AN Interior’s Top 50 Architects and Designers list celebrates the most interesting architects and design firms producing interiors in North America. Now in its ninth year, this collection, researched by AN Interior’s editors and based on their coverage, surveys the studios actively rethinking and advancing the field. From younger, smaller firms (some with just two employees) to established studios 80 strong, these are names to know.
22RE
Los Angeles
22RE is a multidisciplinary architecture and design practice founded by Dean Levin, creating refined interiors and furniture rooted in craft, materiality, and global influences.
AAmp
Toronto; Portland, Maine
Founded by Anne-Marie Armstrong and Andrew Ashey, AAmp is an architecture and interiors studio creating enduring spaces through stewardship, clarity, collaboration, and deep contextual engagement.
Aidlin Darling Design
San Francisco; Pittsburgh
Aidlin Darling Design was founded in 1998 with the conviction that architecture can meaningfully impact the human spirit to inspire, educate, and deepen our connections.
Anya Moryoussef Architect
Toronto
An award-winning architecture and interiors practice, Anya Moryoussef Architect pursues empathetic adaptation and resilient new construction, reinterpreting found forms and conventions in search of emotion.
Appareil Architecture
Montreal
Appareil Architecture is a transdisciplinary firm dedicated to creating functional and timeless spaces that celebrate the land, cultivate communal well-being, and embrace the city’s Nordic climate.
Architecture in Formation
New York
Under Matthew Bremer, Architecture in Formation creates boldly transformative cultural environments, economically aligned communities, and bespoke residences with restraint and whimsy for place and planet.
Aunt Studio
Los Angeles
Noam Saragosti and Juhee Park cofounded their multidisciplinary practice, Aunt Studio, to create grounded, purposeful spaces through research, dialogue, and craft for buildings, interiors, and furniture.
AvroKO
Multiple Locations
Founded by Kristina O’Neal, Adam Farmerie, William Harris, and Greg Bradshaw, AvroKO has shaped hospitality design through its integrated process and focus on creating emotionally connected experiences.
Bestor Architecture
Los Angeles
Bestor Architecture is recognized for inventive integration of architecture, urbanism, infrastructure, and landscape. The varied and progressive work expands the territory of architecture into atmospheric urbanism.
BLDUS
Washington, D.C.
Founded in 2013 by Jack Becker and Andrew Linn, BLDUS makes architecture that connects past with future, modernity with tradition, and humanity with the natural world.
Breland-Harper
Michael Breland is the founder and principal of Breland–Harper, a Los Angeles multidisciplinary studio that integrates architecture, interiors, and landscape through thoughtful, site-responsive, enduring design.
Brent Buck Architects
New York
Brent Buck Architects is a full-service architecture and interiors practice working throughout the U.S. on projects of multiple scales—from furniture to multifamily buildings.
Charlap Hyman & Herrero
Multiple Locations
Charlap Hyman & Herrero is an architecture and design firm that takes a fully integrated approach to conceptualizing and executing spaces in their totality across scales.
CIVILIAN
New York
CIVILIAN is an architecture and interior design studio founded by Nicko Elliott and Ksenia Kagner. It works with companies, cultural institutions, and innovators shaping culture and science.
CO Adaptive
New York
Founded by Ruth Mandl and Bobby Johnston in 2011, CO Adaptive is an unbuild-design-build practice focused on reducing embodied and operational carbon through adaptive reuse and retrofits.
Commune
Los Angeles
Commune is a design studio with a reputation for holistic work across architecture, interior, and graphic and product design, led by principals Roman Alonso and Steven Johanknecht.
D’Arcy Jones Architects
Vancouver, Canada
Since 1999, D’Arcy Jones Architects has crafted rational, conceptual projects rooted in place and shaped by time, drawing inspiration from historic buildings and contemporary life.
DUST
Tuscon, Arizona
DUST is an award-winning architecture studio whose work is shaped by landscape, climate, material, and craft, paying close attention to how people inhabit places.
Figure
San Francisco
Figure, an architecture studio founded by James Leng and Jennifer Ly, crafts bespoke, award-winning designs rooted in inquiry, collaboration, and community and expresses subtlety and generosity.
Fox Fox Studio
Austin; New York
Fox Fox Studio is an architecture and interior design studio founded by husband and wife Will and Alice Fox, who bring an art sensibility and conceptual narrative to spaces.
Futurestudio
Toronto
Driven by a vision that balances contemporary aesthetics with enduring relevance, Futurestudio aims to redefine how interiors can adapt to the future while remaining timeless.
GOMA
Mexico City; Querétaro, Mexico
GOMA is an architecture studio with a multidisciplinary team that respects context and the preexisting built environment, shaping interiors with simplicity, natural light, and materials that gain depth.
GRT Architects
New York; Mexico City
Tal Schori and Rus Mehta lead GRT, working across a range of typologies—cultural, commercial, hospitality, residential, and more—marrying voiced aesthetics with technical excellence.
