Kelly Wearstler Quotes

United States, Designer
November 21, 1967

Kelly Wearstler (born November 21, 1967) is an American designer. After founding her own design firm Kelly Wearstler Interior Design (or KWID) in the mid-1990s, her ensuing work within the hotel industry built her reputation in California, with The New Yorker dubbing her "the presiding grande dame of West Coast interior design.

By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.

Kelly Wearstler
- Great
- Different
I need art around me always.

Kelly Wearstler
- Art

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

Kelly Wearstler
- Why
- History
- Inspired
Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute.

Kelly Wearstler
Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh.

Kelly Wearstler
- People
- Work
I'm not the bake-sale-mom type - though once in a while, I'll make challah French toast for my sons.

Kelly Wearstler
- Mom
The best thing I ever bought is a vintage Oscar de la Renta short gingham dress that I wore to my rehearsal dinner the night before my wedding.

Kelly Wearstler
- Night
- Wedding
Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect and product designer who sometimes created clothes to go with his other designs.

Kelly Wearstler
- Amazing

My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else!

Kelly Wearstler
- Husband
- Friday
- Pizza
Besides almonds or granola, I don't eat a lot during the day - juicing is what gives me energy.

Kelly Wearstler
- Energy