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Kelly Wearstler & Flamingo Estate Gingerbread House

Client
Flamingo Estate
Type
Collaboration
Date
December 2021
Location
Los Angeles, CA

For the 2021 Holiday Season, Flamingo Estate recruited close collaborator and comrade Kelly Wearstler to imagine a gingerbread house, in the words of editor Pei-Ru Keh, “bound to astound even the most jaded of bah humbuggers”.

 

The limited edition mid-century modern gingerbread house (only 100x in production) was built by Balthazar’s pastry chef Mark Tasker. All benefits were donated to Create Structure, a non-profit organization dedicated to building sustainable housing for communities in need following natural disasters. “Let’s build a type of gingerbread house we would actually like to live in.” Flamingo Estate's founder Richard Christiansen tells Wallpaper.

 

Read more in Dezeen, W Magazine and Surface Mag


For those who aren't familiar, Flamingo Estate is a home designed for radical pleasure.

 

In the early 1940s, a determined pair of young renegades arrived in California to realize their vision of an earthly paradise. High atop the hills of Los Angeles, hidden by a lush orchard and dense gardens, the flamingo-pink estate became a hedonistic enclave of sun-worship, folk mythologies, and psychedelic remedies —

 

a secret haven for wild alchemy in the City of Angels.

 

Now Flamingo Estate is the home of Richard Christiansen, and, in the spirit of its origins, a radical celebration of pleasure from the garden. The brand carefully cultivates Mother Nature’s wildest, most precious gifts, at a time when we need them most.

 

@kellywearstler @flamingoestate @m.tasker.bakes