"I saw you coming," Harry Enfield once told a succession of women as Martyn, the antique salesman who sells a fortune's worth of junk to the rich and clueless in W11. The Martyn in town with me today is a very different sort – the world's premier interior designer, in fact – and yet has more in common with Enfield's character than a name. Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Esq., first discovered a passion for antiques and curation while working a stall at Greenwich Market, upselling trinkets to unsuspecting American tourists in his early teens. He is also one of the most hilarious people I have ever interviewed.
It is that irrepressibly funny and Ab Fab-esque manner – along with a unique knack for translating a client's star power into a star home – that keeps the world’s biggest celebrities calling on him with each new property they purchase. A near-constant name in the best-of lists (AD 100, Elle Decor Top 25), Bullard has won coveted awards including, in 2010, the Andrew Martin International Interior Designer of the Year. To his portfolio of star homes, he adds high-end hotels, including (all in California) the Sands, Whitley and Four Seasons.
