ELLE DECOR的September 2023目录

OUR COVER STORY THIS MONTH BEGAN, AS SO MANY THINGS DO these days, with a slide into the DMs. When U.S. Women’s National Team soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe and her wife, former WNBA guard Sue Bird, purchased a Manhattan apartment and found themselves in need of an interior designer, they tapped Mark Grattan for the job with a message that included an earnest call for “HALP!” What Grattan delivered is the same finesse that landed his own Mexico City apartment on the cover of this magazine in April 2021: a home that is as cool and well edited as it is livable, full of clever color combinations and sumptuous textures. It’s a testament to Grattan’s skill that Rapinoe and Bird’s aerie feels like a distillation and heightening of their tastes.…

In 2021, Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe, one of the most decorated power couples in sports, found themselves in pursuit of a new kind of ornamentation: the interior design of their first home purchased together. For the former WNBA guard and the reigning U.S. Women’s National Team champion, the winning tip came from Rapinoe’s stylist, Karla Welch, who put her on to ELLE DECOR A-List designer Mark Grattan. Rapinoe slid humbly into Grattan’s Instagram DMs: “My fiancée and I just got a place in SoHo and need HALP!” The place in question was a 1,650-square-foot, two-bedroom pied-à-terre with high ceilings, sweeping views onto the city, and a rooftop terrace to boot. “New York is a really special place to both of us,” Rapinoe says. “Sue is from here. It feels…

Items pictured but not listed are from private collections. COVER Top: Bode, bode.com. Pants: Lemaire, us.lemaire.fr. Shoes: Nike x Comme des Garçons, nike.com. Top: Harago, @harago_. Pants: Balenciaga, balenciaga.com. Shoes: Maison Margiela, maison margiela.com. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 24: Wallcovering: De Gournay, degournay.com. PAGE 28: Fixture: Spark Lighting, sparklights.com. GAME CHANGER Interior design: Mark Grattan, @markgrattan. PAGE 74: Wallcovering: Élitis, elitis.fr. Artwork: Xavier Kelley, xray-visions.com. PAGE 75: Sofa fabric: Dedar, dedar.com. Sofa leather: Milton Sokol, miltonsokol.com. Rug: Hechizoo Textiles, hechizoo.com. PAGE 77: Barstools: Cassina, cassina.com. Tiles: Mutina, mutina.it. Fittings: Kohler, kohler.com. PAGE 78: Sofa fabric: Dedar. Rug: R & Company, r-and-company.com. Vessel: Nur Ceramics, nurceramics.com. PAGE 79: Wallcovering: Élitis. Fittings: Studio Piet Boon, pietboon.com. Mirror: Fenestella, fenestellany.com. Paint: Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com. Artwork: Xavier Kelley. Rug: R & Company. PAGE 80:…

Crowning Glory Time to cast some light on the subject! The newest pendants and chandeliers do more than just illuminate a foyer or salon: Sculptural, elegant pieces also add a welcome dose of statement-making style to your home. Snap up any of these glamorous options for a truly electric design scheme. —H.M.…

The day is Thursday, maybe Friday, in Manhattan, and it’s early evening. Late summer, sultry. The week before, your phone had pinged with a text invite to a cocktail party at Rebecca Gardner’s Greenwich Village apartment. You’d only met her once, on an airplane. But the way she’d made that chance encounter sparkle inspired you to cut off work early and be here now, pulling open an ornate gold door on Fifth Avenue. That the 15-story prewar building began life as a hotel is fitting. Gardner is hospitality incarnate. This welcoming spirit is why, just over a decade ago, at the age of barely 30, Gardner founded Houses & Parties, an events and interior design collective dedicated to her two greatest passions. Indeed, she so missed hosting during the pandemic…

“I discovered Villa Planchart, the house that Italian architect Gio Ponti built for the car dealer Armando Planchart and his wife, Anala, while I was researching Italian midcentury design. The house in Caracas, Venezuela, is now owned and maintained by a foundation in the homeowners’ names and has been kept in its original condition since 1956. As I grew increasingly familiar with Ponti, his work became more than just beautiful. His buildings are testaments to how a well-designed space should feel and function. I love his use of marble to make patterns on the floor, fusing the interior and exterior spaces to create a home that suited its owners but also reflected his vision. That and his use of color and stripes on the ceiling allow for depth, texture, and…

Daniele Busca tells of a client who went hunting for rugs to match the artwork in his new kitchen. The New York City–based creative director of Scavolini USA, the Italian design company, was impressed that the painting hanging near the client’s island was a mustard yellow Picasso. “A Picasso in the kitchen,” he marveled. “That’s glamorous.” Long ago, the kitchen was the embodiment of domestic servitude—plain, functional, and unobtrusive. Now it’s evolved into the centerpiece of home life, taking on the coloring, materials, and textures of the room into which it flows. Today’s kitchen may be arrayed along a living room wall or suddenly pop up when you turn a corner of the family room. Either way, it’s expected to put its best face forward. This means out with naked…

On a ruggedly picturesque hilltop abutting the Los Padres National Forest in Montecito, California, stands a home that’s a monument to self-suffciency. But it wasn’t always that way. The owners, a worldly husband and wife with a passion for collecting art, had made peace with their middling Spanish Mediterranean–style house when the devastating Thomas Fire of 2017 tore through the property and forced a new beginning. The couple had intended to rebuild their previous home as it was when designer and architect Jamie Bush came on board, pushing them to consider a different direction entirely. To accommodate building laws, Bush suggested a house with the exact same footprint but pared back, with hyperfunctional interior architecture. It would be constructed, with the help of architecture firm Shubin Donaldson, from hard-wearing materials,…