Actor Orlando Bloom’s new Los Angeles residence is a high-modernist home in Trousdale Estates. The star of the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ films dropped $7 million on the property, which had been entirely overhauled by the previous owner, architect Miguel Aragonés. Aragonés had purchased the home in 2011, for $3.25 million, and had listed it about four years later with an initial asking price of a little less than $12 million. The asking price at the time of the sale had been $7.995 million.

The modern style home measures slightly more than 4,000 square feet, and contains four bedrooms and four baths.

As an object lesson in minimalist atmospherics, the home is a paragon. Stressing community and removing the ornament of design flourish almost entirely; it emphasizes open spaces and comfort, but eliminates common visual distractions of texture and pattern, with only subdued hardwood floors for visual curiosity. If there’s a polar opposite to baroque, this is it. It might be considered Purism Revival, and abstract to the point of being clinical, or elliptically Eastern influenced, depending on your point of view.

The whitewashed interiors are grounded by a sunken lounge area; the living room and dining room are divided in the open concept by an accent wall, which offers itself as a suggestion and a planar contrast too.

Atmosphere in the home comes by way of LED lighting, which may be shaded, or not, depending on mood; the system extends to the exterior deck, and pool/lounge area. That clinches it. Michael Mann will want to use the home for a film location.

Orlando Bloom’s next feature film appearance will be in the upcoming ‘Romans’, due in theaters later this year.