Architectural Digest

Architectural Digest is the world's foremost design authority, showcasing the work of top architects and interior decorators. It continues to set new benchmarks for how to live well—what to buy, what to see and do, where to travel, and who to watch on the fast-paced, multifaceted global design scene.

editor’s letter

Design on High • Mario Ceroli’s surreal homage to Giorgio de Chirico still hits

Ranch Style • Designer Catherine Kwong channels the spirit of the 1970s in her renovation of a classic Sea Ranch home for her young family

Time Traveler • In life as in art, Lukas the Illustrator revives the romance of the past

Beginner’s Luck • With an unlikely prompt, Décors Barbares turns its unerring eye to tableware

Number Theory

RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

Japanese Fusion • Commune Design draws inspiration from the Land of the Rising Sun for a record lounge in Nashville

A CENTURY OF STYLE • From editor-in-chief Amy Astley and Architectural Digest, AD at 100 celebrates the most incredible homes of the past century, showcasing the work of top designers and offering rare looks inside the private worlds of artists, celebrities, and other fascinating personalities.

Empire State of Mind • Louis Vuitton puts its rich history on dazzling display in Manhattan

I Statements • At her new Chicago office, designer Summer Thornton answers to her own whims

HOMEBODY • For globe-trotting supermodel Paloma Elsesser, being in her Brooklyn town house, appointed by Gregory Rockwell Interiors, is the real vacation

detail oriented • In a grand 1920s building on New York City’s Upper East Side, designer Alyssa Kapito crafts a refined home for her young family

LOCAL COLOR • Turning her unerring eye to design, photo stylist Mieke ten Have fashions a home for friends in the Hudson Valley

design notes • THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK

MILANESE BLEND • Giampiero Tagliaferri brews an homage to great Italian design with a shot of California

wild life • For landscape architects Lauren and Stephen Stimson, it’s all about listening to the land

MADE IN SÃO PAULO • In the birthplace of Brazilian modernism, a new generation of artists and makers is writing the next chapter of great design

in the mood • Alluding to movies, music, and design marvels of the recent past, Darren Jett injects a classic Manhattan loft with some serious sex appeal

grand finale