In the editing process, what did you learn about the current state of interior design, and also about Elle Decor’s particular biases?ĭespite the recession, there has been no slowdown in design. Which is why we took a slightly different tack, not just compiling, say, 50 great living rooms and 25 pretty bathrooms (not that there’s anything wrong with that).Ģ. But the main reason to do a book - besides celebrating the brand, and perhaps attracting new readers - is to inspire people, and maybe help them to think about their homes in a new way. Although there were many good projects Elle Decor published in the past five years that we had to leave out, not all of them were equally strong. One of the great things about doing a book is it allows you to look back and see what rooms remain strong, visually compelling and full of ideas. What were you hoping to accomplish by publishing an Elle Decor book? The inclusion of the 16th-century Chateau de Fleury, a French castle furnished with Louis XV and XVI antiques, demonstrates the diversity of projects included in the book - and the magazine. Here, Boodro shares some typically well-chosen words with Introspective’s editor, Anthony Barzilay Freund, about the book and his personal encounters with the height of style, as well as his role as this year’s design chair of the Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s 26th annual preview party for the International Fine Art & Antiques Show, an important fundraiser held on October 16 at New York’s Park Avenue Armory. A home is no more a conglomeration of disparate rooms than a novel is a compendium of random words.” That’s because successful design, Boodro writes, “demands discipline, editing and a clear and consistent point of view. It’s a frothy mix, but it seems to effortlessly cohere - just as the most exuberant designs the magazine publishes feel like they’ve been crafted with a sure and steady hand. The work of such noted interior designers as Steven Volpe, Bunny Williams, Lee Mindel, Steven Gambrel, Miles Redd, Sheila Bridges and other Elle Decor stalwarts is all on glorious display alongside rooms crafted by such non-professional interior decorators as Ralph and Ricky Lauren, writer Julia Reed and the magazine’s own contributing design editor Cynthia Frank. For anyone requiring further evidence, there’s Boodro’s new book, Elle Decor: The Height of Style (Abrams $45), which showcases more than 200 of the best rooms featured in the magazine over the past five years. Shortly after Michael Boodro took the helm of Elle Decor in August 2010, he told Introspective that one of his primary goals as editor in chief would be to “keep things fresh and lively.” As any regular reader of that design magazine can tell you, he’s happily succeeding. October 2014The author and editor in chief.
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