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The low-slung, rotund, adaptable seating of the 1970s is having a comeback

Arrow In a survey to some 100 interior designers, an overwhelming number of votes were tallied to the Eames office suite, with respondents naming the Aluminum Group chair or the Soft Pad chair—its “cushioned cousin,” as manufacturer Herman Miller refers to it—as their favorite desk chairs. “There are very few desk chairs that are comfortable and good-looking,” says Frances Merrill of Reath Design, who cast her vote for the lightly padded Aluminum Group seating. The chair’s stylist...

With the seemingly endless variety of color swatches, asking AD100 designers to pick just one go-to wall paint seems like a presumptuous request. And for some, it was. “It depends on the local light,” Ilse Crawford explains. Fellow honoree Miranda Brooks of Miranda Brooks Landscape Design concurs: “Different climates take different colors—I can’t commit!” Thankfully, other designers—some 35 of them—entertained the idea. A select few designers nominated rich, contemplative colors...