Is Kelly Wearstler the Greatest Designer of Her Time?

Every once in a rare moon, a designer comes along that alters the future of decorating. Enter the trailblazing Kelly Wearstler. Her latest decorating tome, Hue, published by Ammo Books, proves that she's ushering in a new era of design.

One of the best parts of the new book: Wearstler gives a tour of her own glittering Beverly Hills estate and Malibu home, as well as other residential projects, the BG cafe at Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York, and her most recent hotel design, the Tides Hotel in Miami Beach, among others.

Each chapter is divided not by project but color. Vermillion, alabaster, onyx, cerulean, citrine and carnelian are some of the evocative colors that also reference the semi-precious stones and rich, layered materials that Wearstler employs throughout the spaces. Likewise the interiors, like canvases, are exuberant, surprising and densely layered with materials.

One could say it's a departure from the Hollywood Regency craze that Wearstler is credited for starting in the earlier part of the decade.

Indeed the spaces are loaded with a crazy mix of sculptures, stone-enveloped rooms, Memphis-era and Fornasetti furniture, and strangely seductive '60s Italian pieces bought at auction, as well as Wearstler's own fabrics for Lee Jofa that all make for a truly inspired mix. Dare we call an '80s revival? Our eyes our peeled!



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