WATCH: Behind The Beauty With Flamingo Estate
January 1 | 4 minute watch
Words by Cjay Aksoyoglu
Originally published on | December 13
In this instalment, we visit the home of radical pleasure: Flamingo Estate. A property almost beyond imagination – that also doubles as the home of founder Richard Christiansen – hidden high atop the hills of LA, the estate is full of lush orchards and dense gardens that have served as a backdrop for photoshoots and events for the likes of Billie Eilish, Hailey Bieber and Kendall Jenner, to name a few.
What started as a promise to maintain the estate and ensure its pleasure-seeking nature was preserved, has now blossomed into a brand that champions local farmers, slow ways of production and 'radical inconsistency' (notions almost unheard of in the beauty industry).
Here, we take a tour down the terracotta brick road, discovering Christiansen’s light-filled oasis of a bathhouse, the soaps that started it all and the ‘goat shed’ where all the magic happens.
