Welcome to the eleventh A-Checklist, our annual take a look at probably the most thrilling names in residential interiors, structure, and panorama. This 12 months’s roster features a new crop of 20 standouts; we additionally debut our Titans honor roll, which celebrates two dozen exceptionally influential abilities. The listing is certainly not exhaustive—however who needs that after the 12 months we’ve simply had? We like to consider it, as an alternative, as a breath of recent air.
This 12 months we welcome the next abilities to the listing: Prime row, from left: Alfredo Paredes, Cliff Fong (Matt Blacke), Delia Kenza, Anooshey Rahim (Dune Hai), Elliott Barnes. Second row: Fabrizio Casiraghi, Florence Lopez, Ghislaine Viñas, Heide Hendricks and Rafe Churchill, Thomas Kligerman and John Ike. Third row: Jean Liu, Juliana Lima Vasconcellos, Leslie Bennett (Pine Home Edible Gardens), Michael Okay. Chen, Todd Nickey and Amy Kehoe. Backside row: Poonam Khanna (Unionworks), Rafael de Cárdenas, Adam Hills and Maria Speake (Retrouvius), Nina Cooke John, Terremoto.
This 12 months, we’re introducing 20 thrilling abilities to our A-Checklist. These world corporations in decor, structure, and panorama caught our consideration for his or her dynamic method to design and, in lots of instances, for his or her proactive dedication to neighborhood engagement.
Alfredo Paredes Studio
New York Metropolis
alfredoparedesstudio.com
Paredes launched his studio in 2019 after greater than three a long time at Ralph Lauren Residence. He’s since utilized his bohemian-industrial aesthetic to endeavors like a beachfront restaurant in South Florida and furnishings for EJ Victor.
Dune Hai
Oakland, Calif.
dunehai.com
Anooshey Rahim based Dune Hai to reframe the dialog round panorama structure: whom it advantages, how, when, and why. Her California tasks embody the expansive Pope Valley property featured in our April 2021 difficulty and an Oakland preschool’s backyard.
Delia Kenza Interiors
New York Metropolis
deliakenzainteriors.com
Educated as a lawyer, this New York native is wanted for her swank brownstone redos, just like the Harlem townhouse just lately featured on elledecor.com. Recently, she is branching out: New tasks vary from a community-focused occasion house within the Bronx to a restaurant in Austin, Texas.
Elliott Barnes
Paris
ebinteriors.com
The Los Angeles native emerged from the tutelage of Arthur Erickson and Andrée Putman to discovered his personal Parisian agency. The expat’s design tasks embody lodges and nation houses, and, along with his renovation of Ruinart’s Champagne cellars in Reims, France, he’s poised to pop off.
Fabrizio Casiraghi
Educated beneath Dominique Perrault and Dimorestudio, Casiraghi has a classy method that attracts on his Milanese upbringing. Coming quickly: lodges in St.-Tropez and London. And make sure to take a look at a latest Parisian pad—doused in inexperienced lacquer!—in our Summer season 2021 difficulty.
Florence Lopez
Paris
florencelopez.com
With a shopper listing together with Delphine Arnault, Gérard Depardieu, and Charlotte Gainsbourg, this antiquarian and inside designer by no means fails to impress the correct individuals—together with us: Her eye-catching Paris restaurant, Mon Sq., was in our November 2020 difficulty.
Ghislaine Viñas
New York Metropolis
ghislainevinas.com
The Dutch-born, South Africa–raised designer has an unparalleled eye for distinction and a penchant for daring strokes. Her residential tasks inform a shopper’s story in sudden methods (in Los Angeles, she created a rug utilizing blueprints of the proprietor’s home).
Hendricks Churchill
New York Metropolis/Sharon, Conn.
hendrickschurchill.com
Recognized for his or her holistic method to genuine New England homes, architect Rafe Churchill and designer Heide Hendricks, the married cofounders, mix custom and clever ease. Working example: their renovation of a Connecticut household dwelling featured in our March 2021 difficulty.
Ike Kligerman Barkley
New York Metropolis/Oakland, Calif.
ikekligermanbarkley.com
From a contemporary lake home in South Carolina to a tasting room in Napa Valley, companions John Ike and Thomas Kligerman carry a recent sensibility to historic kinds just like the Arts and Crafts motion and Colonial Revival.
Jean Liu Design
Dallas
jeanliudesign.com
A self-described art-obsessive, designer Liu deftly melds an analytical sensibility with a studied finesse. She additionally has a social conscience: Early on within the pandemic, she was in a position to enlist Kravet and Schumacher to donate cloth for hundreds of masks for first responders.
Juliana Lima Vasconcellos
Rio de Janeiro
julianavasconcellos.com
The perfect Brazilian designers specialise in dramatic interiors; Vasconcellos is not any exception. See: her circle of relatives house in Rio de Janeiro, featured in our April 2021 difficulty, which frames a singularly gorgeous view with up to date artwork and furnishings of her personal creation. This 12 months, following residential tasks in Miami and northern Italy, she’ll be introducing a brand new furnishings line for the Invisible Assortment.
