Inside AD’s January 2025 Issue: The Definitive List of Today’s Top Design Talents

Gloria Steinem at home in Manhattan.

Photo: William Abranowicz.

Producing the January issue, which celebrates the AD100, our list of the year’s definitive talents in the design industry, always demands a bit of showmanship on our part. If I may borrow a sentiment from Kelly Ripa, whose glamorous New York City town house is included in the visual delights this month—we seek to awe and entertain you! The editors spend months—even years—tracking extraordinary projects, and there are quite a few star turns on these pages. The cover story, on an exceptional compound of chalets in Gstaad, Switzerland, involved an international list of luminaries, including AD100 Hall of Famer Francis Kéré and AD100 landscape architect Sara Zewde. Kéré was the interior architect on a home that was conceived as a platform for cultural exchange as much as a residence. “It’s meant to be the universe,” says Kéré of the mind-blowing pool, “but also a different configuration of what the universe could be.”

AD100 Hall of Fame architect Francis Kéré at his Swiss project.

Photo: Cassie floto Warner