Celebrity Architectural Digest walkthroughs often unintentionally reveal something about the A-lister in question. While Kendall Jenner‘s AD profile didn’t provide nearly the level of chaos of say, Lily Allen and David Harbour (or even Walton Goggins), it did confirm our suspicions that Kendall is the Kardashian most likely to have read Wuthering Heights. She’s a horse girl, a Scorpio and the most private member of the clan. So it tracks that when Architectural Digest came calling, what she unveiled wasn’t a Calabasas McMansion in 50 shades of greige.
Her family’s homes and their famous Hidden Hills, California, Compound have always given us a showroom aesthetic. Heavy on antiseptic white and sickly greige, they feel at once like ultra-modern mausoleums and a place you could probably buy a sconce. Kendall’s getaway, nestled in a “top secret” mountain location, is wood-panelled and full of eccentric grandma-esque features.
“I’m not a bare-bones type of girl. I love colour, and I love pattern,” Jenner told AD. “I had a vision. It was a house full of people squeezed onto a couch for game night.”
That vision came to life on an early visit, when friends dropped by spontaneously. “It made me damn near emotional,” she said. “I had this dream, and it happened in a home that I built.”
At the heart of that vision? A couch. But not just any sofa. The couch is upholstered in 50 yards of Lee Jofa’s chaotic floral Hollyhock Handblock print. It’s a lot! “Kind of crazy,” Jenner admits. “But it’s the statement in the room.”
The space, which she designed with interior whisperer Heidi Caillier, is saturated with character and colours. There’s a chequerboard tiled shower (a vintage spin on the family’s signature floors) in burgundy, golden tapware from Barber Wilson & Co., a pea-green bathroom and, most crucially, a yellow toilet.
A yellow toilet is not something we would have immediately associated with Kendall, who’s best known for her minimalist style and penchant for The Row. But we’re happy she has one. We’d also love to stay in her 2020 Airstream Bambi, replete with more pea green (this time, chequered fabric walls) that she renovated for guests. It features a utilitarian tub and kitchenette that give us tiny-house-influencer energy, as does her bedroom. Her favourite bedroom features a dainty little twin bed and an avalanche of patterned throws and wallpaper.
“Although I feel it’s a very mature room, it also feels like a little girl’s room in a way,” she said. “So I kind of feel like my child-like self in this room… it makes me want to read a million books.”
Something we’re not sure any other Kardashian has ever uttered.
Ruby Feneley
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