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"This article originally appeared in the March 2012 issue of Architectural Digest.\n\nAs anyone who has watched even a little MTV knows, Los Angeles rock-star bachelor pads tend to fall into two distinct categories: louche Vegas-like fantasies or high-tech digs crammed with the latest toys for boys.\n\nAnd yet the home of arguably the most sizzling rock star on the planet right now\u2014Adam Levine, the front man for Maroon 5\u2014conforms to neither stereotype. His immaculately refurbished 1940s ranch-style dwelling, suspended high above the city, in the Hollywood Hills, and outfitted with classics by Jean Prouv\u00E9, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Arne Jacobsen, and other 20th-century-design icons, has a quiet, meticulous air. It is unmistakably the habitat of a man who is confident in his tastes.\n\nView Slideshow1 / 11The living room is a well-edited haven of vintage pieces: a Dunbar sofa in Maharam mohair velvet, a Stilnovo floor lamp from Lewis Trimble Decorative Arts &amp;amp; Antiques, a Jean Prouv\u00E9 cocktail table, a Hans J. Wegner Ox chair from Michael Weisberg, and a Ludwig Mies van der Rohe daybed. The 1920s Persian carpet and pillows covered in antique Caucasian textiles are from Samuel\u2019s Rug Galley\n\nLevine has plenty to feel confident about. His infectious hits, among them \u201CShe Will Be Loved,\u201D \u201CMakes Me Wonder,\u201D and last year\u2019s number one, \u201CMoves Like Jagger,\u201D have propelled Maroon 5 to three Grammys, sold more than 15 million records, and landed Levine a prime-time turn as a judge and coach on NBC\u2019s The Voice. He has poised, conspicuous star power\u2014extravagant tattoos, matinee-idol looks, a Victoria\u2019s Secret model on his arm\u2014and his career and his residence are all of a piece. \u201CFurnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music,\u201D Levine says. \u201CYou want to make sure you\u2019ve pared down all the extra details so that in the end, every stitch has a context uniquely yours.\u201D\n\nCocksure as he comes across onstage, Levine is, in fact, exceedingly polite and self-deprecating in person. It\u2019s clear even from a brief conversation that this is not a Top 40 flavor of the month who arrived in L.A. with a session tape and a prayer, but a homegrown talent who has had to hone his craft and earn every bit of his success. It all started more than 15 years ago: Levine\u2019s Brentwood School classmates were headed to blue-chip colleges, while he and three friends took a different route, first forming an ill-fated pop-rock band, then adding a fifth member and trying on a more soulful, R &amp;amp; B\u2013inflected sound. \u201CI was sharing a house, renting a bedroom for $800 a month,\u201D Levine recalls of his earliest days in Maroon 5. \u201CI left to go on tour and had no money and had to give up my room.\u201D As the band performed around the world during the next two years, their debut album, Songs About Jane, a collection of highly personal tributes to one of Levine\u2019s ex-girlfriends, slowly gathered a following. When the nonstop touring finally eased and Levine returned to L.A., he was a multiplatinum star. \u201CI suddenly had a career,\u201D the singer/musician says, \u201Cbut nowhere to live.\u201D\n\nThe purchase of what was at the time an unremarkable four-bedroom house perched on the side of Bronson Canyon solved that problem. \u201CI fell in love with the location and the privacy and the fact that it was such a low-key place,\u201D Levine says. \u201CIt was Hollywood without being \u2018Hollywood.\u2019\u201D\n\nTo make the home truly compelling, Levine turned to longtime friend Mark Haddawy, a 20th-century-design collector and co-owner of Resurrection, a vintage-clothing boutique with branches in L.A. and Manhattan. Under Haddawy\u2019s guidance, Levine decided to tear down the internal walls, reducing the number of bedrooms from four to one. They added concrete floors and rosewood paneling throughout, and Carrara marble in the bathrooms to create a sensual contrast of surface textures. \u201CMark brought soul and color into the place,\u201D Levine notes. Says Haddawy, \u201CFor me, it\u2019s about the mix, not just in the materials we used, but in the art we bought for the house.\u201D The collection he and Levine began includes works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Shepard Fairey, Mark Seliger, and Andy Warhol.\n\n\u201CMark\u2019s obsessive about what he lets into a house,\u201D Levine says, \u201Cand I inherited his sickness.\u201D Haddawy was particularly prudent in selecting just the right carpet\u2014a 1920s Persian\u2014to accompany the midcentury furnishings in the living room. \u201CWe probably brought 20 or 30 in here before we could settle on this,\u201D he says in an offhand tone that suggests taking such care is, for him, business as usual.\n\nAnd what about the Philippe Starck\u2013designed bedside lamp shaped like an AK-47? \u201CI blame it on Lenny Kravitz,\u201D Levine says. \u201CHe had one in his apartment in Paris when we were doing a tour there, and I knew I had to get one. It took me months to track it down.\u201D\n\nAs befits any good bachelor sanctuary, Levine\u2019s has one other long-term resident: Frankie, a golden retriever, whose paw print is embedded in concrete on the terrace and tattooed on his master\u2019s back. Levine also has the Sanskrit word for warmth inked on his chest\u2014a nod to his devotion to yoga, which he practices diligently at home. As a fitness regimen, it has had some very apparent success. See the video for \u201CMoves Like Jagger,\u201D where Levine\u2019s slim, chiseled form is on full display. Or peruse the images, published recently in the U.K., in which he\u2019s wearing nothing but the strategically placed hands of his girlfriend, Russian beauty Anne Vyalitsyna.\n\nYes, this well-mannered, hardworking L.A. boy made good has a theatrical side. It\u2019s evident in his debonair home, too, in the thick burgundy velvet curtains that maintain a nightclublike darkness even in the middle of the day. \u201CMy job means I work late,\u201D Levine says. \u201CThese ensure I get some sleep.\u201D After all, this is the man who penned the hit song \u201CNever Gonna Leave This Bed.\u201D In such refined surroundings, why would you even want to?\n\nRelated: See More Celebrity Homes in AD"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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