Elle Decor

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Elle DecorELLE Decor Checks In: Le Grand Mazarin The Martin Brudnizki-designed retreat is like an art museum—with croissants.

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Elle DecorThe New Sense and Sensibility Makes Jane Austen’s World Moody and Wild In creating the sets, production designer Francesca Di Mottola treated the film “as if it were an original screenplay.”

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Elle DecorBored of Your Bathroom? Try One of These Four Design Trends From monastic minimalism to juicy orange tones, here are a few big ideas for the bathroom.

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Elle DecorThe One Thing Daisy Edgar-Jones Wishes She Had Stolen from the Sense and Sensibility Set In honor of the Jane Austen adaptation’s release, the actress, who plays Elinor Dashwood, chats Norland, Barton Cottage, and her own design style.

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Elle DecorVhernier's New High Jewelry Collection Evokes Milan's Sleek Cityscape Crescent shapes and Italian architecture inform Vhernier’s new high jewelry collection.

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Elle DecorEvery 2027 Color of the Year Announced So Far Color forecasts are rolling in.

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Elle DecorBenjamin Moore Just Revealed Its 2027 Color Trends Palette The brand’s annual selection brings together eight shades chosen for warmth, character, and lasting appeal.

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Elle DecorBenjamin Moore Just Revealed Its 2027 Color of the Year and It Nods to Tradition Webster Green joins a growing roster of green paint predictions.

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Elle DecorApple Debuts Apple HomeView, a New Device for the Home The product comes in four colors, has a square screen, and might be your next tabletop accessory.

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Elle DecorTwo Stolen Renoir Paintings Have Been Recovered After a French Museum Heist The works, valued at roughly $10 million, were on loan from the Musée d’Orsay when thieves took them in September.

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Elle DecorSet a Stunning Thanksgiving Scene With These Dining Room Finds From The Home Depot From furniture to flatware, save on picks that will create a beautiful backdrop for your holiday dinner.

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Elle DecorThis Art Collector’s Southampton Home Plays by Its Own Rules With an expanding gallery, his first furniture line, and a growing portfolio of interiors, ascending designer Patrick McGrath shows off his mix-master flair.

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Elle DecorThese Aren’t Your Mother’s Bridal Salons A new guard of wedding dress shops are designed by top talent to feel like the apartment of a chic friend—no fight-inducing fitting rooms or rolling racks in sight.

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発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. Around fifty sources come in through the day, ten of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo