Rhino Records founder hopes Brentwood estate will be a hit

Richard Foos, founder of Rhino Records, and his wife Shari are listing their Brentwood estate for $19.9 million. The 10,000-square-foot Mediterranean home, designed by Thomas Callaway and completed in 2002, took six years to build and decorate. Situated on over 34,000 square feet of grounds, the seven-bedroom, 13-bathroom gated property features seven fireplaces, hand-painted walls and beams, a meditation room, solar heating, and retractable walls. Notable amenities include a two-room guesthouse with imported European church flooring and a game room styled as a 1940s recreation space. Richard Foos founded Rhino Records in 1973 as a blues record store, which became a major label purchased by Time Warner in 1998 for $60 million. The couple are downsizing to pursue new opportunities.

"We've had small parties in cozy corners and large events throughout the entire house and outdoors. Nothing is random. The floor of the guesthouse was imported from a European church. Even the way Tom Callaway conceived the knotty-pine game room with its juke box, pinball machines, multiple TV monitors and soda fountain -- it looks as though it was refurbished in the '40s."

"The gated, seven-bedroom, 13-bathroom house sits on more than 34,000 square feet of park-like grounds with a swimming pool and views of the Santa Monica Mountains. There are seven fireplaces, hand-painted walls and beams, a meditation room, a music system that extends to every room and solar heating. Push-button walls retract on the loggia."

"Richard Foos founded Rhino in 1973 as a store selling blues records. It went on to became a record label and was purchased by Time Warner in 1998 for a reported $60 million. A philanthropist, the music executive would give Rhino employees time off work to do community service."

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