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Barbra Streisand's debut book focuses on her love for home design. Photo: Viking/USA Today
Barbra Streisand has always juggled a lot with the singing, touring, starring in movies, directing and winning Oscars. Who knew that she was also passionate about home design? Well, it turns out the famed entertainer has chosen a book on her interest in design -- not the entertainment industry -- as her first writing project.
USA Today reports Streisand spoke this week in New York at the opening of the publishing convention BookExpo America with Gayle King, editor at large of O, the Oprah Magazine. She told King some of her design choices were inspired by her childhood growing up in Brooklyn, such as her family not being able to afford a couch until she was eight. "Maybe that's why I love couches," she said.
Streisand also revealed that much of her design sense comes from past life experiences. For example, her favorite color, burgundy, reminds her of a sweater she had when she was young. A movie that didn't get off the ground helped spark her love for architecture. "A house became my project," Streisand said. "I made a house instead of a movie."
Streisand's book My Passion for Design, comes out in November 2010. According to the publisher, it will feature "many of her own photographs of the rooms she has decorated, the furniture and art she has collected, and the ravishing gardens she has planted on her land on the California coast." Sounds like we're going to have to add photographer and gardener to Babs's long list of accomplishments!
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