Projects and collaborations continue to multiply. There’s the Velo bike for the French firm Domeau & Pérès (which fabricated the Perspective chairs), covered in hand-stitched water buffalo hide and available through Larry Gagosian for about $28,000. And there is Williams’s work with Chinese conceptual artist Yi Zhou, who featured him in her 2009 video, “The Ear,” and her 2010 3-D animated film, “The Greatness.” On a less lofty plane, Williams is also working on a series of ice cream–flavored liqueurs: “I think beer tastes nasty—and wine, for that matter. I like anything sweet.” And he also “has some ideas” for chocolate. But back on the domestic front, his ambitions are far bigger than bonbons. “I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor–style mansion, like his idea of it,” Williams says wistfully, gazing out at the sea from his tricked-out aerie. “And Zaha Hadid. I’d like her to do a house for me that is partially submerged in the ocean. Those would be my two dreams.”
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Forty stories above Miami, the Neptunes’ Pharrell Williams is living the high life— surrounded by a mess of Murakamis, a closetful of kicks, and enough Vuitton trunks to sink a steamer. Mayer Rus takes stock.
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