Heidi Caillier is an AD100 designer known for reinventing tradition to create interiors that feel timeless, beautiful, and enduring. Through her Seattle-based studio, Heidi Caillier Design, she crafts spaces guided not by rigid aesthetics but by intimacy and atmosphere. Her evolving, almost anonymous signature has earned her recognition as one of the most respected names in the field. Rooted in nostalgia, Caillier values antiques, heirlooms, and handmade pieces, embracing patina and imperfection. Paired with her celebrated use of pattern and color, these elements shape rooms that are cozy, elevated, and deeply personal. Self-taught and driven by instinct, she leads high-end residential and hospitality projects across the U.S. Her work has been featured in Architectural Digest, The Wall Street Journal, and Homes & Gardens, and honored on the AD100 and 1stDibs 50 lists.

Noz Nozawa is the founder and principal of Noz Design, an interior design firm based in San Francisco with projects across the US. Her work is known for its artful, highly personal spaces that joyfully employ color and layered styles. Noz has been celebrated as a "rising star" by by Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Sunset Magazine, and Luxe Gold List. In addition to her residential practice, Noz has won acclaim for her retail and hospitality projects, with two restaurants winning their first Michelin stars in the spaces she and her firm designed. Noz has won over clients and followers alike, for her effervescent way of sharing the "why" behind it. Noz is a regular on AD's popular "Space Savers" YouTube series.

Ben Pentreath is an award-winning architectural designer and decorator whose work champions traditional and classical architecture within contemporary society. He studied Art History at the University of Edinburgh before training at the Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture. After working in New York and with the Prince’s Foundation, he founded Ben Pentreath Ltd in 2004, now based in two Bloomsbury studios. Alongside his practice, Pentreath co-founded Pentreath & Hall, one of London’s most distinctive interiors shops. He is the author of English Decoration, English Houses, and An English Vision (Rizzoli), contributes regularly to the Financial Times, and writes the Pentreath & Hall blog. In 2023, he received the Richard H. Driehaus Prize, one of the youngest ever laureates. Pentreath lives between London, West Dorset, and the west coast of Scotland with his husband, Charlie McCormick.

Studio Valle de Valle, founded by Giancarlo Valle and Jane Keltner de Valle, is an award-winning international design practice known for creating spaces that are playful, studied, and unexpected. With a holistic approach spanning architecture, interiors, and the decorative arts, the studio works across residential and hospitality projects, from refined updates to total reimagination. In 2024, the couple opened Casa Valle in Tribeca—an immersive gallery that merges their home, design practice, and Giancarlo Valle’s furniture and lighting collections with historic works in a unified environment. Giancarlo, an architect raised in San Francisco, Chicago, Caracas, and Guatemala City, earned his Master of Architecture from Princeton. Jane, a former Architectural Digest style director, grew up in New York City and studied literature and art history at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Wendy Goodman is a leader in the international design community and has been New York magazine’s Design Editor since 2007. Over the course of her career she has defined trends, discovered new talent, and worked with the best designers, architects, and photographers. She regularly hosts talks on design, at venues ranging from the 92nd Street Y to the Museum of the City of New York and has appeared on NBC’s Open House and Good Morning America, among other outlets. As Design Editor at New York magazine/Vox Media, Goodman produces design stories for the print issues, and also content for weekly design stories on the Curbed website, now part of New York magazine. Goodman previously worked as New York’s interior design editor (1997-2007) and fashion editor (1984-1989). Before rejoining New York magazine in 1997, Goodman was the style editor at Harper’s Bazaar. Prior to her work at Bazaar, Goodman covered the world of style and fashion for House and Garden, tracking fashion designers and artists at home and traveling to the Paris, Milan, and New York shows. She is the co-author, with Hutton Wilkinson, of Tony Duquette (2007) and author of The World of Gloria Vanderbilt (2010), May I Come In?: Discovering the World in Other People’s Houses (2018).