Mitchell Owens

When it comes to his own home, the designer isn’t afraid to make a statement

AD100 designer Stephen Sills collaborated with the Estée Lauder scion to make her Louis XVI–style house a home

The light-filled home was inspired by an imagined industrial past

Dior’s new high jewellery celebrates the designer’s love of the garden.

A quartet of bracelets by Van Cleef & Arpels takes lapidary lovers on an architectural tour of Italy.

Safe decorating is an international issue, it seems: gray and beige upholstery, a signal lack of patterns to delight the eye, and walls painted 50 shades of white. Even Lima, the capital of Peru, is not immune. “Lots of white, very light, modern, that kind of thing” is how Bettina Iolas, a Lima native, describes the aesthetic status quo. She subscribed to it as well for many years, before embracing chromatic change. “One day, I was going around my house, and all I saw was grey and beige,” she re…

The duplex’s sweeping Manhattan views are rivaled only by its sumptuous art-filled interiors Once an iconic Manhattan apartment building enters the conversation, expect AD100 interior designer Michael S. Smith to fall into a swoon. Not literally, of course, but mentally. A recent project with such an effect was a duplex penthouse atop a soigné shaft of Art Deco limestone on the edge of the Upper East Side. “With the East River below, with its tugboats and pleasure craft, the building has a cine…

An elegant foyer introduces your home’s personality and welcomes your guests—these AD-approved entryway ideas are guaranteed to make a stylish opening statement Consider the entrance hall your opportunity to sweep guests off their feet. There’s no shortage of entryway ideas; whether visitors are welcomed into a soaring space crowned with a sparkling chandelier or a cozy foyer with warm wood floors and a bouquet of blooms, the entryway sets the tone for the rest of your home. This transitory spot…

In need of decorating advice? Pull up a chair and listen to style superstar Bunny Williams

This article originally appeared in the December/January 1992 issue of ELLE DECOR. For more stories from our archive, subscribe to ELLE DECOR All Access.You don’t just hail a taxi to get to Mica and Ahmet Ertegun’s house in Turkey. It’s less a trip than a mammoth portage—though everyone who has stayed there agrees that a week with the Erteguns is well worth the myriad inconveniences involved in the journey. As art historian John Richardson attests, the seaside retreat of the Atlantic Records fou…