Matt Blacke
Los Angeles
mattblackeinc.com
Matt Blacke is a pseudonym of types (get it?) for designer and gallery director Cliff Fong. Whereas his residential work generates press (his Hancock Park challenge was on our March 2021 cowl), an upcoming endeavor—an L.A. restaurant with a marijuana lounge—has a special sort of buzz.
Michael Okay. Chen Structure
New York Metropolis
mkca.com
The architect has spent the previous 10 years cultivating a studious sensibility that also radiates heat and character. Along with a Manhattan residence featured on our January/February 2021 cowl, Chen is slated to interrupt floor on his first health-care and civic tasks in Brooklyn.
Nickey Kehoe
Los Angeles
nickeykehoe.com
Founders Todd Nickey and Amy Kehoe’s thoughtfully curated L.A. design store put them on the map, but it surely’s their work because the go-to agency for West Coast foodies (amongst them cooks Nancy Silverton and Suzanne Goin) together with product traces, that show they’re actually cooking with gasoline.
Pine Home Edible Gardens
Oakland, Calif.
pinehouseediblegardens.com
As proprietor of Pine Home Edible Gardens, Leslie Bennett has cultivated a community-driven follow that, at the beginning, respects our relationship to the atmosphere. A signature challenge: her restorative Black Sanctuary Gardens.
Rafael de Cárdenas
New York Metropolis
rafaeldecardenas.com
De Cárdenas is not any stranger to scale and scope: The architect and designer’s tasks embody interiors for St. Petersburg’s Au Pont Rouge division retailer and a 134-foot-long yacht. And whereas the massive hits maintain coming, in his multifaceted world, change is absolutely the one fixed.
Retrouvius
London
retrouvius.com
Founders Adam Hills and Maria Speake take a regenerative method to reclamation. Hills runs their cult salvage store in London’s Kensal Inexperienced enclave, whereas Speake oversees a design studio that’s gearing as much as convert a medieval teaching inn right into a 38-bedroom boutique lodge.
Studio Cooke John
New York Metropolis
cookejohn.com
Jamaican-born architect Nina Cooke John’s two-decade-old follow focuses on clear traces and muted tones, however recently has welcomed pops of colour and well-placed antiques. A notable challenge was the 2021 Obsidian idea home, co-designed with Leyden Lewis and the BAD Guild.
Terremoto
Los Angeles/ San Francisco
terremoto.la
The 17-person panorama design and structure studio Terremoto creates site-specific horticultural installations. Their dedication to ecological stewardship has garnered them reward and high-profile commissions in equal measures.
Unionworks
New York Metropolis
theunionworks.com
Poonam Khanna, the agency’s founder, has a soulful inside design sensibility that’s all her personal. Her tasks vary from the design of a Brooklyn townhouse to a SoHo retailer for Loeffler Randall. She is at present engaged on the renovations of a two-Michelin-star restaurant in Washington, D.C.
These interiors, structure, and panorama corporations—a few of which have been on the A-Checklist from the start—persistently wow us, maintain us guessing, and present the sorts of intelligence and excellence that drive the design business ahead.
Aero Studios
New York Metropolis
aerostudios.com
Based by inside and home-furnishings designer Thomas O’Brien, Aero Studios is a design workplace the place crossover and collaboration are the foundations somewhat than the exception. The workplace’s tasks vary from formal residences to industrial work just like the Sixty Thompson lodge.
Alberto Pinto
Paris
albertopinto.com
Eclecticism and refinement stay the key phrases in the case of creating whole universes for Alberto Pinto’s prestigious purchasers worldwide: non-public residences, places of work, airports, lodges, yachts, and jets. Beneath Linda Pinto’s administration, conventional and fashionable meet in concord.
Alessandra Branca
New York Metropolis
branca.com
Born and raised in Italy, Alessandra Branca grew up believing classical magnificence is supposed to be intertwined with on a regular basis life. Her eclectic, colourful work fuses the workmanship of a couturier with practicality in all she designs. Her e book, New Traditional Interiors, was revealed in 2009.
Alex Papachristidis Interiors
New York Metropolis
alexpapachristidis.com
Daring patterns, jewel tones, and unique accents are attribute of Alex Papachristidis’s work. Current tasks embody a seashore home within the Hamptons, a Philadelphia Essential Line residence, and a Greenwich Village house. Tour Papachristidis’s maximalist New York house right here.
Alyssa Kapito Interiors
New York Metropolis
alyssakapito.com
Based mostly within the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, Alyssa Kapito brings a recent tackle the classics and has an ideal appreciation of antiques and artwork. Her tasks embody a restoration of a historic Hamptons property; a household dwelling in Beverly Hills; and a seashore home in Bellport, Lengthy Island.
Aman & Meeks
New York Metropolis
amanmeeks.com
James Aman and accomplice John Meeks draw on their backgrounds in retailer design, visible show, and style to create beautiful, elegant rooms. The designers are particularly adroit at fashioning a glance of tailor-made luxurious that evokes each previous and current.
Amy Lau Design
New York Metropolis
amylaudesign.com
Based in 2001, Amy Lau Design creates interiors recognized for his or her heat, expressiveness, and impeccable consideration to element. Amy has a reverence for the inherent great thing about pure supplies and landscapes and thoughtfully incorporates components of every into each challenge.
