Poster of Elle Decor March 2021 cover designed by Rachelle Baker
date: label: Date
content: March 2021
name: label: Created by
content: ELLE DECOR, American, founded 1989
label: Illustrated by
content: Rachelle A. Baker, American
label: Designed by
content: Mallory Roynon
notes: label: Description
content: A poster edition of the cover design of the March 2021 issue of Elle Decor magazine featuring an illustration by Rachelle A. Baker. The illustration is a symbolic re-imagining of Nancy Lancaster’s famous “Yellow Room," and features a Black woman wearing a yellow dress, ensconced on a beige sofa in a room with bright yellow walls. The room also features a cream-colored barrel cove ceiling with gilt wood cornices, a crystal chandelier, and a seating arrangement of mostly beige upholstered pieces surrounding a yellow rug atop beige carpeting. Along the left wall, is a large portrait of a woman along with two smaller framed works. The back wall features white double doors replete with mirrored ornamental casing and square panel molding and flanked by pineapple candelabras set on stands. Bookshelves on either side of the doors are stocked with red books and topped with red ornamental vases in front of mirrors in decorative gold frames. Beige curtains with decorative rope tassels drape along the right wall, adjacent to a painting. The woman, who has voluminous black hair, sits on a beige sofa underneath the painting. She wears a loose yellow dress and red heels, leaning slightly forward, with her proper left hand on her cheek and her proper right hand in her lap. A red wingback chair is in the image's foreground, facing a writing desk used as a sofa table, topped by a potted plant, three books, a small bottle, and several other items.
place: label: Place depicted
content: London, Greater London, England, Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Interior design
label: Topic
content: Mass media
label: Topic
content: Ornamentation
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
label: Classification
content: Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of ELLE DECOR
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2022.33
objectType: label: Type
content: posters
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Illustration by Rachelle Baker, originally appeared in ELLE DECOR March 2021, a publication of Hearst Magazine Media, Inc, © Hearst Magazine Media, Inc, ® Elle Decor
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on foamcore board
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 36 × 27 5/16 × 3/16 in. (91.4 × 69.3 × 0.5 cm)