A fashion-savvy home decorating magazine for the new generation of design professionals and consumers who know exactly what they want, ELLE DECOR covers fashionable and inspirational products that bring couture chic to every room of your home.
SAN FRANCISCO DESIGN CENTER DESIGNERS OF DISTINCTION AWARDS The San Francisco Design Center celebrated its Designers of Distinction Awards of Excellence luncheon honoring designers in six categories. Over 180 Bay Area interior designers were nominated by the SFDC’s showrooms for the coveted awards—the very best in Traditional, Transitional, Contemporary, Creative Spaces, Hospitality, and Designer to Watch. ELLE DECOR Editor in Chief Michael Boodro, MC, kept the audience of 300 Bay Area designers entertained throughout the program. Steve Henry, BAMO; Pamela Babey, BAMO; Antonio Martins, Antonio Martins Interior Design; Jennifer Macdonald, Jennifer Robin Interiors; Lauren Nelson, Lauren Nelson Design; Beth Martin, Martin Group; Michael Boodro, ELLE DECOR; Rhonda Hirata, San Francisco Design Center; Sharon Oosterman (accepting on behalf of Douglas Durkin Design) FERGUSON BATH, KITCHEN & LIGHTING GALLERY Allow Ferguson to…
AT FIRST GLANCE, it might not seem that rock and roll and interior design have a lot in common. But as we were working on this A-List issue, I was also reading Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography, Born to Run, and came across a passage that I think applies to design—in fact, to any creative field. “Many of music’s most glorious moments feel as though they were birthed in an explosion of raw talent and creative instinct (some of them even were!)” he writes. “But . . . if you want to burn bright, hard and long, you will need to depend upon more than your initial instincts. You will need to develop some craft and a creative intelligence that will lead you farther when things get dicey. That’s what’ll help you…
INSPIRATION AT HAND “I nearly always design from a place of need,” says Richard Mishaan, who decorated the house in Amagansett, New York, featured on page 170. He also creates custom furniture for clients, as well as pieces for Bolier and Dering Hall. When he can’t find the right console for a client—say, one with the lines of a vintage piece but made from modern materials— Mishaan starts sketching. “My best pieces are born out of a specific situation, but they seem to fill the very same niche in the wider market,” he says. MULTIFACETED Senior market editor Catherine Lee Davis, a producer of the luxury-themed Inspiration feature that begins on page 91, has been developing her eye for precious stones and pearls since she was a young girl captivated…
SCAVOLINI Flux Swing, a collection by Giugiaro Design for Scavolini, represents an evolution in design from the original Flux concept introduced over 10 years ago. The new collection conceptualizes space as enabling a dialogue between the kitchen and living room areas in which the two can liaise perfectly with each another or act independently while maintaining a similar identity. The Flux Swing Kitchen (above left) stands out for its unique shape as well as for its stylish color combination of Sun Yellow and Titanium Grey. The Scavolini Flux screen independent living room solution (above right) is distinguished by wall units with Prestige White gloss lacquered shaped doors, to match with style the Alaska Blue gloss lacquered finish on the shelves and wall claddings. For more information, visit scavolini.com. ELLE DECOR…
DREAM PALACES For much of the past century, painter Jeremiah Goodman has evocatively captured the living rooms, bedrooms, and libraries of some the world’s brightest stylesetters, producing glamorous portraits of spaces once inhabited by Greta Garbo, the Duchess of Windsor, and Tony Duquette. This spring, a retrospective of the 94-year-old artist’s work in Los Angeles brings together 55 of Goodman’s interior and garden scenes rendered in gouache, including several that have never been displayed in public, like his moody study of the chinoiserie sitting room of Betsy Bloomingdale’s Holmby Hills estate (through June 9; dessinfournir.com). EYE OF THE NEEDLE It was after her children had grown up and left home in 2010 that Jackie Villevoye decided to realize her lifelong dream of becoming a fashion designer by launching Jupe by…
OPTIC VERVE Spirals and swirls of rich color embellish French glassware designers Laurence Brabant and Alain Villechange’s Helix collection of tumblers and carafes, each blown and shaped by hand from borosilicate glass. Clockwise from top left: Carafe H in Lapis, 9.5• h., $540; Carafe I in Blue, 9• h., $520; TumblerA in Black, 4• h., $190; Tumbler CC in Blue, 5• h., $165; TumblerA2 in Lapis, 4• h., $190; Tumbler BB in Grey, 4• h., $140; other colors available. laurencebrabant.com 1 / SHELL GAME The dramatic Lapa light fixture by New York–based designer David Weeks is composed of hand-formed aluminum shades, each of which rotates 320 degrees to redirect light, clustered around a steel frame in a brass finish. Ivory Satin, shown, is one of three powder-coated colors. 21• dia.…
