It was going to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Or whimsy. Just to the left of that relatively conventional main living area, the fun begins.
And what a job she made of it. A dome-shaped projection room is modeled after Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, but with a contemporary feel, speakers embedded in totem poles, and the colors taken to surreality. All in all, Benton said she loves her house and the Aspen lifestyle. Photography by The two pools are piped with music, and you only hear the music when you’re underwater. ‘Unfortunately, we forgot about the door frame, so that wasn’t really possible, but the bed still does zoom all the way around 360 degrees if you press here. ‘And when I was with Hugh Hefner, he let me do the guest house at the Playboy Mansion. New outdoor furniture startup wants to turn your backyard into a showroom. “It’s almost like you’re in your own individual house,” says Prince. In eighteen years, Benton and Gradow have found no reason to redecorate at all. Photography by Records from the Pitkin County Assessor’s Office in 2010 show the actual value of the land and property to be $26.3 million. By Stewart Oksenhorn 2/1/2014 at 12:00am Published in the Midwinter/Spring 2014 issue of Aspen Sojourner “It says we’re not your average people. I was very keen on Mock Tudor, but I also wanted a couple of modern ones thrown in, really just to impress our friends. “I come from the side of the brain that makes people good at music and art,” she says. I bought an old barn and built the interior with wood and charming little tiles. ‘We thought that sounded OK. Daniel Bayer, 07/19/2020 Designed by Bart Prince - 1989-93 For the ladies’ room, I used an exact copy of a Salvador Dalí painting, Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized By The Horns Of Her Own Chastity, which I think kind of speaks for itself.’, Benton designed and commissioned furniture specifically for the house, too. ‘I made little models of cardboard that rapidly became big models in cardboard, because we do like to entertain, as you can see. Photography by It made you feel you had gone back in time. I guess you need one of those smoothing machines.”, Another feature Benton enjoys: The two lap pools, which are heated at different temperatures and feature an underwater sound system. Discussions at the meetings, Benton said, “sounded like communist Russia, because at the time they were talking about limiting anybody’s house to 3,500 square feet.”. “It’s a good thing we got our plans in [before the county voted to limit house sizes] because that way they couldn’t do anything about them,” Benton said. Every one of the hundreds of interior elements came from her vision.
On closer examination, it turns out that I can actually feel the bed move.
By Olive & West Photography, 02/20/2020 The nude on Benton’s dressing room door means ‘I simply haven’t a thing to wear,’ she laughs. Homes of the Rich is the #1 luxury real estate blog on the web.
Now more than ever, your support is critical to help us keep our community informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having locally. It all added up to 23,000 square feet of space and took six years to build. Prince was put on notice by Gradow that, as distinctive as his architectural plan might be, it was almost certainly going to be trumped by the interior design. “Just the drywall for the house took two years,” Benton said. Aspen Sojourner Staff Rebecca Weiss
Aspen Sojourner. By The result was eclectic extreme: ducks around a fountain, sculptures of family members above elevator doors, and more, including ceramics made by Benton and Gradow’s children and a table that once belonged to Andrew Carnegie.
The Copper Place, as Prince christened it, seems to be a part of this extravagantly opulent countryside and at the same time divorced from it, its four cantilevered copper pods seeming almost to be slipping down the hillside. Photography by To reduce the size to 15,000 square feet would have taken several months, and so the couple decided to go ahead with the larger house plans because the county was considering a drastic reduction in the maximum allowable size of homes.
