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Homes & Gardens
Pip Rich

'People Think My Personality Is Cheeky and Fun. People Think I Must Also Be a Maximalist. Actually, I'm Serious and a Minimalist. I Hope Everything I've Ever Made Could Be Seen as Minimalist' – Inside the Surprising and Considered World of Jonathan Adler

Jonathan Adler sat on the back of a sofa holding a vase.

Few designers have shaped modern American style quite like Jonathan Adler. Potter, sculptor, interior designer, author, exuberant aesthete – his influence stretches far beyond the glossy surfaces of his glamorous hotels or the playful silhouettes of his iconic ceramics.

What makes Jonathan so compelling isn’t simply his signature blend of wit and chic, or the surprising combination of sharp minimalism – yes, minimalism – wrapped in joyful irreverence. It’s the depth beneath the sparkle: a lifelong devotion to craft that began, fairly literally, with a fainting spell in front of a Brancusi sculpture.

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