INC
New York
INC works at the intersection of architecture, interiors, and object design, cultivating a communal studio culture grounded in joy, utility, craft, and creating places of belonging.
Ivy Studio
Montreal
Ivy Studio is a boutique architecture firm creating highly personalized commercial interiors, blending architecture, interiors, furniture, and material exploration into distinctive, immersive spatial experiences.
Johnston Marklee
Los Angeles
Johnston Marklee is an architecture firm established by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee and recognized for its engagement with arts, culture, and the foundations of the discipline.
JSa
Mexico City
Since 1996, JSa has transformed Mexico City’s urban fabric through research-driven architecture, growing into an award-winning international practice with 190- plus projects across the Americas and Europe.
Klein
Los Angeles
Klein is a design studio led by Maša and Jon Kleinhample that works across furniture, interiors, and architecture and is grounded in material integrity and a thoughtful approach.
Kwong Von Glinow
Chicago
Kwong Von Glinow is an architecture practice grounded in clear ideas, careful observation, and optimism, creating simple, purposeful, and transformative solutions across projects and scales.
Lovers Unite
Los Angeles
Lovers Unite is an architecture and interiors studio led by Karen Spector and Alan Koch, designing sensuous, moodenhancing spaces for hospitality, homes, and fire rebuilds.
Marsollier Villacorta
Mexico City; New York
Marsollier Villacorta is an architectural studio designing enduring spaces that emphasize the presence and significance of materials, contextual specificity, and the fundamentals of craft.
Modellus Novus
New York
Modellus Novus—its name is Latin for “new model”—is an architecture and design firm whose work captures and transforms client ambitions into projects that shape legacies
Neil Logan, Architect
New York
Neil Logan founded his New York architecture practice in 1994 and works across architecture, interiors, and spaces for living and making.
Odami
Toronto
Odami is an award-winning studio driven by productive tensions between unexpected ideas and perspectives: the convergence of the pragmatic and expressive, the familiar and the unexpected.
Of Possible
New York
Of Possible is a creative practice led by Vincent Appel working across spheres of architecture, design, interiors, urbanism, furniture, sculpture, and largescale public art.
Office of Tangible Space
New York; San Francisco
Founded by Michael Yarinsky and Kelley Perumbeti, Office of Tangible Space works across architecture, interiors, furniture, and curation, creating experiences of culture, play, and connection.
Omar Gandhi Architects
Multiple Locations
Omar Gandhi Architects, founded in 2010, is a small, thoughtful practice dedicated to crafting contextually rich, distinctive architecture rooted in place, material, and landscape.
Ome Dezin
Los Angeles
Ome Dezin was founded in 2020 by Joelle Kutner and Jesse Rudolph as a design-build studio that restores character-driven homes throughout Los Angeles and nationwide.
Omer Arbel Office
Vancouver, Canada
Omer Arbel is the cofounder and creative director of Bocci and founder of Omer Arbel Office (OAO). Its work is rooted in sustained investigation into materials.
ONO
San Francisco
Tyler Noblin and Max Obata founded their office in 2020. Together they combine a language of warmth and formal restraint in projects across the U.S.
Peterson Rich Office
New York
The firm is known for adaptive reuse and cultural projects, including the Condé M. Nast Galleries at The Met, and the forthcoming Arts of Africa Galleries at Brooklyn Museum.
Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados
Mexico City
Founded by Pablo Pérez Palacios, this architecture practice works across architecture, interiors, art, and urbanism, exploring the built and unbuilt and inspired by nature, context, and materiality.
Ringo Studio
New York
Ringo Studio is a design practice building immersive retail and wellness interiors through bold visions and sensorial design, translating brand identity into physical experiences.
Sala Hars
Mexico City
Founded by Juan Sala and Douglas Harsevoort, Sala Hars believes deeply in architecture as cultural production and in being evolutionary and revolutionary at once.
SCHAUM Architects
Houston
Troy Schaum is the principal of SCHAUM Architects, which considers the city at the scale of the building—as theoretical experimentation and as a reality that may be transformed.
Ste Marie
Vancouver, Canada
Ste Marie imagines and creates hospitality and mixed-use spaces that distill place, purpose, and human experience into emotionally resonant and unconventional environments.
STRANG
Miami; Winter Haven, Florida
Founded in 1998, STRANG believes in the enduring intrigue of modernism. As a highly creative team of designers, it is committed to meaningful collaborations with clients.
Walker Warner
San Francisco
Walker Warner is a full-service architecture firm specializing in residential and hospitality design whose work is grounded in sensitivity to client and place.
Williamson Williamson
Toronto
Williamson Williamson is an internationally recognized architecture practice centered on residential, institutional, and commercial work that is defined by precision, craft, and design excellence.
Worrell Yeung
New York
Worrell Yeung is an architecture practice that creates enduring work united by simplicity, a product born from rigorous analysis and an inventive design process.
