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Get Your Gears Turning • “This home is designed like a machine,” says AD100 talent Adam Charlap Hyman of the Manhattan apartment he transformed with Food Architects (page 88). Together that ace team packed wit and tech into every corner of the space, from a concealed DJ booth to a motorized projector screen. We rounded up some favorite new gadgets of our own….
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On Deck • How a crude, handmade toy evolved into one of today’s top collectibles
Go For Bold • Uchronia’s Julien Sebban kicks up his heels at an eye-popping Paris apartment where every surface is soaked in color and sheen
Launch List • Our latest picks of the best new designs from around the world
Taking Matters Into Her Own Hands • Artist Maura Wright sifts through the history of ceramics to upend conventions of bygone eras
The Time Is Ripe
TOEING THE LINES • Three favorite new rugs sweep us off our feet
Poetic Verse • On the occasion of his new show at Fondation Cartier, Bijoy Jain probes the meaning of time and space from his Mumbai atelier
The 2024 WOW List • All around the world, today’s most extraordinary new feats of architecture and design don't just dazzle the eye, they defy expectations—blurring genres and reinventing traditions. Get to know 18 spectacular Works of Wonder….
BALANCING ACT • Blending their personal styles, Gabriel Chipperfield and Laura de Gunzburg transform a 19th-century London flat into a harmonious home
FRENCH ACCENTS • A Hudson Valley retreat built to evoke a grand residence in Normandy is romantically reimagined by Martin Brûlé Studio and Grace Fuller Design
design notes • THEDETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK
Share the fantasy • Art world veterans Tobias Meyer and Mark Fletcher restore a sense of dazzling originality and visceral allure to midcentury-modern living in Los Angeles
PROTECTIVE IMPULSE • At the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Brent Leggs is expanding his mission, spotlighting under-recognized buildings by trailblazing Black modernists of the 20th century
SECOND NATURE • Architect Alexander Liberman updates the language of classic California modernism for a young family in Venice
design notes • THE DETAILS THAT MAKE THE LOOK
radical thinking • Old meets new in a Manhattan apartment dramatically revamped by Food Architects and designers Charlap Hyman & Herrero
Happiness Is Routine