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“My husband was really funny about the view. The one-time Playboy cover girl (you may fondly recall March 1970), one-time main squeeze of Hugh Hefner (long, long before the self-parody got out of hand), occasional singer (still pretty big in Sweden) and the celluloid star of classics such as Naughty Cheerleader and The Great American Beauty Contest (a turn as Miss Iowa, for any cineastes out there), is now an inventive interior designer. Photography: Nicholas Koenig, Given her track record, Gradow was initially, perhaps understandably, reluctant to hand over total creative control to his wife. So salubrious is the area, in fact, it has the dubious distinction of its very own tribute in song by former resident John Denver, titled, with the songster’s signature simplicity, ‘Starwood in Aspen’. Since 2008 over 20 million "mansion obsessed" people have visited the site, © 2019 Homes of the Rich - All Rights Reserved, 20,000 Square Foot Limestone Home In Chicago, Illinois (FLOOR PLANS), $8.5 Million Wood & Stone Home In Truckee, California, Mega Waterfront Home In Coral Gables Re-Lists For $36.5 Million, $17.9 Million Waterfront Home In Naples, Florida, $15 Million Contemporary Style Home In Los Angeles, California, $8 Million Contemporary Home In West Vancouver, Canada, $10 Million Contemporary New Build In West Vancouver, Canada, 21,000 Square Foot New Build In Toronto, Canada, 22,000 Square Foot Limestone Mansion In Ontario, Canada, 35,000 Square Foot Mega Mansion In Toronto, Canada, Incredible 69,000 Square Foot Mega Mansion In Caesarea, Israel, One 100 – A Luxurious Beachfront Home In Dubai, $25 Million Moscow Mansion With Indoor Pool & Shooting Range, $32 Million Beachfront Mansion In The Bahamas, $14 Million Newly Built Duplex Penthouse In Atlanta, Georgia, $65 Million Townhouse In NYC (FLOOR PLANS), Incredibly Lavish $65 Million Penthouse In Tel Aviv, Israel, $32 Million Penthouse In Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, $38 Million Duplex Penthouse In New York City (FLOOR PLANS), Gene Simmons Selling Beverly Hills Home For $22 Million, Ellen DeGeneres Lists Balinese Inspired California Estate For $39.9 Million, Marc Anthony Lists Florida Waterfront Home For $27 Million, Pierce Brosnan Lists Beachfront Estate In Malibu, California For $100 Million, Shaquille O’Neal Re-Lists Lakefront Florida Home For $19.5 Million (PHOTOS), $25 Million Historic Mansion In San Francisco, CA, 22,000 Square Foot Colorado Home With Indoor Basketball Court, $24 Million Contemporary Home In Telluride, Colorado, $14.5 Million Mountaintop Home In Edwards, Colorado.
It introduces you to people who have taken unconventional living to a whole new level. The room’s curvature has become normal, the color scheme tame, the décor artsy, not alien.
Karl Wolfgang, 02/27/2020 “George has no idea how to decorate till he sees it firsthand.
‘The one on the men’s room door is based on a detail from a Max Ernst, but I got them to adjust his hand so it looks like he’s taking a pee. Each scene hints at the activity taking place on the other side of the door.
It’s true: you feel as if you’ve landed on a different planet. Benton was responsible for her boudoir’s defiantly rococo interiors and much else in this remarkable Colorado house. By
We like to break between courses for a bit of a dance and people are always drawn to this machine.’ It was here too that Benton hit on the idea of commissioning copies of famous portraits for each of the 47 doors in the house. Her idea was that the portraits would speak, obliquely or otherwise, of the contents of the room within. The Barbi factor. On this episode, we are given a tour of the “Copper Palace”, a futuristic house owned by Barbi Benton (former playmate) and her developer husband George Gradow. 14ms. MTV has a new show out called “Extreme Cribs”. Image: Brands/Kribbs Architectural Photography. Photography: Nikolas Koenig. as told to Sarah Chase Shaw, 07/02/2020 It’s great here because everybody has a lot of land.”. Jan 6, 2020 - So our favorite octogenarian Playboy has been in the news recently with the announcement that he is putting his Los Angeles Playboy Mansion up for sale – and Hef comes with it.
Ali Margo Benton didn’t want to do a regular show of “MTV Cribs.” When the network decided to launch a different edition of its “Cribs” franchise, emphasizing peculiar features and design quirks, she became interested. Photography by
His Corona del Mar residence for the art collector Joe Price was described by the Architectural Record in 1991, at the time of its construction, as ‘not restrained by traditional notions of good taste’. Possibly the most impressive detail of the house is that its occupants still find it invigorating. Prince was known for an out-there sensibility. “But it’s elegant. Flexible…, FT Fundraising Mgr. But it is fun, from the minute you walk through the door. By
One night of production evolved into a major party, with Ariana inviting friends over for food and dancing in the Copper Palace’s disco: “We were thinking something like 12 people, and it turned into 35,” Benton said, adding that it was a late night with a lot more filming planned for 7 a.m. the next morning.