The house channels mid-century modern style with numerous quirks, including a glass window backsplash in the kitchen and a floating office
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An architecturally impressive abode in Palm Springs, California, that combines mid-century style with Old Hollywood glamour has hit the market for $7.69 million.
Despite appearances, the desert getaway was actually built in 2012, by Sean Lockyer of Studio AR&D. This marks the first time the home has been on the market since its creation.
“The goal with this project was to blend modern elegance and iconic mid-century architectural techniques,” Lockyer said.
By implementing “classic mid-century nods like floor-to-ceiling expanses of glass, aggregate block construction and a cantilevered steel roofline, the residence is unable to be dated and could easily be misjudged in age,” he added.
The heart of the 7,000-square-foot home is its glass-encased great room, complete with a recessed living area and a double-sided fireplace that extends through the glass walls and to the adjacent covered outdoor living space, according to the listing with Todd Monaghan and Keith Markovitz of TTK Represents of Compass, who brought the home to the market earlier this month.
The owners, who couldn’t be reached for comment, paid $700,000 for the underlying property in 2009, records with PropertyShark show.
The single-story house also boasts an office that appears to hover over the ground, a media room, a wine room and an open kitchen that swaps the traditional backsplash with glass.
There are four bedrooms, including a primary suite that occupies an entire wing of the house, and the pool sits in the centre of the home, visible from nearly all angels.
The interior design, meanwhile, takes inspiration from Hollywood Regency decor.
The property is “among the best homes I have experienced in Palm Springs,” said Markovitz.
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The imposing stone structures, with towers, turrets and a hot tub room, lord over the landscape near the mountain resort town of Sandpoint.
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Idaho is not a place that’s often associated with Medieval castles, but a pair have just hit the market for $6.25 million.
The imposing stone structures have towers, turrets, ramparts, arrow-slit windows and even a drawbridge, and might just be the most authentic-looking castles this side of the Atlantic.
“Who expects to see a castle like this in Idaho?” said listing agent Brenda Burk of Coldwell Banker Schneidmiller Realty, who brought the property to the market last week. They are, she said, “extremely unusual.”
Schweitzer Castle and Château de Melusine, as they’re known, stand within Schweitzer Mountain Resort in the Selkirk Mountains and overlook the nearby mountain resort town of Sandpoint. They take in panoramic views of Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho’s largest lake.
The pair of ski-in/ski-out homes each have three bedrooms, two bathrooms and three stories, Burk explained. They are “so authentic,” she said. “Every single stone was handlaid.”
Schweitzer Castle, she said, wasn’t built for “functionality,” but has been modernized and adapted and now has everything a 21st-century residence requires, along with a dungeon, which for some buyers may also be a requisite.
The chateau, meanwhile, has a hot tub room with mountain views, as well as a garage.
The property is being sold furnished, and will come complete with the hand-carved statues, armor, mounted swords, stained-glass windows and a host of antiques dating to the 15th and 16th centuries.
The owner, an antique collector who couldn’t be reached for comment, “is always looking for that hidden jewel and he found that here,” Burk said.
The next custodian is likely to stem from a varied pool of buyers, Burk said, that would include “the trophy-home buyer, someone who can say ‘I own a castle.’”
The property could also appeal to someone looking for a vacation home, or a multi-generational estate, and beyond that “there’s the dreamers,” she said. “We definitely try to market to people who like Medieval history or maybe do Renaissance fairs.”
The seller “really wants it to go to someone with the same passion.”
