Inside Winnie Harlow's Glamorous LA Home
A first home in Los Angeles, where calm meets 1930s Hollywood glamour
The first home Winnie has ever owned, five bedrooms of newly built Los Angeles space that arrived as a blank white shell. She wanted calm and she wanted glamour, and this house had to be both.
I kept the white shell and layered onto it. Black accents give the open kitchen its graphic punch, and because it flows straight into the family room it became the heartbeat of the house, with an island that doubles as a glam station when the evening calls for it.
The living room is more composed: a custom Atelier sofa, a pair of 1970s brass palm-leaf floor lamps by Tommaso Barbi, a chandelier over the dining table that dangles like Chanel pearls. The bedroom is pure 1930s Hollywood, marble and bouclé and Turkish faux fur around a velvet bed. A bedroom should be a room you get to star in.
“It is always so important to me that a client’s personality is felt in their home. It should be a window into their soul.”
Martyn Lawrence Bullard
Winnie would happily have had no pictures of herself anywhere. I felt differently. The powder room is papered in her own test sheets from a Zac Posen campaign in wild technicolor, and the glam room carries a wall of the covers she has graced. To keep the house from becoming a hall of fame we hung the stairwell salon-style with Beverly Johnson, Grace Jones and the Black models who made her path, so she wakes to them every day. The house was featured in Architectural Digest.
Photography by Douglas Friedman for Architectural Digest
Architectural Digest
Winnie opens the doors herself in Open Door, the Architectural Digest series now streaming on Netflix.
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.
