Backstage oasis: a look at the Moroccan-inspired greenroom for the Emmy Awards

A look at the greenroom for the Emmy Awards

LOS ANGELES — The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards are days away, but Hollywood is already gearing up for Sunday’s awards.

Martyn Lawrence-Bullard has pitched a tent backstage.

The interior designer created a Moorish 18-foot-high tented enclave for the lavish backstage space where celebrities can luxuriate during next Sunday’s 61st annual Primetime Emmy Awards. Lawrence-Bullard filled the 625-foot built-from-scratch greenroom with Syrian, Turkish and Moroccan antiques, flooring made of leather tiles and various types of seating.

“I asked my friend Minnie Driver, who had been nominated before, what she thought of the greenroom,” said the first-time Architectural Digest greenroom designer. “She said it was great but was in a long gown and couldn’t sit down anywhere because it would crease. I thought, ‘OK. I’ll do bar stools for those dramatic gowns, so they can perch on the edge.’”

For presenters and winners who aren’t worried about wrinkles, Lawrence-Bullard flanked the room with two huge sofas, the same kind he said he used when decorating Cher’s Malibu house. He also custom-designed the greenroom’s fabric wall coverings, wooden mirrored panels and the hand-knotted rug featuring a burnt red tracery relief made of silk thread.