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Barbra Streisand has spent more than five years getting her carpets, drapes, flowerbeds and furniture to all pull from the same color palate in her palatial Malibu estate – and now, she’s writing a book about it.
Streisand inked a deal to publish A Passion for Design, a story that weaves together photos from the home and memories from throughout her career, including past homes and childhood memories.
The multiple Grammy and Academy-Award winner told the Associated Press she sees the book as answering questions she has often asked herself: Why is she so fascinated by furniture, gardens and how homes are constructed? Why was she buying antique clothing as a teenager? Why, in the basement of her new house, did she reproduce a city street? Why did she even write a script about her home?
"As a filmmaker even, I got very involved in set production and design and colors," Streisand told the Associated Press.
"Everything is perfect, down to the flowers, to the metal plates on the doorknobs," Streisand’s publisher, Viking President Clare Ferraro, said. "I remember her living room. The color scheme was in pink and burgundy and green and if you looked out the window you saw there were roses in the same color. And throughout the house, the outside matched what was inside.
"It's just breathtaking, her whole house. I went home and ripped the flower bed out of my porch because the flowers didn't match my porch furniture." The book is due in Fall, 2010.
