ELLE DECOR

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Welcome to the Issue

Outside the Lines • Familiar shapes find new expressions in a range of imaginative materials, textures, and patterns.

Game, Seat, Match! • Commemorating a half century of comfy cool, the modular Mah Jong sofa looks better than ever.

It’s Time to Rethink Chinoiserie • From pagoda motifs to floral wallpaper, the West has always openly borrowed from Asian visual culture. But is it harmful?

Dealer’s Hand • A change of address offers a new view on a New York design showroom’s masterful mix. Our deputy editor gets the scoop.

Center of the You-niverse • Designers Brock Forsblom and Victoria Hagan consider the cocktail table: the home’s nucleus for socializing.

Antwaun Sargent • With a continuation of his blockbuster exhibition “Social Works” set to open in London on October 7, the Gagosian gallery director divulges eight of his favorite things.

Ten-and- Two Infinity • A newly launched chronograph revels in its extraterrestrial inspirations.

Hat Trick • Our third and final story on milliner Nick Fouquet’s renovation of a geodesic dome home is the grand reveal.

All Are Welcome • Jessica Helgerson designs a homeless shelter of brightness and warmth inside a former church in Portland, Oregon.

LET THE LIGHT IN • Whether they’re cooling your space—or making it look red-hot—Hunter Douglas window treatments will keep you covered with high function and style.

You’ve Made Your Bed • And you’ll want to lie in it, too, when it’s a built-in as beautiful—and functional—as the latest bespoke sleeping nooks gaining popularity today.

Dress It Up • Once the custom bed is installed, it’s time to cover it. Here, three designers suggest the choicest linens to use.

Sweet Dreams Are Made of These • Kit out your built-in with some stunning accents.

A Legacy of Design in Every Stitch

HOW TO CHOOSE THE PERFECT MATTRESS • You spend one-third of your life in bed, why not make it wonderful?

What’s Behind Door No. 3? • They didn’t want to destroy everything—but they also didn’t want to live with the flaws. For a spec house renovation in Connecticut, Melissa Lee gave her clients another option.

FRESH AIR • From Los Angeles to London, thoughtful interiors that celebrate the power of reinvention. Plus, EARTH: our survey of the best in sustainable design.

I’LL TAKE MIDCENTURY MODERN • The late Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek once lived large in this Beverly Hills home. Now, architect Luis Fernandez has moved in and is giving it a second life.

BUT SERIOUSLY • In Chicago, Summer Thornton’s irreverent approach to decor often makes her an outlier. But with her gutsy redo of a Gold Coast prewar, the boundary-pushing designer has more than proven her mettle.

RAISING ARIZONA • David Netto elevates a 1980s Paradise Valley retreat with modernist moves and a sense of wit.

THE REST IS HISTORY • Built for a Chicago heiress turned fake contessa, a 1920s Palm Beach villa was intact but needed romancing. Enter Mark D. Sikes, with a design narrative that both honors and improves upon the past.

LET ’EM IN • A Primrose Hill townhouse shows why London’s Retrouvius has won over the British fashion crowd with its no-holds-barred approach to salvage glamour.

SPECIAL REPORT: EARTH • Welcome to EARTH, an ELLE DECOR celebration of accountability, renewal, transformation, and humanity in design. Here, we survey 15 firms and brands working across interiors, architecture,...