Sheer whimsy lives in Venice
Styled by famed interior designer Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz, whose clients include Lenny Kravitz and Sean Combs, this contemporary home in the Venice Canals is layered with notes of whimsy. Interior finishes such as sheer draperies and bright chandeliers lend an air of playfulness to the multilevel home.

Wave goodbye to an ocean view
The 3,093-square-foot pied-aterre is in a 16-unit building constructed in 1997 and is one of only four top-floor condos. An open floor plan includes a formal dining room, a living room with a fireplace, an eat-in kitchen, two bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms.

Checking out of a Hilton property
The 3,385 square feet of refined interiors feature walls of floor-toceiling glass, light hardwood floors and cabinets built to resemble art installations. Adding an exotic touch, a circular staircase wraps around a custom saltwater aquarium at the entrance to the home.

Price for sultan villa reigns supreme
AHollywood filmmaker, a video game mogul and a pair of cosmetics entrepreneurs were among those to make their marks in L.A. County’s high-end real estate market over the last three weeks. Here’s a look at the priciest home sales that closed in mid- June through early July.

A hip, bustling city within a city
In the 1920s and 1930s, though, the neighborhood was the stomping grounds of cravat-sporting men and of women who wore their diamond rings over the fingers of their elbow-length satin gloves. These high-society folks would guzzle Champagne by the magnum and while away their days darting around town in their massive chauffeur-driven Duesenbergs.

1,500 bottles have a place to chill
The room is accessed through a door off the circular motor court (“sort of like a speakeasy door,” May said) that leads to a winding staircase clad with rough-hewn limestone walls. At the bottom, the wine room repeats the limestone theme on walls and on the fireplace.

Tech is speaking buyers’ language
Instead, Li has started referring her Chinese friends to the House Club, an online platform that integrates with WeChat, China’s most popular messaging app. Through the House Club, Chinese buyers can easily find information such as square footage, layout and neighborhood information — all in Mandarin.

Ideas are in plain site
Now a tech entrepreneur as well, will.i.am created the 50,000- square-foot complex, dubbed “The Future,” with interior designer Liana Reid in 2013. The site houses several recording and photography studios, a soundstage, video editing bays, a cutting and sewing area, and a lab for electronics design.