Martyn Lawrence Bullard
Martyn Lawrence Bullard
Martyn Lawrence Bullard is an English interior designer, author and television personality based in Los Angeles.[1] Martyn has been consistently named as one of the world’s top 100 interior designers by Architectural Digest,[2] featured permanently in Elle Decor’s A-List, and named one of the top 25 designers by "The Hollywood Reporter". A popular television personality, Martyn starred in the hit Bravo series Million Dollar Decorators and Channel 4's Hollywood Me in the UK, along with a multitude of design television programs spanning over 65 countries.
Born in Lewisham, London, Bullard began his career in design while in his teens. His father, an actor turned businessman, would accompany his son to the Greenwich Antiques Market in South London, where he rented a stall. At 13, Bullard began to buy and sell what he called "oddments," and learned to identify decorator items that were valuable or well-designed.[3] By the time he was 16, he had developed a clientele of prominent dealers and collecters, including the head buyer for Ralph Lauren Antiques, who shipped Bullard's pieces to the United States to dress the windows of Lauren's Madison Avenue and Rodeo Drive boutiques.
After moving to Los Angeles, Bullard was cast in several roles, including a part as Eartha Kitt's boy toy in Ed Wood's final film, I Woke Up Early The Day I Died. One of the film's producers visited Bullard's home, and, impressed by its decor, invited Bullard to decorate his office. From there, Bullard was hired to decorate the office and home of Liz Heller, a Capitol Records executive, and was eventually asked to help create Heller's wedding to producer John Bard Manulis. As a guest at the event, he was seated next to Cheryl Tiegs, who became his first celebrity client. Together, Tiegs and Bullard transformed Tiegs' Bel Air home into a "Balinese-inspired pavilion," which was featured in publications worldwide, and appeared on the cover of more than a dozen magazines.[3] After his success with Cheryl Tiegs' house, Bullard began to build a celebrity clientele.
His early clients included Rebecca Romijn and John Stamos, Christina Aguilera, William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman, Eva Mendes, Patti LaBelle, and Edward Norton.[1] In more recent years, Bullard has gone on to decorate homes for Kylie Jenner, Khloe Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Cher, Ellen Pompeo, Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, Kid Rock, and Tommy Hilfiger, among many others. While best known for his high-end residential design, Bullard has also designed several premiere hospitality properties around the world including the Colony Palms Hotel,[7] the Jimmy Choo boutiques in London and Osaka, Japan.[8] as well as Château Gütsch Hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland. His most recent hospitality endeavors include The Sands Hotel in Indian Wells, California, Hotel Californian in Santa Barbara, The Residencies at Four Seasons Los Angeles, and the Whitley, a boutique hotel in Hollywood scheduled to open in early 2020.
In 2010, Bullard won the "Oscar of the Interior Design World," the Andrew Martin International Designer of the Year Award.[9] Bullard also has two books published by Rizzoli, Live, Love & Decorate, reached its third reprint in its first 16 weeks of release, and topped the best-seller list in the interior design genre.[10][11] The book featured 16 of Bullard's projects, including Cher's "fantasy villa," and Tamara Mellon's $30 million Manhattan penthouse.[12] His second, "Design & Decoration", published in 2016, featured his own Palm Springs, California vacation home alongside 9 projects, giving readers a range of his style across both residential and commercial designs.
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