A boldly reimagined and fully restored home on La Costa Beach in Malibu where Dolly Parton and Steve McQueen each once lived, and which was formerly owned by actor Stephen Dorff, is hitting the market for $9.8 million.
The house melds classic midcentury details including double-height cedar ceilings and shingles with of-the-moment maximalist design.
Originally built in 1969 by architects Buff & Hensman (known for designing Case Study House #20), the house is now owned by celebrity real estate brokers Branden and Rayni, who, consulting with interior designer Victoria Gillet, gave the property a top to bottom redesign.
Once known as The Brown House, the house has been redubbed The Endless Summer Malibu Beach House by the Williamses.
“I think Buff & Hensman are one of the greatest architects of all time,” Branden Williams tells The Hollywood Reporter. “If you love midcentury architecture and those deep woods, Buff & Hensman were the godfathers of warm, organic...
The house melds classic midcentury details including double-height cedar ceilings and shingles with of-the-moment maximalist design.
Originally built in 1969 by architects Buff & Hensman (known for designing Case Study House #20), the house is now owned by celebrity real estate brokers Branden and Rayni, who, consulting with interior designer Victoria Gillet, gave the property a top to bottom redesign.
Once known as The Brown House, the house has been redubbed The Endless Summer Malibu Beach House by the Williamses.
“I think Buff & Hensman are one of the greatest architects of all time,” Branden Williams tells The Hollywood Reporter. “If you love midcentury architecture and those deep woods, Buff & Hensman were the godfathers of warm, organic...
- 12/11/2023
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As Bono plays the Sphere with U2 in Las Vegas this fall, the Irish rock star also has been revealed to be involved with another prominent piece of architecture, this one in L.A.
For months, a huge house — with an even more enormous foundation and elevated driveway — has been rising in the Hollywood Hills, inescapably visible to commuters heading north on Fairfax Avenue.
According to a source, Bono is an investor in the project. Designed by architect Noah Walker and developed by Plus Development Group, the home appears to include a triangular-shaped main house, a guest house and a pool.
A rep for Bono was not reachable for comment; Plus Development Group had no comment and Walker’s office did not respond to an interview request. Back in 2021, music executive Scooter Braun paid $65 million for a 19,000-square-foot modern mansion designed by Walker, located in Brentwood.
According to a neighbor,...
For months, a huge house — with an even more enormous foundation and elevated driveway — has been rising in the Hollywood Hills, inescapably visible to commuters heading north on Fairfax Avenue.
According to a source, Bono is an investor in the project. Designed by architect Noah Walker and developed by Plus Development Group, the home appears to include a triangular-shaped main house, a guest house and a pool.
A rep for Bono was not reachable for comment; Plus Development Group had no comment and Walker’s office did not respond to an interview request. Back in 2021, music executive Scooter Braun paid $65 million for a 19,000-square-foot modern mansion designed by Walker, located in Brentwood.
According to a neighbor,...
- 11/27/2023
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The spirit of James Bond has found an L.A. home. Perched above the Sunset Strip in Hollywood Hills West, The Californication House (previously known as Stanley 2) is the latest spec mansion developed, designed and curated by the team of Jason Somers and Branden and Rayni Williams, founders of Disco Volante. This lush modern mid-century riot of luxury, inspired by the tropical aesthetic of the Bond film Thunderball and the sleek contemporary chic of the film Ex Machina, is the team’s most audacious gamble to date.
The $38 million estate was designed by the architecture firm Vantage Design Group, with interiors by French interior designer Victoria Gillet. The 13,000-square-foot showpiece — which is being sold furnished — is also listed by Branden and Rayni Williams through their brokerage The Beverly Hills Estates, with all the attention to detail fans of the duo have come to expect. “This home is very tactile,” Rayni says.
The $38 million estate was designed by the architecture firm Vantage Design Group, with interiors by French interior designer Victoria Gillet. The 13,000-square-foot showpiece — which is being sold furnished — is also listed by Branden and Rayni Williams through their brokerage The Beverly Hills Estates, with all the attention to detail fans of the duo have come to expect. “This home is very tactile,” Rayni says.
- 10/3/2023
- by Hadley Meares
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Though it was never officially on the market, a lavish Los Angeles estate has sold for a whopping $70 million — one of the priciest California home sales of 2021 — to Abel Tesfaye, the Canadian music superstar better known as The Weeknd. As was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the “Blinding Lights” crooner now holds the deed to a roughly 33,000-square-foot megamansion in prime lower Bel Air — a substantial upsize from his previous home in Hidden Hills, which was sold to Madonna in April for $19.3 million.
Per property records, the Bel Air home’s sellers were married Dutch celebrities Reinout and Danielle Oerlemans, he the founder of TV production company Eyeworks and she a former pro bicyclist who once dated Lance Armstrong. The couple bought the existing house in summer 2015 for $21.4 million and subsequently completed a three-year overhaul that added 13,000 square feet of living space, plus an indoor pool/spa and...
Per property records, the Bel Air home’s sellers were married Dutch celebrities Reinout and Danielle Oerlemans, he the founder of TV production company Eyeworks and she a former pro bicyclist who once dated Lance Armstrong. The couple bought the existing house in summer 2015 for $21.4 million and subsequently completed a three-year overhaul that added 13,000 square feet of living space, plus an indoor pool/spa and...
- 8/20/2021
- by Wendy Bowman, Dirt.com
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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