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Images of Jamaican-Canadian model Winnie Harlow’s sophisticated Los Angeles pad appear in Architectural Digest‘s Style issue. The Martyn Bullard-designed home, which was featured as part of Architectural Digest‘s Open Door series, is a five-bed property and we’ve been lucky enough to view its stunning monochrome interiors in the photos shared by the model.

Harlow says she turned to the pages of Architectural Digest to find someone who could help curate a home she would feel proud of. “I started looking to see who was working on the houses that I’m obsessed with, and that’s Martyn,” she says of AD100 designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard. “He came to the house, told me what he loved—and what he hated—and I could just tell that we were going to click.”

The model and designer both describe their immediate rapport as “love at first sight”, and so began a nine-month process of transformation. “Because I felt such a strong connection with her, I wanted to do it,” Bullard recalls. “I wanted to make it a special place.”

And that he did. Bullard maintained the white, neutral base of the new construction, layering “soft colours, alluring materials, and soothing textures on top”. Elements of Harlow’s career are creatively woven into the design narrative. A powder room is covered in a custom wallpaper made out of Harlow’s test sheets for Zac Posen’s spring 2020 campaign, and her glam room features a display of some of the magazine covers she’s graced. But it’s hardly a Harlow hall of fame. Photographs of fashion icons like Beverly Johnson and Grace Jones are used throughout the home as an ode to the black models who came before her.

CREDITS

Story: Sydney Gore, Senior Digital Design Editor at Architectural Digest

Photography: Douglas Friedman

Stylist: Anita Sarsidi