Inside Naomi Campbell's Luxury Villa In Kenya | Open Door | Architectural Digest

hi it's naomi campbell and welcome to my home follow me so we are in malindi kenya i came to malindi in 1994 for the very first time and then fell in love with malindi in 1999 everything is under a makuti roof so everything is open so we will call this area the living room and so what we do here is mostly we gather here before dinner and we just talk and we also gather here after dinner most of the furniture is workmanship that's been done here in kenya so we keep it local this table is one piece also done here in kenya this is a chandelier that we got in 2000 it has that moroccan egyptian vibe and we have to give props to the two ladies which is carol beckwith and angela fisher who has been championing africa and kenya for so long so these two ladies for me are my heroes of the whole region because they've just done and always loved and just shown the beauty of kenya this is one of four pools this is the coldest pool in the house it's because it can get very hot here so this is the cold pool we put dinner tables here depending on how many people we can have three or four different tables but you just need one big oval table here and at night time it's all set up with lanterns it's all candlelights it's very sweet and what i love about being here is that you're really living outside you know even if you're covered it's still open you know what i mean so you still get the natural air and the breeze and just part of the whole landscape green and i feel like this is what people want right now is just to be outside all the time and beautiful climate of course [Music] this used to be one of my rooms do you want to see i love this room it's got a great energy oh the ceilings it's all gotten wooden beams that's what we wanted because it's just i think wood is so grounding i love the wood that goes around i just love this room it's just chilled we have air conditioning i don't personally sleep in air conditioning i don't like it it gives wrinkles i believe so we have these nets and i love this old-fashioned neck i love it i always love when i go to hotels and they have it i mean of course we have mosquitoes here we want you to feel where you are i wouldn't want to have a place that's like takes away from the feeling we have the best of both because we're on the beach we have it a little more modern but here is authentic kenyan african art artifacts so i'm going to take you upstairs so upstairs is like just uh chill areas you can have a lot of people staying with you and you just never feel like it is because everyone just does their own thing and has their own little corners that they like i used to love to come up here to read so this is our gaming area we used to play cards up here a lot too again we have a lot of this african textiles and artifactors which i love all this stuff love [Music] here i love to come sometimes i would do yoga here because i just like overlooking property it's quite sunny here shall we go down [Music] this is breakfast area buffet comes here and everyone just eats this area has always been a buffet area once again we're under a cootie roof this table is also done here it's one piece this is a table when we do like buffet lunch everything's laid out on this table and everyone just comes and eats this is our local artist armando tanzini who i would love for you to meet but what i love about armando is he also has a school where he teaches the local artists and mentors them and i love that [Music] i don't know people have such like the wrong perception of africa it's a beautiful place this is definitely my go-to place of like chilling relaxing like completely shutting down this is the place where i shut down kenya is just like a natural gem it has the safari has the bush it has the coast it has the dooms it has all the elements and people don't realize that i'm like what are you talking about i'm on the indian ocean love the atlantic but indians better [Music] this is the main pool area where everyone gets sun i wouldn't say this is a jacuzzi because you don't want heat in kenya but this is kind of like just a smaller pool with a little fountain that you can just sit and chill and have a mocktail in my case and relax okay here we go [Music] so this is another area we call it new houses which has four rooms each and a kitchen at what i love about kenya is you've got bougainville growing wild everywhere and i love bougainvilles come on in each room has its own little twisty none of the rooms are identically the same basically it's just nice everyone has their own area they can do what they want it can be very independent here we can be together and then you can have you a long time and nobody bothers anyone that's what i like about it i love these i just love these these are my favorites my favorites the first time i heard about kenya was from my mother's elder sister my auntie june and then the second time i heard about kenya was from lauren hutton who always said to me when she would go to kenya to revitalize after working i mean lauren hart and lauren hutton legendary she always said i would come back with a real smile and i remember the first time i was coming to kenya and i said to lauren i'm going to ken you said to me what look at your smile when you get back from kenya you're going to have a real smile and i so understood what she meant she's a hundred percent right [Music] taking you to the spa we like henriesha knows spars and technique so flavio's friends with henry should know so he thought it would be great to have henry chenowe put in a little spa in the house so this is the spa [Music] this is the room where we do one of the chanel techniques this is hydrotherapy get in like the bath for like 30 minutes and then after they wrap you with mud they cover you with mud and they sink you in this one and you sink down down down down but your skin good detox it's about detoxing cleaning out all the toxins and that's what you want to do when you go away and chill i recommend all my friends when they come here and all my guests to do this on the first day so that they have the best sleep ever the first night so i've never showed you my room that's the only place i haven't showed you is my room come this is my room come in this is my little living area this is my bed area and i love this picture of i love this little boy i think he's gorge i love his face i love his eyes i love everything about himself you can reach out and touch him this is a great picture the lion i mean the lion is it the lion and the panthers i love panthers too that's a piece from armando i mean even my door everything is done here everything is done here the headboards everything is done in kenya they're so good at woodwork so besides the pool we also have the beach across the street just a chilled area on the indian ocean it's just really it's beautiful it's a little paradise you love that mole deviant water we have it here that transparent blue right here so we are back to where we started thank you so much a.d for coming and joining me for a little trip around my home here in malindi kenya and i hope you enjoyed it and i hope that you all now look at kenya with different eyes and come here and enjoy the gorgeous nature that it gives thank you so much brown girl out [Music] the african continent is where it's at watch been saying it for a long time but you see

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Published: Tue Apr 13 2021