March 2022 Editor's Letter

MagazineMarch 2022 Editor's LetterAD's Editor-in-Chief unveils what's in store for the February issueFebruary 2, 2022Image may contain Human Person Wood Indoors Gwyneth Paltrow Room Plywood Kitchen Furniture Footwear and ClothingGwyneth Paltrow takes a seat in her new California kitchen with her husband, writer-producer Brad Falchuk. Yoshihiro Makino

“The kids were much younger when I embarked on this project, and I wasn’t married to Brad, so I was ideating for a future self that didn’t exist yet.” —Gwyneth Paltrow

Star power comes in many forms at AD, and this issue celebrates mega-talents from many fields of expertise—entertainment, sports, architecture, interior design.

Image may contain Human Person Devin Armani Booker Vehicle Transportation Automobile Car Animal Mammal and Canine

NBA star Devin Booker in his Arizona garage.

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Aerin Lauder’s Panama pool.

Anita Calero

Hollywood heavyweight Gwyneth Paltrow spent six years building her dream house from the ground up in beautiful Montecito (“our sweet gem of an escape”). Collaborating with an AD100 dream team of Roman and Williams and Romanek Design Studio, Paltrow successfully transformed a teardown on a generous lot (“It was like Grey Gardens. There were wild animals living there and swarms of bugs, but I fell in love with the land and the views,” she says) into her specific vision of “a Parisian apartment set within an old European barn, something with high ceilings, flooded with light, a place that feels generous yet manageable at the same time.”

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A Hamptons house with interiors by Neal Beckstedt.

Stephen Kent JohnsonImage may contain Footwear Clothing Shoe Apparel Human Person Sleeve and Long Sleeve

Jing liu and Florian Idenburg, the duo behind influential architecture Firm So–IL.

Lelanie Foster

NBA wunderkind Devin Booker, the Phoenix Suns guard and a budding design sophisticate at only 25 years old, enlisted the AD100’s Clements Design and fellow Los Angeles firm Karan Brady Interiors to feather his modern Arizona nest, which features custom 12-foot-long sofas to accommodate his towering teammates and a James Turrell LED sculpture on his dining room wall.

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With Aerin Lauder in Palm Beach.

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A bit farther afield, we visit Aerin Lauder, founder of her namesake lifestyle brand and the ultimate tastemaking New Yorker, on an ultra-isolated part of the Pacific coast of Panama, where her family trades city life for “a real adventure escape,” says Lauder. “It’s rustic. It’s a fantasy island. You feel like you’re far, far away.” Another sweet gem.

-Amy Astley, Editor in Chief, @amyastley 


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