By SUE MANNING October 17, 2010 12:00 AM
The first time Cheryl Tiegs and Martyn Lawrence-Bullard met, they sat on folding chairs inside the fixer-upper she'd just bought. it came with sticky aluminum doors, small louvered windows and worries that she might have to raze it.
That was 14 years ago. They gutted the house, raised the roof and, in 14 months, turned a five-bedroom teardown into a fantasy home — "a beautiful Balinese paradise with British Colonial touches," said Tiegs, 63.
The model's home was one of Lawrence-Bullard's first jobs as an interior designer and still ranks as one of his favorites. at 43, he travels the globe to work and shop, and to this day keeps Tiegs' tropical tastes in mind.
Lawrence-Bullard talks about friends instead of clients. He has spent the last three Christmases with Cher, toasted every new Year since 2005 with Elton John and vacationed in Paris with Ellen Pompeo. "I love to travel with clients because we get inspired together," he said.
And they reciprocate. Tiegs threw Lawrence-Bullard's 40th birthday party.
Tomorrow, Lawrence-Bullard receives the Andrew Martin Interior Designer of the Year award, an Oscar-scale honor for a decorator. in January, Architectural Digest magazine listed him as one of the world's top 100 designers.
People want to live out their fantasies, he said. "I am an enabler. what makes my job exciting is that I can help people live out their fantasies."
At her Malibu home, Cher wanted Oriental and Orientalist. for her Los Angeles duplex, she wanted an Indian fantasy: a maharani palace with a slight harem feel to it, Lawrence-Bullard said.
"Cher has fantastic tastes and ideas. Her interiors are almost like stage sets and become a further extension of her personality. Her extraordinary dress sense in everyday life is very rock 'n' roll sexy, she loves that leather and lace vibe," he said. on stage, he added, she incorporates all her fantasies, "from the gypsy look to the American Indian to her sleek '70s Halston-y vibe."
Fantasy ideas accumulate over a lifetime, but some decorating decisions come quickly, Tiegs said.
She and Lawrence-Bullard were up in the attic when they decided it would take $2,500 and one day to scoop out all the ceilings at the fixer-upper in the toney Bel Air section of Los Angeles. Now, the Great Room — "that's capital G and capital R" —with its 35-foot ceilings is home to a picnic table from Bali that can seat two or 24, a pool table, a cozy spot by the fireplace to sit and read, television space and room to exercise.
"I was afraid it would become like a gymnasium. but when I walked in I burst into tears I was so happy. it was so beautiful. it was so warm and so inviting," Tiegs said.
She said she can see first-time visitors take a deep breath. "It has the calmest, sweetest, most serene vibe of any house I've been in," she said.
Lawrence-Bullard has freshened up Tiegs' Great Room four times over the years with upholstery, pillows, plants and other accents.
The transition in her son's room has been a bit more extreme. Zack Peck's room started full of friendly stuffed animals when he was 4, took on lifelike tigers and cheetahs when he was 8, and became a rock star's room when he was 14 and Lawrence-Bullard converted it to zebras, rock stars and music legends.
Lawrence-Bullard insists on a splash of red and something green or living in every room. it also has to be clutter-free. Tiegs tends to leave books sitting around. after Lawrence-Bullard visits, she will find them all put away.
She has a little Balinese lamp at her front door.
"It's very feng shui. That's my red," Tiegs said. "I'm trying to green up my house as much as possible. I've put Cambria all over my kitchen, which is a natural quartz countertop, which is a green product. That was pretty major."
Besides Cher, John, Tiegs and Pompeo, Lawrence-Bullard's client list includes Eva Mendes, Kid Rock, Ozzie and Sharon Osbourne and Keenen Ivory Wayans. the decorator's present workload includes projects in six countries.
He has his own fragrance, and candle, furniture, fabric and wallpaper lines; this year's colors are saffron yellow, lilac and turquoise. And he has designed a series of rugs for the Rug co.
He has turned down only one interior decorating job.
"I said no to gold-leafing the interior of somebody's garage once. I found that to be somewhat vulgar and not something I wanted my name attached to," he said.
A building's history should guide its restoration and decoration, Lawrence-Bullard said. his own home was built by silent-movie star Rudolph Valentino. Over the years, it also was owned by actress Gloria Swanson and author William Faulkner, and it has an Italian, 1920s vibe, he said.
Lawrence-Bullard took up flooring, restored antique fireplaces, turned a fountain that Valentino had installed into a marquee part of the house, and decorated the dining room around a chandelier that Swanson had put in.
Born in London, Lawrence-Bullard said he originally moved to Hollywood to become an actor. He had a brief modeling career and once was dressed as the debonair Valentino.
His fantasy job? Decorating the 28-room, Los Angeles castle that Johnny Depp bought after filming "Ed Wood." Or "any house for Lady Gaga," he said.
"She is the ultimate amazing icon of this decade, for sure. As an artist, she is an extraordinary woman in whatever she does," said Lawrence-Bullard, who met the singer at one of John's parties. "She was unbelievably sweet and gorgeous and intelligent and sensitive. I think that actually comes through in her music."
Online: www.martynlawrencebullard.com.
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I checked this guys biography in wikipedia, and I had a hard time to figure out if this was a real person or a character from South Park.
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July 20th, 2011 at 12:10 am
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I remember my first trip to Manhattan when I was 27 and the new arts and antiques editor of Architectural Digest magazine. I saw a lot of people like the man you so eloquently describe. (I like the way you've categorized people.) And I was overwhelmed with sorrow. I was going to the best galleries and museums in New York, staying at the old Westbury Hotel (which I guess is now condos), and eating meals that could support a man like this for a month. And somehow, I felt there was something terribly wrong with a world where I could eat at Lutece (now closed, I guess), and he might be eating garbage off the street.
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I love your show my paisan..I look forward to my glass of wine and watching your show..I also watch you on the view..I way love your so much better than you show on the view,,Go girl..Forget Madonna, Cheryl Tiegs, Cher-- you are the girl of the century..I love you in your gemtones, and I think that you are the real thing..Thanks for being such a tribute to the gals in the 50 plus genre..Love ya--JVF
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You have got to be kidding me. This in Architectural Digest?? I thought they were a bit more, well, architectural. Haven't read the thing for ages though. The first photo is the most disgusting thing I've seen since the 80's. Maybe it is from the 80's? The second one I don't understand at all. But if someone gave me a dog like that I would kill myself. Is it actually a vase? Or is it just the angle?
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