Kelly Wearstler
Kelly Wearstler
Kelly Wearstleris an American designer. After founding her own design firm Kelly Wearstler Interior Designin the mid-1990s, her ensuing work within the hotel industry built her reputation in California, with The New Yorker dubbing her "the presiding grande dame of West Coast interior design." According to The New York Times, "her playful, elegantly over-the-top designs for the Avalon Beverly Hills changed the look of boutique hotels around the world," and her designs for the Viceroy hotel chain in the early...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth21 November 1967
CountryUnited States of America
My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.
Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design.
Once I've designed something, I immediately move on to the next thing.
I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.
My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else!
The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue.
There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.
Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute.
By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.
I'm not the bake-sale-mom type - though once in a while, I'll make challah French toast for my sons.
I am just a curious gal who is continuing to be curious.
I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my 'Fallen' leather jacket and my Slither black and white sweater.
Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh.
I do not like being in front of the camera.