Travis London
photo by Venjhamin Reyes
If you could have a second home anywhere, where would you live? Savannah. I’m truly a southern bell and love southern hospitality and pomp and circumstance
What are three words to describe your style?
1. Bold
2. Colorful
3. Authentic
Tell us about your childhood bedroom? When I was 15 I recreated Gianni Versace’s bedroom in his Lake como home. So I saved up my allowance to purchase a sleigh bed. Repainted my red Ralph Lauren walls a light beige like his.
What’s the first investment piece you ever bought for your house? A vintage Italian chandelier from the 50s
In the history of design, if you could hire any designer other than yourself, who would it be? Britt and Emiliano from Dimore
No room is complete without personalization.
People think of me as bold, but I am really traditional
Things you omit from:
A flower arrangement: anything white
An hors d’oeuvre platter: cheese platters. Barbaric
A bar cabinet: actual alcohol bottles in place of decanters
A song for:
Dinner at home: Tony Bennet, The Way You Look Tonight
Working at your desk: Surfaces come with me
Going for a run: Beyoncé you won’t break my soul
Biggest Vice? Drinking from the wrong glass.
If you were on an Ambien high and internet shopping, what would you buy? Skin care products. My fav past time is reading labels and reviews of skin care products and ordering them all!
Do your clothes reflect your design sensibility, if so, how? Yes. My clothes are usually sexy and colorful and bold like my designs and based on authenticity of who I am again like my designs
Who is your star crush? Jennifer Lopez
What is the thing you would never do on a project, but don’t detest when you see others do it?
Using neutral colors being beige and cream
If there were a fire, and you could only keep one design book, what would it be?
Gianni Versace Do Not Disturb
For posterity, what would you like your work to be known for? Making people happy.
Your Favorite:
Movie: To Catch a Thief with Cary Grant
Book: Do not disturb by Gianni Versace
Scent: Tobacco mandarin
The fabric you always come back to: Velvet
Dream project: a beautiful historic structure or a hotel
Meal: Salmon or Mexican
Drink: Margarita
Hotel: The one I will design
Travel Destination: Italy
Artist: Gianni Versace
A cause near and dear to me: Homelessness in the LBGTQ community and jail reform
Thing to collect obsessively: Faberge style eggs
Era in the history of design: NOW
Museum: Norton Simon in Pasadena
Paint Color that always looks great: Pink
Favorite person to follow on Instagram: You!
Dogs, Cats, or No Pets? Dogs !
