Kim Kardashian and Kanye West

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In 2014, media personality Kim Kardashian and renowned rapper Kanye West tied the knot becoming an iconic pop culture couple. Soon after, the two spent a whopping $23 million for a mansion in Hidden Hills, California. Throughout the years, the expansive space served as home to the celebrity duo as they raised their four young children, North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm. However, earlier this year, the reality star filed for divorce after nearly seven years of marriage. The two currently share joint legal and physical custody of their children. Following news of their split, it is reported that Kardashian would be staying in their Hidden Hills residence nearby her famous family clan in Calabasas.

Los Angeles records confirm that Kardashian is now the role owner of the once shared Hidden Hills home. She purchased West’s share of the estate for $23 million total. When the two first acquired the property, they proceeded to gut and rebuild the entire space from the ground up over the course of six years. West spearheaded the design project to showcase a sense of stark minimalism and bright simplicity. Of the $23 million Kardashian paid, $20 million accounts for the property itself while the remaining $3 million is the price of the interior contents, including art and furniture.

Since 2018, West has made routine trips between his Los Angeles residence and his Wyoming ranch while spending the majority of 2020 on the ranch. This reportedly was one of the reasons contributing to the estranged pair going their separate ways. West continued to stay in his ranch in Cody, Wyoming, until he unexpectedly listed on the market earlier this month.

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Paris Hilton

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Paris Hilton, the 2000s “it girl,” is now back in the limelight with her new Netflix reality show “Cooking with Paris.” The 40-year-old great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, the founder of Hilton Hotels, is offering a glimpse into her glamorized version of domesticity with cooking sessions alongside celebrities such as Kim Kardashian and Demi Lovato. In the first episode of her series, Hilton expressed her desire to start a family soon after her upcoming wedding. Since 2019, Hilton has been romantically involved with author and entrepreneur Carter Reum. The pair got engaged in February with a custom emerald-cut engagement ring. Following an extravagant 10-outfit wedding ceremony, Hilton states, “I feel like I’ve been living like a 21-year-old for my entire life, and now I’m ready to move on.”

Evolving from her self-invented “Barbie airhead” persona, Hilton is prepared to settle down and lead a more simple lifestyle. The socialite and her new fiancé recently purchased an intended permanent residence together. Their newfound abode is a Malibu mansion in California previously owned by the late Universal Pictures former chairman Tom Pollock. The seaside property was sold for $8.4 million and Chris Cortazzo of Compass represented both the buyer and the seller in this deal.

Built in 1955, Hilton’s newly acquired abode boasts three bedrooms and three baths. The interior features an open floor plan for an expansive and airy atmosphere. On the first floor, the layout highlights a spacious living room, media room, and dining room with fireplace. The contemporary kitchen where she has filmed “Cooking with Paris” is equipped with top-of-the-line appliances, granite countertops, and sweeping ocean views. Decorative elements of the home comprise of stone tile floors and floor-to-ceiling windows spanning 3,000-square-feet for plentiful sunlight.

Upstairs, the primary suite includes wood floors, a cozy fireplace, a spa-like stone tiled bath, and two oceanfront balconies with a jacuzzi and lounge areas. The wraparound deck lined with barbecues and outdoor dining space offer a staircase that descends directly onto La Costa beach. Other luxe amenities of the Malibu home consist of a two-car garage, an outdoor shower, a walled garden, and sunrise-to-sunset oceanic scenery.

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Kim Kardashian West

Photo Credit: ShutterstockPhoto Credit: ShutterstockKanye and Kim Kardashian West have notably worked with Axel Vervoordt to create their dreamy, futuristic Los Angeles home. The acclaimed interior designer is also an established antiquarian, foundation owner, and owner of two art galleries. Mrs. West is an enthusiast of Vervoordt's minimalistic expression and apparently, has the same taste in art as well.

In 2016, Kim allegedly purchased a sculpture called "Fragment of Myron's Samian Athena” from Vervoordt’s gallery. When a 5 ton, 40 piece shipment arrived at U.S. customs for inspection and the "large draped statue" from an "Old German Collection" bought before 1980, turned out to be a $745,882 sculpture made sometime between the 1st and 2nd century A.D it was flagged as possible culturally protected property. The ancient Roman limestone statue is believed to be illegally smuggled from Italy. Could Kim Kardashian have been part of this art heist of sorts?

