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The latest celeb home on the cover of Architectural Digest is Grammy-Award winning singer Alicia Keys and her record producer hubby, Swizz Beatz.

The home is more sculpture than architecture and is widely rumoured to be the inspiration for Tony Stark’s futuristic bachelor pad in the Iron Man movies.

This, and much more, is why the family, including their children Genisis and Egypt, like to call this California cliffside mansion their “Dreamland”.

Keys explains that it makes their home “a place to create dreams and to be bold enough to dream your wildest dream—for us to even be here is a wildest dream”.

Overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the home is complete with floor-to-ceiling glass windows and a stunning infinity pool as the cherry on top.

There is tons of space for the artists’ imaginations to soar:

The family have lived in the home for eight years, highlights PEOPLE Magazine, and Beatz shared that the home is incredibly important to him:

“Every wall in this house, every bit of it, is sculpture,” Beatz told the publication. “These beautiful ‘S’ shapes, these chevrons going down the hillside, curvatures flying in space over your head. It’s more akin to sculpture than architecture.”

The couple chose interior designer Kelly Behun because she puts soul into her work:

For Keys and Beatz’s home, Behun’s incorporated wood elements, Moroccan wool rugs, velvet fabrics, grand walkways, and floating staircases into her design. She tied them all together with a warm color scheme that compliments the ocean view.

The home might be one giant sculpture, but the art inside is not to be missed either:

Creations by African and African American artists are stacked all over the walls and floors, really driving home the goal to keep inspiration alive.

Music-making is also integrated into the space, with Keys’ grand piano, gifted to her by the record label that signed her when she was just 16, front and centre:

On the “grown-up floor” there’s also a private recording studio to get things done.

Keys said that they do a lot of dreaming as a family, and the house doesn’t get in the way of their imaginations at all, not even for the guests that they love to host:

“When you hear a song or something we’ve produced, the foundation is to make people feel good and feel loved. That’s what our art is about,” Keys shared.

And “when you come into our home, that’s exactly what we want you to feel. We want you to feel loved, to feel safe, to feel relaxed… We want you to feel inspired.”

Take a tour with Open Door:

I am there for all that light.

[sources:people&architecturaldigest]