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OUR COVER STORY THIS MONTH BEGAN, AS SO MANY THINGS DO these days, with a slide into the DMs. When U.S. Women’s National Team soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe and her wife, former WNBA guard Sue Bird, purchased a Manhattan apartment and found themselves in need of an interior designer, they tapped Mark Grattan for the job with a message that included an earnest call for “HALP!” What Grattan delivered is the same finesse that landed his own Mexico City apartment on the cover of this magazine in April 2021: a home that is as cool and well edited as it is livable, full of clever color combinations and sumptuous textures. It’s a testament to Grattan’s skill that Rapinoe and Bird’s aerie feels like a distillation and heightening of their tastes.…
Crowning Glory Time to cast some light on the subject! The newest pendants and chandeliers do more than just illuminate a foyer or salon: Sculptural, elegant pieces also add a welcome dose of statement-making style to your home. Snap up any of these glamorous options for a truly electric design scheme. —H.M.…
EAT: KYOTO HAI, CHEF! Though Kyoto, with its plentiful temples, is widely considered the seat of Japan’s cultural heritage, the city has modernist bona fides too. For evidence, look no further than ELLE DECOR A-List architect Stephanie Goto’s elegant scheme for Jean-Georges at the Shinmonzen, the restaurant in a new boutique hotel designed by Tadao Ando. Local craft traditions, like the space’s shikkui plaster walls in deep crimson, and the raw beauty of natural materials, as in the bar made from a single slab of heavily veined Rosso Antico stone, inspired Goto’s interiors. “We wanted to keep everything very simple” but offer “whimsy and an unexpected quality” on a closer look, says Goto. Mission accomplished. —Asad Syrkett theshinmonzen.com SHOP: PARIS FINISHING TOUCH Belgian fashion icon Dries Van Noten’s designs are…
Recently, I bought an apartment that will require a complete renovation. Nothing fancy, though it won’t be cheap, and as with such endeavors, I’ve found it’s become an all-consuming project. For instance, I am now fixated on acquiring a vintage Uchiwa pendant lamp made by the midcentury German industrial designer Ingo Maurer. Crafted from bamboo fans, fabric, and paper and resembling the open petals of an anemone flower, the lamp is a beautiful relic of the 1970s. Maurer was called “the poet of light,” and his command of it deserves reverence. Partly because his Uchiwa lamps have not been produced since 1984 and partly because of the frailty of their materials, they are expensive. According to the Parisian dealer I’ve been emailing with, the lamp I want costs more than…
WITH THE HEELED-BOOT GAIT OF AN INDIE rocker and a perfectly imperfect mane of black hair tumbling past his shoulders, Bengt Thornefors seems an unlikely champion of upholstery-weight textiles. But looks, as everyone knows, can be deceiving. When the entrepreneurial Swede was appointed creative director, in 2022, of the nearly-200-year-old textile brand Sahco, he was tasked with mining the tension between past and present to create collections worthy of a true textile maison. As cofounder of the bedware brand Magniberg—which, like Sahco, is now owned by Kvadrat—Thornefors brings with him decades of expertise in the fashion industry, working early on in his career under Acne Studios cofounder Jonny Johansson and later making his way to Saint Laurent, in the mid-2010s, with then creative director Hedi Slimane, himself no stranger to…
Daniele Busca tells of a client who went hunting for rugs to match the artwork in his new kitchen. The New York City–based creative director of Scavolini USA, the Italian design company, was impressed that the painting hanging near the client’s island was a mustard yellow Picasso. “A Picasso in the kitchen,” he marveled. “That’s glamorous.” Long ago, the kitchen was the embodiment of domestic servitude—plain, functional, and unobtrusive. Now it’s evolved into the centerpiece of home life, taking on the coloring, materials, and textures of the room into which it flows. Today’s kitchen may be arrayed along a living room wall or suddenly pop up when you turn a corner of the family room. Either way, it’s expected to put its best face forward. This means out with naked…
