Mayer Rus

The style oracle for Zendaya—and a host of other A-list talents—turns his eye to his own abode

The anomalous structure substitutes Miesian rigor for retrograde Rat Pack–era design clichés

The interiors were designed by Ghislaine Viñas

Talented designer Casey Kenyon crafts an abode of his own in Brooklyn

The sprawling Upper East Side abode was suitably designed by former White House interior designer AD100 star Michael S. Smith

Hadley Wiggins’s artistry with pattern, color, and material has long been whispered among the cognoscenti of Long Island’s North Fork, where the intrepid interior designer has plied her trade since establishing her namesake firm in 2012. That well-earned reputation exploded on the international scene with the publication of an astonishing home that she orchestrated for an art-world potentate with dazzlingly idiosyncratic tastes (AD, December 2021). It was the kind of project that set tongues wag…

James Chinlund and Clare Crespo reimagined their midcentury Los Angeles home with the help of design firm Lovers Unite Clare Crespo enjoys poking fun at Silver Lake, the Los Angeles neighborhood historically associated with all things bohemian, indie, alternative, and artsy. She calls the area Fraggle Rock, a reference to Jim Henson’s hallucinogenic 1980s television puppet show of the same name about a group of zany characters inhabiting a fantasy world all their own. Of course, among the stalwa…

Jane Keltner de Valle and AD100 designer Giancarlo Valle breathe new life into the charming 1863 house The august English writer and critic Samuel Johnson once opined, “The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.” Johnson’s maxim finds eloquent expression in the captivating Connecticut home of Jane Keltner de Valle, cofounder of children’s skin care line Paloroma (and AD’s former style director), and her husband, AD100 designer Giancarlo Val…

“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them,” Sylvia Plath wrote in The Bell Jar. Granted the writer was hardly the Gwyneth Paltrow of her day, but in this case her wellness tip bears out—a good bath is indeed good for the soul. Just ask Ashley Hicks, the puckish designer, artist, and son of the legendary arbiter elegantiae David Hicks. At his home in Oxfordshire, England, hard by the famous garden his father cultivated on the family’s country estate, H…

The quiet and sophisticated home is the abode of designer Jeff Andrews For anyone designing their own home—and particularly for a professional interior designer—the process invariably presents an opportunity to reassess what inspires you, what you desire, and on some fundamental level, who you are. “I was more adventurous with color and pattern in past homes, but I wanted this place to be more subtle. Something a bit quieter and more sophisticated felt right for where I am in my life right now,”…