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"25 Perfect Dining Rooms by AD100 Designers\nDiscover how top designers from around the world have created spaces suited for everything from casual family dinners to formal entertaining\nWhen it comes to bringing stunning dining rooms to life, the architects and designers of the AD100 have a wealth of knowledge and ideas. We\u2019ve gathered dazzling dining areas from the archives of Architectural Digest, along with tips from their talented creators. See some of the stylish spaces by Peter Marino, Alexa Hampton, the firm Olson Kundig, and other current and past honorees.\\n\\nJuan Mir\u00F3 and his partner, Miguel Rivera, of Mir\u00F3 Rivera Architects, conceived a 2,500-square-foot guesthouse on Lake Austin in Texas. Floor-to-ceiling windows in the dining and living areas look out onto a curvilinear terrace whose footprint mirrors the shape of the deep overhang that shades it. Mir\u00F3 and Rivera worked with Joy Kling, of Spazio Interiors, on the furnishings. (April 2007)\nIn the New Orleans area, clients commissioned architect Ken Tate to create a residential compound with regional character, and designer Ann Holden took advantage of the five-year construction period to find the perfect pieces for each room. Artists from Gracie Studio in New York painted the dining room mural of a misty Louisiana swamp scene. The husband hoped the artists would emulate the style of Joseph Rusling Meeker, and he brought them to New Orleans for a swamp tour by seaplane. \u201CThis room sets the tone for the spirit of the house,\u201D declares Tate. (July 2009)\nMark Ferguson and his team at the architectural firm Ferguson &amp;amp; Shamamian partnered with designer Sandra Nunnerley to restore a family\u2019s Manhattan residence to its 1930s glory. The dining room now takes on multiple functions, serving also as a library and study. (February 2009)\nMark Boone, of London Boone, designed his 1920s home in Los Angeles. \u201CI tried to maintain an English cottage feeling with antiques, while injecting modern pieces to add interest and color,\u201D says Boone. A paper chandelier is over an 1840s French wine-tasting table in the dining room, surrounded by a set of Orkney Island chairs that he adapted for the Mimi London showroom. (September 2002)\nA Georgian-style house in New Jersey\u2019s horse country was a collaboration between architect Allan Greenberg and interior designer Elissa Cullman of Cullman &amp;amp; Kravis. A rare 18th-century Chinese wallpaper, from Gracie, envelops the dining room. \u201CIt\u2019s like walking into a work of art. Every bird and leaf is painted differently\u2014it\u2019s an incredible tour de force.\u201D (October 2009)\n\u201CEverything is consonant with the impulse of small, simple refuge,\u201D San Francisco architect Jim Jennings says of the Palm Springs house he and writer Therese Bissell use as a weekend retreat. With the San Jacinto Mountains as its backdrop, the structure is defined by concrete-block grid patterns. \u201CThe house is an antidote to urban living,\u201D says Jennings. The d\u00E9cor of the house complements the spare aesthetic of the architecture. Jennings designed the gel-coated-fiberglass table and benches in the front courtyard, which also functions as the main dining area. (September 2009)\nMartyn Lawrence-Bullard and Trip Haenisch, of Martynus-Tripp, created a European villa-style interior for a Los Angeles house designed by Harold W. Levitt in the early 1990s. The dining room features a two-panel work by Edouard Vuillard, Sacha Guitry dans les Coulisses du Th\u00E9\u00E2tre, 1922, depicting the Moulin Rouge. (November 2005)\nOn historic Mount Brilliant Farm in Kentucky, architect Elby S. Martin and designer Mona Hajj turned an 8,600-square-foot fire-damaged carriage house into the owners\u2019 residence. In the large dining room, Hajj hung a gold-framed George III mirror against the raw wood paneling, and covered the table\u2014that can comfortably seat 18\u2014with an antique Turkish wall hanging. (June 2010)\n\u201CIt had charm, but it was dilapidated. We stripped it to the bare architecture,\u201D designer Nicholas Haslam says of Villa Corinne, the guesthouse he and Colette Van den Thillart renovated for Konstantin and Natasha Kagalovsky in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France. The dining room \u201Cwas a gloomy 19th-century affair,\u201D says Van den Thillart. They whitewashed the woodwork and painted the upper walls to look like porcelain tiles. (March 2008)\n\u201CIt\u2019s light, ethereal, sharp, crisp and comfortable above all,\u201D architect and designer Campion Platt says of the SoHo penthouse he gutted, then redesigned for his wife, Tatiana. \u201CI take more risks and certainly experiment more\u2014with scale, proportion, coloring, lighting,\u201D Platt says of his approach to his own interiors. \u201CThe focus in the main area was to create many rooms within one.