Condominium 48
New York Metropolis
apartment48.com
Alabama native and famous colour wizard Rayman Boozer rose to prominence when he based Condominium 48, a classy New York dwelling retailer arrange like an house. In the present day, he’s the go-to designer for everybody from Manhattan professionals to start-ups.
Ashe Leandro
New York Metropolis
asheleandro.com
Former set designer Ariel Ashe and architect Reinaldo Leandro’s New York Metropolis agency Ashe Leandro mixes up to date luxurious and pure supplies to create areas that really feel open and timeless. Previous tasks embody work for Liev Schreiber and Seth Meyers.
Designer Invoice Brockschmidt of the agency Brockschmidt & Coleman expertly restored a palazzo atop a grotto in Sicily.
Beata Heuman
London
beataheuman.com
London-based, Swedish-born designer Beata Heuman is understood for her playful and unique work. Heuman labored for Nicky Haslam for 9 years earlier than establishing her personal studio in 2013. Her fashion is characterised by a Scandinavian consideration to element, proven off in her latest e book.
Brockschmidt & Coleman
New York Metropolis/New Orleans
brockschmidtandcoleman.com
New York Metropolis–based mostly Invoice Brockschmidt and Courtney Coleman describe their purchasers as “under-the-radar literati and collectors” who admire their potential to match historic references with fashionable sensibilities. Current work contains Jon Meacham’s Nashville studio.
Champalimaud Design
New York Metropolis
champalimaud.design
Alexandra Champalimaud of the Champalimaud design agency is an Anglo-Portuguese expat and one of many world’s most gifted luxurious hospitality designers. The New York–based mostly studio is devoted to expressing the person character of every house by means of extraordinary design.
Commune Design
Los Angeles
communedesign.com
Los Angeles–based mostly companions Roman Alonso and Steven Johanknecht are masters of the brand new California cool. From houses to lodges to product design, their work embodies a respect for craft and an virtually archaeological sense of place.
Corey Damen Jenkins & Associates
New York Metropolis
coreydamenjenkins.com
The by means of line connecting all of Jenkins’s work is a elegant traditionalism infused with colour and sample. The Detroit native, who additionally has an workplace in New York Metropolis, made critical waves in 2019 along with his much-touted woman’s library on the Kips Bay Decorator Present Home.
Dan Fink Studio
New York Metropolis
danfinkstudio.com
A favourite amongst tech giants, Dan Fink acquired his begin in Silicon Valley and is understood for his moody, fashionable aesthetic. His tasks embody a seaside lounge on the Miramar Membership in Montecito, California and quite a few refined residences throughout the U.S.
Danielle Colding Design
New York Metropolis
dcdny.com
Danielle Colding, who got here to prominence starring in Store This Room on HGTV, refers back to the houses she creates as clever and comfortable. By no means stuffy, she likes to construct areas round a shopper’s household heirlooms, artwork, and knickknacks in order that the room is at all times a mirrored image of the person.
David Netto
Los Angeles
davidnettodesign.com
Toggling between his dwelling in Los Angeles and his hometown of New York, David Netto is a Harvard structure college dropout who revels within the sudden, making traditionalism really feel hip, and modernism like a heat and textured cocoon.
de la Torre Design studio
New York Metropolis
delatorredesign.com
Having began his design profession working with Peter Marino, it’s no marvel that Ernest de la Torre’s personal design agency, which he based in 2001, boasts a formidable portfolio, together with Tuxedo Park mansions, Manhattan penthouses, jets, and yachts.
DimoreStudio
Milan
dimorestudio.eu
Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran make up the Milan-based tremendous duo. Based in 2003, the avant-garde agency is understood for its furnishings designs and style collaborations with the likes of Fendi and Hermès. Their forward-looking interiors are wealthy with sample and color-blocked partitions.
Drake/Anderson
New York Metropolis
drakeanderson.com
Jamie Drake and Caleb Anderson are primarily modernists, but they’re recognized for his or her fearless method to paint and a fashion-conscious sensibility. Tasks have included refined interiors in lots of residential towers, in addition to medical amenities and nonprofit headquarters.
Eric Hughes
Los Angeles
erichughesdesign.com
Shoppers of New York– and Los Angeles–based mostly designer Eric Hughes have included Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Katie Couric, Hank Azaria, and Lauren Graham. The Bridgehampton, New York weekend dwelling he designed for Parker might be toured right here.
Fox-Nahem Associates
New York Metropolis
foxnahem.com
Born and raised in New York Metropolis, Joe Nahem and his late enterprise accomplice, Tom Fox, began Fox Nahem Design of their early 20s. Nahem’s designs have modified accordingly with the occasions; he curates uncommon classic items and works with craftspeople around the globe.
Gachot Studios
New York Metropolis
gachotstudios.com
The husband-and-wife workforce of John and Christine Gachot met at Studio Sofield in New York, then established their very own design studio with a mixture of residential and high-profile hospitality tasks. They bring about a cultivated stance to a downtown aesthetic with a respectful and witty eye.
