David Bowie's former Mustique retreat home in Caribbean Islands is now on sale following his death.
The legacy of the late glam-rock music icon David Bowie lives on after his death. Bowie passed away on Jan. 10 at the age of 69 after years of having liver cancer.
In the latest celebrity estate news, Daily Mail reported that "The Space Oddity" singer's island getaway abode has been put to the market. It is currently priced at £14 million or $20 million.
Bowie sold his home for £3.5 million to Felix Dennis, a rich publisher and poet. However, Dennis died in 2014 and the estate is now listed as "under offer" by the estate agency Knight Frank.
The outlet provided an in-depth look into the 30-year-old Caribbean home which Bowie purchased in 1986 before he married Somalian supermodel Iman. The couple's vacation home is placed in the Mustique island part of the Caribbean. Bowie's Mustique estate has its own stage, a mussel shells-adorned card room and his personal recording studio that has a bamboo ceiling.
The Mustique island has attracted the attention of several celebrities including Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and even the British royal couple, Prince William and Kate Middleton. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge went there for a honeymoon in 2013 before their son, Prince George, was born.
In 1992, Architect Digest previously interviewed Bowie regarding his home that was built by Swedish builder Arne Hasselqvist. He wanted to have something unique, which he finally achieved with the Indonesian theme of his home.
"'It’s a whim personified. I love a good cliché, and this house, for me, is just the most delightful cliché," Bowie said. "What you have to realise is that Mustique is a fantasy island."
Bowie wholeheartedly described his home, which he prefers over the other islands.
“My ambition is to make music so incredibly uncompromised that I will have absolutely no audience left whatsoever and then I’ll be able to spend the entire year on the island.”
