ELLE Decoration

2 weeks ago | elledecoration.co.uk | Clare Sartin

When an orchestra prepares before a performance, every musician tunes their instrument to A=440 Hz (also known as concert pitch). The resonance of this note, played in perfect harmony, not only transforms a group of individual artists into a whole, but also sends a ripple of anticipation through the room. It’s this sound, and the response it elicits, that will be a key theme throughout the space Pirajean Lees is creating in collaboration with fabric house Dedar for WOW!House 2025.

2 weeks ago | elledecoration.co.uk | Clare Sartin

It was post-structuralist thinker Michel de Certeau’s belief that an environment is like a sentence – individual places are the words, but it is when a person interacts with them that they gain meaning. If that is true, then this home by Studio Strata is more of a haiku: small, but packed with big ideas.

2 weeks ago | elledecoration.co.uk | Alice Finney

There are few greater pleasures than the feel of a fountain pen swishing across a crisp sheet of paper. Like cutlery and make-up, stationery interacts with the body in an intimate way, and the best examples are miniature miracles of design. Now, despite (or perhaps because of ) us living in a world of typing and scrolling, there is a growing appreciation of these most functional of objects.

2 weeks ago | elledecoration.co.uk | Clare Sartin

Miminat Shodeinde’s work has become know for its many juxtapositions – bold yet inviting, structured yet fluid, raw yet refined. The British-Nigerian artist and designer likes to subvert the expected. Since founding her eponymous studio in 2015, her projects have been described as ‘soft brutalism’ and ‘laid-back luxe’, but now design fans can make up their own minds what to call it, as Shodeinde has opened her first showroom, a ‘museum-like jewel box’ of a space in St John’s Wood.

3 weeks 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.