Jessica Ritz

Los Angeles

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Driving around L.A. knowing I should be walking or biking. Never missing an opp for jewish guilt. Writer. Mom. Keeping up w/ @alonsomyers bread supply. she/her

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Articles

Off the Beaten Path in Japan: A Few Days in Sado Island

3 weeks ago | fathomaway.com | Jessica Ritz

Let's start with a confession. Passing through Tokyo for less than 24 hours en route to Sado Island on a first trip to Japan is like stopping in Manhattan to get to Orr's Island in Maine. A remote destination typically doesn't top new visitors' must-do lists of iconic cities, sites, and landmarks.
Tour a Netflix Executive’s Hollywood Hills Home, Defined by Low-Key Drama

4 weeks ago | architecturaldigest.com | Jessica Ritz |Jenna Peffley

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Peter Friedlander cannot help but identify analogies that connect his professional life in the entertainment industry to creating a home for himself in Hollywood. “I felt like this house was telling a fun story,” he recalls about his first encounter with the sloped hidden gem set in a hillside neighborhood.
Tour a Netflix Executive’s Hollywood Hills Home, Defined by Low-Key Drama

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jessica Ritz

Diffused light passes through the gauzy Kravet window sheers fabricated by Superior Roman Shades , which cover the glass door system in the living room. A circa 1960 Swedish totem sculpture from Eneby Home standing on a column by Panoplie punctuates the corner. Vintage French Brutalist lounge chairs are from Objet Vagabond and the 1970s Italian tripod floor lamp is from MA+39 . Wool rug is Mansour . Mills inserted ceiling beams in a recessed opening that gesture towards the outdoors.
AD PRO’s 2025 Outdoor Forecast

1 month ago | architecturaldigest.com | Jesse Dorris |Jessica Ritz |Kelly Dawson |Francesca Perry |Diana Budds |Annabel Keenan

Much like the new and expanded expectations for their home’s interiors, clients are calling on their outdoor spaces to perform more functions than ever before, from a second living room to a party pad to a hydrotherapy spa. In response, designers are eagerly taking up the challenge, crafting backyards, gardens, terraces, and pool decks that can satisfy diverse needs without sacrificing aesthetics.
Tour an Architect and Designer’s Playful Home and Studio

1 month ago | architecturaldigest.com | Jessica Ritz |Laure Joliet

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. What Laurel Consuelo Broughton describes as originally “a funny property” shoulders quite a few serious topics.
Tour an Architect and Designer’s Playful Home and Studio

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jessica Ritz

The kitchen and dining area is a warm, personal space, where the relationship to the outdoors and the scale of the window bays also evoke a big enclosed porch. The Eames chairs at the Welcome Projects’ practical Slipper Table with chamfered corners belonged to Broughton’s grandmother. Broughton designed bubbly round pink throw pillows in Maharam fabric to join blue poufs by Schoolhouse on the custom banquette cushions upholstered in blue Sunbrella nautical awning fabric.
This Couple Was Tired of the All-White Home Look. Was Wood Paneling the Right Move?

1 month ago | wsj.com | Jessica Ritz

What happens when you’re eager to escape conformity but don’t know what you want instead? That dilemma confronted a Newport Beach, Calif., couple who raised their children in a conventional home and craved a change. Its look-alike blue-and-white decor—the Coastal California style—had dominated interior design in the area for 20 years. A by-the-numbers beach bungalow here. A same-old-same-old Cape Cod revival there.
How to Upgrade a Former Airbnb

2 months ago | palmspringslife.com | Jessica Ritz

We hear plenty of stories about home renovations gone bad but few like the winsome transformation of a Deepwell Estates short-term rental property: The makeover turned out so good that the owner put aside his plans to tap the vacation market and moved into the house full-time. “The caliber of the final house is such that he wouldn’t want to rent it,” architectural designer Duane Smith of design/build firm Hundred Mile House says of the three-bedroom, three-bathroom home.
Terry Pillow’s Homer Maker: A Legacy of Craftsmanship and American Heritage — Santa Barbara Magazine

Jan 20, 2025 | sbmag.com | Jessica Ritz

Industry veteran Terry Pillow honors a family legacy with Homer Maker Written by Jessica RitzPhotographs by Dewey NicksAfter decades of shaping other brands’ narratives, Terry Pillow is ready to share his own story. The fashion veteran has also learned that work-free retirement is not for him. “I had to do something,” says the Montecito resident, who stepped down as CEO of Tommy Bahama in 2016.
This Altadena Bungalow Is a Love Letter to Production Design and Americana

Jan 2, 2025 | architecturaldigest.com | Jessica Ritz

If chefs are known to elevate their favorite comfort foods, interior designer Grant Rickard accomplished a parallel feat in his home pulling from a different medium. Over the several-year-long process of transforming the 1938 Colonial Revival bungalow he shares with his husband, Michael Burton, this former unscripted television producer and pop culture buff turned to certain touchstones referencing Midwestern nostalgia and beloved movies and TV shows.