A representative for Kim Kardashian claims she never purchased this piece and didn’t even know of its existence until she was alerted of a federal civil forfeiture action on April 30th. Records indicate that Vervoordt is the shipper of the statue, but the importer is listed as “Kim Kardashian dba Noel Roberts Trust.” This trust has been linked to Mr. and Mrs. West for previous real estate purchases, and while neither the trust nor the Wests or Vervoordt are listed as defendants, they may be troubled or negatively affected by these events.

A representative for Vervoordt has said "there is no evidence that this piece was illegally imported from Italy. Our client, as well as our gallery and the gallery from whom we've bought the piece, have always acted in good faith when dealing with the work." The piece is currently in federal custody pending a judge’s decision.

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The home is 13,377 square feet and comes with an in-home theater, bar, wine cellar, workout room, and a 25,000-gallon infinity-edge pool.

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The contemporary Mediterranean estate has a long private driveway leading to the residence. Past the grand front doors, the home's size and brightness make one pause to appreciate the details.

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The kitchen has two islands and stainless steel appliances and white cabinetry, with effortless flow to the great room that features magnificent views.

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The large master bedroom expands through glass doors to a private, 1,100 sq. ft. private balcony. A fireplace, his & her bathrooms, and two large custom closets complete the suite.

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The backyard has a pavilion with lounge space with seating, and the pool, all enjoying the mountain views.

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HR: You are known for luxurious yet comfortable interiors. How do you seamlessly blend the two?  

MB: I believe that modern luxury is comfort! To me, there is no luxury if you cannot find a place to curl up and get cozy, so in my interiors it’s vitally important to make sure the soft furnishings are deep and inviting, that they are scaled to the homeowner’s favorite dimensions and fabrics are used that are soft to the touch and durable for family [and pet] life. I don’t like to use pieces that look uncomfortable or you are scared to touch or sit on them. I always make sure the objects in my rooms are inviting and draw you into them rather than away from them because you are scared to damage anything or it looks unfriendly. At the end of the day, a comfortable room is a key to entertaining well and living home life to the fullest.  

HR: What is your primary goal when executing the interiors of each home?  

MB: My goal is always to bring my client’s personality into their homes. I don’t want people to walk in and say, “Oh, we love your Martyn Lawrence Bullard interior.” Rather, I want them to walk in and say, “We love your home, it’s so you!” That’s what good design is about: customizing an interior look to be representative of its owner's tastes and life, capturing a window into their decorative soul.  

Kourtney Kardashian's Home Office. Photo courtesy of Douglas Friedman.

 HR: What is your ideal interiors style, and which style do you enjoy to work with the most?  

MB: I love all styles. I would never refuse to work in a style or specific look because it’s out of fashion or I don’t like it. I believe there is beauty in all things, and it’s just the way you put it together that changes that. It’s always a challenge to work around a style I haven’t before, but I love that. It brings both excitement and a learning curve to my work and challenges me to be more creative than ever. My true love, however, is always an eclectic mix―different periods, styles, origins put together in an individual way to suit each individual project. As Oscar Wilde once said, “All beautiful things belong to the same age!”   

HR: What have been your most memorable projects and why?  

MB: I have had so many memorable projects, from restoring a 12th-century castle in Italy to creating a Studio 54-inspired penthouse for a legendary rock star ... certainly one of the highlights had to be for Cher. Our first project together was the creation of an Indian palace-like apartment where Cher asked me to think of her as the first wife of a maharajah. And that I did, creating magical and whimsical rooms formed from the facade of an Indian palace imported from Jaipur especially for her project. “Fantasy, fun and fabulosity,” as Cher described the end result.  

HR: How do you go about creating privacy and solitude in your clients’ homes given the public access to their lives?

