Architectural Digest USA - June 2022

“I have great admiration for the work of other decorators, but I can only be myself. My ideas come from gut feelings.”

THE LIVING ROOM IS BY RAYMOND PETTIBON. OUTFITTED WITH A CUSTOM OPPOSITE TRAVIS BARKER SOFA (IN A DOMINIQUE (IN TROUSERS BY ENFANTS KIEFFER FABRIC) AND LOUNGE RICHES DÉPRIMÉS AND A CHAIRS BY WALDO’S DESIGNS, VINTAGE JUNYA WATANABE A LIAIGRE SIDE TABLE, A NECKLACE) WITH (FROM LEFT) MANSOUR CARPET, STOOLS CHILDREN ALABAMA BARKER, IN THE STYLE OF PIERRE ATIANA DE LA HOYA, AND CHAREAU, AND A RICK OWENS LANDON BARKER. FASHION BRONZE VASE. ARTWORKS STYLING BY CHRISTOPHER KIM.

GROOMING BY DARCY GILMORE USINGVIBE SHIFT YSL BEAUTY AT THE WALL GROUP Rock star Travis Barker enlists AD100 designer Waldo Fernandez to help craft a surprisingly tranquil, urbane home in Calabasas for his growing family TEXT BY MAYER RUS PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRISTOPHER STURMAN STYLED BY AMY CHIN

“I wanted a house where I can rest and enjoy my family, a place where we can create memories,” Travis Barker explains. A VIEW OF THE POOL LOOKING BACK TO THE LOFTY LIVING ROOM. OPPOSITE THE FAMILY ROOM HAS A CUSTOM SOFA IN DE LE CUONA LINEN, CUSTOM LOUNGE CHAIRS IN LEE JOFA LINEN, AND A COCKTAIL TABLE AND STOOLS BY WALDO’S DESIGNS.

it's beenabusyspringfor the musician reached out to the inimitable Waldo Fernandez, perpetually in-demand a perennial fixture on the AD100, who has stood at the musician Travis Barker. crossroads of design and celebrity for five decades. “I loved In just one four-week the simplicity and zen quality of his work. We connected period, the Blink-182 immediately,” Barker says of his initial meeting with the drummer finished work design legend. on Machine Gun Kelly’s latest album, Mainstream “Travis wasn’t looking for a major statement or any kind of Sellout, then performed with Reba McEntire at the Oscars for caricatured rock-star style,” Fernandez recalls. “He wanted a an audience of millions. He also played a fiery set with Lenny home that would allow him to think and be at peace with him- Kravitz and H.E.R. at the Grammys in Las Vegas before self.” In practical terms, that vision translated into a decidedly returning to the studio to wrap Blackbear’s newest release, subdued color scheme, tailored ensembles of linen-covered In Loving Memory. Oh yes, he also married his formidable upholstery, warm wood accent pieces heavy on patina, and fiancée, Kourtney Kardashian, in a “practice” wedding—the custom furnishings inspired by midcentury classics. “We did it couple had not yet procured a license—officiated by an Elvis all with a very light hand, which was in keeping with the mis- impersonator at a Vegas chapel. “It was a perfect month,” sion,” Fernandez continues. says the quintessential rock star, who is regularly featured on lists of the greatest drummers of all time. Barker admits that the restrained vibe is a bit of a departure When Barker needs some downtime to relax with family from some of his previous residences. “I’ve had homes with and friends, his exit off the fast lane leads straight to a lots of flashy cars, murals, and bikes hanging from the ceiling. surprisingly serene, understated refuge in Calabasas, which he But with three children of my own, plus Kourtney’s kids, this shares with his three children, Landon and Alabama Barker place felt right for this moment in my life. I wanted a house and Atiana De La Hoya. Three years ago, in an effort to instill a where I can rest and enjoy my family, a place where we can greater sense of calm and order to the capacious residence he’s create memories,” the musician explains. As a case in point, owned for 15 years, Barker decided it was time for a refresh. he describes typical Sunday idylls at Casa Barker, when the At the suggestion of his soon-to-be mother-in-law, Kris Jenner, family comes together for a vegan meal, followed by puzzles and board games (Othello is a favorite) or simply hanging out and watching movies. ARCHDIGEST.COM 101

“Travis wasn’t looking for a major statement or any kind of caricatured rock-star style,” designer Waldo Fernandez notes. CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE LAMP. A VIEW OF THE HOUSE. THE GAME ROOM INCLUDES A THE DINING ROOM IS JAMES DE WULF CONCRETE CENTERED ON A CUSTOM PING-PONG TABLE AND A TABLE AND CHAIRS IN THE VICO MAGISTRETTI TABLE STYLE OF PIERRE JEANNERET.

