After a chance meeting at a dinner party in 1945, the two embarked on the design of one of architecture’s most canonical homes, the Farnsworth House. Fans of Fischer’s work may be reminded of some of his most famous pieces, which are constructed out of wax, and melt into newly deformed shapes once their wicks are lit. Calacatta marble was used for the countertops, backsplash, and oven hood in the kitchen of Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent’s Manhattan townhouse that AD toured in 2020. Over the past 20 years, Studio Gang has established itself as Chicago’s preeminent architectural voice. AD100 designer Frank de Biasi commented to AD at one point in the April piece, “For me, layout and function and livability come first.

Smith, Steven Volpe, Kelly Wearstler, and a new generation of talents have picked up the torch of sublime, homegrown California design.

No, this kitchen, published in a fall 2019 issue of AD, is not set somewhere in the French countryside.

A good book, however, has the unique power to carry us to new worlds—all from the comfort of a favorite chair. That makes for especially logical sense, considering that much of Calderone’s work rests on documenting the food that she cooks. The island, meanwhile, is made of repurposed California tile tables—the very items that first emboldened Keaton to embrace color in her home. Nonetheless, that didn’t mean the 1608 hôtel particulier didn’t require a fair amount of work: “It needed renovation; it needed everything,” he told the magazine in May 2019. From the get-go, she makes clear that flower arranging is more an emotive art than an exercise in prescriptive rule-following.

Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Instead, it’s located in Southern California, and is inhabited by none other than actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, Adam Shulman. Standouts, of course, are Kundig’s breathtaking private residences—muscular forms of timber and steel that dissolve into their landscapes. The book, a follow-up to a 2017 title chronicling American decorators and their pooches, takes readers across the pond to visit impressive rural estates and their well-appointed interiors. Written by AD’s own West Coast editor Mayer Rus, the publication is an ode to Wiseman’s love of nature, as its lushly adorned exterior attests.

Those twin pillars of our editorial mix—California-style dolce vita and celebrity lifestyle—remain vital components of AD’s DNA to this day.

The pale greens and copper pots seen inside the kitchen are just the beginning of its colorful palette, and one that in part helped inspire a permanent relocation. The inspirational (and visual) fodder finds its place alongside meditations on the room by food-world all-stars including the New York Times’s Melissa Clark and author-cook Julia Turshen. But upon closer inspection, some of its sharpest details come into clearer view: The subway tiles seen extend throughout the entire cavernous space, while not one but two minimal chandeliers are hung akimbo.

even if you can't live in one of these abodes, at least you can have a small piece of it on your coffee table. After all, Klein, whose résumé also boasts her modeling career and work as an author, is the former spouse of Calvin Klein.

Readers may have been quickly distracted by another detail: Calderone’s dreamy open kitchen, which gave way to an enviable office nook.