Monday, May 25, 2009

Star Island Home


This house is 13, 000square feet of Greek Mediterranean-style.The estate consists of a main house, guest house, boat house & cabana all set with tiered pools connected by walkways. Entertainment terraces top the roofs of each house. Unique features incl. doomed roofs, large open arches, whitewashed paintwork, wood beamed ceilings & stone floors. 150ft of bay frontage, dock & more! Featured in multiple architectural & design magazines, movies &shows. The house also includes 5 full baths, 2 half baths, and 5 bedrooms.



Friday, May 8, 2009

Rancho Mirage Estate

Rancho Mirage, CA $18,900,000
7 Bedrooms
9 Baths
Garage
New Home
After four years of planning and construction, this magnificent 5 acre estate is being unveiled. Enter through iron gates and drive up the winding stone-paved drive, pass over waterways to the porte-cochere. Inside massive iron and glass doors lies an expansive foyer with twin circular marble staircases and an overhead bridge. The Mediterranean-influenced main house and guest house boast approximately 18,000 square feet, 24 foot coffered ceilings, tall arched windows, massive fireplaces with elaborate mantles and a great room large enough to host a party with several hundred guests. Fine finishes embellish the entire house, from the hand-painted Venetian plaster walls to custom wall paper and artistic iron scrolling. Other features include a Victorian theater, and a two bedroom guest house with living room and full kitchen. A lake, waterfalls, gazebo, glass-tiled pool with grotto, barbecue area, tennis court and ficus-lined maze and victory garden enhance the park like grounds. A trophy property like non other.

Palms Casino

Maloof( the owner) announced a third tower called Palms Place to be built on the west end of the Palms property and would be a residential high-rise. The design architect is the Jerde Partnership Construction on this third and final tower has been completed. Residents were allowed to move in on February 29, 2008. On May 31, 2008 the grand opening night took place that marked the latest addition to the Palms, as Palms Place is a multi-million dollar, 47-story hotel, condominium, and spa tower.

The Palms opened on November 15, 2001 and was designed by the Jerde Partnership, a Los Angeles based architectural firm.

In 2002, it was the resort where participants of MTV's The Real World: Las Vegas stayed. The level they rebuilt to accommodate MTV is now the "Real World Suite" and is available for reservations.

In October 2005, the second tower, dubbed the "Fantasy Tower", opened at a cost of $600 million. In keeping with George Maloofs basketball interest (he owns the Sacramento Kings of the NBA and Sacramento Monarchs of the WNBA), the new tower includes a two-story, 10,000 sq ft (930 m2) suite that includes the world's only basketball court in a hotel suite. The suite includes a locker room, score board and a multi-screen entertainment system. Some of the other Fantasy rooms include the G suite, the Pink suite, and the Playboy Villa.

The Palms hosted the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards on September 9, 2007. Audience members and many of the celebrities were seated inside the resort's Pearl Theater.