HAIR BY PETER SAVIC USING NAVY HAIR CARE AT OPUS BEAUTY; MAKEUP BY TONYA BREWER AT DEW BEAUTY AGENCY; BARKER AND FIANCÉE © 2022 THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, INC. / LICENSED BY ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN (SHARING PAJAMAS BY ENFANTS RICHES DÉPRIMÉS) IN THE KITCHEN. WOLF WALL OVENS, PANELED SUB-ZERO REFRIGERATOR, AND ALVAR AALTO PENDANT LIGHTS FOR ARTEK. FASHION STYLING FOR KARDASHIAN BY DANI MICHELLE.

LEFT THE PRIMARY BEDROOM HAS AN ANTIQUE FRENCH WORKTABLE AND BENCH FROM GALERIE HALF, A CUSTOM DOUBLE CHAISE LONGUE IN LEE JOFA LINEN, AND A RICK OWENS BRONZE SIDE TABLE AND VASE. BELOW THE TUB IN THE PRIMARY BATH IS CLAD IN SILVER TRAVERTINE, WITH FIXTURES BY WATERWORKS. WHILE THE FURNISHINGS suggest a sophisticated, urbane sensibility, the art that adorns the walls dovetails more neatly with the musician’s hard-rocking, tattoo-rific public persona. The collection is heavy on pieces by Raymond Pettibon, an artist who, like Barker himself, has deep roots in Southern California’s punk-rock scene. The Pettibons on display range from the artist’s early underground flyers for Black Flag and other seminal punk-rock acts to the signature image-and-text paintings coveted by aficionados of contemporary art. An Andy Warhol diamond-dust Dracula, installed above a 19th-century Chinese console, has pride of place in the home’s entry foyer. “I saw it in a gallery when I was just 19 or 20 years old, touring in New York City. The diamond dust reminded me of the grip tape on a skateboard deck. I had to have it,” Barker recalls. Like skateboarding and BMX bike racing, design has long been part of the musician’s DNA. In addition to being a co-owner of the DTA (Don’t Trust Anyone) clothing brand, Barker recently launched a collection of skull-themed home- wares and accessories—everything from drum keys to table lamps and candleholders—in collaboration with the London- based company Buster + Punch, which also outfitted the drummer’s expansive new recording studio. “I like finding different ways to express myself, especially projects that cross the lines between music, fashion, art, and design,” he says of his creative predilections. Asked how his impending nuptials will affect the musician’s domestic arrangements, Barker demurs: “Kourtney has a great house a block away from here [AD, March 2016]. Right now I’m just planning to convert my home studio into a bunk room so her kids are comfortable here. In the future, I suppose we’ll wait to find something better than what we have. Wherever we end up, we feel incredibly blessed and grateful.” 104 ARCHDIGEST.COM

“I like finding different ways to express myself, especially projects that cross the lines between music, fashion, art, and design,” Barker says. IN BARKER’S CLOSET, THE CUSTOM GOYARD CASE EMBLAZONED WITH A SKULL WAS A GIFT FROM KRIS JENNER.

good Author Glennon Doyle, soccer star Abby Wambach, and their family put down roots in California TEXT BY ARIEL FOXMAN PHOTOGRAPHY BY DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN STYLED BY AMY CHIN

HAIR BY ASHLEY RACHEL AT HUSH HAIR SALON; MAKEUP BY KATIE MELLINGER FOR THE WALL GROUP times GLENNON DOYLE (FAR LEFT, WEARING A CAMILLA AND MARC KNIT DRESS AND DAVID YURMAN JEWELRY) AND HER WIFE, ABBY WAMBACH (IN A NANUSHKA SHIRT AND LULULEMON PANTS), WITH DAUGHTERS AMMA (LEFT) AND TISH AND FRENCH BULLDOG HONEY IN THE KITCHEN OF THEIR CALIFORNIA HOME, WHICH WAS DESIGNED BY KATE LESTER INTERIORS. FASHION STYLING BY NICOLE CHAVEZ.

