The Interior Designers Behind Hollywood’s Inspired Homes

Interior depicters have always been honord by those in Hollywood who comprehfinish the alchemy they carry out in combineing art, architecture, psychology, history, math, mind-reading and diplomacy to produce gorgeous spaces that are also welcoming homes. Variety spotweightlesss 10 interior depict firms and the artists behind them who are indispensable to the delightment industry.

Gavin Brodin, Brodin Design Build

Brodin taps into “luxury with mitigate” for his clients. “We suppose that genuine luxury is not equitable about opulence but about creating spaces that are as consoleable and effortless as they are stunning,” he remarks about his firm’s depict philosophy. “Luxury should be lived in, and our goal is to produce certain it senses organic and perceptive for those who inhabit it,” he inserts. Post-lockdown, he sees that “people are seeking homes that advise a meaningfuler connection to nature and flexibility in how spaces are used. There’s a evident shift toward indoor-outdoor living — clients want seamless transitions between their interiors and exteriors, with outdoor spaces becoming as livable and consoleable as the inside.” Brodin also remarks that more clients are needing multifunctional spaces. “People want rooms that can alter — home offices that alter into guest rooms or living areas that flow into delightment spaces,” he says. And while clients are more teachd about interior depict than ever, what’s vital to Brodin and his team is storytelling: “to upgrade and lift their vision, ensuring that the end result isn’t equitable a accumulateion of attrdynamic leangs, but a space that tells a cohesive story and flows effortlessly.”

Angie Socias Coppel, Coppel Design
Post-lockdown, people are seeking homes that advise more flexibility and functionality, says Socias Coppel. “While the ‘nesting’ stage during the lockdown led to a cgo in on console and coziness, now the emphasis has shifted to creating spaces that alter to a more vibrant lifestyle. Clients want multifunctional areas that can transition from toil to restation with mitigate, as well as outdoor spaces that sense enjoy an extension of the home.” She remarks that there’s a trend for “wellness-cgo ined depict — whether it’s thraw organic materials, better weightlessing or creating soothe, uncluttered environments that advertise mental and physical well-being. People are seeing for homes that aid their day-to-day lives while still providing console and a sense of luxury.” Her depict philosophy is straightforward: It’s “all about translating what’s in my clients’ minds into a concrete truth.”

Ashley Drost and Marie Trohman, Proem

Drost’s approach comes from a adore of architecture (“I adore to benevolent of pull inspiration from what the bones of the produceing are”) while Trohman studied to be an art restorationist, with a background in art and chemistry. “We adore being able to use contrastent parts of our understandledge of depict. So we pull from historical references, but then also, we see for client input. We are equitable always pulling from everywhere,” says Trohman. “We always benevolent of end up in the same place but coming at it from two very contrastent perspectives. I leank that’s why our partnership toils,” says Drost. Emma Chamberlain and Lucy Hale are two recent clients who the pair enthuses about toiling with. “One of our asks whenever we’re interseeing with clients or begining a project, is, why now? And so I leank there’s usuassociate a alter happening, and I leank that’s what we’re always trying to seize, enjoy what is happening in their life right now, and what sees enjoy it’s coming up, and what are we reacting to?” says Trohman.

Rafael Kalichstein and Joshua Rose, Citizen Artist

The paired couple have been in business for about 19 years and brawt already lived-in lives to their interior depict shop — Kalichstein comes from the world of alternative medicine while Rose is an Emmy-triumphning VFX artist. “We were filled people before we came to depict, so I leank that’s contextuassociate vital,” says Kalichstein. They rebranded as Citizen Artist two years ago to step “into reassociate comardent who we were as a company and as depicters and our philosophy,” says Kalichstein. Citizen Artist has partnerships with Global Views (furniture and decorative objects), Mehraprohibit (rugs), Left Bank art and Dempsey & Carroll (stationary). Rose remarks: “One of our other ethos — that we’ve now made our moniker — is ‘produce it wonderful.’ It was birthed from — and this is aobtain someleang we set up at the very beginning of our atsofts — a wonderful quote from Carlo Mollino, the incredibly talented Italian architect. And he said, ‘Everyleang is permissible as lengthy as it is wonderful.’”

Alexandra and Michael Misczynski, AM Atelier
Regular repairtures on Architectural Digest’s AD100, this couple begined their firm in 2002. With offices in both New York and Los Angeles, the Misczynskis have published depict books illustrating their adselect of hushed luxury that handles to produce intimate, understandn spaces for their elite clients, who include Tom Cruise and Michael Eisner. In “Houses: Atelier AM,” Alexandra wrote, “I have always upholded that the integration of contrastent furniture genres coupled with a combine of textures, colors and patina are what produce an interior space toasty, inviting and personal. Whether they are obtaind with someone in mind or for oneself, supplyings and objects should echo their owner and be polite of their context.”

