#interior-design

#interior-design

Fourteen years ago, Heather Pardieu didn't let a little dust and debris get in the way of renting a great space. The initial viewing of this 630-square-foot studio apartment in Hollywood that she found on Craigslist happened while it was still undergoing renovations. But Heather, who is the cofounder of interiors firm Foxfeather Design and a fashion stylist, had the confidence that she could be creative enough to transform the blank canvas into a home.

I may be aging myself, but I've discovered a lot thanks to my dad over three decades - my favorite band (My Morning Jacket), the perfect margarita recipe, and an appreciation for good art, rugs, and antiques. My dad has a keen eye for design and is perpetually decorating our family house in Kentucky with some newly acquired paintings or vintage chairs (much to my mom's chagrin). As I've furnished my so-called "adult" apartments, he's essentially doubled as my built-in interior consultant, too.

"Teaming up with Jonathan made my job so much easier," says AD100 designer Young Huh, who partnered with Property Brother Jonathan Scott on the New York City duplex he shares with partner Zooey Deschanel and their two young children. "He has a tremendous understanding of architecture, and he obviously knows construction, which meant we could jump straight to the details."

Maxwell Ryan, Apartment Therapy founder and CEO, and Apartment Therapy executive home director Danielle Blundell. They have a knack for finding the untapped potential in real-life homes and creating functional, beautiful places for the people who live there. Ashley was a natural place for Maxwell and Danielle to shop for this project, with its stylish, well-crafted, and affordable pieces built to stand up to real life. Plus, Ashley's white-glove delivery service made set-up a snap.

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like," Goethe once wrote. Our homes speak of who we are, our tastes, and the image we want to project to the world. Very few homes, however, are manifestos of their owner's taste quite like Villa Josie.

The top loft of the 1903 cast-iron Soho building hadn't been touched in three decades. The renovation would need to be significant. But there was one feature designer Maurizio Bianchi Mattioli intended to preserve: a 30-foot-long south-facing ­window installed by the previous owner. "We were very lucky to have the lot-line windows," ­Mattioli says. "You don't typically see them from the sidewalk." A young couple, Josephine and Alex de Pfyffer, an art dealer and an ­entrepreneur, respectively, hired Mattioli, the founder of Studio MBM,

I'm an interior designer who loves shopping at West Elm for myself and my clients. On a recent trip to the store, the brand's variety of lighting options caught my eye. I also found a great dinnerware set, a woven basket, a nice chair, and some vases. As an interior designer, fall is truly my favorite season to redecorate my home. For me, the transition to shorter days and cooler weather means it's time to incorporate rich, earthy tones, layer in more cozy lighting, and stock up on hosting essentials.

Debuting in 1973, the Kips Bay Decorator Show House benefits the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, a nonprofit that serves more than 11,000 children in the Bronx with afterschool and enrichment programs. The Show House sees some 15,000 visitors every year, and since its inception, the event has raised more than $30 million for the group. In recent years, it's even expanded outside of New York, with editions in both Palm Beach and Dallas.

However, this renovation in London had one major advantage right from the start: Although the impressive town house is located in a so-called "Conservation Area," it was not classified as a Listed Building, which made the renovation work considerably easier. "We were able to renovate the house from top to bottom without any major restrictions," recalls Rigby. "We also had a very dedicated site manager. As a result, the entire construction process went extremely smoothly."

"Just sitting by the window, sipping my coffee in the morning and overlooking the horse pastures makes me happy,"

When we moved into our four-bedroom apartment last year, I knew I had to do something to personalize the walls. Since we had already splurged on two large paintings, I decided to finally tackle creating a gallery wall. Given our collection of watercolors and drawings - we love to buy art when we travel, and my husband's a diplomat by day and artist by night - it would've been a waste not to hang the pieces we've accumulated.

Two-and-a-half years ago and at age 29, product designer Sara Duval took the plunge into homeownership by purchasing this 400-ish-square-foot studio apartment in Manhattan. (For those who are curious, she does a great job of breaking down the financials of this purchase on her TikTok account.) Located in a building from 1920, the apartment might be 125-years-old, but Sara's created a warm, personal, and modern home.

Both shops received a full-scale makeover led by Denver-based multidisciplinary firm BOSS.architecture, with improved visibility and movement between the shops through wider window and door portals. Pigtrain's warm "dusty mauve" walls and lush suspended planters now pop against Milkbox's vibrantly chilly "waterfall" blue. Handmade clay zellige tiles line Pigtrain's new horseshoe-shaped bar and the wall behind it, above which hangs an updated menu board listing espresso drinks, pourovers and specialty beverages such as horchata latte and seasonal pumpkin spice.

La Maison Champs-Élysées sits quietly within Paris' Golden Triangle, yet inside it unfolds as one of the city's most ambitious design statements. Fifty-seven rooms carry the hotel's identity, with seventeen "Couture Collection" suites serving as Maison Margiela 's first complete interior project. The house's codes are woven through every corridor and chamber, creating an environment where the boundaries between fashion, art, and architecture dissolve.

To start, Danielle dives into some of the history of French design style. Emperor Napoleon III kicked off an initiative to transform the city, she says, resulting in the gorgeous, uniform exteriors and other charming details we've come to associate with Parisian architecture, like wrought iron balconies and high ceilings. Inside, we often see design features like ornate moldings, parquet floors, and marble fireplaces.

Last night, Tory Burch and Architectural Digest's global editorial director, Amy Astley, welcomed friends and creatives to the Tory Burch boutique in downtown New York to toast the launch of AD at Home. Published by Rizzoli, the book spotlights residences selected from Astley's near decade at the helm of AD, celebrating the personality-filled private worlds of designers, architects, actors, artists, and others—including the impeccably tailored Southampton home of Burch herself, who Astley called one of her biggest style inspirations.

Saint Laurent has renovated its boutique in Milan with works by local artists and designers, including Gaetano Pesce and Gio Ponti. Reopening on September 20th, 2025, the retail store at Via Montenapoleone, 8, introduces a third floor for the menswear collection, which was not present in the previous interiors. Colors, materials, and textures rooted in Parisian and Milanese designs harmonize inside the space.

If you've ever wanted to peek inside a celebrity-designed New York apartment, here's your chance. The eighth annual Real Simple Home has opened in Lower Manhattan and for the first time it spans not one but two units: a sprawling four-bedroom penthouse with a 1,500-square-foot terrace and a two-bedroom "DIY Annex." Together, they showcase 14 distinct spaces created by a team of top designers, influencers and-headlining this year-Drew Barrymore.

The NYC Home Pros who have joined Brownstoner recently offer a wide variety of services, including architecture, lighting, and home security. Photo by Susan De Vries by Cate Corcoran The NYC Home Pros who have joined Brownstoner recently include architects, interior designers, and real estate agents. Whether your living room needs painting, you're preparing for a full gut renovation, or you're putting your house on the market, there's a Home Pro who can help.

"Hopefully it looks smaller on the outside than it feels on the inside," I thought as I walked up to the front door of my home for the next two nights. In 2021, I took a trip to Miami and stayed in a 250-square-foot tiny home I found on Airbnb for about $100 a night. It was my first time staying in one, and I figured I'd find the space uncomfortably small for more than a couple of nights.

New American Voices is AD's annual list spotlighting the most important emerging names in interior design. For our AD PRO readers, we're pulling back the curtain to see how these talents (comprising nine designers and seven firms) got to where they are today. Their paths vary widely-some trained in formal design programs, others took less traditional routes-but together they offer a candid look at the realities of building a practice.