Celebrity Homes
by Brad Goldfarb, Samuel Cochran, and Finn-Olaf Jones
Musician Elton John and his partner, film
producer David Furnish, wanted to create
a comfortable house in Beverly Hills for
their expanding family
As with all of the couple’s homes—they also own homes in
Atlanta; London; Windsor, England; Nice, France; and Venice,
Italy—“everything is centered around the art,” John says. For
starters, Furnish and John identified key pieces to move to
Beverly Hills, from paintings by Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, and
Philip Taaffe to a group of Richard Caldicott’s vividly hued photo-
graphs of Tupperware. “Certainly there was a family slant in the art
we chose,” Furnish says. “We focused on things that are colorful
and positive and celebrations of life.”
R&B star John Legend and his wife, cover
girl Chrissy Teigen, find a rhythm all their
own at an intimate Manhattan apartment
designed by Don Stewart
When the pair began hunting for a home in New York a few years
ago, in advance of their September 2013 wedding, the goal was
to find someplace cozy, warm, and full of character. The search
eventually led them to a loftlike one-bedroom in a historic building
on the border of Little Italy and NoLIta. Whereas natural light is
typically a priority for prospective buyers, Legend and Teigen were
immediately drawn to the unit’s dark, moody atmosphere. “We tend
to look for the opposite of what most people want,” Legend says
during a recent visit to the residence, which the couple share with
their three bulldogs, Pippa, Penny, and Puddy. Gesturing to the brick
wall just outside the kitchen window, Teigen adds, “I absolutely love
this. I’d rather have a wall than a view of the Empire State Building.”
Maroon 5 front man Adam Levine
collaborated with Mark Haddawy on a
California house that combines midcentury
sophistication with a shot of bachelor
attitude
And yet the home of arguably the most sizzling rock star on the
planet right now—Adam Levine, the front man for Maroon 5—con-
forms to neither stereotype. His immaculately refurbished 1940s
ranch-style dwelling, suspended high above the city, in the Hol-
lywood Hills, and outfitted with classics by Jean Prouvé, Ludwig
Mies van der Rohe, Arne Jacobsen, and other 20th-century-design
icons, has a quiet, meticulous air. It is unmistakably the habitat of a
man who is confident in his tastes.
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