Innehållsförteckning för May 2024 från ELLE DECOR

THERE ARE LOTS OF REASONS I LOVE OUR MAY ISSUE, WHICH TURNS a spotlight on what’s new in the world of ELLE DECOR—from rising interior design stars to new hotels, restaurants, and exhibitions, and to furniture and decor launches for your home. But perhaps the biggest reason for my enthusiasm is that assembling our annual Debuts Issue is just plain fun. Take our cover story, the Hollywood Hills home of designer Mike Moser and architect Tyler Thomas, who are partners in life and, soon, will be cofounders of a studio they’re calling TTMM (after the initials of their mutually alliterative names). I was struck by the California duo’s ability to make a classic interior scheme feel cool. A sense of calm radiates throughout their home, carried along by a romantic…

The butterfly is a signature subject for the French jewelry house Van Cleef & Arpels. These clips, its latest ode to the colorful fauna, were created with Japanese lacquerwork master Junichi Hakose. They feature diamond-set thoraxes and wing motifs inspired by various themes, from seasons to heavenly bodies. The pieces have taken on new meaning as symbols of resilience in the wake of a recent earthquake that devastated Ishikawa, where Hakose’s workshop is located. These wearable artworks serve as a testament to the maison’s enduring dialogue between French decorative arts and Japanese craft, highlighting the power of shared heritage to unite us all.…

A ceiling is like a surprise baby, the ELLE DECOR A-List designer Celerie Kemble says. “Homeowners are like, ‘Wait a second! We just lacquered a wall. We have a big rug. We did the curtains. You’re telling me I have a fourth child I didn’t know about?’” But sometimes, the family—or room—just doesn’t feel complete without a statement ceiling. Increasingly, designers are incorporating treatments to direct eyes upward. India Mahdavi, the Paris-based ELLE DECOR A-List Titan, finds that “when I apply a strong floor to a space, I tend to respond with a strong ceiling to balance out the room. It initiates a conversation between heaven and earth and everything in between.” “People are looking for more details and finer finishes,” says Paris-based ELLE DECOR A-List designer Jean-Louis Deniot. “By…

Items pictured but not listed are from private collections. CONTENTS PAGE 8: Pendant: Lightology, lightology.com. Artwork: Tiffany Alfonseca, tiffanyalfonseca.com. HOUSE CALL PAGE 42: Artwork: Landon Metz, landonmetz.com. PAGE 44: Lamp: Flos, flos.com. Desk chair: B&B Italia, bebitalia.com. Sofa: B&B Italia. Floor lamps: Flos. Chair: Azucena, azucena.it. Artwork: Simon Dybbroe Møller, againstaboutness.com. PAGE 46: Pendant: Louis Poulsen, louispoulsen.com. Dining table, outdoor chair and table, armchair: B&B Italia. Artwork: Alice Ronchi, aliceronchi.com. THE STORY CONTINUES Interior design: Studio Dorion, studiodorion.com. PAGES 58–59: Dining table: Piero Lissoni, lissoniandpartners.com. Floor lamps: Tony Blahd, tonyblahd.com. Wallcovering: Caba Company, barkskin.com. Rug: Beauvais Carpets, beauvaiscarpets.com. Artwork: Tony Just, @just.tony. PAGE 60: Wool rug: Holland & Sherry, hollandandsherry.com. Artwork: Donald Sultan, donaldsultanstudio.com. Lithograph: David Hockney, hockney.com. PAGE 61: Pendant: David Weeks, davidweeksstudio.com. Chair fabric: Rose Uniacke, roseuniacke.com. PAGES…

STAY GOLDEN SLUMBERS Hotels have been sprouting in London like English roses. ELLE DECOR A-List designer Martin Brudnizki brings his maximalist muscularity to the 57-room Broadwick in Soho, the city’s bustling entertainment district (broadwicksoho.com). In the heart of Chelsea, François-Joseph Graf creates an elegant and dramatic collision of British and French design sensibilities for At Sloane, a boutique gem comprising 30 rooms (atsloane.com). The Emory in Knightsbridge, Maybourne’s fourth London hotel, is a flex of modern aesthetics (the-emory.co.uk). The nine-floor property by the late Pritzker Prize laureate Richard Rogers and Ivan Harbour includes 61 suites, each designed by such heavyweights as Alexandra Champalimaud, André Fu, and Patricia Urquiola. —Charles Curkin SEE NAOMI ETERNAL Supermodel Naomi Campbell—one of the original Big Six—has been a global celebrity for so long it’s easy…

After years of watches growing larger and larger, they’re finally trending back down…way down. The new design of the Overseas Self-Winding features all of the signature traits of Vacheron Constantin’s iconic sports watch collection—three interchangeable bands (metal bracelet, leather and rubber straps), automatic movement, date display, and Maltese-cross bezel motif—but with an elegant 34.5mm diameter, down from the standard 41mm. The chameleonic blue dial changes intensity depending on how the light hits it—but when paired with the polished pink gold case, its shimmer is eternal.…

Very little remains of 20th-century Irish designer Eileen Gray’s architecture. Of the three buildings that saw completion, only her 1929 French Riviera villa E-1027 has been properly recognized and restored, and that was after it survived being tampered with by Le Corbusier, shot up by Nazis, and left to languish, nearly forgotten. But Gray left behind sketches for almost 50 unrealized projects. It was one of these plans that caught the attention of Egg Collective founders Stephanie Beamer, Crystal Ellis, and Hillary Petrie last year, when they were exploring potential settings to showcase their latest furniture collection. One of Gray’s unbuilt projects—her 1933–34 “House for Two Sculptors”—was a live-work space with an egg-shaped studio adjoining smaller living quarters. “It spoke to us,” Petrie says, “like a message through time.” Since…

Yinka Shonibare at the Serpentine In his first major London museum show in two decades, Yinka Shonibare’s “Suspended States” (through September 1) presents new and recent installations, sculptures, woodcut prints, and more by the British Nigerian artist. In one installation, Sanctuary City, he gathers miniature replicas of buildings that have been known as places of refuge. Another piece, The War Library, features 5,000 books, bound in Dutch wax print, on historic conflicts. serpentinegalleries.org Chelsea Flower Show From the latest rose hybrids to spectacular show gardens, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is a cornucopia of delights for any plant enthusiast. Held on the grounds of London’s Royal Hospital Chelsea, the 2024 edition (May 21–25) will include a Bridgerton garden—timed for the mid-May release of the Netflix show’s third season. rhs.org.uk Enzo…

Did someone say “Gilded Age”? This spring saw the Manhattan opening of the first stand-alone store in the United States dedicated to Chanel watches and fine jewelry. In a prime midtown location on Fifth Avenue, the space was designed by ELLE DECOR A-List Titan Peter Marino to highlight the maison’s savoir faire, not to mention its dazzling creations. But it is also an homage to Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel herself, from references to her lucky number five to details inspired by her legendary Paris residence on Rue Cambon. The two-story boutique is inside the historic Crown Building, a French Renaissance Revival–style skyscraper built in 1921 (fittingly, the same year that Chanel No. 5 debuted). The storefront features honed and grooved black granite, while the interiors showcase a palette of gold and…