tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post1382745212129586387..comments2023-11-05T01:14:14.295-07:00Comments on The Real Estalker: Iris Cantor's Palatial Platinum Triangle PileYour Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14600002907755148264noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-23775302306252272002011-04-26T17:57:14.781-07:002011-04-26T17:57:14.781-07:00Some of the Rodins ended up in the North Carolina ...Some of the Rodins ended up in the North Carolina Museum of Art due to the generosity of the Cantors. We ended up building a new building to house the collection.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-57236218115500799112011-04-07T07:48:49.703-07:002011-04-07T07:48:49.703-07:00This article fails to mention the millions of doll...This article fails to mention the millions of dollars Mrs. Cantor has donated to saving lives through the hospitals she's donated, and the support she has given to the arts. She is a great lady.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-75620519633070240792011-01-25T01:30:07.265-08:002011-01-25T01:30:07.265-08:00All I can say is....I've seen, walked, crawled...All I can say is....I've seen, walked, crawled, and climbed every steel beam, lumber and crawl space while this Estate was being framed and finished. I know some its deepest secrets. Rooms within rooms. Walls within walls, layers within layers, made for Superman. Programmed its' automation, digital communications, multimedia systems, tested and managed its 24 hour well-armed and seasoned security, its electronic systems and defenses. From modest emergency prepairedness to well-engineered redundancy's upon redundancy's. I managed its staff (9 full time), and 6-digit monthly budget. Even lived there in my own apartment (a couple staff wings)for nearly a year with the family. Met A-List upon A-List. The residence is truly a collective masterpiece of artisans from around the world. As I recall, I watched iron workers from France, marble from dedicated quarries in Italy, limestone from dedicated quarries in Texas. Faux painters prove themselves as master camelians, 3 layers of drywall, 6 layers of paint, 1/32" and 1 arc-second tolerances, and yes, that is 100% pure gold foil and not paint etched through every crown and molding. 1000's of pages of pure gold foil. And sure, the Grand Salon could hold most two-story, 5000 sq.ft homes within its walls. Oh, the garage is about 5300+ sq ft I recall. Sure I was responsible for the cars, but I could never drive the Rolls-Royce or Bentley. Wasn't my drive or job. Though I enjoyed the unspoken order to have a most humble and kind of a elderly gentleman of a butler drive the cars around town at his leisure and keep them lubed up.<br /><br />Augustus Rodin, Augustus Rodin, everywhere Augustus Rodin. I am so glad they were bronze. and Patina the colors of choice....They can sure take a beating....(the maids tell me)<br /><br />As far as bathrooms...What can I say. I had my own. So did the chef, the butler, the personal assistant, the guards, the maids, the housemen, even a runner for the poodle "Cash".<br /><br />Yah...."I was her first". I was the very first major domo (house manager) of this grand estate.....A boast of mixed blessings<br /><br /><br />Folks, neat experience and all. I witnessed many things there and realized I wouldn't want to be that rich as one can become a slave to that around you. Love your family. Love what you do. If you happen to make some extra cash, great, spread it around and do a little good in this world. And if you happen to believe in higher Maker, better still.<br />warmest regards,<br />KidowanKidowanhttp://www.buttetechnical.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-18610935602328057582009-03-08T12:18:00.000-07:002009-03-08T12:18:00.000-07:00It's been a long time since I was there, but I rec...It's been a long time since I was there, but I recall it as being extraordinarily lavish and very well appointed. Much of the furniture came from France. The artwork (not counting the Rodins) is spectacular. One thing I loved...in the "public" areas, the ladies' rooms have two stalls, plus a sitting area...because, it seems, ladies like to go to the "powder room" in pairs. The kitchens are out of this world...and there's even a dining room in the wine cellar.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10010450697669440466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-37544719729872484532009-02-28T00:07:00.000-08:002009-02-28T00:07:00.000-08:00This is the best private residential interior job ...This is the best private residential interior job I have seen in America, of this style that is. So tasteful and perfect. surely tasteful must be the word of the moment. The entrance foyer takes my breath away!! Its on a crap site, but who cares? Put it on a big & better site and sure the listing price would jump from $53mil to $125mil, Id rather pay $53mil and have it on this site. Speaking of $53mill, thats how much they want for that pile of crap in minnisota (not american, so sorry if i miss spell your states)Kieranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07278832566551148229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-76111981014876306402009-02-26T15:13:00.000-08:002009-02-26T15:13:00.000-08:00This would be a perfect pad for Jethro and Ms. Jan...This would be a perfect pad for Jethro and Ms. Jane Hathaway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-28602693980657220682009-02-23T12:41:00.000-08:002009-02-23T12:41:00.000-08:00Of its type- this is truly a beautiful house!Perfe...Of its type- this is truly a beautiful house!