Elle Decor

11 stories

Elle DecorELLE Decoroscope: Your November Design Horoscope Is Here The retrogrades end just in time for hosting season.

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Elle DecorBefore & After: How an Artist and Architect Couple Turned the “Worst House” on the Block Into Their Dream Home In Brooklyn, artist Katherine Keltner and architect Douglas Gauthier transform a crumbling townhouse with equal parts drama and restraint.

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Elle DecorDiscover the Modest St. Louis Home Where Chuck Berry Wrote His First Hits The Father of Rock n’ Roll spent some of his most formative years as a musician in this modest brick house.

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Elle DecorInside Banqueting House, the Last Surviving Piece of the Lost Palace of Whitehall The building showcases Inigo Jones’s classical architecture and a monumental ceiling painted by Peter Paul Rubens.

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Elle Decor8 Takeaways from Design Miami and Art Basel in Paris Inside the week’s standout moments, from Miu Miu to Madonna.

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Elle DecorThis Designer’s Long Island Family Home Has Been 40 Years in the Making Phillip Thomas’s Bellport retreat is a laboratory for color, collecting, and the occasional improbable antique.

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Elle DecorFront Office: Leset The celeb-favorite brand founded by Lili Chemla transforms a historic Los Angeles building into a design-forward workspace.

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Elle DecorMeghan Markle’s As Ever Just Launched Its First Homeware Collection Plus, the brand’s first pet product.

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Elle DecorWhat to Know About Cotchford Farm, the English Country House Behind Winnie-the-Pooh The beloved children’s classic turns 100 in 2026.

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Elle DecorA New Way to Bring the English Garden Indoors British design house Sanderson celebrates the flora and fauna of the King’s garden in a refreshed collection of fabric and wallpaper.

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Elle DecorCalling All Kitchen Icons The Monogram Iconic Kitchen Design Awards honor the visionaries redefining luxury kitchen design through exceptional creativity, craftsmanship, and innovation.

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A room is a decision about how you want to be tired at the end of the day.

I live in forty-eight square metres in Tokyo with one good chair and far too many bowls, so I have had to mean that. I trained as an architect and left to write, which my teachers took badly. Uchi (内) means inside, and it means home: the room you come back to. The palette comes after the tiredness. So does the name on the lamp.

This is where I keep what the world's rooms are doing. Around seventy sources, read in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, French and English: an apartment in Seoul, a house outside Taipei, a Copenhagen showroom seen from here rather than from Denmark. East first, because east is where I am sitting.

Each story is a headline, an excerpt of a few lines, one photograph and a link to whoever did the work. We never reprint the piece, and the photograph belongs to the person who took it. When a room was written up in Korean or Italian it stays in Korean or Italian here; the link takes you to the writer's own words.

I am not trying to be complete. I am trying to notice.

— Mio Tachibana, Tokyo