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FROM THE EDITOR

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It’s awards season • Welcome to the Livingetc Style Awards 2025, our edit of the very best in modern home design to buy right now. These are the pieces that have inspired our senior editorial team – group editor in chief Sarah Spiteri, executive editor Pip Rich, deputy editor Ellen Finch and Livingetc.com’s editor Hugh Metcalf – the most. Of all the many hundreds of entries we received, over the next few pages you’ll find a definitive guide to everything you need to bring style to every part of your home – you shouldn’t start a decor refresh without consulting this list.

The meaning of style • As a former Livingetc cover star, interior decorator Simone Haag knows design – so we asked her to sum up what our Style Awards are here to do

Furniture • The Style Awards judges couldn’t take their eyes off these hero pieces: striking silhouettes, punchy patterns and storage you’ll want to show off

Accessories • As the saying goes, it’s all in the details – and these winning adornments will finish off a scheme brilliantly

Decorating • It’s hard to pick favourites – especially in this category of our awards – but we had to, so here are a few of our favourite paints, papers, fabrics and more…

How to give your home a glow up • What counts as stylish lighting when it needs to be functional too? Designer Olga Ashby explains

Lighting • There are more than a few light-bulb moments amongst these victorious designs

Kitchens • Cooking up a veritable storm, these stellar kitchen essentials are so hot they’re practically roasting

Bathrooms • The finishes, fixtures, fittings – plus a sustainable everyday accessory – that our judges have run hot for this year

Sleep • A life of style is impossible if you’ve not had a good night’s rest first, and these winners will turn your days – and nights – into a dream

Projects • Don’t do anything to overhaul your home before consulting this edit of the best in build-friendly buys

Tech • Because no home can be stylish if it doesn’t function as smoothly and smartly as it looks

Outdoor living • The furniture, fabrics and fun extra elements to fully enjoy the great outdoors

News & views • MORE DESIGNS, PEOPLE AND LOOKS WE LOVE – FROM WHIMSICAL BOWS TO THE FURNITURE EXTENDING OUR SUMMER

Material matters • Meet four designer-makers honouring their medium of choice

Sunshine state • Another excellent alfresco furniture range to enjoy before the sun goes down

Better with bows • A timeless and chic motif, the beloved bow is getting a well-deserved revival for the season ahead – on the catwalk and in homes

‘It was too cool, too chrome and too modern’ • USM’s Haller system was way ahead of its time when it came out in the 1960s – and that’s why it’s endured unchanged since then, CEO Mirko Mueller explains

Give yourself a few blank walls to fill • There’s an art to how James Thurstan Waterworth of Thurstan puts rooms together – and it needs a little time, he tells Pip Rich

Houses • A LONDON VICARAGE, A MOTEL-INSPIRED AUSSIE ABODE, A HOLLYWOOD HILLS GEM… THIS MONTH’S HOUSES ARE ANYTHING BUT ORDINARY

FRENCH quarter • Inspired by the opulence of Versailles and the 1930s, the grandness of this Parisian apartment is offset by striking contemporary gestures and a touch of DIY

GOLDEN HOUR • This mid-century-motel-inspired Australian home was designed to ensure there’s always a spot that’s bathed in...