RIGHT VINTAGE CHAIRS DRESSED IN A COWTAN & TOUT LEOPARD PRINT FLANK A TABLE IN A CORNER OF THE LIVING ROOM. THE BOOKSHELVES ARE PAINTED IN FARROW & BALL’S PAVILION GRAY. The homes that we had lived in into one Florida home. We just T. S. HARRIS. ALEXANDRA HEDISON. other day, our youngest had friends over,” says Glennon Doyle, combined all of our furniture to make it work. But because we the best-selling author and popular podcast host. “And I moved across the country to this one, we had to leave most of overheard one of them say, ‘Your house smells so good, and it’s that furniture behind.” Doyle affirms, “We had to find a kind so cozy,’ and I was like, I could die after that. I was so happy.” of third way.” Doyle’s wife, Abby Wambach, a soccer deity who also happens to be a best-selling author and popular podcast host, clarifies, That third way was ultimately orchestrated by interior “Yeah, it smells like candles and incense.” designer Kate Lester, who had “sort of inherited” the couple It has been about a year since Doyle and Wambach, who as clients when the two women fell in love with the home on married in 2017, made the move from their house in Naples, a brief house-hunting jaunt to California. The family’s initial Florida, to this new ambrosial home, a great American beach search was predicated on three things: to have space; to be house perched above a majestic sweep of Los Angeles coast- within walking distance of the home of Doyle’s ex-husband, line. “Moving to this house was more of a marriage move for Craig Melton; and to be close to the water. “I tell Abby, there’s us,” says Doyle, “like starting over, because our last house was something about looking out and being able to see the Pacific hilarious. It was like, Okay, the living room is Abby, the kitchen Ocean,” says Doyle. “I think to myself, Well, I have gone as far is Glennon.” Wambach explains, “We had moved the last two as I can go.” With options narrowed, their real estate agent showed them a house that was in the process of being built and that would go on the market when completed. Explains Lester,

ABOVE A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALEXANDRA HEDISON HANGS OVER THE LIVING ROOM FIREPLACE. NICKEY KEHOE CHAIRS AND A CUSTOM SOFA IN A PERENNIALS FABRIC SURROUND A BESPOKE COCKTAIL TABLE. LEFT THE KITCHEN CABINETS ARE PAINTED IN PORTOLA PAINTS & GLAZES’S WELLFLEET. PENDANTS FROM REBORN ANTIQUES; CUSTOM COUNTER STOOLS; LAWSON-FENNING BENCH; WATERWORKS SINK FITTINGS. ARCHDIGEST.COM 109

“Rooms without books feel panicky to me,” says Glennon Doyle. “And thank God Abby feels the same way.” LEFT HATTIE, THE OTHER FAMILY DOG, IN THE ENTRYWAY. FLOATING SHELVES BY TEEBOOKS; ARTERIORS LAMP; CB2 CREDENZA. BELOW COMMUNITY MANUFACTURING CHAIRS SURROUND A CUSTOM TABLE, AND THE CHANDELIER IS BY RAVENHILL STUDIO. ROMAN-SHADE FABRIC BY BROOK PERDIGON TEXTILES.

