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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…

M COLLECTION BY WETSTYLE Minimalist, modular design provides fexibility and freedom to create a one-of-a-kind sanctuary. Boldly geometric and Japanese-inspired, the group comprises fve components that come in an array of sizes and twelve fnishes, allowing for numerous confgurations. For more information call 888.536.9001 or visit wetstyle.ca. CHADDOCK Nearly all Chaddock furniture is made and “fnished to perfection” in Morganton, North Carolina. Stunning designs from David Easton, Mary McDonald, and Larry Laslo effortlessly combine to form beautiful rooms. For more information visit chaddockhome.com. CHRISTOPHER GUY: REINVENT THE COFFEE TABLE At CG, our favorite way to create an inviting lounge is with a fabulous ottoman between seating areas. It offers not just a standard footrest, but more natural seating for guests. Ottomans are also a great way to add a layer…

To make linen the soft green of a ghost fern with the texture of fleece takes time, work, and travel. Flax must be woven in one mill, dyed in another, and, in a third, gently washed and hung in a humid room for at least a week. This is just one of the ways Bernie de Le Cuona treats her favorite fabric. She also embroiders linen, glosses it, spraypaints it to look like watercolor, embosses it using 18th-century rollers meant for velvet, and spins it with silk. In more than 20 years of working with fabric, de Le Cuona has learned and invented techniques to make linen sheer, gravelly, lacy—every weight and texture it can be. “It’s a mad thing to do, as linen is hard to handle,” she says.…

Handsome and commanding, the wingback chair is no delicate creature. Dating to 17th-century England, it was conceived as fireside seating; its angled “wings” helped box in the hearth’s heat, while its high back defended against drafts. So it’s no wonder the wingback is a go-to for designers looking to create elegant yet unfussy spaces. “I’m from the South, where we love to nest,” says Michelle Nussbaumer. “A wing chair has a naturally cozy quality.” And while the wings may no longer be necessary for retaining heat, she says, they give the seat distinctive lines and can be “surprisingly flattering, beautifully framing a face.” Decorator Philip Nimmo points out another benefit. “Sometimes you want a chair that lets you feel hidden,” he says. “It’s wonderful for reading.” Arranged in a pair,…

M.S. RAU ANTIQUES Featured: Ramasseuses de Goémon à Möelan, Bretagne by Henry Moret. Oil on canvas, Signed and dated “Henry Moret 1900.” 25 3/4" x 36 1/4". For more information call 888.708.8785 or visit rauantiques.com. ORLEY SHABAHANG Featured: Labyrinth, by Bahram Shabahang. 8' x 10', hand-knotted pure wool; custom sizes available. For more information call 212.421.5800, visit 241 E. 58th Street or orleyshabahang.com. FJ HAKIMIAN Featured: Swedish Carpet by Marianne Richter of the MŠrta MOEOEs-Fjetterstršm workshop, circa 1972. For more information call 212.371.6900 or visit fjhakimian.com. BEAUVAIS CARPETS Featured: Iberian Appliqué, 17th century. 8’ x 5’ (244 x 152cm). Collection of Doris Duke. For more information visit beauvais.com. DISCOVER INTRIGUING FURNISHINGS FROM LEADING RESOURCES…

If you visit Dallas and Fort Worth hoping to spot the city slickers of television fame—the cowboy-hatted oilmen in suits and boots, the socialites dressed in Easter-egg colors— you will most likely be disappointed. Today, modern-day dandies sprint across streets in well-cut jeans and European blazers. Women zip from business meetings to charity balls in innovative clothes sourced from the most cerebral designers. “Good-bye, big hair,” says Ken Downing, fashion director of the Dallas-based department store Neiman Marcus. “That’s a stereotype that no longer defines the area.” Located just 32 miles apart, both cities are witnessing a rise in population, as well as booms in business and building. In Dallas’s buzzy Uptown, Cesar Pelli, the architect behind some of the world’s tallest towers, is raising a billowy-looking glass office block…

Art was always going to be the focus of this Upper East Side penthouse, the property of a collector who wanted to display his paintings, sculpture, and photographs in a cool, modernist environment. “I was trying to be understated rather than overstated,” he says by way of explaining the pristine space. “I wanted a place that is very relaxing, that’s all white, and that serves mainly as a background to the artists’ work.” To accomplish that, he brought in Marjorie Reed Gordon, a longtime friend and well-known decorator, to renovate the jewellike apartment that had once belonged to a Vanderbilt. “The pictures were always the first consideration, and everything else is a backdrop for the magnificent collection,” says Gordon, who understood right away that what’s on the walls is the…

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…

“Some of the most gratifying moments of my career are related to design,” says Thomas Keller, the chef-owner behind many of America’s most celebrated restaurants, including the French Laundry, Bouchon, and Per Se. Indeed, Keller—a stickler for detail who personally selects the particular shades of blue for his restaurants’ doors—has collaborated on collections for Raynaud porcelain, All-Clad cookware, and Christofle silver. Meanwhile, on his home turf of Yountville, California, he has embarked on his biggest design project yet: an ultramodern expansion of the French Laundry, with a new kitchen and a garden, by cuttingedge firm Snøhetta, inspired by I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid at the Louvre. “It’s going to be just magical,” Keller says. 1 / SNØHETTA Principal Craig Dykers understands how the historic meets the innovative. 2 / ISAIA SUITS…