MB: Each of my clients' homes is their sanctuaries, especially celebrities who have less opportunity to live normal day-to-day lives. So, I make sure all their most important needs are met in the home, however fantastical, from screening rooms to glam rooms, relaxation chambers to wine caves, home spas with sea salt floatation pools to dressing rooms with refrigerated closets for vintage clothing―whatever the requests may be, I design for them and around them. We are a full-service business, meaning if you dream it, we want to provide it. Monogrammed dinner plates to homemade honey from a hive built in the garden, it’s all part of the service that takes the ordinary into the extraordinary. That is true interior design service where quality, comfort and rarity are all in a day’s work to complete dream homes and personal sanctuaries.  

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HR: How does your diverse background and multifaceted career influence your work?  

MB: My European origins have helped flavor my work enormously. My love of eclectically derived rooms with fine-tuned editing I believe comes from my travels and the experiences had in each and every place, memories I pull upon constantly for design inspiration. Having been trained as an actor when I was young, along with a few teenage years traveling as a model and singer, have colored my character even more and again influenced my style and understanding of drama within an interior and its many nuances. I don’t think you can be a good, rounded designer without having the experience of travel and exposure to new cultures and all the flavor that it brings. I am so lucky to have experienced so much from a young child having traveled with my parents around the world that I believe that knowledge has informed a design library embedded in my mind and memory, all of which I call upon regularly in my work.    

HR: What are some of your current and/or future projects you are most excited about?  

MB: I love the fact I have just launched a jewelry line. It’s been a passion for so long, and it’s a really fun new addition to my collections.  

I have a wonderful lighting line that launched in January with Corbett Lighting, which we are constantly working on updating and expanding upon. Lighting is really a key ingredient to each space, and I am excited to provide new and beautiful options, some with very special mixed use of metals and textures. My outdoor furniture collaboration with Harbour Outdoor launches in April and is a capsule collection of really chic, mid-century-inspired teak pieces incorporating very comfortable lounge chairs and day beds, dining chairs and streamlined dining tables with embedded brass accents. All pieces I found missing in the marketplace to add total comfort and style to your outdoor living.  

From my design studio, I have some great new hotel projects that are happening this year. The Whitley in Hollywood is going to be a very special boutique hotel with interiors inspired by the famous residents of Old Hollywood that once resided there.    

I am working on the Four Seasons Residences in LA, which is a very exciting project of 65 units including a $55 million penthouse!  

With clients in Mexico, Hawaii, London, Ireland, Palm Beach, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Laguna, Arabia and Italy, we have a wonderful portfolio of projects this year that touch just about every style and period―the perfect recipe to keep me engaged, excited and inspired. Rock on, 2019!  

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Faena Miami Beach

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Home to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's new penthouse sky oasis in the Magic City, Residences at Faena Miami Beach offers an array of amenities including wellness amenities geared toward the beauty and fitness aficionado. The luxury residence tower hosts exclusive yoga and meditation workshops that allow each resident to unwind and relax. The residence also features a state-of-the-art gym, sauna and steam room, massage beds and more.

Mansions at Acqualina

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Situated in the exclusive Sunny Isles Beach, Mansions at Acqualina features sprawling, state-of-the-art wellness and health amenities including, a fitness center with top-of-the-line equipment where residents can arrange for private training, a Hammam spa enhancing the overall Acqualina lifestyle and more.

Amrit Ocean Resort & Residences

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Amrit Ocean Resort & Residences merges the convenience and luxury of an at-home spa with the centuries-old healing properties of halotherapy by offering residents a salt inhalation therapy chamber as part of their AAYUSH wellness amenity program. The wellness retreat also offers over 100,00 square feet of innovative, bespoke experiences including workout classes and more.

Paraiso Bay

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Paraiso Bay features fantastic Biscayne Bay views in a luxurious resort-style setting. The sky residence will offer state-of-the-art fitness and wellness amenities for residents including a rooftop club with private treatment pools overlooking Biscayne Bay, a lap pool, private tennis courts, fitness center, and more.

Carillon

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Experience luxury living at its finest with Carillon Miami's array of health and wellness amenities including wellness lectures, exercise physiology courses, spiritual and emotional healing treatments, cryotherapy, NAD + IV therapy and more. The on-site spa features a holistic spa experience for the most relaxing and tranquil experience.

