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Drama Queen At Home

Design wunderkind Kelly Wearstler dispenses tips on refreshing your surroundings in a new online series

Helmi Yusof

Published Thu, Apr 23, 2020 · 09:50 PM

Design

KELLY WEARSTLER IS the Madonna of the interior decorating world. When it comes to influences and inspirations, she happily steals ideas from the best, readapts them and calls them her own. But she does this so well and so beguilingly that, like Madonna, she's managed to build a design empire out of her carrion crow habits.

The 52-year-old American made her name in the 1990s with a series of West Coast hotels, which saw her blending different styles from different decades in one space. U…