ELLE DECOR: What is your neighborhood like? BERNARD KHOURY: We’re located near Damascus Road, the line of demarcation between East and West Beirut during the war, which ended in 1990. It is a rare neighborhood in a city that is very densely built because it’s so old. Our neighbors include low-rise historic buildings like the French embassy and the Maronite cemetery—lots of greenery and no additional buildings likely in the foreseeable future. ED: How old is your building? BK: We began the project when the developer came to me asking for my thoughts on the prospective location in 2008. We designed this building and the two adjacent, all of which were finished in 2013. ED: Was the penthouse added after the building was completed? BK: No, although it was designed…

CLOSE YOUR EYES and picture a classic Fifth Avenue apartment overlooking Central Park. You’re seeing polished mahogany, perhaps? Lots of mirrors and lacquer? Slabs of marble, and bronze, maybe, and brilliantly gilded just about everything else? All sorts of materials, in fact, that aren’t warm, practical, easygoing, soft, or remotely family friendly. Which is why, for this young family of four who yearned for comfortable, functional space, architect Peter Pennoyer closed his eyes and envisioned a major reconfiguration of their new apartment’s rooms, and capped his dazzling refit with a grand enfilade of stately parkview windows. Simultaneously, designer Steven Gambrel closed his eyes and imagined fumed-oak flooring, patterned carpets, knotty-pine walls, strategically allocated high-gloss paint—and all of that with a 1950s subtext: an inventive fusion of the rough with the…

WHEN IT COMES TO wallcoverings—or anything else, really—Kelly Behun is no wallflower. The New York decorator, who got her start collaborating with Ian Schrager and Philippe Starck on the design of boutique hotels, creates minimalist interiors enlivened with unexpected gestures, whether it’s a jolt of strong color, a quirky artist-made chair, or the anachronistic touch of a 1970s-style hanging macramé planter. Given her penchant for bold strokes, Behun was pleased when her Park Avenue client agreed to line the entry hall of her apartment with wallpaper hand-painted with a pattern of Rorschach-like ink blots. But to the designer’s surprise, the homeowner proceeded to up the ante. “I thought I was audacious, but she is on the next level,” Behun says. The woman, an art collector who owns several homes around…

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…

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.…

“Everybody dreams of having a house in Italy,” Benedikt Bolza says of Castello di Reschio, his 3,000-acre family estate deep in the golden hills of Umbria. It was this tranquil corner of Europe that inspired his B.B. for Reschio collection, a line of furniture and lighting in a nostalgic style that he terms “undressed classicism.” Grisaille-stained oak beds, patinated-bronze tables, and skeletal ebonized-steel garden furniture evoke the traditions of Italian design yet are shot through with crisply modern understatement. These custom-designed pieces feel somehow timeless, even as they tap into the rich seam of local history—the dominant influences of his bronzed Etruscan window seat and his brusquely modernist floor lamps are separated by millennia, yet they are united in a shared love of powerful geometric forms. There is a sense…

WHAT’S NEW TO THE TRADE—FABRICS, FURNISHINGS, AND FABULOUS FINDS 1 Designer Kelly Wearstler puts her signature twist on luxurious leathers with her latest collection for Lee Jofa. Shown, from left, are Icon in Ivory and Caramel, Starlett in Ivory and Ebony, and Dame in Olive and Ebony. 888-533-5632; lee jofa.com. 2 An exposed cord accentuates the silhouette of the rosewood frame on Jonathan Browning’s Montfaucon torchiere. Featuring a shade of unglazed white porcelain, the lamp measures 36″ w. x 12″ d. x 59″ h. 415-401-9999; jonathanbrowninginc.com. 3 Tai Ping’s Antho10gy collection updates and reimagines the company’s iconic rug designs of the past decade. The 8′ x 10′ silk-and-wool Archetype, shown in Rustic Fade, can be custom-colored and -sized. 212-979-2233; taipingcarpets.com. 4 Graceful lines highlighted with gilt and teal lacquer characterize…

In 1942, the legendary Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer recruited Joaquim Tenreiro, a skilled woodworker who had been producing traditional furniture inspired by European styles, to develop pieces for a modern home in Cataguases, Brazil. “That was where my story with modern furniture began,” Tenreiro said years later. Rather than looking to Louis XVI or Regency furniture, as usual, Tenreiro took cues from 20thcentury greats such as Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto and produced seating with streamlined, sinuous forms, including a chaise longue with a bent plywood frame and wovenleather webbing. The finished pieces were a revelation for the designer, the client, and the country—they not only drastically changed Tenreiro’s career path but also stoked a desire for modern furniture that was distinctly Brazilian. That same year, Tenreiro designed the first…

THE ENTREPRENEUR, known for his voracious intellect and cultural sophistication, has for decades relied on designer Robert Couturier to help create grand residences in world capitals, such as New York and Paris. As a true master of the universe, he jets from one city to the other, doing deals. But Berlin was different, he says: “I have absolutely no business in Berlin. That’s not why I’m there.” Instead, what drew him to the city was sheer passion, emotional and philosophical. Although his family has for generations been based in Manhattan, his ancestors were German Jews, and Berlin has become a spiritual home. He is endlessly fascinated with its literary and artistic ambitions, its superb cultural offerings, and its complicated, often tragic history. He first visited Berlin in 1999 and noticed…

THE EARLY-19TH-CENTURY terrace house, a stone’s throw from Harrods, was an impulse buy for its Italian owner, who found herself visiting London frequently after her son moved there a decade ago. “An Italian mother wants to be as close as possible,” she says with a laugh. “I wasn’t really thinking about buying, but every time I walked down the street, I thought, This is so cute. I loved the location, with a beautiful church across the way. Then I saw the house on the market, and that was it.” At the time, the four-story residence was a warren of small rooms and odd shapes. “It was a bit tired and twee, with a lot of chintz, and full of boiserie and niches,” says Philip Vergeylen, the designer who masterminded the…