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The Debutant Designers of AD100 2023
In this article, we will share the list of Debutant Designers of AD100 2023. At Architectural Digest, architects and designers are constantly celebrated—they are rock stars—but they do so with a particular intention in their annual AD100 2023 issue, which includes their much-anticipated list of the world’s most exciting talents. The homeowners themselves, without whom these inspiring, ambitious spaces would undoubtedly not exist, are the ones with the most patience, faith, and vision.
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JP Demeyer & Co.
JP Demeyer’s beguiling madness has a method to it; despite the riot of colour, pattern, and whimsy that fills his interiors, he never aims for purely theatrical effect. Demeyer creates enchanted settings brimming with undeniable beauty and delight by fearlessly fusing daring textiles, outrageous ornamental flourishes, and eccentric artworks with eclectic modern and traditional furnishings. Jean-Philippe Demeyer applies this winning formula to residential and commercial projects in Paris, Lisbon, Lille, and Ghent, as well as popular restaurants and clubs.
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See also: AD100 LIST 2023
Rita Konig
Rita Konig was referred to as “one of the women who have most improved the quality of my life” by tastemaker Deborah Needleman in a charming piece about her own treasured home in upstate New York. In fact, as Needleman put it, Konig’s “invisible powers” best encapsulate her mission as a designer. Konig’s ability to understand and realise the essence of her client’s objectives has helped her build a clientele of loyal customers since she began her business 17 years ago.
Justina Blakeney
Since she began blogging in the late aughts, Justina Blakeney has been showcasing her daring and diverse vision of beauty. The pattern is the flavour of design, colour can make people happy, and good design improves the quality of life, according to her. Blakeney’s most difficult but rewarding job in her career was remodelling the 2,700-square-foot dream home she now shares with her husband and child in Los Angeles, California.
Alexis Brown
Brown, who was born and raised in Washington, DC, and received her master’s degree in interior design from Pratt, had been working for more than ten years in the office of AD100 behemoth Peter Marino when she began designing Johnson’s stores and, shortly after, her houses. She formally launched her own company in 2017 and has since focused on both residential and commercial projects, including the flagship LA store she is designing for the clothing company Cult Gaia and a modern family home in Palm Beach.
Hadley Wiggins
Hadley Wiggins’ talent with a pattern, colour, and material has long been rumoured among the elite of Long Island’s North Fork, where she has practised her trade since founding her namesake firm in 2012. Her well-earned reputation soared on the global stage with the release of an astounding mansion she designed for an art world potentate with dazzlingly eccentric tastes. Wiggins’ recently completed projects range from sensitive renovations of historic homes in Connecticut to New York City residences that bridge a nuanced rapprochement between the classic and the contemporary, revealing the designer’s full range of talents, including her mastery of quiet, elegant charm.
Josh Greene Design
The collaborative, highly specialised approach of Josh Greene is reflected in his statement that “every project is an opportunity to create unrepeatable spaces.” In the four years since he founded his namesake Manhattan-based brand, the California native has demonstrated wisdom that can only come from experience. His expertise stems from a nearly two-decade career that has included stops at Michael S. Smith, Ralph Lauren, and Sawyer|Berson. His successful product lines show an instinctive understanding of what other designers want and need, while residential projects like his Hamptons home for fashion designer Joseph Altuzarra show the incredible breadth of his decorative comfort zone.
Neal Beckstedt Studio
Neal Beckstedt’s interest in design began when he was seven years old, thanks to his family’s extensive remodelling of their Ohio farmhouse. The talented New Yorker, who later studied architecture at Ball State University and got his start in Miami with Arquitectonica and in New York with John Keenen and Terence Riley, says he has been creating floor plans ever since. Beckstedt launched his own firm in 2010 with a significant project—fashion designer Derek Lam’s mansion—after honing his skills for a decade in the office of designer S. Russell Groves.
SO-IL
This Brooklyn-based firm, founded by husband-and-wife team Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu, has paved the way for a new generation of architects by challenging the status quo in perplexing structures of all types. They used textured expanses of brick, concrete, and aluminium to create a dynamic sequence of spaces for the Amant arts complex in Brooklyn. The assembly of gabled volumes in a Long Island home creates a poetic cruciform design. In addition, their renovation of the historic French studio-glass hub Site Verrier de Meisenthal incorporates three nearby institutions as well as an undulating addition that encloses a public square.
Studio Mellone
Andre Mellone zigzagged when others zagged. While her peers have been enamoured with maximalist fervour, vibrant patterns, and Memphis nostalgia in recent years, the Brazilian-born designer has opted for subtle refinement. Mellone, who founded his Manhattan-based firm in 2012, believes that “every project begins with simplicity and common sense.” We can design the most complicated, complex interiors from there. His work, which includes residential, retail, and hospitality buildings, emphasises refinement and sophistication through texture, materiality, and precise form, such as the new lobby for 50 Rockefeller Plaza and Carolina Herrera’s New York flagship.
Young Huh Interior Design
Young Huh, a 2001 Fordham University School of Law graduate, realised she didn’t want to be a lawyer after meeting an interior designer at a cocktail party. She enrolled at Parsons School of Design in 2007 and launched her own company with headquarters in New York. She is currently working on a Turks and Caicos resort, a 19th-century country house in Dutchess County, Illinois, and a historic Tudor in Illinois. She plans to launch product lines for AKDO tiling, Modern Matter hardware, and Fromental wall coverings in the near future. The common feature is a style that combines modern sophistication with vintage references.
Halard-Halard
Bastien Halard’s design credentials are difficult to match. The French-born founder of Halard-Halard Design is the son of interior designer Florence Chabriere, grandson of Yves and Michelle Halard, and great-grandson of Adolphe Halard, founder of the storied French fabric and wallpaper company Nobilis. He is also the husband of Miranda Brooks, another AD100 laureate, and the nephew of renowned interiors photographer Francois Halard. Nonetheless, Halard has established himself in the vast cosmography of design, receiving accolades on both sides of the Atlantic for a strategy that “emphasises the balance between the classical language and contemporary sensibility,” in his own words.
See also: Contemporary Interiors by Poppe Design
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