Monday, March 30, 2009

Live Like L'Wren Scoot

SELLER: L'Wren Scott
LOCATION: Tuxedo Terrace, Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $999,999
SIZE: 1,712 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: Celebrity-owned, but easy to show French Normandy Castle built in 1926 by Fred Hansen. The utmost in privacy and seclusion, yet minutes from the heart of Hollywood, this home is like a fairy tale come to life! Two secured entries off of street lead to a garden courtyard that feels like an English countryside. Privacy, seclusion, out-of-area experience are in abundance here. Perfect for artists, writers, entertainers or your client who simply wants to enjoy being home.

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Considering this house has been on the market since July of 2008 and considering that the listing text boldly announces it is "celebrity owned," it's somewhat surprising all us nosy real estate gossips had not already sniffed this one out. Now that Rolling Stone senior citizen Mick Jagger and his ladee-friend L'Wren Scott are reportedly living in sin in London, Mizz Scott has less use for her modest–if not inexpensive–hideaway tucked into the hills of the Bronson Canyon area of Los Angeles and currently listed for sale with an asking price of $999,999.

Like a large number of gorgeous gals who wind up arm in arm with rock stars, Miss Scott started up her ladder of fame as a cat walker who worked her 6'4" former Mormon stuff back in the 1980s for fancy fashion designers such as Chanel and Thierry Mugler. In the mid-1990s, Miss Scott decamped for the sunny west coast of the U.S. of A. where at first she headed up PR for Prada and then became a noted and in demand stylist to the stars dressing a-list ladees like Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Ellen Barkin. Along the way, Miss Scott did up the costumes for a few movies, met Mick Jagger and then reinvented her professional life once again. In the last few years, Miss Scoot has transformed herself into a fashion designer with the same red carpet clientele she enjoyed as a celebrity stylist. It's a good thing Miss Scott fraternizes with the demimonde children because those are the only damn people who can afford her $510 Bateau neck tank tops and $2,875 satin bustle jackets.

Anyhoo, property records show that Miss Scott purchased her turreted Tuxedo Terrace house in June of 1996 for $255,000. Oh mercy children, remember the good ol' days when you could still pick up a starter home in Los Angeles for well under $500,000? Nowadays you gotta be well employed and reasonably rich to even think about buying a modest house like this considering that the mortgage alone will be well over four grand a month.

Records and listing information shows the French Normandy style house was built in 1926 by a gentleman Your Mama has never heard of named Fred Hansen. The house measures in at just 1,712 square feet and listing information indicates the house stands three stories tall and includes 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.

There are, additionally, a living room with a vaulted ceiling, a formal dining room with stained glass windows and a small, lightly updated kitchen where there does not appear to be enough counter space to even make tuna fish sandwich let alone an actual mean. None the less, the kitchen does have a certain sort of relaxed, cottage charm and a magnificent mint green vintage stove. The not particularly large master bedroom suite includes a small bathroom with a soaking tub that appears to be molded from concrete and has a tiled niche for all Miss Scott's lotions, potions and bubble baths.

Outdoor spaces include a secluded and walled courtyard at the front and an overgrown and elegantly wild backyard garden that we think our attitudinal pussy cat Sugar would find a wonderland of vermin hunting.

Photos show the home retains much of it's original charm such as the carved stone fireplace in the living room and has been imbued with Miss Scott's personal style, which Your Mama might describe as a kind of bohemian chic meets a Moorish manor house meets the Paris flea markets sort of thing. Clearly this is not a home ready for the pages of Architectural Digest, but it does look like the sort of place put together someone secure enough in their decorative joie de vivre that they don't really care what's considered to be the latest and greatest in day-core depicted on the glossy pages of magazines like Metropolitan Home.

In addition to their shared London digs, Your Mama presumes Mister Jagger has given Miss Scott the keys to his many other homes. Although we can not confirm ownership of each them, Mister Jagger's long list of residences is said to include an apartment in Manhattan, a French chateau near Tours called La Fourchette, a two-floor flat next door to the 26-room townhouse in the Richmond Hill area of London (which Jerry Hall got in the dee-vorce), and two adjacent villas on the super swank island of Mustique. Your Mama read somewhere that Mister Jagger also has a 5-bedroom house in the Hollywood Hills, but we can't confirm that so don't go spreading that around like you know what yer talking about.

20 comments:

c'est moi said...

I really dig this place - "modest" (for LA) and looks livable despite the castle-like facade.

Anonymous said...

Mama - Hanson was the designer/builder for many of the original homes in the area. His own home on the same street just sold as a probate for 639k (Missus Hanson recently passed away). Before the naughty children all jump on that as an indication of this listing being overpriced, the Hanson house is only 1000 s.f.

Viva! said...

I hate this place. Dark and dingy looking...but I do like the landscaping in the back.

Anonymous said...

good bones but call the gay decorator emergency squad stat!

Anonymous said...

Mick is a notorious cheapskate, and that's all he's springing for.

Anonymous said...

That's funny. I could have sworn this post was about Mick's girlfriend SELLING a house and no one is talking about Mick buying anything?

Troll much 1:39pm?

Anonymous said...

Did Miz Scott's p's consider spelling her name "Lauren" just too ordinary or somethin?

Babe Parish said...

this place is cute in an "I'm With The Band" sort of way. kind of like where Miss Penny Lane wound up after she dumped Russell and she moved on to Glen Frey.

Georgica Pond said...

Mama, I love when you feature more realistic homes, in both size and price. Please keep up the great work. This is the sort of home I would adore, although the lack of a "water feature" troubles me. And greetings to Babe. Always nice to hear from you.

Anonymous said...

Don't blame her poor parents! They actually did name her Lorraine. She's the one that changed it to L'wren. She might as well have changed her middle name to Poseur.

Am I the only one who thinks she is the most boring clothes designer ever? All the same colors (black, burgundy, red) and the same strapless dress....

Anonymous said...

Well, her palette is rather tedious, but I long for this most recent strapless phase to pass-- I am SO tired of yanking up on my dress--

Kitty Litter said...

mama has a pussy cat! Aw, how cute, I love Mama even more.

Anonymous said...

Is that a washer and dryer with a cooktop? I don't think I've seen ovens like that before.

Anonymous said...

Nevermind. It's a vintage oven I see.

Anonymous said...

Don't worry 5:06 and again at 5:11:

I made the same mistake on first look. I sat there trying to figure it out for 10 seconds.

Anonymous said...

I love this house; it's perfect. It looks like a comfortable home, not a soulless, "look at me" showplace.

Be careful letting Sugar out Mama, lots of coyotes in them thar hills.

Anonymous said...

$750K. That's my final offer.

Anonymous said...

I covet the oven. Unfortunately, that's about all I covet here.

Anonymous said...

I love the unpretentious look. Hopefully there's another side to the kitchen.

Mars said...

Would love more light, but this is so my style. Super charming!