The best celebrity houses featured on Vogue Living in 2022

Photographed by Anson Smart, interior design by YSG, and styled by Felicity Ng. From Zoë Foster Blake’s warm and joy-filled Sydney family home

If there’s one thing celebrities excel at (aside from their god given talent), it’s real estate. Buying, selling, flipping, renovating—it’s done with such regularity it means there’s never a dull moment in the world of high-end real estate. Of course, it also means there’s no shortage of interest when they do occasionally open the security gates to their marble-laden mansions, and give the rest of us a glimpse inside their ultra-privileged lives.

Thanks incredible access to the world’s best architects and interior designers, world-class art collections and mega budgets, and celebrity houses don’t really run by the same rules as normal people. Which makes them all the more thrilling to look at. Here, we’ve compiled a list of our favourites from 2022, all for your viewing pleasure.

Zoë Foster Blake and Hamish Blake

It’s easy to see why Zoë Foster Blake and Hamish Blake’s sun-drenched family abode was one of the standout homes featured on Vogue Living this year. Designed by YSG, the Sydney house featured on the cover of our all-Australian November/December issue and was admired for its unbridled sense of joy and adventurous spirit. “Nothing matches and I love that,” says Foster Blake. “Collectively, so many competing elements probably shouldn’t work. But with the right eye and the right designer, it has all come together so perfectly. It’s playful yet cosy and there is so much surprise and delight.”

Interior design by Kelly Hoppen. From Boy George’s art-filled Gothic English mansion

Boy George

Their styles might seem disparate, but English singer Boy George adored Kelly Hoppen’s refined, neutral-toned London home so much, he asked the designer to sprinkle her magic over his 1860s-era mansion, which he’s owned for nearly 40 years. Hoppen infused the grand Gothic architecture with moments of calm, peppered with idiosyncratic glimpses of George’s vast and eccentric art collection.

Photographed by Ye Rin Mok and interior design by Jaime Major. From Sophie Lawrence Parker and Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker invite us inside their Los Feliz home

Kevin Parker and Sophie Lawrence Parker

When Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker and wife Sophie Lawrence Parker relocated from Perth to Los Angeles, they enlisted designer Jaime Major to deck out their Los Feliz abode. Built in the 1920s, the Spanish-style home features beautiful First Nations art with a range of colourful and eclectic pieces.

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Photographed by Yoshihiro Makino, architecture by Roman and Williams, interior design by Romanek Design Studio, styled by Colin King. From Gwyneth Paltrow’s tranquil Montecito home

Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk

Six years ago, actress and Goop guru Gwyneth Paltrow landed upon the perfect Montecito property and set about building her dream home from the ground up. Her vision? “A Parisian apartment set within an old European barn, something with high ceilings, flooded with light, a place that feels generous yet manageable at the same time,” she says. After the project proved more arduous than she first imagined, she sought decorating advice from close friend Brigitte Romanek, who collaborated closely with the actress to introduce her brand of contemporary cool to the home.

Photography by Enok Holsegård. From Pernille Teisbæk crafted her dream home from scratch in Copenhagen

Pernille Teisbæk and Philip Lotko

Danish stylist and influencer Pernille Teisbæk is revered for her impeccable fashion instinct, so it’s no surprise her interiors taste is equally refined and photogenic. After securing a grand heritage dwelling in one of Copenhagen’s most sought-after areas, Teisbæk and husband Philip Lotko crafted a home that was fit for life with three young children. “The building is from 1875 but unfortunately it was not very well preserved, so we started from scratch,” she says. Filled with surprising elements, like a stainless steel kitchen bench, it fuses contemporary pieces with classic details. “I love it when things contradict each other, that’s what makes it interesting,” says Teisbæk.

Photographed by Christopher Sturman, interior design by Waldo Fernandez and styled by Amy Chin. From Travis Barker’s surprisingly tranquil Calabasas abode

Travis Barker

“I’ve had homes with lots of flashy cars, murals, and bikes hanging from the ceiling. But with three children of my own, plus Kourtney’s kids, this place felt right for this moment in my life. I wanted a house where I can rest and enjoy my family, a place where we can create memories,” says Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker of the remarkably chill and contemporary Calabasas mansion he shares on-and-off with wife Kourtney Kardashian and their extended family. While the couple officially live separately, it was important the house felt welcoming for everyone who visited. “In the future, I suppose we’ll wait to find something better than what we have,” says Barker. “Wherever we end up, we feel incredibly blessed and grateful.”

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Photographed by Ye Rin Mok, interior design and architecture by Antonio Forteleoni, styled by Shakes. From Aimee Song’s Los Angeles dream home

Aimee Song and Jacopo Moschin

Procuring this Spanish revival style home in one of Los Angeles’ mist historic neighbourhoods just before the pandemic gave influencer Aimee Song and partner Jacopo Moschin plenty of time to work out what did and didn’t work. “Spanish style homes are great but they also tend to be very dark with lots of tiny rooms, and few windows” she says. So they brought in architect and designer Antonio Forteleoni to oversee the renovation. Melding Mediterranean flair with an Eastern design ethos, their dream abode is now home to a nursery for Song’s son, Teo, who was born shortly after this photoshoot.

Photographed by Ingrid Rasmussen and interior design by David Grievson. From the colourful London family home of Lara Stone and David Grievson

Lara Stone and David Grievson

Model Lara Stone and husband David Grievson spent much of the London lockdowns in 2020 putting the finishing touches on their Hampstead Heath home. Built in the 1870s, the Victorian home needed serious modernising, but Grievson was careful to salvage its beautiful heritage details. Layering the couple’s collection of designer furniture, contemporary art and antiques, the result is a beautifully lived-in family home. “In the kitchen, we have an 130 year old dining table that was salvaged from an accountant’s office in Glasgow, a George III apothecary cabinet and an antique butcher’s block,” says Grievson proudly.

Photographed by Frank Frances, interior design by Kelly Behun and styled by Michael Reynolds. From Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s art-filled modernist home overlooking the Pacific Ocean

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz

In 2019, Grammy Award–winning singer Alicia Keys and her music producer husband Kasseem Dean (a.k.a. Swizz Beatz) purchased Razor House, a modernist masterpiece by architect Wallace E. Cunningham. Located in La Jolla, California, the house was a literal dream home for Dean, who had the residence set as his screensaver for eight years before “manifesting” the purchase. Recruiting star designer Kelly Behun to work on the interiors, Keys and Dean turned this monolith into a family home, complete with an incredible collection of Black art. “The interiors don’t in any way shout; they’re simple and timeless,” says Behun. “It was never going to be about trying to upstage the natural surroundings, the architecture, or the art.”

Photographed by Chris Mottalini, interior design by Hendricks Churchill, styled by Dorcia Kelley and produced by Jane Keltner de Valle. From Eva Chen’s charming Connecticut country retreat

Eva Chen and  Tom Bannister

As Instagram’s director of fashion and shopping partnerships and a born-and-bred Manhattanite, Eva Chen knows two things: fashion and New York. But when faced with decorating her newly acquired Connecticut country home, she called in design studio Hendricks Churchill to craft a home that was “warm and elegant and not too precious”. “We fell in love with the quietness and with the landscape, which was wild and not groomed to perfection,” she says of their contemporary Cape Cod property, which sits on nearly 10 acres. “The bones were good. The energy was good. I could tell another family had been happy here.”

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