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The Portobello Estate - Corona del Mar, California [1650x1100] (i.imgur.com)

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[–]Honestly_ 4 points5 points ago

Originally listed in 2006 for $75,000,000, it sold in 2011 for $34,100,000

Size: 22,000 Sq. Ft., Bedrooms: 8; Bathrooms: 10 Full, 5 Half

Has a bowling alley and mall.

Built originally for Frank Pritt:

a salesperson and product manager for Harris Corporation in the 1970s, then founder of Attachmate Corporation in 1982. Attachmate went on to become Washington's largest privately held software firm. He was listed on Forbes' list of 400 richest Americans in October 1995. He announced his retirement from Attachmate, where he had held the office of president, in 2005.

[–]dubplated 2 points3 points ago

http://portabello.com/ For the more photos of the place. It just goes on and on and on. Incredible!

[–]TheRealGingerKid 1 point2 points ago

This has been my desktop background since the last time someone posted it! Such a great looking house... errr.... estate!

[–]Vultatio 0 points1 point ago

I once saw this posted as Ronaldinho's house on a past reddit post. Guess you can't believe everything you see on the internet! Also, gorgeous house

[–]ZoidbergTheThird 0 points1 point ago

So that's where the mushrooms come from!

[–]jayerp 0 points1 point ago

Seeing craftsmanship like this makes me want to design and build my own house more and more. Even if its small, architecture + nature = beauty

[–]Trebay 0 points1 point ago

i live about 25 minutes away from the portabello estate. This is about 5 minutes away, its huge and gorgeous as well.

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[–]cultmember -3 points-2 points ago

Ugh. Luxurious, yes, but totally fake.

EDIT: lol, downvotes for calling out a synthetic living environment. Do you people like the idea of living in a hotel? Because that's what it looks like. It doesn't look at all like a comfortable space to be in. It looks like the kind of place people build when they have more money than taste, and no respect for the natural setting.

[–]Trebay 0 points1 point ago

so you wouldnt live there?

[–]cultmember 0 points1 point ago

No. I'd prefer something much more modest. Cozy but still interesting, the right size for my needs, built with natural materials, integrated into a naturally secluded property, and not surrounded by obscene wealth. The kind of place that inspires creativity, exploration and inner peace, and reflects its environment rather than displaces it with an orgy of materialistic distractions.

I'm amazed at how people will pay millions of dollars for oceanfront property, tear up the natural landscape and build wall-to-wall mansions using imported materials, from the wood frame right down to the dirt, water, plants and faux rocks used to simulate a tropical paradise where it doesn't belong. They could do so much with $34m or $75m or whatever it cost, but they opted for a water park and a pseudo mini mall smack in the middle of upper-crust suburbia.

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