Inside Chelsea's Sexy, Scandalous, $6 Million Black Apartment
@CindyGallop: Duck Hunt pistols are…WOW! Wasn’t sure that’s what they were at first, really cool though. Interesting about the black making colors pop, totally makes sense though.
Inside Chelsea's Sexy, Scandalous, $6 Million Black Apartment
@I Live Under a Bridge in Fremont: Heh heh. The Chanel gun in the hallway is actually an AK-47, but it’s been rendered inoperable by the artist, Peter Gronquist: http://www.petergronquist.com/ (in the same way that the Gucci chainsaw, also by him, has been). The guns with crystals on them are Nintendo Duck Hunt pistols, also by the same artist :)
Los Angeles's Biggest House Is Under Construction In Bel Air
Here are some house-to-land ratios of some of L.A.’s finest historic estates, along with their architects. These showplaces were built during a time when land was the actual qualifier of wealth, power and prestige; not how much house one could squeeze onto a lot. * denotes properties that are either no longer in existence or whose lots have been subdivided from original acreage.
-Cordhaven, Paul R. Williams: 32,000 sqft/ 8 acres (1932)*
-Greystone, Gordon Kaufmann: 46,046 sqft/ 19.5 acres (1928)
-Casa Encantada, James Dolena: 20,725/ 6.11 acres (1938)
-The Knoll, Roland Coate: 25,437 sqft/ 10.19 acres (1955)
-Beverly House, Gordon Kaufmann: 20,570 sqft/ 16.5 acres (1926)*
-Greenacres, Sumner Hunt: 23,114 sqft/ 22 acres (1928)*
-Warner Estate, James Dolena: 13,612 sqft/ 9 acres (1937)
-Pickfair, Wallace Neff: 13,421 sqft/ 18 acres (1911/1934)*
Jay Paley residence, Paul R. Williams: 15,011 sqft/ 5.6 acres (1934)*