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On the Market: Five Listings Formerly Found in the Pages of Elle Decor

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Celebrity decorator and talk show host Nate Berkus had his home featured in Elle Decor, not long after completing a historically respectful renovation of the 4,000-square-foot apartment in one of Chicago's preeminent pre-war condo buildings. But despite the press his place received, the brokerbabble for the flat, which was listed almost ten months ago, makes no mention of Berkus. The spread has had its price chopped by $500K, to $2.15M, since it was first listed, but that doesn't prevent the three-bed from being just as glossy-worthy now as it was back when Berkus was still interested in splitting his time between New York, Milan, and Chicago. After the jump, check out some more Elle Decor-featured interiors that are currently seeking new owners.

? Public relations guru Paul Wilmot tapped designer Andrew Galuppi to rework the interiors of his midcentury manse in Miami Shores, Fla. and guess what, they ended up on the pages of Elle Decor. Built around a lush courtyard, the four bedroom, 5.5 bathroom house last sold for $1.53M, meaning Wilmot isn't looking for much of a profit with the $1.6M asking price.

? According to the listing, this place was once featured in Elle Decor, but we doubt the place would make those pages today. The Rose Cottage in Eureka Springs, Ark., which comes furnished, has an outdated pink-and-green color scheme and distressed furniture galore. That's not exactly the sleek contemporary look we're used to. At least this place has a petite price tag to go with the dated styling, just $229K.

? Not surprisingly, prices in NYC are a bit higher than those in Arkansas, but the Elle Decor mention is still a strong selling point. The only trouble for this West Village loft is that fact the building, not this particular apartment, was featured in the magazine. Oh well, that doesn't seem to matter for the one-bedroom loft, which is currently asking $1.05M. One plus, the 850-square-foot pad has especially low maintenance.

? Not all houses that have been featured in the shelter mags enjoy the same sort of photographic excellence when they go up for sale. This Hudson, N.Y. center hall house has just two distorted photos attached to its listing, a far cry from the photos that earned the place a spot on an Elle Decor cover back in 1998. Better yet, the brick home is listed for just $325K.

· Honor Guard [Elle Decor]
· 1325 N Astor St [Zillow]
· 435 Grand Concourse [Zillow]
· LookBook [Elle Decor]
· 2 Kansas St [Zillow]
· 130 Barrow Street [Corcoran]
· 10-12 S 7th St [Zillow]

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Introductions: First Look at the Missoni for Target Home Decor Offerings

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Missoni is launching a mass-market collection for Target next month, and people are freaking. Out. Target's keeping quiet on this one—we had to sign a fancy non-disclosure agreement at the press preview—but they peppered some of the stuff throughout a Vogue spread and they've just started releasing dribs and drabs of the line to a company Tumblr called All the Way Up Here. (The gist of this Tumblr is that a doll named "Marina" is covering the collab—let's not get into it.) Above: please find the four home products currently on view, as well as a cool bike and some luggage. Then head over to Racked National to do what our cousins over there do best: ogle at clothes.

· Target Sets Sights on Missoni Collaboration For Fall [Curbed National]
· Missoni for Target [Curbed National]
· All the Way Up Here [Tumblr via Racked National]
· Missoni for Target Patio Furniture [Curbed National]

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Elle Decor to Move (Again): In September, Elle Decor moved its...

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Celebrity Decor: Nate Berkus visits Oprah's Promised Land

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Today, Nate Berkus came home to the Promised Land. "The Promised Land" being talk show legend Oprah Winfrey's massive Montecito, California estate. For his regular segment “House Proud,” Berkus toured the property's tea house and extensive rose garden. It wouldn’t be a visit with Oprah without talk of the Spirit Realm, her fellow important superstar friends, and justification by way of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for a single woman owning an $85 million 23,000-square-foot home.

Oprah explained, in her typical nonsensical spiritually-loaded way, that she named her 45-acre estate "The Promised Land" because “Dr. King said he would not get to the promised land but one day we might. And so that’s why I called it that... because I think it’s a fulfillment of the promise that Dr. King spoke of.”

