Innehållsförteckning för Winter 2025 från ELLE DECOR

When you are a 90-year-old fashion and design icon, the only way to take Manhattan is to do it your way. In October, Giorgio Armani arrived in the Big Apple to plenty of fanfare, from his first fashion show in the city in 11 years to the reveal of his new 12-story tower at Madison Avenue and 65th Street. That corner has long been associated with Armani: His former flagship, designed in 1996 by ELLE DECOR A-List Titan Peter Marino, sat on the same spot. But the Milanese designer has since embraced the power of a total lifestyle brand, with pioneering moves into everything from furniture to hospitality. Indeed, behind the fluted limestone facade of 760 Madison Avenue, designed with CookFox Architects, is a universe where you can dress, eat,…

When Parisians flocked to the corner of Boulevard des Capucines and rue de la Chausséed’Antin on November 24, 1927, for the opening of what was billed as their city’s most spectacular new movie theater, the Vaudeville Paramount Palace, they discovered that its Belle Époque facade housed a sumptuous Art Deco interior. Gold paint glistened on the ceiling of the 1,920-seat auditorium as the Paramount Orchestra played the overture to Wagner’s 1867 The Master-Singers of Nuremberg in a prelude to the movie, the Oscar-nominated documentary Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness. Like so many once-glamorous early-20th-century movie theaters, the Vaudeville Paramount Palace faded during the television age. But the building (or most of it) survived, and it reopened this summer as the seven-screen Pathé Palace after five years of restoration and…

Vermont has attracted the strong, silent type for centuries. The New England ski capital is known for maples, mountains, and minding your own business, and its historic houses follow suit—sturdy barns and Greek Revivals dot the hilly landscape, interwoven with trails, lakes, and valleys that add to the state’s charm. With all the natural splendor and architectural heritage Vermont has to offer, building a new house there is an intimidating proposition. One New York City couple was undaunted by the challenge after hiring Sheila Bridges to decorate the interior. It was the New York City–based ELLE DECOR Titan designer’s skill with layering and texture that made her the best choice to bring warmth and character to an 8,000-square-foot house built by the Burlington, Vermont–based architecture firm TruexCullins in 2023. “I…

ALESSIA IN WONDERLAND Architecture: Natalia Bianchi, nataliabianchi.it. PAGES 60–61: Sconces: Paola Napoleone, paolanapoleone.com. PAGE 64: Dresser: Flamant, flamant.com. PAGE 65: Chair, headboard, and ottoman fabrics: Andrew Martin, andrewmartin.co.uk. Sink: Devon & Devon, devon-devon.com. Wall tiles: Riccardo Barthel, riccardobarthel.it. MIAMI? MINIMAL. Interior design: Martin Brûlé Studio, @martinbrulestudio. Architecture: Richard Meier, meierpartners.com. PAGE 67: Pendant: Patrice Dangel, alexandrebiaggi.com. Surfboard: Reena Spaulings, reenaspaulings.com. Dining table: MBS with Ateliers Saint-Jacques, ateliers-st-jacques.com. Rug: Galerie Diurne, diurne.com. Plates: Matthieu Cossé, @cosse matthieu. PAGE 69: Backsplash and ceiling tiles: Matthieu Cossé. Cabinetry: Boffi, boffi.com. Runner: La Manufacture Cogolin, manufacturecogolin.com. Fittings: Rubinetterie Stella, rubinetteriestella.it. PAGE 70: Sofa, chairs, and ottoman fabric: Raf Simons, kvadrat.dk. Rug: La Manufacture Cogolin. TV: Samsung, samsung.com. Side table: Cocobolo, cocobolodesign.com. PAGE 71: Wall and headboard fabric: Jim Thompson, jimthompsonfabrics.com. Wall sculpture: Cocobolo. Table…

7:00 a.m. Mornings for an early riser will be wholeheartedly enriched when OJ comes with Hermès. 9:00 a.m. Some will receive this as an invitation to work out, some to time out. To either, the correct response? “You’re welcome.” 11:00 a.m. For some, being busy is a status symbol. Offer them other suggestions. 5:00 p.m. There are drinks and there are cocktails, but we present here the ingredients for an apéro. Say the Bottega playing cards insisted. 7:00 p.m. Dinner with Elsa? It’s an invitation no one will ever refuse. 9:00 p.m. For anyone exhausted by reality: the elements of sweeter dreams.…

For centuries, a warm bath has remained one of life’s great luxuries. From the earliest examples of bathing facilities at the Palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete to modern architectural marvels like Peter Zumthor’s Therme Vals in Switzerland, the reassuring comfort provided by a deep soak has long been treated as nothing less than sacred. Winston Churchill was so enamored with bathtubs that he routinely took two baths per day (with the water temperature set at a precise 98 degrees) and made many of his most important decisions while submerged, even when England was under attack during World War II. Although few of us have the time to follow Churchill’s example today, as we speed through showers to rush to morning meetings, bathtubs haven’t lost their allure.…

On a gray afternoon in Paris, the Montreal-born interior designer Martin Brûlé—who keeps offces in Brooklyn and here, just off the Tuileries Garden, in a neighborhood of fine art and antiques galleries—studied photographs on his phone of a recent project in Surfside, Florida. “The sun!” Brûlé says with a little laugh and a small sigh. His clients had come to him with an apartment in one of the two residential towers added in 2017 to the city’s historic Surf Club, which opened nearly a century ago. Richard Meier, the architect of the towers, delivered a pitch-perfect update to the club’s Mediterranean Revival style and country-club-on-a-beach sensibility, says Brûlé, and the long and open layout of the original three-bedroom residence, which the renovation saw converted into a one-bedroom pied-à-terre with an…