Kelly Wearstlear (An Interior Designer)

designIn 1995 Wearstler opened her design firm, Kelly Wearstler Interior Design (Kwid). In the late 1990s, she decorated the house of real estate developer Brad Korzen (whom she married in 2002),eventually providing design services for residential properties owned by Korzen's Kor Realty Group.[9] Wearstler would go on to redo the interior of the Avalon, a late 1940s-era hotel in Beverly Hillsowned by Korzen. This launched her foray into hotel interior design, creating what the New York Times has described as "retro-theatrical" interiors for Korzen's collection of boutique hotels, ViceroyHotels and Resorts. Her work within the hotel industry built her reputation as a notable west coast designer.[1] Wearstler also designed the restaurant and lounge, BG, at the Manhattan Bergdorf Goodmanstore.[5][10] In 2006, HarperCollins published Domicilum Decoratus, a photography book by Wearstler, featuring photographs of her Beverly Hills mansion and herself dressed in evening gowns.[1] She haspublished two other books: Modern Glamour and Hue.[8] Wearstler was a judge on Bravo's reality show contest Top Design for the 2008 season. That same year, she introduced a line of decorative homegoods for New York-based department store Bergdorf Goodman, which continues to carry her line.[1] Kwid also designs exclusive bed sheets for Sferra, rugs for the Rug Company, fine china for PickardChina,[11] and wall treatments for F. Schumacher & Co.[8]

As an interior designer, Wearstler finds influence in Modernism and old Hollywood glamour as created by Dorothy Draper and William Haines, andthe work of architect Aldo Rossi.[12] Her style has been described as "Hollywood Regency" and "Maximalism". She is credited, alongside Jonathan Adler and Miles Redd as bringing "the florid and thedecorative back to interior design", mixing modern and historical designs, such as a Rococo mirror, against a turquoise painted wall, accented by a shag rug.[1] Wearstler visits auction houses to...