A portrait gallery of celebrities who have granted AD a private view of the way they live and how they express their personal style.
“I’m one of those impulsive people,” says actress Jamie Lee Curtis, recalling the time she first walked into the Spanish Colonial Revival house in Los Angeles she shares with husband Christopher Guest. “I believe that I can make almost any place lovely; I can make it a home.” (December 2002)
“The biggest compliment you can give me,” singer-songwriter Lionel Richie says of his Beverly Hills home, “is to walk into any of these rooms and say, ‘I can sty here for a while.’” (May 2007)
Actor William H. Macy and his actress wife Felicity Huffman found a 1920s Mediterranean-style house near Hancock Park in Los Angeles, which they refurbished and decorated themselves. (April 2000)
“I have my books, my music, a bed I’m familiar with and an energy that hasn’t been shared with other people,” says singer, songwriter and composer Michael Feinstein of his three-bedroom residence on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. (January 2004)
Actress Angela Lansbury sits in the entrance of her home, a farmhouse-style retreat located on the southeast coast in County Cork, Ireland. (June 2007)
Oscar-nominated actor Samuel L. Jackson and his wife, La Tanya, asked designer Cecil Hayes to help them decorate their Tudor-style house in California’s San Fernando Valley. (April 2000)
“I was going to study interior or fashion design at one point, but I was also into acting and boxing,” says Mickey Rourke about his long-standing interest in interior design. “I was a terrible student, so Parsons or somewhere like that was out of my league.” (April 2000)
“This was a definite joint effort,” actor Demi Moore says of the 1950s canyonside house in Beverly Hills she renovated with her husband, actor Ashton Kutcher. “We had a give-and-take that was easy.” (March 2007)
“I find New Orleans very peaceful,” remarked Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren, who lived in the French Quarter with her husband, director Taylor Hackford. “One end of Bourbon Street is—what can I say?—Bourbon Street, but most of it is wonderful houses.” (April 2007)
“When I was a kid, I imagined that by the turn of the century everyone would have his own plane in the backyard,” says actor John Travolta, who realized this vision with his Florida home that he shares with his wife, actress Kelly Preston. The fly-in home accommodates Travolta’s Gulfstream II jet as well as his Boeing 707. (April 2004)
The addition of porticoes and French doors “improved and unified its frontage,” actor Christopher Plummer says of the Connecticut house he and his wife, Elaine, share. (June 2004)
“I love it here,” Peter Fonda says of the Paradise Valley, Montana, home he shares with his wife, Becky. “ “The whole family comes out, and we do our thing; we have a good time.” Several outbuildings, including the barn, at left, echo the compound’s past as a sheep ranch. (December 2003)
Radio talk show host Don Imus and his wife, Dierdre, at their weekend house on Long Island Sound in Westport, Connecticut. (July 2003)
