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Music artist Moby lists one of his two Los Feliz properties
Innovative electronic music superstar and DJ Moby has listed Red Oak Manor, one of his two properties in the coveted, star-studded Oaks neighborhood in L.A.’S Los Feliz area, with an asking price of nearly $4.5 million. The spritely, smooth-pated and mononymic six-time Grammy-nominated musician purchased the 1926 faux-timbered and stone-accented Tudor residence just about two years ago for $3.4 million. A savvy design and architecture aficionado, he custom-renovated the residence in a fashion that smoothly combines carefully preserved original architectural details with modern-day creature comforts. Tucked behind a high, scrupulously clipped hedge and a secured entry gate amid a wooded idyll, the two-story residence, described in listing descriptions as a “generational masterpiece,” has five bedrooms and six full and two half bathrooms in 4,644 square feet.
A stone pathway passes through a picturesque stand of trees to a tomato-red front door with leaded-glass inserts. Narrow-gauge hardwoods extend from the
foyer into a spacious formal living room that features a groin-vaulted ceiling, an extra wide bay window and a fireplace with elaborate original mantelpiece. There’s a second fireplace in the formal dining room that also has French doors to the yard. A newly installed, high- end, all-white kitchen includes a sizable center island, a walk-in pantry and a cozy breakfast area and French doors to stonepaved dining terraces. A family room opens through more French doors to a covered patio that sits on top of a two- car carport, where it overlooks the swimming pool.
There are two guest/family bedrooms on the upper floor along with two ample master suites, one with a fireplace and the other with a custom-fitted dressing area and an adjoining fitness room or yoga studio. Outdoor spaces include a dark-bottomed free-form swimming pool and spa surrounded by charcoal- colored flagstone terracing. The listing is handled by Patrick Martin and Gwen Banta of Sotheby’s International Realty.
Moby additionally owns a second house down the street — a 1920s Tudor cottage.
‘Trek’ Scion Roddenberry Picks Weho Contempo
Word on the real estate street, courtesy of impeccably connected property snitch Yolanda Yakketyyak, is that “Star Trek” scion Rod Roddenberry, son of sci-fi icon Gene Roddenberry and the CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment, has picked up a brand-new, ultramodern Starship Enterprise worthy residence in West Holly- wood, Calif., last listed at just under $5 million. The walled and gated residence, one of a handful of aggressively contemporary houses on a plum block otherwise lined with vintage 1920s Spanish bungalows, measures in at just over 5,800 square feet of voluminous, glass-walled living space over three elevator-serviced floors with six bedrooms and six full and two half bathrooms.
A glass door pivots open to a huge, openplan entertainment space with a striking, glass-railed floating staircase next to a dining area under a space-age light fixture. The open kitchen features walnut-toned wood cabinets and white-marble countertops that waterfall over the ends of a doublewide center island.
Upstairs, the master suite has a fireplace and two private terraces, the larger off the bedroom and the smaller unexpectedly accessible through a glass door in the white-marble-sheathed shower space. A 2,000-plus-square-foot subterranean level, finished to the same sleek standards as the rest of the house, offers a state- ofthe-art screening room, a massage/fitness room and a spacious, L-shaped family room with a wall of windows that slides open to a slim, concrete-lined underground patio with a wall-mounted gas fireplace.
Privatized by towering hedges, the backyard accommodates a lap-lane swimming pool with inset spa.
Roddenberry, an executive producer on the “Star Trek: Discovery” series, owns at least two other multimillion- dollar homes in Los Angeles. Voiceover actor and screenwriter David Hayter has his tree house-like home on a secluded, canyon-like cul- de-sac in Sherman Oaks, Calif., listed for almost $2.1 million. Built in 1959 on a street-to-street lot where it’s perched privately high amid a picturesque canopy of old-growth oak trees, the single-level organic contemporary has four bedrooms and three bathrooms in almost 3,000 square feet. Hayter, who penned the screenplays for the tremendously successful “X-men” and “X-men 2” superhero films, which together hauled in more than $700 million in worldwide box office, has owned the property since 2003, when he bought it for $1.25 million.
Sherman Oaks Loses Powers for ‘X-men’ Scribe
A bridge crosses over a stream on the way to a front door that opens to meandering, open-plan living spaces with vaulted ceilings. A fireplace anchors the long and slender living room, and a second, angled fireplace warms a spacious dining area that’s open to a recently remodeled kitchen.
Nestled into a steep slope, the woodsy, sun- dappled backyard has a swimming pool and two levels of terracing set against curvaceous stacked-stone retaining walls. Other features of note include an extensive security system, an integrated sound system throughout much of the house and pool- deck area, an array of solar panels that defray energy expenses and a 240V Tesla quick- charging station.
John Francis Daley Lists Mid-century Bungalow
Hollywood hyphenate John Francis Daley has listed his mid- century bungalow high above L.A.’S Laurel Canyon at a tidbit less than $1.6 million. The former co-star of the crime and forensics procedural series “Bones” and screenwriter for the 2011 summer hit “Hor- rible Bosses” as well as the 2017 blockbuster “Spider-man: Homecoming,” purchased the canyonside residence just over four years ago for $1.35 million. Listing details show there are two bedrooms and two bathrooms in 1,629 square feet.
Positioned at the end of a cul- de-sac with over-the- canyon city and downtown skyline views, the single-story residence features a secured, high-walled courtyard entry where a glass front door opens to an ample foyer. Polished concrete floors run from the foyer into a loft-like living/dining space with a stacked stone fireplace and a curved bank of floor-to- ceiling windows. The dining area is backed by a wall covered entirely in mirrored panels.
The master suite includes a full wall of custom closets and a roomy, skylight-topped bathroom with double sink vanity crafted of zebra wood, a tile-lined sunken soaking tub and an open shower space accented with mossy, pale green tiles.
A slender, curved terrace runs alongside the back of the house where it has canyon views and leads to a yard with built-in bench seating, a fire pit and a spa surrounded by custom decking. The listing is handled by Barry Sloane and Marc Silver of Sotheby’s International Realty.
Tyra Banks Nabs Posh Pad Overlooking Pacific
Perhaps seeking more space to accommodate her growing family, Tyra Banks — supermodel turned Emmy-winning daytime- chat-show host/reality-tv tycoon and cosmetics mogul — has shelled out almost $7 million for a multistory, ocean-view contemporary just above the shopping district in Pacific Palisades. Built in 2014, the collection of white stucco volumes, broken up by expansive windows and slender balconies, towers above the street with five bedrooms and 5.5 bathrooms in 6,160 square feet of comfortably modern interior space.
Nestled discreetly under a shallow, wood-paneled overhang on the second floor, the front door opens into a combination living and dining room with views over the Pacific Ocean. Less formal family quarters include an open-plan kitchen with sleekly unadorned dove-gray cabinets and flannel gray-and-white striated marble countertops that waterfall over the ends of the oversize center island.
The semi-subterranean ground floor offers a roomy bedroom suite, a walk-in wine cellar, a fitness room or children’s playroom and a high- ceilinged game room/ media lounge decked out with a wet bar, an in- ceiling speaker system and a wallmounted 120-inch projection screen. A terraced backyard includes a plunge-sized negative- edge swimming pool.
Banks own at least three other homes in Pacific Palisades, and last year, the smizing catwalker sold a 2,447-square-foot residence in Northern California’s wine-soaked community of Sonoma for $2.6 million.