The tour focused on the property's rose garden and tea house, a structure built for the express purpose of shielding Oprah from the infrequent Santa Barbara showers - "It was created because I wanted a place to be able to come to when it’s raining." For the building's stonemasons who toiled in the hot California sun, Oprah graciously imparted daily affirmations. “I would come down and talk to them every day and really let them know that through [...] their handiwork that they were blessing this space for me.” And because the talk show goddess would rather her ears not be sullied by the sounds of "nature," the tea house has no bathroom. Instead, an upscale outhouse is located some distance away.

Employing a master rosarian to tend to her over 600 rosebushes, Oprah believes the flowers to be a portal to the Great Beyond. "I particularly love roses because they represent, I think, from the Spirit Realm what we really are. [...] They bring the fragrance from the Spirit World. That’s what I believe."

Let's enjoy a tour of The Promised Land...

House Proud: Oprah Winfrey [The Nate Berkus Show]

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Celebrity Decor: This week's New Yorker profiles Coach's...

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This week's New Yorker profiles Coach's executive creative director Reed Krakoff. Major news: his NYC townhouse is fancy! Majorly so: "When you enter the living room, you are confronted with an Alexander Calder mobile floating above the mantelpiece, a massive black Louise Nevelson sculpture along one wall, a bronze Jean Arp parked on an end table, and, underfoot, two-hundred-year-old floorboards from France. The ground-floor bathroom is covered entirely in golden snakeskin and contains a spheroid toilet more stunning than anything the vast majority of the population will ever own." [New Yorker via NYMag]

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Celebrity Decor: Lindsay Lohan Shops For Furniture With Bored-Looking Designer

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This weekend, Lindsay Lohan was spotted browsing at "an expensive furniture boutique" with Linday Coopersmith, who bills herself not as a decorator but as an "organizer." They were searching for pieces for Lohan's new Venice, Calif., townhouse.

· Lindsay Lohan—Sofa...So Good [TMZ]
· Linda Coopersmith [official site]
· Lindsay Lohan, Rehab-Free, Rents Swank Pad Next to Ex-Girlfriend [Curbed National]

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Nick Cannon Regrets His Naked Decor: At one point, Nick Cannon thought...

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Arch Digest, Elle Decor Report Increased Ad Pages: Architectural Digest and Elle Decor have...

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Celebrity Decor: Inside Russell Simmons's Buddha-Drenched Yoga House of Worship

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Back in September, when talkshow host Nate Berkus paid Russell Simmons a visit, we got a peek of the hip-hop mogul's NYC apartment. And, of course, the incredibly loud signage that Simmons erected to pledge his support for the First Amendment in the whole World Trade Center Mosque controvery. This weekend the Financial Times runs a quick profile of said apartment, focusing on its many, many Buddha sculptures and the yoga room that "looks like a temple, really big enough for four people," according to Simmons. He has also decorated one of his daughter's rooms in a Disney theme and the other to resemble an Indian prayer room. For those hoping to find religion (by osmosis), the place is now accepting applications for neighbors.

· Of Mosques and Men: a new Liberty Street message [Boing Boing]
· A mantra for all seasons [Financial Times]
· Curbside Pickup Transformations [The Nate Show]
· Be Russell Simmons' Liberty Street Neighbor for $6.39 Million [Curbed NY]
· All World Trade Center Mosque coverage [Curbed NY]

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Celebrity Decor: Michael Jordan's New Dining Table Has Exactly 32,292 Holes

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In August, former NBA superstar Michael Jordan bought a $3.15M condo in Charlotte to have a home base closer to the Bobcats, which he purchased for $275M earlier in the year. How did he commemorate his dream of finally becoming an NBA club owner? Why, by enlisting D.C.-based metal sculptor Michael Enn Sirvet to craft a dining table with 32,292 holes—one for every point Jordan scored during his long, record-shattering career on the court. Jordan was apparently so thrilled with the nine-by-three-foot creation, made of aircraft-grade aluminum, that "he flipped out. He was speechless." [Insert cliched expression about Sirvet's slam dunk here.]

