EDITOR’S LETTER
WHEN I TOOK OVER ELLE DECOR last year, I didn’t have much on my to-do list. Perhaps that’s because my magazine philosophy veers more toward showcasing what’s actually happening around us in the world of design rather than reflecting what’s going on in my head and the heads of my editors (though there’s definitely some fun stuff in there, too). Witness our annual A-List issue (June), in which we shrank the design community into six-inch action figures (thank you to my articles editor Charles Curkin). Or the May cover, a stunning London apartment by Georgian designer Irakli Zaria, who sent me the piece via Instagram (we put it on the cover the next day). There were a few ideas, however, I definitely knew I wanted to pursue. A movie-set cover was…