The 2026 AD100 is here—browse the full list of honorees below. These 100 creatives represent today’s top talents in interior design, architecture, and landscape design. Also explore the Hall of Fame and get to know the debut designers.
Location: New York, NY; Frankfurt, Germany
Highlight: Debuted the design of Kelly Klein’s Hamptons home in AD’s September 2025 issue. Signature: Innovative architectural designs informed by context, site, and homeowners.
Location: Mexico City, Mexico; New York, NY
Signature: “A punk twist on prep.” Highlight: Launching AGO Hogar, an inaugural collection of home accessories. In the works: Homes in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
Location: New York, NY
Philosophy: “Edited, polished, and academic.” Highlight: Her own family’s Upper East Side home was featured in AD’s February 2025 issue. In the works: A home collection for a major fashion brand.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
In the works: Interiors for two duplex offices and two historic town houses, all in San Francisco. Philosophy: “Historically minded and research-oriented portraiture.”
Location: New York, NY
Signature: Design led by instinct, honesty, and humor. In the works: A ground-up home in San Diego with Legorreta Architects and a ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with AD100 Olson Kundig.
Location: Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY
In the works: A new monograph with Rizzoli; interiors for homes in Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York. Signature: Thoughtful interiors that capture both American and European sensibilities.
Location: London, UK
Products: New fabrics, furniture, hardware, lighting, linens, and rugs; wall coverings for de Gournay; a paint collection for Mylands. In the works: Interiors for homes in Boston, Istanbul, London, Los Angeles, and Scotland.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Highlight: The studio’s transformation of a midcentury house by a Frank Lloyd Wright protégé was featured in AD’s July/August 2025 issue. In the works: Homes in California and a new café and masterplan for LA’s Institute of Contemporary Art.
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark; London, UK; Brooklyn, NY; Shanghai, China; Barcelona, Spain; Los Angeles, CA; Oslo, Norway; Zurich, Switzerland; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Philosophy: “Hedonistic sustainability.” In the works: An airport and masterplan in Bhutan; a ballpark in Las Vegas; a park in Connecticut; hospitality projects in Japan and Marfa; and the National Juneteenth Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.
Location: New York, NY
Products: A collection of fabrics, furniture, lighting, and wallpaper for Soane Britain. In the works: Interiors for homes in San Francisco and New York. Notable clients: Lisa Yuskavage and Andy Cohen.
Location: New York, NY
Signature: Curated traditionalism. In the works: Houses in California, New York, and Florida with AD100 designers including Lily Dierkes, Markham Roberts, and Mark D. Sikes.
Location: Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY
In the works: Interiors for homes in California, Florida, New York, Beirut, and Paris, and an inaugural hotel project in Hudson, New York; set design for an opera by Camille Henrot; a first monograph.
Location: Sausalito, CA
Philosophy: “Pursuing the unexpected attitude or experience that makes a room great.” In the works: Interiors for a winery tasting room and guest quarters in Healdsburg, California, and several Bay Area homes.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Highlight: Interiors for a Pacific Palisades compound with late AD100 Hall of Fame architect Howard J. Backen. In the works: A Four Seasons hotel and residences in Colorado with AD100 firm Olson Kundig.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
In the works: Interiors for homes in California and ranches in Colorado. Products: A new tile collection with Exquisite Surfaces; fabrics with Christopher Farr Cloth and Kufri; lighting with Fernando Santangelo.
Location: New York, NY
Highlights: Premiering YouTube series Design Reimagined With Corey Damen Jenkins and publishing a second monograph with Rizzoli. Product: New lighting with Eichholtz. Philosophy: Design democracy.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
In the works: Interiors for the Hedges Inn in East Hampton and homes in Charleston, London, and Nantucket. Products: A Woodard Weave x Billy Baldwin chair collection; new lighting for Soane Britain.
Location: Milan, Italy
Philosophy: “We approach spaces as immersive narratives.” In the works: Homes in the French Riviera, London, and Milan; a hotel in Greece. Products: Collections for Yves Salomon and Bonacina.
Location: Brooklyn, NY
In the works: Elizabeth Roberts’s own home in Portugal; an upstate New York house for fashion designer Rachel Comey; a hotel in Jackson, Wyoming. Notable clients: Ulla Johnson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Athena Calderone.
Location: New York, NY
In the works: Restoring Fernando Santangelo’s own 1860 home in Uruguay, as well as interiors for houses in New York City, Montauk, and Amagansett. Product: A lighting collection for Commune.
