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America’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, designed over 1,000 structures and pioneered the Prairie School of architecture. Marked by flat roofs with overhanging eaves, windows grouped in bands, and horizontal lines meant to evoke the vast, flat expanses of America’s native prairie landscape, Wright believed in designing in harmony with nature – a philosophy he called organic architecture. The…
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A favorite actor for baby boomers and one of the highest-paid actors in the world in the 1970s, Steve McQueen was the epitome of cool, both in real life and his movies, including The Thomas Crown Affair, The Great Escape, Bullitt, The Cincinnati Kid and Le Mans. Steve and his equally-big-movie-star-wife, Ali MacGraw, lived in Steve McQueen’s Malibu Beach home…
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Intelligent investors have always understood that real estate is, historically, the most reliable and consistent asset. However, depending on market conditions, varying real estate investment tactics emerge as the most optimal to maximize returns. This is especially true in the current market environment as mortgage rates have climbed to a 16-year high, increasing monthly carrying costs for investment properties along…
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A Palm Springs home made famous as both the Look magazine “House of Tomorrow” in 1962 and Elvis Presley’s honeymoon house in 1967 is for sale at $5.65 million. In the 1960s, Elvis Presley was one of the world’s most popular entertainers and could afford any honeymoon spot in the world. And Look was one of America’s most popular magazines…
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One of the world’s most famous mid-century modern architects, the University of Southern California’s distinguished professor, Pierre Koenig, got his bachelors from USC’s School of Architecture and went on to teach at the venerable institution for forty years. A prolific lecturer and the recipient of more than twenty awards, Koenig was known for his contemporary designs. Reflecting the optimism of…
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Multi-talented Sidney Sheldon has both a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Golden Palm on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars. His five-decade career saw him achieve success in nearly every realm of entertainment. He won an Academy Award for his screenplay for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer and a Tony Award for his musical Redhead. As…
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One of the country’s most expensive listings just came on the Los Angeles market. Priced at $150 million, the brand new Bel Air contemporary includes almost 21,000 square feet and 360-degree views from the city and ocean to the mountains. The seller is George Raun, who co-founded the internet coupon-clipping company, Honey, which sold to PayPal in 2020 for $4…
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George Shultz, who died last year at the age of 100, was a titan of American academia, business, and politics. A graduate of Princeton and MIT, he served as the president of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business before accepting Richard Nixon’s appointment as United States Secretary of Labor. He left the Nixon Administration to become CEO of…
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With her blonde hair and blue eyes, actress Sharon Stone is best known for playing femme fatales. One of the most popular sex symbols of the 1990s, she rose to international prominence with her role as an alluring psycho killer in Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress. Later, she would…
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Bob Hope was not only the penultimate entertainer, he was also a passionate golfer. He loved golf so much that in one of his famous quotes he said, “Golf is my real profession. Entertainment is just a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees.” What was Hope’s full-time home in Toluca Lake has a one-hole golf course, designed…
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