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May 2024
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Kelly Wearstler: Interior Design’s Taste...

DAN RUBINSTEIN
About this episode
Few interior designers have reached the heights of Kelly Wearstler. In the past 20 years, she’s gone from an L.A. upstart to a major force in the world of design. On this episode, Dan speaks with design’s leading lady on how she got started, her rapidly expanding experiments with AI, how she manages her growing empire, and much more.

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