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"Sting\nThe Musician and Trudie Styler in England\nAt Sting and Trudie Styler's home in Wiltshire, England, windsor chairs join an oak refectory table in the combined kitchen/dining room, which Styler planned from various small rooms.\nItalian- and Elizabethan-style stencils decorate the staircase hall, a favorite place for gatherings. The table expands to seat 26. The chimneypiece and the mirror are Gothic Revival.\nA 16th-century English four-poster in a guest bedroom is covered with antique embroidered velvet and silk.\nThe singer worked with designer and friend Alain Mertens to design a library with a curving staircase out of what were small rooms on different levels. \"I've always wanted a tall library,\" explains Sting. \"I want to be surrounded by my books, and here I can be.\" Styler has her own office nearby.\nStyler calls the upstairs bath her \"thinking space.\" Mertens commissioned Alice Ludwig and Charles Segal to paint the panels, which depict birds and flowers from the gardens. The tub is antique steel; the floor is mosaic.\nSting converted the barrel-vaulted dining hall\u2014added in the 1920s for a visit from Alfonso XIII of Spain\u2014into a recording studio. \"I'd be making music even if I didn't get paid for it,\" he says."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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