“An AD100 architect you can hire. A filmmaker’s provenance you inherit or you don’t.”
- Claire O'Connor
7939
Hillside Ave
Los Angeles
Bedrooms
4
Bathrooms
4
Total Area
3,002 Sq. FT
Lot Size
3,907 Sq. FT
Price
$3,650,000
Hidden, and Still Holding the Skyline
Above the Sunset Strip, where the Hollywood Hills start climbing in earnest, Villa Hillside was designed by Daniel Romualdez, one of the hundred architects Architectural Digest keeps on its short list, with landscapes by Sarita Jaccard and construction by Racing Green. Its first owner was the filmmaker Michael Mann, which is the kind of detail that tends to explain a house before you have finished walking it. The place commands the full sweep of the skyline and the canyons, and yet it stays almost completely hidden, tucked behind mature landscaping that has had years to close ranks. Privacy and a view like this rarely occupy the same address. Here they share one.
Listed by Stephen Sweeney, The Beverly Hills Estates
Inside
Romualdez keeps the interior deliberately calm, the better to let the landscape and the light run the show. Living spaces open through generous indoor-outdoor thresholds, so the canyon and skyline stay part of the room instead of hanging politely outside the glass. The signature moment is the living room, which presents as a gracious, understated space right up until a concealed screen drops from the ceiling and a projector comes to life, turning the whole room into a private theater without a single visible cable to give it away. It is the kind of feature most homes bolt on as an afterthought and this one built in from the start. Racing Green handled the build, and their fingerprints are in what you do not notice, the seams that line up and the transitions that disappear and the general absence of anything trying too hard.
Outside
Sarita Jaccard’s landscaping is doing quiet, serious work here, wrapping the house in greenery dense enough that the privacy feels total even with the whole city laid out below. And the whole city genuinely is laid out below, a panoramic run of skyline and canyon that the house takes in from nearly every angle. The lot is the part insiders will clock first: 11,730 square feet across two contiguous parcels, which in these hills is close to unheard of, and the reason the seclusion holds. Parking, absurdly, is a non-issue, with a gated motor court and an attached garage that together take four cars, which anyone who has circled a canyon street at dinnertime will recognize as its own kind of luxury. The Sunset Strip sits just down the hill, close enough for the Chateau Marmont to count as a neighbor.
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Proof is in the Properties
SOLD
Closed $200K over asking
SOLD
Closed for $1,589/sq ft
SOLD
Closed $250k over asking
