#hollywood-hills-home

#hollywood-hills-home

During the filming of Magnum, from 1980 until 1988, Selleck reportedly rented a one-bedroom guest cottage on a 5,000-square-foot plot of land in Honolulu. In 1993, he returned, buying the ocean-view property for an undisclosed sum and moving into its 1929-built two-bedroom main house.

The yellow-painted brick and limestone structure measures 21 feet wide and has five bedrooms and half a dozen bathrooms in roughly 7,800 square feet across six levels, all accessible by an elevator.

Although lighting is often an overlooked element by homeowners, Olesker, who trained as an architect, sees lighting design as a "purposeful part of the architectural whole - curbside to poolside." With a team of 18 artisanal craftsmen, his firm manufactures its designs at its factories in Chatsworth and El Monte.

The corner of Sunset Blvd. and Alpine Drive became a traffic nightmare. Tour buses made it a stop. Tourists and locals alike milled about, gawked and took pictures. The neighbors were incensed. The "renovation" performed by Sheik Mohammed al Fassi, then 28, and his wife made them the talk of the town.

Architects including Wallace Neff and Lloyd Wright built in a variety of styles while preserving the essential character of the neighborhood - an upscale charm that survives to this day. Every popular style of the 1920s can be found in Hancock Park, which makes it one of those magical L.A. places where movies that are set around the world can be filmed, all without leaving the 30-mile zone.

Obviously, this is a significant loss to the musical legacy of our nation and the history of Beverly Hills and its role in shaping American culture. The demolition was wholly avoidable and occurred because Beverly Hills, unlike neighboring cities such as Los Angeles and West Hollywood, lacks a historic preservation ordinance.

In a housing market defined by high mortgage rates and tight inventory, the very top of the market is still moving-sometimes at jaw-dropping prices.