Haynes-Roberts
New York Metropolis
haynesroberts.com
Timothy Haynes and Kevin Roberts are the founding companions of Haynes-Roberts, a New York–based mostly inside design agency that focuses on high-end residential tasks. The ensuing work is a contemporary distillation of traditional design that’s spare, elegant, and welcoming.
Huniford Design Studio
New York Metropolis
huniford.com
In his tasks, James Huniford blends new and previous, uniting discovered objects with refined supplies in distinctive mixtures and vignettes. One-of-a-kind objects encourage all of Huniford’s designs. His signature use of calming wall colours highlights the significance of objects, artwork, and furnishings.
Isabel López- Quesada
Madrid
isabellopezquesada.com
Based mostly in Madrid, Isabel López-Quesada combines romance, custom, and fashionable cool in her vast breadth of worldwide residential tasks. Working example: a duplex house in Madrid’s El Viso neighborhood, previously owned by Ava Gardner—and featured in our October 2020 difficulty.
Ishka Designs
New York Metropolis
ishkadesigns.com
Ishka Designs, helmed by Anishka Clarke and Niya Bascom, is a Brooklyn-based inside design agency. Specializing in trip properties, eating places, and residences (assume every thing from beachfront estates to retail areas), the agency is understood for his or her clear, minimalist aesthetic.
In the primary bed room suite of Christine and John Gachot’s Manhattan penthouse.
J. Randall Powers
Houston
jrandallpowers.com
Based mostly in Houston, J. Randall Powers seems traditional-with-a-twist interiors for his prosperous purchasers. Powers exudes a penchant for purity and high quality—assume sisal, white sheets and slipcovers, and skirted tables—and cites the affect of ’80s California decorators.
Jacques Grange
Paris
+33-1-55-80-75-40
For many years, Jacques Grange has taken mixing conventional and up to date design components to a brand new dimension. Simply feast your eyes on Yves Saint Laurent’s well-known Marrakech retreat, Villa Oasis, for a sampling of his luxurious layering of colour and patterns.
Jayne Design Studio
New York Metropolis
jaynedesignstudio.com
Whether or not it’s a SoHo loft or a late-Nineteenth-century industrial constructing, Thomas Jayne’s designs by no means fail to convey a deep connection to historical past and place. His agency, Jayne Design Studio, is aware of the right way to create personality-packed areas for purchasers starting from households to collectors.
Jean-Louis Deniot
Paris
deniot.com
The interiors Jean-Louis Deniot creates are areas the place spontaneity and magic are de rigueur. He’s acknowledged for his eclectic and emblematic interiors and prefers neither minimalism nor extra: His tasks present stability and a imaginative and prescient of refinement, consolation, and openness.
Jeffrey A. Marks
Montecito, Calif.
jam-design.com
By means of his creations in furnishings, cloth, and residential, the bicoastal designer has mastered the artwork of constructing interiors playful but cool, giving us a complete new vocabulary for consolation all alongside the way in which. His collaborations embody materials with Kravet, and furnishings with A. Rudin and Palecek.
Pleasure Moyler Interiors
New Rochelle, N.Y.
joymoylerinteriors.com
Closely influenced by the world of style, Pleasure Moyler infuses her interiors with bespoke components resembling these present in high fashion males’s haberdashery. Her purchasers embody such notable names as John Mayer, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Harry Winston.
Kathryn M. Eire
Los Angeles
kathrynireland.com
Former Million Greenback Decorators star Kathryn M. Eire describes her fashion as “California coastal meets European stylish,” and the result’s an elevated boho look that has attracted purchasers resembling Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Drew Barrymore.
Katie Ridder
New York Metropolis
katieridder.com
Katie Ridder has a dexterity with colour palettes, a playful method to mixing antiques and fashionable items, and a mind for uncommon ornamental accents. She has labored with purchasers from Switzerland to Virginia. Just lately, Ridder created her personal wallpaper and cloth line.
Kelly Behun Studio
New York Metropolis
kellybehun.com
A Pennsylvania-born designer who moved to New York Metropolis and educated beneath designer Philippe Starck, Kelly Behun is understood for her extremely bespoke inventive course of and her line of creative, considerate furnishings items and residential equipment.
Kemble Interiors
Palm Seashore
kembleinteriors.com
Kemble Interiors was based in 1982 by Palm Seashore native Mimi McMakin. Her daughter, Celerie Kemble, later turned a accomplice within the New York workplace. Kemble has a set of furnishings with Henredon and equipment with Maitland-Smith.
Ken Fulk Design
New York Metropolis
kenfulk.com
Buying and selling his time between New York and San Francisco, Ken Fulk creates designs which are daring, evocative, and creative—and appeal to the purchasers to match, resembling Pharrell Williams. You might need encountered his work at one of many many stylish eating places he’s embellished.
Kerry Joyce Associates
Los Angeles
kerryjoyce.com
The Los Angeles–based mostly Kerry Joyce acquired his begin in artwork course on tv within the mid-Seventies (he even gained an Emmy for his work). Since then, he has constructed a decades-old follow of restrained and refined interiors for his moneyed clientele alongside sturdy furnishings and residential collections.
