Well spent money! I approve!
The crap some rich people buy. Nice discernment by Brad. I'm reading "Brad Pitt buys $40m ‘DL James House’ in California" (London Times).
The DL James House, also known as Seaward, was designed by Charles Sumner Greene, a 20th-century architect... Built on a rocky crag overlooking the coast, the luxury home — built with local sandstone and granite — is steps from the beach....
It's on a crag, but not "Over the brink of the crag of sense." It's quite sensible, for Brad. In Carmel.
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At least it is high enough to stay dry when the ocean rises.
It doesn't appear to be "steps from the beach." If there are steps, it's steps to the raging ocean, with no apparent beach. Nice, but for $40m, I'd want a little sand.
It looks like a great place to slowly go mad in. Plenty of room in the attic to lock up Jen or Angelina.
But I smiled at the memory of the stupid Seaward/C-word puns in "Arrested Development."
Brad does look more and more like a hobbit as he ages.
La Villa Toscana without the Toscana. Hard pass.
Thanks for the link. I'd read about it but couldn't find photos. I think it's beautiful too.
"Well spent money! I approve!"
The house that you approve of was built before Pitt spent a dime. The 40 million just changed the ownership. Or are you saying that you like it better because he owns it? Is that an aspect of its appeal?
Next he'll run for mayor.
He could do worse than patterning his later career after Eastwood.
Brad Pitt is probably the most gifted and technically skilled actor working in cinema today. His performance as the Pavee bare-knuckler Mickey O'Neil in Snatch and as a terrifyingly understated psychopath in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ought to convince anyone.
Warm ocean breeze, solid foundation, low maintenance yard, natural barriers... a good choice.
Looks very different from the other Greene & Greene houses I've seen (mostly the ones in Pasadena, CA). I like them somewhat better, at least from the outside, but this seems nice enough too.
Nice house for a guy from Springfield, Missouri.
What a country.
It's an incredible setting, but the building itself looks like a "fairy-tale house" in all the worst ways. (As if had been built by the witch from "Hansel and Gretel," using bricks from the third little pig.)
I have a nice house in Austin nearing completion of construction that I can let you - or Brad - have for $37,500,000 less than that very nice house in Carmel. Please consider this a sincere offer. Who else has offered to save you so much money in this time of economic turmoil?
Known as the c-word?
I had my eye on this one.
Damn Brad Pitt!
What Ted said. Also a Hobbit feel.
A local website asked if you would stay or move somewhere else if you won the ONE-BILLION-DOLLAR MegaMillions lottery.
I don't know if I won - or if I was a rich celebrity - that I would buy a $40-million house (with its resulting property taxes). If I were a celebrity, I might buy a fence-secluded place or at least one in a gated-community to avoid the crowds. But the money can be used for better purposes than giving tens of millions to some other rich person, not to mention the uber-wealthy government.
In fact, if I win the billion dollars, I will probably still buy store brand items at the grocery.
Oh, hell yes!
Carmel by the Sea. One of those wonderful homes...on the water? You kiddin' me? It's almost enough to make a guy get into acting.
It's a nice looking house and I'm sure he and his family will be happy there; good for them.
Tough not to think about what that kind of money could buy elsewhere, though: spend half to buy a 2,850 acre plantation (with 600 acre pecan farm & 8/8 mansion) and then an eighth to buy an actual villa in Florence then maybe a quarter to buy a seaside villa in Porto Santo Stefano, Tuscany and with the leftover pick up a nice jet to shuttle you back and forth.
Oh well, there's no accounting for taste.
Architecture seems to be brad’s thing. After Katrina inundated the Ninth Ward in New Orleans I. 2005, he put together a nonprofit called Make It Right, hired some trendy eco home architect and built about 30 low cost homes to replace those that had been lost.lots of us, including lots of engineers and city planners, thought it was folly to rebuild there, because it’s land that never should have been developed, it’s so flood prone. But no. You were a racist if you had such evil thoughts.
Well the homes are now riddled with problems…some of them structural, but other problems due to fighting a losing battle with moisture, mold and deterioration, and dealing with a population that cannot maintain things for themselves. They are suing brad and the Make it Right foundation, who have pledged to sink more money into this project and “make it right.” Kudos to brad for his efforts. No good deed goes unpunished. That is axiomatic in the shithole country that New Orleans has become.
Where does he dock his yacht?
That's a beautiful house and well suited to the site. Good for Brad!
Looks like the perfect place for a murder mystery.
Will it keep the paps at bay, or just in the bay?
I was conceived in Carmel (born in Norfolk) on something Canyon Road (not in the road), so not near the water, but I've never been back. Guess I can't afford to now.
"It's almost enough to make a guy get into acting."
Seeing Brad Pitt and thinking that is like seeing Labron James and thinking the same thing about basketball.
What a beautiful house and location, location, location.
Yes, it isn't on a cliff, which is a good thing, but that part of the coast will be in the ocean at some point in the next 200 years if for no other reason than erosion.
From what I read in a recent New Yorker article, yachts and not mansions are the means by which the rich sort themselves out and impress each other. You can only spend so much on a mansion before it starts looking like a hotel....You can blow a half billion on a yacht, however, and still not have all available extras. By law a yacht can only carry twelve passengers. Otherwise it's a cruise ship. There's no limit on the number of service personnel, however. It's not unusual to have fifty or more service crew on board to cater to those twelve guests.....This is nice enough as a weekend retreat or maybe even a second home for the off season, but it's no luxury yacht. I'd rather spend the weekend on Geffen's yacht than in Pitt's summer house.
I wonder if the artwork stays?
I kinda see a theme.
Carmel is foggy as fuck. The ocean is cold and blue and deep. Great fishing. A little sharky.
For some reason, I read the blog post title as Brad Pitt buying 18 beautiful horses for $40 million. That’s $2.2 million per horse, but horses can run as high as $70 million. Imagine my disappointment that the link went to pictures of one house.
Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) by Andy Warhol recently sold for $195 million. I'd rather buy the spot in Carmel and have $155M left over for incidentals and impulse purchases. Concededly, there are no property taxes on your works of art.
Money's indifference to us has a comic dimension. And a tragic one as well. How much good did all of Hugo Chavez's successfully stolen centimillions ever do for him?
I have a landscaper friend who was asked to be a part of a group of "experts" who accompanied Brad and Angelina when they were looking to buy a historic mansion on the border of TN and VA. There were interesting additional buildings along with the house. One was a stone pump house with a good sized working water wheel. Brad was evidently very interested in the mechanics of the old timey things and expressed enthusiasm and interest in the historic nature of different features. He struck the group as very friendly and authentic. Angelina wouldn't establish eye contact with anyone and seemed pained to be there.
This could turn out to be a bottomless money pit for Brad. I hope he's learned from Johnny Depp and Nicolas Cage to save his money. He's not working that much and worse, not looking for work that much. Too much weed.
In the small world category, two of the friends I made while blogging were the caretakers for Brad's new home for seven years. They blogged about the work they did to maintain the facility as well as the beauty along the coast. If you would like to see the views from the property here is an example of what they saw.https://breadonthewater.blogspot.com/2012/10/one-of-those-days.html
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