Indholdsfortegnelse for April 2025 i ELLE DECOR

As images of her Rue Cambon apartment attest, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel loved a great interior design detail as much as she adored little black dresses and layered ropes of pearls. The fashion designer’s passion for decorating was an inspiration for architect Peter Marino when he unveiled Chanel’s Fifth Avenue jewelry flagship last year; the space features hand-painted coromandelstyle lacquer walls, a nod to the screens in Coco’s Paris home. Another Chanel hallmark, the quilt motif, adorns not the walls of a boutique but Coco Crush, a line of versatile fine jewelry pieces marked with incisions that mimic the cushioning of Chanel’s classic handbags. Inspired by the horse blankets and stable jackets she saw during her love affair with equestrian Etienne Balsan, the matelassé technique finds its most precious expression in…

From the start, Lukan’s vision was to lean on the home’s authentic Pueblo style for inspiration to refresh the interiors—which included replacing all the windows. “Marvin windows and doors presented the ideal balance between a more modern, clean aesthetic and a comfortable, warm, intimate feel that respected the natural architecture,” she says. As accent elements, Lukan selected Marvin Modern windows with a bronze finish inside and out, as well as several Marvin Ultimate windows and doors with the same bronze exterior and a stunning wood interior. The home’s gorgeous desert view also mandated a fluid, inside-and-outside element. Lukan selected Marvin windows to flawlessly serve two main purposes: creating a visual, uninterrupted “wow” moment when you walk into the space, and acting as oversized picture frames for the natural art of…

Earlier this year there was a black velvet tuxedo jacket in the window of the newly opened Giorgio Armani flagship on Madison Avenue. To the passerby it might have simply appeared classic. To those who looked closer, it was more. The cuffs were satin and flared perfectly at the wrist. The shoulders perfectly rounded. The tailoring present but concealed. It is diffcult to discuss the spaces designed for Mr. Armani without discussing the pieces designed by him. The shared vocabulary is strong and singular. A recent advertising campaign for the fashion collection featured the phrase “That’s so Armani,” and we all understood exactly what that meant. The hushed palette, the seductive textures, the lines and curves of elegance. But if you know to look for it, there is always a…

No matter how big or small a house, there always seems to be a room that becomes the center of it all. Maybe the light is brighter there, the air circulation fresher, the vibes inexplicably better. Maybe it’s all three. For Elle Decor A-List interior designer Sheila Bridges, that room is the large enclosed porch at the back of her Hudson Valley home, featured on the cover of our September 2020 issue. Or perhaps we should say the front of the home, as Bridges prefers that guests walk through her yard and garden before entering the house. This enclosed porch wears more hats than one might expect. Aside from being Bridges’s alternate foyer, it’s also a dining room, a workspace (when she needs a break from her in-house studio), and…

For most people, moving homes is something to be avoided at all costs. Settling down is the goal, even if it means sometimes having to settle. But for Parisian fashion designer Amélie Dian, it’s an exciting quest for the best—and an excuse to visit the flea market in Saint-Ouen. She has moved more than 15 times over the past couple of decades. “I changed lives several times, that’s why,” she says. Creative projects are her vocation: She co-founded the rock ’n’ roll–infused brand Zadig & Voltaire in the late ’90s before stints at Kenzo and Comptoir des Cotonniers, as well as consulting projects for LVMH. Recently she succeeded the late Lucien Pellat-Finet at his eponymous cashmere brand (her first collection appears this fall). She is the type of effortlessly chic…

It was in 1996, years before Julie Hillman opened her own design studio, that her career began. She was on maternity leave from her job in fashion, and she and her husband were searching for a home in the Hamptons. “We couldn’t find anything, and our realtor was fed up and said, ‘You should buy a piece of land and build a house. You’re wasting my time,’” Hillman recalls. It took some hunting, but they found a plot in the woody northwestern end of East Hampton with a long entry and a lot of quiet. It is the Hamptons not of sea views and certainly not of parties, but of solitude. The decor had to reflect that—no obvious beachy references, but rather somewhere that could feel at once elegant and…

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Delia Kenza, the New York–based lawyer turned interior designer, started going to Sag Harbor as a child. Her aunt was one of a small group of Black homeowners from New York City who built bungalows in Ninevah Beach, an enclave developed by two sisters in the 1950s. Kenza has spent weekends and summers there since she was nine years old. Now, with the help of local architect Anne Sherry, she has built a new home on the property, which Kenza shares with her husband and their daughters. The project, the first she has designed from the ground up, reflects her and her family’s priorities—exploration, enjoyment, and ease, as well as the designer’s longtime appreciation for African modernism. The quiet concrete masterpiece is much like its owner: exceptionally calm, extremely cool,…