Indholdsfortegnelse for Summer 2022 i ELLE DECOR

Our 12th annual A-List is here! And with it, we welcome 10 talented inductees to the Class of 2022. The work of this exceptional group embraces a broad range of aesthetic perspectives—from high-drama maximalism to warm minimalist ease. Each of this year’s newcomers offers a top-tier vision for what design can do to change the quality of our lives at home while adding beauty to the world. This round, as in 2021, we considered all of the work we published in print and online over the past five years. And again, we were impressed—and, frankly, gobsmacked—by the incredible breadth of talent on display. And we do mean breadth! Take, for example, our newsstand cover story, a townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, brought to new heights by the talented team…

For almost 200 years Tiffany & Co. has been a name synonymous with New York City, from its 1905 landmark building on Fifth Avenue to memorable appearances on homegrown celebrities like Lady Gaga and Jay-Z. But many may not know that the brand set down roots in London well over a century ago, opening its first retail boutique there, on Regent Street, in 1892. A new Tiffany & Co. exhibition, “Vision & Virtuosity,” debuts at London’s Saatchi Gallery this June. It’s an immersive experience divided into seven “chapters” spanning almost 70,000 square feet and chronicling everything from Charles Lewis Tiffany’s relatively humble beginnings (he started the company as a fresh-faced 25-year-old) to a survey of the firm’s most illustrious designers (Jean Schlumberger, Paloma Picasso, Elsa Peretti) and even to re-creations…

FRESH COAT This summer, bring your most vivid renovation dreams to life with paint from HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams. PRESENTED BY…

ADJAYE ASSOCIATES NEW YORK CITY @adjayeassociates adjaye.com ALEX PAPACHRISTIDIS INTERIORS NEW YORK CITY @alexsviewpoint alexpapachristidis.com BUNNY WILLIAMS INTERIOR DESIGN NEW YORK CITY @bunnywilliams_ interiordesign bunnywilliams.com CHARLOTTE MOSS NEW YORK CITY @charmossny charlottemoss.com CULLMAN & KRAVIS ASSOCIATES NEW YORK CITY @cullmankravis cullmankravis.com DARRYL CARTER WASHINGTON, D.C. @darrylcarterdesign darrylcarter.com DEBORAH BERKE PARTNERS NEW YORK CITY @deborahberkepartners dberke.com INDIA MAHDAVI PARIS @indiamahdavi india-mahdavi.com JACQUES GRANGE PARIS @jacques.grange 33-1-55-80-75-40 JUAN MONTOYA DESIGN NEW YORK CITY @juanmontoyadesign juanmontoyadesign.com KELLY BEHUN STUDIO NEW YORK CITY @kellybehunstudio kellybehun.com KELLY WEARSTLER LOS ANGELES @kellywearstler kellywearstler.com MICHAEL S. SMITH SANTA MONICA, CALIF. @michaelsmithinc michaelsmithinc.com PETER MARINO ARCHITECT NEW YORK CITY @petermarinoarchitect petermarinoarchitect.com PIERRE YOVANOVITCH PARIS/NEW YORK CITY @pierre.yovanovitch pierreyovanovitch.com ROBERT COUTURIER NEW YORK CITY @robertcouturierinc robertcouturier.com ROMAN AND WILLIAMS NEW YORK CITY @roman_and_williams_ romanandwilliams.com ROMANEK DESIGN STUDIO LOS ANGELES…

Park Avenue from East 57th to 96th streets is as much a literary and cultural allusion as it is an address. With a meticulously landscaped median, the Manhattan boulevard is a two-mile gauntlet of elegant brick apartment buildings in shades from buff to earthen, with liveried doormen and Renaissance Revival and neo-Gothic exterior ornament. Designed largely between the Gilded Age and the Great Depression by such architects as Emery Roth and Rosario Candela, this stretch of rarefied real estate is mostly void of the quaint rowhouses and twee storefronts found on nearby Madison or Lexington. The writer Gay Talese immortalized it in the 1970s as “the Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window washer’s paradise.” As such, strolling the neutral-hued brick canyon…

The expression “indoor-outdoor” has become a bit overused in architecture, but for this weekend house on Long Island with expansive water views, it’s absolutely on target. The couple who commissioned the project wanted a house that was open to the outdoors yet also allowed them to display their extensive collection of contemporary art. From an impressive team that included the architect Blaze Makoid, the interior designer Joe Nahem, and the landscape architect Edmund Hollander, they got both, and then some. Makoid’s design for the two-story house was inspired in part by the cast-concrete buildings conceived by Tadao Ando for the Japanese “art island” of Naoshima. The clients, who had been there, shared Makoid’s enthusiasm. Makoid also used Japanese shou sugi ban, or charred wood, for the beams and exterior siding.…

