Happy New Year 2014 * Um Bom Ano 2014

São todos os meus desejos para todos os que me acompanharam ao longo do último ano. Acreditem que o próximo, vai ser ainda melhor que 2013.

Até Amanhã, em 2014!

Ana Antunes

(Thank you for sharing my passion for beautiful homes)

UPDATE: David Murdock

As Your Mama first reported on the 11th of December of picked up by the kids at Curbed this week, multi-billionaire businessman David Murdock listed his 12,000-plus square foot brick-built Bel Air mansion with a $30,000,000 price tag.

Today we hear from the ever so plugged in real estate yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak that the nonagenarian billionaire and his significantly younger fifth wife, interior designer Tracy Murdock, have acquired another, nearly 11,000 square foot brick built mansion, this time in the swanky, guard-gated Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, CA.*

The property in question has a rather illustrious history: It was custom built in the early 2000s by ice hockey honcho Wayne Gretzky who sold it in August 2007 for $18.5 million to professional baseballer turned financially embattled entrepreneur Lenny Dysktra. After a long battle with a variety of creditors, Mister Dykstra lost the estate to the gaping maw of foreclosure in late 2010. In early 2011 the property was purchased by billionaire hedge fund fat cat Thomas Barrack Jr.** Mister Barrack flipped the property back on the open market two weeks later. We're not sure what the original asking price was but we do know that in July 2012 it was listed for $18,750,000 and in November of 2012 it was re-listed with a new and improved but in hindsight still way too high $14,995,000.

After almost grueling three years on and off the market, the estate sold in early November for—drum roll please—a steeply discounted $9.5 million to a corporate entity easily linked to our Mister David Murdock. The official owner, according to the property records Your Mama peeped and perused, is the very same Murdock-owned company that developed the Sherwood Country Club in which the property sits.

Listing details Your Mama conjured up out of the digital ether show the gated estate encompasses 6.5 (or so) acres, shares a private promontory with two other similarly sized estates, and has long views of Lake Sherwood and the surrounding mountains. The Richard Landry-designed main mansion was built, according to Your Mama's research, in 2002 and has six bedroom and eight bathrooms with additional living space above a semi-detached two-car garage, perhaps best suited as a home office, fitness facility or staff quarters. There are also two self-contained guest houses that flank the rear of the residence.

Other estate-style features include a circular drive with porte-cochère entrance, a double height entry with curved staircase, grandly scaled and liberally ornamented public entertainment rooms, an all white kitchen with marble counter tops, an adjoining family room, a state-of-the-art screening room with tiered lounge seating for eight or more, and generous family quarters that include a sizable master suite complete with private sitting room and dual bathrooms. A second floor veranda on the rear of the house looks larger than Your Mama and the Dr. Cooter's entire if admittedly fairly modest residence and has sweeping views over the golf course-centric community.

The mansion and its outbuildings are ringed by flat, well-watered lawns, spacious terraces, formal gardens, a fountain or two, a lighted tennis court with fireplace-equipped open air viewing pavilion, a swimming pool with tanning shelf/kiddie pool and inset spa, and an outdoor cooking facility outfitted with a pizza oven and wood and gas barbecues.

*Reports in some of the more respectable property gossip columns have stated that 90-something year old Mister Murdock decided to sell his Bel Air spread so he could spend more time up at his (approx.) 2,000 acre ranch in Ventura County so Your Mama really hasn't a clue whether Mister and fifth Missus Murdock plan to inhabit the Sherwood County Club estate on a full-time, part-time or no-time basis.

**Property records and other online resources show it was purchased at auction for $760,712 but that seems like a ludicrously low number. We imagine, as is often the case with foreclosure purchases,, Mister Barrack assumed whatever outstanding taxes were owed as well as any additional loans that may have been secured by the property, thus making his investment potentially significantly higher than the recorded sale price. We were told Mister Barrack purchased the property as an investment and we're not sure if he and/or his family ever lived on site. Listing details from the time of its most recent sale to Mister Murdock state the house had been recently remodeled, presumably by Mister Barrack and his team of architect, designers and decorators.

listing photos: Coldwell Banker Beverly Hills South

Magnificent Talent - Roberto Migotto And The Cobalt Paradise

I am a great fan of Cobalt and I did thought that 2014 Pantone Color it would be that Dazzling blue everyone was talking about so when I saw these images I was literally in my Color Heaven. This amazing work is from Roberto Migotto architect for Casacor Brasil and it's absolutely amazing. 

The project started from the concept of a beach house with a relaxed and spacious layout, totaling an area of ​​500 square meters .

The space embodies the perfect Beach House where we stand in the entrance hall , the floor jutting wall in hydraulic mosaic with geometric shapes in shades of blue and white like a wallpaper of scale .

At the Bedroom Suite, the highlight goes to the degrade wallpaper from Designer's Guild and the generous bathroom where the hydraulic mosaic appears again as a central element.

The Lounge is perfect with the two 50s, chairs that are the statement of classic in design but modern pattern. 

The kitchen is Todeschini and also follows the entire blue and white color scheme, witch  makes it look less like a kitchen and more part of the living room .

All this Beach House, with its relaxed spirit, is perfect both in standards and in the materials used for a house that receives those who like to live the summer.  And where materials like natural fibers, fabrics and geometric patterns, were chosen all in conjunction and harmony .

