Architectural Digest

Architectural Digest is the world's foremost design authority, showcasing the work of top architects and interior decorators. It continues to set new benchmarks for how to live well—what to buy, what to see and do, where to travel, and who to watch on the fast-paced, multifaceted global design scene.

EDITOR’S LETTER

Let’s Be Frank • Is Jean-Michel Frank’s super simple, century-old seat the GOAT of chairs?

À La Mode • Fashion and interior designer Christian Siriano puts his exuberant stamp on a historic Paris apartment

Initial Here • How Louis Vuitton’s monogram, now 130 years old, became a universal status symbol

Peak Shape • For a contemporary chalet in Saint Moritz, Pierre Yovanovitch conjures a living room at one with the Alpine views

Strut Your Stuff • Off the runway and into your homes, our favorite fall trends dress to impress

Island Time • Dotting theMediterranean Sea, a new wave of bucket-list lodgings beckon the design-savvy traveler

Stick to Your Roots • With the help of some Angeleno experts, Mother cofounder Lela Becker revives a midcentury house in the Pacific Palisades as a bucolic home for her young family

Story Ark • Ma Yansong’s astonishing design for LA’s Lucas Museum of Narrative Art matches the audacity of the project’s populist curatorial conceit

Show of Hands • Loro Piana unveils a suite of dazzling textiles that captures its expansive know-how and the boundless possibility of needlework

Bring It to the Table • The latest statement plates usher in a new bohemian age with bold florals, trippy colors, and groovy patterns

Math Major • Modular yet mysterious, the Hudson Valley home of architects Max Worrell and Jejon Yeung is greater than the sum of its parts

CONFESSIONS • Usher builds something deeply personal in Atlanta—an art-filled family designed with his longtime collaborator Nicole Fuller, that holds his beloved grandmother’s piano, his children’s paintings, and meaningful mementos of his 30-plus-year career, all reframed for the future

EYES TO CAMERA • In a North Kensington postal sorting offce turned home and studio, British fashion photographer-stylist-creative director Venetia Scott lives inside the same kind of immersive worlds she crafts for her shoots

Lavender Haze • In restoring Coco Chanel’s Riviera estate, La Pausa, Peter Marino returns it to its 1930s glory—flooding the hillsides with lavender and iris and giving the centuries-old olive trees a moonlit glow

Gilded Age • Inside an 1886 coal-baron mansion on Fifth Avenue, Adam Lippes meets historic splendor with slipcovers, sheers, and an animal-print ottoman

DESIGN NOTES

ANDRÉE THE GIANT • Long revered by the design cognoscenti, Andrée Putman, the late Parisian éminence grise, has offcially reentered the zeitgeist with the global revival of her eponymous brand

Petal to the Metal • Breakout-star floral artist Hamish Powell sets up shop inside a converted London railway arch

COMPLETELY COCO • Coco Brandolini d’Adda collects the way she designs fashion, and her Milan apartment overflows with the proof

Still Waters • Fashion-tech entrepreneur and art collector Yusaku Maezawa spent seven years gently coaxing a 19th-century Kyoto villa into the present

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