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Alyssa Kapito Interiors

New York

Alyssa Kapito has had a busy year. While she founded her firm in 2013, over the last 12 months she launched an eponymous gallery, a limited-edition glass collection with Murano maker Laguna~B, and a Rizzoli book—all while finishing off a handful of New York interiors that embody her signature brand of quiet luxury. Think: 20th-century French design trophies by the likes of Jean Royère, Charlotte Perriand, and Pierre Jeanneret, organic forms sheathed in luxe, creamy bouclé, and walls clad in stained oak paneling. Next up she’s working on residences in New York, London, Paris, and LA alongside a boutique hotel and a line of bronze furniture and lighting, all sure to showcase her clean-cut style, which the Columbia-educated art historian calls “edited, polished, and academic.” alyssakapito.com —Hannah Martin

Food Architects

New York

Since founding Food Architects in 2018, Dong-Ping Wong has proposed some radical concepts: a bathhouse and spa carved from a hedge at Palm Heights, the buzzy Grand Cayman hotel, and +POOL, a floating public swimming hole in New York’s East River. Currently, he’s developing a proposal to rationalize a chaotic, eight-way intersection in Chinatown, the New York neighborhood where he works. “You can really get away with so many new ideas if something is beautiful,” he explains. Wong’s unconventional thinking has wooed a client list that includes MoMA, Nike, Kim Kardashian, and the late Virgil Abloh. Whether designing residential spaces, like the slick SoHo apartment he crafted with fellow AD100 firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero (AD, February 2024), retail concepts for Off-White, or the Hypebeast flagship, Wong aims to bring people together—just like his firm’s simple moniker: Food. food-arch.com —Hannah Martin

Frida Escobedo Studio

Mexico City and New York

Age-old craft, rigorous research, and thoughtful functionality converge in the work of Frida Escobedo, who reflects, “We believe that this hidden essence can be made visible through simple forms, revealing the dynamics that shape our collective character and public spaces.” Today, the architect is busy leaving her mark on the global cultural scene—from Paris, where she was selected (with Moreau Kusunoki) to renovate the Centre Pompidou, to Manhattan, where she is designing the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing. Other Big Apple projects include the mixed-use development Ray Harlem and Bergen Brooklyn, a residential complex enlivened by Escobedo’s masonry façade modules. Underpinning her practice is the heartfelt belief that architecture is ever changing, molded by time and communal engagement. “Our projects do not aim for grandeur but expose their minutiae,” she explains. “They are substrates, processed through participation, never finished, and always evolving.” fridaescobedo.com —Sam Cochran

Geoponika

Los Angeles

Geoponika (the landscape artists formerly known as Cactus Store Gardens) is a Los Angeles–based collective of designers, rare plant aficionados, and ecological thinkers “passionate about transforming built spaces into garden habitats that explore the relationship between humans and the natural world,” according to the firm’s principals, Marinna Wagner, Carlos Morera, and Max Martin. The name Geoponika refers to a 10th-century manual of botanical and agricultural wisdom compiled for the fourth Byzantine emperor of the Macedonian dynasty—an apt moniker for a landscape design practice that relies heavily on historical research, thoughtful contextualism, and arcane resources. The firm recently completed work on superstar DJ Diplo’s magical 62-acre compound in Jamaica (AD, June 2024) as well as a garden for an important modernist house in Japan designed by the late architect Junzō Yoshimura. In addition to its own collections of garden furniture and accessories (including a collaboration with the AD100 firm Commune Design), Geoponika is currently designing landscapes for a John Pawson house in Austin, Texas, and an LA residence by Kengo Kuma. geoponika.co —Mayer Rus

Grace Fuller Design

New York

“We seek to unite the domestic world with the wild,” says Grace Fuller Marroquin, a former fashion and jewelry editor who launched a landscape design firm in 2019. And indeed, her dreamy, romantic gardens act as extensions of the home at every scale, from the nearly 100-acre property in the Hudson Valley where she planted sculptural linden trees, whimsical grasses, and a robust kitchen garden (AD, February, 2024) to her own West Village rooftop terrace lush with native flora (AD, February, 2021). With a fashion-forward client list that includes The Row (they’ve collaborated on planters), she leans on an ethos of sustainability. In her words, “a deep love of and respect for the earth guides everything we do.” gracefullerdesign.com —Hannah Martin

Heidi Caillier Design

Seattle

Intimacy, nostalgia, comfort—these qualities and more come to life in the work of Heidi Caillier, who, in just 10 years, has grown her practice from a one-woman show to a team of seven, with upwards of 20 jobs on the boards. Clients delight in her hyper-condensed process. “We design everything top-to-bottom in one fell swoop,” she says. All the while, her devoted social media following thrills to her layered use of bold patterns and unerring palettes of jewel tones and muddy hues, evident in jobs coast to coast. (Current commissions include homes in Idaho, Washington, and Tennessee.) No matter the setting and regardless of the style, Caillier emphasizes timeless traditions through the careful placement of antiques and handcrafted furnishings—pieces that, as she puts it, “celebrate imperfections and patinas rather than masking them.” heidicaillierdesign.com —Sam Cochran

LK Studio

New York

“Joyful, refined, and free from ostentation.” This is how Lily Dierkes describes the fruits of her nearly five-year-old practice, which mixes peppy patterns with time-tested classics. Case in point: the dramatically roofed, lakeside 1970s home in Harbor Springs, Michigan (AD, November 2024) she recently revamped for a family of seven. Here, Josef Frank florals and pops of primary colors add jolts of new life to the cedar-paneled interiors. The talent, who honed her skills under fellow AD100 designers David Netto and Tom Scheerer, is now applying that approach to a range of residences, from a stone house in upstate New York to a Victorian manse with a modern expansion on Long Island. All aim to be, in her words, “architecturally informed and reflective of the people that live in them.” lilydierkesdesign.com —Hannah Martin

