Top 20 Celebrity Interior Designers

There is always a fascination for all the glitz and glam that a celebrity home offers. But what bridges the gap between a celebrity’s personality and their home? It takes a unique understanding and talent to produce someone’s vibrant and larger-than-life persona to physical reality. That is where celebrity interior designers come into play producing a truly world-class and groundbreaking design that holds everyone’s attention.

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Top 20 Celebrity Interior Designers:

1. Martyn Lawrence Bullard

Martyn has been included time and again in one of the world’s top 100 interior designers by Architectural Digest, Elle Decor’s A-List, and top 25 designers by “The Hollywood Reporter”. Bullard started his journey of designing celebrity homes after Cheryl Tiegs gave home his big break.

His client list includes Rebecca Romijn and John Stamos, William H. Macy, Christina Aguilera, and, Eva Mendes, Felicity Huffman, Edward Norton, and Patti LaBelle. Past few years he has designed homes for Ellen Pompeo, Kylie Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian, Cher, Khloe Kardashian, Sharon, and Kid Rock, Ozzy Osbourne, and Tommy Hilfiger.

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2. Jacques Grange

Grange, who always loved drawing as a kid is also an accomplished student of gilding, plaster carving, cabinetmaking, and upholstery. He acquired his interior design degree from the prestigious École Camondo. Grange described his first client, Yves Saint Laurent as the one who set home creatively free.

They later worked together on the couturier’s villa in Marrakech, inspired by a traditional Riyadh, and the Proust-themed Château Gabriel, in Normandy, whose walls Grange had painted to look like Monet’s water lilies.

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3. Kelly Wearstler

Kelly Wearstler Interior Design was started in the year 2005 and has gone on to design for reputed celebrities such as Gwen Stefani, Cameron Diaz, and Stacey Snider. The Viceroy in Palm Springs which is the highlight of her portfolio paved the way for design projects for clients such as Mercury Records, Ben Stiller, and Jeanne Tripplehorn.

The Santa Monica Proper Hotel, Austin Proper Hotel, San Francisco Proper Hotel, Four Seasons Anguilla, BG Restaurant at Bergdorf Goodman, the Viceroy Hotels and Residences, Westfield Century City, Tides Miami, and custom residences for high-profile private clients are some of the many feathers in her cap. Her work solidifies her status as one of the best celebrity interior designers today.

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4. Bobby Berk

Bobby had an inextinguishable passion for interior designing from a very young age, he moved to the Big Apple and worked his way in companies like Restoration Hardware and Bed Bath & Beyond. He soon became the creative director at Portico Home + Spa.

He launched his all-inclusive premium interior design practice boasting of luxurious residential, commercial, and hospitality clientele and was also featured in a Netflix Show called Queer eye.

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5. Joanna Gaines

Joanna Gaines is a wife, a mother, and a businesswoman. She also starred in the television show Fixer Upper and is simultaneously co-founder of the design cum real estate company Magnolia. Joanna’s signature style greatly reflects her appreciation for the traditional seen in her spectacular living room designs.

Gaines and her husband, Chip, are industry experts in redecorating and flipping homes. This company has made Gaines one of the most successful designers and businesswomen in the country with a very high-profile clientele.

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6. Justina Blakeney

Justina Blakeney is many things from a designer, artist to an interior designer, writer, and speaker who is known specifically for her colorful and bohemian spaces. She often says that her multi-ethnic background is the genesis of her design style and inspiration. Blakeney started a very fun and enterprising design and lifestyle blog “Jungalow,” a combination of jungle and bungalow.

She also has created a collection of shaggy rugs for Loloi, a wallpaper collection with boutique firm Hygge & West, the Justina Blakeney Home collection with Anthropologie, a bedding line at Target, and a home textiles collection with Calico Corners stores. She has also written a New York Times bestseller, “The New Bohemians” which acts as a bible to anyone who wishes to emulate the bohemian design style. Her work has made her one of the most successful celebrity interior designers in the country.

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7. Peter Marino

Peter Marino is primarily an architect but known more for edgy flair in interior designs. In 1985, Marino was tasked with designing the women’s retail concept for Barney’s department store. This led to him designing 17 freestanding Barney’s department stores in the U.S. and Japan.

