10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

THE LIST

ELLE DECOR TOASTS 10 YEARS OF THE A-LIST, OUR ANNUAL ROSTER OF THE TOP TALENTS THAT SHINE BRIGHTEST. TO CELEBRATE, WE ASKED ARTIST JANIE KORN TO CREATE PORTRAIT CANDLES FOR ALL OF THOSE ON THE LIST­—NOW 125 FIRMS STRONG. TOGETHER, THEY ARE LIGHTING THE DESIGN WORLD ON FIRE. EDITED BY INGRID ABRAMOVITCH AND THE EDITORS OF ELLE DECOR ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY KATE BOLICK CANDLE PHOTOGRAPHS BY PHILIP FRIEDMAN

TOP ROW, FROM LEFT: Young Huh, Kathryn M. Ireland, Joy Moyler, Jamie Bush, Kelly Behun, Darryl Carter. SECOND ROW: Tom Scheerer, Mark D. Sikes, Jeffrey Bilhuber, Nina Campbell, Anishka Clarke, Niya Bascom, Linda Pinto.THIRD ROW: Amy Lau, Pamela Shamshiri, Ramin Shamshiri, Celerie Kemble, Martin Brudnizki. BOTTOM ROW: Leyden Lewis, Charlotte Moss, Ryan Korban, Kelly Wearstler, Mary McDonald. CANDLES: JANIEKORN.COM CANDLES:

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n the 10 years since ELLE DECOR inaugurated the A-List, our annual roster of the best design talents has grown from 25 to 125 global firms. We even created an A-List devoted to archi- tects, allowing us to focus here on spotlight- Iing the decorators who bring joy and great style to our homes. If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that a safe and welcoming home is essential to our well-being, and that talent is everywhere. We continually seek out diverse ­designers creat- ing A-List-worthy interiors, and that effort is 2 010 reflected in this class of 2020 and will continue The living room in Michael S. to be central to ELLE DECOR’s mission. Smith’s New York penthouse.

Danielle Colding Kerry Joyce 75 Kenmare in NoLIta THE NEW Design STYLE Tony and textured COLLABS Swarovski, MEMBERS STYLE Artful, cozy medleys COLLABS Rugs for Mansour Dom Pérignon PROJECTS A Kips Bay Modern, Kerry Joyce Apartment 48 townhouse, a Prospect Textiles line with former Martin Brudnizki STYLE Boho layers Heights duplex ED editor Marian McEvoy STYLE Master-class mod PROJECTS A Manhattan PROJECTS The Pendry West townhouse on the Upper Dimorestudio Mark D. Sikes Hollywood hotel and resi- BRIGETTE East Side, a modern STYLE Supreme STYLE Blue and white dences, opening this fall sprezzatura ROMANEK home in Miami, a New CLIENTS Nancy Meyers, CLIENTS Fashionistas York City flagship for Reese Witherspoon Roman and Williams and luxury brands Rent the Runway COLLABS Hudson Valley Romanek Design STYLE Louche luxe COLLABS Home Lighting, furniture for Studio PROJECTS The Fitzroy tower accessories for Dior Corey Damen Chaddock, and dinner- STYLE Laurel Canyon élan on Manhattan’s High Line Jenkins Gachot Studios ware for Blue Pheasant CLIENTS Beyoncé, NEWS Refreshed the STYLE Motor City playful Gwyneth Paltrow Metropolitan Museum STYLE Modern vintage NEWS Opening a New York COLLABS Hudson Valley CLIENTS Charlotte Ronson, Pappas Miron of Art’s British Galleries studio in 2021 Lighting, Leathercraft Marc Jacobs, and STYLE Haute this past spring furniture Nate Ruess grandmillennial Sasha Bikoff PROJECTS His lady’s library COLLABS Waterworks bath CLIENTS East Coast families STORYTELLERS at the 2019 Kips Bay Deco- collection, the Shinola PROJECTS Homes from STYLE Neo disco rator Show House Hotel in Detroit Brooklyn to Boise Jean-Louis Deniot PROJECTS ED’s own café STYLE Atmospheric chic at the Plaza hotel COMING SOON Swank new COLLABS Fabric and residences for the towers ­wallpaper for Fabricut of the Waldorf Astoria in and Vervain New York Studioilse Kelly Wearstler STYLE Editorial whimsy STYLE Bold glamour COLLABS A reedition of CLIENTS Cameron Diaz, Hans Wegner’s Wishbone Gwen Stefani, Elton John chair for Carl Hansen & COLLABS Proper Hotels Søn to celebrate its 70th with husband Brad Korzen, anniversary wallpaper and fabric for Groundworks Studio Peregalli Ken Fulk STYLE Mongiardino reborn STANDOUT ROOM A vaulted STYLE Auteur vision NEWS His revival of space with ancient tiles in 2 011 the Chrysler Building’s Capri, Italy historic Cloud Club For a Fifth Avenue study, Young Huh Robert Couturier installed traditional paneling and Kravitz Design STYLE Modern romantic painted it Hermès orange. STYLE “Fly Away” chic NEWS A furniture line

