Ben Spriggs

Editor-in-Chief at ELLE Decoration

Executive editor at ELLE Decoration UK @ELLEDecoUK Design junkie. Opinions all mine.

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Your guide to a five-star summer – hot new issue on-sale now!

1 week ago | elledecoration.co.uk | Ben Spriggs

Many of you will know that my love of Italy knows no bounds. Yes, a lot of my work life revolves around the country’s dynamic design scene, but I’m also drawn to it when I’m able to snatch some rare moments of downtime. As I write this, I’m enjoying a short break, using these sunny, start-of-summer days to explore more of its intoxicating destinations.
Summer is looking extra glossy with ELLE Decoration June – on sale now!

1 month ago | elledecoration.co.uk | Ben Spriggs

One of the many things I love about the transition into British summer is the rapidly changing light that filters into our lives. As we shift from the damp and greyish glimmers of early spring, suddenly we find ourselves in May, with dappled sunlight breaking through curtains and blinds into our homes to pattern and pool on floors, warm and welcoming as it touches our skin. Materials take on new characteristics as these rays hit and interact with surfaces, transforming how they’re perceived.
RH’s New Outdoor Collections Have Us Longing for Summer

1 month ago | elledecor.com | Ben Spriggs

It may be about as American as stars-and-stripes and blueberry pie, but luxury furniture and homeware brand RH is continuing its global expansion at pace. Following the bold move of transforming a stately pile into its first UK outpost, it’s swiftly swept into Europe with openings in Belgium, Spain, two in Germany and an imminent arrival in France.
RH’s New Outdoor Collections Have Us Longing for Summer

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Ben Spriggs

It may be about as American as stars-and-stripes and blueberry pie, but luxury furniture and homeware brand RH is continuing its global expansion at pace. Following the bold move of transforming a stately pile into its first UK outpost, it’s swiftly swept into Europe with openings in Belgium, Spain, two in Germany and an imminent arrival in France.
Soothe or provoke? Choose your style tribe with the April issue

Mar 13, 2025 | elledecoration.co.uk | Ben Spriggs

Regular readers of my dispatches will know that I don’t put much stock in the opinion that decorating is just whimsy, lacking in substance. How we choose to surround ourselves with colour, pattern and texture (or the lack of it) in our most private of spaces says a great deal about who we are, and how we feel about the wider world and our place in it. Nothing ever appears from nowhere.
Intervista a Giorgio Armani, re della moda italiana

Mar 5, 2025 | elledecor.com | Ben Spriggs

Perché i suoi prodotti hanno risultano senza tempo? Qual è il segreto? Ho sempre scelto di creare qualcosa di valore duraturo, che rispondesse a un modello preciso basato su eleganza, qualità e comfort. Per me questo è senza tempo: un'estetica che non è legata a un momento specifico e che non cerca di rincorrere ciò che è considerato attuale. Affronto ogni progetto, che sia di moda o di interior design, tenendo conto del rapporto tra forma e funzione, un binomio che non può mai essere trascurato.
everything you need to know about the furniture brand

Mar 3, 2025 | msn.com | Ben Spriggs

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Making Maruni: everything you need to know about the furniture brand

Mar 3, 2025 | elledecoration.co.uk | Ben Spriggs

Stepping into Maruni’s factory in the lush green hills outside Hiroshima, you are hit by one thing: the heady, intoxicating scent of wood. Wood is everything to this family firm of master craftsmen, who have been expertly turning the world’s most revered timbers into covetable furniture since 1928. Massive slices of majestic oak and walnut trees sourced from all over the world weather in the facility’s open-air storage, waiting to be transformed.
Ready for summer? RH’s new outdoor collections have us longing for sun

Feb 25, 2025 | elledecoration.co.uk | Ben Spriggs

It may be about as American as stars-and-stripes and blueberry pie, but luxury furniture and homeware brand RH is continuing its global expansion at pace. Following the bold move of transforming a stately pile into its first UK outpost, it’s swiftly swept into Europe with openings in Belgium, Spain, two in Germany and an imminent arrival in France.
Inside the mind of a maestro

Feb 20, 2025 | msn.com | Ben Spriggs

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.