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On Collaboration and Design

Kelly Behun, Edmund Hollander and James Merrell with Paul Goldberger
Image Credit: Raimund Koch

The dream team of AD100 honorees interior designer Kelly Behun, landscape architect Edmund Hollander and architect James Merrell pull aside the curtain on what it really takes to create a beautifully integrated home—from the inside out, and the outside in.

Learn how this pro trio, which is the cornerstone of every significant residential project, merge design aesthetics and integrate important art collections into the design scheme to create a unified realization of the hopes and dreams of the most important member of the team—the client.

Kelly Behun

Labeled by the New York Times as “an interior designer with the eye of a gallerist” Kelly Behun has deep ties to the art world …

Kelly Behun

Labeled by the New York Times as “an interior designer with the eye of a gallerist” Kelly Behun has deep ties to the art world and her clients have included high profile individuals from the worlds of business, technology, politics and entertainment. Behun grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, and attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Upon moving to New York she joined Ian Schrager Hotels’ in-house Design Studio where she trained under architect Anda Andrei and worked with renowned designers Andree Putman and Philippe Starck. While there she was an integral member of the design team that created a number of their most iconic properties including the Delano in Miami, Mondrian in Los Angeles, and Royalton, Paramount, Morgans and Hudson hotels in New York City. She later opened k e l l y b e h u n |STUDIO, which has become known for its comprehensive and highly bespoke approach to interior design projects and its exclusive line of furniture and home accessories. Kelly's design work has been featured in numerous domestic and international design and shelter magazines, books and television shows. Her line is sold at Barneys New York, the Met Breuer shop and other exclusive outlets, as well as on 1st Dibs. Kelly is a member of Elle Décor Magazine’s A-List of Interior Designers and was named to Architectural Digest’s AD100 in 2019. Current projects include the interiors for a Robert Stern luxury condominium tower on Madison Avenue, private residences in New York, London and south Florida, as well as a new line of lighting and rugs due to launch in 2019.

Edmund Hollander

Edmund Hollander is President of HOLLANDERdesign|Landscape Architects, one of few landscape architecture firms elected to …

Edmund Hollander

Edmund Hollander is President of HOLLANDERdesign|Landscape Architects, one of few landscape architecture firms elected to Architectural Digest’s AD100 Top Architects & Designers List. Hollander is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), one of the society’s highest honors. He serves on the Dean’s Council and the Advisory Board of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania and is a board member of the New York Restoration Project, the nonprofit founded by Bette Midler with a mission to create beautiful, high-quality public space for all New Yorkers. Ed has lectured at the City College of the City University of New York, the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, the New York Botanical Garden and other design-focused institutions. He is Past President of the New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). Ed graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. degree in History, followed by study at the New York Botanical Garden School of Horticulture. He received a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Soon after, Ed joined The Delta Group in Philadelphia and then the venerable New York firm of Clarke and Rapuano before founding Edmund Hollander Landscape Architects with his partner, Maryanne Connelly, in 1991.

James Merrell

James Merrell came to architecture by way of art, rather than engineering. After working in the set department at Juilliard and for sculptor James Turrell, …

James Merrell

James Merrell came to architecture by way of art, rather than engineering. After working in the set department at Juilliard and for sculptor James Turrell, he studied architecture first with Peter Eisenman and then at Yale University. Moving to the Hamptons after some large-firm stints in Manhattan, James connected with the more hands-on lifestyle here. He described growing up in the country as just that. “We would dam the creek and build things with wood... And I think I missed that, and I came out here because it put me back in touch with hammers and nails.” He founded James Merrell Architects in Sag Harbor in 1988. He loves architectural philosophy, and pondering big questions like What are the architectural metaphors of our time? When he’s not drawing houses, writing about houses, or thinking about houses, he sails a Europe Dinghy. He is married to the novelist Susan Scarf Merrell.

Paul Goldberger

Paul Goldberger, who The Huffington Post has called “the leading figure in architecture criticism,” is now a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair …

Paul Goldberger

Paul Goldberger, who The Huffington Post has called “the leading figure in architecture criticism,” is now a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair. From 1997 through 2011 he served as the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, where he wrote the magazine’s celebrated “Sky Line” column. He is the author numerous books, including the new BALLPARK: Baseball in the American City, an architectural history of baseball parks as a form of civic space; Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry, Why Architecture Matters, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, among others. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City, and was formerly Dean of the Parsons School of Design at The New School. Goldberger began his career at The New York Times, where in 1984 his architecture criticism was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism. In 2012 he received the Vincent Scully Prize from the National Building Museum in recognition of the influence his writing has had on the public’s understanding of architecture and in 2017, he received the Award in Architecture of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which called him “the doyen of American architectural critics.” He lectures widely around the country on architecture, design, historic preservation and cities, and has served as an advisor on architect selection and project design for numerous institutions including The Obama Presidential Center, The New York Public Library, The Morgan Library, Harvard University, Cornell University, the Carnegie Science Center, The Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Glenstone Museum, as well as for corporate clients such as Tiffany, the Howard Hughes Corporation and the Georgetown Company. Goldberger is a graduate of Yale University, and is a trustee of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, the Forum for Urban Design, and The New York Stem Cell Foundation, and an Emeritus Trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, where he also serves as chairman of the Advisory Council for The Glass House, a historic property of the National Trust.

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