Named one of the world’s top 100 interior designers by Architectural Digest, Martyn Lawrence Bullard is a multi-award-winning Los Angeles-based interior designer and is renowned for his broad range of styles and eclectic, sophisticated and inviting interiors. His work has appeared in over 4000 publications worldwide and currently his projects are featured in 10 coffee table books including his first book, Live, Love, & Decorate.
Bright colors, bold patterns, and an array of global accents prevail in the alluring spaces created by Martyn Lawrence Bullard. “Travel is my biggest inspiration,” says the Los Angeles dynamo. “It takes my work in exciting and fresh directions.” Embraced by an A-list clientele, he has designed homes for Cher, Eva Mendes, and Edward Norton and is now transforming a Tuscan-style villa in the Hollywood Hills for Ellen Pompeo. Complementing Bullard’s residential work are his worldly home collections (including wallpapers, fabrics, and carpets), as well as retail and hotel projects, among them a redo of the historic Château Gütsch in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Our girls had the pleasure of receiving Martyn Lawrence Bullard who came directly from LA to Paris for Maison & Objet last year.
The last project of Martyn Lawrence Bullard was with Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian.
Martyn Lawrence Bullard provided all the exotica Khloé coveted, dressing her home in a kaleidoscopic array of Moroccan, Turkish, and Middle Eastern flourishes. His coup de théâtre is the tented living room—an ethereal white fantasy presided over by a massive Levantine mirror with silent-film-era allure. That parlor opens onto a vine-covered terrace, where hanging daybeds sway gently in the Pacific breezes. As Bullard explains, “Khloé wasn’t interested in a traditional take on Moroccan style, so we cleaned up the lines and gave it a more vibrant, contemporary feel.”
Yet for all the drama of these spaces, the room that perhaps best reflects Khloé’s vivacious spirit is her gargantuan closet—a treasure chest of ensembles meticulously organized by color and style—devised from two erstwhile bedrooms. “I don’t have kids, so why not?” says Khloé, who recently debuted her talk show, Kocktails with Khloé, on the FYI channel and is working on a new makeover reality series for E!, the same network that has made Keeping Up with the Kardashians a sensation. “I was very hands-on in the design process. I’m obsessed with details, so I can be a bit controlling, but it’s only because I’m genuinely curious.”
That love of discovery is shared by Kourtney, who immersed herself in the history of 20th-century design to build the foundation of a serious collection. From the Pierre Jeanneret chairs that surround the dining table to the living room’s Oscar Niemeyer chair and ottoman to the Jules Leleu desk that anchors her art-filled office, the home brims with modernist gems.
