Architectural Digest Names Pratt Designers Among World's Best

Several Pratt architects and designers have earned much-coveted spots on Architectural Digest’s "AD 100" list of the most influential designers and architects in the world. 

On the list are three alumni: graduates David Easton (B.A. Interior Design ’63), Peter Shelton (B. Arch. ’75), and Annabelle Selldorf (B. Arch. ’85), and former faculty member, architect Richard Meier (Hon. ’99). Also on the list are several individuals who have received the prestigious Pratt Legends award, including Meier, architect and designer David Rockwell, and interior designer Juan Montoya, also a former Pratt trustee.

Interior designer David Easton is considered one of the world's most sought-after interior designers. Says Architectural Digest: “Where his firm truly excels is in delivering what he calls ‘an envelope for a lifestyle’ that consists of well-scripted rooms informed by classical order and symmetry.”

The publication also praises architect Peter Shelton, whose firm Shelton, Mindel & Associates counts Sting among its clients, for achieving “a tightly controlled signature look of hushed modernism, carried out in a warm, neutral palette and a carefully curated lineup of 20th-century, often Scandinavian, furnishings.”

Architect Annabelle Selldorf’s firm, Selldorf Architects, is praised for practicing "quiet architecture," instilling buildings with a luminous and pragmatic modernism that is always context sensitive. Among other projects, Selldorf is well-known for her work on the “Sky Garage” building in Manhattan that lifts residents up to their floors in their cars. That building was developed by Pratt Trustee Young S. Woo (B. Arch. ’80).

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Text: Abigail Beshkin

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The publication also praises architect Peter Shelton, whose firm Shelton, Mindel & Associates counts Sting among its clients, for achieving “a tightly controlled signature look of hushed modernism, carried out in a warm, neutral palette and a carefully curated lineup of 20th-century, often Scandinavian, furnishings.”