Lila Allen
STORY ANGLES - Focuses on the intersection of design, culture, and lifestyle (e.g., Shakerism’s cultural impact, design trends like Substack, and restaurant aesthetics).
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 6
- Latest publication
- Sep 25, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Architectural Digest
- Top 100K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 6, 2026
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Shea McGeeâs Retail Empire Is Just Getting Started (opens the original)
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Itâs three days before Shea McGeeâs McGee & Co. retail flagship soft launches in Salt Lake City, and things on the shop floor are remarkably calm. Everything is perfectly in its place: A dining table is set as if for a family dinner, with a wispy arrangement of white anemones; shelves are full but not overly so; pillows have been fluffed and plumped; throws have been draped with just a dab of insouciance. Glass cloches contain candles and small piles of matches, stacked with care. Yesterday
Can John Wilson Convince You to Care About Concrete? (opens the original)
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Filmmaker John Wilson and I are seated in a kitchen on the 35th floor of One World Trade Center, the tallest building in New York. Like most of Manhattan, this tower worships at the altar of concrete, which makes up its core, foundation, and floor slabs. In this structure alone, there’s enough of it to pave more than 4,000 New York City blocks. Concrete—the second-most-used material on earth, just behind water—is also what brought Wilson from his home in Ridgewood, Queens to Lower Manhattan to t
Slowly But Surely, Snails Are Taking Over Interiors (opens the original)
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The world is moving faster than it used to, but its decor is, empirically, slowing down. The latest mascot of the design world—the snail—epitomizes the market’s growing interest in the organic, the deliberate, and the unhurried. Cropping up in textiles, on wallpapers, in furniture, and hardware, shelled gastropods are taking over. If your antennae are up, you may have clocked it yourself in AD100-listed Charlap Hyman & Herrero’s Caracol rug for Patterson Flynn, which depicts the coiled creature
How to Spend Your Marketing Budget Now (opens the original)
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Access marketing budget strategies and tips in this AD PRO Grow Your Business Guide. For more expert-led insights, subscribe today. As an interior designer, you know the value of looking ahead—and not just when it comes to the lead time on a piece of custom furniture. With the first half of 2026 now in the rearview mirror, that means it’s time to start planning your budget for 2027. One of the most important line items in that budget will be your marketing. Getting your firm discovered, hired, a
Is Your Business Ready for the AI Era? (opens the original)
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If you’ve visited Google recently, you’ve probably noticed things look a little different than they used to. You’re more likely to encounter an interactive AI overview after typing in a search term; the days of scrolling through a list of blue links to websites or articles are over. Even the way you search might look different: You might be typing in conversational questions rather than a jumbled string of related words. Google first rolled out early versions of its AI-generated search features
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