Inside Kylie Jenner's Hidden Hills Home
A modern house in Hidden Hills where a beauty empire became an interior
A rambling modern house in Hidden Hills, all glass and light and dramatic views beyond. Kylie was twenty-one and already a phenomenon, as particular about packaging as she was about product.
The first order was to personalise the rooms around her energy and let the brand into the mix quietly. The scale of the house meant almost everything had to be custom made, the exceptions being collectors’ pieces: the swing sofa in the family room, the Yves Klein tables filled with pigment and gold leaf. I had leather custom dyed for the dining chairs in graduated shades of pink to match the tones in her lip kits exactly, and the bronze consoles were sculpted to look like giant molten drips of gold, another nod to the packaging.
Whole rooms were given a single job. A handbag room for hundreds of bags, among them some of the rarest Birkins in the world. A VIP dressing room kept separate from her closet, with floating lucite wardrobes for the Met Gala and campaign looks, shoe towers and sunglass stands in glass, suede and chrome, swivelling mirrors on polished steel. The glam room is where she films for hundreds of millions of people.
“The overall design is bold, vibrant, layered, and most importantly fun.”
Martyn Lawrence Bullard
Art gives the clearest window into her taste. Butterflies matter to Kylie, so the Damien Hirst pieces were among the first things she bought. She loves Marilyn, which led to the Warhols, and the Basquiats brought the edge. The house ran as the cover of Architectural Digest in March 2019 and became the biggest interior design story ever published, 1.6 billion views in three days.
Photography by Douglas Friedman for Architectural Digest
Martyn has since designed homes for Kylie’s sisters, a mid-century modern for Kourtney in Calabasas and a Moroccan modern for Khloé. He writes about the Hidden Hills project here.
Architectural Digest
Kylie walks through the house with Architectural Digest.
Star Style
This project appears in Star Style by Martyn Lawrence Bullard, his collection of the interiors he has created for the people who shape modern taste. Signed copies are available here.