PROJECTS Interiors for with EJ Victor INTERIORS, FROM TOP: SIMON UPTON; ABRANOWICZWILLIAM

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Huniford Design Schumacher, rugs for THE COLOR Studio ­Patterson Flynn Martin MAVENS STYLE Rustic refinement PROJECTS Founded fund- Shelton Mindel Beata Heuman raiser Design on a Dime STYLE It’s a mod, mod world STYLE Bloomsbury by NEWS James Huniford at CLIENTS Sting and Trudie way of Scandinavia Home is out this fall Styler, Claude Arpels CLIENTS U.K. creatives PROJECTS The Manhattan PROJECTS Whimsical wall- Joy Moyler Interiors offices of Soros Capital paper, fabrics, and more STYLE Couture with a wink on her online Shoppa CLIENTS Leonardo Studio Liaigre DiCaprio, John Mayer STYLE Parisian perfection India Mahdavi NEWS Working on a new PROJECTS Soigné homes, STYLE Sensual tabletop collection superyachts cosmopolitan NEWS A new showroom Mark Cunningham Vicente Wolf on rue de Bellechasse STYLE Subtle simplicity Associates in Paris NEWS Marked, his furni- STYLE Global intrigue ture and accessories CLIENTS Julianna Margulies, Katie Ridder Design brand, launched in 2019 Bryan Cranston STYLE Showstopping NEWS Finishing a Kennedy palettes Martin Group Center studio and perfor- COLLABS Fabrics and STYLE Bay Area bohemian mance space 2 012 wallpaper through CLIENTS George A home office in Bucks County, Holland & Sherry Stephanopoulos Victoria Hagan Pennsylvania, by Washington, NEWS Katie Ridder: More Interiors D.C.–based Darryl Carter. Rooms, out this fall Matthew STYLE Pale fire Patrick Smyth CLIENTS Conan O’Brien, Nick Olsen STYLE American Judd Apatow STYLE Tongue-in-chic Francophile COLLABS Window treatments townhouses and NEWS A new line of fabrics COLLABS Fabrics for with the Shade Store NEO- Nashville mansions and wallpapers TRADITIONALISTS NEWS Markham Roberts: Notes on Decorating is Sig Bergamin Brian J. McCarthy out this fall STYLE More is more STYLE Sumptuous PROJECTS Literally wrote elegance, honed at Paloma Contreras the book on Maximalism Parish-Hadley Design NEWS The biggest project NEWS 2020 lifetime STYLE Southern warmth of his career: JHSF Village, The Insta achievement award from PROJECTS Her must-read a sustainable city near the New York School La Dolce Vita blog, Hous- São Paulo, Brazil of Interior Design ton shop Paloma & Co Effect Steven Gambrel The social-media app David Kleinberg Richard Keith is celebrating its 10th STYLE Drop the mic anniversary this year, too. Design Associates Langham NEWS His New York STYLE Timeless tranquillity STYLE Park Avenue properties will soon be Beautiful images are the stock- PROJECTS Upper East Side Southern available to book in-trade of great design, so it’s no apartments, superyachts COLLABS Indian dhurries, surprise that Instagram has revo- available through Doris Suzanne Kasler lutionized the decor world since Emma Jane Leslie Blau STYLE Passionate pastels it first appeared on our iPhones a Pilkington PROJECTS Her sunny living decade ago. With its direct access STYLE Uptown panache Sheila Bridges room for the owners of to an image-hungry public, the NEWS Working on a STYLE Harlem meets the Cleveland Browns app allowed newcomers like shibori-­inspired fabric ­Hudson Valley (ELLE DECOR, April 2020) Paloma Contreras, Alyssa Kapito, line with her sister, artist NEWS Her Harlem Toile COLLABS A new line of and Mark D. Sikes to build their Amy Pilkington de Jouy wallpaper will wicker for Ballard Designs brands, while star designers like soon be available at Nate Berkus and Kelly Wearstler J. Randall Powers S. Harris showrooms reached out to delight fans with STYLE Texas tailored CURATORS OF a steady stream of selfies—from COLLABS Visual Comfort Tucker & Marks CALM Pilates sessions to candid family lighting, wallcoverings for STYLE Personal chic Hartmann & Forbes PROJECTS Redecorating Alyssa Kapito pics. Even such icons as Bunny the Auberge du Soleil STYLE Ivory tower Williams and Charlotte Moss Jayne Design Studio resort in Napa Valley PROJECTS Minimalist have gotten into the act, STYLE History hound COLLABS “House jewelry” homes from Manhattan’s sharing intimate peeks CLIENTS Winterthur (aka hardware) for Nanz Upper West Side to at their living spaces. Museum Greenwich, Connecticut The result is an endless, COLLABS Developing a Virginia Tupker addictive loop of eye- line of fabrics Interiors Darryl Carter candy interiors. STYLE Connecticut STYLE Antiques as Markham Roberts swanky sculpture STYLE Prince of prints CLIENTS Lauren Santo COLLABS Lighting for the

