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THE NOVEMBER ISSUE OF ELLE DECOR IS ALL ABOUT CITY LIVING—in keeping with this magazine’s long fascination with the perfect metropolitan home. From chic Paris pieds-à-terre to gorgeous interiors hidden behind unassuming post-industrial facades, we’ve brought you into them all. In that tradition, this month we go on a grand tour of some of the most stunning urban spaces in America, from New York to Los Angeles, complete with jaw-dropping views and a decorative surprise or two. Our cover story features a Houston home designed by ELLE DECOR A-List studio Ashe Leandro, with architecture by Curtis & Windham. Here, in a Spanish Revival envelope, Ariel Ashe delivers her trademark elegance and ease. Also this month, we take you to some of the top design shops around the globe. Then we…
LIKE MANY NEW YORKERS, CHRISTINE AND JOHN GACHOT HAVE an unwavering love for the Metropolitan Opera. The ELLE DECOR A-List designers have passed through the building’s glass doors many times to see canonical operas like The Barber of Seville; their son Boris walked past the cascading fountains in the plaza outside every day on his way to performing arts classes at nearby Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. So when ELLE DECOR called on the duo to redesign the Met Opera Patron Lounge, formerly known as the Eleanor Belmont Room, the answer from the Gachots was a resounding and enthusiastic yes. When the opera house, designed by Wallace K. Harrison, opened in 1966, the legendary decorator Billy Baldwin was brought in to design the lounge. The space already had drama, with…
STAY WHEN IN ROMA While the bones of the Roman hotel Palazzo Talìa, a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, date all the way back to the 16th century, guests standing in the recently renovated lobby would be forgiven for believing themselves transported to a contemporary Milanese interior. That’s because the Federici family, owners of the Fresia Hotels & Resorts group, brought on the design studio of acclaimed I Am Love director Luca Guadagnino to reimagine the public spaces—including a restaurant, bar, and spa—as well as a standout suite. With 25 complementary rooms outfitted by local firm MIA Home Design Gallery alongside the Milan-based designer and architect Laura Feroldi, the result is a cinematic clash of old world and new. —Sean Santiago palazzotalia.com WATCH GREEN DREAM For this…
When I decided last year to embark on gut-renovating a Brooklyn apartment for my growing family, the first thing I thought about was the kitchen. I love to cook, and I love to host, and I wanted something different from the one that had been installed in our current place, of which a very chic friend of mine (French, naturally) once remarked “how American” it looked. There is, of course, no one kind of “American” kitchen, but I took her comment to mean that this one—with its generic Shaker cabinets and their decorative door pulls—looked as though it could have belonged on the set of a 1990s sitcom. Space in any Brooklyn apartment is precious, and mine is no different. I wanted my new kitchen to be economical and low-fuss…
Wait, That’s a Fridge? Once upon a time, fridges were utilitarian eyesores for keeping fruits and vegetables from spoiling. Now, with painterly motifs and sculptural shapes, they’ve become true works of art. Pick a Color, Any Color Chrome on chrome is so last year. These days, your range can be any hue, from emerald green to baby pink. A.I. Is Served The A.I. revolution is here, and in the kitchen, that means meals practically prepare themselves. Samsung’s AI Family Hub+ (above) features a refrigerator camera that can recognize individual food items, recommend recipes, and track use-by dates. Signature Kitchen Suite’s Gourmet AI includes a camera that monitors food while it’s cooking, offering tips and tricks to novice chefs. Meanwhile, GE Appliances’ Flavorly AI leverages generative A.I. to suggest recipes based…
The designers Heide Hendricks and Rafe Churchill are known for a visual language that pulls the past into the present. Call it Shaker with a twist. Based in Connecticut’s rural Litchfield County, their ELLE DECOR A-List firm, Hendricks Churchill, is a go-to for renovations of period architecture—updated country farmhouses, prewar city apartments, 19th-century brownstones—infusing them with a traditionalism that works in a contemporary context. But to judge from their latest project, the duo—who are a married couple—aren’t afraid of jumping out of the history books and several stories off the ground. When a young family approached them to decorate their apartment in a new-build high-rise on New York’s Upper East Side, all they could think of was the modernist architecture in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. “It was a space that…
