The AD100 for this year has arrived – and this is the list of the Top United States Interior Designers! At AD, architects and designers are constantly celebrated—they are rock stars—but they do so with a particular intention in their annual AD100 2023 issue, which includes their much-anticipated list of the world’s most exciting talents. Let’s discover more about them.
Top United States Interior Designers
Apartment 48
From 1994 to 2008, he did so from his famed New York City store, Apartment 48, where he piled home items into a fictitious residence long before it was the norm. Rayman Boozer informs AD that he is all about “putting nice vibrations out there in the world.” When loyal customers turned into loving customers, Boozer transitioned from running a shop to decorating. His first project, for example, was a 14th Street studio for a fan of Apartment 48. Since then, he has created unhurried, self-assured spaces brimming with a colour, pattern, and an unforced air of joy—spaces that, in a word, make you grin.
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Ash
When they transformed a landmarked strip club and brothel in Providence, Rhode Island into The Dean, they not only captured the attention of the design community, but they also created a template that could be “redesigned and duplicated” all over the country, as Will Cooper puts it. In 2018, they transformed a 19th-century church in New Orleans into Hôtel Peter & Paul and downtown Detroit’s historic Wurlitzer Building into The Siren. But that’s not all. Ash also owns a luxury staging company and designs furniture and home furnishings. According to Cooper, our design work is based on the structure, the area, and the location.
Ashe Leandro
“It’s just all about texture,” Reinaldo Leandro once said, “we never use patterns, wallpapers, or fabrics.” That is just one of many guiding ideas that have helped him and his collaborator Ariel Ashe define their aesthetic since their New York City debut in 2008. Leandro, from Venezuela, and Ashe, from New Mexico, who began her career as a set designer for Saturday Night Live, are all about cosy luxury. Over the last ten years, they have built opulent mansions for celebrities such as Seth Meyers, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Rashid Johnson.
Billy Cotton
Billy Cotton began his architectural career at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, where he discovered an aptitude for traditional industrial skills. His new Brooklyn-based firm specialises in design, architecture, lighting, and furniture. This multidisciplinary approach has evolved into a signature style and ethos through the creation of highly customised rooms that embrace the mix-and-match concept. It’s possible that this is why he’s become a go-to for notable art world figures such as Lisa Yuskavage, Matvey Levenstein, Cindy Sherman, Carol Bove, and Gordon Terry. Billy Cotton’s monograph will be published by Rizzoli in 2022.
Carlos Mota Inc.
Carlos Mota, a well-known stylist, creative consultant, and longtime global style editor at AD, has embarked on a broad creative path that has organically prepared him to take on the role of interior designer in recent years. Beige Is Not a Color (Vendome Press, 2019) has become something of a rallying cry for aesthetes tired of plain decor. He even designed a breathtaking scenery wall covering for Pierre Frey. (Mota released G: Forever Green, a colourful sequel, this year.) His Casamota collection will soon be expanded with new textiles and dinnerware.
Corey Damen Jenkins & Associates
Corey Damen Jenkins’ success story was scripted for television: He went door-to-door in Michigan during the 2009 recession and got his first job. “I physically knocked on 779 doors in the dead of winter,” the Detroit native told AD in 2021 when he made his debut on the AD100 list. After submitting the finished images to his website, where viewers chose him as the winner of the network’s design competition series, he was hired by HGTV. Now, the interior designer creates spaces for vivacious living, with a magpie mix of seductive colours and whimsical patterns. He calls his design concept “new maximalist” and calls it “a bold, continental combination of beauty and modernism.”
Dan Fink Studio
Dan Fink strives to create spaces that reflect the beauty and harmony of the natural world, whether he’s building an Art Deco-influenced classic car garage turned man cave in Los Angeles or a new lounge bathed in sunlight for the dancers of New York’s American Ballet Theatre. Fink has recently incorporated French flair for residences at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, as well as freshness and light for a VC fund’s Miami headquarters. Among Fink’s other projects are a massive country mansion in Connecticut (designed by RAMSA) and an artist’s seaside retreat in the Long Island, New York town of Bellport. His husband, designer Thomas O’Brien, also lives in the area.
David Kleinberg Design Associates
David Kleinberg is a skilled traditional decorator and a master of colour, texture, size, and detail. Furthermore, he is a firm believer in Billy Baldwin’s dictum that “suitability always triumphs over fashion.” After honing his vision at the prestigious firms Denning & Fourcade and Parish-Hadley, Kleinberg established his own Manhattan practice in 1997. In projects all over the world, his one-of-a-kind rooms adhere to the classic qualities of elegance, beauty, usefulness, comfort, and, most importantly, relevance to the personalities of the owners. Kleinberg’s sophisticated taste has been applied to a variety of settings, from a historic Beverly Hills home to a superyacht being built in Europe. All of these spaces are linked by a sophistication and spirit that is in sync with the pace of modern life.
Elizabeth Roberts Architects
As images of marital bliss in New York City have evolved from uptown penthouses to Brooklyn brownstones, few have contributed as much to the definition of that dream as Elizabeth Roberts. Because of her innovative space design, show-stopping kitchens, and thoughtful material selections, the architect has developed a cult following over the last 20+ years. We adore working with people who have a strong point of view in order to create eclectic environments that are never precious or faultless, but always comfortable, says the architect, whose clients include actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, model Daria Werbowy, and clothing designer Ulla Johnson.
Gachot
When designing the Shinola Hotel in Detroit, Marc Jacobs’ West Village townhouse, and Glossier’s SoHo flagship, husband and wife design team John and Christine Gachot honed their sense of warm minimalism with a touch of theatricality. “Gachot develops work with a refined aesthetic and radical sense of place by fusing timeless craft with contemporary technology,” according to the studio’s website. Their own homes include a Shelter Island colonial and the former home and studio of architect Paul Rudolph in Midtown Manhattan, both of which feature this intriguingly contradictory design.
Green River Project
Green River Project, based in New York, was founded in 2017 by designer Aaron Aujla and architect Ben Bloomstein. “We will always refer to artist-made homes,” Aujla says. Before joining forces, they had previously collaborated with painters Nate Lowman and Robert Gober. What began as story-driven furniture collections that prioritised unfinished materials like unfinished mahogany, lauan, and bamboo stained with coffee and dried tobacco leaves quickly evolved into a full-fledged interior practice that specialised in the kinds of wood-focused interiors that are becoming increasingly popular around the world.
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