Kravitz Design
New York Metropolis
kravitzdesign.com
Lenny Kravitz is a modern-day Renaissance man. When he based his eponymous design agency 17 years in the past, the rock singer proved that he was simply as inventive adorning interiors as he’s writing albums. Kravitz’s cool mix of modernism make him one of many extra daring designers round.
Leyden Lewis Design Studio
New York Metropolis
leydenlewis.com
Leyden Lewis just isn’t solely an inside designer with a singular aesthetic, he’s additionally a wonderful artist. His work ranges from industrial to residential tasks, together with luxurious Manhattan residences and a Nineteenth-century Victorian brownstone.
Lorenzo Castillo
Madrid
lorenzocastillo.org
Earlier than establishing his platinum popularity as an inside designer, Lorenzo Castillo was referred to as considered one of Spain’s preeminent antiques sellers. Castillo’s daring juxtapositions of previous and new carry a masculine robustness to his interiors.
Mark Cunningham
New York Metropolis
markcunninghaminc.com
As one could anticipate from a Ralph Lauren alum, Mark Cunningham’s rooms are typically masculine, tailor-made, and timeless. He likes his palette impartial, and he mixes crisply upholstered {custom} items, American antiques, and equipment masterfully, leading to a quietly invigorating look.
Mark D. Sikes
Los Angeles
markdsikes.com
Recognized for his riffs on traditional and all-American aesthetics—assume gingham, stripes, and wicker—the California-based designer likes to infuse the breeziness of nature into his interiors. On the lookout for extra of his work? Sikes launched a e book with Rizzoli final fall.
Mark Hampton
New York Metropolis
alexahampton.com
In 1998, Alexa Hampton took over the world-famous agency of her father, Mark Hampton. She is a specialist in maximalism and has accomplished a variety of designs for home and worldwide tasks, from New York Metropolis to Hangzhou, China.
Inside a Hawaii dwelling designed by Martyn Lawrence Bullard.
Martin Brudnizki
London/New York Metropolis
mbds.com
Martin Brudnizki is the person behind iconic interiors, together with Annabel’s in London and Pink Mamma in Paris. The Martin Brudnizki Design Studio workforce includes greater than 70 inside designers, architects, and artwork consultants whose purchasers embody luxurious hospitality teams.
Martyn Lawrence Bullard Design
Los Angeles
martynlawrencebullard.com
Martyn Lawrence Bullard could have been born in London, however he was clearly destined for Hollywood. The actor turned inside designer beforehand starred on Bravo’s Million Greenback Decorators, and a love of shiny colour and daring sample is evident in his work.
Mary McDonald
West Hollywood, Calif.
marymcdonald.com
Mary McDonald is an award-winning, internationally revealed Los Angeles–based mostly inside designer and a star of the Bravo collection Million Greenback Decorators. Her daring and provoking interiors have earned her a myriad of licensed product traces.
MR Structure + Décor
New York Metropolis
mrarch.com
MR Structure + Decor is a New York–based mostly design studio led by founding accomplice David Mann. With no singular mandated fashion, the studio is characterised by variety and unified by an important readability, with purchasers together with Pierre Hardy and Gilles Mendel.
Nate Berkus Interiors
Chicago
nateberkus.com
Greater than anybody, Nate Berkus is the general public face of latest design. His predilections have a tendency towards impartial palettes; pure supplies like leather-based, linen, and wicker; and objects made by hand. Step inside Berkus’s Montauk, New York, dwelling right here.
Nathan Turner
West Hollywood, Calif.
nathanturner.com
A fourth-generation Californian by the use of the Bay Space, Nathan Turner wrote the e book on the state’s aesthetic, known as I Love California. The Los Angeles–based mostly designer counts stars, together with Mindy Kaling and Armie and Elizabeth Hammer, amongst his purchasers.
Neal Beckstedt Studio
New York Metropolis
nbeckstedtstudio.com
Expert at creating areas that really feel masculine and simple, Neal Beckstedt describes his fashion as heat modernism. His purchasers embody Derek Lam and Robert Marc. In 2019, he designed the Home of ELLE DECOR at 108 Leonard in New York Metropolis.
Nick Olsen
New York Metropolis
nickolsenstyle.com
New York–based mostly Nick Olsen describes his tongue-in-cheek fashion as “historic inspiration by means of a kaleidoscopic and humorous lens.” Working example: this his transformation of a Cincinnati dwelling packs a punch with colour and sample.
Nicole Fuller Interiors
New York Metropolis/Los Angeles
nicolefullerinteriors.com
Nicole Fuller Interiors is an award-winning design agency specializing in luxurious interiors, product design, and artwork consulting. As a decorator of full-on-glam areas, Fuller works on extremely custom-made residential and industrial tasks within the U.S. and overseas.
Oliver M. Furth
Los Angeles
olivermfurth.com
Oliver M. Furth is a Los Angeles–based mostly inside designer who has been championing expertise and pushing the design dialogue ahead in L.A. for years. His informal and assured interiors blur the traces between stark modernism and a comfortable, layered attraction.
Pamplemousse Design
New York Metropolis
pamplemoussedesign.com
Paris-born Delphine Krakoff of Pamplemousse Design has an innate sense of fashion and pure French aptitude, which interprets straight into her interiors. Tasks have included residences and townhouses in New York Metropolis and ski lodges out West.
