Back to the 2014 AD100 List

New rooms with traditional elements, old-fashioned but not dated,” is how Manhattan designer Thomas Jayne sums up his gracious classical interiors, which are greatly admired by aficionados of 18th- and 19th-century furniture. That being said, the spaces wrought by the Winterthur-trained Albert Hadley disciple and his associates are invitingly livable. “We guarantee comfort,” Jayne says. As appreciative of the surrealist ceramic caprices of British contemporary artist Oriel Harwood as he is of Bourbon sophistication—“Nothing is more refined than the best French chairs,” he proclaims—Jayne is currently fielding a wide range of distinguished projects, from creating rugs for Stark to refurbishing the Georgian-style president’s house at Yale University. He also designed an exhibition on American furnishings and art now on view at the Rhode Island School of Design. jaynedesignstudioom

Meet the other architects and designers on the 2014 AD100 list.