Sting is known for collecting houses and villas as well as guitars. One of the most famous people in Great Britain owns several residences, apartments, and villas around the world. In everything that concerns real estate and interiors, he is as thorough as when setting up sound. Together with his wife Trudie Styler, a producer and actress, they amassed an impressive collection of art and design objects in their London and New York apartments, some of which were put up for auction. Here are five of his famous properties. Some have already changed hands, and some are available for rent, like his beach house in Malibu or his villa in Tuscany.
Castle Lake House in Wiltshire
The couple bought the £7 million 16th-century mansion in 1990 and have lived there ever since. Built-in 1578 for a West Country wool trader, it was expanded in the 18th century and again completed before the visit of the Spanish King Alfonso XIII. The 24-hectare property has rolling hills that shelter the house to the front and streams amid water meadows to the rear.
This is Sting’s favorite home in the UK. The couple likes to tell the story of its purchase. When the musician was on tour in Mexico, his wife said that she had found the perfect home. “When he asked why I wanted to buy it, I said there was a huge 350-year-old tree and a huge garden, and Sting immediately agreed,” Styler recalls. Now this ancient beech tree, in the shade of which the musician reads, meditates, thinks, and composes music, has become one of his favorite refuges. The singer set up a studio in the dining room: all the songs for his Ten Summoner’s Tales album (and subsequent one) were written and recorded here, and the composition “Golden Fields” was inspired by his love of the surrounding fields and meadows of wildflowers. Trudie Styler has one of her offices here. There’s plenty of room for the couple’s four children and their families, five dogs, and countless cats. As for the interiors, the owners transformed them together with designer Alain Mertens.
Penthouse overlooking Central Park in New York
Sting and Trudie Styler moved into this penthouse in 2008. They bought a futuristic duplex on the 16th and 17th floors of 15 Central Park West, a Robert Stern-designed home, for $27 million. The house is known as a “celebrity magnet” and has housed Robert De Niro and Denzel Washington. The couple, before moving here, hired designers from SheltonMindel to combine the blocks to create a special home with not one, but two sculptural spiral staircases and a double-sided spiral gas fireplace that was inspired by the Fibonacci spiral. Also here you can see murals based on Fornasetti. In 2017, Sting sold these apartments for $50 million. Instead, the couple bought a triplex in the Stern-designed tower at 220 Central Park South, one of New York’s most expensive apartment buildings.
Townhouse in London
This house has an area of 790 sq. meters the family lived for many years. There are 9 bedrooms, 5 living rooms, 6 bathrooms, a garden and a roof terrace. The celebrity couple thoroughly renovated this 18th-century building, inviting the famous New York firm Shelton, Mindel & Associates. Interiors filled with art (a Picasso painting above the fireplace) and high-end design (you can see objects from Tom Dixon and modernist classics) have gone around the world. The British rock musician sold this mansion in 2014, also auctioning off part of his art collection, and moved his family to a more modest house.
House in Malibu
Built-in 1927, this home is steeped in history. Built on a private oceanfront property, there is enough space to invite a large group of friends. The seven-bedroom, ten-bathroom residence is located in Malibu Colony, a celebrity enclave. The living room has pink walls and a picture window overlooking the ocean. The ceiling is crossed by huge wooden beams. The house is right on the water and has a swimming pool and gardens suitable for growing your herbs and vegetables, which can be prepared in the chef’s kitchen. In 2017, Sting rented out his beach house in Malibu for $200,000.
Villa Palagio in Tuscany
When the couple first saw the estate in 1999, it didn’t look its best. But they were impressed by the history of the house. In the late 1700s, the Martelli family purchased the property and then sold it in 1819 to Countess Carlotta Barbolani de Montauto, widow of the Duke of San Clemente. The house remained in the possession of this family for about 150 years. At the beginning of the 20th century, Duke Simone Vincenzo Velluti Zati di San Clemente commissioned several new buildings, including a granary, an oil mill, and a winery.
Sting and Trudy decided to restore the villa to its former glory. They turned to landscape designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd with a request to plant a Garden of Eden. For nearly eight years, the area resembled a vast archaeological site rather than the paradise depicted in a beautiful pastel-colored plan. Mature trees were transported using forklifts, and hills were turned into terraces with bulldozers. The project was completed in 2008, and since then it has hosted concerts, wine tastings (Sting has his winery), and social events. The villa can be rented for 200 thousand euros per week.
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