Nancy Hass

New York

Writer-at-Large at T: The New York Times Style Magazine

Articles

How Carl and Karin Larsson’s Homes Came to Define Scandinavian Style

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Nancy Hass |Mikael Olsson

IN 1888, THE Swedish painter Carl Larsson and his wife, Karin, were given a remote log cottage in the village of Sundborn, 140 miles north of Stockholm, by her father. Over three decades, the couple transformed the house, which they named Lilla Hyttnäs, into an elaborate meta-art project, a hand-embellished 14-room home for their eight children.
How Carl and Karin Larsson's Homes Came to Define Scandinavian Style

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Nancy Hass |Mikael Olsson

Video Back transcriptHouse Tour | Lilla HyttnäsA great-great-great-granddaughter of the Swedish painter Carl Larsson leads a tour of the country house where the artist lived with his wife, Karin. Hi. My name is Kajsa Brunkman, and welcome to the home of my great-great-great grandparents, Carl and Karin Larsson here in Sundborn, Sweden. Let's take a look inside. [GENTLE MUSIC] This is Carl's studio. Here, he painted some of his most famous artworks that helped shape Swedish national identity.
This Classic Midcentury Home Is the Epitome of California Cool

2 months ago | elledecor.com | Nancy Hass

This article originally appeared in the December 2014 issue of ELLE DECOR. For more stories from our archive, subscribe to ELLE DECOR All Access. Rozae Nichols has an obsession with pattern and color—the wilder and more evocative, the better.
Chopard’s New Necklace Celebrates the Sea

2 months ago | taustralia.com.au | Nancy Hass |Victoria Pearson

It’s hard to find a culture whose adornments don’t include symbols of marine life. From the twin golden fish of Jainism and the nearly 4,000-year-old turquoise-and-gold catfish charm unearthed in Egypt’s Middle Kingdom to the lustreware guppies fashioned by the 20th-century American ceramist Beatrice Wood, the image of the fish, shimmering boldly in the light of the sun or moon, has embodied both the ephemeral and the eternal.
A Home With Its Own Rock 'n' Roll Soundtrack

Sep 6, 2024 | nytimes.com | Nancy Hass |François Halard

IN 1985, CHARLES Zana, then 25 and newly graduated from the architecture school at Paris's École des Beaux-Arts, knew what he had to do: move to Manhattan, where the city's post-punk scene was in its flamboyant final days. Garbage swelled the gutters downtown, and a dense collage of graffiti and ragged posters seemed to cover almost every surface. Odessa, a Ukrainian diner on Avenue A frequented by artists and neighborhood characters, never closed on weekends. "It was just fantastic," Zana says.
How Mark D. Sikes Reinvented a Legendary Hollywood Estate- Frederic Magazine

Aug 30, 2024 | fredericmagazine.com | Martha Moskowitz |Nancy Hass

Sikes conjures an enchanting, modern-day version of Old Hollywood glamour in Rudolph Valentino’s former guesthouse in Bel Air. Several years ago, Los Angeles designer Mark D. Sikes received a call from a couple who had recently purchased a pied-à-terre in Bel Air.
Visit a Unique Artists's-Studio-Turned-Home in the Hamptons – Frederic Magazine

Jul 10, 2024 | fredericmagazine.com | Emma Bazilian |Nancy Hass

For designer Quinn Pofahl, a challenging renovation was well worth the effort. In late 2019, Southampton-based designer Quinn Pofahl and his partner, Jaime Jiménez, a marketing executive for Sferra and Pratesi, were on the hunt for a new adventure—specifically, of the home-renovation variety.
Can Big Art Make It in Las Vegas? Urs Fischer Weighs In.

Jun 8, 2024 | nytimes.com | Nancy Hass

The Swiss artist Urs Fischer suggests beginning our day together with coffee in the Village.
The Thing: A Cloud-Like Take on the Classic Chesterfield Sofa

Jun 8, 2024 | taustralia.com.au | Nancy Hass |Hollie Wornes

No piece of furniture better embodies English tradition than the leather Chesterfield. Originally stuffed with horsehair, the sofa, whose rolled arms flow into a high, button-tufted back, is thought to have been commissioned in the mid-18th century by Lord Philip Stanhope, the fourth earl of Chesterfield, reportedly as a place for his male guests to sit without rumpling their frock coats.
Covet This: A Ceramic-Tile Chair Channeling the 8-Bit Era

May 2, 2024 | taustralia.com.au | Nancy Hass |Hollie Wornes

In the making of ceramics, colour normally gets added towards the end. A vitreous glaze, composed largely of silica, can be brushed on neutral-hued clay, with which it fuses in the kiln, becoming an impervious, sometimes unexpected, often beautiful coating. But for the Bushwick, Brooklyn-based designer Cody Hoyt, 43, who creates vessels, furniture and wall pieces, his artistic process begins with vibrant pigments, typically dozens of them.