Every year, AN Interior’s editors assemble our Top 50 List, which recognizes the most outstanding North American architecture and design firms working in interiors. On the following pages, emerging practitioners rub shoulders with established firms, giving readers a sense of the exciting breadth and depth of work shaking up interior architecture today. Our research considered diversity across its many dimensions. The designers, studios, firms, and practices contained here work in a variety of styles, specialize in a range of typologies, and respond to clients across the continent and planet. Each is motivated by design excellence and understands the holistic importance of creating space through the skillful arrangement of materials, objects, and activities. Interiors are where we live, work, and play, so elevating the quality of these spaces is critical. As always, this Top 50 list identifies those in pursuit of delivering better buildings and better lives for the people who use them.
22RE
Los Angeles
Founded in 2021 by principal Dean Levin, 22RE has quickly made a name for itself through lush interior architecture and furniture design, much of which are made with the firm’s in-house carpentry studio.
A+I
New York
Helmed by Kate Thatcher and founded by Brad Zizmor and Dag Folger, A+I stands for architecture plus information, a name that encompasses the firm’s strategy-led approach in expanding the boundaries of workplace design.
Aidlin Darling Design
San Francisco
Aidlin Darling Design was founded in 1998 with the conviction that architecture can meaningfully impact the human spirit to inspire, educate, and deepen a connection to the earth, and to one another.
ALA Studio
New York
A recognized leader in biophilic design, ALA Studio rethinks and improves traditional healthcare, office, retail, and cultural spaces with an eye toward inclusivity.
Almost Studio
New York
Established in 2018, Almost Studio’s approach considers a project as one that continually reveals unknown cultural, social, and spatial potential as time passes, in other words, always almost.
Anya Moryoussef Architect
Toronto
In pursuit of deliberate and imaginative design for everyday life, Anya Moryoussef Architect often tweaks typologies for the benefit of its inhabitants’ well-being.
Architecture Research Office
New York
Stephen Cassell, Kim Yao, and Adam Yarinsky lead Architecture Research Office on the basis of inquiry, tackling projects that inspire people, further institutional missions, and advance equity and resilience.
Atelier Cho Thompson
San Francisco; New Haven, Connecticut
Working between California and Connecticut, Christina Cho Yoo and Ming Thompson’s studio, Atelier Cho Thompson, engages in architecture, interiors, graphics, brand strategy, furniture, and more; all of which are culturally and visually rich.
Atelier Zébulon Perron
Montreal
Atelier Zébulon Perron leverages its knowledge of the hospitality industry to design bars and restaurants, woven with the site’s food and beverage scene yet distinct in its sense of place and experience.
Bestor Architecture
Los Angeles
Bestor Architecture integrates architecture, urbanism, infrastructure, and landscape to arrive at a more expansive atmospheric urbanism.
Brent Buck Architects
New York
Founded in 2015, Brent Buck Architects is a full-service architecture and interiors practice combining architectural rigor with the warmth of craft to create enduring spaces.
Charlap Hyman & Herrero
New York; Los Angeles
Led by principals Adam Charlap Hyman and Andre Herrero, Charlap Hyman & Herrero is recognized for its fantastical, playful vision, executed through research and a keen feel for interaction.
CIVILIAN
New York
Founded in 2018 by Nicko Elliott and Ksenia Kagner, CIVILIAN creates objects and spaces that convey a sense of care and mood, from design-forward residences at Bard College to typographic hardware.
Craig Steely Architecture
San Francisco; Hawaii
Craig Steely’s eponymous practice draws from the two states he works across, always favoring modernism’s clean lines and often playing with unique geometries.
Design, Bitches
Los Angeles
Catherine Johnson and Rebecca Rudolph draw from their eccentric background in design, art, and pop culture to inform the optimistic and bright vision of their firm Design, Bitches.
Esrawe Studio
Mexico City
Esrawe Studio is a multidisciplinary practice designing furniture, interiors, and architectural solutions for hospitality, cultural, and residential projects with an emphasis on the feeling the evolution of design.
Farouki Farouki
New Orleans
Founded by the husband-and-wife team Caroline and Sabri Farouki, the architecture and interior design practice Farouki Farouki have built a warm and tactile body of work through the United States, Mexico, and Caribbean.
Fogarty Finger
New York; Atlanta; Boston
A sense of crisp, refinement and a project’s urban environment unites the work of Fogarty Finger, founded in 2003 with an approach that integrates architecture and interiors.
Frederick Tang Architecture
New York
Frederick Tang Architecture follows an iterative process based on experimentation and curiosity that results in nimble yet optimistic projects.
Future Firm
Chicago
Founded by Ann Lui and Craig Reschke in 2015, Future Firm uses design to synthesize the aims and efforts of multiple stakeholders, catalyze transformation for individuals and groups, and create flexible space for diverse needs.
Gabellini Sheppard
New York
Since its founding in 1991, Gabellini Sheppard has distinguished itself through a sculptural finesse of space, light, and materials, executed in projects spanning the world and typologies.
gh3*
Toronto
gh3* works in architecture, urbanism and landscape, designing pavilions, private houses, and large civic and transit infrastructures with a modernist sense of beauty and clarity, and a marriage of the poetic with the programmatic.
GRT Architects
New York
Led by Tal Schori and Rustam-Marc Mehta, GRT’s bread and butter remains unique adaptive reuse but has evolved and expanded its focus to other typologies, all of which are still uniquely composed and sensitively aligned with its historical fabric.
