Garmin Heiress Lists Sierra Towers Penthouse With Crimson Screening Room and Yoga Wall

Always wanted to sit back and relax in a highly customized abode offering picturesque views of Los Angeles — one with a screening room bathed in red, and a built-in yoga wall with attachments for exercise straps and bars, for instance? Well, if you’ve got an extra $12.5 million lying around and are eager to spend it, this West Hollywood condo might be the ideal spot to settle down in unique style.

Records show the double-wide, “junior-sized penthouse” was purchased for $9.3 million in 2016 by former fashion designer Jen Kao, the only daughter of multimillionaire Garmin co-founder and executive chairman Min H. Kao, as well as a board member of the Kao Family Foundation. Subsequently tailored to suit her personal needs, the unit lies on the 31st floor of L.A.’s celeb-studded Sierra Towers skyscraper, an exclusive Jack A. Charney-designed structure that has housed A-listers like Cher, Sandra Bullock, Matthew Perry, Adam Sandler and Courteney Cox.

Billed in the listing as the “most exclusive unit ever offered in L.A.’s most premier building” — complete with “thought-provoking design” — Kao’s home features two bedrooms and three baths in just over 3,000 square feet of fully automated living space adorned throughout with black walnut doors and floors, high ceilings, oak walls, blackout shades, bespoke tile work, built-ins, designer light fixtures, hand-crafted finishes and floor-to-ceiling walls of glass.

An open-plan great room holds a combined living/dining room area displaying the aforementioned yoga wall, a zebra wood wet bar and sliding glass doors opening to a covered balcony, and a sleekly designed kitchen is outfitted with a wine fridge, steam oven, glass-door refrigerator, breakfast bar and walk-in pantry. A spacious master suite boasts a large closet and marble-clad bath with a soaking tub, and elsewhere is a fancy powder room and screening room, plus an office space boasting steel doors and windows.

The new owner also will have access to numerous building amenities courtesy of a substantial $5,294 monthly HOA charge, including an attended lobby, valet parking and 24-hour security and concierge, along with a freshly designed pool and spa, fitness center and conference facilities.

Kao has moved to Beverly Hills, where back in 2019 she paid actress Jodie Foster $15 million for a hilltop estate that has since been renovated.

The listing is held by Zach Goldsmith of The Agency.