Despite being ATLA and living just a few minutes away from the red carpets and Hollywood Hill abodes of celebrities, we have yet to nab our first big time movie star house tour (ya hear me, Scarlett, I'm hearing waiting!). But the folks at Architectural Digest have the cache to nab some of the biggest names in Hollywood's present and past for a peek inside their homes. Can you guess whose homes are shown above? Answers under the jump...
"And the Winner Is..." Oscars Winners at Home
The homage to art deco up at the top of the post belonged to none other than Yentil herself, Babs Streisand. From left to right on the bottom: Claudette Colbert's Los Angeles home entry, Marty Scorceses' Upper East Side Townhouse, Helen Mirren's Creole cottage on Barracks street, and Cher’s Malibu home.
Our favourite place is the most colourful, from the Chairman of the Board himself:
“Orange is the happiest color,” Frank Sinatra said of his favorite hue, which showed up in his clothes and his houses. Sinatra bought a modest house at the Tamarisk Country Club in Rancho Mirage in the mid-1950s and lived there until May 1995. A caboose, a gift from some of his employees in 1971, became the compound’s main hangout. Inside was a full-service salon, complete with barber’s chair, a professional hair dryer, a massage table, a scale and a sauna, at rear.
Plenty more interiors of stars from the past and present (these are from the AD archives, so not all of them represent their current interiors), here at Architectural Digest.
[via Curbed LA]
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I don't think that Barbara Streisand's home looks like the "Temple to Deco" any longer - I recall reading several years ago that she auctioned everything off only a year or so after the Architectural Digest photoshoot and redecorated.
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Fugly!
That is a perfect example of Bad Design!
Ugliest living room Ever!
view phauxtoe's profile
A lot of the celebrity homes I've seen could use a lesson in restraint. It's always "more is more". . .
view spaceagemouse's profile
If these were not the homes of famous people they would never be shown as designs of good taste.
view TheoJ's profile
Money and fame do not buy taste..
I like Robert Duval's barn though.
view Laura's profile
It's a good thing Babs can sing. She should leave interior design to those with a spec of taste. Her living room is a nightmare in red. I have seen far more beautiful homes on this site, with little or no money.
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Everything in Architectural Digest is a homage to bad design.
view Deb of Oz's profile
^
...not everything in Architectural Digest is as bad as Streisand's freakish monstrosity above -- 14 years ago, the July 1994 issue featured Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's very cool loft/ library.
But that *was* 14 years ago...
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Bette Midler's loft ( designed by Alan Buchsbaum) was in Architectural RECORD - the one that's actually about Architecture. And Diane Keaton's house ( a renovation of a Lloyd Wright house), too.
And Julianne Moore's loft was in some magazine a couple ofyears ago - stunning.
Not all stars have tacky taste....
view wannabe minimalist's profile
Where does one even BUY horrid furniture like that???
view nazrd's profile
the painting in that red and grey living room looks out of place - a red frame doesn't mean a thing in this case!
i rhyme!
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I like Robert Duval's "barn" space, too, but it's going to be hard to shake off the pall those cheesy fans and chandeliers have cast over my day. . . .
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I think Claudette Colbert's is nice, from what I can see of the tiny picture. I love her movies too.
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P.S. I still think that Kanye's pad is awesome and goes by the less-is-more rule.
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Thanks for the laughs. It's been so long since I first saw it that I had completely forgotten how terrible Ms. Streisand's decor was. That elegant ebony & silver torchere in Streisand's living room looks totally lost among all the Drug Dealer Deco crap.
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LOL...Drug Dealer Deco! Too funny!
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re: Streisand....
Is that an oscillating fan sitting on the loveseat, under the painting?
My GOD, her taste is.... spectacular.
~rolleyes~
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