With the film industry reeling amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, veteran film industry executive Blair Rich left her high-powered post earlier this year as head of worldwide marketing at Warner Bros. Pictures Group. Officially, she left on her own accord, though the gossip grapevine speculated she was pushed out due to several recent box office bombs and, allegedly, some tension with Warner’s chairman, Toby Emmerich.
Whatever the truth(s) of the matter, Blair, who oversaw the campaigns for megahits “The Joker” and “Aquaman” as well as big misses like “Birds of Prey,” “Richard Jewel” and “The Goldfinch,” celebrated and/or licked her professional wounds by shelling out $6.1 million — a whopping $600,000 more than the seller paid for the property just four months earlier — for a modestly sized home on Malibu’s popular if prohibitively pricey Point Dume.
Now, with a new gig as Brand & Marketing Advisor to Virgin Galactic and a one-acre spread out in Malibu to which she and her film executive husband Zev Foreman can retreat, Rich has put her longtime home in L.A.’s Los Feliz neighborhood up for grabs at $6.795 million. That’s almost 2.5 times what the showbiz couple paid for the place coming up on nine years ago.
Designed by revered architect Paul Williams, the Spanish Colonial Revival home was built in 1927 for actor Lawrence Gray who, so the stories go, lived there with his parents until he married at nearly forty years old. Rich, a native Angeleno, told The Hollywood Reporter that she grew up in a Tudor-style home designed by Williams, felt lucky to own a home designed by the architect, and that “if you like to entertain, his homes are famously known for their incredible flow.”
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Image Credit: Rocket Homes Sure enough, the Rich-Foremans’ handsomely idiosyncratic home, behind gates with five bedrooms and five bathrooms in almost 4,900 square feet, was designed for both elegant and relaxed entertaining.
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Image Credit: Rocket Homes Oozing with designer-done jewel-toned Golden Age glamour, the house is entered via an octagonal foyer, while a series of arched French doors in the adjoining gallery swing open to a large terrace perfect for pre-dinner cocktails.
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Image Credit: Rocket Homes Sobered up with elegant black-and-white marble checkerboard flooring, the compartmentalized powder room is an extravagant jewel box swaddled in emerald agate-print wallpaper.
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Image Credit: Rocket Homes Original details (polished Spanish pavers, arched French doors, hand-painted ceilings) add vintage flair to the plush, eclectically appointed public spaces that include spacious formal living and dining rooms.
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Image Credit: Rocket Homes Not particularly big but expensively decked out with high-end finishes and premium appliances, the kitchen leads to a family room complete with charming built-in breakfast banquette.
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Image Credit: Rocket Homes Painted the deepest of blues, the petite and sumptuous library spills out to an arched loggia that serves as an outdoor bar thanks to a marble-topped black lacquer Hollywood Regency-style cabinet.
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Image Credit: Rocket Homes Guest rooms are ample and guest bathrooms zhuzhed up with marble and gold-toned fixtures, while the unexpectedly sedate, cream-colored main bedroom doubles down on unabashed decadence in the boutique-style dressing room and golden en-suite bath where glimmering gold walls are reflected in the verre églomisé mirrored wall behind the ever-so gently curved vanities.
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Image Credit: Rocket Homes Lined in sculpted hedging that encourages privacy, the terraced and tropically planted backyard showcases a built-in barbecue and a tile-accented spa that spills over to the swimming pool.
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Image Credit: Rocket Homes The one-of-kind home is available through Zach Goldsmith at Hilton & Hyland.