Architectural Digest at 100: A Century of Style

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By bringing together his esteemed group of peers, he shows that he is just as adroit at curating talent too. Styled with sunny flowers, dried corn, and a bounty of cherry-red apples, the brick-clad space was the embodiment of colonial-revivalism.

Considering that Gurney works for her family company de Gournay, the home was awash with color-filled floral wallpapers. For shooting purposes, you need side light, so that’s why we ended up with a square island instead of a rectangle. Julius Shulman and other master photographers chronicled their work in elegant images that helped sell the progressive style to a skeptical public weaned on European-inflected traditionalism. For more than three decades, interiors house Liaigre has defined modern French design through its sultry material palette, generous proportions, and—most notably—exquisitely crafted furniture for a client list including Larry Gagosian, Calvin Klein, and Ian Schrager. Inside, you'll visit the personal spaces of dozens of private celebrities like Barack and Michelle Obama, David Bowie, Truman Capote, David Hockney, Michael Kors, and Diana Vreeland, and see in detail the work of top designers and architects like Frank Gehry, David Hicks, India Mahdavi, Peter Marino, John Fowler, Renzo Mongiardino, Oscar Niemeyer, Axel Vervoordt, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Elsie de Wolfe.

But their artistry actually goes beyond their buildings—in fact, such skill is in play well before a cornerstone is laid. Quincy Jones home of Los Angeles gallerist Shulamit Nazarian, she knew it was all about creating a space that was more comfortable for its homeowner. From the get-go, she makes clear that flower arranging is more an emotive art than an exercise in prescriptive rule-following. Written in the elevated quality that only the editors of Architectural Digest can master so well, [this] is the world's newest guide to the best and brightest designs to inspire your next big home project. Regardless of scale, the architect added, all of his projects are united by a single belief: “You are making a place for human beings to be human.

Their chase after that summer camp appeal is evident in the kitchen, which is topped by wood paneling and skylights. The new design connects the house’s more formal areas with the family spaces in the most beautiful, generous, welcoming way. When Chris Burch encountered a historic home not far from France’s capital city, he was quick to fall in love.Zaha Hadid used colored pencil and paint to create this 1982 drawing of The Peak Leisure Club, a private club in Hong Kong. An unrivaled survey of the most exciting contemporary interior design across the globe, curated by the editors of ten international editions of Architectural Digest.

The home in question, located in San Miguel de Allende, actually started as two distinct structures—which AD100 designer Michelle Nussbaumer ingeniously united. Postmodern architecture emerged in the 1970s and ’80s as a backlash to the slick International Style that had captured much of the world’s attention in the first half of the 20th century. The white subway tiles might betray a trace of the Big Apple, but its plate storage, farm sink, and wooden table, which dates back to the 19th century and was originally used by French silk traders, tell a different story. Interestingly, that wallpaper survived an early incident, in which Gurney’s dogs nibbled at its edges. Forget the fact that there are no better biographies written on Van Gogh than this one, but in my opinion there are no better biographies of an artist than Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith’s masterpiece on the Dutch post-impressionist.I appreciate the Japanese sensibility of refinement, of choosing what’s necessary,” Farrell told AD during a 1995 tour. We gave interior designers Laura Hodges, Patrick Mele, and Xavier Donnelly a photo of the same empty NYC cafe—then asked each of them to transform the space in their particular style, however they pleased with no restrictions.

For André Fu, the Hong Kong–raised, Cambridge-educated interior designer behind AFSO, that project was the Upper House hotel Fu designed for his home city in 2010. Built by Hudson Furniture, all five pieces make excellent use of walnut wood, while the table is covered with acrylic. In December 2019, West Coast editor Mayer Rus traveled to artist Urs Fischer’s personal Arcadia, located in East L.

Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. The tête chef isn’t Gurney, however, but her husband, who, as she explained, regularly whips up meals to accommodate the couple’s robust entertaining schedule. It’s more formal because I was trying to re-create the ambience of the 19th century,” Dmitriev added of his kitchen, which, complete with its northern Russian table, sits inside the cozy apartment. To help further illustrate the multi-page spread, images of enviable kitchens were liberally interspersed.