Paolo Moschino for Nicholas Haslam
London
nicholashaslam.com
In 1995, designer Paolo Moschino took possession of Nicholas Haslam, an organization whose fashion has developed constantly all through the years. Although the agency relies in London, Moschino introduced worldwide affect and continental aptitude to Nicholas Haslam.
Pappas Miron
New York Metropolis
pappasmiron.com
Based in 2003 by Alexandra Pappas and Tatyana Miron, this agency is ushering in stately design with a contemporary slant. Finest pals since childhood, Pappas and Miron had mixed backgrounds in artwork historical past, jewellery, actual property, and interiors earlier than becoming a member of forces.
Peter Dunham & Associates
Los Angeles
peterdunham.com
Los Angeles–based mostly Peter Dunham calls his fashion “refined informal.” He began his design firm in 1998 after a childhood in France and school in England. His followers embody Jennifer Garner, Steve Tisch, and Drew Barrymore, with tasks restoring landmark houses.
Redd Kaihoi
New York Metropolis
reddkaihoi.com
Miles Redd and David Kaihoi, the pair behind New York-based Redd Kaihoi, are recognized for his or her distinctive aesthetic imaginative and prescient characterised by excessive and low, a powerful sense of colour, and a conventional method with fashionable gestures.
Richard Mishaan Design
New York Metropolis
richardmishaan.com
Designer in New York, Richard Mishaan is a renaissance man with a profession that has spanned many inventive arts, together with inside design, furnishings design, style, and retail. Mishaan is famend for his potential to mix collectibles and antiques with artwork and furnishings.
Rita Konig
London
ritakonig.com
London-based inside designer Rita Konig is aware of the right way to create an area that’s each lovely and cozy. For the previous 15 years, her relaxed adorning method has resonated with purchasers each within the U.Okay. and overseas.
Robert Kime
London
robertkime.com
U.Okay.-based designer Robert Kime is a decorator to the celebs—or somewhat, to royalty. His interiors, which are not any stranger to antiques and classic textiles, have charmed such purchasers because the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Beaufort.
The doorway to Tatyana Miron Ahlers’s (one half of the design duo Pappas Miron) New York loft.
Robert Stilin
New York Metropolis
robertstilin.com
Robert Stilin is understood for effortlessly combining crisp, clear structure with {custom} upholstery, vintage and classic furnishings, and fashionable and up to date artwork. Present tasks embody a duplex penthouse on Fifth Avenue and a household house on Park Avenue.
Roman and Williams
New York Metropolis
romanandwilliams.com
New York Metropolis–based mostly Roman and Williams courtroom prestigious purchasers each previous and new, such because the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork and Fb. Its louche luxe tasks, helmed by founders Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch, embody quite a few outposts of the Ace Resort.
Romanek Design Studio
Los Angeles
romanekdesignstudio.com
The self-taught Chicago native makes a speciality of outfitting areas for her entertainment-world purchasers with a relaxed California class. Brigette Romanek acquired her begin a couple of years again when buddy and Baby2Baby cofounder Kelly Sawyer Patricof enlisted Romanek’s assist for her Malibu dwelling.
Shawn Henderson Inside Design
New York Metropolis
shawnhenderson.com
New York Metropolis–based mostly Shawn Henderson is understood for interiors which are as serene as they’re refined. His previous tasks have included houses for Will Ferrell and director Tate Taylor. Take a look at his upstate New York farmhouse right here.
Sig Bergamin
São Paulo
sigbergamin.com.br
A nationwide treasure in his native Brazil, Sig Bergamin is a decorator and artwork collector with purchasers in america, Europe, and South America. A typical Bergamin challenge is exuberant and vigorous, and the designer’s mastery of the combination has a tropical aptitude and modernist touches.
S.R. Gambrel
New York Metropolis
srgambrel.com
Whether or not he’s designing a elegant uptown duplex, a rambling nation home, or a weekend seashore retreat, Steven Gambrel creates timeless, snug houses that enhance with age. Tour a latest revamp of a Thirties Malibu dwelling right here.
Stephanie Goto
New York Metropolis
stephaniegoto.com
Stephanie Goto is a New York–based mostly architect whose follow is understood for its deep understanding of kind, construction, and supplies. Since 2004, the agency has constructed a holistic method contemplating the intersection between structure, artwork, tradition, and meals.
Studio Liaigre
New York Metropolis
liaigre.com
Within the Eighties, Christian Liaigre set the tone for contemporary Parisian inside design, establishing an aesthetic of hushed discretion. In the present day, the acclaimed agency continues its legacy of rooms that whisper beneath the inventive course of Frauke Meyer.
Studio Shamshiri
Los Angeles
studioshamshiri.com
Sibling duo Pamela Shamshiri and Ramin Shamshiri struck out on their very own from Commune to nice success in 2016. Their star-studded shopper listing contains Seth Rogan and Lauren Rogan, Anne Hathaway and Adam Shulman, and Sophia Amoroso of Girlboss.
A eating room in a welcoming California residence just lately designed by Studio Shamshiri.
