Phoebe Frangoul

London

Features & Spaces Editor at ELLE Decoration

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Articles

Discover the radical approach that underpins this London home’s serene design

2 weeks ago | elledecoration.co.uk | Phoebe Frangoul

When Bee Janaye first saw this townhouse in a buzzy south London neighbourhood, it hadn’t been touched for many years. The family who previously owned it had split it into several living spaces – creating an apartment on each floor which each sibling had shaped to fit their own needs. ‘I had the chance to meet some of the family members, and it was clear that the house held many memories for them. It was very sentimental,’ the founder of design studio Atelier Janaye recalls.
Murderbot star Noma Dumezweni on the culture that’s made her

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Phoebe Frangoul

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Murderbot star Noma Dumezweni on the culture that’s made her

2 weeks ago | elledecoration.co.uk | Phoebe Frangoul

Born in Swaziland before moving to England as a child, Noma Dumezweni is an actress whose prolific career spans theatre, film and television. She recently starred as Queen Selina in Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, with other film credits including Mary Poppins Returns. On the small screen, Dumezweni has appeared in Only Murders in the Building, The Watcher, Normal People and Doctor Who.
This Knightsbridge home has the ultimate solution for family unity

1 month ago | elledecoration.co.uk | Phoebe Frangoul

This five-storey listed townhouse in the heart of Knightsbridge has been transformed by multidisciplinary design studio Own London with two identical primary suites to ensure parity for the co-owners – two brothers – and their respective families. The ambitious project called for an imaginative and meticulous approach from the team, in order to preserve the building’s heritage and grandeur while reimagining it for modern living.
Giant of the art world Marina Abramović reveals the cultural influences that make her tick

1 month ago | elledecoration.co.uk | Phoebe Frangoul

Marina Abramović, born in Belgrade in 1946, is one of the world’s most influential conceptual artists. She is known for her subversive, uniquely personal performance art, which delves into the relationship between audience and performer, and the limits of the human body and mind. One of her most iconic performances, a walk along the Great Wall of China with German artist Ulay in 1988, has inspired her new book, Marina Abramović: Transforming Energy (£60, Skira).
Inside Grammy-winning music producer Noah ‘40’ Shebib’s Toronto home

1 month ago | elledecoration.co.uk | Phoebe Frangoul

When you’re a master of your craft, you recognise the same ability in others. Grammy-winning producer and Drake’s close collaborator Noah ‘40’ Shebib knew he couldn’t design his own home. Instead, he asked Trevor Wallace of Toronto firm Reflect Architecture to do it for him: no brief, no boundaries, no interference. Trevor recalls him saying, ‘I don’t do architecture or design, I do music.’ Originally, Trevor was asked to design a cottage outside the city.
This home is a masterclass in adding soul to a new-build

1 month ago | elledecoration.co.uk | Phoebe Frangoul

Building a home from scratch offers almost limitless possibilities to a designer, but one of the biggest challenges is infusing the rooms with a sense of character, to give it a feeling of permanency. Amy Stoddart had just such a conundrum to tackle when she was commissioned by a family to design the interiors of their house, a new-build in a leafy Hertfordshire neighbourhood.
Artists to invest in now, as chosen by the UK’s top galleries

1 month ago | elledecoration.co.uk | Phoebe Frangoul

Starting to collect art can feel like a daunting prospect, so we spoke to some of the country’s top gallerists to discover their names to know. Both established and up-and-coming, these artists are expressing unique perspectives across a wide range of mediums from woodcuts to patchwork and are making work that’s thought-provoking, beautiful and highly collectible.
Inside Christophe Delcourt’s sensitive modernisation of a Paris home

2 months ago | elledecoration.co.uk | Phoebe Frangoul

It’s easy to see how it happens – you go out fully intending to buy a sofa, and come home with an interior designer instead. That’s what happened to this apartment’s owner, an entrepreneur and collector who originally came to Christophe Delcourt to design her some furniture. ‘Then, one day, she commissioned us to work on her apartment,’ he recalls.
Samuel Ross MBE tells the story of his most treasured possession

2 months ago | elledecoration.co.uk | Phoebe Frangoul

I believe this 19th-century church pew comes from the West Midlands, where I have my family home. It’s one of a pair (purchased on Vinterior) that I keep in my London warehouse apartment, where I both live and work part-time. It’s a way of life I think I inherited from my father, a stained-glass artist and restorer – as a child, seeing his workshop bolted onto our family home ingrained in me this way of working. A reverence for the maker’s hand is present within the pews.