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.
EVERY CITY DWELLER KNOWS THE THRILL OF GLIMPSING THE illuminated interior of a chic living room through a town-house window while on an evening stroll. This edition of the magazine has something of that voyeuristic pleasure: In these pages, we are inviting you to peek inside the homes of seven leading tastemakers in the world of design, from São Paulo to Ojai, California. Our house tours begin with our cover story, the Manhattan pied-à-terre of Dallas decorator Jean Liu. She purchased this incredible studio apartment, the former parlor of the historic Pulitzer mansion on the Upper East Side, two decades ago when she was just 22. She recently—at last!—put her own stamp on it with a stunning revamp. Now the decor is not only worthy of the spectacular architecture, but…
EAT DREAMING IN ITALIAN With its iron-and-glass winter garden, soaring mid-19th-century rooms, and punk-meets-Portaluppi decor, the new Milanese restaurant and bar Sogni has a transporting ambience. It is by design: In Italian, Sogni means “dreams,” and this ambitious eatery was indeed a longtime dream for its owner, Milanese fashion retailer Claudio Antonioli. He tapped Storage Milano, an architecture firm that also manages his store interiors, to preside over a renovation of the building, formerly a kindergarten. “The desire was to create a place as if it had always existed,” says architect Barbara Ghidoni. She collaborated with Antonioli on every aspect of the decor—from the velvet floral sofas in the entry lounge to the iron-and-brass lanterns and wood-and-zinc bar. In the dining “refectory,” guests are seated at a massive communal oval…
About a century ago, Italian designer Renzo Frau thought up the Vanity Fair armchair—a joy-fully plump design that would come to define his namesake brand, Poltrona Frau (and would later appear on this magazine’s very first cover, in 1989). In the 1940s, Milanese artist Piero Fornasetti founded his eponymous label, producing black-and-white illustrations that are still prized in home decor. Now, for the first time, these two legacies have merged, resulting in a limited-edition Vanity Fair armchair upholstered in archival Fornasetti prints. The pattern, which features a beaming sun and swirling clouds, was originally conceived by Fornasetti in the 1950s. Its whimsical design elements were a perfect match for Vanity Fair’s playful yet time-less silhouette. “When I sat on the armchair, I felt as if I was on a cloud,”…
Curate your home with on-trend colors and design decisions that bring your vision to life. Sherwin-Williams expertly crafted hues give each project a more elevated look than the last. With three ways to sample, it’s never been easier to find long-lasting color that goes on in fewer coats, with a beautiful, smooth texture. Craft your color story by exploring the complete collection of color samples. 1 COLOR CHIPS Visit a Sherwin-Williams store, or swsamples.com, to order up to ten FREE color chips that will help you narrow down your color direction. 2 PEEL & STICK Looking to try on your top shades? Peel & Stick samples allow you to try on color with no mess or dry time and can be repositioned around the room to see how colors look in different…
Omne trium perfectum: Simply put, all good things come in threes. Take, for instance, the Cartier Trinity. The house’s iconic collection of pieces comprising three interlocking bands of variegated gold is the classic choice to mark any meaningful moment. To celebrate Trinity’s 100th anniversary, the maison has reimagined Louis Cartier’s storied design, making it available in bolder sizes, squared, and with white-, yellow-, and rose-gold iterations and optional diamond pavé—assuring that the style will have another 100 years in the limelight.…
Ben Uyeda is an architect and product designer in Joshua Tree, California, with more than a million and a half YouTube subscribers. Asked whether artificial intelligence, the technology that has everyone looking over their shoulders, will replace anyone’s decorator, he said, “No, it won’t even come close.” For Uyeda, A.I. is a helpful rendering tool that persuades potential clients that he is attuned to their dreams while sparing him the time-consuming and costly job of doing initial drawings. Using a presentation software called Tome, he’ll generate images of, say, a gold-plated shipping container in the middle of the desert where a dinner party can be hosted. The quality isn’t as good as the rendering that would take him two weeks and cost the client more than $1,000, but “it helps…
