Estate has royal roots
This palatial home is fit for royalty, which makes sense, given that it was commissioned for the family of the sultan of Brunei in the late 1990s. But the family never moved into the Italian villa, near Conrad Hilton’s longtime estate in Old Bel-Air. Instead, it was sold unfinished and later completed in 2003.

Moby knows the neighborhood
Aformal living room, a chandelier-topped dining room, a media room and an eat-in cook’s kitchen are among the common areas. A total of five bedrooms and seven bathrooms includes a master suite with a fireplace and his-and-her bathrooms and a two-story children’s suite with a loft.

Valley’s heart has a robust beat
The postwar boom made it a thriving middle-class area with plenty of high-wage manufacturing jobs, and some of the Camaros that came off the local GM plant’s assembly line rolled right out onto Van Nuys Boulevardas the broad thoroughfare became the center of L.

Seeing 2 sides to her story
Leslie Shapiro Joyal is a modernist furniture and interior designer whose aesthetic is heavily influenced by her time working for the late, great architect Franklin Israel.

The art of design is live and well
The Palm Springs designer specializes in interior plantscaping. He works with interior decorators and general landscapers to bring leafy greenery to interior spaces, paying artful consideration not just to what plant should go wherebut to the...

That super deal takes superhero skills
Olympian home deals require more than mere mortals to execute them. When brokering estates, agents have to navigate the labyrinthine teams that orbit elite clients and squeeze in meetings around their tightly packed schedules. Their task is downright herculean.

Discoveries on the roads less traveled
Suad Cano is no ordinary traveler. The Venice resident regularly crisscrosses Africa, Asia and the Middle East to collect one-of-akind pottery, furniture, textiles and other artifacts. That’s yielded abounty of both lore and loot — enough to fill a 50,000-square-foot warehouse.