Tour the Sprawling Brentwood Compound That’s Residence to a Hollywood Genuine Estate Trader and a Product

A few months ago, real estate investor (and listing agent to stars this kind of as Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen and Ellen DeGeneres) Kurt Rappaport and his spouse, model Zorana Kuzmanovic Rappaport, cradled their new child daughter Zoe throughout the threshold of their French-type brick manor for the to start with time, a monumental function that bested the couple’s former preferred memory in the Brentwood Park home. (That would be an epic housewarming party DJ’d by none other than Snoop Dogg.) Notably, the 1936 estate—originally developed by iconic California architect Wallace Neff—received a 1990s refresh that concentrated on the gardens and orbiting properties that was carried out by Robert A.M. Stern.

Kurt and his frequent collaborator, Los Angeles interior designer Clint Nicholas, experienced intended to embark on an ambitious one particular-yr renovation. “Kurt states, ‘Let’s consider a 12 months,’ each individual time he purchases a house,’” suggests Nicholas with a grin. “Here we are, 5 yrs later on.” But then again, there was a whole lot entailing the update of the now-3-acre house. (Los Angeles–based Scott Mitchell Studio created and constructed further constructions on adjacent tons that Kurt had acquired.) As for the 12,000-square-foot primary residence, it had been a eyesight of “wall-to-wall florals, tons of silk, and weighty drapery” with a few architectural additions that had been unbecoming of Neff’s “totally understated, exquisite, and mysterious residences,” states the home-owner.

Nicholas and Kurt have been doing work collectively for so very long that the designer suggests, “I’m commencing to feel Kurt’s style is my taste, and vice versa.” For this specific job, a sort of “luxe naturalism” prevails, thematically closer to Neff’s design than the floral smother and drapery stifle of bygone times. Foremost on the agenda was to authentically align the household with its superlatively sunny place. These types of unabashed radiance would be just as considerably part of the decor as, say, the colour plan (eternally earthy), or the components palette (sumptuously tactile). The atrium, for instance, is a soaring space wherever a gleaming new wall of double-top steel home windows rises from a ground of wire-brushed white-oak planks. (Architecture organization ZU+ Studio was liable for this work, and a great deal much more.) Zorana and her husband sip espresso right here in the mornings, snuggled cozily upon the room’s central objet d’art: a capsule-shaped Rick Owens Double Bubble daybed with a remarkable plywood grain that takes place to recall the marbling of espresso and milk.

What other spaces lack in sunstruck volume, they make up for in seamless indoor-out of doors transitions and a purely natural layered-ness that can only emerge when a skilled curatorial eye has been forged on a couple of decades of worldly acquisitions. The living place, Nicholas suggests, epitomizes the layout transient: A wall-dimensions portal delivers a generous changeover amongst mother nature and an interior tableau of edited collectibles, from the charmingly catawampus Vincenzo De Cotiis mirror to the charismatically chunky sofa to a wooden sculpture—Stack by Shay Alcalay. “Someone the moment claimed, ‘Beautiful points go with lovely issues,’ and I reside by that assertion,” Nicholas claims. His consumer and alleged design and style twin concurs. “Everything’s chosen,” Kurt says.