CITY Issue 53

CHAT GOLD STANDARD FROM HER LEGGINGS TO HER LOCKS, KELLY WHERE’S WEARSTLER BERGDORF GOODMAN, 7TH FLOOR BOUTIQUE Before she started breaking hearts on Top Design, Kelly Wearstler was building an interior design empire. Kelly McMasters speaks with the tastemaker about her new Bergdorf digs and the definition of luxury. Wearstler is pure gold. And so is her design business; while fans glued to Bravo’s Top Design debate the values of crimped or poodled, Wearstler zooms from Beverly Hills to Bali, culling the best glammed-up designs for her boutique hotel work. She’s got her hands on hospitality projects in Miami (including The Tides, re-launching on South Beach in December), the Middle East, and Mexico, and that’s just this week’s docket. Wearstler was recently invited to fill her very own corner of the coveted Decorative Home floor at Bergdorf Goodman, and The Rug Company will debut Wearstler’s line of handmade carpets in early 2008. A working mom with a hunky hotelier husband, Wearstler made time to chat with CITY between Bergdorf and book deals about life, luxury, and the importance of haute bed linens. grew up around it and knew I wanted to focus on architecture and design. I went to the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. I chose Boston over New York because it is such an international city, and I’m so glad I did. I apprenticed at an architecture firm in Boston and then made my way to L.A. I knew two people when I went out there and I got a small job designing furniture. The client liked what I did so much that I wound up doing their whole house, and then it just took off—all word of mouth. How did you make the move from residential interior design to hotel design? B E R G D O R F I N T E R I O R : P H OTO B Y A N N I E S C H L E C H T E R . P O RT R A I T: P H OTO B Y M A R K E D WA R D H A R R I S . 754 5th Ave., New York THE TIDES HOTEL 1220 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach, www. tidessouthbeach.com IN L.A. & ONLINE 760 N. La Cienega, L.A., www.kwid.com It was really all due to one client, who is now my husband (Brad Korzen). He was my client for three years, and we were totally platonic during that time—I had a boyfriend. We were working on these historic renovations on apartment buildings from the 1920s and 1930s and he had this hotel CITY: Were you a top designer from birth? job come up, and I was like, “Please let me do the hotel!” But KELLY WEARSTLER: My mom had an antique store when I had never done a hotel before, so he said, “Well, we’ll let you I was growing up. She was a closet interior designer. I just do the model room.” Every hotel has one model room that 46 CI T Y http://www.tidessouthbeach.com http://www.tidessouthbeach.com http://www.kwid.com

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