Celebrity Home: Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor’s home, which she invited <em>Architectural Digest</em> to photograph this past spring (the shoot was under way at the time of her death), was a four-bedroom house on a secluded, wooded acre in Bel Air, California. She bought it in the early 1980s and refined it with the help of interior designer and close friend Waldo Fernandez.<br /><div style="border: medium none; text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"> <p>In recent years nearly every room was awash in blues and lavenders, shades echoing Taylor’s famous violet eyes.<br /></p></div><img alt="" class="featureimg" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/07/elizabeth-taylor-home/01_elizabeth-taylor-home.jpg" /> <div class="item-text"> <div class="body"> <div class="text"> <p>This photograph is from 1997 at her Bel Air estate. She is wearing wearing a custom-made Moroccan caftan that was a gift from publisher Malcolm Forbes.<br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2qfyDJcELzxc_AHP-7Pi63t4hpOsmMtgFLDfEeUGOnyRdUpXQmV1LPjvdA5FvO7XGx-usAxzCThskQnYW5NI92tcrCLHQ2ex9LIfc4BxiCHF6d2YffuV-Azc13csZ92F3GvjuqzpW6usZ/s1600/05_elizabeth-taylor-home.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613991160504205122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2qfyDJcELzxc_AHP-7Pi63t4hpOsmMtgFLDfEeUGOnyRdUpXQmV1LPjvdA5FvO7XGx-usAxzCThskQnYW5NI92tcrCLHQ2ex9LIfc4BxiCHF6d2YffuV-Azc13csZ92F3GvjuqzpW6usZ/s400/05_elizabeth-taylor-home.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 317px;" /></a></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTnZiAn6DpwIfyR5JHfHDFv9DsaW876E_fnNQLewkGwkgLWcXYKtexNjMeGhVblfPInxupejtGo1G5qeT-x3L_axDzP-FDHNhDkcBqvezOQ8M1j_VjcsG5q6GU1QYJ_hkBLQrRuC-tLAX0/s1600/02_elizabeth-taylor-home.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613991175934704370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTnZiAn6DpwIfyR5JHfHDFv9DsaW876E_fnNQLewkGwkgLWcXYKtexNjMeGhVblfPInxupejtGo1G5qeT-x3L_axDzP-FDHNhDkcBqvezOQ8M1j_VjcsG5q6GU1QYJ_hkBLQrRuC-tLAX0/s400/02_elizabeth-taylor-home.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 315px;" /></a><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM83RhcQikptPbn2y7uNe0SOybkwuvLVFRlwEVvaUyZiF1pNTlrAWPbmHCretEfb_7xihRiMrtErkoXXARw_ylOTv8-fDp2PdE3GH-RcjBFbhKbRfkyObS3bRaLV144xW1294BjSJV0zEJ/s1600/07_elizabeth-taylor-home.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613991158747419970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM83RhcQikptPbn2y7uNe0SOybkwuvLVFRlwEVvaUyZiF1pNTlrAWPbmHCretEfb_7xihRiMrtErkoXXARw_ylOTv8-fDp2PdE3GH-RcjBFbhKbRfkyObS3bRaLV144xW1294BjSJV0zEJ/s400/07_elizabeth-taylor-home.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 541px;" /></a></p></div></div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLVOgC-yEdJulS7l5ILds5aOPnXnqDsGPH2goolxcc89BXFN9_kiZTwUBSL1nptJGKHtNixDGkmq1DKVDrtqv0x1_E57qw4h6VpmqnodhZOU4jV_cxhGeNmeU3kVBsDuDIUiLPiySmH10A/s1600/08_elizabeth-taylor-home.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613985476463967618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLVOgC-yEdJulS7l5ILds5aOPnXnqDsGPH2goolxcc89BXFN9_kiZTwUBSL1nptJGKHtNixDGkmq1DKVDrtqv0x1_E57qw4h6VpmqnodhZOU4jV_cxhGeNmeU3kVBsDuDIUiLPiySmH10A/s400/08_elizabeth-taylor-home.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 499px; height: 540px;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNboP-B-bFuMbjSRDISqMLQyW1SfzRKyitckaPREP5QbHer4Jo5I3i11tSvse6yWSScJQlJdTXZpt7F9_-hGZSfgAxtODErLj2h20DX0ezYkBMraoO4_saCVjOkBT09orZrncQTWxSi5MX/s1600/04_elizabeth-taylor-home.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613991165004343058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNboP-B-bFuMbjSRDISqMLQyW1SfzRKyitckaPREP5QbHer4Jo5I3i11tSvse6yWSScJQlJdTXZpt7F9_-hGZSfgAxtODErLj2h20DX0ezYkBMraoO4_saCVjOkBT09orZrncQTWxSi5MX/s400/04_elizabeth-taylor-home.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 317px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="border: medium none; text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span class="c"><span>Photographed and Produced by </span>Firooz Zahedi</span><br /><span class="c"><span>Styled by </span>Robert Rufino</span><br />All images and information from <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a>.<br /></div>

Celebrity Home: Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor’s home, which she invited Architectural Digest to photograph this past spring (the shoot was under way at the time of her...

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