ELLE DECOR

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CONVERSATION PIECE • The object everyone is, will be, or should be talking about. This month: Jamb mixes antique and historical inspirations with Bloomsbury flair.

ETCETERA • The little things are the big things. This month: the best ice buckets. Now, shaken or stirred?

MY CLIENT, MYSELF • In her new column, Rita Konig tackles modern design dilemmas, both practical and philosophical. Up next: the pleasure, and pain, of decorating for the decorator you know.

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THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD • Every house has that one spot that becomes its center of gravity, doesn’t it? This month, designer Sheila Bridges shares the space that helps her enjoy the great outdoors, indoors.

SUMMER HOMES ARE BUILT IN SPRING • Those afternoons Henry James spoke of? They’ll be here before you know it. Prepare!

Embrace the Great Indoors • Interior designer Anne Lukan reveals the stunning transformation of this Southwest indoor-outdoor vacation sanctuary.

WOULD YOU WEAR THIS ROOM? • Fashion designer and serial renovator Amélie Dian brings her stylish eye to the design of an 18th-century apartment in the heart of Paris.

LIVE HERE FIRST • When designer Ben Pentreath moved into a Georgian house on a remote island in Scotland, he did what he thinks everyone should do first: nothing.

END PAPER • The result of a collaborative seed planted with the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, the 4,000-acre Virginia estate of Bunny Mellon, de Gournay’s new collection features six hand-painted wallpapers and two designs on porcelain that honor what the famed horticulturalist propagated—and loved most.

HIS EMPIRE STATE • They call him the King. In Manhattan, Giorgio Armani reigns from a recently renovated historic apartment with his signature sprezzatura and an only-in-New-York view.

Those Chic MILANESE • When Piero Portaluppi was your great-grandfather, everywhere in this city feels like home. But sometimes you need to leave the nest to make one of your own.

CONCRETE PLANS • In a historic Black community in Sag Harbor, Delia Kenza builds on her family’s legacy to create a personal retreat filled with meaning and her own modern style.

KEEPING UP with the FRICKS • When robber baron Henry Clay Frick built his Fifth Avenue mansion in 1914, it set off a competitive frenzy among the era’s top decorators. Now, after a four-year renovation, the Frick Collection has opened his private quarters for all to see for the first time.

THE WAY THE LIGHT HITS • In East Hampton, Julie Hillman creates a four-season house for her family that plays with sun and shadow—and finds her calling as an interior designer in the process.

SÃO PAULO AT HIS FEET • Shoe designer Alexandre Birman worked with a local interior design team to weave Brazilian modernism, Art Deco flair, Roman hospitality, and his own peripatetic calendar into a serene apartment in the sky.

SOURCEBOOK • Nicolò Castellini Baldissera’s bold apartment (page 72) has us dreaming of eclectic rooms brimming with pattern and personality. Here’s how to furnish the fantasy.

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