Location: Paris, France
Signature: Classical design with a contemporary sensibility. In the works: Hotels in Mexico City and Gstaad, Switzerland; homes in Paris, Milan, New York, and Saint Barthélemy; chalets in Courchevel and Gstaad.
Location: Melbourne and Sydney, Australia
Highlight: A first monograph, Flack Studio: Interiors (Rizzoli), published in September 2025. In the works: Homes in Australia, Mexico, and the United States; hotels in Australia and New Zealand.
Location: Mexico City, Mexico; New York, NY
Philosophy: “We find significance where craft and practicality converge.” In the works: A new book with Harvard University Press; a new wing for Modern and Contemporary Art at The Met in New York City; a renovation of Paris’s Centre Pompidou.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Signature: Landscapes that explore the relationship between nature and nurture. In the works: Gardens from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Notable clients: Diplo, John Mayer, and Scout Willis.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Signature: Art-inspired interiors. In the works: A San Francisco Victorian gut renovation; interiors for an upstate New York horse farm; her own Art Deco home; a wallpaper collection.
Location: Los Angeles, CA; Milan, Italy
Philosophy: “Milanese sophistication, California modernism, and Brutalist rigor.” In the works: Homes in England, France, Italy, Korea, and the United States; a boutique hotel in Paris; a furniture collection for Minotti.
Location: New York, NY
Signature: Whimsical, romantic gardens. Highlight: A garden designed for Anu Duggal was featured in AD’s March 2025 issue. In the works: Residential landscapes in Arizona, New York, and Tennessee.
Location: New York, NY
Philosophy: “Layered, sophisticated, and comfortable.” Highlight: Supermodel Paloma Elsesser’s Brooklyn home was published in AD’s February 2025 issue. In the works: Interiors for houses in Hollywood, New Jersey, and New York.
Location: Brooklyn, NY
In the works: A passive country house in upstate New York, a pair of weekend houses in Mexico, restoration of Brooklyn’s oldest synagogue, an annex to Maryland’s Academy Art Museum.
Location: Peconic, NY
Philosophy: “Eclectic and personal, livable and lasting.” In the works: Interiors for a Fire Island home, a West Village town house, a Connecticut compound, and Martha’s Vineyard and Switzerland abodes.
Location: Burbank, CA
In the works: Home interiors across California, Texas, and Costa Rica. Product: A new lighting collection launching in fall 2026. Notable clients: Michelle Williams, Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Product: A furnishings collection for Lulu & Georgia launching in January. In the works: Interiors for California, New York, and Washington homes. Notable clients: Elizabeth Olsen and Kendall Jenner.
Location: Paris, France
Highlights: Orient Express’s inaugural Hotel La Minerva in Rome; a solo painting show at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Paris. In the works: Homes in France, Morocco, Saint Barthélemy, and Spain.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
In the works: An outdoor furniture line for West Elm; a book with Rizzoli; interiors for a boutique New Orleans hotel; a Santa Fe, New Mexico, home with AD100 Woods + Dangaran; and a London penthouse.
Location: Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY
Highlight: Winning a 2025 Emmy Award with Queer Eye. Products: Collections with Crate & Barrel, Loloi Rugs, and Paper Source. Notable clients: Ryan Murphy, Ryan Seacrest, Ellen Pompeo.
Location: Portland, OR; Paris, France
In the works: Interiors for apartments in Paris, a historic manse in Vancouver, and homes in Costa Rica and across the US. Notable clients: James Mercer of The Shins; Patrick Carney and Michelle Branch; Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam.
Location: New York, NY
Philosophy: “Elevate the everyday with drama and a heavy dose of cinema.” In the works: Interiors for homes in Chicago and New York, and a new palace wing in Saudi Arabia.
Location: Paris, France
Highlights: Designing the interior of The Chancery Rosewood hotel in London and the Le Grand Café Paris under the Grand Palais colonnades in Paris. Signature: Ornamental minimalism.
Location: New York, NY
In the works: Interiors for an Upper East Side apartment, a Greenwich Village town house, and a Hudson Valley home. Products: Furniture with Lawson Fenning; fabrics with Kufri; new wallpapers.
Location: New Rochelle, NY
Notable clients: Pia Getty, Thomas Keller, and John Mayer. In the works: An unconventional design book, a rug collection, and interiors for residences in Cape Cod and New York City.
