A Beauty Mogul’s Harry Gesner-Designed Home in Beverly Hills Lists for $28 Million
Dwellings by Harry Gesner are hot commodities, often snapped up for a premium soon after they go up for sale. In the past few years, a couple of neighboring oceanfront properties designed by the surfer-turned-architect in his adopted hometown of Malibu—the iconic Wave House and his personal residence, Sandcastle House —sold to venture capitalist Joshua Kushner and his supermodel wife, Karlie Kloss, for nearly $30 million and tech entrepreneur Jason Fried for $13 million, respectively.
Now another equally striking and original abode by the self-taught midcentury maverick has hit the market in the perennially chic Trousdale Estates area of Beverly Hills for the first time in over a decade. The asking price is a dash under $28 million, with the listing held by Trey Alligood of The Alligood Group at Douglas Elliman.
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A curvaceous, sunken living room has walls of glass overlooking the pool.
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Completed in 1970 and currently owned by Mezhgan Hussainy, a Los Angeles-based makeup artist, beauty entrepreneur, and cofounding partner of Product Society , the home has five (and possibly six) bedrooms and half a dozen bathrooms across two levels. Encompassing roughly 6,500 square feet, the gently restored living space retains Gesner's trademark design elements, including stone floors, massive fireplaces, vast walls of glass, and a dramatic sculptural roofline.
Beyond a secluded cul-de-sac and gated driveway, an all-glass entryway leads into an upper level hosting a formal dining area with mirrored walls, a family room, and an atrium-style Poliform kitchen and a breakfast nook opening to an alfresco dining terrace. Steps descend to a sunken living room, which showcases a massive asymmetric fireplace and a laminated wood-beamed ceiling arching over a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows. Sitting just outside is an infinity pool and spillover spa with city, canyon, and ocean views extending to Catalina Island.
A peaked skylight provides the updated Poliform kitchen with plenty of natural light.
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A primary suite on the main level flaunts a massive rock fireplace and dual closets and baths, while a trio of en-suite guest bedrooms includes one that is outfitted as an office with a wet bar. A skylit spiral staircase heads downstairs, where there are two additional bedrooms that share a bath, along with a second kitchen and a screening room. The promontory lot, which spans over half an acre atop a granite outcropping, also has an attached carport with room for two vehicles.
The home, newly staged for sale by Francesca Grace , is featured in the 2012 book Houses of the Sundown Sea , which documents the late architect's vision through plans, drawings, and photographs.
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