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"Cher\nAt Her Italian Renaissance-Style Refuge on a Malibu Bluff\nCher commissioned designer and longtime friend Ron Wilson to decorate an Italian Renaissance\u2013style residence in Malibu. \"I'm comfortable here,\" says the singer-actress. \"This house \u2026 this house wraps its arms around me.\" The rear fa\u00E7ade overlooks an infinity-edge pool. \"The entire project was a collaboration between Cher and me,\" says Wilson. \"She was totally involved with the landscape design\u2014which is unbelievable. She's very gifted.\"\nThe gated entrance, and a spacious courtyard beyond, from the private driveway.\n\"All of the art\"\u2014including the circa 1880 oil found in Europe that hangs in the living room\u2014\"was of special interest to Cher,\" says Wilson. \"She was responsible for purchasing most of it herself.\" The chair, sofa, stool and bench fabrics were designed by Wilson.\nA 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.\nIn 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 inlaidwood low table underscore the interior's muted palette.\nFrom the loggia is a view of the infinity-edge pool, which seemingly overflows into the Pacific Ocean. An Egyptian sculpture rests on a woven-reed low table. Standing bronze oil lamps are beneath arches supported by columns with vines carved in relief.\nEnglish 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, candle-lit centerpieces and white china with gold trim. Rug from Mansour.\nA painting of Mary with Christ is above the bed, with a frame upholstered in Scalamandr\u00E9 silk, in the master suite. The large brass trunk at the foot of the bed, which is elevated on a stone platform, holds a television. Lamps from Kathleen Caid's Antique Artistry.\n\"The infinity-edge pool is where I spend all of my time in the summer,\" says Cher. \"She's above the beach\u2014a mile from the water,\" adds Wilson. \"Her great love is Malibu.\" A low carved marble balustrade defines the outside dining area and grants access to the blue-mosaic-tiled pool."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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