ELLE Decoration UK

ELLE Decoration UK showcases the world’s most beautiful homes and makes good design accessible to everyone through its mix of styles, products and price points. Combining all the inspiration, information and ideas you need to bring your home to life, it is the authority on trends, style and contemporary design.

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Stained glass • While historically reserved for use in religious buildings and grand public architecture, this decorative style is now found on everything from lighting to furniture and accessories. Artists and designers no longer use it as a tool to convey visual messages or Biblical stories, but rather to create powerful patterns and interplays of light. Any one of these creations, with their rich jewel shades and bold geometric panes, will add a pop of colour and dynamism to your interior.

Angus and Charlotte Buchanan • Buchanan Studio’s co-founder Angus reflects on the photograph of an acting legend left to him by a beloved mentor

Trinket trays • Whether it be for displaying jewellery by your bedside or storing keys in your hallway, a ‘vide poche’ as the French call it (which translates as ‘empty pocket’) is a must-have for stylish organisation

Park life • As Serpentine marks 25 years of its annual summer pavilion, we reflect on the lasting legacy of this ephemeral structure and take an exclusive look at 2025’s commission

Miranda Sawyer • A person of note tells us what they’re watching, listening to and more…

Words to live by • From breathtaking design to meaningful materials, there’s inspiration galore in our edit of the best new titles

Bogle Studio • The furniture dealer turned self-taught maker with an eye for challenging design

Full Grown • Collaborating with nature to produce artful furniture that enhances the environment as well as homes is the vocation of this Derbyshire duo

Aino Aalto • This talented Finnish architect-designer’s work has long been overshadowed by that of her husband Alvar Aalto, but now she is starting to get the attention she deserves

Make the ordinary extraordinary • Farrow & Ball’s new palette is championing the often-overlooked everyday hues that can make every moment special

The capsule collection • One of fashion’s brightest stars, Joseph Altuzarra is turning his kaleidoscopic lens to wallpaper and fabric with a debut range for Kravet Couture

Covering all bases • With its expansion into wallpapers, textile brand Larsen is offering us a complete world of calm, understated decor

Chintz • Kassia St Clair explores the history, and renewed modern love, of a ditsy fabric that changed the world

Golden Design • The Dalston duo whose exuberant approach to colour is elevating the mood in British homes

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What’s your tub tribe? • Free-standing baths have dominated bathrooms (literally) for years, but the built-in is back, and is a world away from the tacky designs of the 1960s and 70s. It’s chic and, dare we say, a little sexy, and designers explain why it’s cleaning up

Everything but the bath • The built-in may be back, but there’s more to a beautiful bathroom than just the tub! Here, we share the best basins, taps and much more…

My Manchester… Franky Rousell • The founder of interior-design studio Jolie shares her guide to the city

De Plesman, The Hague • Dutch airline KLM’s former headquarters has been transformed into a first-class hotel that takes inspiration from the history of design in the Netherlands

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Inside the mind of a maestro • The epitome of Italian style, Giorgio Armani is an unstoppable powerhouse famed for heading up a global luxuryfashion empire – a man truly...