Welcome to AN Interior‘s inaugural top 50 interior architect and designer list, featuring emerging and established firms across the U.S. While these architects’ and designers’ talents certainly go beyond interior work, they are deftly pushing the boundaries of residential, retail, workplace, and hospitality spaces and cleverly reimagining the spaces we inhabit.
Ensamble Studio
Boston, Madrid
With a distinct focus on the process of making, Ensamble Studio leverages material technologies to produce dramatic spaces and forms.
64North
Los Angeles
Multidisciplinary studio 64North provides branding, interiors, website, and product design services.
Architecture is Fun
Chicago
As the name implies, Architecture Is Fun produces playful designs, frequently working with children’s museums; it won AIA Chicago’s 2017 Firm of the Year award.
UrbanLab
Chicago, Los Angeles
UrbanLab’s highly graphic design sensibility brings together smart solutions and visual identity in projects ranging from small storefronts to urban infrastructures.
Design, Bitches
Chicago, Los Angeles
The irreverent work of Design, Bitches employs layers of color, light, and material to build engaging interior spaces across Southern California.
LADG
Los Angeles
LADG produces uncanny forms and clever spaces by leveraging common construction materials.
Toshiko Mori Architect
New York
The minimal interiors of Toshiko Mori belie their complexity, framing dramatic landscapes and challenging notions of craft.
Young Projects
New York
The formally expressive interiors and objects by Bryan Young utilize smooth geometries and refined materials.
tacklebox architecture
New York
Tacklebox’s interiors are filled with “ordinary” materials deployed in unexpected ways, recontextualizing the quotidian.
Michael K Chen Architecture
New York
MKCA’s puzzle-like built-ins make the most of tiny living spaces.
NADAAA
New York, Boston
NADAAA’s work engages with high-tech material investigations and form finding.
LOT
New York, Athens
The influence of LOT’s Greek office is clear in its mellow, refined interiors and the firm’s furniture line, Objects of Common Interest.
MOS Architects
New York
The highly intellectual work of MOS plays on contemporary and historical architectural philosophies.
Norman Kelley
Chicago, New York
A self-described superficial practice, Carrie Norman and Thomas Kelley explore the concepts of play, illusion, and flatness, all within an often tongue-in-cheek understanding of historical precedent.
Snarkitecture
New York
It should be no surprise that a firm named Snarkitecture produces works that are often outlandish—tempered by clean, white color palettes.
INABA Williams
New York
Part think tank and part design firm, every INABA Williams project is rooted in an in-depth research process.
Elliott + Associates Architects
Oklahoma City
Rand Elliott has been focusing the country’s attention on Oklahoman design for the past 40 years.
SPAN Architecture
New York
SPAN creates high-finish spaces full of carefully chosen materials and details.
Home Studios
New York
Home Studios produces polished, finely detailed commercial and hospitality interiors filled with fine wood, stone, and metal detailing.
Architecture in Formation
New York
AiF brings together eclectic styles for a wide range of projects, from large hospitality to urban lofts.
Only If—
New York
Only If— fuses smart geometries with clever materials for striking interiors.
Ezequiel Farca + Cristina Grappin
Los Angeles, Mexico City, Milan
Ezequiel Farca and Cristina Grappin draw from their collaborations with Mexican artisans and use local materials to create contextual works for high-end clients.
Bureau Spectacular
Los Angeles
The comic book sensibility of Bureau Spectacular delves beyond the superficial with spaces that encourage the occupants to live a less ordinary life.
Barbara Bestor
Los Angeles
Between her many residential and commercial projects across L.A. and her book, Bohemian Modern: Living in Silver Lake, Barbara Bestor is an influential force on Southern Californian design.
Johnsen Schmaling Architects
Milwaukee
Johnsen Schmaling translates the beauty of the rural upper Midwest into site-specific residential projects.
Morris Adjmi Architects
New York
Carefully proportioned spaces and forms—and a sensitivity to history— define Morris Adjmi’s elegant work.
Neil M. Denari Architects
Los Angeles
Teaching at UCLA in addition to running his practice, Neil Denari is a perennial thought leader in the space where technology and architectural form meet.
WORKac
New York
With clever twists on typical programs, WORKac’s interiors are unexpected and playful.
archimania
Memphis
The progressive Memphis-based firm is taking a leading role in redefining what architecture can be in the Southeast through its numerous projects and help in redeveloping its city’s waterfront.
Shulman + Associates
Miami
Shulman + Associates draw on the history, materials, and culture of South Florida to formulate vibrant, innovative commercial and residential interiors.
Clive Wilkinson Architects
Los Angeles
Focusing on workplace and educational facilities, Clive Wilkinson has helped define the aesthetics of contemporary creative professional and learning spaces.
Rafael de Cárdenas Architecture at Large
New York
Native New Yorker Rafael de Cárdenas incorporates ’80s and ’90s glamour and pop culture into his high-profile endeavors.
Studio O+A
San Francisco
The workspaces designed by Studio O+A express its clients’ stories and personalities, pushing the envelope of the modern office.
New Affiliates
New York
New Affiliates works in “loose forms and rough materials” to create elegant spaces.
Biber Architects
New York
James Biber approaches every project with a fresh vision, letting design and function guide the form.
Olson Kundig
Seattle
With a dedicated interiors studio, Olson Kundig has redefined the Pacific Northwest architectural typology.
OFFICIAL
Dallas
OFFICIAL designs bright interiors with pops of color and custom furnishings. The two-person studio also has its own furniture line.
Aidlin Darling Design
San Francisco
Materials are at the forefront of and celebrated in each project by Aidlin Darling Design.
Leong Leong
New York
Brothers Christopher and Dominic Leong use broad, decisive formal moves to organize space into crisp, refined interiors.
Alexander Gorlin Architects
New York
For the past two decades, even when minimalism reigned, Alexander Gorlin has been layering colors and patterns with great success.
Craig Steely Architecture
San Francisco
Craig Steely celebrates the tropical locales of his projects with interiors that reflect and embrace the native flora.
Aranda\Lasch
New York, Tuscon
Truly experimental, Aranda\Lasch explores pattern and fabrications as easily as space and form.
Andre Kikoski Architect
New York
Known for creating everything from architectural interiors to furniture and finishes, Andre Kikoski consistently delivers refined designs.
SO-IL
New York
Airy and ethereal, yet highly programmatic, the formal and material exercises by SO-IL are unmistakable.
Peter Marino Architect
New York
Leather-clad Peter Marino is the go-to for sumptuous interiors in high-end retail and hospitality around the world.
Slade Architecture
New York
Slade’s lighthearted approach brings together form, color, pattern, and material.
Charlap Hyman & Herrero
Los Angeles, New York
Bold interior forms with a refined material palette typify the work of RISD graduates Andre Herrero and Adam Charlap Hyman.
BarlisWedlick Architects
New York
BarlisWedlick produces super-efficient, passive projects without neglecting aesthetics.
Schiller Projects
New York
Schiller Projects works through analytic research to design everything from architecture to branding.
Reddymade Design
New York
Reddymade’s interiors are influenced by founder Suchi Reddy’s Indian upbringing, with lush colors, patterns, and rich materials.