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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Kurt Soller |Simon Upton
WHEN RAFFAELE FABRIZIO was growing up, he lived in a small village close to Lake Como called Fino Mornasco that was near the headquarters of Dedar, the Italian fabric house that his parents, Nicola and Elda, founded in 1976. Fabrizio, 55, and his sister, Caterina, 56, have spent their careers at Dedar, bringing the firm into a new era by introducing novel combinations of color, pattern and texture, attracting clients like Hermès and the movie director Luca Guadagnino.
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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.
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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.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
architecturaldigest.com | Plum Sykes |Simon Upton |Hamish Bowles
It was the ultimate gift: A few weeks before I got married in 2005, Miranda Brooks offered to design my garden as a wedding present. Miranda needs little introduction: She is one of the world’s leading landscape designers and, luckily for me, she was my colleague at Vogue, where we collaborated on many stories for the magazine and had become great friends. I was thrilled, but there was a hitch—I didn’t have a garden for Miranda to design. The pressie was put on hold.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
architecturaldigest.com | Mitchell Owens |Simon Upton
To go to Houghton Hall is to experience British country house grandeur at its most powerful and luxurious: lofty halls, exuberant carvings, acres of ancestral portraits and giltwood furniture, all set in a park populated by herds of white deer. Seat of the Cholmondeley family for centuries, the Norfolk pile has also become one of the nation’s most galvanizing stages for contemporary art, thanks to David Cholmondeley, the filmmaker seventh marquess of the line, and his wife, Rose.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
newsroom.co.nz | Simon Upton
When I left New Zealand to run the OECD’s environment directorate 15 years ago, the degraded state of the rural environment was starting to become big news. Since then, these concerns have grown, as have an increasingly complex web of regulatory interventions and subsidies by governments of both colours. There has also been a gathering realisation that climate change is placing a wide range of land uses at risk. In 2024, most land users accept the need to clean up their act.
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May 22, 2024 | 
architecturaldigest.com | Jennifer Ash Rudick |Simon Upton |Filip Berdek
It's hardly news when a historic Palm Beach estate undergoes an extensive restoration, unless of course, one of the design world’s leading dignitaries is reimagining the residence as a retreat for her own family. AD100 designer Victoria Hagan and her husband, businessman Michael Berman, were looking for an airy beach house when Hagan fell for a 1920s Tudor whose hectic layout lacked finesse.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
architecturaldigest.com | Andrew Ferren |Simon Upton |Carolina Irving
When it comes to creating a dream apartment in Madrid, few designers are more qualified than Michael S. Smith. After more than a decade as a part-time resident of the city—his first home was the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Andorra, the role in which his partner, James Costos, served under President Obama—the LA-based AD100 Hall of Fame designer adores the city and knew exactly what he wanted.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
newsroom.co.nz | Simon Upton
The Resource Management Act was on the statute book for 32 years and 32 days. Its successors, the Natural and Built Environment Act and the Spatial Planning Act, survived just 123 days. While Sir Geoffrey Palmer was the architect of the Resource Management Act (RMA), it fell to me to be its enactor. Sir Geoffrey’s government ran out of time to enact his reform. The Opposition, of which I was part, agreed to carry the Bill over and enact it.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
architecturaldigest.com | Paola Singer |Simon Upton
“It felt like Trematon called us, and we had to accept the call,” says Frieda Gormley, one half of the British interiors brand House of Hackney. “We never expected to make a place like this our family home.”In a curious bit of serendipity, she and her husband, Javvy M. Royle, have become custodians of the Castle of Trematon, a storied motte-and-bailey estate built by a nobleman in 1068 and bestowed on the Duchy of Cornwall in 1337 (Prince William is Trematon’s current owner).
