Modern luxury villa Beverly Hills, California

The darkgrey rough stackedslate exterior is capped with crisply contrasting white stucco. A pivotstyle allglass front door and surround welcomes you to the modern West Coast lifestyle, framing a view through the house to the hills beyond. Inside, just left off of the foyer and down a few steps, is the powder room featuring Whipple Russells signature vertical ribbon windows and Anne Sacks concrete and ceramicglazed tile in chocolate. And to the right and up a splitlevel are the two guest bedrooms with baths. What are your thoughts The central open volume topped by a skylight is Marc Whipples modern take on the traditional courtyard. He took the courtyard, and sunk it so that all the belowgrade rooms open off of it, transforming what normally would be a dark basement into a lower floor with light and views the antibasement. The large skylight pulls the dramatic focus upwards as well, so this vertical volum