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Known for her ability to perfectly blend grand European style with cool California chic, Kathryn M. Ireland creates signature interiors for a distinguished list of clientele ranging from Hollywood’s A-listers to English aristocracy and neighbors next door. A fan of bold color, the layering of pattern and texture and the beauty of imperfection, Ireland’s interiors convey an easy elegant vibe that i

s worldly and sophisticated without trying. The author of 5 best-selling books, including her latest “Inspired By”, and star of Bravo’s Million Dollar Decorator, Kathryn continues to work with the Hollywood elite, from Steve Martin to Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Drew Barrymore. With a design career spanning more than two decades, Kathryn has also become a major force in product manufacturing including her bespoke textile collections, weave collections and upholstered goods all locally produced in Los Angeles and distributed worldwide. Beyond her eponymous line of textiles and furniture, Kathryn has collaborated with several home furnishings brands including Grange, Scalamandre, and most recently debuted a paint collection with C2 Paints to complement her fabrics. Kathryn was also named North American Brand Ambassador for beloved European brand AGA Rangemaster in 2014. Kathryn regularly appears as an expert on Good Morning America, Access Hollywood Live, and E! A shelter magazine favorite, Kathryn’s design work appears frequently in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, World of Interiors, House Beautiful, Veranda, W, and InStyle. Kathryn is frequently honored as top of her craft named by Elle Decor and The Hollywood Reporter as Top 25 Interior Designers. Kathryn recently added mentor to her multi-hyphenate career as she hosts an annual 7-day Design Retreat each summer at La Castellane, her house in the South of France. She also hosts regular design bootcamps in Los Angeles where she shares her expertise and experience to help others succeed in the design industry. A mother of 3 boys, when Kathryn is not designing or entertaining she divides her time between her home in Santa Monica, CA and France. Kathyrn is currently working on a new television project and writing her 6th book.

29/08/2026

At the Palos Verdes house, a 1924 Spanish Colonial Revival with bougainvillea tumbling over the entrance, I put Robert Kime’s Indian Pear and Rogers and Goffigon’s Cyclades on the dining chairs. The sofa and chairs in the living room are Rogers and Goffigon too. That house wanted a neutral palette, washed whites and rich creams and soft caramels, and the color came from pillows and shades and rugs instead.

In my own Santa Monica home, the KMI Wilbury armchair and ottoman sits in the nook overlooking the front garden, upholstered in my Moroccan Stripe. That chair has become an indispensable standard in my work. I keep specifying it because it keeps being right.

None of these were accidents. Every fabric I put on a chair, I have lived with first. Touched it, held it up to the light, seen it next to the things it would sit beside. That is not overthinking it. That is the only way to do it properly.

Tim Beddow and Andreas von Einsiedel

27/08/2026

I’ve never been shy about using color, and curtains are often where a room comes alive. In Montecito, red damask sustained the dark, romantic mood of a Venetian-inspired bedroom. At the Santa Barbara ranch, vintage serapes brought exuberant color and vivid pattern to the hallway, while Safi Suzani dressed the cottage kitchen.

My Santa Monica guesthouse became an array of color from the “Mexico Meets Morocco” line, or “aromatherapy for the eyes,” as I like to call it. And in Normandy, a blue floral Ikat became the lead fabric in the master bedroom.

Different houses, different moods, each one brought to life through fabric.

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Photography by Tim Beddow and Andreas von Einsiedel

15/08/2026

A painting by Sebastiano Ciarcia is the focal point of a light, sunny Hollywood Hills sitting room, everything else arranged around it. Wood carvings found at Maison & Objet in Paris on the walls of a Cotswolds dining room. A Max Cobalto from Gallery B.R. in Tetbury bringing quiet life to a basement in Kensington that needed simplicity and good light above all else. An August Herbin, the French artist known for his abstract paintings, that had always belonged to the family and was already on the wall in Cape Cod when I arrived.

Sometimes I find the art. Sometimes the art is already there waiting.

It always starts or ends with art.

Photos by Tim Beddow / James Merrell / Trevor Tondro / Richard Powers

13/06/2026

A listed Cotswolds farmhouse with a provenance that stopped me in my tracks. Previously home to Sir Mark Palmer, hippie baronet and former page to Queen Elizabeth II, and his wife astrologer Catherine Tennant. Everyone I had ever known had a story about it from its hedonistic heyday.

My brief was simple: preserve the patina of the centuries. Honor the spirit of the house. Don’t make it look redecorated.

The teal paintwork runs throughout, tying every room together without overwhelming the original stone and timber bones. The kitchen island, the window frames, the doorways. One color, used consistently, doing more work than any number of fabrics ever could.

We sourced antiques locally from the surrounding Cotswold countryside, carried a chandelier back from France in hand luggage, and dealt with bats in the roof along the way. The kind of project I would do again without a second thought.

