ELLE DECOR Summer 2022

Our 12th annual A-List is here! And with it, we welcome 10 talented inductees to the Class of 2022. The work of this exceptional group embraces a broad range of aesthetic perspectives—from high-drama maximalism to warm minimalist ease. Each of this year’s newcomers offers a top-tier vision for what design can do to change the quality of our lives at home while adding beauty to the world. This round, as in 2021, we considered all of the work we published in print and online over the past five years. And again, we were impressed—and, frankly, gobsmacked—by the incredible breadth of talent on display. And we do mean breadth! Take, for example, our newsstand cover story, a townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, brought to new heights by the talented team at…

Remember getting all dolled up? It was a moment of reacquaintance when Ralph Lauren staged its runway presentation for the fall/winter 2022 season at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan this March—its first show since 2019. The set was an imagined New York City residence inspired by Lauren’s own Fifth Avenue aerie, as seen on the cover of ELLE DECOR’s October 2010 issue: An Angelo Donghia–designed duplex all in white, accented by pops of shiny chrome and race-car red. “I deal with color all the time when I’m working,” Lauren told the magazine then. “When I’m at home, I need to feel like I’m floating on a cloud.” The crowd at MoMA rallied around the fantasy, spurred on by Gigi Hadid in haute equestrian ready-to-wear. The materials—alligator and gold, velvet…

PAREDES: LAUREL GOLIO; RAHIM: GRAHAM LAIRD PRENTICE…

Balancing novelty and understated luxury is key to what les vacances mean now. Designer Luc Berger is a soft-spoken 30-something with an unassuming demeanor that belies his accomplishments: We are, after all, taking coffee at Le Meurice, a hotel that is—at least partly—his own design. Berger, along with his partner in business and life, Margaux Lally, is in the midst of a pandemic-spanning project to update guest rooms and suites at the famed Parisian hotel. While the ground-floor public spaces bear the stamp of two earlier Philippe Starck interventions, Lally & Berger recently renovated chambres on the fourth and fifth floors of the hotel as well as the penthouse (work on the third-floor rooms and suites will tentatively begin this fall). Dating back to 1835, Le Meurice could easily have stayed steeped…

For almost 200 years Tiffany & Co. has been a name synonymous with New York City, from its 1905 landmark building on Fifth Avenue to memorable appearances on homegrown celebrities like Lady Gaga and Jay-Z. But many may not know that the brand set down roots in London well over a century ago, opening its first retail boutique there, on Regent Street, in 1892. A new Tiffany & Co. exhibition, “Vision & Virtuosity,” debuts at London’s Saatchi Gallery this June. It’s an immersive experience divided into seven “chapters” spanning almost 70,000 square feet and chronicling everything from Charles Lewis Tiffany’s relatively humble beginnings (he started the company as a fresh-faced 25-year-old) to a survey of the firm’s most illustrious designers (Jean Schlumberger, Paloma Picasso, Elsa Peretti) and even to re-creations of…