She doesn't look 50! Barbie hits the half-century mark this year, and to celebrate, designer Jonathan Adler teamed up with Mattel to give the original blond bombshell's space a makeover. Adler designed a human-sized--but Barbie-worthy--bedroom, living room, and closet in an actual Malibu beach house to host her star-studded birthday festivities. See Adler's design and Barbie's previous apartment, cottage, and townhouse here. The woman's got it all, doesn't she?
She doesn't look 50! Barbie hits the half-century mark this year, and to celebrate, designer Jonathan Adler teamed up with Mattel to give the original blond bombshell's space a makeover. Adler designed a human-sized--but Barbie-worthy--bedroom, living room, and closet in an actual Malibu beach house to host her star-studded birthday festivities on March 9. This fall, look out for his "Jonathan Adler Loves Barbie" collection, set to include pottery, pillows, a collectible doll, and more. The woman's got it all, doesn't she?
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At left, designer Jonathan Adler's sketch of his vision for Barbie's bedroom. Surprise - it's pink!
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And the bedroom in real-life. Doll or no doll, she's lucky to have that velvet headboard.
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Check out that chandelier made from Barbie's famous blond locks.
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The living room Adler designed for Barbie is just like the doll herself--young, fresh, and full of surprises.
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A girl who's had one billion pairs of shoes in her lifetime definitely needs a shoe closet.
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Jonathan Adler, the designer of Barbie's real-life Malibu Dream House, poses on a chair covered with Barbie doll art inside the house in Malibu.
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Here's Adler pictured inside a mirror framed by 1950s-era dolls in the Malibu house he designed for Barbie's 50th birthday celebration.
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In 1960, a new doll named Barbie was just starting out, as if you couldn't tell by her apartment, a one-room cardboard fixer-upper. Keep clicking to see where Barbie lives now, 48 years and 108 careers later!
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In 1974, the blonde bombshell was hosting parties in her very own groovy townhouse, complete with elevator and hot tub.
