A Tour of Kanye West's Home

Who knew that the bold and brash Kanye West is really such a minimalist and restrained kid at heart?

Check out an image slide show with photos of the rapper's colorful Los Angeles crib that is featured in the current issue of Interior Design magazine.

West's love affair with modern art should come as no surprise. He graduated from the American Academy of Art in Chicago with a degree in fine art. He started his collection of (pop) art after he commissioned a canvas by Ernie Barnes. His successful recording career has given him the opportunity to deck out his home with lots of additional art pieces and design elements since then.

Designer Don Stewart explains that West wanted his home to look like a cross between a museum and a Louis Vuitton boutique. "Kanye started to realize how into design he is," Stewart tells Interior Design. "Staying at the Bulgari in Milan and the Grand Hyatt in Tokyo on tour, he'd come back full of ideas, in touch with his inner minimalist."

Kanye's pad is filled with colorful pop art pieces in a creamy colored interior, including Jetsons portraits, stuffed animals by Fernando and Humberto, Murakami paintings, a Memmoli crystal chandelier and a Russell Young Marilyn silk screen. Ernie Barnes' dramatic painting appears to be only piece in West's home that is reminiscent of his egomaniacal public image.

Make sure to also to watch West's artful video for his new single "Good Life" that is another good example of the his fascination with lines, movement and color.