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"Chart-Topping Style\nAD looks at the homes of some of music's biggest names, past and present\nMario Buatta designed Grammy-winning artist Mariah Carey's unabashedly opulent Manhattan triplex. \"I wanted to create a background for Mariah's own glamour,\" he says. \"She exudes glamour.\" (November 2001)\nThe heart of the apartment is a long room that, through Buatta's clever design, is divided into three separate spaces: a living area (shown), a dining area, and an intimate conversation area. Defining the living area is a long Coromandel screen from Florian Papp, in front of which is a Turkish-style banquette that extends along the adjoining wall and offers enough seating for a sultan's harem\u2014or for Carey and her band. (November 2001)\n\nClick here to view more of Mariah Carey's home.\nMichael Jackson's Neverland Ranch in California's Santa Ynez Valley, which he acquired fully furnished in 1988, was previously owned by real-estate developer William Bone. The King of Pop created an amusement-park atmosphere on the grounds with a zoo, JumboTron playing cartoons, carousel, Ferris wheel, and other rides. Although he made it his own with personal touches throughout, the interiors were largely kept as they were when he purchased the property. (November 2009)\nThe entrance hall was a blend of rusticity and refinement. (November 2009)\n\nClick here to view more of Michael Jackson's home.\nMusician Sting and his wife, actress and film producer Trudie Styler, worked with designer Alain Mertens to turn a 16th-century manor house in Wiltshire, England, into a warm and inviting home, complete with just about everything they'll ever need, including a recording studio, two-story library, and boathouse. (January 1996)\n\"I'd be making music even if I didn't get paid for it,\" says Sting, who converted the barrel-vaulted dining hall\u2014added in the 1920s for a visit from Alfonso XIII of Spain\u2014into a studio. \"Fields of Gold,\" a song off his Ten Summoner's Tales album, was inspired by his love of the surrounding fields and the wildflower meadow beside the house. (January 1996)\n\nClick here to view more of Sting's home.\n\"I feel about my home the way I feel about my music: You have to take chances,\" says singer-songwriter Lionel Richie. Architect Robert Attree and designers Peter Schifando and J. Jonathan Joseph updated and refreshed Richie's 1929 Italian Renaissance Revival home in Beverly Hills. \"The biggest compliment you can give me,\" says the entertainer, \"is to walk into any of these rooms and say, \u2018I can stay here for a while.'\" (May 2007)\n\"With my career, I have to get on a plane every other week. So when people ask, \u2018Where do you go for vacation?' I say, \u2018I go home.'\" Pictured: A selection of Richie's awards\u2014including Grammys, American Music Awards, and the 1985 Oscar for Best Original Song\u2014are displayed on the oak shelving in the library. (May 2007)\n\nClick here to view more of Lionel Richie's home.\nPalm Springs was one of the most enduring passions of singing legend Frank Sinatra's passionate life. The small one-story, two-bedroom house he purchased at the Tamarisk Country Club in the mid-1950s would grow\u2014over the next four decades\u2014into a compound with 18 bedrooms, 23 baths, a projection room, full-service salon, tennis court, and much more. This place was his true home\u2014where he came to rest, read, paint, listen to music, watch movies, play with his model trains, and entertain friends and family. Pictured: Sinatra with Ringo, one of his rescue animals. (December 1998)\nWhen Sinatra married Barbara Marx in 1976, the singer realized that the Palm Springs house needed some attention: It had been aggressively lived in for more than two decades. The couple brought in designer Bea Korshak and architect Ted Grenzbach to renovate the interiors. Pictured: Two Sinatra paintings from 1987 are in the living room. (December 1998)\n\nClick here to view more of Frank Sinatra's home.\nRock and soul legend Tina Turner enlisted the help of designers Stephen Sills and James Huniford\u2014\"the boys\" as she calls them\u2014to pull together the interiors of her Mediterranean-style villa in the hills above the French Riviera. Sills says: \"In working with Tina, who's a natural-born decorator, it was really a matter of helping her to find her own voice\u2014to express her own style\u2014rather than to impose ours. She was the mastermind of this house: It's her own invention.\" (March 2000)\n\"It's a very spiritual place\u2014between two mountains, surrounded by woods that are full of wildlife. That's essential to me,\" she says of the property. Pictured: She wanted the pool terrace to suggest the ruins of a classical temple; the far end of the pool overlooks the sea. (March 2000)\n\nClick here to view more of Tina Turner's home."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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