subject: Vidal Sassoon Home For Sale: Live Luxurious Life Of Celebrity [print this page] Vidal Sassoon, CBE (17 January 1928 - 9 May 2012) was a British hairdresser, credited with creating a simple geometry, "Bauhaus-inspired" hair style, also called the wedge bob. The name Vidal Sassoon is legendary within the beauty industry, but the late hair entrepreneur also harbored a lesser-known passion: architecture, Vidal Sassoon real estate for sale.
Vidal Sassoon property for sale, The Singleton House on Mulholland Drive, designed by Richard Neutra in 1959, is one of the country's most celebrated modern homes and one of Vidal Sassoon's most prized pieces of real estate. Hitting the market at $17.995 million, the 6,400-square-foot estate sits atop a 5-acre knoll with 360-degree views in Los Angeles' ritzy Bel Air hood.
Vidal Sassoon real estate for sale, that Sassoon and his wife, Ronnie, bought the home in 2004 for about $6 million and did a major restoration that included installing air conditioning, opening up small, dark rooms, repairing decades of dry rot and adding a master suite.
Vidal Sassoon Home For Sale, the modernist hairdresser Vidal Sassoon told Architectural Digest earlier this year: "Architects have always been my heroes" and he was certainly dedicated to the cause--he owned multiple high-class modern houses and spent years fixing up the Richard Neutra-designed Singleton House way up on Mulholland at the tip of Bel Air (the roof partially collapsed a few weeks after closing) Vidal Sassoon Home For Sale .
Vidal Sassoon property for sale and earlier Sassoon put the house up for sale in 2007 asking $19.955 million, but it never sold. Vidal Sassoon Home For Sale, Vidal died this past spring and now the house has returned to the market asking $17.995 million. Vidal Sassoon Home For Sale which was built in 1959 and comes with four bedrooms, five bathrooms, a pool, and more than five acres of land.
The relationship between hair and architecture has perhaps not been properly appreciated. But a visit with legendary stylist Vidal Sassoon and his wife, Ronnie, rectifies that. Vidal Sassoon real estate for sale which also has a large outdoor swimming pool set in huge grounds with panoramic views over the city which .
Vidal Sassoon property for sale which has been decorated in a simple sixties style. The sale comes less than a month after a host of celebrities from the world of fashion, film and hairdressing attended a memorial service at London's St Paul's Cathedral to celebrate his life.
Vidal Sassoon property for sale he discovered that, due to dry rot and modern code requirements, they would have to do extensive rebuilding. Working with contractor Scott Werker of GW Associates of L.A., they replaced damaged ceilings and poured new terrazzo floors, and they removed a number of walls in order to create larger, brighter interior spaces. They also added a master bedroom suite, which Ronnie designed with Werker and building planner Tim Campbell.
Vidal Sassoon Home For Sale, although the Sassoons made use of Neutras original materials and vocabulary to an astonishing degree, the changes were considered sacrilege by some design purists. Ronnie, however, is unapologetic: Unless the house is a museum, or you only spend a few weeks a year there, you just cant live this way today. And given how valuable the land is, the house would have been torn down.
