UPDATE: SOLD!!!! Ellen Degeneres Cali Equestrian Estate can be yours!!!!

If the sight of Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi's 26 acre Equestrian Ranch, in the Santa Monica Mountains, in the recent Elle Decor magazine stopped you in your tracks TODAY could be your lucky day!!!!

Turns out the incredible, vintage rough-hewn inspired residence with outer structures (barns, tennis court, cottages) and horse farm is on the market! Yes, it can be yours for a very small sum of $11,000.000 USD.  I think it's worth it! Though far too grand for my purse.

Rumor has it... they've purchase John Saladino's Montecito villa for $26,000.000.  I was a designer in Mr. Saladino design studio when he purchased that residence and was in the process of renovating.  It was even gorgeous in the before state.  Now it is BEYOND incredible.  And YES! I thoroughly predict it will exceed the asking price.  Yes, it is THAT great!

Photos courtesy of William Abranowicz for Elle Decor magazine

Hey! should one of you Hautezone readers make and offer, and make it your home... Pretty please invite me to the home welcoming soiree.  I promise I will bring you a really nice gift!

'Glass Pavillion' - Santa Barbara 35 Million dollar glass box

Listed with Suzanne Perkins, The Glass Pavilion is a redefining structure within modernism.It is a benchmark building that sets the bar as to what modernism is and can be.The combination of architectural groundbreaking style and extreme detail in finish quality make it a home without compare. It is the pinnacle of architecture for this generation and will define the era in which it was built.

This is a home with possibly no equal. Throughout the last century there has been a few great buildings that defined modernism and inspired a generation to imagine what is possible not only within architecture but as a society as a whole. Mies Van Der Roh’s Barcelona Pavilion and Farnsworth house, as well as Phillip Johnson’s glass house were these type of defining structures. Now, Steve Hermann’s Glass Pavilion takes the architectural tenants of these greats and catapults these concepts into the new millennium.

Set within a 3.5+/- acre estate of oak groves in Montecito and boasting 14,000+/- sq. ft. under roof, this home is impressive beyond words. An almost entirely glass home it allows occupants to be comfortably inside while completely enveloped within nature. As you drive down the long gated driveway, it slowly comes into view. You are immediately confronted with a large all glass home, floating above gently rolling lawns. The site of it is awe-inspiring.

Photography-Jim Bartsch

The Glass Pavilion $35,000,000

Listing Agent- Suzanne Perkins

Sotheby’s International Realty, Montecito, CA

www.suzanneperkins.com

Drinking at the 'Coyote Bar' in Santa Barbara's Toro Canyon

Would you like to have drinks at sunset with the 'hottest coyote' in town?

Santa Barbara is one of my favorite towns on the planet. Home to my fave 'home away from home' Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel and 'Butterfly' beach.

Adjacent is Montecito, oh so true to architecture vibrant with Spanish influence. With some surprise, Montecito is dotted with unconventional residential homes, emerging from the earth as seen in the April/May issue of Santa Barbara Magazine, sister to C Magazine.

The transom door tilts high, welcoming relief to the days heat and evening breezes to cool the soul.

Who couldn't see themselves relaxing poolside, mountains close enough to kiss. Certainly, an occasional coyote will emerge from familiar environs, a bit too close for comfort for a drink.

(Photos courtesy Santa Barbara Magazine)