A 1962-built Beverly Hills five-bedder was, before this summer, last purchased in April of last year in a state of sunbaked dilapidation. Its buyers, Sofia Richie and fiancé Elliot Grainge, paid $17 million for it and set about on a revision and restoration project that transformed the property. According to Dirt, the duo passed it on quietly for $21.8 million.
Expanded significantly — it has gained two bedrooms, and been transformed from a five-bath layout to eight — the original house showed off Modern- and Prairie-style architecture. Its façade flowed outward from a central staircase, illuminated by long glass panes and capped with the highest section of the nearly flat roofline.
As revised, the property has taken on an Art Deco-infused style, beginning with the entry gate and present most visibly in its new window frames and balustrades. The interiors owe a lot to the East: purist, naturalistic and meditative. The style is cohesive to a fault, as well, and the outdoor living area’s covered bar and dining area both follows through from and expands upon the motifs established at the entry gate.