This section focuses on Architectural Digest archives, taking its readers on a nostalgic journey into the past by showing them iconic rooms featured in the magazine. even if you can’t live in one of these abodes, at least you can have a small piece of it on your coffee table. If you’d like to file an allegation of infringement, you’ll need to follow the process described in our Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy.

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His remodeling of Pickfair, the storied house that belonged to Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, made no fewer than six appearances in AD over several decades.Making AD at 100: A Century of Style—featuring so many of the house-proud, design-savvy stars and tastemakers who have welcomed AD into their private realms over the years—was truly a labor of love for all of us here.

Inside, you'll visit the personal spaces of dozens of private celebrities like Barack and Michelle Obama, David Bowie, Truman Capote, David Hockney, Michael Kors, and Diana Vreeland, and see in detail the work of top designers and architects like Frank Gehry, David Hicks, India Mahdavi, Peter Marino, John Fowler, Renzo Mongiardino, Oscar Niemeyer, Axel Vervoordt, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Elsie de Wolfe. As California became a crucible for the nascent modernist movement, and streamlined houses of glass and steel rose up beside Cotswolds cottages and French châteaux, AD began to revel in the heterogeneity of the Golden State’s landscape. Among them are Billy Baldwin, Kelly Hoppen and Karim Rashid; and some of the rooms belong or have belonged to luminaries from the worlds of art, fashion and film, such as Yves Saint Laurent, Coco Chanel, Pablo Picasso and Jennifer Aniston.

Among the taste-making creatives who helped shape the book’s contents are the decorators Elsie de Wolfe, William Haines, and Renzo Mongiardino; and architects Richard Neutra and Frank Gehry—with the sorts of spaces that AD has featured growing ever more interesting and colorful over the decades. Doing your bit to sleep more sustainably is as easy as choosing pure flax linen–it uses far less water and pesticides than traditional manchesters, and is a renewable, biodegradable resource. We have updated our Privacy Policy, effective June 29, 2020, to clarify how we collect and process your personal data.