TRUTH IN DECORATING PAGES 40–42: Alfredo Paredes, alfredoparedesstudio.com. Anooshey Rahim, dunehai.com. SO COURANT PAGE 44: Sleep mask: By Dariia Day, bydariiaday.com. Perfume: Ormaie, ormaie.com. Linen spray: Frédéric Malle, fredericmalle.com. Throw: Hermès, hermes.com. Suitcase: L/Uniform, luniform.com. Sunglasses: Aude Herouard, audeherouard.com. Notebook: Octaevo, octaevo.com. Wallpaper: De Gournay, degournay.com. SHORTLIST PAGE 54: Ken Fulk, kenfulk.com. FURNITURE FANTASY PAGES 70–71: Top: Adriana Degreas, adrianadegreas.com. Pants: St. John, stjohnknits.com. Cuff: Jennifer Fisher, jenniferfisherjewelry.com. Bracelet: Ray Griffiths, raygriffiths.com. Dress: Louisa Ballou, louisaballou.com. Shoes: Alexandre Birman, alexandrebirman.com. Bracelets: Ramona Albert, ramonaalbert.shop. PAGES 72–73: Top and pants: Giorgio Armani, armani.com. Shoes: Nina Ricci, ninaricci.com. Dress: Adriana Degreas. Shoes: Alexandre Birman. Bracelets: Ramona Albert. THIS IS PARK AVENUE Interior design: Ashe Leandro, asheleandro.com. PAGES 102–103: Outdoor sofa: CB2, cb2.com. Chair: Black Wolf Design, blackwolfdesign.com. Cocktail table: Shoppe Amber Interiors, shoppe.amberinteriordesign.com. Side…

Remember getting all dolled up? It was a moment of reacquaintance when Ralph Lauren staged its runway presentation for the fall/winter 2022 season at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan this March—its first show since 2019. The set was an imagined New York City residence inspired by Lauren’s own Fifth Avenue aerie, as seen on the cover of ELLE DECOR’s October 2010 issue: An Angelo Donghia–designed duplex all in white, accented by pops of shiny chrome and race-car red. “I deal with color all the time when I’m working,” Lauren told the magazine then. “When I’m at home, I need to feel like I’m floating on a cloud.” The crowd at MoMA rallied around the fantasy, spurred on by Gigi Hadid in haute equestrian ready-to-wear. The materials—alligator and gold,…

Before I was a novelist, I was a wedding planner. The two occupations have more in common than one would think (problem-solving abilities, handling multiple plots)—except for human interaction. Wedding planning is quite social, while writing novels is intrinsically solitary. Which is no small part of why I switched professions in the first place. Despite wearing the coat of an extrovert, underneath I am pure Greta Garbo. I want to be alone. And this was never truer than by the summer of 2020, when I rented a gorgeous historic house in downtown Kingston, New York. The early pandemic found me without a permanent residence and on a deadline. In March, while getting my MFA in Iowa, I’d come home to New York City for a quick visit to celebrate having…

A high-flying cannonball isn’t the only way to make a splash with a pool. Although most of them look like little more than simple blue glistening rectangles, artists and designers have recently been reminding us that it doesn’t always have to be so. Treating the pool as a blank canvas, they are experimenting with color, pattern, form, and light to create places for an uncommonly refreshing dip. At Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh, artist Joana Vasconcelos conceived Gateway, a circular pool and freeform deck adorned with undulating ribbons of colors realized with 11,366 hand-painted tiles. At L’Arlatan Hotel in Arles, France, Jorge Pardo extended the same multi-colored, geometric tiles he used for indoor flooring out into the pool. For private collectors in Connecticut, James Turrell created Baker Pool, a truly immersive…

PRESENTED BY STEARNS & FOSTER HOW TO CHOOSE THE PERFECT MATTRESS You spend one-third of your life in bed, why not make it wonderful? MAKE IT PERSONAL Scale the size to your space and match the firmness to your sleep style. Map out your bedroom to determine whether a king or a queen would be the best fit. If you sleep with a partner (or pets!), it may be worth sizing up. Find the right feel—Firm, Plush, or Ultra Plush—based on your usual sleep position. THINK LONG TERM A high-quality mattress should last up to 10 years, so invest in comfort, durability, and support. Research how it’s made—the materials used for the interior and the exterior can have a major impact on comfort and durability over time. TRUST THE LEGACY…

