

Kelly Wearstler
Designer and creative director known for leading the Los Angeles–based design firm Kelly Wearstler, with major hospitality and residential projects worldwide and a practice emphasizing materiality, place, and collaboration with artists.
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Mar 11, 2026 • 1h 21min
Kelly Wearstler
Kelly Wearstler, acclaimed Los Angeles designer and creative director, blends materiality, place, and collaboration in bold hospitality and residential projects. She discusses large-scale coordination, reviving vintage materials, cross-disciplinary artist collaborations, balancing maximalism with restraint, acoustic and lighting strategies, and designing site-specific programs like casinos and hotels.

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Mar 3, 2026 • 1h 8min
How to Scale While Keeping Your Brand Intact (Kelly Wearstler)
Kelly Wearstler, influential interior designer and entrepreneur who turned taste into a multi-vertical brand. She discusses scaling a 60-person studio, moving from service work to licensing and product, using AI to boost creativity, building leadership and hierarchy, choosing passion projects over pure profit, and designing for longevity rather than hype.


