tasteful friends, I present to you, danny thomas' glass coffee table:

Who are the people in the dining room ceiling mural/

Well, it's not as tacky as current middle eastern themed L.A. mansions households that the shiekhs are setting up

Now that is a statement house! But 135 million?

Le château de Ménars is supposedly only 100 million.

[quote]Well, it's not as tacky as current middle eastern themed L.A. mansions households that the shiekhs are setting up I sort of font mind the exterior arches, but the interiors are a middle Eastern ungepatchet mess.

The place was redecorated fully after the Thomas family sold it, so it's some other Armenians with bad taste.

[quote]Oy. What an Armenian mess.

Lebanese, Blanche.

Some Persian douche might snap it up.

I kinda like the exterior, and I'm trying to think if there's any way to salvage the interior. I mean, the patterned floors are interesting, but someone's gone in and added WALLPAPER AND MURALS BEHIND THE WALLPAPER to rooms with patterend floors!

Of course they forgot to add ceiling murals to those rooms, someone just wasn't committed to their look.

The moorish or oriental stylings are oddly matched to streamlined finishes. There are no moldings and there are plenty of long clean lines. I guess it needs to be stripped bare and redone with a minimalist fusion contemporary look.

It looks to be designed by a firm that does mosques.

I fucking love it.

Its looks more interesting in the video, thats for sure. But I would not feel restful on that perch/cliff in an earthquake zone.

The current owners ruined that house.

The house has great windows that should flood the house for an airy bright interior.

Instead their walls and decor give it a dark and dreary look.

It looks like the inside of a middle eastern restaurant. Maybe a clean one.

The ceilings are too low. Every room feels claustrophobic. So the external shell is the Danny Thomas design and the rest is new? The house was gutted?

Any pics of what the house looked like when Danny Thomas lived there?

How did he get so fucking rich anyway? I mean Andy Griffith Show, Dick van Dyke, Make Room For Daddy, and a few lesser known shows. Hardly seems worthy of this much cash.

Never understood his appeal. He just yelled a lot. And I guess he was a nasty human being.

More money than taste. Like most of Hollywood.

Not enough gold.

He had something to do with St. Jude Hospital (Founder? Board Member?) I guess that's where he got rich??

Wouldn't work for me. Where would I put all of my Room & Board pieces?

Goddamn, that's hideous

A tad pricey, no?

Well, that is one GIGANTIC glass coffee table...

When is the waitress bringing the hummus?

Lebanese, please. Jeez Louise. I'm going to sneeze.

I thought he was Portugee.

I never got the appeal R15 either. And I guess he was a nasty human being too. But I guess everybody was a Weinstein back in those days.

That house is typical of those ugly ones in the millionaire enclaves of Tel Aviv and Beirut.

Dear Lord. So much taste -- and all of it bad!

It looks like a hotel. The patio is cold and drab looking. It desperately needs some greenery and color by the pool.

The Lalique is the only redeeming aspect of that train wreck of an interior. The structure itself is quite impressive however and the views......ridiculous.

Trousdale Estates is renowned for its midcentury-modern homes (see below for an example). Danny Thomas built the house in 1970, though, so it may be that the Moorish arches are original to the design.

No tennis court? No guest house? Not a gated community? I will be surprised if this ends up going for more than 75-80 million.

James Packer has a similar ugly house

I have GREAT affection for petrol riche luxe furnishings. However, the painted domed eating nook would need creative retouching. (And who are they?)

We have discussed this very home and decor before.

How porous is glass? I fear you'd never get rid of all the hooker scuzz.

Bet he shops a Costco so he can buy Windex by the gallon.

The problem is that the ceilings are way too low. Every single room in the house is claustrophobic.

Interior aside, the house, grounds and views are stunning. But 135 mil? Nope.

Yikes!

No, no, no, no NOOOO!

It looks like a country club for Persians. Is that what it's supposed to look like?

suck it, OP.

Link to the video. I think it’s very luxurious.

Even St. Jude considers this house a lost cause.

[quote]$2.5 million worth of "Baccarat chandeliers

Glass.

The senses swoon with visions of back hair and searing falafel.

Does it come with a safe for the gold chains and Sittoo’s baba ghanoush recipes?

How did he make so much money- "Make Room For Daddy" repeats? Maybe he was skimming-off donations to St. Jude's?

Besides his own sitcom, he made movies, records, did night clubs and Broadway and he was a huge producer.

As per wiki...

Thomas became a successful television producer (with Sheldon Leonard and Aaron Spelling among his partners) of The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show, That Girl and The Mod Squad. Thomas also produced three series for Walter Brennan: The Real McCoys, The Tycoon, and The Guns of Will Sonnett on ABC during the late 1950s and 1960s. Thomas often appeared in cameos on shows he produced, including his portrayal of the tuxedoed, droll alien Kolak, from the planet Twilo, in the Dick Van Dyke Show science-fiction spoof, "It May Look Like a Walnut". Thomas, Jack Benny, and Bob Hope in a March 1968 Jack Benny special

Thomas was responsible for Mary Tyler Moore's first "big break" in acting. In 1961, Carl Reiner cast her in The Dick Van Dyke Show after Thomas personally recommended Moore. He had remembered her as "the girl with three names" whom he had turned down earlier, but rediscovered her after a lengthy search through photos and records.

R45 You know an awful lot about him. DL sure has an expert for every topic.

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