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Celebrity
Homes
An exclusive peek,
A supplement to Architectural Digest magazine CH2011-ARD290
courtesy of AD
BROOKE SHIELDS
in NEW YORK
ADAM
LEVINE
in hollywood
Celebrity
Homes
Photography by roger davies
2 ADAM LEVINE
In Hollywood
5 brooke shields
In New York
9 sting & trudIE styler
In Tuscany
11rob lowe
In Montecito, California
13ricky & ralph lauren
In Jamaica
17 giorgio armani
In Switzerland
19 sheryl crow
In Hollywood
21 prince charles
In Scotland
25 gerard butler
In New York
27Sir elton john
In Los Angeles
29 jennifer aniston
In Beverly Hills
Cover: Brooke Shields in her Manhattan home.
Portrait by William Waldron; see page 5.
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1
Musician Adam Levine—of the band Maroon 5
and NBC’s The Voice—with his prized vintage
Porsche near his Los Angeles home, which
was decorated by Mark Haddawy. “I fell in love
with the location and the privacy,” he says.
Levine filled his 1940s ranch-style house with midcentury design classics. “Furnishing
a home is no different than making music,” he says. “You want to make sure that every
stitch has a context uniquely yours.” Clockwise from above: The living room features
a well-edited selection of vintage pieces. In the kitchen, a Florence Knoll table is
paired with Arne Jacobsen chairs. One end of the master bedroom includes a Wurlitzer
baby grand piano and a work on paper by Ed Ruscha.
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Brooke Shields (below, with her two daughters in her kitchen) toured
brownstones all over Manhattan before finding the perfect home to
share with her girls and her husband, Chris Henchy, a writer and producer.
The circa-1910 Greenwich Village townhouse “needed a complete gut,”
she says, “but after a quick walk-through, I could see our future there.”
Left: Interior designer David Flint Wood chose Louis XVI–style armchairs
and a 1970s Lucite-base cocktail table for the living room. A Keith
Haring painting, a gift from the artist, hangs on the wall between portraits
by Will Cotton of Shields’s daughters.
BROOKE
SHIELDS
in NEW YORK
Architecture by made
interior design by david flint wood
Photography by william waldron
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“Our shared ideal was the sort of confident
old house that has been lived in for generations,”
says Flint Wood. In the dining room, a tole
chandelier is paired with Jansen chairs and
a vintage Ralph Lauren Home marble-top
pedestal table. Zuber wallpaper lines the room;
the wide-plank floor is stained black.
Opposite, clockwise from top: The family room
is filled with portraits of Shields alone and
with her children, including images by Robert
Mapplethorpe and Annie Leibovitz, alongside
works by Richard Avedon, Adam Fuss, and
others. The master bath includes a freestanding
tub, a custom-designed vanity by MADE,
and a Walker Zanger tile floor. In the master
bedroom, an Anglo-Indian tester bed
is dressed in John Robshaw block-printed
linens; the oil portrait is Edwardian.
8
London-based landscape designer Arabella
Lennox-Boyd transformed the once-stark
grounds of Villa Palagio—the Tuscan estate
purchased by Sting and Trudie Styler
(opposite, bottom) in 1997—into a lush oasis.
“Arabella believes more is more in a garden,
with lots of color and texture, and I applaud
her for that,” Styler says. Overlooking the
elegant parterre is an ancient cedar of
Lebanon. Opposite: A terrace offers views
of the couple’s biodynamic vineyards and
the Chianti hills beyond.
STING
& TRUDie
STYLER
IN tuscany
Landscape design by arabella lennox-boyd
Photography by giancarlo gardin
Portrait by jaime travezan
10
The dwelling is
nestled on four exquisitely landscaped
acres near Santa
Barbara. “It’s a large
house,” Phoenix
says, “but the scale
fits the property.
It’s very peaceful,
very relaxing.”
Below: An English dog
painting is displayed
over the living
room fireplace, while
a photograph by
Lyndie Benson hangs
above the Dutch
secretary. “Sheryl
loves beautiful things
and is definitely
a collector,” the
designer says. The
sisal rug is by Stark.
ROB LOWE
in montecito, california
Architecture by Don Nulty
Interior design by David Phoenix
Landscape architecture by Mark Rios
Photography by Mary E. Nichols
Rob Lowe (above right) and his
wife, Sheryl, looked to East
Coast precedents when designing
their 20-room Georgian-style
home—conceived by architect
Don Nulty and decorated by David
Phoenix. “We all liked the clean,
efficient lines and proportions of
traditional Virginian detailing,”
Nulty says. Above: Perennials
fabric covers the seating around
the pool and spa; the landscape
was designed by Mark Rios.
12
Fashion designer Ralph Lauren and his wife, Ricky (below), bought
High Rock, a Jamaican villa on Round Hill, near Montego Bay, some 25 years
ago. “It’s very serene, a different world, far away from everything,”
he says. Left: “We live on the veranda,” Ralph says of the loggia/dining
terrace. “The greenness of Jamaica is gorgeous. The air is very mild.
It feels like a paradise. There’s a naturalness and ease of living.”
ricky
& ralph
Lauren
in JAMAICA
Photography by Durston Saylor
Portrait by Richard Corman
13
Asian accents, such as antique
ginger jars and chinoiserie mirrors,
contribute to the exotic feel
of the living room. “The goal was
to make our family comfortable
in a luxurious setting,” explains
Ricky, who wrote a book inspired
by Jamaica called My Island.
