Architectural Digest at 100: A Century of Style

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The house feels playful—it has a sense of humor,” interior designer Muriel Brandolini said to AD of her family’s Hamptons home in the April 2014 issue. The fact that photographer Kelly Klein’s home betrays more than a trace of minimalist chic shouldn't come as any huge surprise.

Making AD at 100: A Century of Style—featuring so many of the house-proud, design-savvy stars and tastemakers who have welcomed AD into their private realms over the years—was truly a labor of love for all of us here. 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.

Sometime in the mid–17th century, the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal wrote, “The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he cannot stay quietly in his room. The entire space, which exists within the Atlanta home of James and Sandy Cape, was designed and renovated by Thomas Britt. 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.

For design enthusiasts, it’s the Alessi tea kettle with bird whistle, famously designed by Michael Graves, that likely makes this image worthy of a double take.Lockdown downtime is simultaneously a blessing and a curse: Suddenly, we have the time to tackle all of those pesky home projects yet somehow that to-do list has quadrupled.

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. As California became a crucible for the nascent modernist movement, and streamlined houses of glass and steel rose up beside Cotswolds cottages and French châteaux, AD began to revel in the heterogeneity of the Golden State’s landscape. The ease of artist Ruth Asawa’s delicate wire sculptures belie the trials their maker endured to create them.Brimming with stunning images and rich international inspirations, this unparalleled compendium of global interiors is a must for every library of interior design. This is the quintessential book on urban planning, which you may not have read since architecture school. An August 2012 Architectural Digest article, written by William Norwich and produced by Carlos Mota, visited Kelly at her then-new Palm Beach, Florida, home.

That groundbreaking society would grow to include Rose Tarlow, Kalef Alaton, Steve Chase, Michael Taylor, Anthony Hail, and Sally Sirkin Lewis. From the get-go, she makes clear that flower arranging is more an emotive art than an exercise in prescriptive rule-following. Quincy Jones home of Los Angeles gallerist Shulamit Nazarian, she knew it was all about creating a space that was more comfortable for its homeowner. To help further illustrate the multi-page spread, images of enviable kitchens were liberally interspersed.Pimentel-Reid’s own work as a designer, shown at the end of the book, showcases his range and talent for putting color and antiques to use in striking ways. For more than three decades, interiors house Liaigre has defined modern French design through its sultry material palette, generous proportions, and—most notably—exquisitely crafted furniture for a client list including Larry Gagosian, Calvin Klein, and Ian Schrager. But their artistry actually goes beyond their buildings—in fact, such skill is in play well before a cornerstone is laid. I’ve been creating work that is about speaking to a much larger world,” David Wiseman told AD PRO in July 2019. While the book will load you up with insights on flower varieties, vases to use, and color theories to keep in mind when arranging, it will more broadly teach you “how to see flowers,” as Geall herself puts it.