5 Things on Ellen Van Dusen’s Home-Design Wish List

In case you need some extra coolness to go with our pillows.

Which came first: the Dusen Dusen mastermind’s desire to spiff up her Brooklyn pad, or the idea to make pillows with some of her rad textiles? What really matters is that we benefit on both sides. In addition to making two crazy-good white-on-denim pillows for us, Ellen Van Dusen also opened up to us about some of her hopes and dreams on the décor front. No surprise here: She not afraid of a little color. —erica

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“My boyfriend Will and I don’t have any plants inside our apartment right now, so we got this thing called a Woolly Pocket. It’s this planter that you put on the wall so it looks like you have a living wall. [Ed: Pictured above in not-Ellen’s-home.] The goal is to get a lot of hanging plants that grow downwards and have it cover the entire planter. I’m really psyched about that. I’m really excited to fill it.”


“Something I’ve been thinking about buying but haven’t pulled the trigger on yet is a print by my friend Dave Singley. It’s a night floral scene, and the colors are really nice. He usually only does painting, and he just released his first series of prints.”


“I recently bought this giant Stendig calendar that is really awesome. It’s really big—it’s like four feet by three feet—so it totally dominates the space above my computer, which is great! I found it through a series of internet clicking.”


“I have really gotten into this artist from RISD—her name is Morgan Blair. I bought a print from her recently, but my dream is to buy one of her paintings. I think they are pretty reasonably priced, so it could maybe happen. She uses a lot of really bright, fun colors and really geometric stuff—it reminds me of my prints. This is a bunch of her paintings, but I want all of them together.”


“Have you ever heard of the designers David David? They’re awesome. They are British, and their stuff is really cool—colorful and wild. It’s a dream to have these chairs around my dining table!”