PROJECTS Manhattan Domingo, Derek Blasberg Urban Electric Co. UPTON SIMON INTERIOR: ALYSSA KAPITO 24 ELLE DECOR A-LIST 2020

2 013 Neoclassical detailing in the sitting room of a master bedroom suite in New Delhi designed by Jean- Louis Deniot.

2 014 A bedroom in a Juan Montoya–designed retreat in the Dominican Republic.

NEWS Competed with the PROJECTS Homes from the original Queer Eye cast in Hamptons to Indianapolis the premiere of Celebrity COLLABS Furniture with Family Feud; new bedding Maison Gerard for Eastern Accents Nicole Fuller STYLE Fashion-forward COLLECTORS’ CLIENTS Usher, DJ Khaled, FAVORITES Zac Posen, Steven Klein, and Gianvito Rossi Amy Lau COLLABS Tiles for Ann STYLE Sensual Sacks, rugs for the Rug expressionism Company, and wallpaper CLIENTS Edgar and for Fromental Clarissa Bronfman, fash- ion designer Elie Tahari Pamplemousse COLLABS Gio Ponti– STYLE French twist ­inspired rugs for Kyle CLIENTS Collectors from Bunting, wallpaper for New York to Miami Fromental PROJECTS Standouts include owner and French Brad Ford ID native Delphine Krakoff’s STYLE Love craft homes with her husband, PROJECTS A model apart- Tiffany & Co.’s Reed ment at Jean Nouvel’s Krakoff 53 West 53rd complex at New York City’s Museum Robert Stilin Neal Beckstedt COLLABS Rugs for Alt of Modern Art STYLE Licensed to chill COOL KIDS STYLE Urbane for Living NEWS Field + Supply, his CLIENTS Hamptons Aero Studios contemporary biannual makers’ fair in honchos CLIENTS Fashion designer Studio Sofield New York’s Hudson Val- PROJECTS His 2019 book STYLE Warm modernism Derek Lam, eyewear STYLE Informed ley, enters its seventh year Robert Stilin Interiors sums COLLABS Outdoor fabrics designer Robert Marc savoir vivre up his vibe: laid-back but for Lee Jofa, lighting for PROJECTS Designed 2019’s CLIENTS Brice Marden, Kelly Behun Studio superbly curated Visual Comfort House of ELLE DECOR at Tom Ford, Salvatore STYLE Out of this world 108 Leonard in New York Ferragamo, and the PROJECTS Interiors for a Stephanie Goto Dan Fink City, a new furniture line Soho Grand Hotel forthcoming Robert A.M. Design STYLE New old soul is in the works NEWS Designed the Stern–designed building STYLE Transcendent CLIENTS Tech stars amenity spaces at the on the Upper East Side and meditative PROJECTS A seaside lounge Ryan Korban Landmark Residences COLLABS Rugs with the CLIENTS Chefs Daniel at the Miramar Club in STYLE Fabulous fierceness at Steinway Hall in Rug Company, lighting ­Boulud, Paul Liebrandt, Montecito, California CLIENTS Models, musi- Manhattan with Hudson Valley and Jean-Georges cians, and brands such as Lighting Vongerichten, as well Leyden Lewis Balenciaga and Aquazzura Thom Filicia as art galleries such as STYLE Rooms as sculpture COLLABS Furniture for STYLE Queer Eye modern MR Architecture + Hauser & Wirth PROJECT The entryway to EJ Victor, lighting for CLIENTS Iman, Tina Fey, Decor PROJECTS Designed the a rammed-earth office in Niermann Weeks and Jennifer Lopez STYLE Clean lines and inaugural Alexander Khartoum, Sudan, for a PROJECTS The living cool spaces Calder exhibit at last foundation devoted to Shawn Henderson room of his NYC apart- CLIENTS Decorative-arts year’s opening of promoting access to STYLE Serene gestures ment in the April 2020 aficionados, major Pace Gallery’s new

