A Beverly Hills Home Goes From Antique Accents to a Contemporary Decor
A Beverly Hills Home Goes From Antique Accents to a Contemporary Decor
Interior designer Miles Redd gives a 1950s bachelor pad an eclectic redo and creates the perfect luxury home, with the most beautiful antiques mixed with a dreamy contemporary decor. The perfect representation of vintage and classy is parked outside Phillip Sarofim’s new home in Beverly Hills, a sexy 1961 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL, the perfect throwback.
Built in 1958, the single-story house—whose crescent roof, swooping walls, and perfectly round dining room are signatures of its architect, Robert L. Earl—is one of many wonders that landed in the Trousdale Estates, a hillside enclave with views to the Pacific Ocean. Sarofim has bought the house in 2017, recognizing its potential to become a wonder of architecture, with plenty of space for his car collection and with the soothing vibes he needed. Sarofim’s love for classic luxury cars—he restores them and enters them in competitions around the world, together with his girlfriend, the pop singer Avril Lavigne—is so passionate that he’s been known to remove the furniture from his dining room and turn it into a stage in the round for one of his biggest prizes: a rare 1970 Lancia Stratos HF 0.
The home’s furnishings go from museum-calibre antiques—from a George II gilt-wood console to Louis XVI chairs to a Venetian mirror—and an art collection that mixes Old Masters, a Picasso, and a Robert Motherwell with edgier contemporary works by such artists as Doug Aitken and Peppi Bottrop.
In the living room, a peacock-blue biscuit-tufted velvet sofa has a dialogue with one of Damien Hirst’s vivid spot paintings. A guest room, upholstered in Kaihoi’s green-velvet Tutsi fabric for Schumacher, features a blue-lacquered canopy bed with a matching blue Chinese rug. Meanwhile, in the bright sunroom, the colour scheme gets an extra jolt from a horizontally striped ikat in a crayon palette on the sofa.
Redd and his colleague David Kaihoi began a breakneck sprint to furnish the house and it took them only six months to complete the entire set of exclusive and surreal home decor.
Built in 1958, the single-story house—whose crescent roof, swooping walls, and perfectly round dining room are signatures of its architect, Robert L. Earl—is one of many wonders that landed in the Trousdale Estates, a hillside enclave with views to the Pacific Ocean. Sarofim has bought the house in 2017, recognizing its potential to become a wonder of architecture, with plenty of space for his car collection and with the soothing vibes he needed. Sarofim’s love for classic luxury cars—he restores them and enters them in competitions around the world, together with his girlfriend, the pop singer Avril Lavigne—is so passionate that he’s been known to remove the furniture from his dining room and turn it into a stage in the round for one of his biggest prizes: a rare 1970 Lancia Stratos HF 0.
