Tasteful friends behold - Casa Encantada

Beautiful. My boss has a mansion in Malibu but nothing in comparison

So isolating though!

R2 I think you're kidding — but if not, it's less than half a mile from Sunset Blvd.

Dreamy.

The link above is stingy with pics.

Being isolated on 9 arces with a pool and tennis court is exactly what I need

Does it have a gift-wrapping room?

Three times as many bathrooms as bedrooms. No photos of any of them or the kitchen.

Tear down city.

This is the former home of Conrad Hilton (30 years). Financier Gary Winnick is the current owner.

I mean, obviously it's perfection, but are there any more pictures about, OP? I'd like to be able to appreciate all the details you mentioned in your post.

I was an "elf" for two seasons for the professional Christmas queen that decorated the Hilton mansion in the late 90s. It has a HUGE basement running underneath the entire house. A curved secret stairwell led up to the hallway right outside the sunken living room. Mr. Hilton's television room had a screen that took up an entire wall. Marilyn, Mrs. Hilton, had MS and was mostly confined to her upstairs suite but made sure we had food and drink readily available. Rick, Kathy, Paris, and siblings arrived as we were finishing up the last day the second year.

Fun Fact: A spiral staircase led up from the breakfast nook to the second floor, haunted by a little girl ghost. The estates manager told us stories as we sat outside having a glass of champagne the last day my first year. (At the insistence of Mrs. Hilton.)

Casa Enchilada

The grounds are more impressive than the house.

The estate is so big it makes more sense to buy it to subdivide it.

You could fit the four smaller estates within this estate.

Actually six.

Whoever can buy it, subdivide it and develop it can make a fortune.

Winnick allowed Paris Hilton to use the house and grounds for her wedding to her gay husband.

It ain't home but it's much.

OP here:

The main house is full of interesting features, like the original 1930's built-in cubbies shelves in the foyer/lobby for men's hats with the brass number and correlating brass tags/tickets still there.

The kitchen is huge, about 2,000 square feet, the walls are lined in beautiful Delft tiles, it's divided into three rooms and a separate butler's pantry. They didn't modernize it, so thank God there's no open concept. Although there is no gift wrapping room - there is a separate floral kitchen with a floor to ceiling commercial refrigerator that probably cost the same as a German luxury car.

The property is so big that you need a fleet of golf carts to get around. Despite its size, the layout feels comfortable. The foyer and reception rooms take up a lot of downstairs space. The restored bar is done in what I would guess, millions dollars of frosted Lalique glass and silver backed mirrors. Along the side of the left part of the u shaped driveway the building was once for servants, is now Mrs. Winnick's studio. She's a "famous" children's book illustrator and writer.

The basement has several apartments for live-in staff, a catering kitchen with its own outdoor entrance, and a walk-in humidor with a home theater. The guest house is about approx 3,000 square feet, with men's and women's dressing rooms and reception areas for both, making it feel like a fancy spa.

As a side note, he was tough to deal with and was a scary asshole. When he found out that one person out of hundreds workers used a toilet inside the main mansion - instead of the designated outdoor porta-potties, he had every toilet in the house ripped out and replaced! And she was a neurotic pill-popping mess who didn't want to leave their "modest" mansion in Brentwood, so was she crying almost the entire time we worked there.

Ta da, there you go!

Sorry instead of guest house, it should be *pool house.

Again, these are all parodies of classical architecture. The proportions are off. Have none if these architects seen Palladio’s four books or Vitruvius Britannicus? If you go for classical proportions get it right.

^ I think that's suppose to be on purpose. Regency is notoriously out of proportion with it's giant doors and slender columns mocking classical styles. Not saying I like the style, but kind of understand it

Plus, he had his interior designer hunt down and buy the existing original furnishings,

This sounds like bullshit. Like the "little girl ghost" crap. The facade reminds me of the Clampet Mansion.

^ I was always a fan of the Drysdale Mansion

According to this guy this is the Beverly Hillbillies mansion. Regardless, this estate is even more of an amazing property them op's estate above.

Maybe you are right, R20. I got carried away a bit. It's just that I feel that so much money can buy you a better architect. The garden facade is awful.

Bel Air is too far from the ocean. The house, of course, is hideous. Ugly and looks like a 1930s tuberculosis hospital.

Why would a private tennis court need viewing stands?

Beautiful, and so it should be at that price. So many expensive homes are ostentatious but ugly, this is ostentatious too but at least its attractive and would be a pleasure to live in

Too big.