…it appears that Cher is selling her Malibu mansion. When I first moved to Los Angeles, I became fast friends with Barrie Livingstone. We both were new in town and were on fire taking on LA. We both did well really quickly, got big clients neighborhoods that make careers. For about two years Barrie worked on Cher’s house in Malibu, a Moroccan palace, inspite of the fact that it is billed as Italian Renaissance. He loved working with her, had a great relationship with her and was amazed at how she would note details. She once noticed that a nailhead installation on a door was about 1/32 of an inch off of the matching rustic style door. Barrie of course, saw to it at once that this was remedied.

Once his part of the project was finished and he was onto the next project in New York, he passed an newsstand and saw that Cher had done a photo shoot for Architectural Digest in the Malibu house with Ron Wilson, the designer she had fired prior to hiring Barrie. Apparently they made up and didn’t mind publishing all the work as Ron’s. Barrie, a nice jewish boy from Manchester England, said, “I was walking by a cathedral and I lit a candle for them”.

Who says decorating isn’t as cutthroat as Hollywood?