LAILA GOHAR REALM
HOME
Laila Gohar’s loft in Tribeca is maybe not what you’d expect if you know her from Tiffany campaigns or The New Yorker.
Often filled with friends and family, sometimes random animals and mostly practical furnishings, the vibe can be closer to mom jeans toasting hot pockets than Hermès Spring/Summer 2025 look 17 serving champagne. Except Laila is wearing Hermès Spring/Summer 2025 look 17 and pouring Lallier into Lobmeyr coupes. The Tribeca loft’s prewar industrial details – planked wood floors and pressed-tin ceilings, free-flowing open plan – aestheticised by the city’s historic AIR (Artist in Residence) Laws of the 1970s, create a quintessential New York backdrop for a collection of objects arranged for use. Over the three years she’s lived there, the space she shares with her partner Ignacio Mattos, his son Paco, and the couple’s two-year-old Paz, has evolved with acquisitions; “scrappy” as Laila says with nothing fixed in place, a style of interior design achieved only by artists immersed in a world of artists. The loft, like its inhabitants, resists perfection. Even the most cherished objects are in constant rotation.
As her best friend and accomplice, the creative director Rafael Prieto says, “Her home is where the intimate Laila comes through. When you’re in her house, you feel comfortable and free because she does too.”
Read the full home feature in Ark Journal Vol. XIV.
WORDS Alexandra Cunningham Cameron
PHOTOGRAPHY Rafael Prieto
THE MECHANICS OF SCENT
Previously presented in Paris, Los Angeles, and New York, FRAMA’s exhibition The Mechanics of Scent arrived in Copenhagen, inviting visitors to reconsider one of the most overlooked dimensions of design.
CLOUDLIGHT, PARIS
Bathed in shifting daylight, Amélie du Chalard’s Paris home exists as a deeply personal landscape where art and daily life merge with quiet fluidity.
DESIGN / DIALOGUE 2026 at DEN FRIE
Ark Journal presents the third edition of DESIGN / DIALOGUE, the annual exhibition of curated design and art, this year taking place at Den Frie Udstilling in Copenhagen.
LAILA GOHAR REALM
HOME
Laila Gohar’s loft in Tribeca is maybe not what you’d expect if you know her from Tiffany campaigns or The New Yorker.
Often filled with friends and family, sometimes random animals and mostly practical furnishings, the vibe can be closer to mom jeans toasting hot pockets than Hermès Spring/Summer 2025 look 17 serving champagne. Except Laila is wearing Hermès Spring/Summer 2025 look 17 and pouring Lallier into Lobmeyr coupes. The Tribeca loft’s prewar industrial details – planked wood floors and pressed-tin ceilings, free-flowing open plan – aestheticised by the city’s historic AIR (Artist in Residence) Laws of the 1970s, create a quintessential New York backdrop for a collection of objects arranged for use. Over the three years she’s lived there, the space she shares with her partner Ignacio Mattos, his son Paco, and the couple’s two-year-old Paz, has evolved with acquisitions; “scrappy” as Laila says with nothing fixed in place, a style of interior design achieved only by artists immersed in a world of artists. The loft, like its inhabitants, resists perfection. Even the most cherished objects are in constant rotation.
As her best friend and accomplice, the creative director Rafael Prieto says, “Her home is where the intimate Laila comes through. When you’re in her house, you feel comfortable and free because she does too.”
Read the full home feature in Ark Journal Vol. XIV.
WORDS Alexandra Cunningham Cameron
PHOTOGRAPHY Rafael Prieto