November 14,2022

The Most Inspiring Interiors and Architecture of the Year

by David Stewart

Pinterest was created for sharing beautiful and aspirational images as well as renovation inspiration. In 2015 we pinned photos of our favorite interiors and architecture, from Spanish-style houses in warm-weather locations to a $28 million home in San Francisco. Here, we rounded up the images you shared most on Pinterest in the past year: Gisele and Tom Brady’s Los Angeles guest room, the breakfast nook of a century-old California home, a luxe woodsy lodge, and more.

For more great design inspiration in the New Year, follow Architectural Digest on Pinterest .

In the breakfast room of the D.C. Design House , which is adjacent to the kitchen, decorator Sarah Wessel used a 19th-century French farm table, Lee Industries dining chairs, and a hand-blocked Lee Jofa print for the drapes.

Spanish-style architecture has influenced home design for centuries in warm-weather locations worldwide. Casa Bohemia: The Spanish-Style House (Rizzoli, $55) explores 29 of these majestic estates, examining the intricate details that give each residence its own personality. Grandiose arches, vibrant tiles, and rustic ceilings are just a few of the elements highlighted throughout the book.

Architectural Digest spoke to David Rockwell, founder of design powerhouse Rockwell Group, about the interiors of the New York Edition hotel in Manhattan , his latest collaboration with hotelier Ian Schrager.

This steel-and-glass pool pavilion of a home in the southeastern U.S. was designed by Ken Tate and decorated by Ann Holden.

A charming stoop graces an East 71st Street residence in New York City. The five-story traditional townhouse was built in 1910 and features reimagined interiors designed by Jeffrey Bilhuber.

A solarium-style window fills the kitchen with natural light in Jeremiah Brent and Nate Berkus’s Greenwich Village, New York, home.

Ellen DeGeneres is always on the lookout for her next great house adventure. In fact, she’s renovated nearly a dozen dwellings over the past 25 years. In her book Home (Grand Central Publishing, $35), DeGeneres brings fans into seven residences—past and current—and lets readers in on how she and her wife, actress Portia de Rossi, created these spectacular spaces.

This San Francisco breakfast nook decorated by Lauren Nelson is meant for informal family meals but still packs quite the punch, with built-in cabinets designed by Sutro Architects and painted in Benjamin Moore’s Evening Dove. The bentwood chandelier is from Trans-Luxe.

Just recently, the priciest listing in San Francisco was for a whopping $28 million. The circa-1901 mansion on Vallejo Street, one of the city’s highest streets, has been restored on the outside and completely updated on the inside. The five-story abode offers seven bedrooms, seven baths, and over 9,000 square feet of living space.

The 35 homey wood-paneled cottages of Migis Lodge are nestled amid 125 pine-forested acres on the shores of southern Maine’s Sebago Lake, where fans have for nearly a century been flocking for old-fashioned fun, including tennis, water-skiing, kayaking, sailing—even jaunts on the resort’s vintage wood Chris-Craft to a private island.

The Classic Cloth plaid used on the beds and the curtains’ leafy Schumacher print add a spirited vibe to a bedroom in Gisele and Tom Brady’s Los Angeles home ; the striped pillows and Joan Behnke–designed storage ottomans are both covered in Loro Piana fabrics, and the chandelier is by Axel Vervoordt.

Rugged athleticism meets progressive design at Vancouver’s Studeo55 . Devised by BOX Interior Design—a firm that specializes in restaurants and hotels—the colorful space is outfitted with cutting-edge equipment, offering CrossFit, spinning, and other classes.

Inside the oldest house in Washington, D.C., designer Mariette Himes Gomez furnished the library with an exquisite carpet from Doris Leslie Blau, a top Oriental rug dealer for decorators and antiquarians alike.

Honeysuckle climbs the trellis of the outdoor living room at actor Hank Azaria’s Bel Air, California, home, which was decorated by Trip Haenisch and furnished with Haenisch-designed seating upholstered in Perennials outdoor fabrics.

The kitchen of this San Francisco home by Lauren Nelson is painted in shades of white and blue to keep the room from feeling too stark. The brass pendant lights, custom made by Lacoli & McAllister, lend a modern touch to the space.

  • David Stewart
  • November 14,2022

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