Yelena Moroz Alpert

The streets of the Savannah Historic District in Georgia are hugged by dreamy oaks draped in Spanish moss and carved fountains that anchor squares steeped in history.

My family’s previous builder-grade house in Florida was full of bland 2000s beige 12-by-12 tile that was far from inspiring. So when we moved into a 1938 home in a Cleveland suburb, swapping out the vintage maroon tile in my son’s bathroom was out of the question.

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.

Some people love all-white rooms — but not me. When I moved into my suburban Ohio home three years ago, I was ecstatic to finally have a home office of my own. The only problem: The snowy built-in shelves and paneling felt so, well, soulless. The room oozed character — wall moldings, a built-in with custom cabinet doors, a tray ceiling with possibly the original light fixture — but everything was white-washed into oblivion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Celebrate 25 amazing women throughout history with Mudpuppy’s Little Feminist Picture Book. With easy to process words by Yelena Moroz Alpert and colorful illustrations by Lydia Ortiz and Patrick Rafanan, this book is the perfect way to introduce young children to these inspiring women. Features artists, scientists, politicians, athletes and much more!

- Women included: Amelia Earhart, Josephine Baker, Maya Lin, Billie Jean King,