Just down the hill from the main house is the Laurens’ guesthouse,
named the White Orchid; Ralph notes its boatlike feel. Clockwise from
top: The guesthouse’s expansive pool deck. Marble floors were
installed in the living room; the hurricane lamps are by Ralph Lauren Home.
The interior courtyard.
16
giorgio armani
in switzerland
portrait courtesy of giorgio armani
Photography by roger davies
At his winter getaway near Saint Moritz, Switzerland, fashion designer Giorgio
Armani (top right) and his team transformed a rustic retreat into a mahogany-filled
take on traditional alpine style. Left: In the aptly named Polar Bear House, as the
residence is known, the high-ceilinged living room was adapted from an existing
17th-century barn. Above: The living room’s lantern lamps, sofa fabric, and rug are
all by Armani/Casa.
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Crow decorated each room herself, piece by piece, taking
a highly personal, richly layered approach to interior design.
“I’m a collector of oddities,” she adds, “stuff that is somehow off-center or off-kilter, things that have their own inner
lives and implore you to use your imagination.” In the living
room, the sectional sofa and vintage table are from 22 Bond
St., while the vintage Italian pendant lamp was purchased at
Obsolete. Opposite, bottom: The kitchen is lined with subway tiles and equipped with a commercial-style Wolf range.
SHeryl
crow
in hollywood
Landscape design by
Jonny Appleseed Landscaping
Photography by Roger Davies
Portrait by Jim M c Hugh
The 1926 Spanish Colonial Revival home of singer-songwriter
Sheryl Crow (above) features an infinity-edge pool, designed
by Jonny Appleseed Landscaping, that overlooks Los Angeles.
“This is an incredibly magical place,” Crow says of her
Hollywood Hills location. “It has the best of everything
California has to offer. The land has a fascinating energy.”
20
Several years ago, when historic Dumfries House teetered on the verge of sale
and dispersal, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (below) stepped in and
negotiated the estate’s purchase. Designed by the brothers Adam, furnished by
cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, and now preserved for posterity through
the efforts of the prince, the Palladian villa is considered the most gloriously
intact 18th-century house in Scotland.
Prince
Charles
in scotland
Photography by derry moore
21
The elaborate interiors were overseen by two of England’s preeminent
designers, David Mlinaric and Baron
Piers von Westenholz. The goal was to
make the estate “like a grand British
country house should be—comfortable
and elegant,” says Westenholz. Emblems
of the harvest are carved into the
paneling of the Pink Dining Room; the
painting is by Venetian artist Jacopo
Bassano, and the curtains are orna­
mented with antique tassels and trim.
Top: The mahogany chairs and settee in the Blue Drawing Room were
supplied by Chippendale in 1759; he also created the rare rosewood
breakfront bookcase. The Murano-glass chandelier is original
to Dumfries House, the chinoiserie mirror is by William Mathie, and
the gilt-wood table is by George Mercer. Left: Portraits fill the
walls of a skylit gallery. Above: A team of 20 artisans restored the
Chippendale four-poster in the Family Bedroom; brilliant blue
silk damask covers even the canopy’s cresting.
24
“I wanted something elegant
and gorgeous and at the same
time rather masculine and
raw,” Butler says of the loft’s
overall tone. The sofa and
ottoman in the living area are
by ABC Carpet & Home.
Gerard Butler (left)
worked with architect
Alexander Gorlin
and film production
designer Elvis
Restaino on his
3,300-square-foot
loft in Manhattan.
“I wanted a home in
the middle of the
craziness,” the actor
says. Above: “Your
possibilities when
working with a
production designer
are endless,”
Restaino says. For
the dining area,
they commissioned
a custom-made
table the designer
calls “thick and heavy
and permanent.”
Gerard Butler
in NEW YORK
Architecture by Alexander Gorlin Architects
Interior design by Elvis Restaino
Photography by Durston Saylor
26
Sir Elton John and his husband, filmmaker
David Furnish (shown at left with a work by
Damien Hirst), asked decorator Martyn
Lawrence Bullard to develop a 1970s-inspired
design for their Los Angeles residence.
“Elton’s only directive,” says Bullard, “was
a period vibe as backdrop for his art and
color photographs.” Below, left: The kitchen
features a circa-1970 chandelier that once
hung in the Grand Hotel in Milan; a William
Claxton photograph of Peggy Moffitt is
displayed on the wall.
sir elton john
in los angeles
Interior design by Martyn Lawrence Bullard
Photography by Tim Street-Porter
PORtrait by deborah anderson/vistalux
The living room offers sweeping
city views. A Dale Chihuly glass basket
is on the side table, at rear, and
the onyx-and-chrome low tables were
designed by Bullard; the carpet is
by the Rug Company.
27
Jennifer Aniston (opposite,
bottom) collaborated with designer
Stephen Shadley to transform
a 1970 residence by Harold W. Levitt
in Beverly Hills into an inviting
retreat. “The making of the house
was as significant to me as the living
in it,” says the former Friends star.
Shadley extended the eaves of
Aniston’s home, which were clad
in cumaru wood, and installed
travertine flooring; the umbrellas are
from Janus et Cie. “Designing
a house is like doing a movie,” the
actress says. “Once you’re done you
want to say, ‘I hope you all enjoy it.’ ”
Jennifer
ANISTON
in BEVERLY HILLS
Renovation architecture and
interior design by Stephen Shadley
Landscape design by Coral Browning
and Marcello Villano
Photography by Scott Frances
Portrait by Peggy Sirota
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