Welcome to AN Interior’s second annual top 50 list featuring the talented architects and designers transforming interior spaces. These emerging and established firms from all corners of the United States demonstrate novel and exciting approaches that push the envelope in how we inhabit residential, hospitality, retail, and workspaces. Images of our AN Interior 50 red carpet event can be found here.
Jennifer Bonner/MALL
Boston
Jennifer Bonner’s experimental approach engages with color, pattern, and material in a manner at once irreverent and refined.
Design, Bitches
Los Angeles
There is no mistaking the work of Los Angeles’s Design, Bitches; their bright colors and lush patterned materials ooze Southern California style.
Craig Steely Architecture
San Francisco
Craig Steely’s designs embrace the firm’s natural settings with generous connections to the outdoors and grand vistas.
Studio Christian Wassmann
New York
Christian Wassmann uses planetary geometry for grand installations, furniture designs, and freestanding buildings.
Only If—
New York
Only If—’s work is clean and sleek, stripping spaces down to their essential functions with striking color palettes and material choices.
Bestor Architecture
Los Angeles
Rich tones, bright wood, and playful forms define the work of Bestor Architecture, a vital player in the Los Angeles design landscape.
Young Projects
New York
From objects to interiors, Young Projects’ broad portfolio is formally and materially expressive as well as spatially exuberant.
New Affiliates
New York
New Affiliates works with materials and themes that others might shy away from.
Büro Koray Duman (B-KD)
New York
There is something exciting about B-KD’s playful takes on space, form, and pattern, especially for galleries and cultural spaces.
Leong Leong
New York
Leong Leong’s broad formal moves and reserved material choices make their work timeless yet contemporary.
Michael K. Chen Architecture (MKCA)
New York
Michael K. Chen is a master of high-design built-ins in often tight spaces.
MOS Architects
New York
MOS makes the academic physical in projects that are deeply rooted in a greater architectural discipline.
RdC AAL
New York
Stylistically, RdC AAL's commercial interiors are broad and varied, while still being expertly executed.
SPAN Architecture
New York
It is hard to pin down any single style in SPAN’s diverse portfolio, which often plays with material, scale, and program.
WORKac
New York
WORKac’s playful interiors subvert expectations of typical interior spaces and programs.
Charlap Hyman & Herrero
New York and Los Angeles
(Courtesy Charlap Hyman & Herrero)
Charlap Hyman & Herrero’s work is defined by bold forms and unconventional material choices, resulting in spaces as rich as they are dramatic.
Snarkitecture
New York
Year after year, working within a minimal palette, Snarkitecture continuously manages to design surprise and delight for users of all ages.
Bureau Spectacular
Los Angeles
With forms and spaces pulled straight from the pages of comic books, Bureau Spectacular’s work is like none other.
Abruzzo Bodziak Architects
New York
Abruzzo Bodziak’s use of color and novel details make for spaces with loads of unique effects.
Shulman + Associates
Miami
Miami’s Shulman + Associates teaches old Art Deco buildings new tricks in the historically design-rich city.
Morris Adjmi Architects
New Orleans and New York
Morris Adjmi’s work is highly finished and carefully detailed in every way.
Andres Jaque Architects / Office for Political Innovation
Madrid, Spain and New York
Andrés Jaque Architects / Office for Political Innovation has carved its own path through design, performance, and exhibition.
Norman Kelley
Chicago, New Orleans
Norman Kelley's deadpan approach to interior design makes for clean, smart spaces, often with a twist.
Schiller Projects
New York
With its own strategic design wing, Schiller’s interiors are closely focused on their clients’ needs and aspirations.
SO – IL
New York
SO – IL's use of bright, sheer materials brings a soft luminescence to many of its space.
MAIO
New York and Barcelona, Spain
New York– and Barcelona-based MAIO has been making waves around the world with designs that challenge banal programs.
Elliott + Associates Architects
Oklahoma City
The local go-to for bold corporate interiors, few firms have defined the look of a region as Elliott + Associates have defined Oklahoma’s.
Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects
New York
Jaklitsch / Gardner’s wide range of clients is matched by the breadth of its design language and commitment to craft.
64North
Los Angeles
Multidisciplinary 64North brings branding, interiors, website, and product design services under one roof, defining a contemporary Gesamtkunstwerk.
Studio O+A
San Francisco
Studio O+A proves that corporate interiors can be anything but sterile as it learns from and expands beyond tech workspaces.
Neil M. Denari Architects
Los Angeles
Few have had as much influence on contemporary young designers as Neil M. Denari. His flowing spaces and forms have defined a genre.
ensamble studio
Boston and Madrid, Spain
Masters of material, the architects of ensamble studio use the latest technologies and techniques in their quest for dramatic interior spaces.
Architecture in Formation
New York
Architecture in Formation is unafraid to mix and match eclectic objects and materials to produce rich results.
MILLIØNS
Los Angeles
Form questions function in MILLIØNS’ design investigations of culture, media, politics, and history.
Alexander Gorlin Architects
New York
Alexander Gorlin’s modernist interiors are lush, melding light, space, and natural materials with deep, vibrant color.
Home Studios
New York
Home Studios custom details sophisticated materials in commercial spaces across New York City.
Slade Architecture
New York
There is a smooth chic to all of Slade Architecture’s interiors across an impressive range of projects that meld concept and function.
Aranda\Lasch
New York and Tucson, Arizona
With close attention paid to the fabrication process, geometry and material meet in the clean spaces designed by Aranda\Lasch.
Studio Cadena
New York
There is a levity to Studio Cadena’s work that comes through in everything from their materials to their spaces.
NADAAA
Boston
NADAAA’s work comes from an intersection of intense material understanding and exuberant form finding.
Toshiko Mori Architect
New York
Toshiko Mori’s clean lines and expansive windows bring dramatic landscapes into her spaces.
studio blitz
Los Angeles and San Francisco
This studio lives up to its name with in-your-face patterns, materials, and space planning.
Alda Ly Architecture
New York
Alda Ly brings classic finishes and motifs together with clean contemporary spaces and playful detailing.
Johnston Marklee
Los Angeles
Smooth forms and simple palettes give Johnston Marklee’s interiors a reserved elegance.
Savvy Studio
New York and Mexico City
Mexico and New York-based Savvy brings together interiors, branding, furniture, and packaging under one roof with a decidedly global outlook.
The Los Angeles Design Group (LADG)
Los Angeles and Cambridge, Mass.
From piles to plywood, LADG makes the most out of materials others might pass over.
Biber Architects
New York
Biber Architects’ interiors are playful and eclectic—every project takes on a new character.
OFFICIAL Design
Dallas
Dallas’s OFFICIAL Design plays with light and color in its interior spaces, while also designing bespoke furniture pieces.
INABA Williams
New York and Los Angeles
Every project by INABA Williams starts with deep research, which ultimately informs thoughtful design and planning at every stage of a project.
Peterson Rich Office
New York
Far from austere, Peterson Rich’s form-driven designs remind us just how lush white interiors can be.