Pamela Anderson

Where would this stunning actress live besides the beach Mecca of North America? No where but Malibu, California. Home to Pamela and her two sons is a bungalow with a comfortable sense of today’s zip with yesterdays qualities. Floral prints, cabana stripes, and the ever changing rugs keep her home from getting dated. Rounding out the California chic look are collections of antique crystal stemware and wicker furniture.

A tireless renovator, her signature look permeates every room. With a knack for making art from her sons age-specific drawings and her own hobby of black and white photography, no room is untouched by the Pamela design stamp. To balance the feminine look for her boys, she goes white-slip-cover-basic to cleanse her visual senses, so later she can reinvent her space.

As an on-the-go mother, nothing is too pretty to use. Dinner parties feature a large array of her passion for collectible china, positioned on beautiful tablecloths from an extensive accumulation on exotic shopping trips. The outdoors play a big part in how Pamela defines herself, and laying out to catch the magnificent California rays are a featured pastime. Big luxury towels form the backdrop for oversized pillows, littered with books and magazines, complete this Baywatch star’s sun bathing must-haves.

Candice Bergen

Emmy award winning actress Candice Bergen easily transplanted her West Coast casualness into a home she shares with husband Marshall Rose in East Hampton. Transporting her easy interior design look into this handsome shingle-style home sited on lush ample grounds took some adaptation from both the architect and Mr. Rose who had a long history with the home. When Bergen came into Rose’s life, the bones of their country home were stark and the living spaces were divided into a formal plan. With help from a noted urban interior designer, Bergen accomplished her goal of lightening, harmonizing and relaxing, what is still a “statement house.”

Long covered verandas provide outside dining and entertaining areas, back-dropped by expansive windows which flood the interior with natural light. Deeply cushioned chairs and sofas, oodles of books, and splashes of color make this a coveted destination for Bergen and Rose. Texture is an important ingredient here, carpets, wall hangings and draperies, though never heavy, add a warmth and scale to what could be a voluminous building. Carefully selected accessories compliment and add interest throughout a home that oozes style, but one that beckons you to interact and luxuriate in it.

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Meredith Vieira

Home-as-a-refuge will never be more important to Meredith Viera while she completes the transition from ensemble member on the popular The View to the stratosphere of day time television as co-host of The Today Show. Tucked away in the Hudson River Valley, far enough away from Manhattan to provide a oriented home for her husband and three children, is a Italian style home that says yields a comfortable elegance.

Contemplating a major expansion of her home, Viera seized the opportunity to redefine both the homes style and her own need to shift away from country-Tuscan to European elegance. The home is centered around a courtyard, and not a small one. Airy, roomy outdoors spaces perform a variety of functions. An outdoor covered kitchen and dining area provide a place for friends and family to taste the flavors of food and wine. A substantial fireplace anchors a comfortable open-air seating area. Authentic rough slate tiles and gray gravel provide the dramatic flooring backdrop for assorted pergolas, raised and at-grade gardens. Enclosed on several sides by the stucco two-story elevations with substantial wood doors, windows, shutters and topped with a red tile roof, you feel a million miles from New York City.

Interior rooms reflect the new attitude of Viera and husband, the writer Richard Cohen. With a mix of classical moldings and trim, random-width and standard hardwood floors, the color palette features creamy tones and masculine touches. An occasional design edge is featured through stunning furniture selections, finished with art from today and yesteryear. French doors with Julliette balconies peppered through the house bring the outside in. Just thinking about drapes blowing in the wind at Viera’s home says refuge to me.

Sofia Coppola

Screenwriter and director Sofia Coppola has deep Hollywood roots, but forget the glam when it comes to this sensible nester who calls home a Manhattan loft complete with a newly-arrived baby. Basic art-gallery-white walls highlight a long passion for black and white photographs, line and oil artwork, complemented by mid-century European furniture. Fresh flowers have a everyday place in her home, much like everyday homes in Europe.

Fresh off the film set of Marie Antoinette, everything French speaks to her. Pierre Frey fabrics, French historical books, milled soaps and of course wine fill her SoHo loft. Long before setting off to to direct her new film, she had a keen devotion to accoutremonts. English teas, fine china and antique linens provide a old-style luxury to white sheepskin rugs, throw floor pillows and cuddly afghans. Transitioning her home style to child-friendly is the next design challenge for this successful in life and business women.

Hannah Storm

Hannah Storm is one of the warm, contemporary, personable faces that comes into our home every weekday morning on CBS’ The Early Show. Ms. Storm’s home offers her a relaxing environment that is filled with a transitional style, interior design wise. Transitional is the blending of contemporary and traditional decor in her vintage clapboard Connecticut home, filled with avant-garde art work and furniture from pre-war Europe. The real focus in her home though, is her need for functional style based on being a busy mother of three, partner to sportscaster Dan Hicks, and up-at-the-crack-of-dawn coanchor.

Buttery, color and texture leather chairs, warm light-hued fabrics paired with dark brown and black stained wood tables lend an timeless Paris style back-dropped by classic built-in bookcases, plaster mantels and wrought-iron banisters. Bold black and gold stripes fabrics add zip to draperies and sofas. Deep-stained hardwood floors are left basically bare to streamline rooms and focus on minimalist art and accessories. Don’t be fooled that Ms. Storm’s home is designer-right, every room has a whimsical touch that states she’s still in charge of her home, style-wise.