Landscape architect Thomas Woltz has a passion for the clarity and proportion of Italian Renaissance architecture. That Woltz lives in a gabled Queen Anne Victorian comes as an ironic surprise, even to him. “Palladio did not use spindles and gingerbread,” he notes, dryly. But his home, together with the garden he has established there over the past two decades, is a unified study in pleasing contrasts. The impact is at once disciplined and spontaneous, respectful and irreverent. Much like the man himself. Woltz bought the house, in a small Virginia town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in 1999. His restoration honors what he calls the “historic intent” of the structure. “I decided to respect the Victorian volumes,” he notes. “I was not going to remove walls to…

“THIS DINING ROOM IS BY MY FIRST BOSS IN NEW YORK, Keith Irvine. He became a mentor to me. He was a master—a Scotsman steeped in the Colefax and Fowler tradition who had worked for Sister Parish. He had that pedigree but was also irreverent. This is a pretty traditional space, which isn’t quite how I design, but it’s magical. The strié walls are unbelievable. I remember watching the process and the painter dragging his thumbnail down the wall to bring out the white background against four shades of green. This level of craftsmanship is not something we often see anymore. You have these high-minded things going on in Keith’s rooms, but they are still comfortable and accessible. He spent crazy money on luxury items, yet you can still walk…

Balancing novelty and understated luxury is key to what les vacances mean now. Designer Luc Berger is a soft-spoken 30-something with an unassuming demeanor that belies his accomplishments: We are, after all, taking coffee at Le Meurice, a hotel that is—at least partly—his own design. Berger, along with his partner in business and life, Margaux Lally, is in the midst of a pandemic-spanning project to update guest rooms and suites at the famed Parisian hotel. While the ground-floor public spaces bear the stamp of two earlier Philippe Starck interventions, Lally & Berger recently renovated chambres on the fourth and fifth floors of the hotel as well as the penthouse (work on the third-floor rooms and suites will tentatively begin this fall). Dating back to 1835, Le Meurice could easily have…

IN THE PARIS ATELIER OF CHRISTIAN DIOR, PETITES mains spend countless hours spinning silk threads into braided and embroidered works of art for the house’s haute couture collections. Those sumptuous trimmings are the starting point for Victoire de Castellane’s new haute joaillerie designs. The Galons, or braids, collection is the latest chapter in Dior’s signature jewelry, a reflection on the precious art of the couturier’s decorative ribbons realized in threads of gold, diamonds, and gemstones. As Dior’s longtime artistic director for fine jewelry, de Castellane has twisted gold into romantic, undulating necklaces and arranged vibrant gems on flowering rosebud rings in defiantly feminine designs. Comprising 81 unique pieces, the Galons collection deftly evokes the glamour of the Art Deco era. “Each of my collections leads to the next, and I…

When David Hockney painted the inside of the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel’s pool with drippy blue macaroni-shaped strokes in 1988, it became an instant icon. After decades of fading, a 2019 restoration brought it back to vivid life. At Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California, you’ll find the “Neptune” pool lined with Vermont marble and overseen by mythic sculptural figures, and an indoor Roman-bath-inspired pool blanketed in blue and orange mosaics. The infamous pool at Gianni Versace’s mansion in Miami Beach (now the Villa Casa Casuarina hotel) is covered with mosaics depicting aquatic creatures and scalloped shells and includes thousands of tiles finished in 24-karat gold.…

There’s an iconic photograph of the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, shot at dusk, with its modernist interior glowing in stark contrast against the craggy backdrop of the San Jacinto mountains. In the black-and-white image of this Richard Neutra–designed classic, captured in 1947 by renowned architectural photographer Julius Shulman, Mrs. Kaufmann poses poolside with two sculptural chaises in the foreground. They’re the VKG Rondo loungers, crafted from metal and cotton rope that would both comfortably cradle the body and withstand the elements. Created in 1939, the lounger was later acquired and produced by Brown Jordan, one of America’s most beloved outdoor furniture brands. Thanks in part to widely publicized photos like Shulman’s, Brown Jordan’s designs were soon found on the most stylish patios in the country—from the Case Study…

Florence Grinda is an enthusiastic collector, to say the least. “I adore buying things,” Grinda admits. She has a group of cockerel sculptures in her Paris apartment, and the kitchen of her chalet in Gstaad is filled with black ceramics from Vallauris. Meanwhile, her vacation home near Comporta in Portugal is stocked with rattan mirrors, midcentury Murano glass fish, and turquoise-colored vases from the Burgundy village of Accolay. “She’s quite insatiable,” says her longtime friend Jacques Grange, who oversaw the architectural design of her Portuguese getaway. “She’s like a child who wants all their toys.” The pair have known each other for 50 years and counting. “Florence is charming, amusing, and not afraid of speaking her mind,” says Grange, who is far from alone in falling under her spell. Her…