Cover of AD’s October 2025 issue. Photography by Stephen Kent Johnson
The newly rechristened AD100 firm advances its own thinking in the Canadian metropolis
Just as the project has given new life to an old house, so too has it advanced Studio Valle de Valle’s own design narrative. Embedded in its rooms are reimagined iterations of Giancarlo’s signature flourishes, from the library’s jagged shelving system (here with softened edges in lieu of crisp sawtooth silhouettes) to a sublime tiled hearth by regular collaborator Matt Merkel Hess. As Jane notes, “there are so many details that the firm continues to refine.” But if the interiors include some greatest hits, they also push its authors into sophisticated new territory—richly textured, elegantly toned down, and fundamentally humanistic.
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