, delves into the 1913 Women’s Movement. So for the warm green room where high-profile guests hang out before the show begins, local designer Tina Ramchandani drew from the production’s 20th-century roots and melded Victorian, Rococo, and Art Deco elements with contemporary shapes and bright shades of pink and purple. Custom-made furniture and drapery courtesy of Home Interiors starring Giles Deacon’s maximalist floral fabric for Sanderson is rounded out by such pieces as a serpentine Currey & Co. side table and swirling Surya rug that pay homage to a pioneering female spirit.
AD PRO Hears…
…Lifestyle and fashion photographer Nick Mele has launched a fine art trade program for interior designers, art advisors, retailers, and other design professionals. The Palm Beach–based talent, known for his surreal photographic evocations of domestic life set amid luxurious, old-world interiors, is offering members benefits such as tiered wholesale pricing, bespoke framing options, and dedicated service.
Product Spotlight
In honor of its centenary, Svenskt Tenn reintroduces a Josef Frank icon
In the late 1930s, Stockholm design hub Svenskt Tenn ushered in the fun–filled botanical works of Josef Frank. Smitten by a visit to Swedish biologist Carl von Linne’s holiday home, where the bedroom walls were embellished with prints of flora, Svenskt Tenn founder Estrid Ericson asked Frank to pull such soothing imagery into his furniture designs for the company. One of the results is the Flora cabinet, swathed in colored botanical paper prints from botanist and artist Carl Lindman’s book Bilder ur Nordens Flora. Discontinued in 1970, the tall-legged beauty, crafted from mahogany and birch by Anders Mattsson, has now returned as part of the permanent range in honor of Svenskt Tenn’s centenary.
A crumbling French château inspires Farrow & Ball’s latest wall covering collection
When Australian couple Felicity Selkirk and Tim Holding began restoring the late 18th-century Château de Purnon in France’s Loire Valley, they uncovered a plethora of dazzling, intricate patterns throughout the crumbling abode’s interior. Farrow & Ball was so taken with these discoveries hiding in the château’s attic, linen cabinet, and dressing rooms that the heritage paint and wallpaper maker created the Purnon Papers, a range of five wall coverings debuting June 13. While the color, scale, and layout have been contemporized, the wallpapers, emblazoned with geometric motifs, bold florals, and regal herons replicated from a folding screen found in the home, are painstakingly made in traditional fashion with either flatbed or roller block printing, and fittingly incorporate Farrow & Ball paint.