Shehab Hekal

BIG-Bjarke Ingels GroupCopenhagen, London, Brooklyn, and Barcelona A spiraling semi-subterranean museum for watchmaker Audemars Piguet. A futuristic city built to test autonomous vehicles. A decommissioned ferry boat turned whimsically decorated floating home. A sustainability-minded Malaysian archipelago. A collaboration with NASA to build 3D-printed dwellings on the Moon. This international firm, founded by Danish superstar Bjarke

Billy Cotton got his start at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, where he developed a knack for the traditional-style industrial craft. Today, his Brooklyn-based firm focuses on design, architecture, lighting, and furniture. This multidisciplinary approach has evolved into a signature style and ethos-creating highly tailored spaces that embrace a mix-and-match philosophy. Perhaps that’s why

“The best design combines form and function with personality,” says the bubbly Heuman, a native Swede trained in the office of British style mandarin Nicky Haslam, who describes her mischievous, family-friendly aesthetic as combining “a Scandinavian attention to detail with the desire to create something original and characterful.” Bespoke furnishings (picture a bed perched atop

When Alexandra and Michael Misczynski first crossed paths, she was working for interiors legend Michael Smith, and he had just ventured out West after formative years with Rose Tarlow and Richard Meier in New York. The two hit it off both personally and professionally, and Michael asserts it was Tarlow who eventually persuaded them to

Interior design can feel like an individual sport, but The Archers proves it’s often best when undertaken as a team effort. The collaborative studio-led by creative director Richard Petit and his cofounder StephenHunt mines the diverse talents of architects, artists, designers, and film lovers to develop cinematic, envelope-pushing spaces that Hollywood A-listers love.

Steven Gambrel’s mission is simple: “Create an environment that feels synonymous with the architectural vernacular and the spirit of the client’s lifestyle,” he has said. In short, his interiors pull from tradition but are also infused with plenty of personalities. Since founding S.R. Gambrel in 1996, the designer has worked on both residential and commercial

When Ari S. Heckman, Jonathan Minkoff, and Will Cooper, of ASH NYC, turned a landmarked Providence, Rhode Island, strip club and brothel into a stylish hotel called The Dean, they not only got the design world’s attention, they established a model that could be as Cooper puts it- “redesigned and repeated” across the country. In

“We don’t ever use patterns, wallpapers, or fabrics; it’s just all about texture” Reinaldo Leandro once remarked. That’s just one of the many guiding principles that have gone into defining his and his partner, Ariel Ashe’s style since their New York City firm’s debut in 2008. It’s all about comfortable luxury for the duo-Venezuelan-born Leandro

As Rayman Boozer tells, he’s all about “putting positive vibes out in the world.” From 1994 to2008, the Indiana-born interior designer did so from his beloved New York City store, Apartment48, where he layered home goods into an imaginary residence long before doing so was the norm.