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The Casa Encantada at 10644 Bellagio Road in Bel Air, Los Angeles is a large detached neoclassical style house completed in 1938. It was designed by James Dolena with interiors and furnishings by T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings. It has twice established a record for the most expensive house sold in the United States.
668 St. Cloud Road (previously 666 St. Cloud Road) was a residence in the Bel-Air district of Los Angeles. It was occupied by Nancy and Ronald Reagan from 1989 until their respective deaths. The interior was designed by Peter Schifando, a protégé of Ted Graber .
Monterey Furniture refers to several furniture lines made from 1930 to the mid-1940s in California. Uniquely western, the line derived its character from Spanish and Dutch Colonial styles, California Mission architecture and furnishings, ranch furnishings, and cowboy accoutrements such as might be found in a barn (lariats and branding irons).
As shown in the “Bel Air First Residential Allotment” map from 1923, the original Bel Air tract of East Gate Old Bel Air founded and opened by Alphonzo E. Bell, Sr. was composed of 128 lots on Bel Air Road (which passes north from South Beverly Glen and Sunset Boulevards through the East Gate entrance [1] —and hence the logical East Gate name) and the five roads which branch from it ...
Falcon Lair is an estate above Benedict Canyon in Bel Air, Los Angeles. The estate was built in 1925 by Rudolph Valentino, who named it after his unproduced film, The Hooded Falcon. [1] It is better known as a residence of heiress Doris Duke. [2] [3] Valentino bought the 4-acre (1.6 ha) estate in 1925 for US$175,000 (equivalent to $3,040,000 in ...
The Bel Air Film Festival, first held in 2008, [42] is an annual international film festival held in Bel Air and the Los Angeles area. Bel Air is also represented in music, such as in the song "Bel Air" by Lana Del Rey. The Chevrolet Bel Air was a full-size car produced by Chevrolet for the 1950–1975 model years.
The Chartwell Mansion is a Chateauesque mansion in Bel-Air, California. Built in 1933, it is best known for its role as the Clampett family home in the 1960s television sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. [1] It was the most expensive home for sale in the United States in 2018. [2]
The second owner, Texas entrepreneur Joseph Drown, founder of the Hotel Bel Air, only lived at 141 South Carolwood for two years and made no major changes to the estate. [1] The third owner was Joe Schenck (1878–1961), the first president of United Artists and chairman of 20th Century Fox. [1]