2018 AD100 List: Discover Who Is on This Year’s List (PART 2) — Meet the rule-breakers and defenders of tradition who made the AD’s worldwide famous list this year!

As you probably know already, Architectural Digest recently issues its famous list of the most distinguished names of architecture and interior design. Therefore, Interior Design Magazines presents the 2nd part of the most-waited 2018 AD’s Top Architects and Designers. CHECK THEM OUT!

26. Deborah Berke Partners

Deborah Berke Partners is a New York-based architecture firm. We transform places, old and new, to create memorable and lasting architecture. Our work captures the values and aspirations of our clients; strives to enrich the world around it through enduring design, and is mindful of the distinctive qualities of each place.

27. Décoration Jacques Garcia

Jacques Garcia is a French architect, interior designer, and garden designer, best known for his contemporary interiors of Paris hotels and restaurants. The French tastemaker defines the true meaning of luxury and explains why the design has become international.

28. Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Diller Scofidio + Renfro is an interdisciplinary design studio that integrates architecture, the visual arts, and the performing arts. Based in New York City, Diller Scofidio + Renfro is led by four partners – Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro, and Benjamin Gilmartin – who work with a staff of architects, artists, designers, and researchers.

29. Dimore Studio

The duo behind the fast-growing Milan-based DIMORE STUDIO roots their work in tradition, even as the atmospheric spaces they create spin entirely unique worlds. Recently, they’ve branched out from under-the-radar residential work to high-profile hospitality projects in Italy and beyond.

30. Drake/Anderson

Drake/Anderson, led by award-winning designers Jamie Drake and Caleb Anderson, creates sophisticated interiors that are luxurious, refined and always have a touch of the unexpected. Dynamic eclecticism is the hallmark of the New York-based firm, whose work forges a perfect balance between timelessness and today.

31. Faye Toogood

Faye Toogood is a British designer. Her furniture and objects demonstrate a preoccupation with materiality and experimentation. All of her pieces are handmade by small-scale fabricators and traditional artisans, with an honesty to the rawness and irregularity of the chosen material.

32. Fernando Santangelo Inc.

A modern romantic interior designer, Fernando Santangelo takes a rigorously thoughtful approach to color, placement, and proportion, while he freely explores the nearly magical way in which inanimate objects can animate and enrich our lives.

33. Fox-Nahem Associates

Fox-Nahem Associates is a personal, client-oriented, hands-on firm. Always using discretion to protect privacy, many clients come back for additional projects. Overseeing every facet to turn-key completion, from architecture to bed linens, the firm’s projects finish on time and within the budget. The firm is also adept at creating spaces that are in balance and sensitive to the architectural perspective.

34. Francis Sultana

Francis Sultana is a furniture and interior designer based in London with an international client base covering Europe & Russia, USA, and Asia. Sultana is the favored designer of many of the world’s biggest art patrons, drawn to his use of noble materials, fine craftsmanship and luxurious finishes.

35. Frank de Biasi Interiors

Frank de Biasi Interiors is a full-service interior design and architecture firm specializing in residential and hospitality throughout the United States. Biasi is a prominent interior designer based in New York City, who lends his impeccable eye for bold color and international flair to his designs across the globe.

36. G.P. Schafer Architect

G.P. Schafer Architect is an award-winning, New York City-based residential architecture and design firm that takes the best of traditional architecture and translates it for the kind of connected, welcoming spaces that suit modern life.

37. Gachot Studios

Gachot Studios is a collaborative design firm with expertise in real estate development, art direction, and interior design. John Gachot, Christine Gachot, and Henry Ellis founded Gachot with service as its core principal, offering clients diverse skills to deliver their personal visions.

38. Georgis & Mirgorodsky Architects

Georgis & Mirgorodsky is an architecture and interior design firm with offices in New York City and La Jolla, California. Originally established as William T. Georgis Architect in 1992, Ilya Mirgorodsky was made a partner in 2017, when a new firm was established.

39. Groves & Co.

The Groves & Co.‘s style of layered modernism combines a singular, refined aesthetic with luxurious materials and finishes—bringing together the best of design, comfort, and style infused with warmth and ease.

40. Hollander Design Landscape Architects

Hollander Design Landscape Architects utilize a combination of landscape architectural, horticultural and ecological talents to develop creative solutions to design problems. Through the unification and integration of the site, client, programmatic elements and architecture, they produce landscapes of enduring beauty which function productively in an environmentally appropriate manner.

41. Ike Kligerman Barkley

Ike Kligerman Barkley is an architecture and interior design firm based in New York City and San Francisco providing a high-end residential design. Their architecture and interior departments work throughout history and across styles, always seeking to enhance life through good design.

42. India Mahdavi

India Mahdavi will always be the reigning queen of color. “It’s the best way to bring sunshine into space,” says the Paris-based interior designer. Mahdavi’s name is a reflection of the designer herself: exotic, feminine, dramatic. It’s a name that evokes a chic, global sensibility and one that completely captures the essence of her designs.

43. Ingrao Inc.

Anthony Ingrao is the principal of Ingrao Inc., an internationally acclaimed design and architecture firm established in 1982 and based in new york city. He partners with Randy Kemper in design and is assisted by 36 designers and architects. With projects all over the world, Ingrao has not only redefined the world of modern luxury but has become a name synonymous with refinement, quality, and unique style.

44. Isabel López-Quesada

Isabel Lópes-Quezada’s studio was established in 1983, and for thirty years, thanks to the strength of a well-ordered team, it has become one of the most prestigious architecture and decoration firms in the world, with a rich portfolio of national works, and projects outside Spanish borders.

45. Jan Showers & Associates Inc.

Jan Showers, Dallas based and widely acknowledged as Dallas best interior designer came to her signature interior design style from diverse and unexpected inspirations, including movies and novels, contemporary and vintage fashion, art, architecture, fine antiques, and vintage pieces.

46. John Pawson Ltd.

John Pawson is a British architectural designer whose work is known for its minimalist aesthetic. His body of work spans a broad range of scales and typologies, from private houses, sacred commissions, galleries, museums, hotels, ballet sets, yacht interiors and a bridge across a lake.

47. John Stefanidis Brands Ltd.

John Stefanidis Brands Ltd. specializes in the architectural and interior design of both residential properties and hotels across the globe, maintaining long-term relationships with their clients. His interior design projects are characterized by elegance, luxury, and magnificence.

48. Johnston Marklee

Johnston Marklee is a Los Angeles-based architecture practice led by principals Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee. Founded in 1998, the firm’s diverse portfolio is unified by a singular conceptual approach where the relationship between design and building technology is fully explored.

49. Joseph Dirand Architecture

The Parisian designer and architect Joseph Dirand savored the boundaries built into his profession; Having worked on projects ranging from hotels and restaurants to private homes and flagship stores, architect Joseph Dirand has developed a special way of approaching design — through storytelling.

50. Jean-Louis Deniot

Based in Paris, Jean-Louis Deniot is one of the world’s preeminent talent in architecture and interior design. Deniot has an enviable ability to combine periods and styles, mixing inspirations Gallic and otherwise, to create spaces grounded in tradition even as they embrace the modern.

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