Innehållsförteckning för October 2024 från ELLE DECOR

OR SHOULD I SAY “BON ANNIVERSAIRE”? AFTER ALL, THE U.S. edition of ELLE DECOR—which launched in 1989 as an offshoot of the ELLE fashion and lifestyle brand—has its roots in France. So it’s fitting that the cover story of our 35th-anniversary issue features a crème de la crème Paris apartment by ELLE DECOR A-List Titan Pierre Yovanovitch. The pied-à-terre, in a 1925 Haussmannian building overlooking the Seine, is home to a Beirut-based couple who fantasized about having their own slice of the City of Light after years of making trips there. I don’t think they could have found a better way to make that dream a reality: In Yovanovitch’s expert hands, the romance that drew the couple to the capital really comes to life. As usual in a project by…

The story goes that in 1904, an aviator from Brazil by the name of Alberto Santos-Dumont was grousing to Louis Cartier about pocket watches: As a pilot, he found them impractical for use while flying. Cartier, scion of the French jewelry house and a caring friend indeed, came up with a novel solution: a purpose-built men’s watch that could be worn on the wrist. The rest, as they say, is histoire. Now, 120 years later, Cartier has introduced a 31.5mm iteration of the Santos-Dumont’s classic square-shaped design in platinum with a ruby crown and Arabic numerals on an olive-green satin-finished dial. A lacquered bezel and an alligator strap finish off an elegant timepiece that can take its wearer from the cockpit to cocktails.…

Paris, it is often said, is the city of love. It’s a cliché, sure, but for some, it very much feels like the truth. For a French Lebanese couple who recently renovated a pied-à-terre here, Paris is the setting for a joyous second act. Both the wife and the husband were previously divorced, with children from their first marriages. “It was love at first sight” when they met, she says. They settled in Beirut but set their sights on a Parisian getaway—“a place with a view, like out of a movie.” The apartment they found—in a 1925 Haussmannian building wedged between the Trocadéro gardens and the Seine—is indisputably cinematic. The living room’s curving wall of French doors faces the ultimate Parisian symbol: a perfectly framed vista of the Eiffel Tower.…

Rayman Boozer believes that a home can’t only look ravishing. It also has to feel friendly. “I know friendly doesn’t sound like a design word,” says the ELLE DECOR A-List designer. “But it’s really important to me that when people walk into a home, it feels like they’re welcome. Things should be pretty but still feel like, Oh wow, a nice person lives here. Or at least that a nice person decorated.” That sentiment is immediately apparent in a Harlem apartment that the Indiana-born, Manhattan-based principal of design firm Apartment 48 renovated for a family of four. The space is textured and unexpected. The living room, painted in a soothing light blue, features a piano bench upholstered in a purple zebra print, French landscape paintings, gauzy curtains in a blush-pink…

Items pictured but not listed are from private collections. CONTENTS PAGE 12: Armchair: Pierre Yovanovitch Mobilier, pierreyovanovitch.com/en/mobilier-en. PAGE 16: Vase: Chris Gustin, donzella.com. CIRCLE D’AMOUR Interior design: Pierre Yovanovitch, pierreyovanovitch.com. PAGE 80: Sofa and cushions: Pierre Yovanovitch Mobilier, pierreyovanovitch.com/en/mobilier-en. Chairs: George Nakashima, nakashimawoodworkers.com. Cocktail table: Maison Royère, maisonroyere.com. Artwork: Daniel Buren, Mennour Gallery, mennour.com. PAGE 81: Table: Maison Royère. Ceiling fresco: Matthieu Cossé, @cossematthieu. PAGE 82: Rug: Pierre Yovanovitch and Galerie Diurne, diurne.com. PAGES 82–83: Sofa and chair: Pierre Yovanovitch Mobilier. Cocktail table: Doshi Levien, doshilevien.com. Artworks: Daniel Buren, Camille Henrot, Mennour Gallery. PAGE 84: Table: Matthias Kohn, matthiaskohn.de. Bench fabric: Le Manach, pierrefrey.com Artwork: Imi Knoebel, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, ropac.net. PAGE 85: Painted tiles: Matthieu Cossé. Fittings: Dornbracht, dornbracht.com. PAGE 86: Bed linens: Treca, treca.com. Lamp and rug: Pierre…

poltronafrau.com 1 KNOW YOUR HISTORY Embarking on an interiors project? Get your references ready. One great way to begin is by mining design history. Might we suggest an archival story or two from ELLE DECOR? Dig up your back issues or head to elledecor.com/archive. You’ll thank us later. 2 SIT WITH US Chairs and sofas are leading the charge, innovating in form and material in ways that push interior design forward. Here, a few of the most influential pieces of the past three decades. 3 DAZZLE ’EM! Looking for a pièce de résistance in any interior? The answer may just be the kind of sculptural lighting that’s all the rage these days. “CHANGING OUT THE LIGHTING IS PART OF MY CREATIVE PROCESS.”–LINDSEY ADELMAN 4 MAKE IT FASHION At ELLE DECOR,…

IN 2010, PASCALE MUSSARD, A SIXTH-GENERATION member of the family behind the French luxury brand Hermès, had an idea. As a child, she visited the Hermès workshop in Paris where saddles were made and noticed an uncle pluck a leather scrap out of the trash. He worked with an artisan to turn it into a wallet, then placed it in a store window the next day as an experiment. Sure enough, the orders started rolling in, and the wallet went into production. A brand devoted to craftsmanship at the highest level will inevitably generate some detritus in its pursuit of perfection. Mussard’s inspired idea was to found an atelier within Hermès, Petit h, where leftovers from the production of everything from Kelly bags to Carré silk scarves to porcelain tableware…

St. Moritz, home to nearly 3,500-year-old natural hot springs and host (twice over!) to the Winter Olympics, has an undying allure. Now the glamorous Swiss destination is one of many jet-set haunts to have inspired new additions to Harry Winston’s Majestic Escapes high-jewelry collection. This suite of jewels, named as a nod to the resort town’s snowcapped mountains and azure skies, includes a necklace and earrings crafted of two cuts of diamonds fringed with varying shades of sapphires, exquisitely melding natural wonders with the man-made.…

It was all about the green curtains. In 2008, to my great surprise, I was offered a nine-month fellowship based in New York City. I had lived there twice before, both times unsuccessfully, meaning I had failed to create any kind of significant social life, and so this was a chance not only to do research for my new novel, but also an opportunity to get things right. I swore I wouldn’t let the city break me a third time. But how? I knew from experience that New Yorkers (who use their ovens as sweater drawers) cannot resist the exotic rarity of a dinner party, so if I threw at least two a week, I should become the toast of the town. But where? Since my first swing at the…

At ELLE DECOR, we believe that Paris is always a good idea. Here, in our tradition of featuring exquisite spaces in the City of Light, we present a cover story on the ultimate love nest—naturally with an Eiffel Tower view. Like all of the stories on these pages, it represents design at its best. It’s our anniversary: Join us in raising a glass to 35 more years!…