Home & Design Magazine

Skip Sroka knows how to throw a party. As one whose soirées are divine enough to appear in a magazine (this one included), the designer leans into largesse when hosting an event. So after he and his partner John Kammeier downsized from a spacious Phillips Park residence to a Georgetown row house a few years ago, it wouldn’t take Martha Stewart to predict that compact living w...

Interior designer Hannah Goldberg has been spending summers at Chautauqua Lake in western New York State with her family since she was a toddler. “It’s such a special community with a slower, old-time feel,” she shares. “The Chautauqua Institute is right there, with lectures, its own orchestra and other cultural offerings. Plus you can bike, walk or sail on the lake.”

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Every year, Home & Design shines a light on up-and-coming designers who have launched firms of their own. Our 2026 lineup includes Caroline Kofol, Jazmyne Simmons, Matthew Quill, Robin Heller and Jen Levy. We spent a day getting to know and photographing these pros at the stunning Ateliers Jacob showroom in Cady’s Alley—their stories follow.

During childhood visits with his grandparents in Upstate New York, Baltimore-born Matthew Quill learned the power of a well-designed abode. His grandfather was a woodworker with a cabinetry business and his grandmother had an eye for antiques, so the couple opened a shop together. “Every time I went there, I was inspired by how beautiful they made their life and home, and I f...

Caroline Kofol’s road to interior design didn’t follow a straight line, but it makes perfect sense in retrospect. A native of Westchester County, New York, the designer “grew up in a 1906 Victorian house in a town that doesn’t allow any new builds, so that’s what spurred my love of old homes,” she shares. After earning a degree in psychology, she went on to work for a public ...