REAL ESTATE FOR SALE ($ USD 7,500,000)
Villa - House for sale in Malibu Los Angeles County California USA

Audacious "Barefoot Palazzo"

Luxury laughs at its own pretensions in this fabulous, tongue-in-chic Italian villa, hidden away behind the gates of the exclusive Malibu Colony. Surprise – and delight – are its hallmarks.

Conceived on a grand scale – with 800-square foot Great Room, soaring 20-foot-high galleria, vertiginous airborne promenade, baronial Master Suite with working fireplace, private terrace, separate steam room, sauna room, and 6-1/2 foot hydra-spa bathtub with wall-size plasma TV screen – it also incorporates a fragrant rose arbor, romantic swing bed, and (unique in all of Malibu!) a spacious outdoor swimming pool-cum-Mediterranean lagoon with a navigable gondola that seats two.

Confession: The deceptively labeled "Cucina" – despite two towering antique smokewood Tuscan storage armoires that reach almost to the ceiling – is in reality a sleekly modern professional restaurant kitchen, whose dual Traulsen fridges and Viking range will not only feed a party of 175 indoors, but another 200 outdoors in its pool-side BBQ-and-"Media Alcove."

Finally, spanning the full length and breadth of the house, a spacious upstairs roof deck offers gleaming ocean views for evening cocktails, as well as ample dance floor space for salsa, swing or tango – plus that commodity deemed rarest and most precious of all to the many celebrities who reside in the Colony: total privacy.