As one might reasonably expect, the California country home of Oscar-winning actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, jewellery designer Adam Shulman, has an intriguing narrative. 

We’d be disappointed if it didn’t. In the backstory they imagined for their enchanting 1906 Swiss chalet–style residence (which was destroyed by a fire in 1917 and rebuilt).

Yves Saint Laurent once owned the property before director Wes Anderson moved in and put his own hipster-twee spin on the house. 

The fictional origin tale also includes something about Anderson and David Bowie cohosting an annual New Year’s Eve party there. 

That’s a lot of imagery to process, but Hathaway, Shulman, and their partner in drama, designer Pamela Shamshiri of Los Angeles’s Studio Shamshiri.

Embraced the challenge with gusto.

“Pam really leaned into it,” Hathaway says of the extraordinarily collaborative process of renovating her historic home.

Which was designed by architects Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey, authors of the San Marino residence of Henry and Arabella Huntington 

(now the main art gallery of the Huntington Library) and other prominent Southern California landmarks. 

“This house inspired lots of crazy creative discussions, but Pam wasn’t thrown by any of it,” Shulman adds. “She brought a sense of sophistication, magic, and fun to the whole process.”

Hathaway and Shulman describe the allure of their picturesque property in terms of a love affair. “The minute we came up the driveway and saw this incredible panoramic view unfold in front of us, we were hooked,” Shulman recalls. Says Hathaway, “It was the ideal combination of romance and great design. Our initial instinct was that this was going to be a very important place in our lives. I could really see raising a family here.”

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Source: The Wall Street Journal