· COOL OR FOOL: MICHAEL JORDAN BUYS A TABLE. [HomeBunch]
· D.C. artist designs Michael Jordan's dining room table [TBD]
· Michael Jordan buys Charlotte home: Inside the building [WCNC]

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Breaking: It's Official: Hearst Buys Elle Decor

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After four weeks of exclusive negotiations, Hearst has purchased 102 titles of Lagardère's portfolio, including those published by Hachette, for $651M€ (approximately $887M). The news came in an internal Hearst memo late last night, and the deal includes 10 editions of Elle Decor, 15 editions of Elle, Car and Driver, Road and Track, Women's Day, and Cycle World, as well as the U.K. publication Red. This means, of course, that Hearst will now publish House Beautiful, Veranda, Country Living, Town & Country and Elle Decor, effectively cornering the shelter market. The deal is expected to close by the end of Q3—so don't expect any tangible changes to become apparent right away. Do expect the rumormongering to gain speed as details take shape.

· New Intel About the Hachette Sale and the Fate of Elle Decor [Curbed National]
· Some Questions About What Happens if Hearst Buys Elle Decor [Curbed National]
· The Elle Decor Theory of Stephen Drucker's Departure [Curbed National]

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The Printed Page: Bunny Williams in Elle Decor: Previewing the Feb/March Issue

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Cover photo and right photo: Roger Davies/Elle Decor

Though the next issue of Elle Decor hits stands Feb. 8, their reps sent us a first-bound copy last week. And zOMG, is it phenomenal. Front-of-book standouts include the sleek, muted furniture debut from designer James Huniford, a lively page on houndstooth fabrics, and a spread on the first-ever Elle Decor showhouse, which was quietly produced in San Francisco last year. But it's only after sifting through page after page of A-list ads (kudos to the ED sales team!) that the crown jewel of a well appears, in which six masterfully produced stories showcase the first signs of editor in chief Michael Boodro's impression on the magazine. Gotta love that fact that Boodro kicks it off by featuring a Moroccan oasis and closes with the wacky, wonky Tribeca loft of fabric designer Kazumi Yoshida.

We caught a glimpse of a Park Avenue project from classic American decorator Bunny Williams (remember her epic holiday trappings?), who tells Curbed about her longstanding relationship with Boodro: "I believe he's still upholding a very high-quality of selection of material. The thing I've always felt was exciting about Elle Decor is that they want things fresh, but they want texture. You don't want to look at 10 different projects that all look alike." This project in particular incorporates Williams's trademark "elegance, comfort, and practicality," adds Boodro, "but it is also fresher and more youthful than what many people might expect from Bunny. To me, it just proves that you shouldn’t try to pigeonhole creative people—or magazines, for that matter." Amen, brother!

All photos in the feature above by Roger Davies for Elle Decor

Upward Trajectory, by Ingrid Abramovitch.
Republished from the Feb/March issue of Elle Decor:

She's been hailed as one of the great decorators in the classical tradition, but Bunny Williams graciously begs to differ. “I like an interior that defies labeling,” she says in her no-nonsense manner. “I don’t really want someone to walk into a room and know that I did it.” Indeed, if not for the trademark drinks tray, inviting sofa with its loose fabric cover, and playful concrete ram grazing in the living area of a Manhattan space Williams recently completed, even her most devout disciples might have trouble pegging the place to her.

Williams’s clients, empty nesters who first approached her years earlier to decorate their country house and later the formal Park Avenue apartment they still call home, longed for a more casual retreat in the city—one that blurred the lines between indoor and out. So when the penthouse above them finally became available after a 10-year wait, the pair called on their trusted decorator. “Each time we work together, Bunny perfectly translates how we want to live,” says the wife. “Her interiors tell the story of where we are in our life as a family. And this time we wanted a sleek, spare hangout that could double as guest quarters, a place that had the feel of a downtown loft.”

Neither strictly modern nor classically traditional—more Albert Hadley than Sister Parish (the legendary design duo with whom Williams began her career)—her decoration of the 1,500-square-foot space inspired the designer to choose a different term for her approach. “It’s transitional,” she says, “which means that when someone walks in here in 25 years, they won’t be able to tell when it was done.” After gutting what was once a handful of traditional rooms that had belonged to an elderly couple who lived there for decades, Williams first focused on the envelope. “I wanted it to be as architecturally interesting as the floor downstairs,” she says, referring to the muscular crown moldings throughout. “Flat ceilings and no moldings just didn’t seem right. It had to be something edgier.” Her clients, whom Williams credits with inspiring her to be as inventive as she could, loved the idea of exposed beams, a concept Williams ran with, although in a surprising direction. To forge a connection between the interior and the wraparound terrace, she installed blue glass on the ceiling to mimic the sky and added architectural detail with a framework of tailored zinc beams. “It took us 20 tries to get the size of the bolts in them right,” she says with a laugh. More zinc spans the central wall in the living room, surrounding the fireplace and flat-screen television above it. The floors are laid with slabs of honed pink granite, and mica-flecked plaster coats the walls.