­education for girls CLIENTS Octavia Spencer issue of ELLE DECOR collectors Manhattan flagship FROM LEFT: RICHARD POWERS; ERIC PIASECKI

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COLLABS Fabrics with HOLLYWOOD Kravet, furniture with STARS A. Rudin and Palecek Commune Kathryn M. Ireland STYLE Handcrafted STYLE Hippie chic and holistic PROJECTS Virtual design PROJECTS Ace Hotel Kyoto site the Perfect Room INDIA MAHDAVI David Netto Madeline Stuart STYLE Edgy erudite Associates CLIENTS Rockefellers and STYLE Tinseltown Peter Dunham Hollywood honchos authenticity Design PROJECTS A villa in the CLIENTS Larry David, Bahamas hotelier Jeff Klein STYLE Paisley perfection PROJECTS His textiles and Eric Hughes Martyn Lawrence furniture lines and his STYLE Movie mogul Bullard Design shop Hollywood at Home CLIENTS Sarah Jessica STYLE Lotusland medina Parker and Matthew PROJECTS A new line of JET-SETTERS Broderick performance fabrics Jamie Bush & Co. Mary McDonald Alessandra Branca STYLE Classic con brio STYLE Organic polish STYLE Nostalgic allure NEWS A Casa Branca COLLABS Tiles for Exqui- COLLABS Robert Abbey relaunch includes embroi- site Surfaces, rugs for lighting, Schumacher dery by Rwandan geno- Class of Marc Phillips, his own fabrics cide survivors Pier bookcase system 2010 Nathan Turner Champalimaud Like a fine wine, A-Listers Jeff Andrews STYLE Casual glam Design only get better with age. STYLE Starry style COLLABS Wallpaper STYLE Warm welcome When the A-List was launched COLLABS Rugs for Man- for Wallshoppe PROJECTS Suites for Bos- sour Modern, furniture 10 years ago, the intent was ton’s Mandarin Oriental for A. Rudin Oliver M. Furth for it to be both a resource for readers and recognition for the STYLE Eternal optimism Frank de Biasi Jeffrey Alan Marks CLIENTS Arianna Huffing- greatest interior designers of STYLE Art and surprises STYLE Playful cool ton, Albert Brooks the day. So it’s no surprise that NEWS Has a home in nearly all of the original A-List ­Tangier, Morocco members are still on the list Lorenzo Castillo today. Vision and taste mature STYLE Old-world opulence as time passes, but talent is PROJECTS This month’s forever. ABOVE: Tracking the cover story (page 54) changing aesthetic of Steven Gambrel kitchens from ED’s July Paolo Moschino 2011 and November 2019 issues. for Nicholas Haslam BELOW: These fabulous rooms STYLE Continental flair from our May 2010 and October COLLABS Fabrics through 2019 issues prove that Martyn Lee Jofa Lawrence Bullard has always had great bedside manner. Pierre Yovanovitch STYLE Playful haute PROJECTS Penthouses for the XI in New York City Robert Couturier

