The streets of Los Angeles are strewn with quite a lot of lavish estates, from superb Previous World–impressed manors with roots in Hollywood’s golden period to iconic Mediterranean-style villas and glossy, stylish newly constructed modern oases with crisp traces and partitions of glass. This august redbrick residence within the prestigious Hancock Park neighborhood makes no bones about its kinship with the houses of the previous group, with a provenance courting to the early Twenties, a readily obvious English affect, and a star-studded pedigree that features possession by the illustrious early-Twentieth-century “American Magnificence,” Katherine MacDonald, and serving as a short-term haven for Vivian Vance throughout her co-starring activate “I Love Lucy.”
Los Angeles, California | Alexis Valentin Ramos, Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty – Beverly Hills Brokerage
The house shows its dedication to classicism with its semicircular paver drive, sleek porte cochere, ornate carved stonework, divided gentle home windows, and good-looking brick façade. The interiors span a powerful 5,500 sq. ft of timelessly luxurious house the place modernity—a trendy palette for partitions and cupboards, eye-catching tilework, and clever lighting—meets a decidedly classic aesthetic—flooring of stylish tile and richly hued hardwood, quintessential wainscoting, and ornamental ironwork. Highlights embrace a classy front room, a captivating sunroom opening to an inviting courtyard, a refined eating room with French doorways to the grounds, an expertly outfitted kitchen with an outsized island and top-tier home equipment, and a flexible den or dwelling workplace. Of the three bed room suites hidden on the high of a winding staircase, the proprietor’s quarters are a trendy getaway with vaulted beamed ceilings and an en suite bathtub with a “moist room” that provides a claw-foot tub and a soothing rain bathe.
In step with the house’s golden-era atmosphere, the guesthouse includes a supremely secluded bed room and full bathtub on the higher stage, a turreted tequila tasting room, and a speakeasy-style cocktail bar—all heat woods, burnished leather-based, and thoughtfully positioned lighting—that provides technique to an alluring arbored out of doors dwelling space with a brick hearth. The verdant resort-caliber grounds boast a patio space with a further hearth, an outside kitchen with a stainless-steel grill constructed right into a brick basis, an open-air eating house perfect for alfresco fêtes, and a shocking saltwater pool and spa with deck jets and a fireplace characteristic surrounding a putting sculpture. Towering meticulously manicured hedges create a welcome curtain of privateness—in these rarefied environs, at all times a welcome amenity for a house of any age and elegance.
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