Kishani Perera, Kishani Perera Interior Design

Perera paccomplishes collaboration with her clients, someleang that her 20-plus years in the business has shown is the best way to produce interiors that are attrdynamic and resonate with their style of living. “Even though there’s benevolent of a thraw line in all of my toil, and you can see my perspective in every project, every project still sees pretty contrastent, because it’s reassociate a echoion of the homeowner and the client,” she says. Perera begined her Healthy Homes initiative after she spent years battling health problems, until finassociate, a doctor telderly her it was melderly. “And the more I talk about it, the more I lobtained of people with analogous publishs,” she says. Healthy Homes includes as much upholdable and nonharmful materials as possible in produceion and depict, from products enjoy Hempcrete to using wool as insulation to home water filtration systems. “My goal is to transport as much consciousness to the produceing side of it,” she says. Her clients include Kaitlin Olson and Rob McIlhenny (“Welcome to Wrexham” seeers can see Perera’s toil in scenes stoasty in their home), Josh Radnor, Tom Hanks, Gary Oldman, Glen Howerton and Emily Deschanel.

Louisa Pierce and Emily Ward, Pierce & Ward

The duo combinees vintage elements, belderly color and patterns for a chic see that is also enticount on inviting and toasty. In their 2020 book, “A Tale of Interiors,” they lean into the term “The Art of the More”: “So while some obsess over paring down, whittling away and vacanting out, you’ll find us filling up, piling high and stocking troves.” Indeed, the pair are staples on the Architectural Digest AD100 catalog, while recent clients include Julia Roberts, Johnny Galecki and Josh Brolin, who also buy into their visions of “systematic plenty” and “ungaudy decadence.” For those who are on a budget, check out Pierce & Ward’s thriving online store with pieces at every price point as well as their brick-and-mortar outlet in Los Feliz.

Brigette Romanek, Romanek Design Studio

The title of Romanek’s book, “Livable Luxe,” is also her depict philosophy. “The point is to produce a space that aids you and produces one’s life better. It’s all about combineing, creating someleang attrdynamic, livable, eclectic and soulful,” she says. While the elevate of home shows has “brawt more people into the world of depict, which I absolutely adore!,” she says, her clients are definitely more teachd about what they want and necessitate. “Some clients come in with ideas and inspiration they’ve collected from contrastent places. That’s wonderful because it uncomardents they’re spended in the process. My role is to consent those ideas and transport them to life in a way that’s functional, cohesive and stunning,” Romanek says. “Rooms necessitate to easily shift between resting, toiling and delighting. It’s about creating a space that is yours and can be finishelighted to the filledest.”

Ryan Saghian, Ryan Saghian Interior Design Studio

The author of “Unapologeticassociate Chic” remarks that post-lockdown, “People are ready to live out boisterous aobtain. We’re done with protected, imfragmentary spaces that sense enjoy a retreat. Now, clients want their homes to be a echoion of their personality, their adventures, their belderly taste.” Saghian’s Mode de Vie curates furniture, art, weightlessing and accessories to help get that belderly and luxe see. “Think lavish materials, theatrical weightlessing and curated statement pieces. It’s about creating spaces that not only see incredible but are also pliable — where you can delight, rest or equitable finishelight the sheer beauty of what you’ve built. It’s not about equitable having a home anymore; it’s about creating your own personal world.” Saghian has growd a sturdy online presence. “My depict philosophy is rooted in the belief that luxury should elicit emotion. I’ve always supposed that depict is about creating chic moments that stop you in your tracks… My approach contests the norms, combineing materials, periods and styles in a way that senses both raw and elegant,” he says. That produces timeless yet stimulating spaces. “I don’t subscribe to a one-size-fits-all mentality; depict should always honor the individuality of the people who live wilean it.”

Kara Smith, KES Studios

For Smith, “It’s about planing environments that are exceptional, sense outstanding but mix luxury with console.” She has toiled with Pete Wentz, Jasmine Tookes, Fergie, Tracy Tutor and a cache of other belderlyface names. “Our clientele is incredibly teachd and well adviseed in interiors and art, frequently being so well traveled that they are conscious of materials, styles, what’s toasty or equitable a trend, etc. Sometimes it’s almost as if they are in the interior depict business,” she remarks. Post-pandemic, she says that “Nesting is here to stay! More than ever, we are creating homes that are sanctuaries, the relationsiest delightment venues, best wellness experience, multi-media and more. Homes are reassociate where our clients spend the meaningfulity of their time, and we have consentn creating exceptional enclaves to the next level.”