Anna Fixsen

Can you hear it? That ululating melody? That throbbing bassline? The White Lotus must be in the air. Since season 2 of the smash-hit HBO series wrapped up last December, fans are breathlessly awaiting the third iteration—so much so, apparently, that the show’s warbling theme song has morphed into an unexpected club banger. Viewers were relieved to learn that HBO green-lit a third season of the buzzy whodunnit series, but a release date has yet to be announced due to the ongoing WGA strikes. In f…

Life has a funny way of throwing full-circle moments into the mix. For lifelong San Antonio resident Stacey Hill, one began nearly 15 years ago at a dinner party hosted within a renovated 1870s home in the city’s Lavaca neighborhood. The house’s thick, caliche stone walls, rough-hewn long leaf pine rafters, and postage stamp–size footprint betrayed its humble working-class roots; from the street it appeared no bigger than a Monopoly house. But further in, the house held a secret—a modern extensi…

What if the appearance of buildings weren’t actually fixed and could be changed as easily as, say, pulling on a sweater? It’s a concept Pritzker prize–winning architect, Shigeru Ban, has explored in the facade design of Tiffany Co.’s revamped Palo Alto, California, store, which reopened to the public last week. The facade—which forms the entry to a renewed 6,300-square-foot store in Palo Alto’s Stanford Shopping Center—is composed of accordion-like pleats crafted from American oak and glass. As…

Benjamin Moore has revealed its 2024 color of the year (COTY), and this time around it’s a bolt from the blue—or, more accurately, somewhere outside Earth’s atmosphere. Today in a live-streamed announcement, the paint company named Blue Nova 825—an enigmatic, violet-tinged azure—as the trending hue for the year ahead. Where many paint companies have reached for the sky in their 2024 COTY bets (Sherwin-Williams, Valspar, and C2 Paints have all announced pale blues as their favored tints), Benjami…

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Nulla cattura la magia delle feste come la vista di un albero di Natale illuminato. Il suo splendore è in grado di tagliare la tristezza delle buie notti invernali, di fornire uno spazio di ritrovo per le feste e, naturalmente, di illuminare la strada a Babbo Natale per depositare i regali. Ma il dono più grande di tutti (secondo il nostro modesto parere) è rappresentato dalle infinite possibilità decorative dell’albero di Natale. Potete optare per un albero finto o per quello vero; potete scegl…

Even if you’ve begrudgingly begun to schlep into an office on a regular basis, it’s likely that you still maintain some semblance of a work-from-home setup. In fact, according to a recent survey from Pew Research, 41 percent of workers with the option to work remotely now have hybrid schedules. If you’re lucky, you have a spare bedroom or dedicated study at home where you can go for the daily grind, undisturbed. If you’re a small-space dweller, however, it’s probable that your WFH space is doing…

Ruffles, frills, flounces. It’s all in the vocabulary of Ulla Johnson’s romantic-with-an-edge garments, or “lovelies,” as they are often referred to on the Brooklyn-based fashion designer’s website. Johnson has added yet another lovely to her line sheet—a sun-drenched Los Angeles store designed by ELLE DECOR A-List Titan Kelly Wearstler. The boutique, located on Beverly Boulevard, is a uniquely Los Angeles wonderland, with a solarium, a lush garden terrace, and even a towering indoor Brachychito…

The French word for furniture—mobilier—comes from the Latin term for “that which moves.” Pierre Yovanovitch is certainly making moves. On December 1, the celebrated (and oft-imitated) interior designer opens his first-ever U.S. showroom for his furniture brand, Pierre Yovanovitch Mobilier, in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood. But of course—having sprung from the mind of an ELLE DECOR A-List Titan—this is no ordinary gallery. Spread across 10,000 square feet in an 1897 building (once an office for…

Since it was first introduced in 2010, the peach emoji has come to symbolize everything from a stone fruit, a particularly taut derriere, and—of course—a booty call. In 2024, however, it will be the color on everyone’s walls, according to Pantone. Today, the global color authority named Pantone 13-1023 Peach Fuzz as its 2024 Color of the Year (COTY). The hue, one of more than nearly 20,000 in the company’s color library, is a blushing orange-pink. It’s a warm, comforting color that Pantone’s exp…

