“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.” —Winston Churchill

You may well wonder just how AD managed this month to bring you extraordinary residences in London, Paris, Los Angeles, and New York in the midst of the global COVID-19 lockdown. In fact, all of these stories were photographed long before the infernal virus appeared; fortunately, team AD is famous for planning ahead.

The entrance hall of Kit Kemp's longtime London house.

Thus, we are pleased to treat you to a visit to the longtime London home of British interior designer Kit Kemp. The cofounder, with her husband, Tim, of the delightful Firmdale Hotels is a serial renovator who has modified the house many times over the course of 20 years to constantly express “the way we live now.”

Parisian savoir faire by way of Milan, thanks to Italian designer Fabrizio Casiraghi.

There is a jaunt to a super-chic apartment in Paris designed by the very buzzy young Italian talent Fabrizio Casiraghi. This sophisticated yet playful space is sure to launch a million skirted yellow sofas into the blogosphere! And we journeyed to beautiful upstate New York to document an Adirondacks camp decorated to rustic-luxe perfection by the masterly Miles Redd, who accurately describes the rural waterfront fantasy as “more Gstaad than Saranac Lake.”

The sumptuous “bavarian schloss style” of Miles Redd in a grand Adirondacks camp.

Interior designer Miles Redd and me, pre-social distancing.

Only one shoot was missing as our deadlines loomed and coronavirus quarantine wreaked havoc with our best-laid plans: the cover. But as fate and good luck would have it, our cover star, Hollywood hitmaker Ryan Murphy, is married to photographer David Miller, who gallantly stepped in to save the shoot even though he specializes in portraits rather than interiors. Ryan, meanwhile, wrote the accompanying text himself. Enjoy the welcome escape from reality.

The NYC residence of hitmaker Ryan Murphy.

—AMY ASTLEY, Editor in Chief

Instagram: @amyastley

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