The remarkable Bel-Air villa of VistaJet founder Thomas Flohr has seen a significant price reduction recently. Flohr put the home up for sale with a $64 million asking price about a year ago. The 15,000 sq. ft. house is currently tagged at $39.9 million.

The house was completed in 2020. Its exterior is a complex narrative — glass, rusticated limestone, steel, hardwood accents, and a host of second-level exterior living spots are the more salient elements at work. Its architectural style is modern, but the mix of materials gives it a contemporary overtone and a striking element of sophistication.

The interiors are bright, open, and similarly designed. As distinguished from the typical contemporary travel-log of flashy materials, patterns, and textures, the living style emerges from a quiet dignity and a fair degree of artistic presence.

Lodged in a glass-and-steel frame, the pivoting front door is solid hardwood at least three inches thick; it gives way to a short corridor of limestone floored in natural stone, progressing to a living room with pocketing glass and a linear fireplace accent wall finished in tile. Moving along, an unusually fine staircase comes into view: sculpted and in a soft spiral shape, it features a solid balustrade capped with hardwood and all-hardwood treads and risers, and ascends to a circular portal in the ceiling.

The kitchen is a notable example of Japandi style. Forgive the use of the word ‘Zen’ as an adjective, but there is something meditative about the room; it’d be denuded of an ability to inspire desire if it wasn’t so pretty. Still, contemplating one’s morning espresso might just open a doorway to enlightenment. More pocketing doors open the room to a poolside dining spot.

Interior amenities include a gym, a sauna, a wine room and wet bar, and an office with retractable glass, Fire features, elder olive trees, and that centerpiece swimming pool sketch the outdoor living area of this sophisticated little corner of Bel-Air.