Innehållsförteckning för Winter 2024 från ELLE DECOR

Design firms are rarely commissioned to create an actual fun house—not an amusement park attraction nor a McMansion dedicated to making content for TikTok, but rather a family home meant for socializing in style. But that was precisely the brief given to Mafalda Muñoz and Gonzalo Machado, the duo behind the Madrid-based interior design studio Casa Muñoz, for a four-story townhouse in the old port of Ibiza, Spain. The clients, a Spanish-English couple with teenage children, have owned a larger home on a seaside corner of the Balearic island on which they’ve summered for nearly 20 years. For this centrally located pied-à-terre, they were after a completely different vibe, a chic bolt-hole where their kids could pile in with friends after a night out without anyone having to drive. It…

Items pictured but not listed are from private collections. CONTENTS PAGE 12: Bed, bedding, bench: Jenni Kayne Home, jennikayne.com. Light fixture: Rose Uniacke, roseuniacke.com. POINT OF VIEW Design consulting: Robert Tycen Hauser, rthauser.com. PAGE 43: Blouse and skirt: Anikalenaskärström, anikalena.com. PARTY HOUSE Interior design: Casa Muñoz, casa-munoz.com. PAGES 56–57: Artwork: John Isaacs, johnisaacs.net. PAGES 58–59: Bench cushions: Dedar, dedar.com. Artwork: Jorge Méndez Blake, mendezblake.com. PAGES 60–61: Bed and cushion fabric: Dedar. Brass sconces: Rose Uniacke, roseuniacke.com. Blanket: PEZ, pez-pez.es. Flowers: Florando Ando, @florandoando. EDGE OF THE WORLD Interior design: Jenni Kayne, jenni kayne.com. Architecture: Fearon Hay Architects, fearonhay.com. Landscape design: Suzanne Turley, suzanneturley.co.nz. PAGES 62–63: Dining table: Joseph Dirand, josephdirand.com. Chair slipcovers: Jed Lind, jedlind interiors.com. PAGE 65: Sofa fabric: Janus et Cie, janusetcie.com. Stools: Tréology, treology.co.nz. PAGES 67–68: Chaise…

Go Ahead, Hit Snooze A great mattress is foundational to a good night’s rest—and few are as sumptuous as Hästens’s Grand Vividus. Made of horsehair, cotton, and a Swedish pine frame—and weighing more than 1,300 pounds—this number will have your back thanking you in the morning.…

In 1940, shortly after the German occupation of Paris, Charlotte Perriand left France to work in Japan, returning home six years later after a detour through Vietnam, where she waited out the war. Once back in France, she set to work on an ill-starred resort in the village of Méribel, spending two full years designing its interiors. When the British developer ran out of money, he offered to pay Perriand with a piece of land. She chose a plot in a meadow sheltered by firs and aspens and bounded by a mountain stream. More than a decade later, in 1961, she finally built her refuge in the woods, a delicate compromise between tradition and modernity, between community and isolation—a pure expression of her singular aesthetic. Though Perriand’s initial design involved…

Before she founded her eponymous fashion brand at 19, Jenni Kayne had a yen for playing house. “When exams would come up, I’d hear her rearranging her bedroom,” her mother, Suzanne Kayne, recalls with an audible cringe. Her knack for redecorating took a back seat in her early adulthood as she focused on building her lifestyle label, now known for its Instagram-ad domination as well as its less-can-be-so-much-more approach to basics and neutrals. Give Kayne the most ordinary and humble element—say, a pocket tee—and watch her elevate it to the most covetable version of itself. It’s a sneaky superpower, one that Kayne’s parents were wise to tap into when it came to bringing their coastal compound in New Zealand to life. From her base in Beverly Hills, their daughter had…

IN SEPTEMBER, A CADRE OF CELEBRITIES—DIANE KEATON, Julianne Moore, and Gabrielle Union among them—settled into Louis XV–style seating at Brooklyn’s historic Navy Yard for a front-row glimpse of a most unusual catwalk. For his New York Fashion Week presentation, Ralph Lauren unveiled his spring 2024 collection in a barnlike setting with details—crystal chandeliers hanging from twine cords, draped swaths of canvas, rustic wood floors—evoking an artist’s loft. Soon, a fleet of models appeared in stunning updates on Lauren’s signature motifs of western denim (this time with rhinestones and feathers) and black-tie elegance (Christy Turlington closed the show in a gold lamé Grecian gown). The collection is about “a new kind of romance—cool and sophisticated,” Lauren explains. Afterward, a banquet of Polo Bar classics was served at tables set with dishes,…

It’s early fall in northern Italy, and designer Paolo Castellarin and his husband, Didier Bonnin, an executive at a French luxury brand, have just set the table for lunch. We’re sitting under the terra-cotta-tiled roof of what several hundred years ago would have been an outdoor kitchen, one of numerous stone-walled buildings in the complex making up their weekend home in the hills near Piacenza. It’s that sweet spot in the season when a daytime breeze still warms the skin. As Castellarin doles out stuffed pasta cooked in butter and sage onto illustrated Richard Ginori plates, he explains that long ago this house was a thriving agricultural center. He learned that it was constructed in 1182 as a casaforte—a fortified mansion—on the ruins of a Roman fort. In the intervening…

In 2012, a small cottage in the Hamptons owned by the Lauder family—descendants of the pioneering cosmetics entrepreneur Estée—was tragically destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. It left a void, to be sure, but also presented an opportunity to build something entirely new. Now they’ve constructed an unassuming aerie along an enchanting stretch of beach nestled between the ocean and a saltwater pond. “It’s really this magical indoor-outdoor beach pavilion,” says Aerin Lauder, style and creative director of Estée Lauder and founder of the luxury lifestyle brand Aerin, speaking on behalf of the family. “It’s a jewel box,” she adds, a touch dreamily. “A jewel box in the dunes.” The replacement is elegantly restrained, just a 1,300-square-foot, low-slung, single-story, modernist structure. The facade is composed of sleek glass and vertically placed slats…