Eva Gabor’s Former Los Angeles Home in Holmby Hills sells for $11 million to buyers who wanted to tear down the 1938 house on Delfern Drive.
Poised along the coastline, overlooking a green golf course and with epic ocean views—it’s hard to imagine a Southern California vacation home more enticing. Add cuisine, a world-class spa and collection of pools within a short distance by foot, and Terranea’s Villas are unlike anything else in our midst.
“I have a very casual way about me,” says Dan O’Connor. “I think it has a lot to do with growing up in a family where real estate was the lifestyle.”
This unrivaled ranch now available on Santa Barbara’s Gaviota Coast for $110 million has quite a history. A rare offering, El Rancho Tajiguas is situated on land once inhabited by the Chumash Indians, later claimed by Spain’s King Carlos III, and now linked to Mansour Ojjeh of TAG and its McLaren Formula 1 team.
And in today’s attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) marketing world, this just adds to the noise, confusion, and eroding the trust that consumers have with brands.
I’ve been having all kinds of interesting marketing conversations lately, which got me thinking. Today’s marketing dialog has changed for the worse. I call it “intellectual tennis.”
That iconic American architect Frank Lloyd Wright eventually found work in Los Angeles feels a bit like prophecy—he remains one of the most colorful characters in architectural history. Opinionated and flamboyant, a swashbuckler, he was a personality perfect for these parts.
When a starkly geometric home appeared on 10th Street in Manhattan Beach in the mid-1990s, it was a bright, rare flash of Modernism in a town flush with tile-roof Mediterraneans and quaint beach bungalows.
