This dramatic new 5,000-square-foot home is a bastion of contemporary sophistication and quiet luxury. It combines chic style, superior materials, cinematic views, and calming natural hues that lend it a grounding organic quality and a highly sought-after sense of serenity.
While the history of the Southern California community known as Outpost Estates stretches back millennia—to the days when the Tongva people, who established a village here—it is, more recently, the site where ground was first broken for the area known as Hollywood. In the 19th century, Don Tomás Urquidez constructed a three-room adobe home here, and this humble abode was, under successive ownership by Harrison Grey Otis, transformed into a clubhouse for the land, which Otis named the Outpost. Real estate magnate Charles Edward Toberman acquired the acreage in the 1920s, furthering its notoriety as an enclave of luxurious living.
Los Angeles, California| Nicolas Moore, Luke Abbott, Sotheby’s International Realty – Beverly Hills Brokerage
The legacy of this milieu aside, this dramatic new 5,000-square-foot home is a bastion of contemporary sophistication. The façade’s composition of concrete, blackened steel, and blackened wood conjure a commanding presence, while the interior ambience is one of today’s coveted quiet luxury, combining chic style, a subdued self-assurance, uncompromising standards, and natural materials in calming neutral hues that lend the home a grounding organic quality and a sought-after sense of serenity. Impressive expanses of glass create a virtually invisible—and easily erasable—boundary between indoors and out. This holds true in the handsome living and media rooms, which share a dual-sided modern gas fireplace, and in nearly every other space, admitting glorious floods of sunlight during the day. Chefs and entertainers will appreciate the kitchen, with its discreet streamlined appliances and island topped with an eye-catchingly substantial and sturdy slab of stone. Southern California’s de rigueur indoor-outdoor lifestyle unfolds effortlessly beside the refreshing infinity-edge swimming pool and spa, which is accompanied by a sun-washed terrace and a breezy dining pergola.
A striking floating staircase of steel and walnut links the two levels. “Disappearing” barriers hold sway in the three private bedrooms—chief among them a peaceful owner’s oasis where an entire wall is fashioned from double-glazed glass, affording halcyon vistas of treetops, rolling hills, and the sparkling city skyline. In its en suite bath, a wraparound window wall transforms views of the setting into dynamic art.
In addition to a rigorous design-forward approach, the residence boasts thoughtful modern comforts and conveniences, including radiant in-floor heating and fully integrated home automation. Strength and longevity are assured: the residence is anchored into bedrock with deep steel and concrete caissons and constructed using fire-resistant materials. Such dedication to integrity ensures the property will endure—much like its historic, storied locale—well into the future.
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