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Kim and Kanye paid $20 million for their sprawling Los Angeles home. The 8,000 square-foot house rests on three acres, boasts its own private vineyard, a 1,000 square-foot entertainment pavilion and two pools. The interior of the home includes eight bedrooms, a three-island kitchen, his-and-hers master baths and a walk-in closet that houses fashion's best designs for the iconic, reality show queen and king of hip-hop.

But what makes the Kardashian-West home such a memorable masterpiece? The couple's impeccable interior design style that brags understated sophistication: sexy, classy and contemporary. With high-end tastes and following only a few interior design rules, Kim and Kayne assembled the perfect home. And it's nothing less than what you'd expect from a Kardashian-West collaboration.

Here are the top three interior design rules the power couple followed and you can too.

Monochromatic Chic

First rule. Use one paint color for the interior.

One neutral wall color is all you need in your home, throughout the entire house. And Kim and Kayne selected shades of white. Why? That color brightens and enhances the living space in contrast to any bespoke wood elements, which here, are the ceiling beams. The only drama happening in this house is intentional. Design drama at its best.

Specifically, in the twosome's living room, the unicolor creates an airy and soft atmosphere. Custom shelves holding photographs also match the wood of the beams above for a neutral effect. Kim builds the room around statement pieces like that circular coffee table and black-white rug so that everything works seamlessly together, and a fluidity is then created throughout the room and home.

Comfortable Chic

Second rule is to create a comfortable chic ambience.

Home is where you relax, after all, and comfort is the key to doing so. Never forfeit comfort for style. As Kim and Kanye illustrate, both can -and should- be incorporated.

The mogul couple's interior home is outfitted in a "transitional" style of design, which means an informal version of traditional design with contemporary-cool and cozy elements incorporated throughout. The color palette of the entire interior remains neutral with tones of white and gray. Black accents are used to anchor the spaces and natural wood tones warm up the otherwise blanched color scheme.

Much of the home’s pieces are also vintage, like the reclaimed wood, and others are custom-made. According to Kim, Kanye "literally flew to Belgium to find wood for [the] kitchen, and he flew to Fiji once to get fabric."

Rethinking your wallpapered dining room? Instead, think about implementing a sense of lived-in, casual chicness similar to Kim's. It's quite obvious that Kim wants her guests to feel instantly at ease, but that casualness is not to be confused with a lack of effort or care. From Kim's use of a monochromatic color scheme, that grand chandelier, to the minimal art on the wall and simple flowering plant on the table, her easy-breezy interior look can surely be had.

Comfortable chic is the central theme throughout the KW home.

Contemporary Chic

Third rule is to keep your design style contemporary. Classic, contemporary chic.

Kim's sophisticated interior home design style is as contemporary chic as her personal style. And as she has mentioned, not without Kayne's input.

Kim recently instagrammed a photo of herself: wearing a perfect tone-on-tone palette while seated on an oatmeal-color sofa in a camel dress and pale blue boots. Similar color scheme to her interior home design style, no?

As you know, Kim Kardashian is a reality television personality, model, fashion icon and social media legend. She actually has the second largest Instagram following in the world.

And based upon the elegant extravagance of the KW home, Kim can now add interior designer to her resume. And Kim’s other half, Kanye, can add interior design as his latest obsession.

The exterior of this elegant estate also has the same contemporary, chic vibe as the interior.

Given Kim’s talent and the Kardashian’s business aptitude, extending her brand to include interior home design seems like a grand idea. The time has come for you to go big with less, and to stay home in Kardashian-West design style.

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Harrison Ford

In 1983, a former-carpenter-turned-movie-star had appeared in a string of soon-to-be iconic films that included the original Star Wars, the first Indiana Jones adventure, and Blade Runner. The actor on top of Hollywood's A-list was Harrison Ford, but all he could think of at that time was where to get away.

When Ford rolled into Wyoming, he knew he had found his sanctuary. "The first time I saw Jackson Hole, I said, ‘This is the place that’s been in my mind all the time,’” Ford once told a biographer.

