TASTEFUL FRIENDS : Rod Stewart Bev Hills estate can be yours for just $70M

His style of luxury is quite old school but the entire confection is not stodgy. It's fun and theatrical and sometimes classy and sometimes brassy and tacky. It does look like an old rocker's palace with the glamor.

I like the bar. I like the terrace with the yellow walls and ceiling.

R1 I agree. It's one of the nicer celebrity BevHills mansions which has gone up for sale recently. It just may get the asking price.

I hope Adele doesn't decide to buy this one, too.

Why would anybody with $70M want to purchase this pile? It *screams* Nouveau Riche and has all kinds of bad mojo associated with it.

But why not just die in such a palace? Why unload it at his age? Does he no longer entertain?

R4 For a huge tax write-off.

I don't see a lot of "Nouveau Riche" tropes on display. Can you be specific?

For example the terrace and all its furniture are in impeccable taste, as is the pool, very classical. What do you consider "nouveau riche" about this? Have you been in many elaborate mansions? I have. All over the Middle East, for example, royal palaces. All over London, Geneva, Paris, and the South of France. Spain and Italy. What is nouveau riche here? I'm curious.

In homes such as these I often wonder : Where do you put the Christmas Tree each year ? How do you decorate such a home for Christmas ?

Also, how much of this property actually gets used on a daily or weekly basis ?

That small home gym, with the trellis work, homage to Elsie De Wolfe. Tacky Nouveau Riche don't generally look to Elsie De Wolfe, Dorothy Draper, and Syrie Maugham. Rod had some good decorators and has a good eye.

More money than taste.

I wasn’t expecting to like it but I do. The green bar is awesome. It’s old Hollywood glamor with a modern twist.

why is it that the Golden Age of Hollywood mansions are so much more beautiful than some of the more recent piles?

Who was the California gay decorator who had his Christmas tree in its own room, up all year? Tony Duquette?

R13 this is recent but Richard Landry style. He often gets it’s wrong but this was done nicely.

Richard Landry's firm built this house?

Bad mojo associated with it, R4? What bad mojo is linked to this estate?

R16 it says so in the article plus you can tell from the exterior especially the roofline.

My bad. I just looked at the pics. Landry houses now are MONSTROUS but this was before today's mega mega mega palaces and fauxteaux.

That place is huge!

The house that Michael Jackson died in was another Landry but it sits on such a small piece of land that it looks ridiculous. This is set on many acres which is appropriate for a large house.

Huge place, pictured room are ugly. Price is obscene. My guess is it will whittle down quite a bit before it sells.

Where will his US-based kids now live? his daughter and granddaughter (Benicio del Toro's kid) lived in the guest house. He has a ton of other kids who are around him all the time. I will say that Rod keeps his kids pretty close - although perhaps this is because he has to because they have no place else to go.

This is a great estate but he probably wants a smaller place in LA. He also has a huge spread in the UK where he stays part-time.

Stewart has a big place in Palm Beach and another one in Hawaii. His useless children won't be homeless nor will they be "forced" to live in the UK in order to keep living on Daddy's money.

The grounds I have to say are particularly nice, very pastoral and like an old-fashioned southern estate. Lots of trees.

I went to look for a palace for sale. Found Le Château-Abbaye de Cassan, decaying pile in France. Not a palace but quite imposing.

I quite like this, the style is nice. I would be happy with something like this but in a much smaller more manageable package, with maybe some more chintz. Not everything is perfect but then in a place this size its not going to be. It does have can lights in the ceilings including some of the more ornate ones but that can be corrected

The exterior at the front is good too, the back not quite so much, but I've seen far worse on here.

Listing is with Michelle Oliver of Douglas Elliman but when I search the Douglas Elliman site I cant find the listing

[quote] Stewart has a big place in Palm Beach and another one in Hawaii. His useless children won't be homeless nor will they be "forced" to live in the UK in order to keep living on Daddy's money.

Based on his properties alone he has money to burn. I never knew Rod was so incredibly loaded. Never really thought about it actually. But clearly he has enough money to support his kids and their kids and so on for generations to come.

I don't drink, but I might if I had that amazing green bar.