(EMAILWIRE.COM, October 09, 2001 ) As part of an exercise, Mariah Carey's drama coach once asked her to think back to a place in time where she really felt safe. Carey thought and thought and came up empty. Not only had she grown up poor, but her Long Island neighbors also ridiculed her because her mother was white and her father was black. "I couldn't think back to a place that didn't give me a feeling of shakiness or some negative memory," she said.

Now a decade later, it's hard to imagine the world's most popular female vocalist feeling shaky in the glamorous surroundings of her Manhattan triplex designed by Mario Buatta. "I wanted to create a background for Mariah's own glamour," he says. "She exudes glamour---and sex appeal, too." And he has designed an apartment that is glamorous throughout.

The entrance hall boasts apricot lacquered walls, bronze-inlaid limestone flooring, doors gilded in silver leaf, and an Art Déco table with a carved and gilded base. The heart of her new apartment is a long room divided into three separate spaces, a living area, a dining area and an intimate, after-dinner conversation area. Carey's bath is pure luxury. Thirty-two feet long, longer than most Park Avenue living rooms, it is a place to relax and linger, with a huge sunken tub, a flat-screen television and a chaise lounge covered in light pink fabric. The luxury doesn't end there--from her bath (of which there are more than ten in the apartment) she can walk to her clothes room, where outfits are arranged by color and type, and more closely resembles a floor of Bergdorf-Goodman than a closet. From there it's onto the shoe room which hold hundreds of pairs of the singers' favorites--more, she admits, than she will ever wear.

With her demanding travel schedule it was sometimes hard for Buatta to get her to focus on the project, but when he did, there was an instant connection. "She had a definite idea of what she wanted, and what things should look like" he says. "Most clients don't understand glitter," he added, "but Mariah does." (Pg. 245)

Architectural Digest documents the real-life work of architects and interior designers across the globe to an affluent audience of 5.2 million readers each month. The magazine regularly features the work of critically acclaimed authors and photographers that present a "first look" at the homes of celebrities as well as leaders in the fields of entertainment, business, society, literature and the arts.

The November issue of Architectural Digest arrives on newsstands nationwide October 16th.

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