Location: New York, NY
Philosophy: “Each room should tell its own story.” In the works: Interiors for a Tribeca duplex, a family chalet in Aspen, and town houses in the West Village and on the Upper East Side.
Location: New York, NY
Highlight: Curated art exhibition “Against Type” at Amelie du Chalard Gallery in SoHo. In the works: Interiors for California, Florida, New York, and Portugal homes; a penthouse at The Whiteley London.
Location: Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA
Highlight: Opened a San Francisco design shop. Products: Lighting with Urban Electric Co.; an indoor-outdoor collection with Perennials and Sutherland; carved stone materials with Ancient & Modern.
Location: Paris, France
In the works: Design for San Francisco’s California Academy of Studio Arts; a hotel in Italy; Hauser & Wirth’s Palo Alto gallery; and homes in France, the UK, the US, and for artist Rashid Johnson in Menorca.
Location: Paris, France
Highlight: Opened Printemps New York at One Wall Street. In the works: Interiors for Sicily’s Grand Hotel Timeo, Saint-Tropez’s Hôtel Byblos, and homes in Capri, Marbella, New York, and Paris.
Location: London, UK
Philosophy: “Always mix it up.” In the works: A design refresh of a hôtel particulier in Paris; the gut renovation of historic apartment in Madrid; interiors for a boutique hotel in Saint-Vrain, France.
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Signature: Modernist interiors guided by art and clients’ personal histories. Highlight: Designing the Kips Bay Decorator Show House New York lounge. Notable clients: Malene Barnett, H.E.R., Jonathan Groff.
Location: New York, NY
Philosophy: “Joyful, refined, and free from ostentation.” In the works: Interiors for a New York City hotel, a ski house in Colorado, and homes on Park Avenue, in upstate New York, and on Shelter Island.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Signature: Eclectic, California-casual interiors. In the works: Interiors for Quinta Brunson’s Los Angeles home and other celebrity clients in Southern California. Products: A Hudson Valley Lighting collection.
Location: New York, NY; Mexico City, Mexico; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Philosophy: “Design as protest, intimacy, and authorship.” In the works: His own showroom; collections for ABC Stone, HBF, and Super House. Notable clients: Solange Knowles and Tracee Ellis Ross.
Location: New York, NY
In the works: Furniture, lighting, and fabrics with Soane Britain; designs for a full-floor Seagram Building office, a South Carolina farm, a Rosario Candela building penthouse, and a Tennessee boathouse.
Location: Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA
Highlight: Developing—and building—modular prefabricated single-family houses in response to the Los Angeles fires. In the works: Homes across the US, in Mexico, and on Saint Barthélemy.
Location: Brooklyn, NY; Paris, France
Signature: Opulent yet livable interiors. In the works: A New York City duplex, houses in Connecticut and London, a palace in Madrid, an Upper East Side gallery, boutiques for Alaïa couture and Umit Benan.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
In the works: Interiors for a palace in Tangier; a duplex penthouse at the Plaza Hotel in New York; the largest ski-in lodge in Aspen; villas in Maui and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico; and Cindy Crawford’s Hamptons home.
Location: London, UK; New York, NY
Highlights: The studio celebrated 25 years, and founder, Brudnizki, released his first monograph, My Life in Colors (Rizzoli). Philosophy: “Beguiling interior schemes that exude conviviality, craft, and charisma.”
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Signature: Timelessly romantic gardens. Product: Launching new Catswood Design fabrics in 2026. In the works: A family farm in Texas. Notable clients: Ulla Johnson, Natalie Massenet, Tory Burch.
Location: New York, NY
In the works: Interiors for a Virginia farmhouse; a Denver mountain retreat; a historic Palm Beach abode, New York City apartments, a duplex, lofts, and a town house; and a 40,000-square-foot island compound.
Location: New York, NY
Signature: Bold color and pattern in elegant, unpretentious interiors. Notable clients: Amanda Ross Bacon and Zack Bacon, Marie-Chantal and Prince Pavlos of Greece, Ana and Henry Pincus.
Location: Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY
Highlights: Celebrated 30 years of business, and Berkus debuted new design book, Foundations (Simon & Schuster). In the works: Homes in California, Colorado, Florida, New York, and North Carolina.
Location: New York, NY
Highlights: Opened Brooklyn furniture gallery, Antiga Galleria; Neal Beckstedt’s own Sag Harbor home debuted in AD’s May 2025 issue. In the works: Home interiors in Colorado, Connecticut, and New York.
