Martyn Lawrence Bullard.Photo:Douglas Friedman
Douglas Friedman
After 30 years designing A-listers' homes, Martyn Lawrence Bullard has encountered his fair share of unusual and over-the-top requests.
In an interview with PEOPLE about his forthcoming bookStar Style: Interiors of Martyn Lawrence Bullard(out Nov. 7), which features many of the celebrity houses in his portfolio — Cher, Elton John, Ellen Pompeo, Kylie Jenner, Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian — the acclaimed interior designer opened up about some of his “crazy stories along the way.”
“A lot of my clients are not going to want 26 disco balls in their living room,” Bullard jokes, “butRuPaulloved it.”
RuPaul’s “ball room”.Douglas Friedman
And the glittering installation was hardly the only unique feat he tackled forthe drag icon’s Los Angeles mansion.
He continued, “A lot of clients are not going to want to remove six bedrooms at their house to make a 5,000-square-foot closet to house 3,000 ball gowns, but RuPaul wanted to do that." Lawrence adds that he “removed three bedrooms forKhloé Kardashianas well to make her a closet.”
“There are a lot of moments, certainly within celebrity design, that end up being extraordinary things that other people wouldn’t necessarily have in their home, but that’s what makes it exciting,” Bullard, whose work has regularly been featured in the pages ofArchitectural DigestandElle Decor,explains.
RuPaul in his drag closet.Douglas Friedman
Bullard also shared a few of his more non-traditional projects.
“Many clients as of late have asked to have sex rooms, so we’re creating very luxurious, very glamorous and very wild sex rooms,” he tells PEOPLE. “One of which was designed to look like a black quilted-leather Chanel handbag.”
Turquerie Fabric from the Martyn Lawrence Bullard Collection/Vendome Press
Bullard’s career began 30 years ago with his “first ever real project” forCheryl Tiegs. At the time, he didn’t even have a portfolio when she hired him.
“I was hired off the back of a feeling,” he says, adding that, “From her, it immediately went into a whole bunch of other celebrities.”
Cher’s living room.Douglas Friedman
Bullard’s current status among his star clients has kept the high profile decorator busy.
Star Style: Interiors of Martyn Lawrence Bullardis out Nov. 7 and available to pre-order now. .
source: people.com
