Our annual issue dedicated to the creative superpower that is the USA features an epic, 28-page portfolio of 50 American icons, change-makers and cultural renegades, curated and shot by New York-based photographic artists Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. We also visit the otherworldly off-grid Earthships community in New Mexico and set designer Scott Pask’s striking midcentury Arizona home, check into a sleek retreat in the Mojave Desert, explore the playful new direction of fashion stalwart Tory Burch, and admire the V&A's newly acquired collection of stage sets by David Rockwell. Plus, with the help of acclaimed scenographer Stefan Beckman, we construct our own American ‘dream home’ in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard, and set the table for our contemporary salute to America's culinary classics.