Studio Sofield
New York Metropolis
studiosofield.com
William Sofield, of Studio Sofield, is a modernist by temperament and a historicist by coaching. His work is marked by a holistic method that embraces the requirements of residing. Tour this New York Metropolis house he designed for a pair making a long-awaited return to town.
Suzanne Kasler Interiors
Atlanta
suzannekasler.com
Incorporating the non-public collections of her purchasers with wonderful artwork and antiques, up to date items and custom-designed furnishings, Suzanne Kasler creates significant, timeless interiors. She has additionally produced signature traces for Ballard Designs, Hickory Chair, and Lee Jofa.
Thom Filicia
New York Metropolis
thomfilicia.com
Inside designer Thom Filicia creates gorgeous fashionable interiors that retain an inviting aesthetic. His purchasers have included Tina Fey and Jennifer Lopez, amongst others. Tour his NYC house, as seen within the April 2020 difficulty of ELLE DECOR, right here.
Timothy Corrigan
Los Angeles
timothy-corrigan.com
Los Angeles– and Paris-based Timothy Corrigan is aware of a factor or two about European class on condition that he’s owned three historic castles. The jet-setting decorator tends to a clientele that features Madonna and an array of Center Japanese royals.
Tom Scheerer
New York Metropolis
tomscheerer.com
The work of Tom Scheerer contains tasks in New York, East Hampton, Nantucket, Aspen, and the Bahamas. He emphasizes furnishings planning, spatial relationships, and colour and texture, and he’s fluent in numerous kinds throughout the context of what he calls “relaxed modernism.”
Vincent van Duysen
Antwerp, Belgium
vincentvanduysen.com
Belgium-born architect Vincent Van Duysen established his agency in 1990 and makes a speciality of high-end residences around the globe, with a give attention to showcasing the connection between structure, inside design, and product design.
Virginia Tupker
Darien, Conn.
virginiatupker.com
Connecticut-based inside designer Virginia Tupker makes a speciality of high-end residential and industrial tasks. Her European upbringing informs her distinctive interiors, and he or she attracts inspiration from a variety of sources, from the work of Renzo Mongiardino to Le Corbusier.
Yabu Pushelberg
New York Metropolis/Toronto
yabupushelberg.com
Based in 1980 by George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg, the design agency Yabu Pushelberg focuses on creating immersive experiences, distinctive locations, and regarded items. The follow works with a formidable mixture of purchasers, from lodges to eating places and entrepreneurs.
Younger Huh Inside Design
New York Metropolis
younghuh.com
Detroit native Younger Huh is aware of all about crafting a room with persona. Huh makes a speciality of each residential and industrial interiors, and her huge information of artwork and design historical past makes for timeless interiors.
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Adjaye Associates
New York Metropolis
adjaye.com
Ghanaian-British architect Sir David Adjaye is the founder and principal of Adjaye Associates. The award-winning design agency, with studios in Accra, London, and New York, just lately accomplished its first high-rise residential tower within the U.S., hovering above downtown Manhattan.
Bunny Williams Inside Design
New York Metropolis
bunnywilliams.com
Bunny Williams is all about traditional consolation, an knowledgeable eye, and a little bit of enjoyable. In her rooms, wonderful European antiques meet mirrored partitions and gutsy paintings. She makes use of intense colours and delicate patterns with equal panache. Go to a Williams-designed Park Avenue house right here.
Charlotte Moss
New York Metropolis
charlottemoss.com
Having launched her profession on Wall Road, Charlotte Moss is equally attuned to the ideas of traditional adorning and the wants of a contemporary family, in addition to impressed by girls vacationers and explorers who pushed boundaries.
Cullman & Kravis
New York Metropolis
cullmankravis.com
Brooklyn-raised Ellie Cullman (her household owns the well-known Peter Luger steakhouse) based the storied design agency recognized for its fashion-forward, fashionable look—catalogued within the design e book From Traditional to Up to date.
Darryl Carter
New York Metropolis
darrylcarter.com
Based mostly in Washington, D.C., Darryl Carter, a former lawyer, seems cool, calm, and picked up areas which are distinctive of their masculine rigor. They’re filled with good impartial materials, darkish wood furnishings, and powerful silhouettes.
Deborah Berke Companions
New York Metropolis
dberke.com
Deborah Berke is considered one of structure’s true energy gamers. Along with operating her eponymous agency whose works embody New York’s Marianne Boesky Gallery and 40 East Finish Avenue, she turned the primary lady dean of the Yale College of Structure in 2016.
In the primary bed room of Darryl Carter’s Washington, D.C. townhouse
India Mahdavi
Paris
india-mahdavi.com
India Mahdavi has lots in widespread with Henri Matisse. Like a Fauvist, the Paris-based designer and architect makes use of wealthy complementary colours in each her industrial and residential tasks to elicit a layered—principally giddy—response from guests.
Juan Montoya Design
New York Metropolis
juanmontoyadesign.com
Juan Montoya was born in Colombia and moved to New York to attend Parsons College of Design after finding out structure in Bogotá. He has sufficient design-world accolades to fill a really stylish room and is understood for paying particular consideration to his mixture of textures, volumes, and scale.
