Yelena Moroz Alpert

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links.
Scroll through your Instagram feed these days and you may notice that solid colors aren’t the primary choices for couch upholstery anymore. From home tours to hospitality environments to new retail collections, wilder patterns seem to be repopulating from their ‘70s and ‘80s heyday in abundance.

My husband and I had a joint New Year’s Resolution: Don’t start another home renovation project. While half of the couples often describe renovating together as “fulfilling” and 59 percent even consider it “collaborative,” 12 percent of couples who have been together five years or less might be looking at doomsday DIY that sparks thoughts of separation and divorce.

While you were clucking over the price of eggs, Mark de la Vega was devouring them by the dozen — 300 dozen in the last six months. But not as omelets. Mr. de la Vega, a designer in Brooklyn, produces panels and furnishings ornamented with eggshell lacquer.

The line between messy clutter and intentional clutter is not one you want to cross. The messy kind is what you usually think of when hear the word clutter—it is, in essence, the accumulation and overflow of stuff. Picture what happens to your kitchen counter after a busy day that ends with cooking dinner while doing homework, unpacking deliveries, and sorting mail.

The monster was dirty. Some would call it ugly. Almost everyone said, “Make it go away.” But for Julie Buckner, it was love. Smack in the center of her kitchen was a built-in brick grill and rotisserie, original to the 1953 midcentury-modern ranch house in the hills of Oakland, Calif.

Bouncing off glossy metal, being devoured by voluptuous fabrics or pouring out of lamp heads, light is always a design star. At Milan Design Week, it makes a conspicuous presence in the reflective surfaces of Michele De Lucchi’s revived mirrors for Memphis Milano or passing through the crystalline bodies of Kiki Goti’s Graces vases.

Allow us to introduce you to this year’s coterie of rising design stars—18 mega talents who have grabbed our attention with their creativity, skill, and hustle. Among them are two husband-and-wife duos, a mother-daughter-and-childhood-friend trio, multiple solo acts, and a designer-architect team busy celebrating “Baby Brutalist” style.

For his Anachron collection shown at the Alcova design fair this week, Doruk Kubilay, founder of Studio Lugo in Istanbul, produced fringed lamps, silk upholstered stools and geometric storage pieces that had a single conceptual source: Anatolia’s more than 10,000-year agrarian heritage.

We’ve all heard about the benefits of renovating your kitchen. In addition to the enjoyment you’ll get out of your new space, a kitchen remodel is likely to increase the resale value of your home. In fact, experts estimate you’ll recoup about 60 percent of the money you put into your kitchen.

It was hate at first sight. The shaggy brown carpet that covered our staircase and the top of the landing reminded me of a dirty mop.

A place to chill is becoming a hallmark of creative workplace design. Here are three inspirations.
Tom Kundig, of the Seattle-based architectural firm Olson Kundig, built a 70-square-foot hut in Hawaii for a client that looks out to a Japanese garden.

These are not the family jewels King Charles III waited for his whole life. The surprisingly symmetrical 30-foot-long phallus, landscaped on the pristine emerald lawn across the prestigious Royal Crescent in Bath, England, is hard to miss. The city had organized a celebratory picnicking event for the coronation, but this party decor was not part of the plan.

House Beautiful editors are lucky to see beautiful new home goods every day. For our 2023 Shopping Issue, we highlighted seven of the most exquisite new pieces of furniture, tableware, bedding, and decorative objects we've come across lately to collect and gift. Like the best home stores across the country, they bring something unique and personal to your decor.