Home decor mag editorial choices

I am a bit of a home decor magazine fiend.

I love most of them and those from different countries.

Elle Decor especially the U.S. edition is one of my favourites.  

Cover of Elle Decor March 2013
(I buy online now as fewer London newsagents stock the US Elle Decor.)
 
It is one of my monthly staple magazines that I buy without needing to flip through or judging the cover.  

It covers houses from all over the world which is personally important.  Houses in the tropics are beautiful but there is no real inspiration or incorporation I can use in my central London abode. 

Actually, this makes it look like all Londoners 
have a garden so scratch this.

 Split house conversions - much more typical London.

Elle Decor always delivers polish, impeccable taste, and great design principles.

A great example of the understated, balanced, and  clean designs with a perfect dosage of color that Elle Decor features so well.

A simply edited and elegantly decorated living room that is achievable in most homes and yet most probably aren't - 

the home decor version of the "girl next door".

So I was left a little "cheated" out of my usual dose of their expected style when I saw this spread in their latest issue.

  

The house is in southwestern France and owned by a 

vintage textile dealer, Mathilde Labrouche.

The two pictures above are the left and right side of the living room.

The exterior of the farmhouse.

Can you imagine the directions to this house?

"Yeah, turn right at the bakery and then

it's the house with a ram's head."

Kitchen - tres rustique.

Reclining area with a charming sofa albeit one that needs 

re-upholstering and  re-cushioning against a wall 

that needs plastering and painting.

( They could have come to my house for that...)

Other "rooms" in the charming farmhouse.

I do love sofas outside - 

in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee however, 

I doubt perhaps that it would be considered as charming. 

I do find that the geographical location of the decor is crucial and 

there is a fine line between "Ooh la la, c'est tres charmante" 

and a scene from a Walker Evans photo.

Now, don't get me wrong - this is lovely.  

It has its own unique flavor and organic feel.

But I don't come to Elle Decor for this sort of style.

This is more The World of Interiors. 

But I already have a subscription to them...

This could have also been a farmhouse needing renovation for sale in one of those French property magazines.

I go to certain magazines for specific things. 

For instance, if I want to see classical and yet fashion forward images of beautiful women like this...

 I don't buy a magazine like the one below - 

no matter how beautiful the women are in that magazine...

Oh well, like I said, I will continue to buy Elle Decor anyway but I do hope the editors stay on point for those who are not

 as fiendish about magazines like I am.

Guess what was also featured in this month's issue?

I wrote about the Transat chair in this post. 

  

 The chair below is one of the original editions Eileen Gray made. 

It is part of a retrospective in Paris from February 20 to May 20. 

So if you are in Paris - do drop by the Centre Pompidou.

Click here for more information.

I might just pop along myself to see what Mr Collins is on about.