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XXX ASAD SYRKETT 2 0 QU ESTI O N S FOR ... 134 BAL HARBOUR Elle Decor's EDITOR IN CHIEF collects stamps, works through the sunset and loves a good Japanese knife. PORTRAIT BY NAIMA GREEN What is the hardest part of your job that no one would guess? Saying no. There's an incredible amount of great design out there and, sadly, we can't publish everything we love. A young architect whose work you've discovered in the last year? Dominique Petit-Frère of the architecture and art collective Limbo Accra. Petit-Frère won one of Instagram's Black Design Visionaries grants in 2021 and I was introduced to her work when I served as a juror for the program. A design trend you're currently taken by? There's a renewed love of moiré fabrics in interiors and fashion. I'm very here for it. A design trend you can do without? /QFGTPHCTOJQWUG6KOGVQ ƂPCNN[RWVVJKU one out to pasture. A place you're longing to return to? Japan. I lived in Yokohama and traveled around the Kanto region a bit in the summer between my sophomore and junior years of high school and would love to go back as an adult. The best gift you received lately? Someone recently gave me a Japanese knife with the most beautiful marbled pattern in the blade. An app or online tool you'd recommend? Noisli. It's a free app for background sounds, like white noise, forest sounds, etc. When I need to write or work on a long edit, I use the app's café sounds option. What time of the day are you most creative? My witching hour tends to be from 5-8 p.m. Something about sunset gets my creative magic going. Resolutions or intentions for the new year? How are they going so far? Just to be patient—with myself and others. It's been a rough couple of years for all of us. PHOTOS COURTESY SYRKETT; PHOTO BY CARLTON DAVIS FOR ELLE DECOR (ICE BUCKET)