Marino’s work for Barneys brought him into the circle of famed fashion designers such as Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Ermenegildo Zegna, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, and eventually Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, and others for whom he designed boutiques. Marino was also the brains behind the flagship Louis Vuitton shop on Rodeo Drive, in Beverly Hills, California.

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8. Nate Berkus

Nate Berkus was bold enough to establish his successful interior design firm at the age of 24, whose friendly demure has transformed countless homes around the world through his design work and home decor. Nate’s first appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show which resulted in him becoming one of the world’s most recognizable interior designers. His work has been showcased in publications including House Beautiful, Architectural Digest, InStyle, VOGUE, O Magazine, and Harper’s Bazaar.

He is also a consistent part of ELLE DÉCOR “A-List” and was named in the AD100 list in 2018. His product lines include a bed and bath collection, roller shades for the well-known The Shade Store, and a furniture line with Living Spaces.

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9. Emily Henderson

Oregon-based Emily is best known for her trailblazing designs seen in HGTV Design Star and Secrets from a Stylist phenomenon. She gives credit for her creative nature to the fact that she was brought up in a family that regularly made their clothes and reupholstered their furniture pieces.

After moving from her hometown in Oregon, Emily got her industrial design degree from the prestigious Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Soon after, she set up her design studio. Her predominant minimalist style has made her a highly sought-after celebrity interior designers.

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10. Roman and Williams

Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors was set up by famed duo Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch in 2002. They took their first step in designing a home in Los Angeles and never looked back since. The plethora of experience they had from designing sets for famous Hollywood films laid the foundation stone for their design style and inspiration.

Robin Standefer was educated in Manhattan at the prestigious High School for Art and Design whereas Stephen Alesch is known for his acumen in being a skilled master builder, draughtsman, designer, and craftsman who uses various techniques for visual representation.

The firm’s other completed projects include the goop mrkt pop-up store, working with Celebrity Creative Director Gwyneth Paltrow, and featuring the designs of Valentino. Other projects include a mess hall on the new Facebook campus in Menlo Park, California, and the HuffPost Live studio set and offices in New York, which debuted in Spring 2012.

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11. Jonathan Adler

Jonathan Adler is a potter, interior decorator, and author. After the launch of his first ceramic collection in 1993 at Barneys New York, he expanded into furniture design, opening his first boutique in Soho, Manhattan. He now has 17 stores and runs a successful home interiors business. Growing up in Bridgeton, New Jersey, made his RISD pottery, including Chanel-inspired teapots and Sevres-inspired urns, reflect his interests in pop culture, early hip hop culture, contemporary art, and fashion.

He is also known for his work at the Parker Palm Springs Hotel, the former Merv Griffin’s Resort and Givenchy Spa property in Palm Springs, California.

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12. India Mahdavi

India Mahdavi was born in Tehran to a Persian father and an English-Egyptian mother. Mahdavi’s flair for vibrancy and color can be traced back to her childhood influences with Disney movies, Bugs Bunny, Peanuts. Mahdavi designed a series of restaurants and bars including the Condesa DF Hotel of Mexico City, At the Connaught in London, and Le Germain in Paris.

Mahdavi designed the Sketch Restaurant at the Gallery of London, which has been dubbed the most shared restaurant in the world on Instagram by many, including India herself. Most famous collaborations include the Louis Vuitton Nomadic Objects, Nespresso, Paint line with Meriguet-Carrère in 2019. She is firmly established as one of the famous interior designers in the field.

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13. Tiffany Brooks

Tiffany initially started as a multifamily residential property manager simultaneously staging model homes. She later got a chance to team up with designer David Bromstad on the second season of HGTV’s Rock the Block. A show that lets designers compete to give luxe makeovers to existing properties.

She is currently the host of HGTV’s $50000 Three Ways and the designer cum host of HGTV’s sweepstakes show, Smart Home. She also paved her way into the 2021 Architectural Digest AD100 list of designers and architects.

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14. Charles & Co.

Before the founding of Charles & Co., Vicky Charles served as Head of Design for Soho House. Charles started her interior design firm along with Julia Corden. They have a global clientele and it has been reported they have several celebrity clients.

Charles & Co. has worked with several well-known clientele including Emma Stone, David and Victoria Beckham, Ashton Kutcher, and Mila Kunis, Gordon, and Tana Ramsay, Sony Music, Goop, George, and Amal Clooney, Matthew Rhys and Keri Russel, and Paul Rudd, making them highly sought-after celebrity interior designers.

