HotelChatter

Not surprisingly, Wearstler is a workaholic and a perfectionist. She reminds us of Rachel Zoe, if the celebrity stylist were dressing boutique hotels instead of skinny-minnie stars. Other salient facts about Wearstler we learned from the six-page profile:

- One of her signature pieces, a hooded leather chair, sells for $18, 500 at her retail shop in Bergdorf’s.

- Wearstler’s mom had her at 19, and her sister at 18. They grew up in a “blousy provincial style” home in Myrtle Beach.

- She posed nude for Playboy! An editor discovered Wearstler when she was working as a hostess at a Beverly Hills restaurant. She was the September, 1994, centerfold, and told the magazine that “bad design” was among her turnoffs. The editor tells the New Yorker that Wearstler had “amazing breasts, amazing natural breasts.”

- She met husband—owner of the Kor Group, Brad Korzen—through a friend, and he hired her to do his house in the Hollywood Hills. It’s now owned by director McG.

- Simon Doonan, creative director of Barneys, is a huge fan of Wearstler’s work on Maison 140: “I feel like I’m staying with my friend who’s a retired stripper, and who married a Chinese owner of a chain of opium dens.”

- Last fall, the Kor Group sold a 50% stake in its business to an Abu Dhabi firm that belongs to the royal family.

- Wearstler is currently decorating a house for Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale.

- She has designed a china collection that will debut this fall, and she is also working on a line of jewelry, scarves, bags, and belts that sound like they’re inspired by her property designs: necklaces made from heavy chains for chandeliers and others decorated with door pulls.

- Hue, Wearstler’s third book, will be published late this fall. Stay tuned to HotelChatter for a review.