Showing posts with label Architectural Digest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Architectural Digest. Show all posts

Friday, October 9, 2009

Celebrity homes: Diane Keaton's Beverly Hills Home



THE ACTRESS’S PASSION FOR ART AND DESIGN ARE ON DISPLAY IN HER BEVERLY HILLS RESIDENCE

Who says opportunity knocks only once? Not Diane Keaton, who ignored it once, then grabbed it with both hands when she again heard it tapping on her door. Opportunity in this case was not a choice part in a movie but something that was just as important to a woman whose passion is restoring old California homes: a Spanish Colonial Revival in Beverly Hills with a beautifully proportioned interior courtyard. She actually bought the house when it first came on the market at the beginning of the decade, but she backed out during escrow and let another buyer take it. “It needed a lot of work,” she explains, “and I got cold feet.” When it went up for sale again two years ago, she bought it a second time—this time for keeps. Read the rest of the article in Architectural Digest.









Friday, October 2, 2009

If I won the lottery...

I MIGHT CHOOSE TO LIVE IN THIS TRADITIONAL MANSION ON LAKE MICHIGAN...

Or I might just live in the pool house...

Photography by Peter Aaron/Estol

Architecture by Robert A. M. Stern Architects/Interior Design by Victoria Hagan Interior

READ THE ARTICLE IN ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Mansion in East Hampton


A grand estate featured in Architectual Digest.


See how the interior designer Marjorie Shushan and the architect Francis Fleetwood worked together to make this 25.000 square feet elegant mansion a home. Click the link for the full article.







Saturday, August 15, 2009

Malibu Beach Home

Right on the water in Malibu you'll find this 1930s House. It had been renovated a number of times and had become a "Beverly Hills version of a house on the beach."

Los Angeles based interior designer Michael S. Smith was hired to transform this fancy Malibu Beach house into a charming home with period features. Read the whole article in Architectural Digest.



Monday, August 10, 2009

New England Calm


Luminous. Serene. Relaxing. Elegant but informal. Sophisticated but youthful. Understated. All words used to describe this wonderful home. The designer is Victoria Hagan. Using a pallette of white, blue and brown she has created a calm and elegant atmosphere. The mixture of eclectic pieces adds to the uniqueness of this home.

A beautiful New England home featured in Architectural Digest 2005