Photographed by Nino MuñozTHE SUPERMODEL EXPANDS
HER BUSINESS EMPIRE WITH A
FURNITURE LINE AS SHE AND
SNAPCHAT’S EVAN SPIEGEL
ADD ANOTHER FAMILY MEMBER
TO THEIR HOME: ‘PEOPLE
NEVER WANT TO LEAVE’
BY ABIGAIL STONE
hen Evan Spiegel first visited the
1,700-square-foot ocean-view cottage in
Malibu where supermodel Miranda Kerr
lived alone with her son Flynn in 2015,
it was an aesthetic match. The Snapchat
co-founder “loved it and thought it was
welcoming, open and light, yet cozy,” says Kerr, adding
that the couple’s favorite part of the four-bedroom cottage
became “the kitchen, as it’s the heart of our home.”
Kerr, 36, and Spiegel, 29, since have increased their
properties to include a $12 million, 7,200-square-foot
Brentwood estate, where they married in 2017. They’ve
also grown the family: Flynn, Kerr’s son with ex-husband
Orlando Bloom, and their 2-year-old son, Hart, were just
joined by another son in early October. As Spiegel dukes
it out in the digital wars (inxcluding defending his wife’s
phone radiation fears at an Oct. 4 tech conference), Kerr is
expanding her footprint — 25.3 million followers across
social media and a Kora Organics beauty biz with revenue
that increased 190 percent in 2018 — to encompass the
launch of a home collection with Universal Furniture.
“Home is my favorite place in the world,” says Kerr. “It’s
where you go to recharge, feel nurtured and inspired,
entertain, create fun memories with those you love.”
Producing such an atmosphere always has come naturally
to the Australia-born Kerr since “scrubbing from head-to-
toe” an early shared New York models’ apartment in 2004.
Her longtime interest in design made her a logical choice
for a collaboration, according to Universal Furniture mar-
keting executive Neil MacKenzie. He cites her “good eye,”
“fashion-forward” sensibility and accessibility as traits
that enhanced the development of the collection launching
in spring 2020 (a preview will show at High Point Market
in North Carolina in October). “Miranda was looking to1
“I was looking for
a house that
incorporated nature,”
Miranda Kerr says
of the cottage she
recently redesigned
with selected
elements from the
Miranda Kerr Home
collection. The focus
of the living room
is the Brentwood
sofa, with a Silhouette
Martini side table
and two Sydney
Bunching Cocktail
Tables. Kerr was
photographed Sept. 23
at her home in Malibu.
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Photos, kids’ drawings
and artwork back a
Brentwood chair and
ottoman and Hexagon
Martini Table. Starting
in the spring, the
collection will be
priced from $1,200 to
$2,000 at Universal
Furniture retailers.W
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