Living With Lolo Featured in Luxe Source “Next in Design” Emerging Talent Showcase

Being selected for Luxe Source's Next in Design showcase is the kind of recognition that carries real weight because it is editorial, not transactional. The Luxe Source team identifies designers whose work represents a meaningful direction in luxury residential design across North America. It is not a paid placement, a sponsored feature, or an award you apply for. Their editors looked at the work and decided it was worth putting in front of their readership. That means something.

For Living with Lolo, this feature joins a track record of editorial recognition that includes Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Vogue, Martha Stewart Living, The Wall Street Journal, and GQ, as well as three consecutive years named Best Interior Design by Phoenix Magazine (2024, 2025, and 2026). Each of those recognitions reflects work on actual client projects in Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, and Arcadia. The editorial teams found the work on its own merits.

Luxe Source is a luxury design publication focused on high-end residential work across North American markets. Its Next in Design designation is specifically reserved for designers the editorial team has identified as setting the direction for luxury design in their region. The emphasis is on designers whose aesthetic point of view is cohesive, whose execution is technically sound, and whose work reflects genuine innovation rather than trend-following.

The projects Luxe Source highlighted are representative of the design sensibility we bring to every engagement: grounded in the specifics of the Arizona landscape, attentive to how high-performing clients actually live, and built to last in both quality and relevance. The spaces they featured are not stage-sets. They are homes that function at a high level for the people who live in them.

The work featured in the Luxe Source showcase reflects several different client briefs, which is intentional. One of the things the editorial team noted was the range across projects: the ability to work in a warm desert modernist register for one client, in an organic wabi sabi-influenced palette for another, and in a more classical luxury vocabulary for a third, without any of them looking like they came from the same template.

That range is something I think about deliberately. The goal is not to have a signature aesthetic that clients fit themselves into. The goal is to have a process rigorous enough to produce excellent work across different stylistic directions. The Scottsdale and Paradise Valley luxury market is sophisticated. Clients here have traveled, they have seen a lot of design, and they know the difference between a designer with a genuine point of view and one who is just repeating a formula.

The indoor-outdoor projects in the showcase drew particular attention, which makes sense given how central that design challenge is to Arizona living. Getting indoor-outdoor right in a climate that reaches 115 degrees requires material knowledge, orientation strategy, and a willingness to work through the engineering before a single furniture piece is specified. It is one of the areas where Living with Lolo's combined design and construction expertise is most visible in the final result.

Recognition from publications like Luxe Source is not just a credential to list on a website. It is a signal about the caliber of work being produced and the level of scrutiny it has been held to. When editors at a serious luxury publication review your portfolio and decide to put it in front of their readers, they are making a professional judgment that the work meets a high standard.

For clients considering a significant design investment, that kind of third-party validation is worth paying attention to. It is different from awards programs where participation is the primary requirement. It is different from being listed in a regional directory. An editorial feature in a publication with a national readership and a clear editorial standard is a meaningful data point about the quality of the firm's output.

If you want to understand what the full design and construction process looks like from the client's perspective, the project process walkthrough is a good starting point. And if you are thinking about what a project for your home might involve, you can review our full range of services here.

Features like this one arrive in the middle of ongoing work, not at the end of it. The projects that earned this recognition were completed for clients who trusted us with significant investments in their homes. The projects currently underway in Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, and the broader Phoenix metro are applying the same standard.

The recognition from Luxe Source is gratifying. The more important thing is that the clients whose homes were featured are living in spaces that function well, hold their value, and reflect who they actually are. That is the outcome we are optimizing for on every project, regardless of whether it ends up in a magazine.

If you are ready to talk about a project, or if you want to understand more about how Living with Lolo approaches luxury residential work in this market, start a conversation here.