Architectural Digest’s Own Home!

Architectural Digest’s Own Home!

Architectural Digest's Own Home!
When we think Architectural Digest we're overcome with anticipation knowing we'll be seeing the best of the best as soon as we turn the first page. When we heard that the former owners of this illustrious design bible are selling the mansion they created for themselves, we practically broke our fingers on the keyboard getting to the site to look inside!

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Alas, our dreams were not to be realized. Instead, just four pictures have been released of this white structure with its multiple gray peaked roofs. Maybe it's the massive stone furniture, reminiscent of Stonehenge, placed on the sharp edged patios with a water channel dividing them that makes us think not in technicolor, but in the gray shades of the black and white films of the past. So we'll go back to the picture of the entry with the modern sculpture in the courtyard that does have a little color and where we can see something yellow beyond the open doors.

Built in 1998 inside a gated and walled compound, this one-of-a-kind estate was designed by Hugh Newell Jacobsen and is located in Bel Air, California, bordering the Bel Aire Country Club.

The designers were required to meet the owners' needs of display space for their vast art collection, large scale entertaining and above all, . . privacy. Consisting of 13,089sf, it has 5 bedrooms, 10 baths, library, media room, gym, pool and a staff apartment. With that many square feet and the huge price tag, we're sure there's a lot more inside to which none of us are privy. So for now we're just going to bury ourselves in the latest issue of Architectural Digest and dream over all those gorgeous interiors we can see! Priced at $23,950,000.

Source: www.realtor.com