It’s a mix that, in the wrong hands, could leave a place cold. But warmth is in Williams’s DNA, and once she built out the bones of the space, the rest was a matter of keeping the design simple while piling on texture. “My client had very strong opinions and was able to verbalize the feeling she wanted, which is a gift,” says Williams. “She has a wonderful appreciation for patina.” Good thing, given that her decorator thought nothing of flanking the entry to her study with a pair of battered 19th-century American fluted columns with ornate Ionic capitals and using an African woman’s dance stool as a drinks table next to an Italian Art Moderne chair. It was only when Williams homed in on the 1960s Lucite-legged resin cocktail table—perfect for the living room—that her client raised an eyebrow. “When you’ve been in this business as long as I have, there’s only one real rule to follow: Buy pieces that are beautiful, no matter their age,” Williams says. “I never would have looked at that table 20 years ago, but it’s essential to see pieces anew, to refresh your eye.” And her eyes are always open. The powder room wall covering— an album of family photos printed on glazed canvas scrawled with white gold—was inspired by grisaille walls she once saw in a European dining room and by her client’s love of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. She spotted the guest bed at a closet shop, of all places, in Florida. When not in use, the Houdini-like affair rises up to hide in a glamorous red-lacquer bookcase of her own design.

Even more magical than the pullout bed, though, is the arabesque staircase leading to the new penthouse space. Spiraling up from the living room, the marvel of steel, resin, and glass hints at what lies above. “The stairs themselves build a degree of anticipation, so I had to be sure the payoff at the top was as surprising as they are,” Williams says. Mission accomplished. “I’ve shown new clients this space, and they don’t believe I did it,” she says with a laugh. “It tickles me to death.”

· Sketchy Sneak Peek at the Elle Decor Showhouse [Curbed National]
· Banner Year for Elle Decor [Curbed National]
· How Bunny Williams and John Rosselli Decorate for Christmas [Curbed National]
· All Elle Decor coverage [Curbed National]
· Elle Decor [official site]

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Elle Decor One Step Closer to Sharing a Lunchroom With House Beautiful: French publishing giant Lagardere and American...

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Slippery Fingers: When Auto Correct Goes Awry, Decorating and Decor Does, Too!

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In today's Daily Mail profile about predictive texting—otherwise known as auto correct—a mom erroneously switches the words "Santa" and "Satan." Heavens, no! Curious, we browsed Damn You Auto Correct, a lovable blog that chronicles the texting imbroglios on phones near and far, in search of chatter about decorating and decor. The texter here, for example, confused the word "fault" and with the word "fauteuil," which so happens to be an elegant type of upholstered armchair. Check out the full photogallery after the jump—the font size is small, but some content may not be SFW.

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Elle Decor Publisher Fielding Offers: Champions of the rumor that Hearst...

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Celebrity Decor: To Assert Manliness, Adam Carolla Tapes Up Pics of Nude Women

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Things that have us at hello: well, there's a whole bunch, but a headline proclaiming "Adam Carolla, Interior Decorator" is most certainly one of them. In a story in the Journal today, the 1920s Los Angeles home of the comedian and former Man Show host is put under the microscope. Bacterial findings: eight-car garage with its own beer cooler and hydraulic lift; a fridge, microwave, and dishwasher painted with red auto paint and then waxed; and a basement man cave with red upholstered bar seats and playing cards depicting naked women taped to the ceiling. Interestingly, the "soft blue periwinkle-and-cream-colored décor of the home's bedroom" was also Carolla's idea. Softie!

· Adam Carolla: Interior Decorator [WSJ]
· All man cave coverage [Curbed National]

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