Home Studios
New York
Known for cult-favorite bars and hotels, Home Studios, led by Oliver Haslegrave, draws from backgrounds in custom fabrication and fine art to design for outsiders, the playful, and the curious.
INC Architecture & Design
New York
INC is an open-source, multi-disciplinary, architecture, and design studio that leverages its tripartite leadership to deliver immersive, emotionally impactful spaces.
Ivy Studio
Montreal
Self-described as a “one-stop-shop creative firm,” Ivy Studio delivers hyper-personal spaces that often utilize local artisans and builders to create neat, texturally rich environments.
IwamotoScott Architecture
San Francisco
Established by Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott in 2002, IwamotoScott Architecture revels in the constraints of the everyday to design—at all scales—environments that are livable, functional, and attunable to the shifting needs of a program and inhabitants.
Johnston Marklee & Associates
Los Angeles; Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee founded their practice Johnston Marklee & Associates in 1998 where it has gone on to rigorously approach projects, diverse in scale and type, across 14 countries in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.
Kwong Von Glinow
Chicago
Kwong Von Glinow, led by Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow, focuses on creating innovative living environments, places for cultural engagement, urban public space, and contemporary workspaces with a forward-looking vision.
Leong Leong
New York; Los Angeles
Nuanced, detailed, and culturally resonant, Leong Leong is a firm that integrates aesthetic, social, and ecological concerns for a range of projects, including urban campuses, institutional spaces, retail, and furniture.
Marlon Blackwell Architects
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Marlon Blackwell Architects uses an agile approach that turns economic constraints and limitations into meaningful, honest, and dignified buildings and interiors.
Michael Hsu Office of Architecture
Austin; Houston
Empathy underscores Michael Hsu’s practice, which strives to build livable, neighborhood-oriented spaces with an emphasis on available materials and simple design palettes.
Michael K Chen Architecture
New York
Recognized for expertise in creating complex urban projects, Michael K Chen Architecture works to produce design that is unexpected, hyper-useful, intelligent, and full of delight.
Modellus Novus
New York
Modellus Novus, which is Latin for “new model,” challenges the exclusivity of architecture with an inclusive, diverse team to deliver forward-thinking and elegant spaces.
Morris Adjmi Architects
New York; New Orleans
Morris Adjmi Architects balances between fitting in with its surroundings while looking distinctive enough to make an impact, be engaging to its occupants, and, above all, endure.
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
New York; Shanghai
Founded in 2006 by partners Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, Neri&Hu’s multicultural team carefully probes history, site, and programming to deliver challenging and considerate projects, responsive to a global as well as local perspective.
Norman Kelley
Chicago; Cambridge, Massachusetts
Carrie Norman and Thomas Kelley’s practice, Norman Kelley, focuses on residential architecture, commercial interiors, furniture design, exhibition design, and design criticism, recognizing both the need for place and the unexpected.
Office of Tangible Space
San Francisco; New York
Office of Tangible Space is a bicoastal studio, founded by Michael Yarinsky and Kelley Perumbeti, that explores design as a conduit for connection and community, which often results in human-centric and playful objects and spaces.
Omar Gandhi Architects
Toronto; Halifax, Canada
Working on landscapes, residences, products, and large-scale works, Omar Gandhi Architects respects the history and environment of each project’s site while evolving the traditional forms and conditions.
Omer Arbel
Vancouver
Designers at Omer Arbel see architecture as fluid, moving between sculpture and construction. The studio explores the mechanical, physical, and chemical qualities of materials.
OWIU
Los Angeles
Founded by Joel Wong and Amanda Gunawan, OWIU is a tripartite firm: an architecture and interior design practice, ceramics studio, and construction company; all sensitive to California’s midcentury legacy.
Peterson Rich Office
New York
Miriam Peterson and Nathan Rich established Peterson Rich Office in 2014 with an eye toward culturally and publicly engaged works across different scales, such as the Shepherd Gallery and Arts Center and Galerie Perrotin.
PRODUCTORA
Mexico City; New York
Founded by Abel Perles, Carlos Bedoya, Victor Jaime, and Wonne Ickx, PRODUCTORA’s works are often identifiable by precise geometries and clearly legible gestures.
Ringo Studio
New York
Ringo Studio designs visionary environments, rich in articulate nuance, where the customer journey is as strategically considered as the architecture that embodies it.
Rockwell Group
New York; Los Angeles; Madrid
Likely a firm that needs no introduction, Rockwell Group works across luxury hospitality, cultural, set design, and more with an eye toward layers and theatricality.
Sarah Jacoby Architect
New York
Founded in 2014, Sarah Jacoby Architect translates West Coast elements to New York, while specializing in building, creatively restoring, reconfiguring, and designing public and private spaces.
SO – IL
New York
Led by Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg, SO – IL combines local and global perspectives to better engage site-specific dialogue, such as a museum at the University of California, Davis campus and the multi-unit housing project 450 Warren in Brooklyn.
West of West
Los Angeles; Portland, Oregon
Established in 2014 by Jai Kumaran and Clayton Taylor, West of West engages the worlds of design, art, culture, and technology to shape contemporary life and the built environment.
Woods + Dangaran
Los Angeles
Mid-size office Woods + Dangaran works across the country, integrating architecture, interiors, and custom furnishings in a quietly luxurious yet warmly modern fashion.
Worrell Yeung
New York
Concise, poetic pragmatism lies at the heart of Worrell Yeung, which approaches conceptualization and construction with equal importance.