Innehållsförteckning för March 2025 från ELLE DECOR

Surviving the gelid gusts and gales of winter takes more than a vicuña coat and shearling earmuffs, and the watch designers at Van Cleef & Arpels understand this well. Last year they evoked the warmth and beauty of summer with the Lady Arpels Brise d’Eté. The 38mm timepiece, set on an emerald alligator strap, captures the feeling of a gentle summer breeze, blending the brand’s signature technical precision, elegance, and artistic ambition. Crafted in white gold, the Brise d’Eté features a mother-of-pearl dial beneath champlevé leaves and butterflies of plique-à-jour enamel. The enchanting winged insects, powered by a self-winding retrograde movement, serve as hour and minute markers. The effect adds fluidity and a beguiling touch of the uncanny to the overall look. The dial, which is surrounded by a gem-set…

Modernism is not the first word that comes to mind when you think of the work of Robert A.M. Stern. The architectural titan has built his reputation as a classicist whose residential design skews decidedly traditional. But it’s worth remembering that Stern, a former dean of the Yale School of Architecture, was, in the 1970s and ’80s, a pioneer of postmodernism, a style that melded classical elements with contemporary flair. What has linked every one of his projects is an intimate understanding of visual culture through time. Now, working with the interior designer Ellie Cullman, Stern and his team have unveiled a project that is a definite departure: a Florida vacation home for an art collecting couple that takes tropical modernism as its antecedent, with a side of mid-20th-century regionalism.…

A marriage between two centers of Italian culture, history, and design, Milan and Venice, finding its purest expression in a jam jar? Stranger things have happened. The Milanese jewelry house Buccellati is synonymous with technique and tradition, and the pieces in its Murano glass collection—blown glass vessels with sterling silver lids sporting the house’s signature engraving—are a fanciful union of the two. So go ahead and dress your table with handcrafted objects inspired by the season. Who’s to say you can’t adorn a dinner setting with a butterfly brooch? When two great cities come together in the hands of Buccellati, anything is possible.…

Every portrait by John Singer Sargent is a character study, conveyed in energetic and sensuous brushstrokes and incorporating the artist’s masterful use of color, light, and shadow. But as an upcoming landmark exhibition of his early paintings, “Sargent in Paris” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (April 27–August 3), shows, his settings were as important as his sitters. Covering the 10 years he spent in the French capital starting when he was 18, the show also explores the artist’s most experimental phase. “This decade in Paris lays the groundwork for his professional career,” says the show’s curator, Stephanie Herdrich. “It’s the foundation of his future success.” The show will include Sargent’s famous portrait of Madame Pierre Gautreau (Madame X to most), along with several preparatory sketches of that painting—with her…

With its Old World apartment buildings and brownstones, its coffeeshops, bookstores, and bakeries, the Upper West Side of Manhattan is not usually thought of as a hotbed of avant-garde creativity. Camille Henrot, a French artist whose bronze sculptures are currently showcased in a one-person exhibition at the Hauser & Wirth gallery in Manhattan, admits that the neighborhood was an unlikely choice. “In the 11 years I lived in New York, I think I was on the Upper West Side maybe once,” she says. “But the moment I stepped into this apartment, I had a crush on the view.” Her husband, acclaimed composer and sound artist Mauro Hertig, notes that the area, with its parks and quiet streets, is ideal for their two young sons and dog. “There’s constant movement on…

Photographer Shaniqwa Jarvis is a winner. As her Instagram handle, @sheekswinsalways, attests, she sets out to do her best, always, whether she’s capturing the likeness of one of her many illustrious subjects—Quinta Brunson, Gabrielle Union, and Simone Biles have all sat for her—or settling into her first Los Angeles home. When she and her partner Raj Debah, an artist, writer, and film director, started looking for a house in Los Angeles, their primary concern was vibes, good energy being, after all, the surefire sister to success. When Jarvis walked into her 1,800-square-foot, three-bedroom Mount Washington home for the first time, the vibes were almost uncanny. “The moment I stepped over the threshold I knew this was my house,” Jarvis says. “When you’re Black and buying a home, there are moments…

Home improvement books often start with a caveat: “Don’t make big changes until you’ve lived in the house.” When the home is a midcentury gem by the legendary modernist Richard Neutra, that advice comes with teeth. “We have to be very careful,” says Alberto Chehebar of his residence, the 1949 Wirin House in Los Feliz, California. His wife Jocelyne Katz puts it more bluntly: “The house owns us.” This sense of stewardship has been deepened by the recent fires in Los Angeles; many of the city’s other houses, threatened or lost, were built on similar hillside sites. The couple, longtime collectors of contemporary art who also reside in New York and Madrid, are just the third owners of the house, which Neutra built for A.L. Wirin, a lawyer for the…