One afternoon this June, Brookneal, Virginia, resident Jessica Vincent decided to kill some time with one of her favorite pursuits: a pit stop at the local thrift store. “I have always been an avid collector, thrifter, yard sale-er,” she says. “I just love anything that has a history.”When Vincent swung open the door to her area Goodwill, however, she was annoyed to find the aisles teeming with shoppers. But a 13-and-a-half-inch-tall vase, gleaming from a cluttered shelf, caught her eye. “There…

It’s a story straight from any thrifter’s wildest dreams. An Italian glass vase purchased for $3.99 at a Goodwill outside of Richmond, Virginia, today sold for $107,100, including the buyer’s premium, at an auction in New York. The vessel, defined by swirling strokes of red and green, is part of the “Pennellate” series that legendary Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa designed for Venini in the 1940s. This particular example is one of only a handful known to still be in existence and was one of 33…

Last November, it was “Goodbye Peachtree Road” for Sir Elton John after the legendary singer-songwriter sold his long-time Atlanta condo for $7.225 million. John will also be saying goodbye to its contents, which include his Bentley Continental, his Atlanta Braves jersey, and dozens of Versace silk shirts, as part of an unparalleled series of sales at Christie’s next month in New York.The auction, which will be made up of eight separate live and online sales kicking off February 21, paints a por…

Discerning brides know that Monique Lhuillier’s diaphanous gowns are some of the most romantic (not to mention coveted!) around. Discerning hosts will also know that the fashion designer’s collaborations with Pottery Barn offer effortless, fashion-forward homewares—without the couture price tag. This week the home brand unveiled a fresh collaboration with Lhuillier, just in time for spring. The dressmaker drew inspiration from a recent visit to Provence—a French region famed for its picturesque…

Lo scorso novembre è stato l’“addio a Peachtree Road” per Sir Elton John, dopo che il leggendario cantautore ha venduto il suo storico appartamento di Atlanta per 7,225 milioni di dollari. John dirà addio anche al suo contenuto, che comprende la sua Bentley Continental, la sua maglia degli Atlanta Braves e decine di camicie di seta Versace, nell’ambito di una serie di vendite senza precedenti che si terranno da Christie’s il mese prossimo a New York.L’asta, che sarà composta da otto vendite sepa…

Opportunity knocks for patient collectors, but rarely does it get as literal as this. Today, a rare bronze door knocker designed by American furniture designer and sculptor Paul Evans sold for a whopping $20,160 at New Jersey’s Rago auctions. The sculptural door knocker, manufactured around 1965, features a powerful, noded silhouette and is one of just 20 ever made. Rago’s Modern Design sale included five more Evans-designed door knockers, including a hook-shaped aluminum and steel model, which…

There are a few parties that will go down in history as stuff of merry-making legend. There was the time Bianca Jagger rode into Studio 54 on a white horse. There was the occasion when president Andrew Jackson invited guests to the White House to decimate a 1,400-pound wheel of cheese. Then, of course, there’s Truman Capote’s legendary Black and White Ball, held at New York’s Plaza Hotel on November 28, 1966.The fete, thrown by the American novelist to honor Washington Post publisher Katharine G…

To find your way to New York’s most whispered-about new restaurant, you need only sniff the air, bloodhound-style. Yes, that’s woodsmoke amid the pizza-joint smells and bus exhaust, a primal, arboreal aroma that feels out of place along this stretch of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Where there’s smoke, there’s Ilis, an imaginative new wood-fired dining concept from Danish chef and Noma cofounder Mads Refslund. Ilis is a restaurant where chefs are servers, servers are chefs, and where a dance between fir…

In the music video for “Deeper Well,” the title track of Kacey Musgraves’s forthcoming album, the Grammy Award–winning singer-songwriter walks across a surreal twilight landscape, all moss, heather, boulders, and ocean. The song is a quiet anthem to self-discovery and self-reliance. It’s also the inspiration for a new fragrance that Musgraves has dreamed up with the cult fragrance maker, Boy Smells. Also called Deeper Well, the new candle is meant to be an olfactory companion to the country sing…

If you have hunted for an apartment solo in a pricy metropolitan area like New York, San Francisco, or Miami, you’ll doubtlessly be inured to some all-too-familiar trade-offs. Sign a lease for a place with prewar details and fantastic light? Prepare to live off of peanut butter sandwiches for the next three years. Find a spot that’s just two blocks from the subway and allows for you to pay off that journalism degree? Better get used to living in the cozy confines of 500 square feet. That’s right…