<BR/>Perfectly done! The stair hall is amazing by any standard- and I would venture to guess that it looks even better in person, the photo looks like it was taken with a wide angle lens. The rest of the rooms would be much better in daylight, instead of the photographer's bad lighting. And a seating area in a bedroom is a perfect place to read the morning paper and/or have breakfast. <BR/>The furniture also looks like very good 18th century furniture. <BR/>This house is miles above most of the other large houses in Los Angeles! Just look at that awful Hadid house- with its bad proportions and Design Center furniture.<BR/>Whether you like French palace decor or not- one cannot dispute the fact that this house is a superb example of its type.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-68750138935252368232009-02-23T10:58:00.000-08:002009-02-23T10:58:00.000-08:00Oh my, I just love this house. It reminds me of t...Oh my, I just love this house. It reminds me of the Mansions in Newport R.I. I have attended a few events at this home and even an intimate Tea and I must say that each time you enter the Foyer you are reminded of the wealth of this formidable couple. The place is perfected to within an inch of its existence and while at one time it was not being cared for Iris as of late has made sure that each corner of this tuly classic Estate gleems. While she does not need the money she certainly has her eye on the bottom line at all times. The maintanence of this place is crippling to say the least and now Iris finds herself more and more on the East Coast. I will miss those times at the lovely La Belle Vie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-32770647084093921212009-02-23T03:45:00.000-08:002009-02-23T03:45:00.000-08:00Hi Viva! yes, this place is as mansion-y as it get...Hi Viva! yes, this place is as mansion-y as it gets. I'm gonna go get a load of the 85 mill Bel Air behemoth now. Toodles! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-27152932908171962672009-02-22T18:05:00.000-08:002009-02-22T18:05:00.000-08:00Her Israeli body guards will have their work cut o...Her Israeli body guards will have their work cut out for them. Someday Mama may feature some of the architectural carbuncles these wealthy Russians have built in their own country. They make Hadid's house look like a Robert Adam masterpiece.StPaulSnowmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06590800489107567022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-54688235428682428712009-02-22T13:50:00.000-08:002009-02-22T13:50:00.000-08:00Ah, the "Black Widow" Safra? Any one of ...Ah, the "Black Widow" Safra? Any one of Gorey's spiders will do in a pinch.<BR/><BR/>French law or no, if Liverspot Lily refuses to return the deposit, Mama will soon be posting what the "Late Widow Safra's" estate is asking for the villa. And we know just how well Gorey drew a tombstone...<BR/><BR/>The days of moneyed gentlemen walking away from a bad business deal with little more than the clothes on their back but their heads held high are long gone. Mikail Prokhorov is barely more than a boy & lacks the class requisite to walking away from an ill-conceived transaction.<BR/><BR/>I mean <I>really</I>; does he think he's all so powerful that he can force the French government to apologize for arresting him AND hope to get his money back?<BR/><BR/>If I were in her position I wouldn't be making any longer-term plans than lunch.lil' gay boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10115496241247504856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-30048826819393126312009-02-22T13:01:00.000-08:002009-02-22T13:01:00.000-08:00Oh.........I was disappointed you didn't comment o...Oh.........I was disappointed you didn't comment on the Safra post. Talk about a "dessicated stick-insect"! The image is very Edward Gorey.StPaulSnowmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06590800489107567022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-67645307588271649772009-02-22T12:56:00.000-08:002009-02-22T12:56:00.000-08:00LGB.........relax, there will be no tacky tourist ...LGB.........relax, there will be no tacky tourist buses to the Cantor Museum. The neighbors need not worry once the Disney folks install the monorail from the remote parking lot.StPaulSnowmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06590800489107567022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-47416272196874016392009-02-22T11:01:00.000-08:002009-02-22T11:01:00.000-08:00Too, too precious; but if this is the kind of livi...Too, too precious; but if this is the kind of living that philanthropy buys, sign me up, Mama! I can weep for the hungry chillruns along with the best of them, and not even need to reapply the mascara. But then I'd be loath to live in the same neighborhood as that dessicated old stick insect we call a former First Lady.<BR/><BR/>But I'm glad PCH brought out my favorite w(h)ine first; once again is just too much California architecture on too little California soil; how could anyone hold a decent fundraiser on the <A HREF="http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=ppdm5n53x4np&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=33503259&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1" REL="nofollow">grounds</A> when there's barely enough room for a bouncy castle?