Rita Moreno favors tribal prints, chintz, and wicker and prefers natural, organic materials combined with elegant accents. Her Puerto Rico childhood home was a little pink house draped in rose hibiscus and scarlet bougainvillea. She and her mother lived in a Washington Heights apartment after moving to New York. She later lived in California, including a Culver City studio and a sprawling Berkeley estate built with her husband, Dr. Leonard Gordon. Her residences demonstrate vibrancy and varied influences across her 93 years, reflecting personal history, cultural roots, and evolving circumstances from childhood to later life.
Rita Moreno doesn't just bring her dynamic persona to classic films like West Side Story and Singin' in the Rain. The EGOT winner also infuses her homes with that same bright, bombastic energy. When asked how she would describe her interior design style, the actor once said, "I'm tribal and chintz and wicker. I love more natural and organic things. But I also love elegance."
From the "little pink house draped in rose hibiscus and scarlet bougainvillea," as she described her Puerto Rico childhood home in Rita Moreno: A Memoir, to the Washington Heights apartment she settled in with her mom when they moved to NYC, the multi-hyphenate movie star has made a life in some starkly different locales across her 93 years.
She eventually made her way to California and bounced around to a few different dwellings, including a studio in Culver City and a sprawling estate she built with her husband, the late Dr. Leonard Gordon, in Berkeley. "I guess deep down I still can't believe a 5-year-old girl from Puerto Rico who came to New York in 1936 with her mother and just two shopping bags is living this way today," the star said in a 2014 interview.
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