Vogue Living

Vogue Living tells stories that engage, fascinate and excite, weaving together a myriad of influences that inspire our lives, be it cultural trends, arts and architecture, a new secret find around the corner, a far flung destination, or a privileged glimpse into a private and compelling world. Interiors, spaces and places, here or there, come vividly to life through their inhabitants and the lens of the camera. Beauty is paramount.

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COLLECTED STORIES • For accessories designer DANIEL RUEDA, a true collection can be quite exposing. And yet, the gifted raconteur finds pleasure in sharing his private RESIDENCE IN ROME, where symbols of material rarity reference the likes of Cy Twombly and Gabriel García Márquez, and defy repetition.

MATERNAL INSTINCT • The opening of a new gallery by STUDIO GARDNER co-founders Joseph Gardner and Aaron Wong calls for a POIGNANT conversation that spans the importance of martinis in the creative process, whether too much good taste can be bad, and the enduring LEGACY of a mother’s style.

NATURAL HISTORY • PAOLO DEL GALLO DI ROCCAGIOVINE’s atelier in the heart of Rome is both a canvas for his artistic output and a revealing self-portrait in which he recreates the BEAUTY he sees in the world and keeps his distinguished ANCESTRY alive.

OLD SOUL • Salacious cinema, a hardcore record collection and a reading list mired in existential crisis — these are some of artist BRIDGET STEHLI’s favourite things and the creative influences behind her RAPTUROUSLY received solo show at this year’s SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY.

INTIMATE ENCOUNTERS • At BENON, a textile house defined by the reserve of Scandinavian design and the romance of Italian craft, luxury homewares are handled with the same rigour as clothing and made to LAST A LIFETIME.

FAMILIAL FABRIC • MOLTENI&C’s eminent place in Australia is secured with the arrival of a new SYDNEY store, where a sunny palette and local art are set in lively conversation with Made in Italy creations.

THE FUTURE IS NOW • Can products designed for the contained environs of the home make a difference in the world beyond? Yes, say the experts at FISHER & PAYKEL, the New Zealand-founded brand whose remote location inspires resourcefulness and an urgent sense of climate responsibility.

THE VL EDIT

WORK OF LITERATURE • A Françoise Sagan novel from the 1960s was the surprising starting point for GIAMPIERO TAGLIAFERRI’s sybaritic redesign of a PARIS pied-à-terre destined to be the life and soul of the party.

COOL, CALM & COLLECTED • In Los Angeles, THE FUTURE PERFECT founder David Alhadeff unveils his latest passion project: a Tudor-style home made all the more enchanting by his GENIUS for cultural collage.

SENTIMENTAL VALUE • A respect for proportion, place and the potential of recycled materials guides AKIN ATELIER’s tender reimagining of a Whale Beach COTTAGE, which remains emotionally tethered to the original dwelling.

SPIRITUALISED • Where the mountains meet the Mediterranean in the city of Lugano, STUDIOPEPE animates a SWISS RATIONALIST villa with unstudied emotion. Despite the architecture’s structural intelligence, Arianna Lelli Mami and Chiara Di Pinto demonstrate that it is the ephemeral that holds life in place.

SAGE WISDOM • The founder of STUDIO PRINEAS turns her fine-grained attention to renovating her own Inner West home, where original ORNAMENTATION rediscovers its voice, a rooftop garden allows the outdoors to sing and family history is retold through OBJECTS collected over time.

LABYRINTH OF LUXURY • At the gravitational centre of the HERMÈS universe is a new London Maison, where a collection of clothing and lifestyle goods presents as an astonishing CREATIVE expression of...