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The Architecture Wave Audience:
Who They Are & What They're Into

Affluent, visually fluent aesthetes who fuse interior obsession, cultured travel, and slow luxury living into a highly curated creative identity.

They treat architecture as a passport stamp and a mood board - saving CasitaMX, Galerie Magazine, and Jaipur Rugs with the same eye they bring to boutique hotels and collected rooms.

People Who Like Architecture Wave Also Love:

Ranked by audience overlap - what makes this audience distinctive

Brands
CasitaMXTravel
VinteriorRetail & E-Comm
Olive AteliersFashion & Apparel
Kelly Behun StudioHome & Lifestyle
Pulp Design StudiosHome & Lifestyle
Kathy Kuo HomeHome & Lifestyle
The Urban Electric Co.Home & Lifestyle
VIVIR DesignHome & Lifestyle
Arceri InteriorsHome & Lifestyle
Zia TileHome & Lifestyle
Celebrities
Tracy PorterVisual Artist
Dina BrodskyVisual Artist
Stef RossVisual Artist
Lulie WallaceVisual Artist
Creators
Summer ThorntonEducation & Expert
The ExpertEducation & Expert
Becki OwensLifestyle & Vlog
Nina TakeshFashion & Style
Josh YoungEducation & Expert
Lucas Oliver MillLifestyle & Vlog
Janice BurkhartLifestyle & Vlog
Through The PortholeLifestyle & Vlog
Reeves ConnellyLifestyle & Vlog
Ariel OkinEducation & Expert

Architecture Wave attracts a design-literate audience that treats interiors, travel, and personal aesthetic as one continuous worldview - the kind of consumer who moves easily from Kelly Behun Studio and The Urban Electric Co. to Fairmont Royal Palm Marrakech and Invisible House, seeing taste not as decoration but as a lived environment. This behavior is perfectly illustrated by their simultaneous consumption of AD Italia, Galerie Magazine, Vinterior, and Jaipur Rugs, which signals a buyer drawn to collectible pieces, editorial validation, and spaces that feel globally sourced, culturally fluent, and quietly luxurious. What is especially revealing is the mix of high-design rigor and handmade intimacy - interest in Gensler Baltimore and Modern Architect sits comfortably beside candle making, ceramics, and slow living, suggesting people who admire architectural scale but still want their homes to feel tactile, personal, and authored.

What you're not seeing

This is based on 992 total affinities - including:

  • The exact influencers this audience trusts
  • The podcasts and media they overindex on
  • High-probability partnership targets
  • Underserved acquisition channels
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Dueling Instincts

What sets this cohort apart is their dual-nature: on one hand they value one thing, but they also chase a hand-touched, slow-made world of antique objects, ceramics, candle making, Lucy Vail Floristry, Jaipur Rugs, and the painterly sensibility of Dina Brodsky and Lulie Wallace. At the very same time, they are seduced by the hyper-curated glamour of Fairmont Royal Palm Marrakech, Invisible House, Vinterior, Kelly Behun Studio, smart home tech, Canon France, and even generative AI - as if the dream home must feel artisanal at heart while operating like a flawless machine.

Audience Snapshot

Estimated demographics - inferred using mixture of experts on media affinities

Age
40.0 - 45.6
Avg: 42.9
HHI
$116K - $204K
Avg: $166K
Gender
72% female
28% M / 72% F
Geography
65% urban
65% urban, 24% suburban, 11% rural

Who They Are

The distinct psychographics making up the base

The Design Voyager
She treats every trip like a location scout, collecting spaces, textures, and atmospheres with the eye of someone who is always mentally redesigning the world around her.
Ultra-Luxury / JetsettingInterior DesignTravel / ExplorationPhotography (Practitioner)Art World
The Intentional Nest Builder
This is the person who wants a home that feels edited, grounded, and deeply lived in - beautiful not for show, but for the rhythm of a slower, better life.
Slow-Living / IntentionalismInterior DesignGardeningPermaculture / HomesteadingSmart Home Tech
The Cultured Collector
She is drawn to rooms with provenance and personality, forever hunting for the piece, the brushstroke, or the object that turns good taste into a point of view.
Antique & Vintage ObjectsDrawing / PaintingCeramics / PotteryArt WorldFashion Design
The Polished Adventurist
Equal parts refined and restless, this character wants her life to feel elegant in motion - one day on a court or a board, the next somewhere windswept and design-forward.
Sailing / YachtingSurfingSnowboardingRock Climbing / BoulderingTennis
The Ritual Aesthete
She romanticizes the everyday, turning wellness, craft, and sensory detail into a personal art form that feels both serene and slightly esoteric.
Candle / Soap MakingPilatesCeramics / PotteryMicrodosing / PsychedelicsSlow-Living / Intentionalism

