Indholdsfortegnelse for March 2025 i Architectural Digest

“I have designed a house for the life I want to live, surrounded by things and people I love.”—Celerie Kemble I compose this letter as epic wildfires are burning, largely still uncontained, in Los Angeles. The comfort and safety of home, and the fundamental human right to shelter, loom large in my turbulent thoughts as tens of thousands of people—including many friends—have been instantaneously rendered homeless or displaced or both. The scale of loss and suffering is incomprehensible; there truly are no words. What can possibly be said at such a tragic, sensitive moment? This issue, themed “Creatives at Home,” was produced months ago, when there were indeed many horrors in the world, but not this particular one. I find great poignancy in the eloquence with which the various artistic…

JOIE DE VIVRE Pastel hues, passementerie flourishes, and decorative élan invoke the opulence of Versailles; pictured are looks from Chanel’s fall 2024 couture show in Paris. AMERICAN IDYLL Patchwork fabrics, paisley prints, and rustic craft reinvent star-spangled style; pictured are looks from Ralph Lauren’s spring 2025 show in the Hamptons. ROCKET SCIENCE Intergalactic touches, metallic marvels, and space-age forms blast off; pictured are looks from Prada’s spring 2025 show in Milan.…

Given that her latest collection for The Rug Company is called Crescendo, it’s only right to ask Kelly Wearstler what she’s listening to these days. “Oh my god, it’s all over the place,” says the AD100 Hall of Famer, pulling out her phone to jog her memory before rattling off the names of favorite artists: “Kelsey Lu, Jon Batiste, Air, Kendrick Lamar, Beach House.” In Wearstler’s world, there’s always a soundtrack. She makes a playlist for every city she regularly visits; her sons are in a band; and tunes are always on at her Los Angeles studio. Spanning six new designs, Wearstler’s 10th line for The Rug Company translates sound into textile form. Consider Arwen’s alternating high and low piles reverb, Runa’s repetitive gestures a chorus, and Elowen’s linear motif…

The phrase “ancestral home” typically evokes images of romantic dwellings in faraway lands—a sprawling English country manor, an antiquated Italian palazzo, a fabulous Russian dacha. But as Neda Kakhsaz and Zabie Mustafa can ably attest, a true ancestral home need not stretch back multiple generations and centuries. In fact, any home that stores collective memories and honors the lives, spirit, and cultures of one’s forebears qualifies as ancestral. Even a humble midcentury house located in the suburban sprawl of Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley can—and does—fit the bill. A few years ago, Kakhsaz and Mustafa, husband-and-wife partners in the emerging design firm Studio MUKA, found themselves at a personal crossroads, facing the challenge of what to do with the childhood home formerly occupied by Kakhsaz’s late father and mother. “We…

When the French architect and designer Pierre Chareau conceived Maison de Verre in 1928 for the Parisian Dr. Dalsace and his wife, the home’s glass-block façade, which allowed light to pour in by day and glow from within at night, was radically modern. At that time, Saint-Gobain, which produced the vitreous bricks, couldn’t even guarantee that the still-new building material was weatherproof. But nearly a century later the house—and its namesake verre—has shown its staying power in more ways than one. The earliest examples of glass blocks—sometimes called glass lenses—were actually a quite artisanal product. Handmade from blown glass, the varieties that emerged in the late 1800s were praised for their ability to regulate climate, fend off moisture, and create privacy without eliminating light. Ripe with industrial potential, the hollow…

For as long as Aerin Lauder can remember, flowers have been a source of inspiration—from the calla lilies and tuberose favored by her trailblazing beauty-mogul grandmother, Estée, to the potted geraniums beloved by her mother, Jo Carole. Today, botanicals real and depicted continue to enrich the tastemaker’s everyday life. Maybe she’ll clip monochromatic bouquets from her all-white cutting garden, a fairy-tale landscape brimming with peonies, delphinium, roses, and more; or cluster red dahlias, anemones, and Hypericum berries into earthenware vases; or snip fulsome blue hydrangeas first thing in the morning. That lifelong passion reveals itself in her new book, Aerin Lauder: Living with Flowers (Rizzoli). Part entertaining guide and part grand tour, the tome pairs arranging tips with looks inside her own residences. There, florals appear as porcelain china, upholstery…

Damian and Britt Zunino, the husband-and-wife founders of the sought-after firm Studio DB, must regularly balance their respect for the history of a place with their larger aim of creating homes that reflect the people who live in them. This was especially true, and important to get right, when it came to the couple’s own Manhattan loft, where even the past was personal. Damian’s father—F. Anthony Zunino, who like his son trained as an architect—first rented space in the Renaissance Revival building, just south of Union Square, in 1970, looking for room to build inflatable vinyl furniture and enclosures. He purchased one of the full-floor units, the site of a former stuffed-animal factory, that same year. It was there that Damian grew up, amid climbing structures leading to lofts within…

These days, it’s not always enough for a house to be a home—it should feel like a sanctuary. Brigette Romanek would agree. “No matter where we are, we all need to exhale,” says the Los Angeles–based AD100 talent, a go-to pro for stars like Gwyneth Paltrow, Beyoncé, and Demi Moore. “Timeless pieces are meant to support your everyday life.” Now she’s taking this insight to a new audience, partnering with Crate & Barrel on a 54-piece collection conceived for relaxation. Spanning furniture, lighting, and decorative accessories, the line of contemporary classics nods to the ambience of her California home base. “It was really about bringing together functionality, comfort, and beauty,” she explains. “Design should last. No throwaways!” Known for her eclectic approach, Romanek has mixed rich textures and neutral palettes…

Actor Walton Goggins and his wife, writer-director Nadia Conners, want to make one thing very clear about their to quit the West Coast and plant their family flag in the Hudson Valley. “We weren’t running away from Los Angeles. We were running toward something,” insists Goggins, a standout player in the third season of HBO’s The White Lotus and an actor renowned for portraying villains and antiheroes with a certain sinister silkiness. “We loved our home in LA. It’s the city where our son, Augustus, was born and raised, the city where I became the person I always wanted to be, culturally, spiritually, not just career-wise,” the Georgia-bred talent adds. Nevertheless, the siren call of the Hudson Valley would not be denied. Goggins and Conners had visited the area for…