Location: Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY
Products: Collections with Dumais, House of Hackey, and Urban Electric (debuting 2026). In the works: Interiors for a 1920 home in LA’s Hancock Park and a shingle-style bluff house in the Pacific Palisades.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Highlight: Launching the Nicole Hollis Collection of furnishings. In the works: Home interiors in California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Montana, New York, Portugal, and Texas; a private jet refresh.
Location: New York, NY
Philosophy: “The goal is to create spaces that are rooted in a sense of place and reflective of the lives within them.” In the works: Interiors for homes in Brooklyn, Charleston, Sag Harbor, and New York City.
Location: Los Angeles, CA; Montecito, CA
In the works: A new studio location in Hollywood; home interiors across California, Maryland, and New York. Philosophy: “Optimistic, object-driven interiors, rooted in history but looking towards the future.”
Location: Chicago, IL; New York, NY; Seattle, WA
Highlight: Published Tom Kundig: Complete Houses (Monacelli) in October 2025. In the works: Designs for Seattle University Museum of Art, a Four Seasons hotel in Colorado, and a Raffles hotel in Los Cabos, Mexico.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Highlight: Debuted a 100-piece furniture collection for West Elm. Philosophy: “We strive for every project to feel collected, layered, and lived-in.” Notable clients: Jennifer Lopez, Kate Hudson, Dakota Johnson.
Location: Paris, France; New York, NY
In the works: An opera set in Korea; a new monograph with Rizzoli, interiors for homes in Athens, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, and San Francisco; as well as chalets in Switzerland.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Philosophy: “Good design ages well.” In the works: Interiors for a midcentury California beach house, a Vermont ski house, and a Craftsman house in Pasadena; a collection for Schoolhouse; a first monograph.
Location: New York, NY
Philosophy: “You must desire it.” In the works: Interiors for a yacht and homes in Houston and Mexico City. Products: Collections for Ballard Designs, Patterson Flynn, Schumacher, and the Lacquer Company.
Location: London, UK
Highlight: Restored Castle Howard, a Baroque palace in North Yorkshire, England, which appeared in AD’s June 2025 issue. In the works: Interiors for a Rosario Candela apartment in New York, London’s Hanover Lodge, and a Tuscan villa and hotel.
Location: London, UK; Palm Beach, FL
Highlights: Debuted a Hamptons home with AD100 architect Gil Schafer in AD’s July/August issue; opened a Palm Beach office. In the works: A book with Simon & Schuster and monograph with Rizzoli.
Location: New York, NY
Highlight: Published second book, Robert Stilin: New Work (Vendome), coauthored by AD global features director Sam Cochran, in October. In the works: Homes in Chicago, Malibu, Miami, and the Hamptons.
Location: New York, NY
In the works: Their second restaurant, Marcel, and the bakery La Mercerie Patisserie, both in partnership with Sotheby’s at the auction house's iconic Marcel Breuer-designed HQ in New York; a Montauk compound for David and Monica Zwirner; and a Japanese modernist house overlooking Mount Fuji.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Notable clients: Laura Dern, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kerry Washington. In the works: Interiors for homes in Italy, London, and Los Angeles; new collections with Ann Sacks, Crate & Barrel, Kallista, and Robern.
Location: London, UK
Highlight: Opened San Vicente West Village, a private member’s club. In the works: Interiors for historic Bay Area and London properties, a Hong Kong apartment, and a ground-up English country house.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Highlight: Launched a furnishings collection for CB2. In the works: Refurbishment of a 1930s abode in Los Angeles; redesign of a 13,000-square-foot Beverly Hills home; renovation of an Idaho summer cabin.
Location: New York, NY
In the works: Interiors for Lawson’s own modernist Connecticut house, a museum workspace in Arkansas, and homes in New York and Texas. Products: Launching “Very Ryan Lawson” collection in 2026.
Location: New York, NY
Products: Collections with Drummonds, the Lacquer Company, and Urban Electric. In the works: A third book with Rizzoli and home interiors in London, New York, Nantucket, and Greenwich, Connecticut.
Location: Brooklyn, NY
In the works: A Hudson Valley restaurant and garden dedicated to late artist Brice Marden; home renovations in Connecticut and New York. Notable clients: David Salle, Helen Marden, Mark Ronson and Grace Gummer.
