Indholdsfortegnelse for November 2025 i Architectural Digest

He won’t stop until everything is perfect. And anything I can think of, he can execute.—Zooey Deschanel on her fiancé, Jonathan Scott This issue—themed “reinventing tradition”—is packed with ultra-creative couples who forged very intentional paths in realizing their personal domestic paradises. Take actor and musician Zooey Deschanel, who met her decorating match in Jonathan Scott, one half of the HGTV-famous Property Brothers. For their maximalist New York City duplex, the pair specified “nothing modern” to their decorator, Young Huh, and the trio ran with it, nailing old-world ambience surreptitiously melded with cutting-edge smart-home technology. The 17th-century Tuscan farmhouse on our cover represents the very specific and exploratory vision of designer Harry Nuriev and Tyler Billinger, his life partner and CMO of the firm Crosby Studios. Nuriev, a kind of thoughtful…

When the young paint brand Backdrop joined the F. Schumacher & Co. family in 2021, it immediately caught the design world’s attention. Backdrop was marketing to millennials with a tightly edited palette as the antidote to wall-color decision fatigue; Schumacher, a revered fabric house, was over 130 years old, with an eye for fresh talent. Theirs was a match made in pattern heaven—the former bringing its edgy young consumers to the table, the latter opening up a whole new world with its unrivaled library of swatches. In no time, Backdrop creative director Natalie Ebel found herself rapt by Schumacher’s overflowing archives, stored in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Now the results of her visits are unveiled: a wallpaper collection that marries contemporary flavor with historic designs. “It came together organically,” Ebel…

It was a century ago that the Art Deco style captured the world’s imagination at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes—an ambitious event, organized by the French government, to introduce contemporary European architecture, craft, and design to global audiences. Spanning the Seine, from Les Invalides on the Left Bank to the Grand Palais on the Right, a series of purpose-built pavilions showcased the work of leading lights such as Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Pierre Chareau, and Van Cleef & Arpels, which took home a Grand Prize for its extraordinary feats of savoir faire on display. Also in attendance were Prince and Princess Asaka of Japan, two design-savvy royals who, upon returning to Tokyo after their yearslong Paris stint, tapped decorator Henri Rapin to outfit their home in the…

In the 1950s, Danish design legend Arne Jacobsen began an investigation into molded plywood. His American peers, Charles and Ray Eames, had already been experimenting with the technique, and he wondered how he might put his own twist on the material of the moment, where thin layers of veneer were glued together and molded into sculptural forms. Several icons would be born out of these trials, undertaken with manufacturer Fritz Hansen—there was the 1952 Ant chair, the brand’s first try at joining seat and back in one piece, and then, in 1955, the model 3107, a.k.a. the Series 7. (Danes call it “the Sevener.”) The legendary seat, often likened to a butterfly or a stretched-out heart, is made from nine layers of thin wood that are hand-matched, pressed, and sanded…

It comes as no surprise that Gio Ponti, the 20th-century Italian design maestro, showed an early interest in painting before pursuing his studies in architecture. Artistry is the through line that connects the Milanese polymath’s extraordinary oeuvre, encompassing skyscrapers, houses, interiors, furniture, fabrics, industrial design, and signature creations in wood, metal, glass, and ceramics. This fall, Molteni&C expands its collaboration with the Gio Ponti Archives by debuting a collection of eight objects originally designed in the 1950s and refined in the following decades as new editions were released. The collection encapsulates Ponti’s pioneering approach to design, reimagining form, craft, and space in an effort to ennoble the rituals of everyday life. In the words of Salvatore Licitra, the architect’s grandson and founder of the Gio Ponti Archives, the pieces are…

FOLK LURE Country motifs in blue-and-white palettes put a fresh spin on classic Americana LIFE OF THE PARTY Punch it up, don’t play it safe, with candy hues, playful patterns, and bulbous silhouettes ITALIAN TRANSLATION Graphic stones, retro colors, and gleaming accents channel timeless Milanese glamour…

When designer Ellen Van Dusen renovated her Brooklyn town house in 2018, she didn’t have to look far to find a couple of trustworthy tenants: her brothers, Dave and Henry. “We borrow spices from each other all the time,” says the founder of home goods line Dusen Dusen. So when she set out to buy a country house, the solution came easily. Why not make it a family affair? All three fell for a funky Sullivan County cabin, hand-built over decades by the postwar artist and textile designer Anthony Ballatore, whose nature-inspired fabrics for Jack Lenor Larsen can be found in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt. Ballatore felt like a kindred soul for Ellen, herself known for light-hearted patterns. “We all immediately knew it was the one,” she says…

At and Beyond’s new Suyian Lodge, in central Kenya, the 14 separately sited suites extend along a ridge above the Laikipia plains. Each one consists of a series of cylindrical, domed rooms, their curved exteriors clad with local stone and their earthen roofs formed from the surrounding soil. Inside, through the arched doorways, the walls are coated in lime plaster. This mix of brown and blond tones is purposeful, meant not only to dissolve the buildings into the natural landscape but also to recall the piebald coat of the endangered African wild dog, one of the species that inhabit the area. In fact, suyian means wild dog in Maa, a language spoken by the Maasai, Samburu, and other regional groups, and it provides the name for both the lodge and…

A common refrain about Milan is that its true beauty lies hidden behind closed doors—in manicured courtyards, art-filled private palazzi, and those marble-lined entryways for which the city is famous. In crafting a pied-à-terre for two former Hollywood executives, designers Fanny Bauer Grung and David López Quincoces of Studio Dragó (formerly Quincoces-Dragó Partners) took that idea indoors, creating a versatile apartment that, as Bauer Grung puts it, lives a “double life.” Before Italy, Adam Sanderson and Rich Ross’s story began in New York, where the couple met while both working in media. After 35 years and a relocation to Los Angeles, “we are squarely in the next chapter,” explains Sanderson, who fell in love with Italy after enrolling in an immersive language class in Bologna, which led to an extended…

A CONVERSATION WITH decorative artist Mike Diaz careens from Mexican Baroque and Art Deco, to Japanese Mingei folk art, and on to ancient Rome, with a stop in Bolivia for a survey on the Neo-Andean architecture movement. Recently, from the comfort of the Mexico City apartment that he shares with his wife, Maria Videl, and their chihuahua, Luigi, he’s been lauding the virtues of Georgian classicism—especially the stately homes of 18th-century British architect William Kent. Diaz’s encyclopedic design knowledge comes from avid travel, infectious passion, and a keen eye that expresses itself in his idiosyncratic furniture designs. His disparate and devoted clientele includes designers David Netto, Pamela Shamshiri, Fern Santini, and Alex Papachristidis. Tastemaking photographer Douglas Friedman has 10 Diaz pieces. Design enthusiast Kevin Kwan, the best-selling novelist of the…

Mama Earth has long been a muse to Chris Wolston, who mines the tropical flora in and around his adopted hometown of Medellín, Colombia, for inspiration. And in this new table, the artist-designer melds immediate botanical references with floral allusions to the past. Gerbera daisies from his local flower market have given way to a blanket of bronze blooms, the tapered silhouette an homage to Eero Saarinen’s Tulip series. “I wanted to take this icon of modernism and explode it into a radical exploration of decorative motif,” Wolston reflects of the piece—a standout from his latest show, “Gilding the Lily,” at The Future Perfect gallery in New York City. He cites the Art Nouveau movement as a conceptual through line for the wide-ranging works on display. “It’s extreme aesthetic embellishment…