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Photos by James Merrell

06/06/2026

It started at one of my design retreats in Santa Monica.

Bridget Koch came with her mother and sisters for a long weekend, and by the time they left clutching their moodboards, we had become fast friends. On the way out the door, Bridget announced that it would be more fun if we did her new house together. The house happened to be Bunny Mellon’s Cape Cod beach house.

The structure was far more understated than I had expected. Private, discreet, comfortable, and completely unpretentious. I loved it immediately.

The living room in my Moroccan Stripe in Silvertree and Abu in Cream, with two-tone Solway sheers at the windows. The guest bedroom canopy and bedding in Greta Reverse Green. The bathroom wallpapered to match. The red painted floor Bridget’s own idea, inspired by my retreat. The original kitchen left absolutely untouched.

The greatest compliment came from a former member of Bunny’s staff who had spent years at the house. She looked around and said: “Mrs. Mellon would have approved of this.”

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Photos by Trel Brock / James Merrell

25/05/2026

When Nancy Newberg first walked into my shop on La Cienega years ago, I had no idea she would become one of my greatest collaborators. By the time she hired me for her new home in Brentwood, designed by architect Harry Newman, we could finish each other’s sentences about what we liked and what we didn’t.

That kind of rapport is rare. And it shows in the work.

Nancy wanted an old world feeling in a newly constructed home. Hand plastered walls, arched windows, subtle curves and beams throughout. The kitchen feels like a conservatory on a grand estate. The master sitting room in two Fortuny fabrics, Sevres and Alberelli, layered against creamy walls. The canopy bed in the guest room custom made by KMI Studio. The blue sitting room opens straight out onto the garden, exactly as it should.

When you have a client with this much style, your job is simply to make sure her personality comes through in every room. Nancy’s always does.

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Photos by Tim Beddow

21/05/2026

A turn of the century beach house in Normandy, handed down through French and English relatives for generations. My clients came to me with one clear instruction: don’t change the feeling of it.

That is always the most interesting brief to receive. Not do what you want, but do less than you think you need to.

The paneling, the proportions, the mood of the rooms — all of it stayed. What the house needed was more light, more bathrooms, and a kitchen that actually worked. We installed glass French doors from the hallway into the kitchen, converting dead attic space into a master bathroom and fitting a freestanding Victorian bath where the ceiling allowed. A farmhouse table, provincial pottery, oversized terracotta tiles. Nothing that couldn’t have been there for a hundred years.

The lead fabric in the master was my blue floral Ikat. The rest followed from there.

The easy, unpretentious note we hit is just right for a casual family summer home at the beach.

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Photos by Tim Beddow

15/05/2026

A compound of one and two bedroom cottages scattered across 400 acres of rolling California hills, and one of the most joyful projects I have ever worked on.

Working with architect Marc Appleton, we built each cottage on the footprint left by a handful of old mobile homes. The brief was simple: relate to the main residence, stay true to the unpretentious spirit of ranch living, and make every single space feel genuinely individual.

There is not one item I bought just to fill a spot. Everything has a story. Bergères reupholstered in Pakistani rallis. Curtains in my Safi Suzani Fiesta. Card table chairs from the south of France recovered in my George woven fabric. Cottage kitchens painted in bright, coordinating colors because life on a ranch should never be dull.

When the cottages were complete, the entire compound felt like a world within a world.

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Photos by Tim Beddow

12/05/2026

A 1924 Roland E. Coate house in Palos Verdes, and one of the most beautiful canvases I have ever been handed.
The architecture did most of the talking. Whitewashed plaster walls, exposed timber beams, original tiles, and from the terrace, views of Catalina Island and Santa Monica Bay that stopped me in my tracks on the very first visit. When the bones are this good, you listen to the house.

My client Leslie and I kept the palette neutral, washed whites, rich creams, soft caramels, to let the dark wood beams and the light do the work. The starburst mirror, the inlaid side tables, the layered textiles throughout. Everything chosen to honor the tradition of the style without being dominated by it.

And then there is the breakfast nook. Simple, uncluttered, surrounded by greenery. The room that always ends up being the most lived in.

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Photos by Tim Beddow

09/05/2026

My own master bedroom in Santa Monica, and the most honest room I have ever designed.

It started, as everything does for me, with fabric. The Summers in France collection, soft roses and corals that bloom all year in California the way they do in the south of France. Once those were chosen, every other decision followed naturally. The sitting nook in Moroccan Stripe. The bathroom walls in Quilt in Pink Rose Metallic, Sheer Confetti on the windows. The tester trim from Scalamandré.

People ask me how to start decorating a room. Find a fabric you love completely. The rest will tell you what it needs.

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Photos by Andreas von Einsiedel

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