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Eu sou uma grande fã de Cobalto e pensava que a côr do ano 2014 eleita pela Pantone seria o tal Dazzling Blue que toda a gente falava. Quando vi estas imagens da CasaCor no Brasil achei imediatamente que estava no Paraíso da Côr! Este trabalho tem a assinatura do arquitecto Roberto Migotto para a CasaCor Brasil e é absolutamente incrível.

O projeto partiu do conceito de uma casa de praia com um layout descontraído e amplo. O espaço, interno e externo integrados, somam uma área de 500 metros quadrados.
 

O espaço personifica a perfeita Casa de Praia onde podemos destacar, no Hall de Entrada, o piso que se projeta na parede, em mosaico hidráulico, com formas geométricas, em tons de azul e branco como se fosse um papel de parede de larga escala. 

Na Suíte, onde se destaca também o papel de parede em degrade da Designer's Guild e a generosa casa de banho onde o mosaico hidráulico aparece novamente como elemento central.

No Lounge, as poltronas dos anos 50, modernas no padrão e clássicas no design são uma peça de grande protagonismo, mesmo como eu gosto. 

A Cozinha é da Todeschini e também segue todo o esquema de cores do azul e branco, do resto da casao que a faz parecer menos cozinha e mais parte integrante da sala.

Toda esta Casa de Praia, com seu espírito descontraído, é perfeita quer nos padrões quer nos materiais utilizados para uma casa de recebe quem gosta de viver o Verão e onde se sobressaem os tapetes em fibras naturais, os tecidos com texturas e formas geométricas e tudo numa conjugação e perfeita harmonia.

 

 

 

É maravilhosa, não acham?!...

Até Amanhã

Ana Antunes

(Thank you for sharing my passion for beautiful homes)

New Year's Eve Favorites * Favoritos Para o Fim-de-Ano

In my opinion New Year's Eve is something to celebrate with a lot of sparkle, and hope for the future ... If you have not thought about this year sparkle kit, here are some of my favorites you can still order online. 

I have mine already!

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Na minha opinião, a noite de Fim-de-ano é uma noite para celebrar com muito brilho, e esperança no futuro... Mesmo quando comemoro em casa, na versão festa em a família!

Se ainda não pensaram no 'kit brilho' deste ano, aqui ficam alguns dos meus favoritos, que ainda pode encomendar online. 

Eu já tenho o meu!

1. Vestido * Dress /ASOS

2. Vestido * Dress / DOROTHY PERKINS

4. Saia * Skirt / NET-A-PORTER

5. Saia * Skirt / TOPSHOP

6. Saia * Skirt / TOPSHOP

Até Amanhã

Ana Antunes

(Thank you for sharing my passion for beautiful homes)

Living In A Christmas Postcard * A Viver Num Postal de Natal

For the people who get this for 4 months every winter, will just have to excuse my excitement but this 'winter wonderland Christmas mood' is just what I've been living in the last few days. It doesn't snow in my country you see, so I've been acting my son's age playing in the snow and trying to make snowballs with wool mittens and forget they get them painfully frozen! 

It's the perfect Season setting and the houses all look like beautiful Christmas Postcards! 

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Para as pessoas que vivem este cenário cerca de 4 meses por cada inverno, vão ter que desculpar o meu entusiasmo, mas é nestes maravilhosos e perfeitos cenários de Natal que tenho vivido nos últimos dias. É que não temos disto em Portugal, daí eu me comportar mais ou menos com a idade do meu filho, que anda tão excitado que passa o tempo a tentar fazer bolas de neve com luvas de lã e esquece-se que acaba com as mãos geladas!

É o cenário perfeito para se viver nesta época Natalícia, e as casas parecem verdadeiros postais de NATAL. É Lindo!

Até Amanhã

Ana Antunes

(Thank you for sharing my passion for beautiful homes)

End of Week Mish Mash

After nearly four long years on the market Grammy winning singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow re-listed her Tennessee Farm for $3.85 million, $3.65 million less than the original $7.5 million price tag.

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Leo DiCaprio had to come way down off his original $23 million asking price to sell his Malibu Colony adjacent compound. If finally sold this week for $17.35 million to an as yet unidentified buyer.

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Sir Paul McCartney and his third wife, Nancy Shevell, reportedly had a peep around a $12.9 million condo on New York City's Fifth Avenue.

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The (rather fab) full-floor contemporary art-filled Park Avenue apartment of late architect Armand Phillip Bartos and (also deceased) paper and finance heiress/philanthropist Celeste Gottesman Bartos sold for $18 million. It was originally listed in March 2013 for $22.5 million. The buyers, according to property records, are Joseph and Hilary Feshbach. He appears to be in finance and she's a scion to a real estate rich family who, among other Manhattan properties, owns the venerable and soon-to-be-closed Roseland Ballroom.

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The folks at Zillow named Jimmy Fallon as the most desirable (imaginary) celebrity neighbor for 2014. Not surprisingly—at least it came as no surprise to this cynical property gossip—Kim Kardashian and Kanye West topped their list for least desirable neighbors for 2014. (Kimmy and Kanye also show up as number seven on most desirable celebrity neighbor list so...)

Get The Look * Copia O Estilo #002

  Tropical Lime Elegance

white * relaxed * structured walls * glass modern * geometric

Até Amanhã

Ana Antunes

(Thank you for sharing my passion for beautiful homes)