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THE DEBUTS ISSUE

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 palette…

THE DEBUTS ISSUE

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 to overlook her South London…

WE LOVE A… LONDON CULTURE MOMENT

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 Mari at the Design…

WE LOVE A… LONDON CULTURE MOMENT

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.…

ROUNDING IT DOWN

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.…

ROUNDING IT DOWN

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 black…

CONSPIRING WITH NATURE

Gardens, once created, need us. Nature, on the other hand, doesn’t. It carries on about its business heedless of us. The seasons move through their cycles, idle winter rousing into downy spring; spring exploding into summer; and summer retiring into fall. Gardening is what I do to wedge myself into the rhythms of nature, to attempt to become part of its vast drama. Gardening situates me in the world, rather than in the attributes we often use to define ourselves. I find my insignificance in the face of this resilient but uncaring physicality reassuring and grounding. Nature may not need a garden, but I do. A garden is a request we make to nature to collaborate with us. But we must go to it, observe it, and try to think as it…

CONSPIRING WITH NATURE

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 the house…

A walk through Daniel Lalonde’s Milan apartment is like a survey of Europe’s greatest furniture designers. For him, though, having such an enviable collection, which includes works by the likes of Mario Bellini and Poul Henningsen, comes with the territory: Nearly three years ago, Lalonde was appointed CEO of Design Holding, a luxury group that comprises iconic brands like B&B Italia, Flos, and Louis Poulsen. His vision for the company is to create a high-end, one-stop shop that celebrates the industry’s heritage and history. Lalonde’s apartment is, in a way, a proof of concept. It wasn’t easy at first. Lalonde and his wife, Yvonne, relocated from Paris to Milan after his appointment and considered close to 20 homes over the course of six months before they landed this apartment in a…

BREAKING THE FIFTH WALL

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 treating the…

BREAKING THE FIFTH WALL

The Story Continues

Who is Dorion? As it turns out, the mysterious eponym of a young Brooklynbased interiors firm doesn’t exist. She is a fictive “esteemed older dec orator,” as Peter Dolkas describes her, one with a very real point of view. Dolkas and Michelle Ficker, who cofounded Studio Dorion in 2020, met and became close while desk mates at the firm of ELLE DECOR AList designer Billy Cotton. It was during that period that they were introduced to the homeowners of this Brooklyn brownstone and worked alongside Cotton with a mandate to “improve on empty.” Five years later Dolkas and Ficker came back under their own steam to put a new spin on its interiors. A Bay Area native, Dolkas studied costume design before going into prop styling in New York City, with a…

The Story Continues

THEY ASKED FOR DRAMA

Sarah Dray is an out-and-out Parisienne. The interior designer was born in the French capital and has lived in traditional Haussmannian apartments ever since she was a child. “The aesthetics of Parisian buildings fascinate me,” she says. “I’ve never seen anything quite so beautiful.” Dray initially trained with two preeminent purveyors of French decorative taste. While in college, she interned in the offces of ELLE DECOR A-List Titan Jacques Garcia. She recalls seeing the iconic designer from afar and noting his bright red socks and green crocodile loafers. She later worked for Isabelle Stanislas, known for her revamping of three state rooms in the Élysée Palace. “It’s through her that I really discovered what I like,” Dray says. “I adopt a similar contemporary approach within classical settings.” Since founding her firm in…

THEY ASKED FOR DRAMA

DOING LONG DISTANCE

When Ashley Lavonne between Walker started her own interior design firm in 2021 in Los Angeles, she quickly hooked a dream project: the top-to-bottom redo of a historic home in the city’s Hancock Park neighborhood. After almost a decade working for some of the city’s top designers—including ELLE DECOR A-List talents Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Michael S. Smith, and Reath Design—the Ohio native was more than ready for the challenge. But there was a catch. Her clients, Kaeli Deane and Chris Beals, were living across the country throughout the renovation. “We had to do almost everything over email and Zoom,” Lavonne Walker says. Deane, a gallerist, and Beals, a software entrepreneur, were based in New York’s Hudson Valley when Deane was tapped to help open a Los Angeles location for the international…

DOING LONG DISTANCE

LOVE AT FIRST LIKE

It was admiration at first sight when interior designer Mike Moser and architect Tyler Thomas began following each other on Instagram. The Los Angeles–based creatives found themselves routinely liking and commenting on the other’s project posts, and a friendship quickly grew out of a mutual respect for their innate talents. They even began looking for something to collaborate on—that is, until the inevitable happened. Shared passions opened a door to romance and, after a year of dating, Thomas moved in with Moser; then, not long after, in December 2022, the couple got engaged. “We decided to propose to each other,” says Thomas, cofounder of the architecture and design firm Venn Studio. “We made cheeseburgers at home, read letters we each wrote, and exchanged gold bands.” While it wasn’t the professional collaboration they…

LOVE AT FIRST LIKE

COMPOUND INTEREST

Many design studios won’t touch a rental, but for the Miami- and New York–based interior designer Sandra Weingort, it was a rental that led her to the project of her dreams. Weingort, who founded her company in 2012 after nearly a decade at the ELLE DECOR A-List Titan firm Studio Sofield, was discovered by the renter’s parents via Instagram. They asked if she might consider taking on their daughter’s New York City apartment if it meant next working on their 11,000-square-foot compound in Wainscott, New York, a Hamptons hamlet as famous for its farm stands as its pristine beaches. She said yes. The home was designed by Bates Masi + Architects and completed in 2022, with interiors previously overseen by David Kleinberg Design Associates. “I almost declined, because I usually only…

COMPOUND INTEREST

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 62–63: Sofa fabric: Holland & Sherry. Artworks:…

Today, Kelly Wearstler, the ELLE DECOR A-List Titan, is known for her big, bold interiors. However, at the start of her career almost three decades ago, the Californian embraced a wider range of styles, occasionally leaning toward quieter and more neutral aesthetics. Her debut feature, published in November 2000—in Margaret Russell’s first issue as editor in chief—showcased a house in the Hollywood Hills that she designed for real estate and hospitality magnate Brad Korzen. It marked Wearstler’s first residential project for Korzen, following several hotel renovations they had collaborated on. The house symbolized not only a venture into residential design but also a bridge to an enduring romance: Two years after the story’s publication, Korzen and Wearstler were married—and have remained together ever since. It’s incredible to think that for…

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