What Ford saw, was an 800-acre tract of land nestled alongside the aptly named Snake River, for the way it crosscuts the loose rocky soil dotted with cottonwoods, willows, and big green leaf sagebrush.

Elk and mule deer roamed the property and bald eagles built their nests at the peak of the tall trees framed by the majestic mountains in the background.

The land already had a house on it, but Ford quickly went to work sketching plans for a new house, a guest home, and a barn/workshop. Of course, every building would feature custom master-crafted cabinetry.

Since then, Ford has become an active member of the growing community. He fights for the conservation of the area and volunteers his own piloting skills for aerial search and rescue missions.

Ford came to Wyoming to seek balance and harmony with nature. He ended up staying and helping to ensure those qualities remain intact for future generations.

Sandra Bullock

In the town square, in the heart of Jackson, there's a local watering hole where the barstools have been replaced by saddles and the music's always country. It's called the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar and it's a favorite of part-time Jackson Hole resident Sandra Bullock. In 2014, Bullock celebrated her 50th birthday at the cowboy bar with Chelsea Handler and six other close friends.

Bullock loves the skiing in Jackson in the colder months (she had Jennifer Anniston on the slopes with her in 2016), and riding horses or hiking trails with her kids and celebrity pals like Ryan Reynolds when temperatures warm up. Never one to shun the outdoors, Bullock seems perfectly comfortable in a pair of jeans with cowboy boots.

“My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it,” Bullock once said. With that attitude, she'll probably try to spend more time in places like her cozy 3-bedroom, 2-bath log cabin that sits on a 2.94-acre lot surrounded by soft firs and tall Aspens.

Kanye West

Earlier this week, in celebration of dropping his new album "Ye," the ever-surprising Kanye West flew a collection of music critics, close friends, and collaborators to his Wyoming studio to catch the first listen of the finished LP. He also shared a link to an app that allowed anyone to stream the event live.

It was a surreal experience for the journalists and industry types who attended the listening party at Diamond Cross Ranch. Before the music started, they were greeted by a herd of horses nibbling on yellow dandelions in a field. Eating a mac-and-cheese buffet in a barn with Chris Rock, Jonah Hill, and Kim Kardashian is not the prelude anyone would expect for the launch of a Kanye West album – but does Kanye do anything expected these days?

By all accounts, Wyoming seems to be good for Kanye. He seemed genuinely happy, smiling ear to ear, arms around close friends, as his diverse collection of invitees circled around a bonfire to bounce to his beats.

With an abundance of space and natural beauty, it's easy to see why so many famous people come to this wide-open state. The wild American West has always inspired artists and writers. Ernest Hemingway once said, "there are two places I love; Africa and Wyoming.” He went on to write his novel A Farewell to Arms while staying at the Spear-o-Wigwam Ranch in the heart of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains.

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"Jackson Hole is a world-class destination at the foot of one of the most majestic mountain ranges in the West. We are steps from Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone, America's 1st National Park," Clancy said, before heading out to assist another family to make a Wyoming land purchase that would last for generations to come.

This fertile country was once the domain of the Arapaho and Cheyenne, fur trappers and pioneers. Wyoming will always stay true to its cowboy roots–while hiding a few escaped celebrities and investment bankers along the way.

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Kanye West has listed his L.A. mansion.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have both put homes on the market in what could be a prelude to choosing a home together.

The couple has pocket listed their homes, meaning that the properties won't show up in real estate documents and the agents have exclusive rights to show the homes.

Kardashian is peddling her 6,700-square-foot mansion in the Mullholand Estates community in Beverly Hills. She bought the property for $4.8 million and has placed a $5 million price tag on the home for listing.

West is offering his Los Angeles mansion for $3.9 million. He bought the home in 2003 for $1.75 million. He also owns another home in Hollywood Hills designed by Claudio Silvestrin.

No word yet on where the couple may be looking for their home together, but there is speculation that the couple would remain in Los Angeles. Reportedly, they would also maintain rental properties until they decided to fully take the plunge and have a family together.

Pictured at top: Kim Kardashian's Beverly Hills home

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