Sara Mathers

Dec 9, 2024 | architecturaldigest.com | Busola Evans |Simon Upton |Sara Mathers

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. If the ability to shape-shift is one of the true superpowers of an accomplished designer, then underestimate Beata Heuman at your peril. The Swedish-born, London-based AD100 talent is well-known for her delicious designs emboldened with captivating color, a masterful mesh of furnishings, and a smattering of whimsy.

Nov 15, 2024 | architecturaldigest.com | Plum Sykes |Simon Upton |Sara Mathers

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. One of the most romantic town houses in London—the kind that resembles an aristocratic dwelling straight out of a Jane Austen novel—stands solemnly on a sun-dappled corner of Cheyne Walk overlooking the glittering River Thames.

Jan 10, 2024 | architecturaldigest.com | Hannah Martin |Kate Martin |Sara Mathers

“I like things to feel homey and comfortable,” says Laura de Gunzburg, an arts and cultural programs consultant, curled up on her vintage leather sofa, sipping tea. It’s a dreary day in early November, and the trees out the window in London’s Regent’s Park are turning yellow.

Oct 9, 2023 | architecturaldigest.com | Sam Cochran |James McDonald |James Mcdonald |Sara Mathers

There are buildings that loom as large as in our imaginations as they do on the skyline. For Bryan O’Sullivan, The Barbican has been that landmark. “Ever since I was a student I’ve been obsessed,” the designer says of the London icon: a cluster of Brutalist beauties by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon that date to the 1960s and ’70s. Visible from far and wide, its three towers transfixed the budding aesthete when he first moved to the city from Ireland.

Sep 5, 2023 | architecturaldigest.com | Busola Evans |Simon Upton |Sara Mathers

The front door of the Victorian-era home of model, actor, and activist Adwoa Aboah, it turns out, is brilliantly deceptive. Painted a discreet black, it gives little indication of the decor behind it but suggests, perhaps, an owner with a penchant for the pared-back. Step into the entry hall, however, and that is all subterfuge.