Innehållsförteckning för March 2022 från ELLE DECOR

“ART MAKES THE ROOM!” THAT’S THE PHRASE WE KEPT repeating, with varying degrees of humor and seriousness, as we put together this issue celebrating the power of living with art. The homes in these pages prove the axiom true, filled as they are with canvases, sculpture, and more that elevate every interior—from an art historian’s deeply personal apartment in Rome to our newsstand cover story, a collector couple’s San Francisco Tudor Revival, designed by Nicole Hollis and renovated by architect Stephen Will-rich to accommodate the family and their blue-chip collection. Of course, art can be much more than just a pièce de résistance—it can be a means of resistance to boredom, to despair, and to cultural erasure. Art may make the room, but it also makes room—for self-reflection, delight, and…

Forget paint. When a room screams out for a truly audacious change, it’s almost impossible to beat statement-making wallpaper. Whether the design depicts lush oversize florals, a hallucinatory geometric pattern, or a lively scene from some foreign dreamworld, a unique wallpaper can propel a space from a ho-hum afterthought to a home’s crown jewel. “It’s probably my favorite tool to make someone’s house feel really distinctive,” says the New York City–based designer Celerie Kemble. “It’s a real mood changer and instantly adds a big dose of personality. Even though there’s no actual depth to it, patterned wallpaper gives a foreground-background effect that eliminates the feeling of that big, sad, flat wall.” As wallpaper has been surging in popularity for well over a decade, the range of options has proliferated, with…

Five hundred square feet is tiny by any standard, but it’s a particularly cozy canvas for a creative duo with an unabashed object lust. “Everything we have is personal,” says William Cullum, the senior designer at Jayne Design Studio, who shares this prewar Greenwich Village apartment with his partner, Jeffery Rhodes, who works in fashion and brand development. The result is a fearless composition of their favorite things, enlivened by a shared penchant for pattern and color. From family heirlooms to Victorian antiques and auction finds, Cullum says, “if we love it, we make it work.”…

HOUSE CALL Interior design: Billy Cotton, billycotton.com. PAGE 48: Chair: B&B Italia, bebitalia.com. PAGES 50–51: Console and lamps: Gallery 25, gallery25.co.uk. Rug: Eliko, elikorugs.com. Stove: Ilve, ilveusa.com. Artworks: John Finneran, johnfinneran.info; Olaf Breuning, olafbreuning.com. Side table and sconce: Gallery 25. FURNITURE FANTASY PAGES 66–67: Coat: Louis Vuitton, louisvuitton.com. Jumpsuit: Erdem, erdem.com. Turtleneck: Dior Homme, dior.com. Shoes: Issey Miyake, isseymiyake.com. Coat: Brandon Maxwell, brandonmaxwell online.com. Vest: 3.1 Phillip Lim, 31philliplim.com. Pants: Isabel Marant, isabelmarant.com. Boots: Givenchy, givenchy.com. Dress: Alexander McQueen, alexandermcqueen.com. Coat: Prada, prada.com. Suit: Paul Smith, paulsmith.com. Shoes: Coach, coach.com. PAGES 68–69: Sweater and pants: Fendi, fendi.com. Ring: Givenchy. Shoes: Giuseppe Zanotti, giuseppezanotti.com. Coat, belt, and boots: Givenchy. Top and pants: Marcell von Berlin, marcellvonberlin.com. Coat and boots: Chloé, chloe.com. Dress: Oscar de la Renta, oscardelarenta.com. Dress and boots: Chloé. Turtleneck:…

We’re seldom able to pinpoint the catalyst for a total change of heart. But I know the moment my approach to living with art shifted. It was March 24, 2020, when Brooklyn sculptor Alyson Shotz shared an achingly poignant image on Instagram—one of wilted flowers in a slouched earthenware vase. It was a long-distance collaboration in a time of vast separation between Shotz and fellow artist Carrie Mae Weems. Based on her Recumbent Fold series, where Shotz drops unglazed porcelain slabs from varying heights to the ground, her vases are made as gifts for friends like Weems, who took the photograph. With the art world in free fall, I desperately wanted to telegraph my deep personal support to artists, who I’ve long held are essential workers. So I bought a…