Location: New York, NY
Philosophy: “Spaces should be both luxurious and personal.” In the works: Interiors for a town house in Antwerp, Belgium; an apartment in New York’s Steinway Tower; and a tasting room in Oregon wine country.
Location: New York, NY
Highlight: Launched a new firm name in December 2025. In the works: Homes in Florida, Texas, New Hampshire, and Virginia with AD100 designers including Victoria Hagan, Suzanne Kasler, and Mark D. Sikes.
Location: New York, NY
Signature: Contextually driven, layered interiors. In the works: Interiors for a Los Angeles home with AD100 studio Marmol Radziner, a 1700s house in upstate New York, and a beachfront Hamptons abode.
Location: New York, NY
In the works: Restoration of New York’s 1930 Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt House; architectural design for residences in California, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and North Carolina.
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Highlight: Little Wing Lee won the 2025 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Interior Design. Philosophy: “Style and substance work in tandem to create beautiful and functional environments.”
Location: Paris, France
In the works: A cinema in Paris, a private residence in Saint-Tropez, and hotels in the Italian cities of Portofino and Rome. Philosophy: “Layering time, texture, and influence.”
Location: Los Angeles, CA
In the works: Interiors for a hotel in Santa Barbara and homes in Aspen, Bel Air, Beverly Hills, and the West Village. Notable clients: John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, Rashida Jones, Zendaya.
Location: Paris, France; Marrakech, Morocco
In the works: Designs for the inaugural center for contemporary art in Uzbekistan and the Bus Palladium hotel in Paris. Products: Rugs with Beni and Galerie Diurne; collections with Van Rossum and Vipp.
Location: New York, NY
In the works: Homes in Baltimore, Houston, Los Angeles, São Paulo, and Shanghai; a monograph with Rizzoli; a rug collection with Nordic Knots; and Studio Mellone bespoke furniture, launching fall 2026.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Philosophy: “Layered environments where past and present coexist.” In the works: A second rug collection for Christopher Farr and home interiors in Cabo San Lucas, London, Los Angeles, and Sea Ranch, California.
Location: New York, NY
Highlight: Debuted a Toronto home’s design on the October 2025 cover of AD. In the works: Interiors for a 500-acre resort in the Bahamas as well as homes in London, New York, and Ixtapa, Mexico.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Signature: Contemporary design in historic spaces. In the works: Interiors for a colonial estate in San Antonio and beachfront houses in Watermill and Southampton, New York.
Location: New York, NY
Highlights: Debuted the rooftop garden at the new Studio Museum in Harlem and an eight-acre landscape at New York’s Dia Beacon. Philosophy: “Landscapes that amplify the distinct identities of people and place.”
Location: Los Angeles, CA; Berkeley, CA
Highlight: Winning the 2025 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture. In the works: An ecology-focused garden for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House in Los Angeles.
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
In the works: Hotel designs in Portugal; home interiors in Bangkok, Belgium, Cornwall, Courchevel, Hong Kong, London, New York, Singapore; a monograph, Works 2018–2026, with Thames & Hudson.
Location: Milan, Italy
Signature: Architecture, interiors, and furniture that prize top-level craftsmanship and layer cultural references. Highlight: His solo exhibition of 50 sculptures, “Je Marchais Pieds Nus Dans L’Étang,” traveled to Milan and New York.
Location: Darien, CT
In the works: Interiors for a Denver home; New York City apartment; Park City, Utah, ski chalet; and estates in Greenwich and Sharon, Connecticut. Notable clients: Lauren Santo Domingo and Derek Blasberg.
Location: Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Paris, France; Tokyo, Japan
Highlights: Debuted the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Dib Bangkok, Thailand’s first international contemporary art museum. In the works: Gallery transformations at the Lourve in Paris.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
In the works: Homes in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Texas, and Utah. Philosophy: “Our projects are subtle and disciplined, pure in form, and focused on realizing a sublime experience of space and light.”
Location: New York, NY
In the works: Interiors for the Point Hotel in Turks and Caicos; homes in Palm Beach, New York, and at Grace Bay Club in Turks and Caicos; a first monograph with Rizzoli. Products: New collections with Fromental and Lee Jofa.
Location: Brooklyn, NY
In the works: Ground-up homes in Grand Cayman, the Hudson Valley, and the Hamptons; a Dominican Republic wellness center; an office and manufacturing facility focused on prison reform; a James Turrell skyroom.
