Catch The Highlights From Interior Design’s 2024 Hall of Fame

Interior Design’s Hall of Fame ceremony and gala honors the visionary designers, creatives, and makers, whose groundbreaking work has reshaped the architecture and design world with unmatched brilliance and creativity. Commemorating the milestone 40th anniversary, creatives dressed in their best filled the Glasshouse in Manhattan on December 11 for a night of celebration, which included watching the documentary films honoring this year’s inductees, as well as a silent auction with proceeds going towards supporting DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS)’s mission. Explore full coverage of the event and view the films below.

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Peek Inside Interior Design’s 2024 Hall of Fame Gala

Roll out the red carpet for the 40th anniversary of Interior Design’s Hall of Fame ceremony and gala. With the view of the Manhattan skyline overlooking the venue, Interior Design Editor-in-Chief Cindy Allen took the stage as host for the momentous milestone event, which drew nearly 900 designers, architects, and trailblazing creatives to the Glasshouse in Manhattan on December 11. With elegant décor and tasty bites, this truly was a celebration fit for a ruby jubilee. Read more about the event.

Honoring Interior Design’s Latest Hall of Fame Inductees

Interior Design’s 2024 Hall of Fame honorees include: David Galullo, CEO and chief creative officer of Rapt Studio; Adam Rolston, Drew Stuart, and Gabriel Benroth, founding partners of INC Architecture & Design; and Holly Hunt, founder of HOLLY HUNT and House of Hunt. Special tributes will be made to DIFFA, which is also celebrating 40 years, as well as the late architect, Jeffrey Beers. Read more about this year’s honorees.

Meet 2024 Hall-of-Famer David Galullo

Call it DNA, call it destiny:David Galullo was fated for a career in design and architecture. Credit his late father, an Italian American builder and visionary who passed on a worldview that became the underpinning of his son’s multidisciplinary practice. “He taught me to see the world as an opportunity for improvement rather than something completed,” says the consummate professional who, although a licensed architect, does not necessarily call himself such. Read about how David Galullo breaks boundaries in design.

Meet Hall-of-Famers Adam Rolston, Drew Stuart, and Gabriel Benroth

Adam Rolston, Drew Stuart, and Gabriel Benroth, the cofounding partners of INC Architecture & Design, joke that together they make one great principal. Rolston, the creative and managing director, is a conceptual thinker who steers the overall aesthetic of a project. Stuart, the development and construction director, is a detail-oriented people person who helps realize the design on-site. And Benroth, the studio and information director, is a systems guy who creates innovative, interactive renderings. Since they started INC in 2006, the firm has grown to 50 employees—and scored such marquee commissions as the master plan and renovation of the rink level at Rockefeller Center—but each partner still works on every project. “That’s our secret sauce: We’re owners who are deeply engaged,” Stuart begins. They also love what they do, and their youthful enthusiasm is evident in INC’s distinctive work. Read more about INC’s cofounders.

Meet Hall-of-Famer Holly Hunt

Even if you never met Holly Hunt, you could pick her out in a crowd. She is a doyenne of an exquisitely understated, timeless modern style, who worships fine materials and artisanship and is heavily into neutrals. That woman with the perfectly coiffed silver hair and contrasting slim, dark jacket, surrounded by museum-quality artwork and impeccably tailored furnishings? Yep, that’s her. Read more about how Holly Hunt revolutionized the furniture industry.

Discover The 2024 Hall-of-Fame Tribute For DIFFA

Turning 40 is an occasion to celebrate past accomplishments—and, perhaps more importantly, to set your future agenda. That’s what DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation has been doing as it transitions into a fifth decade. “Every responsible not-for-profit should constantly reevaluate its mission to ensure alignment with its community’s needs,” says Dawn Roberson, DIFFA’s executive director since 2018. As such, the foundation, which just rolled out a new name this year, not only continues its essential work of granting funds to organizations that provide assistance and healthcare access to those impacted by HIV/AIDS but has also been pursuing an expanded scope: addressing the broader challenges of food and housing insecurity and the mental-health issues that underserved populaces face—and that increase the likeliness of diagnosis. Read more about the evolution of DIFFA’s mission.

Discover The Hall-of-Fame Tribute For Jeffrey Beers

Way before “experiential” became a hospitality-design buzzword, Jeffrey Beers was pioneering spaces that embodied the concept. The New York architect, who passed away from cancer earlier this year, masterminded sensorially forward, holistic environments that were stages for interaction, transporting patrons straight to the zeitgeist. Over his four decades as a hospitality leader, Beers left an indelible imprint on commercial design, influencing the look, feel, flow, and vibe of restaurants, entertainment venues, resorts, to luxury residential developments from Greece to Dubai, Mexico and Singapore—a legacy Jeffrey Beers International (JBI) is continuing under a leadership team of loyal colleagues. Read more about Jeffrey Beers’s architectural legacy.