Designer Waldo Fernandez

Even though designer Waldo Fernandez decided to place his walled 1926 Mediterranean estate on the marketplace, with its 5 bedrooms and seven bathrooms in around 7,200 square feet, it actually brought on a sensation in the Los Angeles region. Recognized as the designer to the stars, Fernandez entirely remodeled the home by such as higher ceilings in the living room, a gourmet kitchen with breakfast region, a formal dining room, a den/media room, an open family members room, French doors top to lush gardens, a swimming pool, outside fireplace and tennis court. The residence has distressed oak flooring, wrought-iron detailing and constructed-ins all through. The residence is listed for $ten,995,000.

Fernando was born in Cuba and sent to the United States at age 17 to stay away from getting to be in the Cuban military. He was in a position to locate function washing windows in NYC prior to scraping with each other sufficient funds for a bus ticket to Hollywood, exactly where he enrolled into UCLA to study architecture and design. It did not take him extended to land a job in the set decorating division at 20th Century Fox, even even though he did not speak substantially English. Some of the film sets he worked on include things like Medical professional Doolittle, Hello, Dolly, and World of the Apes.

He held that job for a little additional than 4 years, designing furnishings on commission on the side, just before he was asked to do some styles for the house of director John Schlesinger.

His new profession blossomed immediately after that. He opened his initially showroom in 1974 just after traveling across Europe hunting for styles that match his sense of design and style, and his profession took off right after that. He has performed designing for celebrities which includes Jennifer Aniston, Elizabeth Taylor, Sean Connery and Goldie Hawn.

One particular story that helped cement his celebrity reputation was though Merv Griffin contacted him to design One particular of his hotel room for Prince Rainier and gave him significantly less than 24 hours to get it performed. Fernandez was in a position to pull it off by borrowing $150,000 worth of antique furnishings, along with flowers and Spanish rugs, which was returned right after the Prince left to go back house.

Fernandez' furnishings designs are mostly modern with flashes of contemporary touches. He furnishes rugs, baskets, and furnishings for living rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms and offices, as properly as some things that perform in outside spaces. His design and style is Recognized as clean and open, with organic fabrics and white walls, and it really is no wonder that quite a few of his styles give his consumers the impression of getting on a film set. His celebrity fans praise him higher; his critics, Nevertheless, really feel his styles are clinical and cold, lifeless.

There is no pleasing absolutely everyone, but Fernandez instills loyalty from these who appreciate what his design does for them. He was also the designer requested to do the redesign of the popular Beverly Hills Hotel.

Fernandez place his personal house on the industry and, when maintaining his business in California, is deciding to move to the Hamptons in New York state, an region he feels is extra gorgeous as far as nature is concerned. Nonetheless, he will still be obtainable as a designer in California, and other places about the globe.

Luis Pezzini
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