Meet the founder
Lesley Cunningham.
LC.
ELCÉ.
ELCÉ started, quite simply, with me.
Lesley Cunningham · Founder, ELCÉ STUDIO
The story
I’m Lesley — a Dundee-based mum, creative, hospitality girl and lifelong lover of the little details that make something feel special.
The name ELCÉ comes from my initials — LC — but the idea behind it has been part of me for much longer.
I’m the person who personalises every birthday, celebration, gift and bedroom down to a tee. The person who notices the ribbon, the place card, the font, the lighting, the way a table is set — and genuinely believes those tiny details can completely change how something feels.
Professionally, I’ve spent more than 14 years working across hospitality, events, sales and marketing, creating experiences, selling spaces and understanding what makes people choose, remember and talk about a place.
ELCÉ brings all of that together.
Exhibit A: beautiful doesn’t have to mean beige.
My style
Beautiful, thoughtful and polished — but always personal.
I love rich colours, beautiful textures, thoughtful details and things that feel elevated without feeling overdone. I’m naturally drawn to timeless, grown-up styling, but I also believe luxury should still have personality.
Admittedly, my children regularly test this philosophy.
Their ever-changing obsessions and colour requests rarely have any respect whatsoever for my preferred aesthetic. One minute I’m imagining something beautifully neutral and considered; the next I’m being briefed on rabbits, vans, Among Us, checkerboard or a particularly offensive shade of hot pink.
But that’s also taught me something important: beautiful doesn’t have to mean beige.
Whatever the brief, I’ll always find a way to make it feel personal, unique and elevated — even when the colour palette physically hurts my eyes.
And that is really what ELCÉ is about.
Taking an idea, a person or a moment and finding the details that make it feel completely theirs.
Beautiful spaces. Meaningful moments. Extraordinary details.
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