21 Celebrity Homes You Didn’t Know Were in the AD Archive
For as long as it’s existed as a magazine, AD has taken interest in celebrity homes. Long before YouTube and the Open Door video series rose to popularity, the publication was documenting how famous figures expressed themselves through interior design and created spaces that allowed them to relax despite their hectic lifestyles. Below, we’ve chosen 21 of our favorite celebrity homes for decor inspiration from decades back—with a membership to AD PRO, who knows who else you’ll discover in the archive?
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Photo: Russell MacMasters, AD, March 19771/21“I don't think too much about my house, I just enjoy it,” singer Fred Astaire told AD in the March 1977 issue, which showcased the performer’s home in Beverly Hills. Animal prints, wood paneling, and plush patterns make this space a pleasant ’70s rabbithole to fall into.
Photo: Robert Reck, AD, April 19982/21Nathalie Kent helped Val Kilmer design his family’s quintessential Santa Fe home in the ’90s. The space reflects the onetime Batman’s travels without straying too much from the classic Southwestern decoration playbook.
Photo: Durston Saylor, AD, April 20043/21When AD photographed John Travolta’s Florida home in 2004, his love of flying was on full display. The property, designed by architect Dana Smith, features not one but two plane pavilions and a 7,500-foot runway.
Photo: Jim McHugh, AD, May 19944/21Winona Ryder opened the doors to both her New York apartment and her Beverly Hills home to AD in 1994, the same year Reality Bites was released. Former actor and interior designer Kevin Haley worked on both properties, creating spaces that reflected her appreciation of beauty.
Photo: John Vaughan, AD, August 19925/21AD visited Dan Akroyd for the August 1992 issue at a property in eastern Canada that has been in his family since 1826. The white clapboard farmhouse pictured is appropriately cozy—though in the article, the Ghostbusters actor seems particularly taken with its paranormal activity.
Photo: Jaime Ardiles-Arce, AD, January/February 19766/21Truman Capote’s Hamptons home was captured by AD in 1976. The story reveals a wooden home filled with unique tchotchkes, and—as to be expected—plenty of books.
Photo: Jeremiah O. Bragstad, AD, May/June 19747/21The first of many AD tours of Cher’s homes, the May/June 1974 issue featured a home she shared with Sonny. The home is a brilliant example of period design swirling with ’70s decorating impulses.
Photo: Scott Frances, AD, October 19978/21Marc Charbonnet designed Michael J. Fox’s antique-filled apartment that was featured in the October 1997 issue. “I'm grown up now, and it was time to have a grown-up place,” Fox told AD.
Photo: Jim McHugh, AD, May 20079/21Architect Robert Attree and designers Peter Schifando and J. Jonathan Joseph helped Lionel Richie reimagine his 28-room home in Beverly Hills, which AD featured in 2007.
Photo: Franklin and Esther Schmidt, AD, March 200310/21Two decades before AD’s 2023 tour of Michael and Victoria Imperioli’s Upper West Side apartment, AD visited the couple at their Tribeca loft. Comparing the two homes side by side, it’s easy to see that their style hasn’t changed much.
Photo: Dan Forer, AD, November 200711/21Perhaps it’s to be expected that Sylvester Stallone’s 14-acre Miami property, photographed by AD in 1997, flaunted a bronze statue of Rocky Balboa over its pool.
Photo: Mary E. Nichols, AD, December 200212/21“This is not a pompous house,” comedy director Christopher Guest told AD in 2002 during a tour of the LA home he shared with wife, Jamie Lee Curtis. The laid-back home was designed with the help of architect Michael B. Lehrer, landscape designer Mia Lehrer, and interior designer Jan McFarland Cox.
Photo: Norman McGrath, AD, November 199413/21Designed by architect Charles Gwathmey (of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates) and interior designer Naomi Leff, Steven Spielberg’s guesthouse in East Hampton is proof of the director’s devotion to Arts and Crafts furnishings. No wonder AD opted to publish it in 1994.
Photo: John Vaughan, AD, July 199314/21Despite its small population, Carmel, California, has long been a celebrity enclave, and Clint Eastwood was just one of those famous faces in the crowd. AD toured his Carmel ranch in 1993, which he worked on restoring with Alan Williams of the Carmel Development Company.
Photo: Mary E. Nichols15/21“I don’t even wear colors. My work is noisy, but my life is quiet. I need nature and solitude—they nurture me,” the late Tina Turner told AD during a tour of her sophisticated and cozy home on the French Riviera in 1999.
Photo: Jeremiah O. Bragstad, AD, July/August 197416/21Dinah Shore’s charming Beverly Hills home was featured on the cover of AD’s July/August issue. The singer and actress renovated the property extensively with architect Edward Grenzbach and interior designer Val Arnold.
Photo: Richard Champion, AD, May 197817/21AD visited Barbra Streisand once in 1978 at home in New York and once in 1993 at home in Malibu. Both properties prove the icon’s devotion to dramatic decor, but we’re particularly drawn to this bedroom shot from the New York pad, which made its way onto the magazine’s cover.
Photo: Mary E. Nichols, AD, November 201018/21Rob Lowe’s Santa Barbara home, as seen in the November 2010 issue, was perfected by not just one but four experts. Don Nulty served as the architect, interior designer David Phoenix looked over the furnishings, landscape architect Mark Rios handled the exterior, and David Cho advised on feng shui.
Photo: David Marlow, AD, October 200519/21Is there any kitchen more charmingly quirky than Anjelica Huston’s? The actor decoupaged the cabinets with her friend and producer Laila Nabulsi, the rustic motifs an appropriate choice given the 120-acre property’s many horses.
Photo: Richard Champion, AD, September/October 197520/21Editor Diana Vreeland was known for her impeccable taste, so it would follow that AD’s tour of her New York apartment in the September/October 1975 issue is especially delectable.
Photo: Mary E. Nichols, AD, March 199821/21Janet Jackson’s Malibu house, as photographed in the March 1998 issue, is exactly what you’d want from a beach house: casual, furnished in neutral tones, and entirely oriented toward its ocean views.
