Standout Moments From Interior Design’s 2025 Hall of Fame
Interior Design’s Hall of Fame gala celebrate visionaries shaping the future of design. For the 41st anniversary, creatives dressed in their dapper best were warmly welcomed back to the renovated Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan on December 10, 2025, for a night to remember, which included short documentary films honoring each inductee. Explore full coverage of the event below.
A Closer Look at Interior Design’s 2025 Hall of Fame
Inside Interior Design’s 2025 Hall of Fame Gala
This year, Interior Design‘s Hall of Fame gala offered plenty of New York glamour. Awash in the warm glow of Interior Design’s signature orange hue, more than 1,000 designers, architects, and creatives were greeted by glittering trees, artful mosaics and grand balconies featuring burnished silver-leafing at the Waldorf Astoria New York, setting the stage for the festivities ahead. Read more about the event.
Honoring Interior Design’s Newest Hall of Fame Inductees
Interior Design’s 2025 Hall of Fame inductees include Mexico City-native Héctor Esrawe, founder of Esrawe Studio; husband and wife duo Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, founders and partners of Weiss/Manfredi; and French designer Pierre-Yves Rochon, founder of Pierre-Yves Rochon. Each inductee succeeds in expanding the way we think about architecture and design—in more ways than one. Read more about this year’s honorees.
Meet 2025 Hall of Famer Héctor Esrawe
Multidisciplinary. Multi-hyphenate. Multitalented. These are all fitting descriptions of Héctor Esrawe, the 56-year-old creative powerhouse whose Mexico City design practice defies easy definition. Esrawe originally trained as an industrial designer, graduating Mexico’s Universidad Iberoamericana in 1992, then teaching furniture and product design there for many years; later, he served as design director at Universidad Centro, the country’s top design and media school, where he headed up the industrial design program. Since launching Esrawe Studio in 2003, he’s been gleefully exploring “all the fields I’ve been intrigued with,” as he puts it: architecture, interiors, exhibitions, art installations, furniture, objects, and sculpture, often intentionally blurring the lines between disciplines. “I’m always pushing for more creative freedom,” he says.
Meet the 2025 Hall of Famers Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi
For nearly 20 years, Seattleites have been strolling down the monumental zigzag ramps of the Olympic Sculpture Park, which connect Broad Street to the waterfront on Puget Sound. Wedge-shape fields of grass—populated by works from the Seattle Art Museum’s collection, including a school of swimming Corten ellipses by Richard Serra—bridge the steep level change from street to shore, passing over a four-lane thoroughfare and railroad tracks that once separated the city from the sound. Leaping transportation infrastructure on its way to the water, the park’s architecture mends the tear and makes the city whole. It’s the work of Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi whose New York–based firm announces a holistic vision in its very name: Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism.
Meet the 2025 Hall of Famer Pierre-Yves Rochon
In 2006, shortly after French designer Pierre-Yves Rochon completed L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon restaurant at Four Seasons Hotel New York, he received a call from the building’s architect, the late I.M. Pei. “He was a wonderful, extremely respectful man,” Rochon recalls. “He said to me, ‘Monsieur Rochon, I now know where to go for lunch.’ How nice was that?” Throughout his career, which spans more than five decades, Rochon has created dining establishments for other highly lauded chefs, such as Alain Ducasse and Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Yet, it is in the world of hotel design that he has truly made his mark. The list of legendary, historic addresses that he has renovated and revamped is nothing short of spectacular. They include the Savoy and the Dorchester in London, the Hotel Sacher Vienna, the Peninsula Shanghai, the seaside Hôtel Martinez in Cannes, France, and the newly reopened Waldorf Astoria New York.
A Special Tribute To the Waldorf Astoria
The Waldorf Astoria New York, a fixture of Park Avenue—and high society—since 1931, is a beloved character that seemingly everyone has a story about: bumping into a celebrity one day when shortcutting through the hotel’s full-block public enfilade; overnighting in one of its guest rooms on their first work trip as a young adult; meeting their future spouse on a blind date in Peacock Alley. Certainly, many in the design community (perhaps you’re one of them?) have tales of jubilating in the grand ballroom for this magazine’s Hall of Fame festivities, hosted there annually from 1985 until the Waldorf closed for renovation in 2017—and now once again, post-makeover. But the 1.6-million-square-foot, 44-story grand dame has a story of her own to tell: one of finally fulfilling design ambitions that only 21st-century construction methods and technology could unlock. At 94, she’s living her best life.
The Waldorf Astoria Hotel Reopens Its Doors
This year marks a historic milestone Interior Design‘s Hall of Fame gala—a long-awaited return to a beloved venue: the Waldorf Astoria’s grand ballroom. Take a look at the hotel’s thoughtful nine-year update by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and PYR, who restored the original art deco design to its former glory, modernized vital infrastructure and technology, and even realized previously unbuilt elements from Schultze & Weaver’s 1929 architectural plans. Read more about the design of the Waldorf Astoria.
Design Legends On The Lasting Legacy Of Hall Of Fame
In honor of the Hall of Fame’s return to the Waldorf Astoria, Interior Design connected with inductees from past years, who shared what the honor means to them and how it continues to impact their careers as well as the larger design industry. “Hall of Fame is not just about one project or one moment… it celebrates a journey, a way of contributing to the field over time,” says 2012 Hall of Fame inductee Patrick Jouin. We couldn’t agree more. Read more about beloved memories from past Hall of Fame inductees.
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