Mayer Rus

The design couple offers architectural, interior design, and landscape services in Los Angeles, California

Rooted in multiculturalism, the duo honors Western and Eastern ideologies in their Los Angeles practice

Ahead of David Wiseman’s Salon 94 Design show, AD’s West Coast editor warms up to the communal vibe of the artist’s fireside hangout

Designer Rodman Primack and homeowner Anne Crawford, both fifth-generation Californians, craft a tribute to their home state Is it possible to look forward and backward at the same time? Judging by the unabashedly romantic, idiosyncratic home of Anne Crawford and Dudley DeZonia, the idea of reaching for the past while keeping an eye on the future is not only possible but, in this case, preferable. The couple’s historic Ojai refuge makes an eloquent case for the inspired coalescence of nostalgia…

This is an edition of The Source newsletter, AD PRO’s essential read for design industry professionals. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. For this week’s edition of The Source, we’re returning to West Coast editor Mayer Rus for another dispatch. Below, Rus gives us the insider’s take on LA’s newest hotspot, Melrose Hill, which is home to a brood of hip new galleries, eateries, and other places to see and be seen. —Lila Allen, Senior Editor, AD PRO Melrose Thrill For anyone who di…

The Italian phenom transforms a Silver Lake home into a showstopping salon Just as Athena sprang from the head of Zeus completely grown and armed, Giampiero Tagliaferri has emerged on the international design scene as a full-fledged phenomenon—an instant superstar leading a team of 10 from his twin offices in Los Angeles and Milan. Barely two years since the launch of his namesake practice, the dashing Italian-born talent already boasts a roster of major architecture and interior design projects…

This is an edition of The Source newsletter, AD PRO’s essential read for design industry professionals. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. For this week’s edition of The Source, we’re turning to one of our own colleagues, the ever-charismatic Mayer Rus. As AD’s West Coast editor, Rus is hip to all the new goings-on in art, design, and culture along the Pacific Coast—and, lucky for us, is always game to share his intel. Here, Rus riffs on how L.A.’s prized design galleries are break…

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…

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…

Tour the Ojai, California, Home of an LA Design Star

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…

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…

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…

“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them,” Sylvia Plath wrote in The Bell Jar. Granted the writer was hardly the Gwyneth Paltrow of her day, but in this case her wellness tip bears out—a good bath is indeed good for the soul. Just ask Ashley Hicks, the puckish designer, artist, and son of the legendary arbiter elegantiae David Hicks. At his home in Oxfordshire, England, hard by the famous garden his father cultivated on the family’s country estate, H…

Jane Keltner de Valle and AD100 designer Giancarlo Valle breathe new life into the charming 1863 house The august English writer and critic Samuel Johnson once opined, “The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.” Johnson’s maxim finds eloquent expression in the captivating Connecticut home of Jane Keltner de Valle, cofounder of children’s skin care line Paloroma (and AD’s former style director), and her husband, AD100 designer Giancarlo Val…

AD100 designer Oliver M. Furth and his partner Sean Yashar pushed for a space that is both livable and visually dazzling

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The superstar couple hired AD100 designer Jake Arnold to help craft the luminous Beverly Hills property

AD100 designer William Sofield and furniture maven Dennis Anderson have embraced the challenges of decorating the remote home

The Stranger Things actor and British singer-actor created a family oasis with AD100 designer Billy Cotton and architect Ben Bischoff of MADE