So when people ask, Where do you go for vacation?' I say, I go home. With my career, I have to get on a plane every other week. Italy? I walk outside to the stone path bordering the property and look back to see the cardinal's house. If I want to be in a suite in Paris, I go upstairs to the bedroom and close the door. "I call the rooms in my house destinations. With its high ceilings, dramatic staircases, sweeping promenades and international panache, Richie's manor house could be anywhere in the world-which is just the way he planned it. The kinetic abstracts ("brilliant, complicated, twisted and turned in every way, just like Miles") are signed on the back: "To the best from the best." Washington and George Washington Carver to Richie's grandmother, a faculty member at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where the singer grew up two paintings in the billiard room by jazz trumpeter and pal Miles Davis. Still, in this moveable feast of the imagination, it's the personal touches that mesmerize: a bronze sculpture depicting Richie's hand intertwined with that of his father framed letters from Booker T. Trying to re-create them has cost me a bloody fortune." "The things that inspire me," he laughs, "were done years ago, with cheap labor and materials. "It's not easy to come by, but once it's done, the room can have a single chair and it works." He pauses. These skills translate to a sensitivity to color, hue and. From Michael Jackson to Sir Paul McCartney, Dianas experience is unmatched. Diana has been with our firm for 20 years. "The mirrored effect of the walls was so beautiful, I had to ask: How do you do this?" With several layers of paint, buffed and polished like a stone, he learned. Diana with more than 40 years of experience in the heart of Beverly Hills has designed window treatments and color palest for the whos who of the movie industry. And then there's the high-gloss, pale yellow Venetian plaster on the walls of the capacious living room, inspired by Richie's visit to Poland's presidential palace. A case in point of Richie's inspired wanderlust is the subtle palomino hue of the building's exterior, first spotted on a cardinal's house he saw on a hilltop in Lake Como.
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