I feel about my home the way I feel about my music: You have to take chances," says Lionel Richie. "When I wrote All Night Long' as well as Three Times a Lady,' it was dangerous, because at the time black guys were singing neither calypso songs nor waltzes. But since you only get one shot at life, let's make it a challenge. That's how I feel about this house." “If I can't find a lyric, I walk...
Celebrities
It’s impossible to deny the fact that celebrities like to take things to the next level. From world-class vacations that most of us can only dream of to luxury cars made by Maserati, Rolls Royce, and Bugatti, they definitely seem to have the best of everything. Of course, this extends to where they live. After all why live in a “regular” house when you can live in one that is way over the top? The...
The late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s 400-foot mega-yacht is up for sale. The price: A cool $325.5 million. Dubbed the “Octopus,” it’s one of the world’s largest boats, and costs a whopping four times more than what Allen paid for his NBA franchise, the Portland Trailblazers. So what do you get for a third of a billion dollars? Two elevators. Two helipads. A pool. Plus, you’ll get...
When Kim Kardashian West was interviewed — by her husband, naturally — for the cover story in this month’s issue of Vogue Arabia, she was asked to describe where she sees herself in ten years. The L.A. native’s answer was somewhat surprising: “living on a ranch in Wyoming,” she said, “and occasionally going to Palm Springs and our home in Los Angeles.” Location: Cody, Wyo.Price: $14...
Actor Matthew Perry’s lavish Los Angeles penthouse hit the market Friday—as the most expensive condominium for sale in Los Angeles. The “Friends” star is asking $35 million for his newly renovated “mansion in the sky,” as the listing agents Greg Holcomb and Cassandra Petersen, both of Compass, put it. The four-bedroom aerie tops a star-studded tower in Century City and certainly spans the...
Fresh off back-to-back NBA championships, professional basketball’s Golden State Warriors of San Francisco have been described by reputable news outlets as the “greatest dynasty in the modern era” and as “absurd collection of talent.” Perhaps to celebrate those supreme accolades, majority owner Joe Lacob and his wife Nicole Curran have girded their loins and charged away from their...
The architects of WORKac build designer Diane von Furstenberg an unconventional home next to the High Line—the city oasis she helped create One of the great luxuries of life is a getaway that keeps clamor and chaos at a distance. Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg’s live/work space in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District—a glass-and-steel aerie the occupant calls her “tree...
Home by Frank Lloyd Wright Protégé Hits the Market A Barrington home designed by Dennis Blair, who studied at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West school and worked with Wright on the Guggenheim Museum, is for sale. The most remarkable aspect of the 1972 home is its interior, which was designed in a spiral-like configuration to accommodate a two-story ficus tree. "Blair's concept for this 1972...
The ultra-modern abode, designed by AND Studio, boasts epic views Just a little over a year after Twitter founder Jack Dorsey dropped $4.225 million on an ultra-modern home in the Hollywood Hills, he has listed the house for $4.495 million. He reportedly bought the pad for his then-girlfriend Raven Lyn Corneil, who no longer lives there, and the tech billionaire spends the majority of his time at...
Andrew Spade, co-founder of luxury fashion brand Kate Spade New York, has picked up a real estate gem. He purchased a Mission-style home in an upscale neighborhood in the hills of Oakland, CA, for $3.5 million in early June. Spade made the move to the West Coast following the death of his wife, Kate Spade, in 2018. As often happens in the hot San Francisco Bay Area housing market, the final price went...