Category: Real Estate
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Villa Nava by Francesco Castiglioni
Francesco Castiglioni made that declaration. The house he designed in the early 1970s on Via Ippocastani — known as Villa Nava, a building that has been featured in the international architectural and design press with the consistency that attaches to buildings of genuine formal intelligence — is not a house that apologises for what it…
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The Ennis House
The House That Time Built Wrong Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Ennis House in 1923 using a system of patterned concrete blocks that he believed could democratise beautiful architecture. The building that resulted was neither democratic nor entirely stable, but it was something rarer: a structure so formally complete, so strange in its relationship to…
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A House in the Trees: Kristen Wiig’s Modernist Pasadena Retreat
954 Hillside Terrace, Pasadena, California There are houses that impress by arriving loudly, and others that seem to have grown into their site by degrees. The house at 954 Hillside Terrace in Pasadena belongs to the latter category: a 1965 mid-century residence folded into the trees of the San Rafael neighbourhood, where architecture, landscape and…
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“A House That Became a Photograph”: The Stahl House, Its History, and Why Its Sale Matters Now
High above the lights of Los Angeles, a thin plane of steel and glass floats over the city grid. For more than six decades, the Stahl House — better known as Case Study House #22 — has been less a private residence than an image in the collective imagination: Julius Shulman’s famous night-time photograph of…
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David Lynch’s Hollywood Hills Compound: Architecture, Interiors, Creative Life, and Night Blooming Jasmine
David Lynch’s longtime Hollywood Hills estate—newly listed for sale—reads like a maker’s campus more than a single home. Across five contiguous parcels, it fuses a pink-hued mid-century residence by Lloyd Wright with a concrete-forward studio house that doubled as a film set, plus a third residence adapted for post-production, screening, and editing. The result is…
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Audrey Hepburn’s Beloved Swiss Home, La Paisible, Is Now for Sale
For more than three decades, Audrey Hepburn—style icon, actress, and humanitarian—called La Paisible (“The Peaceful”) her sanctuary. Nestled in the quiet village of Tolochenaz near Lausanne, Switzerland, the estate that was once her cherished family home has now come onto the market, offering an extraordinary chance to step into a piece of cinematic history.
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Palazzo Serristori
There are still some great apartments left in this restored palazzo in Florence. I would if I could… One of Florence’s most important Renaissance buildings, Palazzo Serristori, is coming back to its old splendour thanks to some major restoration works, which will also convert it into twelve exclusive and super luxurious apartments, with sizes ranging from 170 sqm…
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The “Bubble Palace” – Near Cannes
Hot Property! It used to belong to none other than Pierre Cardin, and now it could be yours! The revolutionary property of approximately 1 200 sqm designed by the architect Antti Lovag the “Bubble Palace” is at the forefront of contemporary architecture. This unique palace assembled by a bubble cluster, offers a panoramic lounge, a…
