Stars of Design

Stars of Design

The designers who set the room.
The wallcoverings that set the tone.

A working atlas of 150 interior designers — Draper through Wearstler — paired to the patterns they'd actually hang.

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Ken Fulk

Contemporary · San Francisco, CA

Theatrical SF-and-NY firm doing hospitality and residential

  • Theatrical
  • Hospitality
  • Maximalist

Young Huh Interior Design

Contemporary · New York, NY

NY-based Korean-American designer of color-confident interiors

  • Color
  • Pattern
  • Eclectic

Nina Magon Studio

Contemporary · Houston, TX

Houston-based contemporary luxury and hospitality

  • Contemporary
  • Luxury
  • Hospitality

Tiffany Brooks

Contemporary · Chicago, IL

HGTV-honored Chicago designer with a color-confident hand

  • Color
  • Eclectic
  • Residential

Summer Thornton

Contemporary · Chicago, IL

Chicago maximalist with a fearless, color-saturated hand

  • Maximalist
  • Color
  • Pattern

Reath Design (Frances Merrill)

Contemporary · Los Angeles, CA

Color-and-pattern LA practice with a relaxed California ease

  • Color
  • Pattern
  • California

Crystal Sinclair Designs

Contemporary · New York, NY

Tailored Manhattan apartments with a Caribbean-American hand

  • Tailored
  • Modern
  • Residential

Augusta Hoffman

Contemporary · New York, NY

Pretty Manhattan-and-Hudson-Valley rooms with a young hand

  • Pretty
  • Traditional
  • Pattern

Leyden Lewis Design Studio

Contemporary · Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn-based modernist with a fine-art sensibility

  • Modernist
  • Art-Driven
  • Layered

Bennett Leifer

Contemporary · New York, NY

Color-confident Manhattan rooms with a young AD100 hand

  • Color
  • Pattern
  • Layered

Brad Ford

Contemporary · New York, NY

American craft maximalism with mid-century discipline

  • Mid-Century
  • American Craft
  • Tailored

Ariel Okin

Contemporary · New York, NY

Pretty, livable East Coast traditionalism for a new generation

  • Traditional
  • Pretty
  • Residential

Caitlin Wilson Design

Contemporary · Salt Lake City, UT

Salt-Lake-City-based designer with a national pretty-pattern brand

  • Pretty
  • Pattern
  • Color

Danielle Colding Design

Contemporary · New York, NY

NY-based designer and TV host with a layered modernist hand

  • Modernist
  • Layered
  • Global

Apartment 48 (Rayman Boozer)

Contemporary · New York, NY

NY-based color-confident designer and retail-store founder

  • Color
  • Pattern
  • Layered

Soucie Horner

Contemporary · Chicago, IL

Chicago-based residential firm with a tailored, jewel-toned hand

  • Tailored
  • Jewel-Toned
  • Residential

By the era

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A working anthology, decade by decade — the designers who defined each chapter of the modern American interior, and the wallcoverings they put on the walls.

Early 20th Century

When the profession of decoration was invented — chintz, pale silk, the Edith Wharton school.

  • Elsie de Wolfe
  • Ruby Ross Wood
  • Syrie Maugham
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Mid-Century

Plaster, jungle prints, glazed bamboo — the era of Draper, Frances Elkins, and the Greenbrier.

  • Dorothy Draper
  • Frances Elkins
  • Eleanor McMillen Brown
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Late 20th Century

Chintz on chintz on chintz — Buatta, Hicks, Denning & Fourcade, the maximalist American salon.

  • Renzo Mongiardino
  • Robert Denning & Vincent Fourcade
  • Mario Buatta
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Contemporary

The working bench today — Wearstler, McGee, Vervoordt, Tarlow — pattern paired to current practice.

  • Rose Tarlow
  • Vicente Wolf
  • Axel Vervoordt
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How to read these profiles

  1. Era and city. Every profile is anchored to a working decade and a working city — Dorothy Draper in 1940s New York is a different designer than Athena Calderone in 2020s Brooklyn.
  2. Signature. One sentence on the visual language a designer is known for. The thing you'd recognize across the room.
  3. Wallcovering pairings. Three Designer Wallcoverings collections that map to the designer's published interiors — chintz for Buatta, plaster for Vervoordt, hexagonal geometric for Hicks.

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