Murals Thanks to digital printing, full-scale wall murals are now almost as accessible as the repeating patterns of yore. Calico Wallpaper, for instance, creates artful, abstract motifs rich with atmosphere that never repeat. The company’s latest introductions include designs resembling supersize wood grain, paintbrush strokes, and free-form paper cutouts, as well as washes of color evoking gauzy clouds and electric sunsets. Peel-and-Stick Don’t have an installer, or worried about papering a rental apartment? No problem. Companies like Chasing Paper and Wallshoppe make peel-and-stick wallpaper that looks as good as traditional products but is simple to hang and just as easy to remove when you grow tired of the design. Added Function Wallcoverings can do more than merely add decoration. Liners from companies like MagScapes can make any wallpaper magnetic. Smarter…

ELLEN PONG “CLAY IS REALLY INTUITIVE. IF YOU can think of something you want to make, you can create it.” So says Ellen Pong, the artist whose ceramic furniture has been featured by galleries including New York City’s Superhouse and Los Angeles’s Marta. She grew up near Seattle, studied art history at the University of California, Berkeley, and now works out of a shared studio in Queens, New York, where she creates unusual ceramic pieces—including lamps, chairs, and vessels—that marry function with an irreverent sensibility. Each design is formed through a process of hand-building, sometimes for many weeks. Though firmly contemporary, Pong’s work takes cues from a wide range of historical influences. “I saw some pre-Columbian artifacts at the Diego Rivera museum in Mexico City and was inspired by how…

“ES DEVLIN’S FOREST OF US IS ONE OF MY most recent experiences that is beyond art, the spatial, and the architectural, with a curiosity about nature and humanity. What is especially interesting and inviting about Forest of Us is its inhabitable scale, and that there’s no prescribed way to interact with it: You can engage with it on a deep, philosophical level, or you can simply follow what you’re feeling and seeing. In my practice, I’m always thinking about a dimension of emotion that is beyond the walls of the space. And here every visitor is going to have a different emotional response—therein lies the beauty of it.”…

ALL THEY WANTED FROM BILLY COTTON WAS A NEW KITCHEN. That’s why Margaret Lee and her husband, Oliver Newton, the founders of 47 Canal Gallery, originally sought out the New York decorator. The couple had purchased their modest 760-square-foot prewar apartment in an estate sale, which in Manhattan is typically a euphemism for gut-renovation required. “It had not been touched in many years,” Cotton says diplomatically. The kitchen in question was little more than a “galley” that was “deeply nonfunctional.” Needless to say, as Cotton is known for his work with art collectors and artists as much as his warm palettes and Dutch Old Master moodiness, he had more to offer Lee and Newton than just a one-room redo. Lee and Cotton met years ago while the former was managing…

HIGH ABOVE A busy street in downtown Los Angeles, the artist Diedrick Brackens balances over a simple wooden floor loom, a modern-day Briar Rose. His tapestries, the first of which he made in 2008, evolved from a sculptural practice that incorporated fiber. Each piece is woven primarily from cotton, a material that carries geographic, cultural, and social weight for the Texas-born artist, tethering him to his ancestors as well as future generations. The most salient forebear to Brackens’s work could be Yoruba aso oke, handwoven from long strands of silk or cotton. Other references include the quilt codes of the Underground Railroad, in which the quilts of abolitionist travelers were embedded with directions to the North; Flemish medieval tapestries; kente cloth; and the textile tradition of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Much…

PRESENTED BY OUT ON THE TOWN Amari low-back lounge chairs, side table, three-seat sofa, Constantine cocktail table, and Dupioni vase all by Janus et Cie. EN PLEIN AIR Forest high-back barstools, Koko II Communal bar table, Dolce Vita bar table, Metro platter, and Aslant vases all by Janus et Cie.…

For details, see Resources. Some artworks are conversation pieces. Others completely change the discussion. Falling into the second category is a museumquality stained-glass window that recently found its way to an oceanfront house in South Florida. The window, which Helen Gould, daughter of the Gilded Age railroad baron Jay Gould, commissioned from Tiffany Studios in 1910, was acquired by the homeowner mid-renovation, causing quite a flurry in the entrance hall, where it was set over the staircase. Interruptions like this do not seem to faze Rodney Lawrence, the New York City–based designer who transformed the six-bedroom residence into a luxurious tropical retreat. Lawrence reconfigured the entrance hall millwork to make room for the window (the custom trim had been freshly fabricated and installed, but please, this is Tiffany). A chandelier,…