Letter From America
Marion McKeone: The Irish architect and the audacious $500m Bel Air mansion with 42 bathrooms
The Los Angeles dream home known as The One was fast becoming a white elephant. It finally sold for €125m but it needs another $20m to finish it. However, the property designed by an Irishman is strangely beautiful
What happens when “The One” is actually not “The One” – for anyone? We’re not talking hackneyed romcom plots here; the billionaire eat billionaire world of Los Angeles mega estate sales is no laughing matter for the uberwealthy or their estate agents. For the rest of us, meanwhile, there’s much to chortle about.
In a town where multi-million homes are bought and sold as casually as secondhand books, it takes a really big sale to ...
