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Kelly Wearstler
Kelly Wearstler founded her Los Angeles-based design studio in 1995, and she became particularly known for designing boutique hotels, including several properties for the Viceroy Hotel Group, bringing her maximalist, eclectic design sensibility to hospitality projects at a significant commercial scale. Wearstler's design aesthetic combines bold pattern mixing, unexpected material combinations, and vintage furniture sourcing with her own original furniture and product lines, reflecting a genuinely maximalist departure from the more restrained minimalist design trends that dominated much of the 2000s and 2010s. She gained significant mainstream television visibility as a judge on Bravo's design competition series "Top Design," extending her public profile well beyond the interior design industry's own trade press into broader mainstream popular culture. Kelly Wearstler's combination of her extensive boutique hospitality design portfolio and her mainstream television visibility has made her one of the most commercially and culturally significant contemporary American interior designers.
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Billy Baldwin
Billy Baldwin became one of the most sought-after American interior designers of the mid-20th century, working for high-profile clients including Cole Porter, Babe Paley, and Diana Vreeland, and he became widely known within the design industry as "the dean of American decorators." His design philosophy emphasized comfort and livability over strict period authenticity, and Baldwin became particularly associated with using bold, saturated colors and mixing high-end antiques with more casual, unpretentious furnishings rather than maintaining rigidly matched formal decor throughout a home. Baldwin's 1972 book "Billy Baldwin Decorates" became an influential text within the design industry, and his design principles emphasizing personal comfort and individual client personality over rigid decorating rules significantly influenced subsequent generations of American interior designers. Billy Baldwin's combination of his high-profile celebrity clientele and his influential comfort-over-formality design philosophy has made him one of the most significant figures in 20th-century American interior design.
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