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Jessica Helgerson’s aesthetic sensibility is rooted in two distinct cultures. Born to an American father and a French mother, the Portland, Oregon–based interior designer grew up spending the school year in Santa Barbara and summering in Lyon, equally immersed in California surf culture and French savoir faire. Helgerson’s dual citizenship is unambiguously reflected in the two lighting collections she has created for Roll & Hill: One, Del Playa, is named for her SoCal street, while the other, Ru…
23 days ago
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Tyler Polich and Jessica Jimenez Keenan of Years crafted the jungle sanctuary for a young family seeking a closer connection to nature Rainy season in Nosara, Costa Rica, stretches for seven months. The climate, with its inexorable humidity and salt air, wreaks havoc on building materials and quotidian staples like rugs and books. Termites and ants are constantly on the march, and the power grid occasionally goes down. Reshma Patel and her husband, Christian Rudder, a cofounder of the online dat…
29 days ago
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AD100 talent Oliver M. Furth designed the home for his glamorous client and muse As Oliver M. Furth embarked on the design of this serene Malibu villa, his client issued an evocative challenge: “I want to live inside an ancient seashell, washed up onto shore,” she told the AD100 talent. Over the course of the past 15 years, Furth and his muse (as he refers to her) have developed a shared visual language as well as a caring friendship. The Malibu property, a compact villa with a series of intimat…
about 1 month ago
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Local craftwork invokes the bohemian spirit of West Marin in this Commune Design remodel At its heart, this project is a love letter to Northern California’s West Marin region—a paean to the area’s history, landscape, craft traditions, and bohemian soul. Alex Riley, a prominent local designer and poet of organic architecture, built the original 1,000-square-foot house for himself in the 1960s. When the property changed hands in the late 1980s, Riley added a primary suite and a compact guest cott…
about 2 months ago
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To borrow a phrase from Winston Churchill, Frank Gehry and LVMH chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault enjoy a special relationship.“He knows how to work with me,” says the Pritzker Prize–winning architect and AD100 Hall of Famer. “We share a passion for classical music, he understands the creative mind, and he’s open to experimentation,” Gehry continues, summarizing a partnership that began more than two decades ago and has included the monumental Fondation Louis Vuitton art center in Paris’s Bois de…
3 months ago
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The Griselda actor worked with designer Ohara Davies-Gaetano to create an inviting home for friends and family Sofía Vergara doesn’t mince words about the condition of her palatial Beverly Park manse when she acquired the property. “There were arches on top of arches, all with columns. It felt like a castle in Transylvania,” recalls the effervescent actor-producer, currently playing against type as Colombian cocaine queenpin Griselda Blanco in the Netflix series Griselda. “But the layout was pe…
3 months ago
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Art world veterans Tobias Meyer and Mark Fletcher restore a sense of visceral allure to midcentury-modern living For as long they can remember, art world veterans Tobias Meyer and Mark Fletcher have felt California’s psychic gravitational pull. Meyer, who was born and raised in Germany, vividly recalls his father returning from a voyage to the West Coast in the 1960s, bearing record albums and tales of life in the Golden State. Fletcher was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in a hospital situated on Rout…
4 months ago
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Architect Alexander Liberman crafts a contemporary homage to classic California modernism for a young family in Venice From the beginning, there was a meeting of the minds among architect Alexander Liberman of AML Studio and his clients, television director/producer Jesse Bochco and his wife, production designer Rae Bochco. On a double lot in Venice, California, the trio envisioned a warm, expansive family home that simultaneously paid homage to the values of California midcentury-modern archite…
4 months ago
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There’s a lot going on in the petite powder room at the Melbourne headquarters of Flack Studio. The deliberately broad materials palette includes Venetian plaster, terra-cotta, aged brass, burnished stainless steel, several types of marble, and Australian blackbutt timber. “The office is a giant, three-dimensional business card,” says David Flack, founder and principal of the multidisciplinary AD100 design and architecture firm. “It’s our way of transporting people into our world.” True to that…
5 months ago
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AD100 firm Atelier AM and landscape designer Miranda Brooks deliver a master class on the twin virtues of beauty and restraint Calm is a rare commodity these days. Amid the constant barrage of images pulsing from our phones and computers, the cacophony of indignant voices shrieking across social media, and the lingering disquietude of post-pandemic life, peace and quiet have become the new currency of luxury. Alexandra and Michael Misczynski of the AD100 design firm Atelier AM are masters of cal…
5 months ago
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The quiet and sophisticated home is the abode of designer Jeff Andrews For anyone designing their own home—and particularly for a professional interior designer—the process invariably presents an opportunity to reassess what inspires you, what you desire, and on some fundamental level, who you are. “I was more adventurous with color and pattern in past homes, but I wanted this place to be more subtle. Something a bit quieter and more sophisticated felt right for where I am in my life right now,”…
6 months ago