ABOVE THE FAMILY ON THEIR ROOFTOP TERRACE. DOYLE WEARS AN HERMÈS DRESS AND DAVID YURMAN JEWELRY, WHILE WAMBACH IS IN A CAMILLA AND MARC SHIRT AND VINTAGE PANTS; AMMA WEARS A LOUIS VUITTON SWEATER AND SHORTS, AND TISH IS IN AN ULLA JOHNSON DRESS. ALL FURNITURE IS FROM BROWN JORDAN. who had been working on the project from the get-go, “The be the boss of the colors in the house. I love color. I mean, house had been a super high-end build for a client who lived this house is colorful in more ways than one: There’s children in Singapore and who was going to spend one month of the everywhere, there’s dogs everywhere, there’s an ex-husband year here. But, it turned out, he had a life-changing event, and everywhere. We allowed a lot of color,” she says. “But it’s still, he had to sell it. I shared with them that there’s a vision to like, all earthy colors, so it doesn’t feel like a rainbow. Even this house: to be this great modern coastal place where you’re though we are big freaking fans of rainbows.” going to have good energy, that’s going to be fun and fabulous. And they were like, Okay, cool. So let’s keep going.” The most appreciable colors in the house, however, may result less from any particular design choice and more from “WE WERE SO LUCKY,” says Doyle. “It was new, but it was also the couple’s shared passion: reading. Vibrant book spines half done. There weren’t a lot of choices left to make. Kate domino across shelves and flat surfaces everywhere one turns. had already made so many of the decisions, and the vibe was “Rooms without books feel panicky to me,” says Doyle. “And so cozy. It was just perfect for us.” And while the super-couple thank God Abby feels the same way, or this house would be did make some changes to the initial design—they added a hard for her.” podcast studio, for instance—it was the designer who influ- enced them. Says Wambach, “If I were to have my complete Adds Doyle, “There were a lot of moments that I felt like say around this home, I may have chosen less color. But Kate I was falling deeper and deeper in love with Abby, and one of Lester has changed me with some of her choices. I can see them is when she had had her books shipped from Portland. what it looks like with some more color. And I can feel that For some reason, I was alone and opening her boxes, and I the intention of this home is joy, love, and comfort.” was so scared. Like, if I look at your bookshelf, and it doesn’t have the right books that are important, I will have a real Doyle suggests a different color theory. “I think the reason problem. I opened her books, one by one, and they were all there’s a lot of color in the house is really because Abby let me the books that I love, all the books that I had. That was a really big moment.” ARCHDIGEST.COM 111

“Our last house was hilarious. It was like, Okay, the living room is Abby, the kitchen is Glennon,” Doyle explains. ABOVE WAMBACH (IN A LULULEMON T-SHIRT AND VUORI PANTS) AND DOYLE (IN A SUZIE KONDI JUMPSUIT) WITH HONEY AND HATTIE IN THEIR BEDROOM. OONSAI WALLPAPER; FARROW & BALL’S PIGEON ON WAINSCOT. LEFT IN AMMA’S ROOM AN RH THROW COVERS A CB2 BED. LAMPS AND ART BY KATE LESTER HOME; ROMAN SHADES OF McLAURIN & PIERCY FABRIC.

THE MARBLE-CLAD PRIMARY BATH FEATURES A TUB BY LUSSO AND A DOUBLE SHOWER WITH FIXTURES BY WATERWORKS.

one to watch Felipe Escudero “My mother always talked about this magnolia tree in performance for this rising international star. Seen her childhood garden,” recalls Ecuadorian architect from above, it resembles a crisp sheet of paper Felipe Escudero. That memory stayed with him through atop the hilly terrain. Inside, curved concrete walls adulthood as he honed his craft working for MAD and minimalist furnishings, nearly all by Escudero, Architects in Beijing and Heatherwick Studio in London, lend a futuristic feeling. (The pièce de résistance eventually founding his own firm back in Quito. So is the superlong dining table.) Such poetry of form is when his mom approached him to design her house a through line in Escudero’s work, which includes a on the outskirts of town, Escudero placed a magnolia forthcoming contemporary art museum, restaurant, at its center. Crafted of glass and concrete, the new and photography studio—all in the Quito area. “I like single-story structure (pictured) wraps a courtyard, to think about a building as an object that can com- offering dynamic views of the branching specimen, as municate an idea in a very simple way,” he explains, well as the Andes. “I wanted the house to look very adding that it’s a testament to his mother. “She lightweight, like it’s posing on the landscape in a very passed on her love of modern architecture to me.” delicate way,” he reflects of the home, a breakthrough felipeescudero.com —HANNAH MARTIN 114 ARCHDIGEST.COM PHOTOGRAPHY BY VICENTE MANSSUR

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