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OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS, ELLE HAS CELEBRATED CREATIVITY OF ALL KINDS. HERE, A RANGE OF TODAY’S LEADING ARTISTS, WRITERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS AND DIRECTORS SHARE THE RITUALS, ROUTINES AND REALITIES BEHIND THEIR GREATEST WORKS, FROM MIND-BLOWING EXCEL SHEETS TO THE MAGIC OF THE DARK ROOM

The only way this home’s owners could handle living on Park Avenue was by getting their designers to create a Scandinavian-style apartment in New York

£55, Yale University Press London, hardback, 342 pages, ISBN: 9781606069691

Their mama often told of the legend that, one day, she hoped would work its magic

There’s nothing expected or dull about this Parisian apartment, whose design takes risks by mixing references with studied panache

Uncomfortable realities and alternative realms at Venice’s contemporary dance festival