ICONIC STYLE: ANDRÉE PUTMAN

As well as reviving lost classics of the ’20s and ’30s via Ecart International, the visionary tastemaker designed furniture and interiors

‹‹ I loved mainly because of this beautiful big tree, a ficus, out the front. In the end we had to demolish the house that was on the site and rebuild, but the tree stayed and influenced a lot of the new design. We worked with the architect Hannah Tribe.

We’d been idolising her work for a long time — its simplicity, the proportions, the light and the sensitivity. The brief was about bringing in an Australian aesthetic and combining it with the Californian lifestyle. We wanted something that was about bringing nature in, so the whole of the downstairs living area is really open. The sun and the breeze, the plants and the pool just merge seamlessly from the exterior to the interior. We also needed it to be a space that was slightly indestructible. I wanted the kids to enjoy it and to have people come and go, and to entertain. There’s not a lot of art or colour because my husband and I look at images and colour all day.

My husband’s a cinematographer, so we need home to be a sanctuary; a place where we could go and

decompress from our creative and visually stimulating worlds. There’s a sense of slowness and mindfulness to life in general at the moment that’s influenced the way that we run our business and also how we’re

designing. I feel excited to be a part of that movement, which has gained new vigour. It’s something that we’re really embracing and advocating for at Armadillo but also in our personal lives, too. I feel very thankful that we’ve been made to stop and look at everything so differently and take stock of what we need and what impact that’s leaving on the earth. I’m most excited about the next decade — for our industry, for our homes, our wellbeing and for our family and our children. It’s a pretty powerful moment in time. VL armadillo-co.com

“The brief was bringing in an Australian aesthetic and combining it with the Californian lifestyle… The sun and the breeze, the plants and the pool just merge seamlessly” JODIE FRIED

THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP in the main bedroom, Oak Air bed from Ethnicraft, enquiries to Trit House; bed linen from Cultiver; Kalahari rug from Armadillo. In the children’s bedroom, Perch bunk bed from Oeuf, enquiries to Kido Store; bed linen from In Bed. Poppy, Leonardo and Felix in the backyard. Details, last pages.