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.

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Bare Bones • Elsa Peretti’s candlesticks, a nod to simple, organic forms, still light our fire

Fortune Favors the Bold • For designer Alexis Tompkins of Chroma and her young family, an unlikely San Francisco listing was the key to indoor-outdoor bliss

Elements of Style • Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry celebrate 10 years of artistic exploration at Hermès

New Translation • Demisch Danant revisits wonders of postwar France at a historic Brooklyn home

Resting Up • Reimagining an archival treasure, Louis Vuitton puts its signature soigné stamp on the fine art of sleep

Ready to Ware • Fashion’s latest runway moments strut their stuff home

Travel Log • Banana Republic’s updated Manhattan flagship celebrates the wider world

Pride of Place • Lucía Echavarría puts age-old Colombian craft to bold use

Driving Force • Channeling the beauty of cars, Ralph Lauren unveils furnishings for the fast lane

Calm, Cool, Collected • Designer Julie Hillman transforms her workspace in a Manhattan brownstone into a creative crucible

FOLLOW THE RAINBOW • Expert craft, rich materiality, dynamic forms—the AD100 firm Workstead is known for many things. But color? Not so much. That changes now with the addition of six vivid hues to its lighting line, among them a deep red reminiscent of heirloom tomatoes and blues that evoke sea and sky. (Shown are Bole fixtures.) Each tone, cofounder Robert Highsmith notes, “looks to the vibrancy, lightness, or depth of nature.” workstead.com

Rolling Doubles

hotels • From Fifth Avenue to the Kalahari Desert, the winners of AD’s 2024 Great Design Hotel Awards have one thing in common: accommodations so stylish we may never check out....

vibe shift • With confident vision, designer and activist Aurora James takes an ever-evolving approach to making a vintage LA house her very own

design notes • THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK

DRAMA QUEEN • Studio Shamshiri conjures an unapologetically lavish, multifunctional Greenwich Village town house for a theatrical producer and patron of the arts

happy place • With help from her friend landscape designer Miranda Brooks, novelist Plum Sykes creates a flower-filled oasis in the Cotswolds

design notes • THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK

NARRATIVE VOICE • At England’s historic Houghton Hall, a major commission marks an artistic departure for Dame Magdalene Odundo

DREAM TEAM • For one lucky family, design stars Jeremiah Brent and Athena Calderone paired up to craft a chic beach retreat in Rhode Island

PASSION PROJECT • At her home in Mumbai, Bollywood star Sonam Kapoor composes an ode to the decorative arts of India

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