1738 Viewmont Drive, Los Angeles 90069
A private residence featuring 3 ocean view suites, 4 designer perfect bathrooms, and 5,000 s.f. of opulent living
Designed and built by renowned Los Angeles' celebrity-architect Roger Davis, Viewmont North is truly an architectural wonder with forever views of LA and the Pacific Ocean. An excerpt from the Robb Report article in 2008: read the full article here
"As with many a Tinseltown project, the underlying concepts that inspired and catalyzed this blockbuster can be broken down categorically. First came form: a sculptural, sexy venue oriented toward the I-can-see-forever views; expanses of custom-fitted glass designed to delight but not distract (such as the living room and master bedroom’s seamless glass walls, which run floor to ceiling at a nine-degree angle); and "linear and radial planes to make the space more interesting—not just a box," Davis explains.
Then followed function. Hillside homes are often as dysfunctional as they are disjointed, with public rooms at street level, private rooms below, and postage stamp–size yards and pools lower still. Here, however, the pool and yard are flush with the main living level, with bedrooms above, and home theater and multi-purpose spaces below—a logical arrangement that transcends the prosaic to become poetry because of Davis’ third, carefully considered component: flow. Floor plans are open; materials bridge indoors and out without interruption (such as the Italian limestone in the living room, which stretches to the patio and disappears into the infinity pool); the home’s three-story staircase, made from teak, stainless steel and glass, floats.
"I tried to keep cool and warm surfaces balanced throughout the house," says Davis, who achieved this feat by employing smooth-troweled stucco, glass, stainless steel, teak and Brazilian walnut for the exterior, reserving limestone, teak, glass and granite for the interiors. It is the details, however, that make the eyes pop. On closer inspection, the master bathroom’s floor tile turns out to be a textured, stainless-steel inlay. Windows—custom-designed then fabricated by L.A.-based Industry Glass—sometimes house additional second windows, which can be opened and, with no structural elements between the glass sections, appear nearly invisible when closed. Not even the lighting system is simply that: "There are nearly 100 ceiling lights per floor, narrow spots on dimmers that pool the light at floor level so, at night, it balances with the thousands of city lights outside," Davis says."
