Architectural Digest January 2022

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Storytelling is at the heart of every memorable interior and certainly sits at the heart of AD. Our editorial team works tirelessly for months (even years!) in advance to secure spectacular spaces for our annual AD100 issue. The goal? To ensure that we deliver all the dazzle readers rightfully expect from the world’s most exciting design talents. Every project featured this month is the creation of a person or firm honored this year, and each weaves its own tale. Some are the brain-child of names long familiar to “the list,” such as the power triumvirate of architect Annabelle Selldorf, landscape designer Madison Cox, and interior designer Jeffrey Bilhuber, jointly responsible for a singular residence in the desert in Marfa, Texas, for a particularly discerning couple. Others are by more recent additions…

After Italian designer Joe Colombo visited a shipyard in 1963 that made fiberglass hulls for boats, inspiration struck: Why not use that same hand-molding technique for the base of a chair? The results—a roomy, futuristic armchair in which seven detachable cushions hook into a molded plastic shell on a rotating base—would become an icon. He named it after his wife, Elda. Colombo moved a white fiberglass and black leather model—produced by Italian brand Comfort in 1965—into his own Milan apartment. And soon, after the design debuted at the Eurodomus 1 fair in Genoa, others followed suit. The strange chair (further documented in Joe Colombo: Designer, a new publication by Artbook) captured the 1960s space-age sensibility of fashion designers like Paco Rabanne and Pierre Cardin, and was on its way to the…

A residential concept for retail space may not seem like a new idea today as mega-brands settle into domiciles worldwide. But when AD100 inductee Rayman Boozer first opened his beloved Manhattan boutique, Apartment 48, in 1994, his approach was groundbreaking. Tucked on the garden level of a town house at 48 West 17th Street, the shop unfolded in a warren of rooms, with every corner (kitchen, bath, bed) outfitted as if inhabited. For Boozer, who had studied interior design at Indiana University before moving to New York to work for the likes of Saks Fifth Avenue and Bloomingdale’s, Apartment 48 was more than a chance to push products. It was a chance to push his point of view. “I was trying to find a way to express all my ideas…

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“Every landscape should look different,” says New Yorker Sara Zewde, deemed a 2021 Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York. Her work resists similitude down to the simplest things: “Why can’t we rethink what a curb looks like?” she wonders. Her projects, which hang somewhere between urban planning and landscape design, aim to “create enduring places where people belong.” They include the evolution of Graffiti Pier, a beloved (and much-Instagrammed) street-art landmark in Philadelphia and the winning design (with fellow AD100 honoree Sir David Adjaye) to redevelop part of the Kingsboro Psychiatric Center campus in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, which will include affordable housing and a range of public spaces for the community. Zewde, who has researched—and lectured on at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design—Frederick Law Olmsted’s…