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Giorgio Armani

World famous designer Giorgio Armani escapes the hustle and bustle of the epicenter of fashion to his Caribbean sun-palace on Antigua. Perched on a rocky hillside, the cluster of buildings consist of a main home and numerous villas for guests. Adopting the architectural footprint from previous owners, Armani tweaked and embellished it in his low-key palette of deep browns, taupe’s, and light natural colors. With painting-perfect views of the most beautiful sun-drenched waters in the world, he wanted to create a soothing backdrop inside for the drop-dead world seen through expansive porches and terraces outside. Classic but sleek wide-slatted black shutters control the sun and filter light inside gracious contemporary rooms with wood peaked and planked ceilings. Parsons style tables, minimal but statement accessories, and bleached muslin paired with gray linen fabrics say cool in more ways than one.

Outdoor rooms dominate the property, with numerous wood decks, walkways and stairs lead to private areas to take in the sun, a dip in the pool or settle in with a favorite book. Tropical landscaping provides the back bone in detail that isn’t fussy or overdone. Comfy outdoor furniture that features deep seated chairs and plenty of pillows allows the couturier to relax in a temporary time-out from the demands of his global business. Armani himself in his handsome signature black clothes and permanently-tanned Italian body is a man that knows international design and practices it in way that is never trend-driven, but timeless.

Anjelica Huston

Not too distant from the bright lights and celebrity world of Hollywood, California legendary actress and director Anjelica Houston has made her home in the what’s known as the Central Valley. Her film career has ranged from the serious Prizzi’s Honor to the lighter The Adamms Family. Home for Houston is a large property spanning over one-hundred acres and features a group of buildings that in addition to her home also include several guest houses and a studio. Her love of horses prevails with sweeping fenced pastures and western style out buildings.

The main house dates from pre-WWII and is adobe style. Huston’s warm inviting interiors feature earthy reds, stone fireplaces, wood beams and floors as a backdrop for her eclectic taste in furnishings. Hand made textiles are featured through-out, native American rugs, quilts and laces augment and contrast with books, photos and montages of wall art. Her creative energy transcends from the screen to her personally hand painted decorative elements throughout the home.

Owning the property for more than twenty years has been a labor of love for Huston and her husband Robert Graham. Employing locals to transform the once neglected home into a refuge from the hectic world of film, Huston created a retreat where rest and relaxation are country-style. Numerous collections come from her years of roaming small-town flea markets and an flair for individuality. Houston’s eye works quite simply and never in a decorated fashion, a place where both men and women are comfortable. The outdoors here offer Huston and her friends alternatives to Hollywood swimming pool syndrome. Options here include table tennis and badminton as an alternative to horse back riding. Pretty orchards provides the country scents that wash over the wide porches and into interior spaces.

Taking a closer look at her wonderful mix of ideas, styles and treasures, you wonder that her life could be any fuller. Gifts from Hollywood friends, co-stars and most importantly her father director John Houston complete this romantic and rustic heaven for one of today’s leading contributors to film.

Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece

Princess Marie-Chantal’s title might communicate a life of leisure and tradition. Make no mistake, this is not your ordinary modern princess. With four young children plus a successful clothing line, she went looking for a new home with husband Prince Pavlos of Greece. The new home search also included a Trans-Atlantic move to England following a stint in New York. Possessing a fresh new-century maturity, this cutting edge business woman and mother wanted a refuge from their whirlwind life when she finally arrived home from abroad or the office.

Their not-so-new refuge turned out to be a wonderful circa 1700′s home in London. Princess Marie-Chantel with the assistance of French designer Francois Catroux created a calming mix of serene-toned hues, magnificent contemorary artwork and the occasional cutting-edge surprise. Ebony stained floors contrast heavy moldings and trim work. Mile-high ceilings with matching windows dictated a scale of furnishings that include lacquered chairs, velvet sofas, eclectic lamps and abundant photographs of their royal and personal life. Their home is a success in that it avoids being regal, but at the same time framing their urbane and worldly sophistication.

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Helen Mirren

Their shotgun-style house in New Orleans’ lower French Quarter is as polar opposite as Helen Mirren’s palace digs in her Academy Award winning role portraying Queen Elizabeth ll in the 2006 blockbuster hit; “Queen”. Mirren shares her home here with husband Taylor Hackford, director of many successful films. Unassuming from the street, the intimate side courtyard draws you into the open living, dining and kitchen space. One with high ceilings to marginalizes the steamy heat, broad, luxurious moldings and period antiques that say “stay and let’s catch up with all that’s new.”

An eclectic blend of artwork ranging from old portraits to African busts complement the hand woven rugs, wrought iron tables, cushy day beds and sofas. Warm and light paint colors provide a backdrop for Mirren and Hackford to unwind from professional demands that span the globe. French doors with transom windows are a recurring architectural feature in the bedroom wing, where a love of dramatic color surfaces. Vintage beds found on vagabond trips into the southern countryside are focal points and contrast starkly against the Hunter Green and Sunshine Yellow walls. Mirren and Hackford’s New Orleans’ low-key refuge from the formality of England speaks more about their sensibility, which here in the deep south is nothing but pure American style.

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