She only has one name– however she’s been featured in a record 10 AD home tours for many years. Cher is a singer, star, design icon, and repeat re-decorator who imbues every home she lives in with her signature vibrant style, from the Bel Air Mediterranean she once showed Sonny Bono to her leopard-print-clad NYC apartment or condo. In honor of her 80th birthday on May 20th, 2026, recall at Advertisement’s trip of her sky-high Los Angeles sanctuary from the July 2010 problem.
“I am a Buddhist,” says Cher with particular self-deprecation, “who must constantly be in after-school detention.”
Undoubtedly. And it is specifically that irrepressible mix of spirituality and spunk that makes the singer-actress’s magnificent new duplex, set down high above Los Angeles, as gloriously initial as its owner.
“My homes,” she muses, “are enthusiasms.” They are also ornamental barometers of the existing state of her never-boring, ever-expanding awareness. “I’ve experimented with Buddhism for years,” continues the starlet, a follower of the American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön (“a genius in Sheldon Leonard’s body,” she quips). “As corny as it sounds, the soul of the universe, whatever that I require, I can discover in its practice.”
So it wasn’t surprising when, snapping up 2 floorings and 4,000 square feet in one of Los Angeles’ most popular structures, Cher turned to buddy and interior designer Martyn Lawrence-Bullard to assist her invoke “something ethnic, spicy and romantic”– albeit in creams, ivories, whites and buttery beiges. “Though I loved gathering Gothic and can spend hours drawing with every shade of Pantone pen, I prefer a neutral scheme, specifically in my bedrooms, because the colors are so simple to live with.”
< img alt="This image might consist of Furniture Living Room Indoors Space Carpet and Table"src ="https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/580914b613027a4c29105415/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/cher-indian-decor-home-1.jpg"/ > A 19th-century Indian tapestry with gold and silver thread offers a remarkable background for the master suite in the Los Angeles duplex of Cher. Designer produced the couches and the low table. The Tibetan monk statue is 18th century; the sculpted elephant is early 19th century.
Equipped with his mandate, Lawrence-Bullard started the style ball rolling by eliminating the house’s extant 12 rooms in favor of two loftlike open floorings connected by a spiral staircase. “I always wanted an apartment or condo that was one big bed room,” states Cher, “since that’s truly where I live, beginning with the days when Sonny and I could just manage a bedroom.”
Plainly, things have changed. In fact, her latest boudoir not only inhabits the whole second flooring, it includes an antique Indian-paneled platform bed (dealing with a dazzling panorama stretching from Malibu to Hollywood), a sitting room and a bath so glamorous that even Lawrence-Bullard describes it as “really Cleopatra”– especially when it comes to the tub covered in 19th-century stone sitting directly in the middle of the space. “Press a button, and a gauze drape embroidered with gold Indian symbols swallows up the tub,” he describes, explaining the dressing room camouflaged behind a mirrored exterior from a palace in Jaipur. “Cher loves all things unique,” the designer states with a smile. “And this space resembles one big harem.”