Gil Schafer, founder of his eponymous firm, G. P. Schafer Architect, is an award-winning leader in the field, consistently recognized as a leading practitioner of contemporary classical architecture. A member of Architectural Digest’s AD 100 and a winner of Veranda’s “Art of Design Award” and the 2019 Arthur Ross Award in Architecture, Gil holds a Masters Degree from the Yale School of Architecture and is the author of the bestselling books (and two of our personal all-time favorites) The Great American House and A Place to Call Home.

Brigette Romanek – beloved designer to the stars and talented AD100 inductee – had a passion for design from an early age. Her grandmother, who worked in a factory producing magazines, would bring them home for her to peruse. Brigette credits this for exposing her to various cultures, lifestyles, interiors, fashions, and architecture; her love of which only grew as she traveled with her mother, a singer.