STYLE Parisian pedigree PROJECTS Curated “French Connection” exhibition at a TriBeCa gallery Timothy Corrigan STYLE Provenance and nonchalance COLLABS Cowhide rugs for Kyle Bunting, tiles for New Ravenna 2 015 Vincent Van Duysen Jonathan and Lizzie Tisch’s STYLE Smart and Palm Beach dining room, sustainable designed by Haynes-Roberts. COLLABS Creative director

for Molteni&C INTERIORS, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: ERIC PIASECKI (2); TIM STREET-PORTER; DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN; SIMON UPTON

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2 016 Chintz, yellow, and blue-lacquered walls in a knockout Hamptons living room designed by Celerie Kemble.

2017 Studio Peregalli covered a Paris dining room in 2 018 antiqued mirrors Phillip Sarofim’s Beverly Hills living room, with a hand- designed by Miles Redd and David Kaihoi. painted floral design.

Rita Konig Carrier and COLLABS Fabric for Kravet, STYLE Romantic tweaks Company window treatments on mother Nina Camp- STYLE Positively chic for the Shade Store, bell’s aristocratic stamp COLLABS Lighting with furniture for Living PROJECTS The San Vicente Visual Comfort, fabrics Spaces with husband Bungalows members-­ with Lee Jofa ­Jeremiah Brent only club in Los Angeles Redd Kaihoi NEWS A color collabora- Drake/Anderson STYLE It’s Baroque, tion with kitchen makers STYLE Evolution of gilt don’t fix it Plain English COLLABS Hardware with COLLABS Schumacher SA Baxter, furniture with wallcoverings, rugs with Theodore Alexander DYNAMIC DUOS Patterson Flynn Martin Haynes-Roberts Studio Shamshiri Aman & Meeks STYLE Artistic triumph STYLE L.A. funk STYLE Cheeky glamour PROJECTS Fifth Avenue CLIENTS Anne Hathaway, that shows off the art apartments, Hamptons musician Beck CLIENTS Patrons and houses Mark Hampton by philanthropists, including Yabu Pushelberg DESIGN Emily Fisher Landau and Ishka Designs Alexa Hampton STYLE Jet-set DYNASTIES Candia Fisher STYLE Caribbean cool STYLE Alexa is merrily contemporary PROJECTS Anishka Clarke upholding her father’s Ashe Leandro COLLABS New furniture Alberto Pinto and Niya Bascom design collections with Ligne legacy of vibrant, STYLE Chilled-out Interior Design everything from Brooklyn Roset, B&B Italia, and layered classicism sophistication STYLE Linda Pinto contin- brownstones to Jamaican Molteni&C ues her late brother’s COLLABS Window treat- CLIENTS Jake Gyllenhaal, beach houses ­lavish elegance ments for the Shade Store Seth Meyers COLLABS Maine Design A new joint ven- McMillen ture with Thierry Despont Brockschmidt STYLE Take it easy STYLE Old-school & Coleman CLIENTS Californians with Kemble Interiors versatility—the firm STYLE Classicism a European sensibility STYLE Like her mother, has ushered in every without cobwebs PROJECTS Katie and Jason Mimi McMakin, Celerie American design period CLIENTS The literary elite, Maine run the L.A. design Kemble has an eye for since 1924 from Jon Meacham to shop Home House Co-op bold whimsy CLIENTS Ann Pyne, as Julia Reed NEWS Their redo of the her mother Eleanor NEWS A New Orleans Nate Berkus Mayflower Inn & Spa in McMillen Brown’s heir, design studio and bou- STYLE Just lovely Washington, Connecticut, works with the same mix tique, Sud, which NEWS Lauren Buxbaum MAINE

is debuting late summer of old New York families ­specializes in Italian crafts Gordon is now a partner DESIGN TONDRO; TREVOR RIGHT: TOP FROM CLOCKWISE INTERIORS, PASCAL CHEVALLIER; THOMAS LOOF

