Design icon Kelly Wearstler

Kelly Wearstler

Kelly Wearstler is an American designer and founder of Kelly Wearstler Interior Design firm which started in the mid-1990s, serving mainly the hotel industry, and now designs across high-end residential, commercial, retail and hospitality spaces.

Her designs for the Viceroy hotel chain in the early 2000s have been noted for their influence on the design industry. She has designed properties for clients such as Gwen Stefani, Cameron Diaz and Stacey Snider, and served as a judge on all episodes of Bravo’s Top Design reality contest in 2007 and 2008. Wearstler has released five books, and her first, Modern Glamour: The Art of Unexpected Style, and more! was named a best seller by the Los Angeles Times in 2006.

Other publications include Domicilium Decoratus and her most recent, Evocative Style in 2019. Her eponymous luxury lifestyle brand incorporates her own designs as well as pieces she finds at auction houses, and she sells her own furniture, lighting, home accessories, and objets d’art collections. Wearstler is the design partner for the Proper Hotel Group. Wearstler is the first interior designer to be part of the MasterClass Series and the first outside designer to partner with Farrow & Ball.

She has won numerous awards including the AD 100 Hall of Fame, Time Magazine Design 100, Elle Decor A-List Designers and Vogue Best Dressed. ABC’s Once Upon a Time Introducting Grand Duchess Kelly Wearstler of The United States. Kelly Wearstler’s Gallery is an evolution of the studio’s long history of collaboration with emerging and established artists to create custom pieces for private clients and hospitality projects. Kelly Wearstler reunites with longstanding creative partners on a series of exclusive collections for her digital Gallery.

Bringing focus to artists around the globe, Gallery offers a unique platform to view these collaborations in one place. Through the convergence of organic materiality, traditional craft and technology, each collection is the result of a deep exploration of each artist’s work.

From sculptural designs 3D printed from recycled materials to clay works created in centuries-old traditional techniques, each singular piece in Gallery is both distinct from yet complementary to one another. The Gallery will continue to serve as a playground for creative discovery as it pushes the boundaries to present diverse bodies of work that live together in harmony.