“The first question I always ask my clients is: How do they want to feel?” For Brigette Romanek, that deceptively simple question is the emotional and philosophical foundation of every project she undertakes. Long before fabrics are sampled or furniture is sourced, Romanek begins with feeling—an interior compass that guides her deeply humanistic, soulful approach to design. It is a methodology that has earned her the trust of some of the world’s most discerning clients, including Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Gwyneth Paltrow, Demi Moore and Rachel Zoe, yet it is one rooted not in celebrity, but in empathy.
Cover Star Brigette Romanek on Designing Soulful Interiors From the Inside Out
February 13, 2026
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Featured Artist
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Elsa Foulon
Elsa Foulon, before becoming a ceramist, became a dealer in 20th-century decorative arts. She has always had a very personal taste, accumulating images of this century rich in creators.From this visual experience, her lighting fixtures are born as sculptures, her free and pure forms mixing her artistic and technical skills as a designer.This self-taught thirty-something loves large formats that seemed incompatible with her medium: she has now developed her own plate technique and materials that allow her to achieve her beautiful volumes while maintaining the lightness of her organic structures.Despite the skill of her processes, the mastery of her subject, what interests Elsa in the secrecy of her Parisian studio, is the beauty of the ancestral gesture: the long time between the idea and the object is always unique. The unpredictability of the fire shapes her lights. The material that these hands work with brings sensitivity to contemporary design. Finally, the light that she will hide in the hollow of her sculpture, will subtly reveal the roughness of the clay.
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