<BR/><BR/>;-)<BR/><BR/>It seems to be little more than the requisite backdrop for her Rodin collection, and as Snowman said, it has potential as a museum ––– except for the parking issue; with so little land, and being located on winding St. Cloud, the only way to get visitors to said museum would be via the proverbial park-and-ride bus shuttle.<BR/><BR/>Call me deeply intuitive, but I just can't see the neighbors sitting back quietly every time some broken-down, semi-retired school bus comes farting along the street to deposit the unwashed masses at the octagonal guard house-cum-ticket booth.<BR/><BR/>Oh and angeleyes, I LOVE McPalace! But given its unyielding (if somewhat overblown) goof taste, I'm not so sure it applies here as much as it would to the Saperstein or Spelling piles. But it is quite evocative...lil' gay boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10115496241247504856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-47761781494006610102009-02-21T15:19:00.000-08:002009-02-21T15:19:00.000-08:00Thank you college, lol... ^ "couches" ^ for my spe...Thank you college, lol... ^ "couches" ^ for my spelling correction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-1718398303059347162009-02-21T15:18:00.000-08:002009-02-21T15:18:00.000-08:00I always laugh when I see couched and loveseats in...I always laugh when I see couched and loveseats in the damn BEDROOM. First, nobody invites friends into their bedrooms and second, who sits in so many different locations if they are in-fact the only ones entering that bedroom. It's just excess space filled with excess junk (literally). Why don't rich people just fill a smaller house with many rooms that look livable and an outdoor landscape that blows ones' mind (like a national botanical garden or something). Oh well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-49010824967925418242009-02-21T06:15:00.000-08:002009-02-21T06:15:00.000-08:00Sounds like your parents did a swell job with you....Sounds like your parents did a swell job with you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-57581424852065548742009-02-21T03:44:00.000-08:002009-02-21T03:44:00.000-08:00I remember leaving a floating turd in that pool :...I remember leaving a floating turd in that pool :) I must have been 16yrs old. I was invited with my parents. Also the sauna - I pissed on the hot steaming rocks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-73638767545085666312009-02-20T21:17:00.000-08:002009-02-20T21:17:00.000-08:00mama. whatever you do, don't sell your sugar pussy...mama. whatever you do, don't sell your sugar pussy for nufffin, nohow.<BR/>(and especially not an amplitude of muchness, maliciously overwrought)gwen2xshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394052104628887283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-49153540081447045752009-02-20T21:12:00.000-08:002009-02-20T21:12:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.gwen2xshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394052104628887283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-67294590295162816982009-02-20T20:31:00.000-08:002009-02-20T20:31:00.000-08:00I remember when this house was in Architectural Di...I remember when this house was in Architectural Digest a dozen or more years ago (which is where the listings photos are from I believe). I thought then that the place was too foo foo, but apparently they liked what their nice gay decorator did with the place.Grrrowlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01819677831541014915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-33423983858967712982009-02-20T20:01:00.000-08:002009-02-20T20:01:00.000-08:00Babe Parish,It DOES look like something out of an ...Babe Parish,<BR/><BR/>It DOES look like something out of an Aaron Spelling prime time soap. It's the sort of mansion that, as a child, I imagined mansions to be. It's over the top, luxe and glamorous. <BR/><BR/>She probably just doesn't use the house all that much anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-84350719129924160522009-02-20T18:59:00.000-08:002009-02-20T18:59:00.000-08:00Mama, I do believe this was my most favorite post ...Mama, I do believe this was my most favorite post ever! Your thoughts on 9/11 were very touching - thank you for sharing what you witnessed on that day. You wrote a witty, descriptive rollercoaster of a posting and I loved reading every bit of it.<BR/><BR/>i wish Jay-Z and Beyonce live here. this place is like something out of an Aaron Spelling miniseries.<BR/>xoxoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-43920028512626828872009-02-20T17:31:00.000-08:002009-02-20T17:31:00.000-08:00it would scare me to live up in there. i would fee...it would scare me to live up in there. i would feel guilty about farting! it's all too much!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-22365879642536548492009-02-20T17:17:00.000-08:002009-02-20T17:17:00.000-08:00That is one hell of a house.Overpriced like the re...That is one hell of a house.<BR/>Overpriced like the rest of LA, but still one hell of a house.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com