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15. Demitri Sgourakis

Demitri Sgourakis works globally and is famous for his modern twist to an eclectic sense of design. After an apprenticeship with legendary decorator Bette Baer, Demitri relocated to Los Angeles to become Design Director for Kreiss Home Furnishings before founding Demitri Christian Interior Design, Inc. His client list includes several A-list Hollywood celebrities and politicians.

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16. ETC.etera

ETC.etera (etc. for short) is an interior design firm based in LA. Sally Breer and Jake Rodehuth have been largely instrumental in bringing young energy to Celebrity design in LA.

Their punch line —“We are serious about our work, but not ourselves!”— hints at a fun, ambitious spirit that dictates their interiors for residences and hospitality venues across California. As leading celebrity interior designers for a new generation, their clients include Donald Glover, Katy Perry, and Zooey Deschanel.

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17. Jake Arnold

Arnold has worked with several celebrity clients including Rashida Jones, Sophia Bush, Chrissy Teigen, and John Legend, Aaron Paul, as well as entrepreneurs such as Stewart Butterfield, Julianne Hough, Jen Rubio, and Katherine Power.

His work has been continuously featured in Architectural Digest, Forbes, CNN, Vogue, and Better Homes and Gardens, as well as on the cover of ELLE Decor. Arnold was also included in the list of The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 20 Interior Designers in Los Angeles

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18. Jane Hallworth

Hallworth approaches all her projects as a medley of architecture, decoration, and landscape where each component is carefully taken apart and designed with the clients being an integral part of each creative process. Hallworth has collaborated with a broad range of architects, including Mark Rios, Howard Backen, George Washington Smith, Marc Appleton, and Scott Mitchell.

She is famous for restoring antiquated homes by the likes of Paul Williams, A. Quincy Jones, Candace Miller, Paul Laszlo, and Lloyd Wright. The British-born, LA-based designer is known for being extremely discreet when it comes to talking about her Hollywood client list which is rumored to have the likes of Ellen Degeneres and Kristen Dunst.

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19. Studio Shamshiri

Pamela and Ramin Shamshiri founded Los Angeles-based design studio in 2016. With extensive knowledge and experience in production, art direction, and set design, the siblings oversee a broad range of residential, commercial, and hospitality projects, both domestic and international.

The studio’s portfolio includes work for homes designed by iconic architects such as Rudolph Schindler, Stanford White, Myron Hunt, Nigel Coates, and Buff & Hensman, as well as ground-up projects with notable contemporaries including Marmol Radziner and Johnston Marklee.

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20. Brigette Romanek

Brigette, an avid traveler since her early childhood is her inspiration for her design style. Moving house every few years as a child, passing through Chicago, Seattle, New York, and Los Angeles, she also remembers the sofas she curled up in along the way: radiant orange at her fashionable Chicago aunt’s house to a spotless floral at her great-grandmother.

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Thinking back on the choices these stylish women made, she says, she might have predicted her eventual career. Today she is a celebrated decorator in Los Angeles whose eclectic, assertively colorful interiors answer the needs of clients as Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Demi Moore, and Gwyneth Paltrow. She worked in design for several years in advance of opening her studio in central Hollywood in 2018.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

1. Who is the most famous interior designer?

While fame is subjective, names like Kelly Wearstler and Martyn Lawrence Bullard are consistently ranked at the top. Their innovative designs for A-list clients and high-profile projects have made them household names. To develop your own unique style and build a portfolio that stands out, you can use tools like Foyr to visualize and perfect your concepts.

2. Who is the best female interior designer?

It’s difficult to name just one, as many talented women lead the industry. Kelly Wearstler is often celebrated for her bold, maximalist style, while India Mahdavi is known for her vibrant use of color. To learn from the best and create your own professional-grade designs, Foyr offers an all-in-one platform to bring your creative vision to life.

3. Who is the most Googled interior designer?

Search trends change, but Joanna Gaines often tops the list due to her immense popularity from the show ‘Fixer Upper.’ Her modern farmhouse style resonates with a broad audience. If you’re inspired by her success, Foyr provides the platform to help you design, render, and share your own projects, building a strong online presence.