Welcome to the home of @rudester and @rodmanprimack — the visionary duo behind @agoprojects in Mexico City.
Over two decades, their AD100-recognized work has become known for layering art, texture, pattern, and color into spaces that feel vibrant, warm, and unmistakably human.
And their own home is no exception. Every room is a study in their signature approach. Collected, intentional, joyfully eclectic, and full of life.
Folk art is a key pillar in the AGO approach to interiors — and tramp art is one of our favourites. Made from discarded materials — fruit crates, cigar boxes, shipping wood — carved with a pocketknife into layers of notched geometric pattern. Humble in origin, extraordinary in result. The rare vintage cabinet here was found by our client on Chairish, and became the defining piece of their Ojai living room. As AGO co-founder Rodman Primack puts it: “Tramp art is inherently humble yet still special. I love that all those little zig zags are made of discarded stuff like fruit crates.”
📸 @mr_sturman
Two ADs and a cover!!!! Rudy and Rodman and the entire team at AGO interiors are over the moon to be part of not 1 but TWO AD100 lists- US and Mexico! Thank you AD family for the love, support and companionship; you transform our practice, inspire and challenge us - @amyastley@allisonlevasseu@samcochran@hannamartin@katiacovila@meyeruss
Rodman’s textile collection, photographed at home in New York. The boxes hold Guatemalan huipiles - where embroidery patterns traditionally identify the wearer’s town - a 19th-century Japanese fireman’s uniform (robe, hat, second robe), and the source material that feeds into the fabrics he designs for RP Miller. Most of those textiles start from details in Japanese woodblock prints and kimonos, then get abstracted into something new.
📸 @_sightunseen_
Leonard Street. One of Rodman’s earliest projects in New York - two apartments combined for close friends. It was the home of many collaborations, including one with our long-time collaborator David Wiseman (@dwisemanstudio ), who created an early collage chandelier that came out of a conversation he and Rodman had at his studio. It remains one of Rodman’s favourite pieces.
#AGOInspiration Ward Bennett’s apartment, The Dakota, New York, 1962.
It’s Art Week in New York next week - so we’re revisiting one of the great Manhattan interiors.
On The Business of Home Podcast, @dennisscully interviews thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and creatives about the changes and challenges facing the interior design community. This week, @rodmanprimack and @rudester of @agointeriors and @agoprojects speak about the rise of collectible design, why online discourse about design is so frustrating, and why their work isn’t for everyone—and that’s just fine.
🖼️: A collection of projects by Ago Interiors
📸: @mr_sturman and @stephenkentjohnson
Every weekend @rudester and @rodmanprimack head to their local market to buy fresh flowers — watch to hear some of their tips for making them look fabulous for as long as possible 💐
The bedroom at Rudy and Rodman’s 9th Street apartment holds a Nan Goldin photograph and a tight edit of what they brought back from London in 2010, when they traded a Warwick Avenue flat for a Greenwich Village place about a quarter the size. Storage was scarce — and we love this blue curtain storage hack designed to carefully conceal the inevitable clutter.
📸 Manuel Rodriguez
Perry’s Arrow, designed by RP Miller, is one of many Rodman-designed textiles that appears throughout our projects — pictured here in two iterations, in both our North Fork project and Rudy and Rodman’s New York apartment. Here, the pattern works less as backdrop than as structure, organizing each room visually as it reappears across different surfaces, emphasising each space with material rhythm and energy.
📸 @manoloyllera@dominiquevorillon
