Innholdsfortegnelse for Winter 2026 i ELLE DECOR

When visitors enter architect Luciano Giorgi’s apartment, they are welcomed in an intimate jute-lined vestibule. When they emerge from this discreet space they’re struck by sweeping views of Milan’s Central Station and the busy city life below. “The house was designed as a space in continuous transformation,” Giorgi says. “Large and small scenes reveal rooms, wardrobes, and bookcases populated by special works and objects.” In that vestibule, for example, a large tapestry by Corrado Cagli commands attention, yet it conceals a cleverly designed guestroom, compact yet luxurious, “like the cabin of a vintage train,” as Giorgi puts it. Above a 1930s curved wood sofa, a miniature gallery dedicated to Milan pays tribute to the city itself, with works by Stefano Arienti, Arturo Martini, Lucio Fontana, and Marcello Maloberti. Nearby, perforated…

Dessert for Dinner There are no rules anymore. Don’t bother setting a table. This sofa has one. Pass the sour peaches, please. The Reception A hostess is always pleased to see that you brought flowers (as long as they come in a vase). Game Night The person with the best-looking board wins. Book Club Have you read the book? It doesn’t even matter, if you bring the right ingredients. Grab & Go We thoroughly approve of a buffet. But please shine the silver. The Kids Table Good taste begins early, and at home. Girl Dinner What might appear thrown together is often anything but. The Debrief Candles may be blown out, but post-party gossip should continue. Just Make It Nice “Store-bought is fine.” Ina said it, so it must be…

The Ours Polaires. The Polar Bears. To some insiders, simply the Polars. Sensually curvaceous and decadently cocooning, these minimalist yet ultra-cushy sofas and chairs designed by Jean Royère in the 1940s represent the ultimate in cozy-chic sophistication—particularly for the elite tastemakers who can afford them. High-profile owners include prominent collector Maja Hoffmann, shoe designer Christian Louboutin, and art dealer Larry Gagosian, who outfitted his New York City living room with a cherry-red Polar Bear sofa next to a swirling Cy Twombly painting, also in reds. Collector-dealers Adam Lindemann and Amalia Dayan had two chairs and a sofa in their Upper East Side townhouse, perched beneath an Alexander Calder mobile, before they sold the set—still in its original celery-green mohair—at Christie’s a few years ago for a record $3.42 million, more…

Diane Tate knocked on the door of a Georgian Revival in Weston, Connecticut, with trepidation. Her grandmother, Elaine “Bunny” Rockefeller McAlpin—a niece of John D.—had built the house nine decades earlier with her husband Henry Clinch Tate. The new owners weren’t expecting her, but they were welcoming. “Come in,” they said. “Look around.” She returned one recent afternoon, her grandmother’s diamond ring glittering on her finger, to meet the couple’s interior designer, Nannette Brown. Out came envelopes of black-and-white photos of the house—including a 1935 cornerstone ceremony in which her grandmother, in a white cotton dress, gloves, and saddle shoes, sipped champagne and playfully troweled mortar onto the brick façade. Other pictures showed skating parties on the pond and her aunt, then a toddler, cavorting with a pet goat. “This…

Seated in a Jean Prouvé chair, at a desk by the same designer, the art dealer Craig Starr looks very much in his element, ensconced in his Manhattan penthouse’s breakfast area. Behind him is a midcentury abstract artwork by Paul Thek and in front of him a Charlotte Perriand daybed, but overall the look of his place is spare and striking, with no distractions for the eye. That makes it easy to focus on artworks by the likes of Louise Bourgeois, Ed Ruscha, James Rosenquist, and more. “No one believes this is how I live,” Starr says, laughing. A specialist in modern and contemporary artworks who has run his nearby eponymous gallery since 2004, Starr notes that the penthouse can feel like a cross between a gallery and a home.…

What happens when Hermès makes a three-legged bamboo stool? Well, first, they don’t plan to. Instead, the longtime creative directors of Hermès’s home division, Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry, a French architect and curator respectively, start by thinking about whom they might want to work with. (In this case it was Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza Vieira.) “[His work has] a relationship to the enduring properties of time that felt relevant to Hermès,” Perelman says. Next, Siza did some sketches. Then the trio talked about materials—rather than leather or metal, they settled on the more humble bamboo. And then Perelman and Fabry set out to actually make the thing. They tried in Italy; they tried in France. “There were so many nails,” Perelman says, throwing up her hands. “We asked…