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Tully Hall in collaboration and Michelle Obama THE POWER with ELLE DECOR, a teach- NEWS His book, Designing THE GRAND PLAYERS ing kitchen for the Kips Bay History: The Extraordinary MASTERS Boys & Girls Club Art & Style of the Obama Alex Papachristidis White House, is out in Axel Vervoordt STYLE Affable connoisseur De la Torre September STYLE Wabi-sabi wow NEWS Curated a recent Design Studio CLIENTS Kim-ye, Robert Christie’s auction of 18th- STYLE Sky’s the limit Richard Mishaan De Niro, Bill Gates and 19th-century furni- PROJECTS An installation Design PROJECTS His legendary art ture, porcelain, and art and antiques galleries in he created with artist STYLE Uptown meets Antwerp and Hong Kong James Turrell for a house downtown Bilhuber & in California Associates COLLABS Furniture for Bunny Williams Theodore Alexander, light- PETER STYLE All-American dash Fox-Nahem Interior Design MARINO ing for Visual Comfort CLIENTS Elsa Peretti, Associates STYLE Patinated luxury Mariska Hargitay STYLE Straight-up drama Stephen Sills NEWS A new line of Bunny COLLABS Fabrics for PROJECTS Designed Robert Williams Home furniture Associates an art gallery in New York Le Gracieux,­ hardware Downey, Jr.’s windmill is slated for the fall City and Louis Vuitton STYLE Eternal sophistication for P.E. Guerin house in the Hamptons flagships in Seoul and PROJECTS Designed the Charlotte Moss London interiors, lobby, and amen- Cullman & Kravis Michael S. Smith STYLE Genteel and PROJECTS A Cheval Blanc STYLE Life of the party STYLE Traditional deluxe ity spaces of a landmark traditional hotel in Beverly Hills NEWS A refreshed lounge CLIENTS Cindy Crawford, 1886 building on New CLIENTS The Upper East at Lincoln Center’s Alice Steven Spielberg, Barack York’s Upper West Side Side, Hamptons, and Robert Kime Design Palm Beach crowd STYLE British town and COLLABS Metal botanicals, country potted or framed, with CLIENTS The Prince of Tommy Mitchell Wales, the Duke of Beau- fort, John and Gela Taylor Jacques Garcia NEWS A new wallpaper and STYLE Moody Rococo textile collaboration with CLIENTS The Sultan of Tory Burch, based on their ­Brunei, La Mamounia trip to Japan in Marrakech Rose Tarlow Jacques Grange STYLE Perfectly undone STYLE Gallic hauteur laced ease with contemporary wit CLIENTS Oprah Winfrey, CLIENTS Princess Caroline David Geffen of Monaco, Karl Lagerfeld, NEWS Her West Hollywood Valentino flagship has moved to a new location on Robert- John Saladino son Boulevard STYLE Old-time grandeur CLIENTS Ellen DeGeneres Suzanne Rheinstein and Portia de Rossi STYLE Neoclassical PROJECTS A line of panache furniture, case goods, PROJECTS The New and lighting Orleans–born, L.A.-based tastemaker recently Juan Montoya designed a San Francisco Design townhouse with a serious STYLE Vivid imagination collection of antiques and PROJECTS An apartment in pre-Columbian pottery New York City, an upstate New York estate, a home in Tom Scheerer the Dominican Republic STYLE “Informality is my watchword,” he says Nina Campbell CLIENTS Well-heeled types STYLE Modern English who winter in the Bahamas CLIENTS The Duke and and prefer true style over Duchess of York, Ringo showiness Starr, Rod Stewart COLLABS Textiles for Veere Grenney Osborne & Little, frames Associates for Carrs Silver, furniture STYLE Stateliness with for Oomph zero pretense 2 019 COLLABS Created a bed, Hot-pink sofas and accents Peter Marino bench, and pedestal for in a living room designed STYLE High-octane luxury the Cape Weaver collec- by Mary McDonald in CLIENTS Andy Warhol, Yves tion together with South Corona del Mar, California. Saint Laurent, Chanel African designer Justin

NEWS Recently completed Van Breda ◾ DOUGLASINTERIOR: FRIEDMAN

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