About Kelly Wearstler
Kelly Wearstler is a designer and creative director whose vision has carried her beyond the design world into culture at large. Her Los Angeles-based studio spans architecture and interiors, product and furniture design, creative direction, curation, media, and technology, operating as a laboratory for ideas that defy boundaries. She does not trade in a signature style; each project is charged with emotion, history, and provocation. At the core is a progressive outlook, defined by a constant pursuit of new expression and an instinctive embrace of the technologies, techniques, and artisans shaping design's future.
Her early work brought unexpected intensity to hospitality, residential, and retail projects, affirming an ethos of grandeur without cliché and daring without chaos. Wearstler soon defined a new American sensibility through an expressive alchemy that layered art and furnishings across eras and movements, combined with a confident use of texture, color, and pattern. Her work redefined contemporary interiors and continues to shape taste worldwide.
Operating at a global scale, her multidisciplinary practice functions as both atelier and cultural engine, generating projects across industries and continents. Collaborative partners include Bergdorf Goodman, Christofle, Farrow & Ball, and Serax, as well as luxury houses such as Dior and Louis Vuitton, developing collections and commissions that extend Wearstler's approach into new materials and contexts. Since its inception, the studio has authored more than 500 objects, including Wearstler's own furniture and lighting, a body of work that has brought her sensibility into homes and public spaces worldwide.
No less pioneering is her embrace of technology. Long before AI entered the cultural sphere, Wearstler was integrating advanced tools into her creative process, approaching technology and craft as complementary partners in the pursuit of new forms of expression. Understanding AI as collaborator rather than disruptor, she established herself as a leading voice for its creative potential.
Beyond the studio, Wearstler has emerged as one of design's key narrators. An early adopter of Instagram, she shares discoveries in design and fashion, glimpses of family life, and finished projects, establishing a presence that reaches millions. Her voice also carries through six books, a MasterClass, and essays for the Financial Times, Vogue, and Harper's Bazaar Netherlands. In 2024 she introduced Wearstlerworld, a media brand and weekly Substack newsletter that quickly rose to the platform's top design titles.
With Side Hustle, a curatorial platform for collaboration, discovery, and creative risk, Wearstler spotlights artists and designers, bringing their work into a collective conversation. Mentorship has also become a defining extension of her practice. Through work with universities, she engages students directly, offering insight from her career and encouraging them to think expansively about design's possibilities. Together these efforts reveal her impulse to connect, extending her support to the next generation of innovators. Driven, optimistic, and fearless, Wearstler continues to expand her practice on her own terms.
The Studio
We are a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary team of creators, designers and architects working globally across an expansive portfolio of projects at every scale – from project concepts to architecture, interiors and product design.
Creative cross-pollination inherently informs the Kelly Wearstler studio approach. Operating on the belief that dichotomies coexist, the studio draws inspiration from the juxtaposition of history and modernity, imagination and discipline, refinement and anomalies.
The studio is intrinsically forward looking. The engagement of new technologies and ongoing collaborations with a network of global artisans is central to our practice. A true pioneer, the studio is at the forefront of leveraging AI as a tool to supercharge its creative output and is partnering with the world’s leading innovators to enable its approach.
The Kelly Wearstler studio sees progress as its driving force to enrich the present and future lives of people across the globe.
