T’s latest issue examines the current state of design by looking backward — namely, to the hedonistic '70s and oddly alluring po-mo '80s. The onetime California home of Gerald and Betty Ford is a perfect example of this revival; its new owners have kept many of the house’s original charms (including a giant portrait of the former First Lady), while adding their own contemporary touches, to create a space that’s anything but conservative. Likewise, the purist Mark Haddawy — the co-founder of the retailer Resurrection Vintage and restorer of Modernist houses — has doubled down on his version of '70s California cool by doing very little to his own home in Big Sur. And the fashion reporter and insider Mary Russell, who for many years was as likely to cavort among (and occasionally hop in bed with) her stylish subjects as she was to photograph them, reminisces about Europe in the freewheeling '60s and '70s. Elsewhere, Nicola Del Roscio, the longtime close companion of Cy Twombly, remembers the late painter while creating his own Eden in the hills of Gaeta, Italy; Sarah Lucas, the former rude girl of British art, discusses how she grew up without losing her nerve; Ricky Gervais and Zaha Hadid say yes to sriracha-flavored ketchup and a floor-cleaning robot while lounging in a giant bird’s nest; the New York magazine co-founder and “I Heart NY” creator Milton Glaser gets the By the Numbers treatment; and a handful of authors with new books out this year pay tribute to the spaces where they write. See all stories from the issue >>
The Continental chic of Camelot in the ’60s, the gilded splendor of the Reagan-era ’80s — but what about a new take on the unique charms of Gerald and Betty Ford’s ’70s Southern California dreaming? Here’s looking at the most truly American of styles.
Long derided as tacky and vulgar, the design of the ’70s is now a source of great inspiration.
From the toy sailboats he made as a boy to the large-scale installations he’s overseen in his career, the art world curator credits his rural childhood and his own children for sharpening his keen aesthetic.
Whether smudgy and disaffected or strong and defined, it transforms the entire face, making a warrior of any woman.
A revival of interest in the iconic 1960s and ’70s work of the French designer has revealed an artist whose career was more varied and extensive than most realize.
Ricky Gervais and Zaha Hadid curl up in a bird’s nest while considering a floor-scrubbing robot and a lamp made from a weed.
Surrounded by photographs, family mementos and the clamor of everyday life, seven authors offer a glimpse into the spaces where they create.
In an era when private moments were in fact private and snapshots truly intimate, the fashion reporter and photographer partied with and documented Europe’s beau monde. For T, she opens her rarely seen archives from the 1960s and ’70s and speaks about those days.
As he did with fashion — making us see vintage clothing as valuable — so he does with architecture. The purist would no sooner tweak a Halston gown than alter a great ’70s house. Even one he lives in.
Bombarded by imagery all day at work, the renowned advertising provocateur comes home to, well, very little.
Not the wispy embellishment of days past, but a full-on takeover of a garment by its trim. At last, the ornamental becomes essential.
The artist Claudia Rankin harnesses the inner world of off-kilter animals in her quirky ceramics.
Modern architects, artists and designers find inspiration in the colorful, sensuous landscapes and indigenous flora of the region south of the border.
The happy saga of a vaudeville-turned-movie-turned-porn venue.
Cy Twombly painted some of the 20th century’s great works in the hilly Italian coastal town of Gaeta. All the while, Nicola Del Roscio, who watched over him, quietly created his own Eden.