Kelly Wearstler
Los Angeles
kellywearstler.com
Kelly Wearstler’s world luxurious life-style model is marked by its distinctive designs and complex soulful character. Wearstler’s signature fashion juxtaposes uncooked with refined, and her portfolio contains luxurious lodges and grand residences from Beverly Hills to the Caribbean.
Michael S. Smith
New York Metropolis
michaelsmithinc.com
Michael S. Smith has a global profile of residential, hospitality, and industrial purchasers, and a mode that could be a seamless mix of European classicism and American modernism. He additionally possesses a curator’s information of historical past and antiques.
Peter Marino Architect
New York Metropolis
petermarinoarchitect.com
New York Metropolis–based mostly Peter Marino is understood for his industrial and retail designs as a lot as he’s residential, and he has labored to redefine fashionable luxurious worldwide with purchasers together with Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Bulgari.
Pierre Yovanovitch
Paris/New York Metropolis
pierreyovanovitch.com
Impressed by his early work fashioning menswear, the Paris-based designer has discovered an ideal match tailoring fashionable areas beneath his eponymous agency, which he opened in 2001. He just lately unveiled a brand new enterprise, his personal furnishings firm.
A view into the eating room of Sheila Bridges’s Hudson Valley nation dwelling.
Robert Couturier
New York Metropolis
robertcouturier.com
The French-born inside designer’s eccentric glamour delights high-profile purchasers starting from author Amy High quality Collins to hairstylist Frederic Fekkai. The look? A serious mixture of the grand and up to date: Louis XVI commodes, flamboyant tapestries, and knockout artistic endeavors.
Rose Tarlow
New York Metropolis/Los Angeles
rosetarlow.com
Rose Tarlow is cherished for her particular regard for craftsmanship and historical past and has traces of furnishings, textiles, lighting, and equipment. The designer’s purchasers, which embody Oprah Winfrey and David Geffen, flock to the Tarlow for her sense of completely undone ease.
Sheila Bridges Design
New York Metropolis
sheilabridges.com
One of many nation’s prime decorators, Sheila Bridges creates every thing from the good-looking Harlem places of work of former President Invoice Clinton to elegant residential areas for her New York clientele. She’s additionally a favourite designer of establishments like Columbia College and Princeton College.
Shelton Mindel
New York Metropolis
sheltonmindel.com
A recipient of the Cooper Hewitt Nationwide Design Award, Shelton Mindel has a prolonged shopper listing that features Darren Star and John Atwater and Diana Nelson. Take a look at a contemporary seashore getaway the agency just lately designed for a household right here.
Stephen Sills Associates
New York Metropolis
stephensills.com
Stephen Sills has an intensive information of design historical past and an intuitive grasp of right this moment’s wants. He makes a speciality of remodeling interiors into timeless environments for contemporary residing, and his industrial tasks embody the St. Regis New York and Vera Wang Bridal.
Studio Jacques Garcia
The Paris-based designer, recognized for his moody rococo fashion, has created lodges around the globe, together with the Peninsula Paris and Manhattan’s NoMad. His worldwide shopper roster contains the Sultan of Brunei and his personal house was just lately featured in ELLE DECOR France.
The entry to a traditional Milanese townhouse designed by Studio Peregalli.
Studio Peregalli
Milan
studioperegalli.com
The Milan-based duo of Roberto Peregalli and Laura Sartori Rimini, referred to as Studio Peregalli, makes a speciality of baronial rooms which are steeped in historical past. The agency’s American tasks embody a Manhattan house for Hamish Bowles and a Gramercy Park townhouse for artist John Currin.
Suzanne Rheinstein
Los Angeles
suzannerheinstein.com
Inside designer Suzanne Rheinstein is understood for her signature fashion, which mixes lovely objects, furnishings, artwork, and painted surfaces. The New Orleans–born, L.A.-based tastemaker has designed a San Francisco townhouse in addition to her personal New York Metropolis dwelling.
Toshiko Mori Architect
New York Metropolis
tmarch.com
For the final 4 a long time, architect Toshiko Mori and her New York studio have been designing delicate, environmentally-conscious buildings the world-over. Current tasks embody a cultural middle in Senegal and the redesign of the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Department.
Veere Grenney Associates
New York Metropolis
veeregrenney.com
British inside designer Veere Grenney boasts greater than 30 years of expertise within the inside design business. Earlier than launching his personal firm, he was a director at Sybil Colefax and John Fowler. He additionally has a cloth and furnishings assortment.
Vicente Wolf Associates
New York Metropolis
vicentewolf.com
A world-renowned inside designer, Vicente Wolf has revealed 4 design books, together with The 4 Components of Design: Interiors Impressed by Earth, Water, Air and Fireplace. His portfolio contains the MGM lodge in Las Vegas and the Wynn Resort in Macau, China.
Victoria Hagan
New York Metropolis
victoriahagan.com
Victoria Hagan’s tasks have ranged from sprawling nation houses to elegant metropolis residences. Current commissions have included a contemporary dwelling carved out of the aspect of a mountain in Aspen, Colorado, and a Central Park penthouse perched on atop the legendary Plaza lodge.
