A true legend amongst creative directors, Richard Christiansen has built a life out of building worlds. His creative agency Chandelier has crafted stories, reimagined identities, and conceived campaigns for companies like Givenchy, Virgin, Calvin Klein, Cartier, Bergdorf Goodman, Club Monaco, Nordstrom, and Roc Nation. The originality in Chandelier’s work speaks to its founder’s unbridled imagination, but when one week you’re spontaneously setting up an office in Hong Kong and the next you’re creating kaleidoscopic visuals for Kylie Minogue’s stadium tour, what do you construct as your magnum opus? The answer, it turned out, was simple. Build a home.

And so, after decades of bringing beauty into the world for others, Richard embarked on his most personal project to date, the restoration and reimagining of seven acres in the hills of Los Angeles, a property which became Flamingo Estate: his home, a sanctuary for his creative community, and a garden of earthly delights.

In this episode, Richard talks about the importance of fantasy, why pleasure is a human right, and how, sometimes, you need to burn down the barn to see the moon.

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