Martin Brûlé Studio

Paris and New York

The roster of pedigreed furnishings arrayed in Montreal-born interior designer Martin Brûlé’s New York City apartment and his Paris pied-à-terre offer a window into the aesthetic predilections of one of the design world’s most intriguing new voices. There are signature works by titans of early-to-mid-20th-century decorating on the order of Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Jean-Michel Frank, André Sornay, Eugène Printz, and Gilbert Poillerat. Brûlé’s own design philosophy, which he describes as “invisible opulence,” echoes that of his estimable forebears, finding drama and beauty in the virtues of restraint, quality, and connoisseurship. Those qualities came to life with extraordinary panache in a Hudson Valley country home the designer created for a couple with decidedly refined tastes (AD, February 2024). Brûlé is now disseminating his sophisticated take on the less-is-more credo in residential projects in New York, London, Madrid, Miami, Switzerland, and Canada. martinbrulestudio.com —Mayer Rus

Ross Cassidy Inc.

Los Angeles

“My work is not constrained to a single genre or style,” notes Ross Cassidy. “I always try to achieve a sense of joy, calm, and timelessness.” Since launching his firm in 2013, his nuanced use of neutral hues, eye for vintage furnishings, and commitment to eco-friendly touches have made him a hit with celebrities on the order of Sia, Glen Powell, Jeff Probst, and Amber Valletta, whose LA home appeared on AD’s April 2024 cover. These days, he’s applying that savvy to projects of all kinds—from a psychedelic wellness center to private homes in Colorado, California, and Hawaii. His furniture collection with CB2, meanwhile, continues to expand, with multiple debuts throughout the year. “A person’s home is a sacred space,” he reflects. “Every decision I make is with intention.” rosscassidy.com —Sam Cochran

Studio & Projects

New York

Founded by Little Wing Lee, this polyglot firm tackles each project through the lens of storytelling—balancing comfort, character, and a heightened sensitivity to context to create rooms of palpable joy. “We approach design as a holistic exercise, driven by human experience, compelling narratives, and the profound power of beauty,” says Lee, an industry veteran of over 15 years. Bold colors, rich textures, and thoughtful patterns serve as through lines in private residences, hospitality hits, and product lines, among them rugs for Odabashian and lighting for Rich Brilliant Willing. Current work includes interiors for the National Black Theatre and a town house renovation for the Ali Forney Center, both in Harlem. (The latter, a collaboration with AD, will provide shelter to unhoused transgender and gender-nonconforming and nonbinary young people.) Design, she believes, is a form of social justice unto itself. “Our goal with every project is. to create welcoming spaces that celebrate histories while embracing innovation,” says Lee, who founded the nonprofit global advocacy network Black Folks in Design. “Doing good and looking good are part of the same equation.” studioandprojects.co —Sam Cochran

Woods + Dangaran

Los Angeles

The Los Angeles architecture and interior design firm Woods + Dangaran was founded in 2013 by Brett Woods and Joseph Dangaran. Having established a reputation as torchbearers of smart, soulful contemporary design rooted in the principles of classic 20th-century modernist architecture, the partners are straightforward about their approach and ambition: “We create modern homes through dialogue and exploration. We design holistically and at every scale. Our projects are subtle and disciplined, pure in form, and focused on realizing a sublime experience of space and light. Each building is a carefully curated journey through indoor and outdoor spaces.” In addition to recently completing houses in LA and Bend, Oregon, the firm is currently working on residential projects across Southern California as well as Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Texas. A boutique hotel in Apple Valley, Utah, is also on the boards. woodsdangaran.com —Mayer Rus

Years

Los Angeles

Tyler Polich and Jessica Jimenez Keenan launched their Los Angeles–based design practice, Years, in 2022 with impeccable professional pedigrees. Polich’s résumé includes stints at the AD100 firms The Archers, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, while Jimenez Keenan cut her teeth at Elizabeth Roberts Architects and Studio Shamshiri (also AD100 stalwarts). Considering their deep immersion in design history and the wealth of artful, unexpected sources they reference, it’s no surprise that the partners describe their approach in poetic terms: “Years is a design studio in service to possibility, how rooms and buildings might cradle the experiences of people in them yet stay attuned—and permeable—to climate, light, whims, life. We believe that design has the potential to reach beyond the rational, the perfect photograph, winningly out of register with the status quo.” Following their debut with a sensational house in Costa Rica (AD, May 2024), Polich and Jimenez Keenan are currently finishing a gut renovation of a Brooklyn town house, a midcentury remodel in LA, and a barn conversion in Hopewell, New Jersey. years-studio.com —Mayer Rus

Young Projects

New York

“There is always something to react to,” says Bryan Young, the founding principal of this multidisciplinary firm, which works at the intersection of architecture, interiors, landscapes, and furniture. Alongside partners Noah Marciniak and Mallory Shure, Young challenges staid notions of a blank slate—drawing on client wishes and the idiosyncrasies of setting to create conceptually resolved buildings. Strong geometries predominate, whether the sweeping roofline of a Dominican Republic vacation home (AD, July/August 2021) or the internal grid of a New Orleans Creole cottage (AD, April 2024). So too do material experiments, among them concrete formed by felled palms, panels of pulled plaster, and tiles that conflate real and imagined shadows. “How can we construct productive ambiguity?” muses Young, cofounder of Verso gallery. The results, at scales large and small, are designs that dazzle the eye and stimulate the mind. young-projects.com —Sam Cochran

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