Interior designer to the stars Martyn Lawrence Bullard has styled homes for everyone from the Kardashians and Cher to Elton John. But it’s re-creating luxe homes-away-from-home within the world’s best hotels that sends the 56-year-old’s creative juices into overdrive.
“Hotels are amazing because you get to create fantasy,” enthuses Bullard over drinks at a rooftop bar near his West Hollywood office. “Unlike private homes, my hotel projects can be seen by thousands of people a year – and the interiors tend to be far more glamorous and unexpected.”
Bullard is unique for having the greatest impact on celebrity living in recent times. His interiors for the wealthy and famous border on the fantastical: importing the façade of a maharaja’s palace for Cher’s Malibu mansion; outfitting a private plane in zebra print for singer Gwen Stefani;
