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We celebrate the holidays with a roundup of the season’s most stylish gifts and finds, and an array of chic homes in locales snowy and tropical: • Historic Haddon Hall in Derbyshire, England, fully bedecked for Christmas by Lord and Lady Edward Manners.• The powerfully pared-down and artfilled Manhattan loft of designers Kevin Haynes and Timothy Roberts.• The modern, open-air Mexico City home of art dealers Patricia Ortiz Monasterio and Jaime Riestra.• Art collector Candia Fisher’s bohemian weekend house in Greenwich, Connecticut, designed by Aman & Meeks.• A rustic yet feminine house in Woodstock, New York, designed by James Huniford for a client and her daughters. Plus, a festive winter dessert from Daniel Boulud, the elegant ironwork of Raymond Subes, Nigella Lawson’s tips on making the season shine, and more.…
MACHINES CAN BE BEAUTIFUL THINGS, and they can make beautiful things. Ingrid Abramovitch, our senior editor/writer, was recently taken on a private tour of the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, and showed me a dazzling video she made there: robotic arms gently moving into place, fitting together the most delicate parts in a huge, gleaming space—control and precision raised to the level of artistry. It was mesmerizing to watch. Yet as much as I admire the ingenuity and brilliant engineering of a Tesla, an iPad, or a Samsung smartphone, I am not sure I am entirely ready to embrace an assembly-line future, where tolerances are calculated within a micrometer. It is never a smart idea to try and fight technology. No one would want an appliance, a TV, or a…
PALM SPRINGS MODERNISM WEEK Celebrate midcentury modern design, architecture, fashion and culture during Modernism Week in Palm Springs, California, February 11–21, 2016. Events include the Modernism Show & Sale; Signature Home Tours; Premier Double Decker Architectural Bus Tours; Modernism Week Show House: The Christopher Kennedy Compound; nightly parties, and much more. Tickets available at modernismweek.com. DESIGNERS INSPIRED BY WINDOWS AND DOORS Marvin Windows and Doors partnered with ELLE DECOR to ask three industry-leading design bloggers to envision a room inspired by a window or a door. From fabrics to paint colors, each designer outlined the overall aesthetic of their room and how the window or door acts as the focal point. For more information visit marvinwindows.com/bloggers. BRIZO The Articulating Kitchen Faucet by Brizo® is designed to bring greater versatility to…
ALL THAT GLITTERS After noticing a plethora of jewel-toned fabrics for both fashion and interiors, ELLE DECOR market editor Melissa Colgan, left, began planning a portfolio of both textiles and jewels (page 116). Colgan considered more than 400 pieces of jewelry—including such unexpected stones as peridot, mandarin garnet, and red spinel—and then searched for richly colored velvets and silks that held up next to the elegant baubles. “An incredible piece of statement jewelry can do for an outfit what a boldly colored sofa or a beautiful silk rug does for an interior,” she says. “It immediately conveys your personality and sense of style.” BUILDING BLOCKS Architect Bernard Khoury, whose Beirut penthouse apartment is the subject of this month’s Design Solutions column (page 173), has been developing an adventurous roster of…
HEAVY METALS Fashion designers routinely cross over into the world of interiors—after all, if a piece of fabric looks smashing on you, why wouldn’t it look just as good on your sofa? Now a handful of New York–based furniture and lighting designers, enchanted with the intrinsic beauty of metal and the way it interacts with light, are applying their talents and daring visions on a smaller scale by making jewelry. MC Rueda of Uhuru Design and jewelry designer Borah Betts have brought the rustic-industrial aesthetic of Uhuru’s reclaimed-materials furnishings to a line of necklaces, rings, and bracelets. The Shard cuff and rings are made of wood chips from the Uhuru workshop that are dipped in gold or platinum; the Runes collection incorporates ancient symbols that nod to the Nordic roots…
IT’S NOT THE HOLIDAYS WITHOUT SPARKLE! SURPRISE AND DELIGHT— THAT’S WHAT THE BEST GIFTS DELIVER. For more information on these and other items from the collection, please visit neimanmarcus.com.…
