Kelly Wearstler

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Arts, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Kelly Wearstler is a designer, creative director, and founder of the Los Angeles-based design firm Kelly Wearstler. Her work includes projects such as the San Francisco Proper Hotel, the Avalon Hotel Beverly Hills, the Four Seasons Anguilla, and Beefbar Courchevel. She has led residential, hotel, retail, and commercial projects worldwide while working with artists and craftspeople to honor history, location, and architecture, approaching each project as a multidisciplinary collaboration that emphasizes materiality, place, and storytelling. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: AG1 https://DrinkAG1.com/tetra ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://DrinkLMNT.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Squarespace https://Squarespace.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Sign up to receive Tetragrammaton Transmissions https://www.tetragrammaton.com/join-newsletter

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0:00.0	Tetrogrammitten
0:03.0	The most difficult problems to solve would be time.
0:28.6	When things are in construction, every day, just it's money.
0:32.6	The clients want to get in.
0:34.6	There's schedules.
0:35.6	You have contractors and you have all the different subcontractors involved.
0:39.1	They also have other projects.
0:41.2	And so really getting a handle on that and everyone has to work in unison together and to collaborate, have incredible communication.
0:49.4	You know, we have a project now we're working on where there's 500 consultants and different team members that work below them
0:55.9	that are working on one project. And so you just have to have structure and the accountability
1:04.0	and just great talents that know how to operate. Will that one ever get done?
1:10.0	Yes. Yes. It's already behind schedule.
1:14.1	Of course. And it's actually a really cool project. Tell me about it. It's in Lake Tahoe,
1:20.9	which is so gorgeous. So, like, I hadn't been either until I went to see the project for the first time,
1:29.0	but it's the only place I've been to where there's one species of plant, and it's all a pine tree.
1:36.5	Like, there's nothing mixed in.
1:38.1	It's so sculptural and really quite stunning.
1:41.3	Cool.
1:42.2	And it's a project called Calneva, and it was built as a hotel casino in 1926.
1:52.5	It was a place that all of Hollywood would go and hang out because it was one of the first
1:58.0	casinos in California, Nevada. And that's why it's called Calneva, because it's on of the first casinos in California, Nevada.
2:01.4	And that's why it's called Calneva because it's on the border of California, Nevada.
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