Brand new architectural masterpiece, and the quintessential Hollywood Hills celebrity lifestyle!
It features disappearing walls of glass, floating stairs, glass entry, cantilevered terraces, designer’s kitchen, mogul’s office (?) and dramatic master suite.
Listed for $4.775 million, closed for $4.9 million.
For a tour of the gadgets (and a few laughs) here’s the 2:32-min video:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1785324623?bctid=1785277232
Thanks Jim. Awesome place.
Jetliner, brings to mind Steve Miller Band.
Beautiful house! Thanks for the glimpse, Jim.
Jet Airliner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0mQ1ojc9PQ
It’s Edna Mode’s house :-).
“Honey, we need some more Windex for the stairs…”
Seriously, that’s an excellent example of mid-century-style modernist with the kitsch kept to a minimum.
What was the square footage?
for around 75% less, you can live in that exact same house in La Costa
You’re making me miss LA.
There are some nice places in the hills that are a bit more reasonable than that… but that’s a hell of a house.
I guess low-balling them wouldn’t have worked. haha
Awesome residence, kid friendly it isn’t!!
for around 75% less, you can live in that exact same house in La Costa
Yes, but you’d have to drive a lot further to the Staples Center to see the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers, so it’s about even? 😉
Fires, mudslides, earthquakes…
It’s interesting to see how many people don’t seem to worry about these things when buying a house.
Today with the new fairly inexpensive flat screen tvs, you can put up a number of them as fake windows and stream pictures of whereever you like, meaning a house can be on the beach and in the Lone Pine at the same time (at least in the images in the fake windows). Actually with 56 inch screens in the 2-3 k range, I suspect that this might not cost more than high end windows. Then you can logically move your house whenever you desire, and have whatever view you like.
CA Renter….Don’t forget “Lions, tigers and bears, oh my!”
Note while you are window shopping: You typically need to find a spot that’s at a higher elevation than others to get a good view.
Geez…You seem to always find the grey lining, don’t you?
Does any else think Greg meant “jet setter”?
MB Mike,
Yes, for those who really value views (we don’t), you need to find a higher spot. That being said, the “stilt” homes common in the hills of L.A. are crazy, and I would NEVER want to be in one during an earthquake.
Case in point:
On a canyontop cul-de-sac in Sherman Oaks, on a street known for its breathtaking views, Mark Yupp, a 31-year-old entertainment industry executive, and his 32-year-old fiancee, Kerry, were found dead in what was left of their downstairs bedroom. Police said the two were apparently asleep when the quake uprooted their hillside home. Beams and wiring, furniture and concrete were scattered for more than 100 yards down the slope from the house’s foundation, punctuated in two spots by the wreckage of their cars, a BMW and a Porsche.
More than a dozen neighbors, barefoot and shivering, tried to rescue the couple, digging frantically with their hands. But when aftershocks hit, they said, they were forced to run to safety. Only the couple’s whimpering puppy survived.
“Someone yelled up the street in the darkness, ‘Dial 911! The house here went down the hill, the cars, everything!’ ” said Chuck Mitchell, 53, a retired sheriff’s deputy who was staying in a nearby house. “We all ran down there with our flashlights, but we couldn’t see anything. The house was totally gone.”
Nearby, in the 3600 block of Beverly Ridge Drive, another mountainview home was knocked off its stilts and down the side of a canyon, trapping and killing a 4-year-old girl. Bert Lockwood, a neighbor whose own home sustained considerable damage, said it took firefighters about two hours to scramble down the hill and cut through the debris with chainsaws to free the home’s owners, Stas Vigil and Nancy Tyere. But it was not until midmorning, he said, that rescue workers were able to locate their daughter, Amy. Lockwood said he watched sadly as the workers wrapped the little body in a blanket and took her away. “You could look down the hill and see teddy bears and pink blankets,” he said.
http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/5806
And this…
Overhangs and Stilt Construction
Two other common architectural practices present serious fire hazards to a home built in or near the wild lands: (a) overhanging or projecting members (e.g., eaves, balconies, raised sun decks), which are likely to be found anywhere and are always dangerous; and (b) stilt construction. The latter, although dangerous anywhere, is particularly so on sidehill sites because the uphill side forms a trap for heat and flames. The danger, directly caused by vegetative fuels being under the building, is then aggravated by the wind accompanying conflagrations (County Sup. Assoc. Calif. 1966, Colo. St. For. Serv. 1977, Wilson, 1962).
http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/gtr-050/struct.html
And this:
From ground level, travelers on lower Beverly Glen Canyon Road can scarcely ignore the Oakfield houses, perched in whimsical precariousness on the steep slope to the east like wide, weird birds that might at any moment take flight.
Looking at them, it’s hard not to think that what ultimately keeps them up, in a place of earthquakes, mudslides and wildfires, is airy confidence itself, a kind of trust.
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-03-17/news/mn-39250_1_stilt-houses
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In all fairness, that house might not technically be a stilt house (though it could be…it’s difficult to tell from the pictures), but it’s close enough to be suceptible to the same threats.