Liberace Palm Springs Home

this home originally uh was a hotel a small hotel it had 32 guest rooms and it was crying out to be saved when I found it uh about 4 years ago it had uh decayed quite noticeably and was going to be torn down and uh I used to come over here in the evenings and look at the mountains and look at this beautiful structure I felt that it was worth saving so I bought it and I turned it into a private home I find it very peaceful and Serene and I like to just come out here and sit during the lovely evenings which are very bommy incidentally the climate here in Palm Springs is very mild and at most times of the year we have temperatures in the high 70s the low 80s even in the winter time the Chamber of Commerce insists that the uh average temperature is 82° the clesters is faced on one end by the master bedroom and on the other end by the shrine to St Anthony this is also a wonderful place to contemplate and find peacefulness all the artifacts in this room come from churches that are now torn down I found most of them at various auctions in Europe and around the country the stained glass window for example is from Providence Rhode Island and since I live across the street from the Catholic church I am visited frequently by members of the church and the entire house has been blessed by the local Bishop this is the bath and the sound you hear in the background is the whirlpool tub it's a a marvelous relaxing sort of therapeutic kind of bath you can either use it without the whirlpool or uh with the whirlpool which I really enjoy this champagne bubble bath you want bubbles since the room is completely uh surrounded by mirrors you can see Reflections wherever you look reflections of the chandelier the ferns in fact they go into Infinity the statue is from Rome and it's made of white Kara marble this is the master bedroom at the cloysters most of the Furnishings in this room are French Empire and Louis the 15th it has a Ved ceiling and uh the most priceless possession in this room is the Louis the 15th desk which was presented to Zar Nicholas II of Russia and on which the Franco Russian Alliance was signed most of the Furnishings in this room were acquired through the purchase of a museum in Pensacola Florida and the desk is uh truly Priceless and uh it is insured for $275,000 as you can see the dogs have the run of the house everybody says you have two beds in your bedroom well one of them is for the dogs and the other's for me and this is the Gazebo it's at the far end of the property and it's a lovely place to have lunch under the grape arbor when the grapes are in season all you have to do is reach up and pick a bunch and they're very sweet seedless grapes these are the director's chairs that I had made up last Christmas instead of putting uh name cards on all the gifts I had names put on the chairs in front of the gifts for all my guests and friends and family and then when they took their gifts home they took their chair with them in the main dining room of The Cloister I call this the William Randolph Hurst room because most of the Furnishings in here very closely resemble those in San Simeon which was the residence of William Randolph Hurst one afternoon I was visited by William Randolph her son and he brought over some photographs of Furnishings that he thought I might be interested in that would suit the architecture of this home and when he showed me the pictures they were almost identical to the Furnishings that you see in this room so I thanked them and said I already had them it's a marvelous cabinet everyone says how do you open it because there no handles and you just push it in like the glassware is from Czechoslovakia but actually I bought it at Disney World in Orlando Florida

Channel: Biggest Liberace Fan

Views: 322,290

Keywords: liberace, music, piano, homes, performing arts

Id: APqjit_19Jo

Length: 5min 9sec (309 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 08 2016