Cher at her California Villa
The singer’s Italian Renaissance–style refuge on a Malibu bluff, as seen in AD’s August 2002 issue.
Cher commissioned designer and longtime friendRon Wilson to decorate an Italian Renaissance–style residence in Malibu. “I’m comfortable here,” says the singer-actress. “This house . . . this house wraps its arms around me. A late-19th-century painting depicting Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, an antique bronze and a Gothic Revival settle are in the area where the entrance hall meets the lower stair landing. The walls, floors and staircase, with an iron balustrade, are stone.
In the living room is a Gothic Revival stone mantelpiece that was carved in Mexico. “The house is light,” says Cher. “Its walls are light. I don’t have a dark wall in the house.” Soft velvets and an inlaid- wood low table underscore the interior’s muted palette.
English bronze chandeliers hang from the dining room’s stamped-copper ceiling. Gothic Revival chairs, bought in London, surround a table dressed in silk taffeta and topped with orchids, candlelit centerpieces, and white china with gold trim.
A painting of Mary with Christ is above the bed in the master suite. The large brass trunk at the foot of the bed, which is elevated on a stone platform, holds a television.
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Cher commissioned designer and longtime friendRon Wilson to decorate an Italian Renaissance–style residence in Malibu. “I’m comfortable here,” says the singer-actress. “This house . . . this house wraps its arms around me. A late-19th-century painting depicting Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, an antique bronze and a Gothic Revival settle are in the area where the entrance hall meets the lower stair landing. The walls, floors and staircase, with an iron balustrade, are stone.
In the living room is a Gothic Revival stone mantelpiece that was carved in Mexico. “The house is light,” says Cher. “Its walls are light. I don’t have a dark wall in the house.” Soft velvets and an inlaid- wood low table underscore the interior’s muted palette.
English bronze chandeliers hang from the dining room’s stamped-copper ceiling. Gothic Revival chairs, bought in London, surround a table dressed in silk taffeta and topped with orchids, candlelit centerpieces, and white china with gold trim.
A painting of Mary with Christ is above the bed in the master suite. The large brass trunk at the foot of the bed, which is elevated on a stone platform, holds a television.
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