Reframing the Consumer

While they might look like generic shoppers on the surface, their deeper affinities reveal a hospitality-minded world-builder who treats design less as décor and more as total atmosphere - the same person drawn to Fairmont Royal Palm Marrakech, Invisible House, Salut Maroc, Vinterior, Kelly Behun Studio, and The Urban Electric Co. is curating a feeling of place, not just buying beautiful things. What most people miss is that this is not a purely interiors audience at all, but a culturally omnivorous taste class shaped by boutique hotels, antique objects, sailing, equestrian sport, ceramics, photography, and slow living - with media habits spanning AD Italia, Galerie Magazine, Amazing Architecture, and creators like Summer Thornton and The Expert.

Top 100 Audience Affinities

Showing 10 of 992 affinities - unlock the full breakdown

  • 11. Kristin Dittmar Interior Design16923x · Commercial Brand
  • 12. Canon France16923x · Commercial Brand
  • 13. Lenny Cartier16923x · Celebrity / Artist
  • 14. Calm Decoration16200x · Commercial Brand
  • 15. Peter Kleijnenburg Interior15795x · Commercial Brand
  • 16. Jean Jacques Colangelo15795x · Creator / Influencer
  • 17. Sendero Hotel15795x · Hospitality
  • 18. Cowboy Surfer Bar15795x · Hospitality
  • 19. Akero Studio15285x · Media & Entertainment Org
  • 20. Nora Chou15187x · Creator / Influencer
  • 21. Bessa Design15043x · Commercial Brand
  • 22. Christiana Drewry14808x · Creator / Influencer
  • 23. Greg Natale14808x · Creator / Influencer
  • 24. Arianne Scheffer14808x · Celebrity / Artist
  • 25. Jaipur Rugs14359x · Commercial Brand
  • 26. NUA Architecture14040x · Commercial Brand
  • 27. Wide Mind13937x · Commercial Brand
  • 28. Les Merveilles de Babellou13937x · Commercial Brand
  • 29. Maison Singulier13937x · Commercial Brand
  • 30. Lucy Vail Floristry13937x · Commercial Brand

Turn This Audience Into a Strategy

Full affinities, media map, influencers, and activation playbook.

Activation Ideas

Non-obvious, high-leverage moves for this audience

Build an editorial residency with Fairmont Royal Palm Marrakech, Invisible House, and Salut Maroc where Architecture Wave commissions site-specific photo essays from Canon France and creators like Through The Porthole and Nora Chou, then distributes them through AD PRO, Galerie Magazine, and Livingetc as shoppable design travel guides tied to Vinterior, Jaipur Rugs, and Zia Tile.

This audience does not separate architecture from hospitality, collecting, and visual storytelling - they romanticize spaces as lived worlds, follow boutique design media and tastemaking creators, and are primed to move from aspirational hotel content into vintage, craft, and home purchase behavior.

Launch a members-only 'Objects With Provenance' salon series with Kelly Behun Studio, Kathy Kuo Home, The Urban Electric Co., and Les Merveilles de Babellou that pairs antique sourcing drops with intimate talks from Summer Thornton, Ariel Okin, and Greg Natale, promoted through House & Home, One Interior Magazine, and French Exterior rather than broad social.

The strongest signal here is not generic design fandom but a collector mindset shaped by antique objects, slow living, ceramics, painting, and elite interiors - making scarcity, expert mediation, and insider publication channels far more persuasive than mass-market decor campaigns.

Turn Insight Into Action

Activation ideas, media, and partnerships backed by real data.

How to Use This

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For Founders

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For Creators

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