\u201D A Swarovski-crystal chandelier anchors the dining area. The painting is by Hunt Slonem. (September 2007)\nDesigners Thomas Allardyce and Illya Hendrix and architect Thomas Jakway combined two apartments to create a Neoclassical residence in Chicago. In the dining room\u2014where wallcoverings and other fabrics cast a warm, golden glow, as they do in all these rooms\u2014a 19th-century, Louis XIV-style repouss\u00E9 mirror hangs above a painted and marble-topped sideboard. Six Hendrix Allardyce-designed chairs, covered in antiqued leather, surround a 19th-century table. (May 2007)\nWorking within the constraints of an existing towerlike structure situated on a steep site overlooking the Mediterranean, architect Norman Foster created a seven-level, 6,500-square-foot modernist villa. \u201CThe dining level is elevated above the living level and main terrace for clear, uninterrupted views out to sea,\u201D notes Foster. He designed the glass-and-stainless-steel table. (October 2006)\n\u201CWe created a modernist aesthetic that still expresses warmth,\u201D designer Katherine Newman says of her Toronto house, which she renovated with her partner, architect Peter Cebulak. The dining room overlooks a garden. The painting is French Wig, 1998, by Gary Komarin. A 19th-century Russian crystal chandelier illuminates the ivory-lacquered table that she and Cebulak designed. (September 2005)\nPhilip Vogelzang and Katy McCoy chose architect Tom Kundig to design their house in the Queen Anne Hill area of Seattle. \u201CThe fireplace,\u201D says Kundig, \u201Cis the anchor of the main floor,\u201D which consists of the living and dining areas and the kitchen. All three open to views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains. \u201CThere\u2019s a lot of blurring of indoor and outdoor space,\u201D McCoy adds. (October 2007)\nIn San Francisco, architect Michael Palladino and interior designer Rick Irving, of Richard Meier &amp;amp; Partners Architects, reconfigured the interior spaces of a Pacific Heights apartment. From the dining area, Keith Haring\u2019s Self Portrait, 1998, is visible in the east gallery. Moody, 1998, by Dan Corbin stands next to the opening. The table, conceived by Richard Meier &amp;amp; Partners, is made of low-iron glass with white-oak, gunmetal and stainless-steel supports. (October 2009)\nJames and Lisa Cohen hired Montecito, California-based architectural designer James Nigro and Manhattan-based interior designer Alexa Hampton to help shape a Tudor-style house for them near the Hudson River. Above the marble fire surround in the dining room hangs a copy, commissioned by the Cohens, of the Royal Collection portrait of the future Elizabeth I. (February 2007)\nFor a residence near Carmel, California, Buzz Yudell and Mario Violich, of Moore Ruble Yudell, \u201Ctranslated the landscape into a series of ideas about design,\u201D explains Violich. The firm\u2019s buildings have always been distinguished by the way they felicitously connect with their sites. A courtyard off the dining area brings light and views inside. (October 2008)\nWhile constructing a contemporary house for a couple in Sonoma, California, architect Harvey Sanchez and his son, Conrad, asked designer Ron Mann to help with the architecture and build out and decorate the interiors. The great room is enveloped in floor-to-ceiling windows that visually bring the live oaks in. Mann designed many pieces for the house, including an eight-foot-wide steel dining table capable of spinning like a gigantic lazy Susan. The banana photomural is by Lenny Eiger. (July 2008)\nArchitect Brooks Walker and interior designer Douglas Durkin renovated a 1951 William Wurster house in San Francisco. The dining area is framed by a floating wall that displays a 2007 photogram by Adam Fuss. \u201CThe dining chairs are by Carlo Hauner,\u201D notes Durkin. (February 2010)\nInterior designer Thomas Pheasant enhanced the cottage feeling of his clients\u2019 Bethesda, Maryland, residence. \u201CThe hand-embroidered leaves on the chairs bring the outside into the dining room and lighten the tone of the space in a fun way,\u201D Pheasant points out. \u201CLittle touches matter.\u201D Art D\u00E9co painted consoles with stone tops flank the French doors. (March 2005)\nSoon after attending an open-house reception for Marmol Radziner Prefab\u2019s prototype, a Colorado couple commissioned the firm to create a custom prefab residence for vacation use. With their sliding glass doors transitioning to covered decks, the dining and living areas, which feature furniture by Marmol Radziner, extend effortlessly into nature. (October 2008)\nFor an 8,500-square-foot penthouse apartment in Chicago, interior designer Juan Pablo Molyneux created an opulent interior inspired by 17th- and 18th-century France. The dining room is a nocturne of pure virtuosity. The walls are paneled in gilt-embossed leather, and the table carpet is a masterpiece of 17th-century needlework\u2014\u201Cone of the rarest textiles of its kind ever to be auctioned,\u201D says Molyneux. Lovebirds and pansies on a suite of Louis XVI chairs, precious ewers on a giltwood console, famille verte cachepots blooming with orchids and an Empire chandelier dripping with crystal ought to be\u2014but somehow are not\u2014too much. (November 2009)\nArchitect Howard J. Backen designed a house for a couple in California\u2019s Napa Valley. \u201CThe large openings help transform a man-made structure into a natural element,\u201D he says. The dining area looks out on the pond. (January 2004)\nArchitect Peter Marino brought a 1930s sensibility to a couple\u2019s duplex in Paris, housed in the Palais-Royal. The dining room\u2014a sliver of space on the main floor\u2014is \u201Cincredibly deep and narrow,\u201D Marino remarks, \u201Cjust 10 by 17 feet. I designed a modern monk\u2019s table of palmwood that barely measures 24 inches, and I paneled the walls in parchment to give them luster.\u201D A tall ceiling accommodates a monumental photograph by Thomas Struth. Beyond is a portrait of Andy Warhol by Vik Muniz. (December 2003)\nFor her apartment in a Los Angeles high-rise, Donna Livingston combined muted hues and dramatic lighting with Asian accents. In the dining area, \u201Csimplicity dominates,\u201D Livingston says. \u201CLarger pieces, like the 17th-century Chinese urn and the 18th-century Italian carved stone head of Mercury, serve as focal points.\u201D The fluted-pedestal table and leather-and-wood chairs are Livingston\u2019s creations. (September 2002)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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